Icy blast freezes Ohio as flood fears rise across rivers
Ohio River flood crest expected at 53 feet in Cincinnati area while Portsmouth touches 51 feet. Snow and freezing temperatures sweep the state with multiple cities recording new low temperatures and several deaths blamed on winter conditions.
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Ohio River
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Portsmouth
U.S. Weather Bureau
Portamouth
Markland
Ind
Mercury
Cleveland
Akron
Youngstown
Columbus
veArthur Joreski
Mildred Joresk
F. Smith
Elyria
Plane Collision Kills 2 Then Plane Lands Safely
A Pan American World Airways Constellation and a small Cessna 140 collided in clear daylight over Port Washington New York. The private plane’s two occupants were killed. the airliner with 33 aboard made an emergency landing at Mitchell Field with no injuries. Arthur Cutting and Eugene Kowalczyk died. Captain George Knuth landed the damaged airliner after the midair strike near the flight deck region. The fuselage top was gouged by the Cessna in the incident tied to LaGuardia to London flight 4 17 p.m. local time.
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New York
Pan American World Airways
Port Washington
N.Y
George Knuth
Constellation
Mitchell Field
Monarch of the Skies
la Guardia Field
London
Arthur Cutting
Portland
Conn
Eugene Kowalczyk
Middletown
Knuth
Gas Station Fire In Snowstorm Burns Standard Oil Station
A blaze blamed on an overheated furnace caused 50 damage at the Standard Oil service station on upper Main Street at 2 am. Firemen reported a destroyed composition board partition and a door. Night patrolmen Jed Webster Jr and Harold Duckworth spotted the danger and helped avert a larger blaze. fifteen volunteer firefighters battled the flames. The station is operated by James Weber.
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Pomeroy
Standard Oil
Upper Main St
Third Ward
Jed Webster, Jr
Harold Duckworth
James Weber
Migratory workers drive sales of house trailers
Migratory workers account for most sales of house trailers as families move between work areas with a trailer and car, gaining home comforts without high fixed costs. They prefer owning a home despite potential installment payments, and several workers share this perspective.
Winter rains raise water table and improve 1949 crop outlook
Unusually heavy winter rainfall is expected to raise the water table several feet by spring farm work and strengthen spring flows for months, boosting the 1949 crop outlook. Farmers note much water ran off into streams but pools formed, renewing groundwater. only a next summer drought could erase the gain. In Southeastern Ohio along US 33, neglected roadside heritage sites near Hocking Canal’s old stone locks offer an opportunity for a historic park.
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Ohio
Hocking Canal
Athens County
Star Township
Hocking County
State Highway Department
Nelsonville
Logan
Two Women Claim Relatives of Recluse Frances Butler
Akron report notes three administrators of Frances Louise Butler estate, valued around 1 million dollars, with no will found. Two claim kinship: Louise Abbey Cooley of New York state and David L Scott in California, while another cousin suggests possible action. Butler, long a hotel resident in Akron, once sang in Cincinnati and New York opera houses.
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Ohio
Frances Louise Butler
Howard Milford
W. A. Woodling
Miss Butler
Metropolitan Opera
Louise Abbey Cooley
Buffalo
N.Y
Sooley
Alfred H. Abbey
San Gabriel
Calif
David L. Scott
Resignation Withdrawn By Marietta City Council President
S Durward Hoag president of the Marietta City Council withdrew his resignation after Mayor Joe Hartline and the council refused to accept it. Hartline asked Hoag to rescind in the interests of city government amid a caucus where both men, Republicans, reportedly ironed out differences.
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Marietta
S. Durward Hoag
Joe C. Hartline
Hartline
Hoag
Two Americans Drown As Sampan Overturns
Miles W. Vaughn age 58 and Maj. Thomas R. Haddock of the Army Dental Corps died when a small sampan overturned in Tokyo Bay during a duck hunting trip. They were among five aboard, three Japanese, missing since yesterday.
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Tokyo
Miles W. Vaughn
United Press
Asia
Thomas R. Haddock
Army Dental Corps
U. S. Army 49Th General Hospital
Tokyo Bay
Flat-Iron Ignites Bed Fire Kills 90 Year Old Woman
Cincinnati fire officials investigate the death of 90 year old Miss Ellen Callahan found in a flaming bed. Fire Marshal Richard Spelman said a heated flat-iron started the blaze and appears to have been placed in bed to keep her warm.
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Cincinnati
Ellen Callahan
Richard Spelman
Miss Callahan
General Courtney H. Hodes Retires From Army
General Courtney H. Hodes aged 62, commander of the U S First Army, retires from active duty today after 43 years of service.
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New York
Courtney H. Hodes
U. S. First Army
Army
Labor measures move in Ohio House hearings begin
In Columbus the Ohio House advances six of 123 bills aimed at organizing labor. Hearings start Tuesday and Wednesday as the Industry and Labor Committee acts, seeking repeal of Ferguson public employee strikes ban and advancing collective bargaining and a fair employment practices plan. A state labor board mediation bill awaits assignment.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
House
Organized Labor
Industry and Labor Committee
Labor and Administration
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Solons Urge Budget Cut in Truman Proposal
Washington lawmakers debate trimming President Truman’s 41.858 billion dollar budget. House Appropriations Chair Cannon says reductions are possible but unsure if large enough to avoid tax increases. Senator Taft calls for a 3 to 5 billion cut and warns against harming free enterprise.
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Washington
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Consultant Hired To Help Perryopolis Spend Bequest
Perryopolis plans to spend a $1.4 million bequest left by former resident Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier. A planning consultant was hired to guide 1469 residents in allocating funds with half for a permanent project and the rest for upkeep.
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Perryopolis
Philadelphia
Mary Fuller Frazier
Evictions in Tulsa Called Inhumane by Ohio Council
Mass evictions by the Property Owners' Association of Tulsa Oklahoma were denounced by the Ohio council as the most shocking cold blooded inhumane action of the year.
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Columbus
Stalin signals openness to peace pact with Truman
Stalin said he would discuss an American Russian peace pact with President Truman at a mutually acceptable place. He also offered to discuss a joint declaration of peaceful intentions and gradual disarmament. He noted no obstacles to lifting the Berlin blockade if Allies meet two conditions including postponing a Western German state.
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Father Leads Search Party After Fatal Creek Crash
In Huntington West Virginia coroner reports a father who prayed and claimed a vision led a search party to a wrecked car found ten feet under Indian Guyan Creek near Proctorville. Victims Ernest Swindler sixteen and Charles Boggs twenty two were identified by authorities. The car reportedly veered into the creek from a flooded state route. Swindler was a Proctorville High School student and Boggs worked for Gwin Milling Co.
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Huntington
W. Va
W. W. Lynch
Ernest Swindler
Charles Boggs
Proctorville
Lynd
Raymond Boggs
Charles
Boggs
Gwin Milling Co
Swindler
Body of Woman Found by Columbus Bellhop
A bellhop found the body of Mabel Lucille Meadows 40 of Columbus in a downtown hotel room. Police reported mysterious circumstances and that the clothes were torn and stowed under the bed. The body was sent to University Hospital for an autopsy.
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Columbus
Mabel Lucille Meadows
University Hospital
Howard B. Hinton
Granville Missionary Evacuated From Besieged Bassein
In Burma's civil war, Granville Ohio missionary Erville E. Sewards is named as one of two Americans left in the besieged town of Bassein. The other American is Mrs. Chas Conrad, whose husband remains in Rangoon, with Americans and Britons evacuated from the district yesterday.
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Rangoon
Burma
Granville
Ohio
Bassein
Erville E. Sewards
Chas. Conrad
Dayton Conductor Dies on His Sixtieth Birthday
William P. Adams, a Dayton railroad conductor, was killed yesterday after being struck by a locomotive on his 60th birthday. The fatal accident occurred at the rail yard and authorities are investigating.
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Dayton
William P. Adams
Man Held in Shooting Of Roman Catholic Priest
Police nabbed 40 year old Elmer Stanford after a gun battle in a East Side rooming house. He is charged with shooting Rev. Vincent J. Campbell in a confessional at St. John the Martyr church. Witnesses noted a false mustache as a clue and an intensive manhunt followed the Saturday attack.
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New York
Elmer Stanford
Stanford
F. 69Th St
St. John the Martyr
Vincent J. Campbell
Chinese Reds Enter Peiping In Silent Parade
The conquerors moved into Peiping today with an estimated 15 000 to 20 000 troops led by two bands marching from the summer palace gate. Spectators showed curiosity but no hostility or joy as the weary red forces entered through the northwestern gate.
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Peiping
Summer Palace
Genghis Khan
Canton Leader Ashes Hope in Southern Stand
Gen Hsueh Yueh, newly named governor of Kwang tung, declared he would guide China four southern provinces in a final effort against the Communists.
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Canton
Hsueh Yueh
Kwangtung Province
China
Pensioner Beaten and Killed Over $50 Pension
Coroner awaits pathology report on the death of 73 year old Nellie Farrell found beaten and choked in Dresden home. Autopsy performed. burial planned. son Alfred Farrell held for questioning amid suspected struggle over a $50 pension. Police say body viewed by many locals including curiosity seekers.
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S. Daw
Nellie Farrell
Dresden
Here
University Hospital, Columbus
Alfred Farrell
Muskingum County
Harry Bealmear
Bealmear
Solons Face Heavy Session in West Virginia Legislature
Charleston West Virginia report notes the 49th legislature opens with a flood of proposed laws. Redoubled committee activity is planned to move bills to floor votes, with 148 bills already in play plus 88 in the House and 60 in the Senate awaiting committee action.
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Charleston
W. Va
House Finance Committee
House
Senate
Motter Admits Arson. Psychiatric Examination Sought
Charles M. Motter, 24, pleaded guilty to arson in Troy, admitting two fires that caused over 512000 dollars in damage. Arson inspector Willis Peterson of Cincinnati recommended a psychiatric examination. Motter was held in Troy jail in default of a 7500 dollar bond.
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Willis Peterson
Cincinnati
Charles M. Motter
Troy
Motter
Window Cleaner Dies After Stairs Fall in Findlay
Aurora J. Bixler aged 55 who had 30 years of window cleaning history died from a fractured skull after falling down a flight of stairs. Coroner Byron Voorhees ruled accidental death while under the influence of certain drugs.
Hoover urges major U.S. government reorganization
Former president Herbert Hoover called on Congress to grant the president power to reorganize the government so that fewer than 20 major agencies report directly to the White House. He noted about 1800 federal units exist and said regulatory agencies should lose any executive functions while preserving their quasi judicial roles.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
White House
Hoover
House Committee On
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Dentist A W Paffenbarger Dies in Columbus
Dr A W Paffenbarger 92 longtime McArthur dentist died yesterday at his son Professor Ralph S Paffenbarger home in Columbus He practiced dentistry in McArthur for 63 years oldest Ohio dentists graduated 1883 from Ohio College of Dental Surgery He retired two years ago Survived by another son Dr George C Paffenbarger six grandchildren and one great grandson Funeral 1 30 p m Tuesday McArthur Methodist Church Rev Edwin F Beck with Masonic services burial in McArthur Cemetery
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Mcarthur
A. W. Paffenbarger
Ralph S. Paffenbarger
Columbus
Paffenbarger
Ohio
Ohio College of Dental Surgery
Cincinnati
George C. Paffenbarger
McArthur Methodist Church
Edwin F. Beck
McArthur Cemetery
Burley Tobacco Prices Fall to New Seasonal Low in Kentucky
Kentucky reports burley leaf sold at 24 markets last week averaged 41.64 per hundredweight, down from 43.73 previous week, as sales continue to taper after a new seasonal low.
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Louisville
Kentucky
State Department of Agriculture
Heroic Boy Saves Three Brothers From Blaze
A fire at a two story farm house in Columbia Cross Roads near Troy Pennsylvania killed two children while nine others and three adults slept inside. Nine year old Laverne Finnerty entered the burning home and carried three brothers to safety through a first floor window but could not reach another brother and sister who perished. The blaze, of unknown origin, occurred before dawn yesterday.
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Troy
Laverne Finnerty
Columbia Cross Roads
Snowstorm blankets Eastern states with heavy travel warnings
A general snow storm spreads from the Middle and North Atlantic into the Ohio Valley and Tennessee region with four to seven inches of snow and sleet. Travel becomes extremely risky and chains are advised. Relief efforts move fodder and supplies to livestock and isolated communities as cattle and sheep losses mount in Nebraska Wyoming Nevada and Utah.
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Weather Bureau
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Ohio Valley
Maryland
Carolinas
Tennessee
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West Virginia
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Neb
Fifth Army
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Ledo Road
China
Cate Tle
Nebraska
Wyoming
Nevada
Utah
U. S&. Weather Bureau
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Flagstaff
Ariz
South Dakota
Arizona
Star President Dies Unexpectedly in Washington
Fileming Newbold president of the Evening Star died unexpectedly today at age 75.
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