Tracked by Police in Washington Pawn Shop Captures Train Robbers
Police report two suspects seized after a bold Ambassador train robbery near Martinsburg West Virginia. One bandit shot as he drew a revolver. both men confessed to the caper and were found in a Washington pawn shop near the White House. Police describe a chaotic pursuit with gunfire and passenger injuries and the theft of over a thousand dollars in cash and valuables.
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Washington
Martinsburg
W.va
White House
Baltimore and Ohio
Ramesdell
Jesse James
West Virginia
Broodhoundie
Virginia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Walter Epps
Baltimore
Rebecca Davis
Detroit
Cumberland
Warm Springs Crossing
B. and O
Charles H. O’roke
O'Roke
John J. Prendergast
Chrysler Corporation
Adele Chappell
Ruth Carrington
Boston
Clover Rail
Amelia Kuhn
Roland Hess
Hess
Earl Wise
Ohio Oleo Bill Faces House Vote in Ongoing Battle
In Columbus the oleo bill to permit manufacture and sale of colored margarine in Ohio advances after a tied House vote required corrections. The fight centers on sending the measure to a labor or agriculture committee as leaders plot next steps. Other actions include insurance sale restrictions, three year driver licenses, and Christian Science practitioners charging for services.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Ohio
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Gordon C. Renner
R-Hamilton
J. E. Simpson
R-Hardin
House
A. G. Lacione
D-Belmont
Fess
Oleo
Labor Committee
House Highway Committee
Kenneth F. Berry
House Judiciary Committee
Christian Science
Agriculture Committee backs tax repeal for oleomargarine ban on colored product
The House Agriculture Committee voted 24 to 3 to remove federal taxes from oleomargarine and to prohibit colored oleo in inter state commerce.
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Ashington
House Agriculture Committee
City Finance Plan Studied by Senate Democrats
A new plan to boost funding for cities would add 6 million dollars yearly by earmarking 15 percent of sales taxes for local governments. It proposes 18 million from sales taxes, 2.5 million from amusement taxes, and 15 million from financial institutions tax, totaling 35 million to be distributed to counties 75-25 by property tax population ratio with a new minimum of 30,600.
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Olumbus
Senate
Sens
Clingan Jackson
Nicholas P. Bernard
Youngstown
Democrats
Financial Institutions
State witnesses testify in Tudor murder trial
More state witnesses will take the stand today in the first degree murder trial of Dwight David Tudor 26 of Columbus. Tudor is accused of the Oct 3 slaying of Mary Ann Page 14 a school girl. The body was found near Boone Station School west of Springfield. He pleads innocent by reason of insanity. I had been shot.
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Springfield
Dwight David Tudor
Columbus
Tudor
Mary Ann Page
Boone Station School
Here
Gambling Pays Off Winners Take Cruise
Two winners of a $12,000 gambling haul in Nevada set sail from Miami aboard the 40 foot cutter Adonde. Albert Hibbs Jr and Dr Roy Woolford of San Diego California will cruise to Cuba to hunt crocodiles and rare birds using their winnings.
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Chillicothe
Nevada
Cuba
Albert Hibbs
Albert, Jr
Roy Woolford
San "Bo
Calif
Miami
Turnpike Bill Gains Senate Approval and Momentum
Senate approval heightens odds for Ohio toll turnpike plan linking with Pennsylvania. The bill passed 26 to 5 and heads to the House where past resistance may resume. Proponents cite strengthened support while House members plan road blocks, and the five member commission would oversee bonds and construction across a 239 mile route from near Youngstown to the Indiana border.
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House
Senate
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
William M. Boyd
Cuyahoga
Orval Whitacre
Stark
State Highway Patrol
Winter
Turnpike Commission
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Youngstown
Akron
Cleveland
Toledo
Indiana
Chicago
Marriages and memories Mark Athens area history and notes
Records show Booker T. Washington and Olivia A. Davidson wed in Athens on August 11 1886 with Davidson as the license signer later famed educator. The piece recalls A J Davidson Athens County’s first Black attorney and memory of Eliza Davidson. It also notes Fairyland Brownie troop jail visit, European timber waste views, and Nelsonville marsh and marbles anecdotes.
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Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee College
Alabama
Olivia A. Davidson
Albany
Ohio
Athens
United States
Enterprise Academy
Washington
Malden
W.va
A. J. Davidson
Minnie Jewett
Washington St
Dean Ave
Athens County
Eliza Davidson
George A. Custer
Custer
W. State Street
Diamond Crossing Repaired By State Highway Crew
The rough crossing at the Diamond south of Haydenville has been fixed by state highway department maintenance men. The Hocking County stretch, with heavy travel and many coal trucks daily, is reported to be in excellent condition by motorists.
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Diamond
Haydenville
State
Hocking County
Early Cuban Soviet ties strain after two notes
Havana reports an imminent rift as Cuba hands two blistering notes to the Soviet embassy accusing Moscow of aggressive propaganda and totalitarian methods. The government says communism aims to destroy the democratic system and declares the situation cannot persist. It also rejects a Soviet protest over carnival masks depicting Stalin.
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Havana
Cuba
Carlos Pino Socarros
Stalin
Ohio Senate approves revised jobless benefits bill
The Ohio Senate Labor Committee reported a revised jobless compensation bill 5 to 1 after amendments by Sen. Howard Metzenbaum. The measure increases maximum benefits to 25 dollars for 26 weeks, tightens suitable work rules, trims waiting periods, and sets weekly child supplements. labor leaders praised the work definition changes while business groups opposed them.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Labor Committee
Frank J. Lausche
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Cuyahoga
Margaret A. Mahoney
Dcuyahoga
Senate
Emmett. R
Florida
Lausche
BUC
Food Prices Leveling Off Across the Nation
New York reports meat and dairy prices unchanged from last weekend as the levelling-off trend continues. Vegetables show modest declines in some cities while beef and pork prices ease slightly in scattered markets. Trade spokesmen attribute the trend to consumer resistance against higher prices.
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New York
Agriculture Department
Dutch Say It Impossible to Comply With UN Order
A Dutch spokesman declared the country finds it impossible to restore Indonesian Republican leaders to power as demanded by United Nations Security Council orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
United Nations Security Council
Bowles Pushes 27 Month Rent Control Extension Plan
Former OPA chief Chester Bowles urged Congress to extend rent controls to July 1, 1951 and restore treble damages for overcharges along with criminal penalties for willful fraud. He outlined seven points including housing for new construction incentives and tighter eviction rules.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Connecticut Today
Congress
OPA
Bowles
Blizzard Strikes Greenville Ohio Killing Three in Storm
A severe winter blizzard hit Greenville Ohio at 3 am dumping seven inches in five hours. Schools closed, the only bus line halted operations, drifts formed, and officials urged emergency travel only. Temperatures near 28 degrees as widespread storm damage followed in the region.
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Greenville
Ohio
Darke
Greenville-Dayton Transportation Co
Budget Bills Advance in West Virginia Legislature
Budget bills move toward floors in both chambers as the Board of Public Works reviews requests for changes. After passage in each house a conference committee will finalize the two year funding to operate the government. Governor Patteson extended the session to March 17 to finish the budget. The veterans bonus remains a key, unresolved issue.
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Charleston
W. Vae
West Virginia
Board of Public Works
Senate
House
Patteson
Democrats hinge on Barkley ruling to end filibuster
Washington reports Democratic leaders count on Vice President Barkley ruling that a two thirds vote can gag Senate debate. Senator Lucas of Illinois warned that failure scuttles hopes for Truman civil rights legislation while plans to bring the issue to a vote face last minute shifts. Senator Taft joined 33 others in signing a petition to limit debate and end the Southern filibuster against a proposed rule change.
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Washington
Barkley
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Truman
Fastland
D-Miss
Taft
Ohio
Government Accuses Firm of Conspiracy in Transit Case
The government accuses National City Lines Inc. of conspiring to control a substantial portion of U.S. transit systems. Edwin Driscoll, closing for the attorney general, says the firm and 14 others aimed to eliminate competition as NCL operates systems in 42 cities.
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Chicago
National City Lines, Inc
U.S
Edwin Driscoll
National City Lines
Suitor Held in Slaying of Palo Alto Widow
A man described by police as a jilted suitor was held today in the slaying of a wealthy Atherton widow and the wounding of her twin daughters.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Woman Hears Daughter Die By Telephone
A mother three thousand miles away listened by telephone as her daughter Norma Whittaker and two others were shot dead in a London Terrace apartment. Emory Holt killed his wife, David Whittaker, and then himself after declaring his intent. Police traced the call to the scene following Mrs. Elsie Thomas’s alert.
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New York
Emory Holt
Hollywood
Norma
David Whittaker
Elsie Thomas
Whittaker
London Terrace
Supreme Court Upholds Death for Cincinnati Slayers
Ohio Supreme Court denies appeals of Charles Sparks and Ashell Adams, both convicted of first degree murder for the fatal taxi driver slaying of James C. Case in Cincinnati. The two men, ages 22 and 18, face the electric chair on April 8.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Ohio Supreme Court
Charles Sparks
Ashell Adams
James C. Case
Oil shale mine near Rifle touted as world’s largest
Boyd Morris of the U S Bureau of Mines Division of Synthetic Fuels says a Colorado oil shale deposit near Rifle could become the world’s largest mining operation with a potential of about 350 billion barrels of crude oil.
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Los Angeles
Colorado
America
Boyd Morris
U.S. Bureau of Mines Division of Synthetic Fuels
Rifle
Colo
Small Firms Termed the Foundation of Free Enterprise
The closing session of the National Marketing Conference praised small firms as the foundation of business, with J Hudson Whuffard of Chicago House Furnishing Co in Bluefield West Virginia stressing that free enterprise remains alive only if its fountainheads are not blocked or polluted.
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Columbus
J. Hudson Whuffard
Chicago House Furnishing Co
Bluefield
W. Va
Jury Deliberations Continue in Axis Sally Treason Trial
The jury of seven men and five women, including six whites and six Negroes, resumes deliberations in the Axis Sally treason trial after a night's sleep. They were sent to a hotel at 10 35 PM and handed the verdict fate at 12 03 PM yesterday for Mrs Mildred Gillars.
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Washington
Mildred E. Gillars
Industrial School Trio Captured in Tennessee
Three teenage escapees from the Ohio State Industrial School near Lancaster Ohio were captured in Knox County Tennessee. Detective James Lippert said officers found a car with the youths jackets. The arrest followed a suspicion pickup.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Ohio State Industrial School
Lancaster
Ohio
Knox County
James Lippert
Lippert
Alfred M. Cohen Die. Ohio Elector Found Dead at Home
Alfred M. Cohen aged 89 and six times an Ohio Electoral College member was found dead in his Cincinnati home on Wednesday after several months of illness. The death closes a long public career in state politics.
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Alfred M. Cohen
Cincinnati
Ohio Electoral College
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