Dixie Lawmakers GOP May Unite In Compromise
A House compromise option would trade most civil rights measures for repeal of about a quarter of the Taft Hartley labor law. Dixie and northern Democrats weigh a pact with Republicans to support partial repeal while preserving the anti lynch bill and blocking broader anti poll tax and anti discrimination actions. Southerners say the plan favors them and would keep the most objectionable civil rights provisions from passing.
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Washington
House
Truman
Dixie
GOP
Businessmen Testify On Military Pay
Three middle aged businessmen who have flown jet bombers and dived in submarines testified that the Armed Forces are underpaid. They sit on an All Civilian Commission studying military pay and pensions and supported hearings on a bill to raise pay by about 14 percent and add 400 million dollars to defense costs next year. The commission chair is Charles R. Hook of Armco Steel. other members include Father Cavanaugh of Notre Dame, Keith S. McHugh of American Telephone, and Lawrence H. Whiting of Whiting and Co.
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Washington
House Armed Services Subcommittee
Defense Forrestal
National Defense
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Public Health Service
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Charles R. Hook
Armco Steel Corporation
Father Cavanaugh
Notre Dame University
Keith S. McHugh
American Telephone Company
Lawrence H. Whiting
Whiting and Company
The
American Furniture Mart of
Chicago
Moses Duncan Dies From Auto Crash Injuries
Moses Duncan age 23 died in a hospital yesterday from injuries sustained in an automobile crash the previous Friday. He was treated at the hospital for his wounds before succumbing to his injuries.
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Warren
Moses Duncan
Speed Sought In Passage Of Labor Bill
Democrats in Congress push to speed the labor bill amid union pressure. Five Senate Foreign Relations Committee members seek firm pledge the United States will back European allies if threatened by Communist aggression. Some fear two thirds vote battles may muddy the treaty’s use as a psychological weapon. Senator Vandenberg notes the value of signaling U.S. concern. Senator Donnell signsaled opposition.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
State Acheson
Senate
United States
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Canada
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Donnell
R-Mo
Chester Kroger Dies On Plane
Chester F Kroger 52 son of the Kroger founder died last night aboard a Delta flight from West Palm Beach to Cincinnati. He collapsed before the plane landed in Boone County Kentucky and was pronounced dead by Dr J S Costin. Boone County Coroner Robert E Brugh ruled heart ailment. A Newport Kentucky native he worked in the Kroger Company from 1919 to 1947 and was a company director at his death.
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Chester F. Kroger
Bernard F. Kroger
Kroger Grocery and Baking Company
West Palm Beach
Fla
Delta
Kroger
Greater Cincinnati
Boone County
J.,s. Costin
Bellefontaine, C
Mt., Vernon, CO
Fredericktown
C. L. Harmer
Herbert Stevroy
Harold
State Seeks New Evidence In Slaying In Athens County
Athens Ohio AP Attorney General assistants sought more evidence for a new Athens County grand jury to investigate the Eleanor Gifford murder case. Gov Lausche ordered Duffy to take over amid criticism of the local investigation. Two youths Harry Dodds Jr 20 and Grover Rawlins 18 are jailed on murder charges. another suspect sought.
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Athens, O
Athens County
Eleanor Gifford
Common Pleas
Roy B. Williams
William Bryant
T. Vincent Martin
Herbert S. Duffy
Frank J. Lausche
Cincinnati
Charles P. Taft
Henry W. Jobson
Episcopal Diocese of
Ohio
Bateman
Ohio grain men open Farmers Grain Dealers convention
About 1000 Ohio grain dealers and guests gathered in Toledo to launch the Ohio Farmers Grain Dealers Association convention, highlighting the state's grain trade activities and networking opportunities.
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Toledo, O
Ohio
Ohio Farmers Grain Dealers Association
Trans-Jordan Israel Schedule Peace Talks
Trans-Jordan delegation arrives to open armistice talks with Israel. UN mediator Ralph Bunche informed by Amman representatives. Egyptian delegation may announce Cairo’s draft compromise for armistice terms aligning with truce lines in the Negev and surrender of Bir Asluj to demilitarization. Beersheba is to remain unavailable as a strategic base despite jurisdictional gains.
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Trans- Jordan
Israel
United Nations
Ralph Bunche
Amman
Cairo
Negev
Beersheba
Bir Asluj
Police hold ex convict in Waldo Hotel slaying
Columbus police detained Claude Ramsey 39, a truck driver’s helper, without charge after Esther Seibert 28 was found stabbed to death at the Waldo Hotel. Ramsey admitted accompanying Seibert to the hotel and reportedly said, I probably did it. He may also face questioning in Mona McBride’s 1948 nude death next door to the Waldo. Ramsey had a prior robbery sentence and had recently walked away from the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics.
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Columbus O
Waldo Hotel
Esther Seibert
Glenn C. Hoffman
Hoffman
Claude Ramsey
Columbus
Mona McBride
Ohio Hotel
Waldo
Ramsey
Mansfield Reformatory
Ohio Hospital
Gallipolis
Midwest Area Threatened By Floods Again
Weather warms across Nebraska raising flood risk as snow melts rapidly. Governor Val Peterson calls a multiagency conference to prepare for possible serious flooding. Temperatures reach the 40s in eastern Nebraska and 45 to 55 in the west with blizzard regions warming from Boise to Ely and Pocatello.
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Midwest
Nebraska
Rockies
Lincoln
Nebr
Val Peterson
Peterson
U. S
Ely
Nev
Sidney
Pocatello
Ida
Senate group vows to keep pact strong in debate
A group of senators prepared to defend the Atlantic defense pact as hearings on President Truman’s labor proposals near completion. The Senate Labor Committee, with an 8-5 Democratic majority, is expected to back the administration bill replacing Taft-Hartley with Wagner Act changes and emergency boards, while Republicans demand chance to discuss Taft-Hartley provisions. Senator Donnell pressed to preserve the 80 day injunction power amid clashes with Burl A. Whitney about railroad strike history.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
National Health Or Safety
Elbert Thomas
Dutah
Donnell
R-Mo
Burl A. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad
Cost Of Voting In Detroit Spring Elections
Detroit’s spring elections drew 80,700 voters from 868,000 registered, with total cost around 99,500 dollars. The cost per vote reached 1.23 dollars, the second highest on record after 1945’s 1.44 dollars, as nine minor offices contested.
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Detroit
Woody Hayes Named Miami University Football Coach
Wood row Woody Hayes, former Denison University coach with two undefeated seasons, is named head football coach at Miami University in Oxford Ohio. He will report March 1 on a year to year basis, succeeding George Blackburn who resigned to join Cincinnati.
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Woody’ Hayes
Denison University
Miami University
Hayes
Miami
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George Blackburn
University of Cincinnati
Blackburn
Redskins
Sid Gillman
Army
Gillman
Cincinnati
Denison
Mingo Junction
U. S. Newswoman Deported By Soviets
Two unrelated items in one AP report. A father and son in Fredericktown, Missouri, died of gas suffocation after a heated kitchen, coroner citing 120 degree room and decomposed bodies. In Moscow Warsaw dispatches, Anna Louise Strong, a 64 year old American journalist, was deported from the Soviet Union after arrest for spying.
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Poland
Anna Louise Strong
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
A. Strong
U.S.S.R
Miss Strong
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
U.S
Nebru
Joel Shubin
Moscow Daily News
Washingtons Birthday Observed Across Nations
Washingtons birthday events spread from Washington honoring George Washington with wreaths at Mount Vernon and parades in the capital to Ohio considering a George Washington Highway bill sponsored by Senator Daniels and a Washington Day observance in Mexico City with speeches by U S ambassador Thurston and related activities.
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George Washington
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mount Vernon
Truman
Columbus
Ohio
Senate Highway Committee
Albert L. Daniels
Rhighland
Marietta
Cincinnati
Mexico City
Diplomatic Corps
Walter Thurston
U. S
Washington Monument
Culprit Found After Log Bomb Trapping Suspect
A German man used a hollow log filled with magnesium as a trap for a woodpile robber. The plan backfired when his neighbor’s stove exploded the next day, amid police involvement in the incident in Nasiburg Germany.
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Nasiburg
Germany
Bill aims at vast social security expansion
Lawmakers answered President Truman on his request for a broad social security bill. It would broaden old age insurance to 50 million people, raise payroll taxes, and add home relief payments up to 50 dollars a month for a single person and 20 dollars for each extra person, with unclear overall cost and scope.
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Truman
Capitol Hill
Congress
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
George
Senate Finance Committee
Axis Sally May Testify On Wednesday
Washington AP reports Mildred E. Gillars will take the stand as star defense witness in her treason trial on Wednesday. Defense attorney James J. Laughlin said three German witnesses may arrive from Germany delaying her appearance. two former co workers have testified to show compulsion and fear. The planned German witnesses will echo testimony by Franz J. Schaefer and Emil W. K. Beckmann. The trial recessed for Washington's birthday.
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Sally
Mildred E. Gillars
James J. Laughlin
Germany
Miss Gillars
Laughlin
Franz J. Schaefer
Emil W. K. Beckmann
Ohio passes private toll road finance measure in Senate expected
In Columbus the Senate Highway Committee unanimously backs a bill to finance toll superhighways with private funds. It links a Pennsylvania turnpike extension to Ohio and restricts toll profits from aiding other roads. Gov Lausche calls for revenue talks as state faces tight budgets.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
Senate Highway Committee
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
William A. Boyd
Cuyahoga
Frank J. Lausche
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