Miners hail new pension contract and wage gains
Cincinnati AP reports United Mine Workers leaders led by John L. Lewis tout a pension plan offering 100 monthly dollars to miners 62 with 20 years in the pits, funded by tonnage royalties from soft and anthracite coal. The deal adds 1 to daily pay and aims for seven hour days next year. Lewis criticizes President Truman and signals future wage talks.
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Cincinnati
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Lewis
Treasury
Truman
Newark Man Shoots Self After Quitting Job
John Welsh, 32, shot and killed himself after quitting his Sandusky job and returning home to Newark. Coroner James Pollock reported the death as self-inflicted.
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Newark
John Welsh
Sandusky
Easting
James . Pollock
Former trusty in Columbus confesses killing 14 year old
A former Columbus City Jail inmate confessed to shooting and killing Mary Page a 14 year old Springfield pupil. Dwight David Tudor 26 admitted the crime saying he did it with a .22 rifle after driving with the girl to a Boone Station school yard. The body was found Monday morning. Tudor gave details of the slaying to investigators and was later taken to work at Columbus Police headquarters. The page family is listed as Leroy and Mrs Page of Springfield.
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Columbus City
Mary Page
Everett L. McSavaney
Richard Longnecker
State Bureau of Identification
Dwight David Tudor
Boone Station
Here
Tudor
Columbus
Lillian Weaver
Weaver
Page
McSavaney
Longnecker
Miss Page
Miss Weaver
Austin Richards
Clark County
J. Arthur Shuman
Doris Ramball
McSavaney and Longnecker
Columbus Police Record
Leroy Page
Ohio Utilities Bar 16 Gas Firms From New Space Heating Clients
The Ohio State Utilities Commission barred 16 gas companies including Ohio Fuel Gas Co from taking new space heating customers. Four others faced partial or no restrictions. River Gas Co of Marietta was ordered to accept 300 additional space heating customers due to ongoing demand and limited facilities, citing an emergency affecting health and welfare in Ohio for winter 1948-49.
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Columbus
State Utilities Commission
Ohio Gas Companies
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Commission
River Gas Company
Marietta
Ohio
State of
Warren Councilmen Seek Law Against Crime Comics
Warren councilmen instructed solicitor Mark J. Williams to draft a law prohibiting sale of comic books featuring crime or semi nude drawings. Yesterday about 100 druggists in Youngstown removed such titles from their stands.
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Warren
Mark J. Williams
Youngstown
Tokyo Prepares for Typhoon After Okinawa Damage
Winds up to forty miles an hour whipped through Tokyo as residents braced for a typhoon. The storm's earlier ferocity caused about 10 million dollars in damage on Okinawa, with reports of structural and street disruption across the islands.
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Tokyo
Okinawa
Three Men Deny Guilt In Fairfield County Meat Case
Dale Landis Robert Rabdaugh and M H Nihizer pleaded innocent to charges of buying and receiving stolen meat. They were among 27 indicted after a grand jury investigated a hot meat and gambling ring in Fairfield County. The meat was reported stolen from a Swift Co plant in Columbus.
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Lancaster
Fairfield County
Swift & Co
Columbus
Dale Landis
Baltimore
Robert Radebaugh
Spot Lunch
M. H. Nihizer
R. and J. Grocery
Voters Turn Out in Record Numbers for November
Ohio voters in Columbus and surrounding areas flocked to polling places setting turnout records as boards of election in metropolitan regions reported high registration and participation ahead of the November election.
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Columbus
Ohio
Boards of Election
Tokyo coalition cabinet to resign this Thursday
Cabinet Secretary Gizo Tomabechi stated at a press conference that Premier Hitoshi Ashida's coalition government will resign on Thursday. The move follows ongoing political strain and aligns with ceremonial dispatch of duties before a new administration forms.
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Tokyo
Hitoshi Ashida
Gizo Tomabechi
Lost tattooed skin lampshades from Buchenwald case
American war crimes officials said the tattooed skin lampshades and other human ornaments from Buchenwald may be hidden among souvenirs in a private home. It is unclear who took them or when they disappeared. The items were found by liberating troops and were to be used in the Nurnberg trials but never returned.
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Munich
Buchenwald
Frau Koch
Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
South Florida braces as hurricane sweeps coast
Tropical hurricane drenched the Miami area with wind and rain causing one death and injuries to six people in the greater Miami region. The storm tracked from the Caribbean direct over Miami before moving to Fort Lauderdale and Pompano, with 50 mile wide winds and 60 to 70 mile gales.
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Miami
Florida
Gold Coast
Uha
Key West
Fort Lauderdale
Pompano
West Palm Beach
Atlantic
Herbert Lands Record At Warren Meeting
Governor Thomas J. Herbert addressed the Giddings Republican club in Warren saying his administration kept faith with the people. He defended the record and urged voters to judge by promise versus performance.
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Herbert
Warren
Thomas J. Herbert
Giddings Republican Club
Commission Proposes Sparing Nazis Lives
A special Army commission has recommended sparing the lives of a limited number of 139 Nazis sentenced to die for war crimes. Army Secretary Royall disclosed the recommendation and said officials would not reveal how many commutations were proposed to Gen. Lucius Clay in his German post.
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Washington
Army
Royall
Lucius Clay
U. S
Germany
Britain Demands Russia Answer on Atom Control
Britain demanded a yes or no answer from Russia on agreeing to control of atomic energy before destruction of the atomic bomb. Paris dispatch notes Britain pressing for clear Rus s commitment and seeks international oversight.
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Britain
Reds
Atom
Paris
Russia
Truman Begins Eastern Swing with Talks Planned
The Associated Press reports Truman starts a four state eastern campaign swing after a sharp retort to John L. Lewis who called him malignant. Truman plans to meet Marshall in Cincinnati and discuss UN affairs. Dulles and Dewey's staff also figure in a crossfire of foreign policy and energy topics.
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Marshall
John L. Lewis
President Truman
Mr. Truman
John Garner
Garner
United Mine Workers
UMW
Cincinnati
United Nations
U.S
White House
Paris
U.N
Philadelphia
Dewey
Buffalo
Dewey Sees Grim View From Dulles on Russia
Gov Thomas E Dewey and adviser John Foster Dulles held a three and a half hour briefing on the Soviet Union conveying a grimmer assessment of U S relations with Russia. Dulles reportedly warned that the situation is more critical now than since the war and has deteriorated in four months yet reinforced the campaign line that a united America sustains prosperity and world peace.
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Thomas E. Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Albany
Dulles
State Department
Paris
N. Y
Russia
Europe
Friends of
New York
Dewey
Soviet Union
U. S
World Mission Assembly Urges Global Mission Drive
A Philippine purchasing agent urged 3000 delegates at the World Mission Assembly to rekindle Pilgrim-era zeal and launch a world peace offensive. The three day event opened with 16 speakers, the largest Protestant gathering in 23 years, calling for expanded overseas missionary work.
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Columbus
World Mission Assembly
Mateo F. Occena
United States
Philippine Republic
Pilgrim Fathers
Tax on Water Bills Protested by Council
New Boston city council adopted a resolution protesting a 20 percent tax on water bills levied by Portsmouth. The resolution asserts taxation of local residents rests with New Boston, and Mayor Vernal G. Riffe planned a meeting with Portsmouth officials soon to discuss the issue.
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New Boston, CO
Portsmouth
New Boston
Vernal G. Riffe
Ex Convict Returns To State Penitentiary
Charles Athey, 52, must return to the Ohio Penitentiary after being convicted of shooting Patrolman Earl V. Acker on May 23. Athey, who previously served 24 years of a life term for killing a Newark patrolman, was sentenced to one to 20 years.
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Canton
Charles Athey
Ohio Penitentiary
Athey
Newark, O
Earl V. Acker
Acker
Wage Hour Board Enjoins Factory Stores for FLSA Violations
The wage hour division of the Department of Labor obtained a permanent injunction against Factory Stores Inc to stop further violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Cleveland
Wagehour Division
Department of Labor
Factory Stores, Inc
Fair Labor Standards Act
Cominform Meeting Reported in Dessau German Zone
Die Neue Zeitung says a recent Cominform meeting was held in Dessau in the Soviet zone of Germany with German Communist leaders and SED participation. Attendees allegedly included Soviet AMG political officers and party reps from Czechoslovakia Poland and Hungary as Western circles speculated.
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Berlin
Communist International Information Bureau
Cominform
Dessau
Germany
Die Neue Zeitung
AMG
Socialist Unity Party
SED
Saxony-Anhalt
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
New Citizenship Program Planned in Ohio Schools
The St Louis Bar Association proposes a program to teach American government and citizenship in Ohio high schools. The Ohio Bar Association committee unanimously approved extending lectures to seventh and eighth graders and possibly to teachers. The plan soon moves to a council vote with a sub committee to draft the Ohio program. R. W. Finsterwald of Athens is a citizen committee member.
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St. Louis Bar Association
Ohio
Ohio Bar Association
State Teachers Association
Clyde Hissong
St. Louis
Bar Association
Ohio Committee
Council of Delegates To the
Citizenship Committee
R. W. Finsterwald
Athens
Montgomery Warns Of Underplaying War
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery warns against underplaying war danger in a recruiting address. He says avoiding panic is essential but humanity has not yet reached a time when war can be ended by reasoning alone.
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London
Viscount Montgomery
Western Alliance
Pilots claim Russian planes buzzed two U S flights over China
Two American owned passenger planes operated for retired Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault said Russian fighters buzzed their C 46s near Port Arthur while flying passengers from Mukden in Manchuria. The incidents reportedly occurred as the Soviet aircraft patrolled the area.
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Shanghai
Blaze Routs 23 Guests Of Akron City Club
Fire swept the eighth floor residence rooms of the Akron City Club in downtown Akron. Twenty three guests were routed from their beds after 2 a.m. Three guests and two firemen suffered minor injuries. Damage estimated at 40000 dollars. Cause undetermined.
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Akron
Akron City Club
Frank C. Vernotzy
Russians announce low altitude gunnery practice near airlift corridor
Berlin reports the Russians notified Western powers of a gunnery drill under 2 500 feet along an airlift corridor. Capt Vitcent H Gookin, the American representative at the four power air safety center, called the practice legal and routine. He suggested it is likely heavy machine gun fire rather than true anti air fire. American airlift planes typically fly at about 5 000 feet or higher.
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Berlin
Vitcent H. Gookin
Four Power Air Safety Center
Gookin
Voters adopt first rural zoning code in Willoughby Township
In Ohio Willoughby Township votes 484 to 441 to adopt rural zoning codes setting minimum lot and house sizes. Opponents of the 1946 state law hope Lake County Common Pleas Court will block the measure later this week.
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Willoughby
Ohio
Willoughby Township
Hope Lake County Common Pleas Court
President Truman Proclaims Navy Day for Oct 27
President Truman announced Navy Day on October 27 in Washington. The proclamation highlights the U S Navy's service and calls nationwide observance and recognition of naval personnel.
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Navy
Washington
Truman
U S Delegate Sets Out Berlin Crisis Stakes At U N
At the United Nations Security Council the U S delegate Denis Jessup accuses Russia of blocking Berlin and threatening world peace. Soviet deputy Vishinsky, initially engaged, later reads a French Socialist newspaper while reporters are rebuffed.
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Paris
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United Nations Security Council
Berlin
Council
U.S
Philip C. Jessup
United States
Vishinsky
Jessup
Soviet Union
Palais de Chaillot
Starving Troops Flee Manchurian Capital Changchun
Pro government reports said national troops abandoned Changchun the Manchurian capital and fled toward Mukden. The starving garrison reportedly broke through Red lines as starvation death tolls were cited at 200 or more daily.
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Changchun
Manchuria
Mukden
Siberian
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