Treasure Seekers Dig For Buried Gold In Florida City
80-year-old G B Mobley uses a dividing rod to claim buried treasure of 41 million dollars beneath Green Cove Springs Florida. He offers to cover digging and street repair costs and would give 10 percent to the city if the treasure is found. Nearby in Monterey California workers excavate a school site where old pieces and coins valued around eighty thousand dollars have been unearthed.
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Green Cove Springs
Fla
G. B. Mobley
Mobley
Monterey
Cal
Will Martin
Germans Stage Strikes Over Food Shortages in Ruhr
About 75 000 German workers idle in four Ruhr cities as strikes protest hunger. Up to 50 000 in Duisburg Muelheim and Dinslaken and 25 000 in Oberhausen walk out amid fears the food crisis could spread. Berlin-linked rumors accuse Communists of driving the plan. shortages deepen as 1100 1200 calorie rations appear in many areas. The German and British authorities trade blame over collection of farm produce and relief measures.
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Berlin
Ruhr
Germany
Duisburg
Muehlheim
Dinslaken
Oberhausen
Hans Boeckler
Rmany Federation of Trade Unions
Boeckler
Moscow Radio
Communist Party
Chinese Rioters Injure Britons and Burn Canton Convent
AP reports rioting Chinese mobs injured six Britons and set the British consulate ablaze in Canton during a three hour demonstration over the Kowloon eviction. The British sent a warship to evacuate if needed while Americans faced threats but were shielded by identification. The British consulate and Bank of India Australia and China buildings were described as smouldering ruins.
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Hong Kong
U. S
Canton
Kowloon
H. A. Boucher
Texas Company
Boucher
Chartered Bank of India
Australia
China
Hamilton Truck Company Driver Killed At Crossing
Findlay Ohio AP report says Kenneth Poe aged 3? of Springdale was killed at about 2 30 am when he drove a Lenox Trucking Co truck into the path of a New York Central freight train at a crossing. The accident occurred here today.
Ambulance collision injures man in aid mission
Carl Weber, 60, of 100 Euclid Street, was knocked down by a backing car and treated at Middletown Hospital after an ambulance on an aid mission collided with a car on Manchester Avenue and Clark Street. The Riggs ambulance, responding with siren and emergency lights, struck Paul Moon, 33, of 1317 Manchester Avenue, causing damage to both vehicles but no injuries.
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Riggs
Manchester Ave
Clark St
Carl Weber
Euclid St
Weber
Middletown
Paul E. Moon
Moon
Eston Riggs
Pair Sought After Clerk Is Murdered
Cincinnati police seek two Black men after a $50 holdup at a west end China and Silverware shop. Clerk Aliklaus N. Wilson, 62, was shot trying to stop one gunman while the other rifled the cash register. Owner Morris Dunsky, 62, was slugged, shoved downstairs, and locked in the basement.
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Cincinnati
Aliklaus N. Wilson
Wilson
Harvey Hummeldorf
Morris Dunsky
Mobile Crime Lab to Go On Ohio Roads by Feb
Ohio will open a scientific mobile crime laboratory by February 15 to aid investigators in murders and major crimes. The 10 and a half ton truck includes a lie detector and other equipment, funded by the Buckeye State Sheriffs Association with Ohio Moose Lodges at about 15000 dollars, run by the Welfare Department. The unit, described as the third of its kind in the nation, will move into crime scenes to perform rapid analyses for evidence and aid prosecutions.
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Columbus
State Welfare Department
Ohio
Buckeye State Sheriffs’ Association
Ohio Moose Lodges
Welfare Department
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
Willam McElroy
Sheriffs’ Association
New York
Illinois
Buckeye State Sheriffs' Association
McElroy
Bricker Urges Lifting Of Some Rent Ceilings
Washington Senator Bricker urged Congress to allow landlords to raise rents on tenants who did not sign leases permitting voluntary hikes up to fifteen percent. Senator Myers pledged to strengthen rent controls. hearings to extend the law begin as coverage shows about 9.3 percent of units under 15 percent leases and most tenants still without signed leases.
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Washington
Senator Bricker
Ohio
Congress
Myers
Truman
Senate Banking
Bricker
Several Hurt In Railroad Derailment North Of Cross City
The southbound Atlantic Coast Line Chicago to Tampa train derailed eleven miles north of Cross City Florida around 7 am. Seven cars left the rails and five more were partially derailed. Several passengers were reported injured. the engineer gave details to ACL ticket agent J L Naylor.
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Cross City
Fla
Southland
Here
J. L. Naylor
ACL
Gandhi Fast Deepens Hope for Indian Peace
New Delhi AP Mahandas K Gandhi, Hindu spiritual leader and advocate of non violence, fasted into a fourth day and was carried from his bathroom after 53 hours. The Indian government, sympathetic to peace efforts, announced immediate payment of 40 million pounds to Pakistan as a gesture to reduce suspicion and friction between the two nations amid Kashmir tensions.
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New Delhi
India
Mahandas K. Gandhi
Pakistan
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Kashmir
Delhi
Truman Veto Threat Over Tax Cut and Revenues
President Truman signals veto if any tax cut is not offset by higher revenues. Treasury Secretary Snyder argues for revenue-raising measures to cover the loss and supports the administration plan of 40 dollar tax cuts with 3.2 billion in excess profits tax. Congressional Republicans push for a quick tax reduction, warning of deficits and budget strains.
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Washington
Treasury
Snyder
Congress
Truman
Knutson
Boston Leather Ware House Fire Traps Fifty
A five alarm blaze destroyed a downtown leather ware building and damaged a wool shop in Boston. The Armoury Leather Company warehouse, five stories high, burned four hours as firemen from eleven towns battled toward containment. Over fifty people trapped on upper floors escaped via fire escapes. The loss was estimated at 2 million dollars.
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Boston
The
Armoury Leather Company
Funeral Rites Set For Daniels
Raleigh AP reports Sesebhus Daniels 85 longtime editor publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer and last survivor of Woodrow Wilson’s original cabinet died yesterday. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Edenton Street Methodist Church with Bishop W. W. Peele of Richmond Va. conducting. He will be buried at Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers will be eight longtime Daniels household and News and Observer staff members.
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Raleigh
N. C
Sesebhus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Woodrow Wilson
Edeton Street Methodist Church
Daniels
W. W. Peele
Richmond
Oakwood
News and Observer
Armco workers aid families burned out here
Armco employees Konrad Heinkel and Archie Fugate and their families, left homeless by two fires that ruined their homes and belongings, received immediate aid from American Rolling Mill Company and the local Red Cross chapter. Clothing for five and three dependents was supplied from company stores. Estimated damage stood at 25,000 dollars with Fugate losing all possessions in a 7,000 dollar blaze. Armco workers, Legion help, and Red Cross disaster funds backed temporary relief and shelter efforts.
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Konrad Heinkel
Archie Fugate
Armco
American Rolling Mill Company
Red Cross
Heinkel
Fugate
American Legion
Service Center
Truman calls Senate action on Kuter a disservice to air policy
President Truman criticized the Senate Armed Services Committee for rejecting legislation to let Maj. Gen. Laur ence S. Kuter chair the Civil Aeronautics Board while drawing military pay. He called the move a disservice and said the committee would reconsider. The White House released his letter to Chairman Gurney asking support for the program.
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Dent Truman
Senate
Laurence S. Kuter
Civil Aeronautics Board
Truman
Gurney
R-Sd
Senate Armed Services Committee
White House
Chan
Kuter
Congress
Canada
Ohioan pilots jet plane in long Miami to Andrews flight
Lt Jim Roe of Steubenville piloted one of seven P-80 jets in a 970 mile flight from Miami to Andrews Field near Washington. The formation covered the distance in 2 hours 15 minutes. Officials did not claim a record but called it the longest P-80 formation attempt to date. Roe and crewmates, facing head winds, reported 500 mph at 37,000 feet felt like a rocking chair.
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Washington
Jim Roe
Steubenville
Miami
Fla
Andrews Field
Air Force
Roe
Wallace raids target in move of Democrats
Taft accused President Truman of "war spending" and called for cutting 3 billion from a 39.669 billion budget while backing air corps funding and shifting foreign aid. James Farley attacked Wallace in Lynchburg VA, saying the third party candidate found no happiness in either major party.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Providence
Treasury
James A. Farley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wallace
Lynchburg
Farley
UAW seeks 25 cent wage rise in 1948 talks
The CIO United Auto Workers announced a 25 cent an hour wage increase request plus five cents more for benefits as part of forthcoming negotiations with Chrysler General Motors and Ford. The plan includes guaranteed weekly pay three weeks vacation after five years and cost of living adjustments to restore purchasing power to June 1946 levels. The board cited the CPI in setting the 25 cent figure and said profits were excessive.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chrysler Corp
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Cincinnati Clerk Dies From Streetcar Platform Collapse
Cincinnati AP reports Chili R Carle, 59, a common pleas court clerk, died last night from a fractured skull after collapsing on a loading platform while waiting for a streetcar.
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Cincinnati
Chili R Carle
Common Pleas Court
Five in state lose lives as homes burn
Ohio faced a brutal cold wave with five fatalities from fires and freezing weather. In Bellefontaine a stove explosion killed Mrs. Raymond Pickering and her two children, while Earl Eugene Taylor and his brother died in a blaze near East Rochester. Temperatures plunged across the Midwest and Northeast, with subzero readings in Minnesota and Illinois and continued bitter winds forecast through Saturday. Frost-bitten residents coped as gas cuts hit industrial users and forecasts warned of more frigid weather statewide.
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Columbus
Ohio
Siate
Weather Bureau
Cincinnati
Cleveland
East Ohio Gas Co
Rockies
Earl Eugene Taylor
Theodore
Earl A. Taylor
Rochester
Columbiana County
George Mindling
Midwest
New England
North Atlantic
Gulf States
Florida
Arctic
Dakotas
Hilinois
Minnesota
Illinois
Houston
North Central
South
Southwest
Georgia
Carolinas
Tennessee
Virginia
Miami
Flo
Tallahassee
Fla
Atlanta
Missing 14 year old pianist and actress in Hollywood
Police search for Jacqueline Horner a 14 year old pianist and film actress missing since Tuesday from her Hollywood home. Her mother Mrs Clara Horner says she left after an argument to meet a private tutor three blocks from home but did not arrive and has not been heard from. A school friend reportedly saw Jacqueline at a Hollywood bus depot yesterday afternoon.
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Hollywood
Jacqueline Horner
Clara Horner
Jacqueline
Ohio Representatives Seek Reelection in 1946
Washington AP Ohio’s 23 member House delegation shows 14 incumbents publicly aiming for another term with petitions circulating in districts. Rep George Bender announced his sixth bid joining a slate of Republicans Elston Hess Burke McCowen Brown Smith Ramey Brehm Weichel Griffiths Carson McGregor Lewis and Bender. The party balance remains 12 Republicans and four Democrats as in 1932, with a history of shifting majorities from the New Deal era.
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Fred J. Zaly Washington
Ohio
House
George Bender
Cleveland
Charles H. Elston
William A. Hess
Raymond H. Burke
Edward O. McCowen
Clarence J. Brown
Frederick C. Smith
Homer A. Ramey
Walter E. Brehm
Alvin F. Weichel
P. W. Griffiths
Henderson H. Careson
J. Harry McGregor
Earl R. Lewis
Bender
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Marshall
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Marshall Rd
Oneida
Truman Assairs Group
Taft Hammer
UAW
Pali
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