The VA Hospital Fight Hits Hoover Commission Push
A nationwide battle over merging VA hospital programs with other agencies to form United Medical Administration feeds political maneuvering in an election year. Four veteran groups oppose the plan while business and reform groups back it, creating overlapping loyalties among many veterans.
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Hoover Commission
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Veterans Bureau
Somme
Goes
Commission
Hoover
Army
Navy
Air Force
Public Health Service
United Medical Administration
Veterans’ Hospital
Battle Lines
The
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
AmVets
American Veterans of World War I
U. S. Chamber
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Veterans Organization
Public workers seek 25 cent wage boost in Canton
The United Public Workers of America Ind has asked Canton city officials for a 25 cent hourly pay raise for about 200 municipal employees. Current wages range from $1.05 to $1.50 per hour.
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Canton, CO
United Public Workers of America
Ind
Lausche Says He Will Not Blame Players For Grand Jury Testimony
Gov Frank Lausche said visitors to the Pettibone Club who refuse grand jury testimony on gambling will not face fault from him. Judge Blake Cook in Geauga County instructed indictments against players and operators, as the state seeks to close the club for code violations.
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Lausche
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Pettibones
Charden
Blake C. Cook
Portage County
Nal
Geauga County
Pettibone Club
Cook
Auga County
Surplus Wheat Could Meet Domestic and Export Needs
The government may need its 425 million bushels of surplus wheat due to reduced winter crops from dry conditions and pests. A survey cut 121 million bushels from the December forecast of 885 million, with potential effects on marketing quotas and future acreage plans.
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Washington
Great Plains
Test Suit Over Beryllium Poisoning Death Heard
A $125000 damages suit is being heard in Cleveland Common Pleas before Judge Joseph A Arti about the death of Stanley Sobocienski in 1946. The plaintiff Mrs Leda Sobocienski of Lorain Ohio alleges his death from a lung condition caused by fumes from Brush Beryllium Companys Lorain plant. About 27 other suits against Brush are pending in the same court.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Joseph A. Arti
Leda Sobocienski
Lorain
Brush Beryllium Company
Stanley
Brush
Woman editor Harriet Mason dies at 83
Harriet M. Mason long serving home economics editor of the Ohio Farmer dies at her Wellington, Ohio home at age 83. She spent four decades shaping the magazine’s household guidance and editorial direction.
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Wellington, D
Harriet M. Mason
The
Ohio Farmer
Ice Delays Reach to Upper Great Lakes Shipping
Ice still blocks the upper lakes ore docks while lower Great Lakes traffic improves. Toledo self unloaders J L Reiss and C C West began coal runs to Detroit and Windsor. Ashtabula ferry carried 26 cars to Port Burwell. St Marys River ice may delay upper lake passage beyond a decade high date. Pittsburgh Steamship Co announced Brown as purchasing agent and plans to convert to oil fueled steamers after 1950.
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Cleveland
Upper Lakes
Great Lakes
Toledo
J. L. Reiss
C. C. West
Detroit
Windsor
Ashtabula
Port Burwell
St. Mary's River
Pittsburgh Steamship Company
William N Brown
Chicago
Eugene W. Pargny
Homer D. Williams
Dispute Halts NBC TV Show On Air Night
New York AP says National Association of Broadcasters technicians halted NBC with an independent union dispute delaying rehearsals for Robert Montgomery's drama Our Town. The parties reached a later agreement but too late to air the program. No details released.
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New York
National Broadcasting
Robert Montgomery
Burgess Meredith
Our Town
NBC
National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians
NAC
BRC
Montgomery
Etilement
Union
Whirl-A-Way Motors Sold to A. O. Smith Corp
Dayton Tipp City firm Whirl-A-Way Motors will join A. O. Smith Corporation of Milwaukee. Whirl-A-Way will become the Electric Motor Division of A. O. Smith, announced by D. Le Mille, president of Whirl-A-Way.
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Dayton
Whirl-A-Way Motors, Incorporated
Tipp City
A. O. Smith Corporation
Milwaukee
Wee
Electric Motor Dievision
A. O. Smith
D. le Mille
Whirl-A-Way
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Baker Funeral Home
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Cecil Butts
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America
Studebaker Champion
Middletown
Comportation
Charles ST
McConn Motors
Egistered
Us-Patent Office
William J Milter
King Features, Inc
Auto Payments
Harry Benadu
Mer
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