U S Policy Reverses on Russia End of Coddling Era
Washington report details a shift in American policy toward the Soviet Union since Potsdam. President Truman rebuts previous easing and supports economic aid to Western Europe with political and possibly military backing. top defense leaders review war operation plans as Congress fast tracks the Marshall Plan.
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Washington
Russia
Truman
Stalin
Potsdam
United States
State Department
Western Europe
Defense Forrestal
Key West
Fla
Marshall
Italy
Truman Rejects Plan to Pacify Southerners
Washington March 15 The president reportedly rejected plans to appoint a southern cabinet member to placate southern backing of his civil rights program He is expected to name a midwesterner to replace Clinton Anderson as secretary of agriculture Senator Sparkman of Alabama notes mixed southern reaction and seven southern governors threaten to withhold electoral votes from any nominee backing the civil rights agenda.
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Washington
Truman
Clinton Anderson
Anderson
Congress
Senate
New Mexico
Mason and Dixon Line
Clark
Sparkman
Ala
Dixie
Alabama
Storms Veil Trace Of Crashed Plane In Alaska
Weather worsened as searchers failed to reach the 16,208 foot Mount Denali crash site where a DC-4 with 30 aboard crashed during a Shanghai to New York charter. The four engine airliner carried six crew and 24 seamen from the Overseas Tankship Corp. offshore tanker Sunset.
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Horage
Alaska
Shanghai
St. Paul
Here
New York
Sunset
Overseas Tankship Corp
Food Tested After Dinner-Dance Illness at Temple Club
Health commissioner E B Kanan said lab tests would start today on food from the Temple Men's Club dinner dance after 10 people fell ill. Samples from the banquet will be examined to identify the cause.
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Uty
E. B. Kanan
Temple Men’s Club
Two Killed in Louisville IH Plant Blast
An explosion at the International Harvester plant in Louisville killed at least two people and injured about 26, with 25 trapped in debris. Rescue teams battled heat and fire as workers were sent home and production halted at the 4000-employee facility.
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Louisville
International Harvester Company
R. C. Almgren
Meat Packers Reject Arbitration Offer
Chicago March 15 Two of three major meat packers Swift Cudahy and Armour rejected arbitration in the wage dispute with the CIO United Packinghouse Workers. The union threatened a nationwide strike at 12:01 A M tomorrow unless arbitration of the 20 cent wage gap is agreed. Swift and Cudahy called the nine cent rise fair and noted they already settled with another union. Armours yet to reply, union says it will arbitrate with Armour if accepted. Federal conciliators meet again to avert the strike which could cut meat supply by half.
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Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse
Swift & Company
Cudahy Packing Company
Armour & Company
Swift and Cudahy
Armour
Ralph Helstein
Swift
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America
AFL
Library Levy Placed on Primary Ballot Logan-Hocking Library District seeks funds
Hocking County commissioners place a 4/10 mill library levy on the May 4 primary ballot to fund expansion and a new bookmobile for the Logan-Hocking County Library District created last year by merging city and county services.
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Hocking County
Logan-Hocking County
Italy faces end of U S aid if Communist victory
Washington reports the State Department warned that if Italy elects a Communist government there will be no further American economic aid. Michael McDermott said the Italian Communist party would decide whether to cut off aid under the Marshall Plan and European recovery program. The ruling follows Senate opposition to aid to Communist dominated nations.
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Washington
State Department
Italy
United States
Italian Communist Party
Michael McDermott
Senate
McDermott
U S Opposed to Veto Elimination
The United States declares opposition to complete elimination of the UN Security Council veto. Philip C. Jessup, U.S. representative, says the veto should be restricted by agreement among the big powers but not abolished.
Coughing Attack Fatal to Woman in Bellefontaine
Mrs. Homer Cooke, 63, died after a half hour coughing spell in Bellefontaine Ohio. Coroner A J McCracken said the attack began the previous night and ended about thirty minutes later.
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Bellefontaine, O
Homer Cooke
A. J. McCracken
Fall Kills Railroader in Brookpark Yard
A brakeman named Howard L. Hall, 37, of Lakewood died after a fall from a moving box car in the New York Central switching yard at Brookpark Village today. The incident occurred in Cleveland and the victim is identified by hometown and role.
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Cleveland
New York Central
Brookpark Village
Howard L. Hall
Lakewood
General Meyers Sentenced to Prison Under Subornation Charge
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers was sentenced to 20 months to 6 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of suborning perjury before a Senate committee. Judge Alexander Holtzoff called the offense grave, noting Meyers’ wartime service and war record as mitigating factors.
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Washington
Bennett E. Meyers
Senate
Alexander Holtzoff
Meyers
Holtzoff
Airforces
Bond
Robert T. Bushnell
Bushell
Bleriot Lamarre
Lamarre
International Soundphoto
ERP Faces Quick Challenges in House
Safely through the Senate the 5.3 billion European aid program moved toward rapid House action. The House foreign affairs committee pressed the foreign aid plan with speed as Republican leaders plan a strategy meeting by the policy making steering committee.
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Washington
Senate
House
Western
Europe
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Police Chief Admits Drunk Driving Charge
Police Chief Bedie King of Morrow resigns after pleading guilty to a drunk driving charge. Deputy Thomas Cook, who arrested King, is named acting chief. King is fined $100 by Morrow Mayor Earl J. Maag who suspends half the fine.
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Lebanon
Bedie King
Morrow
Thomas Cook
King
Earl J. Maag
Child Suffocates in Fire Rescue Tragedy
Patricia Hopkins a four year old girl died after being found suffocated on the bathroom floor of a burning home. Firefighters said she may have run back inside to save her clothing.
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Cleveland
Patricia Hopkins
Taft Survives Plane Crash During Maine Campaign Swing
U S Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio escapes injury after a single engine Stinson crashes on the Kennebec River in Maine during a campaign swing Two others aboard Owen Brewster and Pilot John Clark are unharmed The crew walks through deep snow to the highway and Taft continues his Maine visit amid calls to the administration over war hysteria and Soviet moves
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Vassalboro
U.S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Maine
Kennebec
Taft
Stinson
Owen Brewster
John T. Clark
Horace A. Hildreth
Augusta
Brewster
Clark
Augusta-Waterville
Hildreth
Bangor
Old Town
Sen. Taft
Russia
Yalta
Truman
Marshall
Congress
Hotel fire forces 84 guests to flee Goodale Hotel
A blaze on the fourth floor of the Goodale Hotel in Columbus yesterday sent eighty four guests and employees fleeing to safety. Fire crews battled the flames for hours before gaining control.
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Columbus
Goodale
Finland wary over Soviet military pact in Moscow talks
Finland informed Soviet Russia there are doubts about a proposed military cooperation treaty. President Paasikivi said Finland hopes to stay out of international conflicts and that the pact should be freely considered in negotiations opening in Moscow next Monday. The Foreign Office published the letter a day after Moscow excerpts appeared.
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Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Juho H. Paasikivi
Stalin
Moscow
Paasikivi
Foreign Office
Markets at a Glance Mixed, Hogs and Cattle Gain
Wheat declines in light trade. Corn steady with small country cash offerings. Oats mixed with deferred months easing. Hogs rise unevenly 50 cents to 1 dollar, topping 24.50. Cattle unevenly up 25 to 150 cents. Stocks mixed, aircraft stocks edge forward.
Work Stoppage Follows Dispute Over Pensions
Ten coal mines were closed and 2,500 miners idle in the Hocking area amid John L. Lewis demands for miners pensions. Ohio surveys showed about 18 mines operating, with several closures and workers not reporting. The stoppage spans multiple counties and districts, led by western Pennsylvania surveys indicating large idle counts.
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Hocking
John L. Lewis
David Christian
Carbon Hill
UMW
Ilcounty
Ohio
Mr. Christian
Corning
Murray City
Rendmar
Shawnee
Lost Run
New Straitsville
Lewis
Belmont
Harrison
Jefferson Counties
District 6
Pennsylvania
Crime Laboratory Opens Tour Across Ohio Counties
Ohio's new 15000 dollar roving crime detection laboratory begins a county tour starting in Lancaster Circleville and Washington Court House on Tuesday. The mobile lab visits Wilmington Hillsboro Chillicothe Waverly Portsmouth West Union and others through March 26 including London Xenia Logan McArthur Ironton Gallipolis Pomeroy Athens Marietta McConnellsville Caldwell Woodsfield St Clairsville Cambridge Zanesville and Newark.
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Ohio
Lancaster
Circleville
Washington Court House
Wilmington
Hillsboro
Chillicothe
Waverly
Portsmouth
West Union
Georgetown
Batavia
Lebanon
Xenia
London
Logan
McArthur
Jackson
Ironton
Gallipolis
Pomeroy
Athens
Marietta
McConnellville
Caldwell, Woodsfield
St. Clairsville
Cambridge
Zanesville
Newark
Pacifist Widow Withholds War Tax Over Military Use
Mrs. Caroline Urie, a Quaker pacifist and Hull House alumna, paid 65.4 percent of her 1947 federal income tax to protest war funding. She redirected the 34.6 percent “war tax” to four pacifist groups and said she would accept jail rather than pay for war. She supports taxes for constructive public goods, not war, and dismisses any belief in unlimited obedience to government.
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Caroline Urie
Urie
Truman
Internal Revenue Department
Jane Addams
Chicago
Hull House
Washington
Internal Revenue
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