Republicans Clash Over Policy At Party platform Draft
GOP platform committee in Washington reviews a contested foreign policy plank amid early debate. Rep Harness cautions against hasty foreign commitments while Senator Vandenberg backs a bold Truman like approach. The 104 member committee approves the draft for full committee action before convention ratification.
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GOP
Republican Party
Congress
Washington
Resolutions Committee
Rep
Harness
R-Ind
Arthur Vandenberg
Truman
Doings Comps Party
Ford Offers Pay Hike to Workers
Ford Motor Co. proposed an 11 to 14 cent an hour wage raise for its 110000 CIO United Auto Workers. Those earning $1.50 or more would gain 14 cents. those under $1.50 would receive 11 cents. Ford argued the plan would fix wage inequities. The union sought 30 cents. The current average wage is just above $1.50 an hour.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Cancer research funds allotted to Ohio institutions
The National Advisory Cancer Council and the U S Public Health Service allotted 30000 dollars yesterday for cancer studies in Ohio. Ohio State University received 3900 dollars, the University of Cincinnati two grants totaling 21620 dollars, and the universitys college of medicine 5100 dollars.
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Washington
National Advisory Cancer Council
U.S. Public Health Service
Ohio
Ohio State University
University of Cincinnati
University
College of Medicine
Yeggs Blow Safes For Narcotics In Columbus
In Columbus Ohio two safes at the Orr Brown and Price Co were blown open by burglars yesterday ignoring 500 dollars in cash to steal an unspecified amount of narcotics.
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Columbus, CO
Orr, Brown and Price Co
Mrs E W Davis Dies at 75 in Logan
Mrs Cordelia Davis 75 died at 11 PM Saturday in Hocking Valley Hospital two weeks after husband Edward Davis. She was born to Lewis Webb's family and married in 1891. They lived in Sand Run before moving to Logan in 1921. She was active in Eastern Star Venus Circle Methodist Church and women's groups. Funeral 2 PM Tuesday at the Methodist Church with Rev. R B Wilson. burial at the local funeral home. Surviving daughter L P Mooney two sisters two granddaughters and one great grandson.
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Cordelia Davis
Hocking Valley Hospital
Edward Yy
Lewis Webb
Mr. Davis
Sand Run
Logan
Methodist Church
R. B. Wilson
L. P. Mooney
Lewis Green
William Brian
Phil Devol
Murray City
William Powell
Nelsonville
J. R. Farmer
J. R. Sherwood
Hammon Brothers Buy Building Housing Hammon Grocery
Harry and John Hammon owners of Hammon's Grocery in the Warner Building East Main Street have purchased the two story brick structure from Fred Warner executor of the late Mr and Mrs Lucy Warner The grocery occupies the ground floor while the upper floor hosts Mr and Mrs Okey Hysell in East Main Street Warner Building.
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Harry
John Hammon
Hammon
Warner Building
East Main Street
Fred Warner
Lucy Warner
Warner
Upper Sandusky
Explosion Rocks North Jersey. Hospitals Mobilize Amid Blast
A powerful blast rocked northern New Jersey on June 21, with Morris County hospitals alerted to dispatch ambulances and physicians. State police closed highways near the Hercules plant area as the blast was felt within a 50 mile radius. Windows shattered in Dover and shaken in East Orange, recalling a 1940 Hercules Powder blast that killed 52 people.
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Kennil
N. J
New Jersey
Morris County
Hercules Power Company
Hercules Plant
Robert Hewitt
Dover
East Orange
Hercules Powder Company
Gas Pipeline Progress Reaches Hocking County in Ohio
A 95 mile natural gas line from the Crawford station at Sugar Grove to South Point advances into Hocking County. Forty five miles are under Midwest Constructors with the rest by Anderson Brothers of Tulsa Oklahoma. Project to finish this fall employs about 200 men and reroutes old lines.
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Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Crawford Station
Sugar Grove
South Point
Hocking County
Buck Run
Mathias
Rockbridge
Ohio Fuel Inch
United Fuel Co
Columbia
Ohio
Lick
Jackson
Midwest Constructors
Anderson Brothers
Tulsa
Oklo
Big Inch
Union Furnace
Ohio River
Mrs Joe Ansel 78 Dies in Columbus
Mrs. Joe Ansel 78 wife of Columbus resident died after long illness She was a native of Hocking County and had lived in the Bremen area in recent years The body lay in state at Snyder Funeral Home prior to 10 30 A M Wednesday EUB Church Bremen where Rev Eugene Flowers and Rev Gibson officiated Burial followed in Grandview Cemetery Bremen Survivors include husband three sons Ward Garrison of Lancaster Cyril Garrison of Bremen Miss Ora Ansel of Bremen and three daughters Mrs Herbert Imboden near Logan Mrs A H Waters Groveport and sister Mrs Mary Ansel of Bremen plus one brother Ervin Sheets of Columbus
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Hattie S. Ansel
Columbus
Hocking County
Bremen Eub
Eugene Flowers
Gibson
Grandview Cemetery
Bremen
Snyder
Ward Garrison
Lancaster
Cyril Garrison
Mary Ansel
Herbert Imboden
Near Logan
A. H. Waters
Groveport
Ora Ansel
Ervin Sheets
Would-Be Buyer of Automobile Seeks Court Aid
Will D. Shively of Stout Adams County sues Glockner Chevrolet Co of Portsmouth in Scioto County common pleas court to force delivery of a new 1946 sedan ordered November 27 1945 with a $100 deposit. He claims he was ninth on the list but has not received a car despite many deliveries to others.
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Portsmouth
Will D. Shively
Stout
Adams County
Scioto County
Shively
Grand Jury to Get Poison Death Case
Cincinnati reports the Watts poison case will go before the grand jury late this week. Mrs Mary Clay Watts, mother of the two poison victims, has been bound over on a first degree murder charge in the death of her 11 year old daughter Barbara Ann.
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Cincinnati
Watts
Hamilton County
Carson Hoy
Mary .Clay Watts
Barbara Ann
Pay Hike Approved by Cleveland GE Workers
Union workers at General Electric plants in Cleveland approved a two year contract raising wages by an average of 11 cents per hour. The agreement comes as CIO United Electrical Workers settles terms for the shop workers.
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Cleveland
CIO
United Electrical
General Electric Corp
Carl Mock Attends Blind Vets Meeting in Cleveland
Carl L. Mock of Logan joined 30 Ohioans at a weekend gathering in Cleveland to form a state Blinded Veterans Association. They attended a party Saturday night at the Cleveland Athletic Club hosted by the Cleveland Society for the Blind, then a Sunday business meeting followed by a Philadelphia Athletics at Indians doubleheader as guests of the Cleveland club.
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Carl L. Mock
Logan
Cleveland
Blinded Veterans’ Association
Cleveland Athletic Club
Cleveland Society For the Blind
Club
Philadelphia Athletics
Indians
Cleveland Club
Pope summons fourteen Catholic princes to secret consistory
In Vatican City on June 21 Pope Pius XII convened a closed consistory with fourteen Catholic Church princes. The meeting was held in secrecy to discuss church matters.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Military heads ready to start draft machinery
Washington reports military leaders prepared to mobilize a two million man defense force after Congress approves the selective service revival. Inductions for men aged 19 to 25 begin 90 days after President Truman signs, with $14.0 billion allotted to bolster the Army Navy and Air Force. Bradley says passage aids preventing foreign conflict. Army funds total 6.77 billion, Navy 4.75 billion, Air Force 3.22 billion.
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Washington
Truman
Defense Chiefs
Congress
No draft board established in Hocking County
No definite information on the establishment of a selective service board in Hocking County has been received. Mrs. Katherine Myers, secretary of the wartime draft board, said she has received no instructions to date. Myers was released from the selective service setup when the wartime draft board was disbanded and remains subject to recall.
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Selective Service Board
Hocking County
Katherine Myers
Myers
Draft plan favors age order over lottery for peacetime
The draft program outlines allocating 000,000 to train future inductees with no lottery. Induction would start with 21 year olds, ordered by birth date. The Office of Selective Service Records will merge into a new agency led by Maj. Gen. Hershey, with about 4,000 local boards. The Army may call 200,000 to 225,000 in the first year.
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Washington
Office of Selective Service Records
New
Selective Service Organization
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Motorists Fined By Mayor Friend At Weekend Court
Two motorists, Harold G. Bishop of Columbus and Joe Sinnott of Union Furnace, pleaded guilty to reckless operation and were fined $10 plus costs. Bishop was cited on West Hunter Street by city police, Sinnott on U S Route 33 south of Logan by state patrolmen.
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Roger W. Friend
Harold G. Bishop
Columbus
Joe Sinnott
Union Furnace
Bishop
Hunter Street
Sinnott
Logan
Republicans Defend Record As Congress Closes Session
Washington reports Republicans tout the 80th Congress as a strong session ahead of November elections while Democrats call it one of the worst. Major bills include foreign aid worth over 6 billion, peacetime draft for 19 to 25 year olds, and farm price supports. Additional measures raise postal and other federal worker pay, extend atomic energy commissions terms, admit 205000 displaced persons, and fund government agencies for the coming year.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
McGrath
D-Ri
Democratic National Committee
House
Senate
Tabor
Atomic Energy
Atomic Energy Commission
Market Snapshot: Grains Slip as Livestock Mixed
Wheat dips with corn. corn weak on Midwest rain. Oats ease after corn drop. Hogs hold steady to 50 cents higher, top 28.50. Cattle steady to 1.00 lower, steers up to 38.50.
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Midwest
Civil War Vets Disagree on Living Habits in Ohio
John Grate and John R. Bennett, both 103, the state's only surviving Civil War veterans, clash over whether smoking and drinking shorten life. Bennett smokes cigars and defends drinking. Grate says he avoids smoking, chewing, and drinking. They arrived for the 82nd annual state GAR encampment at Columbus, with Bennett using a wheelchair due to injuries. Grate led memorial services and both expect to elect officers and choose the 1949 encampment city.
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Columbus
John Grate
John R. Bennett
Ohio
Grate
Bennett
Ohio Gar
Atwater
Waynesfield
Ada Skinner
Summer Arrives With Warm Weather In Ohio County
The weatherman reports summer started in Logan and Hocking County at 7:11 A M with 62 degrees. By noon the temperature reached 85 degrees and is expected to rise. Forecasters predict cool nights and warm days ahead.
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Logan
Hocking County
Gullible Soul Hunts Lost Cash by Fake Detectives
Akron Ohio June 21 local man Louis Fox says two men posing as detectives arrested him on a downtown street and searched his rooms claiming hidden pictures. They allegedly found a thousand dollars in twenty dollar bills with Andrew Jackson etchings and promised to return them after 5 P.M. Wednesday before Fox reported the incident to police.
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Akron
Louis Fox
Fox
Andrew Jackson
Typical Father Named In East Liverpool Trade Council Leader
James B. Moss a 46 year old potter and president of the local Trades and Council is described as a typical father of three sons in East Liverpool Ohio on June 21. The fragment notes his role and family status in the community.
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East Liverpool
James B. Moss
Trades and and Council
Republican Convention Opens With Uncertain Presidential Race
The 1940 Republican National Convention at Convention Hall Philadelphia opened with a show of confidence in a Republican year, but broad uncertainty over the presidential candidate. Dewey Taft Stassen Vandenberg among frontrunners, with balloting not set until midweek while Pennsylvania and Illinois delegates draw close scrutiny.
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Republican Party
Philadelphia
Dewey
Tait
Stassen
Arthur Vandenberg
United States
Supreme Court Backs Labor Law Decision
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling throwing out an indictment against the CIO for using union funds for political purposes. The court avoided ruling on the constitutionality of Taft Hartley’s ban. Justice Reed delivered the decision with Frankfurter and Rutledge concurring.
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Washington
Supreme Court
CIO
High Court
Reed
Frankfurter
Rutledge
Black
Douglas
Murphy
Joe Rockhold Named New Station Manager
Joe Rockhold, brother of Logan High School faculty member Miss Sarah Rockhold, has been named general manager for the H Valley Broadcasting Corp in Lancaster. A veteran radio worker, he brings years of on air and management experience to the post.
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Joe Rockhold
Chillicothe
Sarah Rockhold
Logan High School
H Valley Broadcasting Corp
Lancaster
Mr. Rockhold
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Harold E. Stassen
Arthur A. Vandenberg
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