Resignation of Pomeroy Mayor D A Canaday Cited Wife Health
D A Canaday resigned as mayor of Pomeroy citing his wife’s health and his physician’s advice to leave politics He will continue his bid for Congress from the Tenth District Clair Karr becomes mayor pro tempore and successor He recommended two council members as steady partners and urged support for the police and parking meters to ease city issues
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D. A. Canaday
Pomeroy
Clair Karr
Canaday
Council
Mr. Karr
Olin Goodwin
City Hall
Florida
Heaven and Earth
Karr
Lynn St
Spring Ave
George Howell
Non Communist Minister Masaryk Dies in Leap From Office
Prague AP reports Jan Masaryk foreign minister in the postwar Czech government died at 61 in a second story leap from his office. Son of Thomas Masaryk founder of Czechoslovakia, his death follows his years as exile minister and his stance with the Soviet Union.
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Prague
Jan Masaryk
Lev. Prchala
London
Masaryk
Thomas Masaryk
Republic
Foreign Ministry
Anton Dvorak
Soviet Union
Russia
Thomas G. Masaryk
Czechoslovaskia
United States
Charles Crane
Richard Crane
U.S
Czechoslovakia
TCU journalism chief J Willard Ridings dies at 53
Fort Worth Texas reports the death of J Willard Ridings age 53, longtime head of the Texas Christian University journalism department since 1927, with details of his passing not fully disclosed.
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Fort Worth
Tex
J. Willard Ridings
Texas Christian University
Glouster School Head Quits After Disagreement
Glouster schools superintendent L. G. DeLong resigns after policy clashes with the school board. The board accepted the resignation, effective July 31, citing lack of majority support and differing views on governance. DeLong had served three years as superintendent after 14 years as high school principal. Board members listed.
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Glouster
L. G. DeLong
Glouster Schools
DeLong
Ralph Hines
D. E. Carr
C. F. Patton
Ernest Byers
E. K. Bryson
Ohio State Aid Seen Toppling Sales Tax Take
A state Chamber of Commerce survey indicates Ohio state aid to local governments may exceed sales tax revenues by about 3.5 percent this year. The study quotes total aid at 131.5 million dollars, not counting road and old age pension funds, with sales tax receipts around 126.97 million.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
C. of C
Schultz
Finns Ordered To Moscow for Pact Negotiations
Helsinki reports say seven Finland delegates to Moscow for a Finnish Russian pact asked to be relieved of their assignment but Paasikivi refused, calling it compulsory labor. Premier Mauno Pekkala will lead the delegation, with three members from anti pact parties.
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Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Moscow
Juho K. Paasikivi
Mauno Pekkala
Tiffin Reports First Infantile Paralysis Case Since Fall
The first infantile paralysis case in Tiffin since last fall was reported yesterday. Sue Pierce, 18 months old, was taken to Toledo for treatment.
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Sue Pierce
Toledo
Trainman Dies In Hotel Fire At Columbus
A 35 year old railroad fireman, Robert H Carpenter, died in a hotel fire at the Frances Apartment Hotel near the Union Depot in Columbus. Fire Chief Ogborn suspects a cigarette sparked the blaze. Patrolman Kenneth Anderson carried a baby and man Harry Rose 49 to safety and warned others. Eight residents escaped via fire ladders from a second floor roof. many others fled through smoke.
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Columbus
Frances
Union Depot
Robert H. Carpenter
Clarence Ogborn
Carpenter
Kenneth Anderson
Harry Rose
Anderson
Henry Thomas
John Vincent
Columbus Gets Another Chief
Columbus gains a third police chief in nine days as Howard B. Hinton quits citing health, returning to captain. Capt. Charles M. Berry, a 25 year veteran who led the Juvenile and Missing Persons Bureau, succeeds Hinton after the March 1 change. Chief Lester B. Merica resigned last month effective March 1.
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Columbus
Howard B. Hinton
Charles M. Berry
Hinton
Berry
Juvenile and
Lester B. Merica
Dewey Wins 6-2 in New Hampshire Primary Fight
In New Hampshire Governor Dewey captured six of eight Republican delegate votes and two more in the first primary. Stassen kept momentum with two Philadelphia convention ballots, signaling a close contest ahead toward Wisconsin Oregon and Ohio battles. MacArthur remains a looming factor as the GOP nomination race widens.
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Dewey
New Hampshire
Concord
Robert W. Upton
Earl W. Sheets
Robert Blood
Harold E. Stassen
Washington
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Minnesota
New England
Wisconsin
Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Charles M. Dale
Philadelphia
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Sena
U S and Reds Split Over Palestine Partition Plan
The United States and the Soviet Union showed sharp differences at the United Nations over Palestine partition. Arabs boycott discussions while Jews expect a two-state partition by October 1. Warren R Austin defended U S plans after Soviet spokesman remarks.
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United Nations
Russia
United States
Warren R. Austin
Austin
Ohio flood control projects listed in Senate restoration plan
Army engineers urged restoration of five Ohio flood control items in the $538.9 million waterways bill. The House cut these Ohio projects, including Muskingum River reservoirs at 400,000 dollars and Portsmouth New Boston at 407,300 dollars, as hearings opened on flood control programs.
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Washington
Ohio
Army Engineers
Senate
House
Senate Appropriations
Muskingum River
Portsmouth-New Boston
Germans Write Letters Complaining About U S Food Rehab
Washington reports Royall receives letters from Germans upset with U S food distribution in Germany. They cite his January testimony to a House Appropriations panel claiming inadequate food lowers worker efficiency. A Düsseldorfer writer argues such statements inflamed a half-starved populace.
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Washington
Royall
United States
Kenneth C. Royall
U.S.A
United States Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Germany
Dusseldorf-Oberkassel
Dayton Worker Critically Injured After 30-Foot Fall
James Colbert, 43, of Centerville, was critically injured in a fall from a 30-foot scaffold yesterday while employed at Dayton Power and Light.
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Dayton
James Colbert
Centerville
Dayton Power and Light
Torch Sparks Fatal $75,000 Blaze at Ohio Ferro Alloys
James W. Stiles, 19, of Zanesville, was killed when kerosene from a blow torch ignited his clothing at the Ohio Ferro Alloys Corp plant in Philo. The fire spread to a shed and shed platform, triggered an oil tank explosion, destroyed two freight cars and a large building, totaling about $75,000 in damage.
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Zanesville
James W. Stiles
Stiles
Ohio Ferro- Alloys Corp
Philo
Building Standards Planned in New Code
The Ohio Postwar Program Commission's building code revision committee asked a sub committee to draft a functional code that states construction standards rather than fixed minimum requirements detailing every point.
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Columbus
Ohio Postwar Program Commission
Beer Bottles Stop Masked Gunman in Cleveland Bar
In Cleveland a bartender named Dieplowsky fought off a masked robber using empty beer bottles. He opened with a bottle as the intruder entered, the thief fired at the ceiling, and a second shot narrowly missed. A third bottle chase and the robber fled.
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Cleveland
Joseph Dieplowsky
Dieplowsky
Church Heads Await Clarified Court Ruling
Ohio Council of Churches leaders, dismayed by a Supreme Court ruling against weekday religious education in public schools, await details before changing policy. The classes reach 73,517 students in 68 Ohio districts while council watchers defer action.
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Columbus
Ohio Council of Churches
Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Ohio
Ohio Council
International Council of Religious Education
Chicago
Plans to continue religious classes on public school property
Chicago report: The International Council of Religious Education says the Supreme Court ruling banning religious instruction on public school property must be respected and is studying new plans to serve over two million students with continued classes.
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Chicago
International Council of Religious Education
Supreme Court
Draft boards still inactive face uncertain revival in Ohio
Ohio Adjutant General Goble said draft boards are not being reopened in the state and has no knowledge of any move to revive them. In San Francisco Maj. Gen. Hershey said draft officers study faster mobilization methods for an atomic war, while noting the program is not tied to any international crisis. The wartime director said the Selective Service Act expired a year ago and training continues for volunteer state officers to speed manpower in an emergency.
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Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service
Adj
Chester W. Goble
San Francisco
Lewis B. Hershey
White proposes cottages for pensioners in campaign
COSHOCTON Ohio William L White Newark Republican gubernatorial candidate opened his campaign last night before Townsend clubs proposing the state build cottages for old age pensioners to aid needy residents.
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Coshocton
William L. White
White
Newark
Townsend
Ex-Warden Urges New Prisons To Ease Overcrowding
Former Ohio Penitentiary warden Frank D. Henderson, ousted Feb. 21, urges immediate construction of one or more new penal institutions. In his annual report released by Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood, he cites inmate population growth since 1947 and warns overcrowding could force curtailment of prison industries if facilities are not expanded. He notes 4010 inmates at year end 1947 and that cells built for two men house four.
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Pomeroy
Councilmfn
Goodwin
Charles Ferguson
Ferguson
Division 10
John Sauvage
State Highway Department
Council
Elbert Robinson
Sidney Spencer
Columbus
Ohio
Frank D. Henderson
Henderson
Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Ralph W. Alvis
London Prison Farm
Damaged Reynolds Ship Starts Return Flight
The Reynolds Expedition plane with a leaking wing tank took off from Shanghai for a dangerous return flight to the United States for repairs. The mid ocean problem, which started near Wake Island, will delay a China radar survey by about three weeks. Milton Reynolds, Chicago millionaire, said only a Los Angeles firm can perform the repairs.
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Shanghai
Reynolds Expedition
United States
Wake Island
China
Milton Reynolds
Chicago
Los Angeles
Ohio Law Ends Write-In for MacArthur Candidate
Columbus reports that Ohio law effective in January bars write-in presidential ballots. Melvin T. Hott of the Cleveland MacArthur-for-President Club said a statewide write-in campaign would be launched for the general election.
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Columbus
Douglas MacArthur
Ohio
Secretary of State
Melvin T. Hott
Cleveland
MacArthur - For - President Club
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