Communist official testifies on coal miners influence in Ohio West Virginia
Anthony Krehmarek of Cleveland testified that the Communist party had notable influence among Ohio and West Virginia coal miners around the 1946 strike. He said miners supported broadcasts and funded his speeches while remaining loyal to John L Lewis but sometimes disagreed at local union meetings. The judge urged caution and pressed on the potential impact on the United Mine Workers leadership.
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New York
Ohio
West Virginia
Rty
John Lewis
Anthony Krehmarek
Cleveland
Lewis
Krehmarek
Harold R. Medina
United Mine Workers
Medina
Krchmarek
Ohio Pays Final Tribute to Private Rodger Young
Ohio honors Medal of Honor hero Private Rodger Young at funeral in Clyde and burial beside Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans. The 25-year-old rifleman from Company B 148th Infantry 37th Ohio Division died on New Georgia Island after sacrificing to save comrades. Chaplain Wareing presided, and engravings note Young’s surrender of sergeant stripes for battle safety.
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Ohio
Hero Private Rodger Young
Green Springs
Rodger Young
Frank J. Lausche
Frank Loesser
Washington
Joel M. Wareing
Toledo
Young
Solomons
Nicholas E. Young
Baltimore
Wareing
McPherson Cemetery
Clyde
James B. McPherson
148Th Infantry
New Georgia Island
Floyd Kruse
Fremont
Bier
Rodger
End of 52-20 Club Looms For Ohio Vets This Monday
Ohio World War II veterans face loss of unemployment benefits as the 52-20 Club ends next Monday. After that date only veterans with 90 days service between Sept 16 1940 and July 25 1947 who were discharged after July 25 1947 remain eligible, with payments up to 20 dollars weekly for 52 weeks. The Senate labor committee moved to extend the program for another year, sending the bill to the Senate.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Senate
Administration Works To Salvage Farm Bill
The House voted 239 to 170 to kill Bran nan’s subsidy trial run on eggs potatoes and wool and keep wartime price supports at 90 percent parity. Senate actions hinge on Elmer Thomas who will reconvene committee to decide next steps amid potential deadlock and talks of a next year political campaign. Repeal of the new law was approved without a record vote, allowing price supports to drop if surpluses arise.
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Washington
House
Senate
Brannan
Rep
Gore
D-Tenn
Rayburn
Texas
Thomas
Senate House
Firemen Become Steeplejacks to Fight Tower Blaze
Firemen climbed over 1,000 steps to combat a small fire on WOR’s 760 foot television tower in North Bergen New Jersey. The blaze at the 555 foot level damaged the tarpaulin guarding equipment and scorched the roofs of seven nearby houses. the tower remained undamaged and not yet in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bergen
N. J
WOR
Beaten Officer Found Locked in Car Trunk
Lt James McFarlane 26 of Wright Patterson Field Dayton was beaten and forced into the trunk of his car in Germantown after giving two men a ride. Patrolmen found groans from the trunk and he was taken to the Air Force Base hospital in Dayton with injuries to his face and head. The attackers fled as officers arrived.
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Middletown
James McFarlane
Wright-Patterson Field
Dayton
Leo Ellison
Germantown
Air Forces
McFarlane
Air Force Base Hospital
Haigh to be hanged on August 10 in London
The home office fixed August 10 as the hanging date for John George Haigh aged 39 who boasted of killing nine people in four years and drinking their blood in London authorities.
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London
Home Office
John George Haigh
Hospital aid by Senate panel doubles federal funding
The Senate labor committee approved a health bill provision to provide 150 million dollars annually in federal aid to states for hospital construction, doubling the present allotment. The measure is part of the administration's health program requested by President Truman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Senator Labor Committee
Westinghouse Reports Wages Rise With Profits 1940 48
Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced wages grew as profits did during 1940 to 1948, countering union claims of a 300 percent profit jump. The company noted profits rose from over 18 million to 55 million dollars while wages increased from more than 109 million to 381 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Tax Take Listed
City finance director Earl Hagerman said Dayton’s 0.5 percent income tax since April 1 has yielded 570,183.50 dollars. The report covers the period up to yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington D. H
Earl Hagerman
Dayton
Ohio Air National Guard Ends Imaginary War Training at Dover
The Ohio Air National Guard, 2300 strong, wraps a four day mock war Operation 300 at Dover Air Force Base. Ninth Air Force set the foe and lines from Atlantic to Philadelphia. The 55th Fighter Wing led by Brig. Gen. E H Zistel conducted day and night sorties while units completed drills on interception, formation and instrument flying.
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Dover
Del
Ohio Air National Guard
Dover Air Force Base
Ohio Guard
Ninth Air Force
Langley Field
United States
Ohio Air Guard
Iceland
Newfoundland
Boston
Mass
Bangor
Canadian
Atlantic Sea
Cleveland
Parkersburg
W. Va
Hagerstown
Philadelphia
Atlantic Ocean
Ohio
E. H. Zistel
Dover Air Base
Shoe Thieves Target Health Spot Shoes in Lima Heist
Allen Burchfield of Lima reports 35 boxes of right foot shoes were stolen from his unlocked car. The incident occurred in Cleveland and the suspect or motives are not yet known. The loss was reported to police for investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Allen Burchfield
Lima
Health Spot Shoe Co
Wheat States Cut Acreages Planned for 1950 Plantings
The Agriculture Department asked major wheat states to trim 1950 acreages by 10.8 to 35.5 percent to curb surpluses. Colorado faces a 35.5 percent cut, North Dakota 10.8 percent, with a national wheat allotment of 68,944,000 acres, about 17 percent below 83,173,000 planted this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Colorado
North Dakota
Moscow Radio Attacks Vatican Excommunication Decree
Moscow radio charged that the Vatican excommunication of communists was a contribution to the cold war and an attempt to split the united front of peace advocates. The English broadcast by Boris Isakov was the first public Russian reaction to the decree issued July 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow
Vatican
United Front
Boris Isakov
Boy Drowns in YMCA Pool Text in Lima Ohio
Jerry Burden 11 drowned yesterday in the YMCA pool in Lima Ohio. Acting coroner R G Hendershot said the boy had been cooling off after returning from a hike.
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Lima
Jerry Burden
R. G. Hendershot
Carbon Hill Plant To Resume Limited Operations This Week
The Nelsonville Electric Manufacturing Co furniture factory in Carbon Hill, shut for two weeks due to weak orders, will resume on a limited scale this week with full operation expected next week. The juvenile furniture factory, owned in part by O. J. Meyer of Logan, affected 25 employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon Hill
Nelsonville Electric Manufacturing Co
Ohio Polio Cases Reach Total of 89
Four new poliomyelitis cases were reported in Ohio, raising the year to date total to 89. Montgomery County reported two cases, with Auglaize and Warren counties each accounting for one. The state had 111 cases at this time last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
State Health Department
Montgomery County
Auglaize
Warren
France and West Germany Sign $396 Million Trade Treaty
France and Western Germany signed a trade pact worth 396 million dollars announced by the joint export import agency. The agreement runs from July 1, 1949 to June 30, 1950.
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Frankfurt
Germany
France
Joint
Markets at a Glance Wheat Corn Hogs Cattle Stocks Bonds
WHEAT firm as government and private trade absorb flour buying. CORN lower in quiet trade. HOGS unevenly 25 cents lower to 25 cents higher, top $22.75. CATTLE unevenly steady to $1.00 lower, choice absent. STOCKS steady with airlines in demand. BONDS mixed with record volume in AT and T 3s.
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AT & T 3
Mystery Blonde Wanted in Cohen Shooting on Sunset Strip
Los Angeles sheriff deputies hunted a mystery blonde described in a stolen car escape after the July 22 shooting that wounded Mickey Cohen associate Harry Cooper and others. Vaale reported seeing the blonde and three men flee from near his home just after the ambush outside Sherry's restaurant.
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Los Angeles
Sheriff’s Deputies
Mickey Cohen
Lawrence E. Vaale
Vaale
Chuckie
Harry Cooper
Cohen
Sherry
Sunset Strip
Tito Flight Rumors Declared Unfounded
BELGRADE Yugoslavia July 22 Italian press reports that Premier Marshal Tito plans to flee to Mexico were regarded as unfounded observers said. Some attributed the reports to Cominform agents and noted the Tito administration appears stable despite a year long campaign by Russia and Soviet satellites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Mexico
Tito
Rusia
Gen Marshall Named Airlines Director To Pan American Board
Gen George C Marshall named to Pan American Airways Corp board of directors alongside David S Ingalls. Stockholders approve merger of Pan American Airways Corp into Pan American Airways Inc, consolidating ownership and corporate structure.
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Gen. Marshall
Airlines
Wilmington
Del
Pan American Airways Corp
Gen
George C. Marshall
Army
David S. Ingalls
Cleveland
Delaware
Pan American Airways, Inc
New York
Spectacular Fire Wrecks Varnish Plant in Columbus
A dramatic blaze destroyed a one story varnish factory near downtown Columbus on West Spring Street. The Hanna Paint Manufacturing Co unit housed the industrial finishes division, causing a traffic snarl as firefighters fought the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
West Spring Street
Hanna Paint Manufacturing Co
Train Removal Case Is Taken Under Advisement
Attorney examiner Eugene Nolan of the state utilities commission took under advisement a request by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to abandon trains 130 and 137 running Logan to Pomeroy. The line says it loses about $60,000 yearly on the two trains, while protests from cities and businessmen cite loss of rail service for Pomeroy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Eugene Nolan
State Utilities Commission
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Logan
Pomeroy
the Railway
Commission
Dock Workers End Strike at London Dock
Striking dockers in London voted to end a 25 day walkout and return to work Monday. The decision followed a mass meeting at Victoria Park after talks with a Canadian Seamen's Union official. The strike began as sympathy action with CSU over blacklisted Canadian ships. CSU agreed to clear the ships.
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London
Victoria Park
Canadian Seamen's Union
CSU
Nelsonville’s Oldest Woman Dies at 97
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Linton 97 Nelsonville resident will be held today at 2 PM by Rev J A Long at Warren’s Funeral Home. She died Wednesday at the home of her daughter in law Ella Linton born in Carbon Hill moved to Nelsonville 85 years ago. Husband Thomas and son Carl preceded her in death burial in Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Nelsonville
Julia Linton
J. A. Long
Warren
Linton
Ella Linton
Carbon Hill
Thomas
Carl
Greenlawn Cemetery
Atlantic Pact Wins Senate Vote By Wide Margin
The North Atlantic Treaty cleared the Senate with 82 to 13, paving the way for President Truman to ask Congress for a foreign aid program to support Western European defense. The pact binds signatories to treat an attack on one as an attack on all, marking a historic US-European military alliance amid Cold War tensions.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
America
White House
Congress
Barkley
Russia
United States
West
Taft
Rohio
Wherry
R-Neb
Watkins
Utah
Connally
Texas
Vandenberg
Mich
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Taylor
Idaho
Cordon
Ore
Donnell
Flanders
Jenner
Ind
Kem
Langer
Malone
Nev
Ohio
Neb
Young
Marion Armstrong Dies at 28 in Columbus Hospital
Marion D. Armstrong aged 28 of 217 West Street died at 12 38 a m in University Hospital Columbus after a long illness. He had two weeks of treatment. He is survived by wife Erma Hamilton Armstrong two daughters Janet Sue and Sandra Lee brother Harry Armstrong near Union Furnace and parents Leo and Mrs Armstrong Logan Route 3. Leonard Funeral Service is handling arrangements.
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Marion D. Armstrong
West Street
University Hospital
Columbus
Armstrong
Erma Hamilton Armstrong
Janet Sue
Sandra Lee
Harry Armstrong
Union Furnace
Leo Armstrong
Logan
Blind Vendor Crushed by Subway Train in Manhattan
Louis Kerman, a blind newspaper vendor, fell from a downtown Manhattan platform as an incoming subway train approached. Passengers heard his cries for help but the brakes could not stop the train. Mrs. Kerman mourns the tragedy and questions remain about the incident.
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New York
Louis Kerman
Manhattan
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Westinghouse
Pamela Lamphere
Chicago
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Susan
O. J. Meyer of
R. T. Hopkinson
Marion Armstrong
Leonard Funeral Service
Frank Marmier
Mrs. Kerman
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