Congressional committee weighs curbs on Communists
Washington reports the House committee on un American activities expects a 4 to 3 vote against outlawing the Communist Party but recommends strict legal curbs on Communist maneuvering in the United States. Chairman Thomas says hearings will crystallize action and notes a 1919-era report claiming the party is an agent of Russia with 92 documents cited as proof.
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Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities
Communist Party
Thomas
Russia
Moscow
United States
Improper Tillage Cited as Erosion Cause in Ohio Farmland
Fremont Ohio March 29 A dinner talk by Hugh N Bennett chief of the U S Soil Conservation Service cites failure to rotate with grass and legume crops as the reason for erosion damaging twelve million acres of Ohio farmland. He says annual losses amount to at least 500000 acres and only 450 to 460 million acres of good cropland remain including 100 million unimproved.
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Fremont
Ohio
Hugh N. Bennett
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Farmer-Businessman
United States
Bennett
Peace Conferees Agree To Tackle German Pact
Moscow reports the council of foreign ministers agreeing to address the core German issue on reparations and economic unity. A special committee will draft directives on lesser points, with Monday outlining three focus areas including Germany as an economic unit and provisional government.
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Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministrs
Allied Control Council
Germany
Educator Dr Samuel Herrick Layton Dies in Enterprise
Dr Samuel Herrick Layton former Ohio Wesleyan University professor and former Lancaster schools superintendent died after a long illness at his brother in law's home in Enterprise He had taught at Pennsylvania State College and served as superintendent in Altoona Pa He was retired for ten years and survived by his wife Minnie Funeral services set for 1 30 PM Tuesday at J W Halteman funeral home Lancaster burial in Green Lawn Cemetery Columbus
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Samuel Herrick Layton
Ohio Wesleyan University
Lancaster Schools
Josef Brashares
Enterprise
Layton
Minnie
Brashares
Trial Nears End in Boy’s Delinquency Case
In St Louis on March 29 the juvenile court prepared to send to a jury the case of 14 year old Mary Catherine Reardon charged with delinquency by reason of murder in her father J Vincent Reardon s death.
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ST. Louis
Mary Catherine Reardon
J. Vincent Reardon
Ohio Taft Favored as Republican Presidential Candidate
Washington reports say Ohio Republican leaders at a Taft home dinner pledged solid support for Senator Robert A. Taft as the party's favorite son for the 1948 nomination. Present were Bricker, Gov. Herbert, Johnson, Taft aides, and several regional political figures. Taft was expected to delay any formal declaration until Congress adjourns.
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Washington
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Taft
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Wendell W. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Thomas J. Herbert
Fred Johnson
Gov. Herbert
Johnson
Brown
Jenkins
Bender
John Marshall
Paul Walters
Cleveland
Ben Tate
Cincinnati
John Hollister
Thomas Powers
Congress
Texas Oil Field Discoverer Dead
Columbus M. Joiner 87, famed for striking the Daisy Bradford wildcat that opened the East Texas oil field, died Thursday night in a Dallas hospital. He drilled his first well in Seminole Oklahoma in 1913 and estimated he sunk around a hundred wells afterward.
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Dallas
Columbus M
Dad) Joiner
East Texas
Joiner
Seminole
Okla
Daisy Bradford
Rusk County
Wildcat
Common Law Wife Ruled Legal Widow
In Seattle a judge ruled that Maybelle Singletary of Ashtabula Ohio is the lawful widow of Hamp ton N Singletary an atomic project painter who died in April 1945. The ruling settles a dispute with the painters union which had two claimants to the death benefit of 1872. Court records show Singletary previously married Mayme L Singletary in 1912, abandoned her, remarried and abandoned again, later living with the Ohio woman as his common law wife.
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Seattle
Ashtabula, O
Roger J. Meakin
Painters Union
Hampton N. Singletary
Hanford
Wash
Maybelle Singletary
Ashtabula
Singletary
Mayme L. Singletary
Jacksonville
Fla
Ohio
Loan Delay Seen to Extend Easter Timeframe
Congressional plans for an Easter holiday lengthen the odds against final action on the administration's 400 million dollar Greek Turkish aid measure before mid April.
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Washington
Columbus bids for Fort Hayes amid housing crisis
Columbus, Ohio, leads bid to acquire Fort Hayes as a surplus military site. Mayor James Rhodes urged Washington to grant the 1864 reservation to ease the city housing shortage, citing utilities and infrastructure. Fifth Service Command officials expect a surplus declaration and stand-by orders as the base faces abandonment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Fort Hayes
James Rhodes
Washington
Fifth Service Command
Buckeye
War Assets Administration
Liquor Business Nets Ohio Over 54 Million
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced Ohio's liquor business earned more than 54 million dollars in 1946. Beer and malt beverage taxes led with 17.25 million, the state monopoly profits reached 13 million, gallonage taxes 9.23 million, licenses and permits 6.36 million, wine taxes 2.99 million, and sales taxes from on premise liquor sales 5.2 million. License and permit fees were returned to local subdivisions.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Ohio
Blocking of Akron Bus Strike Sought
Akron mayor Charles E Slusser planned separate talks with CIO Transport Workers Local No 1 and the Akron Transportation Company to avert a bus strike due to breakdown in negotiations. The union seeks 25 cent an hour increase after rejecting a 5 cent raise.
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Akron, O
Charles E. Slusser
CIO Transport Workers
Akron Transportation Company
ATC
Truman Signs Bill Funding Government Agencies
President Truman signed a $243,255,607 deficiency appropriation bill on March 29 to fund multiple government agencies for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30. The measure allocates funds across several departments to cover ongoing operations.
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Washington
Truman
Five Injured In Collision On Route 33
Five people were injured in a head on crash two miles east of Logan on U S Route 33. Victims include Louis Walter 39 Nancy Walter 37 Louise Walter 16 Audrey Lang 35 all of Miamisburg near Dayton Walter Lang 49 of Columbus.
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Logan
Floyd Duffy
Louis Walter
Nancy Walter
Louise Walter
Daugh
Ter
Audrey Lang
Miamisburg
Dayton
Walter Lang
Columbus
Hocking Valley Hospital
Long
Walter
Mr. Long
Grim Mine Rescue Nears End in Centralia Tragedy
In Centralia Illinois rescuers near the end of a doomed search for miners killed in a coal mine explosion. Officials say 94 dead with 17 miners still unaccounted for after 14 hours of effort and two more bodies found at the mine's dead end.
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Centralia
Ill
Sugar Ration Hike Proposed in Bill
A bill to extend sugar price and rationing controls to October 31 and guarantee each home user three pounds monthly heads to the House and Senate. The measure, a conference committee product, shifts sugar controls from the OPA to the agriculture secretary and allows higher home use up to about 50 pounds yearly if supplies permit.
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Washington
House
Senate
OPA
Secretary of Agriculture
Rubber Control Extension Signed by President Truman
President Truman signed legislation extending government controls over rubber use and production until March 31, 1948. The measure ends government purchases of natural rubber at midnight Eastern Time, returning the natural rubber trade to private industry and removing it from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The bill aims to keep synthetic rubber viable until Congress sets a permanent national defense policy.
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Washington
Truman
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Congress
Secretaries Marshall and Molotov Meet in Moscow
U S Secretary of State George Marshall and Soviet Foreign Secretary V M Molotov exchange handclaps and friendly talks outside Moscow during a peace conference reception event. The social encounter underscores cautious diplomacy between the two nations at the international gathering.
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U. S
George Marshall
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Aero Club
Navy to send new battleships and carriers on June cruise
Washington reports two new battleships and two large aircraft carriers will depart for Northern European waters in June for the first Naval Academy midshipmen training cruise since World War II. The move accompanies President Truman naming Ralph H. Bard as deputy U.S. representative on the United Nations Commission for Conventional Armaments. In other dispatches, Irish pony Caughoo won the Grand National by twenty lengths at Aintree despite rain and mud. Spain is poised to declare a traditional monarchy, while General MacArthur seeks Allied council input to curb inflation in postwar Japan. A Havana bomb damages the Produce Exchange Building.
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Washington
Navy
U. S. Naval Academy
Truman
Ralph H. Bard
United States
United Nations Commission For Conventional Armaments
Boat from Wrecked Oil Tanker Found
The missing lifeboat from the Fort Dearborn was found last night by the steamship China Victory 665 miles northeast of Midway Island. There was no sign of the 12 men who disappeared with it after the March 12 stormy night. The China Victory was en route from the Philippines to San Francisco and alerted the Hawaiian Sea Frontier.
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Honolulu
Fort Dearborn
China Victory
Philippines
San Francisco
Hawaiian Sea Frontier
Midway Island
Milk Is Delivered as Dairymen Attempt Seizures in Louisiana
Milk flowed into Baton Rouge and New Orleans as armed officers escorted dairy trucks to stop striking dairymen from seizing them. Police protected routes and facilities during the convoy, ensuring delivery to Amite and surrounding areas amid tensions over strikes.
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Amite
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
The
Law
Yacht Death Suspect Plans Insanity Plea
Santa Ana California March 29 Plans for Louise Overell a blonde 17 year old heiress to enter a plea of innocent and insane by reason of insanity to the charge that she and her fiance murdered the girls parents have been disclosed by Defense Attorney Otto Jacobs.
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Santa Ana, Canf
Louise Overell
Otto Jacobs
Parades Mark Ruhr Miners Walkout in Food Hunger Strikes
In Essen Dortmund and Duesseldorf crowds rally over rationing as four Ruhr mines halt work. About 500 000 people have staged protests and hunger strikes, with 2000 deputations demanding 1550 calorie daily rations. Miners vow to return Monday if relief is not seen.
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Essen
Germany
Ruhr
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Jet turbo ram jet could speed planes to 1500 mph
Cleveland researcher reports a two type engine that combines a ram jet in a turbo jet tail pipe to propel aircraft at up to 1500 miles per hour. The so called Flying Stove Pipe requires sonic speeds to function and promises future ultra fast flight.
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Cleveland
Institute For Aeronautical Sciences
Cafe Owner Slain in Lodi Gangland Style Shooting
A murder complaint was filed in justice court over the Thursday night shooting of Tom Buffa a 60 year old cafe proprietor and former St. Louis tavern operator. Authorities say the case involves a Joe Doe suspect and the city of Lodi California.
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Lodi
Calif
Joe Doe
Justice Court Today
Tom Buffa
St. Louis
Multimillionaire Upstate After Checking Over Assets
Houston March 29. H R Cullen Texas oilman who planned to donate 80 million dollars raised his estimate to 160 million dollars after rechecking oil field assets. With oil at 2 10 a barrel he now cites about 80 million barrels yield. He announced the gift at a Texas Hospital Association meeting and plans a foundation to aid educational medical and charitable institutions from oil lands proceeds.
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Houston
Tex
H. R. Cullen
Texas
Cullen
Texas Hospital Association
Rockefeller Foundation
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