GOP Leaders Eye Tough Additions to Labor Bill
Republican leaders anticipate Senate approval of stronger amendments to a union labor bill despite possible presidential veto risk. Taft signals no preconference commitments and notes a separate emergency bill could pass if a coal strike occurs. AFL CIO merger talks pause at open minded talks on unity strategy.
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GOP
Senate OK
Washington
Senate
Truman
Wherry
Neb
Reepublican
Yessterday
Morse
Senator Langer
Ind
Taft
Ohio
White House
Holland
Steel Sheets Ram Flyer Four Killed at Huntington
A derailment near Huntington Pennsylvania occurred when two 16 foot steel sheets shifted on a westbound freight, tearing a hole in the New York to St Louis sleeper coach of the American, killing four and injuring 40. The crash halted all four PRR main tracks as a eastbound freight then collided with protruding steel. Among the dead were three servicemen and a woman. only Joseph Selmick Jr. was identified at once.
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Huntingdon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Here
New York
St. Louis
PRR
Altoona
Huntington
John R. McCrory
New York City
Knowledge Builders Films
Julian Bryan
International Film Foundation
Myrtes Carlo
Bronx
N. Y
Miss Carlo
McCrory
Enrique Rigo-Salva
Puerto Rico
Ohio State University
Cost of Auto Insurance Premiums Rise in Ohio
In Columbus insurers cite higher repair costs and pricier cars as main causes of rising collision rates. Theft coverage also to rise. Youngstown theft premiums jumped from 7 to 10 dollars today.
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Ohio
Columbus
Youngstown
Timken to Open Rock-Bit Plant in Colorado Springs
The Timken Roller Bearing Co. will operate a new rock-bit plant employing 125 workers at Colorado Springs after November 1, expanding manufacturing in Colorado.
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Colorado
Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Colorado Springs
Colo
Senate Approves Ohio Turnpike Bill Amid Labor Protests
In Columbus the Senate backed Sen. Ralph W. Winter's plan to create a five member Ohio Turnpike Commission to build and operate privately financed super highways funded by tolls. The House later saw measures on oleo margarine and school district consolidations move forward as labor groups protested.
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Senate
House
Columbus
Ohio
Pennsylvania Turnpike
General Assembly
Ralph W. Winter
Medina
Winter
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Highway Department
Four Month River Trip Ends in Minneapolis
Amateur-built schooner-houseboat voyage along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers concludes in Minneapolis. Warren Christianson, a B-17 pilot, and his wife used the craft for living quarters while he attends the University of Minnesota Law School. They began last January with a 60 horsepower engine and five mile an hour progress. The boat is planned to become an ocean-going yacht.
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Minneapolis
Ohio
Mississippi
Warren Christianson
University of Minnesota Law School
Christianson
Columbus
Express Driver Dies Of Wound In Chest
Cleveland police investigated the fatal shooting of Jack Stahl a 30 year old Railway Express driver who died in a local hospital from a chest wound twenty minutes after admission last night Detective Robert Shottke said officers held to investigate the proprietor of a cafe who said Stahl became quarrelsome and began to push him.
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Cleveland
Jack Stahl
Robert Shottke
Shottke
Stahl
Break Seen In Phone Row As Strike Persists
Washington reports a possible breakthrough in the 25 day old telephone strike as conciliators eyed a 4 p.m. conference between Bell System leaders and independent unions. Officials warn pickets to hold lines while New York and Pennsylvania settlements face doubt and traffic workers vote to stay out.
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Washington
National Federation of Telephone Workers
New York
Peter J. Manno
American Telephone and ‘Telegraph Long Lines Division
American Union of Telephone Workers
Manno
New York Telephone Co
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
Traffic Employes Association
Vice Protests Reopened in Steubenville Campaign
Steubenville Protestant ministers renew anti vice push by writing the mayor and prosecutor. They question dwindling lottery prosecutions since the Grand Jury report and accuse officials of targeting operators instead of gamblers. They warn of renewed underworld activity and say further cases will go before Common Pleas Court judges.
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Steubenville
James Borkowski
Grand Jury
Common Pleas Court
Underworld
Russians Display Military Might as Europe Marks May Day
Russia's Minister of the Armed Forces Nikolai Bulganin urged the armed forces to stay ready as May Day celebrations spread across Europe. Moscow broadcast a May Day order praising peaceful labor and democratic peace while conducting large shows of strength in Red Square.
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Europe
London
Russia
Nikolai Bulganin
Moscow
Red Square
Belgium
Norway
France
Moscow Radio
Obs
Communist Party
Stalin
Soviet Union
Bulganin
Britain
National Council of Labor
Labor Party
Trades Union Congress
Cooperative Union
O i Workers Everywhere
Attlee
Greece
Rome
Labor
Holland
Berlin
Phone Cable Sabotage Cuts 300 Circuits in Michigan
Michigan Bell reports a cable between Wayland and Moline was hacked at 3:30 a.m., disabling 300 circuits and interrupting long distance service, radio, and telegraph circuits. AT&T long lines division co owns the line, AP service to over 20 Michigan cities was disrupted.
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Detroit
Michigan Bell Telephone Co
Michigan
Wayland
Moline
Michigan Bell
Long Lines
American Telegraph and Telephone Co
Associated Press
Akron builders give AFL men new rates
Akron building associations report wage increases for AFL plasterers lathers roofers and sheet metal workers. Wayne Myers secretary of the builders exchange cites new hourly rates with plasters 2.12 dollars lathers 2 dollars and roofers sheet metal workers 1 82 dollars, reflecting increases from 12 to 15 cents per hour.
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Akron
AFL
Akron Building Associations
Wayne Myers
Builders Exchange
Vets Allowance Checks Halted In Ohio Pause
Readjustment allowance checks for unemployed and self employed veterans were stopped yesterday by Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation. Administrator Dale Durbin said no checks would be mailed until Veterans Administration funds were replenished by Congress.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Dale Duniton
Veterans’ Administration
Congress
Two Men Questioned In Restaurant Attack
Columbus Franklin County officials questioned two men about the robbery assault at a local restaurant. The victim, James J. Beck, said three men beat him and stole 3860 dollars taken from a bank withdrawal used to pay a loan and buy equipment.
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Columbus
Franklin County
James J. Beck
Beck
New Judge Named for Huron County Probate Court
Robert J. Wetter age 43 was named probate judge of Huron County by Gov. Thomas J. Herbert. The appointment takes effect May 14.
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Columbus
Robert J. Wetter
Huron County
Thomas J. Herbert
Eight Miners Die in Indiana Coal Mine Explosion
Terre Haute Ind Eight of eleven workers at the Spring Hill coal mine near Terre Haute were killed in an explosion. Names and ages of the dead are listed, with two dozen details about the blast and rescue delays. Authorities suspect a dynamite blast triggered a dust explosion. the mine has been idle since a prior government closure.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Spring Hill
Calvin Wilson
Steve Summers
Mort Gates
West Terre Haute
John Brown
Fern Earhart
Barney Riggs
Desire Lete
Chauncey Blackburn
Ligg
Earhart
Wesley Harris
Indiana State Teachers College
Cmdr
C. E. Poe
Indiana
Centralia
Ill
Navy
Federal
District 11
United Mine Workers
AFL
Dundas Man Killed in Auto Crash at Chillicothe Veterans Hospital
Donald Lee Kirkendall 26 of Dundas died when his car struck a tree in the Veterans Hospital grounds at Chillicothe. He was alone. a guard arrived after the wreck. A McArthur High School graduate and Army paratrooper, he worked at the hospital. Survived by parents Albert and [name omitted] Kirkendall and several siblings. Body to Wrightsel funeral home in McArthur.
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McArthur
Veterans Hospital
Chillicothe
Donald Lee Kirkendall
Dundas
Kirkendall
McArthur High School
Albert Kirkendall
Martha Kirkendall
Lillian Mick
Charles
Betty Rosemary
Roy
Wrightsel Funeral Home
Arab States Fight Palestine Independence at UN
In New York the Arab bloc pressed Palestine independence at the United Nations Assembly. Syrian delegate Faris El Khoury and four others urged inclusion of the proposal on the work sheet for the extraordinary Palestine session. The steering committee had rejected the move 8 to 1. El Khoury asked for a two thirds majority to approve.
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New York
United Nations Assembly
Palestine
Faris el Khoury
el Khoury
Assembly
Syria
Ohio Gets 62 Stations For Study of Storms
Wilmington O July completion of 62 weather stations for study of thunderstorms in Clinton Highland and Brown counties announced by L M Dye director of the government project. The stations will be put into operation tomorrow.
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Wilmington
L. M. Dye
Clinton, Highland
Brown
Steel contract deadlines trigger strikes across steel industry
Most U S steel firms and workers renew contracts on a pattern with a 15 cent per hour raise as deadlines expired at midnight sparking strikes at Inland Steel in Indiana Harbor and at John A Roeblings Sons Co in New Jersey. Youngstown Sheet and Tube talks proceed with a 12 1 percent raise retroactive to April 1 while negotiations continue with Pittsburgh Steel Co.
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New York
Indiana Harbor
Ind
CIO
Inland Steel Co
Trenton and
Roebling
N.J
John A. Roebling’s Sons Co
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Youngstown
Chicago
Pittsburgh Steel Co
Ohio State Dean Warns of Bidding for Faculty
Dean Harlan H. Hatcher of Ohio State University says colleges are bidding fiercely for each other's faculty. He describes underpaid professors as in a risky position, comparing it to a Sunday School boy walking through a tough neighborhood with a lollypop.
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Cleveland
Forster
Harlan H. Hatcher
College of Arts and Sciences
Ohio State University
OSU
Violent storms sweep nation killing at least 25
The Associated Press reports tornadoes and violent storms across several states over three days. In North Carolina a tornado near Fairmont killed one and injured at least three, with Red Cross shelters for over 50 families. Missouri and Iowa saw 13 dead and 45 injured, Texas Rockwall tornado fatalities, and Arkansas totals rise with nine dead and around 25 injured.
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Associated Press
Red Cross
Fairmont
N. C
Dillon
North Carolina
Arkansas
Missouri
Texas
Iowa
Rockwall
Tex
Pomeroy Man Resigns Liquor Department Post
The State Liquor Board revoked private club permits for the National Military Society in Cleveland and the Lake Erie Outing and Fishing Club of Willoughby for not being bona fide clubs. James F. Rowe of Pomeroy resigned as supervisor of stores in the Columbus district.
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Columbus
State Liquor Board
National Military Society, Inc
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Willoughby
Harry Hawley
James FE. Rowe
Pomeroy
Lamp Post Collapse Shocks Cincinnati Man
In downtown Cincinnati Officer report says Robert Graves leaned on a 20 foot lamp post when it rusted through at the base and toppled to the street. Graves was uninjured but shocked by the sudden collapse.
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Cincinnati
District One
Robert Graves
Graves
Driver Permit Returned To Mrs Roosevelt
Hyde Park New York Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt may drive again after three and a half months since her license was revoked following an accident. Her secretary confirmed the license has been reinstated by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the former first lady made no comment.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ohio Wheat Stocks Drop 19 Percent from Year Ago
Ohio's stored wheat in the latest report shows a 19 percent decline from the same date last year, according to the Ohio Cooperative iCrop Reporting Service.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Cooperative
iCrop
Fall Kills Painter James Murphy in Akron Downtown
A seven story fall onto a downtown sidewalk in Akron killed James Murphy a 41 year old painter. Police say Murphy fell from a building and died at the scene. Investigators are reviewing the incident as an accidental death.
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Akron
James Murphy
Educator Albert Seipert Dies at 63 in Peoria
Albert F. Seipert, 63, vice president of Bradley University, died last night in Peoria Illinois. He served as a longtime educator and administrator shaping campus leadership and academics.
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Peoria
Ill
Albert F. Seipert
Bradeley University
President’s price demand vs wage hikes In 1948 row
The author condemns the president for pushing higher production costs while calling for lower prices. He argues wage raises this year will boost production costs by billions, potentially wiping out profits and harming private industry. He suggests political motives behind the stance and favors lower prices if costs stop rising.
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Philip Murray
Murray
Worth
Anna Trump
William H. Bucksburg
Dern
Ohio Avia
Tion
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Clifton Ls. Caryl
R-Union
Republican Party
Jacob Clayman
State
William Lavelle
Senate Cio
Michael J. Lyden
Ohio Federation of Labor
John J. Hurst
Cincinnati Federation of Labor
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David M. Ferguson
Guernsey
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Sam Simmons
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