General MacArthur Bids for Top GOP Ticket
General MacArthur openly bids for the Republican presidential nomination while President Truman moves toward a Democratic bid. The 68 year old five star general says he is available but will not actively seek the presidency, while noting his name in Wisconsin primary petitions. Truman announces he will run if nominated, widening party splits and complicating the race for delegates to the Philadelphia conventions.
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Washington
General MacArthur
Truman
Tokyo
New Hampshire
Philadelphia
MacArthur
Wisconsin
GOP
Madison
Democratic Party
Dixie Party
J. Howard McGrath
Abandonment Ordered for Salem City Hall
State Fire Marshal Ray R. Gill has ordered Salem officials to abandon the century old city hall condemned in 1941 as a fire trap. Voters approved a $250,000 bond for a new municipal building two years ago but construction never began.
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Salem
Ray R. Gill
Gill
Red Cross Fund Reaches 2000 in Hocking County
Russell Young campaign chairman reports 2000 contributed to the 1948 Red Cross drive in Hocking County. Logan residents lead with most reports, while rural areas lag due to poor roads. Logan Residential Chairman Hugh Hooper says work should finish by midweek.
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Red Cross
Hocking County
Russell Young
Logan
Young
Hugh Hooper
Wife sues over missing gambling loss at Terrier Smoke Shop
Canton, Ohio March 9 A Canton woman Mrs Rose Mary Crisp filed in Stark County common pleas court to recover 20000 alleging her husband Donald Crisp lost the money at the Terrier Smoke Shop between January 1 1945 and September 1 1947 The suit names the shop and seeks restitution based on the alleged gambling loss.
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Canton, O
Canton
Stark County
Taft Manager Claims Majority Of Delegates
Taft campaign asserts he leads in delegate count for the Republican nomination with 300 to 400 delegates, ahead of rivals. Ohio GOP endorses Taft. Brown predicts victory in Ohio and Nebraska with Stassen contesting in 11 districts.
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Taft
Brown
Ohio
Nebraska
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
GOP
Fred H. Johnson
Clay Industries Agree on Pay Pattern
In Pittsburgh on March 9 two sides reached a wage plan tying pay to the national pattern to be set in April affecting over 15 000 workers. Earl A Garber Harbison Walker Refractories Co spoke for the industry after three days of talks with 17 eastern US refractories representatives the United Construction Workers and the AFL. Committees will study employee insurance benefit plans.
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Pittsburgh
Earl A. Garber
Harbison-Walker Refractories Co
United Construction Workers
AFL
Daylight Saving Time Law Debated in Ohio Cities
Ohio towns debate one hour clock shift for daylight saving as voters and councils consider measures. Some cities like Cleveland East Liverpool Elyria and Steubenville have already approved the change while Akron and Youngstown plan May ballot measures. Local papers run polls and letters shape these moves.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Cleveland
East Liverpool
Elyria
Steubenville
Akron
Youngstown
Warren
Salem
Conneaut
Soviet charges US plot to rearm Germany and split Europe
Moscow reports that Russia accused the United States Britain and France of building up military power in the Ruhr to turn Western Europe into a base for American imperialism and aggression against the USSR. The note also says Western powers seek to liquidate four power structures and divide Europe, while Britain and America merge occupation zones in Western Germany.
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Moscow
Russia
United States
Europe
Germany
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Ruhr
Council of Foreign Ministers
America
Western Germany
Allied Control Council
GE rejects ability to pay yardstick for wage hikes
GE declares that wages should not rise with profits and rejects using ability to pay as a yardstick. Negotiations with CIO United Electrical workers resume under a modification section as L R Boulware argues wage boosts across diverse plants could force price increases and harm employers and the public.
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New York
General Electric Company
CIO
CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Boulware
Trusty Paroled in Murder Case at Governor Mansion
Robert Smith, convicted of first degree murder in Hamilton County 18 years ago, was granted parole effective April 21. He was a governor mansion trusty and was made eligible by a commutation from life to 20 years granted Dec 31 by Gov. Thomas J. Hir A mercy recommendation spared him from the electric chair. he and three others were accused of robbing a Cincinnati food store and killing an employee Louis Klone.
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Columbus, O
Robert Smith
Hamilton County
Smith
Governor’s Mansion
Thomas J. Her
Cincinnati
Louis Klone
Woman Killed In Crossing Crash Near Zanesville
Betty Campbell 24 died and six companions were injured when a car was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train on Zanesville's western edge. Five of the injured were women. the group, all Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. employees, had attended a brush demonstration at a friend's residence. Car driver Warren Bowers 21 was at the wheel.
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Zanesville, O
Betty Campbell
Baltimore and Ohio
Zanesville
Hazel-Atlas Glass Co
Warren Bowers
Supreme Court bans public school religious classes in Illinois
Eight justices rule religious education in public schools violates church state separation. Justice Black writes the wall between church and state must be high. Only Justice Reed dissents as champaign plan allowed weekly voluntary classes with parental consent.
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Washington
Supreme Court
America
Justice Black
Champaign
Ill
Black
James Terry
Landlord Fined For Disobeying Court Order
Federal Judge Robert N. Wilkin fined Harold B. Bryan 100 dollars plus costs and imposed a 60 day jail term for failing to obey a court order to restitution of rent overcharges to tenant Thedeus Green. The sentence was suspended for 10 months with Bryan ordered to pay 275 dollars to Green per a prior federal order.
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Cleveland
Robert N. Wilkin
Harold B. Bryan
Bryant
Thedeus Green
MacArthur Write-In Campaign Planned
Cleveland March 9. A write-in campaign for Gen Douglas MacArthur in Ohio's May 4 primaries was announced by Melvin T Hott, attorney and spokesman for a Cleveland Mac Arthur for President Club. The drive would target Republican voters to write in the general's name on primary ballots.
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Cleveland
Douglas MacArthur
Ohio
Melvin T. Hott
MacArthur
President Club
Fire Hits Village in L. A. Ames Building
Fire swept the L. A. Ames building in Newton Falls injuring three businesses including a restaurant a novelty and cigar store and second floor recreation rooms causing an estimated $15 000 damage.
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Warren, O
L. A. Ames
Newton Falls
Tiffin Bakers Cut Bread Prices
Tiffin Ohio bakeries announce a half cent price cut making two 16 cent loaves available for 34 cents.
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Tiffin
Tiffin Bakeries Today
Professor Dr Carl L Spohr Dies at 77 in Columbus
Professor emeritus of pathology at Ohio State University Dr Carl L Spohr died yesterday in Columbus at the age of 77. He served the university for decades and was a noted medical educator and researcher.
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Columbus, O
Carl L. Spohr
Ohio State University
Fifteen Leg Fracture Suffered By Girl in Cleveland
Eight year old Sally Ann Mentali has broken a leg for the fifteenth time after a Sunbeam School bus stop caused her to be thrown from her seat. She first fractured a leg at 20 months old and had two breaks last year in July and September. The doctor noted she may outgrow the condition.
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Cleveland
Sally Ann Mentali
Sally
Sunbeam School
Sub Zero Cold Grips North Dakota and Midwest
Arctic temperatures plunged to 22 below zero in North Dakota with colder air extending across the Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa. The cold belt also pushed below normal readings in Missouri Nebraska and Kansas as forecasters warned no quick relief. Grand Forks recorded 22 below as the coldest spot while other regions remained near normal.
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Chicago
North Dakota
Midwest
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mercury
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Grand Forks
N.C
Miami
Brownsville
Tex
Bandits Strike Butler Federal Building for $1000
Two armed men robbed the Butler Federal Building and Loan Company in Hamilton Ohio. They forced officials employees and customers into a back room and rifled cash drawers escaping with about $1,000, the police report states.
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Hamilton
Butler Federal Building and Loan Company
Clarence Hawk
Jewish Factions Unite for Common Front in Palestine
Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi plan a merger to form a united Jewish military front in Palestine. Irgun would keep its structure under Haganah oversight and halt attacks on British forces withdrawing from the Holy Land. Haganah numbers exceed 10,000 troops. Irgun reportedly over 1,000.
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Jerusalem
Haganah
Irgun Zvaia Leumi
Palestine
Holy Land
Irgun
Jewish Agency
David Ben Gurion
Alan Cunningham
Palestine Police
Infant Terry Ryan Dies After Mansfield Crash
In Mansfield Ohio on March 9 the infant son of Mrs. Nettie Ryan was fatally injured in a traffic accident yesterday.
Russians Release Americans After 27 Hours in Custody
Howard H. Russell chief of the administrative division and Virgil Van Street of Eatonsville Md members of the J G Farben prosecution staff returned to Nuernberg after 27 hours in the custody of armed Russian soldiers in the Soviet occupied zone. They visited the Leipzig fair with their wives and were overdue several days. They returned weary nervous but unharmed. Foreign Aid Speedup Plan Balked in Washington. Senate and House leaders failed to agree on expediting foreign aid legislation and expect further discussions after a meeting with Senator Vandenberg.
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Nuernberg
Germany
American War Crimes Prosecution
Howard H. Russell
Baltimore
Virgil van Street
Eatonsville
J. G. Farben
Leipzig Fair
Washington
Senate
House
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Martin
R-Mass
Ohio Bureaus Hit in Report By Inspectors
A 1946 47 inspection of four Internal Revenue offices in Ohio Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus and Toledo found lax handling of receipts poor knowledge of revenue laws indifferent attitude and obstructive behavior among staff. The findings came from the accounts and collections unit and were released by a House appropriations subcommittee.
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Ohio
Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
House
Cincinnati
Toledo
OSU Medical Center Nearer Realization
Ohio State University trustees recommended accepting bids totaling 7.49 million for a new multi building medical center in Columbus. The state board of control will act on the bids, with an 8 million dollar appropriation funding an 11 story teaching hospital and a three story dental school building.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
State Board of Control
Draft Officials Plan Nationwide Board Reorganization
Col Solon F Russell state director of the Office of Selective Service during World War II said draft boards are being reorganized to meet any emergency nationwide as a matter of preparedness for future contingencies.
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Louisville
Solon F. Russell
Office of Selective Service
Russell
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Betty Jane Kroeger
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Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Sen. Taft
London
CIO Union
L. R. Boulware
Governor's Mansion
Trusty
Tice Reed
Vashti McCollum
Te Eee School Board
Bandits
Tel Aviv
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House Appropriations
Treasury
Simon F. Niggle
Stanley Tyler
Thomas J. Nerney
Comptroller’s
Osu Medical Center
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