German Press Attacks Allied Treaty After Peace Offer
German press condemns the Western Allies treaty returning self government to defeated Germany. Adenauer receives the occupation statute from the United States, Britain and France as Europe plans a German Republic for the western zones. Critics rale against continued Allied control of science and foreign trade.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
German Parliamentary Council
United States
Great Britain
France
Adenauer
Rural Phone Investigation May Be Held
The Ohio Senate may decide tonight whether to pursue an inquiry into rural telephone service. A ten member legislative committee would be appointed to investigate adequacy, with House approval required. A parallel bill would cap rural lines at eight subscribers.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
House
Robert W. Reider
Ottawa
House Finance Committee
Frank J. Lausche
Senate Finance Committee
House Highway Committee
Senator Winter
Senate
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Lion Tamer Clawed Again in Newark
Dick Clements, lion tamer for the Hamid-Morton circus, was mauled by Duke the lion for the second time in six days and hospitalized. Presbyterian Hospital reported he rested uneasily but his condition was good.
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Newark
N. J
Dick Clements
Hamid - Morton Circus
Duke
Prebyterian Hospital
Clements
Steel Mills Schedules Hold Firm Despite Market Drop
Cleveland AP reports that standard mill schedules remain firm as scrap prices and premium item quotes fall sharply. The Steel trade journal notes a unprecedented drop in the scrap iron and steel market with demand declining and mills aiming to book tonnage. Ingot-making rate slipped to 98.5 percent of capacity, about 1.8 million tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Steel
The
Trade Journal
House Panel Approves Large VA Budget Cut Amid Bill
The House Appropriations Committee approves a $7.58 billion multi agency bill for the next fiscal year slashing VA funds by about half a billion. The VA would receive $5.145 billion cash and $472 million in contract authority, with overall agency reductions totaling $734.68 million from the requested amounts.
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House
Washington
Veterans’ Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans
Budget Bureau
Congress
Air Force Plans New Bombing Attack Tactics
The Air Force tests a new high altitude bombing approach for the B 36 intercontinental bomber. Maj. Gen. C. B. Stone describes 8 mile plus cameras enabling rapid photo reconnaissance and safe withdrawal, signaling shifts in strategic attack and reconnaissance balance.
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Washington
Air Force
House Appropriations Committee
C. B. Stone
USAF
Air Materiel Command
George Booth Dies at 84 Founder of Michigan Booth Chain
George G. Booth, 84, founder of the Michigan Booth newspaper chain and longtime Detroit News executive, died today. He retired as president of the Evening News Association in 1929 to devote himself to an educational project at Cranbrook.
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Detroit
George G. Booth
Michigan Booth
The
Detroit News
Booth
Evening News Association
Cranbrook
Senate Probes Expenditures of Airlines
The Senate Commerce Committee opens a probe into the finances of 16 major airlines led by chairman Edwin C. Johnson. He questions why carriers lost money during prosperity and cites the $55 million federal subsidy last year and higher airmail rates. First witnesses include Civil Aeronautics Board chair Joseph J. OConnell Jr. and other board members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Senate Commerce Committee
Johnson
Congress
Joseph J. O’connell, Jr
Civil Aeronautics Board
Student Killed in Car Train Crash Near Massillon
Massillon AP report says Donald J. Brown 17 of New York was killed when a Wheeling and Lake Erie freight train struck Jack Liberator 22 of Canton early today. Liberator was seriously injured. Brown was a University of Michigan student who apparently hitchhiked with Liberator.
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Massillon
Donald J. Brown
New York
Jack Liberator
Canton
Wheeling and
Lake Erie
Liberator
Here
Highway Patrol
Brown
University of Michigan
Labor Bill Battle Moves Toward Action in Congress
Congressional allies push for repeal and new protections as Taft and Ives plan amendments to the administration bill. CIO urges faster action while Senate debate set to begin April 26 with a proposed 60 day cooling off period and a survey board to guide settlements.
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Washington
CIO
Senate
Capitol Hill
House
House Rules Committee
Taft
Ohio
Ives
Philip Murray
New York
Congress
Hitler Aides Convicted by U S War Crimes Court
In Nuremberg Germany five top Hitler officials were found guilty of helping plan aggressive war by a U S war crimes court. Baron Ernst Von Weiztacker, state secretary in the foreign office and former Nazi ambassador to the Vatican, was convicted of plotting aggression against Czechoslovakia.
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Inernberg
Germany
Hitler
U. S
International Military Tribunal
Hermann Goering
Baron Ernst von Weistaecker
Foreign Office
Vatican
Czechoslovakia
Missing Boat Sought In Rio Search
A wide search was under way for the 1951 ton freighter Oswaldo Aranha missing ten days with 34 aboard. The vessel, carrying coal, was en route from Santa Catharina to Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Oswaldo Aranha
Santa Catharina
Rio
Lost well for Kathy Fiscus found after 30 years
San Marino California AP reports a veteran water engineer says the well that swallowed Kathy Fiscus was effectively lost for 30 years. He notes crude old drillers charts used vague directions like 100 yards northeast of a tree and that plowing over the land since 1919 likely disrupted abandoned wells and caps.
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San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus
Ex-Governor Osborn In Critical Condition After Wedding
Michigan's ex Governor Chase S. Osborn, 89, remained in grave condition in Georgia after marrying his adopted daughter Stellanova, 55, at Possum Poke. Doctors reported a miraculous response to plasma transfusion but said he remained seriously ill with prior lung disease and age-related frailty.
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Poulan
Michigan
Chase S. Osborn
J. J. Crumley
Osborn
Crumley
Stellanova
Georgia
Possum Poke
Possum Lane
Albany
Reds Postpone Peace Deadline After Red Demands
Semi official sources report the Communists delaying the government’s response to peace proposals until Friday. The Red demand for surrender of government troops is not to be met before then, and assurances say the Yangtze River crossing will not occur before Friday.
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Nanking
Yangtze River
House Votes Down Guayule Rubber Plan
A House Appropriations Committee report rejects continuing funds for expanding guayule as a domestic rubber source. The panel says past spending surpasses $50 million and results have been unimpressive, ending hopes for a war era proposal that aimed to replace imported natural rubber. Senate action remains uncertain.
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Washington
House
United States
Akron
Ohio
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Guayule
Quayule
Senate
Japan
America
Dutch East Indies
Malay States
U S and Soviet Fail to Sign Short Wave Pact
In Mexico City the Soviet Union and United States rejected a 6% plan to divide eight short wave bands between six and 26 megacycles. The U S objected to time allotment. the Soviet side offered unclear reasons while Britain agreed. Three more conferences are planned before 1952. The talks dragged from October to failure with U S accusing Russia of jamming American broadcasts.
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Mexico City
Soviet Union
United States
U. S
Great Britain
Russia
London Dockworkers Strike Shuts 46 Ships
About 6200 London dockers walked out halting unloading of 46 ships including meat cargoes. The National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union protested the layoff of 33 workers deemed surplus by the National Dock Board.
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London
Britain
National Amalgamated Stevadores and Dockers Union
National Dock Board
Clark To Speak At Ohio Jackson Jefferson Day Dinner
U S Attorney General Tom Clark will address the Ohio Democratic party at the Jackson Jefferson Day dinner in Columbus on May 11. The event highlights party activities and Clark is expected to discuss national policy.
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Columbus
U. S
Tom Clark
Ohio Democratic Party
Tragic Rescue Ends as Kathy Fiscus Dies in Well
In San Marino California young Kathy Fiscus died after 52 hours trapped in a 14 inch pipe. Rescue workers pulled her body from the shaft ending a dramatic bid to save the child.
A Century-Span of Grief Over Kathy Fiscus Rescue Tragedy
The nation mourned as three year old Kathy Fiscus fell 100 feet into an old well. Volunteers and officials conducted a 52 hour rescue effort, but she was found deceased. Public figures and global press followed the case with deep sympathy and calls for safety reforms.
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San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus
Fay
Floyd Collins
Kentucky
Collins
Kathy
Stockholm
London
Australia
Los Angeles
Czechoslovakia
Anthony J. Mullaney
Chicago
Buffalo
New York City
Portland
Oregon
David
Alice Fiscus
Robert McCullock
O. A. Kelly
Youth is given life in prison in Ohio case
Ervin Arthur Ingle a 15 year old youth was sentenced to life imprisonment after conviction by three judges for first degree murder in the slaying of John Gabriel 56. The jury spared him the electric chair by recommending mercy and sentencing details were not announced. The state had charged robbery to obtain a car for a high school dance. Ingle’s mother Rueinne Ingle cried as the verdict was read.
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Ingle
Convicted Slayer Williams to Die in Ohio Electric Chair
Roger Tug Williams, 34, condemned for the May 28 1947 slaying of his common law wife Minta Webb Rothwell at the Turkey Foot cafe near Indian Lake, is scheduled for electrocution tonight as Gov Lausche declines clemency.
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Columbus
Roger
Tug) Williams
Minta Webb Rothwell
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Turkey Foot
Indian Lake
Mass Funeral Planned For Blast Victims
In Marion South Dakota a mass funeral is planned for six Holy Week worshippers killed when a basement explosion blasted St Marys Catholic Church Palm Sunday morning Forty seven others were injured as the brick church was shattered only the bell tower stands mixed fire followed Parishioner Phil Wachendorf said he escaped after throwing a furnace switch officials attribute the blast to escaping gas Bishop William Brady Siou x Falls announced the rites for Wednesday
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Marion
S. D
South Dakota
Sturday
St. Mary’s Catholic
William ©. Brady
Sioux Falls
Phil Wachendorf
Wachendorf
Gasoline Truck Drivers Strike Shuts Several Cincinnati Stations
Cincinnati service stations faced possible shortages as gasoline truck drivers at 22 distributors began a midnight strike. Union officials said some companies signed new contracts with wage increases and better working conditions but refused to name them. They claimed no gasoline shortage expected and noted Kentucky firms also signed agreements.
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Cincinnati
Cinccinnati
Ed Heck
George Rehkamp
Teamsters’ Union
AFL
Kentucky
Heck
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