Five Airplane Wrecks Fatal To 27 Persons In U S
Five crashes across the United States killed 27 people with 18 aboard Eastern Airlines Detroit Miami flight the sole survivor. Ohio victims include a 92 year old grandmother and two Cleveland women bound for Cuba. Other crashes occurred near Cocoa Florida and Van Dyke Michigan Bales of life required in the South China Sea rescue left 36 survivors and six missing backs up to 24 hours in life rafts.
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United States
Ohio
Eastern Airlines
Miami
Galaxia
William Ellis Keyes, Jr
Boynton
Fla
Cleveland
Cuba
Sarah Borgerman
Northfield Center
Mollie Huber
Rose Gometz
Glen Rymer
Akron
Herbert C. Miller
Canal Fulton
Stark County
Miller
Coral Gables
South China Sea
U. S. Army
F E. T. Collins
Kitchen Stove Fire Fatal to Woman and Farm House
Mrs. Ida Marie Garrison aged 27 was fatally burned when attempting to kindle a kitchen stove fire with kerosene. The explosion destroyed the farm house. her husband Gene rescued their baby Donnie 2 from the blaze.
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Washington D. H
Ida Marie Garrison
Gene
Donnie
Funeral services set for Eva Tanguay headliner
Hollywood reports funeral arrangements for Eva Tanguay 68 vaudeville star who died at her home last Saturday with services scheduled tomorrow at a local Hollywood mortuary.
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Hollywood
Eva Tanguay
Marshall to Become Secretary of State Amid GOP Support
Gen. George C. Marshall will take the oath as secretary of state this week with Republican backing from Sen. Arthur Vandenberg for key diplomatic issues. Final ceremony timing to be announced, likely at the White House later in the week, as Marshall rests after China duty.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Senator Vandenberg
Marshall
James F. Byrnes
White House
Ael Marshall
China
Honolulu
Byrnes
Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cleveland Council On World Affairs
Michigan
United States
Kuomintang
Troops Move Food To Londoners Amid Strike Wave
The Labor Government deployed 8,000 troops and sailors to ferry food to London amid strike action. At Smithfield Market, over 2,300 workers walked out in support of about 15,000 truck drivers demanding a 44 hour week, two weeks paid vacation, half pay during illness, and overtime pay adjustments. A 45 member wages board convened an emergency session to review the demands.
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London
Smithfield Market
Motor Vehicle Chief Named Two Tags Slated
Major Edward T. Fogo 54 of Ohio Selective Service HQ is named registrar of the state bureau of motor vehicles. He succeeds Frank M. Quinn at $5 000 a year after serving as assistant registrar 1927 to 1933. Tags launch March 1. war time metal shortage ends. New tags green with white letters.
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Edward T. Fogo
Ohio Selective Service
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Fogo
Frank M. Quinn
Murray D. Shaffer
Ohio Selective Service System
Wellsville
Columbiana County
Quinn
Advisory Committee Urges 20 Percent Income Tax Cut
The Small Business Advisory Committee of the Commerce Department, 18 business leaders from across the country, calls for a flat 20 percent cut in individual income taxes and new labor laws. The report was released by Secretary Harriman without comment as the public interest is deemed paramount.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
Late marriage in Unionville ties two widowed hearts
Romance arrived late for Amy Nidey aged 77 who wed Tod Garner aged 85, a widower, in Unionville Iowa on Friday. The ceremony marked a late life union for two longtime residents seeking companionship in later years.
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Unionville
Amy Nidey
Tod Garner
Sales Decline Boosts Stocks Of Intoxicants
Ohio state liquor warehouses and stores held about 785,800 cases of whiskey gin brandy and cordials versus 580,200 a year earlier as holiday sales lagged. Balmert cites consumer resistance to high December prices and tavern operators awaiting a possible federal tax cut as factors.
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Columbus
Ohio
A. I. Balmert
Balmert
Bilbo Awaits New Operation Amid Political Attacks
Senator Theo G Bilbo of Mississippi faced a second operation within five months to halt a mouth cancer. He was admitted to Touro Infirmary in New Orleans yesterday dressed in sky blue pajamas and a red robe, joking with visitors while condemning political enemies he says persecute him for his views.
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New Orleans
Theo G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Touro Infirmary
Senate
Vet Program Housing Not Free of Ceilings
OPA warns builders and buyers of about 700000 homes started under the Veterans Emergency Housing program to keep to pre revision price ceilings for sales and rents. No ceilings apply to construction begun after December 24, but pre revision limits remain enforceable.
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Washington
OPA
Warren Plans Revival of Anti Smoke Campaign
Warren's smoke elimination program, stalled five years by war, will be revived says deputy health commissioner Lyle Biddlestone. He warns industrial plants to comply with anti smoke laws.
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Warren
Lyle Biddlestone
Deers slain on Lake County roads in winter drive
Lake County highways have killed twenty nine deer this winter including a rare white deer. County game warden Forest Chamberlain reported the figures today.
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Lake County
Painesville
Forest Chamberlain
Cedarbville Herald Sold to Associate Editor Thurman Miller
The Ced arville Herald reports its purchase by associate editor Thurman Miller JT and announces the change in ownership and leadership.
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Cedarville
Cedarville Herald
Thurman &Miller, JT
Quads Born In Tennessee Mine Cabin Delivery
Three baby girls survived a quadruplet birth in a Suck Creek Mountain cabin near Sequatchie Tennessee with one infant stillborn. Dr Tom Johnston reported the delivery to Mrs Jess Moore a coal mine mule driver the mother weighs about 100 pounds and rests comfortably while the babies receive care at a Sequatchie clinic.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Suck Creek
Jess Moore
Tom Johnston
Sequatchie, Tenn
GOP Proposes Veto Powers In Tariff Cuts
Senator Vandenberg proposes a six member foreign trade board with veto power over State Department tariff cut decisions. Brewster and others describe it as a compromise to maintain congressional control while continuing reciprocal trade agreements. The plan faces GOP debate over who should approve tariff reductions.
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Foreign Trade Board
State Department
Vandenberg
Michigan
Cleveland
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Brewster
R-Me
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
Brewster- Vandenberg
P-51 Pilot Wins All American Air Maneuvers Race
Paul Penrose, 28, of Venice California, piloting a P-51 Mustang, won the All American air maneuvers speed classic in Miami finishing the 150 mile course at an average of 307.605 mph. Charles B. Walling of Houston finished second with 304.7 mph in a converted Army Lightning.
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Miami
Paul Penrose
Western Airlines
Venice
Calif
Penrose
Charles B. Walling
Houston
Tex
Father Shot Fatally During Family Quarrel
Cincinnati police say Thomas C. White 51 died from a shotgun blast after a family quarrel. Detective Chief Clem Merz said White’s son Earl 28 was held for questioning. the son says he fired after his father shot at him four times.
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Cincinnati
Thomas C. White
Clem Merz
Earl
Merz
White
Canton Man Elected President of Ohio Council of the Blind
Paul Clark of Canton was elected president of the Ohio Council of the Blind as 75 delegates concluded a two day meeting that formed the organization in Columbus.
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Columbus
Paul Clark
Canton
Ohio Council of the Blind
Rigid Economy Set as Goal Of GOP State Administration In Herbert Inaugural Speech
In his first address as Ohio governor Thomas J. Herbert calls for rigid economy and tax reduction. He urges lowering state expenses after wartime expansion and outlines aims including veteran aid, education funding, welfare facility upgrades, road building and highway safety, tuberculosis fight, and agricultural policy reform.
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Herbert
Columbus
Ohio
Thomas J. Herbert
Dee Tail
General Assembly
Adjutant General
State Welfare Department
State Board of Agriculture
GOP Public Works Chief Refuses To Quit Office
Columbus AP Raschig the Republican public works director refuses to step aside for his successor Democrat J L Bavneni saying his term runs to July 26 and seeks an Attorney General opinion. McCormick plans Ohio Supreme Court action to resolve the replacement conflict with Governor Lausche.
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GOP Public Works
Columbus
Frank L. Raschig
J. L. Baafneni
Raschig
Lausche
Hugh S. Jenkins
McCormick
Ohio Supreme Court
Pistol Accident Kills Six Year Old in Circleville
Donald Schaeffer six died when his brother James eighteen discharged a pistol by accident at the E H Day farm near Circleville Ohio. Deputy Radcliff said the weapon fired while the boy played with it during a family visit.
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Circleville
Donald Schaeffer
Howard Schaeffer
Lancaster
James
Carl Radcliff
E. H. Day Farm
Shaeffer
Donald
Guerrilla Attack Captures Greek Officers in Gravia Raid
An official report says guerrillas killed three people and seized five Greek officers and twenty men during a surprise attack on Gravia village, about 120 miles north of Athens.
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Athens
Gravia
Survivors Tell Antarctic Plane Crash Ordeal and Rescue
Six Byrd expedition survivors recalled the Antarctic wreck and two week wait for rescue. Warr of Portsmouth and Robbins of San Diego aided others as Caldwell kept up morale aboard Pine Island. The crash killed Lopez Henderson and LeBlanc. survivors buried three dead under the wing with an American flag.
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MT. Olympus
Antarctica
William G. H. Warr
Portsmouth
James Haskins Robbins
San Diego
Calif
Henry H. Caldwell
Caldwell
Pine Island
George Dufek
Dufek
Discovery
Owen McCarty
Sonoma
Ens
Maxwell A. Lopez
Newport
William H. Kearns Jr
Boston
Cabinet List for Herbert Admin Promises GOP Majority
The cabinet of directors aiding Thomas J. Herbert as he becomes governor includes H. D. Defenbacher in Finance and Dale Duniton in Commerce both from Columbus. Other appointees span Welfare Charles L. Sherwood Agriculture Frank N. Farnsworth Waterville Highways Murray D. Shaffer Mansfield Industrial Relations William J. Rogers Cleveland Liquor Control Stanley B. Cofall Cleveland Public Works J. L. McCormick Ravenna Adjutant General Chester W. Goble Columbus. All directors are Republicans except McCormick who was appointed Saturday by outgoing Democratic governor Frank J. Lausche.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
H. D. Defenbacher
Dale Duniton
Charles L. Sherwood
Frank N. Farnsworth
Waterville
Murray D. Shaffer
Mansfield
William J. Rogers
Cleveland
Stanley B. Cofall
J. L. McCormick
Ravenna
Chester W. Goble
McCormick
Frank J. Lausche
Teacher Charged With Assaulting Girl in Dover
Gene Wilford Weedman 31 a Canton Timken High math teacher was held for grand jury after police said he signed a statement admitting a nine year old girl was assaulted. He pleaded guilty to the attack charge but denied another allegation involving an eight year old companion.
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Dover
Canton Timken High
Gene Wilford Weedman
Harris W. Stucky
Fire at Claridge Hotel Routed Conference Delegates
Memphis firemen at the National Fire Instructors conference battled an eighth floor mattress blaze at the Claridge Hotel early this morning. About 30 fire experts were awakened and evacuated. the fire was quickly controlled with no injuries reported.
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Memphis
Tenn
National Fire Instructors Conference
Claridge Hotel
League charges lack of law enforcement in Youngstown
The Better Government League of Youngstown charged that the city’s reputation is being ruined by a lack of law enforcement. Mayor Ralph W. O Neill studied questions from the league but declined comment.
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Youngstown
Better Government League
Ralph W. O'Neill
League
Government Troops Reclaim Anping on Peiping Tientsin Road
Government reports say troops recaptured Anping on the Peiping Tientsin Highway. A road section remains in Communist hands and unusable for U S Marines at the ends.
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Peiping
Anping
Peiping-Tientsin
U. S
SAM SIMMONS ON MARSHALL AND CHINA POLICY
SAM SIMMONS argues General Marshall may pressure Communist China, endorsing cautious reform. He asserts communists would undermine government if admitted to the cabinet and urges improving the republic to appeal to less educated nations. He says helping struggling peoples resist Moscow aligns with duty and ideal.
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Communist Party
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