Flood Funds Bill Sent To Truman
The Ohio River basin flood control share totals 59.6 million, with Ohio receiving 8.64 million. Six states benefit including Ohio Kentucky West Virginia Illinois Pennsylvania and New York. Major Kentucky aid goes to Wolf Creek reservoir while Cincinnati and Massillon in Ohio receive multiple projects.
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Washington
Ohio River
Truman
Ohio
Senate Public Works Committee
Ohio Basin
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ilinois
Pennsylvania
New York
Cincinnati
Mill Creek
Burr Oak
Delaware
Muskingum
Dillon
Massillon
Ironton
Wolf Creek
Cumberland
Illinois
Top Criminal Under Guard
Earl Bircham, a famed cop killer and jail escape artist, remains in solitary at Jefferson County Jail after a dramatic escape attempt. The 45-year-old, famed for fleeing Kansas State Prison tests, faces murder charges for the slaying of Louisville Patrolman John Tennyson and wounding Patrolman John Ross. He is under 24-hour guard with two shotgun armed officers as he awaits trial tomorrow.
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Louisville
Earl Bircham
Bircham
Jefferson County
Birchman
John Clifford
Clifford
Kansas State
Lansing
John Tennyson
John Ross
Farm Leaders Back Taft in Re Election Bid
Twenty Ohio farm leaders endorsed Senator Robert A. Taft for reelection forming Farmers-for-Bob Taft. Benjamin B. Brumley announced the committee including Louis Taber Paul McNish Frank Farnsworth John Brown and G W Rittenour who praised Taft for defending farmers against socialistic trends and supporting Ohio agricultural interests. Howard Wells also endorsed Taft as he planned a 100 day tour restart.
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Farmers ‘of
Ohio
Brumley
Louis H. Taber
Columbus
National Grange
Paul McNish
Middlefield
Frank Farnsworth
Waterville
John T. Brown
Mechanicsburg
Common Pleas
G. W. Rittenour
Pike County
Taft
Cincinnatian
Organized Labor
Murray D. Lincoln
Washington
Howard Wells
Wilkesville
Man Jailed For Serious Incident In Cleveland
Andrew Dina, 20, was jailed after police said he stabbed Paul Pytash, 59, nine times with a pocket knife following a dispute over alleged affair involving Dina's mother. Dina chased Pytash from a West Side tavern to his mother's home then fled as Steven Dina restrained him. Steven, Jr., 28, knocked the knife away with a baseball bat and prevented further harm.
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Cleveland
Harold E. Boyett
Andrew Dina
Paul Pytash
Mary Dina
Dina
Steven
Cleveland State Hospital
Boyett
Navy
Pytash
West Side
Steven, Jr
Rightists Win In Austria Election Keeps Anti Red Coalition
Final unofficial returns show Chancellor Leopold Fig's coalition of the People's Party and Socialists retaining power. The People's Party won 77 seats and the Socialists 67 in Austria's 165 seat lower house, giving the coalition 144 votes. Communists held four seats, gaining one.
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Vienna
Europe
Leopold Fig
People’s Party
Fig
Austria
Unseasonably Warm Weather as Tornadoes Strike Plains
Tornadoes hit the Dakotas southward into Oklahoma and Texas with unseasonably warm temperatures. A Sunday tornado near Lincoln Nebraska leveled a house, killing 78 year old Stella Morris and injuring two others. A funnel crossed 12 miles, leaving damaged lines. One woman injured near Slapout Oklahoma. a tornado in Russell Kansas injured a woman critically. In Houston floodwaters receded and residents returned home.
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Dakotas
Oklahoma
Texas
Houston
U.S
Lincoln
Nebra
Stella Morris
Nebraska
Slapout
Okla
Russell
Kans
Main St
Tex
Hearing Set On Red Oath
The Supreme Court scheduled its first hearing on constitutionality of the Taft Hartley non-Communist oath requirement. The CIO United Steelworkers of America and the CIO American Communications Association challenge the provision that union officials must file affidavits declaring they are not Communists to access National Labor Board machinery. The steelworkers appeal a Chicago circuit court ruling over pension-bargaining duties for Inland Steel Co.
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Washington
Supreme Court
CIO
United Steel Workers of America
CIO American Communications Association
National Labor Board
Steel Workers’ Union
Chicago
Labor Board
The
Inland Steel Co
High Tribunal
Six Firemen Overcome At Garfield Hotel Blaze
A Garfield Hotel blaze sent over 100 people fleeing early today as flames rose 100 feet into the air. Six firemen and several residents were overcome by smoke, but no other injuries were reported.
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Chicago
Garfield Hotel
Baby killed when hurled from overturning truck
A 14 month old Radcliff child died after a pickup overturned on Route 683 near Hamden in Vinton County. The infant was ejected as the cab landed on him while James Wayne McManus swerved to avoid a turning car driven by Woodrow Zinn. The parents and another son were uninjured.
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Hamden
Vinton County
James Wayne McManus
Kenneth McManus
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Woodrow Zinn
Zinn
McManus
William Brown
Zanesville
Baltimore & Ohio
Samuel Alfred West, Jr
Wilmington
Baltimore Ohio
C. E. Kincel
Elmer Leroy Bethel
Frankfort
Ross County
Cuyahoga Falls
Nancy Freudeman
George Fredgeman
Maggie Paul
New Milford
UEW District Split Widens In Election
In Columbus Ohio, the UEW district split further as a right wing slate won a quarterly meeting. They claimed control of 346 of 496 district votes, elected new officers, rejected six resolutions from the national convention, and lifted suspensions of three local presidents.
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Columbus
Ohio- Kentucky
CIO United Electrical Workers
Lem Markland
Dayton
UEW
Dapton
Mansfield
International Executive Board
Strike Idle Seen Boosted To 2 Million
Pittsburgh dispatch reports labor walkouts may lift national strike idle to two million this week. Steel and coal strikes cut pay for about one million, with aluminum and steel fabricating plants potentially joining 454000 CIO United Steelworkers already on strike for pensions and insurance. John L. Lewis plans to resume coal talks Wednesday. government pressure seeks end to the 22 day soft coal strike and possible revival of steel talks. Cyrus Ching may summon Murray and industry leaders to Washington. Murray tours steel centers while steel fabricators prepare strategy for half a million workers.
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Pittsburgh
United
Cyrus Ching
Federal Conciliation Service
Philip Murray
Washington
Murray
Detroit
Man Shot Four Times In Cincinnati Cafe
Henry Sanders Jr., 24, was shot four times in a Cincinnati cafe and is in serious condition at General Hospital. James Garratta, 27, of New York, and Peggy Stalworth, 23, were aiding police with questions as investigators described a hand to hand fight during which Sanders was struck by gunfire.
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Cincinnati
Henry Sanders, Jr
H Tal
James Garratta
New York
Peggy Stalworth
Benjamin Hites
William Neal
Sanders
Garratta
Farm Bill Amendment Backed Amid Calm Senate Debate
Senator Magnuson reports growing backing for an amendment to bar foreign agricultural products if they conflict with US farm aid programs. Debate set to begin after a one day adjournment honoring Senator Washington's passing.
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Washington
Magnuson
Wash
Idaho
Two Former Ohioans Held in Bar Holdups
New York police report two former Cleveland residents, a man and a 19 year old woman, identified as Stanley Rogowzinsky and Jean Valle, are under arrest for a string of Times Square bar holdups. They had been living in a fur room in Jamaica Queems.
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New York
Cleveland
Times Square
Stanley Rogowzinsky
Jean Valle
Jamaica
Queems
Fatal Truck and Car Crash Kills Oakland Family
A fiery crash on an eight mile Sacramento River Causeway killed six people including a four member Oakland family. A flat-bed truck and an empty trailer collided with a sedan causing 300 feet of railing to fail and both vehicles to plunge 25 feet. Charles Brown Jr. 37, Sybil Brown 32, Ronnie 3, and Sharon 10 died. Morris Watts 23 and Roy Watts 12 survived. Roy was trapped under the truck for over two hours.
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Sacramento
Calif
Oakland
Californ
Sacramento River
Charles Brown, Jr
New Bedford
Mass
Brown
Sybil
Ronnie
Sharon
Morris Watts
Roseville
Roy
Three Crewmen Die In Cargo Plane Crash Near Cheyenne
A slick Airways cargo plane diverted by storms crashed near Cheyenne airport killing three crewmen. Initial reports listed four dead, but coroner Wesley Schrader said an embalmed body mistaken for a passenger caused the discrepancy.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Slick Airways
Wesley Schrader
Air Force Reads to Back Army Navy in Mock War
Gen. Robert M. Lee announced the Air Force is ready to provide close support to Army and Navy in a simulated war at Eglin Field Florida. The all services drill features jet fighters bombers reconnaissance craft and transport planes with about 4000 personnel and more than 200 aircraft.
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Gen. Lee
Air Force
Army
Navy
Eglin Air Base
Fla
Robert M. Lee
Lee
Tactical Air Command
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Centennial Event Begins At Ironton
Ironton Ohio begins a week long centennial celebration marking 100 years since founder John Campbell established the town known for iron ore deposits. Events include parades pageant speeches displays and a Miss Ironton Centennial coronation. Governor Lausche reviews the veterans day parade and Rep. Thomas Jenking speaks tonight.
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Ironton
Ohio River
John Campbell
Ripley
Ohio
Campbell
Hanging Rock
Coal Grove
Ohio Iron and Coal Co
Lawrence County
Thomas A. Jenking
Train Wreck Kills Four Near Meade Kansas
A Rock Island passenger train hit a track washout three miles east of Meade Kansas, killing four of the 130 aboard and injuring about 50. Six cars left the rails and three overturned into a waterfilled ditch as heavy rains lashed the area. Ambulances from Liberal Dodge City and Fowler rushed to the scene. The Imperial bound for Chicago from California was involved.
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Meade, Kas
Rock Island
Here
O. I. Curry
Liberal
Kas
Dodge City
Fowler
Meade
Kansas
Meade County
Imperial
California
Chicago
Hopedale seeks Clark Gable for centennial event
Hopedale plans its centennial next weekend and hopes to attract film star Clark Gable who spent his boyhood there. A celebration committee invited him, highlighting Hopedale as home to the first co-educational school in Eastern Ohio, founded in 1849 by Cyrus McNelly.
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Hopedale
Clark Gable
Ohio
Hopedale Normal
Six Sailors Killed in Chehalis Explosion at Tutuila
The Navy lists six men dead after the tanker Chehalis exploded and sank in 30 feet of water near Tutuila in American Samoa on Friday.
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Pearl Harbor
Navy
Tutuila
American Samoa
Tariff Details Promised After Annecy Trade Talks
The State Department said full details of new American tariff cuts and concessions on about 250 million dollars of foreign imports would be announced. Negotiations with 30 countries at Annecy France were described as a landmark in commercial relations. Ten new nations joined the original signatories from 1947 Geneva talks.
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Washington
State Department
Annecy
France
U.S
Geneva
Grange Master Urges Fixed Farm Supports
Columbus report shows State Grange Master Joseph W. Fichter urging fixed farm price supports at 90 percent of parity. He sent telegrams to Senators Bricker Taft and Senator Thomas of Oklahoma and to Secretary Brannan urging adoption of 90 per cent parity.
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Columbus
Joseph W. Fichter
Fichter
Bricker
Taft
Ohio
Thomas
D-Okla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture
Brannan
Polio Count in Ohio Rises to 1538 Cases
Ohio reports 1538 polio cases with eleven new infections. Franklin Hamilton Butler Stark and Montgomery counties each added cases as state health records compare 1948 and 1947 totals.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Health Department
Franklin County
Hamilton
Butler
Stark
Montgomery
Plane crash injures two in Cambridge backyard aftermath
Harlan J. Bordner, 44, and Robert Baker, 33, both of Canton, sustained facial cuts when their private plane crashed into backyards after taking off from Cambridge airport. Local residents aided by responders as the incident unfolded on Sunday.
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Cambridge
Harlan J. Bordner
Robert Baker
Canton
Interceptor Focus Drives B 36 Battle in Hearing
Navy electronics expert says radar and interceptors can detect and hit large high flying bombers like the B 36. Hearings on defense funds shift to questions of naval aviation and the overall balance of a proposed 70 group Air Force versus Navy needs.
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Washington
Navy
House
Air Force
BE. M. Harrison
Armed Services Committee
Arthur W. Radford
Radford
Naval Aviation
Harrison
Bureau of Aeronautica
Gnekae
National Defense
Vinson
Truman
Educator Calls for Christian Leaders at Ohio Northern
Dr. F Bringle McIntosh 52 new president of Ohio Northern University urged leaders in all walks of life to be Christian. He was installed as sixth president after serving as acting president since June 1 and dedicated his inaugural address to cultivating Christian leadership.
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Ada
Christia
F. Bringle McIntosh
Ohio Northern University
Methodist
McIntosh
Women Eligible for Harvard Law School in 1950
Harvard Law School will admit a small number of women for the first time in 1950. Dean Erwin N. Griswold announced that women graduates from accredited colleges will be eligible to apply to the 132 year old institution in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Law School
Erwin N. Griswold
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