War Fraud Hearing Set For House Opening
Rep. Bender says a House expenditures subcommittee will grill wartime purchasing officers next week as part of an expanding fraud probe. The panel aims to match Senate findings on Maj. Gen. Meyers and probes potential overpayments and contractor relations in plane contracts.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Capitol
Rep. Bender
Ohio
Senate War Investigating Committee
Senate
Bennett E. Meyers
Air Force
Dayton
Bender
Chauncey Miner Dies After Bone Coal Fall
Emmett Dickerson, 48, died at Shelter ing Arms Hospital after a bone coal fall at Hocking Mine 25 on Wednesday. Fellow worker Lester Locke suffered minor injuries. Dickerson leaves two daughters and one son. funeral set for Saturday at Chauncey Methodist Church.
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Chauncey
Hocking Mine
Emmett Dickerson
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Lester Locke
Locke
Morristown
Dickerson
Dorothy Simmers
Betty Palmers
Cleveland
Jack Dickerson
Norfolk
Chauncey Methodist Church
Gilbert Courtney
Greenlawn Cemetery
Nelsonville
Wanted Piano Player with Accomplishments
Philadelphia ad notes a suburban weekly listing seeking a piano player who can open oysters and clams. The terse want ad emphasizes specialized culinary and musical skills in one role.
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Philadelphia
George Dietrich Dies Linked to $21 Million Drug Swindle
Roslyn New York reports the death of George Dietrich, once an assistant treasurer at McKesson and Robbins. He was tied to the notorious $21,000,000 drug swindle ten years earlier and was brother of the late Donald Costermusica.
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Roslyn
N.Y
George Dietrich
Donald Costermusica
McKesson and Robbins
Ohio Holiday Toll Rises With 12 Dead in Crashes
Ohio toll climber 12 dead as Thanksgiving travel mishaps claim multiple lives. Among the dead are James Collins and his family from Orrville in a Route 94 collision near Orrville, plus several other fatal auto, train, and hunting accidents across Crestline Medina Huron Cleveland Sandusky Elyria and Washington Court House.
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Greyhound
Orrville
James Collins
Helen
William
Collins
Raymond Kraus
Perrysburg
Crestline
Leon Lofton
Medina
Dave Dillon
Huron
Sandusky
Dillon
Donald R. Peters
Toledo
Albert Lucci
Cleveland
Joseph de Sario
Mary
Akron
Final Action Is Due Today On Palestine
The United Nations Assembly plans a final vote today on partitioning Palestine. The vote hinges on a Haitian delegation switch that could tip the two thirds threshold, with 28 nations backing and 15 opposing as of adjournment.
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Palestine
New York
United Nations Assembly
Holy Land
Port Au Prince
No Cold Spell Relief Seen
Cold weather lingered over the northeast with no immediate relief forecast. The South and West enjoyed moderating, sunny conditions as Kentucky touched the 50s and Minnesota posted two below zero readings in Duluth.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Midwest
Minnesota
Duluth
Last of Top Nazi Brass Indicted for Crimes Against Peace
A U S indictment names 14 Nazi leaders including Field Marshals Von Leeb Sperrle and Von Küchler along with Generals Blaskowitz Hoth Reinhardt Salmuth Holidt and others. It accuses planning warring aggression murders deportations and plunder and cites executions of parachutists under an army order.
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United States
U. S
Wilhelm von Leeb
Sudetenland
France
Hugo Sperrle
England
George Karl Freidrich Wilhelm von Kuechler
18Th Army
Army Group North
Russia
Johannes Blaskowitz
Netherlands
Hermann Hoth
Fourth Panzer Army
Hans Reinhardt
Hans von Salmuth
15Th
Karl Holidt
Hitler
Reichschancery
Adm
Otto Schiewind
Navy Arma
Ment
Norway
Naval Group North
North Sea
Karl von Rouques
Hermann Reinecke
National Socialist Guidance
High Command
Lamplighter Found Slain In Columbus
Police search for the slayer of 67 year old Italian immigrant Do nato Mucci who lived in a shack near the railroad. A robber theory grows after discovery of nearly 25000 dollars hidden in a coffee can and a safety deposit box key. The box contents were to be opened today as investigators ponder motives. Mucci had worked forty years for the Hocking Valley and Chesapeake railroads and died from a crushed skull in St Francis Hospital.
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Columbus
Donato
Dan-the-Mooch
Mucci
St. Francis Hospital
Old Hocking Valley
Chesapeake Railroads
Daniel J. Goodman
C. & O. Railroad
Grandfather Admits Killing Sleeping Boy
Eleven year old Donald J. Hurley was found beaten to death in his bed at his grandparents home after Thanksgiving. Police Lt. Peter Allen quoted grandfather Joseph Hurley saying I killed the boy I loved the boy. Hurley, a West Side dairy employee, was arrested and brought to Central Police Station with charges to be filed. He said he intended to repair a faucet when he struck the boy four or five times and hid the hammer under the sofa.
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Cleveland
Donald J. Hurley
Peter Allen
Allen
Joseph Hurley
West Side
Hurley
Central
Lt. Allen
Restaurant Customer Solves $145 Robbery
Detective Chief Clem Merz credited Philip Eisner of Cincinnati with stopping a $145 hold up at a downtown restaurant. Eisner followed the gunman after the crime and pointed him out to arresting officers.
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Cincinnati
Clem Merz
Merz
Philip Eisner
Eisner
140 Guests, 1 Invalid Routed in Hotel Fire
In Philadelphia the Reid Hotel evacuated 140 guests including an invalid after smoke rose from an elevator pit fire. Chief Wayne Peterman said the blaze likely started from a cigarette or a short circuit.
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Philadelphia
Reid Hotel
Wayne Peterman
Molten Steel Burns Kill Two Workmen
Youngstown blaze at Campbell plant of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co kills two men John Stayduhar 48 pit turn foreman and John Fabian 22 from burns received when molten steel spilled yesterday and flames erupted last night in the plant area.
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Youngstown
John Stayduhar
John J. Fabian
Campbell
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Taft Dewey May Clash In Illinois Primary
Illinois may see a head to head GOP battle as Senator Robert Taft of Ohio and Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York consider entering the April 13 primary for the 1948 Republican nomination. Taft, planning Ohio support, could join if Dewey runs. Dewey has not declared but will likely run in New Hampshire March 9 and Illinois may follow. Col. Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune amplified Taft as a leading choice in a Hong Kong quote.
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Taft
Dewey
Illinois
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight Green
New Hampshire
Harold E Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin
Green
Robert R. McCorminck
The
Chicago Tribune
Hong Kong
Elm Tree Price Hinders City Airport Project
A Cleveland dispute over an 80 foot elm tree near the municipal airport stalls a new blind landing system. Owner Karl Olsen asks 40 000 for the tree six acres and his house, higher than the city valued property at 25 900. CAA requires a 500 foot clear glide path either side of center.
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Cleveland
Karl Olsen
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Olsen
Woman stabbed to death in Cincinnati over $1 dispute
Cincinnati police identified 47 year old Mattie Cook as the victim after a fatal stab outside a west end case following a dispute over a dollar. No suspect information was released.
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Cincinnati
Mattie Cook
West End
Police Search For Winchells Il Daughter
New York police press a city wide search for Wanda E Winchell 20 actress daughter of Walter Winchell missing since Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Winchell says Wanda ill last seen leaving a Fifth Ave hotel at 3 p m Wednesday. Walter Winchell says his daughter very ill needs hospitalization. Wanda used stage name Toni Eden and appeared in Broadway shows Up In Central Park Dark of the Moon Devils Galore.
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New York
Wanda E. Winchell
Walter Winchell
Miss Winchell
Toni Eden
Central Park
Former Meigs Power District Chief Dies
Scott Ridgeway former district superintendent of the Ohio Power Co. died in Columbus after retiring in 1941. Survived by his wife Ann. Funeral services Saturday at 2 p.m. at Ewing funeral home with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy — Scott Ridgeway
Ohio Power Co
Columbus
Ann
Ewing Funeral Home
Beech Grove Cemetery
Judge To Name Counsel For Kidnap Suspect
Common Pleas Judge Frank M. Clevenger said he would appoint either Theodore Dakin or Eldon L. Hayes to defend Edwin K. Wark 36 on trial December 8 for kidnaping and robbing Richard Dunn 17. Ernest A. Patrick 25 pleaded guilty as Wark's alleged companion.
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Wilmington
Common Pleas
Frank M. Clevenger
Theodore Dakin
Savina
Eldon L. Hayes
Edwin K. Wark
Richard Dunn
Ernest A. Patrick
Warke
Opera Star William Hinshaw Dies at 80 in Washington
Veteran baritone singer and opera producer William Wade Hinshaw died Thursday in Washington at 80. He was a prominent figure in American opera and a noted amateur genealogist with a long career in performance and productions.
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Washington
William Wade Hinshaw
ITU faces charges over slowdowns and closed shop fights
Disputes between locals of the AFL International Typographical Union and newspaper publishers disrupt conditions in several dailies while most plants stay in operation. The ANPA accuses the ITU of unfair labor practices under Taft Hartley for a no contract policy, slowdowns, featherbedding, and refusing to bargain. NLRB trial in Indianapolis set for December 9.
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AFL International Typographical Union
ITU
National Labor Relations Board
American Newspaper Publishers Association
ANPA
NLRB
Indianapolis
Rent Controls Advised For Gallia Meigs Area
Washington based acting housing expediter Tighe E Woods announced continued rent controls in six Ohio cities. advisory boards in Washington Court House Gallipolis Pomeroy area Sidney Newark and Ashtabula recommended the measures in response to a national directive.
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Washington
Ohio
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Washington Court House
Gallipolis
Pomeroy
Sidney Newark
Ashtabula
Move Made To Combat Red Strikes
Paris reports a government crisis as France calls 80,000 more conscripts to counter a wave of strikes tied to Communist influence. Schuman's cabinet, facing a narrow confidence vote, considers wage and strike regulations while boosting police and military presence amid labor unrest and a 1500 franc monthly cost of living bonus.
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Paris
France
Schuman
Vincent Auriol
Chamber of Deputies
Republican Party
Crash Mystery Surrounds Yakutat Air Tragedy
In Yakutat Alaska a twin engine air transport crashed during approach killing 13 aboard. An airman who followed the wreck two hours later said weather was not severe and suggested an emergency other than weather caused the crash. The DC 3 destroyed as it neared Yakutat Village Airport.
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Juneau
Alaska
Yakutat
Kakutat
Emmett Flood
Renton
Wash
Northern Airlines
Yakutat Village
Newsman Johnston Dies After 25 Years with Long Beach Paper
Long Beach editor Hoe mer K. Johnston aged 55 died last night after a 25 year tenure with the Long Beach Press Telegram. He served as editorial writer and feature editor.
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Long Beach
Calif
Hoemer K. Johnston
Long Beach Press Telegram
Fate of Poland at Stake As Big Four Chiefs Argue
The Big Four foreign ministers debated Poland's borders while shaping postwar Germany terms in London. Molotov pressed for a unified central German government before a peace conference, while Marshall, Britain, and France urged forming a boundary commission and a provisional German government to present views for ratification of a German peace pact.
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Poland
London
Europe
Germany
Trieste
United States
Britain
France
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Russia
George C. Marshall
U. S
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Onmoa
Hilda Gerold
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Jack Glotzer
Winchell
Meigs Power District
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Robert Schuman
Ministry of War
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