Truman weighs voluntary rationing and smaller grain exports
President Truman weighs committee recommendations for voluntary food rationing at home and reduced grain shipments abroad to curb soaring prices and unrest. The plan calls for a foreign export ceiling, a domestic conservation program, and strategies to boost European diets with costlier foods.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Cabinet Food Committee
Marshall
Commerce
Harriman
Agriculture
Anderson
Food Committee
State
Agriculture Departments
State Department
Congressmen Leave Greece After Greece Visit
A congressional sub committee on foreign aid left Salonika after three days in the Athens area. Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins said Greeks are sorely distressed by bandit activities, the main obstacle to economic recovery. He praised the Griswold aid mission as an excellent start likely to bring relief to Greece.
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Athens
Greece
Salonika
Thomas A. Jenkins
Rohio
U.S
Dwight P. Griswold
Columbus Area Extended Forecast Shows Cooler Midweek
The forecast calls for temperatures 4 to 6 degrees below normal with normal highs 69 to 72 and lows 48 to 51. Cooler Wednesday with little change afterward, then a warming trend for Saturday and Sunday. Precipitation around a quarter inch with scattered light showers Wednesday and again Sunday.
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Columbus
Frost Dashes Ohio Gardens with Widespread Damage
The Associated Press reports frost damaged late garden produce across Ohio after a cold front, with a statewide low of 30 degrees in Zanesville and light to heavy damage to corn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and tobacco in Gallia County where a morning frost blanketed the area.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Zanesville
Weather Bureau
Dayton
Wilmington
New Carlisle
van Kert
Ironton
Mount Vernon
Youngstown
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Columbus
Akron
Toledo
Washington Court House
Illinois
Michigan
New York
New England
Utica
N. Y
Federal Weather Bureau
Florida
Peninsula
Atlantic
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Edwin McCormick
U.S
Price Hearing Opens With 30 Witnesses in Four-Day Session
A joint congressional committee begins a four day hearing in Cleveland to inspect causes of high prices. Over 30 witnesses are slated to testify including Mrs. Joseph Zakrajsek of the Cleveland Consumer Committee, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee of the Consumers League of Ohio, Mrs. K P Williamson of the Central Area Community Council, Republic Steel president Charles M White, and CIO and Ohio Industrial Union Council reps.
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Cleveland
George H. Bender
Ohio
Mid-Continent
Joint Committee of the Economic Report
Joseph Zakrajsek
Cleveland Consumer Committee
Elizabeth Magee
Consumers League of Ohio
K. P. Williamson
Central Area Community Council
Charles M. White
Republic Steel Corp
CIO
Ohio Industrial Union Council
Bar Will Investigate Shakedown Reports
Columbus Bar Association president William Knepper ordered an inquiry to determine if any Franklin County attorney was involved in alleged shakedowns of applicants for tavern and night club permits. This follows Gov. Herbert’s directive for liquor inspectors to probe claims of an inside track in the liquor department.
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Columbus
Franklin County
William Knepper
The
Columbus Bar Association
Thomas J. Herbert
Liquor Department
Rev. Dr. A. A. Hunter Dies at 59 in Cambridge District
The Rev. Dr. A. A. Hunter, aged 59 and superintendent of the Cambridge District Methodist Church, died yesterday in Cambridge.
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Cambridge
A. A. Hunter
Methodist Church
Taft-Hartley Debate Slated At Bar Meet
At the 70th American Bar Association convention in Cleveland Labor lawyers and corporate counsels gather at Municipal Auditorium for a full debate on Taft-Hartley Act fairness. Joseph Padway and Lee Pressman expected to air union protests amid non communist affidavits and NLRB rulings.
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Cleveland
American Bar Association
Joseph A. Padway
Lee Pressman
AFL
CIO
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
ABA
NLRB
Two-Alarm Fire Injures Four At City Ice Plant
A two alarm blaze at the City Ice and Fuel Company's Broad Street plant injures three firemen and a plant worker. Fire Captain Orville Geis and Fireman Charles Link sprained ankles, Fred Streets dislocated an elbow and bruises, and Fireman Val Boehm suffers smoke effects. Night engineer Alfred Moore found the fire, traced to a power room, as the plant closes indefinitely.
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Columbus
City Ice and Fuel Company
Broad St
Orville Geis
Charles Link
Fred Streets
Harrisburg
Val Boehm
Alfred Moore
Prosecution Attacks Yacht Dynamite Story
In Santa Ana California the state pressed its case in the Louise Overell and Bud Gollum dynamite tale. They admit buying 50 pounds of blasting powder but say it was at Walter E Overell and Mrs Overell who died in the Newport Harbor yacht explosion.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
Bud Gollum
Newport Harbor
Walter E. Overell
Los Angeles
Overell
Veteran Mortar Curtis Dies From Auto Crash Injuries
Morton F. Curtis 71 a Spanish American War veteran died from injuries after an auto accident. Police said the crash occurred near Elyria and authorities report his death followed his injuries.
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Elyria
Morton F. Curtis
Father Abandons Hope Of Finding Girl Alive
Carl Green of Prospect says he will fly an air search today for his 16 year old daughter Roxie Ann who disappeared after a football game. He plans to ask fellow pilots to join the search as friends and neighbors raise funds for a reward. Investigators consider a kidnapping after no definite clues have emerged since the girl’s disappearance.
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Marion
Carl Green
Prospect
Roxie Ann
Tam
Green
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Chesterhill
Ed Fink
Right Wing Victory in Caserta Local Election
In Caserta the right wing coalition labeled the rooster list led with 7,493 votes, defeating de Gasperi's Christian Democratic Party at 3,187 and the Peoples' Block at 6,650 amid cabinet moves. Communists and socialists plan a no confidence vote, delayed by a quorumists convention.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Caserta
Interior Ministry
de Gasperi
Christian Democrat Party
Peoples
Constituent Assembly
Three Die In House Fire At Wauseon
Three visitors died from burns after a kerosene lamp exploded while lighting a fire at the Vermett home three miles north of Wauseon Ohio. The dead were Harold Vermett 30 Walter Metcalf 35 and James Hite 4. Ida Vermett 19 and Mrs Catherine Hite were injured. Fred Vermett owner was uninjured.
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Wauseon
Detwiler Hospital
Fred Vermett
Here
Albert Gyper
Harold Vermett
Walter Metcalf
James Hite
Ida Vermett
Catherine Hite
Mr. Vermett
Toys To Cost Less Boost From Boston Wholesaler Says
Boston wholesaler reports Christmas toy prices may fall up to 30 percent this year while most items rise. The distributor notes a shift away from warlike toys and notes electric trains and tree lights remain scarce. Portland area shoppers may see lower costs this season.
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Portland
Boston
Louis Block
Veteran Admits Slaying His 11 Year Old Niece
DETECTIVE CAPT. J A KELLY says George A. Neill a 22 year old war veteran has admitted killing his 11 year old niece Isabella Mallon near her Philadelphia home about two weeks ago He was arrested last night at a dairy farm near Olney Maryland
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Rockville
James A. Kelly
George A. Neill
Isabella Mallon
Philadelphia
Neill
Olney
Women’s Society Elects Youngstown Leader
Mrs. A. J. Fehr of Salem was elected president of the Women’s Missionary Society of the United Lutheran.
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Women’s Society
Youngstown
A. J. Fehr
Salem
Women’s Missionary Society
The
United Lutheran
Picketing Mothers Protest Grade School Merger in Gilpin
About 25 mothers formed picket lines around Georgetown Grade School in Gilpin Township to protest merging the third and fourth grades. One hundred sixty five pupils received a holiday as eighth graders were moved to a newer school and others returned to Georgetown.
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Leechburg
Georgetown
Gilpin Township
Group Plans Veterans Housing Site Outside Mansfield
Veterans Housing Inc formed by the local American Veterans Committee announced a 75 acre tract outside the city for home sites. The AVC group will install streets and sewers and sell lots at cost about 500 dollars each. Land purchased for 32000 dollars.
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Mansfield
Veterans Housing, Inc
American Veterans Committee
AVC
Petkov Executed In Bulgaria After Coup Plot Trial
Bulgaria hanged Agrarian leader Nikolay Petkov at Sofia central prison for plotting against the communist government. The case drew U S and British protests as Moscow declined to review the verdict. Trygve Lie urged East West reconciliation as UN tensions rise over a security body plan.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Nikola Petkov
Communist Party
U. S
Britain
Soviet Union
Petkov
Supreme Court
Agrarian Party
Hungary
Petkovy
Allied Control Commission
Russia
Moscow
NEW York
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Lie
Washington
UN Organization
New Assembly Security Committee
United States
Assembly
Marshall
Andrei Vishinsky
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Hector McNeil
Aranha
Dmitri Manuilsky
Soviet
Ukraine
Marshall Plan
Assembly Committee On Security
Boston man charged after arsenal found in Columbus room
James Mc Donald, 20, of Boston, faces burglary grand larceny and auto theft charges after detectives found an arsenal in his Columbus room. Six loaded tear gas guns a .38 pistol an empty tear gas gun a dagger and license plates were part of the haul. He was linked to Virgil Curry 24 captured by Ashland Kentucky police last Tuesday.
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Columbus
James McDonald
Boston
Mass
Stacy Hall
McDonald
Ohio
Connecticut
Hall
Virgil Curry
Ashland
Magnesium Fire Destroys Niles Firebrick Plant
A magnesium fire last night burned through the Niles Firebrick Co plant two blocks from downtown. Fire Chief James Swoger put damages at about 100000 dollars as thousands of rubber tires were coated by burning magnesium during the blaze.
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Niles, O
Niles Firebrick Co
James Swoger
Dutch Ready To Halt Action in Indonesia
The Netherlands government indicated it was prepared to halt military action in Indonesia if a peaceful settlement to the dispute with the Indonesian Republic could be achieved.
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Indonesia
Hague
Netherlands
133rd Annual Supreme Council Opens in Cincinnati
The 135th annual meeting of the Supreme Council 33rd Degree Masons opens today in the Scottish Rite Auditorium. About 1,800 delegates from across the nation and foreign countries attend as discussions may compare communism and democracy in theory and practice. Dr. Melvin M. Johnson of Boston reports as sovereign grand commander.
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Cincinnati
Supreme Council
Scottish Rite of Free Masonry
Melvin M. Johnson
Boston
Smoking in Bed Fatal To Newark Resident
Ira Willey aged 46 died in Newark Hospital from burns after he fell asleep while smoking in bed. City Detective Henry Hall, living nearby, forced entry when he saw smoke from Willey residence and rescued him before seeking medical help.
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Newark
Ira Willey
Henry Hall
Willey
U S Demands Return of Three Captured Soldiers
Trieste United States Troops Headquarters seeks immediate return of First Lt. William Van Atten and two enlisted men, Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick Jr. and Pfc. Glen A. Myers, said to have been forced across the Yugoslav border during a mounted patrol. Two other soldiers, Pfc. Edison T. Lenhart and Pvt. George E. Perry, reported the incident.
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Trieste
United States Army
Trieste Free Territory
Frontier
U. S
Triste
Jling
Free Territory
William van Atten
East Orange
N. J
Earl G. Hendrick, Jr
Arlingeton
Glen A. Myers
Edgeley
N. D
van Atten
Gorizia
Pattol
Edison T. Lenhart
Southbury
Conn
George E. Perry
Fort Thomas
351St Regiental
Goriano
United States Troops
Petition Seeks Special Primary Registrations In Ohio
In Lima Ohio the third district appellate court considered a petition to force election boards in the fourth district to accept registrations for a special primary on October 7. Anthony Bowers of the Allen County Republican Veterans Club argued Governor Herbert’s proclamation made it a special election. Attorney General Hugh Jenkins said registration lists close after September 8 due to a general election law.
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Lima
Third District Appellate Court
Fourth Congressional District
Anthony Bowers
Allen County Republican Veterans Club
Thomas J. Herbert
Hugh Jenkins
Grain Futures Rally Lifts July Wheat on Opening
Grain futures opened strong on the Board of Trade with July wheat up as much as 5% cents per bushel. December wheat quoted around 2.68 to 2.69 dollars, corn and oats advance while soybeans remain steady. November soybeans near 3.22 dollars.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Pilotless Air Force Transport Makes Hop Across Atlantic
The four engine C 54 nicknamed The Big Push flew 2400 miles from Stephenville Newfoundland to Brize Norton England with no human hand on the controls after start. A nine man crew and five passengers observed as the craft used push button automation to takeoff and navigate via automatic direction finders and guide ships. The flight is part of a broader Air Force study into all weather flying and reducing human error in cockpit operations.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Stephenville
N.F
Brize Norton
England
Air Force
Clinton County
Wilmington
Mitchell Field
L.1
D.C
Andrews Field
Long Beach
Calif
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Kentucky
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33Rd Degree Masons
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