Soft Coal Strike Report Brightens Industrial Front
The Associated Press reports easing tensions as President Truman declares the coal mine threat removed, though no wage talks with AFL UMW chief John L. Lewis are confirmed. Meanwhile maritime and trucking strikes show gains: East Coast port activity resumes, sugar and cargo move, and wage gains reach 15 percent for some unions.
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Associated Press
Truman
J. A. Krug
John L. Lewis
AFL
United Mine Workers
New York
East
Gulf Coast
Mates and Pilots Union
New York Harbor
CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
Atlantic
West Coast
CIO
AFL Teamsters Brotherhood
Hollywood
International Alliance of
Local 683
Ark
Roy M. Brewer
Richard J. Walsh
Washington
Trans World Airlines
Mullins Murder Trial Opens Before Jury Today
A six man six woman jury hears first testimony in the first degree murder case of Robert Mullins, 35, of Middletown. Mullins is accused of fatally shooting his wife Grace, 28, last May 19 in a crowded downtown cafe.
Sam Simmons urges GOP to reject big men and restore honest government
Sam Simmons argues the Republican Party does not need a “big man” leader but must prove it can govern without one. He cites Roosevelt Mussolini and Stalin as demagogic examples, calls for accurate government reports, limited executive power, and a return to a free economy and constitutional bounds.
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Republican Party
Lttler
Roosevelt
Mussolinii
Stalin
Executive Department
Congress
Army generals defend GI conduct in Philippines amid criticism
In Manila three commanding generals issued a joint statement rebuking unwarranted press attacks on GI behavior while confirming a beating of an elderly Filipino by a U S major. The document rejects generalizations about soldiers as a few misbehave, noting it harms every home.
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Manila
Philippines
U.S
Richard Johnston
New York Times
Army
Manila Chronicle
The
War Crimes Commission
Refrigeration to Change American Living Habits
Leaders at the first postwar convention and exposition in Cleveland say refrigeration will reshape American life. Home air conditioning will grow with widespread use of reverse cycle refrigeration for heating and cooling homes.
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Cleveland
Army Demonstrates Tank Storage Method at Lima Works
At Lima Ordnance Works reporters learned the Army method of storing tanks and heavy trucks. Maj M L Chimp described circular tanks 55 feet in diameter and 15 feet high linked to a humidifier to house six 60 ton tanks for 50 year preservation.
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Lima
Lima Ordnance Works
M. L. Chimp
Middletown Eyes Prisoners for Veterans Housing Labor
Middletown city officials, led by City Manager Fred J. Schantzmann, discussed borrowing city prisoners as laborers for a veterans housing project amid a local construction labor shortage. The move aims to address staffing gaps while advancing the housing initiative.
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Middletown
Fred J. Schantzmann
Haircuts Not For Jimmy Mother Says Hi s Individ ualist Like All Others
Jimmy Garin had a haircut at age two and has not cut since. His hair now reaches several feet, curling around his shoulders. His mother Mrs Margaret Garvin says the family is full of individualists and shrugs off the topic at Langley Juniper High School.
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Jimmy
Washington
Jimmy Garin
Langley Juniper High School
Margaret Garvin
Food Retailers Push to Lift Sugar Controls
The Ohio Retail Food Centers Association urged President Truman to end rationing and price controls on sugar at its annual Columbus meeting. It called for experts be diverted to domestic use. Frank Yackett of Toledo was elected president and Herbert Schrader of Massillon became vice president.
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Columbus
Ohio Retail Food Cenlers Association
Truman
Frank Yacket
Toledo
Herbert Schrader
Massillon
Stalin says Soviet Union has developed no atom bomb
In a Moscow radio interview answering 31 questions from Hugh Baillie of United Press, Stalin denied any Soviet atom bomb program and stated 60 divisions of Soviet troops in Eastern Europe, soon to drop to 40, while accusing Churchill of war instigation and rejecting claims of U S Soviet tensions. He also voiced views on NATO veto use, Poland borders, Greece, and Germany’s unity.
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London
Stalin
Soviet Union
Russia
Europe
Hugh Baillie
United Press Associations
Winston Churchill
James F. Byrnes
United States
Moscow
U.S.S.R
Mediterranean
U. N. Security Council
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Poland
Yugoslavia
Italy
Us.s.r
Greece
Germany
Baullie
Churchill
House of Commons
Sales Manager Resigns to Start Union
George Biggs, former Sales Promotion Manager for Continental Oil, resigns a top post paying about $100,000,000 a year to form a union based on salesman ship and cooperation. He argues cooperation is essential and pledges to seek bargaining rights to offer employers a profit-making program for higher wages.
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Ponca City
Okla
George Biggs
Biggs
Continental Oil Company
Officer Fired For Opinions On Unofficial Views
In Jerusalem a military communiqué says Lt Col Richard H L Webb, veteran commander of the First Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was removed for giving unauthorized opinions to correspondents. The action followed an Oct 24 incident when Webb took men to his office to shield them from arrest after a subordinate complained they interfered with screening Jews after a bombing.
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Jerusalem
Richard H. L. Webb
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Webb
Dr F L Lawrence Retired Surgeon Dies
Columbus obituary notes funeral services tomorrow for Florus F Lawrence age 33 who died at Mt Vernon Saturday. He practiced surgery there for 50 years before retiring in 1935 and served on the faculty of Ohio State University School of Medicine.
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Columbus
Florus F Lawrence
Mt Vernon
Lawrence
Ohio State University School of Medicine
Gubernatorial race focus on mental health program and highways
In Akron and Norwood rallies Democratic Gov Lausche defended Ohio welfare mental patient care and highway staffing against Republican challenger Herbert who warned of a return to “dungeons and lead-pipe” methods. Senator Bricker attacked the New Deal labor ties while Huffman labeled Bricker reactionary as campaigns hinge on labor and highway issues. Herbert urged modernizing arterial routes to boost farm and urban needs.
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Associated Press
Labor
New Deal
Frank J. Lausche
Akron
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Welfare Department
Lausche
John W. Bricker
Senate
James W. Huffman
Norwood
Truman
Bricker
Political Action Committee
Huffman
Ohio
Jury Probing Negro Hanging in Georgia Case
FBI collected evidence from 2,500 interviews in the lynching of four African Americans near Monroe Georgia. Attorney General Tom Clark announced the material would be presented to a Federal Grand Jury in Athens to identify conspirators and seek accountability.
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Macon
FBI
Monroe
Athens
Tom Clark
New York
Baby Dies As Fire Destroys Downtown Cincinnati Home
A two year old, Joan Neiding, died from burns after a blaze swept a downtown Cincinnati residence. Two families were forced from their beds as Mrs Evelyn Weiding 30 leaped from a second floor window and Herman 33 the father and another daughter Barbara 5 were carried to safety by firemen. The insured delageged home suffered extensive damage and displaced the occupants.
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Cincinnati
Joan Neiding
Evelyn Weiding
Herman
Barbara
Elevator Fire Loss Estimated at Bascom Elevator
Firemen estimated the Basom Elevator & Supply Co. blaze at Bascom caused $20,000 in damage after Bascom, New Riegel and Tiffin crews fought the fire yesterday. Professor Joseph T. Gourley, 63, chair of horticulture at Ohio State University, died Sunday of coronary thrombosis in Wooster.
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Tiffin
Basom Elevator & Supply Co
Bascom
New Riegel
JS Dead Wooster
Joseph TI. Gourley
Department of Horticulture and Forestry
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania Heads GOP Power in West Virginia Doldrums
Philadelphia reports a wave of Republican momentum in Pennsylvania with GOP control of governorship and expected gains in the Senate and House. Democrats predict possible losses in West Virginia districts, while national issues, strikes, and conversion politics color the races as voters head to the polls.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Philadelphia
Repub
Senate
House
Edward Martin
M. Harvey Taylor
Taylor
Republic
GOP
Joseph Guffey
Martin
Guffey
Philadelphia Evening Bullen
Cleveland Board Probes Student Strike At Collinwood High
The Cleveland Board of Education ordered an investigation into a strike by more than 100 Collinwood High School students last Thursday. Demonstrators said the action protested a rule about making up missed work after class absences. The incident underscores a broader pattern of student dissent at the school.
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Cleveland
Collinwood High School
Cleveland Board of Education
OPA Lifts Price Ceiling on Ice Firms nationwide
Washington: OPA removed price ceilings on natural and manufactured ice and icing services claiming ample supply to meet demand. A 127 page directory lists 3500 decontrolled commodity groups up to October 15. The directory costs $3, with supplements promised.
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Washington
OPA
Meyer Shermen
OPA Economist
Wallace Urges Liberals to Join in a New Political Battle
Henry A. Wallace urged in Tacoma that Liberals from both Democratic and Republican parties unite against reaction. He called for a realignment that would form separate liberal and conservative parties in the United States and said the parties must realign on key issues and stop deceiving the people.
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Tacoma
Wash
Henry A. Wallace
United States
One Killed, 12 Injured In Truck Collision Near Co Jumtiana
Salem, Oct. 28 A truck carrying 16 potato pickers collided with a farm truck carrying building supplies killing one unidentified man and injuring 12. Patrolmen said the crew truck was turning from Route 14 toward the Harvey Firestone farm when the second vehicle struck it.
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Salem
Co~ Jumtiana
iRoute 14
Harvey Firestone Farm
Tobacco Growers Vote To Keep Market Quota
The Agriculture Department reported preliminary returns showing growers favored continuing federal marketing quotas on barley tobacco for the next three years by 95.9 percent. Ohio’s vote stood at 2,916 or 58 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Ohio
Five Man Commission Has Exclusive Control Over Fission Material
The five member atomic energy commission led by David Lilienthal will oversee the nations atomic program. Truman named Lilienthal Bacher Waymack Strauss Pike and Gordon Clapp to the new body with Lilienthal as chair. The panel will hold exclusive control of fissionable material and the program’s military aspects while the War Department maintains operations during a transitional period.
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Washington
Truman
New ‘Atomic Energy Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
Robert F. Bacher
Cornell University
Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
William W. Waymack
Des Moines Register
Lewis L. Strauss
Army-Navy Munitions Board
Herbert Hoover
New York
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Summer T. Pike
Securities Exchange Commission
Pike
Lubec
SEC
TVA
Gordon R. Clapp
War Department
Gandhi Trip Stirs Strife In Calcutta
Violence erupts in Calcutta as Gandhi nears East Bengal with Hindu Muslim clashes, mobs armed with bows and arrows clash while refugees return home under military protection. Police report rising injuries from gunfire amid Goonda activity.
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Calcutta
Mohandas K. Gandhi
East Bengal
Congress Party
Gandhi
New Delhi
Noakhali J
Tippera
200 Auto Workers End 2-Month Walkout
Nearly 1200 CIO United Automobile Workers returned to their jobs at the Irwin Auger Bit Co. plant, ending a two month strike. They voted to resume work while negotiations on a pay increase continue between the company and the union officials. Also, Arthur E. David, 67, longtime city editor of the Norwalk Reflector Herald, died of a heart attack while in his car near North Fairfield.
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Wilmington
CIO
United Automobile
Irwin Auger Bit Co
James McNamara
U. S
Norwalk
Arthur E. David
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Lewis
UMW
N. H. Collisson
CSTW
Sam Simmons
Bill
Desea
Trans-World Airlines
Airline Pilots Association
Kansas City
Ronnie Dixon
Ronnie
TWA
Brass
Alexander Werth
Sunday Times of
Britain
U.S. A
Baillie
F. L. Lawrence
Matthew M. Neely
Hubert St. Ellis
M. G Burnside
Huntington, & Marshall College
Jennings Randolph
Cleveland M. Bailey
Cleveland School Board
FRIF
Erie
Neely
Wallace
Harry L.sain
State Industrial Commission
Milton J. H. Grand
Abe Hauptman
Lillian Hauptman
New York City
Henry J. Haubold, Jr
Mineola
Long Island
N.Y
George Wanzon, Jr
Haubold
Wanzon
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