Critical Weeks Ahead in World Famine Fight
President Truman told the international food conference that the weeks before the 1946 grain harvest will be critical in famine areas. He urged continued and heightened international aid, with Herbert Hoover proposing a broad international food administration by Sept 1 to boost production and distribution. The session opened the UN FAO meeting, stressing shared responsibility and long term action to feed the world and secure peace.
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Washington
Truman
International Food Conference
United States
Anderson
Food and Agriculture Organzation
United Nations
Herbert Hoover
International Food Administration
Booth Tarkington Penned Off in Indianapolis at 76
Father of Penrod Booth Tarkington died last night in his Indianapolis home at age 76. He helped Indiana’s golden age of letters with peers like Riley Nicholson Ade and McCutcheon, leaving a prolific legacy and two Pulitzer Prize novels The Magnificent Ambersons.
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Indianapolis
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Merediih Nicholson
George Ade
George Barr McCutcheon
Hiley
Meredith Nicholson
Tarkington
Susannah
Betty Trotter
John T. Jameson
Jameson
Theatre tickets invite for Strand or Dixie showings
The clipping invites Mrs Nellie Shackleford of Webster Road to attend tonight's screenings. Strand Theatre showcases Leave Her To Heaven with Gene Tierney Cornel Wilde and Jeanne Crain. Dixie Theatre offers Three Strangers starring Sydney Greenstreet Geraldine Fitzgerald and Peter Lorre.
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the Grafton
Nellie Shackleford Webster
Gene Tierney
Cornel Wilde
Jeanne Crain
Strand Theatre
Sydney Grenstreet
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Peter Lorre
Dixie Theatre
Martin Tighe Retires After 58 Years On Road
PARKERSBURG May 20 After 58 years of railroading Martin J. Tighe 73 announced his retirement as an engineer for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Tighe who began as a shop employee at Grafton on November 24 1887 at age 16 and became the Monongahela division's oldest engineer and former divisional road foreman of engines He plans to travel and fish in retirement.
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Parkersburg
Martin J. Tighe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Tighe
Grafton
Ay- Tighe
Monongah
Hoover urges global food administration reform
Washington May 20 Herbert Hoover urged drastic reorganization of world food efforts. He proposed a United Nations led World Food Administration to oversee food and agriculture relief, replace other bodies, and restore normal commerce in food and farm supplies. Hoover warned against charity as an inefficient distribution method and urged action by September 1.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
International Food Administration
Hoover
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Combined Food Board
Brooklyn Youth Held on Kidnap Charge
An 11 year old from Brooklyn was detained by Brentwood police after Charles F. Boyer of Belmont Ohio identified him as the armed hitchhiker who forced the car toward New York. Boyer fled and reported seeing three officers, triggering the arrest as a kidnapping charge was being prepared.
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Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
N.Y
Brentwood
Charles F. Boyer
Belmont
Ohio
Boyer
New York
Lordsville
Glendale
W. Va
Otto Jordan
Azerbaijan War Reports Denied By Iran Ministry
British dispatches from Tehran say Iran’s war ministry denied fighting in Azerbaijan and Kurdistan despite Tab ris radio reports. No orders were issued to attack Azerbaijans, while an BBC quote cited an Iranian spokesman calling such fighting unlikely and noting frontier units might have fired in provocation.
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London
Tehran
Iranian War Ministry
Azerbaijan
Kurdistan
Tabriz Radio
War Ministry
British Broadcasting Corporation
Persia
Tabriz
Reuters
Higher auto prices to be authorized
Washington reports that new car prices will rise by about four to five percent within ten days to offset higher steel parts costs. An OPA official said this may be the last increase under the wage price policy, with dealers not losing profit margins. The price rise could add about 60 dollars to a 1200 dollar car, and is driven by an average five dollar per ton steel uplift and higher parts costs.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
OPA
Boyle’s Discouraging View On Hitler In German Minds
Berlin reports that Adolf Hitler remains a German legend a year after his downfall. Many Germans forgive the excesses and still cling to the leader as a heroic figure who could save them from humiliation and economic woes. Reader notes his enduring memory and the teutons’ complicity with the myth.
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Boyle
Hitler
Hal Boyle
Berlin
Adolph Hitler
Siegfried Freidrich Barbarossa
Mussolini
Teuton
Boyles
Government seizing soft coal mines eyed to halt strike
A Washington labor official predicted government seizure of soft coal mines as the next step to avert a renewal of the coal strike. Seizure hinges on cooperation to run mines and reach a contract with government help as the truce expires May 25. In New York, anthracite negotiators meet a ninth time ahead of a May 31 strike threat, with miners filing intent to strike under their no contract no work policy.
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Washington
Johny L. Lewis
New York
United Mine Workers
AFL
Pennsylvania
Congress Rejects Army Navy Merger Plan as Doomed
Senate and House naval committee leaders Walsh and Vinson said in a letter to Secretary Forrestal that Congress will not approve any plan calling for a single department of defense. They urged against entering any compromise with War Secretary Patterson. Truman had urged reconciliation on unification.
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Washington
Walsh
D-R.j
Vinson
D.-Ga
Senate
House Naval Committees
Congress
House
Forrestal
Truman
Army
Navy
Veteran Struck and Killed by Train at Huntington
Huntington police report Woodrow W. Newman 26, a war veteran, was struck and killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train at a crossing. His body was found by a newspaper boy delivering papers and appears to have been dragged about 300 feet.
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Huntington
Woodrow W. Newman
Baltimore and Ohio
Fairmont Westinghouse to resume full production by week’s end
Fairmont Westinghouse Manufacturing Co said the Fairmont plant closed during a 119 day electrical strike has been ordered back to normal production by week’s end. The glass and small motors division were already in operation and efforts are underway to reopen the lamp plant soon.
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Fairmont
Westinghouse Manufacturing Co
B. M. Payson
Glass and Small Motors
Gromyko to Boycott UN Security Council Session
Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko said he would boycott Wednesday’s UN Security Council session on the Iranian question. He had previously walked out of one meeting and skipped another, stating he would not take part in further council discussions. The council faced another deadline with no assurances from Moscow or Tehran.
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New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations — Security Council
Gromyko
Council
Man Faces Charge In Deaths Wife And Baby Son
SOUTHBRIDGE Mass May 20 Christo Sortir 33 faced arraignment in district court on murder charges in the deaths of his wife Lena 22 and two sons aged four and 40 days The baby died at Harrington Memorial hospital from a fractured skull The mother died from stab wounds to face and chest The four year old died from stab wounds in the abdomen Police said Sortir told police he lost his head
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Southbridge
Mass
Christo Sortir
Ulric Brault
Sortir
Lena
Alexander
Brault
American Optical Company
Harrington Memorial Hospital
Stewart M. Gibson
Pittsburgh cleans up rackets under Lawrence orders
In a move labeled an interstate crime by Safety Director George Fairley, Mayor Lawrence directed police to root out rackets after the East Liberty double slaying. Victims were Frank Evans and Fred Garrow. New York detectives questioned two Pittsburgh-area suspects, Joseph Mannerino and Silvio Domenico, who denied involvement and were arraigned on fugitive charges with a hearing set for tomorrow.
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Pittsburgh
Liberty
David L. Lawrence
Lawrence
Harvey Scott
Frank Evans
Cleveland
Fred Garrow
Uniontown
New York
Pitsburgh
George Fairley
FBI
Peter A. Connors
Miners Refuse Truce. Work Slow in Pennsylvania
The second week of the coal truce saw most soft coal diggers at work in 25 states, but Pennsylvania lagged with about a quarter of its 100,000 miners on duty. Central PA reported 28,000 idle as AFL UMW locals refused to work, while Pittsburgh area roving pickets closed 13 pits. Elsewhere, West Virginia nearly full, Illinois and Alabama active, Kentucky with 40,000 at work.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
AFL United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Finois
Alabama
Kentucky
PENN
Price increases allowed on small electric appliances
OPA authorized retail price ceiling boosts of four to five percent for toasters heating pads space heaters and other small electric appliances effective immediately. Higher prices may not be charged until dealers are notified by suppliers.
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Washington
OPA
Hazel No. 2 resumes production after walkout ends
Hazel Atlas Glass Hazel No. 2 plant in Washington Pennsylvania planned to resume production today after a walkout kept the plant closed since Tuesday. Workers had left the Hazel No. 2 facility, and management announced plans to restart operations as conditions returned to normal.
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Washington
Hazel Atlas Glass Plant
Pierce Says For 26 30s To Wait For Physicals
Charleston May 20 The state Selective Service director Carleton C. Pierce says requests for occupational deferment of men aged 26 to 30 should await results of pre induction physical examinations. Induction of teenagers is halted by Congress, so draft boards are to call up older men who meet physical and occupational standards for examination.
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Charleston
State Selective Service
Carleton C. Pierce
Railroad resumes normal schedule after walkout
Railroad operation returns to regular timing as engineers and trainmen resume work after a 4 PM Saturday walkout on the Baltimore and Ohio system. About 275 Mononash division engineers and thrice as many trainmen joined the strike, delaying services until calls to return were received late in the evening. Some freight trains ran late and the Washington to St Louis passenger train did not depart on schedule during the disruption.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Grafton
Washington
St. Louis
D. L
Western Union
Death of Prison Inmate From Third Floor Fall
Hugh R. Miller a 26 year old inmate serving five to eighteen years at the state penitentiary was killed Saturday when he fell from a third floor window in the cloth ing shop official sources said Dr Harold B Ashworth coroner reported a fractured skull and Miller who was sentenced from Kanawha county in January 1945 was described as sitting in the window when he placed his hand over his heart and fell according to fellow prisoner Charles Kilgore
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Moundsville
Hugh R. Miller
State Penitentiary
Harold B. Ashworth
Miller
Kanawha County
Charles Kilgore
Railroad Brotherhood Talks Face Yet Another Stalemate
Washington May 20 Aides said talks with railroad brotherhoods and carriers continued in separate meetings with aims to unite parties soon. No indication of resumed joint talks ahead of strike deadlines while government mediators meet on the coal dispute. Officials noted no seizure discussions. expectations focus on possible midweek government action.
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Washington
Eben Ayers
Truman
John W. Snyder
John R. Steelman
Snyder
Steelman
Schwellenbach
Ayers
United Mine
Brotherhood
West Virginia mines run full force amid coal strike pause
Charleston May 20 West Virginia coal mines with scattered interruptions continued to operate as the two week coal strike pause ends Saturday night. The states 100000 plus mining workforce was on the job with only a few small mines idle for technical reasons. Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Fairmont reported 2095 cars loaded in the northern field. Mines ordered 2600 cars but railroads could supply 2200 due to a delay in official notice of the strike deferral.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fairmont
President Truman Returns Home Press Conference and Visits
President Truman rested from national labor tensions during a homecoming visit to Missouri. He brushed aside labor questions, praised his mother Mrs Truman, and prepared to accept an honorary degree from William Jewell College in Liberty. He planned a brief, extemporaneous speech and a stop at Grandview airport to greet family.
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Kansas City
Truman
Martha ‘Truman
Jackson County
Tiny William Jewell College
Liberty
Grandview
Hiefe
Diane
Washington
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