Army Budget Slashed by Appropriations Committee
The House Appropriations Committee cut the 1948 Army military budget by 8.3 percent to 5.24 billion dollars despite testimony from General Eisenhower and Secretary Patterson. The panel approved 280 million in airplane contract authority, canceled 1.1 billion in unspent funds, and projected civilian and officer reductions while maintaining enough to run an Army of 1,070,000.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Patterson
Congress
Turman
Army
Air Corps
Surprise House bid passes as school bill seeks 83 million
In Columbus the Daniels-Cramer school bill sailed from the House Rules Committee to a floor vote for 83 million dollars yearly in state foundation subsidies. The move follows intense pressure from a broad school lobby as the Senate set 88 million with a reduced scope. The bill to erase liquor sale bans near fairs and facilities also moved forward, while a quail hunting bill gained committee approval despite a chairman's opposition.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
House
Senate
House’ Education Committee
Thomas J. Herbert
Lancaster Boys Industrial School
House Conservation Committee
Clarence M. Krueger
Erie
The
Conservation Commission
Green Grass of Wyoming begins filming at Lancaster fairgrounds
Eleven Hollywood actors executives and technicians arrived to start Twentieth Century Fox production The Green Grass of Wyoming at Lancaster fair grounds to shoot over three weeks. On June 7 and 8 gates open free for public crowd extras as the climax scene unfolds with Charles Coburn Robert Arthur Peggy Cummins Burl Ives and Lloyd Nolan in the cast.
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Lancaster
Hollywood
Twentieth Century-Fox
Wyoming
Lancaster’ Fairgrounds
Charles Coburn
Robert Arthur
Peggy Cummins
Burl Ives
Lloyd Nolan
GOP Economy Drive Advances on 1948 Budget Talk
The Republican plan advances through the House after a $40 million compromise, sending an $847,601,976 Agriculture Department bill for 1948 to the Senate. The drive claims about $2.61 billion in House savings from a $6 billion cut to the president's budget, with five 1948 supply bills left and battles ahead for rivers harbors, Veterans Administration, War Department, and other agencies.
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Washington
GOP
Agriculture Department
House
Senate
Veterans’ Administration
War Department
British Bride in Jail Charged With Larceny
New York reports a British bride, Mrs. Nancy Linda Katzman, 35, held on a fugitive warrant from Erie Pennsylvania for larceny of 7900 dollars from her husband’s uncle. Her attorney claims the arrest aims to force an annulment of her marriage to Dr. James Katzman.
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New York
Erie
Nancy Linda Katzman
James Katzman
London
U S and Britain Plan All German Economic Council
Occupation authorities in Berlin announced the creation of an all German economic council to speed reconstruction. Citations indicate about 54 members, with German state assemblies to appoint based on population and party strength after the last election. The British zone has more inhabitants and a social democratic tilt, while the Communist influence is expected to be small.
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Berlin
United States
Economic Council
Lucius D. Clay
Brian Robertson
U. S
Social Democratic
Christian Democratic Union
Communist Party
Slayer of Four Awards Trial Slayer of Four Awards Trial
Oliver Terpening Jr a 16 year old farm youth waited in Lapeer County jail for his next court appearance in the flower patch murder of four playmates. In Imlay City the family of 67 year old farmer William Smith prepared for the burial of Barbara 16 Stanley 14 Gladys 12 and Janet 2. Funeral services were set for Stanley at 2 pm and the four coffins were to be buried together in Imlay City Cemetery after public viewings by about 2000 visitors.
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Lapeer
Mich
Oliver Terpening, Jr
Lapeer County
Little Imlay City
William Smith
Barbara
Stanley
Gladys
Janet
Terpening
Imlay City
Akron CIO Urges KKK Disbandment
The Akron CIO Union Council condemned the Ku Klux Klan and its un American practices. In a resolution adopted by delegates last night, members urged dissolution of the organization and called on the federal government and CIO unions to adopt similar measures.
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Akron
Ku Klux Klan
Akron Cio Union Council
Council
CIO
Watercress Blamed in Typhoid Fever Death
In Fremont Ohio a polluted stream watercress is blamed for the typhoid death of John C. Weller 37 of Clyde. His son Dean 14 remains ill with typhoid fever.
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Fremont
John C. Weller
Clyde
Dean
Drowned 18 Month Old Child Found in River
Sheriff Leroy Retterer reports the body of 18 month old Rosetta Galati recovered from the Little Scioto River in Marion Ohio. The child fell into the swollen stream and drowned, daughter of Mr and Mrs Tony Galati.
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Marion, O
Leroy Retterer
Rosetta Galati
Tony Galati
Scioto River
Man Charged in Slaying of Waitress at Turkey Foot Park
Sheriff Palmer said he would file first degree murder charges against 38 year old Roger Tug Williams near Indian Lake for the fatal shooting of Martha Rothwell 25 at Lester Newland grocery restaurant in Turkey Foot Park. Williams was overpowered by patrons after two shots struck the Kenton Ohio waitress, and Milton Wilmoth of St Paris Ohio aided in disarming him. Williams confessed the shooting saying he was upset because she refused a date.
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Bellefontaine
Ellsworth M. Palmer
Roger
Tug) Williams
Indian Lake
Turkey Foot Park
Logan County
Williams
Lester Newland
Turkey Foot
Martha Rothwell
Kenton
Palmer
Milton Wilmoth
Wilmoth
Body Identified in Ohio River Near Reedsville
The man found Tuesday evening in the Ohio River near Reedsville is Oliver Cain Calvert. Identification was provided by his father H L Calvert of West Virginia and the body was sent to Tuppers Plains for burial. Calvert had left a farewell note and suitcase on the Hocking River bank at Guysville on May 13.
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Ohio River
Reedsville
Oliver Cain Calvert
Belpre
Athens County
George Bateman
Bateman
H. L. Calvert
West
W. Va
Arbaugh
Tuppers Plains
Calvert
Hocking
Guysville
Indian Run
Cleveland Milk Dealers Cut Price One Cent A Quart
Major milk dealers in Cleveland announce a one cent per quart price drop effective Sunday. Home delivered regular milk falls to 16 cents a quart and store bought milk to 15 cents.
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Cleveland
Senator Aiken Predicts GOP Loss If Agriculture Budget Cuts
Senator Aiken of Vermont predicts the Republican Party will be defeated in 1948 if it cuts agricultural department appropriations. He argues the department is extravagant and wastes funds on numerous meetings and bloated bulletins. He cites farm payrolls and insufficient reporting of agricultural refinements as evidence.
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Aiken
Vermont
Republican Party
Department of Agriculture
Department
Freak Snow Delays Field Work Across Corn Belt
Cold air from Canada brought near freezing temps and heavy snow in Nebraska Wyoming Iowa South Dakota Wisconsin Minnesota and Colorado delaying spring planting. Illinois 33 percent Kansas 70 Nebraska 70 Indiana 7 Michigan 10 percent, Iowa 76 percent planted with soybeans behind schedule. Kenosha harbor battered by tides as a fishing boat goes overdue on Lake Michigan.
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Chicago
Midwest
Mackenzie Basin
Canada
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Iowa
Colorado
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Eckman
N. D
San Jose
Calif
Kenosha
Wis
Lake Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kansas
Michigan
Tax Cutting Pact Moves Toward Quick Final Pass
Senate and House conferees aim for a swift agreement on income tax cuts from 10.5 to 30 percent totaling 4 billion dollars annually. The main dispute is timing of effect with Truman veto risk. Senate favors July 1 start while House seeks retroactive to January 1 with refunds exceeding 750 million dollars. Conferees to meet at 11 a.m. with hopes for final action Monday.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Millikin
R-Colo
Rep. Knutson
R-Minn
Army Officer Is Sentenced For Gem Theft
Edward J. Murray a Palo Alto California colonel was sentenced by an Army court martial to 10 years hard labor and dismissal with forfeiture of pay for misappropriation of diamonds taken home as souvenirs of war. The case now goes to the U S Eighth Army commander for review. Murray claimed ignorance of the stones value until after he took them home in March 1946 and a broker offered a large price.
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Yokohama
Edward J. Murray
Murray
Palo Alto
Calif
U. S. Eighth Army
Robert L. Eichelberger
War Department
Boehme Dies in Suicide in Nurnberg Prison
Gen Franz Boehme died after leaping from a corridor rail in a Nurnberg prison cell block. He suffered a skull fracture in the fall and died two hours later, one of 12 German military leaders indicted by the United States for mass hostage executions in the Balkans and Norway.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Franz Boeheme
Yugoslavia
Boehme
United States
Balkans
Norway
Monsanto Denies Atom Research Transfer Plan
Monsanto says it does not intend to transfer any portion of its Oak Ridge atomic energy research laboratories to the Miamisburg plant. Dr C A Hochwalt, director of the central laboratories, stated the denial after reports circulated that a firm decision yesterday would move projects for the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Dayton
Monsanto Chemical Co
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Atomic Energy Research Laboratories
Miamisburg
Ohio
C. A. Hochwalt
Central Laboratories
Monsanto
Atomic Energy Commission
Truman Heads to Capitol After Mother Improves
President Truman departed from Kansas City with his wife and daughter on the Sacred Cow for Washington. He left after last-minute assurances that his ailing mother was improving.
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Kansas City
Truman
Washington
Margaret
Fairfax
Kansas
National Federation officer Maude Halladay Dies
Maude E. Halladay director of finance and business manager of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs died Wednesday night in New York.
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New York
Maude E. Halladay
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club
West Flays Soviet Atom Control Plan
The United States and Britain, backed by Canada, oppose a Soviet proposal to place atomic control bodies under the Security Council veto. At a UN Atomic Energy Commission working committee meeting, they defend immediate punishment authority and reject legal escapes for atomic offenders.
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United States
Britain
United Nations
Security Council
Canada
UN Atomic Energy Commission
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
UN General Assembly
Russia
Commission
St. Lawrence Seaway Seen Defense Aid
Under secretary of War Kenneth F. Royall said the proposed St. Lawrence seaway would ease access to possible bases in Newfoundland and Greenland, reducing submarine hazard in war. The project, costing about half a billion dollars, would add electric power, boost industrial potential, shorten ocean distance to Europe, and relieve rail bottlenecks by expanding water transport and water power.
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Washington
Kenneth F. Royall
St. Lawrence Seaway
Newfoundland
Greenland
Army
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Great Lakes
America
Europe
Wittenberg Names Dean Springfield as Ruth Immell Succession
Hulda Sallee of Dayton Franklin Elementary School was named to succeed Ruth Immell, retiring dean of women at Wittenberg College, effective immediately. The appointment places Sallee in the role at the Springfield campus context.
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Wittenberg
Springfield
Hulda Sallee
Dayton
Franklin
Ruth Immell
Wittenberg College
Two Railroads Explore Merger Talks
Four Nickel Plate Road officials sit on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway board as a committee studies merger or consolidation. Nickel Plate president John W. Davin becomes board chairman of the Wheeling Road after Davin and three Nickel Plate directors are added to the W & LE board at Wheeling stockholders meeting.
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Cleveland
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co
W & LE
John W. Davin
Nickel Plate
Wheeling Road
Davin
Wheeling
Tax Exemption Raise Rejected by Senate
Washington reports the Senate defeated a proposal to raise personal income tax exemptions to 750 for singles and 1500 for married couples by a 44 to 27 vote. Current exemptions stand at 500 for each filer and spouse.
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Washington
Senate
Bevin Foreign Policy Wins Labor Support
Margate England Fore ign Secretary Ernest Bevin won near unanimous Labor Party backing at their annual conference. Delegates approved his foreign policy amid tension with left wing MPs over talks with the United States. Bevin urged Asia peace efforts and proposed inviting 11 nations in wartime with Japan to help shape a future treaty.
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Margate
England
Ernest Bevin
Labor Party
Bevin
Labor
United States
America
House (of Commons
Asia
Japan
Student Pilot Uninjured In Wheat Field Landing
Robert Horn a 20 year old student pilot from Coshocton Ohio escaped injury when his plane was forced to land at Elm Grove for lack of fuel. He landed in a wheat field crediting the grain with slowing the craft enough to avoid a collision with a tree.
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Wheeling
Robert Horn
Coshocton
Ohio
Elm Grove
Horn
Lake Hope Area Opens Tomorrow for Biggest Season
Lake Hope and Zaleski forest prepare for an anticipated record summer as Emmett Conaway announces the eighth season. The park opens Memorial Day with 100 000 expected visitors, expanded facilities, lifeguards Don Smart Jack Walters and David Nichols, and new cabins under construction.
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Lake Hope
Don Smart
Jack Walters
Worthington
David Nichols
Athens
Red Cross
Conaway
Jong
Hope Furenace
Cabin Ridge
Zaleski State Forest
State Highway Department
Vinton County
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KKK
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Pickerington, O
Sam Simmons
Lake View Cemetery
AFL
Wallace Blackburn
Dearborn
Laurence Blackburn
Lowell
Mass
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