Ohio House Approves Record 823 Million Budget
The Ohio House passed a record 823 million dollar two year budget in a 129 to 4 vote after strict party discipline. Democrats failed to restore welfare department items, with four of their members voting against the final bill. The measure cuts Lausche requests but funds welfare staffing and aged aid with limited increases amid falling food prices.
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Columbus
House
Frank J. Lausche
Welfare Department
Michael J. Damas
Toledo
Joseph Avellone
Cleveland
John J. Lynch J
Youngstown
Patrick J. Dunn
Strasburg
Aid
Eough
Senate
Lausche
Soviet Armistice Call As Cold War Tensions Rise
In a May Day address, Soviet defense minister Marshal Bulganin urged Western leaders to back peaceful statements with actions and to curb armaments. He warned the USSR will strengthen forces unless the arms race ends and called for a true armistice in the cold war. The day featured a military parade in Red Square and jet formations overhead.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Churchill
Bulganin
Red Square
Russia
Ceeds
Bulganijn
Bulgaria
Pravda
Communist Party
Judge Lashes Union Rioters in Labor Strike Case
Judge Albert Hayer convicted 30 Industrial Rayon Co employees for violating the riot act after a February strike. He said their conduct delivered a severe blow to unions and labor ideals. Four other workers were acquitted.
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Painesville
Industrial Rayon Co
Albert Hayer
Firemen’s Parade in Winchester Ends With Home Blaze
More than 100 pieces of fire equipment took part in the Shenandoah apple blossom festival parade in Winchester on Thursday. Glaize Lewis lost his home to a fire a few minutes after the parade ended.
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Winchester
Glaize Lewis
Pact Averts Bus Walkout in Columbus
Columbus transit workers called off a planned strike after Columbus Transit Co offered an 11th hour pact. The deal includes an immediate 10 percent raise and a move toward a 40 hour week, plus additional wage steps and interim increases tied to a mayoral advisory committee on fares.
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Columbus, C
Columbus Transit Co
Edward A. Pellissier
CIO Transport Workers Union
Pellissier
Mexican Mine Still Blazing
Mexico's government approved the entry of two U S fire specialists to Angangueb silver mine 80 miles west of Mexico City. Fires from a short circuit fueled by faulty cables left 25 miners unaccounted last Saturday and were still smoldering six days later. The American Smelting and Refining Co. operates the mine and says its imported equipment plus technician aid should extinguish the fires.
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Mexico City
Mexico
U. S.xparte
Angangueb
American Smelting and Refining Co
Menxco City
Interior Ministry
Taft and Bricker Seek U.S. Aid for Southern Ohio Airport
Ohio Senators Taft and Bricker asked the Senate Appropriations Committee to consider $100 000 for an airport near the new Atomic Energy Commission plant in Southern Ohio. Portsmouth business leaders note voters approved a $400 000 bond for the project and federal matching funds are expected.
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Bricker
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ohio
Scioto County
Portsmouth
Senate
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
UN Demands 375 More Disabled PWs in Korean War Talks
In Panmunjom the United Nations warned the Reds to return 375 more disabled Allied prisoners of war or risk questioning their sincerity in truces negotiations. The Reds denied the holdout charge, admitted some sick and wounded are held, but argued they are too ill to send home. The UN named Sweden as a potential neutral custodian, but the Reds again refused to name a country.
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Sweden
North Korea
John C. Daniel
Reds
Death Thins GOP Margin in House After Withers Elimination
Washington notes another casualty hits the 83rd Congress as Rep. Garrett Lee Withers of Kentucky dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. His death widens the Republican margin erosion, joining three prior fatalities this term.
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Washington
House
Garrett Lee Withers
Kentucky
Withers
Senate
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Five-Day Forecast for Ohio Temperatures Rise Slightly
Ohio weather outlook shows temperatures two to four degrees above normal with highs 65 to 72 and lows around 44 to 46. Cool spell by Saturday and Sunday then warmer Monday to Wednesday. Scattered showers or thunder showers tonight Saturday and again Tuesday, totaling about one inch.
Seven Bomb Blasts Hit Buenos Aires as Peron Speaks
Seven bomb explosions rocked Buenos Aires on May Day. The seventh blast occurred as President Juan D. Peron addressed the opening of the 87th Argentine Congress. Bombs went off in small public parks with little expected damage.
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Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Rancher Convicted in Witchcraft Murder Case
In Phoenix Arizona rancher Joe S. Chavez 45 was found guilty of second degree murder for killing Maria Estrella Miranda 41 claiming she practiced witchcraft. Chavez faces ten years to life in prison with neighbors and friends offering competing beliefs about the alleged curses.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Joe S. Chavez
Havez
Maria Estrella Miranda
Guadalupe
Chavez
Miranda
Bethlehem Steel Raises Base Prices on Rail Supplies
Bethlehem Steel Corp announced new price increases on most products and base rail prices up to 81.50 a ton, plus a 3 a ton rise for fastenings like tie plates joints and splice bars. Chairman E G Grace spoke after reporting record steel production shipments and higher sales and net income for the first quarter.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel Corp
E. G. Grace
Bethlehem
Tornado Roars Through Warner Robins Georgia
A violent tornado struck Warner Robins Georgia killing 13 people injuring 250 to 300 and causing millions in damage. The storm hit near Macon leveling buildings and tearing through the Robins Air Force Base with wind gusts around 100 mph and debris flying hundreds of feet.
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Warner Robins
Macon
Robins Air Force Base
14Th Air Force
Air Force
D. S. Trenholm, Jr
M. Set
H. F. Roth
London
Roth
Ocmulgee
Judge Lets Columinst Off After One Way Sign Mixup
Montgomery judge John Scott lectured columnist Allen Rankin on staying alert while driving. He demonstrated by guiding Rankin through a one way street, then was stopped by a police officer for missing a sign. Both men paid fines and shook hands.
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Montgomery
Ala
John Scott
Scott
Allen Rankin
Rankin
Coffee Time Clause Authorized in Weirton Contracts
AFL carpenters union and eight contractors in the Weirton Builders Exchange signed a contract allowing a five minute coffee break at 10 a.m. The union business agent said it may be the first coffee time ever authorized in a union contract. Pay raises of 21 cents were granted to the carpenters.
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Steubenville
AFL Carpenters Union and
Weirton
W. Va
Williams Union
Weirton Builders Exchange
AEC Hints Hydrogen Bomb Devices in Research Lines
The Atomic Energy Commission signaled that it has crude hydrogen bomb devices in its hydrogen bomb program and can release atomic energy on a large scale. Dr. Thomas H. Johnson told the American Physical Society that research with cyclotrons accelerators and Van de Graaff machines relates to controlled lab reactions like those in thermonuclear devices.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Enieweek
Thomas H. Johnson
AEC
American Physical Society
Commission
News blackout cloaks arrival of disabled GIs
A third hospital plane with 22 sick and wounded Americans home from Communist camps was due in Honolulu late last night but news of its arrival was suppressed by Army secrecy. An Army spokesman cited security and compassion as reasons, delaying details on the flight and its passengers.
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Honolulu
Douglas W. Mitchell
Freedom
Solon Attacks Foreign Books in Congress Words
Rep Bow of Ohio accuses Communist diplomatic offices in Washington of distributing socialist propaganda through public school libraries. He urges Education to warn high schools and colleges about the danger and asks the Post Office to regulate literature from Communist countries, citing New Hungary magazine and the Hungarian legation.
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Washington
Bow
Ohio
Office of Education
Post Office Department
Legation
New
Hungary
Reds Fail in Attempt To Grab Plane Expert
Austrian police reported Soviet agents attempted to kidnap a former Heinkel aircraft designer in Vienna. Two men posing as police tried to force him into a car, but he fought free and escaped over a garden fence.
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Vienna
Austria
Heinkel Works
End Sought To Press Shutdown in Ecuador
Jules Dubois of the Inter American Press Association met President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra to urge restraint after the government shut two anti government newspapers in Guayaquil La Nacion and La Hora and jailed the owner and four executives.
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Quito
Ecuador
Jules Dubois
Inter- American Press Association
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Velasco
Guayaquil
la Nacion
la Hora
Balance Budget Stance Dampens Hopes for Tax Relief
President Eisenhower said a balanced budget for the next fiscal year is not feasible, delaying any new tax cuts. Senate leader Taft warned Congress may approve spending without final estimates, while George and others doubted leeway for reductions. House leaders held out hope for cuts if appropriations can be tamed. Eisenhower plans to seek 8.5 billion less than the Truman proposed 72.9 billion in new appropriations for the year.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Robert A. Taft
Congress
Sen. George
D-Ga
George
House
Halleck
Ind
Joseph Martin
R-Mass
Taft
Senate
Ohi
Truman
Treasury
Rep. Short
Ike Signals Bigger 1954 U.S. Military Build-Up
President Eisenhower criticized Truman’s military plan calling it a crazy quilt and said the administration would scrap fixed target dates for a long haul program. He indicated more defense buildup in 1954 than under the previous administration, while acknowledging possible spending cuts in military and foreign aid.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America Wi Jhasten
Truman
Capitol Hill
50 Yank Jets Smash Enemy Radio Station
Fifty F-86 Sabre jets struck the Pyongyang radio station and a major military headquarter near the North Korean capital. The 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing joined four Sabre wings in Korea, with 25 planes from the 8th. Allied bombers cratered at least seven Communist airfields in the past week as minor skirmishes occurred along the 155 mile front.
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Seoul
Pyongyang
5Th Air Force
Korea
North Korea
Air Force
GOP Chairman Cuts Expenses and Reshapes RNC
Washington report says Leonard W. Hall trimmed the Republican National Committee from 130 to about 100 staff and aims to save about $100 000 annually. He announced new appointments including A D Baumhart Jr as executive director and Robert Humphreys as publicity director.
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Washington
Leonard W. Hall
Republican National Committee
Cutti
Hall
A. D. Baumhart Jr
Vermilion, C
National
Special Activities
Rovert Humphreys
Republican Congressional
Strikes at General Electric Evendale Plant Slow Jet Engine Production
In Cincinnati silence marked the 49 day strike by CIO automobile workers and AFL machinists at GE Evendale jet engine plant. Defense Department noted ongoing review of impact with activity seen in Detroit and Washington as about 4500 CIO workers and 1100 AFL machinists were affected. GE reports over 2000 workers back and limited engine production resuming.
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Cincinnati
General Electric Co
Evendale
Detroit
Washington
Defense Department
Sone
CIO
AFL
FBI Nabs Notorious Con Man at Churchill Downs
Louisville report says an FBI agent arrested J Levy, a top ten wanted swindler, at Churchill Downs as he left a $50 betting window. The suspect was identified from photos in the agency’s wanted files.
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Louisville
FBI
Churchill Downs
J Levy
Evy
Returned Yank Claims 2538 Captives Died in Red Camps
Sgt James F Daniel of Alameda California says Communist medical records show 2538 Allied captives died from starvation and disease in North Korea within a year The deaths include 931 between December 26 1950 and March 14 1951 at Death Valley between Kunu and Pyoktong and 1607 at Camp No 5 on the Yalu River during early 1951 He says he accessed records while treating wounded at Valley and Kunu after being wounded in December 1950
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Tokyo
North Korea
James F. Daniel
Alameda
Calif
Death Valley
Kum
Pyoktong
Daniel
Yalu River
Valley
U. S
Kunu
Death Bon
Chongjin Reservoir
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