Committee Cuts Amounts Sought By President
The House Appropriations Committee recommended reductions in defense and Alaska projects. It approved 485.1 million dollars for defense stockpiles, 32.7 million of 40 million for Alaska Army construction, 47.98 million cash and 50 million contract for Pacific installations, and funds for Fairbanks airport, flood repair on the Columbia River, and disaster relief. Funding also set for World Health Organization participation and animal disease control.
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Alaska
House Appropriations Committee
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Wii
Truman
Cary
Aleutians
Pacific
Seaie Authority
Jin
Mercial
Fairbanks
Secretary of Commerce
Columbia River Valley
United States
World Health Organization
Ohio to Have Big Winter Wheat Crop
Ohio forecasts a 1948 winter wheat crop about 30 percent above the 10 year average with an estimated yield of 56,056,000 bushels as of June 1. The report notes per acre yields near 22.5 bushels, higher than 1947 and the long term average, while oats and corn are also shaping up with the corn outlook unsettled.
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Columbus
Ohio
Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
Carey
Taft Backers Hopeful Of Pennsylvania Votes
Backers of Senator Robert A. Taft claim Governor James H. Duff may switch Pennsylvania’s 73 convention votes to Taft if Arthur Vandenberg’s bid collapses. Duff would oppose Dewey and favor a congressman or former governor as nominee, arguing the congressional record will drive the campaign.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
Duff
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Congress
Truman
Los Angeles
Labor Department
Capitol Hill
Tariff Measure Heads for Truman after House Passage
Congress sent to the White House a one year reciprocal trade agreements act bill with changes. The GOP controlled House approved the extension over Truman's request for three years and kept a veto provision on override reports from the Federal Tariff Commission. Democrats fought to preserve the original extension.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Senate
Truman
Federal Tariff Commission
Commission
House
Paul M Herbert Named Defiance College Trustee
Defiance Ohio June 15 announcement confirms Lt Gov Paul M Herbert was elected as a trustee of Defiance College. The move elevates Herbert's public service profile as the college seeks governance continuity.
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Efiance
Paul M. Herbert
Defiance College
Dreaded Black Oxen Overtake Novelist Gertrude Atherton
SAN FRANCISCO June 15. Novelist Gertrude Atherton is dead after a long career famed for defying aging and controversy. She died at Stanford Hospital after admission May 27 following a battle with illness. Her career began with The Doomswoman in 1892 and ended with My San Francisco a Wayward Biography in 1946. Her best known Black Oxen of 1923 sparked strong debate and remains a landmark work in her prolific output.
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San Francisco
Gertrude Atherton
Stanford Hospital
Truman Prods Congress on Prices and Production
President Truman battles Democratic and Republican leaders over high prices and government costs. Rep H Alleck says constructive action and tax cuts will ease prices, while GOP chair Carroll Reece defends Congress and rails at Truman. Roosevelt and California Democrats press civil rights questions. Truman heads back toward Washington after talks in California.
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Congress
Rep. H. Alleck
Ind
House
GOP
Carroll Reece
Truman
Goa
Reece
Los Angeles
California
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Soft coal talks break down as operators halt negotiations
June 15 report says soft coal operators ended contract talks with John L. Lewis saying progress was impossible. The Southern Coal Producers Association, representing about a third of U S soft coal, did not oppose the move and offered to bargain with Lewis separately if needed. The Southern Association under Joseph Moody joined the industry wide talks by order of Justice T Alan Goldsborough.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
Southern Association
Joseph €. Moody
T. Alan Goldsborough
Senate Considers Oleo Tax Repeal
The Senate opened debate on a bill to repeal the federal tax on oleo with a 57 to 26 vote to take up the measure. No final action appeared likely amid unsettled circumstances.
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Washington
Senate
No Fresh Eggs for Taft Truman Quips on Train Tour
President Truman, en route to Kansas City, urged voters to judge him and Congress on domestic policy and pressed for price control and education aid. A crowd of about 10,000 in San Bernardino heard him joke about fresh eggs and Taft, as he planned more speeches through Arizona and New Mexico and prepared to meet Clinton Anderson, now a Democratic Senate nominee in New Mexico.
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Truman
Kansas City
Southwest
Congress
Los Angeles
San Bernardino
Calif
D. G. Murdock
Taft
Arizona
New Mexico
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
Senate
Auto Theft Ring Nabbed by Akron Police
Akron police say they cracked a budding auto theft ring. Three men admitted stealing title certificates from an auto agency in Cuyahoga Falls and planning larger thefts with a night club operator paying for titles and cars. The ring’s alleged brain was arrested on a suspicion charge and released on 500 dollars bond. others named were John B. Baughman 20 Benjamin F. Woodruff 24 and Donald Schaffer 31.
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Akron
E. W. Davis
Cuyahoga Falls
Davis
Alged
John B. Baughman
Benjamin F. Woodruff
Donald Schaffer
Arab Leaders Meet For Palestine Talk In Cairo
Arab League Secretary General Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha said the exploratory Palestine discussion gathered political delegates and army chiefs of staff in Cairo. UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte left Rhodes for Cairo to meet Arab leaders before slated talks with Jewish authorities in Tel Aviv.
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Cairo
Arab League
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Rhodes
Tel Aviv
Southwestern Ohio Milk Trust Probed
U S District Judge John H Druf fel convened a grand jury in Cincinnati to probe an alleged milk trust in southwestern Ohio. John Skiles stated about 10 daily concerns amid unclear details of the investigation.
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Cincinnati
U.S
John H. Druffel
Ohio
John Skiles
Civil Service Pay Increases To Be Discussed
Washington reports discuss wage hikes for postal workers and civil service staff. Bills propose annual raises of 450 dollars for postal workers and 360 dollars for civil service employees, with prospects for civil service raises appearing uncertain.
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Washington
Civil Service
Postal Service
Suspected Poisoner Of Daughter Pleads Innocent to Murder
Mrs. Mary Clay Watts, 43, bound over to the grand jury on a murder charge in the mercury and barbiturate poisoning death of her daughter Barbara Ann, 11. Loyal Martin said no bond. Willis Watts, husband and father of Barbara Ann, previously died of poisoning in 1944. Police have not traced a poisoning source. coroners ruled homicide in Willis Watts death.
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Cincinnati
Mary Clay Watts
Barbara Ann
R. Edward Tepe
Norwood
Greater
Loyal Martin
Tepe
Martin
Hamilton County
Fritz
Watts
Herbert P. Lyle
Non Withholding Tax Payments Due at Midnight
Midnight tonight is the deadline for mailing the second quarterly federal income tax payment if taxes aren’t fully covered by withholding. Taxpayers may reduce today’s check by adjusting their 1948 income estimates to reflect recently enacted tax cuts or wait to amend declarations with a one quarter payment on the old estimate. Overpaying taxpayers will receive a refund after filing final 1948 returns next year.
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Washington
Cartoonist's Death Is Ruled Natural
New York June 15. Harry J. Keys veteran cartoonist of the Columbus Dispatch died of natural causes, medical examiner Benjamin Vance reported. Keys was found dead in his Hotel Lexington room Sunday night. His wife Ruth 58 was found unconscious but in good condition at Metropolitan Hospital. She said he took the pills from her after she took four sleeping tablets and telephoned the hotel physician. The examiner called the death not suspicious and attributed it to congestion of the viscera.
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New York
Harry J. Keys
Columbus
Vance
Keys
Editor Resigns From Kent Courier Tribune
M A Wolcott, editor since 1939, resigns effective July 1 as announced by publisher Robert C. Dix. The resignation ends a long tenure at the Kent Cour ier Tribune in Kent, Ohio.
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Kent, O
M. A. Wolcott
Kent Courier-Tribune
Robert C. Dix
Shooting Victim Details Dorr Run Affray And Amputated Leg
Arthur Stowers 41 told Hocking County officers at Sheltering Arms Hospital how a night of drinking in Hocking and Athens counties led to a gunfight with Emery Murphy 53. Murphy, held for investigation, allegedly used a defective 12 gauge shotgun. Stowers sustained a severe wound requiring amputation. Police planned charges against Murphy.
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Dorr Run
Hocking
Arthur Stowers
Floyd Duffy
Fred A. Murray
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
Stowers
Athens County
Emery Murphy
Murphy
Derr
Nelsonville
Duffy
Murray
Leaders Hope For Passage By Wednesday
Washington June 15 House leaders no longer expect to pass a draft bill tonight aiming for passage tomorrow The bill faces Senate House conference work and possible civil rights amendments by Rep Powell NY If approved it would set 75 day delay before the draft proclamations and require about 200000 inductees this year and next.
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Washington
House
Halleck
Senate House
Rules Committee
Rep
Allen
Senate
Truman
Powell
D-Ny
Workers at Hudson Granted Pay Hikes
The CIO United Auto Workers won a 13 cent an hour wage increase from the Hudson Motor Car Co. today. The raise comes just hours before negotiations begin with Ford Motor Co.
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Hudson
CIO
United Auto Workers
Hudson Motor Car Co
Ford Motor Co
Hubbard Youth Becomes Buckeye Boys State Governor
Jack O. Mason a 17 year old Hubbard High student wins the Buckeye Boys State governorship with 460 votes to 400 for Charles D Montgomery from Euclid Royce H Vaughns of Cleveland becomes lieutenant governor after 473 votes Charles B rman sworn in as auditor Jerry Miller of Salem wins Nationalist ticket auditor Philip A Decker Hubbard attorney general Clive H Rush Springfield treasurer and William B Dally Stow secretary of state. non partisan ticket names Thomas J Swisher Mansfield chief justice and associates Roald R Myers Galion William C Wilks Hamilton A Zerull Jr Moon Vesreas fil.
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Delaware, O
Jack O. Mason
Hubbard
Ohio
Buckeye Boys
Mason
Charles D. Montgomery
Euclid
Royce H. Vaughns
Cleveland
Vaughns
Paperene Court
Charles B.rman
Jerry Miller
Salem
Philip A. Decker
Clive H. Rush
Springfield
William B. Dally
Stow
Thomas J. Swisher Mansfield
Supreme Court
Roald R. Myers
Galion
William C. Wilks
Hamilton
A. Zerull, Jr
Ef Moon Vesreas
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