Ohio House Passes School Finance Bill Amid Turmoil
The Ohio House approved its version of the Daniels-Cramer school financing bill 103 to 20 after tense debate. The measure allocates an annual 83.5 million dollar subsidy to public schools with at least 75 percent of the increase earmarked for teacher pay raises, sending the bill back to the Senate for concurrence or conference. Governor Herbert endorsed the 75 percent salary-increase provision as tempers flared and order broke with multiple gavels struck.
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Columbus
House
Ohio
Senate
Ohio Education Association
Thomas J. Herbert
Guy C. Hiner
R-Stark
John F. Cantwell
Mahoning County
Cantwell
C. William O'Neill
John Hayden
Clermont
O'Neill
Rules Committee
Hungarian Premier Nagy Resigns Amid Communist Push
Ferenc Nagy of the Small Landholders Party quit from Switzerland as Hungarians claimed a coup d etat and a Communist takeover. Imre Ostvanyi named as possible successor while Erno Minaifiyi would escort Nagy’s son abroad. Russian charges against Nagy tied to a plot to overthrow Hungarian democracy.
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Budapest
Ferenc Nagy
Small Landholders
Switzerland
Nagy
Communist Party
Hungary
Imre Ostvanyi
Oltvanyi
The
National Bank
Erno Minalifyi
Bela Kovacs
Kovacs
United States
United DC-4 Crash Near La Guardia Kills 38
A United Airlines DC-4 crashed just after takeoff from LaGuardia, burning near Grand Central Parkway in Queens. Officials say 38 of 44 passengers and crew of four were dead or missing with six survivors. cause under investigation. Eyewitnesses described the plane striking an obstruction and exploding in flames.
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New York
United Airlines
la Guardia Field
Grand Central Parkway
Queens
Cleveland
School of Aeronautics
Farmers Urged to Plant Corn Despite Delayed Plowing
Ohio State University officials urged farmers to plant corn despite waterlogged fields and recent showers. H. C. Ramsower advised planting up to late June for grain and early July for silage, noting corn may yield more feed than substitutes.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. C. Ramsower
Ohio State University Agriculture Extension Service
Ramsower
OSU
Judge Bars Sympathy Picketing At Pipe Machinery Plant
Common Pleas Judge Frank S. Day issued an injunction banning sympathy picketing at the Pipe Machinery Co in Cleveland. The ruling limits pickets to three at each plant entrance and stops picketing at workers homes who have returned to work. Police used tear gas to disperse about 500 pickets who were throwing missiles at the plant during a four month strike led by the International Association of Machinists.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Frank S. Day
Pipe Machinery Co
International Association of Machinists
Ind
President Truman Returns From Missouri Visit
President Truman flies back to Washington after a 12 day trip to Grandview Missouri to be with his ailing mother. The return ends a prolonged travel schedule and resumes official duties.
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Washington
Truman
Capital
Grandview
UMW Demands New Contract Provisions Under Lewis
The United Mine Workers disclose John L. Lewis seeks higher wages for a six day to five day parity, shorter hours, a 30 minute lunch, and a doubled health and welfare royalty plus adherence to the federal safety code. The planned increases in tonnage royalty and broader benefits are to fund the union health program.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Union Health and Welfare Fund
Lewis
UMW
Cleric, Family Found Beaten in Connecticut Incident
Cedric Carpenter of Mystic, a 27 year old former Navy boxer, was captured Thursday and charged with assault with intent to kill against a retired clergyman, his wife, and their 16 year old daughter Evelyn. Prosecutor Max Shapiro said arraignment in town court is planned. The clergy man and daughter remain in critical condition at New London hospital with skull fractures after being beaten with a 20 pound furnace shaker Wednesday night.
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Groton
Conn
Cedric Carpenter
Mystic
Max Shapiro
Carpenter
Shapiro
Columbus Women Seek 25 Percent Price Cut
Columbus housewives branded under the League of Women Shoppers prepared to pressure President Truman for a 25 percent across the board food price reduction. A city council chamber meeting featured a panel discussion on high prices with a professor an CIO official and a housewife.
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Columbus
Columbus Housewives
League of Women Shoppers
Truman
CIO
Reformatory Fugitives' Auto Recovered in Cleveland
Six Mansfield Reformatory fugitives abandoned a truck at Grand Rapids and stole a car belonging to Frank Rodder. The vehicle was recovered in Cleveland and sheriff Clarence Marsh was informed Thursday.
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Bowling Green
Mansfield Reformatory
Cleveland
Clarence Marsh
Frank Roeder
Grand Rapids
Reformatory
Mother Finds Child Drowned in Water Pail
A fifteen months old girl, Charlotte Inez Rishell, fell head first into a back yard water pail and drowned. The incident occurred in Elderton near Armstrong County, with Coroner C. M. Woodward reporting the death.
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Elderton
Charlotte Inez Rishell
Here
Armstrong County
C. M. Woodward
Swensrud Resigns From Standard Oil Ohio to Join Gulf Oil
Sidney A. Swensrud resigns as vice president and director of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio to take equivalent positions with Gulf Oil Corp. in Pittsburgh, effective immediately.
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Cleveland
Sidney A. Swensrud
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Gulf Oil Corp
Pittsburgh
Compromise labor bill wins final approval in Congress key points
A House Senate conference panel approved a restrictive compromise labor bill on unions despite dissent from Sen. Murray and Rep. Lesinski who urged veto. The measure bars closed shops, allows injunctions, subjects unions to suits, curbs strikes and secondary boycotts, and creates a new mediation agency with disputes over Wagner Act coverage referred to the NLRB and courts.
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Washington
House-Senate
Truman
Murray
D-Mont
Rep
Lesinski
D-Mich
Hoffman
Mich
House
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Ball
R-Minn
Ellender
D-La
Ives
Hartley
Landis
R-Ind
Barden
Senate Votes Rent Increase of 15 Percent
The Senate approved a 15 percent voluntary rent increase for leases through 1948 and moved toward removing rent ceilings in about 30 areas monthly. With 620 areas under rent control, the body eyed an extension of rent controls to Feb 29, 1948, after a 48 to 26 vote on permissive increases and a voice vote on phasing out controls.
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Washington
Senate
Hawkes
R-Nj
McCarthy
R-Wis
House
Two More Crewmen Found in Jungles
The rescue of two more crewmen from an Army Flying Fortress crash in the Nicaraguan jungle last week reduced the number unaccounted for to four. Survivors identified by Army headquarters are Sgt. Peter Beale of Nashville Tennessee and Sgt. Ray English of Blair Nebraska.
SAM SIMMONS Attacks Inflation and Dollar Value
In a outspoken salvo, SAM SIMMONS argues that government policy and strikes spur inflation, lower purchasing power, and dampen dollar value. He contends higher wage floors and tax schemes widen the tax bite while boosting bond debt, warning of manipulated prices and costs for food and goods. He cites Henry Ford’s $5 daily wage as a contrast to current trends.
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Henry Ford
Witness Questioned in Steel Market Forgery Probe
Brooklyn attorney Herbert M. Karp testified a forged letter promising delivery of 248 000 tons of sheet steel was handed to him by a stranger in a Pittsburgh hotel. He denied being a key figure and said he did not sign the letter or know its signer.
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Washington
Herbert M. Karp
Brooklyn
Karp
Senate
Small
Dental Group Endorses Taft Medical Aid Bill
The American Dental Association leaders urged the Taft federal medical aid bill. President Dr Sterling W Mead of Washington and Dr Carl O Flagstad of Minneapolis backed enactment before a Senate Public Welfare Sub committee hearing.
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Washington
American Dental Association
Sterling W. Mead
Carl O. Flagstad
Minneapolis
Association
Senate Public Welfare
Four Children Die in Lanett House Fire
Four children perished when a house burned in the Huguley area near Lanett Alabama on Wednesday night. The mother, Mrs Henry Colson, worked at Lanett Cotton Mill when the blaze happened. Coroner Clyde Blakely said the father, held in Chambers County Jail, was charged last week with a stabbing.
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Lanett
Ala
Huguley
Henry Colson
Clyde Blakely
Chambers County
Armed Services Group UK Unification Plan
Senator Guerney announces Senate Armed Services Committee accord on all provisions of an Army Navy unification bill. Final vote expected Wednesday.
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Armed Services Group UK
Washington
Guerney
Senate Armed Services Committee
Crash Kills Worker in Mount Vernon Auto Collision
Lloyd Earl Thatcher a 39 year old sawmill worker died Thursday in a vehicle collision in front of his New Castle home. The accident occurred in Mount Vernon Ohio near New Castle leaving Thatcher fatally injured as emergency crews responded. The incident is under investigation by local authorities.
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Mount Vernon
Lloyd Earl Thatcher
New Castle
Family Found Dead in Beds in Fairfield Cottage
Police report three victims Mrs Jennie Marcke 45 son John Jr 19 and daughter Jennie 23 were found slain in their beds after a fire swept their five room Fairfield cottage. The husband John F Murcke 45 was found dead and an autopsy will determine his fate.
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Fairfield
Conn
Jennie Marcke
John, Jr
Jennie
James Kranyik
John F. Murcke
Broken Water Main Repaired for Village
Water service was restored Thursday in Kings Mill Ohio after a river bottom main broke. Temporary pipeline laid by Columbia Recording Co. workers across a bridge connects the plant to the village using wells on company property.
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Kings Mill
Warren County
Little Miami
Columbia Recording Co
Sugar Allotment Sets 35 Pound Ration Across Nation
The Agriculture Department announced civilians will receive a sugar ration of 35 pounds per person this year and possibly more. The move aims to ensure ample supply for consumers nationwide this season.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Final Action On Tax Cut Set For Monday In Congress
Delegations from the House and Senate agreed on a 4.0 billion annual income tax cut. The conference bill would cut withholding rates and take effect July 1, unless vetoed by President Truman. House and Senate votes fell short of a veto override. The proposal includes personal exemptions and tiered reductions through 1948.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Capitol
Conference Committee
Treasury
Cone Ferces
New York Philadelphia Flight Sets Seven Minute Record
Capt. Charles E. Yeager piloted a P84 jet from Farmingdale Long Island to Philadelphia covering 71 miles in seven minutes and 11 seconds. He started timing near the Empire State Building and finished past City Hall in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Charles E. Yeager
New York
Army
Yeager
Farmingdale
Empire State Building
City Hall
Philadelephia
Cities Throughout State To Honor Soldier Dead
Ohio marks Memorial Day weekend with war memorial dedications for 17000 dead and parades in Cleveland Toledo and Columbus. Gov Herbert and Mayor Burke speak at Public Square while Gold Star Mothers ceremonies occur. State Highway Patrol urges caution as auto travel rises despite cold wave conditions.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cincinnati
Frederick Pfeister
Hamilton County
Grand Army of the Republic
Thomas J. Herbert
Thomas E. Burke
Cleveland
Public Square
Gold Star
Civic Center
Toledo
City Zoo
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