Logan Man Charged With Murder 35 Years After Death
Charles F. Bobo, 61, of Logan, arrested on a murder charge in the 1907 death of William J. Barnes at Athens State Hospital. Indictments for second degree murder had been returned against three attendants, with one convicted of manslaughter. Bobo pleaded not guilty, posted bond, and said he helped move a patient to a strong room during the incident.
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Logan
State Hospital
Charles F. Bobo
Athens State Hospital
William J. Barnes
Bobo
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Ohio
Henry Robinette
McArthur
Athens County
Barnes
Court of Justice of the Pence
J. W. Bailey
Athens
George Bateman
Lancaster
Bailey
William West
Albany
Bateman
Ward Garrison
Detroit
Florence Nutter
Hocking County
Athens County Common Pleas
Hobart Reeder
Henry Harkins
C. F. Bobo
Reeder
J. M. Wood
Harkins
U.S. Sea Units In Action With British Fleet
Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen said the U S naval task force with the British fleet has engaged enemy aircraft in the north area. He described operations as the usual, noting no severe damage and good morale among sailors with some due in London for leave. Official arrival of the task force was Easter Sunday, April 5.
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London
Robert C. Giffen
U. S
Giffen
North
United States
Soft Pork Unsuitable Warned for Hog Feeders
The Agriculture Department urged hog feeders in Midwest soybean areas to guard against soft pork, meat from hogs fattened on excess soybeans, noting it is especially unsuited for troops in the fields. Indefinite postponement of the 1942 Disabled American Veterans national convention was announced, moving from Eugene, Oregon, to an undetermined date.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Midwest
Department
O'Ncinnati
Eugene
Ore
Dodge Truck 1938 Model For Sale In Albany Ohio
Sold my truck through Messenger Want Ad. 1938 Dodge truck with stake body coal bed and stock rack good tires ready to go. Price 299 dollars. Howard T. Woodyard Albany Ohio. Phone Albany. Use Messenger Classified Ads to sell your truck or car. Low 6 day cancellation privilege rate.
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DODGE
W.b
Howard T. Woodyard
Albany
Ohio
Messenger
Republic Steel Raises Wages
Republic Steel Corp notified the War Labor Board it would submit to the board order for pay raises and union security for steel workers but said the decision is unsound and a threat to the national economy. President R J Wyser said compliance is due to these critical times.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
War Labor Board
WLB
R. J. Wyser
Republic
Little Steel
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
War Drives Broad Shortage of Beef and Pork
War creates a widespread shortage of dressed beef and pork across the East Coast South and as far west as Ohio. Stores report scarce or no beef amid price squeezes and high demand for armed forces and lend lease. Officials suggest relief in weeks to months as livestock supplies improve.
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Chicago
Seaboard
South
Ohio
Akron
Providence
A. L
Warren W. Oley
New Jersey
Bureau of Markets
Trenton
Joseph Daram
Boston
Agricultural Department
Washington
Bricker Inspects State Guard Camps in Ohio
Governor John W. Bricker visited Camps Hocking and Zaleski in Southern Ohio to inspect State Guardsmen in training. He planned another visit next week when additional units are in camp.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Hocking
Zaleski
Ohio
Why Aleutian War Holds On Attu Kiska Agattu
The War Today notes rising public concern over the Japanese occupation of the Aleutians and calls for forceful action. Rep Coffee demands immediate deployment while Alaskan Delegate Dimond cites 20 000 to 25 000 Japanese troops on Attu Kiska Agattu as a warning.
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Aleutian Islands
Washington
Siberia
Attu
Kiska
Agattu
Fear Lag in Area's Output
The nations shipbuilding program will cause extensive employment dislocation in Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. WPB regional director John C Virden warned of material shortages and idle machines while dislocations occur but hoped War Manpower Commission and War Production Board would limit idle periods. He said all available labor will be pressed to grind out war materials with no let-up in production speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
John C. Virden
WPB
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
Mansfield Prisoner Is Slain After Jailbreak
A Youngstown prisoner was slain and another captured by Mansfield Reformatory guards after a midnight escape. Tony Amadio, 21, admitted July 3, 1941, to one to 15 years for burglary and larceny, was shot just below the heart by Guard Ray A. Miller.
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Mansfield
Youngstown
Mansfield Reformatory
Arthur Glattke
Tony Amano
L. A. Hautzenroeder
Richland County
Amadio
Ray A. Miller
Scrap Sleuth Tracks Junked Metal to Mills
In Mansfield Ohio thousands of tons of stoves refrigerators and iceboxes buried in a city dump are to be moved to mills as scrap iron and steel. A. W. Orr a War Production Board salvage inspector tracked down rumors and credited for the find. In Washington the trial of eight alleged Nazi spies went into recess at the request of attorneys marking the first weekday break in the secret proceedings since July 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mansfield
War Production Board
A. W. Orr
WPB
Washington
Siamese twins born in Dubuque judged to have good chance
In Dubuque Iowa a 26 year old farm woman Mrs Floyd Sabers gave birth to Siamese twins. The mother's physician reported today that the infants have a good chance to live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque, Ia
Floyd Sabers
Ito
Morgenthau Calls for Higher War Tax Amid Outlooks
Secretary Morgenthau urged the Senate Finance Committee to raise the House tax bill from 6.27 billion to at least 8.7 billion to curb borrowing and protect economic future. He pressed for higher individual, corporate, excise taxes and broader exemptions, warning of rising war spending and price pressures.
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Washington
Morgenthau
America
Senate Finance Committee
House
Treasury
Brooks Shoe Company Wins Service Contract
The Boston Quartermaster Depot announced contracts for 1,851,000 pairs of service shoes to several manufacturers. William Brooks Shoe Co. of Nelsonville Ohio received $28,000 and Perry-Norvell Co. Inc. of Huntington West Virginia received $25,000.
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Boston
Boston Quartermaster Depot Today
New England
William Brooks Shoe Co
Nelsonville
Ohio
Perry-Norvell Co. Inc
Huntington West Va
Death of Mrs. James P. S. Devereux
Mrs. James P. S. Devereux, wife of Wake Island garrison commander, died after a long illness. She had received no word of her husband since the outpost fell to Japan on December 23. The Red Cross reports Major Devereux is a Japanese prisoner in Shanghai.
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Washington
James P. S. Devereux
Wake Island
Major Devereux
International Red Cross
Shanghai
Canton man dies in electric chair for slaying daughter
Buffert Ray Doney, 48, of Canton, was executed in the Ohio Penitentiary electric chair for the murder of his 23 year old daughter on November 22. Lebanon notes the Warren County Fair is cancelled due to the war and delays on a new grandstand.
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Columbus
Buffert Ray Doney
Canton
Ohio
Lebanon
Warren County
Japs Gain New Foothold Near Port Moresby
Allied reports describe a Japanese landing at Gona Mission near Buna on the Papuan Peninsula, 100 miles from Port Moresby. The assault involved 1500 to 2500 troops with heavy Allied bombing, two American fighters, a transport and landing barge sunk, and a seaplane shot down.
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MacArthur
Australia
Coral Sea
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Gona Mission
Buna
Papuan
Salamaua
Indictment of 28 in Sedition Conspiracy Case
A federal grand jury indicted 28 suspects across ten states for conspiring to undermine morale in the armed forces and defeat the war effort. Named defendants include Elizabeth Dilling and figures George Sylvester Viereck and William Dudley Kelly, with 30 publications and 28 organizations such as the German-American Bund America First Committee and the Ku Klux Klan implicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Elizabeth Dilling
Chicago
Frank Woodruff Johnson
Bund
America First Committee
Ku Klux Klan
George Sylvester Viereck
William Dudley Kelly
Germans Claimed Killed in Cologne Raid By RAF
London report cites foreign source saying 10 000 Germans killed in the RAF thousand plane raid on Cologne May 30. It claims 140 000 residents evacuated to communal graves for the dead and vast destruction with 16 factories including railway workshops knocked out.
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London
British Press Association
RAF
Cologne
Britain and United States Plan Diversionary Action Says Cripps
Sir Stafford Cripps indicated in Parliament that Britain and the United States were studying a diversionary measure in the war. Details remained secret, with Churchill administration keeping plans from even a large audience. In Russia, German forces pushed toward Rostov and Stalingrad as Russian bombers targeted German columns along the Don Bend.
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Sir Stafford Cripps
Britain
U. S
Rostov
Lower
Don
North Caucasian
Russia
Caucasus
Middle East
United States
Neu Tren
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Trans-Caucasus
Soviet Union
Voronezh
Berlin
Vichy
Stockholm
Volga
Hig
British Commonwealth
Roosevelt weighs wartime powers to curb inflation
President Roosevelt canvassed wartime authorities and sought input from labor and management on urgent inflation curbs. He arranged talks with Attorney General Biddle, the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the labor war cabinet to study unilateral actions under war powers and price control laws.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Biddle
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Labor War Cabinet
AFL
CIO
Roosevelt Signs Bill Allowing Government Wheat Sales Below Parity
President Roosevelt signed an appropriation bill granting 805 million dollars to the Agriculture Department for the current year and authorizing sale of government owned wheat at below parity prices. The measure ends a fierce fight in Congress over wheat sales and Farm Security Administration funding, enabling up to 125 million bushels to move from surplus regions to livestock feeding areas at about 83 cents a bushel.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Farm Security Administration
House
White House
Senate
United Nations
Crew of Nazi U-Boat Buried In U.S. Graves
The Navy announces burial with full honors for 29 crew of a German submarine sunk on Atlantic patrol. Twilight rites at Hamption National Cemetery mark the first enemy dead landed on American soil in this war. The sinking details are limited, with one captain reportedly machine-gunned for refusing to name his submarine commander.
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Washington
Atlantic
Navy
Associated Press
National Cemetery
Hampeton
Finn Ager Madsen
Tanavarg
Norway
Gideons Plan Massive Bible Distribution to Armed Forces
A Cleveland report says Gideons International plan to supply soldiers sailors and airmen with Bibles. Since January 1 1941 over three million Testaments have been handed to hotels hospitals schools and prisons and two million more are to be ordered with a long term goal of ten million. A. C. Feigert of Van Wert spoke at the convention opening.
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Cleveland
A. C. Feigert
van Wert
Columbus Man Dies In Patrol Air Crash
Charles Shelfus 21 from Columbus is killed in an air patrol crash off Assateague Virginia while serving as a Civil Air Patrol observer. Henry Cross 38, also of Columbus, survives after the crash of a ship piloted by Cross. Captain Ken Hoyt calls Shelfus first CAP fatality amid patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rehoboth Beach
Del
Charles Shelfus
Civil Air Patrol
Columbus
Atlantic
Assateague Va
Ken Hoyt
CAP Headquarters
Shelfus
Henry T. Cross
Cross
Highway patching secured with P R A bituminous aid
The State Highway Department received assurance to continue temporary crack and pothole repairs as the Public Roads Administration approves one third of the state's request for bituminous material.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Public Roads Administration
Fed panel probes Ohio Fuel Gas Co. classification and rates
The Federal Power Commission announced an investigation to decide if Ohio Fuel Gas Co. should be classified as a natural gas firm and whether its rates are unreasonable or unduly discriminatory.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Ohio Fuel Gag Co
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Mississippi
Gov. Bricker
By Dewitt MacKenzie
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Brooks Shoe Company
Warren Fair
Andrew J. Higgins
New Orleans
House Committee
Clyde A. Farnsworth
el Alamein
Alexandria
Rommel
Auchineleck
Germany
Engeland
East Anglia
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