Truman proposes permanent housing agency to replace NHA
President Truman asks Congress to enact Reorganization Plan No. 3 creating a permanent Housing and Home Finance Agency. The plan would abolish the National Housing Agency and consolidate federal housing functions into three units: Home Loan Bank Board, Federal Housing Administration, and Public Housing Administration. The plan emphasizes private housing as the main source of supply with government roles to stimulate construction.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Existeng National Housing Agency
NHA
Capitol Hill
Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp
Home Owners Loan Corp
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Housing Administration
Public Housing Administration
Federal Public Housing Authority
FHA
Gallia Officers Nab 3 Youths On Breaking Entering Charge
Gallia police and county officers on Monday cleared fifteen break in cases with confessions from three youths. Everett Faxon, 17, was shot by Othneil Jones at a filling station on Route 35 but only lightly wounded. Faxon implicated a 14 year old Maple Shade youth in two cases and said he was involved in twelve others alone. Benjamin Pico, 18, confessed to entering the Edith Hutsinpiller home a week earlier. Authorities said the spree began Dec 17 and included grocery and hardware stores and filling stations with varying items taken.
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Gallipolis
John Howell
Everett Faxon
Raymond Faxon
Mill St
Othneil Jones
Jones
Faxon
Elmer Hatfield
Chester Leaper
Holzer Hospital
Howell
Maple Shade
Boys Industrial School
Lancaster
Benjamin “Buddy” Pico
Edith Hutsinpiller
BIS
Cincinnati
Leaper
Pico
Mother Shoots Mother in Frantic San Francisco Family Tragedy
Police said 38 year old Mrs Winifred St Clair killed her mother Mrs Caroline Shanahan with two pistol shots late yesterday fearing she would lose her baby. She was placed in a police psych ward after the grisly incident at the Shanahan home. Her brother Edward Grant 24 attempted to intervene as the daughter fired twice at him.
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San Francisco
Frank Lucey
Winifred St. Clair
Caroline Shanahan
Medina Judge and Barber Examiner Appointments
Windsor E. Kellogg is named common pleas judge in Medina County to replace the late John D. Owen. Rev. Thomas J. Herbert announces Wilford Robinson of Worthington as a member of the State Board of Barber Examiners, succeeding Fred Mourey of Akron who resigned.
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Columbus
Windsor E. Kellogg
Medina County
John D. Owen
Thomas J. Herbert
Wilford Robinson
Worthington
State Board of Barber Examiners
Fred Mourey
Akron
Dayton Tire Cuts Tire Prices 21 Percent
Dayton Rubber Co. today announced an immediate 21 percent price reduction to distributors on its tire line, lowering costs for retailers and potentially affecting local market pricing. The move comes as the firm seeks to stay competitive amid changing demand.
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Dayton Tire Dayton Rubber Co
Hoover Aims for 725 Million Relief Fund
President Hoover sought a 725 million dollar relief fund for occupied countries. House Appropriations Committee planned questions before approving foreign aid. Chairman Taber and Rep. Engel voiced desire for evidence and answers prior to supporting further spending.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Russia
House Appropriations Committee
Taber
Hoover
Albert Engel
R-Mich
Ohio Guard To Occupy 35 Fort Hayes Buildings
Ohio National Guard will occupy 35 Fort Hayes buildings at the Columbus post as units depart Fifth Service Command and other Army organizations. Adjutant General Chester W. Goble says War Department granted entry to the post’s structures, forming a substantial portion of the military reservation.
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Columbus
Ohio National Guard
Fort Hayes
Fifth Service Command
Adjt
Chester W. Goble
War Department
Dairy Queen Selection To Be Made Tonight
Ohio's dairy queen will be named at the close of Agricultural Day at the Mid-America Exposition. Finalists include Evelyn Priddy Pickerington Helen V Bircher Canton Donna M Acker Shreve Charlotte Lake Dayton Joan Moll Wauseon and Betty F Johnson Somerset.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Evelyn Priddy
Pickerington
Helen V. Bircher
Canton
Donna M. Acker
Shreve
Charlotte Lake
Dayton
Joan Moll
Wauseon
Betty F. Johnson
Somerset
Mass execution of 49 Nazi camp operators at Landsberg
Landsberg Germany twenty two operators of Mauthausen were hanged as 27 more prisoners await the gallows in the largest war crimes execution yet by Allied powers. The killings occurred in two hours and 37 minutes under U S Army executioners at the Landsberg prison yard.
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Landsberg
Germany
Mauthausen
Linz
Adolf Hitler
U. S. Army
U. S
Joseph Morton
Associated Press
Slovakia
Seven-Year-Old Starved Girl Rescued From Lockup Coop
Charleston police removed Delorez Diaz from a trash-filled padlocked chicken coop where she lived in malnutrition. Her parents Domingo and Mary Diaz were jailed facing felonious assault and neglect charges. State police say the child was tied by wrists and legs nightly to prevent running away.
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Charleston
W. Va
Delorez Diaz
Domingo
Mary Diaz
R. T. Cummings
Delorez
Cummings
L. E. Hampton
Three-Alarm Fire Destroys Stores on South High Street
A three alarm blaze gutted a record shop, a shoe store, and a restaurant in a four story brick building on South High Street near Town Street in downtown Columbus. The fire also damaged upstairs offices with unofficial damage estimated over $100,000.
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Columbus
South High St
Town St
Farmers Welcome News Of Dry Warm Weather
Ohio farmers cheered by a forecast for mostly dry weather over the next two days. Weatherman George Mindling predicted fair conditions with moderate temperatures today and sunshine and warmer on Wednesday. Winds of considerable velocity were expected to dry rain soaked fields and permit plowing for corn planting.
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Columbus
Ohio
George Mindling
Three Dover Seniors Apologize for Rowdyism
The Dover Board of Education accepted apologies from three high school seniors for rowdyism and drinking at a senior day picnic last week. The board demanded the apologies as a condition to their graduation at regular commencement exercises Thursday.
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Dover
Dover Board of Education
Extended Forecast With Below Normal Temperatures
Forecast calls for temperatures averaging 7 to 9 degrees below normal and cooler conditions. Precipitation expected around 0.33 inch, with rain likely Wednesday and again Thursday or Friday.
Herbert Bender clash on Ohio strip mine bill at House hearing
Gov Thomas J Herbert and Rep George Bender urged opposite action on the White Berry Anglin strip mine measure as state lawmakers debated the issue. Cuyahoga County reps reported Herbert favored enactment while Bender urged a vote against the proposal. The session also considered physician charging for Christian Science services and finance measures tied to veterans bonuses and taxes. Senate actions included salary boosts for county officials and airport plans, while the House advanced retirement benefits for public employees and teachers with emergency clauses. The elections committee recommended accepting federal offers to convey Cambridge State Hospital and Scioto Ordnance Works for use at Lancaster Boys Industrial School.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
George Bender
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
General Assembly
Herbert
Bender
Senate
House
Senate Elections Committee
Cambridge State Hospital
Scioto Ordnance Works
Marion
Lancaster Boys Industrial School
Six youths seize guard and escape from Ohio Reformatory
In Mansfield a group of six juvenile prisoners overpowered a guard at the Ohio Reformatory, bound him with wire, then fled in a stolen truck. They abandoned the vehicle near Grand Rapids as a red sedan looted from Bowling Green joined their flight. Guard David Robinson, 35, freed himself and called the warden at 4:30 am. superintendent Arthur L. Glattke said he was unharmed. The escape occurred during a grand jury inspection.
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Mansfield
Ohio Reformatory
Grand Rapids
Toledo
David Robinson
Reformatory
C. C. Marsh
Wood County
Frank Roeder
Bowling Green
Maumee
Robinson
Arthur L. Glattke
Former House Speaker Dies at 61 in Ohio
J Freer Bittinger of Ashland Ohio, a key figure in the 1935 Speakership race, died yesterday at 61. Stricken at Beulah Park, he had worked as a cashier and died en route to Mt. Carmel Hospital. A longtime Democrat, he chaired the Democratic State Executive Committee from 1940 to 1942.
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Columbus
J. Freer Bittinger
Ashland
Bittinger
Beulah Park
Mt. Carmel Hospital
House
Persecution of Republicans by tax officials to end says Sam Simmons
A New Deal paper claims IRS has ceased aggressive scrutiny of Republicans income tax returns noting most taxpayers are honest. It asserts the service once treated all as criminals until proven innocent and recalls GOP observers facing harassment and overpayment disputes to protect reputations.
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New Deal
U.S. Department of Internal Revenue
Department
Youth Confesses Killing Four Neighbor Children
Oliver Terpenning Jr., 16, was arrested near Toledo and charged with murder in the flower patch slayings of four neighbor children, Barbara 16, Gladys 12, Janet 12, and Stanley 14, on a farm northeast of Imlay City. He allegedly admitted the shootings at about 3 p.m. Monday after hitchhiking to Michigan and then to Ohio, with police confirming the fatal bullets came from a .22 rifle found at the Terpenning home.
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Imlay
Mich
Oliver Terpenning, Jr
Toledo
Albert Perkins
Kenneth Smith
Lapeer County
Terpenning
Barbara Smith
Barbara
Gladys
Janet
Stanley
William Smith
Here
Ohio
Michigan-Ohio Line
Sgarl Seim
Michigan State Police
Erie
Seim
Port Huron
Detroit
Norman Dombrosky
Dombrosy
Michigan
R. O. Stevens
Smith
Ella Mae
Leslie Mathews
East Lansing
Terpenning Farm
Marine Leader Carlson Dies in Portland
Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson, 51, famed leader of Carlson's Raiders in the Pacific war, died in a Portland hospital at 7:30 a.m. today. A 21-time decoration recipient with two Purple Hearts, Carlson formed the raiders noted for demolition and death. Born February 26, 1896, in Sidney, New York, he was the son of a Congregationalist minister and retired from the Marine Corps at age 50.
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Portland
Ore
Evans F. Carlson
Carlson
Navy
Sidney
N. Y
Marine Corps
Mrs. Truman Suffers Bad Night After Rally
GRANDVIEW Missouri President Truman said his mother Martha E. Truman had a bad night after a rally and that he would not return to Washington unless her condition improved He spoke with family by telephone shortly before leaving Kansas City for her home and said the results would be known after he arrived back out there.
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Grandview
Truman
Kansas City
Martha E. Truman
Washington
Reward Offered for Slayer in Perry Farm Murder
Lake County Commissioners approved a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayer of Anton Heineman. Prosecutor Lester W. Donaldson said more than 300 persons had been interviewed as investigators seek the murderer connected to the Perry farm killing last month.
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Painesville
Lake County
Anton Heineman
Perry Farm
Lester W. Donaldson
Liquor Board Repeals Private Club Permits
The State Board of Liquor Control revoked two private club permits for alleged lack of bonafide organization. The Mermaid Club in Cleveland and the Ancient Order of Hibernians of American Club Association in Warren lost their permits yesterday.
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Columbus
State Board of Liquor Control
Mermaid Club
Cleveland
Ancient Order of Hibernians of American Club Association
Warren
Man Slaughter Charge Sentences Lowellville Man
Guy Shifano, 25, of Lowellville, has been sentenced to one to twenty years in Ohio Reformatory at Mansfield for a manslaughter charge.
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Warren, O
Guy Shifano
Lowellville
Ohio
Death Penalty Abolished by Russians Presidium decrees moratorium
Moscow reports that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet abolished the death sentence in peacetime, citing secured peace causes and reduced threat to global order. Pravda commentary notes international context, with deputy minister Vishinsky praising the move and critiquing American critics. The change targets offenses against national security.
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Moscow
Presidium
Supreme Soviet
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Communist Party
Pravda
Thomas, Russell
Brester
Midland Steel Foremen Strike Over Cooling Off Rule
Ninety members of the Foreman's Association of America struck Midland Steel Products Co. in Cleveland to protest company tactics of raiding the union. M. H. Davis, local union president, said the walkout proceeded despite the 30 day cooling off period required by the Smith Connolly labor disputes act.
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Cleveland
Foreman’s Association of America
Ind
Midland Steel Products Co
M. H. Davis
Smith-Connolly Labor Disputes Act
Technicality Delays Trial At McArthur
Ward Skinner 45 of Hamden faces a first degree murder trial for the fatal shooting of Willard J. Muncey. The McArthur hearing stalled for a week after defense objections over venire service. Judge A L Chatfield agreed to add 32 names from the jury wheel and resume on June 2.
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Reese
C. W. Smith
Russell Finsterwald
Gordon Gray
Athens
Chatfield
House Cuts In Farm Bill Face Debate
The House Appropriations Committee moves to reduce 6 billion dollars from Truman's 1948 budget as the Agriculture Department supply bill is cut by 32 percent. Dirksen warns of trouble as amendments seek to restore funds for soil conservation, school lunch, and other programs. Major cuts total 383,427,742 from requests, including 35,000,000 from the lunch fund and 117,620,754 from soil payments.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Agriculture Department
House
Rep
Dirksen
Coroner links river death to missing man William Horn
Coroner Herbert P. Lyle said papers found on the body recovered yesterday from the Ohio River bore the name William F. Horn, 35, of Wilson Kentucky or Mt. Pleasant Texas, suggesting a possible identity in the river death.
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Cincinnati
Herbert P. Lyle
Ohio River
William F. Horn
Wilson, Ky
Mt. Pleasant
Tex
Solons Stall Arms Action
Congress showed little disposition to work up a plan for military cooperation with other American factions. Leaders on both sides said Truman's proposal for standardized hemispheric military organization, training, and equipment can wait, though it will be considered in due time. In the meantime, two other foreign policy bills—American membership in the International Refugee Organization and continuing the State Department information program—await House priority for flood debate.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
Trueman
Hemisphere
State Department
Rules Committee
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Gallia
Medina
Ohio Guard
Sam Simmons
Mrs. Truman
Liquor Board
Midland Steel
McArthur
Solons
Ronald Phillips
Saginaw, Mich
E. D. Phillips
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