World Church Deliberates East West Crisis at Berlin
World Council of Churches delegates wrestle with East West conflict during three days of speeches and heated talks. Dulles argues against peace under Soviet Communism while Hromadka cites the decline of Western dominance amid Soviet led reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Tompkins
Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
World Council of Churches
Berlin
John Foster Dulles
United States
West
Joseph L. Hromadka
Czechoslovakia
East
Dulles
Hromadka
Daytonian's Death Solved After Alaska Trip Disappearance
Sheriff reports John A. McComas, 52, of Dayton and his 13-year-old daughter Louise vanished during a trip to Alaska. McComas was shot and killed in the Canadian wilderness. A companion with the daughter was found in Bushnell, Nebraska.
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Dayton
Alaska
Ben Smith
Bushnell
Neb
John A. McComas
Louise
Gustave O. Wiegner
McComas
NLRB Moves Against ITU For Closed Shop Fight
The NLRB general counsel's office asks contempt of court charges against the International Typographical Union for defying a five month old injunction banning closed shop contracts. The agency accuses ITU top officers of disobeying the injunction amid the dispute.
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Washington
Nlrb General Counsel
International Typographical Union
ITU
National Labor Relations Board
Cost Of Living Soars To A New Record High
The government reports the cost of living reached a new peak, triggering a three-cent-an-hour raise for about 265,000 General Motors workers. The consumer price index rose 9.7 percent year over year, with notable increases in foods, fuel, clothing, and rents.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Cincinnati Teen in Critical Condition After Accident
Ray mond Byrd, 15, of Cincinnati remains in critical condition at General Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Police report that Byrd and companion Donald Gray, 15, of Loveland were packing up after a two day camping trip when a .22 rifle reportedly discharged accidentally.
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Cincinnati
Raymond Byrd
General Hospital
Donald Gray
Loveland
Byrd
Rankin reelected in Mississippi GOP primary for 15th term
Mississippi voters back John E. Rankin in the Democratic primary, sealing the nomination as effectively the election in the state. Rankin, longtime anti communism advocate and member of the Un American Activities Committee, defeated two rivals. In New York and South Carolina, incumbents also faced limited opposition while James Hare won in South Carolina Third District.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
John E. Rankin
Congress
Rankin
House Committee On UN - American Activities
Joe Stalin
House
New York
South Carolina
Daniel A. Reed
Vito Marcantonio
American Labor Party
Marcantonio
ALP
Leo Isacson
Isacson
Henry Wallace
James B. Hare
Saluda
U. S
Oppon Sissippi
John C. Taylor
John Bell Williams
Air Force
William M. Colmer
Thomas C. Abernethy
Yugoslav Reds Hit Resolution of Cominform
Belgrade editorial in Borba denounces Soviet and Cominform attacks as imperialist and anti imperialist reaction. It claims Tito Cominform conflict is between governments, not parties, and warns of harmful effects on the world socialist front and international workers movement.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Democratic Front
Cominform
Tito
Marxist Front
Borba
World Socialist Front
International Workers’ Movement
Maharajah of Baroda Cleared in Abdication Talk
New Delhi AP reports a government announcement that abdication proceedings against the maharajah of Baroda have been dropped. He agrees to grant complete responsible government and to restore misused state funds totaling about 10 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
Baroda
Daniels Indicted on Shooting With Intent to Kill
Van Wert County grand jury indicts Robert M. Daniels, Columbus parolee, for shooting police Sgt. Leonard D. Conn who was wounded while Conn had been pursuing Daniels and James C. West in a two week murder spree. Daniels faces Richland County murder charges in the Niebel family killings.
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van Wert, O
van Wert
Grand Jury
Robert M. Daniels
Columbus
Leonard D. Conn
Conn
James C. West
Daniels
Richland County
John E. Niebel
Niebel
Yolanda
Phyllis
West
Parade caps Elks golden jubilee convention in Cincinnati
Bands and marching units paraded through Cincinnati streets for over three hours as the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World marked its golden jubilee. Business sessions of the convention continue through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World
German Agent of U.S. Army Slain Near Coburg
American authorities report a German intelligence agent working for U S Army was shot and killed by Russian zone police after crossing into the Soviet zone near Coburg. The case highlights tension as Potsdamer Platz reopens and Nacht Express notes a hopeful line on German peace amid curbs on information.
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Berlin
Bavaria
Russia
Nuernberg
Coburg
Potsdamer Platz
Alexander Kotikov
Nacht Express
Moscow
Germany
U. S
Britain
France
Six Indicted in Lancaster Meat Theft Case
Six men were indicted on grand larceny charges by the Franklin County Grand Jury for stealing meat from Swift and Company. The scheme involved several hundred dollars of meat peddled to Lancaster and Fairfield County restaurants. Named defendants include Herrell Jeffreys of Columbus and Joseph Burke of Lancaster with assorted counts. Burke and Halderman faces changed charges of receiving and concealing stolen property. Prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett said the group drove to the plant and loaded meat, with Jeffreys allegedly tossing it over the fence.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Lancaster
Swift and Company
Fairfield County
Herrell Jeffreys
Joseph Burke
David Halderman
Harry Jennings
Theodore Cooper
Paul Thacker
Obetz
Burke and Halderman
Ralph J. Bartlett
Jeffreys
Air Force Losses Mount In Dual World War II Style Crashes
Two separate air tragedies reported from New Jersey and Hawaii leave multiple servicemen dead. In Newton, six enlisted men en route to a religious conference perish when a C-47 collides with a B-25 after emerging from clouds. Nearby, sixteen airmen die in a Barbers Point Okinawa bound Superfortress crash with four others severely burned. The B-25 crew survives. Names withheld pending kin notification.
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Newton
N. J
New Jersey
Stewart Field
N. Y
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Barber’s Point
98Th
Spoane
Wash
Income In Ohio At Record High
Ohio's total income payments in 1947 reached 11.061 billion dollars, up 12 percent from 1946, with per capita income at 1441 dollars versus 1314 the prior year. National figures show US payments rising 11 percent to 190 billion, with per capita 1323 dollars.
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Ohio
Washington
Commerce Department
Continental
United States
GM Workers Get Pay Hike
Detroit AP report says 265,000 General Motors workers will receive an extra three cents an hour from September 1 tied to the rising cost of living. The wage rise follows a July 15 all time high in the Bureau of Labor Statistics price index and a contract linking GM wages to the index.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Reynolds
Washington
General Motors
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Bureau of Labor Statistics
CIO
Kaiser-Frazer leases government blast furnace for 20 years
The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation exercised its option to lease a government owned blast furnace at Cleveland for 20 years with a future purchase privilege set at 15.2 million dollars. The move triggered congressional investigations by Senate and House committees into the War Assets Administration deal that awarded the plant to Kaiser-Frazer over rivals Republic Steel and Preston Tucker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Cleveland
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser-Frazer
War Assets Administration
Republic Steel Corporation
Preston Tucker
Chicago Automobile Manufacturer
WAA
Repub
Kaiser
Wherry
R-Neb
Bender
Rchio
Senate
House
Baldwin
R-Dean
East
Middle West
German Money Talk Planned for Berlin Conference
A diplomatic source says Prime Minister Stalin proposed a Berlin conference of Big Four financial experts to settle currency control in the city. The United States Britain and France weigh the idea as Moscow envoys urge acceptance signaling possible Western influence in Berlin administration and ongoing occupation rights.
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London
Stalin
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Russia
Kremlin
21 Hurt at Pueblo State Fair Rodeo Crowd Crush
At the Colorado State Fair rodeo in Pueblo twenty one persons were injured three seriously when a bucking horse named Bear Cat threw its rider Chuck Black of Raton New Mexico and charged into the bleachers causing a panic among spectators.
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Pueblo
Colo
Chuck Black
Raton
N. M
Justice Rutledge Fined for Auto Collision
U S Supreme Court Justice Wiley B Rutledge was fined $10 and costs after pleading innocent to taking the right of way in a July 27 automobile collision in Denver He vacated there in July and has returned to the east.
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Denver
U. S. Supreme Court
Wiley B. Rutledge
Lowell White
Rutledge
Transfer Of Auto To Play Big Role In Spy Hearing
A battered old Ford car and what was done with it became a central issue as Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers faced each other in congressional spy hearings.
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Washington
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
House Un-American Committee
Hiss
State Deepartment
Chambers
George Crosley
Robert E. Stripling
Communist Party
Stripling
Cherner Motor Company
Crosley
J. Paine Thomas
R-Nj
Time Magazine
Russia cuts consular ties in retaliation over Lomakin action
Moscow reports severed relations with the United States including closing of Russian consulates in New York and San Francisco and a Vladivostok consulate closure. The measures follow the expulsion of Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin amid the Kasenkina affair.
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New York
Oksana Kasenkina
Roosevelt Hospital
Marion Daly
Moscow
United States
San Francisco
Vladivostok
Leningrad
New U.S. Consul Takes Vladivostok Post
Scott Lyon of Columbus Ohio assumes duties in Vladivostok two days after replacing Consul Oscar Holder. Lyon, newly married, arrives with his wife as Moscow freezes ties after Russia expels the U S consul general from New York.
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Moscow
Vladivostok
Scott Lyon
Columbus
Lyon
U. S
Tug of War Over Kasenkina Case Reaches High Levels
A New York hospital scene centers on Kasenkina case standoff as US State Department on August 19 urged Russia to recall Consul General Jacob M. Lomakin over his activities. Lomakin plans to depart Saturday amid claims she was not kidnapped and will not be turned over to Soviet authorities.
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U. S. State Department
Jacob M. Lomakin
New York
Kasenkina
Lomakin
Young Bridegroom Killed in Crash at Lockbourne Air Base
Lt. Hare vey N. Pinkney aged 29, married just 17 days, died in a collision during landing of two fighter planes at Lockbourne air base. The other pilot, L. Lewis J. Lynch of Columbus, escaped unharmed. Pinkney, from Baltimore, had wed on August 8. his widow, Sarah Pinkney, resided in Dayton. Fire crews recovered the body after four tries from the burning aircraft.
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Columbus
Harevey N. Pinkney
Lockbourne Air Base
Pinkney
L. Lewis J. Lynch
Lynch
Baltimore
Sarah Pinkney
Dayton
Farmer pleads innocent in poisoning case in Springfield
Da vid A. Flory a 39 year old Clark County farmer pleaded innocent in Municipal Court to a charge of giving poison to his wife. Judge Harry W. Snodgrass set the hearing date for September 1 and fixed bond at 1000 dollars.
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Springfield
David A. Flory
Clark County
Harry W. Snodgrass
Republicans Claim Taft Hartley Repeal Blocked
Washington Republicans argued that President Truman faces a congressional wall in seeking repeal of the Taft Hartley act. They noted that unless Truman wins a landslide in November he has little chance to overturn the overwhelming majorities in Congress that supported the act last year. Senator Hickenlooper said repeal seems unlikely and labor leaders have not identified a major flaw in the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Detroit
Congress
Senate
House
Hickenlooper
R - Iena
Southern spokesmen square off over Truman civil rights policies
In Montgomery Alabama Southern spokesmen meet visiting Yankees to explain Dixie views on President Truman's racial policies. They join 11 Northern businessmen in a roundtable on the South problem with emphasis on the racist question. The aim is to ease North South wrangling on civil rights through open discussion.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dixie
Truman
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