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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1946

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Moscow says Yugoslav protest lodged with Security Council

The Moscow radio reported Yugoslavia filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council, though Yugoslav delegate Andrija Stampar said the note asked only that the Economic and Social Council address Danube shipping. He recalled the note did not mention the United States and was handed to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie about two weeks earlier for agenda consideration.

New York Moscow Radio Yugoslavia United States United Nations Security Council Economic and Social Council Danube Andrija Stampar Chaiman The Economic and Social Counc Tryge Lie Moscow Austria Germany

Crisis over Yugoslavia prompts Tito cease fire orders

Premier Tito, under an American ultimatum on seven interned U S citizens, orders his air force not to shoot at foreign planes over Yugoslavia and agrees to allow inspections of two shot down U S C 47 transports. Patterson reports satisfaction and possible UN action. Two American graves registration teams prepare to inspect the crash sites as seven Americans and two Europeans are released from custody.

Washington Yugoslavia Marshal Tito Tito Balkan United States Belgrade U. S Richard C. Patterson Ljubljana Bled Patterson United Nations Foreign Office Zagreb Venezia Giuli U.S Gorizia Italy Associated Press New York Times

State Fair Opens Amid Heavy Exhibits In Ohio

Ohio's first postwar state fair opens with 3 400 cattle 3 600 swine and 3 500 sheep on display. Fourteen events run through Friday with 4-H Day and Future Farmers' Day leading a packed program of judging concerts races and a million-dollar livestock parade each night.

Columbus Ohio Hollywood Bryan Sandles Extat FFA George Mindling Ohio Girls John M. Hodson Music Hall the Grange Highway Department American Sheep Dog Society

Canton Taxi Drivers Reject Pay Proposals

A strike by 70 AFL taxi drivers in Canton enters its eleventh day as they reject two management pay proposals. The city of 126,000 is without cab service while drivers, renting cabs and keeping receipts, oppose moving to a commission system.

Canton AFL

First Slot Machine Hearings Concluded in Columbus

Ohio officials wrapped up the first round of hearings for Trumbull County liquor establishments charged with slot machines. One defendant, Albert C Hilton of Warren, offered no defense to the state liquor control board. In Springfield a truck crash injured a girl, Doris McKinter, 16, who slept through the crash with only scratches as plaster rained down.

Columbus Trumbull County Albert C Hilton Warren State Liquor Control Board Springfield New Moorefield Doris McKinter

Washington luncheon claims hidden influence on Palestine policy

Bartley C Crum, former Anglo American Palestine Commission member, charges that State Department officers and the British social lobby have, since 1920, secretly thwarted efforts to establish a Jewish national home. In related data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports food price rises from August 1939 to mid July 1946 vary by city, with Memphis highest at 94.6 percent and Houston lowest at 64 percent. Cities showing 80 percent or more increases include St Louis Los Angeles Pittsburgh Chicago Cleveland Detroit. Those at 70 to 80 percent include Columbus Indianapolis New York.

Washington Bartley C. Crum Palestine Commission State Department Palestine Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS Houston Tex Memphis Tenn New York Baltimore Little Rock St Louis Los Angeles Pittsburgh Chicago Cleveland Detroit Columbus Indianapolis

Boost of $7 on Newsprint Is Announced

Washington reports a $7 per ton increase in the newsprint ceiling price with a hint of a further rise possible. An OPA official cites securing adequate U S publishers supply and preventing diversion of foreign newsprint. The move also aims to discourage diversion to more profitable products and offset higher raw material costs.

Washington Jong OPA United States

Ohio Hospital Lease Held Up

Ohio welfare authorities argued the states lease on the former Fletcher General Hospital at Cambridge is valid The War Assets Administration halted the transfer of the hospital and 52 other surplus properties pending a congressional inquiry The facility is used to relieve overcrowding in mental hospitals and was offered at a 100 percent discount to non profits or lower level governments

Columbus Ohio Fletcher General Hospital Cambridge War Assets Administration Army Hospital Joverneent

Power Strike Is Terminated in Wellston City

Power life returned to normal in Wellston after an electric power outage lasting two and a half days ended when 10 union members won recognition for their Local from the city council. The council granted recognition to the United Construction Workers, a United Mine Workers affiliate, as bargaining agent and scheduled a special board with union city and public representatives to study an 18 12 cent an hour raise and related issues.

Wellston Jackson County United Construction Workers United ‘Mine Workers

War Assets to Ship Ice Machines to Yugoslavia

The Cincinnati War Assets Administration office reports eighty ice making machines, once for American troops in the South Pacific, are prepared for shipment to Yugoslavia. Public relations director Norman D. Starrett said orders specify delivery to UNRRA headquarters in Yugoslavia.

Cincinnati South Pacific Yugoslavia The War Assets Administration Norman D. Starrett WAA UNRRA

Antique Motor Cars Leave for Cleveland Reenact Glidden Tour

About eighty old-time motorcars and their owners boarded a boat in Detroit last night to continue the Glidden endurance tour reenactment that began in New York last Sunday. In Detroit the antique owners were hosted by Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.

Detroit Dieveland New York Ford Motor Co General Motors Corp

Clinton County Votes on Memorial Hospital Plan

Clinton County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to place a proposed $600,000 80-bed memorial hospital before voters at the November election. More than 1,800 petition signatures backed the one-mill tax levy to fund construction, announced T. S Townsley, chairman of the County Hospital Committee.

Wilmington Clinton County Board of Commissioners T. S Townsley

Working Week Pattern Is Set By Lake NMU

The CIO National Maritime Union proposed a 48 hours at sea and 44 hours in port pattern to settle the Great Lakes shipping strike. After tentative acceptance of the 44-48 plan from Standard Oil Co of Indiana, NMU resumed talks with Bethlehem Transportation Co in New York. About 2,500 NMU sailors on the lakes work 58 hours weekly. four ports accepted the Standard Oil proposal while 14 ports await ratification. NMU reports 132 vessels idle. Lake Carriers Association says ships return to duty faster than workers walk off.

Detroit CIO National Maritime Union Great Lakes Standard OF Co Indiana NIU Bethlehem Transportation Co New York NMU Standard Oil Iskes Lake Carriers Association

Army Wives Protest Housing Conditions in Tokyo

A delegation of US Army wives protested poor living conditions at Pal a ce Heights quonset hut village in Tokyo. Col L A Diller told them they likely must stay there until after the year begins as the village was never intended for dependents but used to house junior officers and their families awaiting permanent housing.

Tokyo Palace Heights L A. Diller General Staff Jnior

Mutt Jeff Gunmen Hunted in Ohio Bank Robberies

In Elyria Ohio FBI officials hunted two bank robbers nicknamed Viet and Jeff after a daylight heist at Wakeman Bank Co. believed linked to earlier North Ohio robberies in Coshocton and Summit counties. Special Agent Harry T O'Connor said the Wakeman robbery likely connects to the summer series.

Elyria— LP Viet Jeff Ohio Wakeman Bank Co Harry T O'Connor FBI Cleveland Wakeman Estern Day Short Coshoctan Summit County

Ohio GI Flight Trainee Killed in Plane Crash

Albert William Leasure, 23, of Dresden, trained under the GI bill for a pilot license. He took off from Riverside Airport in a Ryan two seater and crashed in a field minutes later, suffering fatal injuries.

Ohio Zanesville Albert William Leasure Dresden Riverside

Five Knives On His Mind Five Knives On His Mind

Police say a 48 year old Ohio fugitive who escaped 28 years ago intends to return to serve a sentence for a theft of five pocket knives he claims has haunted him. He used the name John Moore locally but whispered the name Lester Blosser when waiving extradition. Blosser escaped on February 7 1918 from the Soldiers and Sailors Home Sandusky. He has worked as a Pennsylvania coal miner a Maryland carnival worker and in a factory and orchards in recent years.

Centralia Ohio Henry Carlyle John Moore Lester Blosser Blosser Bec Soldiers' and Sailors Sandusky Carlyle Pennsylvania Maryland

Train Hits Automobile in Salem. Driver Fined 5100

A speeding passenger train clipped James Daley's car in Salem as it slowly crossed the tracks. Daley, 35, of Youngstown, was found erect and unhurt at the wheel. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and fined 210 plus costs by Major R R Johnsen.

Salem James Daley Daley Youngstown R R Johnsen

Ohio House Passes GI Housing Plan Measures

The Ohio House sent to the Senate bills for a veterans GI housing program and related benefits hikes. The Senate must approve unchanged for enactment, with Gov Lausche's signature needed. The package also boosts old age pensions and blind aid funded partly by federal dollars, and carries proposals to adjust county home pension eligibility to 50 a month at 65.

Ohio House Senate Columbus Ohio Senate House of Representaties Frank J. Lausche Robert St. Shawn R-Franklin House Representatives Fred L. Hoffman, Jr R-Hamiton

Five in Ohio Family Hurt in Auto Crash

A Canton Ohio family of five was injured in a single vehicle crash near Carlisle Pennsylvania. Oscar Horger 44 and son John 19 were in serious condition at Carlisle Hospital. Wife Alice 45 and daughters 17 and 10 also were injured. States funds were approved for hospital construction and other measures, while a separate auto crash in Bethel resulted in a man killed.

Carlisle Canton Oscar Horger John Carone Sathlisle Hospital Alice Susan Spcwal State Highway Department Ohio Rier Senate Batavia Automobile Administration Bethel Harold Behymer Lourgy

Seven Injured At Nitro Plastics Plant Blasts Roof

An explosion and fire at the Ohio Apex Company's Nitro plant in Nitro West Virginia injured at least seven workers and caused the roof to blow off. Fire crews battled the blaze as hospitals in Kanawha Valley rushed patients, with two admitted to Kanawha Valley Hospital and five or six to Dunn Hospital in South Charleston within an hour.

NITRO W. Va Ohio Apex Company Kanawha Valley Hospital Dunn Hospital South Charleston

Ohio Business Hearings End

The Ohio Small Business Commission wrapped up open hearings in Columbus as part of preparing its report for the Legislature. Small business operators across the state voiced grievances and suggestions focusing on the OPA and state sales tax. Previously hearings were held in Cleveland, Toledo, Piqua and Youngstown with Sen. C. Stanley Mechem of Athens County noting a digest of the reports may guide any reinstatement measures.

Columbus UPI Ohio Small Business Commission OPA Cleveland Toledo Piqua Youngstown C. Stanley Mechem Athens County

Postoffice Looted Again in West Union

West Union post office is looted for a second time in under a year. Postmaster Roy Phibbs said thieves entered Wednesday night and removed a small safe containing $40 in cash and stamps. Burglars took $350 from the office last Sept. 23 as authorities, including Grimes Morgan and Adams County sheriff, continued the investigation.

West Union Grimes Morgan Adams County West Union Postoffice Roy Phibbs

Sam Simmons on debt and farmer woes in 1930s America

Sam Simmons argues government should not collect debts from creditors unable to refuse, claiming debt avoidance prevents poverty. He contrasts resilient Southeastern farmers with rebellious Midwest debtors who bought on credit, adopted lavish lifestyles, and gambled on stock quotes, all contributing to economic decline.

Ohio West Virginia Iowa Kansas Missouri Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin Aso

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