Taft Sees Heavy Arms Burden and Possible Cuts
Senator Taft of Ohio says Eisenhower era spending places a terrific burden on the budget, with long-range military outlays and a five-year plan. Senator Millikin and Budget Director Dodge discuss potential cuts and a debt limit unchanged, while advocates urge ceilings to curb rising defense costs.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Sen. Millikin
Colorado
Millikin
GOP
Senate
Truman
Congress
Bridges
R-Nh
Senate Appropriations Committee
New Hampshire
Joseph M. Dodge
White House
Congressional
Dodge
Byrd
D-Va
Missing Pomeroy Woman Believed Safe By Mother
Florence Smith of Butternut Ave says Eleanor Smith 41 who disappeared from a New York hotel room Wednesday is likely visiting friends and not ill. Her daughter, a Park Avenue restaurant kitchen manager, told her employer she needed leave to visit Pomeroy. Two local men traveled to New York to assist, including first cousin Albert Russell and Jed Webster Jr. A police description lists height about 5 feet 10 inches, 150 pounds, blonde, blue blouse, green skirt, blue shoes.
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Pomeroy
New York
Florence Smith
Butternut Ave
Eleanor Smith
Miss Smith
Park Avenue
Albert Russell
Jed Webster, Jr
Webster
Allies Repel Two Red Front Attacks at Manchuria Depot
Allied troops beat back two assaults on a Western Front outpost amid a curtain of 1000 mortar and artillery rounds. U S B29s bombed a 140 acre rear depot near Sinŭiju, 20 miles southeast, damaging a communications and supply center with 360 buildings.
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Seoul
Manchuria
Air Force
Sinuiju
Sailor Fast Tracks Home With Milk Aid
Alonzo Hill, 20, of Circleville Ohio, a sailor with rheumatic fever, flies home today aboard a U S Navy plane. Doctors report his recovery nearly complete and credit Gibraltar’s only cow for supplying milk that sped his healing.
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Gibralter
Alonzo Hill
Circleville, O
Newspaper Carrier Funds and Future Banker Roles
Some delay pay on collection day and expect the carrier to be a banker. Carriers buy papers at wholesale, then sell them at a higher price for profit, funding their own weekly deliveries and hoping one day to become bankers.
Juror Rejects Plea for Rosenberg Spies
In New York a juror who convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg refused to sign a clemency petition. Emanuel H. Bloch, attorney for the couple, said three Rosenberg relatives tried to persuade the juror but were rebuffed. He added that discussion of the sentence with jurors is permissible if the merits of the case are not argued.
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New York
Rosenbergs
Atom Spies
Emanuel H. Bloch
Ethel
Julius Rosenberg
Julius
Sophie
David
Bloch
Teegar Promoted to RCA Executive Vice President
L W Teegar, who began as a Salem News carrier, has been elevated to executive vice president of Radio Corp of America in Salem Ohio. The promotion highlights his rise from humble beginnings to a top corporate leadership role.
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RCA Veep
SALEM
L. W. Teegarden
Salem News
Radio Corp. of America
Ike Completes 1st 30 Days In Grim Post
President Eisenhower marks one month in the White House amid reports of grim world tensions. He appears chipper after a briefing on military and financial hurdles and entertains reporters at a luncheon with Democratic senators. He then demonstrates golf practice to onlookers.
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Ike
Grim Post
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Harry S. Truman
Lewd films seized man charged in mail obscenity case
Postal inspectors arrested W. D. Wilson, 35, of Warren, a steel mill employee, on charges of using the mails to transmit obscene matter. He is married and father of four.
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Youngstown, O
Warren Steel Mill
W. D. Wilson
Navy Ships Join Hunt For Ill Fated Plane Near Gulf
Navy mine sweepers from Florida may join Coast Guard boats today in heavy seas to locate the wreckage of a National Airlines DC6 in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mobile
Ala
Florida
Coast Guard
National Airlines
Gulf of Mexico
Senate delays Taft-Hartley hearings for Eisenhower views
The Senate Labor Committee postponed hearings on Taft-Hartley changes after Democrat Sen. Murray urged delay until President Eisenhower's views are known. Chairman Taft said hearings will resume next month. The House Labor Committee has begun extensive hearings already.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Eisenhower
Sen
Murray
D-Mont
Taft
Ohio
House Labor Committee
NATO Increases Ridgway Aid For 1953 Europe
The NATO Council approved 224 million dollars more for 1953 European military construction for Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. Lord Ismay said the allocation requires member nations to decide share loads while avoiding hard bargaining at the table. Ridgway had argued 428 million dollars was the minimum need.
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Paris
NATO Council
Matthew B. Ridgway
Lord Ismay
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ridgway
NATO
Europe
Ismay
REA to Aid Arthur Mutual Telephone Co
The Ohio PUCO approved the first Rural Electrification Administration loan to Arthur Mutual Telephone Co. for 100000 to expand a dial-operated system serving 165 current subscribers and 129 new customers in Paulding Putnam and Defiance counties. The plan includes converting to dial service, rebuilding 50 miles of poles and adding 25 miles of lines.
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Columbus
State Utilities Commission
Rural Electrification Administration
Ohio Telephone Company
Arthur Mutual Telephone Co
REA
Paulding
Putman
Defiance
Arthur
PUCO
Prof Paddock Dies in Columbus at 86
Funeral services are set for Saturday for Wendell Paddock professor emeritus of horticulture at Ohio State University in Columbus.
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Paddock
Columbus
Wendell Paddock
Ohio State University
Auto tags go on sale March 1
The Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Columbus lists deputy registrars in Southeastern Ohio who will sell license plates starting March 1. The notice names towns and exact addresses with AOC ATOC and other authorizations for license issuance.
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Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Columbus
Ohio
Athens County
Athens
E. B. Young, Jr
Atoc
Chauncey
Ruth C. Smith
W. Main St
A. Cool
Canada tax cut plan trims income levy in 1954 budget
Canada moves to cut taxes by 11 percent, effective July 1, with an estimated 361 million dollars in savings for 1954. Other measures include cheaper cigarets at 35 cents, removal of the newsprint sales tax for domestic buyers, abolition of radio license fees, and a one million dollar annual tariff cut on imported manufactured goods.
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Ottawa
Canada
U. S
Bootlegging Kingpin Lias Recalls Tax Court Era
William G. Lias, owner of Wheeling Downs in Wheeling West Virginia born 1900, recounts his bootlegging career. He described disguised whisky operations across the East and Midwest involving trucks posed as gas tankers moving vans and bakery trucks. He faces tax liabilities claimed at 2 850 000 for 1942 to 1948 and notes jail terms for prohibition and conspiracy. He also discusses gambling ventures including slot machines and number games.
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Washington
William G. Lias
East
Midwest
Wheeling Downs
Wheeling
W. Va
Lias
Clarence R. LeMire
Civil Defense Boss Selected for Acting Post
Former Nebraska governor Val Peterson was named federal civil defense administrator on an acting basis pending Senate confirmation. The White House said Nebraska senators Butler and Griswold cleared the move with no objection. Peterson will earn 17 500 dollars annually.
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Washington
Val Peterson
Nebraska
Senate
White House
Butler
Griswold
Peterson
India
James J. Wadsworth
Polio Drive by First Marine Division Sets Korean Record
The Fighting Leathernecks of the First Marine Division in Korea raised $72,692 for the March of Dimes. It was the largest 1953 division contribution in Korea with an average gift exceeding $3 per Marine.
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Korea
Fighting Leathernecks
Industrialist Tod Leaves Estate Worth Over Five Million
Probate records show John Tod 82 director and executive committee man for Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co left an estate valued at more than five million dollars. Tod willed 15 000 shares of the firm’s stock to the Youngstown Hospital Association.
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Youngstown
John Tod
Tod
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Youngstown Hospital Association
New Cost-of-Living Index Debuts After Survey Expansion
Washington reports a new cost-of-living index based on a three year price and spending survey. The Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics describes the 300 item market basket and city sampling expansion from 225 items in 34 cities to 300 items in 46 cities as part of a broader effort to track price changes for moderate income families.
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Washington
Evan Clague
Laborments Bureau of Labor
BLS
New York
Draft To Call 25 Physicians
Selective service will call 25 Ohio physicians and three dentists in March per Col. Carl G. Wahl chief of the manpower section. Six physicians come from Cuyahoga County, four from Hamilton, three from Montgomery, two from Butler, two from Scioto, and one each from Hardin Lucas Mahoning Portage Summit and Trumbull. Hamilton Montgomery and Portage will supply one dentist each. The March group covers all three medic priority groups.
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Columbus
Selective Service
Ohio
Carl G. Wahl
Wahl
Cuyahoga County
Hamilton County
Montgomery County
Butler County
Scioto County
Hardin, Lucas, Mahoning
Portage
Summit
Trumbull
Hamilton
Montgomery
Gun Wound Fatal in Salem: James Falcon Dies
James Falcon, 75, died Thursday eleven days after a gun he was cleaning discharged accidentally wounding him. Authorities report the incident occurred in Salem and the death is attributed to the accidental discharge.
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Salem
James Falcon
Voice probes push for new blood at Voice of America
Senate inquiry argues for a major shakeup and new directors across Voice of America divisions. Mundt and McClellan say testimony shows sabotage aimed at undermining broadcasts, as McCarthy calls for drastic changes. State Dept accepts resignation of Wilson S. Compton from the International Information Administration.
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Washington
Sen
Mundt
R-S. D
Senate
Voice of America
McClellan
Ark
Overseas Radio Agency
McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Wilson S. Compton
International Information Administration
Voice
Award 2 More A Plant Jobs in Pike County Plant
The Peter Kiewit Sons Co awarded two more subcontracts for the atomic energy plant in Pike County totaling 4.842 million dollars. H. K. Ferguson Co of Cleveland gets 2.842 million for a maintenance and stores building and Ferro Concrete Construction Co of Cincinnati wins a 2 million bid for a cleaning building. Completion is due in early 1954.
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Portsmouth
Pike County
Peter Kiewit Sons’ Co
H. K. Ferguson Co
Cleveland
Ferro Concrete Construction Co
Cincinnati
Housing Problems Discussed By SORC Name New Officers
A Southeastern Ohio Regional Council meeting at McArthur addressed housing issues near the Atomic Energy Commission plant in Pike County. Officers named Fred Rice president Edward Davis first vice president Bernard Geiger second vice president and S R Cline secretary treasurer. Clyde English resigned as president due to transfer and was thanked with a gift.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Pike County
Southeastern Ohio Regional Council
McArthur
Fred Rice
Jackson
Edward Davis
Oak Hill
Bernard Geiger
Logan
S. R. Cline
Clyde English
Snow Traps. Pupils Safe After Bus Stalled
Nine missing school children in northern Colorado were located safe at a farm near Sterling after spending the night separated from their bus due to a February blizzard. Sheriff E M Brown reported the group and the driver found eating bacon at Merle Carey farm twelve miles northwest of Sterling.
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Denver
Sterling, Colo
Colorado
E. M. Brown
Merle Carey
Sterling
U. S. Weather Bureau
Rockies
I Eme
Wheatland
Wyoming
Chicago
Great Plains
Nebraska
Minnesota
Miles City
Mont
Texas Panhandle
Upper Michigan
Cheyenne
Wausauis
Weather Bureau
Vice Officer Is Suspended
Cleveland Police Chief Frank W. Story suspended deputy inspector Laurence Choura over neglect of duty for failing to detect gambling at the Cleveland Bridge Club. A raid led to $24,000 seized and police blitzed gambling equipment while a grand jury questioned Mayor Thomas A. Burke about police protection for gamblers.
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Cleveland
Frank W. Story
Story
Laurence Choura
Patrick L. Lenahan
Cleveland Bridge Club
Thomas A. Burke
Ohio Five Day Forecast Signals Normal Temps Then Cooling
Five day outlook for Ohio shows average temperatures with a normal low around 23 to 26 and a high of 39 to 45, cooler conditions building from Saturday into Sunday and again into midweek. Rain is expected Saturday morning with a mix of rain or snow later Monday or Tuesday, totaling approximately a half to three quarters of an inch.
War veterans arrive in Seattle aboard H. B. Freeman
Pfe. Francis L. Hanning of New Straits ville and Maj. Dayle R. Lantz of Glouster were among 1102 service men who returned to Seattle on Thursday from the Far East aboard the transport H. B. Freeman.
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Seattle
Wash
Pfe
Francis L. Hanning
New Straitsville
Dayle R. Lantz
Glouster
H. B. Freeman
Far East
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