Auto Plants Idle As Shortages Hit Production Across GM Ford
Ford plants nationwide shut down a day due to shortages while GM cuts affect about 200 000 workers with a week long layoff starting Monday At Packard a 13 cent hourly wage rise expands to 10 000 workers and prices rise 75 to 200 dollars per car The UAW CIO pact runs through August 1 1950 with ratification awaited in local 190 Dallas Atlanta and Long Beach continue operations Briggs Manufacturing faced persistent work stoppages
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Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Ford
Packard Motor
CIO
United Auto Workers
Packard
Uaw-Cio
Michigan
Corporation
Dallas
Tex
Atlanta
Long Beach
Calif
GOP Group to Decide Fate of Housing Bill
A Democratic victory in a Republican dominated house shifted the housing bill decision to a second GOP controlled group. Eleven Democrats joined by three Republicans seized control of the 27 member house banking committee and approved by 14 to 13 the major Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing provisions.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Senate
Body Recovered From Farm Barn Wreck
The body of former Gratis Ohio schoolteacher George W. Grunde was found buried beneath wreckage in a Buell Road farm barn. Coroner Jones P. Lyle withheld details pending notification of relatives.
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Cincinnati
Buell Road
George W. Grunde
Gratis, O
Jones P. Lyle Withheld
Charles March Dies At Home in Jobs
Charles March 81 retired coal miner died Thursday morning at his home in Jobs after a long residence there. Funeral services set for 2 P M Saturday at Jobs Methodist Church with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery Nelsonville. Calling hours at the Jobs home. Survivors: five daughters Willa Wooten Ruth Shaw Grace Dupler Opal Lonberger Muriel Gears 11 grandchildren nine great grandchildren.
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Charles March
Jobs
March
Jobs Methodist Church
Greenlawn
Nelsonville
Willa Wooten
Ruth Shaw
Logan
Grace Dupler
Murray City
Opal Lonberger
Muriel Gears
Magic Formula Fails to Open Jailhouse Door
Mrs. Irene Johnson, 49, who sought to free a relative from jail using candles a bean and muttered charms, failed to cure the ward. She said she bought the candles for 34.50 from a man described as an alleged doctor and then charged him with larceny by trick after finding cheaper candles locally.
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Irene. Johnson
Johnson
Logan Golfers Drop Match at Athens
A 31 player Logan team lost an inter club match at Athens Country Club by 60 to 29. Athens will host a return match at Hocking Hills Country Club later in the summer.
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Logan
Athens Country Club
Athens
Hocking Hills Country Club
New Vandenberg Proposal Eyed
Washington june 11 with Y o Re Mich champion of full aid to Europe pushing a foreign policy resolution for Senate action. It favors regional defense pacts and a UN armed force to back peace orders, universal arms control with guaranties, and elimination of the Security Council veto on peaceful disputes.
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ReMich
Europe
U.S
Senate
United Nations
United States
Security Council
Foreign Relations Committee
Danish Passengers Feared Lost After Mine Hit Ship
A Danish passenger steamer the 1668 ton Kjoebenhavn owned by United Steamship Company struck a mine in the Kattegat and sank. About 150 of 400 aboard were unaccounted for as of mid morning with 250 rescued by 10 A M EST.
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Denmark
Kattegat
Kjoebenhavn
United Steamship Company
Safecracker Escapes Guernsey County Jail in Cambridge
John Joseph Sopko, 41, an alleged safecracker from Akron, carved a hole through three brick walls with a pipe after picking his cell lock to escape the Guernsey County jail in Cambridge. Police had previously captured him March 25 in connection with a Peoples Oil incident.
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Cambridge, O
John Joseph Sopko
Akron
Guernsey County
Peoples Oil
Senate Passes Peacetime Draft By Wide Margin
The Senate approved a peacetime draft bill 78 to 10 and House leaders push for quick passage. Speaker Martin expects a floor vote next Tuesday or Wednesday with minimal debate as rules review continues. The measures would require two years of service for 19 to 25 year olds and set a two year life for the draft.
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Washington
House
Truman
Martin
Rules Committee
Air Force
Foreign Legion
Armed Services
Charles H. Stump Dies at South Perry
Charles Henry Stump aged 68 died at 9 A M Thursday at his South Perry home after extended illness. He was son of the late James and Mary Ann Linsay Stump and resided in South Perry for years. Funeral 2 P M Saturday at Mt Olive EUB Church in South Perry with Rev. Raymond Welch officiating. Burial in church cemetery by Defenbaugh Funeral Home. Calling hours Friday evening at Circleville funeral home. Survived by widow Let tie five sons James Robert Frederick at home John Laurelville and Charles Oklahoma two daughters Jessie Cleo Johnson Lockbourne and Pauline Swick Magnolia 17 grandchildren four great grandchildren.
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Charles Henry Stump
South Perry
Stump
James and
Mary Ann Linsay Stump
Mt. Olive Eub
Raymond Welch
Defenbaugh Funeral Home
Circleville
Lettie
James
Robert
Frederick
John
Laurelville
Charles
Oklahoma
Jessie Cleo Johnson
Lockbourne
Pauline Swick
Magnolia
Three Indicted For Bribery In Liquor Permit Irregularities
Franklin County grand jury indicted A E Oppenheimer chief permit examiner of the state liquor department for soliciting and accepting bribes. Also named were Hugh M Ruel Portsmouth chairman of the Scioto County GOP and Tracy Pack of Portsmouth a cab line operator. Indictments allege bribes related to D-5 night club permits with dates in 1947 and 1948. No arrests yet as the probe continues and murder trials loom.
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A. E. Oppenheimer
State Liquor Department
Oppenheimer
Hugh M. Ruel
Portsmouth
Scioto County
Republican Executive Committee
Taft
Tracy Pack
Franklin County Grand Jury
Liquor Department
Ruel and
Pack
Franklin County
John R. King
Howard McCall
Springfield
Gilbert Shively
London
McCall
Shively
Deshler- Wallick
Grand Jury
Dale Duniton
Bartlett
Dunifon
Donald T. Geyer
Howard E. Klinker
Canton
George Hinklin
Springfield Bus Strike Negotiations Extend into Fifth Day
Springfield Ohio, June 11. A non stop bargaining session began as city lines drivers and mechanics strike entered its fifth day. City Manager Oscar L Fleckner arranged talks between Springfield City Lines Inc and the union to seek a settlement after workers walked out last Monday morning. Negotiations continued indefinitely after a prior meeting with Fleckner.
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Springfield
Oscar L. Fleckner
Springfield City Lines, Inc
Fleckner
Peace Descends On Palestine Amid Armistice Warnings
Uneasy peace began in Palestine as a four week armistice and arms embargo took effect at 1 A M EST. Count Folke Bernadotte as U N mediator sought partition resolution while fighting persisted around Latrun and in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem
Folke Bernadotte
U. N
Damascus
Latrun
Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Motor Bike Ride Fatal to Girl 13 in Bucyrus
A pleasure ride on a motor bike ended in tragedy as Carol Kiesy, 13, of Greenville, died after the bike collided with two automobiles in Bucyrus. William Hawk, 16, also injured, had borrowed the vehicle. the girl was visiting her grandmother in town.
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Carol Kiesy
Greenville
William Hawk
Hawk
Hummel Calls Ohio Wallace Aiding Communists
Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel told the Ohio Supreme Court that three Wallace campaign workers in Ohio were communists. He listed Nathan Zahm Elsie Zazrivy and David Lindell of Cleveland among ten affiliates who signed non communists affidavits.
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Supreme Court
Columbus
Edward J. Hummel
Ohio Supreme Court Today
Henry A. Wallace
Ohio
Nathan R. Zahm
Elsie Zazrivy
David I. Lindell
Cleveland
Leland S.S. Dougan
Hummel
Zahm
Zazrivy
Lindell
George S. Houston
Zazrvy
Dougan
FBI
Cleveland Police Department
Houston
Wallace
Communist Party
Communist Progressive Citizens’ Committee
Lakewood
Paul
Herbert Wright
Bank Head Dies in Oberlin After Half Century Service
Frank W. Tobin, president of the Oberlin Savings Bank and druggist for over 50 years, died yesterday in Oberlin Ohio. He led local banking and pharmacy circles since the early 1900s. His death marks the end of a long public career.
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Oberlin, O
Frank W. Tobin
Oberlin Savings Bank
Judge Defends Strip Tease as God’s Creation in Obscenity Ruling
Cincinnati June 11 Judge Stanley Struble declares an Ohio obscenity statute unconstitutional in acquitting an exhibit from a strip-tease series. He calls obscene literature laws shackles on minds and blesses the performer as part of God’s handiwork, citing natural sex ideas and the beauty of human form.
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Cincinnati
Stanley Struble
Common Pleas
Ohio
Struble
Oscar Sate
Dike Break Floods Portland Area After River Breach
The Columbia River breached a side dike near Portland flooding ten miles east. Evacuations already ordered for thousands. the Reynolds aluminum plant and multiple facilities threatened as Army engineers moved to shore up interim defenses.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia
Sheriff's Office
Army
Vanport
Portland Meadows
Reynolds Company
New Minister and Wife Open Logan Parsonage Visit
Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Wilson have established residence in the Methodist parsonage on East Hunter Street. He will deliver his second sermon at 7:30 P M Sunday on Pray Do Not Faint. Wilson comes from Bryan where he led the Methodist pulpit before Rev Clinton Swengel. He studied at Asbury College Drake University Northwestern and the University of Chicago earning a Ph D. He and Mrs. Wilson have two grown sons in Columbus and Wilkes Barre Pa.
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Logan
Bryan
Clinton Swengel
Logan Church
Asbury College
Vanderbilt University School of Religion
Drake University
Boy Drowns in Horseshoe Pond Near Cleveland
A boy identified as Neil Broa, 11, drowned yesterday in Horseshoe Pond near Cleveland. Authorities report the accident occurred in the pond area during an unspecified activity. The case is under local investigation.
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Neil Broa
Horseshoe Pond
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