Fund to Aid O. U. Development Is Launched
The Ohio University Fund Inc was unveiled at a campus dinner in Athens with about 60 community leaders. Trustees include John W Galbreath and George C Parks. Key projects include research student aid library needs and cultural life. Athens contributors urged $25000 as Athens share, while Baker warned of rising research funding and decentralization.
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Ohio University Fund, Inc
Athens
Southeastern
Ohio
Arthur C. Johnson
The
Columbus Dispatch
Howard Hall
John C. Baker
Ohio University
John G. Case, Jr
Columbus
Roger Connor
John W. Galbreath
George C. Parks
Baker
Johnson
Alleghenies
North America
Case
Congress
Perth
Weatherhead pushes World Aviation Museum for Cleveland site
Albert J. Weatherhead, president of the Weatherhead Co., travels to Washington to urge Congress to authorize a Museum of World Aviation in Cleveland. He proposes locating it in the $13 million wartime bomber plant near Cleveland Airport, with the plant under consideration by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. as a surplus storage site. A Lorain municipal airport plan seeks a 440 acre site with CAA filing and no federal funds.
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Cleveland
Washington
Museum of World Aviation
Albert J. Weatherhead
Weatherhead Co
Weatherhead
Cleveland Engineering Society
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Burr Oak Dam Named in Ohio Flood Project Plans
Congress will consider authorizing about 150 million dollars for flood control reservoirs and walls across the Ohio River Valley. A hearing before the House Flood Control Committee in Washington is set for April 10 to review proposed projects including Burr Oak Reservoir in Hocking Valley and Roseville floodwall on the Moxahala Creek among others with costs cited from the 1944 engineers report. The state education department fixed April 12 for district preliminary scholarship tests for high school pupils, and May 4 for final tests.
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Columbus
Ohio River
House Flood Control Committee
Washington
Ohio
Delaware
Olentangy
Dillon
Licking River
Zanesville
Newark
Congress
Burr Oak
Hocking Valley
Roseville
Moxahala Creek
State Department of Education
Army to Send 6000 Enlisted For Home by April 6
The Eighth Army announced that an additional 6,000 enlisted personnel are scheduled to depart for home by April 6. The move expands demobilization plans as forces wind down in the theater.
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Japan
Yokohama
Eighth Army
Iran Crisis Moves to Security Council Procedure Vote
The Security Council named a special three nation sub committee on procedure to handle the Iran issue with Russia France and the United States. Gromyko failed to delete the Iranian matter, Byrnes urged immediate hearing, and Bonnet proposed sending the next step to the sub committee as nine members backed establishing it.
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Russia
France
United States
Andrei Gromyko
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Washington
Henri Bonnet
Gromyko
Poland
Byrnes
Alexander Cadogan
Britain
Security Council
Iran
Bonnet
Farmers Voice Opposition to Federal Rules
About 75 farmers from six Central Ohio counties met at South Solon and voted to oppose the Agriculture Adjustment Agency price plan. They seek elimination of the OPA by June 30 and urge Congress to guarantee farmers 23 percent of national income, arguing the plan ignores current higher labor and investment costs.
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London
Office of Price Administration
Ohio
South Solon
Agriculture Adjustment Agency
Howard D. Jewett
Portsmouth
OPA
Congress
Sex Education Film Recalled By Ban in Ohio
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche urged a recall and review of the sex education film Mom and Dad by the state censor board. The Defiance Protestant committee chairman Rev M R Frey said Lausche claimed the film exploited sex for commercial gain despite an earlier approval. The governor noted the picture had shown in Logan and Springfield before.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Board of Censors
Frank ¥. Lausche
Lausche
M. R. Frey
Defiance
Frey
Oto Censorship Board
Logan
Springfield
Balance Budget Hope Prompts Longer OPA Controls
Secretary Vinson told the House Banking Committee that the treasury is closer to a balanced budget as receipts exceed estimates and expenditures come in under expectations. He urged keeping OPA controls on the economy a little longer, saying the outlook is more optimistic than ever.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
OPA
House Banking Committee
Treasury
Favors Income Tax Cut If Budget Is Reduced
Ohio veterans urged to register for voting as primary approaches. Secretary Hummel states any veteran aged 21 by November 5 may vote in the May 7 primary if properly registered by April 3. nationwide proposal from Rep. Knutson ties a 10 percent income tax cut to a $3 billion reduction in federal budget forecasts.
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Ohio
Washington
Knutson
R-Minn
House
Columbus
Edward J. Hummel
Subsidy for Home Needs Is Opposed
Washington AP report shows Housing Chief Wilson Wyatt pressing for subsidies to boost scarce building materials. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes reviving the plan, warning subsidies may hide inflation and distort prices. House approves 3.25 billion emergency housing bill for veterans and other agencies. CPA moves to open regional offices and issue conversion priorities for materials like lumber bricks radiators and concrete products.
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Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
House
Senate Banking Committee
Wyatt
Senate
Civilian Production Administration
CPA
Banking Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Treasury
Woman Charged in Death of Six Month Old Nephew
In Lake County criminal court, 25 year old Mrs Secora Ramos was charged after police say she admitted throwing her six month old nephew into a furnace. The boy died ten minutes after hospital arrival. Police Captain Peter Billick cited alleged pregnancy-related desperation as the probable motive.
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Lake County
Secora Ramos
Peter Billick
Carmen Mireles
Wage Hike Demands Backed as Railroads Warn Ruin
CHICAGO July wage increases sought by 20 railroad unions would ruin the railroad industry irreparably injure the national economy and trigger inflation. Elmer A. Smith counsel for the carriers testified before an arbitration board hearing the unions demands. He said wage hikes affect railway rates more than other industries’ prices.
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Chicago
Elmer A. Smith
Smith
Reds Agree to Free Manchuria Puppet Leader
China reports CHINA CHUNGKING and Russia have eased Sino-Soviet tensions and the Sino American military committee directs truce teams from Peiping to Manchuria to halt fighting. The teams will avoid Russian-occupied zones while releasing Henry Pu i, former puppet governor, as China’s vice minister of foreign affairs.
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Chungking
Russia
Ito
Henry Pu-¥i
Manchuria
China
Peiping
Ohio Families To Join Servicemen Overseas
Fortye Ohio wives and children will be among the first dependents leaving next month to join their soldiers in the European theater. Only 24 enlisted men were among 700 applicants for April transportation due to uncertain assignments facilities for dependents and many reenlistment furloughs.
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Washington
Ohio
War Department
Department
Ohio Assured Buildings Ban Clarified by Gov Lausche
Gov. Frank J. Lausche said Ohio would cooperate with federal building restrictions limiting operations to residential properties. He noted state permits for commercial construction or repairs of five or more units could be blocked if federal permits are withheld, while already approved projects remain unaffected.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
State Department of Industrial Relations
Nelsonville Bond Resubmission Granted in May Primary
The Ohio Board of Tax Appeals has granted Nelsonville authority to resubmit a $198,000 school bond that was defeated last November, in the May primary election.
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Columbus
Ohio Board of Tax Appeals
Nelsonville
Claim Rubber Plants Offset Wage Boosts
Spokesmen for three large CIO locals of the United Rubber Workers Union say Firestone Goodyear and Goodrich are laying off workers and cutting hours in some departments. They claim the work week reductions offset the 18 12 cent hourly wage increase granted in a recent union pact with the major producers.
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Akron—P
CIO United Rubber Workers Union
Firestone, Goodyear
Goodrich
FBI Captures Soviet Officer Fleeing States
FBI agents arrested Lt. Nicolai Gregorovich Redin a 29 year old Soviet purchasing commission member in Seattle as he prepared to flee by ship from Portland Oregon. He faces espionage charges over plans and information about the USS Yellowstone a destroyer tender tied to the atomic bomb test that summer. The arrest follows remarks by FBI Chief Hoover and hints from the House Committee on Un American Activities about possible atomic secrets.
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Nicolai Gregorovich Redin
Coivision
Seattle
U.S S
Yellowstone
FBI
Julius A. Bernard
Portland
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Redin
House Committee On Unamerican
Jhing
Rivers and Harbors Plan Would Create Nearly Billion Dollar Program
The House Rivers and Harbors Committee will hear a proposed nationwide program to improve rivers and harbors totaling about a billion dollars. Army engineers would execute authorized projects pending War Department funds, with a Civil Functions Appropriation Bill to support the effort. President Truman indicated he would try to attend Cleveland’s 150th anniversary on July 22 if schedules permit.
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Washington
America
Nation
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Mansfield
D- Tex
Army Engineers
War Department
Congress
Ohio
Truman
Cleveland
Ohio black market blocks operation beef packers quit Columbus
Two Columbus packing houses suspended beef processing amid black market operations described as impossible to curb. Executives cite live cattle price inflation and OPA ceiling violations. Some plants report near or complete cessation of slaughter while others operate at reduced capacity as enforcement debates continue.
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Columbus
OPA
J. Fred Schmidt
J. Fred Schmidt Packing Co
Schmidt
David Davies Packing Co
Hegnan Falter Packing Co
Columbus iPacking Co
Swift & Co
Ohio
MiJton J. Rappoport
Rappoport
Steel Plants To Be Hit If Mines Close
Government agencies moved swiftly today to soften the blow from John L. Lewis calling 400,000 soft coal miners to rest as of April 1. Liluminong operators warned the steel industry would feel the impact immediately and some mills may shut by April 19. A government spokesman said an order to freeze coal shipments was in the works while industrial rationing is arranged. Howard T. Colvin said the government will now take an active role as negotiations between the United Mine Workers and operators continue.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Solid Fuels Administration
Howard T. Colvin
Federal Conciliation Service
United Mine
UMW
Charles O'Neill
United Mine Workers’ District 6
Ohio
West Virginia
Belmont
Harrison
Athens
Hocking
Mum Kingum
Perry
Jefferson
Guernsey
Tuscarawas
John Owens
Oho
Westinghouse plant workers enter Pittsburgh area amid coal strike tensions
Hundreds of Westinghouse Electric workers occupy the East Pittsburgh plant as state police keep order during a union rally. The strike threatens 75,000 workers across the company, with miners led by John L. Lewis signaling a possible April stoppage. District 6 miners in Ohio and four West Virginia counties face a potential 48 million ton stockpile impact as a broader stoppage looms.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
East Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
Nazis Raised 1 Million For Campaign in the U. S.
In Nurnberg Germany Dr Huribert von Strempel, ex-first secretary of the German Embassy in Washington, testified that Nazi Germany financed a $1,000,000 propaganda drive in the United States in the two years before Pearl Harbor by expropriating German nationals inheritances. The account, part of a 44 page interrogation, was presented at the car crimes trial. An Ohio vocational education reform workshop in Columbus will begin Friday to recast training for trades and skills in wartime context.
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Eniwetok Island
Coast Guard
Pariy M. Touhy
Washington, D. C
Nernberg
Germany
United States
Pearl Harbor
Huribert von Strempel
Washington
Strempel
Columbus
Ohio
Fand Sup
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Fants Aviation Museum
Lorain
F. J. Greenshields
Lorainirport Executive Committee
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Burr Oak Dam
Tran
Nmination
United Nations Security Council
Council
Reds
A. F. of L. United Mine Workers
Nelsonville Appeal
Ore
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