Man and Wife Held in $2800 Athens Robbery
William M. Eaton and Beverly Eaton of Coshocton were arrested in Coshocton after a $2800 Kroger robbery on W State Street Athens Saturday night. The pair allegedly forced entry, bounded the manager and used the home of the manager to stage the theft, with Beverly Eaton later confessing and burying the loot and revolver.
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Kroger Market
W. State St
J. B. Grogan
William M. Eaton
Beverly
Coshocton
Charles Marquis
Ohio Ave
Pledge Made To Keep All Mines Open
President Truman launched a drive to break John S Lewis and force union terms to keep coal mines open. Government notices urged miners to stay at work as coal deliveries were rationed and antistrike actions discussed, with legal action under the Smith Connally Act possible.
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Washington
Truman
John S. Lewis
Lewis
Justice Department
United Mine Workers
AFL
Clark
Key West
Fla
J. A. Krug
Krug
United Mine Workers of America
Solid Fuels Administration
Milburn
W.va
UMW
Tojo Takes War Blame Before Allied Tribunal
Hideko Tojo acknowledged chief responsibility for Japan's Pacific war during questioning at Sugamo prison. The prosecution quoted him saying he, as senior cabinet member, was chiefly responsible for the attacks on Pearl Harbor Hong Kong Malaya and the Philippines.
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Tokyo
Hideko Tojo
Japan
Allied War Crimes Tribunal
Tojo
Sugamo
Pearl Harbor
Hongkong
Malaya
Philippines
Judge Healy, Last SEC Appointee of FDR Dies
Philadelphia report states Judge Robert E. Healy aged 63 died Saturday night. He was the final surviving member of the original Securities and Exchange Commission appointees by President Roosevelt.
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Judge Healy
SEC
FDR
Philadelphia
Robert E. Healy
Securities and Exchange
Roosevelt
Price Hike Announced by Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer announced today its price per copy rose a penny to five cents due to higher production costs. The notice notes the change applies in today’s editions.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati
The
Two Die in Separate Cincinnati Auto Wrecks
In Cincinnati two men died in separate automobile crashes. Taylor Hignite, 22, and Clarence Cassidy, 52, were killed in the incidents.
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Cincinnati
Taylor Hignite
Clarence Cassidy
Two Seized In Perry Co Bank Theft
Ber nard Howell and Glenn Neff, both of Columbus, were arrested in a $167,189 Peoples Bank of Thornville robbery. FBI said they confessed and hid cash and $149,000 in bonds in a barn. They planned arraignment on federal bank robbery charges with evidence from Sheriff Butts and Patrolman Eddie.
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Columbus
Bernard Howell
Glenn Neff
Peoples Bank of
Thornville
FBI
F. H. Crist
Howell
Neff
U. S
Robert W. Newton
Clair Butts
Perry County
John C. Eddie
Highway Patrol
Crist
Canal Winchester
Baltimore
Elmira
N. Y
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Trio Arrested After Armed Robbery in Salem
Three Cleveland men were jailed on $15,000 bond after arrest by Alliance police for an armed robbery of Byron Maxson, a Salem store manager, last Saturday night. They pleaded innocent at arraignment, were sent to the Mahoning County Jail, and the $4,500 taken was recovered.
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SALEM
Cleveland
Byron Maxson
Mahoning County
Youngstown
Neil Gaunt
Alliance Police
Judge Who Sold Favors Dies at Home in Fayetteville
Martin T. Manton, 66, former U S Circuit Court of Appeals judge and first English speaking judge of such high rank to be convicted of selling judicial favors, died yesterday at his son’s home in Fayetteville N Y He had been in retirement since 1941 after release from Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg Pa.
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Fayetteville
N. Y
Martin T. Manton
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Manton
Northeastern Federal Penitentiary
Lewisburg
Einstein Starts $1 Million Fund for Atomic Education
Princeton broadcast announces a campaign led by Professor Albert Einstein and eight scientists to raise one million dollars for general education on the social implications of atomic energy. Einstein says physicists bear heavy responsibility from creating the atom bomb.
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Princeton
N. J
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Blind evangelist killed by automobile in Canonsburg
The Rev. Dr. Walter D. Kallenbach, 41, a blind Philadelphia evangelist and president of the National Society for the Advancement of the Blind, was struck and killed near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night while standing beside a friend's car with a flat tire.
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Canonsburg
Walter D. Kallenbach
Philadelphia
National Society For the Advancement of the Blind
Drug Official Dies in Cincinnati at 68
Charles F Ehlers aged 68, longtime secretary treasurer of Hale-Inustus Drue Co, died in Cincinnati. He held a key role in the drug distribution firm and was regarded as a leading executive in industry affairs.
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Cincinnati
Charles F Ehlers
Hale-Inustus Drue Co
Six Year Plumbing Conspiracy Trial Reopens
The government six year-old antitrust case against major plumbing manufacturers unions and others reconvenes in Cleveland as deaths and plea changes cut defendants from 102 to 79. Indicted in 1940 for a restricted distribution system and price fixing, the case spans industry and unions with the Kohler Crane and American Radiator groups as key players.
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Cleveland
United Association of Journeyman Plumbers and Steamfitters
United States
Canada
AFL
Robert Wilkin
Walter J. Kohler
Wisconsin
Kohler Co
Kohler
The
Crane Co
American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp
Ex-Cons Held As Witnesses In GOP Beating
New York ex-convicts Joey Rao and Michael Coppola are held in city prison on $250000 bail each as material witnesses in the fatal beating of Republican election worker Joseph Scottereggio. ADA Grumet says they planned to leave the city and notes Rao is unemployed while Coppola is a gambler. Both are linked to Harlem underworld circles and associated with veteran gangsters. Coppola was once arrested in a penthouse with Louis Buchalter.
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New York
Joey Rao
Michael
Trigger Mike) Coppola
Joseph Scottereggio
Jacob Grumet
Harlem
James G. Wallace
Grumet
Rae
Coppola
Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll
Arthur
Dutch Schultz
Flegenheimer
Louis “Lepke” Buchalter
Chinese firm offers to return plasma to the FLC
A Shanghai based company says it found about 3 500 cases of American Red Cross blood plasma in 10 000 tons of medical supplies bought from the foreign liquidation commission and offers to sell the plasma back to the FLC for a reasonable price. It also said it would suspend plasma sales and declined to disclose amounts sold to drug stores or wholesale prices.
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Shanghai
American Red Cross
Foreign Liquidation Commission
FLC
Jimmy Walker In Critical Condition At Doctors Hospital
Former New York City mayor James J. Walker known as Jimmy Walker lies in a coma with cerebral thrombosis. A 9:25 a.m. bulletin notes no improvement and states he received the Catholic Church last rites yesterday from Father Joseph Weber.
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New York
James J
Jimmy) Walker
Doctors Hospital
Walker
Joseph Weber
St. Joseph's Church
Break Attempt At Penitentiary Is Frustrated
Three Ohio Penitentiary convicts were captured after a guard halted their attempt to scale the north wall. The men Louis Hardin Alvin Guthrie and Roy James were chased into the woolen mill and detained three hours later.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Frank D. Henderson
Louis Hardin
Cuyahoga County
Alvin Guthrie
Richland County
Roy James
Ballot Boxes Missing In Raleigh County Election
Raleigh County prosecutor reports several ballot boxes containing November 5 votes were stolen from the county clerk's office. No recovery information given. The county canvass is done and a recount is to begin today at the request of four nominees.
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Beckley
W.va
Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
Alliance Physician Named Mt Union College President
Dr. George L. King a 46 year old Alliance physician is elected the new president of the Mt Union College board of trustees succeeding J L Ameriman of Canton in the leadership change.
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Alliance
George L. King
Mt. Union College
J. L. Ameriman
Canton
Truman Faces DifficultPath With Balky Democrats in Congress
Washington reports mounting signs that President Truman will struggle to unite Democratic forces in the new Republican dominated Congress. He may need to drop several past proposals while southern Democrats resist renewing Roosevelt era aims such as anti poll tax and anti lynching measures and a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission. New Deal lawmakers press Truman to keep a progressive government line.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Girl's Story Is Questioned In River Death Case
Kansas City report shows Frances Wanstreet clinging to her claim she shoved eight year old Ross Key Jr. into the Blue River and watched him drown. Key was missing since November fourth. Parents question the girl's tale as searches continued and river drag failed to locate the boy.
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Kansas City
Frances Wanstreet
L. E. Wyatt
Ross Key, Jr
Blue River
Ivan Wanstreet
Ross Key, Sr
Goering's Wife Refused War Funds Claim
Mrs Hermann Goering collected her late husband’s effects including clothing and 750 marks but could not take 50,000 marks found on him when arrested. The sum is held as confiscated Nazi property pending American authorities ruling on disposition.
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Mernberg
Hermann Goering
Goering
Kentucky Fire Rates Homes Of 71 Persons
Ashland Kentucky fire left two people dead and destroyed two apartment buildings and two nearby houses. Seventy one persons were displaced and were to receive temporary shelter and meals from the Salvation Army as a Red Cross worker arrived from Alexandria Virginia to assist the families. The dead were Arthur Henry Bolton sixty seven and Mrs Hilma Hall Boggs thirty nine. Fire origin undetermined and two story frame buildings were involved. A five month old baby girl was rescued by her father tossed to safety to the uncle Ed Johnson.
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Ashland
Red Cross
Alexandria
Salvation Army
Ashland Red Cross
Burris Henley
Arthur Henry Bolton
Hilma Hall Boggs
George S. Kimblen
Bolton
Attorney Breaks Down as Client Is Found Guilty in Murder
In Cleveland, attorney James Garfield Scott cried and was escorted from the courtroom after a jury convicted Nathaniel Freeman, 24, of first degree murder for fatally hacking Thomas Noble with a meat cleaver. Freeman faces the electric chair as Common Pleas Judge Julius M. Kovachy announces the sentence.
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Cleveland
James Garfield Scott
Nathaniel Freeman
Common Pleas
Julius M. Kovachy
Thos. Noble
Former State Official Dies at 88 in Columbus
David Staley Creamer 88 died at his Columbus home from a heart ailment. He served as state treasurer elected in 1908 on the Democratic ticket and held posts as Belmont County recorder, St. Clairsville council member, and state fire marshal in 1906. He later owned the St. Clairsville Gazette before moving to Columbus.
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Columbus
David Staley Creamer
Belmont County
St. Clairsville
Irish War Bride Begins Penitentiary Sentence
Mrs. Bridge Waters an Irish war bride convicted of involuntary man slaughter began a sentence of one to five years at the Nevada State Penitentiary in Carson City. Warden Richard H. Sheehy said her 18 month old son would be placed in a private home awaiting parole.
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Carson City
Nev
Bridge Waters
Nevada State
Richard H. Sheehy
Col George L Converse, OSU military chief, dies at 88
Col George L. Converse, 88, longtime head of Ohio State University Department of Military Science, died Saturday in Columbus. He served as a key military educator and leader for the university.
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OSU
Columbus
George L. Converse
Ohio State University Department of Military Science
Miners Quit In Five Pits Shift Affects Coal Output
Pitts burgh consolidation Coal Co reports five of its 14 soft coal mines closed today with about 3000 miners staying away. Affected pits join broader industry facing possible coal stockpile controls as United Mine Workers threaten a strike. President Truman’s Florida trip noted amid ongoing coal field crisis.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Cleveland
United Mine Workers
Howard A. Smith
Solid Fuels Administration
Ohio
West Virginia Panhandle
Key West
Fla
Truman
John L. Lewis
Florida
Washington
U. S. Naval Submarine
Pennsy Railroad Sued After Ohio Park Fire
The U S District Court in Cincinnati received a state suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad seeking 29554 dollars for fire destruction at Fort Ancient State Park. The state claims fires from the railroad right of way burned 37 acres of trees and shrubs at the park.
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Cincinnati
U. S. District Court
Warren County Common Pleas Court
State of
Flyer crash scene holds gripping controls on plane
Searchers find a dead flyer still gripping the controls of a Western Air Lines plane that crashed on White Mountain near Burbank with 11 aboard. Ventura County deputies report five badly burned bodies recovered from the wreckage after an unsuccessful body search.
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Burbank
Calif
Western Air Lines
White Mountain
Ventura County
Donley Cummings
Victims of Plane Crash in West Virginia Identified
The two victims of the weekend airplane collision in West Virginia are Samuel R. Predmore, 50, owner of the craft, and Harry Frazier, 62, both of Wheeling. Funeral services for Frazier will be in Canton, Ohio.
Summit Hunter Killed When Gun Discharges
Robert McClure Jr. 11 of Boston Hills died from wounds after his gun discharged accidentally while hunting in Summit County. The incident occurred last night as the boy hunted in the county.
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Akron
Robert McClure, Jr
Boston Hills
Summit County
One Killed Six Hurt In Traffic Collision
James Hines, 69, of Dayton, died Saturday night in a traffic collision in Hillsboro. Six others were injured in the crash, with conditions not specified in the readable text.
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Hillsboro
James Hines
Dayton
Housing law change urged for public housing control
Dillon Myer of the Federal Public Housing Authority urged Ohio lawmakers last night to revise state law. The change would allow housing authorities to own and operate low rent housing projects.
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Columbus
Dillon
Myer
Federal Public Housing Authority
Ohio
Sam Simmons on John L. Lewis and labor control
Sam Simmons argues the country must confront John L. Lewis now or risk worsened labor domination. He says regaining control from labor politicians is hard and that laws limiting management have damaged industry while workers cannot be jailed. He contends leaders want Lewis’s mantle and criticizes decades of labor favoritism.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis
John L
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