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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
1
Berlin militants led by Communists forced entry to city hall for a second day and disrupted an anti Communist city council meeting. They urged a handpicked regime from Communist labor unions to replace the council. Outside crowds shouted defiance as a city government front to be set up appeared near.
A 64 year old man was questioned after the death of Mrs. Aldine Dumbauld 53 in Columbus. Police say she died of a poison as her husband A Gail Dumbauld and two patrolmen watched. The man was arrested in a downtown hotel last night.
The House Un American Activities Committee opened a new inquiry into whether Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers shared a Maryland farm near Westminster. A handwriting expert was brought in to compare stories about a possible down payment and later ownership, with Representative Nixon cautioning the investigation could reveal a closer connection.
The State Liquor Board set hearings for August 31 in Columbus with cases including Percil and Estella Bullock of Lover's Lane Inn Lancaster for unsanitary conditions and disorderly operation. George A. Bryan of 1292 Linden Ave Zanesville faced gambling devices and sale to a minor, Buckeye Lake Park Co Buckeye Lake for disorderly operations.
Acting mayor Ferdinand Friedensburg accused Soviet controlled police of aiding demonstrators during a large protest near City Hall. He said the back door was opened by a Communist party member and a Soviet major demanded entry by the front door. He warned parliament may relocate but city offices would remain.
Maj. Gen. A. P. Kisienko a Soviet member of the Allied Council for the Far East demanded a special council meeting to review General MacArthur labor policies. He said he had not received an answer to his protest against the ban on strikes by government workers.
Dr. Bryn Hovde of the New School of Social Research defends the United States against Russian charges of war plans. He criticized Russian invective and said Soviets seek dominance by no means, while British delegate A P Taylor called the congress one of hate and war.
Mrs. Bess Henson of London Ohio won the right to perpetuate her husband Orville Henson's testimony in his industrial accident case before trial. Judge Golden C. Davis granted the petition noting Henson was not expected to live. The man strained his heart at work last March as a laborer at the Oliver Corp plant in Springfield where the case is before the State Industrial Commission.
Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. placed a $190,000 RCA television equipment order as they anticipate a television construction permit from the FCC. The permit request was filed eight months ago.
The Navy issued its annual call for doctors with commissions as Lieutenants JG in the Medical Corps and a $100 bonus for applicants under 32 who pass exams at Naval hospitals October 4 to 8. Officials did not expect many applicants.
Authorities investigating the disappearance of Dayton, Ohio man John A. McComas await possible federal action and the outcome of a Canadian police search in British Columbia for his body.
The Oklahoma City chamber of commerce was surprised when a horned toad was air mailed to a Columbus schoolboy named Donala Branch. Officials joked the creature shows Oklahoma hospitality as they confirm the toad is in good condition and note questions about its sex.
Congress seeks to define radio rights for a person who denies God. Chairman Harness of the House committee will hold a public hearing to examine a 1946 FCC statement about atheists demanding air time. The case centers on Robert Harold Scott who sought revocation of KWQ San Jose KFRC San Francisco licenses for refusing atheism discussions.
Canton man John Ross Burson 33 enters innocent by reason of temporary insanity as he is arraigned on a first degree murder charge for shooting Ellsworth Ruch Jr 24 during a July 8 rampage that also left his wife Vera and a neighbor wounded and a passerby slugged.
Ohio Attorney General Hugh S. Jenkins ruled that lands foreclosed for back taxes and sold by the county cannot be redeemed by payment of the taxes. The opinion to Scioto County prosecutor Marvin A. Kelly states that deeds must be issued by the county auditor when submitting a certificate of sale for tax delinquent lands.
BELLEFONTAINE GP Richard E. Muth a 20 year old New York Central brakeman drowned yesterday at Russells Point while swimming in the SPA pool. Coroner A J McCracken said he may have broken his neck diving and companions pulled him from the water and tried to revive him for an hour and a half.
Republican state chairman Fred Johnson announced a meeting of the state central and executive committees for September 8 in Columbus to discuss election campaign plans.
Columbus State School officials disclosed that many feeble minded inmates work daily off campus and some have bank accounts reaching hundreds of dollars. Dr F I Keiser says private outside employment aids rehabilitation. about 25 to 30 of roughly 2100 residents work outside officially while others occasionally find paid odd jobs. One case noted a patient with $700 saved while self supporting at an athletic stadium.
A 52 car Ohio food train was dedicated at the Ohio State Fairgrounds and set for Europe relief. Thirty carloads of wheat were sent to Philadelphia as the train began its journey toward aid shipments from Ohio and beyond.
In Chicago the International Harvester Company and the CIO United Auto Workers remained apart as talks failed to yield a contract for the Memphis Tennessee plant. Memphis is one of seven plants in six cities tied up by the UAW strike.
In Maysville Kentucky J B Shaw sues cafe owner Richard C Gifford for 10100 damages alleging a bartender and employee Newt Dewaly poured inflammable liquid on his sleeping foot and set it on fire. The action cites carelessness by the cafe and staff.
Ohio endures a sixth day of 90 degree temperatures with no relief in sight. Cincinnati Cleveland and Columbus posted heat records as merchants and workers faced health risks. Weather officials expect only limited cooling with scattered thundershowers and lingering high humidity.
A U S government report says a severe grain storage shortage could cost farmers hundreds of millions in 1939. The Agriculture Department estimates storage needs exceeding 1 bil bushels, worst in the corn belt amid a 3.5 bil bushel corn crop. Losses may come from deterioration and lower market prices, with loans and future-buy agreements tied to safe storage. If storage fails, farmers may face selling below support levels, possibly shifting costs to the government next year.
A growing tropical hurricane in the south Atlantic moves northwest toward Florida. At 4 45 am it was 410 miles northeast of Turks Island with winds near 100 mph. The storm, first of the season, is likely to broaden as it approaches the mainland in coming days.
A fund to aid refugees from communism forms in New York after the Russian teacher Mrs Ok sana Kasenkina, 52, leaped from a Soviet consulate window. Common Cause Inc is organized to cover medical, legal and future employment costs for her.
A 16 hour work stoppage at Carnegie Illinois Steel Ohio works ended for 650 open hearth workers. CIO steel workers president Sam Camens said the dispute began when the slag crew objected to conditions. Loss was estimated at 3000 tons of steel.
Sheriff reports a 25 year old mother of five, Mrs. Doris Wood, was killed after leaping from a speeding car during an argument with her husband. Floyd Wood, the husband, says she jumped from the vehicle. The incident occurred in Washington C H.
Temperatures will average 12 to 16 degrees above normal with unseasonable warmth through the period and a late cooling trend. Normal highs near 75 east and 79 west, lows around 59 east and 58 west. Precipitation light with a few scattered thundershowers toward the end.
The railroads requested a nationwide freight rate increase on coal coke and iron ore arguing current rates lag behind other commodities. They proposed 25 cents per net ton or 28 cents per gross ton on coal and coke and 20 cents per ton for iron ore in the East and South, claiming $140 million annual gain at 1947 traffic.
Twenty employees at St. Mary and St. John cemeteries returned to work after 11 days of strike over pay. Burial of 30 bodies had been postponed due to the stoppage as the employer granted a 15 cent raise to $1.15.
Former Gov. Frank Lausche, a Democratic candidate for governor, said pressure groups control the state administration and that Gov. Thomas J. Herbetts administration is anti public, anti taxpayer, and anti good government at a Delaware rally.
President Truman plans a sweeping cross country tour to visit more states than any prior candidate. Close associates say the yacht Wanderer trip will extend into the Deep South and through every region of the nation.
Cincinnati police report Leonard Davis a 19 year old stable boy at a saddle club drowned last night in a small lake after slipping from a rubber life raft while swimming with several youths.
Los Angeles reports an overflow crowd as Mae West, still 55, prepares to testify in defense of two writers claiming she used material from their script. West denies seeing the script and says she did not pirate the material for her production Catherine Was Great.
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