Senate probes RFC politics and firings over board bids
Senate special subcommittee probes political intrigue at the Reconstruction Finance Corp amid resignations and a stalled five-man board confirmation. L. B. Glidden quits Dallas loan office citing political interference and a subordinate allied with a White House aide. John J. Haggerty exits after a $6 million Waltham Watch Co. loan and later returns to RFC payroll before resigning again.
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Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corp
RFC
L. B. Glidden
Dallas
Tex
Glidden
Truman
White House
Subcommittee
Fulbright
Arkansas
John J. Haggerty
Haggerty
Boston
Waltham Watch Co
Waltham
Donald S. Dawson
John B. Skiles
Mother Sentenced At Newcomerstown
Mrs. Aletha Collins Walker aged 25 of 450 Clowave was sentenced to one year in Marysville Reformatory for neglect of her 10 month old son Benjamin Hill Walker. Coroner's verdict cited bronchial pneumonia and malnutrition after the child died from exposure in an unheated home. Prosecutor Vernon Lee said she left for a party about 10:39 p.m. Friday and found the child dead on Saturday morning. The other Walker children were placed with relatives in Dover.
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Newcomerstown
Aletha Collins Walker
Marysville Reformatory
Ralph Finley
Walker
Vernon Lee
Dover
Air Ace Says Jets Tax Energy Faster in Combat
Lt. Col. Glen M. Eagleston of the 5th Air Force, commander of an F-86 squadron in Korea, says jet pilots burn energy as fast as prop fighters in three hours. Jets are twice as fast as in WWII, missions are shorter, and discipline remains strict as pilots adapt to accelerated, demanding air combat.
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Air Ace
Alliance T 5Th Air Force
Korea
America
Glen M. Eagleston
Alhambra
Calif
Eagleston
Navy
New Philadelphia Plant Grants Wage Increase
More than 200 Joy Manufacturing Co employees in New Philadelphia gain an 11 percent raise under a new contract with the United Steel Workers of America CSC. The wage hike, effective Christmas Day, was announced by union field representative Harold Knapp.
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New Philadelphia
Joy Manufacturing Co
United Steel Workers of America, C.S.C
Harold Knapp
First Easter Egg Roll Began At White House in 1878
In 1878 President Hayes invited city children to roll eggs on the White House lawn. The event became an annual Easter tradition continuing for generations.
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White House
Hayes
Health Dept Reports Eight Contagion Cases Last Week
City health commissioner Dr. W A Scott said eight contagion cases were reported last week. The total included five chicken pox and one each of scarlet fever infantile paralysis and measles.
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City Health Department
W. A. Scott
Coast Guard Sets Tight Port Security To Screen Subversives
The coast guard ordered immediate security rule changes to screen workers for subversive ties at U S ports and shipyards amid a strike threat from two CIO unions led by Harry Bridges and Hugh Bryson Jr The final rules specify card denials for treason espionage or association with subversive groups and add grounds for shore workers including insanity felony convictions and addiction to alcohol or drugs.
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Coast Guard
Merlin O’neill
Aaden
Admiral O’neill
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union
Hugh Bryson Jr
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
Bridges
Bryson
U. S
United States
Ketcham to Head Cleveland Luncheon at Pi Gamma Mu
Charles B. Ketcham president of Mt Union College will be toastmaster at the Pi Gamma Mu lunch eon in Cleveland to honor officers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. William Martin Mt Union graduate is national second vice president and the only student ever elected to the society's national office.
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Repository Bureau Alliance
Charles B. Ketcham
Mt. Union College
Pi Gamma Mu
Cleveland
Ketcham
American Association For the Advancement of Science
William Martin
Mt. Union
Martin
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