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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1946

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Baruch and Wallace clash over atomic control plan

Washington AP report details a fierce public dispute between Bernard Baruch and Henry Wallace over UN atomic energy negotiations. Wallace accuses Baruch of stubbornness hindering a treaty backed by President Truman, while Baruch defends American proposals and criticizes Wallace for misstatements. The row, tied to assurances and inspection, risks undermining international control efforts amid a race for atomic weapons.

Washington United Nations Bernard M. Baruch Henry A. Wallace Wallace Commerce Baruch Russia Atomic Energy Commission Aus Byrnes United States Truman New York

Two Hundred Chinese Attack U S Supply Dump

U S Marines repelled a dawn assault on their ammunition and supply dump at Hsinho five miles west of Tangku. About 200 unidentified Chinese attackers opened fire at 10:45 PM and withdrew after Marine fire ended the engagement at 12:05 AM. One Marine wounded slight. one Chinese killed. another Chinese wounded and captured for questioning.

Peiping U. S Hsinho Tangku Corps

Huffman Frames Campaign Choice as Liberal Advance

At the state Democratic convention in Columbus Senator James W. Huffman argued the main issue is whether the nation will retreat to reactionism or advance with sound liberalism. He praised Truman’s leadership and a program to sustain peace abroad and prosperity at home, contrasting it with Republican claims of New Deal excess. He noted production now exceeds prior highs and warned voters Ohio remembers 1932. The resolutions committee will draft the platform. many planks exist in tentative form but are not public.

Columbus Democratic Party U.S James W. Huffman Harry S. Truman Huffman United States Ohio

Russia accuses Big Four of treaty breach over Italian reparations

Paris reports Russia angrily accuses the United States and Britain of violating Big Four agreements by backing an Australian amendment creating an international commission to supervise reparations payments to all except Russia. The move passed 12 to with France, China and Slavic states opposing. Arutiunian said the US and Britain violated the foreign ministers' draft.

Paris Russia United States Britain International Commission Italian Economic Commission of Italy France China Yugoslavia Albania Greece Ethiopia Poland A. A. Arutiunian Soviet Union

Jury Convicts Father Slayer in Kenton Trial

A Kenton jury convicted Harry McKeever Jr. a 23 year old welder and father of two of first degree manslaughter for fatally shooting his father while being loaded into a patrol wagon. After a three day trial the court gave McKeever a one to twenty year penitentiary term and allowed three days for appeal.

Kenton Harry McKeever, Jr Wareleran McKeever Arthur B. Tudor

Pomeroy Banker Named Banking Group Official At Hearing

Edwin Hobstetter president of the Pomeroy National Bank was elected vice chairman of Group 7 of the Ohio Bankers Association. Seward D Schooler, president of the Coshocton National Bank, was named chairman. Also reported was a fatal accident as J P Sellers 81 owner of Napoleon Lumber Co died when a tree fell on him. The Power Commission suspended a Tennessee Gas Transmission rate schedule and ordered a hearing to compare rates with others for United Fuel Gas Co customers in Charleston and Ironton and Huntington W V.

Pomeroy Banking Group Clairsville Edwin Hobstetter Pomeroy National Bank Ohio Bankers Association Associated Press Seward D Schooler Coshocton National Bank Napoleon J. P. Sellers Napoleon Lumber Co Washington The Power Commission Sani Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co Tate United Fuel Gas Co Charleston W. Va Tennessee Gas United Ironton West Virginia Huntington

Ohio Airlines Tapping New Midwest Markets

Civil Aeronautics Board reports a surge of non-scheduled operators expanding into Midwest cargo and passenger markets. About 750 reports received. many firms under one year old. Ohio participants include Harrington Air Service Mansfield and several other small operators across the state.

Ohio Airlines New Midwest Washington Midwest Civil Aeronautics Board CAB Ohio Harrington Air Service, Inc Mansfield Edward P. Honroth Northfield Jones

Football Game Shifted Housing Units on Field

Ohio Northern Polar Bears homecoming game moved from Oct. 19 to Roberson Field Kenton due to housing unit encroachment and insufficient sealing capacity on campus. Clyde Lamb, Physical Education Director, announced the shift affecting the Ohio Northern Otterbein matchup.

ABA Ohio Northern Polar Bears Clyde Lamb Ohio Northern-Otterhein Roberson Kenton Unis University

Two Children Treated As Victims of Polio

Cleveland report shows a Sandusky two year old boy and a Cleveland fifteen year old girl admitted to City Hospital as infantile paralysis patients. The year’s polio tally reaches 256 cases with 25 deaths.

Cleveland City Hospital

Cambridge Teachers Win 14 Percent Pay Increase

Cambridge school teachers were approved a 14 percent retroactive raise to Sept 3 by the board of education. The action followed a threatened strike and came as fall term began, with the board agreeing to consider further wage boosts.

Cambridge —Pf Cambridge Board of Education

Truman Urges Immediate Jewish Immigration to Palestine

President Truman urged immediate substantial immigration of displaced Jews into Palestine in a Yom Kippur statement to Attlee. He argued that immigration should begin at once and that liberalization of immigration laws, including in the United States, should admit displaced persons ahead of any Palestine conference in London.

Washington Truman Palestine Attlee London United States

British Bar Two Nazis From Occupation Zone

Army authorities said today the British declined to permit Hjalmar Schacht and Hans Fritsche to enter the British Occupation zone of Germany. Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay announced that the French had rejected the plea of Nazi diplomat Franz Von Papen, the third of the acquitted German war leaders to return to the French zone.

Mernberg U. 5 Hjalmar Schacht Hans Fritsche International Militars Tribunal Germany Lucius Clay Franz von Papen Selile

OPA Lifts Ceiling on Brooms and Signals Rises Elsewhere

Washington OPA swept price controls from household brooms today. The agency also announced ceiling price increases on bed springs metal beds fabricated concrete reinforcing bars and certain iron and steel products delivered at Midwestern Gulf and Pacific Coast basing points.

Washington OPA Gulf Pacific Coast

Meat Shortage Blamed On Future Planning By Ohio Rep

Rep Earl Lewis says a meat shortage in Ohio reaches famine proportions because officials plan for the future rather than address present needs. He cites coal miners and steel workers threatening to halt production without meat and accuses the OPA and Agriculture Department of inaction.

Washington Earl Lewis Ohio Lewis OPA Agriculture Department The Ohioan Paul Porter Anderson

Truman Talk In Ohio Still Is Possibility

Washington reports keep the door open for a political speech by President Truman in Ohio. Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan said it is possible the president will speak in the congressional campaign. Rumors tied the plan to support Senator James W. Huffman in his bid for reelection against former Governor John W. Bricker.

Washington Ohio Truman Robert E. Hannegan James W. Huffman John W. Bricker

AFL Strikers Vote Today in Pittsburgh Picket End Goal

About 2 700 AFL Streetcar Motormen in a nearly week long protective walkout were to vote at 3 p m on ending picket lines set by a striking independent power union Return to work would ease a transportation tie up in Pittsburgh and relieve a 11 day strike by 3 500 Duquesne Light Co employees No progress was reported in power company talks The Scioto County commissioners and veteran groups meet with City Manager to discuss city owned land for veterans housing sites

Pittsburgh AFL Iike Duquesne Light Co Portsmouth Scioton County Commissioners E. G. Littleton

Potter Is Ruled Sane In Murder Trial

Lawrence A. Wheatley, 25, of Newell West Virginia, will stand trial November 6 for the May 23 murder of Mrs. Letha Barrett, 57, of East Liverpool. Judge Joel H. Sharp ruled yesterday after Dr. Robert Olsen, a Youngstown psychiatrist, testified Wheatley was sane.

Lisbon Lawrence A. Wheatley Newell W. Va Letha Barrett East Liverpool Columbiana County Joel H. Sharp Robert Olsen Youngstown West Virginia

Hull Condition Grave Spends Restful Night at Bethesda

Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull remained gravely ill at Bethesda Naval Hospital after a night described as more restful, with hospital officials reporting his condition as grave and continuing.

Washington Cordell Hull Bethesda Naval Hospital

Flames Devastate Marcus Hook Refinery Killing Seven

The Sun Oil aviation gasoline refinery unit in Marcus Hook, Pa suffered a blast and fire that killed seven and injured about 146. Damage was estimated at 300000 dollars. The blaze began with a packing gland failure causing gas to escape and flash, triggering explosions and a massive tower detonation. Several victims were in critical condition, including a Marcus Hook police officer struck during traffic control.

Marcus Hook Sun Oil Company Sun Arthur E. Pew, Jr Philadelphia Temen Chester Michael Burke Foree DeWitt Hay Delaware River George Ruth

Bumper Corn Crop Deemed Safe By Experts

Chicago AP reports grain experts call the 3.326 billion bushel corn crop secure for the United States and above frost damage. Statisticians predict a record harvest with high quality feeding value, though rail car shortages may hinder movement to market.

Chicago United States Co. M. Galvin James E. Bennett Cagrain Galvin Ed Boerner Harris, Upham and Co The Weather Bureau

Press Termed Irresponsible by Monitor Editor

The Christian Science Monitor editor Erwin E Canham called irresponsibility the chief shortcoming of newspapers worldwide. He warned that many English language papers have become big business and reflect those interests, eroding public trust in press authenticity.

Gambier Erwin E. Canham Christian Science Monitor Kenyon College

Husband is Killed, Wife Faces Charge

Martins Ferry Ohio Maynard residents report 42 year old Laverne Minett charged with second degree murder after her husband Peter also 42 was shot in his sleep. Coroner Clyde Hardesty says she claimed he left for a farm meeting then went out with another woman.

Martins Ferry Laverne Minett Peter Minett Maynard Clyde Hardesty Belmont County

Refusal to Join Union Tied to Beating Claim

Elyria report says an assault on a gas line crew northwest of the city was linked to their refusal to join a union. About 50 men in eight cars, armed with clubs and hammers, beat three crew members and damaged machinery. three were hospitalized.

Elyria Here Joseph Guzik

British Arrest Former Nazi Party Chairman

The British Military Government announced the arrest of Alfred Hugenberg, former German politician and film magnate, on his Rehbraken estate in the British zone. Hugenberg led the German Nationalist Party when it allied with the Nazis in 1933.

Berlin Alfred Hugenberg Rehbraken Hugenberg

Kettering Takes Part In Town Carnival

Charles F. Kettering research vice president of General Motors attended the Loudonville street fair yesterday and awarded $400 in premiums to winners of youth competitions open to residents of Ashland Knox Moulmes Richland and Wayne counties.

Loudonville Charles F. Kettering General Motors Corp Kettering Ashland Knox Molmnes Richland Wayne Counties

Jap Atom Tale Is Discounted In Moscow Prisoner Report

Atlanta Constitution says Japanese scientists who built and tested a bomb before war end are now prisoners of the Russians in Moscow. Author David Snell claims Russians pressured scientists to reveal atomic know how. U S Army intelligence and others dismiss the account in Tokyo. Theodore C Ernst founder of Ernst and Ernst accounting firm dies in Cleveland.

Atlanta Moscow Atlanta Constitution David Snell Twenty- Fourth Criminal Investigation Detachment Korea Tokyo U. S Army Snell DYES Cleveland Theodore C. Ernst Alvin Ernst and Ernst

Sam Simmons on labor progress and invention leaders

Sam Simmons argues that labor leaders and politicians claim credit for rising living standards. He credits industry, inventors, and scientists for wage gains and improvements in hospitals, factory lighting, and sanitation. He contends long hours once justified by economic need and asserts progress came from business and industrial leaders, not political figures.

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