Stewart Wins Ohio GOP Primary By Narrow Margin
In Ohio, Republican Stewart clinched the governor nomination by 2,262 votes over Thomas J. Herbert amid broader GOP gains. Lausche led Democrats for governor by 115,696 votes over Martin Sweeney, while party delegates and ward recounts surfaced in Cleveland and Hamilton conditions.
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Columbus
Ohio
James G. Stewart
Cincinnati
Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
Stewart
Thomas J. Herbert
Tom Herbert
Rees H. Davis
Herbert
Hamilton
Scioto
Lausche
Martin L. Sweeney
Sweeney
Franklin
James W. Huffman
Vic Donahey
Frazier Reams
Toledo
Huffman
Paul M. Herbert
Laurels
George H. Bender
William Glass
Campbell
Jack P. Russell
Glass
Russell
William G. Pickrel
Dayton
U. S
Will
Robert A. Taft
Ohio Legislature
Robert A. Wilkinson
Ohio To Hire Camps For Farm Labor Women
Miss Nellie Watts Ohio director of the Women’s Field Army announced six camps for women to work on farms this summer in four Northern Ohio counties. The program aims to enlist 150 women from Greater Cleveland to work five and a half days a week cultivating and harvesting crops with expansion possible if response is strong.
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Cleveland
Nellie Watts
Ohio
Women's Field Army
Department of Agriculture
Greater
Steelworkers Renew Pledge Against Strikes
In Cleveland the CIO United Steelworkers renew a no-strike pledge as a sacred obligation amid a small insurgent movement. President Philip Murray pushes a vote to end debate. the convention largely supports him to prevent a snowballing effort.
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Cleveland
CIO United Steelworkers of America
Philip Murray
Murray
Burr Oak Dam Funding Authorized by House Action
Congress approved 400000 for Burr Oak dam near Glouster as part of a postwar flood control bill totaling 810 million. Ohio and federal engineers plan a joint plan with Colonel Podras to finance and control the project with 295000 to be raised from non federal sources. A meeting of national and state representatives is being arranged to map next steps.
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Glouster
Thomas A. Jenkins
M. M. Bryson
Burr Oak Dam Association
House of Representatives
Washington
Burr Oak Dam
Podras
United States Army Engineers
Huntington
Ohio Conservation Department
Army
United States
Senate
Jenkins
Bailes Denies Voting Fraud In Gallia County Case
Perry J. Bailes Gallipolis attorney and four Columbus residents faced charges of falsifying absent voters ballots in Gallia County Elections. Bailes pleaded innocent in Columbus criminal court and was released on $1,000 bond. Co-defendants Vernon Miller Bessie Cofer Hazel Logan Lester E Edler were released on $200 bond and plead innocent.
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Columbus
Perry J. Bailes
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Vernon Miller
Bessie Cofer
Hazel Logan
Lester E. Edler
Edler
Postmasters Salary Increase Plan Rapped in Senate
Senator Reed denounces proposed five to twenty percent postmasters salary raises as fantastic and unjustified. He calls for a Post Office probe into overtime wages and urges Postmaster General Walker to investigate, warning of negligence that could remove hundreds or thousands of postmasters.
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Washington
Reed
Kan
Frank C. Walker
Canada Ford Workers Resume War Production
Windsor Ont four Ford Canada plants prepared for early war production resumption after a vote by 50 of 14000 strikers opposing a back to work movement. The UAW CIO backed the bargaining committee ruling by the Canadian Wartime Labor Relations Board that a valid collective agreement exists and that the grievance procedure will be clarified in Ottawa.
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Windsor
Ont
Ford Motor Co
Canada
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Canadian National Wartime Labor Relations Board
Ottawa
Doodle Bugs Rumored Threat to Anzio Beachhead
War dispatch describes light two seat Piper Cub aircraft nicknamed Doodle Bugs that scout artillery and guide allied guns. Pilot Sam Wellborn of Bradley Arkansas explains their value whileLt Charles Kessmier of Newark Ohio recalls a past encounter with enemy ME jets.
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Anzio Beachhead
Jerry
Pittsburgh
St. Peters
Rome
Sam Wellborn
Bradley, Ark
Charles Kessmier
Newark
Ohio
Bradley
Invasion Timing Prompts Rail Cut in Vichy France
London and Allied broadcasts stress railway control for troop movements as Vichy announces passenger train reductions starting Monday. German radio cites invasion timing as Monday, the seventh day after the full moon, while an astrologer warns of casualties.
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France
Europe
London Radio
Vichy
Berlin
BBC
Atlantic Wall
Late Planting Upsets Nation's Food Outlook
Washington officials report major delays in spring planting across the United States due to excessive rains floods and cold weather. The Agriculture Department warns acreages for 1944 cannot be reached labor shortages equipment repairs and other obstacles will prevent catching up and a poor crop season will shorten supplies into summer and beyond.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Union Loses Wage Battle in War Labor Ruling
The War Labor Board in Cleveland ruled that workers moved to lower paid non welding jobs cannot keep welding wage rates. CIO UAW sought to pay 32 welders from Kent Ohio at $1.25 while performing other work rated at $1.15. The decision said continuing higher welders pay would violate wage stabilization policies.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
CIO
United Auto Workers
1Win Coach Co
Kent
Judge Refuses To Rule On Ward Injunction
The two year Montgomery Ward CIO dispute headed for further talks after the government relinquished plant control. Federal Judge William H. Holly declined to rule in the injunction suit against Ward officials leaving the legality of Roosevelt’s seizure order undecided.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward-Cio Union
William H. Holly
Wards
Roosevelt
Priest Terms Russian Visit Very Successful
Polish-American priest who visited Russia for 12 days reported to Seattle audiences that his talks with Premier Stalin were very successful. He described visiting Ukraine beyond Kharkov, noted widespread destruction and desolation with structures leveled, and returned by plane last night.
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Seattle
Springfield
Mass
Russia
Stalin
Ukraine
Kharkov
Doris Duke Divorce Set Aside in Jersey
In Elizabeth New Jersey Advisory Master Dougal Herr voided Doris Duke Cromwell's Reno divorce from James H R Cromwell finding fraud elements in her claim of Reno residence. The chancery court ruling declared the Reno divorce nu ll and void.
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Doris Duke
Jersey
Elizabeth, N. J
Doris Duke Cromwell
James H. R. Cromwell
U. S
Canada
Dougal Herr
Herr
Reno
Men Over 29 Draft Exempt Until Autumn
Washington reports a forthcoming selective service policy granting indefinite deferments to all men over 29 in essential occupations. Officials have not confirmed, but the plan would extend blanket deferments for older men while younger groups supply calls through early fall.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
49 Billion for Army Sought Budget Request
President Roosevelt sent Congress a 49 283 916 500 dollar Army budget for the next fiscal year. It includes 15 676 652 700 new appropriations and 33 607 263 200 in unobligated 1944 balances. White House cites reduced Army strength, lower unit costs from mass production, and lower shipping losses as enabling the carryover.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Japanese Advance in New Offensive Against Chinese
Japanese forces push toward Loyang and the wheat belts of Manan as cross river incursions near Loyang widen. A second Japanese army nears Loyang from the east while Chinese reports on railway gains remain unclear amid broader Allied air strikes in New Guinea and Burma.
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Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Joseph W
Stilwell
Myitkyina
Mogaung
Burma
India
Imphal
Kohima
Central Pacific
Ponape
Army Refund To Ease Taxes
Rep Snyder proposes a 33.6 billion dollar war department appropriation cut or unused funds. He argues that wartime savings will lower taxes as the war turns in the United States favor. He chairs the appropriations subcommittee reviewing a 849.3 billion budget for the next fiscal year.
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Washington
Snyder
D-Pa
War Department
Destroyer Lansdale Lost in Mediterranean
The U S destroyer Lansdale was sunk by a torpedo in the Mediterranean last month. Lt. Robert Morgen thau, 24 year old son of the Secretary of the Treasury, was among the last to leave the damaged vessel. The Lansdale, 1630 tons, was struck by German torpedo planes at dusk on April 20. Casualties were moderate.
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Washington
U. S
Lansdale
Mediterranean
Robert M. Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
Navy
Moscow
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Marshel Tito
Yugoslavia
Serbia
Mihailovic
Lens
Lille
France
Ghent
Courtrai
Ludwighshafen
Rhineland
Belgium
Franz von Papen
Istanbul
Hitler
London Times
Embargo on Hog Sales Partially Modified by Quotas
Cleveland Union Stockyards President A Z Bauer announced a partial modification of the hog embargo. Allowments to commission houses on limited quotas will be filled by shippers with permits from merchants. The Cleveland eye market remained flooded with eggs, with more offered than buyers could absorb.
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Cleveland
A. Z. Bauer
Cleveland Union Stockyards
Dave Ferneau
Farm Bureau Marketing Co-operative
British torpedoes sink German trawler off Dutch coast
An armed German trawler was torpedoed and sunk and two other vessels were damaged off the Dutch coast today by light coastal forces of the British Navy.
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London
Liberation of 707 War Prisoners in New Guinea
Allied forces freed 707 prisoners of war in north central New Guinea. Among the liberated 462 were Sikhs from India, with others including Javanese Americans Australians Chinese Dutch Filipinos Poles and Czechs. The Sikhs reported brutal treatment including nailings to palm trees and near starvation.
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New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Malaya
Department of Information
Singapore
Bomb Blasts Hit Invasion Coast And Allied Bombing
Allied air forces from Britain and Italy hammered targets across Germany and occupied Europe. RAF and American bombers pounded airfields rail centers and coastal defenses, while German positions near Anzio and at Ludwighshafen faced heavy bombardment and losses.
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England
Beaumont-Le- Roger
Cormeilles-En-Vezin
Calais
London
Budapest
France
Belgium
Ludwighshafen
Britain
Italy
RAF
Hitler
Europe
Speedy Approval of Forrestal Expected
Washington forecast swift Senate action today on President Roosevelt's nomination of Undersecretary James V. Forrestal to be secretary of the Navy. Forrestal, who has served with the late Frank Knox for four years, was expected to keep current administration policies intact at the Navy Department. In Norristown, Lt William Wikoff Smith, 24, of Bryn Mawr, Pa, inherited nearly $10 million as sole beneficiary of his mother's estate.
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Annie Stewart
Columbus
Hoodlet
J. K. Price
Stewart
Frank Stewart
Sand Rock
Edna Herron
Ward Stewart
Springfield
Wells Vandyke
Cook Vandyke
Broadwell
Allison Vandyke
Albany
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
James V. Forrestal
Navy
Navy Department
Forrestal
Frank Knox
Norristown
William Wikoff Smith
Bryn Mawr
House Civil Service to Probe Federal Office Staffing
The House Civil Service committee will investigate reports of overstaffing in federal offices. Chairman Ramspeck of Georgia says he has received reports of grafted manpower and will seek facts on the alleged excess staffing.
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Washington
House Civil Service Committee
Ramspeck
D-Ga
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