$250000 Mine Ready At Lathrop In Southeast Ohio
A new quarter million dollar strip mine at Lathrop begins loading coal in days and aims for 2000 to 3000 tons daily. Partners N A Benchley and William J Marsh of Canton operate the venture on 4000 acres, using the Black Diamond site with rails and a 150 foot conveyor. The operation plans 50 workers at full scale with multiple shovels and trucks.
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Lathrop
Ohio
N. A. Benchley
Canton
Benchley
New York Central Railroad
William J. Marsh
New Lexington
West Virginia
Renkert
Lost Warship New Mexico Found Off Newark Bay
A Coast Guard search plane located the 30,000‑ton decommissioned battleship New Mexico after it drifted from Boston toward Newark Bay. Tug boats had cut it loose in heavy seas, with three men aboard earlier. exact location remained unknown. Fireboats guarded the port as salvage plans continued at the Newark channel and salvage dock.
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Newark
N. J
New Mexco
Coast Guard
Boston
PBY
Floyd Bennett Field
Newark Bay
Fire Island
New York Harbor
Meseck Towing Company
New Mexico
Bay
Municipal
ITU Faces New Charges By Publishers
Cincinnati reports the International Typographical Union faced new charges of violating Taft-Hartley provisions. The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association filed a complaint with the NLRB alleging unfair labor practices by ITU and 112 subordinate unions, citing five law sections.
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Cincinnati
International Typographical Union
National Labor Relations Board
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
ITU
American Newspaper Publishers Association
NLRB
Jack G. Evans
Southern Publishers’ Action
Friendship Train Heads to Cleveland Sunday
Cleveland residents were asked to contribute to seven boxcars for the Friendship Train. Clarence T. Morris, chairman of the Cuyahoga County Food Committee, announced the train carrying food for Europe’s needy will arrive in Cleveland at 3 a.m. Sunday and depart for New York at 10 a.m.
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Cleveland
Clarence T. Morris
Cuyahoga County
State Employes Seek Additional Pay Raise
In Columbus Gov. Thomas J. Herbert was formally notified of the Ohio Civil Service Employes Association request for a special legislative session to consider added pay increases for state employees.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio Civil Service Employes Association
Northeast gale devastates New England coast
A severe northeast storm battered New England with hurricane force gusts across southeastern areas. Wrecked seacoast cottages and commercial structures, flooded sections of multiple communities, and damaged a fishing trawler. Power and phone lines fell, leaving many homes without heat overnight.
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Boston
New England
Ohio to distribute World War II bonus via unemployment bureau
Ohio plans to distribute the $300 million World War Two veterans bonus through State Unemployment Compensation Bureau facilities. The move was formally authorized by the State Sinking Fund Commission, enabling Gov. Thomas J. Herbert to request federal approval.
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Columbus
Ohio
State
State Sinking Fund Commission
Thomas J. Herbert
Wallace Denies Street Meeting After UC Auditorium Rejection
Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace will speak at Music Hall as scheduled after the University of Cincinnati refused to permit an auditorium event. Wallace argued the university aims to keep students politically pure while defending its right to manage student welfare.
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Cincinnati
Henry A. Wallace
University of Cincinnati
Lawrence Kraus
Wallace
Music Hall
Chesapeake Woman Held in Baby Murder Case
A 35-year-old Chesapeake Ohio woman Pauline Cheek was held on a second degree murder charge after the body of a newborn girl was found near her home on September 30. Sheriff Milton J. Rucker said she would be held for action by the January Grand Jury.
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Ironton
Chesapeake, Ohio
Milton J. Rucker
Pauline Cheek
Student May Testify In Own Trial Today
Akron Ohio reporter notes Roy C. Blackburn a 27 year old former Ohio State premedical student faces trial for allegedly robbing a B. F. Goodrich Co paymaster of 31000 dollars. The state rested its case and Blackburn was expected to testify today.
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Akron
Roy C. Blackburn
Ohio State
B. F. Goodrich Co
Bumper Wheat Crop Forecast Despite Seeding Delay
Washington officials said a bumper wheat crop is possible next year despite a major seeding delay in the Great Plains. About 25 percent of intended wheat acreage in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico remained unseeded by Nov 1 due to dry weather.
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Washington
Great Plains
Agriculture Department
Department
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
New Mexico
Lenient Foreign Aid Plan Faces GOP Resistance
The Truman administration seeks a lenient charter for foreign aid but House Republicans push for a rigid program. Committee tightening may delay the $597 million emergency bill, with Fulton objecting to broad lists like other commodities. Rep Jenkins reports from Europe on France, Italy, Austria.
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Washington
House
France
Italy
Austria
Eaton
Congress
Rep
Vorys
Ohio
State Department
Subzero Temperatures Grip Midwest and South
The mercury fell to 7 below zero in Grand Forks North Dakota the season’s lowest reading. Cold air spread across the eastern half of the country into the south with near zero readings in Bemidji St Cloud and Duluth Minnesota Huron South Dakota and Jamestown Fargo and Pembina North Dakota. Temperatures ranged higher in Tennessee Kentucky and Ohio with Nashville 30 above and Cincinnati 26.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Grand Forks
N.D
South Dakota
Minnesota
Bemidji
St. Cloud
Duluth
Huron
S.D
Jamestown
Fargo
Pembina
North Dakota
Nashville
Fliers Die in Crash Near Woodward Ohio
John C. Danek 25 of Joffre Pennsylvania and David Spratt 28 of Dormont Pennsylvania perished in a small plane crash during an emergency landing near Woodward Ohio.
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Youngstown
John $C. Danek
Joffre
David Spratt
Dormont
Woodward
Ohio
Cincy Fire Battles Five Story Plant Fire
Eighteen fire apparatus and over 100 firefighters fought a $6,000 blaze in a five story industrial building in downtown Cincinnati yesterday. Albert Starke a 55 year old Warren County farmer was found dead by hanging in a shed near his Lebanon home. Coroner ruled death by self inflicted action.
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CINCY
Cincinnati
Lebanon
Albert Starke
Warren County
H. M. Williams
Supreme Court Refuses Hawke Libel Appeal
Ohio's Supreme Court declined to hear Atty. George S. Hawke's appeal of a lower court ruling that he was not libeled by the Cincinnati Post. The decision leaves in place the prior judgment against Hawke in the libel case.
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Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Court
Atty. George S. Hawke
Cincinnati Post
Medical leader named to head Ashtabula County Society
Dr. H. A. Tagett of Ashtabula has been named to lead the Ashtabula County Medical Society. The appointment places Tagett at the helm of the local medical organization, guiding its activities and professional standards.
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Ashtabula, CO
H. A. Tagett
Ashtabula
Ashtabula County
Bangor Daily News chief Fred D. Hordan dies at 69
Fred D. Hordan, 69, longtime president and publisher of the Bangor Daily News, died Wednesday ending an 18 year tenure. He steered the paper through decades of local journalism in Bangor Maine.
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Bangor
Fred D. Hordan
The
Bangor Daily News
House Group Starts Rubber Talks Friday
An armed services subcommittee led by Rep Shafer visits Akron plants as part of a two week tour of synthetic rubber facilities. Public hearings are set for Barberton tomorrow and Saturday. The group will review Firestone and B F Goodrich operations amid earlier Justice Department price fixing charges against eight major rubber firms.
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AKRON
House
Armed Services
Shafer
R-Mich
Barberton
Justice Department
Tom Clark
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
B. F. Goodrich Co
Crawford
Huber
Dohio
Home Prices Seen Rising Nationwide Forecast
Speakers told the National Association of Real Estate Boards that new home prices will rise for two more years. They expect farm lands to climb next year and commercial buildings to stay in considerable volume despite high costs. J Earl Miller, president of the Ohio association, forecasts higher farm land prices in 1948.
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San Francisco
National Association of Real Estate Boards
J. Earl Miller
Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards
Gilliland Sentenced to Life for Deputy Ross Slaying
Clyde Otto Gilliland 56 of Little Hocking pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the Oct. 5 shooting of Deputy Sheriff Charles Ross. Common Pleas Judge Leonard B. Ogle sentenced him to life in prison after Ross was struck by a shotgun charge near Gilliland's home.
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Marietta
Clyde Otto Gilliland
Little Hocking
Charles Ross
Common Pleas
Leonard B. Ogle
Gilliland
Ross
Hospital Gets Mother Held in Slaying Sons
Ravenna Ohio Mrs Barbara McVeigh charged with first degree murder in the bathtub drownings of her two young sons was moved to the Lima criminal insane hospital for observation.
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Barbara McVeigh
Robinson Memorial Hospital
Ravenna
Geauga-on-the-Lake
Malcolm
David
criminal insane _ hospital
Lima
Athens Man Receives Donations for Blood
Mt. Carmel Hospital attendants reported numerous responses to a call for type A RH negative blood donors for Emerson Ball, 35, of Athens, who is suffering from an infection that has affected his blood cells.
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Columbus
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Emerson Ball
Athens
Death claims playwright London Up The Baroness Orezy dies at 80
The Baroness Orezy, 80, famed playwright and author of Scarlet Pimpernel stories, died Wednesday.
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London
Baroness Orezy
War contract probe signals new phase and bond angles
In Marseille rioting after a streetcar fare dispute left one dead and several wounded, labor leaders called a general strike while authorities patrolled. In Washington, the War Investigating Committee shifts to Major General Bennett Meyers and a $4 million bond margin deal tied to Hughes contracts.
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Marseille
New
de Gaullist
Washington
Howard Hughes
Ferguson
R-Mich
Benett E. Meyers
Michigan
Senate War Investigating Committee
Army Air Force
Meyers
Air Force
Hughes
Eccles
Morganthau
Republic Aviation Corp
Ira C. Eaker
Eaker
Baltimore name stands after petition to rename town
Lancaster readers learned that Basil and Baltimore residents failed to change the community name to Base ball. Common Pleas Judge Earl D. Parker ruled that 626 signatures did not meet the required three fourths of inhabitants. The name Baltimore remains.
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Lancaster
Basil
Baltimore
Common Pleas
Earl D. Parker
Waverly
Parker
Harry Kilburger
World Law Authority Succumbs Wednesday
John Bassett Moore a leading authority on international law and the first American elected to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague and a Columbia University professor from 1891 to 1924 died on Wednesday in New York.
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New York
John Bassett Moore
Permanent Court of International Justice
the Hague
Columbia University
German Inspection Tour Slated by Journalists
Fourteen editors and publishers will depart by air today for a month long inspection tour of the American and British zones of Germany and Austria as guests of Secretary of the Army Royall and General Lucius D. Clay. The newsmen include Roger Ferg er, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Washington
Germany
Austria
Royall
Lucius D. Clay
Roger Ferger
Cincinnati Enquirer
Nobel Prize Goes to Gide for Literature
The Swedish Academy selects Andre Gide, 77, as the Nobel Prize in literature laureate. Gide, long a French literary leader, is praised as vital in modern art. his translator notes his anti Stalinist and anti church stances. He visited Russia in 1933 for Gorki funeral address in Red Square.
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Stockholm
Andre Gide
Swedish Academy of Literature
Gide
Dr. Schildt
Russia
Red Square
Maxim Gorki
Man Admits Robbery With Army Flare Gun
Detective Chief Clem Merz said Jeremiah Carrigan, 27, signed a statement admitting he held up Clerk Samuel Gold at Getz Jewelry Co with an Army flare gun yesterday. A portion of the $2,400 loot was recovered in Carrigan's possession.
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Cincinnati
Clem Merz
Jeremiah Carrigan
Samuel Gold
Getz Jewelry Co
Carrigan
Child Killed Running Into Truck in London
A five year old boy, William Smith Jr., was killed when he ran into a truck while on his way to kindergarten in London. The accident occurred yesterday and authorities labeled it a tragic childhood death.
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London
William Smith, Jr
Young Dems Set National Policy Meet
The Young Democratic Clubs of America open their first national convention since the war in Cleveland with four war veteran congressmen ready to present views on the postwar Republican Congress. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. will deliver the keynote address. Reps. Glenn Johnson Blatnik Smathers Teague, all Democrats, headline the opening press conference. President Truman urges delegates to lead in politics and shape domestic policy.
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Cleveland
Democratic Clubs of America
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Glenn Johnson
Okla
Blatnik
Minn
Smathers
Fla
Tea
Middleport Resident Elvina Searles Dies at 82
Mrs. Elvina Searles age 82 died Thursday morning at her daughter’s home on Beech Street Middleport Ohio Surviving are her daughters Mrs Charles Warner Carroll Ohio Mrs Charles Hysell Middleport and three sons Hod Harlan and Thadeus from Parkersburg W V Also several grandchildren Funeral services are set for Saturday at 2 p m at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home Burial will be at Kyger Cemetery
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Middleport
Elvina Searles
Charles Warner
Beech St
Charles Hysell
Carroll
Ohio
Hod
Harlan
Mt. Verenon
Thadeus
Parkerseburg
W. Va
Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home
Kyger Cemetery
Cincinnatian Engine In Shop for Repairs
The B and O announces one of two streamlined engines on the Cincinnatian is in the shop for repairs and overhaul. A substitute locomotive is now in use while the older engine, seen in Athens for the first time Monday, awaits completion of repairs. The Cincinnatian began service in January 1947.
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B & O’s “Cincinnatian
Athens
Cincinnatian
Milford composer John Cattaway dies at 75
John Thurland Cattaway of Milford, a noted composer and lyricist behind Mandy Lee and Redwing, died last night at age 75. The writer known for stage and musical tunes leaves a legacy in mid-century songs.
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Milford
Conn
John Thurland Cattaway
Mandy Lee
Redwing
Passage of Little Assembly and UN ballot in final vote
United Nations General Assembly faces key votes on Marshall plan reforms including a year round Little Assembly to overhaul UN machinery and a UN voting supervision commission for Korea. Russia plans to boycott new organs while which nations join the Security Council remains unsettled as Poland's successor is chosen.
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Marshall
United Nations
General Assembly
Russia
Little Assembly
UN Commission
Korea
Poland
Security Council
India
Ukraine
United States
U.S
Britain
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Syria
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