Oshel Gardner Statement Introduced in Court
Oshel Gardner Jr testifies in Circuit Court regarding his account of events after the Roy Jackson body was found at Point Pleasant last October. The long statement describes alcohol, a gun, a car ride, and the fatal shooting, with Gardner recounting the sequence from the 13 October incident through the pursuit toward Huntington.
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Oshel Gardner
Oshel Gardner, Jr
Roy Jackson
Point Pleasant
Gardner
W. Va
Jackson
Huntington
Crab Creek Road
Accused Slayer Tests Memory On October Fourteen
Osher Gardner Jr. testified in Circuit Court that he could not recall shooting Roy Jackson after an all night drinking spree on October 14. He described a long night of taverns and a hazy early morning journey ending in Huntington before waking at a railroad trestle and later in Ferry. The defense challenged memory gaps while the prosecution pressed for a guilty verdict based on the indictment.
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Point Pleasant
Osher Gardner, Jr
Roy Jackson
Jackson
William Bardin
Gardner
Billie Stevens
Main St
Huntington
Sidney Huddleston
Glenwood
Huddleston
Ferry
Raymond Musgrave
Fismingo
Ohio
Data Court House
Bardin
Ohio Republicans unveil bold highway program plan
The Ohio Legislature, with GOP leaders Mechem and Saxbe, proposed a 750 million dollar highway bond issue over six to 10 years, plus a federal shift to fund roads, new highway user taxes, a cabinet level highway safety department, and funding from general revenue to ease the highway crisis. The plan mirrors some Lausche Taft themes and seeks pre-commitment on highway spending. The federal government would cover 25 million for roads serving the Pike County atomic energy plant.
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Highway Patrol
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Drivers’ Financial Responsibility Law
Department of Highways
General Revenue Fund
Lausche
Charlies P. Taft
Cincinnati
Taft
Pike County
Posse Combines Wild Area In Search for Airliner
A sheriff's posse and air support from three states searched rugged terrain near Bear Lake Idaho for a missing twin engine troop plane with 40 aboard including 37 Korean War veterans and three crew. Reports of red flares guided the effort before deep snow halted progress.
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Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Seattle
Wash
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Flying Tiger
Burbank
Calif
Issaquah
Squak Mountain
Bear Lake
Pacific Ocean
Jesse Schidegger
Paris
Malad City
Senate Stalls Bid To Choke Long Debates
Senate anti filibuster leaders claimed some gains from the opening session fight, but Republicans and Southern Democrats blocked any rapid change. Sen Jenner said he would push early action on a rules modification, though chances appear slim in the new GOP dominated Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Jenner
Ind
Senate Rules Committee
Congress
Steubenville College Fund Drive Launched
Steubenville fund raisers aim five million dollars to back a campus and five buildings for the College of Steubenville. Campaigns begin the first week of April after plans announced at a Wednesday night dinner of the Committee of One Hundred.
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Steubenville
College of Steubenville
Who's an Angel We Learn From a Messenger Carrier
A Messenger carrier is portrayed as an average American kid doing a hard daily job in all weather. He handles delivery promptly while learning business, responsibility, and accuracy. Readers can help by having money ready when he collects each week to avoid lost profit.
Acheson Defends Foreign Service Amid Witchhunt Charge
Secretary of State Acheson urged diplomats to stand firm against what he called wicked criticisms and witchhunts during a Foreign Service Association luncheon. He condemned unnamed critics as thoroughly wicked and warned that the attacks would not intensify under the Eisenhower administration.
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Washington
State Acheson
America
Acheson
Foreign Service Association
State Department
Italy
Judge Collier Named To 4th Appeals Court
Gov. Lausche appoints Common Pleas Judge James Collier of Lawrence County to the Fourth District Appellate Court to fill the vacancy from Judge Verner Metcalf. Collier to serve until a successor is elected in 1954. born 1893, Ohio Northern University Law School graduate, admitted to the bar in 1923.
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Appeals
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Common Pleas
James Collier
Lawrence County
Fourth District Appellate Court
Sob
Verner E. Metcalf
Ohio Northern University Law School
Prisoner Attacks Inmate With Lighter Fluid
In a county jail incident, James Martin, 27, allegedly threw lighter fluid into the face of fellow inmate William P. Lardo, 42, causing fatal burns. Sheriff Ray Woodward said Martin, charged with auto theft, carried out the attack as Lardo read a Bible.
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Akron
Ray Woodward
James Martin
William P. Lardo
Second High UN Official Resigns Post
UNITED NATIONS N Y A onetime American Red underground worker and target for U S loyalty probes has resigned as a UN official. David Zablodowsky 49, director of the UN Documents and Publications Division earning 10800 a year, handed in his resignation to Secretary General Trygve Lie a day after David Weintraub quit as director of the UN Division on Economic Stability and Development. Both were on a State Department list of 11 American UN employees labeled as communists or under communists discipline.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.S
David Zablodowsky
Trygve Lie
David Weintraub
U.S. State Department
Ohio Kentucky Turnpike Plan Stuns State Officials
Columbus reports state Highway Director S C Linzel said on Wednesday he had no knowledge of a proposed turnpike linking Ohio to Kentucky. Governor Weatherby had stated Kentucky would build a corridor if Ohio constructs a Toledo Cincinnati turnpike.
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Columbus
Toledo
Cincinnati
S. C. Linzel
Kentucky
Lawrence Wetherby
Ohio
Ohio Army Absent Without Leave Figures Decline
The Ohio military district reports 1 129 soldiers went AWOL or deserted last year with 163 apprehended. The figure reflects nationwide efforts to curb unauthorized absences and reinforce discipline within service ranks.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ohio Military District
Seven Die In Flaming Plane Dive Near Seattle Mountain
A California operated four engine DC4 with seven aboard crashed in a storm near Squak Mountain fifteen miles east of Seattle. Two children two women and three crew members perished as the aircraft nosedived into a ploughed field during a fierce winter storm. Witnesses reported seeing the fire as the plane descended from 500 to 600 feet.
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Seattle
California
Here
Flying Tiger Airlines
Burbank
Calif
Squak
Boeing Field
Vincent Herlihy
Michael
Study Parole For Leopold
Illinois Board of Pardons and Paroles hears Nathan Leopold parole request after 28 years in Stateville for the 1920s teen slaying in Chicago. The panel weighs whether the judge’s prison forever ruling still stands as educators favor release and law officers oppose, seeking full sentence compliance.
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Joliet
Ill
Illinois Board of Pardons and Paroles
Nathan Leopold
Chicago
Stateville Penitentiary
Leopold
Stateville
Strike Talks Deadlocked In Baltimore As City Strikes Drag On
Baltimore faces a second week of municipal labor unrest with garbage piling up and schools closed. Negotiations between the city and AFL Teamsters Union stalemate as snow falls and snowplow crews also join the strike. City maintains no general wage increase.
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Baltimore
AFL Teamsters Union
Congress Divided Over Atomic Controls and Truman Warning
Congress remains split on new international atomic controls while Truman warns Stalin that nuclear warfare could end civilization. Taft says Eisenhower will likely deliver a State of the Union after his inauguration and study a revised budget, with Byrd predicting a 75 to 80 billion dollar request.
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Congress
Truman
Stalin
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
House
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Russia
Winter Rains Deluge Ohio Slows Traffic
Winter rain and ice crippled Ohio travel with freezing conditions across the state. Central Ohio faced the worst impacts as ice coated trolley wires disrupted transit and snow turned to slush. Cincinnati saw heavy rain washing away snow and easing hazards, while airport operations stalled due to low visibility.
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Associated Press
Greater Cincinnati
World-Famed Explorer Osa Johnson Dies at 58
Osa Johnson, famed explorer, author and lecturer, died Wednesday likely of a heart attack. Born Osa Leighty in Chanute Kansas, she joined Martin Johnson in South Seas and African expeditions filming native life and wildlife. She survived a 1947 California crash that killed her husband and later lectured from a wheelchair before another Africa trip with a movie company.
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Osa Johnson
Martin Johnson
South Seas
Osa Helen Leighty
Chanute
Kaw
Johnson
California
Africa
Escaping Gas Fatal To Five of Family
Five members of a Boone County farm family were found dead in a four room house five miles north of Belvidere Illinois. Deputy Coroner A L Schreiber said they were apparently killed by gas escaping from a coal stove. The victims were Melvin Behrake 35 his wife Beulah 33 and their children Dennis 7 Dale 5 and Dixie 3 months.
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Belvidere
Ill
Boone County
Here
A. L. Schreiber
Melvin Behrake
Beulah
Dennis
Dale
Dixie
Portsmouth man dies in crash with tractor trailer
John G. Whitlock, 44, of Portsmouth, was killed Wednesday when his car collided with a tractor-trailer on the highway. Police described the crash as a fatal traffic accident with Whitlock pronounced dead at the scene.
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Portsmouth
John G. Whitlock
UC threatens MAC withdrawal over football schedule rule
Cincinnati announced it will leave the Mid-American Conference if the five games against conference members rule is not changed. University president Dr. Raymond Walters said he sent letters to eight Ohio West Virginia and Michigan schools requesting modification of the rule.
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Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Raymond Walters
Ohio
West Virginia
Michigan
Allied raid deepens push into Chinese lines on Western Front
An Allied raiding party struck at dawn using flame throwers tank fire artillery mortars jellied gasoline bombs air strikes grenades satchel charges and small arms. After 55 minutes the force withdrew with 35 Chinese dead reported and at least 25 more feared injured or killed near Panmunjom corridor in the second such raid in 24 hours.
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Panmunjom
De Gaulle Foes Threaten United European Force Plans
European feder alists face a double challenge as De Gaulle backed Rene Mayer to re open talks on the European Army Treaty and delegates in Strasbourg draft a six nation plan for joint executive and legislative bodies. Debre signals a counterproposal centralizing power under a PM directorate.
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Paris
Charlies de Gaulle
West Europe
Rene Mayer
France
de Gaulle
Rally of the French People
RPF
Mayer
Strasbourg
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Michel Debre
RFP
Europe
Natural End to Excess Profit Taxes Hinted by Veterans
Veterans on the House Ways and Means Committee say the excess profits tax, yielding about 2 percent of yearly revenue, will expire June 30. Rep Eberharter foresees a Democratic fight to extend it while Rep Reed urged a natural death for the tax set after the Korean War to curb profiteering and fund defense.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Eberharter
Congress
Reed
N. Y
Ways and Means Committee
Famed Social Leader Mrs Vanderbilt Dies in New York
Mrs Corne lius Vanderbilt a renowned New York and Newport society leader died of pneumonia at her Fifth Avenue home after a long illness. In her eighties she remained active in social circles, hosting and being hosted by many European royals.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Newport
R. I
Fifth Avenue
Vanderbilt
America
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