Czechs claim anti Red underground crushed six death
The Czechoslovak government announced the suppression of an anti Communist underground amid a secret trial. Six were sentenced to death ten to life imprisonment with others acquitted. Officials said the group plotted armed action against the regime and contacted a Western power. The trial proceeded in Prague with several weeks of testimony and confessions.
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Prague
Spies
Ter
Josef Charvat
Jaroslav Borkovec
New Course Opened For Air Races In Cleveland
The National Air Races open next weekend with a seven sided 15 mile course for qualifying flights. About a dozen warplanes entered in the Thompson trophy event on Labor Day. Frank P. Singer of Canon City wants to go first off the line. Notable pilots include J H G McArthur with a Spitfire and William P Odom with a North American F 51 Mustang. Anson L Johnson returns with a modified Mustang after last year's speed mark.
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Cleveland
Frank P. Singer
Canon City
Colo
Singer
Butch”) McArthur
William P
Bill”) Odom
Teterboro
N. J
Jacqueline Cochrane
Anson L. Johnson
Miami Springs
Fla
Thompson
Car Crash Kills Woman near Portsmouth on Route 23
A Columbus trio riding in a car on Route 23 about ten miles north of Portsmouth wrecked on a curve Monday night. Elizabeth Foley 69 died at Portsmouth City Hospital. Dorothy Tye 29 suffered a broken hip and shoulder. Everett Cartin received a broken arm. Sheriff Burl Justice said they were all from Columbus.
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Portsmouth
Columbus
Route 23
Here
Elizabeth Foley
Portsmouth City Hospital
Dorothy Tye
Burl Justice
Everett Cartin
Kidnaping and Robbery Suspect Questioned in Ohio
Harold Everett Thompson, arrested in Portsmouth on kidnaping and armed robbery charges, was to be questioned by Prosecutor Ralph Carhart in Marion. He allegedly abducted taxi driver Lewis E. Louck at gunpoint, forcing a drive to Mansfield and then Portsmouth, with Louck losing $30.
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Marion
Harold Everett Thompson
Portsmouth
Ohio
Ralph Carhart
Lewis E. Louck
Mansfield
Louck
Daughter Born to Columbus Polio Victim Monday Night
A daughter was born Monday night to Mrs. Fred Schleup, a Columbus polio victim. Hospital authorities said mother and daughter are fine.
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Columbus
Fred Schleup
Crowds Grow as Ohio State Fair Peaks on Trustees Day
Ohio State Fair officials brace for peak attendance as forecasts promise warm, fair weather. By 6 p.m. yesterday, 31 000 visitors were counted with a late night surge likely surpassing last year’s 33 486 on Monday. The junior fair runs 20 percent larger with 5201 total entries. Paul Huck of McConnelsville won FFA poultry contest. Ned Dearborn of Chicago presented a National Safety Council farm safety plaque to Ohio Farm Safety Committee for reducing farm deaths.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ned Dearborn
Chicago
National Safety Council
Ohio Farm Safety Committee
D. Robert Jones
Paul Huck
McConnelsville
Farmers of America
Crossing Near Toledo Named Most Dangerous Intersection
The intersection of Routes 183 and 246 west of Toledo is cited as the most dangerous in rural Ohio after 51 reported motor vehicle collisions in the past three years. The figure excludes 1949 data, with 179 locations labeled high frequency accident spots by the state highway department.
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Columbus
Toledo
Ohio
State Highway Department
Department
Division of Traffic and Safety
Taylor Rides Fastest Mile in Derby But Is Eliminated in Quarter Finals
Jan Taylor 15 from Chauncey rode the fastest half mile in yesterdays All American Newspaperboys bike derby at Franklin Park Col umbus. He was eliminated in the quarter finals finishing fourth in his heat with 1 15.0, despite a 1 13.0 in the heat that included Pascasio Saldana. Finals honors went to Kuehnert Swearingen Starler Harris Wright Parsons with Kuehnert earning a 2500 college scholarship and trophy.
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Taylor
Derby
Jan Taylor
Messenger
Chauncey
Franklin Park
Columbus
Bob Swearingen
The
Columbus Dispatch
Joseph Mauda
Peruis Vl Te Bie Lms
Jorseph Kurzer
Chicago Sun- Times
John Kuehnnert
Rocky Mountain News
Denver
Swearingen
Donald Starler
Detroit News
Curtis Harris
Charleston
W. Va
Daily Mail
John Wright
Columbus Citizen
John Parsons
Zanesville Times- Recorder
Kuehnnert
Starlor
Cey Lad
Pascasio Saldana
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Saldana
Ohio State Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds
Senate economy drive bogged down after defense bill vote
The Senate faced a defeated economy rider aiming to cut 5 to 10 percent from the fiscal year budget as part of a $14.8 billion defense bill. A 49 to 28 vote fell three short of the two thirds required, delaying broader economy measures into 1950 campaigns. The chamber then returned the defense bill to the House with large cuts, while suspending rules and other votes followed.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Barkley
Congress
Lucas
Illinois
McClellan
Arkansas
Byrd
Virginia
Wherry
Nebraska
Taft
Ohio
Wiley
R-Wis
Douglas
D-Ill
House
Bricker
Armed Services
Hawaii Plans to Resist Picketing on Docks
Hawaii authority will counter picketing of dock operations by CIO longshoremen. Federal judges McLaughlin and Metzger upheld government stevedoring and the picketing ban, allowing continued government stevedoring begun after seizing the docks under an emergency law.
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Honolulu
Territory of Hawaii
CIO
U. S
J. Frank McLaughlin
Delbert E. Metzger
Sixth Person Is Dead After Hollister Crash
The last survivor in Friday nights head on crash at Hollister died last night bringing total fatalities in the mishap to six. Pearl Morrison died at Sheltering Arms Hospital in Athens County in what authorities call the worst traffic accident in local history. Six people were involved in the Route 78 collision three teenage girls were killed outright and two men died in hospital the next day. Five others in a third car were unhurt. Morrison’s condition worsened from severe shock and heart failure as doctors reported him in very critical shape. Funeral services are set for Friday at the Redtown Free Methodist Church with burial in Maplewood cemetery.
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Hollister
Pearl Morrison
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Finis
Athens County
Route 78
Morrison
Trimble
Navy
Naval
Redtown Free Methodist Church
Maplewood Cemetery
Leo Morrison
Lola
Theryssa
Ernest Landon
Prospect
Leo, Jr
California
Helen West
Harry Myers, Jr
Glouster
Board Offers To Mediate Wage Dispute Threatening Steel Strike
Labor and management representatives debated a presidential fact finding board offer to mediate a wage dispute risking a steel industry strike on Sept 14. The board seeks replies from the union and 63 companies by tomorrow and aims to resolve a 30 cents an hour raise request for about one million workers. Settlement could influence other mass production industries.
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New York
DOT
Man Pleads Guilty In Relative's Shooting Case
Finley Vance, 49, pleaded guilty at arraignment before Mayor Thomas P. Harrison in Greenhills on murder charges for the shotgun slaying of his brother in law Earl Stacy 42 during a family quarrel. Held for grand jury.
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Cincinnati
Finley Vance
Thomas P. Harrison
Greenhills
Earl Stacy
Harrrison
Vance
12 Hour Parade Opens Legion Convention In Philadelphia
A gay task force of gaudily dressed American Legionnaires began a 12 hour parade at the Legion's 31st annual convention in Philadelphia. Drums, bugles, baton twirlers, confetti, and ticker tape accompanied martial tunes as a crowd of Philadelphians and visitors cheered the invasion.
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Philadelphia
Quaker City
Legion
Goodrich Union Plan To Resume Wage Talks
Dayton report says negotiations to be resumed today between B. F. Goodrich Co officials and the United Rubber Workers CIO as a nationwide strike of about 17 000 workers continues. The union seeks a 25 cent hourly raise and company paid pensions of 100 dollars. average earnings under the old contract were 1 dollar 51 cents per hour.
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Dayton
B. F. Goodrich Co
United Rubber Workers
CIO
Goodrich
Reservists Drafted in Bolivia Amid Civil Conflict
In Bolivia the government began a general mobilization with reservists aged 20 to 24 called to defend against a rising rightist revolt. Citizens 19 to 50 were ordered to mobilize as fighting spreads from Cochabamba to La Paz with air raids on Cochabamba and a rebel seizure of government planes at Camiri.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Cochabamba
Camiri
Condition Unimproved For Polio Victim
The 14 year old Hoon girl of Chesterhill, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ross Hoon, remains unimproved and is an iron lung patient at Parkersburg hospital.
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Chesterhill
Ye Hoon
Ross Hoon
Eea Hospital
Parkersburg
Weather Outlook for Columbus Temperature to rise above normal
The forecast shows average temperatures 3 to 5 degrees above normal with a normal high of 77 and low of 57. Cooler conditions are expected Wednesday and remain cool into the weekend before turning warmer by Sunday. Precipitation around 0.4 to 0.5 inch with scattered showers tonight and again Sunday.
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Columbus
Vaughan disavows influence and asserts clean record
Major General Harry H. Vaughan told the Senate Investigations subcommittee he never authorized John Maragon to speak for him or the White House. He denied improper conduct, insisted his record is clean, and described gifts from the Verley Perfume Co. as friendship, not favors.
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Washington
Harry H. Vaughan
John Maragon
White House
Senate
Vaughan
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Maragon
Pentagon
Maracon
Aragon
Albert J. Verley Perfume Co
Chicago
Herbert ©. Hathorn
New Jersey
Agriculture Department
Hathorn
Dusiness
Vaan
Mrs. Truman
Werley Perfume Co
Paris
Verley Company of
Verley Company
Europe
State Department
Two Men Held in Akron For $25,000 Jewel Theft
Akron police held two men in connection with a $25,000 jewel theft involving 560 diamond rings stolen from Dave Moss of Joseph Berland Co. The suspects gave false names at first, were arrested at Cleveland airport, and a bellhop involved was cleared. Police will query them about related robberies in Cleveland and Minneapolis.
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Akron
Cleveland
Sid Walker
New York Commission
Albert Warner
Omaha
Chicago
John F. Struzewski
Dave Moss
Joseph Berland Co
New York
Struzewski
Moss
Rudy Travis
Struzenski
Akron-Canton
United Airlines
Genevieve Zereaniak
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Harry Vaughan
Senator Smith
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Joseph R. McCarthy
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Melnik
Associated Press
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Britain
London
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Lungchuan
Canton-Hankow
Hawaii
Camden-Clark Hospital
Robert E. Brandon
Cambridge
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Ada Norman Brandon
Coolville
Betty Edgington
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Grand Army of the Republic
Indianapolis
Ind
Theodore A. Penland
Portland
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