Willys Wins Record $63 Million Jeep Contract
Detroit dispatch reports major shift to war work as eight auto makers take on defense orders. Willys-Overland lands a 63 million jeep contract to Toledo for underwater capable jeeps, Oldsmobile to build rockets in Lansing, and GM to convert Kansas City plant to F-34 Thunderjet production.
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Detroit
Mich
Willys- Overland Motors
Toledo
Willys-Overland
Oldsmobile
General Motors Corp
Lansing
Auto
General Motors
Kansas City
Ford
Cadillac
Chrysler
Buick
Reo
Newark
Del
Robert T. Keller
Keller
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Harold S. Vance
S. E. Skinner
City Council Approves Zoning Changes and Traffic Light
A Wednesday night meeting extended beyond two hours as city council approved two zone changes and several rule updates after public hearings. Jurisdiction along Tuscarawas Street and Cleveland Avenue NW shifted zones, prompting criticism from Councilmen Frerichs and Baker who called the plan a hodgepodge.
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Planning Commission and Zoning Board
Tuscarawas St
Dryden c
Smith
Cleveland
Ridgeway Pl
Ferndafe Rd
Ralph C. Frerichs
Herbert D. Baker
Tabling rule changes spark council debate in report
The council adopted a rules committee report adverse to returning to the former tabling method. The plan allows any two councilmen to table a matter twice before the president can stop further tablings. The report notes a rise from 45 to 49 tablings year over year, with three members responsible for over half the actions. Also approved a traffic light at Cleveland Ave NW and 14th St funded up to 1200 by First Presbyterian Church. Miscellaneous letters referred to committees and a heating code injunction case set for Common Pleas Court with action sought by Henry H. and Thelma K. Ream. Continuous tabling details, parish requests, and legal actions noted.
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Council
Rules Committee
Cleveland Ave
14Th St
First Presbyterian Church
Casper
Public Utilities Committee
Canton Federation of Labor
Canton City Lines, Inc
Robert P. Wilson
Henry H
Thelma K. Ream
Common Pleas Court
Fulton school lists ten sets of twins this year
Fulton Kentucky report notes South Fulton Tennessee school has ten registered twin pairs for the year, with seven pairs identified as identical.
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Fulton, Ky
South Fulton, Tenn
Hadacol Aid in Child’s Vitamin Deficiency Case
A Lake Mississippi mother writes of her son James Edgar suffering from deficiencies of vitamins B iron and niacin. After a prolonged illness and weakness he could not run or play food harmed him and liver was given. She decided to try Hadacol based on what she heard.
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Edgar L. Johnston
Lake
Mississippi
James Edgar
LeBlanc Corp
Lafayette
Louisiana
The
LeBlanc Corporation
FBI Nabs Boy Who Sent Truman Letter on Draft
Larry Atkins, 18, a St Johns College freshman from Baltimore, was arrested by the FBI for failing to register under the 1948 selectives act after writing President Truman to protest the draft. He was held on $500 bail and said he did not evade the draft but opposed military preparedness as a cause of war.
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Tee
St. John’s College
Truman
FBI
Larry Atkins
Truman Aide Freed On Passport Charges
George T. Davis, northern California manager of Truman's 1948 campaign, was acquitted of aiding Chinese aliens to obtain false American passports. Co-defendant Dickson Lee was convicted on three counts of passport fraud and sentenced to three years in prison. Davis faced conspiracy and fraud charges for assisting seven alien Chinese to secure false California birth certificates and U S passports.
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San Francisco
George T. Davis
California
Truman
Dickson Lee
Lee
Davis
Isker River Dam Planned Near Sofia by Tass Dispatch
Tass reports a dam on the Isker River near Sofia will create three power plants and irrigate 141,835 acres. The project targets completion in 1955.
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Prague
Isker
Sofia
Tass
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United States
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Formosa
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