Four Gunmen Rob Cleveland Bank for 25000
Four masked gunmen held up two bank officials in Cleveland and escaped with about 25000 in cash. Victims were Anton Bizza, 62, a teller, and George Ziemba, 72, vice president of Lincoln Heights Savings and Loan Co. Cars used in the holdup were abandoned near 905 Professor Ave in the flats along the Cuyahoga River.
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Cleveland
Anton Bizza
George Ziemba
Lincoln Heights Savings and Load Co
Professor Ave
Cuyahoga River
Ohio Senate backs padlocking gambling bill to curb crime
Columbus AP Gov Lausche wins committee approval for a bill authorizing padlocking gambling joints if local prosecutors fail to close them. The Judiciary panel voted 6-0 with six Democrats supporting the measure and one opposing belt line legislation in a related hearing on a Lake Erie to Ohio River conveyor line.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Senate Committee OK
Ohio
Judiciary Committee
William H. Daugherty
Dcolumbiana
Maurice A. Niehaus
Hamilton
Edwin F. Sawicki
Cuyahoga
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Richard A. Wilmer
Butler
Daugherty
Miss
House Commerce and Transportation Committee
Sawicki
Carl D. Sheppard
R-Summit
Ford
Lorain
East Liverpool
Cleveland
Youngstown
Heat Wave Continues After Record May Temperatures
Cincinnati area saw 93.2 degrees matching near record May highs as Ohio endured a heat wave. Drownings in Cincinnati area, two deaths reported, with 13 year old Tommy Venable and 45 year old Rufus Parish among victims. Weather forecast calls for warm humid conditions with possible thundershowers tomorrow.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
US Weather Bureau
Youngstown
Springfield
Dayton
Columbus
Cleveland
Rufus Parish
Newport
Tommy Venable
Parish
Licking River
Thomas Ahr
Venable
Ohio River
Sandusky
Donald S. Post
Blast Kills Worker At Chemical Firm
A deadly blast at Hardesty Chemical Co. killed Samuel Bonifant, 40, of New Philadelphia, and injured several others. Two workers, Robert Kline and Frank Rossi, suffered serious burns, with others treated at Union Hospital. Investigators will determine cause and extent of damage after days of study.
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Samuel Bonifant
New Philadelphia
Union Hospital
Robert Kline
Frank Rossi
Dover
Bonifant, Rossi and Kline
Walter Sommers
Four Miners Still Trapped In Burning Mine
Four miners remain trapped 800 plus feet underground after a Tuesday blaze in a Girardville anthracite mine. Rescue squads in three person teams race to drill an air duct while families above ground hope they survived behind sealed chamber doors as pumping failures risk flooding. Gas and heat hinder attempts to send in masked rescuers.
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Girardville
City approves $5 monthly raise for 325 police and firemen
Dayton officials approve a blanket five dollar monthly raise effective June 1 for three hundred twenty five police and firemen, approved by city commissioners Wednesday night.
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Dayton
State Liquor Director Fleckner to inspect Hamilton County issues
Cincinnati reports State Liquor Director Oscar L. Fleckner was scheduled to arrive today for a personal inquiry into ongoing law enforcement problems in Hamilton County. He will review procedures and investigate concerns raised by local authorities.
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Cincinnati
Oscar L. Fleckner
Hamilton County
Fight over Labor Legislation as House Reopens Wood Bill
Congress debates labor reform with the Wood bill dragged back to the Labor Committee after a 212 to 299 setback. Republicans and Democrats clash on Taft Hartley repeal with proposals to keep or scrap major provisions amid looming compromise talks.
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House
Washington
Congress
Educational FEPC Plan Substituted in Ohio Senate Debate
Ohio senators struck compulsory FEPC provisions from the House bill and substituted an educational FEPC program sending the measure back to the House for concurrence. The Senate approved the change, a 30 to 1 vote, as Democrats and Republicans clashed over the Sawicki amendment and the prospect of a conference committee. The bill as amended would create an FEPC commission, fund it at $6,000 yearly, and develop an education plan to combat employment discrimination based on race or creed.
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House
GOP
Taft
Ohio
Smith
Donnell
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
Thomas Lesinski
Congress
Columbus
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Representatives
House Conference Committee
General Assembly
Frank J. Lausche
FEPC
Lausche
Edwin F. Sawicki
D-Cuyahoga
Howard M. Metzenbaum
William M. Boyd
Cuyahoga
Sawicki
Metzenbaum
Boyd
Working Hours Cut At 3 Timken Plants
Timken Roller Bearing Co announces a reduction in hours at its Columbus Canton and Zanesville plants due to delayed orders from four automobile manufacturers. The cut equals a layoff of 770 workers.
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Columbus
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton
Zanesville
Timken
Man's Body Found In Creek At Newark
Three boys found the half-submerged body of Nola E. Weakley in Raccoon Creek. Coroner James H. Pollock ruled accidental drowning and said he suffered head injuries in a fall.
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Newark
Nola E. Weakley
Raccoon Creek
James H. Pollock
Reds North Korea Pact Claim Alarms World Powers
State news agency in Shanghai reports a Russian backed alliance between Chinese Reds North Korea and Burma claiming a mutual defense pact. If true the pact would create a 3500 mile arc from Sea of Japan to Indian Ocean with hundreds of millions affected. Chinese Reds push into South Central China as verification remains unresolved.
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Shanghai
Sea of Japan
Indian Ocean
China
West Faces Struggle for All of Germany
Western powers prepared for a major political fight over Germany with a limited Soviet cooperation policy. Observers expect concessions to ease economic distress and allow satellite ties while attempting to influence a central German government.
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West
Germany
Berlin
Russia
Strike Planned At Ford River Rouge Plant
Sixty thousand Ford workers faced a near walkout at the River Rouge plant over a union speed up charge. The strike could affect 106,000 production workers if a noon EDT walkout occurs, with a final peace talk scheduled for 10 a.m. after a five and a half hour emergency negotiation failed to yield a settlement.
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Detroit
Ford
Big River Rouge
Key Rouge
CIO
United Auto Workers
Mastodon Tooth Found Near Athens Ohio
A four by six by eight inch mastodon tooth was uncovered in a sand and gravel pit east of Athens by workmen from Athens Building Materials Co. Ohio University professors Ralph E. Abbott and Myron T. Sturgeon confirm it belongs to the mastodon family. This local find marks the third such fossil in recent years, with past discoveries at Clarks Chapel.
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Athens
Ralph E. Abbott
Myron T. Sturgeon
Ohio University
Athens Building Materials Co
United States
Europe
Sturgeon
Clarks Chapel
C. L. Dow
Train Robbers Get 20 Years In State Pen
Two Ohio youths Lyman Ramsdell and George Ashton received 20 year federal sentences for hijacking the Baltimore and Ohio Ambassador near Martinsburg West Virginia on March 9. They also drew 10 year terms on armed-robbery counts to run concurrently.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Harry FE. Watkins
Lyman Ramsdell
George L .Ashton
Youngstown
Martinsburg
Washington, D. C
Watkins
Ramsdell
Ashton
Steel Executive Slayer Dies in Electric Chair
Ralph Reed, 27, was executed by electric chair in Columbus for the holdup murder of George Margulis, secretary of a Cleveland steel company, during a Feb 6 1948 robbery that netted $60. Reed repeated prayers as he died.
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Columbus
Ralph Reed
Cleveland Steel Company
K. E. Wall
Reed
George Margulis
Fire damages mixer at site of hospital blaze
Gasoline leaking from a concrete mixer started a fire at Mount St. Mary Hospital in Nelsonville around 9 a.m. today. Fire Chief Dana Windon reported only the mixer was damaged.
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Nelsonville
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Dana Windon
Funds OK'd for Burr Oak flood control projects
A Senate appropriations subcommittee backed eight Ohio flood control projects and two rivers and harbors works. The panel proposed $158,223,420 in new Army funds for the coming year and aligned the supply bill at $751,515,690. It also recommended transferring $436,000 from Walnut Creek Reservoir to begin Rocky Fork Reservoir work near Chillicothe along with other Ohio projects including Burr Oak and Muskingum River reservoirs and Ohio River open channel work in Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia.
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Washington
Senate
Ohio
Army
Walnut Creek
Columus
Rocky Fork
Chillicothe
Burr Oak
Trenton
Muskingum River
Ohio River
W. Va
Big Four Reach Agreement End Berlin Blockade
Washington reports that the Big Four reach an agreement to lift the Berlin blockade by May 12 and end the counter blockade in the Soviet zone. A Paris meeting of foreign ministers is planned May 23 to discuss Germany and Berlin currency. The airlift will continue about one month to stockpile 200000 tons, with potential standby operations. The cost stands at $173.5 million, with 27 lives lost and 28 aircraft.
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Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
Germany
Berlin
Moscow
Lonedon
Washington
New York
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Lie
U. N. Security Council
Russia
Lucius D. Clay
Berg«lin
United States
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Shanghat
Hangchow
Edgar Williams
Anderson
Hong Kong
Hardesty Chemical Co
Labor Committee
Thomas A. Jenkins
Lranton
Walter E. Brehm
Logan
Nicholas P. Bernard
D-Mahoning
Reds
North Korea
Grunewald
Moseru
Ins
Stalin
Philip Dc. Jessup
Jacob Malik
Henry A. Wallace
Hft
State Department
Hie
Steel
Slayer
Today’s Messenger News
Chauncey Mr
Gallipolis
Glouster
Logan Owen Wen
McArthur
Middleport-Pomeroy
Point Pleasant
Seni
Ingrid Bergman
Italy
Peter Lindstrom
U.S
Sweden
Rome
RKO Pictures
Miss Bergman
Lindstrom
Hollywood
Roberto Rossellini
Rossellini
Stromg
Boli Island
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