Legislative Marathon Sets Records
The Republican led 99th General Assembly extended its final working day to nearly noon Sunday and approved a record $750,195,461 two year state budget. It endorsed the first district revisions in 38 years, boosted workers compensation to $32.20 weekly, and passed tough anti gambling laws. Budget changes include $203,000,000 for schools, with a deadlock keeping final school funding at $206,000,000 sought by Representatives. Governor Lausche faces vetoes. lawmakers return June 19 for adjournment. The session also expands removal powers for law enforcement and enacts a stricter anti slot machine statute with a $5,000 fine. An amended bribery penalty covers professionals and amateurs alike. An average $250 yearly raise for 30,000 state workers under new classifications is included, with war emergency work hours and Civil Service protections.
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Reed Smith
Columbus
99Th General Assembly
Frank J. Lausche
Senate House
Representatives
Senators
William L. Manahan
Defiance
Ohio Education Association
Walton B. Bliss
DEA
Senate
Manahan
OPA
OEA
Lausche
H. D. Defenbacher
Becmes
Common Pleas
Ohio
Lause
Colorado Man Doubles As Corps Mourner
J N Gernhardt a 75 year old former rancher and storekeeper staged his own funeral in Burlington Colorado after being denied the use of the school auditorium. He served as corpse chief mourner and stage manager with over 1000 attendees in the armory. He was escorted by a hearse and a copper casket stored at his home after a dinner for press folks. Ministers initially declined but Rev S H Mahaffey conducted the service and Mrs Drew supplied piano selections.
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Burlington
Colo
J. N. Gernhardt
Gernhardt
S. H. Mahaffey
Kanorado
Kans
Herbert Drew
Detroit Bus Strike Heads For Showdown
The 45 day transit walkout in Detroit threatens escalation with AFL strikers saying they may fight it out in the street if needed. Walter Stanley of the AFL union warned after Mayor Cobo asked six CIO supervisors to inspect service conditions. Meanwhile Chattanooga drivers and a looming New York walkout heighten tension as CIO officials predict the Detroit clash will seem mild by comparison. Mayor Impellitteri of New York plans a special session to avert a wage and 40 hour week dispute as transit talks continue.
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Detroit
AFL
Walter Stanley
Albert E. Cobo
CIO
Chattanooga
Tenn
New York
Gus Faber
CIO Transport Workers
Chicago
United Railroad Workers
Vincent R. Impellitteri
Board of Transportation
College Boys Get Two More Cracks At Draft Exams
Brig. Gen. Lewis H. Renfrow said students who missed the May 26 draft aptitude test may get new tickets for June 16 or June 23 after writing to the Selective Service Examining Center at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. If their explanation is accepted, they will be scheduled for a later examination.
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Washington
Lewis H. Renfrow
Selective Service
Selective Service Examining Center
Educational Testing Service
Princeton
N. J
Renfrew
West Point Cadets to Visit Wright Field on Tour
The 1952 West Point cadets, 553 strong, will tour Wright-Patterson Air Force Base this week. The first group of 300 arrives by Air Force C-47 at 5 p.m. Tuesday, with a second flight a day later. They will see base facilities, an Air Force development lab, and demo the latest aircraft, ending with a Friday reception and dance. The class departs Saturday for Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Dayton
West Point
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Air Force
Wright- Patterson
Air Force Base
Army
Wright-Patterson
Air Force Development Laboratory
Air Forces
University of Dayton
Wittenberg College
Ohio Anti Pollution Bill Dies In Rules Committee
Ohio lawmakers halted the Deddens stream anti pollution bill in the House Rules Committee as adjournment ended the effort. Sponsor Sen. William H. Deddens predicted it had no chance, and Rep. Paul Hinkle withdrew after finding floor support unlikely. Opponents from industry warned the public nuisance provision shifted burden of proof and could lead to daily offenses with fines up to 500 dollars and a year in jail.
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Ohio
Columbus
Deddens Stream
House Rules Committee
Assembly
William H. Deddens
Cincinnati
Paul Hinkle
Celina
Rules Committee
Gordon Renner
House
Renner
Allies Hold Ground Near Red Redoubt in Korea Push
Allied troops fought through heavy rain toward a main North Korean redoubt and repelled fierce Red counter-attacks. Tank led advances chipped 1 to 3 miles in places while UN forces aimed to break the Iron triangle near Chorwon Kumwha and Pyongyang as floods of shelling and hand to hand combat continued.
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William C. Bernard
TOKYO
North Korea
United Nations
Yonchon
Kansong
Chorwon
Kumwha
Pyongyang
Yongpyong
Yongong
38Th Parallel
Hwachon
Eighth Army
Korea
James Alan Filet
van Fleet
British Firm Seeks Talks In Iran Oil Crisis
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company offers to send representatives to Tehran for full discussions of the oil crisis with Iran as a five day deadline nears for nationalization proposals. Deputy Premier Fatemi says Iran views this as accepting takeover, while AIOC reserves its rights and does not disclose negotiable points. Diplomatic observers note Britain retains a majority stake and eye high level talks with Iran.
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Tehran
U.S
Henry F. Grady
Hussein Fatemi
Iran
AIOC
London
Britain
International Court of Justice
the Hague
Doomed Girl Wedding Off Amid Navy Leave Sting
A 19 year old sailor Tom Amburn faced a 30 day emergency leave to wed Betty Thompson 18, cancer doomed. After publicity, Amburn flew to Sioux Falls to meet parents and the Navy cancelled his leave. He returned to Norfolk seeking privacy amid media attention.
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Norfolk, Va
Tom Amburn
Norfolk Naval Air Station
Betty Thompson
Atlanta
Betty
Amburn
Sioux Falls
Bue
Tom
A. F. Amburn
Navy
East Point
Omaha
Neb
Young Amburn
Six Iowans Drown On Vacation Trip Near Oskaloosa
A Waterloo family of seven on a Kansas vacation trip perished when their car veered after passing a semi, struck a bridge abutment, and plunged into seven feet of water in the Des Moines River ten miles west of Oskaloosa. Two passing motorists pulled one survivor from the backwater as the others drowned.
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Oskaloosa, la
Kansas
Waterloo, la
Des Moines
Oskaloosa
Supreme Court allows local bans on door to door sellers
AP bulletins report that cities may ban door to door selling by book agents and magazine peddlers. Also noted is Russia agreeing to a Western powers foreign ministers conference in Washington on July 23 to discuss the North Atlantic Pact and U S bases overseas. The court upheld conspiracy convictions of eleven top Americans accused as Communists.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Paris
Russia
U. S
The
Supreme Court Today
America
Torture Robbers' Victim In Poor Condition
Mrs Anna Kochendorfer, 80, of Sandusky, enduring torture by robbers seeking money from a land sale to the Pennsylvania Railroad. She worsened at a daughter's home in Bellevue as her son M Charles Kochendorfer reported. Two masked men choked her dog, broke in, and burned her feet Wednesday night.
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Sandusky
Anna Kochendorfer
Bellevue
M. Charles Kochendorfer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ten die in Air Force C 82 crash at New Boston
An Air Force cargo plane the C 82 flying box car exploded over New Boston Texas yesterday killing ten passengers. The aircraft blew up in a cow pasture shortly after takeoff, leaving no survivors among those aboard.
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New
Boston
Tex
Air Force
Kentucky Judge Dies at 87 in FRANKFORT
FRANKFORT Ky AP Gus Thomas longtime Kentucky Court of Appeals jurist died yesterday at 87 after 35 years on the bench. His passing ends a lengthy chapter in state judiciary and marks the loss of a veteran legal figure.
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Frankfort
Gus Thomas
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Free-for-all Battle Over Economic Controls
Washington AP reports a broad push to extend and strengthen the Defense Production Act as June 30 expiry nears. | Key leaders from labor to military voiced inflation fears while union head Walter Reuther urged dollar and cent price ceilings for major cost factors.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile Workers (Cio) Union
Reuther
Publicist Fined for Maryland Vote Fraud Case
Jon M. Jonkel a 35-year-old Chicago public relations man pleaded guilty to six charges in Maryland for election law violations while serving as campaign manager for Senator Butler. He was fined 5000 dollars by Judge Joseph Sherbow, with potential total penalties of 6000 dollars and up to 12 years, stemming from campaign finance and agent designation breaches during Butler's bid against Millard E. Tydings.
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Baltimore
Jon M. Jonkel
Chicago
Maryland
Senator Butler
Jonkel
Joseph Sherbow
Butler
Millard E. Tydings
Tyrings
New York Price War Sparks Stampede At City Stores
Throngs of bargain hunters jammed Manhattan and Bronx shops as New York enters its second week of a wide price war. A crowd of about 2,000 shoved through a plate glass door at Roger's in the Bronx, injuring a man and woman. Shoppers lined up by 6 a.m., with Macy's and Gimble’s drawing large crowds as prices were slashed up to 50 percent in late departures. Police called for reinforcements to control the crowds during the opening of major department stores.
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New York
New York City
Uptown
Manhattan
Herod Square
Gimbels
Macy's
Secretary Acheson Defends Yalta Pact Details
Secretary of State Acheson testified on Yalta and Far East policy saying the U S did not know if it had an atomic bomb when signing the 1945 agreement to bring Russia into the war against Japan He described expectations for Russian entry and the intended postwar territorial understandings including Sakhalin the Kuriles and Port Arthur He also discussed aid to Chiang Kai shek and the Chinese civil conflict noting wartime aid aimed at Japan and the complexities of postwar survival of allied governments and their revolutions.
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Washington
Acheson
United States
Yalta
Russia
Japan
Orient
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Henry A. Wallace
Chiang Kaishek
Chiang
China
Manchuria
Pacific
Roosevelt
Churchi
Britain
Stalin
Far East
Sakhalin
Kuriles
Port Arthur
Dairen
Formosa
Sakhalen
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