Three Boys Drown on Ice Covered Pond in Bantam
In Bantam, Connecticut, three boys died after the pond ice broke while they played on it. Two other youngsters, Vernon Andrews Jr and Paul George Eckert, 9, escaped unharmed, while Harry Moore Jr, 13, Paul Moore, 10, and Paul Schleuter, 13, perished. Rescue units recovered the bodies two hours later as residents gathered in shock.
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Batavia
Bantam
Here
Paul Schleuter
Vernon Andrews
Harry Moore, Jr
Paul
Schleuter
Vernon Andrews, Jr
Paul George Eckert
Andrews
Harry
Paul Eckert
Ida Eckert
Schleuter and Eckert
Life Squad
Bethel
Clermont County
Moore
Eckert
Polar Bear Candidate Polar Bear Candidate
Vermilion High School senior James Moses, 17, swam a quarter mile through ice filled Lake Erie to aid nine classmates stranded on a drifting ice floe near Ruggles Beach. He freed the group, braved ice shards, and reached shore at 10 p.m. A rescue party from Berlin Heights then cut boats free of ice and retrieved the youths.
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Sandusky
James Moses
Vermilion High School
Lake Erie
Ruggles Beach
Vermilion
Huron
Ohio
Moses
Berlin Heights
Harold Bellamy
Myron Nichols
Wrangling Delays Lustron Foreclosure Suit Hearings
In Columbus RFC sues to foreclose on Lustron Corp seeking 36.47 million dollars and a receiver. Lustron argues it can turn profitable within 12 months. Judge Underwood orders lawyers to confer after initial session halted by evidence disputes. Also reported are recovered bodies of three American airmen from a B 26 crash near Tokyo.
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Columbus
Lustron Corp
U.S. District Court
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Lustron
RFC
U.S
Mell G. Underwood
Underwood
Youth Arrested For Holdup Near Canal Winchester
Deputies arrested 20 year old Eugene Dale Snyder of Lancaster for questioning in a filling station holdup north of Canal Winchester. Snyder admitted holding up Eitel's station with a rifle and was arrested after his car ditched south of the station. A motorist reported the crash as deputies questioned station attendant Frank Zwayer. The robber obtained $28.
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Columbus
Eugene Dale Snyder
Lancaster
Canal Winchester
William Harmon
Frank Carpenter
Snyder
Eitel
Frank Zwayer
Husband Denies He Asked Doctor To Hasten Death
Reginald F. Borreto testifies he never directly or indirectly urged Dr. Hermann N. Sander to speed his wife Abbie Borroto’s death. Sander, 41, stands accused of first degree murder for injecting air into Mrs Borroto’s bloodstream after a Dec. 4 death at Hillsboro County Hospital. The trial’s sixth day featured nurse Elizabeth Rose’s testimony about the deceased’s condition and a defense statement she later signed.
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Manchester
N.H
Reginald F. Borreto
Hermann N. Sander
Sander
Abbie Borroto
Borroto
Dr. Sander
Plan to boost farm income urged at Ohio meeting
Murray D. Lincoln told the 16th annual Farm Bureau Cooperative Association meeting in Columbus that 3 300 000 farm families earn less than 1000 dollars yearly and 10 000 000 American families fall under 2000 dollars. He urged a federal study of price spreads and cooperatives buying processors to raise farmers’ returns while keeping food prices fair. Elam Suter was elected to the Cooperative Wholesale Association board with re elected directors Vern Faires and Harry Guthrie.
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Columbus
America
Murray D. Lincoln
Farm Cooperative
Farm Bureau Cooperative Association
Ohio Utility May Get Access To More Fuel
The Trunkline Gas Supply Co. of New York proposed an 80 million dollar natural gas pipeline to supply The Ohio Fuel Gas Co. access to 25 million cubic feet of fuel daily. Ohio Fuel Gas asked the Power Commission for authority to build a Louisiana to Illinois pipeline with Panhandle Eastern Pipeline as distributor.
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Washington
Trunkline Gas Supply Co
New York
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
The
Power Commission
Louisiana
Illinois
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline of
Ohio
Canton Voters Decide Three Tax Levies for University
Canton residents head to the polls to decide on three levies totaling 1.45 mills per dollar of real estate valuation to support the new Canton University, the first coeducational college founded in 40 years in Ohio.
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Canton
Ohio
Canton University
Senate approves farm bill amendments cutting potato price supports
Senate action removes or tightens price supports for potatoes in 1951 pending stricter marketing quotas. It also directs the Agriculture Department to sell surplus potatoes at cost, with existing stock feed or fertilizer uses allowed. The chamber trimmed cotton and peanut acreage increases and relaxed wheat controls, sending changes back to House reconciliation.
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Washington
Senate
Department of Agriculture
House
Cooley
D-Nc
House Agriculture Committee
George
D-Ga
Missouri Captain Accepts Full Blame for Grounding
Norfolk. Capt. William D. Brown, commander of the battleship Missouri, told a naval court of inquiry he alone bears responsibility for the grounding in Chesapeake Bay on January 17. He said it was his duty to keep the ship safe and secure and that he failed to do so.
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Norfolk
William D. Brown
Naval Court of
Brown
Chesapeake Bay
Five Hurt In Wheeling Blaze In City Block
A fire struck half a business block in Wheeling injuring at least five people and damaging three buildings. Firefighters battled the blaze for more than ninety minutes. about sixty residents were rescued as crews from nearby West Virginia and Ohio helped in 28 degree weather.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Ohio
U. S. Ships Attacked Off North China Coast
In Formosa the Nationalist government warned that ships trading with the Chinese Communists face air assault. The Pioneer Dale and Flying Clipper were bombed and strafed yesterday off Tsingtao in North China. bombs missed but machine gun fire injured one sailor.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Dale
United States Lines
Flying Clipper
Isbrandtsen Line
Tsingtao
Taft Last Symbol of Republicanism Told by RNC Aide
Ohio Wesleyan University students heard A B Herman of New Jersey, executive director of the Republican National Committee, describe Senator Robert A Taft as the last symbol of Republicanism able to withstand pressure groups. He warned the Ohio campaign would be rough and tough and that foes have sworn to defeat Taft.
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Delaware
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan University
A. B. Herman
New Jersey
Republican National Committee
Herman
Aoe
Aft
Truman Churchill Named Nobel Peace Prize Nominees
Oslo reports President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill among 28 nominees for the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize. The list also includes various politicians and diplomats connected to postwar recovery and international diplomacy.
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Truman
Churchill
Oslo
Norway
President Truman
Winston Churchill
Bricker Votes Against Wheat Cotton Bill In Senate
U S Senator John Bricker voted against a wheat and cotton acreage bill and a price support cut off amendment for the 1951 Irish potato crop. He supported a proposal to ban Irish potato imports, while Taft was listed as not voting. The Senate passed the first two proposals and killed the third.
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Washington
U. S
John W. Bricker
Senate
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Welch Is Committed To State Hospital
Darrell L. Welch 28 charged with first degree murder of his wife Roselyn 26 and daughter Mary Cecelia 15 months old will be committed to the state hospital for the criminally insane until declared sane. Dr R E Bushong Lima State Hospital superintendent ruled him legally insane. Welch formerly lived in Harrisonville Meigs County.
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Columbus, CO
Darrell L. Welch
State Hospital
R. E. Bushong
Lima State Hospital
Welch
Roselyn
Mary Cecelia
Harrisonville
Meigs County
Two Schools Close Because of Flu Outbreak
McArthur public schools and the Allensville consolidated schools will close the rest of the week due to influenza. County nurse Nina N Nelson reported several flu cases among Vinton County residents last week.
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McArthur
D. M. Bryson
Vinton County
Allensville
Nina N. Nelson
Seizure Talk Is Heard As U.S. Goes Ahead With Coal Union Trial
Pittsburgh dispatch notes a three week coal strike draining the economy with 372,000 UMW members idle plus 184,000 rail and steel workers. Government hints at seizure if talks fail as contempt trial of the United Mine Workers proceeds amid fuel shortages and widespread shutdowns.
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U.S
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Washington
American Iron and Steel Institute
St. Louis
UMW
Charleston
W.va
Kentucky
John L. Lewis
White House
Truman
Lewis
Springfield
Ill
Richmond B. Keech
United Mine Workers Union
Gove
Reech
Keech
Scientist Hates Hydrogen Bombs Not Feasible Says Urey
Dr. Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies told an Ohio State audience that no one knows if a hydrogen bomb can be built and he hopes it does not work. He warned there is no way to control nature and predicted U S and Russia will remain at odds over bans on bomb development.
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Columbus
Harold C. Urey
University of Chicago
Institute For Nuclear Studies
Ohio State University
Russia
Guilty Plea Entered In Wounding Charge
In Cincinnati Mrs. Mabel Decker aged 37 pleaded guilty in Criminal Court to shooting to wound a former state official. Howard L. Shearer 61, chairman of the State Board of Cosmetology, was shot last December 3 in a downtown building. Sentencing was deferred as she blamed him for a license renewal denial.
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Cincinnati
Mabel Decker
Howard L. Shearer
State Board of Cosmetology
Decker
Shearer
Adamsville students win strike over low drinking water
Adamsville high school students refused to attend classes yesterday in Muskingum County claiming insufficient drinking water. The district board ordered immediate repairs to one of two pumps, the principal said the pump had broken down, and the school would close today and reopen Wednesday.
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Adamsville
Muskingum County
Alfred Henry
Fire Breaks Out in Commons Basement Tunnels
Fire discovered in basement tunnels under the House of Commons in London. flames were extinguished in ten minutes and a smoky odor lingers ahead of Parliament's first session. The event occurred beneath the historic Palace of Westminster, raising safety concerns for the new legislature.
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London
House of Commons
Palace of
Westminster
Taft urges local control housing plan at Akron meeting
Sen. Robert Taft urged a locally initiated and locally controlled housing plan before the Akron real estate board. He pressed for federal housing ideas to be managed locally, emphasizing local control and local management during the address.
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Akron
Robert 9. Taft
Ohio
Akron Real Estate Board
Earthquake Recorded At John Carroll University
An earthquake believed to be near the northern tip of the Japanese islands was recorded Tuesday on a seismograph at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
John Carroll University
Akron shopkeeper shoots at third alleged holdup
An Akron shopkeeper wounded a suspected robber identified as 30 year old Wilson K Kreitzburg after a night incident marked as the third attempted holdup since last month. Police say the man previously held up the store on Feb 7 and two weeks earlier, taking 550 dollars, then 130 dollars in the second incident.
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Wilson K. Kreitzburg
Werner
Gambling Case Hearings Delayed to March 1
In Ironton the Col ony Club gambling case hearings on three motions were postponed due to illness of defense attorney Sol Goodman. Nine men were arrested after state liquor agents seized 45 slot machines, with the raid challenged as based on an illegal search warrant.
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Ironton
Colony Club
Common Pleas
James Collier
Sol Goodman
Cincinnati
Weather Outlook for Columbus This Week
Extended forecast for Columbus shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees below normal with a high near 39 and low around 23. Expect colder midweek, warmer end of week, and another drop Sunday. precipitation around 0.25 inches as rain tonight and rain or snow Friday and Saturday.
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Columbus
Coal Appeals Increasing Alarmingly Across Ohio
Ohio faces a nationwide coal shortage as Governor Lausche notes appeals for fuel rising alarmingly. State patrol escorts coal trucks. Cleveland doubles emergency fuel staff. Carnegie-Illinois Steel cuts output. ashland and Norwalk consider brownouts. Schenley Distillers offers 50 tons to Cincinnati institutions at cost.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Cleveland
Division of Air Pollution Control
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Youngstown
Ashtabula
Norwalk
Painesville
Schenley Distillers, Inc
Laburg, Ind
Cincinnati
Queen City
New Threats On Miners Are Revealed
Governor Lausche announced that new threats against coal miners are under investigation after reports of violence toward workers at Buckeye Coal Co. near West Point, Col umbiana County. He ordered State Patrol protection for miners and trucks and pledged full command power to defend workers’ right to work.
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Columbus
J. Lausche
Ohio
Buckeye Coal Co
West Point
Columbiana County
Chiang Kai-Shek to Resume Presidency and Command
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek announced he would resume the presidency of Nationalist China tomorrow and take command of all Nationalist forces. He retired from both posts last January prior to the fall of Nanking. Vice President Li Tsung Jen remains in a New York hospital recovering from surgery.
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Taipei
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Nanking
Li Tsung-Jen
New York
Fire kills man in cabin near Wooster identified as Isaac Yoder
The charred body of a man tentatively identified as Isaac T. Yoder, 75, was found in a fire damaged cabin near Wooster on Monday. Police said the death is under investigation and the identification awaits confirmation.
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Wooster
Isaac T. Yoder
Steubenville man dies in car plunge near Toronto Ohio
Thomas W. Smith, 28, of Steubenville, was killed when the car he rode in plunged over a 75 foot embankment at Toronto Ohio. The crash investigation followed the fatal accident on the road to Toronto.
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Steubenville
Thomas W. Smith
Toronto
Ohio
Leopard Caught Alive After Escape at Oklahoma City Zoo
Oklahoma City's escaped leopard was captured alive at Lincoln Park Zoo after a hunt that involved planes, helicopters, and dogs. Zoo keeper Julian Frazier dragged the groggy animal into a noose set near its pit and the cat, driven by hunger, returned to the zoo to feed.
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Oklahoma City
Julian Frazier
Lincoln Park Zoo
India
Harnels
Frazier
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Bricker
Messenger News
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Athens
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Gallipolis
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