Rubber Price Cut Seen After Agreement in 1947 Wage Talks
Cleveland reports the CIO United Rubber Workers reached a local 11.5 cent hourly wage settlement with the big four rubber plants, effective Feb 2, affecting about 300,000 workers including 110,000 union members. Prices of rubber goods may drop as production rises, while auto workers push for a 23.5 cent raise. The pact allows 120 days of reopen negotiations with 15 days written notice.
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Cleveland
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
Louisville
UAW
B. F. Goodrich Co
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
U. S. Rubber Co
L. M. Buckingham
Buckingham
Big Four
L. S. Buckmaster
International Union
Acheson says U S plans for Greece Turkey avoid troop use
Under secretary of State Dean Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that American aid to Greece and Turkey will not involve sending troops. He said the plan aims to stabilize the two nations and not trigger war. President Truman will meet the bipartisan Big Six tonight at the White House to discuss the situation.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Greece
Turkey
Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations
Truman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Dem
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Detectives Seek Promotion Without Exams
Six Cleveland Police Department detectives filed suit with the Ohio Supreme Court asking for promotion to police lieutenant without civil service exams. They say the rank of detective sergeant was abolished and each lost 300 dollars annually, and the new promotion would restore their pay.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Police Department
Ohio Supreme Court
Police Plan House Search For Hermit Langley Collyer
Harlem crowds watched as police prepared to search the Collyer mansion to determine if Langley Collyer, 61, still lives after his brother Homer, 65, died of heart disease in the house. Langley was last seen on the stoop Thursday and may be alive or dead inside. Inspector Joseph Goldstein led the cautious operation.
New Flight Record From L A to Miami Set
A Pan American Grace Airways Douglas DC-6 sleeper completed a non stop 2400 mile trip from Los Angeles to Miami in seven hours 14 minutes averaging 332 mph. The Santa Monica departure was 6 34 a m and arrival 1 48 p m setting a new record, surpassing the previous eight hours five minutes.
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Miami
Fla
Los Angeles
Pan American Grace Airways
Santa Monica
PAA
Ohio Soldier Released By Yugoslav Captors
Pvt. George J. K. Fife of Chillicothe was among three American soldiers returned to allied military headquarters by Yugoslav captors. He served with the 88th division in Venezia Giulia after wandering across the Morgan Line into former Italian territory occupied by Yugoslavia.
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Rome
George J.K. Fife
Chillicothe
Mediterranean Theater Command
Fife
Venezia Giulia
Morgan Line
Yugoslavia
Police Hunt Motive After Garfield Heights Bombing
Police pursue motive in the Garfield Heights home bombing of solicitor Joseph L. Zebazny. No injuries were reported after an early blast shattered the front door under the bedroom of Zebazny's two sleeping sons, heard more than two miles away.
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Cleveland
Joseph L. Zebazny
Garfield Heights
Zelazny
Keuka Co Ed Found After 11 Day Search
An 11 day seven state search for 20 year old Gloria Sim onson a Keuka College sophomore ended with discovery she was visiting an aunt in suburban Berkley Michigan authorities reported no foul play.
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Keuka
Detroit
Gloria Simonson
Keuka College
Penn Yan
N. Y
Berkley
Camden Man Dies After Auto Wreck In Ohio
Hamilton Sigma Summers age 40 of Camden Ohio died yesterday from injuries after an automobile overturned on Camden College Corner Road Saturday. His son Herbert 15 remained in critical condition with a skull fracture.
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Hamilton
Camden
Ohio
Camden College Corner
Herbert
Grandmother Anna Marshall Dies in CO Poisoning
Mrs Anna Marshall 72 of Jacobsburg Ohio, a great grandmother, died early today from carbon monoxide fumes from a hot water heater.
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Pittsburgh
Anna Marshall
Jacobsburg
Ohio
Milwaukee Back to Work Vote Ends Major Strike at Allis Chalmers
The CIO United Automobile Workers 248 local began returning 1500 workers to the Allis Chalmers plant after 329 days on strike for 18 percent hourly raises. The union claims 11000 members and an independent union secured 4000 votes in January. No contract was signed and union demands include 25 cent raises and union shop. The company vows to continue the fight and maintain relations with workers.
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Milwaukee
CIO United Automobile
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Robert Buse
Walter Geist
Employes
Geist
New Evidence Claimed In Cruiser Deaths
Sheriff James Musick said new evidence described as terrific was found in the investigation of the deaths of Walter E. Overell and his wife Beulah Louise, with their daughter and her fiancé held on murder charges. The Overells were Los Angeles socialites aboard a Newport harbor cruiser on March 15.
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Santa Ana
Calif
James Musick
Walter E. Overell
Los Angeles
Newport Harbor
Beulah Louise
George Gollum
Musick
Tarr Presses Pay Basis for Teachers Based on Instructional Quality
Rep. Walter L. Tarr urged that teachers be paid based on the quality of their instruction rather than degrees. Speaking alongside three others, he argued this approach would attract more students to the teaching profession during the Columbus Town Meeting broadcast.
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Columbus
Walter L. Tarr
Cincinnati
Tarr
Cincinnati Man Fatally Struck in Hit-and-Run
Anthony Marconi, 60, was injured fatally last night when struck by a hit-and-run automobile after being knocked down by a truck in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Anthony Marconi
Council Enters New Negotiations Phase Over German Government
The Big Four foreign ministers council moved into a new phase as the Soviet Union U S Britain map maneuvers on a postwar German government. Deputies summarize two weeks of talks and aim to distill points of agreement and dispute while assessing potential concrete progress from the Moscow Conference.
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Moscow
Germany
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
U. S
Mark W. Clark
Crowbar Death Murder Charge To Be Filed
Highland County Sheriff says Cecil Yankey, 39, likely to face first degree murder charge in the crowbar death of Leroy Woodland, 74. Prosecutor confirms the weapon and notes Yankey admitted stealing 34 dollars from the victim while he was unconscious. Miss Mabel Watts, 23, living with Yankey, says they were never married.
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Hahne
Yankey
Mabel Watts
Woodland
Greenfield City
School and Labor Bills in Mill City Legislature
Columbus reports that school labor and taxation bills will top the week’s agenda as the legislature returns. Lobbyists push for action while the biennial appropriation bill undergoes finance committee study, signaling nearing adjournment time.
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Columbus
Capitol
Finance Committee
Fire Sweeps British Ship Monarch of Bermuda in Drydock
A blaze of undetermined origin swept the Monarch of Bermuda, a 22 424 ton British liner, through the ship’s three upper decks while in drydock at Hebburn on Tyne. The fire burned over eight hours before control was achieved as more than 200 firefighters fought the flames. Five firemen were injured and many were overcome by fumes.
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Hebburn-On-Tyne
Eng
Monarch of
Bermuda
Guardhouse Escape Proves Futile for 3
Three soldiers held on AWOL charges escaped from the Ft. Hayes guardhouse Saturday night but were captured early Sunday in a barn near Columbus. The men are identified as Richard Gallagher of Chillicothe Oakley Groomas of Cincinnati and Clarence Brown of St. Clairsville, according to State Patrolman Harry Kellenberger.
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Columbus
Ft. Hayes
Richard Gallagher
Chillicothe
Oakley Groomas
Cincinnati
Clarence Brown
St. Clairsville
Harry Kellenberger
Official Urges Rent Controls End Soon
Arthur W. Binns, president of the National Home and Property Owners Foundation, urged the House Banking Committee to end rent controls soon. He warned that extending ceilings for another year would strangle rental housing and worsen housing shortages. He urged legislation permitting owners a minimum 15 percent rent increase.
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Washington
Arthur W. Binns
National Home and Property Owners Foundation
Binns
House Banking Committee
Army Plane Crash Kills 3 Near Camden
A C-45 Army transport crashed north of Camden before dawn Killing its three occupants. Shaw Field at Shaw Field announced the death toll and said names would be released after relatives were notified. The aircraft was on a night training flight from Pope Field Fort Bragg.
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Sumter
S. C
Camden
Army Air Base
Shaw Field
Pope Field
Fort Bragg
N.C
Camden Army Air Base
Liquor Board Opens Club License Hearings in Ohio
Attorney General Hugh S. Jenkins expected to attend hearings as the state liquor control board reviews 33 private club liquor licenses issued late in Lausche administration. Two clubs in the Youngstown Warren area have already surrendered their permits.
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Youngstown
Hugh S. Jenkins
State Liquor Control Board
Frank J. Lausche
Youngstown- Warren
Nine Persons Aboard Missing Transport Plane
A missing army transport plane with nine aboard was reported in Newfoundland. The C-54 Skymaster vanished while en route from Westover Field Massachusetts to Harmon Field Stephenville Newfoundland and was being searched by air transport command crews.
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New York
Newfoundland
Air Transport Command
Air Forces
Westover Field
Mass
Harmon Field
Stephenville
Hoover Plan To Revive Reich Industry Favored
Hoover pitches a program to restore German industrial output while limiting military use. He recommends German ownership of industry with U S control, preservation of key Ruhr Rhine assets, and protection against war production. Senators from both parties call the plan fundamentally sound and essential to European peace.
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Hoover
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Ruhr
Rhineland
Germany
Truman
Austria
Europe
Lucas
Illinois
McCarthy
R-Wis
Chavez
D-N. M
Ellender
Dla
France
Salvation Army Youth Conference Sees 30 Apply for Training
About 700 Ohio youths heard a farewell address by Territorial Commander Ernest I. Pugmire of New York City at the Salvation Army Youth Conference in Columbus. More than 30 delegates applied for officer training in the organization.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ernest I. Pugmire
New York City
Salvation Army
Stoutsville Pilot Killed In Power Line Crash
Hollis C. Smith 31, of Stoutsville, was killed when his rented single engine Taylorcraft struck a power line and crashed on a farm 12 miles southwest of Lancaster. He operated a garage at Stoutsville.
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Lancaster
Hollis C. Smith
Taylorcraft
Here
Stoutsville
Philharmonic seeks $12500 maintenance fund drive
Clarence D. Laylin president of the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra Association announced a drive for a 12500 maintenance fund to open April 1.
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Columbus
Clarence D. Laylin
Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Flood Control Discussion At Ohio River Assembly
Conservation leaders from five states met in Cincinnati for the annual Ohio River Division meeting of the Mississippi Valley Association to discuss flood control soil conservation and water pollution reduction with speakers Lachlan Mac Leay John F Cunningham and Brig. Gen. Douglas L Weart.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio River Division
Mississippi Valley Association
Lachlan MacLeay
John F. Cunningham
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Douglas L. Weart
Ohio Division
U. S
Ohio WCTU Holds Mid Year Meeting
The Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union opens a three day annual mid year meeting in Columbus. Miss Mary B. Ervin the state president says all 88 counties will be represented and a push will seek sentiment for countrywide local option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union
Board of Trustees
Mary B. Ervin
Ohio
CBS Denies Politics In Newscast Switch
New York UP William L Shirer says his Sunday news program was given to another commentator due to his liberal views. CBS spokesman denies the charge and confirms the move. Shirer, author of Berlin Diary, announced on air that next Sunday would be his last on the Spot segment.
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New York
William L. Shirer
Columbia Broadcasting System
Shirer
Berlin
Jeep Stalls Near Train Crossing. Father and Daughter Jump
Carl Bidwell 51 and his daughter Florence 13 escaped a stalled farm jeep at a crossing five miles north of Kenton as a Big Four passenger train struck the vehicle. The train was delayed a half hour while crews cleared the scene.
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Kenton
Carl Bidwell
Florence
Here
Bidwell
OSU Professor Hatfield Dies at 58 in Columbus
Dr. Solomon A. Hatfield, 58, professor of clinical medicine at Ohio State University, died at University Hospital in Columbus Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OSU
Columbus
Solomon A. Hatfield
Ohio State University
University Hospital
12 Foot Fall Fatal Cambridge Worker Dies
J E Carpenter 70 died from injuries after a 12 foot fall at Cambridge Molded Plastics Co. The incident occurred yesterday, and authorities report a workplace accident led to his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
J. E. Carpenter
Cambridge Molded Plastics Co
United States weighs Greece Turkey aid and nonmilitary aims
In a Capitol Hill briefing, Under Secretary of State Will Clayton outlined a proposed 400 million aid package for Greece and Turkey. He stressed most funds would fund military and civilian needs yet no troops would be sent, and noted the plan includes limited military missions to assess local needs and deliver equipment.
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Russia
Turkey
Greece
Poland
Capitol Hill
Will Clayton
Department
House
Acheson
Heart Attack Fatal To Downtown Driver
Marshall Vaughn Sr a 54 year old engineer for Champion Paper and Fiber Co died after suffering a heart attack while driving his car in the downtown business district yesterday. He had worked for the company for 30 years.
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Hamilton
Marshall Vaughn, Sr
Vaughn
Champion Paper and Fiber Co
Public Service Purge Aims at Political Infidels
SAM SIMMONS lauds President Truman for seeking to root out perceived political infidels in the public service. The piece argues many opponents would overturn constitutional limits, fears enforcement, and criticizes reliance on expedited lawmaking over constitutional processes.
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Georgia
Atlanta
M. E. Thompson
Langley Collyer
L.A
Rep. Tarr
Liquor Board
England
Quse
WCTU
CBS
Sam Simmons
Frank Knox
Harry Stimson
Republic
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