Armistice Day Observances Across Nation Highlight War Dead
Armistice Day ceremonies and parades honor fallen service members with 11 o clock minute of silence. In Ohio Columbus hosts a large parade with 80 units. Cincinnati presents victory medals to veterans. Lt General Eicholberger speaks at a luncheon as New Boston dedicates a war memorial for 30 residents. President Truman leads national tribute at Arlington and Nimitz calls for ready armed forces. In Paris communists stage a separate demonstration beside ceremonies at the Unknown Soldier tomb.
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Ohio
Columbus
Cincinnati
Robert L. Eichelberger
8Th Army
Queen City
New Boston
Truman
United States
Arlington National Cemetery
Army
Navy
Marines
American Legion
Chester W. Nimitz
Paris
Europe
Communist Party
Rance
Night Fire Kills 1, Injures 4 in Cleveland Building
A three-story frame building housing 20 people caught fire last night. One woman, identified tentatively as Mrs. Abdem Sater, 23, died from suffocation. Four others were injured, including Mrs. Nattie Wyatt, 44, with a fractured back and wrist, and Mrs. Bessie Potter, 53, with knee and abdomen injuries. Some occupants escaped by jumping or using bedsheets while firefighters rescued others.
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Cleveland
Abdem Sater
Nattie Wyatt
Bessie Potter
Fortunes On Farms Are Denied at Ohio Grange Meet
At the 75th Annual Ohio State Grange Convention Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson headlined the second day with remarks about farmers not reaping fortunes. Governor Herbert and Chief Justice Weygandt attend the banquet, while State Grange Master Joseph W. Fichter challenges blame on farmers for high prices and urges aid to overseas hunger with caution.
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Columbus
Ohio State Grange
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
Thomas J. Herbert
Carl Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
Joseph W. Fichter
Fichter
America
United Nations
Stills Raided As State Gets Moonshine
Ohio state liquor officials report four moonshine stills seized last month in Hocking Jackson Lawrence and Summit counties, part of 1947 total five confiscations with one more raided in Summit last March. Department records show 79 convictions, fines totaling 16940 dollars and 1234 days in jail across 14 Summit raids and multiple county actions.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Liquor Department
Hocking
Jackson
Lawrence
Summit
Summit County
Hamilton County
Cuyahoga County
Montgomery County
Mahoning
Trumbull
Lucas
Wilberforce and State Clash Over Dormitory Use
Common Pleas Judge Frank L. Johnson weighs a contempt of court charge against the State of Ohio in a dispute over O'Neill Hall on the Wilberforce University campus. The African Methodist Church says the state is violating a court order, while the state argues funds were used to build the women's dormitory.
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XENIA
Common Pleas
Frank L. Johnson
Ohio
O'Neill
Wilberforce University
African Methodist Church
Duck Hunter Denver Vaughn Drowns in Ohio River
In Portsmouth Ohio a 43 year old duck hunter Denver Vaughn drowned after wading the Ohio River to retrieve a duck he shot. authorities investigated the accident and offered no immediate testimony on cause.
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Portsmouth
Denver Vaughn
Ohio River
New Look Beanies Wow Passersby at Stuyvesant High
Stuyvesant High School seniors design their own New Look beanie caps as fashion statements. The quirky headgear stuns passersby and sparks reactions to the inventive use of gadgets by mad hatter style creators.
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New York
Stuyvesant High School
Met Opera Opens Season With Glamour and Fashion
New Yorks Met Opera opened its 63rd season drawing more attention to fashion than the music as daring evening gowns, heavy diamonds, and mink dominated the guest list. Socialites including Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh filled the Diamond Horseshoe era lobby amid a sea of opulence. The Masked Ball performed in Italian but the pageantry of wealth eclipsed the operatic performance.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Wolf
Verdi
Manhattan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Hot Springs
Ark
Broadway
Park Ave
Dasha Partetzkin
George Washington Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh
Brooklyn
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
New Permit System Established for Night Club and Whiskey by the Glass
Ohio state Liquor Director Dale Duniton announced a new permit handling setup after a wartime freeze halted approvals since 1942. Five district offices were created in Toledo Columbus Cleveland Akron and Cincinnati with Fred R. Riggins named assistant chief examiner. The Columbus district covers 45 counties including Athens Gallia Hocking Meigs Morgan Perry Vinton and Washington.
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Columbus
Dale Duniton
Dunifon
Toledo
Cleveland
Akron
Cincinnati
Fred R. Riggins
Wilmington
Dale E. Russell
Gallipolis
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan, Perry, Vinton
Washington
City Halts Trash Pick Up Amid Budget Cuts in Springfield
Springfield will end curbside trash collections starting tomorrow as the city cuts expenses after a failed two mill operating levy. City Manager Oscar L. Fleckner said the service reduction is the first step and that a survey will guide further cuts.
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Springfield
Oscar L. Fleckner
Fleckner
Husband of 48 Years Dies Wife Ends Own Life
Canton report states Mrs. Linwood E. Lucas hanged herself after her husband of 48 years died of a heart ailment. Coroner Edward C. Reno ruled the couple had been dead since last Friday. both were about 69.
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Canton
Linwood E. Lucas
Edward C. Reno
Reno
Teacher Admits Drowning Two Children in Tub
Ravenna Ohio sheriff reports a Sunday school teacher verbally admitted drowning her two children Malcolm age five and David age two months in a half filled tub of scalding water. she planned suicide after the act and was taken to a hospital in custody awaiting murder charges.
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Ravenna
George E. Shields
Edward McVeigh, Jr
Malcolm
David
Geauga-on the-Lake
Shields
Man Sues Goodyear Over Burial Casket Idea
Cleveland plaintiff Guy D. Brookins seeks 250000 from Goodyear Tire and Goodyear Aircraft in Common Pleas Court alleging they manufactured a burial case he designed after contracting to sell 50000 such caskets to the government and he was not paid for his services.
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Cleveland
Guy D. Brookins
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Common Pleas
Tobacco Loan Prices Set at $40.30 a Hundred
Lexington KY Tobacco loan prices by grades for the 1947 burley crop were announced as returning growers an average of 40.30 dollars per hundredweight. The 1946 loans averaged 33.60 dollars. The cooperative provides loans to growers unhappy with auction market prices and is financed under the price support program.
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Lexington
Burley
Burley Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association
Reuther's Re-Election As UAW Chief Assured
Atlantic City N J The battle weary United Auto Workers CIO prepared to re elect Walter Reuther as their president today for a second term At 40 Reuther rode high in the labor movement The UAW convention endorsed his position in favor of filing non communist affidavits under the Taft Hartley act He had won the blessing of CIO President Philip Murray He apparently was in real command of the big union for the fast time.
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Atlantic City
N. J
United Auto Workers, Cio
Walter Reuther
Reuther
UAW
CIO
Philip Murray
AP Television Newsreel Unit Begins Operation
The Associated Press launched its television newsreel unit in Washington as part of expanded world news coverage. It is the first of several units to provide a complete worldwide newsreel service for AP member television stations.
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Washington
Associated Press
Associated Press Bureau
NLRB Dismisses Suit of Five Steel Workers
The National Labor Relations Board dismissed a United Steelworkers of America complaint against Copperweld Steel Company of Pittsburgh. The board held the five workers were discharged for leading a strike in violation of their contract at the Warren Ohio plant.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board Today
United Steelworkers of America
CSO
Copperweld Steel Company of
Fittsburgh
Warren, Ohio
Record Vets in Ohio Colleges and Training Hit High
The Veterans Administration announced 156,862 World War II veterans were enrolled in Ohio educational or job training programs. Of them 110,739 attended college under the GI Bill and 46,123 were in on the job training. The prior high was 150,953 set last May.
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Columbus
Veterans Administration
Ohio
Bomber Crashes at Tinker Field Killing Two Fliers
An Army B 29 bomber plummeted into parked P 47 fighters at Tinker Field Oklahoma City after takeoff, killing two fliers and injuring five. The aircraft struck the storage area, setting fuel ablaze among decommissioned planes.
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Oklahoma City
Tinker Field
Warren Tax Rate Sees 9.6 Mills Hike for 1947
Warren will raise its tax rate by 9.6 mills for 1947, county auditor William C. Trimbur announced. The higher rate adds 60 cents to each 1 000 dollars of property valuation for property owners.
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Warren
William C. Trimbur
Paper Says Soviet Tests Atom Bomb
Paris based L Intransigeant quotes Prague dispatch citing Moscow sources that Russia tested a 120 pound atom bomb in Siberia near Amur River by Irkutsk. Observers included Molotov aides, Vavilov, 280 attendees. Germans aided Atomgrad researchers.
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PARIS
Prague
Russia
Siberia
Moscow
John Griggs
Proving Ground
Amur
Irkutsk
V. M. Molotov
Stalin
United States
Sergei Vavilov
Nuclear Research Service
Chillicothe Store Head Killed in Auto Accident
Lawrence M. Landis, 47, manager of the J. C. Penney Co. store in Chillicothe, was killed when his automobile overturned this morning three miles west of Frankfort on U.S. Route 35. The state highway patrol reported the fatal crash occurred near Chillicothe, Ohio.
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Washington Court House
Lawrence M. Landis
J. C. Penney Co
Chillicothe
Frankfort
State Highway Patrol
Democrats Win City Council Majority After 48 Years
In Toledo the Democrats secured five seats, Republicans three, and Independents one after final PR ballot counts, granting a city council majority for the first time in 48 years.
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Toledo
Car Kills Pedestrian After Downtown Collision
Columbus police report two autos collided in a downtown street. Donald Ward, 51, was walking on the sidewalk when a car was thrown onto the curb, pinning him against a building. He died later from injuries.
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Columbus
Donald Ward
Ward
Iron Ore Record Falls In Great Lakes Shipping
The Great Lakes Carriers Association reports iron ore shipments through November 1 surpassed the previous peace-time seasonal peak by 6 279 511 tons.
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Great Lakes
Cleveland
OSU Deans Cancel Dance After Fresh Freeze-Out Incident
Ohio State University deans censure students for a ditch night revolt by actives and pledges. Pledges stripped, daubed with paint, and drenched in cold water while coeds were dunked. One injured with a broken arm. dance canceled as officials called conduct a disgrace.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Joseph A. Park
Christine Y. Conaway
Reasonable Aid Favored By Taft and Bricker in Europe Policy
Senator Taft urged careful but reasonable European aid to curb communism, warning the Marshall Plan could foster unsound policies and inflation. He spoke at the Ohio Society of New York dinner. Senator Bricker urged candid questions on aid scope to avoid depleting U.S. resources.
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New York
Sen
Taft
Rohio
Europe
The
Ohio Society of New York
Cleveland
U. S
John W. Bricker
Ohio Republican
Two Wounded in Bank Hold-Up Attempt in Cleveland
Police hunted three bandits after a failed robbery at the Warsaw Savings & Loan Association in Cleveland Ohio. Guard Edmund A Sczyglinski aged 69 received last rites as doctors fought to save him. Irene Missal 25 secretary was wounded in the right arm.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Warsaw Savings & Loan Association
Edmund A. Sczyglinski
Irene Missal
Columbus Weather Extends Cold Spell Through Friday
Extended forecast for Columbus shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees below normal with a normal high of 48 and low of 34. Expect colder conditions Wednesday and into the weekend, with 4 to ½ inch of precipitation and ongoing snow flurries giving way to general snow or rain by Friday and early Saturday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Marshall urges German recovery to aid European economy
Secretary of State Marshall told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Germany must be rebuilt to make its people self-supporting and to contribute to Europe’s economy. He warned of propaganda claiming rebuilding threatens France and Italy and outlined aid totals for 1947–48 including 2.657 billion for Europe and China.
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Washington
Marshall
Germany
Cone
Europe
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
France
Italy
United States
Greece
Turkey
Austria
Congress
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Robert Lovett
Korea
Japan
China
UN Palestine partition plan nears vote after US USSR accord
United States and Russia reach agreement on enforcing partition of Palestine as Dr. Herbert V. Evatt predicts a UN vote within three days on acceptance or rejection. Arab objections keep outcome in doubt while British stance on the Enforcement Plan remains unsettled.
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United States
Russia
Palestine
Holy Land
United Nations
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Assembly
Palestine Committee
Lawyers Carry Movie Contempt Fight To Speaker Martin
Ten Hollywood figures cited by the House Un American Activities Committee fought to have the contempt case decided by the full House not just Speaker Martin. The attorneys claimed the committee is afraid of the outcome if the issue is tested in the House. Names include Bessie, Lardner Jr., Lawson, Scott, Dmytryk, Trumbo, Maltz, Ornitz, Biberman and Cole. The maximum penalty is 1000 dollars or a year in jail.
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Washington
Hollywood
Capitol
Martin
Communist Party
Popper
Alvah Bessie
Ring Lardner, Jr
John Howard Lawson
Adrian Scott
Edward Dmytryk
Dalton Trumbo
Albert Maltz
Samuel Ornitz
Herbert Biberman
Lester Cole
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Stark County
Ralph S. Miller
Alliance City
Bernard Schrader
Theouisville
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Schrader
Wilberforce
Mitchell Goldman
David Rosen
Mid-Atlantic
Charles A. Stafford
Newfoundland
Stafford
Met
Bob Seymond
Tub
Medina
California
McVeighs
McVeigh
Man
Goodyear
AP Television
NLRB
Vavilov
Russian Academy of Sciences
Griggs
Atomgrad
OSU
Sen. Taft
Bennett E. Meyers
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Ferguson
Senate War Investigating Subcommittee
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