Five Died in Glouster Fire as Inquiry Opens
State and local authorities launched a two-pronged probe into the death of Mrs. Garnet Williams Richards and five of her six children whose charred remains were found in their Water Works Hill home. Arson investigators questioned Lawrence Richards, while sheriff officials planned more interviews as questions about the blaze and family troubles circulated. The bodies were buried in Glouster Cemetery as community tension rose.
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Water Works Hill
Glouster
Athens County
Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office
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Reed
Bateman
Richards
Athens
Wilson
Ohio University
Tleve
Ohio Weather Forecast Warns Mild to Cool Temples
Warm temperatures are forecast for Ohio with highs 8 to 6 degrees above normal from Wednesday through Sunday. Normal highs range from 56 in the north to 63 in the south. Expect mild midweek, a cool spell Thursday and Friday, then warmer Saturday and cooler by Sunday, with recurring rain tonight and Friday and Saturday delivering about a half to one inch of moisture.
Navy Petty Officer Held in Maryland Death
Leonardtown Md reports reveal Navy Petty Officer Williamsequot Rudd of Winslow Ark held on murder charge after allegedly beating 22 year old Navy wife Iona Josephine Davis to death at Patuxent Naval Station He surrendered in Washington DC overleave and admitted the killing. The case ties to atomic secrets accusations amid postwar political fallout in London with Prime Minister Churchill and Attlee facing House of Commons debates on Britain's wartime leadership.
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London
Naval Air Station
Patuxent
Churchill
Rudd
Clement
Iona Josephine Davis
Lee
James Davis
Britain
United
Davises
Butron
Chia
Naval Station
Commons
News Chronicle
Nurse Bequeaths Estate to Columbus Doctor in Death Case
Police say nurse Eula V Harman left her home to Dr Neal D Carter Columbus psychiatrist questioned in connection with her death Friday. The 32 year old Mount Carmel nurse apparently died of an insulin overdose. Coroner Evans says investigation continues.
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Columbus
Eula V. Harman
Neal D. Carter
Mount Carmel Hospital
Robert A Evans
Thrifty Folks Use Classifieds For Budget Savings
Thrifty readers use want ads to stretch pennies by finding barges in new and used merchandise and selling or trading no longer needed articles. They value the quick, affordable service of telephoning in ads and the speedy results they obtain.
FBI Seeks Pittsburgh Man In Wife Slaying Case
The FBI circulated a nationwide information request on Peter Edward Kenzik also known as Joseph Kamynyncki Frank Z Kenzik Peter Edward Miller and Bob Peterson. The bulletin warns he may be armed and dangerous and notes he escaped from a penal institution and has personal crisis tendencies.
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Washington
FBI
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Peter Edward Kenzik
Joseph ‘Kamnyncki
Frank Z. Kenzik
Peter Edward Miller
Bob Peterson
Kenzik
Iit
Driver of Stolen Car Held in Traffic Death
Caldwell Ohio United States Miller 20 of Cleveland bound to Noble County grand jury on charge of manslaughter after driving a stolen car and colliding with Virgil Uhl 34 of Belle Valley at a traffic light. Uhl dies.
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Caldwell
Ohio
Miller
Cleveland
Noble County i Grand Jury
Virgil Ukl
iBelle Valley
Beile Valley
Uhl
Man Wounded After Lengthy Family Quarrel
GREENUP Ky. M D Munn 44 is recovering in a Portsmouth Ohio hospital from four chest wounds one neck wound and one elbow wound. Three persons including Munns brother in law have been charged with the shooting according to Sheriffs Delbert McKenzie who said the incident followed a lengthy family quarrel.
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Greenup
Munn
Portsmouth, Ohio
Sherries
Delbert McKenzie
Special Counsel Sears Resigns From Senate Investigation Post
Len Fotter says Samuel F. Sears submitted his resignation as special counsel to the Senate investigations subcommittee and it was accepted unanimously. Sears, a Boston lawyer, was appointed last Thursday by unanimous vote to probe charges raised by Sen. McCarthy and Army officials. Potters statements followed a closed subcommittee meeting.
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Washington
Len Fotter
R-Mich
Samuel FP. Sears
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sears
Boston
Wes
Sen
McCarthy
E-Wis
Army
Joseph
Senate
Welds
Samuel P. Sears
NATO Rebukes French Army Chief Over EDC Criticism
NATO's North Atlantic Council formally reprimands Marshal Alphonse Juin for criticizing the European Defense Community. It pressures Juin to resign or be relieved, noting a French successor is expected for command of central Europe, and reiterates the council’s policy on allied command appointments.
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Alphonse Juin
NATO
Charles de Ganille
Paris
North Atlantic Council
France
Juin
Europe
Central Europe
Council
EDC
Industrialist Du Pont Dies
Wil ming ton Del Pierre Samuel du Pont longtime head of the Du Pont empire and former GM president died after abdominal pain following dinner at Longwood estate in Kennett Square Pa. He was survived by his brother Irenee and sister Mrs R R M Carenter. He had retired in 1940 but remained active with the Du Pont company. His father Lammot du Pont was a noted inventor and explosives authority.
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Longwood
Kennett Square
Irenee
R. R. M. Carenter
EL du Pont de Nemours & Co
General Motors Corp
Lammot du Pont
First Step Toward School Merger in Gallia County
Cadmus Board of Education advanced a merger plan inviting consolidation of six western Gallia County districts to form a centralized high school. County Schools Superintendent B Lewis Jones was unavailable for comment during a visit to Madison School. The districts involved are Cadmus Greenfield Perry Sealnut Raccoon and Centerville.
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Gallia County
Cadmus Board of Education
B. Lewis Jones
Madson School
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Greenfield
Perry
Sealnut
Raccoon
Centerville
Rep Reider declines national VFW post appointment
Columbus Ohio Rep Robert W Reider D Ottawa withdraws from consideration as national director of un American activities for the Veterans of Foreign Wars after talks with Washington officials The report also notes a Gallia County coroner and deputy sheriff responding to a death by shooting at Georges Creek in Gallia County secondhand details remain unclear
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Ohio
Robert W. Reider
Ottawa
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Reider
Ohio University
VFW
Washington Meniay
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Donald R. Warehime
G. Gordon Fisher
Georges Creek
Barberton Health Chief Objects To Polio Tests
Barberton health chief Dr. Harvey A. Finefrock refused to authorize polio vaccine tests for 4000 local schoolchildren saying assurances of safety were not yet sufficient. He cited uncertainty after radio claims and said they await guarantees from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis via the state health department. Summit County officials planned injections for 29,000 Akron children on April 19 and 26 with local support from Akron health leaders.
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Akron
Ohio
Harvey A. Finefrock
Barberton
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
National’ Foundation
State Health Department
Walter Winchell
U. S&s. Public Health Service
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Jonas Salk
University of Pittsburgh
Summit
Summit County
M. D. Ailes
E. R. Shaffer
Earl W. Burgner
County Medical Association
Rebels Slow Drive Against French Fort
In Indochina near Dien Bien Phu the Vietminh eased their charges on the battered fort while French Union troops brace for renewed assaults. French planes bomb feeder lines from Red China and American supplied planes drop supplies. The French claim over 1000 enemy killed and say reinforcements are regrouping for new strikes.
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Hanot
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Red China
Vo Newyen Clap
Raft Mishap Fatal to Two in South Amherst Ohio
Two boys aged 8 and 10 died after falling from a plank raft into 10 feet of water near South Amherst Ohio on a warm spring day. Eddie Wilson, 9, stayed on shore as Kenneth Williams and Henry Young went in to free the raft after it struck a rock.
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Elyria
Ohio
South Amherst
Eddie Wilson
Kenneth Williams
Henry Young
Henry
Richard Danzey
Richard Corlett
Berea
Cleveland
Nixon Denied Honorary Duke Degree by Faculty Vote
Duke University refused Richard M. Nixon an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by a 61 to 42 secret faculty vote about a month earlier. The vice president's commencement speech was canceled two weeks prior due to congressional matters, with the university noting Nixon did not cancel the talk because of the vote. Only about one fifth of the Duke faculty attended the meeting.
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Durham
N. C
Richard M. Nixon
Duke University
University
Nixon
Duke Law School
Congress
Duke
Book Commissioned on Ohio’s 150th Birthday
Robert Harper, former Columbus newsman, commissioned to write a book on Ohio’s 150th anniversary. He plans to highlight cultural and technological achievements since statehood.
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Columbus
Robert 5. Harper
Ohio
Harper
Senate panel weighs higher personal exemptions in tax bill
Sen Kerr says Senate will likely approve a move to raise personal and dependent exemptions as part of a major tax revision. The Finance Committee opens hearings on a bill Democrats want to attach an income tax cut, with Eisenhower administration backing overall revision and opposing new tax cuts. Debates hinge on next two months economic outlook, hearings set to end April 22, with floor action possible by June.
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Washington
Sen
Kerr
D-Okla
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Easenhower Administration
Atom Arms Deter War, Nation Told
President Eisenhower told the nation that Russia is unlikely to risk war while the United States can respond swiftly with atomic power. He urged calm preparation and warned against hysteria over communism and investigations, saying we do not have to fear.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Kremlin
Direct Aid Debate Signals Indochina Dilemma
The House Foreign Affairs Committee pressed Secretary Dulles on possible U S actions in Indochina amid reports of Viet Minh aid from China. Dulles warned of grave risks but offered no concrete plan while noting China’s growing assistance to the Vietminh and Chinese anti-aircraft actions against French forces. The session also touched on U S unity with Pacific allies and funding debates for the coming fiscal year.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Indochina
Southeast Asia
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Swfol
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Pacific
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H-houd
White House
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FBI
U. S&s
Judd
R-Minn
Southeast
Yiotence Committee
Com
Such & Com
Tiutmenet
New York
Cruaciienis
You and I
Exen
Senate
General Foods Corp
Maxwell House
Albert Ehler, Inc
Northeast
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
McCarthy to Reply on See It Now Amid Murrow Criticism
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy plans a television reply on CBS See It Now at 10 30 p m EST from Arizona where he is vacationing. Murrow broadcast criticism alleges McCarthy confuses the public and oversteps investigative bounds. McCarthy says the film is unfinished and lacks answers to the charges.
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New York
Joseph R. McCarthy
Edward R. Murerow
Arizona
Murrow
McCarthy
Phoenix
Saxbe Slaps Bender Stand in Ohio Campaign
Ohio House Speaker William Saxbe accused Rep. George Bender of avoiding public debate in the Republican senatorial race. Saxbe said Bender declined to share platforms at Cleveland, Oberlin, and other venues and skipped a 30 minute telecast invitation. Bender cited a prior Cincinnati engagement and an Minneapolis trip for hearings.
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Columbus
Ohio
William Lahe
George H. Bender
Saxbe
Bender
Clevetead City Club
Oberlin College
Champaign County
Cincinnati
Minneapolis
Tornadoes Hit Farms Across Iowa and Missouri
Severe storms spawned seven tornadoes across southwest Iowa and central Iowa with two crossing into Missouri. Homes and outbuildings were destroyed on more than a dozen farms but no fatalities occurred and one person was injured. Farmers estimate heavy livestock losses as crews assess damage.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Missour
Marshalltown
Westboro
Atchison County
Missouri
Los Angeles
AFL Retail Clerks Union
National Democratic Party Advisory Council
Roosevelt
Joseph T Silva
Stephen Mitchell
James Roosevelt
California
Supreme Court Limits FCC Ban on Radio and TV Giveaways
The Supreme Court in an 8-0 decision largely upholds a New York federal court ruling that the FCC ban on giveaway shows applies only to programs requiring contestants to provide money or property or to possess a sponsor’s product.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
High Court J
New York
Family celebrates first Milliman male in 75 years
In New Ulm Minnesota a Milliman family tale ends after 22 consecutive daughters when John E Webster Milliman’s son is born at Union Hospital. The last male Milliman was W. C. Milliman who died years ago at age seventy.
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New Ulm. Minn
P—aAlfter
Milliman
John E. Webster
Virginia
Cleveland Signs Hitting Sensation
New Orleans reports 25 year old Rudy Regalado, a California rookie, hits 452 in exhibition season and joins the Cleveland Indians after the Tribe purchased his contract from the Indianapolis farm club of the American Association.
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New Orleans
Rudy Regalado
Cleveland Indians
Tribe
California
Indianapolis
Bystander Killed As Jail Break Occurs In Tijuana
In Tijuana a bystander was killed by a stray bullet when 13 prisoners escaped from La Tynapa prison. Two inmates faced murder charges. a guard fired as inmates fled through a hand dug tunnel and a helicopter was involved in the breakout.
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Tijuana
Mexico
Manuel Diaz Reyes
Smd
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