Divorce Perjury Charged In Franklin Muskingum Counties
A grand jury indicted two Zanesville lawyers and five Muskingum County residents on multiple counts of subornation of perjury. Prosecutor Bartlett said clients sought quick divorces by lying about residence to meet Franklin County rules, while Muskingum County requires six months. The case linked 80 names checked in a wider divorce mill probe led by Judge Rose, with fake Columbus addresses uncovered and some clients remarried or moved.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Zanesville
Muskingum County
Thomas A. Joseph
William L. Weber
Ralph Dutro
Doris Mable Bishop
Vivian Matheney
Taylor
Paul E. Wise
Catherine L. Watson
King
Weber
Grand Jury
Ralph J. Bartlett
Ohio
Bartlett
Muskingum
Dutro
Doris Mabel Bishop
Joseph
Clayton W. Rose
Athens
Glen Burson
O. F. Rowland
Burson
U S Orders Refused Seen Blockading Russian Mission
In Frankfurt armed Military Police blockaded a Russian repatriation mission after it refused to leave the U S zone. Water gas electricity and food were cut off and telephones cut. Four officers and four soldiers with families occupy the mission.
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Frankfurt
U.S
Germany
Death toll climbs as cold storm grips Northeast
Strong winds and cloud cover kept temperatures above freezing in the northeast as the death toll from storms rose to 23. Officials cited over-exertion in the cold and heavy snow as the main causes in New England and surrounding areas.
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Chicago
New England
World Flight Completed by B 50 Bomber Lucky Lady I
An Air Force B 50 Superfortress named Lucky Lady I completed the first nonstop flight around the world. The crew of 13 landed at Carswell Air Force Base at 1 21 40 a.m. after refueling four times and flying eastward for under four days.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Air Force
Carswell Air Force Base
Butter Price Drop Hits Cincinnati Wholesale Market
Cincinnati dealers report a two cent drop in wholesale butter price to 66 cents per pound, matching level seen in mid January. The move lowers costs for buyers while keeping the same price as two weeks prior.
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Cincinnati
Senate OKs resources bill amid oleo coloring clash
In Columbus the Ohio Senate advanced a contentious resources bill amid rural urban splits over oleo coloring. The measure creates a single Department of Natural Resources with divisions for lands water forestry wildlife parks and geology and sets a six year governor appointed director with a seven member advisory board. An amendment directs license fees to fund hunting fishing and trapping promotion.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Senate
Department of Natural Resources
Water
Ohio State University
Traffic Tangle Around Uncle Sam’s Post Office
From the Messenger Building observe hourly gridlock as vehicles circle North and South Congress Street and W Union Street. Drivers navigate a tight coal market in York Township with stoker coal and small screened fuel stacked at mines while larger coal remains in weak demand this winter.
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Messenger
Uncle Sam
Congress St
Union St
Hocking
York Township
Silver Bridge Timeline and Toll Collection Details
The Silver Bridge linking Kanauga and Point Pleasant opened 21 years ago and remains toll controlled by West Virginia. It was the first aluminum painted bridge and first to use steel eye bars over suspension cables, standing 102 feet above the river and stretching 2235 feet.
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Kanauga
Point Pleasant
West Virginia
Local Home Uses Native Cherry for Finishes
One room in Ziba Midkiff's Hemlock Grove residence in Meigs County features native wild cherry. Lumber cut years ago on the Midkiff farm was brought to Athens, kiln dried, planed, and used for flooring and woodwork with a finish reminiscent of antique cherry furniture.
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Ziba Midkiff
Hemlock Grove
Meigs County
Midkiff
Athens
Oldest Belpre House Tells Early Ohio Settlement Tale
One of the region’s oldest houses stands in Belpre, a frame residence built in 1799 by Jonathan Stone at the village’s western edge. Stone led a party of 40 settlers, mostly Revolutionary War veterans from Marietta, who arrived in Belpre in 1789. Col Israel Putnam helped establish an early Northwest Territory library there in 1796.
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Ohio
Belpre
Jonathan Stone
Captain Stone
Marietta
Coonskin
Col
Israel Putnam
Northwest Territory
Two Juveniles Questioned Over Sugar Creek School Break In
Two juveniles are being questioned by county officials after breaking into Sugar Creek school Tuesday night. They used a door broken by high winds, opened a locked cupboard in the principal's office, and took about $5 from a money box. Deputy Sheriff Elza Linscott recovered part of the money after the morning discovery by Principal Gladys Simpkins.
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Sugar Creek
Gladys Simpkins
Elza Linscott
Plants Prefer Belt to Canal in Steel Region
Kenneth Lloyd of the Mahoning Valley Industrial Council told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Youngstown steel plants favor private funding for a 130 mile $210 million Lorain East Liverpool conveyor belt line over a public funds canal plan. The project would haul coal and iron ore between Lake Erie and the Ohio River with spurs to Youngstown and Cleveland. Railroad opposition is prepared for a March 15 hearing.
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Columbus
Youngstown
Liverpool
Kenneth Lloyd
Mahoning Valley
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Cleveland
Ohio
Supreme Court Denies Murder Case Review
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to review the murder conviction of Ralph Reed, 27, of Cleveland and set April 1 for his death in the electric chair. Reed was convicted of shooting George Marquilus, proprietor of the Reliable Steel Plate Company, Cleveland, during an attempted holdup. The slaying occurred February 6, 1948.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Ralph Reed
Cleveland
Reed
George Marquilus
Reliable Steel Plate Company
Two admit 38 school burglaries in Midwest case
Dwight Cherry and Robert J. Kennedy pleaded guilty to possessing burglar tools after police reports say they admitted committing 38 schoolhouse burglaries in Ohio and Indiana. The men, ages 50 and 21, were held on $5000 bonds in Muskingum County Grand Jury proceedings.
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Zanesville
Ohio
Indiana
Homer E. Walters
Dwight Cherry
Robert J. Kennedy
Mount Vernon
Muskingum County
Mail order romance slayings rock Grand Rapids
In Grand Rapids Michigan Raymond Martinez Fernandez 34 and Martha Beck 29 were charged with murder in a lonely hearts scheme. They reportedly confessed to killing Delphone Downing 28 and her 20 month old daughter and to beating and strangling another woman whose body was found in a New York cellar.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Raymond Martinez Fernandez
Stocky
Martha Beck
Roger C. McMahon
McMahon
Delphone Downing
Rainelle
Here
Byron Center
McMahan
Fernandez
State Official's Mother Dies in New York Home
WAVERLY Mrs. Cresse Evans Nye 73 mother of Lieutenant Governor George D. Nye died of a heart attack at her home. She was the widow of Dr. George B. Nye. Survivors include Nye, a granddaughter Mrs. Paul Armour of Lancaster California, a brother Alfred C. Evans of New York and three sisters Mrs. Thomas McKitterick Mrs. William Peters and Mrs. Andrew Etzkorn of Baltimore. Mrs. Nye was a Jackson native.
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Jackson
Andrew Etzkorn
Baltimore
Nye
Defective Chimney Flue Caused Kenyon Fire Disaster
Kenyon College faces a deadly blaze that killed six of the nine students in a dormitory. Officials including President Gordon K. Chalmers say a deteriorated chimney flue caused the fire, which began between 3:55 and 4 a.m. and spread rapidly through the second and third floors trapping residents. The 122 year old building had been rebuilt in 197 and had served as Army barracks in 1943.
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Knox County
Middle Kenyon
U. S. Army
Officer Admits Planting Mike In Jury Room Trial
Lima police detective J Robert Neely testified he wired a microphone into the Allen County court jury room without Sheriff William Dailey knowledge. He and Bernard Burkhart planned to record talks with Richard Snyder in a knife slaying case. The microphone was found with wires to a storeroom.
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Lima
J. Robert Neely
Allen County
Bernard L. Burkhart
William R. Dailey
Neely
Burkart
Dailey
Richard Snyder
Snyder
Dalley
Jan
Senate House Group To Talk Bonus Plan
A conference committee of the legislature meets to reconcile Senate and House differences on the West Virginia veterans bonus resolution. The Senate favors a bond payoff plan for 90 million dollars while the House demands a simple bonus resolution without a tax rider.
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Senate
House
Charleston
West Virginia
House GOP Pushes Excise Tax Cut Plan
Republican leaders unveil a plan to cut excise taxes in a counter move to President Truman. The proposal would restore prewar rates, exclude the liquor propagation tax, and remove duties on jewelry under twenty five dollars with the plan framed as the first order of business for Congress.
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Washington House
Truman
GOP
Congress
Martin
Massachusetts
House
Conress
School Fund Bill Studied In Senate Hearing
The Ohio Senate Education Committee held its first hearing on a bill to provide schools with 27.5 million dollars more over two years. Ohio Education Association’s Thomas G. O Keefe urged the funding to raise teacher pay, citing a record 4300 teachers leaving Ohio schools last year and projecting 3000 teachers needed annually for five years. He noted half of teachers earn under 2744 dollars and 28 percent under 2400, calling for a 25 dollar monthly pay raise for teachers, with the rest aimed at non teaching staff and operations. The bill totals 202 million dollars for two years.
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Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Thomas G. O'Keefe
Ohio Education Association
Ohio
Poor State Support Hinders Ohio Public Health
Dr. Carl C Buck of the University of Michigan told the fifth state conference on rural health in Columbus that Ohio suffers an extraordinarily poor record of state financial support for both state and local health departments, calling it the greatest stumbling block to improved public health.
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Columbus
Michigan
Ohio
Carl C. Buck
Department of Public Health
University of Michigan
Hoover Group Urges VA Major Improvements
The Hoover Commission proposes major improvements in the Veterans Administration. It highlights tighter VA education and insurance programs amid reported poor management waste in education and inefficiency and delays in insurance handling plus internal organization defects across the agency.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
Veterans Administration
Runaway truck hits Albany home damaging exterior
Residents of the Albany home of Harvey Sailor were awakened after midnight when a heavy truck parked nearby broke loose, ran over the curb and struck the house corner. State patrolmen said Cecil A. Moore of Ripley owned the truck. Extensive exterior damage and interior plaster loosening occurred, but no injuries were reported.
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Albany
Harvey Sailor
Cecil A. Moore
Ripley
GOP Urged Vote Right On Filibuster
Senator Vandenberg urged Republicans to vote according to what is right on the potential test of breaking a Southern filibuster over changing Senate rules. He said loyalty to him or Barkley should not influence members. Senator Stennis argued the choice is between free debate and the gag rule. Senator Conally charged motives behind moves to end filibusters.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
Barkley
Michigan
Stennis
D-Miss
Conally
Dtex
Couple Shot at Home. Husband Kills Wife then Ends Life
Police rescue report from Lima Ohio states detectives found Alta E. Benedum and his wife dead at 511 Fairfield Drive. Coroner T. J. Talbott says Benedum, a retired refinery worker, likely shot his wife during breakfast then killed himself. Victims about 70 years old.
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Lima
Fairfield Drive
Alta E. Benedum
T. J. Talbott
Benedum
Lima Man Is Named Mental Hygiene Official
COLUMBUS 4% Dr Lowell O Dillon of Lima Wednesday was appointed assistant commissioner of mental hygiene. The job pays 8500 a year. Dillon, now assistant superintendent of Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, will take over March 16. He was an intern at Lima Memorial Hospital and did psychiatric work during a 30 month period of Army service.
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Columbus
Lowell O. Dillon
Lima
Dillon
Lima State Hospital
Lima Memorial Hospital
Child Injures Hand With Dynamite Cap
An eleven year old boy Daniel Schramm of Harrietville Noble County injured his left hand by tossing a dynamite cap against a sewing machine. His mother Mrs L D Schramm was taken to hospital in shock. The boy lost his thumb and first and second fingers. He found the cap while playing outside.
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Marietta
Daniel Schramm
Harrietville
Noble County
L. D. Schramm
Plane Strikes Wires Lands Safely at Gander
Transcontinental and Western Air Lines said a DC-4 with 33 people aboard landed safely at Gander Newfoundland Tuesday night after striking ground wire installations.
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New York
Transcontinental and Western Air Lines, Inc
Gander
Newfoundland
Three men indicted for first degree murder in Gifford slaying
Special Columbus grand jury charged Harry Dodds Jr, Grover Rawlings and an unnamed suspect with murder in the slaying of Eleanor B. Gifford on Jan 3. Prosecutor T. Vincent Martin called the case the most brutal he had seen. Indictments allege two counts each, murder while committing robbery and burglary.
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Eleanor BE. Gifford
T. Vincent Martin
Harry
Dodds, Jr
Grover E. Rawlings
Dodds
New Strakeeville
P. G. Chapman
Guysville
Jimmy Stewart
Athens County
Columbus
Rawlings
Miss Gifford
Martin
Franklin County
Dodds and Rawlins
Common Pleas
Roy D. Williams
Frank J. Lausche
Logan
Nelsonville
Gifford
London
Thomas Wagner
Burseau
Wagner
George Bateman
Bateman
Paul E. Brown
Church of the Good Shepherd
Williams
Foreman Chapman
Mabel Jeutter
Grosvenor St
George Smith
W. Union St
A. R. Linscott
N. Congress St
Dorothy C. Fulton
E. State St
Athens
Phil Weller
Fred Mulligan
Guy King
Shade
Frieda Bean
Alfred Russell
Coolville
Rexal Boggs
B-29 Believed Down in Luzon Mountains
An American B 29 with nine crew members is believed down in the Caraballo Mountain Range in Northern Luzon. The crash location and condition of the crew remain unconfirmed as search efforts focus on the rugged terrain. Military authorities have not released further details.
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Manila
Carabello
Luzon
Herbert announces expected baby in August
Former Governor Thomas J. Herbert and Mrs. Herbert announced Tuesday night that they are expecting a baby early in August. The disclosure came during a public event in Cleveland-GP.
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Cleveland
Thomas J. Herbert
Mrs. Herbert
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