Ex Nazi Field Marshal Manstein Sentenced to 18 Years
A British military court in Hamburg sentenced former field marshal Erich von Manstein to 18 years for war crimes including disregard for order and mistreatment of Soviet prisoners. He was found guilty on nine charges and acquitted on eight, with no mercy plea.
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Hamburg
Germany
Erich von Manstein
Manstein
Hitler
Plena
Poland
Russia
von Manstein
Orler
Gestapo
Body Found On Houseboat On Kanawha River
The body of Edward B. Taylor, 60, was found on his houseboat at First St. along the Kanawha River in Point Pleasant at 8:30 a.m. Coroner Edna Gettles ruled death natural. Neighbors reported no signs of life and alerted authorities who unlocked the boat. Taylor's only known survivor is a brother in Addison.
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Point Pleasant
Edward B. Taylor
Kanawha
Edna Gettles
Frank Morrow
First St
Abe Gray
Taylor
F. A. Morrison
Ray McClure
E. F. Geiger
Addison
Fichter Considers Senate Candidacy in Ohio
Joseph W. Fichter, master of the Ohio State Grange, said Sunday he has informally discussed a Democratic run for the U.S. Senate in the state. He is flattered by the interest but not yet a candidate. Fichter has led the Ohio Grange for seven years and directed its educational work for 16 years.
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Oxford
Ohio
Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio State Grange
U.S. Senate
Ohio Grange
Grange
Wards in Yokohama Get Rousing Welcome
Consul General and Mrs. Angus Ward returned to Yokohama after a year in China, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary, and arrived with 200 Americans cheering as the Lakeland Victory docked.
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Yokohama
Angus Ward
Mukden
Manchuria
United States
Fire Wrecks Central Market At Cleveland
A blaze destroyed Cleveland’s Central Market Saturday night, leaving about 150 tenants homeless. Fire Chief Elmer Cain estimated damages at 200000, with teardown costs around 10000. Mayor Burke said city aid is limited and a new market building is not planned. The Glenville Paper Co. was damaged as nearby structures burned. Farmers had used the market for 93 years.
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Cleveland
Central Market
Thomas A. Burke
Elmer M. Cain
Glenville Paper Co
Truman Faces Coal Decision In January
President Truman and Congress may confront restoring a five day work week for United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis. Industry leaders warn of a national emergency after multiple walkouts and a three day week amid coal shortages with three months of stock unless weather worsens.
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Pittsburgh
Truman
Congress
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
United Mine
Greatest GI project touted by UC president
Dr Ray mond Walters in the 30th annual survey for the educational weekly School and Society called World War II veterans’ training the greatest higher education project in American history. He cited 820,841 veteran students on the University of Cincinnati campus, down 14 percent from last year after a 1947 peak of 1,149,933.
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Cincinnati
Raymond Walters
University of Cincinnati
Educational Weekly
School and Society
First Woman Named to Australian Cabinet
Canberra reports the anti-socialist coalition formed a government with a cabinet including a woman member for the first time. Premier Robert Menzies and Dame Enid Lyons joined 17 other ministers as Dame Enid Lyons became vice president of the executive council.
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Canberra
Australia
Coalition
Today
Robert Gordon Menzies
Enid Lyons
Enid
Joseph A. Lyons
Executive Council
Italian Film Chosen Best Movie of 1949
New York reports postwar Italian film The Bicycle Thief named best picture of 1949 by the National Board of Review. Vittorio De Sica cited as best director amid a list of top films including The Quiet One Intruder in the Dust The Heiress Devil in the Flesh Quartet Germany Year Zero Home of the Brave Letter to Three Wives and Fallen Idol.
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New York
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
Vittorio de Sica
Germany
Mrs. Thomas Withdraws From Congress Race
Mrs. J Parnell Thomas pulled out of the race for the 7th district seat vacated by her jailed husband. The field then narrowed to Harry C Harper who was chosen as the Republican organization candidate.
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Hackensack
N. J
J. Parnell Thomas
Harry C. Harper
Republican Organization
Crossing Crash Kills 4 In Chillicothe Area
A passenger train struck an automobile 11 miles southeast of Chillicothe killing four occupants and scattering their bodies 75 feet. The crash raised Ohio fatalities to 19 from Friday night, with multiple other deaths across the state including two children in a Ravenna fire and three Ohioans in out of state incidents.
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Associated Press
Chillicothe
Norman Spearry
Robert
Emerson
George Nelson
Wellston
Spearry
Norfolk & Western Railway
Ravenna
Cleveland
Patricial McGrath Watkins
Marietta
Huntington
W. Va
Coal Operator John V R Skinner Dies in Charleston
Funeral services for John V. R. Skinner 86 prominent West Virginia coal operator who died in Charleston yesterday will be held in Massillon Ohio on Wednesday He was vice president of the Bank of St Albans and president of the Coal River Mining Co.
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Charleston
John V. R. Skinner
West Virginia
Massillon
Ohio
Bank of St. Albans
Coal River Mining Co
Tow Swept Against Dam Near Newell Port
The towboat Inca from India River Lines resumed its trip to Paducah Kentucky after being swept broadside against dam 8 at Newell West Virginia Sunday. The tow of seven oil and gas barges escaped damage and was freed after 18 hours of work. The Inca was nearing lock through the dam when it turned broadside and rested with the lead barge in mud near the Ohio shore. Dam 8 remained undamaged and back in service today.
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Ohio
Inca
Pittsburgh
Mechanic Kidnapped as Bandits Rob Bronx Garage
Four armed men robbed a taxi cab company garage in New York and forced mechanic Ernest Collette, 40, to flee with them in a cab after forcing the garage manager to open a safe. About $4900 was taken, and ten garage employees were herded to the rear at gunpoint before the assailants abandoned Collette and the cab in the Bronx.
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New York
Ernest Collette
Bronx
Girl Transfusion Aided, Released From Hospital
Marie Caputo, an Ohio University freshman from Cleveland Heights, was released from Sheltering Arms Hospital sixteen days after doctors and State Highway Patrol members organized blood transfusions. Admitted December 5 for a ruptured spleen due to an infection, she received blood rushed from Columbus in about an hour. Her condition was described as very good at release.
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Marie Caputo
Ohio University
Cleveland Heights
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Miss Caputo
Columbus
Packing House Blast Toll Rises to 20
Sioux City Iowa Mrs Alice Hammond a 25 year old bookkeeper died at a hospital today from injuries in the Swift and Company packing plant explosion last Wednesday She is the twentieth fatality and thirty eight were still hospitalized today
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Sioux City
Iowa
Alice Hammond
Swift & Co
Tilden Freed After Parole Violation Serving Time
William Tilden, 56, once the world champion, is released in Los Angeles after completing 10 months and 17 days of a one year sentence for parole violation.
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Tilden
Los Angeles
William Tilden
Fire Marshal Gets Aid Of Lausche
Gov. Lausche urged the emergency board to grant Fire Marshal Harry J. Callan an $8800 emergency allowance for the rest of fiscal 1950 to prevent layoffs of inspectors amid new salary schedules. The measure aims to sustain department operations and maintain the required 24 inspector staff despite salary increases. Local and state departments share in public building inspections, with cooperation noted among city and university fire departments.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
State Emergency Board
Harry J. Callan
Herbert D. Defenbacher
Emergency Board
Lausche
Callan
Defenbacher
Ohio
Industrial Relations Department
Public Welfare Department
Lima
Mount Vernon
Apple Creek
Massillon
Tiffin
Lancaster
Mansfield
Toledo
Youngstown
Gallipolis
Madison
Dayton
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Cambridge
Gulf Fog Envelops Valley and Midwest Cold Snap Follows
Gulf fog crept up the Mississippi Valley reaching Chicago while a northwest cold wave warning spread. The dense fog grounded flights across Texas cities and extended into Oklahoma Missouri Indiana Illinois Kentucky Alabama and Georgia with Ohio and West Virginia also affected. Cold air moved from Canada into Montana as temperatures dropped to subzero in Cut Bank and Lewiston.
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Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Texas
Dallas
San Antonio
Austin
Houston
U.S. Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Missouri
Indiana
Ilinois
Kentucky
Alabama
Georgia
Ohio
West Virginia
Canada
Montana
Cut Bank
Mont
Lewiston
Hhill
Missing Youth Sought In Western Mountains
Search parties with skies and snow shoes scoured the Blue Mountains for 18 year old Donald McDonald, missing four days as subzero temperatures hinder the effort. A companion toiled to organize a hunter search after two days of fruitless effort.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Blue Mountains
Donald McDonald
Fire at Ohio Refinery Causes Slight Damage
Newark reports a spectacular blaze at Pure Oil Heath refinery three miles west of town last night. Flames visible for miles, but officials say the fire was small and no injuries occurred. Cause blamed on a leak in an exchange line between refining tanks.
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Akron
Newark
Pure Oil Company
Heath
Here
American Dies in Paris Sabena Plane Crash
Eight people perished when a Belgian Sabena Airlines twin engine crashed near Le Bourget airport. An American identified as Foster White, 31, of Hartford Connecticut, was among the dead as the craft missed a crowded movie theater by a few hundred yards and struck a cottage.
U.S. Britain and Canada Agree on Military Standardization
London reports that the United States Britain and Canada announced a plan to standardize arms equipment and training to ensure seamless cooperation in emergencies and maximize resource use. no treaty or bonding agreement is involved. talks date back to 1947 with progress among Brussels treaty members.
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London
Britain
United States
Canada
Ministry of Defense
North Atlantic
Waterloo Man Found Dead In Automobile
The body of Denver A. Scott, 19, of New Marshfield was found early Sunday in his car near Dicken Garage. Dr. John H. Elias, county coroner, ruled the death an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. the car engine was running. Surviving are his father Raymond Scott two brothers Frank and Lester and two half sisters Opal and Garnet Scott, all of Mansfield. He was reared by A L Carpenter family and graduated from Waterloo High School in 1948 and served in the Athens National Guard. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at New Marshfield Methodist Church with burial in Marshfield Cemetery. Friends may call Hoodlet Funeral Home through Monday 5 p.m. then at the Carpenter home.
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Denver A. Scott
New Marshfield
Dicken
John H. Elias
Raymond Scott
Frank
Lester
Opal
Garnet Scott
Mansfield
Scott
A. L. Carpenter
Waterloo High School
Athens National Guard
Miles E. Hoon
New Marshfield Methodist Church
Giant jellyfish kills Australian boy at North Queensland beach
Brian Andrew McNamara aged 10 was killed by a giant jellyfish at a North Queensland beach. His father tried to save him by striking the creature with force, but the boy died from the stings as the jellyfish swam away.
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Brisbane
Australia
Brian Andrew McNamara
Queensland
Five Children Perish in Farmhouse Fire Near Emmett
A fire swept through a two story frame farmhouse near Emmett Michigan killing five children trapped in an upstairs bedroom. The Bethway family escaped with five children and Clarence Bethway, Irene Bethway and his 8 year old mother, via downstairs windows.
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Emmett, Mich
Emmett
Clarence Bethway
Irene
Mr. Bethway
Scout Leader Dies in Lebanon Ohio
The dean of Southern Ohio's boy scout leaders, Charles Van Ness, 19, died yesterday in Lebanon.
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Lebanon, CO
Southern Ohio
Charles van Ness
Golden Worms Go To Haver and Douglas In Hollywood
The Hollywood Women's Press Club named June Haver and Kirk Douglas as most cooperative actress and actor in Hollywood. Hedy Lamarr and Humphrey Bogart were labeled most uncooperative, receiving nothing.
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Hollywood
Golden Apples
June Haver
Kirk Douglas
Hollywood Women's Press Club
Miss Haver
Douglas
Hedy Lamarr
Humphrey Bogart
Chinese Base Is Recaptured
Kunming in Yunnan Province was retaken by Chinese nationalists as the 26th Army regained the city from defecting provincial troops who had seized it while the nationalist government fled to Chengtu. Li Mi, the nationalist commander, was released at the airport after being held by Lu Han forces. The victory sparked talk of breaking relations with Great Britain in response to British recognition of Red China.
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South China
Chengtu
Li Mi
Kunming
Lu Han
Yunnan
Red China
Great Britain
Plane stops on road after brakes fail at city airport
A Transworld Airliner plowed through two wire fences and clipped a cafe corner at Municipal Airport. The four engine Constellation halted on Cicero Avenue after brakes failed, with 26 aboard none injured, officials said.
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Chicago
Transworld
Global Business Trip Ended by Sam Keener
Sam Keener, owner of the Salem Engineering Co., says he collected a satchel of orders during a round the world business trip by air. He logged about 45 000 air miles by the time he landed at Akron Canton airport Saturday night.
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Salem
Sam Keener
Salem Engineering Co
Keener
Akron-Can‘ton Airport
Long Range Sub Fleet Being Built
Jane's Fighting Ships reports Soviet buildup with three 35,000-ton battleships and 750 to 1000 long-range submarines planned by 1951 under a five year program. Russia reportedly works day and night in USSR and German shipyards, though Jane's cautions details are with reserve. The U S Navy remains a 2600-ship force but scales to 409 Atlantic and 285 Pacific vessels.
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London
Britain
United States
Soviet
Russia
Jane's Fighting Ships
Soviet Union
Jane's
Ussr
Soviet Sone
Germany
Baltic
Far East
Jane’s
U.S. Navy
U. S. Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Steel Price Probe Slated
The Senate House Economic Committee will open an investigation next month into the price increase announced by U S Steel Corp. Chairman Cn D Wy said staff is preparing and hearings may begin early in January. President Benjamin Fairless says he will explain to Congress why the steel price was raised by four dollars a ton.
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Washington
Seneate House Economicminittee
U.S. Steel Corp
D-Wye
Benjamin Fairless
Congress
Fumes Blank Suburban Cincinnati Area From P and G Tank leak
A cloud of foul smelling fumes blanketed part of St Bernard Cincinnati for three hours yesterday. Health authorities said the chlorine sulfuric compound irritates eyes and noses but is not toxic. A wind dispersed the gas and no injuries were reported.
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Cincinnati
St. Bernard
Procter and Gamble Co
Dewey Sets Conference With Water Experts On City Crisis
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey summoned New York state water officials and engineering aides to a conference in Albany to study the city water crisis. The move signals possible aid for New York City's 8 million residents.
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Dewey
Albany
N.Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York City
UAW Ratifies Pension Pact With Midland Steel
The CIO United Auto Workers yesterday ratified a $100 monthly pension agreement reached with Midland Steel Products Co in Cleveland. The pact marks a milestone in worker retirement benefits and contractual relations between the union and the company.
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UAW
Cleveland
CIO
United Auto Workers
Midland Steel Products Co
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