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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 22, 1945

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Real Control to Be Taken by Jap Diet

Prince Konoye said Emperor Hirohito favored a stronger parliament and liberalized constitution with Diet power to curb imperial influence. He noted Allied leadership suggested leading a liberal movement, with draft revisions expected by November and the Diet gaining budgetary control to strengthen accountability. Domei reports a new Socialist Party platform calling for broad reforms.

TOKYO Fuji Konoye Gen- MacArthur Em¢ Hirohito Konoye MacArthur Japan Diet China Hirohito Domei Japanese Socialist Party Tokyohika Kagawa

Three Die in Blaze at Rutgers Fraternity House

A fire at a Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house leased from Phi Gamma Delta in New Brunswick New Jersey killed three residents and injured six others. Victims were Raynold Befrger 19 from Jersey City Benjamin Gordon 20 from Trenton and Joyce Patricia Katzman 20 from Teaneck who slept on upper floors. Several residents escaped, jumping from second floor windows. Dean Earl Reed Silvers placed the fraternity on indefinite social probation for unchaperoned entertaining of guests.

New Brunswick N. J Rutgers University Sigma Alpha In Fraternity Raynond Befrger Jersey City Benjamin Gordon Trenton Joyce Patricia Katzman Teaneck Ben

De Gaulle Wins Wide Support In French Vote

Paris reports a decisive general election result backing General De Gaulle. The interior ministry announced an overwhelming win for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, with a provisional government to run seven months while the body convenes. De Gaulle’s coalition secured most ministerial seats, and 15 of the 16 current ministers won assembly seats.

Paris Prance de Gaulle Ministry of the Interior Westerday Council of Ministers

Cleveland Plants Receive War Production Award

The Cleveland Ordnance District will present the Army Navy production award the E to Builders' Structural Steel Co of Cleveland this week. The district notes fewer than five percent of wartime plants earned the honor for outstanding production. Over three years 136 facilities were recognized in the Cleveland district.

Cleveland C?i Cleveland Ordnance District Builders’ Structural Steel Co

Former Publisher in Zanesville Dies at 71

ZANESVILLE Charles W. Gibson, 71, former publisher of The Zanesville Signal and Ohio paper Circles, died of a heart attack Saturday. He once led the Roseville Independent before joining Roseville Pottery Co. as a salesman. Later he served as advertising manager for the Signal and the Zanesville Time Recorder, retiring in 1928.

Zanesville Charles WW. Gibson Zanesville Signal Ohio Gibson Roseville, O Roseville Pottery Co The Signal Zanesville Time Recorder

Two Drivers Unhurt In Auto Collision At Two Streets

Police reported two drivers were uninjured after their cars collided at Union Street and Shafer Street around midnight Saturday. George A. Allwood 71 of Columbus left to Shafer Street and Dale P. Wharton 16 of The Plains was westbound on Union Street.

Union St Shafer St Athens George A. Allwood Columbus Dale P. Wharton the Plains

Robber Held In Ohio Murder Confession Ties Grand Rapids Bank Heist

Columbus prosecutor Ralph J. Bartlett said Louis Holliday 29 identified by FBI as a Grand Rapids Mich bank robber confessed to fatally shooting George Boyer 51 during an attempted gasoline station holdup. A revolver found in a junk yard linked to the crime. First degree murder charges to be filed. Holliday also admitted robbing a Grand Rapids Peoples National Bank branch on May 28 of 2900 dollars.

Columbus Ralph J. Bartlett Louis Holliday FBI Grand Rapids Mich George ‘Boyer Junnk Holliday Bartlett The Peoples National Bank

Kerr Will Head Ohio Drive on Polio Campaign

Hollywood radio star Bing Crosby named R Kenneth Kerr publisher of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette as Ohio chair for the 5 million drive against infantile paralysis. Governor Frank Lausche accepted honorary chair. The campaign runs from November 28 to December 5 with funds partly staying in Ohio.

Hollywood Calif Bing Crosby Elizabeth Kenny R. Kenneth Kerr Lancaster Eagle Gazette Ohio Crosby Frank J Ausche Elizabeth Kenney Minneapolis Minn

Troop Carriers Land in States Today

New York will receive about 7,000 servicemen aboard three ships, Newport News expects over 10,000 on three vessels, and San Francisco will receive roughly 6,600 from the Pacific aboard five ships. The arrivals are part of a mass movement of more than 24,000 troops from Europe and the Pacific to two East Coast ports and the West Coast.

New York Europe Pacific United States East Coast San Francisco Newport News

FIGHT BREWS ON PEARL HARBOR REPORT FOCUS

Congressional fights emerge over Pearl Harbor probe timing as the Senate eyes a January 3 1946 report. Debates include extension vs stall, atomic energy scrutiny, labor cure measures, and foreign press relief rules. Rationing comments underline meat and butter controls hearings starting today.

Pearl Harbor Washington UPI Congress Atomic Energy Army- Navy Senate Dew House Ramspeck House Patterson D-Calif Hook D-Mich

Hope Truman Will Support Merger Plan

Senators hear a U S Senate subcommittee debate the creation of a single national defense department. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal testifies as Navy reportedly opposes the merger while Secretary Patterson General Marshall and General Arnold back unification and Senator Hill pushes for a timely decision.

Hope Truman Army Navy Department of National Defense Truman Senate Secretary of the Navy Forrestal Hill D-Ala Armed Services Austria R-Vt Patterson George C. Marshall H. H. Arnold Congress

William Miller Dies at 82 in Nelsonville

William Miller, 82, a former Nelsonville resident, died Saturday at Hillcrest Rest Home in Athens. Services were held Monday at Stout Funeral Home with Rev. L E Evans of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial followed at Green Lawn. He is survived by a brother James Miller of Charleston, W Va, and several nieces and nephews. his wife Mary preceded him.

Nelsonville William Miller Hillcrest Athens Stout Nelsonvile L. E. Evans Church of Christ Miller Greenlawn Mary James Miller Charleston W. Va

Two Ohio Men Missing After Moonlight Lake Cruise

In Orlando Florida Army radar aided search for Wayne Daugherty thirty five Canton Ohio and Paul Cleveland forty five Orlando who vanished during a moonlight cruise on Lake Apopka. Their wives waited on the dock as cries were heard after they departed last night and searchers toiled without success through the night.

Orlando Fla Wayne Daugherty Canton Paul B. Cleveland Lapa Apoka Cleveland

Emergency Curfew Ordered in Ohio Town

Cincinnati report says Mayor George F. Kirkwood Jr of Madeira imposed a 9 p.m. curfew for teenagers during Halloween after pranksters built a bonfire near gasoline pumps at a service station. The blaze was extinguished without damage. Curfew runs through November 1.

Cincinnati George F. Kirkwood, Jr Madeira Kirkwood

Sky Patrol In Operation For Ohio Forest Fire Watch

The State Division of Forestry has begun a sky patrol to spot fires across Southern and Eastern Ohio woodlands as leaves brown. Eight airplanes will conduct twice daily flights from New Philadelphia and bases at Athens Newark Marietta Cambridge Portsmouth and Wooster. Pilots detect fires up to 15 miles away and alert wardens by low overflight and dropping two containers with location details.

Chillicothe State Division of Forestry Ohio Lers John Bastion Forestry New Philadelphia Athens Newark Marietta Cambridge Portsmouth Wooster

Federal Judges to Hear Ohio Insurance Tax Suit

A three judge federal court will hear a suit challenging Ohio’s premium tax on insurance companies operating in the state. The filing argues the tax is discriminatory as it applies to out of state firms but not to Ohio based insurers. The case centers on constitutional validity and tax treatment of premiums collected within Ohio.

Columbus Hugh S. Jenkins Ohio

Venezuela Is In Control of Rebel Forces

Romulo Betancourt, 37, former columnist, becomes president and interior minister after a coup backed by a revolutionary junta. He vows power to provide free direct universal suffrage by secret ballot and to act as a good hemispheric neighbor with active Pan American Day cooperation.

Caracas Venezuela Romulo Betancourt

Venezuela's new government vows reforms after coup

The Caracas takeover installs a cabinet led by the Democratic Action Party and pledges fair trials for deposed leaders. Venezuela abolishes press censorship, reorganizes police, and plans a universal secret ballot. A rebel western clique gains power as opposition factions collapse and elections are tentatively planned for April.

Miami Fla United States Venezuela Planet Clark Brown Allentown Democratic Action Party Tachira Merida Trujillo Zulia Isaas Medina Angari Caracas Medina Eleazar Lopez Contreras Ruiz Pineda National Assembly

Glass Industry Strike Tangles Ten Cities As Coal Restarts Steel

The nation saw a major strike wave eased as coal miners 216,000 returned to work on union orders while a 10 city glass workers walkout and a steel production rebound followed fuel resumption. Labor disputes total 217,400 idle with 16,700 potential drop as more workers resume.

Assoc John L. Lewis United Mine Workers

West Coast Longshoremen Eye 30,000-Strong Cost of Living Strike

CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen demand a living cost wage raise for 30,000 West Coast members with an interim 25 cent hour raise and 12 cent overtime, set strike for Oct 23. AFL ship repairmen settlement hinges on War Labor Board approval of 11.6 percent raise. glassworkers walkout spans Libby Owens Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants across four states.

Cio CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s AFL al Laster Los Angeles Metal Trades Council War Labor Board Libby-Owens-Ford Pittsburgh Plate Glass Ford City Creighton Charleston Clarksburg Wva Toledo Mount Vernon Ottawa Ill Libbey Chicago John D. Biggers Biggers

Unions Order Strike to Halt Use of Engine

In Canton nearly half the industrial workforce was idle as Republic Steel alloy division closed by CIO railroad eaters and Timken Roller Bearing Co four plants shut by CIO steelworkers strike. The Timken walkout spread to Columbus with a sympathy strike, about 2600 of 4000 expected. Local president Stokes said management violated contract by adding a new diesel engine without notifying the union, claiming it unsafe. Company called the strike illegal, saying it began when one fireman was reassigned from a steam locomotive to similar work.

Canton Republic Steel Corporation CIO Railroad Timken Roller Bearing Co CIO Timken Columbus Samuel Stokes Stokes

Otterbein College Receives Gift for Dormitory

Westerville Otterbein College will gain about a quarter of a million dollars to build a new women’s dormitory. The gift comes from the estate of Shauck E. Barlow of Marion who died last year. Barlow attended Otterbein in 1878 and later led Huber Manufacturing Works, starting as a day laborer in Marion.

Westerville Otterbein College Shauck E. Barlow Marion Barlow Otterbein Huber Manufacturing Works

News Vendor Killed By Bus On Cincinnati Sidewalk

In Cincinnati,Fre y a 50 year old news vendor was killed when a passenger loaded bus ran onto the sidewalk after colliding with two cars. Police Capt. Guy York reports driver Edward E. Young 40 faces charges of manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. Akron death follows as Thelma Bozic, 72, dies in an automobile crash.

Cincinnati Frey Guy York York Edward E. Young Cincinnati-Dayton Akron Thelma Bozic

Shake Down for Labor Capital Urged by Solon

Washington reports Senator Ellender urges Congress to sidetrack all labor legislation for six months. Aiming to ease postwar labor management ties, he suggests a broader shake down of labor policy. Truman promised wage price remarks as Ramspeck backs periodic strikes limits and anti strike teeth. House and Senate debate seek measures tied to a 40 to 73 cent minimum wage in coming years.

Washington UPA Congress Ebiender D-Law Norwalk Lloyd R Brown North Fairfield Memorial Hospital In-lin Truman Rep Ramspeck D-Ga House Arends D-Il House Military Committee Senate Ellender

Official Hussling Dies at 63 in Cincinnati

Harry E Hussling known as Hi Hussling, aged 63, long served as a football official for midwest college games with the Amateur Athletic Union. He died last night in Cincinnati after a career officiating numerous college football contests.

Cincinnati Harry E Hi" Hussling Amateur Athletic Union

Workers Profit By Labor Board Ruling Front

Cleveland report on the Fifth Regional War Labor Board announcing the last wartime directive orders and new settlement procedures. Henrite Products Corp and AFL Rubber Brush Union workers at Ironton awarded higher wages with a ten cent an hour increase for maintenance plus four cents differential for second shift and six cents for third.

Cleveland

Life Savings of Ohio Woman Taken Sunday

Cleveland reports Mrs Jewel Hardstone aged 48 had $4868 stolen from a bedroom closet yesterday the entire savings. In Maysville Kentucky police chief Harry Stewart announced the capture of two men identified as escapees from Sandusky prison farm.

Life Savings of Ohio Cleveland Jewel Hardstone Maysville Harry Stewart Sandusky, A

Woman Heads Hocking Court

Gov. Lausche appointed Mrs. Rhea Pettit Bangert of Logan as common pleas judge for Hocking County to fill the vacancy from Judge Phili Henderson’s resignation last Sept. Bangert, a Democrat, has practiced law in Logan since 1930 and was briefly assistant state counsel for the Home Owners Loan Corporation. The governor also named Cloyd W. Derhemmer of Medina to be probate judge of Medina County to succeed Judge Kellogg next Nov. 1.

Columbus Frank J. Lausche Rhea Pettit Bangert Logan Hocking ‘County Phili Henderson Bangert Home Owners Loan , Corporation Cloyd W. Derhemmer Medina Medina County W. E. [Kellogg

Baby Born in Police Ambulance During Trip

Mrs Joseph Langdon, 24, gave birth to a seven pound eight ounce boy in a police ambulance en route to a hospital. Patrolman John Corrida served as midwife, assisted by Patrolman Chester W Krause, who also helped deliver twins in similar circumstances.

Cleveland Joseph Langdon John Corrida Chester W. Krause

Ohio Airman Executed By Japs in Formosa

Wayne W. Wilson a stallion radioman of Kimbolton Ohio was executed last June in Formosa by Japanese forces. Wilson was among fifteen American officers killed after capture eleven were Navy fliers and the rest Army men according to the Navy Department announcement.

Ohio Formosa Washington Wayne W. Wilson Kimbolton Guernsey County Foremosa Navy Department Wilson Navy Iment

Two Postal Employees Held for Theft Plea

Youngstown postal authorities report two first office employees pleaded guilty to theft from the mail. They were bound over to the federal grand jury in Cleveland. The theft involved government allotment checks and other envelopes containing money.

Youngstown Lrst Federal Grand Jury Cleveland

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