Cleveland Brink's style gang raid foiled after Ohio arrest
Cleveland detectives, tipped by an informer, raided East Side apartments seeking Sam Norbert of Detroit linked to a planned Brink's style heist. Seven uniforms and burglary tools were seized as authorities pursue Norbert and other suspects connected to a Cleveland crime plot.
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Cleveland
Boston
Thomas Whalen
Brink’s, Incorporated
East Side
Detroit
Purple
Cleveland Brink
John Cronenwett
Sam Norbert
Norbert
Cronenwett
Whalen
Edgar Heald
Heald
Brink's
FDR Jr Storms Center Of House FEPC Debate
The House civil rights battle centers on Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr as Representative Powell files a petition to force a vote on an FEPC bill. Roosevelt counters with his own petition. partisan lines and party loyalty shape who signs. Powell says Republicans balk on party policy but Back Powell presses for action.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
House
FDR
New York
Roosevelt
Powell
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
House Rules Committee
Rep
Halleck
Indiana
Brehm
Rohio
Auto Workers Strike 89 000 at Chrysler Nationwide
Detroit AP reports 89 000 Chrysler workers walk off jobs after six months of pension dispute talks fail to reach an agreement. The walkout halts operations across the company as talks broke down just minutes before the scheduled strike.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
17 000 Steel and Railroad Workers Idle Amid Strike Spread
The soft coal miners strike triggers unemployment with at least 17,000 in railroad and steel sectors idle. About 75,000 soft coal diggers stay off pits on day three of the union three day week. Union demand on Chrysler complicates a settlement, but hope remains for resolution.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Worker
UMW
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Pennsylvania Railroad
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Jury Selection Slow In Mercy Slaying Trial
Bridgeport Connecticut AP reports jurors are being screened for sympathy in the mercy slaying case of 21 year old Carol Ann Paight charged with second degree murder. Only four jurors selected. defense and prosecution have used many peremptory challenges. A panel of 15 women and 11 men was exhausted. a new pool of 30 awaits. The penalty could be life in prison.
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Bridgeport
Carol Ann
Slayer Facing Two Life Terms
John A. Harding, 67, was convicted by a three man court of fatally shooting his wife Mildred 43 and mother in law Maude Thompson 68 at their music school home on October 31. He received consecutive life sentences, making parole eligibility unlikely before at least 30 years.
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Toledo, C
John A. Harding
Ohio
Mildred
Maude Thompson
Hardings
Seven prisoners recaptured. one again at large
The January 7 jail break at Hamilton County jail left ten inmates missing. The count rose to seven captured with three still at large and Ernest J. Chawkley, 36, of Cincinnati, reported in custody in St. Louis by the FBI.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
FBI
Ernest J. Chawkley
St. Louis
Seventeen in Ohio hit by suspected cream puff outbreak
At least seventeen people in Columbus Springfield and Zanesville were sickened by food poisoning linked to cream puffs from a single source. Seven were hospitalized as city health officials halted pastry sales and disposed of thousands of puffs amid warm weather.
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Columbus
Ohio
Springfield
Zanesville
Mercury
O. M. Goodloe
City Hospital
Dorothy Salisbury
Pauline Healy
Susan Haucke
Warren Haucke
Healy
Columus
St. Francis Hospital
Ruby Farley
Bruce
Inlaw
Margaret Farley
Carrie Parker
James Leach
Leach
Regine Kimberley
Suzanne
Joseph B. Drayer
Columbus Health
Blizzard Relief Fades as North Dakota Battles Extreme Cold
A severe blizzard battered North Dakota with huge snowdrifts and gale winds, stranding motorists and closing schools. Temperatures plunged below zero as the state began to recover, while other regions faced a sharp cold snap despite a heat wave elsewhere.
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Plains
North Dakota
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Atlantic Coast
North Central States
Radio Night Surrounded by Crime Broadcasts
A stormy winter night finds a listener turning on the radio and hearing nothing but crime stories and gangster violence across stations. The monotony of murder chatter drives the viewer to switch off, seek a book, and go to bed, frustrated by pervasive crime on air.
Hiss Sentenced Five Years for Perjury Conviction
Alger Hiss was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary for perjury in a Soviet spy investigation. Defense plans an appeal to the U S Circuit Court of Appeals, with bail pending. The case could stretch for months as potential further appeals to the Supreme Court arise.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Henry W. Goddard
Hiss
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Claude B. Cross
Cross
Goddard
U. S. Supreme Court
Circuit Court
New Minimum Wage Law Takes Effect Across Nation
The 40 cent minimum wage under the New Deal wage hour law rises to nearly double. About 1.5 million workers gain an average 5 to 15 cent raise, costing employers roughly 300 million dollars yearly. President Truman hails social justice and longer term benefits as CIO and labor groups react.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
CIO
Trapper Adrift Eight Days In Troller Saved
PRINCE RUPERT BC AP The trapper George Anderson Ketahikan Alaska drifted eight days in a 38 foot troller and walked through zero temperatures for nine more before being found by police at Masset BC Signal fire led to rescue Anderson said his trailer failed January 8 near Portland Canal drifting to Graham Island He collected provisions and equipment and walked to the pickup point before rescue.
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Prince Rupert
B. C
British Columbia
George Anderson
Ketahikan
Alaska
Masset
Anderson
Portland Canal
Graham Island
Lausche Declines Call for Special Legislature Session
Gov. Frank Lausche after a cabinet meeting said there is no present need for a special session. He cited available funds for poor relief and noted economy measures within current appropriations to absorb the wage law impact without harming old age pensioners.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
General Assembly
Ohio Supreme Court refuses review in Dodds murder case
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to review the conviction of Harry Z. Dodds of Athens for the 1949 killing of Eleanor E. Gifford. The court set February 24 for Dodds to die in the electric chair for the church worker’s murder during an attempted robbery.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Harry Z. Dodds
Athens
Dodds
Eleanor E. Gifford
Young Legislator Wins GOP Nomination in Thomas Seat
Hackensack New Jersey AP reports 43 year old attorney and state assemblyman William B Widnall upset forecasts to win the Republican nomination for the imprisoned J Parnell Thomas vacated Congressional post. He edged Harry C Harper 299 to 0 unofficially.
Mills proposes earlier corporate income tax payments
Rep Mills of Arkansas pitches a plan to require corporations to pay all taxes on the prior year’s income in the first half of the year. He says the move could raise about 4.8 billion dollars in the next fiscal year and help erase a 5.1 billion dollar federal deficit with modest gains from other taxes. Committee Chairman Doughton calls the idea worthy of consideration.
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Washington
Representative Mills
D-Ark
Mills
Tax Drafting House
Ways and Means Committee
President Truman
Doughton
D-Nc
Sidth
Missing Student Held In Theft
Marietta Ohio AP Police Chief Thomas Sprague said a missing Ohio University junior from Youngstown is held in Washington County jail on auto theft charges. Earl M. Kenvin, 22, was reported missing January 15 and arrested January 17 near Marietta by Officer H. G. McIlyar for stealing a car owned by James Congleton.
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Marietta, O
Thomas Sprague
Ohio University
Youngstown
Washington County
Earl M. Kenvin
Kenvin
Athens
Sprague
Marietta
H. G. McIlyar
James Congleton
Price Of Australian Apparel Wool Soaring
The Australian wool boom drives sharp price increases for fine apparel wools. Boston mills pay about 41 cents more per pound than last September, with cleans at $1.58 vs $1.17 previously, as global demand surges and production lags.
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Boston
Australia
America
Sydney
Britain
Russia
Continent
United States
Asea
Mines Bureau Head Under Questioning
The head of the Bureau of Mines warned that without higher coal output national health and welfare is at risk. Senate hearings discussed coal stocks amid the three day work week for United Mine Workers. Director James Boyd testified as pressures rise for a Truman administration move toward settlement.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Washington (Ap
John L. Lewig
United Mine Workers
James Boyd
Mines Bureau
Senate
la One
Lewis
Taff
Ohio
Donnell R- Bee
Truman
Tobin
Morrison Wins renomination for four-year term in New Orleans
New Orleans reform mayor Chep Morrison won renomination after a decisive Democratic primary. His clean sweep campaign solidifies his bid for another four-year term as mayor.
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New Orleans
Abd de Lesseps
Chep) Morrison
Nereleans
Yeste
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UAW
Walter Reuther
Herman Weckler
Reuther
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Associated Press
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Martin
Coplon
Judith Coplon
Archibald Palmer
Federal Court
Valentin Gubitchev
Lausche
Victor
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