Prominent Men Charged In Cheerleader Slaying In Kentucky
Two prominent men were charged with murder in the slaying of 17 year old Muriel Baldridge whose body was found on the Big Sandy River bank last June. Lon Moses and E K Dotson were indicted by the Floyd County Grand Jury with bench warrants issued for their arrest.
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Prestonsburg
Muriel Baldridge
Floyd County
Grand Turv
Big Sandy
A. B. Meade
Lon Moses
Prestonburg
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
West Prestonburg
E. K. Dotson
Meade
Edward P. Hill, Jr
Moses
Dotson
Oak Hill
Ohio
Stanley Lewis
Jackson County
Epp Lafferty
Asl
Lafferty
Arch Thompson
Baldridge
Muriel
Kentucky
Levisa
Newport Boy Sentenced to Life for Murder
Sixteen year old Bobby Herlan admitted guilt to second degree murder and received life in Ohio Penitentiary. He killed Gordon 61, a Newport farmer and lifelong friend, during an Aug. 1 holdup. Parole eligibility after 10 years, with judge warning he must change to avoid continued imprisonment.
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Marietta
Bobby Herlan
Ohio
Newport High School
Common Pleas
B. Ogle
Gordon 61
Newport
Washington County
E. E. Erb
Herlan
Columbus
Dean Ellis
Ogle
Ingrid Bergman Visits Priest Amid Baptism Speculation
In Rome Ingrid Bergman was visited by a Catholic priest and two monks, fueling talk she will baptize her newborn son Robertino. Roberto Rossellini, linked as the father, was seen leaving the Santa Margherita Clinic after spending the weekend with Bergman as legal matters and a St. Francis film project occupy him.
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Rome
Ingrid Bergman
Robertino
Santa Margherita Clinic
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid
Peter Lindstrom
Rossellini
Miss Bergman
Associates
St. Francis of Assisi
Fight Planned On Syndicate The Outfit
Chicago Sun-Times reports Uncle Sam plans a nationwide crackdown on The Outfit, a coast-to-coast crime syndicate. Federal action likely starts with dismantling a national illegal horse race betting network that earns top bosses about $20 million yearly. Washington conference next week will study racketeer gambling and corruption nationally.
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Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
Uncle Sam
Outfit
Washington
McGrath
Sun-Times
Farm Fire Burns Boys Injures Four Others
In Grand Rapids Ohio eleven year old Wesley Box suffered burns to about eighty percent of his body when a blaze struck a farm home near town. Four other people received minor injuries and two children escaped from a second floor window. One child was thrown from a porch roof into a sibling’s arms.
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Grand Rapids
Ohio
Wesley Box
GOP Platform Drafted as Critical Yet Constructive
Republican drafters unveiled a 2000 word 1950 platform segment labeled critical but constructive focusing on foreign policy and alleged Communist infiltration. The outline criticizes administration decisions on Asia and seeks UN backing while promising a two party international policy. Guy G Gabrielson led the process.
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Washington
GOP
Guy G. Gabrielson
Asia
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Munist Courier
Werrier W. Schroeder
Illinois
Schroder
Vandenberg
Rmich
Congress
United Nations
Gabrielson
Truman
Explosion Hits Gang Chief's Home
Los Angeles report says gang leader Mickey Cohen survived a dawn explosion at his residence with his wife and maid unhurt. Police assess a bomb caused the blast in the home valued around fifty thousand dollars and note this marks a second assassination attempt within a year.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Mickey
Cohen
Kathryn Jones
West Los Angeles
Miss Jones
California
Sherry
Sunset Strip
Neddie Herbert
Los Angeles Vice
Ccohen
Herbert
Frank Niccoli
Pee Ogul
Mystery Blast Shocks Houston Suburbs
A mysterious explosion rattled Houston area suburbs and was felt up to 25 miles away last night. Police could not locate a source as Deputy Sheriff J M Crabb of Crosby said investigators checked pipelines and found nothing. Windows shattered and groceries toppled in Sheldon Little York and Aldine.
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Houston
Tex
Housto
J. M. Crabb
Crosby
Okeh
Sheldon
Little York
Aldine
Mine Workers Local Given Check for $300
A 900 man striking United Mine Workers local received a $300 check from a Youngstown CIO United Steelworkers local. Maxwell Local officials said the gift came personally from three officers of Steelworkers Local 1330 who cited high CIO officials ordered aid to the miners. A top aide of Philip Murray said in Pittsburgh he knew of no general order.
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Uniontown
United Mine Workers
Youngstown
CIO
United Steelworkers
Maxwell Local
Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
Pandora Man Named To Represent Grange
Sen. Cling and Jackson announce Charles Reese of Pandora will represent the Ohio Grange on the highway committee of the Ohio Pro Commission. The original list had Stanley B. Stowe of Marion listed for the Grange. Stowe serves on the highway committee but not as Grange representative.
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Columbus
Clingan Jackson
Youngstown
Charles Reese
Pandora
Ohio Pro Commission
Ohio Grange
Stanley B. Stowe
Marion
The
Grange
Jackson
Stowe
Cleveland bus driver abducted during robbery
A Cleveland Transit System bus driver told police two robbers kidnapped him Sunday and took about $350 in cash and his possessions.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Transit System
Child blamed for New Haven train derailment site
A child playing on tracks caused a $9500 derailment near New Haven. An eight year old boy placed two by four lumber blocks on bricks, making the Baltimore and Ohio freight extra derail as it approached. three trains and crews responded, with no injuries reported on the passenger run.
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Point Pleasant
New Haven
Baltimore and Ohio Freight
B&o
Parkersrg
Wheeling
Kenova
F. Rickard
Cincinnati
Chesapeake and Ohio
High Places Search Urged In Atom Probe
Senator Bridges demands a high level search for Klaus Fuchs as allegations of sharing atomic secrets with Russia surface. J Edgar Hoover to testify before a Senate subcommittee while the House Atomic Energy panel weighs its own inquiry. House actions stir inter-committee rivalry.
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Atom
Washington
Senator Bridges
Klaus Fuchserman
Russia
Bridges
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Senate Appropriations
Hoover
Fuchs
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Congress
Senate House
House Committee On UN
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Logan Elks lodge liquor license suspension withheld
The state Board of Liquor Control withheld a 10 day suspension of the Logan Elks lodge liquor license after charging the lodge with possessing gambling devices. The lodge claimed the slot machines were stored and unused. Attending the hearing in Columbus were Attorney Hubert Lappen Harold Larimer and John Bond.
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Logan
Logan Elks Lodge
State Board of Liquor Control
Columbus
Hubert Lappen
Harold Larimer
John Bond
1200 Clubs Rally for Crime Prevention Week
TOLEDO Feb 1925 1200 Exchange Clubs will join third annual National Crime Prevention Week. Harold M. Harter national secretary says clubs will work with law enforcement churches schools and civic groups to curb crime rate postwar and promote community action.
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Toledo
Harold M. Harter
National Exchange Club
U S Military Chiefs Plan Pacific Strategy
The U S Joint Chiefs of Staff reviewed Okinawa, a key air base in the American defense line against Communist Asia. After five days of secret strategy talks with General MacArthur and staff, the four top commanders left with a general impression of a tougher stance against communism in the region and greater American military focus here.
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Tokyo
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Okinawa
Asia
Japan
MacArthur
U. S
Orient
Ohio Crests Rain Returns To Midwest
Rain returned to the Midwest and Pacific Coast states while most of the nation stayed sunny. The Ohio River crested at 69.1 feet in Cincinnati and began falling as 1200 lowlanders moved back. Flood relief reached Arkansas and nearby states as snow plows cleared Cascade roads and emergency supplies aided Aberdeen Washington.
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Chicago
Midwest
Pacific Coast
Ohio Valley
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Washington
California
New England
Canada
Plains States
Arkansas
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cascade Mountains
Montana
Aberdeen
Wash
Lila Leeds Plans Marriage To Erwin Arvey
MEMPHIS Tenn Ex mov ie starlet Lila Leeds now on the comeback trail and Erwin Bud Arvey of Chicago announced they would be married The 32 year old son of Jake Arvey Democratic leader in Illinois Cook County said no date had been set Leeds who hit front pages when arrested on narcotics charges in Hollywood last year is on the nightclub circuit as a singer
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Memphis
Tenn
Lila Leeds
Erwin
Bud) Arvey
Chicago
Jake Arvey
Illinois
Cook County
Miss Leeds
Hollywood
Traffic Fatalities In Ohio Rise Over Weekend
An Associated Press survey tallies 10 deaths from Ohio weekend traffic accidents. Two drownings occurred in Elyria, including 4 year old Patricia Toy in a water-filled excavation and 9 year old Richard Reed who fell into the Black River while skating.
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Columbus
Ohio
Associated Press
Elyria
Patricia Louise Toy
Richard H. Reed
Black River
Former contender dies in Wellsburg West Virginia
Wellsburg West Virginia reports the death of Bernie P. Hahn about 75 a former bantamweight boxing contender around the turn of the century Hahn died here Sunday leaving a note of his early career in the sport and his ambition to win the crown
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Bernie P. Hahn
Phone Strike Talks Reach Crucial Stage
Talks between Western Electric Co. and CIO Communications Workers resume with mediators' help as a 48 hour deadline looms. A nationwide strike could occur affecting 100,000 Western Electric workers and 220,000 other AT and T subsidiaries if no progress is made.
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York
CIO
Cyrus S&s. Ching
U.S. Mediation and Conciliation Service
Western Electric Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
CIO Communications Workers of America
Ching
A.T. and
Bell System
Joseph A. Beirne
Bandit Nabbed In Mountains After Long Chase
GOLDEN, Colo. A gunman who holed up in a winter mountain cabin stocked with machine guns and supplies faced charges for two kidnappings three auto thefts and alleged bad checks in 12 states. He, Andrew Cecil McCauley 23, told Sheriff Enlow he was wanted for 250000 in bad checks. Barr Barbara Jean Carroll 28 of Houston was arrested after a five hour chase. FBI agents questioned McCauley regarding the Brinks holdup in Boston but found no link.
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Golden
Colo
Andrew Cecil McCauley
Carl Enlow
McCauley
Barbara Jean Carroll
Houston
Tex
Enlow
Brinks Agency
Boston
FBI
McCloy Reprimands German Criticism
In Stuttgart McCloy rebukes West German officials for criticizing the Western Allies. He outlines a plan ruling out an army or air force and pledges Nazism will not rise again. The U S high commissioner says the United States will maintain firm control over Germany s political affairs.
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Stuttgart
Germany
U.S
John J. McCloy
United States
Historic Crouse Home Destroyed by Fire
Chillicothe reports the old Davis Crouse residence a historic landmark built before 1812 was destroyed by fire Sunday night. Crouse was a Revolutionary War soldier. The house stood on the Robert Herron farm six miles north of here near Route 23.
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Chillicothe
Davis Crouse
Crouse
Robert Herron
Here
Truman names board to study coal dispute
President Truman invoked the Taft Hartley act to restore coal output and named a three member board headed by David L. Cole to report within a week. The board will investigate the issues behind a nationwide miner stoppage affecting 360000 idle workers.
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President Names Board
Washington
Truman
David L. Cole
Paterson
N.J
William W. Wirtz
Northwestern Universityrofessor
John Dunlop
Harvard
Lewis
White House
Tha
McGrath
Pita
District 6 UMW doubts Ohio miners will return to work
District 6 secretary treasurer R C Owens says miners in Ohio and the West Virginia Panhandle are disgruntled and indignant over actions leading to a standstill. About 1000 men work in three Hocking Valley mines while 4500 timed and 8000 total miners were affected across the region as operations halted.
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Columbus
District
United Mine Workers
Ohio
West Virginia Panhandle
R. C. Owens
Hockings Valley
Hock Alley
Tropic
Earl J. Jones
Zanesville
Carbondale
Athens
Sunny Hill
New Sunny Hill
Ee United
Hocking Valley
British editor claims Soviet hydrogen bomb test and 11 more blasts
Kenneth de Courcy editor of Intelligence Digest says the USSR already made and exploded a hydrogen bomb, claiming three H bombs with one test. He predicts a series of 11 more atomic blasts beginning March 3, without giving dates or locations.
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London
Soviet Union
Kenneth de Courcy
Russia
de Courcy
GM To Experiment With Turbine Transport
The Allison Division of General Motors announced the United States will conduct its first test of a gas turbine powered transport plane in Indianapolis. Britain and Canada have already flown turbine and jet transports.
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Indianapolis
Allison Division
General Motors
Canada
VA To Open Hospital Bids On March 28
The Veterans Administration will open sealed bids March 28 for a 500 bed veterans hospital in Cincinnati. The facility will be near the University of Cincinnati Medical School on a 19 acre site.
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Washington
Veterans Hospital
Cincinnati
Veterans Administration
University of Cincinnati Medical School
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