Peaceful Solution Is Sought In Berlin Crisis
Washington officials pursue a three point policy to resolve the Berlin stand off without war. A new note to Moscow accompanies talks by Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Ambassador Murphy as U S forces plan airlift reinforcement and seek restraint to avoid provoking Russia.
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Washington
Berlin
Moscow
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
Robert Murphy
Clay
Curtis E. LeMay
U.S. Air Force
Europe
Geremany
Russia
West
United States
Truman
State Marshall
Six Communist leaders indicted in U.S. overthrow plot
Bail of 5000 dollars each was posted for six top Communist leaders indicted on charges of advocating violent overthrow of the U.S. government. William Z. Foster and Eugene V. Dennis were arrested with five others being sought as prosecutors detail a national board conspiracy.
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New York
America
United States
William Z. Foster
Eugene V. Dennis
Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Foster
Dennis
New York City
Benjamin Davis
John B. Williamson
Henry Winston
Jacob Stachel
Carl Winters
Michigan State Council
Winters
Detroit
Communist National Headquarters
Lower Manhattan
Davis
Grand
Communist Party
Irving Potash
CIO Farriers Joint Council
John Gates
The
Daily Worker
U. S
Robert G. Thompson
Ohio Communist Leader Gus Hall Reported Out of Town
Cleveland dispatch reports Gus Hall chairman of the Ohio Communist Party among 12 leaders indicted by the federal government is said to be on vacation. U S Marshal John Wein says no official indictment notice has been received and he will withhold pursuit until formal notice is issued.
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Cleveland
Gus Hall
Ohio Communist Party
U. S
John Wein
Hall
Bribe Case Mistrial Demand Is Dismissed
In Cleveland defense demands for a mistrial were dismissed in the trial of former police lieutenant Ernest L. Molnar on bribery charges totaling about $80,000 from policy racketeers. Attorney Parker Fulton made the demand after it emerged that a police captain was also named as a recipient.
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Cleveland
Ernest L. Molnar
Parker Fulton
Cuyahoga County
Frank T. Cullitan
No Polio Epidemic in Ohio Health Officials Say
Columbus reports there is no polio epidemic in Ohio and the state is far from it with 101 cases statewide. Health Director John D. Porterfield cites a threshold of one case per 10 000 residents to reach epidemic levels and urges hygiene, prompt cold treatment, and garbage removal as preventive steps.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Health Department
John D. Porterfield
Search fails to locate two slaying suspects in Ohio
A Monday night statewide search for two men linked to the slaying of Earl C. Ambrose in Columbus yielded no results. John Coulter West, 22, and Robert M. Daniels, 24, were identified by a New Lexington hotel owner from a newspaper photo. Investigators searched hotels and tourist cabins. no roadblocks set.
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Ohio
Earl C. Ambrose
Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Lexington
John Coulter West
Robert M. Daniels
George Bateman
Possible Delay Seen In Recalling Legislature
In Columbus a likely postponement of the Ohio special legislative session emerged as possible while the Supreme Court had not ruled on Henry A. Wallace third party ballot placement. The delay centers on tax reductions and election code amendments amid talks of expanding the session call. Governor Herbert weighed delaying to resolve tax and ballot issues.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Henry A. Wallace
Thomas J. Herbert
Wallace
Supreme Court
George V. Sheridan
Ohio Association of Retail Merchants
Sheridan
Chillicothe
Ross County
Truman to Seek Anti Inflation Aid Measures
The White House announced President Truman will personally urge Congress to pass anti inflation legislation and related measures next Tuesday. He plans to seek a $300 million annual federal education grant and raise the minimum wage from 40 to at least 75 cents an hour.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Congress
Thomas E. Dewey
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Joss
End of Britain's Bread Ration After Two Years
The British press association reports Food Minister John Strachey will announce the end of bread rationing in Britain exactly two years after it began. The timing follows Agriculture Minister Tom Williams noting that farm crops this year could peak similar to 1943-44 if weather cooperates.
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London
British Press Association
John Strachey
Britain
Tom Williams
House of Commons
Clark Clears Officers In War Railway Graft
Attorney General Clark says wartime railroad officers who handled freight deals are cleared so far. He told Rep. Bender that the Justice Department’s claims against railroads for about 2 billion dollars in overcharge reparations are being reviewed by his office.
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Clark
Washington
Rep
Bender
Ohio
a _ House
Justice Department
Hospital seeks missing young mother after birth
Hospital officials in Portsmouth Ohio search for a young mother who gave birth to a boy Monday ten minutes after arrival and then vanished. She told nurses her mother would come after the baby.
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Portsmouth
State Bonus Commission mails 6616 veteran checks
The State Bonus Commission reported 6616 bonus checks were mailed yesterday, bringing the total to date to 22791 for veterans.
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Columbus
State Bonus Commission
Permit issued for Circle Hill Inn in Athens County
State Liquor Department issued a permit covering Helen Butchey Circle Hill Inn and Circle Hill Nelsonville Route 1 Athens County for beer wine and whiskey sales.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Helen Butchey
Circle Hill
Nelsonville
Athens County
Court Upholds Death Sentence for Youngstown Kil lings
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the first degree murder conviction of Donald J. Frohner, 16, of Youngstown, for the January 1947 slaying of William C. Spieth, 52, of Ashtabula. Execution set for Aug. 20 in the electric chair. Arthur Chapman received life imprisonment.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Donald J. Frohner
Youngstown
Frohner
William C. Spieth
Ashtabula
Arthur Chapman
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
William L. Hart
Parole Board Grants Paroles for Two Ohio Inmates
The pardon and parole board today approved paroles for Otis Molihon of Vinton County serving non support and Herman Lan ning of Hocking County convicted of assault to rape. Both inmates are at London Prison Farm with parole effective August 26.
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Columbus
State Pardon and Parole Board
Otis Molihon
Vinton County
Herman Lanning
Hocking County
London
Enlistment Ranks Open For Draft Age Youths
The armed forces open their ranks to 161000 American 18 year olds for a one year enlistment to avoid a later two year draft. Army Navy and Air Force allotments are given with initial weekly enlistment figures and after service 4 to 6 years in a reserve unit. Civilian registrations for the draft begin August 30 for 25 year olds and move down to 18 year olds on September 17. Selective Service says it may take one to six weeks to set up classification and deferment system.
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Washington
Armed Forces
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Navy Marines
United States
Selective Service
Third Party Plans Peace With Russia Platform
Henry Wallace’s New Party holds hearings on a peace with Russia platform as its founding convention unfolds. Public hearings run two days with about 60 organizations contributing views. The draft pledges co existence with Soviet Union and criticizes the Marshall Plan.
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Philadelphia
CIO
AFL
Henry Wallace
Russia
Rexford Guy Tugwell
America
Soviet Union
U. S
United Nations
Tito Declares Yugoslav Party Strongest Marxist-Leninist Movement
Belgrade reports Premier Marshal Tito addressed about 2,000 fervent Yugoslav Communists praising the party as the strongest and most successful Marxist-Leninist movement in the nation's history.
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Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Scottsboro Convict Flees Kilby Prison Break
Scottsboro convict Haywood Patterson escaped Kilby Prison after a truck transfer, while nine Negroes fled during return from field labor. Patterson, amid a gun battle, was among nine convicted of the 1931 Scottsboro assault and sentenced to death. he later received a 75 year term after an extended appeal.
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Montgomercy
Ala
Kilby
Haywood Patterson
Scottsboro
Patterson
Frank Boswell
Bridge Death: Grand Jury Indicts Richmond Man for Murder
Hamilton County Grand Jury indicted 33 year old Harry Herbert Robertson of Richmond Virginia for first degree murder in the slaying of eight year old Patricia Jackson. The child was thrown 60 feet from the Western Hills viaduct last Friday. Robertson claimed radioactivity caused his act.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Harry Herbert Robertson
Richmond
Patricia Jackson
Western Hills
Robertson
Body of Milkman Found Hanging on Tree
In Columbus a milk route salesman named Tennyson Malone, 46, was found hanging from a tree after abandoning his milk truck. Deputies said he fashioned a rope from a burlap sack and walked to a grove to end his life.
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Columbus
Tennyson Malone
U S Jet Planes Complete Crossing of Atlantic
Sixteen U S F 80 fighter planes completed today the first jet propelled air crossing of the Atlantic from the United States.
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Odiham
Eng
U. S
Atlantic
United States
Miner Kills In-Law Shoots Wife Then Self
Carl McCray a 32 year old miner was near death in a Gallipolis hospital after a shooting at Coalton in which his sister in law Amy Rhodes 49 was killed his wife Addie 30 wounded critically and he turned the gun on himself Sheriff Stanley Lewis said the motive was a divorce suit and McCray fired in the Rhodes home and later at the Griffiths yard before returning home and shooting himself
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Jackson
Carl McCray
Gallipolis
Coalton
Stanley Lewis
Jackson County
McCray
Amy Rhodes
Addie
Arthur Griffiths
Lewis
Griffiths
Berlin Crisis Deepens As Red Forces Weigh Power Move
Gen. Lucius Clay and Robert Murphy head to Washington to report on Berlin tensions as Soviet backed rail and border plans surface. Britain and the United States extend airlift with 75 jets dispatched and a record shuttle mission delivering supplies to about 2 million Berliners.
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Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Robert Murphy
Washington
Berlin
Clay
Frankfurt
United States
Stornoway
Scotland
Hague
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
U.S
Simonton Hearing Set for Monday
A hearing is scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. in Common Pleas Court for Willard Simonton, suspended superintendent of the Athens County Home, charged with brutal treatment of inmates. Prosecutor Gordon B. Gray said the case will be before Judge O. F. Rowland, with two days’ notice required, delaying from Friday or Saturday. Gray plans to seek a temporary restraining order to force Simonton to vacate Chauncey home. Simonton has remained at the home despite county orders since July 16.
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Common Pleas
Willard Simonton
Athens County
Gordon B. Gray
O. F. Rowland
Gray
Simonton
Chauncey
Army equipment shipment readied for England from Camp Phillips
A reported large shipment of Army gear to England was under preparation at Camp Phillips. Gun carriages, command cars, ambulances and other vehicles were said loaded on 240 flat cars, with uniforms and blankets on box cars. Washington officials doubted it was standard replacement gear for Europe. The source cited Smoky Hill Air Force Base directing the movement, but an Air Force spokesman said the materiel was not Air Force equipment.
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Salina
Kas
Camp Phillips
England
Washington
Europe
Smoky Hill Air Force Base
Air Force
Buchenwald Survivor Seen French Premier Hope
Andre Marie a 51 year old radical Socialist who nearly died in Buchenwald was described by the Paris press as the best bet to become France next premier. President Vincent Auriol was expected to name the man who will attempt to form the tenth government since liberation.
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Paris
Andre Marie
Buchenwald
France
Vincent Auriol
Dixie Candidate Resigns from Democratic Committee
Governor J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina resigns from the National Democratic Committee. He says he will work to ensure the defeat of President Truman, aligning with the states rights Democrats.
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Dixie
Democratic Committee
Columbia
S. C
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
National Democratic Committee
Thurmond
Truman
Ford Walkout Threat Persists as Talks Resume
In Detroit the possibility of a walkout lingers as Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers resume wage talks after a five hour Tuesday session produced no clear agreement. A second bargaining session is planned this afternoon.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Clio-United Auto
Ohio Prepares for Draft in Partial Return to Wartime Policy
Ohio moves to align with President Truman by registering youths from Aug 30 to Sept 18. Gov. Thomas J. Herbert is expected to name Maj. Gen. Chester W. Goble as state director of Selective Service, a role he held in World War II, after talks in Washington with Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey and other officials.
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Columbus
Ohio
Truman
Thomas J. Herbert
Chester W. Goble
Goble
Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Girl faces tough choice after eye injury in Chicago
Susan Cibulka, 4, plays at home when she fell on scissors at Easter, injuring her right eye. Doctors differ on whether to remove the eye to protect the left one, while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cibulka, decide which medical advice to heed.
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Susan Cibulka
Chicago
Susan
Joseph Cibulka
Mixed Jury Selected In Joint Murder Trial
Six women and six men were tentatively chosen to hear the joint first degree murder trial of Mrs. Marie Conn Abbott and Cyril Gordon. They are charged with killing Morris Abbott, a Reilly Township farmer, whose body was found May 31 near railroad tracks.
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Hamilton
Marie Conn Abbott
Cyril Gors Don
Price Fixing Charges Faced by Paint Firms
Pittsburgh firms that manufacture about half of the nation s paints varnishes and lacquers and their executives were indicted on charges of conspiring to fix prices. A federal grand jury returned indictments in U S district court naming 14 major paint companies and 20 officials based on government complaints.
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Pittsburgh
U.S
300 Workers Return To Tucker Car Plant
About 300 production employees were recalled to work at the Tucker Corporation Chicago plant after a three week shutdown. Preston Tucker, the company president, said the plant closed due to an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tucker Car
Chicago
Tucker Cor Oporation
Preston Tucker
Securities and Exchange Commission
Missing Miner Sought After Lone Star Mine Blast
Rescue workers hunted for Lars Vinge a 54 year old miner missing after an explosion at the Lone Star coal mine in McCurtain Oklahoma. Millard Hatley 27 died from injuries sustained in the blast yesterday.
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