State Attorneys Take Over Prosecution of Gifford Slaying
Governor Lausche ordered the Ohio attorney general to assume the prosecution and investigation of the Eleanor Gifford murder case in Athens. William C. Bryant and three others arrived to lead the inquiry and potential indictment, with Athens County officials present but not commenting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Lausche
Fieanor
K.K. Gifford
Attorney General
Athens
Lausche
Athens County
Lfe
Eleanor FE
Gifford
Gordon Gray
William C. Bryant
Herbert 8. Duffy
Bryant
Gray
George Bateman
Eleanor Gifford
T. Vincent Martin
John Lyons
Clarence Aliams
Aaford
Bateman
Grand
State Department Hopes to Present North Atlantic Treaty
The State Department aims to submit a North Atlantic security treaty to Congress within about a month aided by a multi billion dollar arms aid plan for Western Europe. Acheson and European negotiators near final talks with a conference at the State Department slated for Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Washington
State Department
Congress
Europe
Acheson
Fulbright
D-Ark
United States
Washington Post
Route 33 relocation praised for drainage and slope stability
The article highlights favorable opinions on heavy cuts and hillside terracing along the new Route 33 north of Athens. It notes reliable rockfall warnings, a remaining woven wire fence near County Route 328 to deter muskrats, and mentions regional kitchen trends with large well lit rooms in Athens, Meigs, and Gallia counties.
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Athens
Courtney Hill
Hocking County
New York
United States
Ohio
Msigs
Gallia
Reuben Davis home marked fading along Route 50A
Athens County's oldest residence the Reuben Davis log house built in 1300 along Route 50A Poston Sugar Creek. Sign faded unreadable though structure remains sound. No visible marker for the Coon Skin Library once housed there near Ames Township Amesville.
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Athens County
Reuben Davis
Poston
Sugar Creek
Ames Township
Amesville
Cutler
Lawmakers Weigh Turnpike Bill For Ohio Highways
Ohio Senate finance leaders forecast quick Senate action on a turnpike measure modeled after the Pennsylvania system. Amendments set standard bid practices and bar tolls from profitable roads funding questionable ones. House hearings on fair employment practices drew large crowds as supporters plan a third session. The Military Affairs Committee will hear a $750 million National Guard armory appropriation including $200,000 for Portsmouth.
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Columbus
Senate Finance
Ohio
Pennsylvania
William M. Boyd
Cuyahoga
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
Senate
Winter
House Labor Committee
Fair Employment Practices Commission
House
Military Affairs Committee
National Guard
Portsmouth
Building and Loan Division Names Lancaster Man
Benson M. Smith of Lancaster was appointed superintendent of the state division of Building and Loan Associations effective March 7, replacing John R. Harsha of Portsmouth. Smith, 44, has been executive vice president of Fairfield Savings and Loan Co. for 19 years.
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Columbus
Benson M. Smith
Lancaster
State Division of Building and Loan Associations
John R. Harsha
Portsmouth
Fairfield Savings and Loan Co
Traces of Past Race Found in Mongolia
Leningrad professor S. I. Rudenko reports discovery in the Altai Mountains of outer Mongolia of a 2000 year old glamorous civilization. A natural super refrigerator contains mummified remains including a tattooed man and a girl musician. Other well preserved mummies were found in 1947 nearby.
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Moscow
Mongolia
Leningrad
S. I. Rudenko
Altai
Outer Mongolia
Ex-Student Reporter Named Editor Of Ohio Weekly
Charles E. Crowell Jr., an Ohio University graduate and former student reporter for The Athens Messenger, is appointed editor of the West Shore Calendar, a suburban weekly, announced publisher R. T. Elrick.
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Cleveland
Charles E. Crowell, Jr
Ohio University
Athens Messenger
West Shore Calendar
Suburban Weekly
R. T. Elrick
Sheepherder killed in hay drop accident near Salt Lake City
Western airlift operations reported a second fatality when a bale of hay dropped from a plane struck a sheepherder in the Salt Lake City area. The incident raises safety concerns over aerial hay drops conducted by the airlift.
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Salt Lake City
Taft Favors Pact Like Rio Accord
Senator Taft said he leans toward a North Atlantic defense pact along the lines of the Inter-American defense treaty signed in Rio de Janeiro in 1947. He warned Congress must set war authority and criticized ERP for excess regulation while calling it overall beneficial for containing communism.
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Kenton
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate
Methodist Church
Taft
Congress
U.S
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Sen. Taft
Europe
Paul Hoffman
Strike Ends In Philadelphia Strife Over Pay Raise Ends
Philadelphia ends a 10 day CIO driven walkout as the Philadelphia Transportation Co resumes service after a pay raise approval. The strike disrupted 3.2 million daily riders and cost business about 70 million dollars, with crowds scrambling via buses trains and foot travel.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Co
CIO
PTC
Earthquake Predictor Bailey Willis Dies at 91
Palo Alto California report notes the death of Dr Bailey Willis a famed seismologist and geologist remembered for predicting the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. He earned the nickname Earthquake Willis from his prediction and presence at the disaster scene.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Santa Barbara
Bailey Willis
Stanford University
British Candy Ration Ends April 24 Says Food Minister
In the House of Commons Food Minister John Strachey announced that all candy will be derationed on April 24. The present ration is four ounces per week and has been in effect in England since July 1942. Trade sources estimate the weekly average increase will be about half an ounce per person.
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London
John Strachey
House of Commons
England
Rescue Crews Reach Wrecked U S Plane
Rescue teams reached the American transport plane wreckage after a crash last Thursday 60 miles west of Salta near the Bolivian border. All eight occupants were killed. Bodies will be taken to Salta and then flown to Buenos Aires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Salta
Fire Hits Shaker Square Block. $1 Million Damages
Investigators probed a five alarm fire that caused about 1 million dollars in damage to a Shaker Square business block on S. Moreland Blvd. Twelve stores were razed and 13 people injured, mostly with minor burns, as about 125 patrons fled the blaze. The fire took nearly six hours to control and damaged a restaurant roof for an additional 100000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Shaker Square
S. Moreland Blvd
Shaker Moreland Co
M. H. Leeb
Pope condemns Mindszenty case as religious persecution
Pope Pius XII told 250000 cheering Italians that Cardinal Mindszenty's imprisonment in communist Hungary was a religious persecution by a totalitarian anti religious government. The Pontiff said the cardinal's confession was wrung by secret means from a man innocent of crimes.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
St. Peter's Church
Mindszenty
Tucker Firm Query Begun by Grand Jury in Chicago
A federal grand jury opened an investigation into Preston Tucker and parts of the Tucker Corporation in Chicago. U.S. Attorney Otto Kerner Jr. said about 100 witnesses would be heard during the month-long inquiry into the fledgling automobile maker. Tucker said the inquiry will clear the Tucker Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Preston Tucker
Tucker Corporation
Otto Kerner, Jr
U.S
Berlin Jews and Police Battle Over Anti Semitic Film
In Berlin the British sector theater resumed showing Dickens Oliver Twist amid Jewish protests accusing anti Semitism. Demonstrators tore down theater signs as police clashed with the crowd striking several demonstrators and damaging a police radio car. Soviet press claimed British sponsorship of an anti Semitic film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Fagin
Visit to U S Planned By Russian Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, rebuked in Moscow over party line adherence, will visit the United States for the first time to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on March 25 26 and 27, invited by the National Council of the Arts Sciences and Professions.
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New York
Dmitri Shostakovich
Moscow
United States
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
French bobsled duo injured in Lake Placid crash
Louis Saint Calbre driver and Henri Adan brakeman on the French No. 2 two man bobsled were injured when their sled crashed into the wall on the Mt Van Hoevenberg run in Lake Placid New York today.
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Lake Placid
N. Y
Louis Saint Calbre
Henri Adan
Mt. van Hoevenberg
Fight Over Mine Safety Law in West Virginia Legislature
Charleston West Virginia reports a floor fight over proposed mine safety law revisions as the 49th Legislature enters a busy week. Key issues include tying a sales tax provision to veterans bonuses and funding a new four year medical school. Stidham cites amendments to help small operators while Tetrick demands farther changes for more operators.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Mines Department
House
Jerry Stidham
D-Logan
Tetrick
D. Harrison
Stidham
Navy To Start Mock Battle In Big Peacetime Exercise
The Navy departs from East Coast ports for a major peacetime mock battle between 35,000 sailors and 120 ships including the 45,000 ton carrier Franklin D Roosevelt and the battleship Missouri. Aircraft will participate in the mid Atlantic and Caribbean drills.
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Washington
Franklin
Roosevelt
Missouri
mid-Atlantic
Caribbean
Israeli Cabinet Accepts Egyptian Peace Plan
The Israeli Cabinet accepts a draft compromise armistice with Egypt. Cairo officials had not yet indicated approval. A copy of the draft was flown to Cairo, and the Egyptian delegation asked to decide by tomorrow.
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Tel Aviv
Egypt
Cairo
Rhodes
Widow awarded $6500 in manslaughter case
Jacob McDonald 75 of Atwater was ordered to pay $6500 to the widow of Jackson W. Bailey after a farm hand killing following a radio program dispute. Judge Black C. Cook gave a one-to-20 year suspended sentence and ordered the defendant to move from Northeastern Ohio. The argument started when McDonald refused permission to play Jack Benny.
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Ravenna
Jacob McDonald
Ohio
Common Pleas
Black C. Cook
Atwater
McDonald
Jackson W. Bailey
Jack Benny
Man Leaps to Death from Hospital Window
Coroner ruled the death of 79 year old Stephen Misgasky a self inflicted jump from Mercy Hospital fifth floor. Misgasky had been admitted with back and neck injuries after a collision with a switch engine. Ward inmates said he climbed through a window while in a despondent state.
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Toledo
Paul G. Hohly
Mercy Hospital
Stephen Misgasky
Misgasky
Hohly
State Patrol Apprehends Two Fugitives
Two 16 year old escapees from the Lakin Boys Industrial School near Point Pleasant were captured by the State Highway Patrol on Route 33 between Darwin and Burlingham after a three hour pursuit. Ralph McDonald and Robert Patterson, both of Bluefield West Virginia, fled after leaving Meigs County. They had crossed the river and slept in a car near Middleport, wore overalls and one man wore an Army coat and hat. They had been sent to Lakin for stealing and were held in the Nelsonville jail awaiting transfer.
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Lakin Boys’ Industrial School
Point Pleasant
State Highway Patrol
Ralph McDonald
Robert Patterson
Bluefield
W. Va
Darwin
Burlingham
Meigs County
Lakin
Middleport
Nelsonville
Berlin Sweeps Strike Over Pay and Soap Purchases
Berlin chimney sweeps totaling about four hundred meet in a deer garden and vote to strike. They demand a wage raise from 55 to 77 marks a week and one fourth of pay in West marks to buy soap, criticizing Soviet backed ast marks as inadequate.
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Berlin
Germany
Manufacturer Favors Conveyor Belt System
The Columbus era report notes Frank Purnell of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co endorses a 139 mile Ohio conveyor belt from Lorain to East Liverpool if it cuts transportation costs into Youngstown. He says the belt would not replace the Lake Erie Canal project and would feed into Youngstown and Cleveland.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Frank Purnell
Pins Removed From Lung and Stomach In Columbus
Operation Pins succeeded for two children. Janice Porter seven, flown in from Louisville, had a straight pin removed from her lung by Dr. M G Buckles. Ned Fenice nine months swallowed an open safety pin and it was removed from the tube to his stomach.
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Columbus
Janice Porter
Louisville
M. G. Buckles
Ned Fenice
Gilio Fenice
Ethyl Alcohol Prices Fall Below 1937 Level
New York reports a drop in tank car price of pure ethyl alcohol to 23 cents a gallon, two cents under the 1937 price. Earlier, November sales ran at 75 cents per gallon as Cuban molasses surpluses pushed down prices of sugar by products and industrial alcohol.
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New York
Theodore Parker Adams, Harvard’s oldest graduate, dies at 103
Plymouth Massachusetts reports the death of Theodore Parker Adams aged 103 a retired educator and the oldest living graduate of Harvard College who passed away Saturday.
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Plymouth
Mass
Theodore Parker Adams
Harvard College
Duffy 107 Knigts of Columbus Venerable Member Dies
In Oelwein Iowa Peter H Duffy aged 107, reputedly the oldest Knights of Columbus member in the United States, died Sunday. Authorities note his long service to the fraternal order and community.
Union Aims Opposed By General Electric
General Electric will resist fourth-round wage increases for 200000 employees. A company spokesman also opposed CIO demands for shorter hours without pay cuts and for broader pension and welfare programs.
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New York
General Electric Company
CIO
U S Seeks 65 000 Missing Children Across Nazi States
Berlin reports American authorities launch a broad inquiry into about 65 000 youths seized from subjugated nations and brought to Nazi Germany. The effort targets children under 17 years old who remain unidentified after years.
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Berlin
Nazi Germany
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