House approves rent control extension with local option
The House passed a rent control extension 204 to 182 adding a local option for cities counties and towns to decide on applying the controls. The vote approval followed changes including sunset dates and a two year lease option for landlords and tenant consent. Senate reception appeared friendly though action uncertain with Wherry predicting possible late month timing.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Rep. Redden
D-Nc
Wherry
Nebraska
National Guard planes to fly Legion memberships
Pilots from the 166th Fighter Squadron as part of National Guard training will collect American Legion membership cards Sunday and fly them to the Legion’s national headquarters in Indianapolis. Twelve Ohio National Guard planes will be used in the maneuver.
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Columbus
166Th
National Guard
American Legion
Legion
Indianapolis
Ohio National Guard
Wage Increases Approved for Diebold Employees
Diebold Inc grants 12.2 cent hourly raises for 1,900 production workers retroactive to April 21 and 10 percent raises for salaried staff under $5,000 annual pay. President George H. Bockius issued the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Diebold, Inc
George H. Bockius
Sam Simmons on aging and cancer risks
Sam Simmons argues physicians and scientists are largely to blame for rising cancer deaths as the population ages. He notes life expectancy increasing from 39 to 65 and warns longer lifespans enlarge the pool of potential cancer victims and stress on old-age security.
Taft Drops Push for Labor Injunctions in Senate Fight
Senator Taft abandoned his bid to let private employers seek injunctions against jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts as the Senate prepared to vote on amendments to a major labor disputes bill. He suggested restricting union actions while remaining undecided on other provisions.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Senate
GOP
Vandenberg
Reich
U. S
National Labor Relations Board
Ohioan
Road Workers Are Suspended in Ohio for Political Activity
Four State Highway Department workers in Southeastern Ohio received 30 day disciplinary suspensions yesterday and one more in the Chillicothe division was discharged for political activity. Suspended were Emmett Bartels, truck driver in Meigs County, Division 10, Roy F. Travis, carpenter in Monroe County, Division 10, James A. Gill, a truck driver, and Roy G. Swank, laborer in charge, both of Morgan County, Division 10. The dismissal order affected Albert A. Swartz, Jackson County truck driver accused of malfeasance and political activity.
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Columbus
Ohio
Chillicothe
Emmett Bartels
Meigs County
Roy F. Travis
Carpenter
Monroe County
James A. Gill
Roy G. Swank
Morgan County
Albert A. Swartz
Jackson County
Ohio Promotion Commission to Dissolve
The Ohio Development and Publicity Commission formed in 1940 to promote the state's advantages will wind up its affairs. Executive secretary Dana Ofaber said the commission does not expect to exist by year end. Senate considers a bill to create a planning and development division in the State Department of Commerce.
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Columbus
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Ohio
Dana O. Faber
State Department of Commerce
Senate
Students Faculty Reach Compromise at Capital
A Trautman Hall lounge proposal allowing male guests before and after meals was accepted by Capital University authorities. A no smoking rule remains in effect and triggered a mass student protest at the Lutheran school last week.
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Columbus
Trautman Hall
Capital University
Lutheran
Ohio Governor Plans Traffic Safety Program
Governor Thomas J. Herbert announced plans to mobilize Ohio for a coordinated state wide traffic safety program. He will form a traffic safety committee of state officials to study problems and develop a motor vehicle accident prevention program.
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Columbus
Gavy
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio
Herbert
Truman Signs Veterans Bill After Senate Approval
President Truman signed an appropriations bill providing 1.8 billion dollars for the Veterans Administration enabling resumed monthly unemployment and education payments to about 2.78 million veterans. The measure also allocates 2.835 billion to social security grants, 300 million for relief by the Army in occupied countries, 6 million for school lunches, and nearly 500 million for Army pay raises.
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Washington
Truman
Veterans Administration
Congress
General Price Level For Farmers Declines in Ohio
The general level of prices received by Ohio farmers fell during the month ended April 15 but stayed well above last year's level. Beef cattle rose 20 cents to a new high of 18.70 per hundredweight, while prices for other meat animals declined from 30 cents for sheep to 3 dollars per hundredweight for hogs.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Wind and Rain Strike Dayton Springfield Area
Severe storms hit the Dayton Springfield area with 55 mph winds and higher gusts, toppling trees and damaging 10 airplanes at two Springfield fields. Mad River Township areas suffered heavy damage as roofs and barns were ruined, a cottage roof was blown off, and a car was crushed by a falling tree. Two Pittsburgh teens capsized in the Ohio River. one swimmer was rescued by a harbor caretaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Dayton-Springfield
Springfield
Mad River Township
Mary Wiegel
Jeannette
Clark County
A. T. Smith
Pittsburgh
John Settenk
William Karjcovic
Ohio River
Settenk
Lester Bailey
Karjcovic
BI Expert Recalled in May Trial Testimony
The government recalled FBI identification expert Frank M. Miller to further testimony on charges that munitions-makers Henry and Murray Garsson tried to cover wartime payments to Andrew J. May. Prosecutor William A. Paisley said Cumberland invoices linked to May may have been produced on a Garsson firm machine and that May allegedly received over $50,000 to fund Cumberland without delivering lumber.
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Washington
FBI
Henry
Murray Garsson
Andrew J. May
House Military Committee
Frank M. Miller
Cumberland Lumber Co
May
Garison Illinois
William A. Paisley
Police Probe Wife Beating Death in Dayton Hotel
Detectives questioned 41 year old George C. Cummings of Dayton about his statement claiming he beat Hazel Miller Ridge 38 to death in a hotel room. Coroner A P McDonald said she died from a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage after an autopsy. No weapon was found and fists could have caused the injuries.
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Dayton
George C. Cummings
Hazel Miller Ridge
A. P. McDonald
Missing Trans-Canada plane sighted winglike object
Nine searchers on Vancouver Island's Lake Buntzen area report seeing what appeared to be an aircraft wing standing upright while seeking the Trans-Canada Airlines plane carrying 15 people.
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Lake Buntzen
B. C
Trans-Canada Airlines
Ohio Bell Strike Talks Resume In Cleveland
Ohio Bell Telephone Co officials and Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers meet again in Cleveland with Federal Labor Commissioner T W Robertson presiding. Clarence Schlund says a written concrete proposal to end the walkout by 15 000 Ohio Bell workers could be prepared, while company VP E H Gustafson reports no major change in positions.
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Cleveland
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
T. W. Robertson
Clarence M. Schlund
Ohio Bell
E. H. Gustafson
Henry Straile Dies at 83 in Pomeroy Meigs Home
Henry Straile 83 owner of Temple Theater Middleport Bendvue and Meigs Theaters in Pomeroy died at his Spring Avenue home at 9 15 am after five weeks of bronchial pneumonia. Survived by two daughters Helen Lyons and Henrietta Jenkins both of Pomeroy. funeral tentatively set for Monday 2 pm at Spring Avenue residence with burial Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call Sunday afternoon.
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Pomeroy
Middleport
Henry Straile
Spring Ave
Straile
Temple
Bendvue
Meigs
Masonic Order
Bills Ready Protesting Curtailed Flood Control
Resolutions opposing drastic curtailment of navigation and flood control programs were prepared for action by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress at its 37th convention. Local sponsors of projects attended as congressmen argued that many authorizations were based on prewar costs and current costs render them economically unjustified.
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Washington
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Truck Mine Operations Curtailed in Kentucky
Pikeville Ky Walter Hornsby senior inspector of the State Department of Mines announced the closing of 48 more truck operations in nine counties for failure to conform to safety regulations. He also announced the reopening of about one third of 67 mines previously closed which had since complied with mine laws.
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Pikeville
Walter Hornsby
State Department of Mines
Hornsby
Chief Unions Resume Merger Talks
AFL and CIO leaders resumed merger discussions in Washington as both sides vowed to oppose pending curb legislation. It remained unclear if the CIO would accept a united front before unity committees address concrete consolidation details.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
United Front
CIO May Drive Steel Firms into Merger
The United Steelworkers union faces industry warnings that strikes among fabricators and idle workers may force small steel firms to merge. Miles H. Knowles in Detroit argued that settlements with U S Steel do not reflect fabricating plant conditions while 25 000 workers idle across basic and nonbasic plants in Indiana Harbor Inland Steel and factories in Pennsylvania West Virginia New Jersey and Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers Union
Miles H. Knowles
Washington
Nonbasic Steel Coordinating Committee
Detroit
U.S
Pennsylvania
Congress
U.S. Steel
Inland Steel Corp
Indiana Harbor
Ind
West Virginia
New Jersey
Ohio
Jury Convicts Woman Of Shooting Husband
In Bellaire Ohio a jury of twelve convicts Mrs Lavern Minett age 42 of Maynard Ohio of first degree manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband Peter 43 at their farm home on October 6. The sentence was deferred.
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Bellaire, O
Lavern Minett
Maynard
Ohio
Peter
Congregationalists to vote on union with Evangelical and Reformed Church
Columbus reports Congregational Christian Churches in America and related groups will ballot by April 1 on uniting with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. If approved, about 2,000,000 members would join to form the United Church of Christ.
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Columbus
Congregational Christian Churches In
America
Congregational Christian Fellowship
Evangelical and Reformed Church
United Church of Christ
Justice Department Probes Major Monopolies and Banking Firms
The Department of Justice targets the big fish among monopolies with anti trust suits or investigations affecting 79 of the 100 largest U S companies. An inquiry is also under way into banker combines deemed to control the money market, says Attorney General Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
America
Clark
Top Salary At Woolworth Co Goes To Charles Deyo
Philadelphia report shows Charles W. Deyo chairman of the board earned 330252 dollars last year as the F W Woolworth Co filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Philadelphia
F. W Woolworth Co
Charles W. Deyo
Securities and Exchange Commission
Weather forecast for lower lakes region
The Weatherman warns of near normal temperatures with a cool pull Saturday then warming through Sunday and Monday and a cooler trend by Tuesday and Wednesday. Light showers expected Saturday with showers or thunderstorms on Tuesday and Wednesday, totaling a quarter to a half inch rainfall.
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Lower Lakes
Pickets Strikebound Goodyear Aircraft Push for 15 Cent Raise
About 1,900 CIO UAW members walked out at Goodyear Aircraft Corp in Akron over contract terms. Walter Turek, local president, said the May 1 1946 wage contract expired and workers demand a 15 cent hourly increase plus six holidays and other UAW automotive-producer provisions. The company cited a May 1 1946 contract that should continue until renegotiation or 10 day notice, and noted no notice was given. Unionists had been offered a 1 2 cent raise yesterday.
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Akron — “P
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Cio-United Auto Workers
Walter Turek
Cio-Uaw
School Bill Cuts Discussed in Ohio Legislature
Dr. H. F. Vallance president of the Ohio Education Association said local real estate taxes must bear the burden for adequate school financing unless the Daniels-Cramer school foundation bill cuts are restored by the Ohio House. Communities have already increased or plan to increase local school taxes to obtain better teachers and new buildings. Inadequate state aid would force higher taxes to cover the shortfall.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Daniels-Cramer — School Foundation
H. F. Vallance
Ohio Education Association
Vallance
Newburyport Acts Extend Price-Cut Experiment
Newburyport merchants voted unanimously to continue the price-cut program set at 10 percent on most commodities. The indefinite run keeps the seaport town's experiment in effect as merchants maintain discounts beyond standard legal limits.
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Newburyport
Mass
Possible U.S. Split Seen Over Debate on Jews Voice
Britain said Jews should be heard in the United Nations Palestine debate if constitutionally feasible. The United States balked at full assembly participation and floated a vote-less seat on the 55 nation political committee. Britain and the U S could split over representation as talks opened with the Jewish Agency opposing limited hearings.
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New York
Britain
United Nations
Palestine
Alexander Cadogan
General Assembly
Cadogan
United States
Warren R. Austin
Austin
U. N
Jewish Agency
Logan Solon Debates Time In Congress
Washington report notes Rep. Walter Brehm of Logan emerged as a champion in the fight over daylight saving time for the District of Columbia. He supported a bill giving DC commissioners power to set the clock while previously voting against a measure that would have Congress decide time for the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Columbia
Congress
Walter Brehm
Logan
Brehm
Ohioan
D.C
Wallace Begins Nationwide Tour With Cleveland Address
Former Vice President Henry A Wallace arrives in Cleveland to finalize arrangements for his tonight address on foreign affairs at Public Hall. The ex secretary of commerce, retired after criticizing Byrnes and the current program, kicks off a nationwide tour ending on the Pacific Coast.
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Cleveland
Henry A. Wallace
Clevelland Public Hall
Commerce
James F. Byrnes
Pacific Coast
Woman Shotgun Slayer May Get New Trial
In Sandusky Mrs. Florence Noyes, 37, was convicted of second degree murder for the shotgun slaying of her husband Delmar S. Noyes, 40, operator of a downtown grill. The court deferred sentence while considering a possible motion for a new trial.
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Sandusky
Florence Noyes
Delmar S. Noyes
New York Welcomes Mexican President Aleman With Parade
President Miguel Aleman arrived in New York greeted by Mayor William O Dwyer and Grover Whalen. He rode to the Waldorf Astoria in Truman’s private car as bands and ticker tape awaited the official welcome and a full day of events began.
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New York
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
William O’dwyer
Washington
Grover Whelan
Truman
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Pennsylvania Station
Tamites
William O'Dwyer
Grover A. Whalen
President Aleman
Mid- Manhattan
Park Ai Nue
Waldorf-Astoria
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Republic Aviation Corporation
Farmingdale, N.Y
Diebold
Sam Simmons
Promotion Commission For
Ferguson's Corners
N.Y
Doe
Dykeman Farm
Dykeman
Lee Fake
Kentucky
Justice Department
F. W. Woolworth Co
UAW
Goodyear
Logan Solon
Wallace
Aleman
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