Forrestal Pushes Unification of Military Under More Control
Secretary Forrestal urges amending the unification law to give the defense secretary direct authority over the Army Navy and Air Force plus creation of an undersecretary to act in the secretarys absence He favors federalization of the air National Guard while opposing a broad advisory committee for state forces and warns of hard tax decisions to rearm non communist nations. He notes ongoing disagreements among services and hints at an earth satellite vehicle program.
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Congress
United States
Army
Navy
Air Force
Forrestal
White House
Defense Secretary
Hoover Forrestal
Air National Guard
Tech Defense
Slapper of Tojo Freed from Asylum
Tokyo reports Shumai Okawa the propagandist who slapped Hideki Tojo at the war crimes trial opening was released from an insane asylum today. He was among 19 alleged war criminals named in a general amnesty order by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, issued a day after Tojo's execution.
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Tokyo
Shumai Okawa
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Okawa
Douglas MacArthur
Miss Chi to enroll at Miami University in January
Miss Maxine Waack of Fatview Ohio ranked as 1948 Miss Chi by the Atlantic City pageant will enroll at Miami University when the second semester begins January 31 registration officials announced yesterday.
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Oxford
Maxine Waack
Fatview
Chi
Miami University
Atlantic City
Hocking County Plans Busy New Year Celebrations
Logan hosts three dances and many private parties for New Year observances. Elks dance starts 10 P M with Merrill Larason Orchestra. Moose Lodge and employer party also scheduled with Pappy Stewart and Jim Horwell orchestras. All business closes Saturday. post office ops limited. schools on holiday break, resuming Monday.
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Logan
Logan Lodge of Elks
Merrill Larason
Newark
John Bond
Logan Clay Products Co
Jim Horwell
Logan Moose Lodge
Pappy Stewart
Advertising Volume To Climb Next Year
The dollar volume of national advertising in the first quarter of 1949 may exceed the same period in 1948, Printers' Ink reported. Advertisers expect business to dip in 1949 but feel a push for strong advertising and selling is needed.
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New York
C&O Official Predicts Rail Layoffs and Traffic Drop
Ross Marshall senior vice president of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad warns of a weaker rail industry next year as C and O announces 3000 more layoffs by year end total 5500. Other lines report personnel cuts while coal traffic falls and passenger service is trimmed with Washington trains consolidated and Detroit Chicago routes cut.
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Cleveland
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Ross Marshall
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Norfolk
The
Virginia Railway
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Poland
Marshall
Europe
Chicago
Detroit
Ohio Coal Production Peaks in 1918 with 47 Million Tons
Ohio mining reports show 1948 output at 38.387 million tons of bituminous coal from 758 mines. Peak yearly production occurred in 1918 at 47.919 million tons with about 1,427 mines and 50,000 workers.
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Ohio
Columbus
State Industrial Relations Department
Ford Optimistic On 1949 Prospects
Henry Ford II expresses optimism in a year-end statement from Detroit. He says conditions indicate a buyers market is not far away and Ford Motor Company would welcome it as the new year approaches.
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Detroit
Henry Ford II
Ford Motors Company
Vocational Ed Plan Adopted by Warren Board
The Warren board of education approved vocational education courses allowing high school students to work half the day and attend classes the other half. The plan outlines a dual schedule to expand career training within the school system.
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Warren, OQ
Board of Education
Force Behind Postwar Room Nearly Spent
In Cleveland on December 30, a New York Mutual Life Insurance executive told the American Statistical Association that 1949 will see a modest business decline, with a sharper drop in the following year. Westinghouse consultant Frank Newberry predicted a shift toward a war economy and a cooling of activity, while Russell Weisman of the Plain Dealer noted the boom of the past three years has spent its ice and easy money has run out. The speakers framed the outlook as a measured downturn rather than a collapse.
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Cleveland
New York Life Insurance Company
American Statistical Association
Donald B.woodward
Mutual Life Insurance Co
Frank D. Newberry
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Pittsburgh
Russell Weisman
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Famed Rum Runner Bill McCoy Dies in Florida
Stuart Florida December thirty report says Capt Bill McCoy aged seventy one a pioneer Florida passenger and freight boat operator died of a heart attack aboard his boat He originated the term the real McCoy and is said to have founded Rum Row during Prohibition He bragged he never sold anything but the real McCoy after buying a schooner with 6000 case capacity during Prohibition era rankings of ships and liquor trade noted by friends.
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Stuart
Fla
Bill McCoy
Florida
McCoy
Friends
Spanish Duchess Sentenced for Treason in Madrid
The Duchess of Valencia was convicted of high treason for monarchist activity and jailed for one year. A monarchist ally, Jose Pardo Balmonte, received ten months. Two army officers arrested with them face later court martial proceedings.
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Madrid
Duchess of
Valencia
Jose Pardo Balmonte
Fire Loss Sets Record Loss Across North America
Fires branded a 725000000 record loss across North America in 1948 but took fewer lives than in other years, a survey showed today.
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Boston
North America
Ohio Cities Seek Bigger Share of State Sales Tax
Ohio cities urge a larger portion of state sales tax revenue in 1949 and a fairer distribution of poor relief funds. They propose 30 percent of net sales tax receipts to local governments and 75 percent of local relief costs borne by the state, plus economic and tax structure reforms.
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Ohio
Columbus
Charles Slusser
Akron
Association
Slusser
Man Suffocated by Gas Heater in Dayton Bedroom
Hulet Miles aged 36 died in his Dayton, Colorado home yesterday as a coroner ruled the cause of death was asphyxia from a gas heater burning all the oxygen in his room.
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Dayton, CO
Hulet Miles
State Denies Motives in Circleville Liquor Dispute
Columbus says state liquor department has no personal or political motives in its fight with Circleville. Assistant attorney general Charles G. Schnur sent a letter to Mayor T. S. Miller stating the board of liquor control ordered Circleville to show cause why permit fee rebates should not be withheld. The action followed complaints that Circleville refused to cooperate with state agents. Mayor Miller criticized the move as a statewide issue used to whip Circleville.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Circleville
Charles G. Schnur
T. S. Miller
Schnur
State Board of Liquor Control
Liquor Department
Board of Liquor Control
Lehnar
Miller
State Liquor Board
Little Circleville
Chambers Discloses More Dope on Spies
Whittaker Chambers testified under oath at his Maryland farm, meeting with Representatives Mundt and Nixon and with the House Un American Activities Committee staff. He provided fresh leads and more detailed information about espionage activities in the government a decade earlier.
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Baltimore
Whittaker Chambers
Mundt
R-Sd
Nixon
R-Cal
Chambers
Maryland
Baltimore Sun
William Knighton, Jr
Washington
The
Sun
House un-American Activities Committee
Robert P. Stripling
Westminster
Knighton
Athens Messenger Raises Price on Copies and Subscriptions
The Athens Messenger announced a price increase effective immediately for single copies from five to six cents daily and Sunday. Carrier-delivered subscriptions rise to 30 cents a week from 25 cents, daily and Sunday, with no Saturday edition.
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Athens
Athens Messenger
Messenger
Milk Price Revised In Columbus Area
The Agriculture Department revised the Columbus Ohio milk marketing order. It sets January Class One minimum at 4.65 per hundredweight and Class Two at 4.40. February minimums rise 0.22 per hundredweight with Class One slightly lower than July 1948 levels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Columbus
Ohio
Ex Prizefighter Declares Self Back in Office
Delmar A. Canaday, former prizefighter and suspended mayor of Pomeroy, walked into city hall and proclaimed himself the proper mayor. He claimed his resignation was invalid and said Governor Lausche would confirm his action. Council president Spencer remained mayor pending court orders.
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Pomeroy, D
Delmar A. Canaday
Pomeroy
Pomeroy City Hall
Walter Wolfe
Lausche
Canaday
Associated Press
Kayo Kid
West Virginia
Thomas J. Herbert
State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Sidney Spencer
Olan Goodwin
Spencer
Herbert
Daniels to die Monday in Ohio electric chair
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert refused to intervene in the planned January 3 execution of Robert M. Daniels 24 for a triple slaying. He is scheduled to die in Columbus while Herrell Jeffers of Columbus pleaded guilty to stealing meat from the Swift & Co. plant after earlier denying charges.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Robert M. Daniels
Columbus, O
Herrell Jeffers
Columbus Today
Swift & Co
Jeffers
House Group Urges Steel Plant Probe
A House subcommittee urged continued investigations into Kaiser-Frazer's purchase of a large Cleveland blast furnace. It calls for hearings on why the plant was built as a scrambled unit with private steel facilities and on bidders' negotiation methods.
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Washington
Congress
Kaiser- Frazer
Cleveland
House
Roosevelt defends wife on wrist injury ruling out family dispute
Elliott Roosevelt held a news conference in Poughkeepsie saying Faye Emerson cut her wrist accidentally after a family Christmas gathering. He disputed claims of a dispute or assault and said eight stitches were required but the injury was minor and not life threatening.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye Emerson
Roosevelt
Dutchess County
C. Fred Close
Hyde Park
Franklin, D., Jr
H. Sherman Hirst
Poughkeepsie Hospital
Noelt
Sheela
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Taxation and Finance Committee
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