Wallace clash over foreign policy tops Washington scene
Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace faces a bitter clash with the State Department over policies toward Russia after his New York speech. President Truman upholds Wallace right to speak while signaling no policy change. Unclear whether a cabinet crisis looms as Byrnes and Wallaces forces prepare for further sessions. In Tokyo 60000 members of Japan’s industrial unions walk out in protest. In London a freight train killed 83 year old Edward E. Breenan.
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Washington
Henry Wallace
New York
State Department
Byrnes
Wallace
White House
Lst
Truman
Kus
Clayton
Charles G. Ross
Secretary of Commerce
Russia
State Byrnes
Congressional Teaders
Mr. Truman
Trueman
Commerce Department
Bombay Riots Renewed Amid Fresh Violence
One killed and eight injured in renewed communal rioting in Bombay today raising two week casualties to 238 dead and 790 injured. Weekend disorders killed ten and left 44 hurt in Bombay and elsewhere with Ahmedabad suffering three deaths and eight injuries. A 24 hour curfew was imposed in disturbed areas to curb further violence.
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Bombay
Ahmedabad
Episcopalians Resume Talks At Conference
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the U S A resumes its 55th triennial general convention after a Sabbath pause. Key actions awaited include electing a presiding bishop to succeed St George Tucker, revising marriage and divorce canons, and finalizing the merger proposal with the Presbyterian Church in the USA. The House of Bishops approved a canon modification allowing divorced members to remarry at the diocesan bishop or ecclesiastical court's discretion.
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Philadelphia
Protestant Episcopal Church
St. George Tucker
Presbyterian Church In
USA
House of Bishops
Ohio Jobless Ranks Shrink to 1946 Lows
Ohio's unemployment rolls fell to their smallest level since January 1946 as applications and benefits dropped sharply. Civilians left the rolls faster than veterans, with veterans eligible for longer payments and housing shortages hitting them hardest.
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Columbus
Firm Lockout Closes Carnegie Mills. Twelve Bandits Killed
Gary Ind reports Carnegie Illinois Steel sheet and tin mills idle due to clerical strike or company rockout. Local United Steel Workers picket lines formed around plants. In Greece, Athens reports 12 bandits killed in skirmishes as bridges destroyed and telegraph poles cut, amid Leftist efforts to disrupt lines. A hand grenade thrown at a police patrol caused no casualties.
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Carnegie Steel Mills
Gary
Ind
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation
Rockout
U. S. Steel
United Steelworkers
Athens
Ministry of Public Order Today
Kalabaka
Ioannian
Con
Greece
First Mail Sorting Aboard Plane Slated
Clerks will sort mail aboard a plane for the first time in America’s postal service history on Sept. 25 when a “flying post office” takes off from Washington for Dayton Ohio. The experimental flight aims to test whether this mail service should be widened.
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Washington
vPi
America
Postal Service
Daston
Voters to Decide 21 Levies in Trumbull County
As the filing deadline neared, Trumbull County residents faced at least 21 levy measures on the November ballot. Sixteen target school purposes, while four bond issues seek 2,558,000 for operating, recreational and school needs.
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Warren
Trumbull County
U S Courts Report Record Divorce Cases
Washington report shows U S courts produced a record high divorce rate in 1945 with about 502000 marriages ending in divorce. The divorce to marriage ratio rose 25.5 percent over 1944, the previous peak year, as the nation’s courts logged nearly one third as many divorces as marriages.
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Washington
Federal Securiy Agency
Johnny Neblett Dies In Sunday Plane Crash
Chicago radio announcer Johnny Neblett 33 producer of So the Story Goes was killed when his BT-13 Navy trainer crashed on Tom O Shanter golf course in suburban Wiles. Also notes WWI artillery reunion ends with Cleveland chosen for next year and Beloit man Donnell Woods 24 killed in a car crash near Alliance.
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Chicago
Johnny Neblett
Tom O'Shanter
Wiles
Beloit
Alliance
Donnell R. Woods
Connally Demands Trieste Be Made True Free State
Senator Connally urged the peace conference to establish Trieste as a truly free state independent of Yugoslavia and Italy. He argued the agreement should honor Trieste’s freedom as a symbol of peace while Yugoslav officials pushed for a Yugoslav customs and diplomatic framework under Big Four governance.
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Trieste
Free State
Paris
Tom Connally
V. M. Molotov
Yugoslavia
Italy
Foreign Ministers Council
Texas
Edvard Kardelj
Mediterranean Sea
Kardelj
United States
Britain
Mediterranean
Russia
Rubber Union Plans Demand at Convention
SAN FRANCISCO The United Rubber Workers of America CIO will press at the convention opening today for immediate reopening of contract negotiations with the big four rubber companies. George R. Bass president of Ak ron local 5 said his local would demand raises to offset a 50 percent rise in living costs since last February and that his union would lead the wage discussion.
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San Francisco
United Rubber Workers of America
CIO
George R. Bass
Akron
Labor Board Directs Massillon Firm Vote
The National Labor Relations Board directs an election among Grisom-Russell Co. Massillon employees to decide if they want representation by Office Em ployes International Union Local 2 AFL for collective bargaining. Injuries are fatal in Youngstown as B Frank Wilson, 49, dies from automobile crash injuries.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Grisom-Russell Co
Massillon
Youngstown
Frank Wilson
Ried
Squatters Get Eight Day Stay In London Case
Five Communist leaders charged with conspiring to organize a squatters invasion of vacant London luxury apartments were granted an eight day stay of arraignment. Prosecutor H A K Morgan said he would not proceed today and the hearing was postponed to September 24. Four of the accused are London municipal officials. They were freed on continuance bond posted last week.
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London
H. A. K. Morgan
Holdup Suspects Held After Hit-Skip Crash
In Cincinnati suburban Norwood two men matching a Baltimore robbery description were arrested after a hit and run near a police station. Identified as Donald Frank, 23, and Robert Franck, 24, from Baltimore, they are held on traffic charges awaiting Baltimore authorities.
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Cincinnati
Norwoon
Baltimore
Mad
Donald Frank
Robert Franck
Tito Seizes American Factory in Yugoslavia
The Standard Times reports Marshal Tito seized an American owned factory in Yugoslavia and failed to regain it. J A Moffett of Corn Products Refining Co. in New York says Tito expropriated the plant after hostilities ended.
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New Bedford
Mass
The
Standard Times
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
J. A. Moffett
Foreign Department of Corn Products Refining Co
New York
Guamanians Blame Vet For Japanese Torture
A Guam group led by a Catholic priest protested Navy Lt. George Ray Tweed for alleged indirect blame in the wartime torture and deaths of Father Duenas and four Guamanians during the 31 month Japanese occupation. Tweed, who dodged pursuers and later received a 1946 Chevrolet from Antomo Artern, expressed gratitude to locals who aided his survival and said he could not award cars to all.
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Guam
Navy
George Ray Tweed
Tweed
Antomo Artern
Oscar Salvo
Robinson Crusoe Usn
Father Duenas
Father Salvo
Freight Cars At Low Level Signal Narrow Supply Crisis
The nation faces a severe freight car shortage with about 75,000 cars per week needed for October, according to Magazine Steel. The report warns shortages are already emerging in industry with no relief in sight and cites a lack of components hindering repairs and new car construction.
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Cleveland
Steel
Hocking County Seeks 18678 for Veterans Housing
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced six more counties applied for veterans housing funds totaling 4 204 522 bringing current counties to 51. Hocking County requested 18678 in the latest round for veterans housing.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Veterans Housing
Hocking County
Threats Rise as NMU Plans Wider Port Walkout Nationwide
The National Maritime Union threatens intensified port walkouts and mass pickets in New York as talks collapse over wage parity with AFL seamen. Joseph Curran, NMU president, termed the employers move a lockout and urged government intervention to force a contract matching AFL increases.
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CIO National Maritime Union
New York
National Maritime Union
NMU
Atlantic
Gulf
Curran
Joseph Curran
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
CIO
Independent
Marine Firemen’s Union
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
Seafarers International Union
Truman
AFL
Twenty four rescued as tanker splits in two offshore
NORFOLK VA UP Twenty four Norwegian seamen were rescued two days after their motor tanker Marit split in half in hurricane seas 148 miles off the North Carolina coast. Coast Guard planes and cutters pressed a search for 14 or more missing men while the Agassiz steamed the area. Survivors said three more may be alive on a raft and 19 of the crew perished.
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Norfolk
Atlantic
North Carolina
U. S
Coast Guard
Agassiz
J. R. Scullion
Norfolk Coast Guard
Air-Sea Rescue Division
Theship
Bevin Calls Jewish Plan Workable at Palestine Conference
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the Palestine Conference that the British American plan for federalizing the Holy Land into four provinces with limited autonomy is workable and could lead to a final solution. The 90 minute address responded to Arab criticisms of federalization. Three Jewish Agency executives flew to Paris for a committee meeting, with talks possibly involving Jewish participation in the London conference.
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Ernest Bevin
Palestine Conference Today
Holy Land
Britain
Jewish Agency
Paris
Selig Brodetski
Beryl Locker
Dr. Nahum Goldman
Washington
Agency
Arc Welding Paper Wins Prize In Foundatio n Program
Cleveland report: Harold E. Gurvin of Forestville New York won the James L Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation award 3964 for a paper titled Arc Welding on the Farm. He also received six 250 scholarships to Cornell University as part of the agricultural program.
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Cleveland
Harold E. Gurvin
Forestville
James L. Lincoln
Arc’ Welding Foundation
Cornell University
Warren County Fair liquor enforcement to be enforced
Lebanon police chief W. H. Fulkerth and Sheriff Gerald W. Cowden announced that a 58 year old state law banning sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles of a county fair will be enforced during the Warren County Fair opening tomorrow.
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Lebanon
Warren
W. H. Fulkerth
Gerald W. Cowden
Black Market Leader Captured in U.S. Raid
American troops raided a Polish displaced persons camp at Wetzlar and broke up a gang of looters, black marketeers, and bootleggers. The leader is suspected of killing 43 Germans and three Americans, according to the U.S. constabulary.
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Frankfurt
Germany
cPi
United Nations Group Seeks Full Financial Support for Refugee Program
The American delegation urged the United Nations Economic and Social Council to provide full funding for a proposed refugee program. Russia and several other nations had tentatively rejected the plan, prompting the appeal.
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United Nations Group
Lake Suumos
United Nations Economies and Social Council
Russia
Antique Auto for Sale Draws Five Inquiries in Cleveland
A 1917 Winton offered for Sale at 250 drew five prospects. Louis Fabre, owner of the museum piece, said the car had been in storage 21 of its 29 years. In Kentucky, Robert C. Mercer, 44, of Bainbridge, died after fainting and being crushed by a road roller near Maysville.
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Cleveland
Maysville
Cpi
Robert C. Mercer
Bainbridge
Here
City Officials Seek Barracks at Patterson Field
Dayton city officials consider barracks at Patterson Field to house 500 families from four federal housing projects after letters from Charleton D. Putnam of the Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority said their incomes render them ineligible for current apartments.
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Dayton
Patterson Field
Charlton D. Putnam
Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority
Air Show Paratrooper Dies In Jump At Bowling Green
Gordon Lahman, 18, of Eagle Rock California, died after leaping 3,000 feet during a Flying Tiger Air Circus show in Bowling Green. A verse reading The Paratrooper's Prayer was found in his clothing, with the line Glory Glory, what a helluva way to die. This is my last jump.
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Bowling Green
Gordon Lahman
Eagle Rock
Calif
Flying Tiger Air Circus
Call for Wallace Resignation Over Cabinet Foreign Policy
SAM SIMMONS criticizes Henry Wallace for endorsing a foreign policy speech. He argues the president should distance the cabinet member from national policy, urging Wallace to resign to heal divisions and restore credibility after the fence conference debacle.
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