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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1954
Page
1
Viet Minh divisions press toward the Dien Bien Phu fortress corner fencing weary French defenders. Heavy machinegun and mortar fire breach the first line near barbed wire as French troops bolster trenches. American C124s ferry French paratroops from France toward Indochina amid uncertain routes.
Western Big Three foreign ministers Dulles Bidault and Eden meet at Paris Foreign Office to finalize plans for Geneva talks on Korea and Indochina. They aim to present a Western reply to Russia's March 31 offer to join NATO, with NATO Council discussions set for Friday.
The Ohio River Co subsidiary is expected to have a very good year in 1954 though earnings may not match 1953. Additional barges will haul coal to the Ohio Valley Electric plant at Cheshire Ohio with initial intake in November at 52 thousand tons monthly rising to 260 thousand tons monthly as all five units come on stream by December next year.
In Arlington Virginia Martha Raye married Edward Thomas Begley her fifth husband after a nationwide chase for a license. Begley a 30 year old dancer on her TV show marks his first marriage while Raye joked she is 57.
A U S Air Force spokesman said the airlift of French troops to Indochina is detouring around India. Prime Minister Nehru had announced the troop ferry would not cross his country, a key link on the normal air route to the Far East. The spokesman at European headquarters provided the update.
Paris officials announce a draft declaration of accord granting immediate independence to Viet Nam and a separate treaty for Vietnam's membership in the French Union. Two treaties to be signed later with final approval at an upcoming negotiating session before the Geneva conference opens.
An early morning blaze damaged the Casa Blanca cocktail lounge on Lee Road with estimated losses around 40 000 dollars. Fire chief Merle Hand of Shaker Heights cited the kitchen as the fire origin and cause under investigation.
In Cleveland Ferro Corp chief chemist Dr. Ernest Goda notes a poss ible meteorite origin for iron rich pits in windshields. Reported cases rise nationally with 200 new chips in Cleveland and speculation ranges from slag to acid, while Navy officials dismiss radioactivity.
Chillicothe city hall was condemned by a state building inspector after a bell-tower cornice and roof debris fell to the sidewalk last Monday. The 80-year-old building was ordered vacated within three days.
Detroit tale recalls Carl Clarke, a Monroe steel executive, dying last November and bequeathing 261 trinkets from his half million estate. Forty five guests, many with ties to Clarke, chose items by numbered draw at a quiet Friday dinner, while nine charities inherit the bulk of the fortune.
Maj. Gen. Miles Reber testified that Roy Cohn and Sen. Joseph McCarthy pressed for an Army commission for G David Schine during July last year. McCarthy demanded the Army officials present their cases individually and objected to treating the matter as departmental.
Sen. Capehart predicts new housing laws will ban builders from profits on government insured loans above project costs. Hearing aimed at stopping excess loans tied to FHA insured apartments. Testimony from National Association of Real Estate Boards and American Bankers Association.
A 72 by 53 foot caucus room at the Senate Office Building filled in advance for the premiere of The McCarthy Army Story. Officials expected 650 to 700 people with seating for 100 plus public standees and 120 reporters at press tables. Capitol police and plainclothes officers prepared to maintain order as network crews prepared to cover the event.
Senator Burke cites a four to one decision allowing gas producers to use field price for rate making. He says twelve million Ohioans in four hundred communities would pay bigger bills and urges seven Ohio mayors to travel to Washington May 6 7 for a Senate hearing to contest the ruling.
Firefighters surveyed the Eagle Wholesale Grocery Co warehouse in Cleveland after a blaze tore through supplies yesterday. The one and a half story building housed paper and wax paper stock. officials estimate damage around 359 dollars.
About 450 high school students arrive in Columbus for the third annual model legislature. They will debate roughly five proposed bills, some resembling measures before the 101st General Assembly in 1955. The mock session opens in the State house tomorrow.
The witness, S Sgt John A Davis of Niagara Falls New York, says Cpl Edward S Dickenson pushed a sick POW down stairs after the man asked for food. It is the third day of Dickenson s court martial on charges of collaborating with Chinese Communists while a POW in Korea.
In Columbus a man and a woman who are neighbors of Sally Mabel Demmy will undergo lie detector tests today at the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation in London. Demmy was found dead in Big Walnut Creek near her home. her husband Carl was released after a prior test.
Howard Krause admitted setting fire to his new residence in Williamsport after his wife refused to move in. He pleaded guilty to arson, with damage estimated at 4000 dollars.
In Newport Kentucky Mrs Billie Marie Kemplin learns her four month old Janie Marie is safe after a baby sitter Bertha Jane Miller faced federal kidnapping charges. The infant was later located at the Duff home in Hohenwald Tennessee near Nashville after a woman named Betty Doris Miller handed over the child.
President Eisenhower flies to New York for a major address to seek newspaper help in shaping public opinion from atomic hysteria to world peace. En route he stops briefly in Washington to address the DAR and install a new government study commission chair. He returns to Washington tonight then visits Kentucky before another weekend of golf.
Motor Express Inc of Huntington West Virginia offered 172000 dollars for the bankrupt Greig Freight Line’s two interstate commerce commission permits to operate routes in New York Ohio and West Virginia Federal Bankruptcy Referee William B Woods set a hearing in Akron on April 29 to consider a proposed sale of Greig’s physical equipment.
In Portsmouth area, 38 buildings including farms and two churches will be auctioned on May 4. Manager Kenneth Anbar announced the sale of structures within the 3700 acre site purchased for the atomic plant by the Atomic Energy Commission.
A special staff led by Ray H. Jenkins vows to present the facts fairly as hearings begin. TV coverage by NBC ABC and DuMont will bring proceedings to millions, with CBS airing excerpts. Mundt, presiding, plans morning and afternoon sessions in the Senate Office Building as witnesses prepare to testify under oath.
The record outlines charges that McCarthy Cohn and Carr sought improper Army favors for Pvt. G David Schine, a wealthy New Yorker and unpaid subcommittee consultant drafted last November. McCarthy countercharges accuse Stevens and Adams of discrediting the hearings and blocking probes into communist infiltration. The dispute involves Hense, the Army report on McCarthy, and proposals for principal witnesses to be cross examined with written charges and sworn veracity stakes. President Eisenhower voices confidence in Stevens while Wilson praises Stevens and Hensel amid formal statements and cross examination plans.
Columbus sheriff deputies released Carl Demmy, 44, after a lie detector test regarding the death of his wife Sally Demmy, 28. Her body was found Sunday in Big Walnut Creek near their home. No verdict has been returned.
Cleveland coroner Samuel R. Gerber said he will not rule on the death of a 5 week old boy found under a hotel bed until the missing mother is located.
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