Goodyear Row Back With U S Strike Spreads
The 16700 CIO United Rubber Workers strike that shut five Akron Goodyear plants for 10 days is now under federal control as the national war labor board assumes jurisdiction. Goodyear workers voted unanimously to stay off the job despite Gov Lausche’s plea, refusing to discuss settlement while the walkout continues.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Rubber Workers
Akron
Ile Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
National War Labor Board
Washington
Marion
Toledo
Goodyear
Frank J. Lausche
UAW
C. V
E. J. Thomas
Cals
A Thomas
WLB
Memip
Shaw Among Okinawa Wounded
Pic John A. Shaw of the marines was wounded in action on Okinawa on December 9 according to a War Department message relayed to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Shaw of Friendship. Shaw sustained shrapnel wounds to his left arm and hand. He joined the Marine Corps two years ago and trained at Parris Island South Carolina and has been overseas several times.
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John A. Shaw
Okinawa
Any Department
Ty Elliott Shaw
Shaw
Marine Corps
Parris Island
S. C
Frisco Conference Ends Tonight With Talk By President
President Truman urged support for a future peace league at the United Nations conference closing in San Francisco. He said the cheers were for the office and the United States as thousands welcomed delegates from 50 nations who helped craft the basic charter to deter aggression.
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Associated Press
San
Francisco
Truman
United Nations Conference
United States
Truman to Speak to UN Conference on WPAY Tonight
President Truman will address the United Nations conference in San Francisco during a WPAY broadcast tonight. Exact start time not fixed this noon but projected to begin about 7 45 to 8 p.m. Portsmouth time.
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Truman
San Francisco
WPAY
Portsmouth
Truman hosts historic security conference finale at Fairmont
An international body binds to peace with force as a last resort. In the Rose Room at the Fairmont the President moved to a fifth floor suite after a Pacific coast vacation. The day featured the signing of the charter by many delegations and a late address at Hamilton Field. Delegates hailed the moment as a major step toward preventing a third world war, noting success depends on resolve of peoples and governments.
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Fairmont
Truman
Hamilton Field
Pacific Northwest
Portsmouth
Communists Aim to Shape Germany’s Future Government
The German Communist Party, newly registered in Berlin after years underground, pledges an anti Fascist regime within a democratic parliamentary republic. It seeks a coalition friendly to Russia, not a Soviet system, arguing the Reich’s development does not fit Soviet structure.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
Germany
Reich
Communist Party
Herr Hitler
Gestapo
Himmler
Berlin
Russia
Fall During Storm Fatal for Woman
Mrs. Melissa Gambill 84 died in Mercy hospital from shock after a fall at her daughter Ruby Shreve's home during a severe electrical storm Saturday night June 16. Born March 17, 1861 in Elliott County Kentucky she had lived in Kentucky most of her life before moving to Portsmouth five years ago with her husband Jesse Gambill from York Kentucky.
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Melissa Gambill
Jesse Gambill
Mercy Hospital
Ruby Shreve
Oakland Av
Ohio Assembly speeds work on operating fund
June 26 report from Columbus notes the Ohio legislature in its final week advancing an operating funds bill. The package totals about 405 million dollars, with 36 million added by the senate finance committee, plus 7 million for schools, 1.5 million for old age pensions, and 500 thousand for poor relief. The body also debated local government aid, park funding, and a home site for the state fair while approving a natural resources coordinating board and higher probate-juvenile judge pay. O. J. Korb and Earl C. Shively were named to university trusteeships, and a blighted areas redevelopment bill was set for a vote.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Bieani
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Daniels Cramer
Lausche
Natural Resources Coordinating Board
Tom W. Jones
Meigsco
Fred R. Seibert
Auglaizeco
Common Pleas
O. J. Korb
Cuyahogaho
Kent State University
Earl C. Shively
Ohio University
House Taxation Committee
Post-War Jobs Lineup Studied
Retail Merchants' association reviewed plans by the Committee for Economic Development to sustain employment after the war. N B Griffin urged county employers to assess postwar needs, noting Portsmouth with 12,300 in major industries faces mixed hiring outlook as four large employers respond to peacetime demand.
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Griffin
Portsmouth
Price Control Fire Lands On Amendments
Washington June 26 Admin lawmakers pressing to extend price controls with minimal changes faced two amendments in conference today. One by Senator Wherry would set a cost plus pricing system for all farm products. The other by Representative Dirksen would allow appeals of OPA orders to federal district courts, beyond the emergency court of appeals.
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Associated Press
Washington
Administration
Sen. Wherry
Nebraska
Senate
Rep. Dirksen
Illinois
House
Emergency Court of Appeals
2500000 Tires Available During July
Washington report says 2,500,000 tires will be available for rationing in July, the same as this month, allocated to B and C ration holders. Deputy OPA administrator Max McCullough notes rationing relies on borrowed from supplies due to hot weather and expected tire failures.
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Washington
Max McCullough
OPA
Weather Update for Ohio Valley and Observer Report
Partly cloudy and possibly cooler tonight with Wednesday fair and cool. Observer Schirrman records 11 am temperature at 77, today’s high 77, minimum 63. One year ago today the high was 95 and the low 68.
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Ohio Valley
Schirrman
Farmers Dissatisfied With Federal Food Pricing Policy
Editor's note by Ovid A. Martin reports on a cross country tour with the Anderson food shortage investigating committee. It summarizes farmer worries and shows how pricing policy hampers output as the panel spends eight days in hearings across the Midwest and Far West.
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Ovid A. Martin
Anderson
House
Midwest
Far West
Rep. Anderson
New Mexico
Omaha
Farmers fear postwar demand drop hurts production
By OVID A. MARTIN Associated Press Farm Editor Washington June 26 Farmers express dissatisfaction with government price policies and fear a postwar collapse in demand for farm products hindering maximum production of food.
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Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press
Washington
Polish London regime blasts unity cabinet in Warsaw
June 26 London declared the Polish provisional government of national unity illegal, denouncing a Moscow formed administration as a puppet regime under alien occupation. London warned recognition could shift and awaited Warsaw's constitutional move amid questions on future Allied stance.
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Associated Press
London
Russia
Moscow
Warsaw
United States
Britain
Manager testifies on Silver Dollar club gambling operations
Springfield June 26 testimony in Jerome A Nevius bribery case described the Silver Dollar night club as an elaborate gambling den with 16 employees, three years in Clark. Melvin Thomas of Dayton said the club ran dice, poker, bird cage games, slot machines and a crying room, with free meals and refunds for losers who could not pay.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Silver Dollar
Clark
Jerome A. Nevius
Nevius
Joseph Parisi
Ralph Schear
Melvin Thomas
Dayton
Thomas
Pennsylvanians Honor Officers and Soldiers Homecoming
Pittsburgh crowds welcomed 64 heroes home from Europe with parades and speeches. About 100000 people lined a 23 mile parade route from the airport to the city as Gen Joseph C McNarney, Emporium native and commander of American forces in the Mediterranean, stepped down from a C 54 transport amid cheers and first American ice cream in eight months.
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Pittsburgh
Germany
Joseph C. McNarney
Emporium
Mediterranean
B-29s Hit War Industries With Large Bombs
Allied air strikes pierced Japanese defense as B-29s bombed Luzon area targets and invasion rumors swirled. Gen. MacArthur reported a 40 mile leap frog landing at Baler Bay while Super-Fort raids pounded Nippon mainland, dozens of planes and ships engaged.
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Okinawa
All-India Radio
Nippon
Japan
Amami Oshima
Radio Tokyo
Amami
Kyushu
Amami Chain
Tokyo
Ternate Island
Philippines
Halmahera
Balikpapan
Borneo
Ryukyu Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Baler Bay
Luzon
Kantaro Suzuki
Iwo Jima
Frederick C. Sherman
San Diego
Calif
Balud Valley
Death Valley
Fifth Air Force
Battleship Pennsylvania Returns to Pacific Duty After Overhaul
The Pennsylvania, a 29 year old battleship, resumes action in the Pacific. After a three month overhaul, guns from Oklahoma and Nevada are mounted on its turrets. It required 211,645 nine hour man days to restore her condition despite combat fatigue. The ship had participated in 13 Pacific amphibious operations and fired over 11 million pounds of steel at the enemy.
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San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Oklahoma
Nevada
War in the Pacific and China Updates Amid Broad Allied Claims
Officials report six officers and men killed with three missing as total naval losses reach 261 ships sunk since the war began and 319 vessels lost overall. In China Chungking cites advances toward Liuchow and near Shanghai with a heavy casualties attack near Canton, while Tokyo notes contested Balikpapan actions and claims repulsed landings. Allied air forces claim notable success over Nippon in multiple theaters and Formosan prisoners add to prisoner counts.
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Ack
China
Chungking
Liuchow
U. S
Shanghai
Canton
Tokyo
Balikpapan
Nippon
Kuriles
Borneo
Fleet Air Wing One
Philippines
Youth dies of injuries after train collision
Springfield report states Donald Ferguson 21 died from a fractured skull. He was struck by a train on June 17, with the death occurring June 26.
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Springfield
Donald Ferguson
Stamped Meat Ordered by OPA in Columbus District
The Office of Price Administration announced a new rule to stamp wholesale cuts from class 2 and 3 slaughterers with their OPA permit number to curb black market meat. The regulation takes effect nationwide July 15 and aims to help inspectors trace meat sources.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Earl Fellows
Bond sales climb with $11,550 in E bonds on day
Bond reports show E bond sales totaling 11,550 for the day improving progress toward an 1,548,000 quota. Other bond sales reached 193,670, adding to a campaign total of 3,671,936 with large contributions from Montgomery Ward & Co. and the state teachers' retirement fund. The national quota of 14,000,000,000 was oversubscribed while the little money goal lags behind.
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Montgomery Ward & Co
State Teachers’ Retirement Fund
Sciotoco
Treasury Department
Washington
Tropical storm nears Cape Hatteras on Atlantic coast
A tropical storm swirls up the Atlantic and centers about 75 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras North Carolina early today. The storm’s position and movement are tracked as authorities monitor potential impacts along the coast.
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Cape Washington
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
N. C
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U. S. Army
Yunnan Province
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Broad Brook
Broad Brook, Conn
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Burma
CTC
UNO
Frisco
Mackenzie
Mrs. Gambill
Ohio Assembly
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Parks Fund
The
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