Steel Union Weighs Last Try To Avert National Strike
Pittsburgh report says CIO and steel executives, aided by federal mediators, sought a pension insurance compromise to avert a nationwide strike. Union leader Philip Murray hinted at a tough stance as 500000 workers faced a looming walkout.
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Pittsburgh
Big Steel
CIO
Gulf
Philip Murray
United Steelworkers
William N. Margolis
Federal Mediation and Conciliation
U. S. Steel
Murray
Truman
Fact Finding Board
Portsmouth
Ohio
Cyrus Eaton
Cleveland
Henry Kaiser
Tokyo Rose Convicted For Leyte Broadcast
In San Francisco, Iva Toguri D Aquirio known as Tokyo Rose was found guilty of treason for a 1944 Leyte Gulf broadcast claiming American ships were sunk and soldiers were orphans. A six by six jury deliberated four days, sentencing set for October 6 with possible penalties from five years and $10,000 to death.
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San Francisco
Ivan Toguri D'Aquino
Leyte Gulf
Pacific
Iva
Los Angles
John Mann
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
Kenkichi Oki
Color Is Hard To Send Cable TV Experts Tell FCC
The FCC studied a major broadcaster's report that relay of color television nationwide is difficult or impossible with current equipment. RCA said existing coaxial cables for black and white cause a loss of color and prime picture quality in color broadcasts.
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FCC
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Coxial
Radio Corporation of America
OU Enrollment Near Six Thousand As Fresh-Term Figures Rise
Ohio University reports 5041 resident students on campus for fall with 811 in branches Chillicothe Portsmouth and Zanesville bringing total to 5852 and late registrations nearing 5900. Veterans total 1670 on campus 201 in branches with 50 more possible.
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Ohio University
Oti
du Megistrar Mopert Bi
Mann
Mahn
Chillicothe
Portsmouth
Zanesville
Victor Whitehouse
A. C. Gubitz
GOP Leaders Meet in Columbuscolumbus Ohio Meetings
Republican women held a two day session in Columbus while 88 GOP county chairmen met separately. National Chairman Guy Gabrielson planned to attend both gatherings. Senator Robert Taft and Rep Elect John Saylor were on the program.
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Columbus
Ohio
Guy G. Gabrielson
New Jersey
Robert A. Taft
John Saylor
Pennsylvania
Ex CIO Leader Pleads Innocent To Manslaughter Charges
Columbus court hears William H. E. Spratley Jr a 41 year old former CIO leader plead innocent to two counts of second degree manslaughter after a vehicle strike killed two children returning from an outdoor movie on August 31. He posted a 2500 dollar bond at arraignment.
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Columbus
William H. E. Spratley, Jr
CIO
Scientist X ID Named by HUAC as Weinberg of Minnesota
HUAC named Joseph W. Weinberg University of Minnesota professor as Scientist X accused of passing wartime atomic secrets. Weinberg denies the charge and says he has always told the truth.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Joseph W. Weinberg
University of Minnesota
Justice Department
Weinberg
Communist Party
Communist League
Steve Nelson
Nelson
Bernadette Doyle
Einberg
Radiation Laboratory
University of California
Scientist X
Minneapolis
Associated Press
Marietta Man Heads Westinghouse Atomic Power Division
Dr. Charles M. Slack of Glen Ridge New Jersey was named technical director in charge of Westinghouse Electric Corp s Atomic Power Division. He will oversee all research and engineering for the division including the first major project building an atomic power plant for naval ship propulsion under AEC contract. Slack formerly led Westinghouse lamp division at Bloomfield New Jersey since 1946.
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Pittsburgh
Charles M. Slack
Glen Ridge
N. J
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Atomic Power
Slack
Naval Ship Propulsion
Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse
Marietta
English Laborites Urge Early General Election
In London a left wing Labor group urged a general election soon after Parliament approved the Attlee government 342 to 5 on the pound’s value. A leading labor organ called for an election in November rather than serving the full five-year term ending next July.
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London
House of Commons
Weather Shapes Key Baseball Games in Tight Pennant Race
Weather in New York Washington and Chicago could force postponements affecting the American League battle between the Yankees and Red Sox and the National League race with the Cardinals Dodgers and Cubs. A doubleheader scenario looms if Chicago games shift and playoffs appear possible as the season nears Sunday finish.
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New York
Washington
Chicago
Philadelphia Athletics
New York Yankee Stadium
Boston Red Sox
Senators
St. Louis Cardinals
Cubs
Brooklyn Dodgers
Yankees
Red Sox
Cards
Dodgers
Philadelphia
Cardinals
Yankee Stadium
Phone Rate Hike Slated by Athens Telephone Co
Dr. C. L. Jones announces an average increase of no more than 15 percent for Athens Home Telephone Co subscribers. The Ohio Public Utilities Commission approved the rise on Sept. 22 after an impartial appraisal, marking the first rate rise in 22 years.
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Athens Home Telephone Co
C. L. Jones
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Doctor Jones
Pension Plan Action Pushed in House Vote Looms
Washington reports Democratic leaders expect the House to pass a broad pension expansion before adjournment. Labor unions threaten strikes if employers do not fund full costs of independent plans. Ford Motor Co agreed to such a plan. Government Social Security would cost share between employees and employers, prompting committee concerns it could undermine the federal program.
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Washington
Ford Motor Co
House
Ways and Means
Cleveland Woman Falls 100 Feet to Death from Bridge
Mrs. Louise Blanchfield, 51, died after falling from the Denison Harvard Bridge in Cleveland. Witnesses say she climbed a railing and leaped. bystanders could not reach her in time.
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Cleveland
Louise Blanchfield
Denison- Harvard
Hungarian Government Ends Yugoslav Pact
Budapest reports the Hungarian government renounced its pact of friendship and mutual aid with Yugoslavia. The communist press in Romania suggested other Soviet satellites would follow Moscow, which scrapped its treaty with Yugoslavia yesterday.
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Budapest
Yugoslavia
Romania
Moscow
Run Over by Train Claims Marietta Man
Hubert Brown, 41, of Marietta, died after a railroad freight train backed onto the tracks Wednesday night. He was found lying on the tracks and died Thursday in hospital. one leg was severed and the other amputated at the hospital, police reported.
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Rietta
Hubert Brown
Marietta
Brown
Retired Publisher Harry Amos Dies in Cambridge
Cambridge funeral arrangements set for Harry W. Amos 73 retired publisher of the Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian who died last night from a kidney ailment. He was a civic leader, a Denison University trustee, and a leader in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, also known as a noted flower grower and fancier.
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Cambridge
Harry W. Amos
Cambridge Daily
Jeffersonian
Amos
Denison University
Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society
Buckley Dies in Plant Accident at Columbia Cement Plant
Earl B. Buckley aged 60 of East Fultonham was electrocuted Thursday after touching a wire in a machine pit at the Columbia Cement Plant in Zanesville area.
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Zanesville
Earl B. Buckley
East Fultonharm
Columbia Cement
WCTU Head to Retire after 10 Years in Columbus
Miss Mary B. Ervin of Columbus, longtime president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, will retire this fall after a decade of leadership.
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WCTU
Columbus
Mary B. Ervin
Statesman
Christian Temperance Union
Suspension Ends for Western and Anthracite Coal Miners
John L Lewis orders 86,000 Pennsylvania hard coal workers and 22,000 soft coal diggers west of the Mississippi to return to work Monday ending a walkout that began September 19. The move, announced via telegram from United Mine Workers Vice President Thomas Kennedy, targets anthracite districts in Eastern Pennsylvania and seven Western and Southern bituminous districts.
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White Sulphur Springs
W.va
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Thomasennedy
Kennedy
Washington
Iowa
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Missouri
Wyoming
Utah
Montana
No West
Springs
Bluefield
White Or Springs
W. Va
John I. Lewis
Hazelton
Pensylvania
Anthracite Tri-District News
Tommorrow
Truman Presses Fair Deal After Capitol Hill Clash
President Truman urged Congress to enact the Fair Deal and warned that Democrats will win again in 1950 if the fight continues. At a testimonial for national chairman William Boyle Jr, he outlined goals to raise national income to 400 billion dollars and provide 4000 dollars per family yearly. He urged a free press and warned against returning to 1890 isolationism, stressing need to align moral spirit with material progress.
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Kansas City
Truman
Capitol Hill
Congress
William M. Boyle, Jr
Boyle
Jackson County
Barkley
Carleton Hadely
St. Louis
Gas Co Gets More Storage Capacity in Ohio expansion
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co of Columbus won authorization to expand its underground natural gas storage by about 16.6 billion cubic feet, raising capacity to roughly 59.3 billion cu ft. The plan converts six producing pools in Medina, Lorain, Richland and Hocking counties, adds about 60 miles of pipeline, retires about 53 miles of lines, and would cost an estimated 1.091 million dollars financed by a Columbia Gas System loan pending SEC approval.
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Washington
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Columbus
The
Power Commission
Ohio Fuel
Medina
Lorain
Richland
Hocking
Securites Exchange Commission
Columbia Gas System, Inc
Weather forecast for Columbus WA extended period
Temperatures will average 48 degrees with a normal high of 68 and a normal low of 48. The outlook shows below normal Saturday, warmer Sunday, then cooler Monday and Tuesday.
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Columbus
Dayton TV Cable Rooms Sell Sets in New Year
Dayton dealers report new TV sets sold as coaxial cable hookup brings live television shows to the area with completion last Sunday.
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Dayton TV
Dayton Ae
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