Miners Resume Work at Ohio Mines After Strike
Ohio coal miners return to pits across the Hocking and Sunday Creek fields after a month of idleness. Production resumes at Rail and River No. 3, Hanna strip mines, and several others as locals vote on the new contract and telegrams arrive.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Hocking
Sunday Creek
Crescent
Lorain Coal & Dock
Blaine
Barton
Powhatan
Webb
Shadyside
Big Men
Georgen
Beech Bottom
Wheeling
W. Va
David Christian
UMW
Carbon Hill
Zanesville
Athens
Washington
Strike-Idled Groups Begin Work Return
The nation’s coal industry edges back to normal as thousands of workers return to mines after a month idle. In Pennsylvania less than half the major mines operate while the Robena Pit is set to resume tomorrow. West Virginia and Ohio report several mines active and unions promise all 372,000 strikers will be back by morning. Railroads move cars to mines and furloughed workers resume jobs as steel mills prepare for full output and stockpiling. George Racey Jordan testifies again before HUAC, detailing atomic materials shipments to Russia in 1943 and 1944 and recounting past discoveries at Great Falls.
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Kimberly
Nelsonville
Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Robena
West Virginia
Ohio
UMW
Coal Allied Industries
George Racey Jordan
U.S. Air Force
House Un-American Activities Committee
GOP
Jordan
Great Falls
Mont
Russia
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Federal Court
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Washington
Statler
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Smith
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Smiths
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Point Pleasant
Columbus
Middleport
Floyd Frazier
Huntington
W. Va
Charles Frazier
Meigs County
Francis Kunci
Kuncci
Marjore Ie Braskett
Red Star Grill
William Dougheerty
Glade Reeder
Reds Attempt Traffic Tie Up in Paris Strike
A communist led strike on Paris bus and subway lines disrupted city life but failed to halt normal activity. In the National Assembly the government closed a 72 hour Red filibuster aimed at defeating the anti sabotage bill as strikers pressed for a cost of living bonus and opposed Atlantic Pact arms shipments and military aid to French troops in Indo China.
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Paris
National Assembly
Indo- China
Gallia Traffic Accident Claims Life of Harold Hackney
Harold E. Hackney aged 24 died when his panel truck overturned on Route 325 near Rio Grande early Sunday. Passenger Loretta Banks 16 was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra. The Associated Press noted 16 Ohioans died violently that weekend, including traffic crashes and gas or carbon monoxide fatalities. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at the Community Mission Church Sissonville Road Charleston. Burial follows at Saddis Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Harold E. Hackney
Rio Grande
Loretta Banks
Holzer Hospital
Associated Press
Nettie May
Richard Lee
Billy Paul
Community Mission Church
Sissonville Road
Charleston
John Fowler
Brooklyn Knife Rampage Ends in Beating
A 19 year old man released from a hospital for the criminal insane killed four strangers and wounded three others in a ten minute spree through a Brooklyn tenement area. Police subdued him with gun butts after a pursuit along three blocks.
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New York
Brooklyn
William Jones
Jones
Albert Lebrun Dies in France at 78
Former French president Albert Lebrun, elected in 1932 and deposed in 1940, died today at age 78. He spent occupation years in the Alps, watched the Fourth Republic rise, and in 1944 had a cordial conference with General Charles De Gaulle.
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Paris
Albert Lebrun
Lebrun
Marshal Philippe Petain
France
Germany
Lébrun
French Alps
Charles de Gaulle
Attlee Shelves New Nationalization Projects
In London Prime Minister Attlee’s labor government, stripped of power after the election, shelves further nationalization plans. King George VI opened Parliament announcing the new government’s aim to aid atomic energy solutions and uphold UN support while steering clear of controversial nationwide nationalization in the near term.
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London
Attlee
George VI
House of Commons
United Nations
Labor Party
Leftist General Plastiras Leads Greek National Polls
Athens reports General Nicholas Plastiras with his National Progressive Union leading as nearly half the votes counted. The veteran commander challenges Greece’s two major blocs, the Conservative Populists and the Liberal Liberals, signaling a shift toward a leftist political force.
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Athens
Nicholas Plastiras
Constantine
Plastiras
National Progressive Union
Constantin Tsaldaris
Sophocles Venizelos
Edgar Lee Masters Dies Noted U S Poet at 81
Philadelphia report says Edgar Lee Masters died Sunday night at age 81. He left a flour ishing law practice to write Spoon River Anthology and other poems that gained wide readership. Masters also authored novels stories and biographies of figures such as Vachel Lindsay Walt Whitman Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln.
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Philadelphia
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River
Masters
Vachel Lindsey
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
State official dies in Cincinnati at age 40
Madison C. Perkins an assistant Ohio attorney general since 1948 died in Cincinnati on Sunday after a heart attack as he prepared to leave his home for Columbus.
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Cincinnati
Madison C. Perkins
Ohio
Columbus
Former OU Teacher Killed in Farm Tractor Accident
Dr. Hannibal G. Duncan, 60, retired educator and author who once taught at Ohio University, died after a tractor overturned on his farm near North Wilkesboro North Carolina. His son Eric tried to free him as the tractor sank in mud. a shift bar pinned his neck. He authored several textbooks including The Changing Race Relationship in the Border and Northern States and Race and Population Problems. His widow survives.
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North Wilkesboro
N.C
Hannibal G. Duncan
Dr. Duncan
Here
I. M. Myers
Multi Billion Program Urged in ARA Meeting
At the 47th annual meeting of the American Road Builders Association in Cincinnati R K Stiles of Aurora Illinois urged a multi billion construction program to stabilize employment and offset wartime road deterioration. He estimated road construction deficiencies now total 40 to 60 billion dollars.
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Cincinnati
American Roadbuilders Association
R. K. Stiles
Aurora
Construction Industry Association Manufacturers
Sid Grauman, 70, Dies Master Showman of Hollywood
Hollywood mourns Sid Grauman, 70, famed theater impresario who built Grauman's Chinese Theater and housed the famous footprints of stars. He died Sunday from a heart ailment. His forecourt preserves John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, and Betty Grable imprints among others.
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Hollywood
Sid Grauman
Grauman
John Barrymore
Jimmy Durante
Betty Grable
Second Lisbon Fire Causes $75,000 Damage At Factory
A Sunday night blaze at the R. Thomas and Sons Electric Porcelain Manufacturing Plant in Lisbon caused about $75,000 damage to the warehouse and shipping department. Stock was lost and the cause was not determined. It followed a Friday fire that destroyed an elementary school at an estimated $200,000 loss.
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Lisbon
R. Thomas and Sons Electric Porcelain Manufacturing
Trainman Killed as Freight Hits Switch Engine
In Plymouth Indiana a Pennsylvania freight struck the rear of a switch engine, killing one trainman and injuring another. Cause unclear. incident occurred early today about a mile east of town.
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Plymouth
Ind
Pennsylvania
Here
Ex Convict Sought After Ohio WV Crime Spree and Coal Pact
Police pursue ex convict Charles Frazier and James Pursely across Southeastern Ohio and West Virginia after a brief crime spree. Meanwhile miners sign a new first raise contract with United Mine Workers, boosting daily pay to 14.75 and funding welfare with a 30 cent levy, ending a four week strike and easing economic tensions.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Mercy Killing Doctor Testifies in New Hampshire Murder Trial
Dr. Hermann N. Sander testified about injecting air into cancer patient Abbie Borroto as a mercy act. The 41 year old physician faces first degree murder charges with potential life imprisonment if convicted, while the commonwealth seeks no death penalty. Dr. Sander’s wife and Harvard pathologist Dr. Richard Ford are among key witnesses. The defense argues delays and exhumation facts, and the jury could hear closing by Thursday.
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Manchester
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
Sander
Ralph E. Langdell
Schenectady, N
Richard Ford
Harvard University
Ford
Abbie Borroto
Wage Increase Sought By Electrical Workers
New York UE leaders demand a ten cent hourly pay raise a $125 monthly pension after retirement and other benefits for workers at the two largest electric manufacturers. The demands were announced after weekend UE conference boards representing 100 locals met. The CIO IUE worked on terms but released none.
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NEW York
United Electrical Workers
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
IUE
Purple Gang Member Killed in Detroit Shooting
Detroit police report Purple Gang associate Johnny Gach was fatally shot Sunday night during a house robbery attempt. The 34 year old was found in a parked car about 40 minutes after Walter Baranowski, 23, said he shot a man who tried to break in. A second suspect fled the scene amid the investigation of past gang arrests and a $37,150 cash seizure.
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Detroit
Johnny Gach
Purple Gang
Harry Fleisher
Gach
Walter Baranowski
Dayton's Pierce Wood to lead Ohio Young Dems in 1950
Pierce Wood of Dayton was elected Saturday to head the League of Young Democratic Clubs of Ohio for 1950 at the league's annual convention in Columbus.
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Columbus
Pierce Wood
Dayton
League of Young Democratic Clubs of
Ohio
League
Prisoner Set To Die Baptized Before Execution
Harry Burdette in Charleston West Virginia underwent baptism in a creek yesterday before his death sentence for the July 30 stomping murder of Edward C. O'Brien. He emerged handcuffed to the preacher and said he felt prepared to die as about 500 spectators watched.
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Charleston
W Va
Harry Burdette
Edward C. O'Brien
O’brien
Samuel C. Graley
Burl Frye
Free Salvation Baptist Church
Burdette
Lustron May Continue Under Receivership
Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood was expected to approve a plan to operate Lustron Corp for another 30 days under a receiver. RFC filed foreclosure action 12 days ago claiming Lustron defaulted on loans totaling 37 5 million dollars.
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Columbus
Mell G. Underwood
Lustron Corp
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Lustron
Endowment fund sought by Wittenberg College
Springfield report notes Wittenberg College aims to establish a 5 million dollar endowment fund for students with the goal of expanding scholarships and financial aid.
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Springfield
Wittenberg College
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