Ohio Delegation Names Leaders for Taft Nomination
Ohio Republicans chose a four member team to guide 53 national delegates to the Philadelphia convention. Sen. John Bricker will chair and present Taft, Gov. Thomas Herbert is vice chair, Rep. Clarence J. Brown is Taft’s floor manager, and Katharine Kennedy Brown joins the committee. Delegation backing Taft exceeds 300 votes toward the 548 needed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Bricker
Taft
Herbert
Brown
Johnson
Congressman Brown
Republican National
Stassen
Katharine Kennedy Brown
Dayton
Republican National Committee
Tractor Prices Raised by International Harvester Co
International Harvester Co. raised wheel type farm tractor prices by 2.5 to 14.8 percent effective June 3. The overall farm tractor line saw an average increase of less than 10 percent. The announcement came from Chicago.
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Chicago
International Harvester Co
Local Journalists Named to Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame Panel
The News Journal reports Galvin of Lima and 27 others invited as judges for the Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame selection this summer. Holdover judges include Barrere of Hillsboro Herald and Tipton of Washington Record-Herald, with Kerr of Lancaster Eagle-Gazette among new appointees. Also notes street address re numbering causes confusion on five city streets.
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Galvin
News-Journal
Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame
Wayne W. Galvin
Lima
News- Journal
Granville Barrere
Hillsboro
Plan for Western Germany Assures Safety of France
A six power meeting outlined a five point plan to create a western German federal government with steps from Allied authorization to a constituent assembly, plus a Ruhr international control agreement. It calls for continued Western military presence until Europe’s peace is secured and a security board to maintain disarmament in the western zones.
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Germany
France
John M. Hightower
Washington
London
Europe
United States
Britain
Low Countries
Paris
Ruhr
United Kingdom
Benelux
Senate rejects draft segregation ban amid race issue
The Senate votes 67 to 7 to reject a measure banning race segregation in the armed forces while urging swift action on the draft bill. Sen Langner offers an amendment against discrimination in induction but faces opposition from civil rights supporters who argue the draft bill should stand on its own.
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Washington
Senate
Langer
Gurney
Truman Seeks More Power Projects on Idaho Trip
President Truman travels toward Sun Valley Idaho urging public power and reclamation programs while denouncing promoters who put profits over people. He aims to mobilize crowds for upcoming appearances as aides refine advance plans.
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Truman
Sun Valley
Idaho
Omaha
Eisenhower Becomes Columbia University President
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower today assumed office as Columbia University's 13th president for a four year term. He arrives after commanding the Allied invasion of Europe and says he hopes the post will be fun. no ceremony was held and formal installation is planned for next fall.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Europe
Hod Carriers Strike Shuts Cincinnati Construction
Cincinnati builders paused as 2,100 hod carriers and laborers walked out to press for a 22 1/2 cent per hour wage increase. The walkout halted commercial construction across the city on June 7.
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Cincinnati
Engineers Bolster Columbia Dikes In Portland Flood
The Army Engineer Corps deployed 26 officers including five colonels to reinforce a 10 mile dike front from Portland to the Pacific as the Columbia River surged past its second flood crest in a week. Reinforcements arrived from Fort Belvoir Virginia to aid the industrial districts around Portland and Vancouver Washington.
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Columbia River
Portland
Pacific
Army Engineer Corps
Great River
Fort Belvoir
Vancouver
Columbia
Washington
Herbert attends Culver graduation week in Indiana
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert and Mrs. Herbert visited Culver Indiana for commencement week at Culver Military Academy. Their youngest son John David is set to graduate on Wednesday at Culver.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Rites Thursday for T-5 Vandervort
Funeral services for Dale S. Vandervort a 21 year old Army technician fifth grade will be held Thursday at 2 PM at Arthur Funeral Home. He died of malaria in a Burma hospital on April 11 1945 and is buried in Cowans Creek cemetery with Clinton County Military Escort Group in charge of the committal. Survivors include his parents Ira and Marie Spencer Vandervort and one brother Richard of Cowans Creek.
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Ira Vandervort
Burtonville
Burma
Wilmington
Arthur Funeral Home
Washington Township
Clinton County
Wilmington High School
Wilmington College
Army
Office of Strategic Service
Ira
Marie Spencer Vandervort
Richard
Cowans Creek
John R. Duffey
First Baptist Church
Capper to Retire From Senate After Long Service
The Senate's oldest member Arthur Capper of Kansas will not seek reelection. At 70 he had earlier indicated plans to run, but private views shifted. Public appeals to withdraw followed editorials in the Emporia Gazette and comments from Hoy A. Roberts of the Kansas City Star.
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Washington
Senate
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Capper
William L. White
Emporia Gazette
Hoy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
Comet with Three Tails Seen Over Cleveland Skies
A bright comet with a three tail display was seen in Cleveland at dawn revealing an enormous head and tails spanning many millions of miles. Case Tech astronomer Dr. J. J. Nassau photographed the spectacle and noted the object may be the recent discovery of Japanese amateur Hond a. The comet, visible to the naked eye, moved toward the northwest and was also sighted by residents in Dayton and Cincinnati.
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Cleveland
Case Tech
J. J. Nassau
Case Tech Observatory
Hond
Nassau
Honda
Harvard University Observatory
Ohio
Dayton
Cincinnati
Mediator Delivers Armistice Plan To Arab States
Count Folke Bernadotte handed six Arab nations his proposal for the start time and conditions of a four week Palestine armistice. Fighting continued with Jews claiming gains south of Tel Aviv and near the Tulkarm Jenin Nablus triangle. Arab and Jewish negotiators clash over immigration limits and access to Jerusalem.
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Cairo
Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Amman
Trans-Jordan
Arab League
Holy Land
Tel Aviv
Tulkarm-Jenin-Nablus
Bernadotte
United Nations
Israel
Jerusalem
Rain Sunday Relief After Dry Spell In May
Rain fell in Wilmington and Clinton county on Sunday for the first time since May 17, totaling .40 inch as crops needed moisture. May rainfall reached 3.60 inches, concentrated in the first 17 days, leaving May about an inch below normal. May records show a high of 90 on May 11 and a low of 35 on May 8 amid frost, with 14 clear days and rain on 11 days. Thunderstorms occurred May 11 and 17 while high winds hit May 2 and 7.
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Wilmington
Clinton County
Ethel H. Hayes
ERP Compromise Rumors Surface in Senate Fight
In Washington on June 7 a proposed 12 month foreign aid plan surfaced amid a Senate clash over House cuts to European Recovery Program funds. House reductions totaled 553 million dollars with 500 million more stretched over 15 months. Senator Vandenberg leads the push for the full four billion dollar ERP, resisting smaller compromises.
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Washington
House
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
State Bonus Commission mails over twenty two million in veterans bonuses
The State Bonus Commission reported that last week 11,215 checks totaling 3,731,853 were mailed to veterans, with an average of 313 per check. To date the commission has issued 66,773 checks totaling more than 22,000,000.
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Columbus
State Bonus Commission
Weather scholar Moseley dies at 83 in Bowling Green
Edwin L Moseley a Bowling Green State University biology professor emeritus died at 83 after long range weather theories based on 90.4 year cycles. He used tree rings to verify wet and dry trends and predicted 1946 47 wet and 1950 dry. Funeral services planned.
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Bowling Green
Edwin Lincoln Moseley
Moseley
Bowling Green State University
Union City
Mich
Dayton
University Hospital
Ohio
Lake Erie
Sandusky High School
Kelley Kate
Wilmington
Hale
Haile
Wright Men Probe Flying Wing Crash
The first major mishap of the giant Flying Wing bomber occurred at Muroc Air Base California killing five. Col J C Moore named a probe board with Air Materiel Command experts from Wright Field Dayton to investigate the crash that happened Saturday near here without sending a distress signal.
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Army Field Force
Air Force
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Base
Dayton
International
Muroc Air Base
Calif
Col
J. C. Moore
Muroc Proving Grounds
Wright Field
Muroc
Rankin House to be Dedicated As Ohio Underground Railroad Stop
Ripley Ohio will dedicate the Rankin house next Sunday as Ohio’s first Underground Railroad stop before the Civil War. The Eliza House, long tied to abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, is maintained by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society with furnishings, correspondence, and era materials. Dr. Wilbur H. Siebert of Ohio State will lecture on Ripley as a gateway to freedom.
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Ripley
Ohio
Underground
Rankin
Ohio River
John Rankin
Eliza
Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society
Brown County Historical Society
Wilbur H. Siebert
Ohio State University
Resignation of Czechoslovakia's President Benes
Prague reports President Benes resigned today with his resignation accepted by Premier Gottwald's cabinet. Benes, who first became president in 1935, had previously left and returned, and his powers were reduced after the February Communist coup. The text notes his prior terms and the unclear release of his resignation letter.
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Munich
London
Thomas G. Masaryk
Benes
Masaryk
Czechoslovak Republic
Jan
Bene
Lewis Directs Fierce Blast At Operators
John L. Lewis opened soft coal contract talks denouncing operators as fat cats magnificently opulent. He said the United Mine Workers have no wage proposals but expect improvements and seek guarantees under the 1947 miners welfare fund tied up in a legal dispute.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Lewis
Durees
Mihai and Princess To Be Wed Thursday
Ex king Mihai of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma arrived in Athens and will wed Thursday in the Greek capital. The royal party landed from Geneva with King Paul and Queen Frederika welcoming them at Athens airport.
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Athens
Mihai
Romania
Anne
Bourbon- Parma
Royal
Geneva
Paul
Frederika
Greece
Helen
Calm Weather Aids Ontario Quebec Forest Fire Crews
Cool and tranquil conditions over the weekend aided crews attempting to surround massive forest fires in northern Ontario and western Quebec. Firefighters reported calmer winds and lower temperatures reducing flareups as they worked to contain the blazes.
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Toronto
Ontario
Quebec
Love is Where You Find It serial begins Tuesday
New serial story follows Paul Delacourt as he seeks happiness after disinheritance and job loss. A change of name and city sparks the journey in a down‑to‑earth tale of ambition and emotion. Begin in the News Journal Tuesday.
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Paul Delacourt
News-Journal
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