First World War veteran to rest in Woodside Memorial Shrine
Maj. Roland M. Kohr, a WWI veteran who later served as a major in the Air Forces, will be the first veteran interred in Woodside Cemetery’s memorial plot. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 10 a.m. at Wilson Funeral Home with Col. Carl Stridsberg officiating.
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Roland M. Kohr
Woodside Cemetery
Wilson Funeral Home
Carl Stridsberg
455Th Field Artillery Batallion
Middletown Post
American Legion
The
Reserve Officers Association
James A. Wells
W. H. Henry
Earl G. Stegemiller
Frank J. Albanese
John Post
W. W. Bowman
Leo F. Reinartz
Harold Gaw
Willard Johnson
Ralph Grimes
Louis Waldner
Charles Fendersmith
Vance E. Cribbs
Sixth Fighter Command
Lowry Field
Colo
Panama
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Goshen
New Philadelphia
Wooster
Mansfield
Ohio State University
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Maj. Kohr
Armco
East Side Laboratory
Post
National Defense Committee
Speculation Issue Hits Oleo Battle in Congress
Washington AP report on a heated battle over oleomargarine speculation. Rep. August Andresen charges Procter and Gamble and Best Foods cornered cottonseed oil, boosting May prices from 29.75 to 43 cents per pound. Testimony by Best Foods VP Nelson was postponed. P and G VP Barnes testified about tight supplies and a $60,000 gain from oil deals. A trader suspects a group exploits the tax repeal to push prices higher as Senate action stalls.
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Washington
August i. Andresen
Rminn
Procter and Gamble Company
Andresen
House
Best Foods Corporation
Benjamin Nelson
Best Foods
Committee Tofay
Floyd M. Barnes
Procter and Gamble
New York Produce Exchange
Barnes
Duke Cullum
National Commodity Corporation
Senate
Millikin
R-Cole
Senate Finance Committee
Man Fatally Stabbed In Hobo Jungle Fight
Otis Sharp, 40, was fatally stabbed yesterday during a free-for-all in a Norwood hobo jungle area near Cincinnati. Five men were arrested with minor injuries. a sixth man was wounded and escaped.
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Cincinnati
Otis Sharp
Norwood
U S Atomic Weapons Vastly Improved After Tests
Honolulu AP reports that the United States has atomic weapons vastly improved over wartime designs. Task Force Seven leaders spoke after 45 days of tests at Eniwetok, revealing three weapon designs with no undersea or aerial drops disclosed.
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Honolulu
United States
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Eniwetok
Mid- Pacific
Task Force Seven
John E. Hull
Los Alamos
New Mexico
Coal pay talks collapse amid union owner clash
Negotiations on a new soft coal wage contract broke down as Southern Coal Producers Association activists accused John L. Lewis of unfair labor practices for balking at seating Joseph Moody. NLRB petitions were filed urging courts to force bargaining, while Moody warned the Taft Hartley act urgency endangers a new pact.
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Washington
Southern
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Joseph E. Moody
Producers
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Robert M. Denham
Moody
Association
Denham
United Mine Workers Policy Committee
UMW
Charles O'Neill
Russians Cut Power Supply Across Korea
North Korea controlled by Russians claimed South Korea had its power cut off after Americans tried to pay the bill with chocolate syrup and other items. The Moscow ordered action was announced by Pyongyang Radio via the North Korean Peoples' Committee and rejected by Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge who said the matter was not recognized by U S occupation authorities.
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Seoul
North Korea
South Korea
Pyongyang
North Korean Peoples’ Committee
John R. Hodge
U. S
Moscow
Hodge
People’s Committee
Russians Claim More Inventions in New Tass Reports
London AP says Tass rewrote two pages with claims of Russian invention. It credits Lodygin with the electric bulb, Yablochkov with the flashlight, Ussagin with the transformer, and Lazarenko with wire electric welding. Previous Tass notes include steam engine and jet engine.
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London
Tass
Yablochkov
Ussagin
Lazarenko
Woman 59 killed by freight train in Akron area
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train struck Mrs. Mary Sullivan aged 59 in Cuyahoga Falls last night, killing her.
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Akron
Baltimore and Ohio
Mary Sullivan
Cuyahoga Falls
Wait-and-see plan adopted toward Reds
Secretary of State Marshall said Soviet cooperation will test Premier Stalin's sincerity in seeking greater understanding. He would consider meeting Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov if Molotov visits Washington, though he did not say he would be glad to see him. Marshall noted no clear uptick in Russian cooperation before the United Nations.
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Washington
Marshall
Stalin
Molotov
United Nations
New Yorker
Paul E. Lockwood
Stassen
Dewey
United States
Russia
Marshal Stalin
Henry Wallace
Free Nations
Soviet Union
Probe Set In Threatened Phone Strike Continues
Washington AP reports a special investigation into a threatened telephone strike was ordered by President Truman over objections from AT&T Long Lines. The CIO union seeks a 30 cent per hour wage hike, shorter week and bigger pensions for about 25 000 workers, with current pay around 1 25 an hour. The board must report by June 8.
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Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Truman
National Health and Safety
A. T. and
T.’s
Long Lines Department
Assess
CIO
Long Lines Telephone Workers Union
Senate Nears Decision On Flood Control Budget
Senate debate on trimming 200 million dollars from a waterways construction fund continues as defenders of flood control urge full funding for 373 projects. The stalled rail labor dispute sees extended orders and postponed court hearings to allow renewed talks between railroads and unions.
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Senate
Washington
Appropriations Committee
Reed
Rkas
Bridges
R-Nh
Ferguson
R-Mich
Taft
R-Ohio
Knowland
Rcal
Morse
R-Ore
Armed Services
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Justice Department
1101st Birthday Slide Marks Florences Day in Scranton
Miss Florence Dolph will celebrate her 1101st birthday in Scranton with her annual slide down the bannister to breakfast. Her niece, Mrs Florence Robertson, said Miss Dolph is all set for the slide.
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Scranton
Florence Dolph
Florence Robertson
Dolph
Stassen and Dewey Trade Blasts in Oregon Primary Bid
In Portland and surrounding towns Stassen and Dewey argued over a possible Dewey Taft alliance in the Oregon GOP contest. Stassen claimed a westward combine formed after Nebraska. Dewey countered it as a pipe dream and pressed broader calls for allied nations in any talks with the Soviet Union.
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Stassen and Dewey
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
Stassen
Dewey
Willamette Valley
Taft
Ohio
Combine
Nebraska
Roseburg
St. Helens
Stay Granted In Executions In Malmedy Case
A stay of execution was granted to several German wartime Malmedy massacre defendants after the Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal. Secretary of the Army Royall said Gen Lucius D Clay will review serious allegations of sham courts and coerced confessions raised in the petitions.
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Washington
Royall
Supreme Court
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
United States
Chinese Plane Bombs Building Where Mao Met Red Leaders
Government reports one National plane bombed a building in Fuping Hopeh May 13 where Mao Zedong and about 200 Red leaders met. Eighty killed or wounded as government forces lose Linfen and repulse a Peiping raid while Red forces seize Laohokow and threaten central China. Casualty figures are often exaggerated by both sides.
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Nanking
Mao Tze-Tung
Teng Wen-Yi
Fuping
Hopeh
Chen Yi
Han River
Linfen
Shansi
Peiping
Liu Po-Cheng
Laohokow
Hankow
China
Teng
Jews and Arabs clash for control of Jerusalem old city
AP reports Arab forces in the old walled city of Jerusalem claim control while Jewish defenders say they broke Arab hold at Zion Gate and expanded a breach. Fighting continues around the Damascus Gate area as both sides report advances and counterattacks.
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Old Walled City of
Jerusalem
Old City
Haganah
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Trans- Jordan Arab Legion
Associated Press
Arab League
Cairo
Tel Aviv
Trans-Jordan Arab Legion of King Abdullah. the Jews Said Haganah
Zion Gate
Sarafand
Ramle
Zvai Leumi
United Nations
Yugoslavia
Nicaragua
Israel
Great Britain
Palestine
Samakh
Sea of Galilee
Iraq
Lydda
Mount Zion
de Luce
Abdullah
Wareriors
UN to Revise U N Palestine Plan in Security Council
In Lake Success the Security Council discussed watering down the American cease fire plan for Palestine. A source said U S proposals for an international force have little chance to pass, with aims reduced to moral authority only. Russia criticized action and urged ending the war while the United States pushed a 36 hour cease fire directive to all troops.
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Lake Success
Security Council
Council
United States
United Nations
Russia
Ukraine
Andrei A. Gromyko
Washington
House Committee Drops Plan to Fire Workers
The House Appropriations Committee decided not to pursue firing any government employee via riders to appropriations bills, citing constitutional issues and past court rulings. Names mentioned included Dr. Howard A. Condon head of the Bureau of Standards and officials Michael Straus and Richard Boke, while Harness disputed action claims.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Howard A. Condon
Congress
Supreme Court
Condon
Bureau of Standards
Michael Straus
Richard Boke
Reclamation Bureau
House Un-American Activities Subcommittee
Harness
R-Ind
Straus
Boke
Chrysler Strike Pressures Rise As GM Faces Walkouts
DETROIT AP GM faced strike threats from two CIO unions as Chrysler’s weeklong walkout pause ended with no break. UE set strike votes for 40,000 at five GM plants while UAW issued a 10 day notice affecting 225,000 workers in 90 plants nationwide. Talks continue amid demands for a 25 cent hourly rise with 10 cents earmarked for a pension. A four hour session yielded no progress and another meeting was planned.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
Chrysler
United Electrical Workers
United Auto Workers
UAW
Corpo
Ford Motor Company
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Herman Schultz
LeMars
Roland A. Kohr
Oleo Battle
SCPA
Reds
O’neil
Charles O'Neil
John Owens
Harry Moses
U. S. Steel
House Committee
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