Tax-Cutting Bill Passes House and Atomic Measures
Congress moves ahead on a tax-cutting bill while Truman presses for speed on atomic energy issues. A proposed nine-man Atomic Energy Commission would control peacetime atomic development. Senate and House delays persist as labor and veterans topics gain attention. McKeough’s Maritime Commission confirmation passes 42 to 34 amid CIO opposition. discussions on repealing the Smith Connally Act grow. The G L Bill of Rights advances with a subcommittee seeking to raise the education benefit age limit.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
House Military Committee
Vandenberg
Rmich
McMahon
Connecticut
Willis Robertson
Virginia
Raymond S. McKeough
Maritime Commission
McKeough
Illnois
CIO
G.L
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
National income declines sharply in August
The Commerce Department reports the nation's income fell from $13,585,000,000 in July to $12,744,000,000 in August. The drop is blamed on rapid shrinking of factory payrolls after Japan's surrender.
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Washington
Commerce Departement
Radio Prices Kept Near 1942 Levels
Washington news release states new radio sets will sell about as they did in 1942. OPA approved manufacturer price increases averaging 12 percent, but wholesalers and retailers are to absorb most of the rise with few exceptions.
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Washington
OPA
Banks and offices observe Columbus Day
Banks and county offices were closed in observance of Columbus Day while city and county authorities and municipal offices remained open. In Columbus Grove Mrs Frances Reda, 72, died after a shawl caught fire from a gas stove. Mrs Mira Benreth, 67, was struck by a B&O passenger train at a crossing and injured.
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Dhoors
Ohio University
Frances “Reda
Columbus Grove
Mira Benreth
Baltimore and Ohio
Japan seeks imports to ease postwar food oil shortage
Nippon officials request 120000 tons of oil from the United States to relieve a food crisis worsened by a typhoon. Japan also names Seichi Sasaki as advisor to Marquis Koichi Kido to implement MacArthur orders for broader freedom. The government offers 46000 bales of raw silk as payment and faces border radar questions on defense effectiveness.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Honshu
Fifth Army Air Force
Seichi Sasaki
Kyoto Imperial University
Koichi Kido
The
Mikado
United States
Army General Made Catholic Church Bishop
The Most Reverend William R. Arnold a native of Wooster Ohio and assistant inspector general of the U S Army was consecrated titular bishop of Phocaea and military delegate at St Patrick's Cathedral. He is the first officer with the rank of major general to be consecrated a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. His vestments echoed those worn by Pope Pius XII at his consecration.
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New York
William R. Arnold
Wooster
United States Army
Phocaea
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Arnold
Pius XII
Election Date Set For Argentina Voters In 1946
Buenos Aires reports the military government fixed April 7 1946 for Argentina presidential elections amid pressure from both military and civilian groups. Paris meanwhile notes Laval’s legal team claims new evidence will topple the Peron case and says Laval was arrested by Germans while plotting to hand power to De Gaulle.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Paris
Pierre Laval
Ed Elmiro
Farrell
Col. Juan
Domingo Peron
Laval
Vichy
de Gaulle
Markets Begin Columbus Holiday Close Two Days
All U S stock exchanges will be closed Friday and Saturday for an extended Columbus Day observance.
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New York
United States
FCC Eyes 150 to 200 New Radio Licenses Soon
The Federal Communications Commission began processing nearly 1000 wartime radio station applications and will grant 150 to 200 new licenses in days to ease reconversion. Additional FM AM and TV requests pour in from labor unions and major unions target New York Los Angeles Chicago Detroit and Cleveland.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Ifm
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chattanooga
Tenn
CIO
I FM
Los Angeles
Chicago
Detroit
Flint
Newark
Cleveland
AFL
WCFL
Labor Aims for Higher Living Standards in AFL Speech
William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, told 182 delegates at the International Chemical Workers Union second annual convention that a 65 cents per hour minimum wage was only the starting point. He urged labor to press for a decent living through legislation within the democratic economic system.
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Columbus
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
International Chemical Workers Union
Army To Show Secret Planes At Wright Field Display
Dayton dispatch reports the US Army Air Forces will reveal top secret wartime aircraft at a public preview in Ohio. Pilots including Capt. Don Gentile and Col. William Councill will demonstrate jets and rocket fighters at Wright Field with a radio controlled craft from Lockbourne. A German rocket interceptor, the Messerschmitt 163, will also be showcased with performance claims.
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Dayton
Army Air Forc
Tommorrow
Wright Field
Don
Gentile
Piqua
William H.councill
America
Lockbourne
Columbus
Soa
Will He
State Fair Revival Forecast in Ohio for 1947
Columbus reports a 1946 boom in Ohio fairs after wartime pauses. Bryan P. Sandles, assistant director of agriculture, expects 94 fairs next year under the department. Portage County Fair in Ravenna plans a 200th anniversary comeback, and the State Fair may return after 1941 grounds use by the Army Air Forces ended.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bryan P. Sandles
Portage County
Ravenna
Army Air Forces
State Owned Respirator Used for First Time
A respirator given to Ohio by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was used for the first time last night on a 26 year old Newark woman. All respirators were already in use and state representatives were contacted to bring in Ohio’s new iron lung kept in a highway department garage.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Foundation For
Newark
Highway Department
Okinawa Devastated by 132 Mile Typhoon
Okinawa was left in shambles after a 132 mile typhoon killed three American sailors, left 10 missing and over 100 injured. It sank or damaged 127 naval vessels on beaches as storms flooded 8,000 homes and destroyed food stocks. Hospital patients faced danger at night while 50 B-29s delivered food to 150,000 troops. The base commander urged removing nonessential personnel as ships prepared to aid 100,000 survivors and harbor facilities faced long recovery.
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Okinawa
Honshu
Marianas
Guam
U. S
Lawrence Lawson
Meats Exports Rise Prompt New Ration Constraints
Government actions require federally inspected slaughterers to reserve portions of lower grade beef veal and mutton for export to Great Britain Belgium Holland and France. Civilians can still expect about 148 pounds per person annually though rationing will tighten this month with hoped easing by next month. A November lifting of rationing seems unlikely.
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Great Britain
Belgium
Holland
France
Agriculture Department
Young Mother Indicted Over Drowning of Baby Edna Irene
In Columbiana County Ohio a grand jury charged Olive Mae Long 23 with first degree murder in the drowning death of her 16 month old daughter Edna Irene. Prosecutor Frank W Springer said a sanity commission would be appointed. Long is jailed in Mahoning County on a separate charge of contributing to the delinquency of her other child Doris Ann. Edna Irene disappeared Sept 28 and was found in the Ohio River near Wellsville.
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Wellsville
Frank W. Springer
Columbiana County
Olive Mae Long
Edna Irene
Mahoning County
Youngstown
Doris Ann
Ohio River
Former School Man Held in Shortage Case
Cincinnati report says David B. Lantz former principal of Suburban Addyston public school faced a warrant charging misappropriation of 400 dollars in school funds. Lantz, held in Mans field jail, served two years at Addyston School and was not reappointed. magistrate Alfred L. Richards noted an audit showed misaccounted funds from book sales and receipts from school events.
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Cincinnati
GPS
David B. Lantz
Addyston
Lantz
Mansfield
Addyston School
Alfred L. Richards
Ed Lantz
Eight Columbus Area Ration Boards Closed
Columbus district office director John H. Summers announced the closure of eight ration boards in the 34 county area. The Cadiz board will close Oct. 30 and its affairs will be handled by the Steubenville Board.
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Columbus
John H. Summers
Cadiz
Steubenville
Mother of Four Wins $50,000 Damage Action
Mrs. Lillian Anderson, 27, mother of four, was awarded $50,000 by a common pleas court jury in Toledo after suing S. E. Johnson Co. Toledo for $100,000. A truck hauling paving material collided with her bus carrying her husband Henry G. Anderson, who died in the crash. The incident occurred October 17, 1944.
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Common Pleas Court
Lillian Anderson
Thei
S. E. Johnson Co
Toledo
Greyhound
Henry G. Anderson
Anderson
Chicago
Sale of Nylons Draws Hundreds of Customers
In Cleveland an Euclid Avenue store posted Seamless Nylon Hose Today in its window. Within minutes about 600 women lined up to shop as store manager D. E. Moore dodged the rush.
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Cleveland
Euclid Ave
D. E. Moore
German General Convicted of War Crime in Italy
Gen Antoin Dost ier, first German general tried in Western Europe, convicted by an American military tribunal for ordering the 15 U S soldiers executed behind German lines in Italy. Sentence is death, pending Allied command review before execution. The victims died at La Spezia on March 26, 1944, after landing from rubber boats to attack a railway tunnel.
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RCME
UPI
Antoin Dostier
Europe
U.S
Italy
Mediterranean
Dessler
la Spezia
Hocking Winners to Get Plane Rides at Tag Day Sale
Logan area winners Hollis Rucker Betty Wolfe from Murray City Jeri Weiss and Billy Keynes of Logan will receive airplane rides sponsored by Hocking Ice Company. A PT 19 plane from Ohio University airport will give flights at Mr Carty Farm Route 33 North of Logan on Saturday at 2 30 p m weather permitting. After the flight the plane will offer additional rides.
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Logan
Evalyn Fischer
Logan City
Hockng
Hollis Rucker
Betty Wolfe
Murray City
Jeri Weiss
Billy Keynes
Hocking Ice Company
Ohio University
Athens
Senate Weighs Tax Slashes After House Vote
Senate Finance Chairman George urged moderating the House bill cutting 5.35 billion in taxes for 12 million low income Americans. He proposed hearings on reducing rather than eliminating taxes and outlined plan to cut corporations, ease excise levies, repeal windshield tax, and freeze Social Security rates. He warned against shrinking the tax base to avoid future budget pressures.
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Washington
George
Senate Finance Committee
House
Georgia Democrat
Leja
Shortage of Coal Triggers Ration Talk In Congress
The Associated Press reports postwar labor disputes push Congress toward anti strike legislation. With 452,000 idle workers nationwide, leaders from both parties favor repealing the Smith Connally War Labor Disputes Act and seek new laws to curb unions voting to strike.
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Associated Press
Steel output falls in Ohio amid coal mine strikes
Republic Steel closes seven northern mines and seven of 23 blast furnaces as District 50 UMW strikes seek foremen's union recognition. Pig iron and steel output drop 25 percent. Nationwide labor unrest slows industry from Pittsburgh to Gary. Extra measures include potential gas rationing and national labor talks.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
District 50
United Mine Workers
Republic
Washington
John la Lewis
Schwellenbach
Lewis
Pittsburgh Steel R Center
Gary-Chicago
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Ohio
Tennessee
Indiana
AFL
New York
Hollywood
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
AFL International Alliance
AFL Conference
JATS
Reward Offered in Cleveland Transit Shootout
Rewards totaling $6,000 were posted for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who fatally shot James H. Peak, 44, a Cleveland transit system employee, during an attempted robbery on Woodland Avenue. Peak died Wednesday from a gunshot wound believed to come from a German burp gun, as three gunmen tried to rob the car payroll of nearly $50,000.
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Cleveland
James H. Peak
Woodland Ave
Peak
Bromfield Urges Farmers Drive Nation Prosperity
Novelist Louis Bromfield told the Canton Chamber of Commerce banquet that the prosperity of the United States depends on farmers and that more than half the population relies on agriculture for part of its income. In Dayton Wright Field, Brig. Gen. A. Cere and three French officers visited the Air Technical Service Command aeromedical lab.
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Canton
United States
Louis Bromfield
Canton Chamber of Commercce
Bromfield
Dayton Field
Dayton
A.cere
France
Air Technical Service Command
Aero -Medical Laboratory
Wright Field
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