Judge urges innocent verdict in Mason County theft case
After hours of testimony Judge Lewis H. Miller directed a Mason County Circuit Court jury to return an innocent verdict for Lester Ohlinger in a case tied to a 16-foot steel pipe claimed by the state road commission. State witnesses and defense counsel clashed over pipe possession and intent to steal, with Ohlinger a former Mason County Democratic chairman.
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Point Pleasant
Lewis H. Miller
Lester Ohlinger
William Bardin
Samuel Littlepage
Miller
Ohlinger- Staats Excavating Co
W. L. Smith
Ohlinger
Mason County Democratic
State Road Commission
Smith
Letart
Edward Greene
Raymond Musgrave
State Road
Littlepage
Greene
New Haven
Mont Blake
Raymond Grinstead
Hazen Roush
Blake
SEC Officials Seek Two Men in Slayings Probe
State Highway Patrol resumes a wide search for two hitchhiking slayings suspects after two witnesses fail to identify a man in custody. Charles T. Rigdon is being held as the sheriff’s killer identification lags amid a case tied to Adams County Sheriff Ben K. Perry. Bloodhounds from Huntington, West Virginia assist the probe.
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West Union
State Highway Patrol
Adams County
Ben K. Perry
Cpl
C. H. Brown
Maysville
Charles T. Rigdon
Cpl. Brown
William White
Perry
The
Order of Police
Rigdon
Adams
White
Brown
Huntington
W. Va
GOP Sees Continued Point Four Aid With Changes
Four Republican senators in separate interviews support keeping the Point Four principle of U S technical assistance abroad while proposing changes to operations and name. They warn Truman’s next foreign aid budget of two billion dollars will face scrutiny and pruning. Senator H Alexander Smith of New Jersey notes modifications are needed and Republicans will likely retain the program.
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Washington
Truman
U. S
Search Party Reaches Site Of Lost Plane
A large rescue party gathered at Beaver Basin Idaho to reach the burned wreckage of a C46 transport that crashed last week with 49 aboard. Two paramedic troopers who spent a freezing night at White Pine Ridge found no survivors after parachuting in. Air force officers woodsmen and peace officers led the convoy of vehicles ambulances and snowmobiles. The hikers would traverse a forest road then trek miles into rugged terrain to the crash site. The plane had been en route from Seattle to Fort Jackson South Carolina with Korean War veterans returning home.
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Fish Haven
Idaho
Beaver Basin
Here
White Pine Ridge
Air Force
Forest Service
Seattle
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Mother Administers Oath to Three Sons in Missouri Capitol
In Jefferson City Missouri a mother Mrs James T Blair widow of a state supreme court justice administered the oath of office to her three sons Monday in the Missouri Capitol She was appointed a notary for the ceremony in the Senate chamber The brothers are Lt Gov James T Blair Jr Circuit Judge Sam C Blair and Cole County Probate Judge William C Blair.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Capitol
James T. Blair
State Supreme Court
West Prods Russians To Ink Austria Pact
Washington and the United States Britain and France urged the Soviet Union to engage in talks to conclude an Austrian treaty. The three Western powers notified Moscow of plans to summon a four power deputy meeting in London to discuss restoring Austria’s full independence.
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Washington
Ussr
Austria
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
London
Safecracker Fails Writes Testimonial in Caliber of Safe
In SAN BERNARDINO California a would be safecracker could not break into a market safe with weekend receipts. He typed a testimonial claiming he never had worked on a better one and urged obtaining another just like it if this one failed for further use.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Nine Doctors Arrested in Plot Against Soviet Leaders
Soviet press reports nine doctors, mostly Jews, were arrested on charges of killing Andrei Zhdanov and Alexander S. Scherbakov and plotting further deaths under alleged direction of British and American intelligence and Zionist groups.
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Moscow
Andrei A. Zhdanov
Alexander S. Scherbakov
Five Day Temperature Outlook With Variable Rain
Temperatures will average near normal with normal highs from 35 to 43 and lows 19 to 23. Mild conditions expected Wednesday, colder Thursday and Friday, warmer Saturday, then colder Sunday. Rain expected north Wednesday. rain and snow Thursday and Saturday.
Japan backs warning as it orders planes kept out of air
Tokyo says Russia must refrain from intruding over Hokkaido with warplanes after 20 to 30 violations. A U S defense planes would shoot down intruders if needed with full U S backing. Gen Mark Clark ordered measures to prevent further violations and protect U S forces. The warning targets Soviet Russia amid rising border tensions near the Kurile islands.
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Tokyo
Japan
Russia
Foreign Office
U. S
Mark Clark
Far East
Mitsuo Tanaka
Tanaka
Hokkaido
Soviet Russia
Kurile
Kuriles
Hokkadio
Eisenhower Cabinet Heads Convene On Budget And Security
President elect Eisenhower and leading aides met for four hours to discuss priorities for the new administration including trimming the 78.6 billion dollar federal budget and ways to confront communism at home and abroad. A second session was planned as secrecy surrounded the talks. Internal security and foreign aid were also on the agenda.
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New York
Eisenhower High Command
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Truman
Congress
Eisenhow
Coed at 72 Lands Date
EAST LANSING Mich Augusta Lynch a Michigan State junior has a date for the Junior Prom at age 72. She is grandmother of 10 and enrolled as a general business student majoring in insurance and real estate. Registrar Robert S Linton arranged the date after joking about a J Hop ride.
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East Lansing
Mich
Augusta Lynch
Michigan State
Augusta M. Lynch
Custer
Robert S. Linton
Fire sweeps ship Condor at Yokosuka dock
A fire of undetermined origin swept through the U S minesweeper Condor at a Yokosuka dock. No one was injured.
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Tokyo
U. S
Condor
Yokosuka
Cartel Peace Bid Rejected by Major Oil Firm
Washington report says a Justice Department offer to settle its antitrust action against an international oil cartel was rejected. Standard Oil of New Jersey declined the compromise, calling it cold and outrageous blackmail, blocking government hopes for a broad agreement.
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Washington
Justice Department
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Arthur H. Dean
Standard Attorney
Truman Faces Eleven Hour Woes Ending White House Era
President Truman enters his final week beset by eleven critical issues from oil to the Rosenberg clemency case. Albert Einstein urged commuting the death sentences, while Justice Department review proceeds. A federal stay delays execution as Truman weighs verdicts before leaving office.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Rosenberg
Rosenbergs
Albert Einstein
Princeton
N. J
Justice Department
King Advises Blockade and Bombing in Korea Crisis
Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime Navy chief, advocates a blockade and bombing of Red China to intensify pressure in Korea. In a U S News & World Report interview, he predicts President‑elect Eisenhower will craft a workable solution to end the stalemate, and he cautions, Don't forget the bombing.
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Washington
Ernest J. King
Red China
Korea
U. S. News & World Report
Eisenhower
Editor of Alliance Review Dies at 88
Neal A. Geyer 88 former editor of the Alliance Review from 1919 to 1942 died at his home after three weeks of illness. He formerly owned the New Concord Enterprise and later worked for the Zanesville Daily Courier and Illinois papers in Centralia and Dixon. Survived by a daughter and other extended relatives.
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Alliance, CO
Neal A. Geyer
Alliance Review
New Concord Enterprise
Zanesville
Grand Jury to Revisit Murder Charge in Beating Case
Lancaster Ohio January grand jury recalled to consider first degree murder charges against Hubert F. Kunkler 38 bound over without bond after pleading innocent to fatal beating of his 60 year old mother in law before Judge William Pickering.
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Lancaster
Hubert F. Kunkler
William Pickering
Air Force Designates Lockbourne AFB as Permanent Base
The Air Force on Monday announced that nearby Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio, will be designated a permanent installation, reinforcing its long term role in the service.
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Columbus
Air Force
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Sheriff Death Recalls Dillinger Gang Slaying
Lima Ohio reports Sheriff Ben K. Perry killed by two hitchhikers in Adams County. The incident recalls the 1934 Dillinger era when Sheriff Jess Larber was slain during a jail visit as gunmen sought John Dillinger. Deputy W L Sharp and Sarber misidentified a gang member in the killing sequence.
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Lima
Ben K. Perry
Adams County
Ohio
Allen County
Jess L. Larber
Dillinger
Larber
W. L. Sharp
John Dillinger
John
Toledo
Sarber
Sarver
Harry Copeland
Yank Armada Strikes Korean Rail Lines in Major Sweep
The U S 5th Air Force launched a 440 plane attack on communist rail facilities in Northwest Korea, the seventh such strike in five days. Sabre jets claimed downing two MiG 15s with likely destruction of one and damage to another as B 29s dropped 100 tons of bombs. Two fresh Chinese armies, about 70 000 troops, entered the Western Front line while intelligence noted no new Red offensive offset by a badly mauled Chinese unit being pulled back.
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Seoul
U.S. 5Th Air Force
Korea
U.S
Five Witness Blast Death by Own Action in West Virginia
Denzel Raymond McCray, 47, strapped five to six sticks of dynamite to his waist and ignited them in front of five witnesses including his ex wife and her lawyer Charles Bland. McCray was killed instantly while his wife and Bland were critically injured. The blast occurred as a magistrate finished a property settlement in his office. McCray and his wife, divorced last September, had six children.
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Weston
W.va
Denzel Raymond McCray
Charles N. Bland
Robert Elliott
McCray
Ike Names Dr Conant to Key Job in New Administration
President elect Eisenhower selected Dr James Bryant Conant president of Harvard University as United States high commissioner for Germany. The post was vacant after Walter J Donnelly’s retirement. Conant, Harvard president since 1933, will be confirmed by the Senate after January 20.
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New York
Eisenhower
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
United States
Germany
Foreign Service
Walter J. Donnelly
Hower O
John Poster Dulles
Senate
Conant
Harvard
Atomic Energy Commission
National Defense Research Commission
Educational Policies Commission
Dulles
Lawmakers Probe Air Force Crash Toll Across November
Rep Short calls the Seattle area C124 Globemaster crash inexcus able as the House Armed Services Committee recalls Gen Vandenberg and other top Air Force officials. The panel investigates seven military accidents with 234 deaths in November and December, plus 55 more in two Far East incidents. Short pins crew oversight as a key factor.
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Washington
Rep. Short
R-Mo
Seattle
House Armed Services Committee
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Far East
Short
Authorities appoint new Adams Sheriff
Adams County commissioners named Deputy Eugene Fulton to succeed the murdered Sheriff Ben K Perry. Fulton was sworn in by Judge Vernon Young Sr and joined the manhunt for Perry's killers as hundreds of officers continued the search.
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West Union
Adams County
Ben. K. Perry
Eugene Fulton
Perry
Vernon Young Sr
Fulton
Blast victim Audrey Taylor dies in Columbus incident
Audrey Taylor, 37, the second victim of Saturday rooming house explosion and fire in Columbus, died Monday.
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Diles Columbus
Audrey Taylor
Lausche Urges Gas Tax Hike To Fund Highways
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche urged the Legislature to hold general spending while raising new revenues, focusing on highway funding. He backed a penny a gallon gas tax increase and a ten mile tax on heavy trucks, echoing GOP calls for fewer local subsidies and more state income.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
General Assembly
Lausche
Legisla
GOP
Slavers Target Adams County Sheriff in Ohio Shooting
Authorities in Southeastern Ohio search for two men linked to the shooting death of Sheriff Ben K Perry of Adams County. Roadblocks line the Silver Bridge and Pomeroy Mason Bridge while state patrols pursue a trail from the stolen sheriff’s car. Perry, 68, a week in office, had a 20 year background in police work and prior journalism roles in Indiana and Ohio.
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Ohio
Ben K. Perry
Adams County
Silver Bridge
Point Pleasant
Kanauga
Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
State
White
Perry
Gary
Ind
Piqua
Canal Dover
Portsmouth
Garyoa
Bentonville
Vernon Young
West Union
Atant
Rome
Roosevelt State Game Preserve
Schools Shut By Influenza
Influenza outbreaks curtailed school activities across the Midwest and Southwest. Texas closed schools in at least seven towns while dozens of communities report high illness rates. Dr. George Cox cautioned it is too early to declare a state-wide epidemic, yet absenteeism surged in Western Missouri with 49 classrooms in Kansas City public schools lacking teachers.
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Kansas City
Midwest
Southwest
Texas
George Cox
Missouri
Charge Manslaughter In Cambridge Death
Cambridge police say Richard Savage will be charged with manslaughter in the death of 3 year old Robert Hackley who was shot in the face with a .22 caliber gun. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hackley, died after the incident while visiting Savage and his wife.
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Cambridge
Harry W. Watkins
Richard Savage
Robert Hackley
Watkins
Ralph
Savage
Nine RAF crew die in Suez air crash
A Royal Air Force Hastings aircraft on a routine flight over the Suez Canal Zone crashed Monday near Cairo. All nine crew members were killed in the incident.
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Cairo
Egypt
Royal Air Force
Hastings
Suez Canal Zone
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