High Postal Aide Quits Over Stamp Dealings
Washington AP A High Post Office official quit at the request of Postmaster General Donaldson amid investigations into dealings with commemorative stamp issues. Harold F. Ambrose, special assistant in charge of public relations, reportedly acted as agent for buyers in a scheme that cost investors hundreds of thousands. No charges have been filed and no government funds were involved.
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Washington
Donaldson
Harold F. Ambrose
Post Office
Ambrose
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Ofce Department
O’mahoney
Truck Wrecks At Curve In Point Pleasant
A tractor-trailer left Route 35 near Point Pleasant, overturning at a sharp curve. Damages are about $9000. Driver Bert W. Commino of Niagara Falls sustained only a bruised chest. The load carried empty baby food bottles. the tractor remained upright. The crash marks the sixth truck accident in the area within a week.
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Point Pleasant
Here
R. C. Dilley
Bert W. Commino
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Commino
Untington
New York
Five Ohio Airports Named alo Receive Allocation
Five Ohio airports will share in a tentative allocation of 7,800,068 dollars in federal funds, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said. Chillicothe Municipal gets 125,000 dollars, Akron Municipal 50,000 dollars, Lancaster Municipal 55,000, Urbana Municipal 10,000, and Galion Municipal 30,000. The funds are for immediate use and sponsors must contribute some money.
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Washington
Ohio
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Chillicothe Municipal
Akron Municipal
Lancaster Municipal
Urbana
Galion Municipal
CAA
AFL leader doubts injunction will halt mine strike
William Green, president of the AFL, says coal miners likely will ignore any Taft-Hartley court injunction to end the walkout. He cites John L. Lewis fines and argues the law is a failure, urging labor to press repeal in fall elections and make it a major campaign issue. The fact-finding board reports next week, paving possible court action.
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Truman
David L. Cole
Paterson
N.J
John Dunlop
Harvard University
W. Willard Wirtz
Northwestern University
Wage Stabilization Board
Miami Beach
Fla
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Lewis
AFL
Executive Council
Congress
Council
Labor
Washington
John L. Lewis
George H. Love
Love
Cole
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation
George Love
Mr. Cole
Marche
United Mine Workers
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Pennsylvania Railroad
Red Agents Work Seen at New High
Washington reports an all time high for Russian undercover activity in the United States. Senator Ferguson says extradite Klaus Fuchs from Britain for trial in an American court as a deterrent. FBI Director Hoover asks Congress for funds to hire at least 300 more agents as he cites 540000 Communists and 54000 card carrying members in the country. Fuchs faces trial Friday on two Official Secrets Act violations tied to atomic information leaks in 1945 and 1947.
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Washington
United States
Klaus Fuchs
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Hoover
Senate Appropriations
Fuchs
London
Russia
Britain
Ferguson
R-Mich
McGrath
Automobile Industry Elder Dies From Illness
Detroit report states Lynn McNaughton, 68, longtime executive of the original Cadillac Motor Car Co., died at Henry Ford Hospital after a prolonged illness. He was father in law to Benson Ford, head of Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division.
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Detroit
Lynn McNaughton
Cadillac Motor Car Co
Henry Ford
McNaughton
Benson Ford
Ford Motor Family
Ford
American Brokers Buy Spuds From Canada
In New Orleans a million pounds of Canadian potatoes were unloaded as U S brokers buy Canadian spuds while government price supported American tubers remain costly. The report notes farmers receive one cent per hundred pounds in surplus potatoes.
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New Orleans
Canada
Blistering Attack Casts Doubt on Liner's Future
A blistering attack by the federal comptroller general questions the future of a $70 million American superliner. Lindsay Warren says the maritime commission mishandled subsidies and acted without legal authority in paying $42 million of the cost, while construction was to start at Newport News Shipbuilding. The ship would carry 2,000 passengers and could be converted into a wartime troop ship.
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Washington
Congress
Lindsay Warren
Commission
Newport News
Warren
American Export Lines, Inc
United States Lines, Inc
American President Lines, Inc
United States Lines
Maritime Commission
Commission Debates Ohio Gas Rate Increase
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co faces the U S rate commission over a proposed wholesale rise to gain 890000 dollars yearly for 24 private and municipal Ohio utilities. Edward L Dunn testifies the current calculations are unfounded and the increase is not justified. The company moved from 4 2 to 2 92 cents per 1000 cubic feet and cites 1950 earnings projections to claim a need for 1 84 cents per unit to reach a six percent return on invested capital.
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Washington
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
The
Power Commission
Edward L. Dunn
Commission
Ohio
Dunn
Secret Nazi Underground Report In Germany
American agents disclose an underground group in Germany named Katakombe Scheinwerfer or catacomb reflector. Headquarters are reportedly in Munich with the movement described as certainly dangerous by Allied officials.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Munich
Deliberation Resumed in Abbott Murder Case Second Day
A six man six woman jury resumes deliberations in the second murder trial of Mrs Marie Conn Abbott. The panel was excused after more than six hours of debate. Abbott faces charges of conspiring with her lover Cyril Gordon to kill her husband Morris. Gordon is already serving a life term for his role.
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Hamilton
Marie Conn Abbott
Auto Hits School Bus in Ohio Wreck
A car rear ended a stopped school bus in Chardon Ohio injuring four bus passengers and two car occupants. The incident left minor injuries and police investigated the collision.
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Chardon
Ohio
Scarlet Fever Found At North Lewisburg School
Several hundred high school and grade students were sent home Tuesday afternoon after 15 or 20 positive scarlet fever cases were confirmed at the North Lewisburg school.
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North Lewisburg
Rail curtailment rises as Ohio coal strike widens
Ohio coal strike halts most of 904 mines and prompts widespread layoffs. District 6 leader says no orders from John L. Lewis on return to pits. New York Central cuts two trains in Cleveland and reduces service as coal supplies deplete. C and O and Norfolk & Western announce thousands of layoffs across divisions and shops.
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Columbus
Ohio
R. C. Owens
United Mine Workers District 6
John L. Lewis
Cleveland
New York Central
Co. F. Wiegele
Division West
Collinwood Yards
Family friend Dan Heiser dies after July 3 marriage
Dan Heiser aged 49, longtime family associate who wed Mrs. Tom Breneman last July 3, died Tuesday night. The marriage came 15 months after the death of her first husband, the radio master of ceremonies. Heiser's death ends a noted Hollywood social tie.
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Hollywood
Dan Heiser
Tom Breneman
Dodds Seeks Clemency Hearing Set for Feb 17
Ohio man Harry Z. Dodds convicted of slaying Athens church worker Eleanor Gifford on Jan 3, 1949, seeks clemency. A pardon and parole commission hearing is scheduled for Feb 17 at 9 30 a m with attorneys Samuel B. Erskine and Francis C. White of Athens. Dodds faces execution Feb 24 at Ohio Penitentiary. The case, upheld by the Fourth District Court of Appeals and not reviewed by the Ohio Supreme Court, proceeds to the governor for final decision.
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Columbus
Pardon and Parole Commission
Harry Z. Dodds
Athens
Dodd
Samuel B. Erskine
Francis C. White
Dodds
Eleanor Gifford
Fourth District Court of Appeals
Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Mighty Mo Heads to Atlantic For Two Day Test Run
The battleship Missouri free of mud begins a two day Atlantic test run then returns to Norfolk Naval Base to resume training toward Guantanamo Cuba. Three top officers from the Jan. 17 grounding remain aboard temporarily replaced by former staff, with Comdr Millett named a defendant after admitting buoy confusion preceding the incident.
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Norfolk, Va
Atlantic
Norfolk Naval Base
Guantanamo
Cuba
William D. Brown
Frank G. Morris
John R. Millett
Millett
Pease
Chesapeake Ay
Driver With No Plates Claims FBI Agent Status
State Patrol stopped Nile W. Sayers 36 of Chesterhill Morgan County for a car without license plates. Sayers said he was en route to Washington to join the FBI. Morgan County Sheriff confirmed the car was reported stolen from McConnellsville Ford.
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Steubenville
Joseph Vanda
Nile W. Sayers
Chesterhill
Morgan County
Washington
FBI
McConnelsville
Ohio
Sayers
Girl Freed In Slaying Mercy Slaying Trial Verdict
Carol Ann Paight, 21, acquitted by a 12 member jury of second degree murder in the mercy slaying of her cancer doomed father, after a two week trial in Bridgeport. She planned to return to college after resting at home in Stamford.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Carol Ann Paight
Stamford
Carl Paight
Judith Meinhard
Carol
Connecticut
Highway bids set for 18 Ohio improvements across counties
The State Highway Department released low bidders for 18 highway projects. In Washington County the State Route 76 work from Belpre to Dunham townships has an estimate of 173,300 dollars with Ross Construction Co. of Columbus bidding 120,962.69. In Morgan County the State Route 37 project from Malta to Morgan townships involves repairing one bridge with a 75,000 dollar estimate and Hatcher Bros. Co. of Mingo Junction bidding 59,990 dollars.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Washington
Belpre
Dunham Townships
Ross Construction Co
Morgan
Malta
Morgan Townships
Estimte
Hatcher Bros. Co
Mingo Junction
Narcotics Seized in New York Raid Tied to Dope Ring
Police and federal agents seized a narcotics cache valued at about $2.4 million in a New York raid on Tuesday night. Part of the haul was found in a telephone booth at the Hotel McAlpin, where it was left for a customer by peddlers. Two arrests were announced as investigators linked the suspects to a dope ring pursued since last November.
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New York
McAlpin
Nominating Petitions Invalid in Lawrence County
The Lawrence County Board of Elections ruled two Democratic petitions invalid for not being signed before a notary public. Elsie Stanton of Wellston sought the state committee seat and William E. Allen aimed for the county committee.
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Ironton
State Central
Lawrence County Board of Elections
Elsie Stanton
Wellston
William E. Allen
Swamped Government Will Buy More Eggs
Washington reports the government will continue through March to support egg prices at 25 cents a dozen and keep dried egg prices at 96 cents a pound The Agriculture Department currently holds about 100 million dollars worth of eggs it does not know what to do with
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
L C Nye Dies After Illness of Two Months
Lorin Charles Nye 80 a member of a pioneer Athens County family died early today at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a two month illness. He was born in Chauncey and grew up in the Nye family home deeded to the Nye family by President James Madison in 1810. Nye wrote articles on area history and was active in Ewings Chapter Sons of the American Revolution. He operated a sheet metal shop tied to his 82 West Union Street residence, tracing back to an 1891 Trimble start and moving to Athens in 1900. He was noted as a master craftsman and ran a WWII era training shop for sheet metal workers. He was the eighth descendant of the first Nye family. Continuous on Page 7.
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Lorin Charles Nye
Athens County
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mr. Nye
Chauncey
Nye
James Madison
Ewings
Sons of the American Revolution
Hocking Valley
W. Union St
Trimble
Athens
Logan’s
Ferrell Jury Trial Chosen in Second Murder Case
A jury was selected for the second trial of Alfred C. Spooky Ferrell, 44, accused of murdering his mother Nellie Ferrell, 71, by strangling her at their Dresden home on January 28, 1949. He previously received a life sentence after a mercy recommendation, with ten months served before a new trial was granted.
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Zanesville
Alfred C
Ohio
Fifth District Court of Appeals
Goodyear Withdraws Air Race Sponsorship
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will not renew its sponsorship of the midget plane race at the National Air Races in Cleveland. company president E. J. Thomas said the original three year agreement fulfilled its objective.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Cleveland
E. J. Thomas
Goodyear
USW Grants Half Million to Miners Amid Coal Dispute
The United Steelworkers donate 500000 to United Mine Workers to aid miners and families in the coal operators struggle. President Murray says the grant aims to support financial and moral assistance toward eventual victory for the UMW.
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USW
Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
United Mine Workers
Philip Murray
Steelworkers
Steelworkers Executive Board
Murray
John Owens
UMW
State censor board cannot rescind Stromboli approval
Columbus reports the state attorney general ruled the censorship board lacks authority to recall approval or revoke an exhibition permit for Stromboli when the film itself is not the basis for censorship. The Columbus council urged RKO Palace to delay the Feb 15 opening amid controversy.
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Columbus
Ingrid Bergman
Herbert S. Duffy
Clyde Hissong
Duffy
RKO Palace Theatre
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Los Angeles
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Tenn
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