Defense calls ex-GI in Axis Sally trial
Ex-GI Gilbert Hansford of Cincinnati testified in the treason trial of Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally. He said Gillars visited wounded soldiers in Paris August 9 to 15 and helped relay propaganda broadcasts via a microphone to enemies and relatives.
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Washington
Gilbert Lee Hansford
Cincinnati
Mildred E. Gillars
James J. Laughlin
Miss Gillars
Hansford
John T. Lynskey
Etna
Paul G. Kestel
Detroit
275Th Infantry
Hospital de la Pitie
Paris
Fellows
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Grover silent on Ohio University athletic director post
Grover declined comment on a Cincinnati Enquirer report that he would succeed Don Peden as athletic director at Ohio University. Peden also offered no comment. President Baker said Widdoes would be considered if the position opened.
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B. T. Grover
Don Peden
Ohio University
Cincinnati Enquirer
Peden
Grover
John C. Baker
Carroll C. Widdoes
Ohio U
Widdoes
Baker
Athens Clock Faces Pigeons and Water Use Shift
The Athens County courthouse clock, removed from City Hall 25 years ago by C. C. Millikan, needs attention to keep time and deter pigeons. The tower shows wear and one north-hand is missing while four faces require regilding. University absences cut city water use from about 1.5 million gallons daily to under a million.
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Athens County
C. C. Millikan
Ohio University
Athens
Armory lawns draw fire from Athens residents
Armory district residents in Athens criticize the condition of the lawns flanking the building. Memorial trees planted by the Athens City Federation era honor 10 local youths who died in the first Great War. The east lawn shows tire marks while the west lawn doubles as parking space, likened to a cemetery by one observer.
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Armory
Athens
Athens City Federation
Price declines seen sharper in commodity markets
Economic forecasters reassess amid sharper declines in commodity prices over recent days. The 1948 price break anniversary is noted as declines gain momentum. D. C. Procure of Briton says food prices may drop 10 to 15 percent within a year. American Meat Institute cites wholesale beef 35 cents a pound below last summer's highs.
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New York
National Retail Grocers Association
D. C. Procure of
Briton
Okla
Chicago
American Meat Institute
Bonus Applicants Told to Follow Instructions
Columbus Ohio Director C W Goble of the World War II compensation fund urged unpaid bonus applicants to follow mailed instructions to speed claims. He announced 641,679 living veterans and 12,982 next of kin of 9,040 deceased Ohio veterans received 201,890,837.52 dollars in payments from April 28, 1948, to February 1, 1949. Applications may be filed until June 30, 1950.
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Columbus
C. W. Goble
Goble
Ohio
Inventor W. Schuyler Dies at 73 in Springfield
Springfield obituary notes the death of inventor and manufacturer W. Schuyler, 73, who led a firm producing patented pancake turners and a gasoline filtering funnel. He claimed to have conceived an automobile named the Ocean Side Express in Ocean Side, California, in 1899.
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Springfield
Wilson
Schuyler
Ocean Side
Calif
Power Plant Dispute Is Reported Settled
Workmen return to the Philip Sporn plant after a one day stoppage at Graham Station as settlement of the dispute was announced last night. The disruption halted construction at the facility and the crew was expected back on the job today.
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Graham Station
Philip Sporn
Marietta Mayor Hart Elected to OAM Board
Joseph Hart, mayor of Marietta, was chosen to join the board of directors at the Ohio Association of Municipalities annual meeting in Columbus.
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Columbus
Joseph Hartline
Marietta
Ohio Association of Municipalities
Unemployed at 93 Ben Seeks Benefits
Columbus report states Ben Buffalo aged 93 filed for unemployment compensation, claiming past rides with Buffalo Bill Cody and scouting for the U S Army in the 1870s. Ohio Bureau notes he is the oldest applicant under the state law.
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Ben
Columbus
Buffalo
Buffalo Bill Cody
U. S. Army
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ben Buffalo
Taft Backs Opposition as Truman Seeks Strike Power
In Washington, President Truman asserts inherent authority to halt strikes endangering health or welfare without new powers. Senator Taft counters that even suggesting such power threatens liberty, as lawmakers debate a labor bill to repeal Taft-Hartley and restore Wagner Act with injunctions against national emergency strikes.
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Washington
Truman
Taft
Rohio
Clark
Senate Labor Committee
United States
Missing Navy plane prompts search with five scientists
Five civilian scientists and two crewmen are missing after a Beechcraft crash attempt near Inyokern California. The plane departed the Navy Ordnance Testing Station at 6 30 a m for Alameda California en route to a UC Berkeley physics conference. A wide air search by military forces Civil Air Patrol is focused on a triangle near Bakersfield Inyokern and Fresno within 50 miles.
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Inyokern
Calif
Navy
Navy Ordnance
Alameda
Naval Air Station
University of California
Bakersfield
Fresno
State Official Puzzled By Break In Ohio Mental Health
Columbus AP reports Ohio Welfare Director John H. Lamneck says he is puzzled by talk of a break with psychiatrists after the resignation of Dr. Edward J. Humphreys, acting commissioner of mental hygiene. Humphreys cites disagreement over policy focusing on custodial institutions versus prevention and education.
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Cleveland
New Philadelphia
Edward J. Humphreys
Welfare
Humphreys
International Congress For Mental Deficiency
Ohio
Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Lamneck
Ferguson Says Income 28 Million Under Bills
Ohio state receipts for 1948 totaled 630.76 million the highest on record while expenditures reached 659.10 million. Auditor Ferguson attributed the gap to a 20 million transfer from the general revenue fund to the soldier bonus fund and a postwar building program tapping reserve funds.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ferguson
General Revenue Fund
Soldier Bonus Fund
Cardinal Mindszenty Recants Prearrest Letter In Court
In Budapest on the second day of treason espionage and black market charges Mindszenty, who pled partly guilty, said a November 1948 letter forwarded to Hungarian church leaders was written before his arrest and is void. He noted the letter reflected his past weakness and has no bearing on the current trial. Duke Paul Esterhazy pleaded guilty as proceedings continued.
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Budapest
Jogef
Mindszenty
Hungary
Cardinal Mindszenty
Paul Esterhazy
Slot Owners Face Rejection Of Permits
In Columbus, liquor permit holders who operate slot machines must explain why renewals should not be refused. Eight licensees were ordered to appear Feb. 11 before Walter J. Braune as hearings review federal tax records.
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Columbus
Francis K. Cole
Cole
Walter J. Braune
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Burley tobacco price rise reported in Kentucky markets
The Kentucky department of agriculture reported a 53 cent bump in the average price per hundredweight for burley tobacco sold yesterday. A total of 3,722,270 pounds moved through 13 markets at an average of 34.30 dollars per hundredweight, below the previous day’s seasonal low of 37.77. Farmers earned 1,425,461.65.
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Louisville
Kentucky
State Department of Agriculture
Liquor Stores to Close on Lincoln and Washington Birthdays
State liquor stores will shut on Lincoln's Birthday February 12 and Washington's Birthday February 22 as announced yesterday.
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Columbus
Lincoln
Washington
Diplomats See Stalin Moving Next on Cold War Peace
Washington based diplomats expect Moscow to act next in the cold war crisis. They foresee either a renewed Russian attack blaming U S rejection of Stalin’s peace statements or a concrete settlement proposal aligned with Truman and Acheson lines. They note Truman will not seek talks outside the United Nations framework.
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Washington
Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
United Nations
Record Breaking Constitution Sets Transcontinental Load Benchmark
The Navy transport Constitution carried 72 passengers and 18 crew on a non stop 9 hour 35 minute flight from Moffett Field to Washington. Commander William M Collins led the test as the six engine giant begins a six month evaluation of regular transcontinental passenger operations.
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Washington
Navy
Constitution
Moffett Field
San Francisco
William M. Collins
Jenkins backs government loans for synthetic fuel plants
Rep Jen kins of Ohio supports Secretary Krug's plan to provide federal loans to private industry for constructing synthetic fuel plants. He promotes a synthetic fuels experiment station in Hocking Valley and cites pilot plants converting coal natural gas and waste farm products into petroleum products. Jenkins says rapid development may be needed to ensure fuel in potential future war. He notes some gasification liquefaction experiments are well advanced.
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Washington
Jenkins
Ohio
Secretary of Interior
Krug
Hocking Valley
Midwest
Mountain States
Ohioan
Soviet Fliers Land in U S at Westover Base
Two Soviet air force officers Peter Pirogov and Anatole Barsov, escaped from the USSR by plane, landed at Westover Field Massachusetts after leaving Rhineland Germany. They urged American communists to volunteer to go to Russia a month then resign from the Communist Party. They speculated Stalin offered to meet President Truman as the cold war risk grew.
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Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Soviet Union
America
Rhienmain
Germany
Westover
Peter Pirogov
Anatole Barsov
Russia
Communist Party
Stalin
Truman
Forty British Troops Die in Tripoli Plane Crash
A four engined Skymaster chartered by Skyways from London to the War Office crashed during approach to Tripoli in North Africa. About 40 British Army technicians from Khartoum were aboard. The pilot is reported killed with details limited.
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London
Khartoum
Tripoli
North Africa
Skyways, Ltd
War Office
Share Claims Filed For Big Akron Estate
Mrs Laila L Paisley and siblings James Laird Paisley of Barboursville and Mrs Maxine Paisley Boliek of Huntington filed claims for a share in the 1 million dollar estate of Miss Frances Louise Butler who died in an Akron hotel last week.
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Huntington
W. Va
Pmrs
Laila L. Paisley
Frances Louise Butler
Akron
Ohio
James Laird Paisley
Barboursville
Maxine Paisley Boliek
Fires investigated at Banham residence in Lancaster
Investigation by the state fire marshal's office continues into four mysterious fires at the Charles Banham residence in Lancaster over the last two months.
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Lancaster
Charles Banham
Ohio House Divided Over Ferguson Act Repeal
Opposition from GOP leaders mounts as the Ohio House debates repealing the Ferguson act that bans strikes by public employees. Democrats call for a replacement bill on collective bargaining while Gov. Lausche weighs in with possible future statement. The committee moved quickly, also backing a measure recognizing workers right to join labor unions.
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Columbus
Ohio House
House
C. William O'Neill
Marietta
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
House Labor Committee
Ohio
Unemployment Rises Sharply in January 1949
The Census Bureau reports January 1949 saw unemployment jump about 700000 to 2650000, marking one of the largest postwar increases. Total employment dropped by roughly 2 million from December levels, with winter weather and reduced outdoor work cited as factors.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Fire at packing plant injures workers and sparks oxygen debate
A fire at a packing company caused thousands in damage. Firefighters and a manager cited oxygen treatment effects on 13 workers as a key issue. Authorities and church investigators sat with Sheriff Bateman to review the case in his office.
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Steef
Helwafén
Gmermen
George Bateman
The
Church of the Good Shepherd
Bateman
Parent Agencies Vote To Continue CROP Program
Parent agencies of the Christian Rural Overseas Program vote to extend the project through 1949 and expand activities from 26 states to all 48. Last year 1,500,000 rural American families cooperated and gifts were sent to 43 nations.
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Dayton
Christian Rural Overseas Program
CROP
Ironton GIs Convicted in First Enlisted Court Martial
Two American soldiers Byrd and Gannon were found guilty of manslaughter in Heidelberg. They received seven years confinement and dishonorable discharge for killing a German man in a New Year’s Eve brawl outside a German woman’s home. The case marks the first U S Army court martial allowing enlisted men to serve as judges, effective February 1.
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Heidelberg
Andrew D. Byrd
Orlando
Fila
Oscar Gannon
Hanging Rock
Ohio
Byrd
Gannon
Bulldozers Race Time in Great Midwest Blizzard Relief
Nearly 1000 heavy machines including bulldozers and snowplows battled snow drifts in the Midwest blizzard zone. The effort aimed to reopen thousands of miles of roads and secure feed and shelter, with lives and livestock at stake as time ran out.
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Omaha
Tarlton Mayor Gets One Year Probation
Columbus report states Tarlton Ohio Mayor Walter Fox was placed on probation for one year after pleading guilty to second degree manslaughter in a traffic death from a failure to stop at a stop sign. The sentencing occurred in common pleas court yesterday.
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Columbus
Walter Fox
Tarlton
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Fox
Extended Forecast for Columbus Temperatures and Snow
Extended forecast for Columbus shows average near normal with normal highs around 28 and lows near 20. Colder spell Saturday then warmth returning Monday, followed by another cool period midweek. Precipitation expected as snow totals generally three fourths to one inch, mainly Monday to Wednesday.
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Columbus
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