Columbus detective claims self defense in 1948 brutality case
Detective Kenneth Anderson testified to a three member committee he struck sailor Fred Campbell on the jaw after Campbell allegedly reached inside his car near a department store construction site. The Columbus Bar Association asserts Campbell touched a light bulb with wet hands causing an explosion before the officers pursued and arrested three sailors.
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Columbus
Kenneth Anderson
Fred Campbell
Campbell
Detment
Anderson
Alfred J. Lashley
Columbus Bar Association
Lashley
State House
Thomas H. Boggs
Gerald Turley
Boggs
Henry H. Schwarzell
Otis C. Buchanan
Buchanan
Joseph F. Harris
Arthur M. Culler
Culler
New Virus Mistaken For Polio Across United States
Yale researchers say many polio labeled cases in 1950s outbreaks may be due to a new non crippling virus first reported by New York health officials. Isolated during summer outbreaks in New England and the South its origin and transmission remain unknown but recoveries have shown no lasting harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Yale
New York State Department of Health
New England
North Carolina
Texas
Joseph L. Melnick
United States
New Bureau Votes Sought in Truman Welfare Plan
In Washington the fate of President Truman's plan to create a new welfare department rests on securing 49 Senate votes against it. Oscar Ewing is expected to be the cabinet head if the plan is approved. Democratic leader Lucas convened the Senate at 10 a.m. to debate the measure, with a final vote set for 9 a.m. unless an agreement to vote earlier is reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Senate
Oscar Ewing
Lucas
Ancient Mortgage and Local Family Pasts in Athens County
A 1809 chattel mortgage record in Deed Book B lists 66 dollars securing 20 pigs six hogs three cows and household goods. The article notes nearby Pleasanton houses built a century and more ago by Samuel Woodruff and family, with Civil War service and longstanding family ties to the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Winger
Point Pleasant
Mason County
New Pleasanton Church
Pleasanton
Alexander Township
Athens County
Holly Woodruff
Athens
Samuel Woodruff
Merrill Woodruff
Samuel Godruff
Pratt
Athens-Pleasanton
Ohio Company
Holly Woodworth
Marshfield Boy Is First Polio Victim
Athens County reports its first polio case of the summer as 13 year old Dean Stout of New Marshfield is taken to Columbus Children’s Hospital for treatment. Health officials quarantine all contacts and urge rest and caution to prevent spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Dean Stout
New Marshfield
Children’s Hospital
Columbus
H. G. Southard
Athens
Southard
William Mace
Indictments Dropped in Hot Ham Cases
In Lancaster five defendants had indictments dropped after County Prosecutor James S. Peterson said evidence was insufficient. Judge Harry Kilburgur must sentence six others who pleaded guilty or were convicted of stealing meat from Swift & Co in Columbus, ending the Hot Ham case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
James S. Peterson
Common Pleas Court
Harry Kilburger
Columbus
Swift & Co
Repatriation Ship OKD to Enter Shanghai
Communist authorities approved the American President Lines vessel General Gordon to enter Shanghai as a repatriation ship. The action allows return of nationals amid ongoing postwar arrangements.
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OKD
Shanghai
President Lines
General Gordon
Pin Removed From Lung Of Cleveland Toddler
A straight pin was removed Monday from the lung of 15 month old Susan Alello of Cleveland. Doctors at Philadelphia reported the operation to extract the pin was successful and the child was recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Susan Alello
Cleveland
Gen Waitt to Testify Before Senate Inquiry Today
Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt suspended chief of the Army Chemical Corps is to testify today before the Senate Special Investigations sub committee. The session follows July 16 relief of Waitt and Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman amid an inquiry into 1945 shipments of home freezers to Mrs. Truman and other Washington notables.
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Washington
Alden H. Waitt
Army Chemical Corps
Senate
Waitt
Herman Feldman
Secretary of the Army
Gray
Hoey
D-Nc
Special Investigations
Harry Truman
Three Slayers Given Paroles From Ohio Prison
Three women imprisoned for manslaughter earned paroles from Marysville Reformatory as part of 11 grants by the Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission. Goldie Delonjay near Bowling Green killed Wade Smith on May 17, 1946 after he lived with her sister. Emma Taylor of Youngstown killed her common law husband Charles Taylor on August 2, 1947. Margaret Benton of Norwalk killed her husband Lewis Benton in Willard on August 26, 1948 while he ran a traveling carnival concession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Marysville
Goldie Delonjay
Bowling Green
Wade Smith
Smith
Taft Criticizes Supreme Court Nomination Move
Senator Taft denounces the Senate Judiciary Committee for approving Attorney General Tom Clark’s Supreme Court nomination without hearing Clark testify. He labeled the process outrageous and joined Republican protests over the committee’s handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate Judiciary Committee
Tom Clark
Supreme Court
Clark
National Bike Derby Prep in Columbus August 27 28
The first Ignaz Schwinn Memorial Scholarships National Championship bicycle derby for newspaperboys will be held August 27 28 at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Columbus. Prizes include 2500 and 2000 scholarships for first and second place with further honors for others. Fifty-one papers nationwide send riders and The Messenger Champion from Ohio will lead the state delegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ignaz Schwinn
Columbus
C. Peter Zurlinden
Messenger
Arnold Schwinn and Co
All-American
Newspaperboys Sports Scholarships, Inc
Ohio State Fairgrounds
United States
Ohio
The
Lumbus
Derby
Neil
Arms amendments eyed in foreign aid bill battle
Washington authorities anticipate acceptance of some Vandenberg and Dulles amendments to the 1.45 billion foreign arms program as Senate and House committees push to speed a bill. Proposals include cutting aid to Western Europe and empowering Congress to halt arms shipments or aid to specific countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Dulles
R-Ny
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee
Connally
D-Tex
Vandenberg-Dulles
State Department
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
Nandenberg
Congress
Suitor Fires Twice At Rival In Car Chase
In Toledo a jealous suitor shot at TOLEDO 4 Max Luce and missed his head when two bullets grazed his scalp. Charles Hannefeld, 32, friend of the woman Mrs. Betty Cochran, was held for investigation after Luce reported the attack occurred as Cochran tried to exit the auto near a drive in theatre. The child in the rear seat remained unharmed. Police broadcast the license plate before arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Max Luce
Sergi
Thomas O’leary
Charles Hannefeld
Betty Cochran
Luce
O'Leary
Oil Firms Pulling Out As Reds Near Canton
Big American and British oil companies were pulling out of Canton as the Communist drive nears the refugee capital of Nationalist China. Other foreign firms were leaving too as Communists close in on Foochow and approach Canton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
China
Foochow
Fukien
Ex VFW Chief Seeks Strong Stand for Veterans Aid
Ray H. Brannaman, former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and DAV leader from Denver, urged an all-out war against factions aiming to cut veterans benefits at the DAV 28th annual convention. He warned the economy act after World War I caused many veteran crises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Veterans of Foreign Wars
DAV
Ray H. Brannaman
Denver
Judge Refuses Extradition of Willie Ross Jr
Common Pleas Judge Charles S. Bell in Cincinnati refused to order the extradition of 28 year old Willie Ross Jr. to Georgia. Bell quoted Georgia's demand as not in faith and noted prior returns of prisoners to the state showed poor treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Common Pleas
Charles S. Bell
Willie Ross
Georgia
Ross
Bell
Cyclists Missing Near German Soviet Border
With few clues police pressed a search today for two young Americans who disappeared six days ago while cycling near the Soviet zone border of Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
Akron polio fatalities mark first deaths of year
Two polio victims died Monday night in Akron. The deaths involve James Eisner, 6, of East Akron, and Henry D. Curtiss, 39, of Uhrichsville, marking the city’s first fatalities from the disease this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
James Eisner
East Akron
Henry D. Curtiss
Ubrichsville
Jungle Inn inspection follows court order amid gambling raids
State officials obtained a common pleas court order to reenter the Jungle Inn at Halls Corners for inspection. Twenty men were arrested in a casino raid with 18 facing three counts each and two charged with two counts. A separate citation demanded Hall’s Corners Mayor Sedore show cause why he should not be removed for tolerating the inn. Shirley May France, 17, sailed with her father aboard the Calais Ferry from Dover en route to France.
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Calais
Dover
Eng
U.S
Shirley May France
Somerset, Mass
France
Shirley May
J. Walter France
William McClain Feid
Come Mon Pleas Court
Joan Farah
Cleveland
Myron Elias
Niles
Claude M. Hoagland
Garfield Heights
Eddie Tobin
Girard
Cecil Johnson
Youngstown
Sam Teslar
Warren
Albert Sudelto
Terry Mazzano
Walter Lisko
Harry Burman
James McGuire
Joe Wright
Carl Marino
Ralph Coletto
Tony Chance
Christ Bouchas
James Swantogate
McDonald
Sam Cretella
Steve Bush
George S. Calboran
Mounds Club
Painesville
Lake County
Columbus
Lausche
Charles B. Sedore
Hall's Corners
State Highway Patrol
Sedore
MacArthur Declines Invitation to Testify in Washington
General Douglas MacArthur has declined a Senate request to return to the United States to testify on the Far Eastern situation and the administration's arms aid bill. In a written reply, he cites his Aug 11 public statement and says he can best serve the national interest by remaining at his post in Tokyo. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson released the text of MacArthur’s reply and noted Admiral Oscar Badger was also requested to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
MacArthur
Tokyo
Louis Johnson
Johnson
Senate
Oscar Badger
U.S. Senate
China
Son of Slain Texan Beaton Hospitalized After Beating
Burt Mason 22 son of radioman Bill Mason who was killed July 19 in Alice lies in a Houston area hospital with injuries he attributes to a severe beating by three men. Flores Kennedy of Alice, Mason’s fiancée, drove him to Methodist Hospital after the shooting death of his father. Sheriff Sam Smithwick of Jim Wells County faces murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Burt Mason
Bill Mason
Alice
Floy Kennedy
Mason
Methodist Hospital
Sam Smithwick
Jim Wells
Rough Weather Halts Deep-Sea Expedition
Marine explorer Otis Baron halted his attempt to descend 6000 feet due to three days of mechanical failures and rough seas. He was hoisted to the surface after reaching 2300 feet in a diving bell, a record depth but not the planned limit. Baron and naturalist William Beebe previously set a 3028 foot solo depth off Bermuda in 1934.
Chicago Firm To Buy 2000 Lustron Homes
A Chicago real estate developer announced plans to purchase 2000 Lustron porcelain enamel steel homes from Lustron Corporation of Columbus, Ohio. The homes will be erected in a new suburb 32 miles south of Chicago, with observers estimating the cost over 12 million dollars and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ready to lend about 14.5 million dollars to fund the project.
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Chicago
Lustron Corporation
Columbus
Ohio
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cole
Extended Forecast for Columbus-4 Weather Outlook
Temperatures to run near normal with a normal high of 81 and a low of 61. Day to day fluctuations expected. Rainfall averaging %% inch with scattered showers or thundershowers Wednesday and again Friday night through Sunday.
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Columbus
Rewards Offered by Cleveland Auto Dealers for Vandalism Case
The Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association posts rewards totaling 10 000 dollars for information leading to punishment for vandalism against 15 Cuyahoga Ford dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association
Cuyahoga
Four Agencies Seek Action On Finances
The U S military establishment Interior Department Veterans Administration and Economic Cooperation Administration have no legal funds to spend yet the Defense Department claims authority to continue contracts for essentials. Civilians are paid about 12 days late as Congress unsettled by annual appropriation bills and a temporary financing measure expired at midnight. The House Appropriations Committee urged quick approval of another temporary measure but failed to reach a two thirds threshold though a majority supported it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Interior Department
Veterans Administration
Economic Cooperation Administration
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Congress
House
Man Found Dead In Belmont County Ruled Self Inflicted
A 46 year old laborer Frank Gilham was found shot in the back of the head with a .22 rifle by his side in Barnesville. Belmont County Coroner W T Johnson ruled the death as death by own action.
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Barnesville
Frank Gilham
Belmont County
W. T. Johnson
Johnson
Last Victim Of Air Crash Is Sought
A full search pressed today for the body of the last missing victim of a Transocean airliner that ran out of gas and sank off Ireland after 49 were saved. The crash killed or left missing nine others as investigators probe the disaster with American officials.
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Galway
Ireland
Transocean
Atlantic
Venezuela
Rome
Herbert Asbel
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edward Bussey
Bussey
Kirk Talks With Stalin Courtesy Visit To Moscow
Ambassador Alan G. Kirk described his 45 minute meeting with Premier Stalin in the Kremlin as a courteous pleasant visit. It was the first high level American contact with Stalin in about a year and marked Kirk’s first meeting with the Soviet leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Alan G. Kirk
Stalin
Kremlin
Kirk
Walter Bedell Smith
Township Sets Five Day Deadline for Gamblers
Beaver Township residents approved a resolution giving slot machine operators five days to remove equipment. O. O. Dressel of the Improvement Club warns against another Jungle Inn incident in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Beaver Township
O. O. Dressel
Improvement Club
Rum and Cognac Found at Mounds Club Raid
State liquor inspector testified that during a July 9 raid at the Mounds Club in Painesville a partly filled bottle of rum and an unopened cognac were found behind the bar with olives cherries and bar tools. Charged with illegal possession are club manager Thomas Farley and bartender Emil Ray Rehart. The club remains closed as a fire hazard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painesville
Mounds Club
John L. Kocevar
Cleveland
Kocevar
Thomas Farley
Erieside
Ohio
Emil Ray Rehart
East Cleveland
Richard J. Moriarity
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Sami El-Hinnaoui
Syrian Army
Hossni Zaim
Mouhsin El-Barazi
Damascus
Gen. Waitt
National Bike Derby
Reds
VFW
Co Mt
Ree
Jungle Inn
Beaton
Lustron
Alben W. Barkley
Dorothy Ann Truitt
Paducah Ky
Barkley
Carleton S. Hadley
St. Louis
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