Northern Ohio Officials Act To Halt Smallpox Typhoid Fever
In Fostoria and Fremont area actions target outbreaks of smallpox and typhoid fever. A 73 year old Mexican man died of smallpox in Fostoria as hundreds are vaccinated and a search hunts Mexican workers linked to the case. In Castalia watercress linked to typhoid prompts regional health actions and tracing of contacts.
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Ohio
Fostoria, CO
Fostoria
Emanuel Ibarra
Sandusky County
Columbus
Toledo
Detroit
Tiffin
New York
Ibarra
Savina
Mexico
Tharra
Fremont
F. M. Teeple
Erie County
Vickery-Castalia
Blue Hole
Castalia
Helen D. Leiser
Wallace Urges $150 Billion Peace Plan Abroad
Henry A. Wallace called for a $150 billion program of American exports and investments to restore world economy and secure peace. At a Chicago Stadium rally he mocked the Truman doctrine as politics and warned Congress actions would be regretted.
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Chicago
Henry A. Wallace
Chicago Stadium
Wallace
Europe
Congress
Two Men Die As Train Hits Car Near Marion
John Loucke 41 and Kenneth Bowker 26, both of Green Camp, were killed when an Erie freight train struck their car while they headed to a Marion factory job. The collision occurred six miles southwest of Marion in the Green Camp area.
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Marion
John Loucke
Kenneth Bowker
Green Camp
Erie
Here
Health officer chosen for Columbiana County post
Dr. B. B. Mc Guire of Burnsville North Carolina has been named Columbiana County health commissioner effective July 1, as announced by the county board of health.
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Lisbon, O
B. B. McGuire
Burnsville
N. C
Columbiana County
County Board of Health
Truman's Wage Boost Proposal Wins Senate
President Truman's recommendation to raise the minimum wage gained support in the Senate though action this year seems unlikely. Debates center on a 65 cent floor versus other figures, while House Senate conferees work to reconcile labor dispute bills and curbs on union practices.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House Senate
House
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Bowles Proposes Broad Economic Rescue Plan
Chester Bowles outlines a 10 percent price rollback and 15 cent an hour wage boosts to avert an imminent business collapse. The plan calls for tax cuts, higher personal exemptions, reduced excise taxes, cheaper home construction, extended unemployment benefits, rent controls, more housing and foreign loans, and farm support.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Bowles
OPA
Americans For Democratic Action
Wilson Wyatt
Phone Tieup May End Soon
Ohio Bell and the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers met with Federal Conciliator Thomas Robertson after a lengthy session. The union lowered pay demands to a six dollar weekly boost while the company offered four dollars. The Cincinnati phase settlement left about 12 000 workers on strike across Ohio.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas W. Robertson
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Robertson
Cincinnati
Canton Mother Freed Of Husband's Murder
Canton police exonerate Evelyn Grace Harris a 37 year old mother of three who shot her husband Howard F Harris Sr in self defense officials say the incident occurred in Canton Ohio.
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Canton
Evelyn Grace Harris
Howard F. Harris, Sr
Administrative Budget Clash in Ohio Assembly over Capital Improvements
Gov Thomas J Herbert pushes an 81.5 million capital improvements plan enlarging the state surplus past 200 million as Republicans balk. House Finance Chair Paul H Ballard reportedly delays the capital bill while McCormick tallies requests including veterans bonuses and unspent balances. Senate backs an admin plan to create a planning division, sparking Mechem's attack over park and forest publicity. Senate panel rejects a strip mining regulation bill in a related clash.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Thomas J. Herbert
Paul H. Ballard
B Jackson
House Finance Committee
Paul L. McCormick
Logan
Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Commerce Department
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
Rathens
Dan Taber
Soldier Admits Stabbing Girl in Illinois Murder Case
Rantoul Illinois 17 year old Soldier Soccoro Villagran has admitted stabbing beating and strangling Edna Lucille Kietzman a 21 year old beauty operator after a quarrel over his drinking habits. She was found in an alley near her rooming house. State's Attorney John J Bresee announced the admission and formal murder charge. Villagran had been in the Army since last December and was stationed at Chanute Field for six weeks.
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Rantoul
Ill
Soccoro Villagran
Edna Lucille Kietzman
John J. Bresee
Villagran
Chanute Field
Miss Kietzman
Judge Plans To Recall Lawrence Grand Jury
Judge James Collier planned to recall the Lawrence County Grand Jury for a possible special inquiry into gambling complaints. The jury adjourned without indictments after an investigation into three suits seeking to recover gambling losses in the area.
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Lawrence
Ironton
James Collier
Lawrence County
Grand Jury
Power Plant Addition Begun at Avon Lake
Ground was broken today for a 25000000 dollar expansion to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. plant in Avon Lake. The project forms the largest part of a 57000000 dollar, three year program to expand electric light and power service in Cleveland and Northeastern Ohio.
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Cleveland
Couple Alleges Hospital Substituted Baby at City Hospital
Mr and Mrs Leonard Sosa seek 200000 in damages claiming their newborn girl was exchanged for a boy at a city hospital eight days after birth. Dr Edward M Bernecker commissioner of hospitals denied the substitution occurred.
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New York
Leonard Sosa
Edward M. Bernecker
Home For Sale by Engineers At Ohio River Dam No 34
Cincinnati based Ohio River Division offers a four room cottage with bath and two laboratories, plus a shed. Purchaser must remove both buildings from government land at Chile Ohio within 60 days after closing.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River Division
Ohio River Dam No
Chile
Ohio
Man Hangs Self at Ohio Farm
Albert Stroh, 54, hanged himself yesterday at his farm four miles west of Wapakoneta Ohio. Sheriff and coroner reports said the death appeared self inflicted and no other persons were involved. The body was found by a neighbor and the case was turned over to a county coroner for investigation.
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Wapakoneta
Albert Stroh
Here
Bi Zonal Experts Meet Over German Food Crisis
Emergency session in western Germany as British and American zone experts address a severe food shortage. Officials propose ration cuts from 1550 to 1130 calories and possible bread substitution as grain shipments from the United States arrive.
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Frankfurt
Germany
London
Berlin
Washington
Robert Patterson
Stuttgart
Paul S. Taggert
U. S
Wuerttemberg-Baden
Food Board
United States
Fire kills 26 at Rome Minerva Film offices
Rome Fire Department reports at least 26 dead and 25 injured when a flash fire engulfed the Minerva Film Co offices before quitting time. Many trapped as flames spread rapidly, with some bodies found in crouching positions amid the ruins.
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Rome
Rome Fire Department
Minerva Film Co
Man Tried on Charge of Hiding Fund Shortage
Kenneth Romney faced a jury on a charge he hid a 143.63 funds shortage tied to his two decades as House sergeant at arms. A 25 minute charge by Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff preceded jurors’ deliberations.
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Washington
Kenneth Romney
Alexander Holtzoff
90 Cuyahoga Bridges Deemed Obsolete by Official
Cleveland report by County Engineer Albert S. Porter states 50 additional spans are obsolete though not in imminent danger. He warns 10 of the 200 highway bridges are held together with baling wire.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Albert S. Porter
Cuyahoga
British Recall Indian Viceroy for Parley
The British Government recalls Viscount Mountbatten, viceroy of India, for consultations on transfer of power. He will return on a short visit and plan to depart for New Delhi by June 2.
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London
Viscount Mountbatten
India
Mountbatten
New Delhi
Nunan Resigns as Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Joseph D. Nunan Jr resigned today as commissioner of internal revenue effective June 30.
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Washington
Joseph D. Nunan, Jr
Internal Revenue
Fire at Waterloo Road brewery explodes 480000 bottles
A blaze at a London Waterloo Road brewery caused a massive explosion releasing 480000 bottles of beer. Fire crews battled the flames as residents reported shock and smoke across the area. No detailed injuries were immediately reported.
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London
Waterloo Road
Facets Dispelling Tornado Fear In Ohio Analysis
Ohio may be a prime tornado target but Columbus meteorologist says it would take 5 000 years to devastate 1 of 1000 of the state at current rate. An unpublished Mindling survey notes most tornadoes, except Lorain Sandusky 1924, were like Findlay Tuesday causing 26 injuries and under 1 million dollars damage. Lorain Sandusky disaster accounted for about half of all known damage and loss of life.
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Columbus
Ohio
George Mindling
Lorain-Sandusky
Findlay
Mindling
Mandaus Writ Asked In Libel Petition Hearing
Cincinnati attorney George S. Hawk sought a writ of mandamus from the Ohio Supreme Court to force Chief Justice Weygandt to designate a different district court of appeals to hear Hawk's libel petition against E. W. Scripps Co. and editor Carl D. Groat.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Ohio Supreme Court Today
Carl V. Weygandt
George S. Hawk
Weygandt
District Court of Appeals
First District Appeals Court
Hawk
E. W. Scripps Co
Cincinnati Post
Carl D. Groat
The
Post
Third ID Set For Keyport Trunk Murder Victim
Monmouth County officials announce a new tentative identity for the nude, strangled woman found in a Keyport trunk on April 19, as the Workman family of Lawrence County Tennessee travels to view the body amid ongoing identifications.
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Freehold
N. J
Keyport
Monmouth County
J. Victor Carton
Mattie Workman
Lawrence County
Tenn
Assault Charges Filed Against Blind Woman in Stabbing
In Salem, Mrs Gleason Wildman, a blind woman, faces assault with intent to wound charges after allegedly stabbing her blind husband with a butcher knife. Sheriff George Hayes said Wildman admitted the acts, and she was led into court with a seeing eye dog and bound over to the grand jury under a $500 bond.
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Salem
Gleason Wildman
George Hayes
Wildman
Oberlin Dean Marguerite Woodworth to wed Brown president
Marguerite Woodworth dean of women at Oberlin College and Henry Merritt Winston president of Brown University plan a marriage in late June.
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Oberlin, O
Marguerite Woodworth
Oberlin College
Henry Merritt Winston
Brown University
Federal Communications hearing on Western Union abandonment
The Federal Communications hearing regarding Western Union Telegraph Co. abandoning its Mt Gilead office was resumed today.
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MT. Gilead, CO
Federal Communications Hearing
Western Union Telegraph Co
Mine Chief To Negotiate With Pit Operators On Wages
John L Lewis agrees to wage talks with operators representing about 75 percent of soft coal output. The plan follows a government led push to avert a strike as Southern producers seek separate bargaining. A joint conference with seven negotiators from each side, led by Ezra Van Horn, will be formed.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Navy
N. H. Collisson
UMW
Collisson
U.S. Steel
Charles O'Neill
Ezra van Horn
Ohio
Building Collapse Kills Three in Elko Business District
A two story brick apartment business building collapsed in Elko Nevada early today killing Ralph Nielsen Beatrice Nielsen believed Nielsen mother and Mrs Robert Norris and injuring six others including Mr and Mrs W A Sperry and their daughter Vernal Jones. Sheriff C L Smith said occupants accounted for and digging continued in the wreckage.
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Elko, Nev
Elko
C. L. Smith
Elko County
Ralph Nielsen
Beatrice Nielsen
Nielsen
Robert Norris
W. A. Sperry
Vernal Jones
Minor Aid Bill Changes OK'd
The House approved minor changes to the administration's 400 million Greek Turkish aid bill and sent it to the Senate for final approval. The decision was made without debate as the House accepted the conference committee report outlining a compromise on differences to provide economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congressional Conference
New Counsel Named To Republic Steel Post
Harold C. Lamb, a Rhodes scholar and Navy veteran, is named assistant general counsel for Republic Steel Corp. He hails from South Dakota and graduated from Oxford University in 1936.
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Republic Steel Post
Cleveland
Harold C. Lamb
Republic Steel Corp
South Dakota
Oxford University
Sam Simmons on Congress and labor reform politics
Sam Simmons argues Congress did not trap President Truman with labor reform bills. He contends legislators fulfilled pledges to voters by weakening labor power and rejects administration propaganda about political motives. He recalls 1940 campaign fears of war from the administration’s policies.
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Congress
Truman
Artist's Wife Found Strangled in Greek Bed
The body of Mrs. Paul R. Refoule a 31 year old wife of a French artist was found face up in Peachtree Creek late last night by police bloodhounds Captain Fred Bradford reported. She apparently had been strangled by a rope though no rope was found and her shoes had been bound with their laces.
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Atlanta
Paul R. Refoule
Peachtree Creek
Fulton County
Fred Bradford
France
Freeman to testify for others in May-Garsson bribery case
Justice Schweinhaut grants Freeman acquittal and recesses trial to tomorrow. Former Kentucky Congressman Andrew May and Garsson brothers face bribery charges over 55 000 in payments connected to 68 war contracts with the Garsson munitions group. May expected to testify after defense opening.
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Washington
Joseph
Freeman
May
Garsson Munitions
Charles J. Margiotti
Garsson Brothers
Husband Tries To Blind Wife With Acid
Newark detectives say Harold Knowles 30 a Navy veteran gave a statement admitting he threw acid at his wife in a failed effort to blind her so she would not see another man. He claimed love and said he prayed she would not be scarred. Mrs Knowles was treated at Newark City Hospital with eyes intact.
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Newark
N.J
George Eschenfelder
George Daly
Harold Knowles
Knowles
Veterans Administration
Lyons
Statesment
Steel Workers Walk Out Third Time in Month
Cleveland production stopped at National Malleable & Steel Castings Company for a third time this month after a 1300 worker walkout led by AFL United Automobile Workers. Union director Carl Smigel said the one day stoppages will continue until a new contract is negotiated.
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Cleveland
National Malleable & Steel Castings Co
AFL United Automobile
Carl Smigel
Advertising leader elected at national transportation group
John H. Mitchell of Cleveland was elected vice president of the National Association of Transportation Advertising Inc at its annual meeting last night in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
John H. Mitchell
Cleveland
National Association of Transportation Advertising, Inc
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