Olaf Murray Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Rigney Killing
Olaf Murray, 42, changed his plea from innocent to guilty of manslaughter in the July killing of Lawrence County constable Rigney. Judge Betz sentenced him to 1 year to life in the Ohio Penitentiary. Murray faces transfer within five days as authorities weigh the fatal ambush near Murray’s home.
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Gallipolis
Olaf Murray
Joeney
Robert M. Betz
Common Pleas Court
Murray
Ohio
Columbus
Rigney
M' Home
Lawrence County
Cherrington
Prentaine
John E. Halliday
Edward Wright
Murray House
D. R. Warehime
Gallia County
Murray Home
Hman
Williams
Halliday
Saxbe Wins Key Ohio House Post in 100th General Assembly
In Columbus Republican leaders chose Rep. William Saxbe of mechanicsburg 36 year old attorney as speaker of the Ohio House for the 100th General Assembly to convene January 5. Rep. Kline L Roberts of Columbus named majority floor leader. Roberts 36 year old attorney and former POW defeated Berry and Stanley. George H Kirkpatrick named honorary speaker for life. Leslie Burge re elected House whip and Carl Guess clerk at $7500 a year. The GOP holds 102 seats in the 136 member house.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
General Assembly
William Saxbe
Mechanicsburg
Champaign County
GOP
Kline L. Roberts
Saxbe
Air Corps
Gordon Renner
Cincinnati
Renner
Roberts
Kenneth F. Berry
Coshocton County
Cedric A. Stanley
Warren County
Berry
Stanley
Richard W. Taylor
Lucas County
Air Force
George H. Kirkpatrick
Knox County
Leslie M. Burge
Lorain House
Carl Guess
Carrollton House
Guess
Kirkpatrick
Assembly Inherits Civil Service Study
The 100th General Assembly convening Jan. 5 will inherit unsolved civil service problems affecting about 30,000 state employees. The Ohio Program Commission will urge a three member state civil service commission and other changes based on a program commission study.
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Columbus
100Th General Assembly
Ohio Program Commission
Civil Service Commission
Ohio
Blaze Injures 24 Firemen In Columbus Mortgage Firm Fire
A 200000 blaze swept the four story Franklin Mortgage Bid building at 40 W. Gay Street in downtown Columbus. Twenty four firefighters were overcome by smoke or injured with nine taken to hospitals. Fire Chief Strick Laden said the cause was not learned and a fire wall limited spread to adjacent units.
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Columbus
Franklin
Walter J. Strickladen
W. Gay St
Sge
Harry Gardner
Urlin
Conveyor Belt Plan Pressed for Ohio Route Terminal
H B Stewart Jr head of Riverlake Belt Conveyor Lines says Cleveland is the logical northern terminal for a coal and iron ore belt across Ohio. Final site depends on locating a suitable spot. The 100 mile multi million project would link Lake Erie and the Ohio River and needs eminent domain authority from the Ohio Legislature before starting.
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Akron
Ohio
Cleveland
H. B. Stewart Jr
Riverlake Belt Conveyor Lines, Inc
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Ohio Legislature
Seek New Life for Wage Board to End Controls
Washington officials pressed to revive the Wage Stabilization Board pledging wage curbs would endure with or without the board. Mobilization Director Henry Fowler and Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam said they planned to persuade industry members to join the WSB alongside public and labor members.
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Washington
Wage _ Stabilization Board
Henry Fowler
Roger L. Putnam
WSB
Coal Board Walkout Halts Wage Controls Protest
Industry members quit last weekend, paralyzing the Wage Stabilization Board to protest President Truman’s reversal of a pay raise for coal miners. The WSB had allowed $1.50 of a $1.90 raise. Truman ruled the full amount. Fowler and Putnam pledged to replace members and keep wage controls running while resisting broader wage hikes. Walter Reuther planned talks with Truman to press for scrapping controls.
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WSB
Truman
John JL. Lewis
Fowler
Putnam
Walter Reuther
CIO
Fowler- Putnam
Kline Rejects Something-for-Nothing Farm Aid Theory
At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention Iowa farmer Kline attacks the central government price support idea as inflationary and dangerous. He warns against price fixing and regimentation as real threats to farm living standards while the Chicago stance supported government price supports as protection against sharp declines. The event drew nearly 5000 delegates.
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Seattle
American Farm Bureau Federation
Kline
Big Farm Organization
Chicago
Iowa
Eisenhower Brain Trust Continues Far East Talks Aboard Helena
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and his advisers held daylong discussions on Far East issues aboard the USS Helena after crossing the International Date Line. The group, including Gen. Lucius Clay and George M. Humphrey, shared skeet-shooting honors before resuming talks en route to Pearl Harbor.
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Ike
mid-Pacific
Helena
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Interior
Herbert Brownell
Charles E. Wilson
John Foster Dulles
George Humphrey
Treasury
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Far East
Eisenhower
Pearl Harbor
Korea
Brain Trust
Lucius Clay
George M. Humphrey
Liquor Boss Probes Alleged Minor Sales
Ohio State Liquor Director W. C. Bryant says he is probing reports that state stores sold liquor to minors. The inquiry follows the arrest of four teenagers in Cincinnati last week. Bryant notes store personnel turnover as part of the investigation.
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Columbus, C
W. C. Bryant
Cincinnati
Bryant
Allied planes engage MiG fighters over North Korea
Allied pilots from the Fifth Air Force downed one MiG after a dogfight deep in North Korea. An exchange pilot, Graham F. Huse of Hanley England, earned credit for the kill. Sabre pilots faced two MiGs as one escaped back across the Yalu. B26 Invaders then scored their biggest successful run against Communist supply trucks in two weeks.
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Seoul
North Korea
U. S
Fifth Air Force
Fit. la
Graham F. Huse
Hanley
Staffordshire
Eng
Huse
First Family Returns Home From Missouri
President Truman and the First Family return to Independence after the funeral of Mrs. David W. Wallace, 90, Truman's mother in law. The president resumes duties in six weeks and plans to depart for Washington at 7 15 a.m. Standard Time amid Mrs. Truman's strained condition.
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Independence
Truman
Washington
Missouri
David W. Wallace
Trumans
White House
Bates Prison Recruits Key Dock Workers
Ex convict Anthony Tough Tony Tischon testified before the State Crime Commission in New York on waterfront rackets. He described hiring favors for ex cons and a culture of protection fears as the commission entered its fourth day of hearings into dock crime along the New Jersey and New York waterfronts.
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New York
Sing Sing
Anthony
Tony) Tischon
State Crime Commission
Tischon
Crime Commission
New Jersey
Dulles Resigns as Carnegie Endowment Trustee
John Foster Dulles resigns as board chairman and trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Harvey Holister Bundy, a 64 year old Boston lawyer and former vice chairman, is named to succeed him after the endowment's semi annual board meeting.
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New York
John Foster Dulles
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Harvey Holister Bundy
Endowment
Dulles
Bundy
Boston
Talking horse Lady Onder stuns skeptical reporter in Richmond
Reporter Paul Duke visits Mrs. Fonda in Richmond to interview Lady Onder a 27 year old horse claimed to predict facts. The horse answers by lever slides spelling out answers and has drawn long distance inquiries after successful responses including names places and a bet on the interview via Bethlehem Pennsylvania and a weekly dollar toll.
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Paul Duke
Richmond
Lady Onder
Bethlehem
MacArthur Aid Urged for Eisenhower Korea Plan
Senator McCarthy urged President-elect Eisenhower to seek Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s input on a new Korea endgame. MacArthur hinted at a plan for a clear solution with limited Allied casualties and offered to discuss it with Eisenhower. Senate allies Stennis and Butler pressed Eisenhower to consider MacArthur’s military views before deciding.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
National Association of Manufacturers
John Marshall Butler
John Stennis
D-Miss
Capitol Hill
Gen
Stennis
Butler
Truman
Manchuria
Grounded Yorkmar Freighter Beset by Rough Seas
In Aberdeen Washington the 7207 ton Yorkmar with 37 crewmen sits on a churning beach like a sitting duck as Coast Guard crews prepare to evacuate if needed. Weather warnings predict 40 mph winds and a salvage tug Salvage Chief will try to free the vessel at the next high tide. Ground party stands by to remove crew by breeches buoy.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Washington Beach
Coast Guard
Salvage Chief
Evangelist Billy Graham Heads for Korea Revival Effort
Billy Graham arrives in Tokyo en route to Korea to conduct revival meetings. Seventy five Americans greet him at the airport terminal and sing a hymn as he plans to ask President-elect Eisenhower to call a day of prayer for Korea.
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Tokyo
Billy Graham
Korea
Graham
U. S
Dwight Eisenhower
Large-Sized Puppy Sale Nets Profit
Karla Jean Emery, 11, ran a police action over a chihuahua that grew to a terrier size. The seller Pedro refunded $30 plus $15 for dog food. She then bought Pedro back for $25, boosting the total outcome of the unusual sale.
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Cleveland
Karla Jean Emery
Pedro
Karla
Costello Denied Review of Contempt Conviction
The Supreme Court refused for the second time to grant gambler Frank Costello a review of his contempt of Congress conviction. He serves an 18 month sentence at Atlantic Penitentiary for walking out of a Senate Crime Investigating Committee hearing in New York City.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Frank Costello
Costello
Atlantic Penitentiary
New York City
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Supreme Court to Hear Racial School Segregation Case
The Supreme Court will rule on whether sending Negro and white children to separate schools violates the Constitution. NAACP argues segregation harms educational development and violates the 14th Amendment. Thurgood Marshall argues against the 1896 separate but equal doctrine. John W. Davis counters, stressing local self government.
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Washington
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Association
Thurgood Marshall
John W. Davis
Davis
Calm Returns To N. Mexico State Prison
The New Mexico State Prison calmed after an eight-captive guard release by 14 inmates who had seized them in a brief uprising. Governor Mechem planned an investigation while officials recovered, as eight guards were freed and six more inmates remained unidentified. The event occurred after a hostage exchange attempt and ended near noon.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico State
Morris A. Abram
Edwin L. Mechem
Abram
Phoenix
Wage Dispute Idles Workers at Graham Station Plant
At the Philip Sporn plant in Graham Station AFL painters union members strike over retroactive wage boosts. United Painting Company of New York allegedly failed to pay Wage Stabilization Board approved increases. A picket line allowed production workers in while painters and construction workers remained at the line. A plant official reported no pistol line this morning.
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Point Pleasant
Philip Sporn
Graham Station
AFL Painters Union
United Painting Company of New York
Wage Stabilization Board
Mason Legal Aide Hired for January Court
Cabell County Prosecutor Edward Greene hired to assist newly elected Mason County Prosecutor Raymond Musgrave. Greene aided the Oct 18 special grand jury investigation into Mason County vote fraud and state road property conversion. Trial dispositions await the January circuit term.
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Point Pleasant
J. G. F. Johnson
Cabello County
Edward Greene i
Raymond Musgrave
Greene
Musgrave
Johnson
Plan Area Canvass Cleveland Board Members Weigh Leaving
Industry members of the Ohio-Kentucky regional Wage Stabilization Board will canvass their constituents before deciding whether to quit. The move follows tensions over wage controls and regulatory authority.
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Cleveland
Ohio-Kentucky Regional Wage Stabilization Board
Wacky Sleepy Texans Trinkets and Tunnels of Dream Stunts
Reporters in Midland and Amarillo note extreme wakefulness and wild stunts as residents try to beat sleep. Two Midland painters have a $1000 prize for staying awake longest while a chain of walkathons and long-distance treks unfold, ending with a trolley bridge incident in Dallas where a driver slept at the wheel.
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Midland
Tex
Texas
Amarillo
Canyon
Robert Cook
Jess Hensley
Dallas
Oak Cliff
Dalles
Trinity River
Nine Coast Guard Lightkeepers Stranded on Reef
Nine lightkeepers and a relief crew endured a tenth day isolated on St Georges Reef seven miles off Crescent City California as fierce storms and high winds prevent attempts to lower boats. Coast Guard rescue efforts continue amid pounding seas and North Pacific gales.
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Crescent City
Calif
Coast Guard
Californias
Oregon Coast
St. Georges
Five Escape Injury As Blade Slams Home
A B-29 propeller crashed into a Bakersfield home on a residential street. The blade sheared a corner of the house, sliced a bedroom, and partially buried itself in the ground. Mr and Mrs George Cowie and their three children were at dinner nearby and escaped unharmed.
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Bakersfield
Cali
Meri
George Cowie
Five Day Extended Forecast for Ohio Temperatures
Ohio's forecast shows temperatures averaging above normal for the five day period. Normal maximum is 37 units, with daytime warmth expected ahead of a cooldown or variation across the state.
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Ohio
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