Senate Deadlock Over Housing Bill Sparks Bitter Debate
Senate debate over the long range housing bill intensified as Senator Myers predicts broad rejection of amendments including an anti segregation proposal. Bricker and Cain push a race based renting ban while Taft and others oppose. Pilot sponsor says Ohio housing has no discrimination and even shows preference for Blacks.
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Myers
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Banking
Pennsylvania
Bricker
Ohio
Cain
Wash
Truman
Congress
South
Taft
Fast
Final day smog test under way in Donora exposure
In Donora Pennsylvania the four day smog experiment nears completion as strong winds clear fumes from the town and nearby Webster. The U S Public Health Service reports few new illness complaints and notes no dangerous air toxicities while the Zinc plant operated by American Steel and Wire resumes activity for the test.
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Donora and
Webster
Monongahela River
U. S. Public Health Service
American Steel and Wire Company
George Clayton
Public Health Service
Painters Strike in Columbus Sees 500 Wage Increase Action
In Columbus Ohio AFL painters began a strike seeking 12 percent hourly wage increases, swelling to about 1900 union workers in the building trades. Earlier, around 1400 AFL carriers and common laborers also struck for wage rises last Monday.
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Columbus, O
AFL
Columbus
Farmer Finds Ambitious Pig Cutting Milk Yields
A Kansas farmer reports a sudden drop in Bessie's milk production, traced to a clever pig beating the milking to the draw. The item highlights local help and a journal want ad prompt for vacancies, sales, or time-to-money opportunities.
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Kansas
Economic Boost Delayed As 1949 Data Signal Slump
Washington reports show the spring upturn in the economy is overdue with declines in non farm employment factory earnings and hours along with weaker business loans and farm receipts. Treasury predicts higher purchasing power while Bean cautions slower investment. census notes a March uptick.
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Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Treasury Snyder
Snyder
Louis H. Bean
Bean
Brannan
Clague
Federal Reserve Board
Veteran Chicago Newsman Dies
Lloyd Lewis age 57 prominent Chicago newspaperman and Civil War historian died of a heart attack at his Libertyville home. A Chicago Sunday Sun Times columnist since 1946, he earlier led editorial desks at the Chicago Daily News. Born in Pendleton Indiana his father Jay edited newspapers at Anderson Indiana.
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Lloyd Lewis
Surburban
Libertyville
Lewis
Chicago Sunday Sun-Times
Chicago Daily News
Pendleton
Ind
Jay
Anderson
Body Of Detroit Boy Found In Hotel Garage
The naked and bruised six year old George Counter was found dead in a hotel garage behind a furnace near Wayne University. Police suspect a 19 year old youth staying at Murray Hall hotel. investigators searched for the companion and reviewed the boy’s disappearance reported by his parents.
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Detroit
George Counter
John Counter
George
Murray Hall
Wayne University
George Kimball
Aurlie
Counter
Ex-GI To Tell Malmedy Massacre Story Before Senate
Sergeant Kenneth F. Ahrens of Erie, Pennsylvania, one of about 43 U S soldiers who survived the Malmedy massacre, testifies before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee investigating Army actions in the prosecution of 73 Germans. He will provide an eye witness account of how SS troopers executed American captives in December 1944 near Malmedy Belgium. Six of the convicted remain under death sentence. Lt Col Burton F Ellis heads the prosecution and acknowledges mock trials in obtaining confessions, denying brutality.
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Malmedy
Senate
Kenneth F. Ahrens
Erie
Ahrens
Senate Armed Services
Army
Belgium
Burton F. Ellis
Jury Awards French War Bride 25000 in Affection Suit
In Cleveland a jury awarded Madeleine Horton 340 to 34 tuberculosis patient 25 000 against her mother in law Mrs Lillian Hoffman in an alienation of affections case. Horton sought 50 000 and her husband Jerome Horton faces divorce and alimony actions.
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Madeleine Horton
City Hospital
Lillian E. Hoffman
East Cleveland
Edward Blythin
Jerome P. Horton
Paris
Ohio
Former War Manpower official Marion Gregg dies
Urbana Ohio AP reports Marion A. Gregg 53 former Dayton Springfield area director of the War Manpower Commission died yesterday. A native of Madison County.
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Marion A. Gregg
Dayton- Springfield
The
War Manpower Commission
Madison County
Yangtze Crossed by 30 000 Reds in River Battle
Communist forces pressed to consolidate gains south of the Yangtze as four British warships joined the river fight. Crossings reported at Tikang and Wuhu amid government counterattacks. Mao Zedong issued calls to liberate China while British ships London Concord Amethyst and Black Swan reported casualties.
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Nanking
Yangtze
Red
Tikang
Wuhu
Tottering
Mao Tza-Tunk
All China
The
London
Consort
Amethyst
Black Swan
News Chronicle
Daily Graphic
Graphic
Asia
Communist
Daily Worker
China
Serene
Worker
Greek writer is sentenced in Polk murder case
In Salonika a Greek court sentences Gregory Staktova to life imprisonment for complicity in the murder of American CBS correspondent George Polk. Reported co-defendants Adam Mouzenides and Evangelos Vasvanas receive death sentences in absentia. Staktopoulos's mother Anna is acquitted. Polk was shot in Salonika Bay while en route to interview Markos Vafiades, leader of Greece's guerrillas.
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Salonika
Gregory Staktova
George Polk
Polk
Adam Mouzenides
Evangelos Vasvanas
Staktopoulos
Anna
Columbia Broadcasting System
United States
Salonika Bay
Markos Vafiades
Greece
UN Near Decision on Church Trials in Hungary and Bulgaria
UN is close to ruling on prosecutions of church leaders in Hungary and Bulgaria. The 58 nation special committee may back a Bolivian proposal urging settlement via peace treaties, keeping the issue alive until the next regular session in September. Brig Gen Romulo expects a vote this afternoon amid possible Soviet bloc delays.
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Carlos P. Romulo
Philippines
Special
Second quake shakes Chile amid tallies of dead and injured
A new violent quake struck south central Chile at 10 54 a m local time amid ongoing recovery from a Tuesday event that killed 41 people and left 150 injured while officials reassessed earlier tallies. President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla was reported in Angol during the tremor and authorities adjusted the casualty count from an earlier report of 57 dead.
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Santiago
Chile
Interior Ministry
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Angol
Coal Miners Begin Sitdown Strike Deep Underground
Ten miners remain on a sitdown strike 500 feet underground in Lansford while about 6,000 others are urged to stay away to show support. Earlier, 2,000 walked off, and 4,000 more in Tamaqua Coaldale districts were told to stay home. The dispute centers on pay for leaving pits early under the UMWA contract.
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United Mine Workers Panther Valley Committee
Coaldale
Tamaqua
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
UMW
Coal Company
Lunsford
Summit Hill
Hesquehoning
Police Trailing Stolen Jewelry in Ohio Case
Canton, O AP police continue to chase $10,000 in jewels reported stolen from a New York salesman’s automobile trunk. Two jewel cases were found near Lisbon in Columbiana County. Alfred Levin of the Bronx said four sample cases of diamonds, gold rings and other jewelry were left in his car in Columbus Tuesday afternoon and missing by Wednesday morning. The car sat in an all night downtown garage with no sign of forced entry.
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New York
Columbiana County
Lisbon
Alfred Levin
Bronx
Columbus
Loan firm robbed in Youngstown hold-up
Two men robbed the Collateral Loan Company in Youngstown Ohio yesterday tying three women to chairs and escaping with 300 dollars. Police hunt the suspects as details emerge from the AP report.
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Youngstown
Miners Quit Work Find Missing Girl In Tennessee
In Marion Tennessee a seven year old girl Wanda Moore was found alive in the Cumberland mountains after miners halted work to search all night. Found about a mile from home by Bud Huddleston amid near freezing temps, she wore light clothing and has a speech defect. She was taken to Jellico Hospital for examination. father Joe Moore is a miner.
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Tenn
Cumberland Mountains
Wanda Moore
Wanda
Kyle Miller
Tellico
Bud Huddleston
Joe Moore
F. H. Rogers
Jellico Hospital
Huddleston
Gasoline fumes vanish in Marion city
Gasoline fumes that endangered about 1000 homes in Marion Ohio disappeared last night after starting 24 hours earlier. Safety Director Ed ward O Uncapher said the source remained unknown. Residents were told to rekindle fires and restore hot water heating. The danger began when a manhole blew open, with fumes filling sewers in the southwest sector.
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Marion, O
Safety Service
Edward O. Uncapher
Man Who Disappeared With Cash Found Dead
Rolfe O Dreng, 35, missing since last Friday with $11,658 from Regal Currency Exchange, was found murdered near Wheaton. Coroner says death by knife or bayonet, body dumped roadside, time since death 12 to 24 hours. Greenfield reported the theft and arrest warrant issued. Dreng earlier taught in Gallup and served in the Navy.
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Rolfe
Dreng
Wheaton
Samuel K. Lewis
DuPage County
Lewis
Abraham Greenfield
Regal Currency Exchange
Milwaukee Ave
Greenfield
Joseph Mooney
Mooney
Elbow Lake
Minn
Luther College of
British warships hit with heavy losses on Yangtze
Reports from Shanghai and London indicate the British cruiser London and the sloop Black Swan suffered heavy casualties after Communist artillery near Nanking on the Yangtze River. The Amethyst carried at least 20 dead and 30 to 40 wounded, while other ships reported dozens more dead aboard. The flotilla withdrew toward Shanghai amid ongoing bombardment and conflicting official statements.
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London
Black Swan
Yangtze River
Nanking
Angtze River
Amethyst
London and
Ba Point
Beaver Island
Lawmaker Coffey Dies in Plane Crash in New Mexico
Representative Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. died when his P-80 Shooting Star crashed near Albuquerque after refueling at Kirtland Air Force Base. The Johnstown, Pennsylvania native was a 30-year-old wartime hero and first-term congressman. The crash occurred during a cross-country flight from Albuquerque to March Field, California, possibly due to a partial power failure. Coffey held the rank of colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
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N. M
Robert Lewis Coffey, Jr
Joe Coffey
Congress
Mien Air Force Base
March Field
Cal
Johnstown
Air Forge Reserve
Petar Dietz Killed After Roof Fall at Hawkings M Co
Petar Dietz a 73 year old contractor died after falling through a roof he was pairing at Hawkings M Company. He plunged 16 feet to a concrete floor when planks over an open skylight broke.
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Petar Dietz
Hawkings M Company
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