Red Leaders Convicted of Conspiracy
A historical wire text reports John L. Lewis and allied figures condemned in a conspiracy case linked to coal strike actions. The piece covers Lewis' claimed 30 to 35 cent per ton price rise and potential government seizure as a remedy, with reactions from George H. Love and Truman remarks. It also notes accompanying attacks on coal truck drivers in New Philadelphia and Tuscarawas County, including a driver injured by a mob and a separate incident involving a driver forced to unload.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis
George H. Love
Northern
Estern
Love
United Mine Workers
Truman
White House
New Philadelphia
Paul Pancher
Tuscarawas County
Pancher
William Butts
Butts
Barnhill
United Mine
Eugene Lighter
Dover
Lightel
Shirley Temple Agar Marriage at Risk
Hollywood rumor spreads as Shirley Temple and John Agar face a potential divorce with her attorney announcing marital troubles and legal concerns.
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Hollywood
Shirley Temple
John Agar
Civilian Board Urged to End Defense Policy Clash
Washington AP Two House Armed Services members proposed President Truman appoint a civilian board to referee the dispute over defense plans. The plan echoes an idea from the Army Navy Union as Navy leaders and Air Force funding clashes trigger public debate.
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Washington
Truman
Army-Navy Union
Reps
Brooks
D-La
Price
D-Il
House Armed Services Committee
Navy
Air Force
Louis E. Denfeld
Army
Defense Johnson
House Group Urges Postal Rates Hike
The House Post Office Committee approved about 129000 more for the national mail bill, roughly half the Postmaster General’s request to cut the annual deficit. Increases target Second Class publications 13.5 million, Third Class 23 million, and Fourth Class parcel post 40 million with higher bulk rates and penny postcard rise to two cents.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Jesse M. Donaldson
Postecard
Parcel Post
Post Office Department
Taft Tries New Campaign Technique in Ohio Tour
Senator Robert A. Taft resumes duties in Washington then returns to Ohio to stump. He spoke to five occupational groups in New Philadelphia on the Taft Hartley Act AFL unionists Brannan farm plan civil rights education health insurance and to about 400 service club members at supper time and 1100 at Dover Ohio later.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
New Philadelphia
AFL
Philadelphia
Service Clubs
Dover
Blood tests scheduled in Thomp son parentage case in Ann Arbor
Blood tests were scheduled to determine if Tommy is the son of Mrs and Mr Arthur Thompson. The case connects to Ronald Thompson, kidnapped five years earlier, with fingerprint evidence casting doubt. Tommy has been a Michigan ward with uncertain background, while Ohio records list a William Thomas ONeill born 1943, complicating the likelihood Tommy is Ronald.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Arthur Thompson
Dayton
Ohio
William Thomas O'Neill
Tommy
Ronald
M. C. Kirkpatrick
Thompsons
Michigan
Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics
James
Margaret Cooper Oneill
Toledo
AF Won't Abandon Wilmington Air Base
Rep. Clarence J. Brown says the Air Force does not intend to abandon Clinton County Air Base in Wilmington Ohio. He cites a letter from Air Secretary Symington confirming deactivation but not surplus sale, with a skeleton staff kept to preserve facilities for possible future use. The base has housed the Air Force all weather flying division headquarters.
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Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Air Force
Clinton County
Wilmington
Symington
Brown
Former Communist Is Sentenced to Death in Hungary
Budapest court of appeal sentences Laszlo Rajk former foreign minister and two co defendants to death for treason. They confessed plotting to turn Hungary into a satellite of Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. The ruling upholds prison terms for three others who conspired to overthrow the Moscow backed regime.
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Budapest
Hungary
Court of Appeal
Laszlo Rajk
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Rajk
Artist Fails Again In Flight Record Try
Norman Marsh, noted cartoonist and flyer, failed a second attempt to set a transcontinental lightplane speed record. An auxiliary fuel pump failed about five hours after departing Los Angeles, forcing a landing at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Norman Marsh
Aeronca
Los Angeles
Sky Harbor
Nationalist Troops Desert Canton as Communists Advance
Nationalist troops deserted Canton today as the sleepless South China city braced for a Communist advance and imminent entry by march.
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Canton
South China
Hope in the steel strike as mediators seek talks
Pittsburgh dispatch reports that government mediators announced exploratory talks in New York with Bethlehem Steel aimed at building a basis for further discussion. They warned talks may resume today as the 14 day strike by 153000 workers persists and others sign contracts for pensions and insurance.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Bethlehem
Ching
Presidential Steel Fact Finding Board
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp
Allegheny Ludium
Phillip Murray
CIO
Homestead
Brotherhoods Seek 70 Car Freight and 14 Car Passenger Trains
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen plans a national campaign to limit freight trains to 70 cars and cabooses and passenger trains to 14 cars. Trainmen News reports the union will push on two fronts legislative and economic to stop unsafe long trains that injure members.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Trainmen News
Rail Union
Brotherhood
Stalin Urges Red German Collaboration for Peace
Stalin congratulated East Germany leaders and urged Soviet and German peoples to unite for peace, saying shared wartime sacrifice could secure Europe. He predicted peace treaties with the Soviet bloc by January and framed a democratic Germany as a bulwark against new wars.
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Berlin
Joseph Stalin
East Germany
Europe
Stalin
Soviet Bloc
Red
William Pieck
Otto Grotewohl
ADN
Moscow
Germany
Soviet Union
1610 Liquor Permit Applications on File in Ohio
Columbus reports 1610 liquor permit applications on file at the State Liquor Control Board. No new permits issued since the January 26 freeze. 1668 on file then. Gov. Lausche notes potential modification to the freeze but warns against lifting it fully, urging restraint to avoid excess outlets.
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Columbus
State Liquor Control Board
Frank J. Lausche
Liquor Board
Hollywood Newcomers to Get Moral Guidance
The Motion Picture Industry Council formed eight months ago seeks to steer newcomers to the movies onto a straight moral course. It includes nine major Hollywood guild labor and management groups representing about 35,000 individuals and aims to counteract unfavorable publicity about the industry and its personnel.
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Hollywood
Motion Picture Industry Council
Hollywood Guild
Cincinnati Businessman Leaps From Hospital Sun Porch
Louis Cas Tellini, 66, a Cincinnati businessman, died after leaping from a third floor sun porch at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Covington. A verdict of death by his own action was returned.
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Covington
Louis Castellini
Cincinnati
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
First Polio Death Reported in Athens County
Athens Countys first polio death of the season was reported last Friday by the county health department. The victim was John Dearth, 39, Albany, who died at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a short illness.
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Athens County
Columbus
Rhone To County Health Department
John Dearth
Albany
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Defense Group Money Bill Still Stalled
A Senate plan to fund the armed forces on a stop-gap basis until January 15 faces House opposition led by Rep. Cannon. He vows to table the measure, arguing it jeopardizes national defense. The dispute delays the regular Defense Department bill and endangers upcoming service payrolls.
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Washington
Senate
House
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Congress
Senate House
Truman
State Housing Corp Repays 28 Veterans or Faces Prison
Mitchell Weisberg vice president of the State Housing Corp pleaded guilty in federal court to taking priority contracts to build veterans homes then omitting features. He chose to repay $18,840 to 28 veterans and pay a $1000 fine. three other officials also pleaded guilty.
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Cleveland
Mitchell Weisberg
State Housing Corp
Weisberg
Private Concern
Agriculture Board Members Appointed
Gov. Frank J. Lausche named Roy D. Pavey of Columbus and Ben Van Gordon of Hamilton to the state board of agriculture. Pavey has led the Columbus Producers Livestock Cooperative for 25 years. Van Gordon, OSU College of Agriculture alumnus, runs a 268 acre Butler County farm.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Roy D. Pavey
Ben van Gordon
Hamilton
State Board of Agriculture
Pavey
Columbus Producers Livestock Cooperative Assn
van Gordon
Ohio State University College of Agriculture
Butler County
East Liverpool Youth Sentenced for Car Theft
A 15 year old from East Liverpool must serve a three year term for car theft in a federal facility. Judge Emerick B. Freed ordered the teen to serve time at a federal correctional institute in either Washington D C or Chillicothe Ohio. The youth has a prior history of petty thefts burglaries and 11 escapes from juvenile detention.
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Cleveland
East Liverpool
Washington, D. C
Chillicothe
Ohio
Federal Correctional Institute
Emerick B. Freed
Penneysvole
FBI probes Ohio doctors societies for possible monopolies
The FBI has opened inquiries into medical societies in Akron Cleveland and Columbus to determine if they operate as illegal monopolies under federal antitrust laws. Akron's Summit County Medical Society confirms a three day review of its records has ended. Cleveland and Columbus academies face requests for records with officials awaiting guidance.
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Columbus
Dr. Wright
NKVD
Secret Police
American Medical Association
AMA
Oregon State Medical Society
Ray Abbaticchio
Cleveland
FBI
Donora Report Is Completed
The Public Health Service released a 200 page study linking air pollution in Donora Pennsylvania to a deadly smog event. Twenty people died and about six thousand were affected as investigators concluded weather trapped smoke over the town. The report urges cities and industries to cut emissions and recommends weather alerts for approaching smoke filled valleys.
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Washington
Donora
Public Health Service
Weather Bureau
Moch Narrowly Wins France Confidence Vote
Paris reports Socialist Jules Moch barely secured approval as France’s new premier in a tight National Assembly session. The 311 to 223 confirmation left Moch just one vote to spare, reflecting his rise after cracking a communist led strike wave while serving as interior minister.
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Paris
Jules Moch
France
National Assembly
Moch
11 Communist leaders convicted in federal trial
Ten years and a heavy fine tops penalties for each defendant as 11 American Communist leaders are found guilty of conspiring to teach forcible overthrow of the U S government. The verdicts were announced by foreman Thelma Dial after a lengthy trial and deliberation.
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NEW York
United States
Thelma Dial
Harold Medina
Harry Sacher
Foreman
Bey
Harold R. Medina
U. S
Medina
U. S. Ey
John F. X. McGohey
Communist Party
McGohey
FBI
Eugene Dennis
Henry Winston
John Williamson
Jacob Stachel
Robert Thompson
New York State
Gus Hall
Ohio State
Gilbert Green
Illinois
Carl Winter
Michigan
John Gates
Daily Worker
Benjamin J. Davis, Jr
Irving Potash
CIO Fur and Leather Workers Union
Extended Columbus Forecast Warms Sunday Then Cleared
Temperatures in Columbus are expected to average near normal with a normal high of 63 and low of 43. The outlook calls for a warmer Sunday followed by cooler Monday and Tuesday, a warming Wednesday, and precipitation around a tenth of an inch as rain chances occur Monday or Tuesday.
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Columbus
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Cyrus Ching
Brotherhoods
Otis T. Mason
Washington, D.C
Montgomery County
Frank J. Broschart
Leroy W. Mason
Otis
U.S
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