Heat Wave Pushes Past 100 Degrees Across Ohio Valley
The hot spell continues through Friday with 100 degree readings in multiple towns. Athens hit 97 official and Pomeroy 106 unofficial, while irrigation and roadway crews work as tar softens. Ohio reports several heat related deaths and drownings as record highs persist.
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Messenger
Athens
Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Ironton
Charles Hardman
N. Lancaster St
Richland Ave
Glen Junod
Highway Department
Lawrence Walden
State Highway Garage
Athens County
Columbus
George Mindling
Mindling
Youngstown
Springfield
Chillicothe
L. Clark Schilder
U.S. Reformatory
Holiday Death Toll Is Called Shameful
The National Safety Council calls the Fourth of July death toll 711 as shameful and disgraceful. The three day holiday period saw 315 traffic fatalities, 25 more than earlier estimates, marking the highest ever for a Fourth of July and near record levels for any holiday.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
Lewis and Coalmen Delay Contract Talks
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers along with northern and western soft coal operators pushed back talks from July 12 to July 19. Ezra Van Horn, spokesman for the operators, announced the delay as miners ended their 10 day holiday and began the first three day work week ordered by Lewis.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ezra van Horn
Lewis
Cool Weather? Answer Is No! Ohio Heat Persists
Forecaster George Mindling answers Ohioans questions on the heat wave. No relief through Friday, no cool Canadian air, scattered showers possible in the north but not enough to reduce humidity, and temperatures likely to stay about the same.
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Columbus
NEA Sessions Debate Red Issue And Friction
In Boston a clash at NEA sessions centers on a policy report by John K. Norton of Columbia Teachers College urging a ban on Communist party members among teachers. Rose Russell of the CIO Teacher’s Union condemns the policy as ill conceived and likely to fuel hysteria and a cold war.
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Boston
National Education Association
Rose Russell
CIO Teacher's Union of
New York City
John K. Norton
Columbia University
Teachers College
Norton
NEA Educational Policy Commission
Communist Party
Area Notes From Belford Rosser Trip And Local Highlights
Belford Rosser left for Bethany Oklahoma to establish a tourist camp with nine cabins and plans to gradually sever home ties. Local items include two new traffic lights on Route 50 in Coolville to aid school crossings, questions about town-name signs, and portraits of James H Parr house in Letart Falls with Civil War era architecture. Harrison Donahue, longtime rural mail carrier and Sunday School superintendent, is remembered for his kindness shown by walking barefoot with children to attend class.
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Nelsonville
Bethany
Okla
Oklahoma City
Hocking
Belford
Hocking Valley
The
Messenger
Coolville Village
Troy
John H. Hayman
Letart Falls
Meigs County
James H. Parr
Haymans
Ohio Country
Maryland
Harrison Donahue
Plants
Donahue
Half Mile Bicycle Races Planned for Messenger Area
Fred W. Weber reveals a multi city program to hold bicycle and tricycle races for children under 12 and to select the Athens Messenger champion who will compete at the Ignaz Schwinn Memorial Nationals in Columbus on August 28. Local and national races follow Amateur Bicycle League rules with stock bikes except national finals where Super Deluxe bicycles may be provided. Top prizes total 6000 dollars in Schwinn memorial scholarships for entering colleges.
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Messenger
Fred W. Weber
Weber
Athens Messenger
Ignaz Schwinn
United States
Columbus
Amateur Bicycle League of America
All- American
Newspaperboys Executive Committee
Chamcae
Jena Schwinn
Nee's Choice
Awa
Arnold, Schwinn and Company
Chicago
Schwinn
Schwinn Company
Appropriations Action Advances in Ohio Legislature
Fast action on a 162 million dollar appropriation plan for state functions includes 61 million to run July and August, 2 million for local poor relief matching, and 99 million for state construction. Mahoney predicted passage of the 61 million two month fund this week as unencumbered money expired last Thursday.
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Columbus
Margaret A. Mahoney
Cuyahoga
Senate
House
Frank J. Lausche
Ex Convict Admits Slaying Of Two Men In California Cabin
Henry Guldbrandsen, 34, a merchant mariner and ex convict, surrendered and admitted killing two men, Lt. Peter J. Flint, 31, and Peter Jensen, 55, with a stone in a cabin above the Valley of the Moon. He corroborated Eva Paget’s account of the Fourth of July murders.
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Eureka
Calif
Valley of the Moon
Henry Brun Guldbrandsen
Ed Neumeier
Elmer Hodgkinson
Humboldt Times
Eva Paget
California
Guldbrandsen
Peter J. Flint
Flint
Peter J. Jensen
Boettiger Seeks Divorce From FDR’s Daughter Anna
In Phoenix Arizona John Boettiger 49 a newspaper reporter sues Anna Boettiger 43 daughter of Franklin D Roosevelt for divorce after 14 years of marriage. He cites mental cruelty as grounds. They wed in 1935 after Anna’s first husband Curtis Dall divorced.
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Phoenix
Ariz
John Boettiger
Anna
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Curtis Dall
New York
Boettiger
Currency Value Cut Called Dangerous Trend Says Byrd
Senator Byrd called a general revaluation of European currencies to lift dollar and gold reserves a very dangerous trend. Other senators offered mixed views on a guarded administration suggestion that some European nations might cut their currency values.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Elyria Man Confirmed As Treasury Official
Harlan T. Chapman of Elyria Ohio was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as Assistant Register of the Treasury. Senator John W Bricker had suggested the Finance Committee review Chapmans record as a state official. No formal complaint was lodged.
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Washington
Harlan T. Chapman
Elyria
Ohio
Senate
Register of the Treasury
John W. Bricker
Senate Finance Committee
Chapman
Liquor Department Sees Over 50 Million Profit for Ohio
Columbus reported State Liquor Director Oscar L. Fleckner announced that the liquor department's net profit to Ohio's general fund will exceed 50 million dollars this year. He also suggested new retail liquor permit freezes might lift in the latter part of August.
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Columbus
Oscar L. Fleckner
State Liquor Department
Ohio
Fleckner
Father Die of Burns in Zanesville Incident
James E. Taylor, 44, of Zanesville, aged father of four, died after sustaining burns. He had been hospitalized following the accident and his death was announced today.
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Burns
Zanesville
James E.taylor
Diag
Negro Girl Will Visit Washington During Girls Nation
Cincinnati report says Joan Rankin a 16 year old Negro girl will visit Washington next month as guest of the American Veterans Committee Aug 21 27 despite the Ohio American Legion Auxiliary decision not to send her. Her mother Mrs Veron Jones stated they will attend. Joan was named governor of the Auxiliary Girls State at Columbus before the decision to exclude her was announced.
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Cincinnati
Joan Rankin
Washington
Ohio American Legion Auxiliary
Veron Jones
Joan
American Veterans Committee
Ohio American le- Auxiliary
Col
Sites Sought For Se deals Cleveland and Akron debate school sites
A five man Ohio delegates committee planned a morning meeting with Columbus Mayor James A. Rhodes to oppose building the blind and deaf schools on Wyandot Golf Course. Akron officials weighed using 85 acres of adjacent parkland as a potential site for the schools.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Association of the Deaf
Cleveland
James A. Rhodes
Mervin Robinson
Akron Chamber of Commerce
Akron Metropolitan Park
Akron
Foremen Claim Rock Throwing During Plant Strike
Howard Amatto and Joseph Starom, a foreman and assistant foreman at General Industries Co. in Elyria, report rocks were thrown through their home windows and say they were threatened crossing picket lines of the Mechanics Educational Society of America to reach the plant.
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Elyria
General Industries Co
Howard Amatto
Joseph Starom
E. J. Stankard
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Ind
Vandenberg Presses Ratification of North Atlantic Pact
Michigan Senator Vandenberg urged the Senate to ratify the North Atlantic Pact, calling Communism the sole threat to world peace and stating its final target is the United States. He argued the treaty would deter aggression and warned that open conspiracies abroad and at home aim at the U.S. He joined Senator Connally in leading the debate toward a swift two thirds approval.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
United States
Connally
U. S
Union Members Ousted For Going to Court
Atlantic City six members of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters AFL were barred for ten years from union activity after being found guilty of violating the union constitution by filing a suit in Ohio challenging pay increases for top officials. The case is in the Ohio Court of Appeals.
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Atlantic City
National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
AFL
Ohio
Ohio Court of Appeals
Unemployment rises as grads flood Cleveland job market
The Cleveland area sees unemployment reach 51,000 as June graduates from high schools and colleges enter the job hunt, boosting the local labor pool.
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Cleveland
June
Colle
Business Fear Seen as Threat to Economy
Senator Flanders warns that businessmen may trigger a recession by curtailing supply and reducing inventories. He urges President Truman to deliver a strong pep talk to merchants and manufacturers in the upcoming economic report to Congress to avoid artificial market contraction.
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Washington
Flanders
Truman
Congress
Lively Dispute Over Basing Point Price Bill
Washington debate opens as the Basing Point price bill reaches the House. The measure, already approved by the Senate, would amend the Clayton Act to shield manufacturers that absorb freight costs from antitrust prosecution when quoting delivered prices.
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Washington
House
Senate
Steel contract talks resume in Pittsburgh
U S Steel officials and the CIO United Steelworkers resume wage talks in Pittsburgh that could set the pattern for major industries. Two possible outcomes are a fourth postwar wage increase or the first nationwide steel strike since 1946.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
Government to try Tokyo Rose co defendant for treason
The United States opens its case to convict Iva Toguri D'Aquino known as Tokyo Rose of wartime treason but will not seek the death penalty. Jurors are to be selected from an all white panel of six men and six women with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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San Francisco
Iva Toguri
Tokyo Rose
D’aquino
Government seeks Mammoth Bomber Plant for wheat storage
Federal agriculture officials disclosed plans to lease the Mammouth Bomber Plant in Cleveland for use as a wheat storage facility. The move aims to expand storage capacity and stabilize grain reserves amid market fluctuations.
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Cleveland
Federal Agriculture
Defense Seeks Time In Dodds Murder Trial Proceedings
Defense for Harry Z Dodds Jr asks for more time amid unexpected testing and a sudden recess in the freat degreee murder case. Key issues include deposition of Roy Arnold, a hospital witness, and a Columbus trip for Dodds with Judge Williams ordering transport.
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Harry Z. Dodds, Jr
Dodds
Suboena
Columbus
Deefense
Samuel BR. Erekine
Manafield
Erskine
Athens
J. B. Grogan
George Bateman
Cpl
Paul Kinsey
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Williams
Beaven
Ohio
U. S. Supreme Court
Roy Arnold
Arnold
Poston
Grant Hospital
T. Vincent Martin
Martin
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