Scrap Starts Over Lewis Subpena Plan
Rep. Jacobs moves to subpena John L. Lewis for a hearing on undemocratic union practices during last winter’s soft coal strike. The full Labor Committee voted to abolish his subcommittee, while Jacobs' allies seek reinstatement and to override the chair.
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Dind
John L. Lewis
Lesinski
D-Mich
House
Rep. Velde
R-Ill
UWM
Ohio Spending Is Above 1949
Ohio spent 33 million dollars more from its general fund and took in 577 thousand dollars less from sales taxes in the first ten months of the fiscal year. Finance Director H D Defenbacher compared figures with the prior year noting increases in minor taxes such as inheritance and corporation franchise while overall receipts fell about 103 thousand dollars short of projections.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. D. Defenbacher
Defenbacher
Wife Fatally Hurt By Spinning Auto
Mount Vernon deputies report an accelerator stuck as James Murrell backed from his driveway. The car spun in reverse, Leota Murrell 51 fell or jumped out and was killed when struck by the vehicle. Murrell 64, who remained in the car, is a broom salesman for Berea College.
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Mount Vernon
James Murrell
Centerbury
Murrell
Leota
Donald M. Vernon
Berea
Midwest Floods Kill 17, Needles Recede After Deluge
Seventeen people are dead or missing as historic floods sweep three Midwest states North Dakota Minnesota and Nebraska with thousands homeless. Red River flooding north of the border drives evacuations in Manitoba while Nebraska suffers the worst losses with at least seven confirmed deaths and ten missing.
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Midwest
North Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Manitoba
Red River
Red Cross
Fred G. Randahl
Reds Arrest Three Women in East Berlin Photo Probe
Soviet police arrested three women in East Berlin while photographing Unter-Den-Linden. Anne Bennett of Maumee Ohio Marilyn Scofield of Seattle Washington and Marie Douglas of Lisburn Northern Ireland are American Friends Service Committee members working with the UN International Refugee Organization. U.S. officials pursued word on their location with Soviet authorities.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Unter-Den-Linden
Anne Bennett
Maumee
Ohio
Marilyn Scofield
Seattle
Wash
Marie Douglas
Lisburn
Northern Ireland
American Friends
Quaker
United Nations’ International Refugee Organization
Inventory Due on Slots Columbus 4
The State Liquor Department scheduled a complete inventory of about 420 slot machines seized and held by the department for the State Liquor Board.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
State Liquor Board
Money Slash Drive Nears Final Test
The House debates trimming about 1 billion dollars from a nearly 29.5 billion dollar appropriation bill. President Truman sought 30.6 billion. Deficit-reduction hopes hinge on a shift away from a defense spending increase, with most added funds earmarked for Navy and Air Force procurement and anti aircraft and anti submarine programs.
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House
Appropriations Committee
Navy
Air Force
AFL Fund Drive Sets November Voting Push
The AFL backs the Fair Deal Democrats for the November elections. The national executive council approved a 10 cent per member assessment for the Labor League for Political Education. The League plans a June July drive to collect a $2 per member assessment for political activity.
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Philadelphia
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Labor League For
League
Well Shaft Caves In Trapping Brooklyn Contractor
Hope faded for Dominick Atteo a 49 year old contractor trapped in a 20 foot well shaft at a Brooklyn garage. Rescue workers dug a secondary shaft and knocked out dirt toward him as a priest administered holy water. Atteo, burned on hands and face by a lit cigarette explosion, whispered I am weak while his wife Maria and his son John watched. He had started digging last week to obtain garage washing water during New York City water shortage.
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New York
Dominick Atteo
Atteo
Brooklyn
Maria
John
New York City
Galbreath Buys Terminal Tower and Six Cleveland Buildings
John Wilmer Galbreath of Columbus completed a multi building purchase near Cleveland's public square including Terminal Tower the 52 story flagship with a 700 foot height and the adjacent Hotel Cleveland plus the Republic Guildhall Midland buildings. The deal covers about 25 million in value with major tenants such as Republic Steel Standard Oil Sherwin Williams and Nickel Plate Road. Major sellers include Pathe Industries and Allan P Kirby.
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New York City
Public Square
John Wilmer Galbreath
Columbus
Galbreath
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Pathe Industries, Inc
Robert R. Young
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co
Allan P. Kirby
Alleghany Corp
van Swearingen Brothers
O. P
M. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Republic, Guildhall and Midland
Prospect Ave
Guildhall
Huron Rd
Radio City
New York
Republic Steel Corp
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Sherwin-Williams Co
Erie Railroad Co
Chesapeake & Ohio
Nickel Plate Road and Aluminum Co. of America
Mervin B. France
Society For Savings Bank
France
Higbee Co
Terminal Tower
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
WJIW
Jury Deliberations Begin in Heer Murder Trial
A 12 jurors started deliberations in Columbus on the first degree murder trial of James D. Heer 21 Euclid. Heer is accused of fatally shooting Jack T. McKeown 21 Norwood late managing editor of the campus daily newspaper after closing arguments wrapped.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
James D. Heer
Euclid
Heer
U. S. Marine Corps
Jack T. McKeown
Norwood
Oppenheimer Denies Meeting With Reds
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer denies a woman's claim that he attended a secret Communist meeting at his Berkeley home in July 1941. Mrs. Paul Crouch, a former Communist, testified to a state Senate committee that Oppenheimer was present during his UC Berkeley tenure.
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Oakland
Calif
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Berkeley
Paul Crouch
State Senate
Ohioan Sentenced to Sing Sing for Grand Larceny
Paul H. Portteus, 46, of Findlay Ohio, a former vice-president and general manager of the Stratos Company, was sentenced in Suffolk County Court to two to five years in Sing Sing for grand larceny. He swindled the Stratos Corp., a Fairchild Aircraft subsidiary, of 9633 dollars in labor and materials for remodeling his Long Island home.
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Riverhead
N. Y
Paul H. Portteus
Findlay
Ohio
Suffolk County
Sing Sing
Stratos Corp
Fairchild Aircraft
Long Island
Portteus
Stratos Company
Aid Plans Mapped for Indochina and Southeast Asia
The United States is finalizing an urgent new 64 million program of economic aid for Indochina and four other Southeast Asia nations.
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Washington
United States
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Railroad strike shuts Fisher Body and Midland Steel plants
Due to a railroad strike, Fisher Body Division of General Motors and Midland Steel Products Co shut down today. The layoff affects 5000 workers. Fisher Body supplies auto body parts for GM cars, while Midland Steel is a leading independent auto frame producer.
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Cleveland
Fisher Body
General Motors Corp
Midland Steel Products Co
General Motors
Midland Steel
Ohio Rail Service Cut By Strike
Thousands of Ohio railroaders joined a broad strike of firemen causing widespread idleness across the state. Passenger service to key cities will be halted on the Chesapeake and Ohio line though that road is not directly on strike. In Columbus about 6500 rail workers are idle and in Cincinnati area roughly 3300. Freight and coal trains on Chesapeake and Ohio remain running on unaffected tracks.
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Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Washington, D.C
Chicago
Toledo
Grand Rapids
Mich
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Southern
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe
Cincinnati
Chesapeake and Ohio
Firemen’s Brotherhood
Road
Senate group opens review of 81 loyalty files
A Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee led by Tydings and including McMahon Green and Lodge begins examining 81 loyalty files named by McCarthy. They expect about a month of work at the White House to assess Communist infiltration claims and missing materials.
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Washington
Senate
McCarthy
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
White House
Tydings
D-Md
McMahon
D-Conn
Green
D-Ri
Lodge
R-Mass
Congress
McCarty
Wisconsin
United States
Subcommittee
Dr Sander Dropped From Hillsboro Medical Society
Milford New Hampshire the Hillsboro County Medical Society voted to drop Dr Hermann N Sander from membership amid fallout from the state medical board revoking his license last April 19 for Canada ian physician. The 41 year old was acquitted March 9 of murder in the death of his cancer doomed patient Mrs Abbie C Borroto 59 of Manchester.
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Milford
N.H
Hermann N. Sander
Hillsboro
Should've Looked At Rail Schedules
Fred Hinchel, 36, of Columbus, was tuning a radio when his car hit an east bound Norfolk and Western freight train. The vehicle overturned onto a parallel track but Hinchel escaped with minor bruises and attempted to salvage luggage before a second freight demolished the car.
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Ironton
Fred Hinchel
South Point
Norfolk and Western
Columbus
Hinechel
Logan
W. Va
W. Freight
Truman Acts To Bolster Nation's Atomic Strength
President Truman announces the National Science Foundation Act in a speech at Pocatello Idaho, outlining aims to advance scientific research and maintain U S strength for peace. He warns the cold war with Russia will endure and vows no compromise with Communist expansion.
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Russia
Pocatello
Idaho
National Science Foundation
United States
Oregon
New Mexico
Laramie
Wyo
Soviet Russia
GOP To Use Senate In Answering Truman
Senator Wherry of Nebraska said Republicans will use the Senate as a forum to respond to President Truman's Western tour speeches. He described it as part of a coordinated plan by the Republican National Committee and the House.
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Ferguson
Truman
Casper
Wyo
Teapot Dome
Harding
Washington
Wherry
Senate
Republican National Committee
House
Ohio Man Nominated As Army Secretary Aid
President Truman nominates Earl Dallum Johnson of New York to be assistant secretary of the Army succeeding Archibald S. Alexander as undersecretary. Johnson, 44, wartime Air Force colonel, native of Hamilton Ohio, vp at Loomis Sayles and Co. in Greenwich Conn. Senate approval required.
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Truman
Earl Dallum Johnson
New York
Army
Archibald S. Alexander
Johnson
Air Force
Hamilton
Ohio
Loomis, Sayles and Co
Greenwich
Conn
Senate
Gambling Defendant Abandons Attorneys in Colony Club Case
IRONTON Ohio one of nine charged with gambling in the Colony Club case James Carlton Robison announced he was abandoning his defense releasing his attorneys and withdrawing an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court He gave no reason Robison had asked the court to compel its chief justice to appoint a substitute common pleas judge for hearing the gambling cases.
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Ironton
Colony Club
James Carlton Robison
Ohio Supreme Court
Robison
Common Pleas
France Proposes Coal and Steel Pool for Europe
France urges a plan to pool Europe's coal and steel starting in Lorraine Saar and Ruhr to strengthen the West amid the Cold War and Germany's integration. West German Chancellor Adenauer calls it generous and says it helps prevent future conflict as he moves toward European unity. BEN GUILL wins Texas Congressional seat in 21 years after beating 10 Democrats, citing discontent with President Truman.
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London
Europe
Germany
Russia
Robert Schuman
France
Lorraine
Saar
Ruhr
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Council of Europe
Council
Consultative Assembly
Ben Guill
Pampa, Tex
Eugene Worley
Guill
Truman
Hope Gone For Quick Settlement
A nationwide rail strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen halted progress on a quick settlement. Mediation chairman Francis A. O Neill said the panel has given up and a report will be sent to Washington. The walkout affects major systems including New York Central, Santa Fe, Pennsylvania, and Southern Railway with 50,000 to 100,000 workers idle.
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Francis A. O'Neill
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Washington
O'Neill
Brotherhood
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Roob Allie
Michigan Association of Railroads
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Pennsylvania Lines
Harrisburg
New York Central
Buffalo
N. Y
Santa Fe System
Southern Railway
Santa Fe
Pennesylvania
Truman Rail Trip Won’t Be Affected By Strike
CHICAGO President Truman’s cross country train trip appears unaffected by the railroad firemen strike that began today. David B. Robertson head of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen said union members were issued special instructions to ensure the presidential train is moved safely and expeditiously.
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Chicago
Trueman
David B. Robertson
The
Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen
Ebright to Entertain Columbus GOP Members in Washington
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright the Republican gubernatorial nominee will entertain Ohio congress members at a Washington luncheon Saturday, aiming to rally party support ahead of the campaign.
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