Final awards for letters reveal reader ideas for The Messenger
The Messenger lists readers who offered ideas to improve the paper, from sports pages with daily schedules and box scores to editorial space and local news emphasis. Contributors include EF. F. Burns Middleport and Mrs. Willis Johnson Athens, with many proposals on front page layout, county coverage, and community features.
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Lost Toddler Found After Four Days in Wilderness
Marion AP report says 20 month old Carolyn Peterson was missing from Waldo Ohio for four days. She survived by eating blackberries, sheltering in dense briars through storms, and was found near her home by Samuel Almendinger and brought to Marion City Hospital with briar scratches and ivy welts.
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Carolyn Jeanette Peterson
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Carolyn
Leroy Retterer
Bomb Blast at Writer’s Home in Atlanta Foe Suspected
Atlanta political writer C. E. Gregory said a bomb exploded on his front porch Saturday night causing minor house damage. He suspects it linked to his lottery racket stories and cites Governor M. E. Thompson as convinced politics were the motive.
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Atlanta Journal
C. E. Gregory
Georgia
M. E. Thompson
Hearings Set on War Contract Fraud Overpayments
Chairman Bender of the House expenditures subcommittee announced hearings on September 9 to probe alleged fraud and unexplained overpayments in government war contracts. The investigation targets millions of dollars in disputed settlements and will be held on Capitol Hill.
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Capitol Hill
Bender
Ohio
House
Two Jet Speed Pilots To Appear at Races
Cleveland officials announced two jet speed pilots will race at the National Air Races. Commander Turner F. Caldwell Jr. set a 640.7 mph world record last week at Muroc California. Col. Albert Boyd of the Air Force will also participate.
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Albert Boyd
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Turner F. Caldwell
Marbeth
Muroc Air Base
Frank C. Smith
State Board of Agriculture
Future Farmers of America
Candidate To Succeed Jones Is Announced
Dewey Fetter, chairman of the Allen County Republican Executive Committee, announces his candidacy to succeed Rep. Robert F. Jones in the Fourth Congressional District. Jones resigns effective Sept. 2 to join the Federal Communications Commission.
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Terrier Wins Show Cleveland Event
Shieling's Master Key, a bewhiskered Scottish Terrier, was chosen best in show at the fifth annual Chagrin Valley Kennel Club show in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Chagrin Valley Kennel Club
Legion Chief Sees Troop Need Abroad at Legion Convention
National Commander Paul W N Griffith warned Greece's crisis could spark global war and said troops may be needed abroad. He backed the Truman Doctrine, urged a UN with power, and called for a special Congress session to enact universal military training and strengthen defense.
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Paul WN. Griffith
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Quito Revolt Elevates Mancheno to Ecuador’s Leader
Col Carlos Mancheno, former defense minister, declared himself executive power and ruler of Ecuador after the bloodless overthrow of President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. Velasco Ibarra and his wife fled to Cali Colombia seeking asylum as Mancheno sought cabinet support. The collapse followed a clash over Mancheno’s removal from the cabinet, ending Velasco Ibarra’s mid 1944 government.
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Motorboat Capsizes In Ohio River Cruise
Two Dayton couples Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carey and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Lysell were rescued after their motorboat capsized in the Ohio River near Cincinnati. They were saved by an excursion boat operator Frank H. Johnston who found them clinging to the capsized craft.
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Dayton
Joseph Carey
Warren Lysell
Ohio River
Frank H. Johnston
Sam Simmons on Greece Europe crisis burdens and communist pressure
Sam Simmons argues the Greek and European situation strains American resolve. He warns continual Communist pressure could tire the public and force withdrawal, risking being a laughing stock. He contends Russia could halt or prolong border warfare and urges preparation to demand Russia quit or face consequences.
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Greece
Russia
Coldest Cold Tests Planned by Westinghouse Scientist
Dr. Aaron Wexler of Westinghouse Electric Corp aims to create extreme cold surpassing 450 degrees below zero on a Fahrenheit scale. He seeks new metal behavior insights at ultra low temperatures and possible practical uses. He notes a super cooled metal ring conducts electricity with no resistance even after the current source is removed.
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Pittsburgh
Aaron Wexler
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Wexler
German Train Fire Triggers Arrest Over Transport Violations
A deadly train fire in Berlin killed 27 and injured more than 45 after a locomotive spark ignited inflammable liquid carried by film operator Max Eichholz. He was arrested on charges of violating regulations governing transport of flammable materials.
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Max Eichholz
Russian Held Yanks Released Unharmed
Three American soldiers freed from 12 days in the Soviet zone reported guards with tommy guns accompanied them but they faced no close questioning and were released unharmed in Seoul Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
Terminal Leave Bonds Convertible in Week
The government begins cashing terminal pay bonds one week from today. About 8.9 million bonds worth roughly 1.8 billion dollars have already been issued, and around 5 million more veterans remain eligible to apply, with a deadline of one year and one week.
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Washington
Cincinnati Butter Price Hiked to 78 Cents a Pound
The wholesale price of butter rose three cents to 78 cents per pound in Cincinnati today. Dairy industry spokesmen said the rise followed a similar boost on the Chicago market.
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Chicago
Turbulent Weather and Violent Attack Reported in Europa and U S
A tropical storm and cool air mass bring showers and cooler temperatures to Texas and the Midwest with minor damage and one fatal electric shock in Galveston. Separately in Venezia Giulia a mob injures a Vatican prelate and kills a defending priest in Zone B amid Tito era tensions.
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Labor Ruling Lacks Teeth Hartley Says
House Labor Committee Chairman Hartley charges the Taft Hartley act has insufficient teeth to protect against nationwide strikes. He cites the compromise nature of the measure and says it stalls strikes for 85 days with questionable extension options. He intends to push for the original Hartley bill’s monopolistic strike section next year.
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Sleeping Car Charge Increase Stated by Pullman Chief
CHICAGO C R Harding president of the Pullman Co said an application for increased sleeping car charges across the country would be filed today with the Interstate Commerce Commission. He cited higher wages rising costs of materials and supplies and declining travel volume as reasons for the raise.
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C. R. Harding
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Plane crashes on Crawford County race track injuring pilot
James Hayden of Nevada Ohio was injured yesterday when the airplane he piloted struck a tree and overturned on the Crawford County Fairgrounds race track.
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James Hayden
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Crawford County Fairgrounds
Convicts Free Jail During Texas Storm
Severe rainfall from a tropical storm battered Galveston and Texas City as 35 to 40 Negro convicts at a prison farm near Houston escaped. Ten were recaptured. others likely fled toward Houston. Warden T. T. Easley said the men sawed their way free amid winds of 68 to 70 mph and rising waters.
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Mrs. Edison Dies at 82 in New York Hospital
Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow of Thomas A. Edison, died after a coma at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Survivors include sons Charles Edison and Thomas Miller Edison, with family at her bedside. Cardiac failure listed as presumptive cause. she had been hospitalized since July 16.
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Harkness Pavilion
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
James Coss
Pilots Set Scotland As Next Objective
Two former Army Air Corps pilots started from Teterboro New Jersey on Aug 9 to fly around the world in two light planes. Flight manager William Strohmeier said they arrived at Meeks Field Reykjavik Iceland after an 804 mile hop from Greenland. An 11 day Greenland layover followed bad weather and one pilot illness.
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Train Plows Into Car Killing Ten At Grade Crossing
Denver report says a southbound train struck a jammed automobile at a grade crossing last night. Coroner Ivan Joss of Arapahoe County noted four adults and six children among the ten dead with bodies scattered for a quarter mile.
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Ivan Joss
Arapahoe County
Ford Enacts Auto Truck Price Boost Nationwide
Ford Motor Co raises prices on most passenger cars and trucks by 20 to 97 dollars, averaging 4.2 percent, seven months after leading rivals. Henry Ford II cites need to keep Ford on a sound economic basis as costs rise after prior price reductions helped slow price movement.
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Margaret Truman Debuts Before Record Hollywood Crowd
Singer Margaret Truman made her concert debut at the Hollywood Bowl before about 15 000 people. She drew the second largest crowd of the bowl season and received an ovation with two encores. The president and Mrs Truman did not attend the broadcast. She then went to the Beverly Hills Hotel for a late receiving line.
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Daughter Born Aboard Medford-Southwest Flight
Mrs Pauline Larson of Santa Rosa California gave birth to a daughter aboard a Southwest Airways flight from Medford to San Francisco. The newborn and mother rested in Medford Hospital with no serious complications reported. The girl weighs about seven pounds and 5% ounces.
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Oil Man William Hachtmann Dies at 75
William V. Hachtmann, 75, a former vice president of Gulf Oil Co., died yesterday. He was born in Cincinnati.
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William V. Hachtmann
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Oven explosion injures two at Ohio State Fair livestock judging
A restaurant oven in the grandstand at the Ohio State Fair exploded from concealed gas, injuring two Columbus residents. Williams Jones, 32, suffered burns to both arms, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Obey, 33, burned on the right hand. Judging for livestock divisions proceeded as heat and crowds persisted despite high 90s temperatures.
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Gwendolyn Obey
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