Texas Posse Hunts Killer Of Sheriff
In Marfa Texas a manhunt pursues the slayer of Sheriff O W Blackie Morrow 43 a Navy veteran killed on a lonely mountain road near Presidio. Texas Rangers border riders and local sheriffs ride at dawn tracking the unidentified gunman through rugged terrain toward the Mexican border.
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Marfa
Texas
Big Bend
Texas Rangers
O. W. (Blackie) Morrow
Imen
Texas Ranger
Gully Consert
Morrow
Consett
Rio Grande
Mexico
Here
Presidio
Taft warns on deficits could demoralize the nation
U. S. Sen. Robert A. Taft spoke in Defiance about ongoing deficit spending threatening the dollar's value and potentially demoralizing the country. He linked cuts in federal outlays to Hoover Commission economy ideas and urged action after a coal strike shutdown at Defiance College.
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U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Community Auditorium
Defiance College
Defiance Rotary Club
Hoover Commission
Taft
Jackson Man Indicted On Embezzling Charge
Miles Damon, former cashier of the First National Bank of Jackson Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury for false entry of more than 102000 dollars. FBI said he admitted taking funds over 27 years. A transit worker in Cleveland was questioned again by detectives over attacks on women and children.
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Columbus
Miles Damonrow
First National Bank of
Jackson
Ohio
Federal Grand Jury
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Grow
Cleveland
Clevelandstransit
Solons urge completion of health laboratory in Cincinnati
Four Congressmen from Ohio and Kentucky urge immediate completion of a proposed 4 million dollar sanitation and health laboratory in Cincinnati. Rep Elston testified existing facilities hinder essential work including radioactive waste disposal research and Ohio River pollution cleanup. He cited crowded space and failed rental options. only 200 thousand dollars has been appropriated for planning.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
House
Rep
Elston
Ohio River
Wagner
Spence and Bates
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
New York
Police Probe Youth Crimes in Zanesville
Veteran Zanesville officers report a county wide inquiry into drinking and illicit relations involving about 20 youths most teens. Nine youths aged 15 to 20 have been sentenced to County Jail for 10 to 60 days for contributing to delinquency of minor girls. Six boys remain in custody and warrants are planned.
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Zanesville
Christy Dunn
Rites Set Tomorrow For Dr. Cherrington
Funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church in Westerville for Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington 72 a longtime leader in the temperance movement. He died yesterday of cancer he had led national and international temperance efforts since early in the century.
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Columbus
Westerville
Ernest Hurst Cherrington
Hamden
Washington
Baby Burns in Blaze in Amite as Spectators Block Access
Four month old Joann Chavers died Monday in a house fire blamed on onlookers who hindered firefighters. Neighbor Charles Boyd rushed inside to save Luther Chavers Jr. but could not re-enter. Fire Chief Joseph Binder criticized curiosity seekers for blocking traffic at fires. Crosby in good condition after appendectomy. expected home later this week.
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Amite
Joann Chavers
Charles Boyd
Luther Chavers, Jr
Joseph Binder
Bing
Santa Monica
Calif
Bing Crosby
Pebble Frach
Money Law Snags Plans To Build New Dog Pound
Athens County faces a delay in building a new dog pound as $12 677 in the dog and kennel fund cannot be used until year end under state law. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Harold Rose notes transfers require clearing legal bills and operating expenses first, delaying construction despite a healthy balance. Commissioner Bolin says the current pound may be discontinued or repaired while awaiting the 1951 appropriation.
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Athens County
Harold Rose
Rose
Charles Bolin
Czech Premier Resigns As Clementis Steps Down
The Czech Telegraph Agency reports Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis resigned after premier Antonin Zapotocky announced the move at a cabinet meeting. President Gottwald accepted the resignation and the foreign ministry was turned over to Vice Premier William Siroky. Rumors had circulated since last summer about Clementis falling out with the regime.
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London
Vlado Clementis
Prague Radio
Antonin Zapotocky
Clementis
Zapotocky
Klement Gottwald
Wiliam Siroky
Lake Success
United Nations
United States
Prague
New York
Czechoslovakia
Income Tax Evasion Charged Against 43
Federal prosecutors brought indictments against 34 individuals and nine firms in New York for wartime tax evasion totaling over two million dollars. Most defendants are high income New York businessmen accused of concealing black market earnings from rationing era records. Arraignments were scheduled for the following day.
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New York
U. S
Irving H. Saypol
World Slavery Feared If Reds Are Victorious
Benjamin Gitlow, former national secretary of the Communist Party and two time U S vice presidential candidate, told a Columbus Rotary Club that the world faces slavery if the Communist menace wins. He claimed Communists control China through infiltration of the State Department.
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Columbus
Communist Party
Benjamin Gitlow
U. S
Columbus Rotary Club
China
State Department
Increases Expected In Soft Coal Prices
PITTSBURGH UP Retail price increases up to 25 cents a ton on most grades of soft coal are expected today in the Pittsburgh area. A survey after the recent soft coal strike shows dealers anticipate a 10 cent a ton wholesale rise by Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., the area’s largest producer. The company said an announcement would be made today on its price policy.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Coal Company
Labor Beats Third Attack On Housing Policy Vote
Britain’s Labor government, with a slim majority, defeated a Conservative bid to censure housing policy by 25 votes. The 314 to 289 result follows two key policy victories, suggesting Tory pressure aims to shake the government before the next election.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Attlee
Winston Churchill
Labor
Nephew Held Insane By Physicians at Lima
Herbert C Lemon 45 is legally insane and irresponsible for the murder of his uncle Herbert Utman last December. Judge George W. McDowell was notified after Dr. R E Bushong submitted the report from Lima State Hospital where Lemon was admitted Feb 9 for observation. He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
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Hillsboro
Herbert C Lemon
George W. McDowell
R. E. Bushong
Lima State Hospital
Lemon
Herbert Utman
Clients Claim Curse She’s Held as Witch
In Wilmington Delaware a 23 year old woman, Mrs Helen Evans, is held on witchcraft charges under colonial era law. Clients accused her of placing curses after she analyzed their handwriting. She allegedly gave a potion and promised to lift the curse for ten dollars.
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Wilmington
Del
Helen Evans
Jesse James Witness Dies at 109 in Sullivan
James Russell Davis of Nashville Tennessee, one of the nation’s oldest civil war veterans, died at 109. Davis had testified at a Union hearing where J Frank Dalton, aged 102, sought to prove he was Jesse James and Davis identified Dalton as the outlaw as a James gang member.
McCarthy Repeats Red Claims Against Former Official
Harold Christoffel former Milwaukee labor leader was sentenced to two to six years for lying to a Congressional committee. Christoffel was convicted last month on a second perjury charge for denying under oath that he had ever been a communist.
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Washington
No Reserved Seats In Income Tax Line At Downtrodden Queue
A long line forms outside the Collector of Internal Revenue office as last minute filers rush to file 1950 income tax returns. A man at the head of the queue was sent back to the end after attempting to sit while others wait. The scene captures anxious taxpayers and comments on the looming deadline. In Washington, McCarthy accuses former State Department official Gustavo Duran of past Soviet associations while a Senate subcommittee investigates security risks and loyalty questions among officials and witnesses.
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Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Gustavo Duran
State Department
International Refugee Organization
U.S. Army
Spain
Duran
United Nations
Senate Foreign Relations
Reno
Nev
New York
FBI
Duri
International Brigade
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Tydings
Edward P. Morgan
Morgan
Dorothy Kenyon
Kenyon
Stephen Brunauer
Communist Party
Brunauer
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Ordenance
Young Workers League
State Department Loyalty Board
Navy
Esther Canking Brunauer
American Friends of the Soviet Union
United States
Haldore Hanson
Japan
Increased Range Seen For Bombers
The Air Force expects B 29 and B 50 bombers to gain range of 1000 miles or more with tanker planes. Nine Strategic Air Command groups will each add 20 tankers and expand from 30 to 45 bombers. Combat radius could rise from 2000 to 3000 miles with in-base refueling. B 50s may gain similarly.
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Washington
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Defense Department
Record Russian vote tallies reaffirm Stalin’s landslide
In Moscow Stalin won unanimously in his constituency as 110,964,172 ballots were cast nationwide for the single party. The 99.6 percent turnout exceeded the 1946 Supreme Soviet election by 9,290,939 votes.
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Moscow
Russia
Stalin
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Magician Noble Fails To Contact Darrow Spirit
Chicago The 60 year old Detroit businessman Claude Noble attempted to reach Clarence Darrow's spirit for the tenth time since the lawyer's death on March 13, 1938. Noble knelt on Jackson Park lagoon bridge and recited the Lord's prayer while invoking Darrow to rap on a copy of How to conduct a criminal case he held.
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Chicago
Claude Noble
Clarence Darrow
Noble
Detroit
Lagoon Bridge
Jackson Park
Darrow
Plane Explosion Case Goes to Jury Today
Quebec jury to hear the murder trial of J. Alfred Guay a 32 year old jeweler accused of blowing up a Canadian Pacific Airlines jet to kill his wife Rita for love of a waitress. The crash on Sept. 9 killed 23 including three Kennecott Copper Co. officials.
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Quebec
J. Alfred Guay
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Guay
Rita
Kennecott Copper Co
NLRB Calls Meeting To Speed Westinghouse Vote
The National Labor Relations Board will hold a conference next Thursday to speed bargaining election plans for 50,000 Westinghouse Electric production workers. Both United Electrical Workers and CIO International Union of Electrical Workers accepted and urged the election date as soon as possible.
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Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
Westinghouse Electric Corp
United Electrical Workers (Independent
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Oral Arguments Heard In Electrocution Case
Dwight David Tudor, sentenced to die in the electric chair on April 14, had oral arguments heard by the second district Court of Appeals in Springfield. The case involves the stay of the January 6 execution date following the October 3 1948 incident of Mary Ann Page, 14, of Springfield, with the court postponing the execution to hear the appeal.
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Springfield
Dwight David Tudor
Second District Court of Appeals
Tudor
Mary Ann Page
Lustron Life Is Extended
Lustron Corporation will stay in business until April 3 under a 30 day trial. U S District Judge Mell G Underwood granted a prieve after threatening to close the plant. Clyde M Foraker operates as court appointed receiver and has fired top officials as part of cost cutting to keep the operation afloat.
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Columbus
Lustron Corporation
U. S
Mell G. Underwood
Lustron
Clyde M. Foraker
Foraker
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Carl G. Strandlund
Smoking Burns Fatal to 86 Year Old in Cincinnati Home
Joseph Cammerer aged 86 died from burns suffered while smoking in bed at the Little Sisters of the Poor residence in Cincinnati. Authorities report the incident as a fatal house fire caused by smoking.
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Cincinnati
Joseph Cammerer
Little Sisters of the Poor
Ohio Gov Lausche Declares Mental Health Week
Governor Frank J Lausche issued a proclamation naming April 23 to 29 as Ohio mental health week to promote awareness and programs statewide.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Child star complains of hunger runs from foster home
Lora Lee Michel, nine year old actress, fled in pajamas after her foster mother left her at home. Deputies and pastor El ford Sundstrum found her in Burbank around 10 p m. The girl said she ran away because she could not stand being hungry and had lost ten pounds in a month.
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Hollywood
Lora Lee Michel
Lorraine Michel
Elford Sundstrum
United Brethren Church
Burbank
Lora Lee
Michel
Michels
Texas
Extended forecast for Columbus area
Weather outlook shows temperatures 5 to 8 degrees below normal with normal highs and lows. Snow flurries expected Thursday through Saturday with light accumulation possible, and a period of unsettled conditions into the weekend.
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Columbus
Pree
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