Ohio ends billion dollar session with burger party
Ohio's first billion-dollar legislature wrapped after 28 weeks as lawmakers exited at midnight. A burger stand fed 1400 hamburgers and 900 Coke bottles while a loaded cigar briefly startled the hall. Gov Lausche faced a near record budget and broad fiscal measures, with pay raises and local aid approved before adjournment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Restaurant Association
Robert R. Williams
Restaurant Association
98Th General Assembly
James M. Cox
Senate
Margaret A. Mahoney
Cuyahoga
Cox
John F. Cantwell
D-Mahoning
Frank J. Lausche
Rail Brotherhood President Dies Of Heart Attack
Alexander Fell Whitney 76 fiery labor leader and longtime opponent and ally of US presidents died at his Bay Village home after a day at work. He led the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and played a role in major labor battles including the 1946 rail strike and Truman administrations. Whitney’s career spanned national committees and a key 1936 Inter-American conference delegation.
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Cleveland
Alexander Fell Whitney
United States
Brotherhood of Railroad
Bay Village
Dorothy Mae Whitney
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whitney
Buenos Aires
Truman
Alvanley Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
White House
Brotherhood
Congress
Brotherhood Treasury
Labor
Joseph Leonard Whitney
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Illinois Central Railroad
Heavier Cut In Military Funds Sought
Washington AP reports senators push for deeper cuts after a 1.01 billion dollar Appropriations Committee reduction. Senator Ferguson seeks an additional 821 million cut, while Senator Elmer Thomas proposes 600 million more savings. Senate action could follow alongside House totals. Most cuts impact the Air Forces as the total falls below 15.9 billion.
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Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
Elmer Thomas
Dokla
House
Actress Marion Hutton Weds Douglas Crickard in El Paso
Blonde actress Marion Hutton aged 30 married Douglas Linley Crickard, scriptwriter from Northridge California, known as Jack Douglas, in El Paso Texas yesterday.
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Tex
Marion Hutton
Douglas Linley Crickard
Crickard
Northridge
Cal
Jack Douglas
Three Die In Concord Plane Crash Near Airport
A light airplane attempting a landing crashed at a Concord airport killing three occupants. The victims were two men and a woman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who were returning from Miami, Florida.
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Here
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Boardnamed to consider steel dispute in labor talks
A three member Presidential fact finding board was named to study wages pensions and insurance in the steel dispute. Chairman Carroll Daugherty will lead with Judge Samuel Rosenman and David Cole assisting. The panel seeks a nonbinding recommendation to ease the crisis and guide a broader settlement.
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Washington
Truman
Philip Murray
CIO
Northwestern University
Samuel I. Rosenman
White House
David N. Cole
Paterson
N. J
Friends of Labor Statute
German blast in Prüm kills 12 in town depot
A French explosives depot near Prüm Germany exploded killing 12 Germans and injuring scores. Police cite a possible short circuit as cause with no sabotage suspected. Depot housed TNT and dynamite. no ammunition known to be stored there. Prüm sits near World War II Battle of the Bulge area.
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Germany
Pruem
Battle of the Bulge
Czech Reds Push Against Catholic Hierarchy Parley Sought
Communist drive in Czechoslovakia seeks to sever Czech Catholics from the Vatican with a plan to wall off church leadership. Justice Minister Cepicka accuses Archbishop Bearn of plotting against the state while a new church control bill tightens government grip on denominations. British waterfront strike, viewed as Communist plot, halts 14,000 stevedores as troops guard docks. miners threaten a related 24,000-man walkout. General Chiang Kai-shek forms a 12-man emergency war cabinet as Southern Korea joins anti-Communist Pacific bloc.
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Communist Party
Alexei Cepicka
Josef Bearn
Britain
Labor Ministry
Lightermen’s Union
Dockers Union
Miners’ Union
Australia
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chiang
Korea
Pacific Union
Elpidio Quirino
Philippines
Excommunication Shaped by Conscience Not Force
Vatican sources say excommunication requires no enforcer and acts in the conscience. The threat against Catholics aiding Communists is described as ineffective, since true guilt sits within the soul and salvation is blocked by the act of excommunication itself.
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Czecholovak
Holy Office
Trade aims for Australia to aid Britain’s war economy
The passage argues a greater flow of British export goods to Australia as essential for national survival, stressing the interlinked economies of Britain and its dominions, with Australia positioned across the world to support the war effort.
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Australia
Five British airmen die in Berlin plane crash
A British Hastings airlift plane crashed while taking off from Tegel airport in Berlin, killing five crewmen. Officials said the RAF craft stalled at about 50 feet and plunged to earth, loaded with freight for western Germany. It was the second fatal airlift crash in four days.
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Germany
Taft Blasts Truman for Tax Heavy Spending Drive
Senator Taft charged President Truman seeks a totalitarian state through large government spending and higher taxes. He argued cutting 10 percent from federal bureaus would balance the budget and warned tax hikes threaten prosperity. The Ohio Republican spoke in a Columbus radio address responding to Truman’s fireside chat.
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Truman
United States
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Ohio Republican
Mutual
England
Washington
Congress
Data Is Sought On Subversives
A Senate committee pressed the State department for information on how many aliens might be using diplomatic immunity as a shield for subversive activities. Assistant Secretary of State John E Peurifoy was called for testimony on the subject. Attorney General Tom Clark revealed that more than a score of foreigners at the United Nations headquarters in New York are under investigation by the Justice Department.
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State Department
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Tom Clark
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Justice Department
Senate Judiciary
Three Small Ohio Districts Ordered Consolidated High School
The board orders Congress, Chester, and West Salem districts merged into one 185 pupil high school in Wooster area. Current buildings will host grade schools. A bond issue is being prepared for a new high school building.
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Congress
Chester
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Opera Saved In Cincinnati By Donations
Cincinnati faces a near collapse of its 1949 outdoor summer opera season but donor pledges totaling 430000 saved the program starring Metropolitan Opera performers. Major gifts came from the Thomas J. Emery Memorial 25000 and the Cincinnati Times Star 10000 plus 2000 from the AFL Musicians Union with other contributions of 500 to 1000.
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Eea
Summer Opera Association
Metropolitan Opera
Thomas J. Emery
Hubert Taft
Cincinnati Times-Star
Times-Star
AFL Musicians’ Union
Mary M. Emery
Legislature Clocks Covered To Preserve July Fifteenth Session Illusion
As the session stretched past midnight the Senate and House clocks were covered to keep up the appearance of ongoing July 15 proceedings. Rep. Thomas, P. Reid (R-
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Rep. Thomas, P. Reid
Actress Greer Garson Marries Col. Fogel in Santa Fe
Movie star Greer Garson wed Col. FE. E. Fogel top Texas rancher oilman and sportsman in Santa Fe New Mexico yesterday. The ceremony joined Garson with the 48 year old officer as news photographers captured the moment. The couple had kept plans private until the ceremony and will reside in Texas after a short wedding trip.
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Santa FE
N. M
Greer Garson
Col. FE
Ferguson Again Takes Control Of Ohio Relief Funds
Ohio State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson will again preaudit all relief expenditures totaling about 26 million dollars for the year. The House approved the measure 70 to 57 and it now goes to Governor Lausche for signature. Ferguson says 20 to 30 more examiners will be hired to prevent chiseling in relief spending.
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Ohio
Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
House
Senate
Frank J. Lausche
O. P. van Scheik
Pat Monahan
C. William O’neill
Washington
O'Neill
Columbus, O
Chillicothe
G. D. Tablac
D . Mahoning
C. William O‘neill
R-Wahington
Tablace
Tablac
Temperatures Hit 120 in California Desert Measures
No heat wave in sight but readings climbed toward 90s across central states. Highs reached 102 in Glasgow Montana and 120 at Silver Lake California with 107 in Phoenix Arizona and 104 in Boise Idaho. Cooler air moved into the Pacific Northwest as the system heads eastward. Showers dotted the Middle Atlantic Gulf coast New England and Rockies regions with Montgomery Alabama logging the heaviest 0.7 inch rainfall.
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Rockies
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Glasgow
Mont
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Desert
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Ariz
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Ida
Fresno
Spokane
Wash
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New England States
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Weather Bureau
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Ohio General Assembly action vast and varied
The 98th Ohio General Assembly passed major bills including higher unemployment and workers compensation benefits, a natural resources department, slum replacement housing, revised election laws enabling ballot counting, lower tax levy thresholds, toll highway commission, regulated Christian Science services, equalized property tax values, and raised state aid to local governments.
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98Th
Ohio General Assembly
Department of Natural Resources
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