Chauncey School Chief Beaten in Village Fight
Chauncey officials report W. G. Davis, the school superintendent, severely beaten after a Saturday night incident. Three men were arrested and later released as Mayor Wadley refused to identify suspects. Davis stayed home under doctor’s orders while Friday’s hearing loomed amid crowd disturbances.
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Chauncey
W. G. Davis
J. C. Banfield
Banfield
Charles Wadley
Wadley
Delbert Hawk
Leroy Bricker
Thirteen Lodge Officials Fined in Liquor and Slot Case
Thirteen lodge and club officials and employees were fined and placed on two years probation after pleading nolle contendre to charges of operating slot machines or illegal liquor sales. Five others pleaded innocent. The indictments followed raids on the Legion club Moose and Eagles lodges.
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Point Pleasant
Nolle Contendre
Legion Club
Moose and Eagles
Lewis Miller
Ripley
C. H. Gibson
The
Moose
Nolle
R. A
Moose Lodge
Steve Slickas
Leo H. Choquette
B.S. Smith
Eagles
Ben Tracy
W. Yhabet
John Gerwig
James Hall
James Allen
N. M. Welch
Parkersburg
J. G. F. Johnson
Miller
Hershey Sees Grounds For New Draft Call
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective Service, said there are grounds for thinking another draft call may come soon. He stressed no orders exist yet, but noted ground forces are about 25,000 men short of quota.
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Boston
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Five Killed In Weekend Accidents in Ohio
Ohio records five weekend fatalities including a student pilot Rolland McGowan 36 of Niley in a midair collision near Youngstown with Jack Brewer of Warren. A Newark area crash killed Mrs Donnad S Fishley 26 of Mineral City and injured three others when a truck driver’s brakes failed. Ralph L Grote Jr 21 of Green Springs died near Columbus after his car left the road and overturned.
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Columbus
Ohio
Rolland McGowan
Niley
John Hamilton
Austintown
Youngstown
McGowan
Jack Brewer
Warren
Brewer
Newark
Donnad S. Fishley
Mineral City
William McElroy
Harry S. Brown
Salisbury
Ralph L. Grote, Jr
Green Springs
Louisville Coach Hurt in Automobile Accident
John Dromo age 33 an assistant football and basketball coach at the University of Louisville remained in fair condition after head and chest injuries from an automobile crash. He was believed en route to Cincinnati to scout Xavier University when his car ran off the pavement near New Trenton Indiana and fell down an embankment.
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Cincinnati
John Dromo
University of Louisville
Dromo
Xavier University
New Trenton
Ind
First Session Years End Top Issue Record Seen
The 81st Congress nears the end of its first session with a disputed record likely to be a major issue next year. Presidential Secretary Charles Ross calls the record remarkable, while Republicans call it poorly organized and weakly led.
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Washington
Charles Ross
Wherry
Neb
Congress
Truman
Bitter Feud Flares in Daisy Mountain
In Daisy Tenn a violent moonshine feud escalates with a third fatality on Daisy Mountain. William L. Parker Raymond Bell and Ed Bell are linked to the murder scene and face arraignment as Sheriff Swafford notes gunfire earlier damaged property and a wave of indictments and acquittals followed the prior two killings.
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Daisy, Tenn
Daisy Mountain
Hatfield and McCoy
William L. (Botts) Parker
Raymond Bell
Bell
Scott Swafford
Frank Burns
We the People
Parker
Theodore
Pap) Parker
Kentucky
Swafford
Bell Brothers
Samuel David Wilcox
George Trusley
Crash Kills Six in Louisiana Collision
A mobile crash near Ferriday Louisiana last night left six dead and a sixth person seriously injured after a sedan struck a horse and then another car. Among the deceased was Cecil Sydney Camp head of LSU hydraulics engineering, his wife and two sons identified, plus Francis Mitchell a LSU engineering student from Fayetteville Arkansas and Leo Jackson of Rayville Louisiana.
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Ferriday
Cecil Sydney Camp
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Camp
Francis Mitchell
Fayetteville
Ark
LSU
Leo Jackson
Rayville, la
Dutch Claim Indonesian Guerrillas Plot to Trap Troops
In Batavia Java the Dutch accused Indonesian Republican guerrillas of a master plan to surround the Netherlands Army during the Java truce. Peter J Koets said the alleged plan strikes at the heart of the UN truce from last August that ended months of fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
Java
Peter J. Koets
Tombstone Topples Killing Toddler in Rural Cemetery
In Millersburg a tomb stone fell on two year old Holle to Poulson during a family picnic in a rural cemetery southwest of town. She died later at Pomerene Hospital. Her father Clifford Poulson is a Wooster city fireman.
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Millersburg
Holle To Poulson
Clifford Poulson
Wooster City
Here
Pomerene Hospital
Murder and death by own action in dual Columbus killings
In Columbus a verdict of murder and death by own action was returned for Bruce Rose 41 who shot Frank Carson 63 then killed himself after declaring he took his wife and children. Carson, estranged from his wife Maida, was shot through a basement window as he spoke by telephone. Rose later died after reloading his shotgun. Coroner John H. Richardson presided.
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Columbus
Bruce Rose
Frank Carson
Rose
Carson
Maida
Willard G. Kredel
John H. Richardson
Columbus City Limits
Justice of the Peace
Hubert Brown
Roge
West Side
Russians Install East German Diplomats in Moscow Exchange
Moscow appoints Gregori Pushkin to head the Soviet group and Rudolf Appelt to lead the East German mission after a 10 day exchange. The USSR grants legal recognition to East Germany, with China and others expected to follow. Both sides seek to extend influence over all Germany.
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Berlin
East Germany
Moscow
Gregori M. Pushkin
Hungary
Russia
Pushkin
Rudolf Appelt
Soviet Union
China
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Bulgaria
ADN
Mao Tse-Tung
Otto Grotewohl
Wilhelm Pleck
Bonn
Germany
Byrnes May Seek Southern Governorship
Former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes says he may run for governor of South Carolina on states rights grounds. He spoke in breaking silence about his political plans since resigning from the cabinet two years ago and urged governors to cooperate in mobilizing public opinion to defend state powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartansburg
S. C
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Byrnes
Elston Claims U S Forced Into Arms Race Over Russia
Rep. Elston of Ohio says the United States must maintain superiority in atomic warfare because Russia rejects cooperation, a stance he voiced after touring the nation's atomic plants as a member of the Senate House Atomic Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ston
Ohio
United States
Russia
Senate
House Atomic Committee
Search for two college students abandoned in Rocky Mountain Park
In Estes Park Colorado the eight day search for two Colorado A M college students missing in the snowy heights of Rocky Mountain National Park has been abandoned.
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Estes Park
Colo
Colorado A. & M
Rocky Mountain National Park
Police Fail Safe Crackers Nab Dynamiters at Colonial Fuel Co
Two men, Minor M Sorber of Dayton and William Phillips of Columbus, were captured by 13 officers as they prepared to dynamite the Colonial Fuel Co safe. The pair, armed with .38 pistols, faced police after officers in a cruiser spotted them. Officers seized sledges drills chisels and detonating batteries.
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Columbus
Colonial Fuel Co
Minor M Sorber
Daytona
William Phillips
Columus
Farm Wife Dies After Kerosene Can Blast Near Van Wert
Mrs. Walter Blythe a 58 year old farm wife died in Van Wert County Hospital from burns suffered when a kerosene can exploded at her home ten miles northeast of Van Wert Grover Hill firemen said she was pouring kerosene into a kitchen range her husband about the same age was critically burned when he tried to extinguish the flames
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van West
Walter Blythe
van Wert County Hospital
van Wert
Greek Rebels Halt Fire Reported by Rebel Radio
Rebel radio in Greece said guerrillas led by Communists ceased military actions temporarily amid the civil war. The broadcast claimed Russia is negotiating in the United Nations to obtain a peaceful settlement of the Greek question.
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Prague
Russia
United Nations
Communist Party to persevere after 11 leaders convicted
New York City statement by Communist National Chairman William Z Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn declares the party will continue as an American working class political entity. Convicted leaders face sentencing next Friday after a nine month federal trial for conspiracy to overthrow the government. In Cleveland, the Ohio Bill of Rights Conference calls for reversal of the convictions, release on bail, and defense during appeal.
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New York
William Z. Foster
Foster
United States
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Communist National Committee
Cleveland
Ohio
Engel and wife reunite after four months apart
CHICAGO reports Sigmund Engel better known as Swindlin Sam is reunited with his wife Pauline Langton Engel after bonds totaling 37 600 were posted on multiple swindling charges. The 73 year old widow wheeler dealer plans to open a loop office to write for various media as he prepared for criminal court next week over an 8700 theft from Mrs Reseda Corrigan.
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Chicago
Sigmund (Swindlin
Sam) Engel
Pauline Langton Engel
Engel
Langton
New York City
Romeo
Reseda Corrigan
Aged Cripple Beaten to Death in Akron
Akron police fingerprinted the ransacked home of 76 year old John Zajac after he died from injuries from a youth who climbed a tree onto his porch roof and entered his upstairs window demanding money. Zajac said the assailant beat him with fists when given only $2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
John Zajac
Zajac
City Hospital
Communist Twin Drives Predicted in China
Chungking Canton slips reveal Red China expansion fears as analysts foresee twin Communist pushes targeting Chungking the Nationalist capital and Kunming 400 miles southwest while Reds threaten marginal Nationalist positions along the East Coast.
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China
Chungking
Canton
Labor Strikes Grow as U S Idle Near Million
Inland turmoil deepens as 1 million work stoppage looms with 16 000 CIO Aluminum Co of America workers among 1 000 000 idle. Steel and coal crews join, pension issues and fund proposals surface while mediators seek restart. Secretary Sawyer warns of economic impact. President Truman sits out the dispute.
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Pitts Burgh
America
CIO
Aluminum Company of America
Allied Industries
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Truman
Org
Philip Murray
Murray
UMW
Lewis
AFL
Taft Speaks At Inaugural In Marietta
Senator Robert A. Taft spoke at Marietta College during the inauguration of Dr. W Ray Irvine as the 12th president in 114 years. Taft received an honorary doctor of civil law and noted federal aid to education should not threaten freedom.
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Myers
Senate
Truman
Man C. Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
81St
Congress
Marietta
Robert A. Taft
W. Ray Irvine
Marietta College
Sen. Taft
Taft
William Howard Taft
Charles P. Taft
Irvine le
Stanley Morris
Charleston
W. Va
College Board of Trustees
Washington
Five Die as Air Force B-26 Crashes Near Riverside
A U S Air Force B 26 light bomber apparently lost in fog struck high tension wires near Riverside California killing five aboard. The craft did not burn and gasoline spread over the area hampering search for bodies. Police said a fifth passenger’s body was not found and survival was deemed unlikely.
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Riverside
Calif
Hear
Singer union ends 168 day strike at Singer Manufacturing
About 2 500 workers returned to work at Singer Manufacturing in New Jersey after Local 401 members approved a contract ending a 168 day strike. The agreement offers no general wage increase and maintains the contested incentive pay system as the major sticking point.
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Eliza
N. J
Singer Manufacturing Co
Seed firm founder Henry Field dies at 77 in Shenandoah
Henry Field 77 founder and president of the Field seed and nursery company died at his Shenandoah home after a battle with cancer. He was a pioneer in radio broadcasting and built a nationally known seed business bearing his name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
Henry Field
DPs to Settle in Ohio
Thirty of 835 displaced persons from Europe, arriving Tuesday in New York on the General Black, will settle in Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dp’s
Ohio
Washington
Europe
New York
Marines Chief Charges Pentagon Undercuts Combat Power
Gen. Clifton B. Cates accused Army high command of crippling Marine combat power through Pentagon policies and reductions. He told the House Armed Services Committee that reforms are needed to preserve the Marines and U S defense, urging loyalty and teamwork among services.
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Washington
Clifton B. Cates
Marine Corps
Army High Command
Cates
House Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
House Group
Armed Services
Navy
Air Corps
Couretta
Army
Air Force
A. A. Vandergrift
Marines
Naval
Marine
Corps
Congress
Army General Staff Group
Atanda
Catea
Defense Department
National
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Louisville
Tombstone
Abraham Isserman
George W. Crockett, Jr
Richard Gladstein
Harry Sacher
Louis F. McCabe
Eugene Dennis
Birmingham
Ala
J. L. Hilderbrand
Marcus Hancock
Frank E. Cheney
Hazel Greer
Lloyd E. Greer
David Greer
Greer
Greers
Rep. Elston
U. S
Red
Saws Party
U.S
Singer Union
Tommy O'Neill
Arthur Thompson
Dayton
Ronald
Charles Cotterman
Clarence Ramsey
Michigan Children’s Institute
Tommy
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