Railroads slash steam trains in Ohio amid coal shortage
Four railroads including New York Central and Chesapeake and Ohio announce cuts to passenger service across Ohio and neighboring states. Trains Nos. 5 6 between Columbus and Charleston will end. C and O trims multiple routes. PRR ends Nos. 115 116 to Chicago. B and O eliminates six steam trains with about 1000 jobs at stake.
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Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Athens
Logan
Pomeroy
New York Central
Columbus
Charleston
W. Va
Cleveland
NYC
Chesapeake and Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
Baltimore and Ohio
Cincinnati
Washington
Ind
Pittsburgh
Toledo
C, and
Huntington
Hinton
Hammond
Secret Joint Chiefs session opens after Capitol Hill clash
Washington reports the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet in a closed session the first since the House investigation into defense policy began. Gen. Omar Bradley, Gen. J Lawton Collins, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, and Adm. Louis Denfeld attend as Denfeld faces charges over releasing confidential documents.
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Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Capitol Hill
House
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Hoyt Vandenberg
Air Force
Adm
Louis E. Denfeld
Denfeld
Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
Bradley
Collings
Vandenberg
Johnson
John G. Crommelin
Extended Forecast for Columbus Weather Outlook
Temperatures will average 48 degrees below normal with a high around 58 and a low near 40. From Wednesday to Friday values stay below normal, then rise Saturday and Sunday. Precipitation remains under 1 inch with snow flurries possible Wednesday.
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Columbus
Coal Strike Dampens Football Specials
The coal strike prompts cancellations of football specials by New York Central to Ohio State vs Northwestern in Columbus and Cleveland Browns game in Cleveland. Columbus to Ann Arbor, Michigan, specials for the November 19 Ohio State Michigan game remain on but doubtful. Some Pullman accommodations cut, but mainline service largely unaffected.
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Columbus
Ohio
New York Central
Ohio State- Northwestern
Cleveland Browns
Cleveland
Arnn Arbor
Mich
NYC
Bad Weather Hits Many Regions Across the United States
A nationwide weather report notes rain in the south and midwest, snow in the north, and fog along the Pacific coast. Temperatures dipped below freezing in many areas with lows of 23 in Old Town Maine and Chicago at 32.
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Texas Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Kentucky
West Virginia
Montana
Great Lakes
New England
Old Town
Chicago
Albany
N. Y
Flint
Mich
Pueblo
Colo
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Tex
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Maine
New York State
Pacific Northwest
Woman 25 jailed after drowning infant in family dispute
Fayetteville West Virginia state police report 25 year old Margaret Woodson signed a statement admitting she drowned her 13 month old son to spite her in law family. She told officers she knew the family loved the baby and killed it to spite them.
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Fayetteville
W. Va
H. D. Gibbs
Margaret Woodson
Kaymoore Bottom
Radio Station OK'd for Portsmouth Ohio Expansion
The communications commission approved on Monday construction of a new radio station by Portsmouth Ohio Broadcasting Co. The proposed station operates at 1260 kilocycles with one kilowatt power and unlimited time.
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Washington
The
Communications Commission
Portsmouth, Ohio
CIO Board Weighs Left-Wing Challenge in CIO
Cleveland reports the CIO executive board weighing a move to purge up to a million members linked to the left wing leadership led by United Electrical Workers and Harry Bridges. President Murray aims to retain as many of CIO's six million members as possible while backing steel workers and a large war chest for strikes and pension benefits.
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Cleveland
CIO
Philip Murray
United Electrical Workers
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen's and
Murray
New York
John L. Lewis
Presidential
Southeast Ohio welfare layoffs affect 109 workers
The Ohio Department of Welfare announced furloughs for 109 employees from the Division of Aid for the Aged with effective dates between November 1 this year and January 1, 1950. Four Southeast Ohioans are named: Marjorie Stephens, Wayne Whitcraft, William W. Breckenridge, and Mildred Fowler. The slashes target higher cost positions to balance the budget while preserving civil service status for permanent staff.
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Division of Aid For
State Welfare Department
J. H. Lamneck
Lamneck
Welfare Department
Marion W. McIntyre
Division of Aid For the
Paul Zimmer
Columbus
Zimmer
Marjorie Stephens
Marietta
Wayne Whitcraft
Logan
Three Point Pleasant Clubs Lose Licenses Over Liquor Violations
The West Virginia beer commission suspended the licenses of three Point Pleasant clubs the Eagles Moose and Legion for illegal liquor sales. Club officers and employees were fined and placed on probation in circuit court after a trial that also charged illegal slot machine operations.
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Point Pleasant
State ‘Beer Commission
Parents Sentenced for Child Neglect in Ohio Incident
Floyd E. Marsh and Marie Marsh of Rock Creek Ohio were jailed for six months after pleading guilty to leaving two minors in freezing conditions in a truck while they visited a beer parlor. Judge J Philip Perry of Ashtabula County Juvenile Court imposed the sentence.
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Jefferson
Rock Creek
Ohio
J. Philip Perry
Ashtabula County
Floyd E. Marsh
Marie
18 Year Old Parolee Shoots Self at Home
Stanley Payne an 18 year old parolee from the Boys Industrial School shot himself at his Columbus home Monday. Coroner Robert Evans ruled death by own action with police citing domestic troubles. Payne's sister Pearl 15 said she tried to phone his parole officer to warn him.
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Columbus
Stanley Payne
Boys Industrial School
Robert A. Evans
Payne
Pearl
Stanley
Catherine Patton of Hocking County Dies at 65
Catherine Zora Patton 65 native of Hocking County and widow of Frank Patton died Monday. She spent most of her life in Haydenville. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Maydenville with burial there.
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Haydenville
Catherine Zora Patton
Frank Patton
Hocking County
Maydenville
Bus Strike in Canton Rages Into Third Day
Canton's bus strike enters its third day as AFL unionists reject a three cent hourly pay raise offer, leaving no settlement in sight.
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Canton
AFL
Senator Millikin Pushes Domestic Point Four Over Foreign Aid
Senator Millikin of Colorado urged replacing the Truman plan for government backing of U S investments abroad with a domestic point four. He argued for tax incentives and home investment measures, warning foreign aid could discriminate against domestic investments and risk straining foreign relations.
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Washington
Millikin
R-Cole
Truman
U.S
United Nations
New York
Congress
Colorado
Real estate equalization law takes effect in Ohio
Ohio implements a new law to equalize real estate values. The state board of tax appeals mails questionnaires to all 88 county auditors and will withhold approval of each county’s real estate abstract until the auditor returns the form. Deadline is November 1.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Board of Tax Appeals
31 Year Postal Clerk Is Loyal Board Rules
Cleveland postal clerk Charles J. Nabors Sr., 62, was cleared of disloyalty charges by the Loyalty Board in Washington. He becomes the eighth exonerated Post Office employee. twenty others were suspended as the case review concludes.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Post Office
Charles J. Nabors
Post Office Department
Washington
Nabors
Post Office
31 New Polio Cases Bring Total to 1643
Thirty-one new polio cases reported to the state health department today brought the year's total to 1643. The figure compares with 1060 on the corresponding date last year and 1244 in 1947. The unusually large number of cases was due to a weekend accumulation, department authorities said.
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Columbus
State Health Department
Jet Airliner Makes First Overseas Flight
The British De Havilland Comet completed its first overseas flight from London to Tripoli in North Africa on Tuesday traveling at about 440 mph. The jet airliner marks a milestone in commercial flight as engineers test its performance on long journeys.
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London
Tripoli
North Africa
Waterford gunman shoots tavern crowds then kills self
A 57-year-old farmer Joe Runyon carried a 12 gauge shotgun through two Waterford taverns killing himself after wounding ten people. Victims include Irene Zurawski 37 and her mother-in-law Helen Psciuk 56. Several others were injured. witnesses describe a rapid spree across the street.
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Waterford
Mich
Joe Runyon
Runyon
Pontiac General Hospital
Irene Zurawski
Helen Psciuk
Zurawski
Camden
N. J. Mass
Howard Unruh
Pontiac
Joe
Oakland County
George Taylor
Joe, Jr
Etta Ficher
Howard Stites
Ortonville
Dale Palm
Ferndale
Harold Meston
Palm
Ben Prunty
James Grant
Thomas Hudson
Dearborn
International President Expelled From Local Union
Lynn Massachusetts report stating Albert J. Fitzgerald, international president of the United Electrical Workers CIO, was expelled from his local union for conduct inimical to the union. His supporters say the expulsion will not affect his $7,500 yearly salary as international president.
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Lynn
Mass
Albert J. Fitzgerald
United Electrical Workers (Cio
Cleveland
Fitzgerald
Junion
International
Gibisonville Man 80 Dies in House Fire
GIBISONVILLE An 80 year old Gibisonville resident, Charles Bell, died Monday night when fire destroyed his three room cottage. The blaze started from an open gas heater. Bell’s body was found in a room adjoining the bedroom, suggesting he was trapped while fleeing. Dr. Owen Yaw, acting coroner, ruled accidental burning. Sheriff A J Waldron and Deputy Lloyd Frazier investigated. The Heinle in funeral home prepared the remains. The fire also destroyed a shed and a garage.
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Gibisonville
Hocking County
Mr. Bell
John Whitcraft
Owen Yaw
A. J. Waldron
Lloyd Frazier
Attlee Faces Criticism Over Timid Economy Plan
London reports Prime Minister Attlee facing a political storm over a plan to cut £280 million from the budget, aimed at curbing inflation after currency devaluation. Critics in his Labour Party say the measures are not drastic enough. Churchill questions whether the plan meets the nation’s needs as funding for new building projects is hit hard.
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London
Attlee
Britain
Labor
House of Commons
Whittle
Winston Churchill
Chauncey Dover Board To Meet Wednesday
The Chauncey Dover Board of Education will meet Wednesday at 8 p m. The prior session discussed a petition by a citizens committee alleging charges against Supt W G Davis. Petition supporters claimed it bore 600 signatures.
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Chauncey
Chauncey- Dover Board of Education
Citizens Committee
W. G. Davis
Wagon Ride Ends In Injury to Child
Newark Ohio story reports Gary Brown 10 son of Mr and Mrs Willard Brown suffered a possible skull fracture when a wagon pulled by a team of horses crashed into a tree after the horses bolted toward the tree.
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Newark
Gary Brown
Willard Brown
Toledo Ads Condemn Union Pension Pleas
Full page ads in the Toledo Blade and Times condemn region wide pension demands on Toledo industries. Paid by the Toledo Clearing House Association. Ads did not name the union but stated they were aired at CIO United Auto Workers requests for a region wide, employer financed pension system.
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Toledo-4
Toledo Blade
Times
Toledo
Toledo Clearing House Assention
CIO
United Auto Workers
Minority lawmakers press for faster atomic program progress
Six minority members of the joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee urged the Atomic Energy Commission to accelerate the nations atomic program. They called for bolder, speedier and more effective development to preserve U.S. prominence in atomic weapons.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
United States
Taft urges U S threat to Russia to guard Western Europe
Senator Robert A. Taft told a Toledo audience that the United States should warn Russia it would face war if it attacks Western Europe. He framed this as a Monroe Doctrine style pledge stronger than the Atlantic Pact and urged United Nations reform alongside a tougher UN charter.
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Toledo
Robert A. Taft
United States
Russia
Europe
Nations Association
Western
West Europe
South America
America
Taft
United Nations
Strategy Revision Expected as Labor Talks Stall
Washington AP reports the nations top labor troubleshooter Cyrus Ching plans a direct White House briefing on deadlocked coal and steel strikes. With no progress and Truman weighing intervention or renewed talks, Ching suspended talks with U S Steel as markets warn of mounting economic strain from Sept 19 coal and Oct 1 steel walkouts.
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Washington
Cyrus
Ching
White House
Truman
U.S. Steel Corp
New York
U.S. Steel
Operators and Lewis Seein Final Coal Strike Talks
In Bluefield West Virginia operators and John L Lewis negotiators meet as a possible last contract session before federal intervention in the five week old soft coal strike. The Southern Coal Producers Association remains the sole group in formal talks with the UMW. Northern and Western operators previously walked out, accusing Lewis of threatening the coal industry.
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Bluefield
W. Va
John L. Lewis
United Mines Worksters
Southern Coal Prosducers Assn
SCPA
UMW
Lewis
Lincoln Sits Tight On Candidacy Reports
In Columbus the man seen as a potential Democratic U S Senate candidate for Ohio remains noncommittal about reports. Murray D Lincoln president of Farm Bureau insurance firms declined to discuss the rumor and state Auditor Joseph T Ferguson has not formally declared his own candidacy.
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Columbus
Ohio
Murray D
Lincoln
Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
Organized Labor
Joseph T. Ferguson
Taft
Two Escapees Found Three Still at Large
Warren County Jail escapees update reports two of the six inmates recaptured. Willie Anderson aged 18 from South Carolina surrendered after the break. Everett Smith 29 from Indiana and James Lloyd 19 from Dayton, Ohio were arrested at a farm two miles north of Lebanon.
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Warren County
Willie Anderson
South Carolina
Everett Smith
Indiana
James Lloyd
Dayton
Ohio
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