Defenbacher Appointment Confirmed by Senate Vote
The Ohio Senate confirmed H. D. Defenbacher as state Finance Director by a 30 to 0 vote after a delayed reconsideration. Democrats opposed were Sawicki Bartunek and Blake. three roll calls were required with no opposition. The session also approved measures creating a disability aid commission and raising township clerks pay, while advancing two-year budget-related bills.
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Columbus
H. D. Defenbacher
Senate
William M. Boyd
Cuyahoga
Boyd
Frank J. Lausche
Defenbacher
Edwin F. Sawicki
Joseph W. Bartunek
Cleveland
Arthur Blake
Martins Ferry
Sawicki
Bricker
Herbert
Lausche
Roscoe R. Walcutt
Franklin
GOP
Fred R. Seibert
Auglaize
Fred L. Adams
Wood
Tom Jones
Meigs
House
Judge Frees Army Private From Ohio Reformatory
Thomas A. Gusik a 19 year old former Army private from Cleveland who was convicted of murder by an Army court martial and sentenced to life later reduced to 16 years was ordered released by U S District Judge Mell G Underwood The judge found the trial did not meet constitutional fairness and Gusik has been at Chillicothe Ohio federal reformatory since 1948.
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Columbus
Thomas A. Gusik
Cleveland
U. S
Mell G. Underwood
Gusik
Leghorn
Italy
War Department
Underwood
Federal Reformatory
Chillicothe
Ohio
Greece
Athens
Route 680 Scenic Drive From Tuppers Plains to Reedsville
The seven mile gravel stretch of Route 680 climbs hilltops with long river and Ohio Valley views near Rushville. Pine trees cover the hills while relics like the McDonald grist mill and a Kanawha & Michigan railroad coach at Redtown dairy farm add historic flavor.
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Tuppers Plains
Reedsville
Ohio Valley
Rushville
Plains Mine Temporarily Suspends Work At The Plains
The Plains Mine No 1 in Hocking Valley is shut down temporarily due to market conditions as announced by E A Cottingham. The 900 ton daily producer with about 175 workers will pause operations but not abandon the site. a maintenance crew remains and pumping continues to keep the workings ready for rapid resumption.
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Hocking Valley Mine No
the Plains
E. A. Cottingham
Sunar Intandant
BUPCI
The
Hocking Valley Mining Co
Air Force C-47 Crashes Into Mo Pond Deaths Sought
An Air Force C-47 crashed into a farm pond near Edgar Springs Missouri during a storm. Six aboard were reported. no bodies or survivors found at the scene. Aircraft was en route from Patterson Field Ohio to Tinker Air Base Oklahoma. Army authorities took charge. recovery to resume when equipment arrives.
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Edgar Springs
Air Force
Here
Patterson Field
Ohio
Tinker Air Base
Oklahoma
Scott Air Base
Ill
Wright Field
Army
Burvis Mace
Mace
Winds Sweep Nebraska From Southwest Snow Storm
Hayes Center Nebraska reports 23 inches of snow from a spring storm. Winds up to 60 miles an hour caused zero visibility and halted traffic with gusts in nearby areas. North Platte measured 15 inches as the storm moves out, with McCook and others seeing lesser amounts. The weather bureau expected the system to exit Nebraska today.
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Hayes Center
Neb
Nebraska
McCook
North Platte
Ten Per Cent Living Cost Drop Forecast
Philadelphia reports a forecast of about a 10 percent drop in living costs in the coming year barring wars and weather. Dr Ewan Clague notes limited further decreases and cautions against expecting large adjustments as prices diverge from wholesale trends. Rents remain 20 percent above 1924 peaks. wages last December reached 55 dollars weekly, supporting strong purchasing power since V J Day.
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Philadelphia
U.S
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Ewan Clague
International Association of Public Employment Services
Clague
Youngstown Parolees Held in Pennsylvania Jail
Two Youngstown men Raymond Hogan and Bernard Caniff both 49 and 46 respectively from Ohio Penitentiary were jailed in Sharon Pennsylvania on Thursday awaiting disposition for charges in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Police sought to question them in connection with two local store holdups. They were arrested Tuesday.
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Sharon
Youngstown
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Raymond Hogan
Bernard Caniff
Torch Bearer Faces Derailed Run To Greek Week Start
Ed Mazzocco a Cleveland senior and Ohio University cross country runner tried to light the Greek Week torch on campus after traveling through traffic and crowds. The flame died on the final lap requiring a cigarette lighter to ignite the signal and he addressed the crowd on the OU campus with support from Delta Tau Delta and OU’s fraternity council.
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Ed Mazzocco
Ohio University
Logan
Itu
Nalenanvilla Cave
Mazzocco
Cleveland
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Aternity Council
Truman hints tax increase as deficit feared
President Truman told reporters a federal deficit poses greater risk to the economy than a tax rise and urged Congress to consider a $4 billion tax increase mainly from corporations and high earners. He defended standby price and rent controls and dismissed resignation rumors about Dr. Edwin G. Nourse amid debate on inflation policies.
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Washington
Truman
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Edwin G. Nourse
Council of Economic Advisers
Nourse
Leon Keyserling
John D. Clark
Auto thieves questioned in Conover disappearance case
Three men held on auto theft charges in Wilmington were questioned about Earl Conover's seven week disappearance. Detectives examined fingerprints and possible blood stains found on the abandoned car in Columbus, linking the suspects to a February Columbus robbery.
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Columbus
Wilmington
Earl Conover
Norwood
Ohio
Conover
F. S. van Allen
The
Highway Patrol
Missing Coed Returns Home
Anne Bernhard a 20 year old University of Chicago coed reported missing by her father Andrew Bernhard editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette returned to her dormitory last night. The student said she had been visiting friends whose names she declined to disclose and had been missing on a trip from Chillicothe Ohio to the university where she is a postgraduate student visiting an aunt in Chillicothe.
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Chicago
Anne Bernhard
University of Chicago
U S Treasurer Cut Out of $10 000 Estate
Cincinnati dispatch reports United States Treasurer William A. Julian was cut out of his late wife Gertrude M. Julians $10 000 estate by design and intent. Her will directs equal shares for secretary George A. Argus and Provident Savings Bank and Trust Co. as beneficiaries. She died last week.
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Cincinnati
United States
William A. Julian
Gertrude M. Julian
George A. Argus
Provident Savings Bank and Trust Co
Newark Candy Merchant Charges Conspiracy
Newark candy merchant Thomas England of Newark sued the Automatic Canteen Co of America in U S district court under the federal anti trust law seeking 1 586 778 alleging a combination conspiracy to bar him from buying candy elsewhere. He operates 3774 vending machines across 27 central Ohio counties selling candy nuts and chewing gum.
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Columbus
Thomas England
Newark
Automatic Canteen Company of America
Chicago
U. S
Housing official orders land lord income survey for rent control
Survey aims to determine rent increases under the new control law. The 15 month extension strengthens prior rules but does not imply universal increases. The expediter may seek triple damages, restore ceilings, and require federal approval for remodeling creating new units.
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Washington
Tighe Woods
Woods
Truman
New York
Chicago
Polish family arrives in America through coat note
Bigniew Glowacka his wife Hanna and two year old Alicja arrived in America after a letter found in an old coat led to Miss Eleanor Hudson. Sponsored by Hudson they secured a job in Dayton iron works and a new apartment. the family had endured wartime displacement in Germany and prefer the United States to a Warsaw under Russian control.
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Germany
Misa Hudson
National Catholic Welfare Council
Glowacka
Miss Hudson
Dayton Malleable Iron Co
Lronton
Gowacka
United States
Warsaw
West Germany Top Matter For Bevin Acheson Talks
West German issues dominate the talks as British Foreign Secretary Bevin and U S Secretary of State Acheson meet with French Foreign Minister Schuman. They discuss the North Atlantic pact signings and potential Middle East security and a Mediterranean defense treaty.
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Ernest Bevin
Center
New York
Bevin
West Germany
Acheson
Washington
State Acheson
Russia
State Department
Robert Schuman
Germany
Turkey
Greece
Iran
Southeast Asia
Explosion in Homewood adds tragedy to family
In Hamilton two children Oma Mae Hone seven and Donald Eugene three die in a kerosene oil blast that wrecked a small Homewood house. Mother Mrs Russell McHone 23 is seriously burned and Dennis McHone 18 also seriously hurt. father less badly hurt. Phyllis five unharmed. Coroner says mother started a fire when the oil exploded.
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Hamilton
Homewood Additions
Oma Mae MaeHone
Donald Eugene
Russell McHone
Dennis McHone
Garret Boone
Home of Bingo Operator Robbed of Safe
Cleveland report says Herman Goldstein operator of bingo parlors at Akron and Brady Lake was robbed of a safe containing 2500 by two gunmen. Goldstein was away. his brother Julius a bartender was bound and gagged for four hours before freeing himself at dawn.
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Cleveland
Herman Goldstein
Akron
Brady Lake
Goldstein
Julius
Two Men Electrocuted While Drilling Near Mansfield
Calvin Franklin Stiffler and Lester Eugene Clark died Wednesday while drilling a well near Mansfield after the drilling boom touched a 4000 volt line. Stiffler, who went to assist Clark, was also electrocuted when he touched a live cable. A dog at the site was killed as well.
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Mansfield
Calvin Franklin Stiffler
Lester Eugene Clark
Stiffler
Clark
Blossoms Sprayed to Extend Capital Cherry Festival
The capital’s cherry blossoms were treated with a hormone spray to extend peak bloom for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Parks Superintendent Irving C. Root said the blooms, which began opening last Sunday, would normally fall within five days but should stay fresh through next weekend.
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Washington
Irving C. Root
Grocer Won’t Endure Holdup Game Any More
In Miamisburg a 65 year old grocer Wilbur Karpur was attacked when a youth entered brandishing a pistol and masked face. The intruder took money, struck Karpur with a blackjack, and escaped as the grocer hurled a fer bottle, receiving six stitches.
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Miamisburg
Wilbur Karpur
Karpur
Tip Off Case Jurors Call 17 Witnesses
Seventeen witnesses are to appear before the Hamilton County Grand Jury in Cincinnati regarding a State Liquor Department inspector’s charge that deputy sheriffs tipped off a raid on an alleged Sunset Club bookmaking operation. Acton and seven sheriff’s office members are among those summoned, with six Sunset Club employees and two reporters also named.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County Grand Jury
State Liquor Department
Carson Hoy
Frank M. Acton
Sunset Club
John J. Behle
Dan Tehan
Permit Freeze Rule Awaited
Columbus State Liquor Board may freeze all retail liquor permits after a two hour hearing. Twelve of fourteen witnesses opposed the regulation proposal. The plan would extend a 60 day administrative freeze ended last Monday and limit permits to current totals with replacements only for revoked or surrendered permits.
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Columbus
State Liquor Board
Appellate Court Upholds Car Dealer Conviction
The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of used car dealer John Singleton who is serving 10 to 70 years in the Ohio Penitentiary on 14 counts of larceny by trick. The panel denied Singleton's appeal finding the lower court judgment not contrary to law.
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Cleveland
John Singleton
Ohio
Arthur W. Doyle
Akron
George S. Middleton
Charles A .Guernsey
Lima
Singleton
Mitchum Freed After 50 Days Jail Term Conspiracy
Los Angeles reports Robert Mitchum was released from county jail after serving 50 days for a conviction on conspiring to possess marijuana. The actor completed the sentence and was released yesterday.
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Los Angeles
Robert Mitchum
Churchill Talk Set Tonight in Boston Garden
Winston Churchill, age 74, speaks on The 20th Century Its Promise and Its Realization at the Boston Garden before 13 900 in a three day MIT survey on Social Implications of Scientific Progress. The talk is broadcast by NBC ABC Mutual and TV.
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Boston
Winston Churchill
Fulton, Mo
Europe
British Commonwealth of Nations
United States
Boston Garden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Churchill
NBC
ABC
Mutual
Ohio Gas Firm Plans Pipeline Construction
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co of Columbus sought federal permission to build 85 miles of natural gas pipeline in central Ohio to replace 84 miles of old pipe. Project cost is estimated at 4.17 million dollars and aims to boost transport capacity to storage tanks.
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Washington
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Columbus
Ohio
Famous Scientist Bergius Dies in Buenos Aires
Dr. Friedrich Bergius, 65, renowned German scientist and Nobel Prize winner, died in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The death marks the loss of a prominent figure in chemistry whose work influenced early 20th century industry.
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Buenos Aires
Friedrich Bergius
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