Chrysler strike ends as UAW wins largest postwar package
The 1951 Chrysler deal ends a 100 day walkout with a new contract for 89 000 UAW workers including 100 a month pensions with Social Security, wage boosts for plant workers and enhanced medical benefits. Five year pension and wage terms, dues check off, and limited reopeners accompany the settlement amid tense bargaining.
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Detroit
Chrysler
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
Dodge
DeSoto
Plymouth
UAW
General Motors
Reuther
Herman Weckler
Vote Slated On Draft Extension
The House Armed Services Committee voted 81 to 0 to extend the military draft for two years with Congress to decide induction timing. If extended, males 18 to 26 would register and undergo fitness exams, while the President would have limited power over war essential industries until a national emergency is declared.
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Washington
House Armed Service Committee
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
Vinson
D - Ga
House
United States
Defense Johnson
the Army
Pace
State Department
George Kennan
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs
Bradley
Senate Probe Targets Wire Network For Race News
Senate Commerce subcommittee summoned two witnesses described as henchmen of slain Kansas City gangster Charles Garotta to explain a wire network delivering race news to bookmakers. The move precedes a broader five member Senate panel probe into organized gambling and crime syndicates.
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Washington
Senate
Kansas City
Senate Commerce
Tano Lococo
Eddie Spitz Osaddhey
Charles Gargotta
Commerce
Senate Judiciary Committee
Barkley
Special Committee
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Farm Woman Attacked by Wild Fox Near Dennison
A wild fox attacked a farm woman, a cow, several dogs and chickens before being killed by Ernest Ross of Dennison Route 1. Mrs. Duane Edie fought off the animal with a rake during the attack.
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Uhrichsville
Ernest Ross
Dennison
Duane Edie
Want Ad Sells Car In Lower Plains
The Messen Ger reports a reader named Taly Gould in Lower Plains canceled an ad after a first insertion saying the 1939 Plymouth two door was sold. The car was described as A-1 condition with seat covers heater defroster light good tires and low miles.
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Want Ad
Lower Plains
Taly Gould
the Messenger
Plymouth
Ohio Voter Turnout Surges Past 1946 Levels
Complete unofficial totals show 982,659 votes cast in this gubernatorial election two-party totals, 314,064 more than in 1946. Governor Lausche won renomination with 362,916 votes, sweeping all counties, while Don H. Ebright led Republicans with 336,187 and Taft topped Democrats with 475,049.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Clarence H. Kinsley
Joseph Torok, Jr
Don H. Ebright
Rhodes
Edward J. Hummel
George W. Woodling
Ebright
Torok
Thomas J. Herbert
Albert E. Payne
Taft
Ferguson
di Salle
John W. Bricker
Former Ohio Politician and Federation Chief Dies at 66
Lee B. Palmer, former president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and 1932 GOP lieutenant governor candidate, died at 66 after ill health. He served on the State Agricultural Board under three governors, led the Ohio Wool Growers Association, and most recently was superintendent of State House Police.
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Columbus
Lee B. Palmer
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Palmer
State Agricultural Board
Ohio Wool Growers Association
State House
Pledges Marooned as Fraternity Is Suspended
Eight upperclassmen face suspension at Youngstown College after an initiation hazing incident. Phi Gamma fraternity charter suspended indefinitely by college president Dr. Howard W. Jones following pledges marooned overnight on a breakwater in Lake Erie.
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Youngstown
Youngstown College
Lake Erie
Howard W. Jones
Phi Gamma
College Student Dies When Hit by Truck
Springfield report says two Wittenberg College pledges were taken off campus by fraternity brothers and blindfolded, then struck by a truck at 3 a.m. One student, 20 year old Dean Niswonger of Dayton, died at the scene as the pair walked back toward Springfield. The college spokesman confirmed the incident.
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Springfield
Wittenberg College
Dean Niswonger
Dayton
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity
Springfeld
Goal Set To Finance Child Welfare Programs
A uniform method to finance county child welfare programs will be a goal for the coming year of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs. The resolution, adopted at the federation's annual convention in Cincinnati, also urged state government aid for dependent children.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs
Fireworks Fly In Senate Clash Over McCarthy Charges
The Senate erupts over McCarthyism as Democratic Leader Lucas and Republican leaders clash. Lattimore testifies denies being Russia’s head spy amid accusations from McCarthy linked to the Amerasia affair. Wherry and Barkley intervene and Lucas is ordered to his seat under Senate decorum.
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Senate
McCarthy
Lucas
Senator Wherry
Nebraska
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Frank Bielaski
Office of Strategic Services
Bielaski
Amerasia Magazine
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Russia
Louis Budenz
Parked Car Explosion Causes Severe Burns
In Toledo a parked automobile blast left Harry E. Reilly, 38, of Cuyahoga Falls with severe burns to the head neck and hands. Sheriff’s deputy Harry Williams said fumes from a propane container on the rear seat likely caused the explosion when Reilly lit a cigarette.
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Toledo
Harry E. Reilly
Cuyahoga Falls
Harry Williams
Reilly
Fire damages three story building. eleven rescued
Smoke overpowered two tenants as flames tore through a three story apartment and business structure in Mount Vernon. Firefighters carried eleven people to safety while battling the blaze early Thursday.
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Mount Vernon
Liberalism Win Viewed By Smathers
The Florida Democratic primary produced a Smathers victory over Pepper. Smathers framed it as a win for liberalism over radicalism, while Taft linked it to support for Taft Hartley. CIO official Kroll warned of a national, anti labor backlash. Final unofficial score: Smathers 382,949 Pepper 319,178 with 10 precincts uncounted. Boyle offered congratulations to Smathers.
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Associated Press
George Smathers
New Deal
Claude Pepper
Florida
Smathers
Taft
Ohio
Jack Kroll
CIO Political Action Committee
Pepper
William M. Boyle
Taft seeks half billion cut in European Aid Bill
Senator Taft signals a possible 500 million to 600 million dollar reduction in the third year of the European Recovery Program. Senator Ives backs a Marshall Plan cut and proposes a 500 million reduction to the 3.1 billion request as Senate votes on amendments begin Friday.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Ives
New York Republican
Taft and
Hickenlooper
R-Ilowa
Kem
Election Ordered at Circleville Lamp Works GE Co
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a bargaining election at the Circleville Lamp Works of General Electric Co. The action directs union representation voting among employees at the plant.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Circleville
General Electric Co
Truman Optimistic On World Peace In News Conference
President Truman said the cold war is not near a shooting war with Russia and that the international scene is better than in 1946. He defended Hoover's UN reorganization idea while urging stronger moral forces for peace and noted a smaller defense budget for 1951 52. He dismissed Pepper’s Florida primary defeat as not altering the Fair Deal and declined to comment on Stassen’s jab.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
Tydings
United States
Hoover
United Nations
Florida
Pepper
Mr. Truman
Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Dyesville Man Killed as Truck Crashes and Burns
Middleport Ohio reports the death of R. S. Vale 42 of Dyesville when a truck veered off Route 143 hit a concrete bridge and a utility pole then fell into a creek and caught fire. Firefighters could not rescue him. Vale was a former Meigs County highway employee and trucker. He leaves a wife Nellie Radekin and son John Frank, plus his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Vale.
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Bradbury
R. S. (Sed) Vale
Dyesville
Jackson County
Bradford Church
Vale
Meigs County
Nellie Radekin
John Frank
Mr. Vale
F. R. Vale
MacArthur Rebukes Soviet Demand On Japan Bases
In Tokyo General MacArthur rejects Lt. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko’s request for an explanation of the reconstruction of former Japanese naval and air bases. He states Okinawa is not under international control and US actions there are for military necessity. He warns the inquiry has no validity and that base details concern only their commanders.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Kuzma Derevyanko
Okinawa
United States
Derevyanko
State To Rest In Heer Trial At Ohio State
The state plans to rest its first degree murder case today against James D. Heer a former Ohio State University student from Euclid. Prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett will call three witnesses regarding the Nov 12 homecoming night slaying of Jack T. McKeown 21 Norwood managing editor of the university paper near the Delta Tau Delta house. A state witness testified yesterday Heer spoke of going out on a criminal orgy before the shooting.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Ralph J. Bartlett
James D. Heer
Euclid
Ohio
Jack T. McKeown
Norwood
McKeown
Heer
Delta Tau Delta
Newsman James B. Craig Named NYC Information Bureau Head
Washington reports former Ohio journalist James B. Craig is appointed head of the New York City Information Bureau for American Forest Products Industries. Craig, ex Athens Messenger and Akron Times-Press staffer, is a Kent State graduate.
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Washington
Ohio
New York City
Niagara Falls Woman Plunges to Death
A young woman left a park bench Wednesday night and walked into the swift rapids above the American Falls then plunged over the cataract. Three witnesses saw her clutching a blue handbag as she disappeared. No identity yet found in Niagara Falls.
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Niagara Falls
Red Charges Denied Again Before House Panel
Washington William W. Remington a Commerce Department economist testified before the House Un American Activities Committee denying he is a communist. He said opponents are misinformed or lying. Remington, suspended two years ago amid a Senate probe, was reinstated after the loyalty review board cleared him. The committee says it has new evidence from a confidential source but gave no details.
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Washington
William W. Remington
Commerce Department
House UN- American Activities Committee
Remington
Senate
Government Loyalty Review Board
Wood
D-Ga
House Committee
Nine Year Old Receives 6000 for Lost Eye
Cleveland reports a common pleas jury awarded nine year old Raymond Rickerd six thousand dollars for a left eye removed after a rooster pecking at age three. Dudley Rickerd sued Frances M. Schmitt for twenty five thousand dollars for injuries in 1944. The 1946 trial ended without a verdict.
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Cleveland
Raymond Rickerd
Dudley Rickerd
Frances M. Schmitt
Rickerd
Eight New York City teachers suspended over Communist probe
Eight public school teachers in New York City have been suspended without pay after a probe into alleged Communist activity. Superintendent Dr. William Jansen said the teachers refused to confirm any past or present Communist Party membership. Local 555 of the teachers union called the move a vengeful attempt to stir hysteria and scapegoat for salary crisis mishandling.
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New York
New York City
William Jansen
Communist Party
Jansen
Dear Sheriff Ride Theft Sparks Manhunt
Youngstown sheriff Langley sought two men after his cruiser was stolen while he was arresting them for investigation. The car was later found in a wooded area about an hour later as the suspects sped away in the vehicle.
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Youngstown
Paul J. Langley
Langley
Foreign Jet Transport Try-Out Considered by U S Officials
Washington officials weigh using a foreign built jet transport such as the British Comet or Canadian Jetliner for scheduled operation tests over domestic routes. The plan arises from the lack of a U S jet transport and expected years before one is available. Demand grows from civil and military sectors to shorten the lead of foreign competitors in a major future aviation market.
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Washington
D R Stanfield Re-elected Columbus Area School Leader
D R Stanfield of Westerville won re election Wednesday as president of the Ohio Citizens Commission for the public schools. He is assistant secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
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D. R. Stanfield
Columbus
D. R. Stanefield
Westerville
Ohio Citizens Commission For the Public Schools
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
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