Senate OKs Military Pay Boosts and Executive Raises
The Senate approved military pay raises totaling about 300 million dollars annually and moved to act on a House-approved cabinet member pay boost. A compromise among 34 senators would cap executive raises, with cabinet pay up to 22,500 and White House aides limited to 15,000, while the president could employ two at 20,000 and three at 18,000.
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Truman
House
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Lucas
Illinois
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D-Ariz
White House
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Stephen Early
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Roosevelt
Senate Civil Service Committee
New Trial Date Set For Accused Slayer
Cecil Yankey 41 of Greenfield will face a new murder trial opening Oct 21. He has served 30 months of a life sentence for the 1947 Greenfield robbery slaying of Leroy Woodland 71 after regaining freedom earlier that year. The appeal rested on being sentenced by one judge instead of three.
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Cecil Yankey
Greenfield
Yankey
Ohio Penitentiary
Leroy Woodland
Federal Tax Overhaul Has Priority for 1950 Action
Washington AP reports a general revision of federal tax laws being made a top 1950 priority by Congress. Some expect new taxes to balance the budget while others foresee possible reductions in wartime excises. Speaker Rayburn announced the focus to clear the way for Ways and Means to tackle revisions, with deficit financing criticized and a call for a balanced budget. Doughton urged modest spending cuts and selective tax increases, favoring reductions in war excises that burden business.
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House
Rayburn
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Ways
Doughton
D-Nc
Pork Prices Slide In Ohio As Meat Runs Increase
Ohio pork prices fell across several cities with Cleveland seeing cuts up to 20 to 25 cents per pound and Central Ohio down as much as 10 cents. Merchants attributed the drop to heavy hog and cattle runs to packing houses and a forecast rise in receipts due to abundant corn.
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Ohio
American Meat Institute
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
West Virginia
Mount Vernon
Springfield
Non-Union Mines Open Pickets Held Across Western PA
Western Pennsylvania non-union mines reopened as the national coal strike continued. State police arrested 17 pickets around the Wingert mine in Clarion County, amid injunctions against mass picketing. About 250 miners returned to work around Clearfield as troopers patrolled to curb violence.
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Sligo
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West Virginia
Gilmer County
Independents Leave Noble County Mines
Six coal mines in Nobles County closed after 19 auto loads of men swayed about 800 workers to resign. Mine owners blamed independent or non-union members for the walkout and said closures would stand until further notice. Meanwhile 16,000 United Mine Workers members statewide struck over welfare fund payments. In Tuscarawas County, UMW members forced coal truckers to unload loads, with sheriff and state police keeping routes clear.
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Nobles County
Ohio
United Mine Workers Union
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Taxation Held Threat To Socialize America
Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio warned that taxation could socialize America. He told the Pennsylvania Medical Society that well over a quarter of national income goes to taxes at all government levels, citing costs of $2.5 billion in 1913 and $60 billion in the previous year.
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America
Clarence Brown
Ohio
Brown
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Cooperative Raises Funds for Oleo Fight in Ohio
The Northern Ohio Breeders Cooperative raised 12550 dollars Monday from auctioning 63 donated heifers in Tiffin to support the Ohio Dairy Welfare Committee in the campaign against colored oleo margarine at the November election. About two thousand people attended the sale and exhibit.
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Ohio Dairy Welfare Committee
Transport Takes Off On Long Atlantic Flight
Col. Bernt Balchen launched a nonstop flight in a U S Air Force transport from Sola Norway to Washington. He was accompanied by Brig. Gen. Frank A Armstrong and four other U S airmen who had flown from Alaska to Norway the previous week.
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Frank A. Armstrong
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Stop Sign Height Dispute Yields No Damages
In Columbus a traffic damage suit failed after a jury refused damages over a stop sign with letters five inches high. The case argued the sign must display at least six inches high to be legally binding under Ohio law.
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Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Horstman to Host Breakfast Meeting with Ohio Congressmen
Washington reports Albert A. Horstman Democratic national committeeman for Ohio plans a breakfast here Thursday with his state's congressmen to discuss party affairs and strategy.
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Albert A. Horstman
Ohio
Laborite Support Seen On Devaluation Issue
London report says Labour members of Parliament decided to back Prime Minister Attlee over the pound devaluation. The caucus lasting two hours and twenty minutes followed by Cripps raising a profits tax to offset inflation. Liberal MPs plan to oppose the government. The TUC declined to endorse devaluation and will discuss the issue further.
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Stafford Cripps
Britain
Attlee
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TUC General Council
Cripps
Commons
Inn Razing Postponed by Court Order in Ohio
In Halls Corners Ohio Judge John R King of Franklin County Common Pleas Court halted the Fire Marshal s order to raze the Jungle Inn buildings as a firetrap after a liquor raid. The injunction delays public use but keeps the ban until the appeal is heard with no date set for the hearing.
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Man Falls From Skiff Drowns in Ohio River
EAST LIVERPOOL Pa Ralph Lowe 28 of West Bridgewater Pa drowned early today in the Ohio River after falling from a skiff returning to the Iron City Sand and Gravel dredgeboat Elizabeth Pheil. Coroner Ern est Sturgislaine William Desper and Herbert Clark had been visiting and began the trip back about 1 a m Desper also fell into the water but got back into the skiff.
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Ralph Lowe
West Bridgewater
Ohio River
Iron City Sand & Gravel Co
Elizabeth Pheil
Columbiana County
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William Desper
Herbert Clark
Desper
Jimmy Dorsey Divorce Granted to Wife Jane
In Los Angeles Jane Dorsey wins an uncontested divorce from bandleader Jimmy Dorsey after twenty one years of marriage. She testified that he was cruel and would smash any records by rival musicians brought into the home.
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Jimmy Dorsey
Jane
Columbus Mayor Gets Vet Leader's Support
Frederic D. Stanton national vice commander of the American Veterans of World War II says he is forming Rhodes for Governor clubs in Columbus to back James A. Rhodes in the 1950 Republican gubernatorial primary. Rhodes has not yet announced his candidacy.
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Rhodes
James A. Rhodes
Frederic D. Stanton
the American Veterans of World War II
Fate of Tokyo Rose Toguri Still in Jury Hands
The fate of Iva Toguri D Aquino known as Tokyo Rose remains undecided as the San Francisco treason trial jury, six men and six women, retires for the night after 8 hours 48 minutes of deliberation. She is charged with wartime broadcasts aimed at lowering U S troop morale and faced a possible penalty from five years to death.
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Iva Toguri D’aquino
Tokyo
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United States
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Russia Seen Far Behind On Atom
Senator O Mahoney said Russia lacks industrial know how and facilities to stockpile bombs. He argued basic science is not secret but bomb making is. Senator Hickenlooper claimed AEC lax security aided Russia, a charge McMahon rejected citing no evidence.
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Washington
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Iowa
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Soviet Uranium Mine Claimed Near Mansfield Saxony
Berlin based newspapers report Russia opened a new uranium mine in former silver mines at Mansfield near Elseben Saxony on Sept 21 under Russian engineers. More than 1000 German miners work there. It is said to be the second Russian uranium source in Eastern Germany with additional workers at Aue near the Czechoslovak border.
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Taft Tours Ohio Counties Meets Voters on 100 Day Campaign
U S Senator Robert A Taft campaigned through two Ohio River counties as part of his 100 day Buckeye State tour. He spoke at a noon Legion Hall luncheon in West Union and planned meetings in Portsmouth before a junior chamber dinner. He defended the Arms Aid Bill and urged building the US air force citing Russia's atomic bomb progress.
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Russia
Western
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Strike Ends for 175 Chrysler Mechanics in Cleveland Area
Five month strike by 175 auto mechanics at 15 Greater Cleveland Ford agencies ends today. Workers reached an agreement with Ford officials averting further action.
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Greater
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Officer Held In Shooting Of Mother
George W. Gressock a 31 year old Garfield Heights private patrolman was jailed on charges after shooting his 63 year old mother Elizabeth Gressock four times in their Cleveland area home. Det. Harold C. Lockwood said the motive centered on alleged drinking and nagging. Gressock later told police I just shot my mother and no charges were filed yet.
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Harold C. Lockwood
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Russians To Free Cyclists in Germany
Two young American cyclists Warren Declsner and Peter Sellers have been held in Russian custody for over six weeks. They will be released tomorrow and turned over to Delaner’s father in Hamburg for return to the United States according to U S officials.
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U. S
John J. McCloy
Warren Declsner
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Forest Fire Threatens Oregon Coastal Towns
A mile wide forest fire crawled down a mountainside menacing two Oregon coastal towns with residents rushing to move. Farm families in another Oregon region were evacuated last night as flames spread. In California, Truckee faced a major forest fire with all available forces deployed as the blaze neared two miles from town.
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Truckee
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Union and Steelworkers Resume Bargaining
In Pittsburgh the CIO United Steelworkers and steel companies opened talks on a pension dispute with the threat of a nationwide strike at 12:01 a m Saturday. Only one offer came from a steel company and was rejected.
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CIO
United Steelworkers
Extended Forecast for Columbus Sept 28 to Oct 2
Five day period forecast for Columbus shows temperatures near normal with a high around 70 and a low near 50. Cooler on Wednesday with rain expected as light showers Tonight Wednesday and again Friday and Saturday totaling about 0.1 to 0.25 inches. Riging returns Saturday and Sunday.
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113 Billion Program Proposed
A Senate House conference approved a large overseas arms program totaling about 1.814 billion dollars, boosting aid to NATO partners and Asia. The measure, which diverged from the House’s 869 million figure, includes targeted sums for Greece Turkey Korea and the Philippines, with immediate 125 million in aid to Western Europe and 450 million in surplus arms shipment authorization.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
B 29 Crashes In Oklahoma Amid 14 Aboard
TALTHINA Oklahoma crash killed 10 to 14 crew as flames blocked rescue. plane from Smoky Hill Base had taken off on a training flight. Oklahoma City officials counted bodies near wreckage on a wooded hill despite intense heat and gasoline spread. Mexico City rescue teams searched Popocatepetl slopes for an airliner missing with 24 aboard.
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Oklahoma
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Bishop
Ora Dili
Mexico City
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Robbers Slug Slovenian Leader Grdina in Cleveland Heist
In Cleveland two armed assailants slugged 75 year old Anton Grdina, a Slovenian leader and president of the North American Bank, robbed him of 207000 in non negotiable checks as he entered the Union Bank of Commerce. The thieves fled with his brown leather satchel.
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Anton Grdina
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North American Bank
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