Sheriff Bateman Injured In Gunfight Near Buchtel
Athens County Sheriff George Bateman survived shotgun wounds after attempting to arrest escaped convict Alfred Wade in Buchtel. Wade was killed by State Patrolman G. D. Priser and Deputy Sheriff Frank Joyce. Bateman's condition was described as fair, with recovery possible but uncertain. Wade had escaped from the Grafton State Farm and had been hiding in the area. Marshal Edward Sohn reported Wade fired at him as well. The incident began Saturday night as Bateman entered a house to arrest Wade, who fired as he fled toward the back door.
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George Bateman
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Alfred Wade
Buchtel
Wade
G. D. Priser
Frank Joyce
Messenger
Bateman
Priser
Joyce
Nelsonville
Cherrington Hospital
Grafton State Farm
Lorain County
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Hocking County
Edward Sohn
Campaign rallies shape Ohio 1950 race with Bricker and McSweeney
Gov. John W. Bricker campaigns in Cleveland and delivers a statewide radio address as he seeks a third term. Democratic rival John McSweeney headlines a Lima rally. George White of Marietta backs McSweeney as both candidates tour the state with multiple speaking engagements.
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Associated Press
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Cleveland
John McSweeney
Lima
George White
Marietta
McSweeney
25 Killed in RAF Plane Crash Near England Station
A Royal Air Force plane undershot an airfield near a railway station in England yesterday, nose dived and burst into flames. At least 25 people are believed dead with men women and children among the casualties as they left departing trains. The final toll was not yet known.
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London
Clark Gable tale and want ad ending found glasses
Clark Gable recalls a thrill of filming his first love scene and a director’s cue to imagine a rare steak. A want ad urges quick notices to a broad audience, while a pair of glasses found on W Washington Street prompts a cancellation request from Ella Mann.
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Clark Gable
Pravda calls for trial of Rudolf Hess in Britain
A Pravda editorial demands Hess be put on trial today in Britain. It questions whether Hess is a criminal subject to punishment or a plenipotentiary representative of Hitler’s government with inviolability. It says fascist victims must be avenged without delay.
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Moscow
Pravda
Rudolf Hess
Britain
Hess
England
Rent Control Measures From OPA Target Overnight Evictions
The Office of Price Administration issued rules to halt overnight evictions and sales to dodge rent controls. A purchaser must pay one third of the price before eviction authority is issued and three months must pass after that before a tenant can be evicted. Leon Henderson said the action supports war production workers and armed forces families.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
Marketing of Crop Delayed in Ohio Soybean Harvest
Ohio farmers must delay selling their record soybean crop as frost damaged beans in Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana clog processing. An embargo on undamaged beans was ordered by the AAA and Ohio farmers were urged to store on farm until mills can handle the crop. Ohio's crop is estimated at 25,950,000 bushels with only a portion frost damaged.
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Columbus
Ohio
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Elmer F. Kruse
Iowa
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Hoover Urges Americans to Vote in Defense of Democracy
Former president Herbert Hoover calls for voters to go to the polls on November 3 to show democracy remains alive against totalitarian powers. He says exercising the franchise preserves individual liberties surrendered during wartime. The statement appeared in Pathfinder magazine released yesterday.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Six Million Face Famine In Chinese Province
Chinese officials report Henan on the brink of starvation with 6,000,000 people at risk and 18,000,000 famine refugees. Relief workers describe dead and sick along clogged routes from Honan to Shensi and Hupeh as famine spreads through the battlefield province.
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Chungking
Henan
Chungkin
Honan
Shensi
Hupeh
Malta Air War Toll Read in RAF Recap
British officials issued an RAF tally showing Malta’s defense last week, with 144 enemy aircraft shot down and 27 Spitfires lost. The seven day period ended with Axis losses averaging about one in every thirteen planes.
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London
Malta
RAF
RAF Middlg East
Mutinies Rise Among German Occupation Troops in Norway
AP reports growing mutinies and desertions among about 200000 German troops in Norway. Concentration camps opened for mutineers near Finland. 1400 Nazis confined. Reports describe orders to Russia ignored and firing squads balking.
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London
Norway
Kirkenes
Russia
Hitler
Europe
Athens
France
Gestapo
Reich
Vichy
Uruguay Plans To Raise Nazi Pocket Battleship Graf Spee
Uruguay grants private firm permission to raise the scuttled Graf Spee from the River Plate harbor for salvage. The 10 000 ton battleship sank after scuttling on December 17 1939 following engagement with British forces in the Atlantic.
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Uruguay
Montevideo
Graf Spree
River Plate
Atlantic
Crime Career Of Deserter Is Terminated
Chicago police report the capture of Irwin Kadens a 32 year old described by J Edgar Hoover as a three state crime wave after he tried to rob a currency exchange on Madison Street Kadens was beaten unconscious by Patrolman Richard Nelson Kadens had deserted the Army at Camp Grant Illinois and burglarized a Detroit policeman's home before a spree of kidnapping rapes robberies auto thefts and other crimes over seven weeks He had no prior criminal record.
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Chicago
Irwin Kadens
J. Edgar Hoover
Madison Street
Joseph Fallon
Kadens
Richard Nelson
Nelson
Hoover
Camp Grant
Ill
Detroit
Evacuation Called a Complete Success in Camden Test
Camden, N J 3000 civilians evacuated in five hours in the largest civilian defense drill in U S history. Mayor George E Brunner hailed it as a completely successful performance amid simulated bomb blasts. One woman suffered a heart attack and three others collapsed from exhaustion during the exercise.
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Camden
N. J
George E. Brunner
Trailers to Ease Housing Shortage in Marion Ohio
Cleveland AP reports 300 house trailers and 500 demountable homes will be set up in Marion to relieve a housing shortage. The trailer settlement will be in the northwest section and include complete sanitation facilities according to C F Sharpe of the Federal Housing Office.
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Cleveland
Marion
C. F. Sharpe
Federal Housing Office
Plane Crash Kills Anton Mavec Near Greenville
A small trainer plane crashed on a farm near Greenville killing Anton L. Mavec of Cleveland Ohio. He had taken off from Willoughby Ohio yesterday.
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Greenville
Anton L. Mavec
Cleveland
Willoughby
Eight Million Dollar Cotton Loss Seen in Arizona
Arizona cotton farmers may plow under millions worth of long staple crop land if labor shortages persist. Keith Taylor of Valley National Bank estimates a potential loss exceeding eight million dollars as only about twenty percent of the estimated 59 000 bale crop has been harvested in the state.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Keith Taylor
The
Valley National Bank
Touhy Escape Triggers Shakeup at Illinois Pen
Stateville Penitentiary near Joliet undergoes administration and routine changes as Gov. Green assigns Public Safety Director T. P. Sullivan full authority to address escape flaws. Warden Edward M. Stubblefield resigns amid the upheaval while a nationwide manhunt for seven escaped desperadoes continues.
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Chicago
Stateville
Joliet, Ill
Illinois’ Public Safety
T. P. Sullivan
Dwight H.green
Edward M. Stubblefield
Sandusky Fisheries Destroyed by Blaze
A three story building housing Booth Fisheries Inc burned yesterday destroying a waterfront landmark. About 9 000 fish boxes and a truck were lost along with the fishery’s stock and buildings.
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Sandusky
Booth Fisheries, Inc
Senate Moves to Clear Three Bills This Week
The White House pressed to break a Senate logjam on three measures chief among them a draft age bill for 18 and 19 year olds, a record tax bill, and a $6.341 billion appropriations plan for the navy. House passage of the selective service bill was already secured.
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Senate
Roosevelt
Selective Service
House
la Follette
Disbarment Action Sought Against Appeals Judge Lemert
Common Pleas Judge T H Tannehill orders the bar association to file disbarment proceedings against Judge Charles C Lemert of the Fifth District Appellate Court. Lemert, seeking reelection, says the move is a dirty political trick and would not affect his current tenure.
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Zanesville
Common Pleas
T. H. Tannehill
Bar Association
Charles C. Lemert
Fifth District Appellate Court
Lemert
Merchant ship sunk by enemy submarine in Caribbean
The Navy Department announced the sinking of a medium-sized American merchant ship by an enemy submarine in the Caribbean in mid August with only one casualty, the convoy commodore. In London, Moscow radio said a Soviet submarine in the Baltic had sunk five German transports totaling 36 000 tons.
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Washington
Caribbean
Navy
Navy Department
London
Moscow Radio
Baltic
U. S. Planes Deemed Par with Enemy in War Office Report
The Office of War Information released a 10,000 word assessment saying U S aircraft perform well and are improving. It praises B 17 and B 24 bombers as unsurpassed, B 25 and B 26 medium bombers as unmatched, and Navy carrier planes as best in the world. It notes P 39 and P 40 lag at high altitude but effective in Russia and North Africa.
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Washington
Office of War Information
United States
OWI
Airacobra
Aleutians
Seven Allied ships sunk in Western Atlantic week
Seven United Nations cargo vessels were announced sunk in Western Atlantic waters last week, with 233 deaths including women and children. The sinkings bring the AP tally to 494 merchant ship losses by submarine attack in those waters since Pearl Harbor.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Croatian Axis Leader Escapes Death Plot
Reuters dispatch from Zurich says an assassination attempt was made on Sept 29 near Zagreb against Dr. Ante Pavelic, head of the Axis-supported Croatian region. No injuries reported and authorities may investigate.
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London
Reuters
Zurich
Ante Pavelic
Croatia
Reb
Guadalcanal and Stalingrad battles shape WWII fronts
United States Marines and Army troops brace for a major assault on Guadalcanal as Japanese forces land reinforcements. Allied bombers target Japanese ships and depots in the Solomons while in Russia German gains at Stalingrad push the siege toward a pivotal moment. Soviet troops reinforce by the Volga amid heavy fighting.
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Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Southwest Pacific
Stalingrad
Volga
Moscow
Caucassus
Pacific
U.S
MacArthur Command
Solomons
Knox Foresees U S Navy as Greatest Ever in 1943
In Manchester New Hampshire Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the local naval aviation unit it will turn out the greatest navy in world history in 1943. He said the fleet would lead in number and balance of ship types, and that only the combined U S Britain forces at the war's start could rival it.
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Frank Knox
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