Wage talks may lift miners with 25 cent raise plan
Washington AP reports John L. Lewis’s wage dispute could bring a 25 cent an hour boost and a shorter work week for United Mine Workers 400000 miners without raising coal costs. Economists say operators unlikely to suffer, while Lewis plans to press demands with Interior Secretary Krug this week amid ongoing pre election mine shutdowns across several states.
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Heavy Ohio voting as polls open across major cities
Ohio voters faced heavy turnout in Columbus Cleveland Cincinnati and Youngstown with 2 215 000 expected to cast ballots for four state officials a 19 year term senator 23 congressmen 175 state lawmakers and local offices Weather was cloudy and cool. Bricker Huffman Lausche Herbert speak on radio amid national 1948 politics.
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Robert A. Taft
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Thomas J. Herbert
Akron Murder Suspect Sued
William L. Sweet a 44 year old bingo game operator held on a first degree murder charge is sued for 20000 by Anna Mae Kuhn mother of Leo Driscoll 29 who was fatally shot Oct 28 The petition says Driscoll helped support her and her four other children A writ of attachment ties Sweet's savings checking accounts and contents of seven safety deposit boxes.
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Windsors to sail for United States on Wednesday
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will sail aboard the Queen Elizabeth for New York Wednesday, Cunard White Star Line announced. Also aboard are Sir Alexander Korda, director, and Walter Wanger with his wife Joan Bennett.
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Patrol function clarified in Columbus advisory
Attorney General Hugh S. Jenkins advised Brown County Prosecutor Arch R. Hicks that the State Highway Patrol should not arrest motorists violating highway regulations within municipalities.
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Hugh S. Jenkins
Brown County
Arch R. Hicks
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Man Admits Abductions In Central Ohio Incident
Police seek the second of two men tied to abductions of two women and a child across Central Ohio. John W. DeWeese of Columbus, 22, faces abduction and auto theft charges after signing a statement admitting both men kidnapped Mrs. Morgan C. Penn of Bexley and Mrs. Alice Eggleston and her four year old daughter of Springfield. Victims reported no injuries. A billfold found at the crash scene led to the arrest. DeWeese claimed an injured shoulder from the crash.
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Springfield Sun
Son-in-Law Held in Jail In Mine Boss Stabbing
Logan West Virginia Boone Pelfrey, 36, was jailed for investigation after the death of Frank Means, 55, a general foreman at the Hetzel operation of George's Creek Coal Co. Inc. Means died from stab wounds after a quarrel with Pelfrey at Means home.
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Refugee Vessels Ready for Jews to Palestine
British naval intelligence reports at least 100 ships bought by Jewish underground groups to carry European Jewish refugees to Palestine. Ships lie in Marseilles Genoa Trieste and Piraeus, many damaged or repurposed. Malta conference to discuss curbing illegal immigration to Palestine will include Palestine police. crews include men with lost papers and low-paid seamen.
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Strike Slows Stove Output At Newark Plant
Newark Stove Co. plant crippled by a walkout of 215 carpenters crane operators and materials handlers. The AFL union members quit over a contract interpretation, halting 585 other workers and curtailing conveyor lines press room and foundry operations.
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Youths Given Life In Slayings At Ranch
YUBA CITY Calif Billy Anderson 16 and Nathern James 15 were convicted last week of killing Billy Andersons father and step mother Mr and Mrs W H Anderson at their Live Oak Ranch home on Sept 8 as they prepared for bed. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin Prison.
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Kenyon Gridders Given Suspended Sentences
Mount Vernon dispatch reports the Sunset Club football fracas involving Kenyon College players, with two youths sentenced to 30 days and fined 200 dollars each, penalties suspended, and charges against four other students dismissed.
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Justice of the Peace
Albert L. Swank
Forum Head Fears Reds Concentration on Youth
Miss Dorothy Gordon, director of the New York Times youth forums, told Camp Fire Girls delegates in Cleveland that Russia’s focus on youth is more dangerous than arms or atomic weapons. She said Russian children are educated to support the state.
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Kerosene Explosion Fatal in Port Clinton Scene
Mary Sgski, 21, of Lakeside, died yesterday from injuries sustained when a kerosene explosion occurred last Saturday as she tried to start a fire in Port Clinton.
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Voter Turnout and Races Across the Nation
The piece outlines estimated eligible voters about 59.7 million and probable voters near 35.4 million, with 34 states electing 35 senators and numerous governors. It notes Maine’s unique results, a mix of party performances, and major races across California to Wyoming, plus Pennsylvania and Omaha voting details and a lengthy 13 foot ballot in Omaha.
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Theft of 40000 Confessed by Former Mail Clerk
A 46 year old ex post office clerk in San Francisco confessed to stealing $40,000 from a mail sack in 1937. Prosecution blocked by statute of limitations, but Treasury seeks tax penalties. Investigator W S Palmer reported the confession after a registered pouch was slit en route from the Federal Reserve Bank to an Oakland bank.
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Mother of Two Children Held on Murder Charge
Mrs. Lois Wilson a 24 year old Fairfield mother of two was jailed without bond on murder charges after her husband was shot. Authorities say a three year old son told them mommy shoot him and the coroner said the shooting followed an alleged accidental shotgun discharge.
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Flood Control Economy Bypass Ruled Possible
Budget Director James E. Webb told the secretary of war that state and city advances can bypass the economy ceiling on flood control and rivers and harbors expenditures. The notice follows the Cincinnati proposal to finish the last unit of an eight million dollar Ohio River flood control project.
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Truman
James E. Webb
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Tito Says Government Wants U.S. Slaw Accord Belgrade Speech
Premier Marshal Tito told 300,000 Yugoslavs in a pre election rally that the world did not want war and his government sought better relations with the United States. He criticized American and British reactionaries for hostile acts against Yugoslavia.
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Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
United States
Ohio Farmer Pay Averages 65 Cents Per Hour
Ohio State University rural economists report 1946 farm labor will average 65 cents an hour with farmer family work included pushing annual net income near 2,300 dollars for about 3,500 hours. The 65 cent rate compares with under 25 cents in 1939, boosting farm family buying power by roughly 315 million dollars.
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Ohio State University
Clay Rebukes Reich Council over denazification
Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay told the German council of state that the American military government was thoroughly disappointed with German denazification efforts. He warned that if Germans do not improve swiftly, the U.S. military government will assume control of the process. An immediate order barred any German removed from office by the military government from returning without approval, even if German courts had found no Nazist ties.
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Germany
Lucius D. Clay
German Council of State Today
Searchers Recover Body Of Motorboat Casualty
In Ironton yesterday searchers recovered the body of Jess Wolbert a 31 year old bartender who drowned when a motorboat capsized in the Ohio River. Another bartender Frank Fossett aged 32 was also drowned with Fossett body recovered the same day. Elmer Bailey owner of the boat was rescued by his brother Lester.
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Jess Wolbert
Frank Fossett
Ohio River
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Elmer Bailey
Lester
Man Is Sent to Lima In Death of Couple
Cincinnati report: Donald E. Morgan aged 31 was ordered committed to Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane after a first degree murder indictment. He is accused of shooting to death his friend Sarah Mildred Hensley 28 and her companion John Lowell 47 as they sat in a parked car last March 28.
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Donald E. Morgan
Lima State Hospital
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Sarah Mildred Hensley
John Lowell
Farm wagon crushes man in Batavia corn fall
A wagon load of corn rolled down a barn incline and fatally crushed Jacob Gross, 70, in Batavia yesterday. The accident occurred as the wagon toppled, trapping the man beneath the heavy load and causing his death. The incident is under local investigation.
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Mail Theft Principal Is Slain in Toledo
Joe Urbaytis, once imprisoned for a $1,000,000 Toledo post office robbery in 1921, was shot to death early today in his supper club Capt Ralph Murphy of the Toledo Police Homicide Squad said today.
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Joe Urbaytis
Ralph Murphy
Toledo Police Homicide Squad
Americans understand Soviet Russia despite rhetoric
A local woman's society hosted a guest speaker arguing for understanding of Soviet Russia. The speaker, described as a Red, asserts Americans understand Russia as a slave state ruled by cruel leaders with a vast secret police. He cites famine and forced confessions as evidence of extreme brutality.
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