Dutch Claim Advances On 10 Fronts In Java Sumatra
Batavia dispatch reports Dutch forces moving on at least 10 fronts across Java and Sumatra. Advancements include 30 miles south on the Semarang front and a 70 mile push toward Palembang oil fields, with shore landings near Leomadjang and Djember.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Sumatra
Batavia
East Java
Indonesia
Semarang
Jogjakarta
Probolinggo
Leomadjang
Malang
Djember
Shell
Palembang
Parents Deny Boy’s Story In Baby Deaths
Massillon six year old Roger Gue admitted killing two infant girls at Massillon City Hospital but his mother disputed the account. Police Chief Switter said investigators and a Pittsburgh reporter peddled gifts to elicit the confession. Officials remain divided on the boy’s involvement as the case continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Gue, Jr
Stanley Switter
Massillon City Hospital
Roger
Pittsburgh
Massillon
Roger Gue
Stanley W. Switter
Deane McLaughlin
E. C. Reno
McLaughlin
Switter
LeMoyne Snyder
Lansing, Mich
Michigan State Police
Marshall
George C. Marshall
Charles Eaton
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Sol Bloom
D-Ny
Washington
House
Ferguson Presses Clark to Aid Voting Probe
Senator Ferguson urges Attorney General Clark to back a Senate inquiry into Kansas City vote fraud handling. He cites Democratic opposition stalling action as GOP leaders push for a probe amid 1948 campaign tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ferguson
Mich
Clark
Kansas City
Senate
Hatch
D-Nm
Carroll Reese
Langer
R-Nd
GOP
Kem
Rmo
Rep. Ploeser
R-Mo
House
Dunifon Reappoints De Hayes as Liquor Department Director
State Liquor Director Dale Dunifon named Daniel W. De Hayes of Columbus as personnel director for the liquor department. De Hayes, 32, previously served as public relations chief when Dunifon led the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Dale Dunifon
Daniel W. de Hayes
Dunifon
Liquor Department
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
de Hayes
State Senator Urges Teachers to Enter Politics
Pennsylvania State Senator Fred P. Hare Jr. urged teachers to enter politics at the National Conference of Classroom Teachers in Oxford. He warned education could be used as a political football and said teachers should ensure legislators receive proper guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford, O
Pennsylvania
Fred P. Hare, Jr
Meyersdale
National Conference of
Hare
British Ship Sunk After Landing Refugees in Haifa Harbor
Official sources report the British ship Empire Lifeguard sunk in Haifa harbor shortly after disembarking 261 legal Jewish migrants from Cyprus detention camps. Sabotage suspected as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Empire Lifeguard
Haifa
Holy Land
Cyprus
Telegraph Editor Dies in Cincinnati
Donald F. Dearness aged 52 died last night in Cincinnati. He served as telegraph editor for The Cincinnati Enquirer and was a longtime newsroom figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
Cincinnati
Donald F. Dearness
The
CincInnati Enquirer
Yank Killed In Philippines
Manila reports an American Army sergeant was machine-gunned to death and a companion wounded near San Fernando in the Clark Field area. The shooting followed the lifting of a curfew after a prior assault in the same region and occurred as soldiers answered a stranded truck call.
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Manila
Clark Field
San Fernando
Irvin Plough
Army
Morphine Prescription Forgery Charged in Cincinnati Case
Robert E. Dever a 44 year old Portsmouth Ohio man waived hearing and was arraigned before U S Commissioner J Paul Googhegan on forging a physician s prescription for 40 morphine tablets and held on 1000 bond Federal narcotic agents say he is a wholesale wine dealer awaiting further court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Robert E. Dever
Portsmouth
Ohio
U.S
J. Paul Googhegan
Dever
Girl Honor Student Held in Childs Death
A 14 year old honor student Louise Gomez was jailed in Sacramento County for the hammer and jack handle killing of 10 year old Mary Lou Roman at a foster home. Doctor Rudolph Teller said she was not insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Calif
Sacramento County
Mary Lou Roman
Rudolph Teller
Stockton State Hospital
Louise Gomez
Auto Man Negotiating Bull Island Purchase
Cincinnati attorney for Powel Crosley Jr. examines the title to Bull Island in the Atlantic Ocean near Savannah Georgia as Crosley seeks to buy the seven mile by four mile island with 2000 acres above high tide for farming.
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Cincinnati— (P
Powel Crosley
Cincinnati Automobile Manufacturer
Sportsman
Bull Island
Atlantic Ocean
Savannah
Crosley
Dairy spokesmen predict three cent milk price rise
Cincinnati dairy industry spokesmen foresee a three cent hike in the price of a quart of milk over the next four months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Injuries Fatal After July Auto Crash in Tiffin
An 80 year old man named Fred Grote died from injuries sustained in a July 11 automobile accident in Tiffin, Ohio. Initial reports indicate the crash occurred yesterday with Grote slipping into critical condition before his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiffin
iFred Grote
Hopes Raised For Newsprint Prices Drop
The House Newsprint Committee led by Rep. Clarence J. Brown reports prices are at a peak with no justification for further increases. It urges any changes in the coming months to be lower rather than higher to benefit publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Racing official reports $4 600 theft at home
Sam C. Lombardo of the Randall Park Racing Association says three armed men robbed his home shortly before midnight, stealing $4,600 in cash and jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Sam C. Lombardo
Randall Park Racing Association
Six Die in Explosion at Berlin Police Station
A blast at a Berlin police headquarters in the Russian zone kills six and wounds four. Authorities say the explosion may have started in a room storing guns and ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Springfield Tax Vote To Hike Teacher Pay On Ballot
A three mill property tax levy to raise 334000 dollars to fund an average 600 dollar raise for teachers will appear on Springfield's general election ballot in November following board of education action last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Board of Education
Fair Director Named by Springfield Art Society
Clark County Articulture Society named Bryan P. Sandles as director of the Clark County Fair. Sandles is a former Ohio Junior State Fair manager and assumes leadership responsibilities for the Springfield area fair program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Clark County Articulture Society
Bryan P. Sandles
Ohio
Direcor
Clark County
House Shuns Truman Credit Control Plea
The House voted to end wartime credit controls immediately, rejecting a Senate plan to extend them to December 31. President Truman faces choices on lifting restraints for big-ticket purchases as buyers must meet down payments and 15 month loans under Regulation W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOUSE
Truman
Washington
Congress
Voice
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
Senate
Federal Reserve Board
Erie Flood Recalls 1915 as 9-Inch Rain Feeds Emergency
A state of emergency engulfed Erie after 9.03 inches of rain flooded streets and displaced 75 families from the Franklin Terrace Housing Project. Red Cross sought housing while two to three feet of water covered French Street and power remained on. Damage pegged around $1,000,000.
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Erie
Franklin Terrace
City Hall
Red Cross
Mill Creek
Weather Bureau
French St
State St
Red Cross and Disaster Committee
Lausche Appeals for Impartial Liquor Probe
Former Gov. Frank Lausche called for an objective inquiry into State Liquor Department purchases. He cited the liquor inventory value rising by about 14.6 million since leaving office and questioned slow-moving brands inherited from Bricker and altered under Herbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Frank J. Lausche
Thomas J. Herbert
Hugh S. Jenkins
Lausche
Department of Liquor Control
Bricker
Herbert
Wheat Loss Seen in Ohio
Ohio faces a considerable loss of the 1947 wheat crop unless rapid progress is made in the next seven days. A U S Weather Bureau and agricultural statistician report says the past week favored only vegetables, sugar beets, soybeans and truck crops and field work was at a standstill in central counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
U. S. Weather Bureau
Agricultural Statistician
Lima
Canton
Columbus Man Killed in Auto Crash
Thomas W. Cross, 72, was killed last night in a traffic collision in Columbus. Police said the crash investigation is ongoing and no other injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Thomas W. Cross
Corn Forecast Promises Halt In Prices
Washington officials released a government crop report showing corn prospects at 2.77 billion bushels based on July 15 conditions. The forecast aims to narrow the gap to maintain livestock dairy and poultry production and ease rising prices. President Truman cited worries over a short crop impacting price adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Truman
East West Split in UN Over Albania Admission
The East and West clashed at the UN over Albania joining the body. Delegates agreed Albania must assure adherence to UN Charter principles or face rejection of its membership for the second time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albania
United Nations
UN Security Council Endorsed as Hung Jury by American Legion
The American Legion calls the UN Security Council a perpetually hung jury and proposes three charter amendments to remove the Big Five veto and create a tyranny-proof world police force. It urges an atomic development authority, global arms limits, and an inspectors staff with access to arms production and troop information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Security Council
American Legion Today
United Nations
Legion
Congress
Veterans Organization
United States
Britain
Russia
France
China
U.N
College Chief Asked to Quit At Marietta
A Marietta College trustee said President Wilmer Allison Shimer has been asked to resign. Shimer, who wed Dorothy Blair in 1946 after his divorce from Edith Richmond, was said to plan to appear before the board later this week. The informant noted Shimer had been in Canada honeymooning when the message was sent.
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Marietta
Century Old
Marietta College
Wilmer Allison Shimer
Shimer
Canada
Dorothy Blair
Edith Richmond
Franklin County
Trolley Struck By Lightning In Pittsburgh Rush Hour
A lightning strike blasted a gaping hole in a crowded trolley car during rush hour in Pittsburgh injuring 18 people, two seriously. Passengers screamed, two women were trampled, and a man described a 12 inch streak of fire with thick smoke and sulfur smell.
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Pittsburgh
Minimum Pay Change Looms In Ohio Wage Board
Ohio's nine member Minimum Wage Board pledged to modify the decade old wage floor for women and minors in hotels and restaurants. The panel, after criticism from the Ohio Hotels and Restaurant Association, voted to adjust the scale up based on job and local population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Hotels and Restaurant Associations
Mountaineers Seek Missing Marine Plane Wreckage on Mt Rainier
A mounting party heads for Mt Rainier to verify possible Marine Corps transport plane wreckage reported near 10 000 foot level on the southwest face. The plane vanished with 32 men on a San Diego to Seattle flight last December 10, with tentative wreckage ID made by a ranger on Tahoma Glacier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Mt. Rainier
Marine Corps
San Diego
Reformatory Escapee Indicted on Four Counts
Franklin County Grand Jury indicts James A. Westlake 19 Newark Ohio on two counts of armed robbery one of automobile theft and one of kidnapping He was one of six Ohio Reformatory inmates who escaped Mansfield on May 26 kidnapping a prison instructor and was recaptured May 30 in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Franklin County
James A. Westlake
Newark
Westlake
Ohio
Mansfield
Kent State Seeks Bids for $1,750,000 Building Plan
Kent State University trustees approved a three building program costing 1,750,000 and announced that construction would be advertised for bids immediately. The plan involves new facilities at KENT, O. with bids to be sought right away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent, O
Kent State University
Board of Trustees
Earthquake Measured in Weston Broadness Centered Near Puerto Rico
An earthquake of moderate intensity was recorded by the Boston College seismograph station in Weston Massachusetts today and was believed to be centered in Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston
Mass
Boston College
Puerto Rico
CIO Leader Harold Christoffel Indicted for Perjury
A federal grand jury indicted Harold Roland Christoffel, Milwaukee CIO leader and former president of UAW Local 248 at Allis-Chalmers, for perjury in testimony before the House Labor Committee claiming no Communist Party ties. The indictment states he was a member of the Community Party and had worked with it for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
Victor A. Kravchenko
Kravchenko
Red
Soviet Purchasing Commission
Khimushkin
Moscow
Washington
Harold Roland Christoffel
Milwaukee
CIO
Congressional
Communist Party
Christoffel
House Labor Committee
United Auto Workers
Allis-Chalmers
Labor Committee
Grand Jury Reeport
Community Party
Communist Political Association
Hartley
R-Nj
Allis- Chalmers
Robert Buse
UAW
Buse
Congregation Seeks Church Sold by Error
The Rev. J. W. Grant and 40 members seek to recover their church sold by mistake at a tax delinquent property auction. Real estate investor Stanley J. Olstyn paid $590 last April and now asks $5,000, while auditors note only the parsonage sale was intended and an arbitration offer is possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
J. W. Grant
Stanley J. Olstyn
John A. Zangerle
Olstyn
Zangerle
Curtiss-Wright Union Sets Strike Date After Deadlocked Talks
WIllard Dobbs president of Local 927 CIO UAW announced a 10 day notice of contract cancellation to Curtiss-Wright Corp officials. The union, with over 1000 members, authorized its executive committee to set a strike date amid a deadlock dating from May 26 over seniority wages vacation pay union representation and veterans priority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
curtiss-Wright Corp
Wile Lard Dobbs
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Dobbs
Beegan
SAM SIMMONS On Java War and Dutch Role
Sam Simmons argues the war in Java should not be meddled with and urges keeping the Dutch on side. He asserts Dutch removal would plunge the island into barbarism and warns that dictators may seize control and adopt Communist tactics. He cites past U S interference in India as a reason to hesitate before aiding other native rulers.
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Java
China
India
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Yank
Philippines
Auto Man
Grips
Priice
Rosalie Copping
Akron, O
Kent State
New York
Reformatory
Curtiss-Wright
Sam Simmons
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