Rail Strike Threatens Sharp Cuts in Industry
A nationwide rail firemen strike disrupts freight and passenger service across major lines. Only 18,000 firemen officially walk off, with up to 200,000 additional workers possibly idle if delays persist. Industries from coal to automotive face production cuts and layoffs, while mediation fails to yield an early settlement.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of
Locomotive
Southern Railway System
White House
Pennsylvania
New York
Midland Steel Products Co
Cleveland
Vincennes
Ind
New York Central
Santa Fe
Southern
Harrisburg
Officials Discuss Atomic Armament of Atlantic Allies
Washington reports military officials are discussing arming North Atlantic allies with atom bombs. The conversations are in early stages and no recommendation to Congress has been made. Proponents say arming Western Europe could be faster and cheaper than using conventional weapons.
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Washington
USS
North Atlantic
Congress
Western
Europe
Hearing Set On Barge Line Petition To Expand Service
An ICC hearing will be held in Cincinnati on June 1 on Commercial Barge Lines Inc petition to extend service east of Cincinnati. Howard C Smiley said the line seeks to operate on the Kanawha Allegheny and Monongahela rivers handling carload and less than carload shipments. The line currently runs from Houston Texas to Cincinnati.
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Charleston
W. Va
ICC
Cincinnati
Commercial Barge Lines, Inc
Howard C. Smiley
Kanawha Allegheny
Monongahela River
Houston
Tex
University coed found shot at farm home suicide
A young married coed at the University of Michigan was found dead by gunshot at her farm home Wednesday night and the death is reported as a suicide. Authorities said there were no signs of foul play and the matter is being treated as a self-inflicted incident.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Try It If You Don’t Believe It Savings Pitch
Vintage ad copy urges readers to cash in stored attic or basement articles by contacting The Messenger Classified Department. It emphasizes the small size of the atom as a curiosity while promoting quick cash from unused items.
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Classified Department of the Messenger
Labor Group Weighs Subpoena for John Lewis
In Washington a divided House Labor Committee debates issuing a subpoena to United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis over alleged undemocratic practices linked to last winter's soft coal strike. Chairman Lesinski voided the subcommittee, prompting another vote on overturning the action and continuing the probe.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
John L. Lewis
Rep. Jacobs
Dind
Subpena Lewis
Illinois
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Jacobs
Suboena Lewis
Lesinski
D-Mich
Cows Milking Run Delays Jury Overnight in Court
In Mason County circuit court, the petit jury for an armed robbery case was kept overnight in custody after Judge Lewis H. Miller allowed jurors to milk their cows at a dairy on Camp Conley Road. Jurors including Clifford Carder led a milking procession with police and sheriff escorts to the dairy and returned to a local hotel.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Circuit Court
Petit Jury
Lewis H. Miller
Clifford Carder
Camp Conley Road
Carder
D. G. Wilfong
R. C. Dilley
F. A. Morrison
T. L. Morrison
W. L. McKinney
Charles Kinniard
Floyd Stover
Charles Greenlee
Donnie Rayburn
Harold Bright
Fred Brinker
Andrew R. Sayre
Ernest Keefer
Fred Casto
Addie R. Smith
Trapped Man Dies in Well and Local Politics Update
In Newark Ernest T. Johnson was elected new chairman of the Licking County Republican Central Committee. In Brooklyn Dominick Atteo, 49, died after 27 hours trapped at the bottom of a well shaft beneath a garage while awaiting rescue during a water shortage.
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Newark
Ernest T. Johnson
Licking County
Republican Central Committee
New York
Dominick Atteo
Brooklyn
Atteo
Marie
Woman 26 Is Arraigned In Hospital After Gun Battle
Miriam Anna Holmes, 26, pleaded innocent from her hospital bed to charges of shooting with intent to kill two neighbors after a Friday gun battle near Syracuse. Bond set at 5000. grand jury to convene next week.
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Pomeroy
Miriam Anna Holmes
Syracuse
Miss Holmes
Meigs General Hospital
Charles Blake
Emmett Quillen
Justice of the Peace
Percy
Peoples
Meigs County
Blake
Quillen
Dems Struggle Over Senate Trim Of $28.9 Billion Budget
Washington notes show House leaders pushing a $28,894,340,164 appropriation bill toward Senate review after two late GOP amendments claimed to save at least one billion dollars. Rep. Taber cited a $60 million cut that could yield about a billion in savings while Rep. Jensen argued a vacancy ceiling would save $400 million with no direct allotment cuts.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep
Taber
Rep. Jensen
Iown
Job Is a Family Habit Lonely Hours in a Tower
Mrs. Opal Atkinson has spent six years in the Atkinson Fire Tower above Zaleski spotting forest blazes. Her husband O E Atkinson and son Gayle also served in the Forest Service. Visitors reach the tower on Sundays and holidays for views of Lake Hope and the Zaleski Forest before fires interrupt the tedium with swift fire-fighting action led by Herbert Weed and the Zaleski forest ranger coordinating crews.
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Opal Atkinson
Atkinson Ridge
Zaleski
Atkinson
O. E. Atkinson
Gayle
Forest Service
Lake Hope
Zaleski Forest
Zaleski Forest Ranger
Cleveland Man Dies in Chair in Ohio Penitentiary
Theodore Roosevelt McClure a 24 year old Cleveland man who claimed innocence prior to execution died in the electric chair at 8 p m in the Ohio penitentiary after confessing last Saturday to killing Nicola Salpo a Cleveland grocer during a Jan 25 1947 hold up The case had four delays including a 60 day reprieve and a lie detector test showed he lied about innocence.
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Columbus
Theodore Roosevelt
McClure
Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
Barkley to Speak in Columbus at Jackson-Jefferson Dinner
Vice President Alben Barkley arrives in Columbus for the Ohio Jackson Jefferson Day dinner with 1500 Democratic leaders. He had helped open Dayton's United Jewish Appeal drive and warned that Israel's failure would be a global blow affecting newly freed nations and Christians and Jews alike.
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Columbus
Alben V. Barkley
Ohio
Missing Newark Girl Found With Soldier
Newark police report a 14 year old girl was picked up by Virginia State Police in Gloucester Virginia in the company of Air Force soldier Donald Cayton 19 from Newark Cayton is listed AWOL from Olmsted Air Force Base Middletown Pennsylvania and is married authorities say Kreager confirmed the affair and whereabouts.
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Newark
Orville Kreager
Virginia State Police
Glouster
Air Force
Kreager
Donald Cayton
Olmsted Air Force Base
Middletown
Cayton
Harrisburg
Fire destroys Bellaire building after porch explosion
Firemen from six towns battled a blaze causing 25000 dollars damage to a two story building in Bellaire. An explosion on a second floor apartment porch started the fire. Mary Littleton collapsed in the apartment and was rescued by firefighters. The first floor housed Clyde Heil Bicycle and Toy Shop and suffered severe damage.
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Bellaire
Mary Littleton
Clyde Heil Bicycle and Toy Shop
Akron fire kills 63 year old man in smoking in bed blaze
A fire in Akron believed caused by smoking in bed killed Robert H. Brundimze, age 63, according to fire officials. The blaze prompted investigators to inspect the scene for further cause details and casualty confirmation.
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Akron
Robert H. Brund- Imze
Senate delays FEPC move to remove NLRB counsel
Senate adopted a motion to set aside the FEPC bill and pursue a plan to abolish the National Labor Relations Board Counsel office. Ohio Republicans Taft and Bricker supported the motion, while Ohio Democrats opposed it. The same day a House amendment cutting federal employment funding next year passed.
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Washington
Senate
FEPC
Independent
Office of National Labor Relations Board
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Ohio
House
Reds Release Of Three Women In Berlin Detention
East German police on Russian orders freed three International Refugee Organization workers, two Americans and a British woman, who had been detained at the Peoples Police headquarters in the Soviet sector of Berlin after taking pictures near the Soviet embassy reconstruction site.
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Berlin
International Refugee Organization
Peoples Police
den Lindén
Chinese Reds Free Two American Airmen
A message from the captain of the steamer Hunan to But terfield and Swire in Hong Kong confirms two American airmen freed by Chinese Communists. The men Marine Master Sgt. Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati and Navy Chief Electrician William C. Smith of Long Beach, California, had been held for more than a year.
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Hong Kong
Hunan
Butterfield and Swire
Elmer C. Bender
Cincinnati
Navy
William C. Smith
Long Beach
Calif
Gas Excise Tax Fund Distributes Money Across Regions
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson announced distribution of 3,304,398 from the gasoline excise tax fund to counties townships and municipalities. Each county gets 10,000 and each of 1227 townships 400. Cities with large shares include Zanesville 12,424.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Zanesville
Army Finance Center overpaid 157 million dollars
Congressional subcommittee reports the Army Finance Center in St. Louis overpaid 157.6 million in wartime allotments and cites 130 thousand cases yet to review. The center employs 4500 people and faces security, file mishandling, and discredit FBI probe concerns.
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House Group
Army Finance Center
Washington
St. Louis
House Civil Service Committee
General Accounting Office
Payroll payroll robbery at Standard Brewing Co
Three masked gunmen robed into Standard Brewing Co office and seized $16,000 in payroll money just delivered by a Brinks Express Co. truck. Two robbers wore brown stocking caps while the third had a white handkerchief over his face.
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Cleveland
Standard Brewing Co
Brinks Express Co
Public Power Plan Outlined By President at Grand Coulee
President Truman outlined a low cost public power program for major rivers and rural electrification at Grand Coulee Dam. He attacked private power firms and urged Congressional approval of the Columbia Valley Administration to operate Grand Coulee and other projects.
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Grand Coulee Dam
Wash
Truman
Columbia Valley Administration
Grand Coulee
West
Middle West
Glass Firm To Move From Parkersburg
Libbey-Owens-Ford will move the Parkersburg plant equipment to Rossford Ohio near Toledo. The company closes its vitrolite division in West Virginia. The Parkersburg plant made colored structural glass and employed 80 workers. The transfer takes effect July 1.
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Parkersburg
Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass Co
Rossford
Ohio
Toledo Company
John D. Biggers
Vitrolite
West Virginia
Police Say Racketeering Has Roots In Capital’s Numbers
Columbus upstate authorities report a $6,500,000 numbers racket will continue to flourish despite police efforts. Lt Arthur F E Remmert of the Vice Squad says fines are expected as a normal expense and arresting numbers writers, pickup men, and players merely hampers but does not stop the operation.
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Columbus
Arthur FE. Remmert
Remmert
School Teacher Named Liquor Control Member
COLUMBUS Gov Frank J Lausche Thursday appointed Minor C Kershner Henry County Democratic chairman and school teacher to the state board of liquor control. Kershner 51 on May 15 succeed Walter W Mitchell of Youngstown. Mitchell resigned to accept the post of executive secretary of the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association. ANTI TRUMANITES CAMPAIGN JACKSON Miss Arkansas and Texas were selected as proving ground for the new States Rights’ door to door campaign against President Truman's Fair Deal.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Minor C. Kershner
Henry County
State Board of Liquor Control
Kershner
Walter W. Mitchell
Youngstown
Mitchell
National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association
Jackson, Miss
Arkansas
Texas
Truman
Strauss Elected to Industrial Rayon Board of Directors
Lewis L. Strauss former Atomic Energy Commission member is named to the Industrial Rayon Corp board of directors in a corporate leadership move.
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Cleveland
Lewis L. Strauss
United States Atomic Energy Commission
The
Industrial Rayon Corp
Congressmen Discuss Domestic Import Issues
Ohio congressman Secrest and peers from Pennsylvania and West Virginia met Wednesday to discuss import policy for domestic industries. A general meeting is planned for May 16 to debate higher tariffs embargoes and protective proposals.
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Washington
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Rep. Secrest
Draft Law Speeded To Vote in House
Washington The House Rules Committee quickly cleared for consideration a two year extension of the military draft law. The bill sent to the House preserves the Selective Service act of 1948 until June 1952 with inductions to be ordered only by Congress.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Congress
Ex OSU freshman gets life for fraternity murder
James D. Heer, 21, of Euclid, convicted of second degree murder in the homecoming eve shooting of Jack T. McKeown, Delta Tau Delta member and student newspaper editor. Judge John R. King condemned the act as a warning to students. Heer to serve life with parole eligibility after 20 years.
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Columbus
Common Pleas
Ohio State University
James D. Heer
Euclid
Ohio
Jack T. McKeown
Norwood
John R. King
King
Heer
Delta Tau Delta
McKeown
Ohio State
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