Dodds Murder Trial Sees Long Jury-Selection Session
Mrs. Billa Walden of Coolville faced questions on capital punishment and mental subnormality as jury selection began for Harry Z. Dodds Jr. in Athens County Common Pleas Court. The court used two extra jury rooms to seat about 150 prospective jurors amid a history-making venire. Dodds, 20, appeared handcuffed and calm, after five months in jail for the Eleanor Gifford murder.
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Billa Walden
Coolville
Dodds
Walden
Harry Z. Dodds, Jr
Common Pleas Court
Noy
W. Williams
Athens County
George Bateman
Frank Joyce
Francis D. White
Samuel B. Erskine
New Straitsville
Eleanor Gifford
Athens
Share-Work Coal Plan Debated By Northern Operators
A large bloc of northern and western coal operators discussed John L. Lewis proposal to end the no contract no work policy and implement a three day work week during negotiations. The decision may influence a July 6 work stoppage by 400,000 soft coal miners and hinge on tomorrow’s reply at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Lewis
UMW
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Love
Test Vote Nears On Housing Bill
The House opens its first test vote on a multi billion dollar public housing and slum clearance measure. After a week of debate, leaders expect Senate passed bill to reach the White House by Friday as a Truman fair deal victory, while Republicans and Southern Democrats protest its costs and federal control. The plan would build 1,050,000 public housing units in seven years with low rents for tenants.
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Washington
House
White House
Truman
Rep
Cole
R-Kas
Federal Treasury
America
Tortoise marked RFM 1930 reappears near Old Town Creek
A tortoise on Raymond F. Musgrave’s Musgrave farm bears carved RFM 1930 and is likely the same animal seen years earlier near the same area. The report notes local turtle lore and a possible return sighting along with tomato growing tidbits from Point Pleasant farmers.
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Raymond F. Musgrave
Point Pleasant
Musgrave
Old Town Creek
Heat and Storms Sweep the Midwest and Nation
The Associated Press notes a hot humid weekend across most of the U S east of the Rockies with little rain expected until Tuesday. Thunderstorms moved toward Minnesota while northern Maine and parts of New England saw rain and flood impacts in Logansport, Indiana.
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Rocky Mountains
U. S
Chicago
Rockies
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Maine
New England
Logansport
Ind
Congress Deadlock Delays Flood Control Fund Totals
Congress remains at odds over next fiscal year flood control and river and harbor appropriations. House and Senate conferees have not resolved differences in the bills. The House proposes 593,292,270 for army civil functions work while the Senate backs 751,515,690 plus an added project.
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Washington
Senate
House
Television Theater Opens in Cleveland as First Within a Theatre
The Alhambra Motion Picture Theatre unveils a 250 seat television auditorium in Cleveland. Viewers can watch TV programs before or after films on a nine foot sewn screen in this new concept in United States cinema.
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Cleveland
Alhambra Motion Picture Theatre
Movie
United States
Clevelanders Admit Five Loan Firm Thefts
Two Cleveland men Steve Gomori and Charles Gaw confessed to robberies of five Akron loan firms and a Campbell jewelry store. They were charged with intent to rob and carrying concealed weapons after a failed escape by chartered plane.
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Youngstown
Cleveland
Campbell
Akron
Steve Gomori
Charles Gaw
John Putko
Mason County Man Wounded After Dispute
Mason County resident Burdell Neal, 38, was shot in the leg at about 2 p m Sunday following a dispute with Ed Simpkins, 51, both of Lower Five Mile Creek. Neal is hospitalized at Point Clinic. Simpkins faced a magistrate and was released on bond for appearance. A local account says Simpkins and a vehicle fled toward the Tywats area in self defense after Neal went to the home demanding to see his wife. Neal reportedly returned and was shot outside the house when Simpkins fired a 12 gauge shotgun.
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Point Pleasant
Burdell Neal
Lower Five-Mile Creek
Ed Simpkins
Neal
Point Clinic
Simpkins
Million Hikes In Rent Seen
Washington reports that about a million landlords may seek rent increases under the 1949 rent control act. Housing Expeditor Tighe E. Woods said offices handed out that many application blanks and issued four new orders allowing higher rents if landlords add services or improvements.
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Washington
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Senator Flanders proposes wartime atomic ban
Senator Flanders says Congress should forbid use of the atomic bomb except as retaliation. He argues the bomb is not a proper military device but a tool for mass murder of civilians.
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Washington
Flanders
Congress
Tragedy Strikes Bowman Moody Family In Gallipolis Area Crash
The Gallia County crash near Millcreek Road killed Alma May Bowman Moody and her son Edward Robert Moody Jr. Nine family deaths over ten years, two siblings died violently, with Ohio weekend toll including plane and traffic disasters. State Patrol investigated a 1M1 sedan overturning in a ditch and possible gasoline explosion. Local witnesses and officials described flames reaching high and responders aiding the scene.
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Alma May Bowman Moody
Edward Robert Moody, Jr
Miss Jones
Otho
The
Mulge
Robert
Charles KR. Mook
Winfield Locks
Kanawha River
Columbus
Ohio
Chillicothe
Ehman
D. W. Watkins
Jenae Watkins
George Whittington
James
State Highway Patrol
Depe Utiles Woodrow Saunders
Gareland Nibert
D. R. Warehime
Sila-Scontien Nets
Ohio House targets employe dispute bill amid Ferguson Act recall
The Ohio House plans a new bill to ease public employee grievances without allowing strikes, proposing arbitration if conciliation fails. Governor Lausche opposes repeal of the Ferguson Act. Senate may revise divorce laws and approve county bonds for poor relief, while a capital improvements measure requests over 60 million dollars for welfare institutions and universities.
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Columbus
Ohio
House of Representatives
Frank J. Lausche
Senate
Ork
House
Lausche
Berlin Railway Strike Ends Tomorrow After Five Weeks
The AGO ordered workers back to Soviet railways as Western Allies warned West Berlin would cut relief. The strike cost two lives and hundreds injured with economic losses around 20 million West Marks.
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Berlin
Anti- Communist Railway Union
AGO
West Berlin
Paris
Timken Locals Authorize Strike Power in Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co. workers in Canton Columbus and Zanesville empowered the CIO United Steelworkers bargaining panel to call a strike if needed to push union demands. A mass meeting was planned before any action. Also six people were injured by lightning at Chestnut Hill Golf Course in Ravenna yesterday.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Imken
CIO United Steel Workers
Columbus
Zanesville
Chestnut Hill
Trade Pact Signed Between Britain and Argentina
Britain and Argentina formalized a five year trade agreement in Buenos Aires in the presence of President Juan D Peron and officials. Sir John Balfour signed for Britain with four Argentine ministers forming the economic council. American businessmen fear reduced access to the Argentine market for oil and farm machinery.
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Buenos Aires
Britain
Argentina
United States
Juan D. Peron
John Balfour
Argentine National Economic Council
Special liquor sale opens new round by state department
The second special sale of slow moving liquor brands by the State Liquor Department began today featuring 17 whiskies including bonded straight and spirit blends. The American National Red Cross opens its four day convention in Atlantic City.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Atlantic City
American National Red Cross
Nelsonville Missing Man Searched at Gravel Pit
Clarence Hartley, last seen June 22, is the subject of a large search at a Nelsonville gravel pit near Kimberly. Three Columbus divers, local volunteers, and Sheriff Bateman have probed muddy depths up to 40 feet, with no sign found.
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Nelsonville
Clarence
Dude) Hartley
Columbus
George Bateman
Kimberly
Hartley
Everett Hewlett
Spain Loses Former Chief Lerroux at 85
Alejandro Lerroux, 85, five time premier of republican Spain, died in Madrid after returning to the Catholic Church on his deathbed. The lifelong republican faced exiles under King Alfonso XIII and led the Radical Republican Party in attempts to steer Spain between socialism and monarchy.
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Madrid
VI —Alejandro Learroux
Spain
Lerroux
Alfonso XIII
Radical Republican Party
Husband Chases Man Then Kills Himself in Cleveland
A 48 year old carpenter killed himself after pursuing a man who worked with his wife Sally 24 and Joseph Martin 32. Detective Inspector Patrick Lynch said Peter Galines telephoned threats to his wife then chased Martin along a dead end street firing three shots that missed before turning the gun on himself.
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Cleveland
Patrick Lynch
Peter Galines
Sally
Joseph Martin
Martin
Martin Disappearalines
Family Fight Ends in Wife’s Death in Maine Home
In South Harpswell Maine artist Stephen Etmier 45 says his 24 year old third wife shot herself during a kitchen spat at their home Friday night. The woman formerly Jane Walden Pierce of Georgetown Ohio died last night with a bullet near her brain.
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South Harpswell
Stephen Etmier
Etmier
Wilberforce Leader Weds Dayton Librarian
Dr. Charles Leander Hill president of Wilberforce University announced his recent marriage to Mrs. Rosalie Young of Dayton. She assists as librarian at the University of Dayton.
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Wilberforce
Xenia
Charles Leander Hill
Wilberforce University
Rosalie Young
Dayton
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