State Liquor Agents Seize 60 Slot Machines in Weekend Raids
Ohio liquor agents reported 20 more slot machines taken in weekend raids across Alliance, Geneva, Akron and Steubenville bringing total confiscations to 60 in weeks. The Canton district chief accused Alliance Police Chief Lower of not aiding the raid and warned of further sweeps.
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Alliance
Ohio
Qne-Armiend Vunuil Byvl
Liquor Department
Geneva
Akron
Steubenville
Nicholas E. Sisler
Canton
Eagles Club
Sisler
A. O. Lower
Lower
The
Eagles
Stark County
Harry W. Grossglaus
Ohio Liquor Enforcent
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Fraternal Order of Civilians
Stanley Cmich
Cleveland
Eagles Lodge
Charles D. Marts
Steubenville Country Club
Rutkowski
Columbus
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Robert J. Drake
Bill Todd
Mahoning County
Youngstown
NLRB May Enter UE Union War With Elections
The National Labor Relations Board faces pressure as a Pittsburgh UE Local 601 split faction pushes officer elections and requires non Communist affidavits under Taft Hartley. Left wing seeks NLRB involvement amid right wing requests for elections as industry watches.
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Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
United Electrical Workers
NLRB
CIO
Cleveland
Philip Murray
Ex Gallipolis Newsman Frank L. Sibley Dies
Frank L. Sibley, 79, of Chesapeake Ohio a former composing room foreman and river columnist for the Gallipolis Tribune died in a Huntington hospital. A Racine Ohio native he was a writer on river transportation topics whose column appeared in several papers and in earlier years he lived with his daughter Mrs C Fred Edwards in Chesapeake.
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Huntington
W. Va
Frank L. Sibley
Chesapeake
Ohio
Ohio and
Mississippi River Transportation Authority
Sibley
Racine
Gallipolis
Tribune
C. Fred Edwards
Gale Claims Two on Calmar Freighter
A Brooklyn captain recounted how a gale ripped the freighter Calmar's deck load of lumber, causing a fatal list. First Mate Clarence Hutton, 50, of Valley Stream, N Y, died aboard after being crushed between a wheel house and a lifeboat. Walter E. Roberts, 23, of Somerville Mass, was washed overboard during the storm near the Columbia River mouth.
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Seattle
Brooklyn
Richard B. Hughes
Columbia River
Clarence Hutton
Valley Stream
N. Y
Walter E. Roberts
Somerville
Mass
Hutton
Volunteers Sought For Civilian Defense
London Britain asked for volunteers to form a civilian defense corps for wartime roles and possible atomic warfare training. Home Secretary Chuter Ede said past blitz volunteers may face higher destruction risks but stressed it is a precaution to complete national defense.
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London
Britain
Home
Chuter Ede
UAW Urges Lausche To Enter Senate Race
A Cleveland AFL UAW committee heads for Columbus to urge Gov. Frank J. Lausche to run in 1950 against Sen. Robert A. Taft. About 120 delegates adopted the resolution and said Lausche agreed to meet them this afternoon.
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Cleveland
AFL
United Automobile Workers
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Lausche
Acheson To Return From European Trip
Secretary of State Acheson returns to Washington this week with Western unity reinforced in Europe. He is expected to accelerate work on drafting a Japanese peace treaty and to push new steps clarifying American policies on the Chinese situation.
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Washington
Europe
Acheson
State Department
Rocket Firebird Aims at Hidden Enemy Planes
San Diego based Ryan Aeronautical Co. develops the Firebird rocket powered target seeking missile for the RAF. The weapon measures about six inches in diameter and ten feet long and can be mounted on external bomb racks for launch against planes obscured by darkness or clouds.
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San Diego
Calif
Ryan Aeronautical Co
Air Force
Communists Back Ohio Support After Convictions
In Cleveland Gus Hall asserts Ohioans reject the verdicts against him and 10 other party leaders. He cites Anthony Krehmarek’s 57 000 vote for Cleveland school board and notes similar strong Communist votes in Akron Youngstown Lorain and Toledo. He calls the trial a kangaroo court.
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Cleveland
Gus Hall
West Virginia Child Dies of Pneumonia
Eugene Kimberling aged 17 months, son of Mr and Mrs Otho Kimberling of Red House West Virginia, died early Sunday of pneumonia at Point Clinic. Funeral arrangements are handled by Raynes Funeral Home Buffalo.
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Point Pleasant
Eugene Kimberling
Otho Kimberling
Red House
W. Va
Point Clinic
Raynes Funeral Home
Buffalo
Sloper longtime C S Monitor editor dies at 66
Boston obituary notes the death of Leslie A. Sloper 66 art music and dramatic editor for the Christian Science Monitor who died Sunday in Boston.
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Boston
Leslie A. Sloper
The
Christian Science Monitor
Snoozing Hunter Beats the Field on Deer Opening
Virginia Minnesota reports Alfred Kittelson woke at 5 30 a m slept again 8 a m wife woke him then he hunted from the Parkville suburb and bagged a five point buck on opening day. He measured 68 paces from his stand to the deer.
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Virginia
Minn
Alfred Kittelson
Parkville
Kittelson
Timken Plants Still Striking For Pensions
Timken Roller Bearing Co. with 10 000 employees remains the lone CIO United steelworkers strike in Ohio. Five Timken plants in Wooster Canton Columbus Zanesville and Mount Vernon demand Bethlehem pension terms. other mills in Youngstown Cleveland Lorain Canton Massillon Steubenville Warren Niles have resumed production. Steel output tightens as demand and bargaining linger.
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Timken Roller Bearing Co
Youngstown
Cleveland
Lorain
Canton
Massillon
Steubenville
Warren
Niles
Berlin backs liberty fight with U S support
Secretary of State Dean Acheson told German officials in Berlin that the United States would back their liberty effort as long as they continue fighting. He praised Western Berlin as a living symbol of liberty and said American policy did not fail in China, but Chinese policy did. A German spokesman announced the decision not to withdraw Western Allied troops from Germany.
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Dean Acheson
United States
Frankfurt
Acheson
Germany
Washington
America
U. S
China
Bonn
West German Republic
Rep Thomas Trial Delayed Again in Fraud Case
Rep. J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey sees his fraud trial postponed once more as Defense Attorney William H Collins requests more time. Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff resets proceedings to November 21 with another delay granted due to ongoing work on a separate case.
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Washington
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas
William H. Collins
Alexander Holtzoff
Holtzoff
Vote Counting Nears End in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati vote tally in the proportional representation city election was nearing completion. The Cincinnati Enquirer predicted the Charter Party would retain its five to four council majority with Mayor Albert Cash Charles P. Taft Harry D. Proctor and Vice-Mayor Edward N. Waldvogel from the Charter Party and Carl W. Rich Potter Stewart from the Republicans already assured of seats.
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Cincinnati
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Charter Party
Albert Cash
Charles P. Taft
Harry D. Proctor
Edward N. Waldvogel
Carl W. Rich
Potter Stewart
Republicans
Bridges Trial Stated On Perjury Charge
SAN FRANCISCO long shore leader Harry Bridges goes on trial on perjury and conspiracy charges tied to his 1945 naturalization hearing. Bridges, Australian born president of the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, testified he was not and had never been a Communist. The government asserts that statement was false.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
Govern Poo
Explosion sinks Spanish freighter near Lundy Island
Six crewmen died and six are missing after the Spanish freighter exploded and sank in a gale off Lundy Island, 13 miles off the southwest coast. Rescue efforts were underway as weather allowed.
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Tlraccombe
Eng
Lundy Island
Coal Deadlock Report Delays Cite White House Talks
Chief Conciliator Cyrus S. Ching travels to Washington to report on weekend coal contract talks or the lack thereof. John L. Lewis urges soft coal operators to meet, but mine owners show little interest, signaling possible presidential action later in the week.
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Washington
Cyrus S. Ching
White House
John L. Lewis
Lewis
John
National Coal Association
Ching
Truman
New York
Christmas Comes Early For Leukemia Victim
In Xenia Ohio two year old Tommy Pace known as the miracle baby is expected to die within four weeks due to leukemia. Doctors warned his parents Robert and Mrs Pace that Christmas would come early for their son who has survived 130 blood transfusions and new drug treatments.
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Xenia
Thomas David Pace
Robert J. Pace
Tommy
Cleveland Man Admits Operating Football Pool
Cleveland police arrested 33 year old Stanley Sekunda on a charge of occupying rooms to record wagers after he admitted running a $500 a week football pool. Detectives found 300 pool tickets and handicap cards in a West Side delicatessen.
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Cleveland
West Side
Psan
Stanley Sekunda
Tri-State College Student Jailed in Child assault Case
A sophomore engineering student from Tri-State College remained in jail in Angola Ind after being questioned in a chloroforming and criminal assault case involving a nine year old girl.
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Angola
Ind
Tri- State College
Coplon-Gubitchey Trial Opens in Federal Court
In New York two defendants Coplon and Gubitchey face a federal conspiracy to commit espionage trial for Russia. Coplon, 28, ex DOJ employee, already sentenced to 40 months to ten years. Gubitchey, 32, Russian engineer and former UN staffer, meets on alleged meetings to obtain secrets for Moscow. The case parallels Alger Hiss perjury trial set for Thursday in the same courthouse.
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New York
Judith Coplon
Valentin Gubitchey
Russia
Department of Justice
Washington
Ben
Gubitchey
United Nations
Miss Coplon
Alger Hiss
U. S
Coplon-Gubitchev
U.S
New Titoist Trial Seen in Poland Rouses Talk
Warsaw reports say Poland’s United Workers Party moved to purge former Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka from party rolls in a secret Central Committee session. Gomulka, ousted as party secretary in 1948 over opposition to Cominform actions against Tito, now faces renewed scrutiny of his adherents and recantations. Milovan Djilas, a Tito Politburo member, had previously labeled him a Tito supporter.
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Poland
United Workers (Communist) Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Central Committee
Gomulka
Cominform
Communist International Information Bureau
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Tito
Milovan Djilas
Belgrade
Odijilas
Veteran Group Seeks Ouster of Union Officer
An Ohio committee of the Army and Navy Union plans to petition national officers to remove William A. Klatt of Niles from his post as national recruiting officer and former national commander. The eight member council holds he was involved in forming garrisons and obtaining liquor permits, finding him guilty of misconduct in office.
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Akron
Army and Navy Union
Department of Ohio
William A. Klatt
Niles
Ohio
Klatt
Union
Rain Ends Three Forest Fires in Vinton County
In Chillicothe a 4 inch rain helped quench three fires threatening timber in Vinton County. State forester John Bastian reported Sunday that two blazes were in the Pine Ridge area, risking about 300 acres of timber before the rain arrived Saturday night and Sunday.
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Chillicothe
Vinton County
John Bastian
Pine Ridge
Bastian
Threat Fails Man Is Shot In Barbert on
Police shot and killed 35 year old George Carpenter after he pointed a pistol at his former employer Frank Barna at Barna beer and wine shop. Patrolman John Skarl said Carpenter ducked behind a counter when ordered to drop the gun. The motive centered on locating his estranged wife.
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Barberton
George Carpenter
Frank Barna
John Skarl
Carpenter
Barna
Skarl
Lifer Granted New Trial Then Sentenced to Death
Cecil Yankey faces the electric chair after a retrial for a 1947 robbery killing. He pleaded guilty at first trial and received life, but following a jury verdict he is now sentenced to death under Ohio law.
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Lifer
Hillsboro
Cecil Yankey
Leroy Woodland
Yankey
Ohio
New Drug Ban thine Reported Heals Ulcers at Meeting
A synthetic nerve controlling drug Ban thine is claimed to heal peptic ulcers. It was shown at the Southern Medical Association four day annual meeting in Cincinnati. The drug aims to replace surgical nerve cutting with a chemical action on stomach nerves.
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Cincinnati
Southern Medical Association
Church Moderator Charles Welch Dies at 71 in Louisville
Dr. Charles W. Welch, 71, former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, died Sunday in Louisville. He retired December 31, 1945 after forty years in the ministry.
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Louisville, Ky
Charles W. Welch
The
Presbyterian Church In
U.S.A
Argument Seen Key To Shooting At Ohio State
Ohio State freshman James D Heer was charged with first degree murder for the Delta Tau Delta shooting after a homecoming party. He pleaded innocent and is jailed without bond as the case goes to a grand jury.
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Columbus
James D. Heer
Ohio State University
Lowell V. Sheeta
Joyce Crafton
Cleveland
Sheets
Heer
Miss Crafton
James T. McKeown
the Lantern
University Student Daily
Delta ‘Tau Delta
John W. Johnson
Shaker Heights
Myrin H. Ross
Ohio State
Theora Hix
James Snook
Ohio State Veterinary Medicine
Snook
Ohio
McKeown
Tea Party Held For Prince Charles Birthday
Prince Charles marked his first birthday with a small private tea party for a few friends in London. The royal family maintains a policy of keeping celebrations discreet.
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London
Prince Charles
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