New Quakes Shake Caribbean Region Strike Aid Rushes In
Planes rushed help to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico after fresh tremors described as worse in some areas than last Sunday’s deadly shocks. Emergency camps, food drops, and doctors arrived as observers noted cliffs and rivers changing course. Scientists credited, dismissed any link to Bikini Atoll tests, stressing natural earth processes.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Atlantic Ocean
Dominican Reublic
Mona Passage
Matanzas
Dominican
Guayando Observatory
San Juan
Hispaniola Island
Ciudad Trujillo
U.S
Naval District
Curacao
Netherlands West Indies
Red Cross
Pan-American Airways
Julia Molina
Cabrera
Three in Lynching Mob Are Reported Identified
Walton County officials said they had no information on the reported identification of three mob members in the Monroe Georgia lynching of four Negroes. The FBI declined to comment as investigations continued with possible arrests ahead.
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Ashington
The
Washington Post
FBI
Monroe
the Post
Ellis ‘Arnall
Georgia
Tom Clark
Washington
Sfarm
Igroup
Maj
W. E. Spence
Georgia State Police
Atlanta
Spence
Pi— Walton County
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nael Mulcahy
Frank Sain
Cook County
Chicago
William Heirens
Heirens
Brown Predicts Tax Increases
Rep Clarence J Brown of Ohio campaign director says President Truman's revised budget estimates mean higher taxes and more spending by Democrats. He notes Truman’s talk of balance has historically led to deficits and debt, contrasting with Roosevelt. He cites the 1946 elections as the political context for the issue.
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Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Truman
Brown
Roosevelt
Traitor Paul Revere Arrested in Germany Trial Planned
In Frankfurt officers stated U.S. agents arrested Douglas Arnold Chandler who used the Nazi broadcast name Paul Revere and will be tried in the United States on treason charges.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Army
U.S
Douglas Arnold Chandler
Paul Revere
United States
Governor Lausche seeks steady leather supply for Ohio factories
Governor Frank J. Lausche told Reconversion Administrator John R. Steelman in a telegram that an expeditious and equitable adjustment should guarantee a flow of leather to Ohio factories. The note follows a Columbus meeting with shoe industry executive Herbert Lape and AFL Book and Shoe Workers Union representative John A. Booker on upcoming curtailment due to leather exhaustion. Ohio's shoe industry employs 1000 workers.
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Columbus
John R Steelman
Washington
Frank J. Lausche
Herbert Lape
John A. Booker
AFL Book and Shoe Workers Union
Ohio
Fred Bowen dies at West Logan home after illness
Fred Bowen aged 68 or 65 died at his West Logan residence after several months illness. He served as custodian of United Brethren Church for over 30 years. Surviving are his sister Mrs. Goldie Smith and multiple nieces and nephews. Funeral services set for Monday at 2 p.m. at Pilgrim Holiness Church with Rev. Earl Appleman officiating. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Logan
Fred Bowen
West Logan
United Brethren Church
Goldie Smith
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Earl Appleman
Oak Grove Cemetery
Four Story Fall Fatal To Point Pleasant Man
Point Pleasant man C. E. Toles, 47, died after a fourth floor fall from a Detroit apartment building. He was the son of Mr and Mrs James Toles of Point Pleasant. Funeral arrangements will be announced locally.
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Point Pleasant
C. E. Toles
Detroit
James Toles
Mae
Effort to Hold Wage Line in Pacific Northwest Lumber
Government restricts a second reconversion pay boost for more than 45000 lumber workers on the West Coast. Steelman signals employers may bear future pay rise costs as unions prepare for a San Francisco convention to decide on further wage demands.
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Washington
John R.steelman
Pacific Northwest
OPA
Steelman
West Coast
British Ready To By-Pass UN In Iran Fuss
London officials said Britain would not be obliged to consult the United Nations Security Council if violent or sudden threats to British lives or property arose in Iran and would act unilaterally. Iran protested Indian troop movements to Basra, Iraq, saying they were stationed near Anglo-Iranian oil fields in Southern Iran for replacement. The spokesman warned there may be no time to seek UN guidance during a state of law and order.
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London
Foreign Office
Iran
Britain
United Nations Security Council
Basra
Iraq
Persian Gulf
India
United Nations
NMU Revising Lake Demands for Settlement Talks
Represent atives of the CIO National Marine Union shaped revised proposals for a wage hour dispute that could trigger a strike next Monday against dry cargo shipping on the Great Lakes. At conciliators' request, NMU will present at a joint meeting with Bethlehem Transportation Corp. The union seeks a 40 hour work week aboard ships and tankers and wage increases from 9 to 18 cents an hour across cargo vessels.
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Washington
CIO National Maritime Union
Great Lakes
NMU
Betheherm Transportation Corporation
Globair Seeks West Virginia Intra State Air Route
The Public Service Commission heard Globair Inc and Mid Atlantic Airlines seek to substitute Globair for Mid Atlantic as the applicant to provide intra state air service. Globair of Dayton Ohio requests authority to carry passengers freight express and mail between Martinsburg and Parkersburg with stops at Wiley Ford Morgantown Clarksburg Elkins Huntington Charleston and Beckley.
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Charleston
Public Service Commission
Globair, Inc
Mid-Atlantic Airlines
Globair
Mid-Atlantic
Dayton
Martinsburg
Parkersburg
Wiley Ford
Morgantown
Clarksburg
Elkins
Huntington
Beckley
Herbert Pledges Tax Cuts For Ohio Governor Campaign
Republican candidate T J Herbert promised a twofold program of tax reductions and removing Ohio from certain tax fields to aid local governments. He criticized Lausche for failing to survey tax needs and sources, claiming state revenues can support a $50 million annual reduction and urging immediate sales tax relief from 3 to 2 percent.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Lausche
Herbert
Ohio
Group Urges Kilgore Defeat in Big Sandy River Dispute
Directors of the Big Sandy Valley Association publish a resolution urging voters to defeat Sen Harley M. Kilgore Beckley Democrat and Representatives Hubert Ellis John Kee of West Virginia and John W Flannagan Jr of Virginia for opposing canalization of the Big Sandy River and the $82 000 000 Big Sandy River project deleted from the House Rivers and Harbors Bill.
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Louisa
Big Sandy Valley Association
West Virginia
Virginia
Big Sandy River
Harley M. Kilgore
Beckley
Hubert Ellis
John Kee
West
John W. Flannagan, Jr
Big Sandy
Benefit Boost Aids 112 218 Vets in Ohio
A 20 percent raise in monthly benefits was signed by President Truman and will affect 112 218 Ohio veterans and 17 668 dependents. Payment increases appear October 1 or later due to end of month processing. The act also allows full pensions for hospitalized or VA institution residents.
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Columbus
Truman
Ohio
Veterans Administration Agency
Lester E. Garrett
Claims Service
Walker Urges World Community at Disciples Convention
The Rev. Granville T. Walker of Ft. Worth Texas told an international convention of Disciples of Christ that avoiding another war requires a sense of world community not yet achieved. He called for a middle road between anarchy and tyranny before the moment passes.
Ohio Navy Pilot Dies In Fighter Plane Crash
SAULT STE. MARIE Mich a pilot Ensign Howard Leslie Neal 22 of Marion Ohio was killed when his naval fighter crashed after circling the airport witnesses said the craft climbed then rolled and plunged burning in the wreckage in Cleveland a 49 hour work week for veterans housing at several Ohio and West Virginia schools was approved by the Federal Public Housing Authority to retain workers amid overtime offers in Elkins West Virginia a federal court convicted Richard Wheatley East Liverpool of violating the federal kidnapping statute related to the Denzil Williams case in Huntsville Ohio and the East Liverpool Bank.
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Ohio
Navy
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Howard Leslie Neal
Marion
Columbus
Ohio State University
Westn Virginia
Federal Public Housing Authority
Elkins
W. Va
Richhard Wheatley
East Liverpool
Cleveland
Federal Reserve System
Denzil Williams
Huntsville State Bank
Chester
East Huntsville
Logan County
Liverpool
Curtain Falls On Garsson Empire Probe
Washington report on the six week wartime probe into the Garsson munitions combine and Rep May, with claims of high profits and influence. May, ill in Prestonsburg, Ky., was to testify but remains unavailable. The committee cites defective 4.2 inch mortar shells as another focus with GI accounts and details of casualties from muzzle bursts.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Empire
Garsson
Iombine
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Prestonsburg
Combine
John Is
George P. Archer
Dutch Schultz
Owney Madden
Mead
Timothy 11 Inch Timothy Heads Cut by Evans in Logan
A bundle of Timothy hay with heads reaching 11 inches was cut by William H. Evans of Logan Route 3 and sent to The Messenger office after a report of another grower with 8 inch heads. The item notes unusual lengths among Timothy heads.
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LOGAN
William H. Evans
Price of Food Rises 14 Percent in July
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 13.8 percent rise in retail food prices from mid June to mid July, the largest monthly increase on record. Prior peak was nine percent in 1917. July prices were 18 percent higher than August 1945 and subsidies were removed with no OPA controls in effect. Meat up 30 percent, dairy 21 percent, other foods 3.7 percent.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
OPA
Two Children Killed In Shooting Accidents in Ohio
In Hamilton Adrian Rice 11 was killed when a shotgun being examined discharged. In Bucyrus a playmate fired a revolver that was a war souvenir, killing 7 year old William Boyer, son of Mr and Mrs Harry M Boyer.
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Hamilton
Adrian Rice
Butler County
Edward Cook
Bucyrus
William Boyer
Harry M. Boyer
Jewel Theft Charges Entered Against WAC
FRANKFURT, Germany. The U S Army says WAC Captain Kathleen B Nash Durant is charged with larceny embezzlement conspiracy and being away without leave over the winter theft of the Hesse family jewels from Kronberg Castle She will be first to face trial among three officers arrested Maj David F Watson and Col Jack W Durant her husband will be tried later.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Army
WAC
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Hesse
Kronberg Castle
Lake Erosion Control Discussion Stated Near Cedar Point
Columbus residents and lake vacationers are invited to a meeting on erosion controls along Lake Ene's south shores at Cedar Point next Wednesday. The Ohio Post War Program Commission led by Sen. Roscoe R. Walcutt of Columbus urges lakeshore property owners to attend the sessions.
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Columbus
Lake Ene
Cedar Point
Nation's Four Virtues Are Praised by Lausche
Gov Frank J Lausche praised four virtues during Piqua sesqui centennial close Faith in God hard work obedience to law and order and devotion to community state and nation cited as factors making America great by the Ohio governor in a concluding program of the celebration.
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PIQUA
Frank J. Lausche
America
Dictation To America Ruled Out
Paris AP report notes Byrnes rejects Soviet push for two thirds vote at peace conference. Delegates adopt British compromise on voting, allowing two thirds and simple majority with greater weight to two thirds. Russia warns against recognition of actions by less than two thirds and Yugoslavia proposals on Albania deferred. Byrnes accuses Soviet bloc talk and urges progress toward peace with participants honoring wartime sacrifices.
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Paris
Russia
State Byrnes
United States
Byrnes
Foreign Ministers Council
Poland
Czechoslovakia
V. M. Mostov
Albania
Mosha Pijada
Soviet Union
Purge of Slaughter Reveals Strong Political Forces
Sam Simmons critiques the purge of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, noting the president, the PAC, and the Pendergast machine harnessed vast influence. He praises Slaughter's independence while warning against a Congress filled with yes-men bowing to the executive.
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PAC
Pendergast Machine
Roger C. Slaughter
Fifth
Missouri
Slaughter
Kansas City
Bailiwick
Congress
Executive Department
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William Lee Gantt, Jr
David Fieming
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Akron
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