Truman Pressures Congress Over Full Employment Bill
Washington reports bitter House-Senate disputes over Truman's legislative program and calls to delay year end recess. A Pearl Harbor inquiry shows deep GOP-Democrat tension while Republicans demand faster war draft action and merging of War and Navy. Senator Wiley accuses Truman of CIO influence as Democrats defend the president's labor policy.
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Washington
Congress
House
Truman
Pearl Harbor
Senate
Chapman Bevercomb
West Virginia
Army Navy
Revercomb
H. Struve Hensel
Navy
Senate Military Committee
War
Navy Departments
Alexesander Wiley
Wisconsin
CIO
Wayne Morse
Oregon
House Investigating Committee
Scott Lucas
Ilinois
Roosevelt
Lucas
William D. Mitchell
Ohio Voters Approve Postwar Projects Totalling Millions
Ohio voters approved postwar improvement bonds totaling over 104 million dollars in off year elections. Bond issues passed in central Ohio cities while several defeated requests cut operating expenses and increased taxes. In Dayton Springfield and Toledo results were mixed with many school and street projects advancing.
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Ohio
Rnnis
Montgomery County
Grandview
Dayton
Springfield
Toledo
Stewart
Cincinnati
New Union Troubles Halt Production at Goodyear Akron
Across the nation about 270000 workers were idle as CIO members halted production at Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron over a dispute on shifting 1600 maintenance and engineering staff to an eight hour day. Other strikes and pauses touched the AFL and CIO machinists in San Francisco Bay area, Pacific Northwest lumber workers, Powdrell and Alexander Connecticut plant workers, and Reading Pennsylvania trucking firms. In Washington, 4000 AFL drivers walked out and drivers without cars hobbled to work as conciliators met to seek settlement.
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Associated Press
Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
CIO
San Francisco Bay
AFL
Pacific Northwest
New England
Connecticut
Powdrell & Alexander, Inc
Maine
Rhode Island
Hampshire
Reading
Teamsters
Washington
District of Columbia
Maryland
Showdown on CIOs Demand Opens at Labor Conference
Unions suspend wrangling for a session of the national labor management conference to debate CIO demands for higher wages and a decent standard of living. CIO President Philip Murray argues pay helps all labor troubles while executive committee members set the agenda. John L. Lewis secures a seat on the committee amid the negotiations. Meanwhile, the NLRB weighs a possible strike vote by United Steelworkers at United States Steel Corp after a $2 a day raise request was rejected, with a wage discussion planned for shipbuilding and repair industry on December 4.
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Washington
National Labor-Management
CIO
Executive Committee
Philip Murray
Lin
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
United Steelworkers
Republic Steel Corporation
Republic
Ernest A. McMillan
National Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee
Violence Rages Across East With Mass Casualties
The British ministry of information reports 74 Jews and one Arab killed as violence worsens in East areas. Anti Jewish outbreaks flare in Tripolitania with Arab League support, Libyans push for independence from Italy amid colonial splits. Russia expresses interest in Tripolitania during a five foreign ministers conference in London, hinting at a possible role in administering the colony and Eritrea.
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Ministry of Information
Tripolitania
Arab League
Italy
Cirenaica
London
Eritrea
Police Lack Crews in Slaying of Ohio Woman
Cleveland police faced a lack of clues in the brutal slaying of Dorothy Olin 32 wife of Louis Dolin a local gambling operator. Her body was found at their Cleveland Heights home she had been beaten stabbed and strangled coronor notes no evidence of forced entry or notable fingerprints.
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Dorothy Dolin
Cleveland
Louis (Yockey) Dolin
Dolin
Dorothy Olin
Louis “Yockey” Dolin
Akron Girl Gets Life Term in Ohio Prison
Gladys Peterson, 49, was sentenced to life in Marysville Reformatory for second degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 18 year old Clifford C. Johnson in a local theater balcony last June. She pleaded guilty to the charge.
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Akron —Pi
Gladys Peterson
Lfe
Marysville Reformatory
Clifford C. Johnson
Drinking by Girls Is Denounced by WCTU
COLUMBUS While commending the Loyal Temperance Legion in its Outstanding Girl project, Miss Mary Ervin president of the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union said drunkenness among young girls has climbed 100 per cent since Pearl Harbor. She spoke before the 72nd state WCTU convention praising the legion for tripling its quota of young women members from 1,000 to 3,000.
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Columbus
Loyal Temperance Légion
Mary Ervin
Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Pearl Harbor
Ervin
WCTU
Temperance Legion
Chinese Reds Seize Yanks in Northern Port
North China reports say Chinese Communists seized several American seamen from a Liberty Ship in Chinwangtao area with some released after apologies. U.S. Army spokesmen declined comment while the American consul general warned only that reports were vague. The incident followed a propaganda push and minor shooting without casualties amid broader Communist-Nationalist clashes.
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Shanghai
Chinwangtao
U.S. Army
United States
China
Peijing-Hankowailroad
Kou~imingtang
Shanshi
Suiyuan
Bergen Marries Former Powers Model in Ensenada
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, 40, wed Frances Westerman 22 in Ensenada Mexico after being together five years. Bergen announced the marriage to Hollywood friends from Chicago saying the wedding occurred June 23. Westerman, a former Powers model known as Frances Westcott, met Bergen five years ago.
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Hollywood
Calif
Edgar Bergen
Frances Westerman
Chicago
Powers
Frances Westcott
Bergen
Ensenada
Mexico
Glider Branch Transferred to Freeman Field Indiana
Wilmington Clinton County Army air field receives orders to transfer the glider branch to Freeman Field at Seymour Indiana. Lt Col Charles H H Craig announces headquarters and maintenance personnel remain, along with the extreme temperatures unit.
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Wilmington
Clinton County Army Air Field
Air Technical Service Command
Freeman Field
Seymour
Ind
Charles HH Craig
Wheeling Man Sentenced for Trigamy in Circuit Court
Edward Norman O'Brien alias Edward Rice, 35, was sentenced in Wheeling circuit court to one to five years for trigamy. His third wife, Sarah Kimball O'Brien of Belmont County, testified they wed in Canton. Second wife Jessie Moneske O'Brien of Wheeling said they married at Wellsburg in 1933 and had four children. O'Brien testified of an attempted earlier marriage in 1929 in New England.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Edward Norman O'Brien
Edward Rice
O'Brien
Wellsburg
New England
Passengers Saved in Crash of Air Transport
In a crash near Lamon Bay a transport plane from Guam hit rugged terrain. Thirteen passengers and seven crew members were injured, with three year old Dickie Suden reported missing after the incident at Cavite. Navy search teams persist amid heavy rain and jungle terrain.
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Downieville
Calif
Manila
Langley
High Point Naval Air Station
Cavite
Naval Air
Guam
Dickie Tum Suden
Puerto Real
Lamon Bay
Navy Mountain
Said
Joseph Tum Suden
Goodyear Bar
Luzon
Boom in Farm Land Forecast
Miss Eunice Heywood of the Agricultural Extension Service warned against an impending land boom at a National Home Demonstration Council meeting in Columbus. She argued rising land prices would hurt rural families and urged cautious saving. She predicted postwar farm labor issues as farming efficiency rose and many wartime workers may return to rural areas.
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Columbus
Kentucky Senate race tightens as seven districts undecided
Louisville dispatch reports Democrats assured of 16 seats in the Kentucky Senate with 16 confirmed by unopposed races and two elected. Republicans hold 15 seats with 15 certain inclinations from two unopposed elections and holdovers. Seven races remain undecided with Democrats leading five and Republicans two.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Senate
GOP
Two Men Die in Auto Crash in Belle Center Area
In Bellefontaine district two men died when their car left No 65 Route 68 and struck a tree north of town early today. Lloyd Dysert, 43, of Belle Center, was killed instantly while Robert Manahan, 34, also of Belle Center, died later from injuries.
Canners Reveal War Era Surprises In New Foods
War time research by American Can Co reveals new canned products and techniques. Innovations include ham with candied sweet potatoes, pork with apple sauce, beef and gravy, pork patties with chicken dumplings, and Crepes Suzette in cans. A method preserves fresh green color in vegetables like peas, asparagus and broccoli. Also announced is a way to can dehydrated milk and eggs for indefinite can shelf life.
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New York
Rans
Can
James A. Stewart
American Can Co
Army Hospital Plants Sought For Ohio Use
Columbus reporting that the Army may abandon six of eight Fifth Service Command hospitals and seek to place Crile in Cleveland and Fletcher in Cambridge within eight months to ease crowding in Ohio mental institutions. Ohio officials expect wounded to transfer to Veterans Administration care with civilian staff kept where possible.
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Columbus
Onto —Ohie
Cleveland
Fletcher
Cambridge
Fort Hayes
Fifth Service Command
Ohio
Crile
Veterans’ Administration
Army
Welfare Department
Ohio Wesleyan Student Dies in Plane Crash
Delaware report says an Ohio Wesleyan University student was killed and another seriously burned when a plane crashed on takeoff. Richard Repelyea, 23, of White Stone was killed. Frederick Marr, 22, of Cincinnati was injured. The aircraft crashed and burned after departure.
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Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Richard Repelyea
White Stone
Germany
Frederick Marr
Cincinnati
Stalin Skips Red Square Parade as Molotov Delivers Address
MOSCOW IPI Generalissimo Stalin did not attend the Red Square parade marking the 28th anniversary of the socialist revolution. Foreign Commissar Molotov delivered the State of the Nation address. World leaders sent greetings but U.S. messages from Truman and Byrnes were missing. Molotov emphasized atomic energy as a global issue.
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Moscow
IPI
Stalin
Russia
Red Square
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
Union Veterans Urge Labor Union Action Across Nation
Ohio airman Lieut Robert William Haswell of Strasbourg Ohio is cited for military service with British forces during the Kohima and Imphal battles. The United Veterans urge President Truman and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach to back legislation for recognizing unions internationally and incorporating their support into policy.
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Cincinnati
United Veterans
Truman
Lewis Schwetlenbach
Washington
George VI
Halifax
United States
Bers”clude
M.C
Robert William Haswell
Strasburg
O. Haswell
Kohima
Imphal
Old Officials Are Preferred In Columbus Municipal Polls
Voters favored keeping current city administrations in Tuesday’s municipal elections with many towns reporting. Only six towns switched parties. Defiance Van Wert and Findlay elected Democrat mayors, Dresden and East Liverpool chose Republicans, Ironton stayed nonpartisan, and Cleveland saw incumbent Democrat Thomas A. Burke defeat Republican Ray C. Miller by a large margin after succeeding Gov. Lausche.
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NEW York
William O'Dwyer
New York City
Thomas E. Dewey
Edward J. Jeffries
Detroit
Richard A. Frankensteen
CIO
Frankensteen
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Thomas A. Burke
Cleveland
James M. Curley
Boston
Curley
Syracuse
Buffalo
Frank J. Costello
Bernard J. Dowd
New Jersey
D. Lene Powers
Frank A. Mathews
GOP
Clinois
Congress
Roy Clippinger
James D. Heidinger
Wiliam M. Tuck
Virginia
New Haven
Conn
Bridgeport
Jasper McLevy
Columbus
Defiance
van Wert
Findlay
Dresden
East Liverpool
Ironton
Repulican
Basil and Baltimore Town Merger Approved
Fairfield County voters approved the annexation of Basil to Baltimore with Basil 267 for 54 against and Baltimore 221 for 118 against. The merger proceeds to select a new name for the combined community. Falls to detail: Peter W Natale, 73, carpenter, died after a fall from a stairwell on a 122 concrete pavement last night.
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Baltimore
Suesday
Basi
Fairfield County
Grant Miller
Basil
Baleimore
Deatil
Youngstown
Peter W Natale
Fire kills worker at Archbold Sauder Wear Co
A fatal blaze at the Sauder Wear manufacturing plant in Archbold yesterday destroyed the factory. William Sauder, a laborer, was killed in the fire which caused extensive damage valued at about 160 000 dollars.
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Archbold
Toledo
William Sauder
Sauder Wearworking Co
Archbold Yesterdey
Deliberate Starvation at Santo Tomas Prison Camp
Testimony at a war crimes hearing details a deliberate starvation program by Japanese authorities at Santo Tomas civilian prison camp in Manila during 1944 45. Editor A V Hartendorp described starvation, weight loss averaging 30 pounds, and only two meals daily for internees, plus minimal Red Cross aid and dire medical supply shortages. Witnesses also recounted beatings torture and executions, with accounts of civilian corpses near St Augustine Church in the Walled City.
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Manila
Santo Tomas
A V. H. Hartendorp
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Japan
Hartendorp
Miles
Yamashii
Ford Wilkns
New York Times
Henry Keys
London Daily Express
St. Augustine Church
Keys
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