Oil Firm Drops Local Bulk Station Plan in Logan
Quaker State Oil Refining Co abandons plans for a bulk station at 225 E. Main St after resident protests 15 people attend to plead safety concerns. Officials meet with Logan council members and say a site elsewhere in the Logan area is sought for the 63,000 gallon facility.
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Logan
E. Main St
Quaker State Oil Refining Co
Quaker State
C. M. Adams
George Ralston
Wheeling
Aughn Colling
Frank Larimer
Adams
Stage Coach Inn
Democrat Aid To Ferguson Is Assured
Ohio state auditor Joseph T. Ferguson gains reinforced backing from the Democratic National Committee with three top strategists assigned to his campaign. DNC chairman William M. Boyle Jr. will attend Ohio events, while Mrs. India Edwards and John N. Redding also plan visits. Ferguson aims for presidential outreach and possible Ohio campaign trips, with talks of a Cleveland club debate rejected.
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Washington
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Joseph T. Ferguson
Democratic National Committee
Ferguson
William M. Boyle, Jr
Cleveland
Ferrguson
India Edwards
John N. Redding
Truman
Barkley
City Club of
Taft
Eleven Inches of Snow Reported in Wyoming
A weather report notes heavy wet snow in the Rocky Mountain states with eleven inches in parts of Wyoming and northern Colorado. Denver measured seven inches while higher elevations saw deeper totals. Cool temperatures persisted across the upper Great Lakes region and the upper Mississippi Valley.
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Chicago
Rocky Mountain States
Colorado
Denver
Wyoming
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Circus Performer Falls To Death In Texas Ring Accident
In Waco Texas Otto Berosini 22 fell about 50 feet from a stand during intermission of a circus show. He died an hour and a half later in a hospital as about 1200 spectators watched.
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Waco
Tex
Otto Berosini
Truck Driver Trapped Two Hours After Wreck
C A Sites, 40 of Huntington, was pinned by the engine and seat after a rear end crash on Route 7 near Chester. Rescuers used flame cutting and a cold chisel for two hours to free him. He suffered multiple rib fractures and lung puncture and was treated at Meigs General Hospital. Fellow trucker Frank Neff Jr. was unhurt. Route 7 traffic was blocked about three hours.
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Pomeroy
C. A
Huntington
Route 7
Chester
Meigs General Hospital
Sites
Frank Neff, Jr
Arkport
N. Y
Neff
Paul Fisher
Minersville
Charles Russell
Prison Break Halted Seventeen Die in Manila Raid
Seventeen men died in the Philippines largest attempted prison break at a Manila facility after 50 long term prisoners seized the armory and sparked a two hour gun battle. Five convicts and two guards were wounded as flames spread through prison buildings. No escapees were reported.
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Manila
Philippines
Columbus Extended Forecast Temperature and Rain Outlook
Temperatures expected near normal with a high of 76 and a low of 54. Cooler Saturday, then a warming trend from Monday through Wednesday. Rain chances 0.5 to 1 inch, with showers or thundershowers tonight, Saturday, and Sunday.
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Columbus
House Group Rejects Co-Op Tax Proposal
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected plans to tax certain non exempt income of cooperatives at regular corporate rates. Rep. Mason said the move shows political favoritism for co ops and that no tax bill will pass this year. The panel meanwhile signaled about 20 million dollars in extra yearly revenue from tighter tax enforcement on co-op stockholders and patronage dividends.
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Washington
Mason
Ill
House
Ways and Means
Wellston Girl Third In Essay Contest
John Mahan ey, senior at St. Thomas High School in Zanesville, won first prize for an essay on Hire The Handicapped It's Good Business. His piece advances to state competition for five national prizes totaling 2000 dollars. Betty Schaad of Wellston earned third place and will receive a personal letter from Governor Lausche.
Queen Mother Mary Celebrates 83rd Birthday With Royals
Queen Mother Mary marked her 83rd birthday at a royal gathering with family present. Greetings from around the world flowed in to honor the monarch.
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London
Queen Mother
Mary
East German Youth Rally Triggers Allied Security Alert in Berlin
In Berlin 200000 East German youths packed the Russian sector for a Red Youth Rally as 6000 people’s police joined 15000 East Berlin guards. Allies deployed 8000 troops with armored cars near Potsdamer Platz and heightened dawn precautions amid reports of 300000 more en route.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Berlin
Potsdamer Platz
Bogus Money Plot Revealed
Seven men and a blonde were seized in a crackdown on a $3,000,000 counterfeit smuggling ring allegedly linked to a Caribbean revolution plot. Authorities say the scheme aimed to ship fake U.S. bills to Cuba, trade for real money, and fund a revolt in the Dominican Republic. An indictment cited a conspiracy to buy money from a large counterfeit ring and named two Cuban plotters.
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New York
U. S
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Miami
Dayton Rubber Co announces tire price increases
Dayton Rubber Co. announced immediate price increases of two and a half percent for top line passenger tires and five percent for truck tires.
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Dayton
Dayton Rubber Co
Navy Officer Defrauds Navy, Bings Six Months Abroad
Lt. Bascom B. Boaz, a 19 year Navy veteran, is jailed on $10,000 bail facing federal charges of embezzlement and desertion after stealing $19,201.50 from a Navy tanker in Long Beach and spending six months in Reno Las Vegas and Los Angeles with a companion. He alleges drinking worsened after his wife separated in 1941 and says he feared losing citizenship if he surrendered earlier.
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Los Angeles
Navy
Bascom B. Boaz
U. S. Navy
Tians
Gilberts
Marshalls
Saipan
Guam
Marion
Tenn
Long Beach
Navasota
Fresno
Calif
San Francisco-Oakland
Rosemary Carter
Miss Carter
Boaz
FBI
Naval Intelligence
Reno
Las Vegas
Santa Anita
Third Banker Faces Embezzlement Charge in Circleville Bank
Nelson E. Reichelderfer 68, former executive vice president and cashier of Circleville Savings and Banking Co, is jailed in Ross County on FBI embezzlement charges totaling about 7000. He acknowledged taking 5000 to 6000, citing salary anxiety and rising family costs. The case follows two other south central Ohio bank embezzlements in recent months.
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Chillicothe
Damon Grow
First National Bank
Jackson
Cincinnati
Paul Smithson
Waverly
Ohio
Smithson
Kentucky
Reichelderfer
S. B. Mark
Grow
Circleville Bank
GE Switches Union Loyalty After NLRB Vote at GE Plants
The CIO IUE won representation in 49 GE units covering 66,083 workers at 57 plants, while UE carried 47 units representing 38,137. Unofficial popular tally showed IUE 52,784 to UE 40,616 across GE. Individual plant votes determine representation, not company wide. IUE claims two thirds of UE members left since last year purge for Communist links.
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Baltimore
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
General Electric
National Labor Relations Board
IUE
United Electrical Workers
CIO
Fire Sweeps Section of Columbia Pictures Studios
A blaze at the Burbank studios of Columbia Pictures Corp. razed a black square area and destroyed the paint shop carpentry shop generating plant and several movie sets. No movies were in production and no injuries were reported. Fire Chief W. J. Taylor will estimate damage after a full inventory.
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Burbank
Calif
Columbia Pictures Corp
W. J. Taylor
Probe of Ohio Rackets Promised by Senators
A Senate Committee investigating criminal rackets said it will accept an invitation from Ohio Governor Frank Lausche to extend its inquiry into the state. Lausche wired the committee urging a visit to Ohio, declaring a nationwide operation in connection with race gambling emanates out of Cleveland.
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Washington
Senate
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Cleveland
Youth Robber Spent Loot On Cab Ride
A 17 year old, Robert W. Parkison of Clifton Greene County, confessed to robbing Model Cleaners with a toy pistol. He said he spent all the loot, about four dollars, on a taxi ride after the hold up as police prepared robbery charges. Chief Warden Long identified the suspect and noted Parkison would be charged.
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Washington D. H
Long
Robert W. Parkison
Clifton
Greene County
R. L. Bresler
Model Cleaners
Parkison
Australia Readies Troop Withdrawal From Japan
Sydney reports Australia plans to pull 2374 occupation troops from Japan amid shifting defense posture and regional security reassessment.
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Sydney
Australia
Japan
Foreign Aid Bill Passed By Senate
The Senate approved a $3.1206 billion foreign aid act by a 47 to 27 vote. Taft and Bricker opposed the compromise. The measure now heads to the White House for President Truman’s signature with funds to be provided by an upcoming appropriations bill.
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Senate
Washington
U. S
Congress
State Department
Truman
Senate House
White House
Birns Contempt Appeal Hearing Set for June 1
Cleveland based Alex Birns has a June 1 hearing for his contempt of court conviction. The Court of Appeals denied release from county jail before the date. Birns was convicted by Common Pleas Judge Joseph H. Silbert for hindering justice by approaching a prospective juror. a jury had acquitted Birns and four co defendants in the bomb extortion trial.
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Cleveland
Alex
Shondor) Birns
Court of Appeals
Birns
Common Pleas
Joseph H. Silbert
State Supreme Court weighs new trial in Page slaying case
Ohio Supreme Court reviews Clark County officials appeal of Appellate Court ruling granting Dwight David Tudor a new trial for the 14 year old Mary Ann Page murder. Prosecutor Stanley N. Husted and assistant Glenn E. Detling seek leave to contest the order.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Clark County
Second District Court of Appeals
Dwight David Tudor
Mary Ann Page
Stanley N. Husted
Glenn E. Detling
Full ERP Support Sought From Ohio GOP Senators
The League of Women Voters of Ohio asks Senators Robert A Taft and John W Bricker to back the European Recovery Program fully as proposed in Congress. Delegates voted to send telegrams to the senators before adjourning their three day conference.
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Cleveland
League of Women Voters of
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Meigs Schoolman Teaches 62 Years
Ernest O. Saunders, 81, retired after a 62 year teaching career in Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky. He dismissed his Kingsbury class then ended a long career three miles from Hemlock where he began in 1888 and settled near Pomeroy in a cottage named Journeys End.
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Pomeroy
Ernest O. Saunders
Kingsbury
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Saunders
Hemlock
McCarthy Charges New Red Probe Twist in Lattimore Clash
Senator McCarthy released documents alleging Owen Lattimore pressured to spare two wartime Chinese employees from discharge after Civil Service recommender notes of Communist activity. Lattimore countered that McCarthy lacks full record and notes one man held a diplomatic passport from the Nationalist government. McCarthy also attacked the State Department amid a Senate probe into Communist influence.
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Rochester
N.Y
McCarthy
Gas Rationing Ends In Britain After Dispute
Britain ends gasoline rationing after a long dispute with American oil firms. Standard Oil of New Jersey and California Texas Oil Co agree to supply oil and take British sterling instead of dollars, enabling derationing effective Saturday.
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London
Britain
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
California
Texas Oil Company
Wildcat Strike Feared at Oak Ridge Plant
Officials watched for a possible wildcat stoppage by 3000 AFL construction workers on the $227,000,000 Oak Ridge atomic plant project. A spokesman said few workers turned up for the night shift after union leaders denounced the move as unauthorized.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
AFL
Atomic Energy Commission
Hailstorm damages crops in Romney West Virginia
A severe hailstorm struck the eastern panhandle of West Virginia on Thursday. The event caused extensive crop damage and disrupted communications across Romney and surrounding areas.
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Romney
W. Va
Panhandle
West Virginia
Fishermen Rescued After Boat Smashes Breakwater
Army engineers rescued two fishermen early Friday after their motorboat was smashed against a breakwater. The incident occurred near Cleveland. no injuries reported.
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Cleveland
Army Engineers
Tragic Chicago street car crash kills 33. many homeless
A street car in Chicago collided with a double gasoline trailer truck on State Street near 63rd. Thirty-three people died and about 30 were injured amid a fire sparked by thousands of gallons of gasoline. The crash blocked traffic as hundreds gathered. truck driver Mel Wilson died at the scene.
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Chicago
63Rd
State St
Paul Manning
Chicago Transit Authority
64Th St
CTA
Mary Pokorney
Mel Wilson
Valparaiso
Ind
Sprout and Davis, Inc
Whiting, Ind
Anthony J. Mullaney
Funeral services for Norman Bayes held in Denver
Funeral services are set in Denver for Norman Bayes adopted son of Nora Bayes former vaudeville star. Bayes died in Columbus Ohio after a long illness at age 33.
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Denver
Norman Bayes
Nora Bayes
Bayes
Illicothe
Ohio
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