UN Rejects Compromise Truce Plan in Korea Talks
UN negotiators accuse North Korea of trying to strengthen its forces through forced repatriation of prisoners of war. Rear Adm. Libby says the Red opposition to freedom of choice betrays individual liberty. Talks remain deadlocked as meetings are planned for Friday at Panmunjom.
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Korea
Adm
R. E. Libby
Panmunjom
Libby
Reds
Lee Sang Cho
Lee
VA to Split 200 Million NSLI Dividend for Veterans
The Veterans Administration announced a 200 million dollar NSLI dividend to be paid starting in March. Payments average about 60 dollars and can be taken as cash or deposited at 3 percent interest as an insurance against lapse or premium advances. Eligibility requires paid premiums for at least three months between 1951 and 1952.
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Bender Plans Visit to 37th Division at Camp Polk
Rep. Bender of Ohio announced plans to visit Camp Polk Louisiana to review housing recreation and training facilities for the 37th Division and their families as the unit enters federal service next week. He noted a minimum of 400 housing units are needed for the expected influx.
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Bender
Ohio
Camp Polk
Ohio National Guard
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Blueprint of Exhaustion Blueprint of Exhaustion
President Truman urged Congress to expand foreign aid and domestic spending with stronger defense and social programs. Republicans and southern Democrats pressed for economy and no new taxes, criticizing the plan as a political blueprint while Churchill watched from the gallery.
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Congress
Truman
State of the Union
Britain
Winston Churchill
Europe
Asia
U. S
GOP
House
Churchill
Dirksen
Ohio Racket Probe Looms
In Columbus the U S attorney for central and Southern Ohio received orders from Washington to convene a special grand jury to probe racketeers and corruption. Action awaits U S Attorney J Ray O'Donnell's return next week as Loren Windom handles the matter in Dayton. The nationwide move follows Senate crime investigations.
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United States
Ohio
Washington
U.S
J. Ray O'Donnell
Loren Windom
O’donnell
Dayton
J. Howard McGrath
Senate
Taft Arrested on Center-Line Charge in Ohio Run
Youngstown Ohio Portage County deputy sheriff arrested Charles P Taft of Cincinnati Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate on crossing a highway center line Taft refused to plead guilty before Justice William Thomas at Suffolk and was released on $25 bond
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Portage County
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Ohio
Taft
Justice of the Peace
William Thomas
Suffolk
Plane Aids Canton Woman to Minneapolis Treatment
An Army ambulance plane ferried Mrs. Hugh Willaman of Canton from Akron-Canton Airport to Minneapolis for pemphigus treatment. The aircraft was loaned by the Department of Defense at the request of the Red Cross.
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Hugh Willaman
Akron-Canton
Minneapolis
Department of Defense
Ned Cross
Freed on Bail in Hit-Skip Death Case
Robert Phillips 25 charged with manslaughter in the hit and run death of Mrs Leona Rex 38. He was released on $1000 bail today in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Robert Phillips
Leona Rex
Man Falls From Kanawha Barge In River Tragedy
Point Pleasant reports Mau rice Cox, 37, of Manchester Ohio, fell from a Kanawha River barge at Ralke's landing while jumping between vessels. He could not swim and the search by coastguard, police, and firemen continued at dusk. Cox leaves a wife and one son. his brother died earlier in a river accident. The Kenna, owned by Cap Russell Lucas, is en route to Huntington carrying coal for the Ohio River Co.
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Kanawha
Maurice Cox
Ralke
Cox
Kenna
Ohio River Co
Huntington
Cap* Russel
McGrath Handles Government Clean-Up Task
President Truman assigns full responsibility for the government clean-up to Attorney General J Howard McGrath while keeping him in the cabinet. The move comes as McGrath continues to handle investigations into reported government scandals.
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Washington
Truman
J. Howard McGrath
McGrath
WSB Panel Opens Steel Wage Parley
Washington CIO President Philip Murray told a Wage Stabilization Board hearing that steel makers’ profits are so great they can afford unions’ pay demands without raising prices. He cited a 60 percent rise in workers’ earnings since 1945 and a 219 percent increase in after tax profits for the industry.
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CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Steel Workers Union
Ross Gets Counsel in Policer Murder Case
Judge Samuel H. Sibert names Wallace Baker Sr and Lester Farber as counsel for George Ross 27, charged with murdering a policeman in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Samuel H. Sibert
Wallace Baker, Sr
Lester Farber
George Ross
Pretty Bride Chooses One Soldier Husband In Court
Atlanta report about Agnes Dixon Laseter who seeks to annul her marriage to William S. Sasser after learning Walter B. Dixon, once listed as killed in Korea, is alive. She had remarried Laseter believing Dixon was dead and now contends she remains legally married to Dixon.
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Atlanta
Agnes Dixon
Superior Court
William S. Sasser
Walter B. Dixon
Korea
Dixon
Conley
Defense Department
Sasser
LaGrange
N. C
Army
Lorean G. Storey
Sikeston
J. S. Laseter
Cullman
Ala
Dixon-Lasser
Storey
MacArthur May Address Convention
Washington AP report says GOP officials discuss inviting Gen Douglas MacArthur as keynote speaker at the July Republican nominating convention. MacArthur has avoided pure political events but shows friendly interest in Taft’s presidential bid amid Illinois primary clash among Taft Stassen and Eisenhower. Taft to enter Illinois primary on April 8 after earlier focus on Wisconsin and Ohio contests.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
GOP
MacArthur
Taft
Ohio
Illinois
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Fisenhower
Wisconsin
Wedding Plot Crushed As 27 Year Old Held For 13 Year Old
Akron police report a 27 year old machinist Billy Dean Pinkerton and 13 year old Edith Hickman were detained after fleeing Michigan with the girl in a car bought with a 1600 rubber check. Pinkerton faces charges of enticing away a child under 14 and bad checks. The girl remains in juvenile detention and sobbed that they only wanted to marry.
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Akron
Michigan
Billy Dean Pinkerton
Edith Hickman
Livonia
Mich
Pinkerton
Portage Lakes
George Harmon
Cold snap blankets central area with sub zero lows
A fresh blast of cold air drives sub zero temperatures across the northern states with light snow in the Great Lakes region and heavy snow in Columbus. The cold mass from Canada covers the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and Central Plains as more snow is forecast over the next two days.
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New England
Gulf States
Alabama
Dakotas
Minnesota
Canada
Mississippi
Ohio
Red Riflemen Repel Allied Raiding Party
Communist riflemen stopped a UN raiding party that stormed a hill northwest of Yonchon in snow covered western Korea before dawn today. The Eighth Army said the raiders failed to reach the summit and pulled back after about two hours under heavy mortar fire with only light contacts elsewhere along the 145 mile front.
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Seoul
Korea
Yonchon
U. S. Eighth Army
Mary Montgomery Rites Set for Friday
Funeral services for Mary Montgomery will be held Friday at 10 30 a m at Yaugher Chapel Church with Rev Donald Lockhart officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Crow funeral home until service time.
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Point Pleasant
Mary Montgomery
Yaugher Chapel
Donald Lockhart
Fren
Crow Funeral
45 Sailors Abandon Pennsylvania in Pacific Storm
A Panamanian freighter Pennsylvania sent SOS calls as water flooded its hold and steering failed. Forty five crew members left in lifeboats 180 miles from Vancouver Island as seven ships and four planes race to reach them amid one of the North Pacific's worst storms in years.
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Seattle
North Pacific
Pennsylvania
Vancouver Island
Alaska
Pacific Ocean
George P. Plover
Portland
Ore
55 Robbed In 2 Hours On East Side
Fifty five people were robbed in an East Side apartment from 6 30 p m to 8 p m after being dragged or lured inside with the promise of a policy drawing. Loot included cash watches rings and jewelry. Willie White said an unknown man arranged the drawings and last night four men armed with a luger pistol shotguns and a rifle robed the victims.
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Cleveland
East Side
Willie White
Mail Train Rams Wagon Killing Woman in Sandusky
A New York Central mail train rammed a wagon at Sandusky station killing Mrs. Carl C. Schoepele and injuring Jeffery Cohen. Engineer J D Deal claimed a distant signal failure, while towerman Lewis Ross said he signalled the approach. Brakeman F R Hayes warned passengers to flee as the 10 car train barreled through.
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Sandusky
New York Central Mail
Sandusky Station
Carl C. Schoepele
Cleveland Heights
Jeffery Cohen
South Bend
Ind
J. D. Deal
Toledo
Lewis Ross
Pittsburgher Seeks Tax Free Land to Renounce Citizenship
A Pittsburgh resident asked Senator Martin about renouncing American citizenship and moving to a place with no income taxes. He said he has a wife and two children and wrote the letter after completing his latest tax return. Aides did not release the man's name but described the letter as serious.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Martin
Politicians clash over Columbus audit findings
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson reports irregularities totaling 834259 in Columbus city finances for 1949. City Auditor R P Barthalow calls the report an attempt to rally Republican support for Jim Rhodes, while noting most findings are legal technicalities and that 1187 of recovery was repaid.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
R. P. Barthalow
Ferguson
Jim Rhodes
James A. Rhodes
Barthalow
Flying Enterprise sinks after valiant rescue at sea
The freighter Flying Enterprise sank in the Atlantic after rescuing two-man crew. Captain Kurt Carlsen and mate Kenneth Dancy survived a brutal gale as the ship slipped beneath the waves, valued cargo about four million dollars. Crew and rescue fleet moved to save them amid 15 to 25 foot waves.
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Doughty
Kenneth Dancy
Associated Press
Flying Enterprise
Hamburg
Carlsen
Turmoil
Dancy
Enterprise
Lizard Point
Turnpike Board Splits on Right of Way Purchases
The Ohio Turnpike Commission split 3 to 2 over hiring for land acquisition and appraisal for the $300 million toll road. The vote approved Land Title Guarantee & Trust Co for titles and set five appraisers, but the chair deferred signing contracts until January 25. Commissioners Seasongood and McKay opposed the hires and sought a legal opinion.
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Ohio Turnpike Commission
Cleveland
Land Title Guarantee & Trust Co
M. J. Ruedolph
R. C. Carpenter
D. €. Dunlap
R. L
Commission
James W. Shacknessy
Murray Seasongood
J. Gordon McKay
Ohio River Pollution Discussion Set for Public Hearing
The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, in Cincinnati, scheduled a public hearing for February 26 at Huntington. Tri state area cities from Huntington to Cincinnati will discuss pollution measures for the Ohio River.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Tri-State
Huntington
W. Va
Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Baby Bed Sells Quickly From Messenger Want Ad
Mrs. H. W. Snow of 91 May Ave Athens reports a bed in good condition sold soon after delivery. The Messenger Want Ad brought several calls and a fast sale.
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May Ave
Athens
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