Worst Factional War Opens CIO Convention
Cleveland AP The CIO opens its 11th convention amid a bitter factional split with left wing leadership under fire. Ouster of at least three unions looms as right wing seeks to purge a dozen unions, while President Murray weighs preserving unity and potential rival federations. Key unions UE FE and Farm Equipment Workers face possible removal. Reuther leads the resolutions committee shaping the action.
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Cleveland
CIO
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
Sidney Hillman
Murray
Harry Bridges
United Electrical Workers
CIA
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
Ohioan Asks New Trial In Slaying
In Harrisville West Virginia 79 year old William Alfred Blackford of Coal Run Ohio seeks a new trial after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the July death of his sister 62 year old Cleopatra Cunningham. The jury deliberated six hours and a sentence of one to five years was imposed. Blackford filed the motion before Circuit Judge Max De Berry noting disputed testimony about the alibi and last sighting.
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Harrisville
W. Va
William Alfred Blackford
Coal Run
Ohio
Max de Berry
Cleopatra Cunningham
Navy to mothball 73 ships to trim next year budget
The navy will lay up 31 warships and 42 other vessels to meet a reduced spending target of 1 billion dollars for the next fiscal year starting July 1. By next July the fleet will total 237 combat ships, down from 268, with carriers and escorts reshaped while preserving the Midway Franklin D Roosevelt Coral Sea and the Missouri battleship.
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Washington
Congress
Navy
Missouri
Pay Hikes Set For Thousands In Ohio
Congress passed and Ohio federal workers gained pay boosts this session. Civil service and postal employees, Veterans Administration staff not in civil service, and armed services members saw raises. A new minimum wage law increased interstate workers pay from 40 to 75 cents an hour, with blue collar government workers likely to gain as wage boards set regional rates.
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Washington
Congress
Teen theft suspect wounded in downtown Columbus chase
A 16 year old auto theft suspect was shot in the shoulder and captured by police after a downtown chase on Monday in Columbus.
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Columbus
ECA Demands Free Trade From Marshall Plan Nations
Paris report says Paul Hoffman warned Western Europe to eliminate tariff barriers and unify currency controls to secure more aid. He urged rapid integration into a single economic unit and warned that failure would bring disaster and poverty. He praised two years of progress in industrial and agricultural recovery.
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Paris
Paul G. Hoffman
Europe
U. S. Congress
U. S
Hoffman
Noted Engineer Dies Inventor of Ship Turbine
Charles Volney Kerr, 88, noted mechanical engineer who pioneered the first steam turbine used in merchant ships, died in Los Angeles. A Miami County Ohio native, he taught at Arkansas Industrial University in Fayetteville and Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. He led Kerr Auxiliary Co. of Chicago and the National Pump and Motor Co.
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Los Angeles
Charles Volney Kerr
Miami County
Ohio
Arkansas Industrial University
Fayetteville, Ark
Armour Institute of Technology
Chicago
Kerr Auxiliary Co
National Pump and Motor ‘0
Farmer May Lose More of Food Dollar
The Agriculture Department says the farmer may lose three more cents of the consumer's food dollar in 1970. The average share could drop from 49 cents this year to 46 cents next year, after peaking at 54 cents during wartime and dipping below 40 cents in the 1930s.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
New British Navy Fighter Crashes Into Homes in Yeovil
A Royal Navy fighter crashed into two connected houses in Yeovil England on Monday. The pilot and a child and a woman were injured in the explosion. Authorities report a rescue operation is underway and investigators will review the incident.
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Yeovil
Eng
Chid
Jackson County Crash Kills Columbus Boy
Two year old Stephen Ross Durban of Columbus dies from a punctured lung after a Jackson County auto collision. Six others injured including driver George F. Pullins charged with unsafe vehicle operation. Wife and other passengers hurt. Patrol notes multiple Route 35 crashes and a river body later found near Dam 37 in Kentucky.
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Gallipolis
Stephen Ross Durban
Columbus
Jackson County
State Highway Patrol
George F. Pullins
Steve Thomas
Thurman
Jasine Thomas
Gloria Patricia Durban
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Pullins
W. A. Ridenour
Jackson
Associated Press Today
John Alexander Nash
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
Loose Gravel Blamed for Bridge Wrecks in Route 7
State Highway Patrol attributes a Route 7 bridge accident to loose gravel at a Chester approach. A four person car overturned and burned. one injured child, Barbara Ellen Imboden of Tridelphia, W V. Faces cuts treated by a Pomeroy doctor. Other drivers from Rita W V and Charleston WV also wrecked in same spot recent nights. Loose stone on temporary road links blame.
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Pomeroy
Chester Bridge
State Highway Patrol
Route 7
Barbara Ellen Imboden
Tridelphia
W. Va
Harold Laudermilk
Barbara Ellen
Clarence Imboden
West Virginia
John B. Cook
Rita
Marlin Evans
Charleston
Fordham Seismograph Records Severe Earthquake Far From New York
A Fordham University seismograph Sunday night detected a fairly severe earthquake about 2900 miles from New York City in an undetermined direction.
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New York
Fordham University
New York City
Toledo Man Kills Wife and Mother-in-Law
Detroit police say a Toledo businessman confessed after driving to Detroit to tell his daughter he killed his wife and mother-in-law with a hammer. He claimed an impulse lasting weeks and told officers I couldn't resist.
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Toledo
Detroit
John A. Harding
Robert Goodhand
Sherman Poised for Top Naval Job Amid Denfeld Exit Rumors
London reports Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman could become chief of naval operations as Admiral Louis Denfeld faces possible retirement. Secretary Matthews may submit a nomination to President Truman soon with decisions on Denfeld’s future due over the weekend or early next week.
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London
Forrest P. Sherman
Washington
Sherman
Mediterranean
Louis BE. Denfeld
Denfeld
Matthews
Eastern Sea Frontier
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Richard L. Conolly
Atlantic
W. H. P. Bilandy
Blandy
Atlantic Fleet
Streamliner Jumps Tracks Near Azusa
The Santa Fe luxury all coach streamliner derailed at 60 mph in Azusa California after hitting a broken rail. The leading locomotive overturned and caught fire, several hundred feet of track were damaged, five cars left the rails, and 206 passengers were aboard. One passenger Edna Mae Mitchell 40 Kansas City Missouri suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized in Covina. All but three of the 17 injured were released by night.
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Azusa
Calif
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Chicago
Edna Mae Mitchell
Kansas City
Covina Hospital
Lone Survivor of Damned Jacksonboro Dies in Georgia
Oliver Ga reports the death of Richard Bryant a 95 year old ex Negro slave once living in Jacksonboro the cursed town destroyed by fire flood and wind after Lorenzo Dow prophecy. Born into slavery in the Goodall homestead he witnessed the town's downfall and relocation to Sylvania near Beaver Creek.
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Oliver, Ga
Jacksonsboro
Beaver Creek
Richard Bryant
Lorenzo Dow
Bryant
Sylvania
Jacksonboro
Augusta
Savannah
Sodom
Gomorrah
Goodall
Sherman
Richard
Ian Old Hound
UMW Chief Denies Dictatorship Amid Coal Strike Tensions
John L. Lewis, leader of the United Mine Workers, rejects being a dictator and says he speaks for the union’s delegates. He hints at possible renewed action affecting Western bituminous and hard coal miners as 380,000 soft coal workers remain idle and warns of a long, strong fight.
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Scranton
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
John Mitchell
Lewis
George Love
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Prof. Addicott, 81, Long Ohio Univ Educator Dies
Lewis J. Addicott, 81, longtime Ohio University faculty member and former civil engineering head, died Sunday at his home after a brief illness. He helped organize OU's civil engineering department in 1904, directed library and building projects, served on Athens boards, and held church and professional roles.
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Lewis J. Addicott
Ohio University
Elmwood Place
Athens
Orwell
Ashtabula County
Addicott
New Lyme Institute
Orwell Schools
Case School of Applied Science
Case
American Society For Civil Engineers
American Association of University Professors
Babies Born to Paralyzed Women in Cincinnati
Two women affected by infantile paralysis became mothers over the weekend in Cincinnati. Mary Jean Pennington, 30, wife of Hal Pennington, an insurance man and former Xavier football star, gave birth to a seven pound seven ounce boy. Betty Willer, 36, wife of English professor William H. Willer at Xavier University, delivered a six pound six ounce girl.
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Cincinnati
Mary Jean Pennington
Hal Pennington
Xavier University
Betty Willer
William H. Willer
Labor Plans Drives For Southern Members
AFL and CIO launch new organizing drives in the South to recruit union members and voters. The two groups see fertile organizing ground as industry moves southward and the threat of atomic bombings spurs dispersion of manufacturing plants.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
South
Dixie
Stettinius Dies at 49 in Greenwich Home
U. S. official and early U.N. figure Edward R. Stettinius Jr. died at 7:30 a.m. at the Greenwich home of his sister Mrs. Juan Trippe. He had heart trouble since spring and collapsed in bed. he served as wartime lend lease administrator and secretary of state when the United Nations formed.
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Greenwich
Conn
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Lend-Lease
U. 8S
United Nations
Stettinius
U. S. Steel Corp
U. N
University of Virginia
U.N. Post
Juan Trippe
Trippe
Pan-American World Airways
Nazi Germany
General Motors
U. S. Steel
Myron C. Taylor
State Liquor Scandal Seen By Senator Mechem
Senator C Stanley Mechem of Nelsonville, a Senate Liquor Committee member, warned of a potential second liquor scandal under Gov. Lausche if hall ment buying is dropped. He cited the shift from bailment to wasteful stockpiling by Lausche’s administration, noting a $3.5 million net loss to the general revenue.
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C. Stanley Mechem
Nelsonville
Senate Liquor Committee
Frank Lausche
Department of Liquor Control
Oscar L. Fleckner
Mechem
Lausche
General Revenue Fund
Man survives fall off 80 foot cliff near Scioto River
Joy Johnson a 33 year old candy salesman was rescued after tumbling from an 8 foot cliff into trees and brush along the Scioto River in Columbus. Deputy sheriffs rowed a stretcher 200 yards upstream in a boat to reach him and take him to safety. He is in critical condition after the fall from a motel grill area prior to the plunge.
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Columbus
Joy Johnson
Scioto River
Johnson
Protestant Churches To Help Refugees Bethlehem Appeal Seeks Funds
Protestant churches nationwide will be asked to donate during the winter holidays to aid Near East refugees. Church World Service will form a Bethlehem appeal committee to raise money for refugees in Bethlehem and surrounding areas. Funds will provide food clothing education recreation and spiritual leadership.
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New York
Near East
Church World Service, Inc
Bethlehem
Settlement In Steel Held Near
Washington reports a rumor of near settlement in steel and coal strikes. CIO leaders hint at a possible end while government mediators push talks in steel and coal to Washington. Cyrus Ching meets with major steel firms to explore employer paid pension plans and a possible wage boost next spring.
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Washington
CIO
Cleveland
Phillip Murray
Murray
Steel
John L. Lewis
Cyrus
Ching
U.S. Steel Corp
Steel Firma
West Virginia
Ing Miners Union
Northern and Western
Lewis’ Union
Southern
Republic, Jones & Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Philip Murray
Mrs Hadley To Wed Veep Barkley
Vice-President Alben W. Barkley, 71, will wed Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley, 38, a widow who he courted for nearly four months. The marriage is set for November 18 in St. Louis with a simple ceremony likely at a local Methodist church. The couple met July 8 during a visit to Washington.
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St, Louis
Alben W. Barkley
Carleton S. Hadley
Memorial services held for 20 dead in Donora smog tragedy
Memorial services were held Sunday for 20 people who died after a smog blanketed the Monongahela River Valley a year earlier.
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Donora
Monongahela River
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