Nation's 400000 miners idle as Ohio pits close today
In Southeastern Ohio Division 1 of District 6 all deep mines shut following a government interpreted walkout led by John L. Lewis. About 4,000 to 5,000 miners affected as strip and truck operations resume in other counties. Government eyes contempt against Lewis and possible prosecutions under Smith Connally Act.
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Division 1
District 6
UMWA
John L. Lewis
Vinton County
Meigs County
Perry County
Corning Yard
New York Central Railroad
Best
Ohio
Nelsonville
Globe-Iron
Jackson
Southeastern Ohio
Lewis
Athens
Office of Defense Transportation
Baltimore
New York Central
Chesapeake and Ohio
Charles H. Jones
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Columbus
Jones
Four Youths Nab Abductors After High Speed Chase
Four fugitives from a Mansfield reform school camp and a 17 year old girl companion were captured in Millersburg after abducting a Lancaster Ohio man. The group used the girl as a decoy to steal a car and elude police. The five suspects faced charges of armed robbery grand larceny auto theft and kidnapping.
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Millersburg
Lancaster
State Highway Patrol
Joseph Stanko
Wayne D. Starner
Frank Manley
Holmes County
Stanko
Here
Mansfield Reformatory
Grafton
Mansfield
William Bell
Merle Leddy
Belleville
Columbus
Sue Ebien Smith
Cleveland
Robert Miller
James Lee Vendor
Donald William Burson
Canton
Leland R. Earlenbaugh
Ak- Ton
Lawrence S. Bauer
Raymond Miller
Starner
12 Million Suit Filed by Union in Ohio Courts
The International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers CIO filed a retroactive wages and damages suit totaling 12 million dollars in Cleveland and Toledo. In Cleveland the suit targets Aluminum Co of America seeking four million dollars for portal to portal pay and four million dollars in damages. In Toledo the union seeks two million dollars for retroactive pay for six years of time spent by workers at the Doehler Jarvis Corp. facilities.
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Cleveland
International Union of Mihe, Mill and Smelter Workers
CIO
Toledo
Aluminum Co. of America
Doehler-Jarvis Corp
Detective's Stolen Gun Used in Slaying
In Toledo a bullet from a pistol stolen from Detective Captain George Timiney's car last June 15 killed Joe Urbaytis, 46, an ex convict, on November 5. Inspector Joseph Fruchey said authorities seek Urbaytis' killer, noting his 18 years federal prison time for a February 1921 post office robbery.
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Toledo
George Timiney
Joe Urbaytis
Exconvict
Joseph Fruchey
Toledo Police
Urbaytis
Butcher Arrested in Hammer Slaying Case
Huntington WV Ted S Barrett a Huntington butcher faces a first degree murder charge for the slaying of his 53 year old wife with a claw hammer Barrett told state police I killed her before she ever got out of bed and then covered her with quilts, according to assistant prosecutor J Floyd Harrison.
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Huntington
W. Va
J. Floyd Harrison
Wayne County
Ted S. Barrett
E. L. Hampton
Barrett
Barbers Raise Haircut Price to One Dollar
In Columbus haircuts rose from 75 cents to 1.00 in many shops. Over 100 of the city's 500 barbers approved the increase last night citing higher costs for linens soaps and other supplies in the past week.
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Columbus
Four Boys Escape From Industrial School in Lancast er
Four of 17 inmates at the Boys Industrial School fled after ripping a cottage door. The four named runaways were Ralph Kelly, Donald Sayles, Carl Byrd, and Robert Cole. Remaining escapees and recaptured youths were also noted with Earl Nicely injured after a fall near the dairy barn. several others were rounded up within hours.
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Lancaster
Harold L. Hayes
Ralph Kelly
Dayton
Donald Sayles
Cleveland
Carl Byrd
Cincinnati
Robert Cole
Detroit
Hayes
Earl E. Nicely
Xenia
Culture Camp Proposed Near Hocking Forest Park
A proposed artist colony near Logan at the edge of Hocking Forest State Park would host writers, musicians and dramatists. Organizers set a December meeting in Logan with attendees from Cleveland to Akron and list supporters from regional art institutions and local businessmen.
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Cleveland
Hocking Forest State Park
Logan
Columbus
Toledo
Dayton
Cincinnati
Canton
Akron
James D. Wells
Ohio Division of Forestry
Frank Wilcox
Cleveland School of Art
Kenneth B. Disher
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
R. B. Williams
Clarence Blosser
Philip Faine
Schools To Be Closed After Polio Death in Delaware County
Delaware County health commissioner Dr Alexander Witkow ordered Harlem Township schools closed for two weeks after nine year old Robert R. Long died of infantile paralysis at Children's Hospital Columbus. Two more county children are polio patients and two Center Village eateries were temporarily closed.
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Delaware
Alexander Witkow
Delaware County
Harlem Township
Robert R. Long
Westerville
Children’s Hospital
Columbus
Children's Hospital
Witkow
Center Village
Rivermen Seek Modernized Traffic Rules Across Rivers
Ohio Rivermen seek changes to the 82 year old river traffic rules. They plan to approach Congress for new legislation to modernize river traffic rules. Chester C. Thompson of American Waterways Operators presided a rivermen meeting spanning Pittsburgh to New Orleans.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Congress
Chester C. Thompson
American Waterways Operators, Inc
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Horse-Broken House Grounds for Divorce in Los Angeles
Maybelle Alberta Rogers aged 20 filed for divorce claiming the husband kept a horse that made the house horse broken rather than the animal itself. George Arthur Rogers a 29 year old police officer granted the divorce under a property settlement that gave Maybelle the offending horse a second horse and a collie dog for $75.
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Los .Angeles
Maybelle Alberta Rogers
George Arthur Rogers
Lima Man Acquitted in Death of Ex Wife
Clyde Laycock, 34, a Lima salesman, was acquitted by a three judge panel of second degree murder in the June 17 death of his former wife Clella Laycock, 35, a Chicago store clerk. The five day trial found no sufficient evidence of a fatal beating or body disposal in Indian Lake.
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Bellefontaine
Herman Clyde Laycock
Lima
Clella
Chicago
Laycock
Indian Lake
YMCA appoints Dayton official to Cincinnati post
Porter H. Turner, longtime general program secretary of the YMCA at Dayton Ohio, is named assistant general secretary of the Cincinnati YMCA. He brings broad program expertise and local service to the new role.
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Cincinnati
Porter H. Turner
YMCA
Dayton, C
75 Foot Fall Fatal To Roofing Worker
Clinton R. McMillen a 63 year old roofer's helper died after a 75 foot fall from a downtown building in Chillicothe Coroner R E Oliver said he lost balance while dismantling a hoist at the roof edge.
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Chillicothe
Clinton R. McMillen
R. E. Oliver
McMillen
GOP lawmakers seek Truman cooperation on labor bills
Senator Ball of Minnesota said Republicans should present draft labor bills to President Truman to avoid vetoes. He chairs a GOP subcommittee drafting changes to the Case Strike Control Bill and Wagner Act reforms. Senator Elbert Thomas signaled Democrats may back adjustments. The aim is to ease labor disputes while acknowledging limits of new laws.
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Washington
Ball
R-Minn
Truman
White House
Minnesota
Senate
GOP
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Labor Committee
Indi
Two Airlanes Belt Overdue Planes Sought
Two aircraft valued at 16hg were overdue and sought early today. One was a three seat light plane with two passengers and a pilot last reported over Essex Ontario en route from Hamilton to Pelee Island in Lake Erie. The other missing craft was a Navy trainer due in Cleveland from Johnstown Pennsylvania with a single pilot aboard.
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Essex
Ont
Hamilton
Pelee Island
Lake Erie
Ells
Cleveland
Johnstown
Vote Buying Charged to 8
Huntington scene notes John P Hallanan, brother of Walter S Hallanan, free on $500 bond awaiting trial in Common Pleas Court December 30 with eight others on election irregularities charges. Hallanan faces three Cabell County indictments for buying votes in the November 5 election. Other defendants face charges of unlawfully and feloniously causing false returns in the August primary. Akron obituary notes William E Pardee, 72, former Summit County probate judge and ninth district court of appeals member from 1921 to 1932, died yesterday.
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Huntington
W. Va
John P. Hallanan
Walter S. Hallanan
West Virginia
Liberty
Common Pleas
GOP
Cabell County
Akron
William E. Pardee
Summit County
Ninth District Court of Appeals
VA suspends GI Bill subsistence payments nationwide
The Veterans Administration halted about 150,000 subsistence payments under the GI Bill for failure to report earnings in school or job training. Monthly rates were $65 for unmarried and $90 for married veterans, with totals capped at $175 or $200 respectively. Suspensions apply until earnings reports are received. 8,900 payments were discontinued in Branch 6 Columbus-Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan-8.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Columbus
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
Wrecked U.S. Plane Found on French Alps Glacier
The C-53 transport crashlanded Tuesday and eight of 11 aboard were stretcher cases. Passengers included Brig. Gen. Loyal M. Haynes and wives of Brig. Gen. Tate and Brig. Gen. Snavely. pilot’s mother is Mrs. Tate. Col. H. F. Minster announced findings to European Air Transport Service.
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Paris
French Alps
Turin
H. F. Minster
European Air Transport Service
U. S. Army
Frankfurt
Germany
Loyal M. Haynes
U. S
Austria
Haynes
Ralph H. Tate
Ralph Snavely
Coolville Man Named Farm Bureau Trustee
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation at its 28th annual convention elected Frank Engle of Millersburg as a trustee and re-elected W. N. Woods Maumee Carl V. Ankney Paulding W. E. Stough Mansfield Ralph Varian Canton Frank L. Cooperider Glenford Perry County and Harry Guthrie Coolville to trustee positions. The group also moved to resolutions and officers and heard Methodist Bishop G Bromley Oxnam call war a major task for the decade.
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Columbus
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
G. Bromley Oxnam
Frank Engle
Millersburg
W. N. Woods
Maumee
Carl V. Ankney
Paulding
W. E. Stough
Mansfield
Ralph Varian
Canton
Frank L. Cooperider
Glenford
Perry County
Harry Guthrie
Coolville
Jury Backs Detention Of Alleged Child Slayer
In Columbus a grand jury recommended that Warren Rose, 15, be held at the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster until age 21 for the July 20 poison candy slaying of Daniel Enslow, 16, of Fremont, Ohio, now in juvenile court.
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Columbus
Daniel Enslow
Fremont
Warren Rose
Lancaster
Rose
Post Office Worker Given Suspended Sentence
Miss Pauline Reedy 31 of Springboro Warren County Ohio former substitute clerk at Springboro Post Office was given a suspended sentence of one year and one day after pleading guilty to falsifying money order applications by U S District Judge John H Druffel.
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Cincinnati
Pauline Reedy
Springboro
Warren County
U. S
John H. Druffel
Former salesman dies in Steubenville at 77
John J. Watson 77 died yesterday in Steubenville. He was former general sales manager of Weirton Steel Company's tin plate division.
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Steubenville
John J. Watson
Weirton Steel Company
Tin Plate
Lewis Silent As Deadline Passes On National Coal Strike
President Truman pressed for contempt charges as John L Lewis held to his vow that the government union pact covering 3 300 soft coal mines and 400 000 miners is void at 12:01 am. Up to half of the miners walked out across 13 states while broader impacts mounted including rail embargoes and electric shortages.
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United Mine Workers
U. S
AFL
CIO
UMW
Atlantic City
The
Goldsborough
William Green
Lewis
Alexandria
Truman
Key West
Fla
Justice Department
Mississippi
Congress
Ohio Miners Halt Eastern Field Shuts Down Jobs At Stake
The Eastern Ohio coal field producing about 75 percent of state tonnage stopped work today amid a walkout. About 15 000 of Ohio 20 000 miners are in that field with 6 000 to 8 000 staying away yesterday. Several mines and lines including Blaine Stanley Willow Grove and Misco near Crooksville closed as rail and transit adjusted to reduced coal usage and possible rationing.
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Eastern Ohio
Ohio
Ford Sampson
Ohio Coal Operator's Association
Eastern
District 6
UMW
Columbus
Blaine
Stanley
Bellaire
Willow Grove
Dun Glen
Rail and River’s No. 3
Helms
Florence
Barton, Webb
Powhatan No. 1
Campbell Run
Misco
Months Old Strike Ended by 350 Packers
Columbus report says about 350 employees at the David L. Davies Packing Co. who had been idle since July 2 due to a strike agreed last night to return to work while negotiations on remaining issues continue.
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Columbus
David L. Davies Packing Co
Farm women clubs in Mason County study topic debate
SAM SIMMONS questions December lesson on farm women's clubs in Mason County focusing on "understanding of other peoples." He questions origins, value, and the obligation of the United States to understand recipients of aid, arguing Americans should rely on newspapers and travel for cross-cultural insight.
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Mason County
Henry Wallace
United States
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Judge Golds Borough
Clark, Sonnett
Butcher
Hammer
Hocking Hills
Ohio Rivermen
Cated
Thomas
Greenville
S.C
Farm Bureau
South Bend
Ind
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