Airliner crash near Richmond kills 26 on chartered flight
A southbound Viking airliner crashed after takeoff from Byrd Airport near Richmond in heavy weather. The CAA said 24 passengers and 2 crew were aboard as 26 bodies were recovered, including 20 men 3 women and 3 children. A passport found on a charred body sparked early belief the charter served Latin American workers or athletes.
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Richmond
Byrd Airport
Doran Creek
Newark
N. J. Esly
Atlanta
CAA
William Walton
Henrico County
Byrd
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Jose Materredona Zambrini
New Premier Yoshida Named In Japan Amid Cabinet Plans
Shigeru Yoshida, once jailed by militarists, was installed as premier in Tokyo. He led an organizational session of the House of Representatives where Takekichi Miki of the Liberal Party was chosen speaker and Kenzaemon Kimura of the Progressives vice speaker. Both are veteran politicians and the coalition signals a cabinet aligned with Shidehara era policies.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
House of Representatives
Liberal Party
Yoshida
Progressives
Takekichi Miki
Kenzaemon Kimura
Miki
Kimura
Dillon Dam setback ends engineers’ stance in Ohio
In Zanesville, the Licking Valley Protective Association faced a new defeat as Army engineers testified the Dillon River project is economically justifiable only for Dillon. Congress is hoped to reverse the decision. In Chillicothe, the Commodity Credit Corp bought 49,898 bushels of corn from Ras County farmers for overseas famine relief.
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Zanesville
Licking Valley Protective Association
Dillon Dam
Licking River
Frank Gano
The
Army Engineers
Dillon
Licking Valley
Congress
Corn 18
Chillicothe
Commodity Credit Corp
Proposal for Federal Union of India by British plan
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Attlee outlined a six point government white paper proposing a Federal Union of India. The plan creates a central executive, all India legislature, residuary powers to provinces, princely states retain powers, regional groups with own executives, and regional constitutions with potential provincial reconsideration by majority vote.
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London
Union of India
House of Commons
Attlee
India
British
Union J
Atlantic City
Philip Murray
United Steelworkers
Murray
Steel Workers
Mines Eyed For Storage
Washington reports coal mines are being surveyed to store underground machine tools and equipment in case of war. No plan to place industries underground. Army engineers catalogue areas noting floor space ceilings humidity head cover soil and rock conditions access and interior state, plus concealment from air observation and proximity to transport communication utilities and housing.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Wheat Gone Flour Mill Closed Till June First
The Studer Bros Milling Co in Apple Creek, Wayne County, shut grinding mills until June 1 after exhausting May wheat quota. Manager Charles Studer said flour for May is allocated to customers. grain purchases continue while supplies last. A second item notes market economists predicting a potential low mood for business cycles between 1952 and 1955 unless a controlling method is developed.
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Wooster
Studer Bros. Milling Co
Apple Creek
Wayne County
Charles ‘Studer
Studer
Cleveland
Pogue Quits as Chief of Aeronautics Board
Washington report says L. Welch Pogue resigned as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board to return to private law practice. President Truman accepted the resignation with regret, per White House press secretary Charles G. Ross.
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Washington
L. Welch iPogue
Civil Aeronautics Board
White House
Charles G. Ross
Truman
Pogue
Ohio School Boards Weigh Pay Rises to Fight Teacher Shortage
Ohio school boards across cities including Athens Hamilton Lima Wilmington Millersburg and Carrollton consider pay increases from 100 to 444 a year to attract and retain teachers amid shortages. A public hearing on cadet certificates set for July 3, with salaries rising from 1770 to 2050 under the new plan.
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Ohio
Columbus
Harold J. Bowers
Athens
Hamilton
Lima
Wilmington
Ganesyile
Lebanon
Maurice
Clyde V. Hissong
Edu
Bowers
Millersburg
Montpelier
West Nation
Carrollton
Alliance
Wapakowin
Hemneta
Sam College
Chagrin Falls
Crestline
Sandusky
Willard
Dennison
OEA
Ohiojen
Renewables Education Association
Third White House Conference On Coal Mine Strike
President Truman convenes a third White House session with John S Lewis and a soft coal operators' representative to resume talks on the coal dispute. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach and conciliator Edward F McGrady attend as UMW plans a two week strike truce nears expiration. operators reject a seven percent payroll levy for a miners welfare fund.
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Washington
President Truman
John S. Lewis
White House
United Mine Workers
Charles O'Neill
Truman
Labor
Schwellenbach
Edward F. McGrady
Lewis
UMW
O'Neill
Executive Mansion
Allied Justice Used by Japs
Japan's former leaders seek to dodge trial by claiming justice is biased as they face war crimes charges. The international tribunal may rule on defense motions to dismiss indictments as Tojo and 27 others await renewed proceedings.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hideki Tojo
International Military Tribunal
Anton
Brunner
Vienna
Gestapo
Lost money still outstanding in Payne’s gubernatorial campaign
COLUMBUS. Albert Edward Payne, who dropped several pocketbooks with $1 and $5 bills and his name and address during his primary campaign, reports $272 of the money still outstanding. Payne, seeking the Republican nomination, believes most of the funds will be returned.
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Columbus
Albert Edward Payne
Payne
Superintendent Quits After Student Strike
Sebring board accepts the resignation of School Superintendent 8. H. Pollock after a student walkout protesting the board’s failure to rehire 1045 Grid Mentor John Fife. Pollock offered to resign in the wake of the protest.
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Sebring
H. Pollock
Sebring Board of Education
John Fife
Pollock
Food use climbs despite shortages in 1946
The United States faces a record per capita food consumption in 1946 despite shortages in grains and fats. Government estimates project a 14 percent rise above prewar averages, with total production about one third above 1935-39 levels. UNRRA Director Laguardia urges stronger grain controls to curb famine risks and proposals include stricter milling and a moratorium on pastry.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
UNRRA
Laguardia
Ministers Consider Nazi Problem With 30 Day Recess
Paris four foreign ministers of the Big Four plan a 30 day recess to study peace issues. Byrnes expressed deep discouragement over three sleepless negotiating days and a push to compromise remaining differences. Unsettled items include Austria, Trieste, Danube navigation, and international commerce with Romania Bulgaria and Hungary.
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Paris
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Russia
Wilhl
Austria
Trieste
Britain
United States
Italy
Yugoslavia
Danube
Balkan
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Violent Death Claims Six Members of Family
PORTSMOUTH A family of 13 has dwindled to five after a series of fatal incidents over 33 years. The latest death is James Albert Boggs, 62, whose body was recovered from the Ohio River after he fell while attempting to lift a pump onto a barge.
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Portsmouth
Hinesses
James Albert Boggs
Ohio River
Health Plans For Industries Is Proposed
Washington senators floated a plan to require every interstate industry to create workers health plans. Senators Pepper and Byrd linked the idea to broader labor control measures while a bipartisan push sought to bar government workers from unions that allow strikes. The proposal adds to debates on health and welfare funds amid labor unrest and funding bills for the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
Senate
Pepper
D-Fra
Senate Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Russell
D-G
Wherry
Ito
Byrd
Dva
Black Market Sugar Ring Smashed
The OPA used ultraviolet rays to expose illegal sugar transactions spanning Ohio Pennsylvania and New York. Ten men face federal grand jury indictments after the probe revealed over 250000 pounds of sugar and 43440 in counterfeit stamps.
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Cleveland
OPA
U.S
Don C. Miller
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Fred H. Mandel
Witha
Beightler seeks $11,000 for 37th division history
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler urged the State Emergency Board to grant $11,000 to pay writers compiling the history of the 37th Ohio division. He warned that without the funds the writers’ services could be lost, noting his past command of the unit.
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Columbus
Robert S. Beightler
State Emergency Board
37Th
Ohio
General Beightler
B 17 Crashes on hillside near Fairfield Calif
An Army B-17 with eight aboard crashed on a hillside three miles west of Fairfield California early today. The pilot and co pilot were critically injured and escaped to call Hamilton Field. Six other occupants, some alive, were trapped in the wreck. The incident follows a pattern of wartime air disasters with uncertain casualties.
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Fairfield
Calif
Here
Fourth Air Force
Hamilton Field
Eisenhower Orders Better Cooking After GI Gripes
During a Tokyo inspection, General Dwight D. Eisenhower questioned Corporal R. L. Dutton of Griffin Georgia about rations then warned his colonel and company commander to improve the meals. He added a caution that no harm should come to the corporal.
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Tokyo
Eisenhower
Cpl. R. L. Dutton
Griffin
Dutton
New Course In Iran Case Is Predicted
Iran and Russia tensions loom as new votes and diplomacy unfold in the long running case. Iran may seek U N Security Council action backed by Britain and the United States amid threats of civil strife and troop withdrawals.
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Iran
Ausowes
Washington
Taut
United Nations Security
Council
Ahmed Quavam
Quavam
Hussein Ala
United States
Russia
London
New York
OPA Extension Gets One Year Approval
The Senate Banking Committee endorsed a full year extension of the wartime price control law beyond the June 30 expiry. The House had approved nine months with conditions. Senator Barkley said the vote was about 11 to five. A separate nine month extension motion failed 10 to seven. Discussion covered potential removal plans as supply meets demand, but no action was taken.
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Washington
UF! —The_ Sensate Banking Committee
House
Barkley
D-Ky
Butler
R-Nebr
Hitler Planned One Man Show Revealed at Nuremberg
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder testified that Hitler promised to rid Germany of Versailles shackles and build an armed force to be used as a political weapon. He said Hitler planned a one man show and outlined Reich policy as his sole control during a February meeting with German generals and admirals.
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Mernberg
Adolf Hitler
Versailles
Erich Raeder
Raeder
International Military Tribunal
Fueh‘rer
Hitler
Reich
Child Killed by Auto After Father's Death
Portsmouth report describes three year old Carolyn Sue Hill struck and killed by a car in front of her home hours after her soldier father Clendon Hill was fatally shot in Chattanooga Tennessee. Grandfather Richard Hill confirms the incident and the father's death.
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Portsmouth
Fort, Oglethorpe
Carolyn Sue Hill
Clendon Hill
Chattanooga
Tenn
Carolyn Sue
Richard Hill
Negotiations Stall in Hoover Co Strike and Francis Execution
Canton reports 2,400 CIO United Electrical workers continue a 29 day Hoover Co strike after stalled talks over an 18 cent an hour raise. New Orleans notes Louisiana Supreme Court refuses to halt a second execution attempt of Willie Francis, 18, who survived a prior electric chair attempt, with a new date set.
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Hoover Co
Canton
Cio
United Electrical
New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
Willie Francis
St. Martinville
Officer Fights To Stay At Side of Leper Wife
SAN FRANCISCO A tall ruddy Army officer Maj Hans George Hornbostel seeks to live out his years at his wife’s side in Carville Louisiana leper colony. Doctors say his wife Mrs Hornbostel 52 contracted the disease long ago likely while researching Polynesian peoples with him. Hornbostel 63 says he does not fear being with her and plans to join her if denied.
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Wite
San Francisco
Carville
Jeprosarium
Hans George Hornbostel
Washington
Santo Tomas
Manila
San Francisco Hospital
Major Hornbostel
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