Key Men To Testify In Coal Industry Inquiry
The Senate Banking Committee begins an inquiry into coal industry operations and John L. Lewis’s United Mine Workers. Senator Robertson leads the probe, inviting Harry M. Moses of H. C. Frick Coal Co and George H. Love of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co as first witnesses to discuss industry power and its impact on small business and consumer prices.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Robertson
D-Va
Iwan
Lewis
Harry M. Moses
H. C. Frick Coal Co
Pittsburgh
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Love
Northern and Western
Moses
Administration Unveils Regional Business Jobs Aid Plan
The administration launches a regional aid plan focusing on areas hardest hit by unemployment. President Truman signals a January economy appraisal and potential New Deal style pump priming if conditions worsen. Commerce officials visit Boston Louisville and Atlanta to gather on the ground data and push engagement.
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Washington
Truman
Sawyer
Boston
New England
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Thomas C. Blaisdell
Louisville
Atlanta
Commerce Department
Midwest
Lausche Denies Mercy In Murder Case
Gov Frank J Lausche refused to grant mercy to Mahlon Wisecup 49 of Highland County scheduled to die tonight in the electric chair Wisecup was convicted of killing 72 year old Grant Nichols at Nichols farm home in Carmel last January 2 He claimed self defense but admitted firing when Nichols faced away from him.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Mahlon Wisecup
Highland County
Wisecup
Grant Nichols
Carmel
Nichols
Humprey homestead and area lore near Hocking River
In Meigs County the Jacob Humphrey homestead built before 1812 sits above the Hocking River on State Route 144 near Route 50. It once served as a tavern with a river ford nearby and later became known as the Paden Place. The Humphrey Cemetery nearby holds early graves, mostly Gibbs family relatives.
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Hocking River
Route 50
Hockingport
Jacob Humphrey
Hocking
Humphrey
Gibbs
Humphreys
Negro League Plans To Oust FEPC Fees
The Ohio State Democratic League announced a statewide effort to register eligible Negro voters and defeat FEPC foes. Leader Josef McLin blamed a Republican Dixiecrat conspiracy and vowed a campaign across Toledo Dayton Cincinnati Columbus Marietta Steubenville Cleveland and Canton.
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Cleveland
Ohio State Democratic League
League
Ohio
FEPC
Toledo
Dayton
Cincinnati
Columbus
Marietta
Steubenville
Canton
Josef McLin
Fire Hits Mansfield in Weldon Building Blaze
Firefighters fought for four hours to control a morning blaze in Mansfield's Weldon Building on Main St. The fire damaged fifteen businesses and offices in the 75 year old structure. Fire Chief L J Steele cited a fire wall as key to stopping spread. Separately in Cincinnati seventeen streetcars burned at a car barn of the Cincinnati Street Railway Co causing about 75000 in damage.
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Mansfield
Weldon
Main St
L. J. Steele
Steele
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Street Railway Co
Son Fatally Hurt As Car Is Backed
Kenton police report a two year old boy Donnie Mabrey was fatally struck when his mother Mrs Don Mabrey backed the family car out of the garage Sunday morning. He died an hour after being taken to San Antonio Hospital.
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Kenton
Don Mabrey
Donnie
San Antonio
Bridge Near Mudsoc Destroyed by Fire
A wooden 48 foot bridge on Route 775 about half a mile from Mudsoc over Sand Fork Creek was destroyed by fire last night. The State Highway Department reported it appeared to have been set afire.
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Gallipolis
Mudsoc
Sand Fork Creek
State Highway Department
Chillicothe Man Dies After Polio Treatment
Alfred Michaelson, 36, of Chillicothe, died Sunday night at General Hospital where he had been admitted Saturday for polio treatment. Hospital physicians reported.
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Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Alfred Michaelson
General Hospital
Truman proposes $1.45 billion arms aid program tied to NATO
The administration sent a bill to Congress creating a large arms aid fund for Europe and allied nations. It bars any atomic bomb transfers and allows presidential control of funding, with conditions tied to the North Atlantic Treaty and UN principles.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
State Department
Senate
Okinawa Hit By Typhoon
A second typhoon veered toward Iwo Jima after battering Okinawa with winds up to 150 mph. One American killed and 16 injured as the storm also hit south of Shanghai. The Hong Kong observatory cited the China coast impact with Yan Yang reporting 60 knot winds while Shanghai remained without damage details due to limited communications.
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Tokyo
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Shanghai
China
British
Royal Weather Observatory
Hong Kong
China Navigation Company
Lightning Sparks Massive Barn Fire on Bryn-Du Farm
A lightning strike ignited a huge barn on Mrs. Sally Jones Sexton’s Bryn-Du farm between Newark and Granville, with Deputy Sheriff Herb Simeral valuing the loss at 40 000 dollars. Forty two calves were saved and Sexton also owns the Granville Inn and Granville golf course.
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Newark
Bryn-Du
Sally Jones Sexton
Herb Simeral
Here
Granville
Man Admits Stealing Automobile and Jewelry
Circleville report shows Sammie Rowland, 29, of Ac coville West Virginia, admitted stealing an automobile and jewelry found inside. He was arrested on a reckless driving charge after the car left the road and entered a ditch. Jewelry included two wrist watches two brooches and an electric razor.
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Circleville
Charles R. Radcliff
Sammie Rowland
Accoville
W. Va
Rowland
Brew With a Sock For That Old Taste
Cleveland police found a 50 gallon brew mixed from grain mash garbage potato peels coffee grains and several old socks. Two men were held for investigation one claiming to be a gospel minister.
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Cleveland
Liquor Agents Raid Wade Lodge Mill in Butler County
State liquor agents raided the Wade Lodge Mill near Venice at dawn in what was called the largest bootleg operation in the Cincinnati area. Two arrests were made for selling and possessing liquor and operating without a permit as agents had monitored the private lodge for two months. Officers seized whiskey rum beer wine three slot machines and other gambling equipment and said the venue could host 175 to 200 patrons. Suspects were Lena Morrical and Floyd C Hughes of Oxford.
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Cincinnati
State Liquor Department
Butler County
Frank M. Acton
Wade Lodge
Venice
Acton
Lena Morrical
Oxford
Floyd C. Hughes
Man Steals Car Leads Police in Hit Run Chase
A 20 year old Columbus man stole a car from a used car lot and led police on a chase after two hit and run incidents. He was kept in fair condition at a hospital after being shot by police.
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Man
Columbus
Clifton Jordan
County approves half mill levy for tuberculosis patient care
Lawrence County commissioners yesterday approved a half mill property levy to fund tuberculosis patient care and directed the board of elections to place the proposal on the November ballot.
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Ironton
Lawrence County
Board of Elections
Witness 8 Testimony Cast As Untrue By U N Officials
Senate Judiciary Panel headed by McCarran disputes sworn testimony by Witness No. 8 alleging Communist terror at the U N secretariat under Trygve Lie. UN official Price dismisses the claim as fantastically untrue while House Committee cites Mary Jane Keeney’s role with suspected Soviet agents.
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Washington
McCarran
D-New
United Nations
U.N. Secretariat
Senate
Byron Price
Department
Communist Party
Mr. X
Trygve Lie
Lie
Norway
Price
Burglars Steal Dope At University Hospital
Police report burglars robbed the Ohio State University hospital pharmacy early today. The haul included 2000 grains of cocaine 561 quarter grain morphine tablets and 4267 six grain morphine tablets after thieves cut a first floor window glass.
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Columbus
University Hospital
Ohio State University
Clevelanders Questioned in Zanesville Robbery Case
Police questioned two Cleveland men He Stern 36 and Carl C Bucel 28 about a Zanesville robbery by an armed quartet. Stern and Bucel held on $3000 bond each on Summit County burglary and larceny charges. Englehart 50 identified Stern as one robber bound the victim with neckties taking 100 dollars a 500 dollar diamond ring and a radio. Stern and Bucel detained without charge a police captain said.
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Zanesville
Englehart
Stern
Bucci
Snelling
Wainwright Calls Atlantic Pact an Invitation to War
Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright, WWII hero, denounces the Atlantic Pact as an invitation to another war. He says the United States would face war largely alone, with limited possible aid from England, in comments given to a Cleveland interviewer.
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Cleveland
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan
United States
England
Judge Rules Against Rent Act in 1949 Controls Case
Federal Judge Elwyn R. Shaw declared the 1949 rent control law unconstitutional noting Congress overstepped wartime powers with a local option clause. The ruling does not end all rent controls and an immediate appeal to the Supreme Court is planned. The case involved Tighe E. Woods seeking eviction relief for 18 tenants against Shoreline Cooperative Inc. in Chicago.
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Chicago
Elwyn R. Shaw
U. S. Supreme Court
William 8. Caplan
Shaw
Congress
John J. Lusinski
U. S
12 Killed In Mishaps Over Weekend In Ohio
At least 12 people died in Ohio accidents over the weekend. Five traffic deaths, five drownings, and one fatality from a man struck while boarding a moving freight train. Dorothy Emmory of Bucyrus died from Columbus area injuries. Teen swimmers Blake Foasen and Richard Mann perished at Piedmont Lake. John Leach of Circleville died from injuries in a Columbus auto crash.
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Columbus
Ohio
Dorothy Jane Emmory
Bucyrus
Delaware County
Piedmont Lake
Harrison County
Blake van Foasen
Piedmont
Richard Mann
Barnesville
Summit Lake
Akron
John Leach
Circleville
Toledoan Is Thirteenth To Die in Pen Chair
Gaunt James C. Osinski of Toledo was executed at Ohio Penitentiary for the Dec 13 1947 murder of his 22 year old pregnant wife. One of the couple’s two infant sons died later from exposure. He was the thirteenth execution in the year, tying the all time yearly record set in 1925.
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Columbus
Gaunt
Gray James C. Osinski
Toledo
Ohio Penitentiary
New Plane Bought For World Trip
Sam Keener the flying industrialist announced a new plane purchase for a globe circling business trip. He will depart about Aug 1 from Salem aboard a DC-4 configured for 44 passengers, replacing a delayed previous plan and the B 24 Liberator.
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Salem
Sam Keener
United Airlines
Truman urges swift approval of 1.45 billion foreign army aid plan
President Truman asked Congress for rapid passage of a 1.45 billion dollar foreign army program aimed at eight Western European nations and allies from Europe to the Pacific. He outlined three aid types to boost military production, transfer essential equipment, and provide training while preserving economic recovery.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
Pacific Ocean
Mr. Truman
Sion
Uni
Russia
Mr ‘Truman
United States
State Department
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luwembourg
Western European Union
Norway
Denmark
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Korea
Philippines
Canada
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Point Pleasant
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U. N
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Reconstruction Nance Corporation
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James English
Tarantino
Joe B. Gibson
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