Oregon Primary Could Decide Dewey or Stassen Clash
Oregon voters face a pivotal primary as Dewey and Stassen bid for momentum ahead of the Philadelphia convention. Taft campaigns in Princeton and Bard College as New Jersey and Utah delegate contests shape the GOP race.
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Oregon
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas FE. Dewey
Pacific Coast
Sen
Robert A. Taft
New Jersey
Dewey
Stassen
Taft
Princeton
Philadelphia
Arabs claim 80 percent control of old Jerusalem
AP reports four day battle near Jerusalem's old city ends in sight with Arabs asserting control of about 80 percent of the old city. Jewish forces retreated to a thin western defense line near the Beit Yaacov Hurva Synagogue as Arab Legions siege key sites.
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Old City
Haganah
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Beit Yaacov
Hurva
Tiferet Israel
Abdullah
Columbus Area Weather Outlook Draft
Temperature is expected near normal with highs around 71 in the west and 66 in the east. Lows near 50 west and 46 east. Cooler Saturday, warming Sunday and Monday, then cooler midweek. Rain chances around one quarter inch with showers or thunderstorms on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Columbus
Ohio University to Build New Student Center Pool
The first step in enlarging the student center is an Olympic style swimming pool on the East Green. Planned as the university’s permanent campus feature, the pool may cost at least 200000 dollars and will be funded by a special semester assessment.
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Ohio University
John C. Bak
Green
J. R. Patrick
Solon Quizzel Army Navy On Top Brass
Rep Price asks for action to meet the July 1 legal limit on four star officers. The Army Navy Air Force may have only five four stars. Navy is over the limit with seven four stars and three five star admirals. Marine Corps commands one full general Clifton Cates. MacArthur is the only five star on active duty with seven four star generals.
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Rep. Price
House
Armed Services Committee
Army and Navy
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Navy
Air Force
Congress
Marine Corps
Chester W. Nimitz
Ernest J. King
William D. Leahy
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Douglas MacArthur
Probe Sought In Polk Slaying In Greece
Washington congress may probe the killing of George Polk noted American CBS correspondent found shot and tied in Salonika Bay. Representative Sadowski says he will push a state department inquiry and, if needed, a House special committee to investigate the case.
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Congress
Greece
George Polk
Polk
Salonika Bay
Columbia Broadcasting System
Sadowski
D-Mich
State Department
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Five year old Carolyn Bailey killed in Cleveland traffic crash
A five year old girl, Carolyn Bailey, darted in front of a car in Cleveland and was killed. The accident marked Cleveland's 40th traffic fatality of 1948.
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Cleveland
Carolyn Bailey
Session Asked for Municipal Finance Plan
The Ohio Association of Cities urged Gov. Herbert to call a special legislative session to address municipal finances. The group will send its executive committee and Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson to Columbus on May 28 to present the proposal. Also on May 28 the association will join the Ohio League of Municipalities to discuss a possible merger. Three proposals favored by members call for a 70 member unicameral legislature with 8 000 salaries, 40 percent of sales tax allocated to cities and subdivisions, and city home rule to tax beyond the current restricted field.
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Youngstown
Ohio Association of Cities
Thomas J. Herbert
Charles P. Henderson
Columbus
Ohio League of Municipalities
Boys Town Pays Respects to Father Flanagan
Youth of all races paid last respects to Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan founder and director of Boys Town. Dowd Memorial Chapel prepared for two Masses of Requiem. The body will rest in a sarcophagus with a marble slab bearing his inscription.
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Edward J. Flanagan
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Omaha
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Man
U S Tightens Russian Border Crossing Rules in Germany
Berlin reports that United States occupation authorities restricted Soviet missions to enter the American zone through a single frontier point. The move followed Russian insistence that the American Military Mission at Potsdam cross into the Soviet zone only at Helmstedt, with European Command Headquarters at Frankfurt issuing the ruling.
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United States
Germany
Frankfurt
Potsdam
Helmstedt
Ferguson Loses Ground In Elevator Fight
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson lost the first round in his bid to block an elevator construction in the State House. Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. Clifford dismissed a temporary injunction against George B. Sowers director of public works and the contractors.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
State House
Common Pleas
Joseph M. Clifford
George B. Sowers
Lewis pressed to resume talks amid meat strike
John L. Lewis was asked by soft coal operators to resume contract negotiations, with he planning to meet his International executive board to decide on inclusion of Southern producers. He warned against a July 1 strike and urged constructive wage talks while criticizing delays to activate the welfare fund. In parallel, CIO Packinghouse and IH negotiations moved forward as guards guarded plants amid ongoing labor turmoil.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
International Executive Board
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Welfare
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CIO Packinghouse
Chicago
National
Waterloo
Albert Lea
South St. Paul
Newport
CIO Farm Equipment Union
Peoria
Ill
CIO United Auto Workers
Caterpillar Tractor Co
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NLRB bans union shop elections in 19 states
The National Labor Relations Board ruled it cannot conduct union shop elections in 19 states with bans or regulations. The order, based on a 3-2 majority, cites the Taft Hartley Act as eliminating federal restrictions where state laws prohibit compulsory unionism. It notes no estimate of workers affected.
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Ashington
National Labor Relations Board
Runaway Locomotive Damages Oil Well Supply Building
A runaway freight locomotive jumped a spur track and struck the Oil Well Supply Company building in Zanesville causing about 5000 dollars in damage. E Cardi, a Pennsylvania Railroad employee, found the airbrakes failed and leaped from the locomotive as it sped downhill toward the town center.
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E. Cardi
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Palestine mediator finds slim chance of success
Stockholm August plans loom as Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Palestine mediator and head of the Swedish Red Cross, says there may be one in a hundred chance of success but insists the chance must be taken. He seeks details of the mission, his assistants, and whether he can return to Stockholm for an August Red Cross conference.
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Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Palestine
Count Bernadotte
Swedish
Red Cross
Senate action halts Hawaiian statehood bid
The Senate voted 51 to 20 to block House approval by removing the bill from the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, effectively derailing a Hawaiian statehood measure for the year.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Resignation Request Is Dropped
Washington Economic secretary Sawyer rejected Rep Crawford’s bid to pressure John C Virden Cleveland head of the Office of Industry Cooperation to resign. Sawyer said Virden has resigned already and his daughter’s Communist ties do not disqualify him. He plans to urge Virden to stay but will bow to his choice if he wishes to end public discussion.
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Commerce
Sawyer
Commerce Department
Tass
Rep
Crawford
Rmich
John C. Virden
Cleveland
Department
Office of Industry Cooperation
Virden
Barkley Picked as Keynoter for Democratic Convention
Democratic leaders chose Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as the July 12 convention keynoter and Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas as permanent chairman. Democratic national chairman J. Howard McGrath said the picks were not meant to appease the Southern block over civil rights. Both men are described as liberal and supportive of the Roosevelt-Truman programs.
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Philadelphia
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Sam Rayburn
Texas
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
McGrath
Roosevelt
Fire damages supplies for Chinese shipment at East Rutherford plant
A fire destroyed the East Rutherford Syringes plant causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Medical supplies valued at 500000 dollars were ready for shipment to China. Two firemen were overcome by smoke and another was cut on the hands as the blaze gutted the block long one story plant.
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N. J
East Rutherford Syringes, Inc
China
Nicholas Krueger
Burglar Gets One Year For Chewing Gum Heist
Salem Ore Walter Brokus was sentenced to one year in prison after burglarizing a warehouse. The theft involved two sticks of chewing gum.
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Ore
Walter Brokus
Peace Treaty for Austria at Dead End
Four power talks to draft an Austrian peace pact stalled after nearly two years of talks. U S officials said discussions collapsed after a two week pause and a private meeting between Samuel Reber and M P Kotimov. Kotimov reportedly relayed Moscow orders to back Yugoslavia's territorial claims in Carinthia and Styria and reparations demands.
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United States
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Britain
France
Samuel Reber
M. P. Kotimov
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Reber
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Yugoslavia
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Officials Seek Custody Of Accused Murderer
Franklin County authorities seek custody of Homer Jack Dean, 37, indicted for first degree murder in the Dec 10 slaying of Elmo Rice, a suburban real estate dealer. Dean is jailed in Cabell County, Huntington, West Virginia, on a forgery charge and faces murder counts including murder while attempting a robbery and premeditated murder.
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Franklin County
Homer Jack Dean
Dean
Cabell County
Huntington
W. Va
Elmo €. Rice
Berlin Reds To Defy a Plebiscite Ban
Berlin's Communists said they will defy the American ban on the plebiscite for a unified German state. The U S military government prohibited petitions in the American sector of Berlin in the Western Germany zone. The Americans label the plebiscite unauthorized and a pernicious maneuver by a Communist front organization.
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U. S
U.S
Germany
Slayings on Porch End in Self-Inflicted Death
Cincinnati woman witnessed the slaying and death by own action of 23 year old Charlene Milazzo and his estranged wife, 38, Deputy Sheriff George Medford reported. Milazzo shot the woman on the porch of Mrs. Maxine Redman on A&P Highway east of Cincinnati, then killed himself after Milazzo pleaded for his wife to return.
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Charlene Milazzo
George Medford
Medford
Maxine Redman
A&p
Oklahoma City Patient Wins Damages Over Surgical Tools
A district court jury awarded $1 200 to Thomas F Winston of McAlester against Dr Raymond L Murdock for gauze and a safety pin left inside after surgery. The verdict overrode medical testimony denying a second cancer claim and cited a hemostat allegedly left inside the patient.
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Oklahoma City
Thomas F. Winston
McAlester
Okla
Winston
Raymond L. Murdoch
Six Miners Die in Clinchfield Coal Roof Collapse
Grim rescue crews surfaced the last of six miners killed when a roof section collapsed at Clinchfield Coal Co. No 2 mine near Dante Virginia. Four others were rescued after four hours entombment. The dead were Boris Artrid Arnold Vickers Harold Park Oakley Creger Troy Phillips and Rasnick all from the Dante region. The accident occurred about 8:30 p.m. and was blamed on over excavating weakening the corridor roof.
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Dante
Clinchfield Coal Co
J. M. Smith
Smith
Boris Artrid
Arnold Vickers
Harold Park
Oakley Creger
Troy Phillips
Ras«nick
Rail Service Cut Fought at Public Hearing Charleston Route
The New York Central faced opposition at a Public Service Commission hearing over its bid to discontinue the Charleston to Columbus train. The railroad argued a parallel train and bus service can serve residents, but Buffalo residents Putnam County and a union representative disputed the plan, with Charles A. Patton of Dunbar urging continued mail and passenger service.
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W. Va
New York Central
Public Service Commission
Brenneman Leaves $250000 Estate to Widow Billie Dunn Breneman
The LA probate report states the $250000 estate of radio premiere Tom Brenneman is left to his widow Billie Dunn Breneman, a former actress, with details filed in Los Angeles.
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Breneman
Los Angeles
Tom Brenneman
Billie Dunn Breneman
Jewish Passengers Warned To Travel at Their Own Risk
Haifa officials say 105 Jews including 25 Americans face travel at their own risk if they embark for New York on the US steamer Marine Carp. The ship previously faced a Lebanese seizure involving 69 Jews, 41 Americans, when it stopped in Lebanon.
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Israel
New York
United States
Marine Carp
Lebanon
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