Marshall Vandenberg hall pact hailed as world peace model
Secretary of State Marshall and Senator Vandenberg praised the Inter American Security Pact as a postwar template for UN peace efforts. They described the Brazil Petropolis conference outcome as constructive and urged swift UN involvement and ratification with clear hopes for rapid approval in the Senate.
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Washington
Marshall
United Nations Assembly
Vandenberg
Petropolis
Brazil
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
United Nations
Gascoigne Accused of Striking Army Private in Japan Trial
Two Army sergeants testified at a Navy court martial in San Diego that Lt. (jg) Richard Gascoigne struck Army Private Ernest Victor Arnand at Camp Omuta Kyushu Japan without provocation. Sgt. James Stacey of Arkansas and Tech. Sgt. Donald Ker of California testified seeing the incident.
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San Diego
Calif
Navy
Richard Gascoigne
Lorain
Ohio
Japan
Gascoigne
Army
James C. Stacey
Hot Springs
Ark
Tech
Donald FE. Ker
Los Angeles
Ernest Victor Arnand
Camp 17
Omuta
Kyushu
Slot Machines Fall Injure Man in Newport Suit
Bill Wilson seeks 20100 dollars in damages from Mecca Cafe Newport Kentucky claiming two slot machines toppled on him while he tried to play them on July 17 pinning him to the floor and causing injuries.
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Newport
Bill Wilson
Wilson
UN to Make New Try at Arms Limitation
Lake Success United Nations moves to revive talks on arms limitation with the Commission on Conventional Armaments meeting at 3 p.m. to seek a fresh approach amid scant progress today.
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United Nations
UN Commission On
Miss Jones Reappointed to Civil Service Post
Gov. Herbert named Miss Gertrude Jones of Findlay to a four year term on the two member state Civil Service Commission. Carl Smith of Kenton remains the other member.
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Columbus
Gertrude Jones
Findlay
State Civil Service Commission
Thomas J. Herbert
Carl Smith
Kenton Democrat
Liquor Post Filled in Columbus
Liquor Director Dale Duniton announced William R. Morris of Columbus as personnel supervisor of the state liquor department.
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Columbus
Dale Duniton
William R. Morris
State
Food Prices Soar Across Markets Pressuring Households
Prices for staples surged to yearly highs across major markets in Chicago New York and elsewhere with eggs butter and meat outlook grim. Grains including corn oats and wheat hit record highs as drought tightens supplies and traders withhold 1947 crops. Analysts warn further rises and advise substitutes and shopping around for cheaper cuts.
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Chicago
New York
Chicago Board of Trade
John Krey
American Meat Institute
Eugene Schulz
Express Pay Hike Approved By Railway Clerks Leader
Washington George Harrison president of the AFL Brotherhood of Railway Clerks announced the Railway Express Agency agreed to a 15 cents hourly wage increase for 65 000 employees effective Sept 1 The boost matches an arbitration award for about 1 000 000 railroad workers and averts a threatened strike.
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Washington
George Harrison
AFL Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Railway Express Agency
Harrison
Execution Delayed Then Carried Out After Break in Chair
In Huntsville Texas Arthur Adams a 37 year old African American man who killed his wife Izora in Fort Worth was granted an extra hour when the electric chair connection broke but repairs were completed and the execution occurred at 1 05 a m local time Adams was convicted of the murder of his wife and was put to death in the state prison chair with the electric flow beginning after the delay.
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Huntsville
Tex
Arthur Adams
Izora
Fort Worth
Texas
Boy Falls 60 Feet From Bridge and Is Killed
In Cleveland Joseph Costa Jr aged 5 died after plunging sixty feet from a bridge above New York Central Railroad tracks yesterday. Police said the child was taken to a hospital but died of injuries.
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Cleveland
Joseph Costa, Jr
New York Central
CIO Delays Compliance With Taft-Hartley Deadline
Pittsburgh CIO leaders will wait for their Oct 13 convention in Boston before acting to meet the Sept 25 non communists affidavits requirement. The CIO executive board issued the statement after conferring with CIO President Philip Murray. NLRB counsel Denham warned that failure to file may deny 15 million workers access to the board.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
Boston
Philip Murray
Robert N. Denham
NLRB
Boy, 14 Tortured by Teen-Age Youths
A 14-year-old boy injured after 12 days of torture at a remote Smiths Prairie cabin in Elmore County. Prosecutor Perce Hall said Joseph Cannon suffered burns from a flaming gasoline line, multiple bruises from tug chains, beatings, and knife cuts during confinement.
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Mountain Home
Idaho
Smiths Prairie
Elmore County
Perce Hall
Joseph Cannon
Hall
Auditor Blocks UK On Ex Official Hike
Ohio auditor refused to approve a $251.81 salary increase voucher for Frank L. Raschig former state public works director who left office July 31 to join George B. Sowers as consultant. A light plane from Willoughby Ohio crashed near Mentor injuring two men.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Frank L. Raschig
Raschig
George B. Sowers
Mentor
Willoughby
Ohio
Guards Pay Cut Sparks Protest at Wright Field
Civil Service downgraded 260 guards at Wright Field causing annual pay cuts of 500 to 700 dollars. A guard captain reported four trusted men quit and more may follow amid rumors of a 50 dollar monthly raise for German scientists. Guards protested to the Ohio delegation, noting many veterans among those affected while former enemies at the field receive raises.
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Dayton
Wright Field Army Experimental Air Base
Ohio
Wright Field
War Department
Pullman Sets Rates Boost by 1 to 48.9 Percent
The Pullman Company says sleeping car service rates will rise on October 1 by up to 48.9 percent under ICC permission. The firm estimates the increase will add about $13 million annually to cover higher operating costs, while the ICC allows suspensions and formal inquiries upon request.
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Washington
The_ Pullman Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Gandhi Warns Next Fast Will Be Unto Death
Calcutta India handas K Gandhi warned that his next fast would be unto death after ending a 73 hour protest fast against communal violence between Moslem and Hindu factions. He said the protest aimed at Calcutta and broad unrest in the newly formed dominions of India and Pakistan amid relative quiet in most areas except partitioned Punjab.
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Calcutta
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Pakistan
Punjab
Round-World Flyers Start Hop to Rome
George W. Truman aged 39 of Los Angeles and Clifford W. Evans aged 26 of Washington resumed a round the world flight in two light planes. They took off for Rome at 10 50 a m and planned a fuel stop at Marseille en route to reach Rome by 6 30 p m.
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Paris
George W. Truman
Los Angeles
Clifford W. Evans
Washington
Rome
Marseille
Ohio Weather Outlook Warmer Than Normal This Week
Extended forecast for Columbus shows temperatures averaging three to five degrees above normal with a normal maximum of 74 and minimum of 55. Warmer Sunday, cooler by Monday, then warmer Wednesday. Precipitation around half an inch with isolated thundershowers late Sunday and Monday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Death of Percy Radcliffe, transit executive in Detroit
Percy L Radcliffe aged 54, general traffic manager for Great Lakes Greyhound and Eastern Canadian Greyhound Lines, died yesterday in Detroit. He held key posts in regional bus transportation and was widely respected in the industry.
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Detroit
Percy L. Radcliffe
Great Lakes Greyhound Bus Lines
Eastern Canadian Greyhound Lines
Wreck Survivor Recalls Two Day Struggle For Life
Charles Gorman 21, sole survivor of a Stinson 150 crash near Kenton, describes a two day fight to escape a wrecked plane while flies swarmed him and a body. He credits weather for the crash and recalls seeking a farmhouse for help as rescuers closed in. Killed were William Stroop, 22, Mrs. Raymond Stotts, 20, and Miss Mariel Talbot, 20.
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Kenton, CO
Charles W. Gorman
Here
Gorman
Kenton
Marion
William Stroop
Dayton
Stroop
Raymond Stotts
Mariel Talbot
Carl Bidwell
Walter Getz
Ramadier Wins Confidence Vote in National Assembly
Premier Paul Ramadier secured a confidence vote 292 to 243 in Parliament, approving the subsidy program for the coal industry totaling 4.55 billion francs to restrain prices. The fifth such vote since he took office in January eased a potential government crisis while labor protests over living costs continued.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
National Assembly
Ramadier
Jap to Die For Atrocities on Truk Atoll 1944
Capt Hiroshi Iwanami, a frail Japanese medical officer, is sentenced to die on the gallows by a five man military commission for atrocity murders of 10 American airmen on Truk Atoll in 1944. Lt Shinji Sakagami gets life imprisonment for strangling two prisoners after a failed dynamite attempt. Eighteen other defendants receive prison terms from 10 years to life for killings by bacterial injections tourniquets bayonets and spears.
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Guam
Hiroshi Iwanami
Truk Atoll
Shinji Sakagami
Iwanami
Truman Addresses Brazilian Congress in Tiradentes Palace
President Truman, nearing the end of a week-long goodwill visit, speaks to a joint Brazilian Congress session in Tiradentes Palace. This marks his second formal address on Brazilian soil following Tuesday's closing address at the Interamerican Hemisphere Defense Conference in Quitandinha.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Truman
Brazil
Tiradentes Palace
Quitandinha
Man Shingling Roof Falls To His Death
Melvin Charles Reichert 32, died of a skull fracture after slipping from a ladder while shingling a roof at his Amherst home in Lorain County yesterday.
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Lorain
Melvin Charles Reichert
Amherst
Accidental Drowning Verdict Is Returned
PORTSMOUTH Virgil Fowler ruled Earl Pierce died by accidental drowning in the Ohio River near here The body was found after his overturned boat was located about a mile downstream along the river yesterday.
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Portsmouth
Virgil Fowler
Earl Pierce
Ohio River
Here
Pierce
Exclusion of Negroes From Pool Held Legal in Warren
Common Pleas Judge George N. Graham ruled that the Vets Swim Club may exclude Negroes from the Packard Park pool if its city lease is valid. The Warren branch of the NAACP filed the suit, and the decision centers on the lease authority.
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Warren
Vets Swim Club
Packard Park
Common Pleas
George N. Graham
Stark County
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hit-Skip Truck Halts Electric Service Across County
A hit skip truck knocked out power to much of the southern half of Delaware County at 4:30 am. Ohio Public Service Co. officials said the vehicle struck a pole supporting feeder wires on U S 25 between here and Stratford, five miles south.
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Delaware, O
Delaware County
Ohio Public Service Co
U.S. 25
Here
Statford
Jones Takes Office as FCC Member in Lima Ohio
Robert F. Jones of Lima Ohio assumed office today as a member of the Federal Communications Commission.
Rail Strike Slashes Pittsburgh Steel Output
A strike by 1,800 railroad workers at U S Steel Pittsburgh district plants curtails production. Two unions halted work after contract talks broke down, affecting the subsidiary rail road and the Clairton coke by products plant cutting capacity to 32 percent. Carnegie Illinois Steel, its largest producing subsidiary, halted 10 blast furnaces with seven to eight more possibly idling.
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
Union Railroad
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
U.S
Clairton
VA To Correct Short Checks For GI Bill Trainees
Ohio University trainees facing shortages of subsistence payments under the GI Bill will have funds corrected next month. The Cincinnati Regional VA office, operating with reduced staff, could not process all continuance requests before payroll cut-off. Training officer Wesley Miller said interruption letters may be disregarded if veterans had proper leave time and asked to be carried through.
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Ohio University
Veterans Administration
Cincinnati
Wesley Miller
Miller
Judge voids court martial in Hesse jewel theft case
U S District Judge Ben Moore ruled that Kathleen Nash Durant was a civilian at the time of arrest and that an Army court martial lacked jurisdiction. The 43 year old former WAC captain faced five years in prison.
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Charleston
W. Va
WAC
Kathleen Nash Durant
U. S
Ben Moore
60 000 Yorkshire miners strike deeper in pits
London reports about 60 000 coal miners in Yorkshire refuse to work. The strike expands to 54 collieries as union officials warn the stoppage could spread to Kent coal fields in southeast England.
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Yorkshire
London
Kent
England
New Lexington Pastor Assigned to Chillicothe
Rev James Kulp, assistant at St Rose's Church New Lexington, is reassigned as assistant at St Peter's Church Chillicothe. Bishop Michael J Ready of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus announced the move.
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Columbus
James Kulp
St. Rose's Church
New Lexington
St. Peter's Church
Chillicothe
Michael J. Ready
Catholic Diocese
Reduction Reported in Federal Civilian Employes
The Civil Service Commission reports a drop in executive branch civilian employment from 2,128,648 at June end to 2,088,966 at July end.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Liquid Fuel Amendment Faces Opposition in Ohio Ballot
Ohio Farm Bureau opposes a proposed constitutional amendment restricting the one cent liquid fuel tax to street and highway use. Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel said 230 375 signatures were gathered to place the measure on the November 4 ballot. The tax raised 15 million dollars last year. the Farm Bureau's D R Stanfield calls the proposal misleading and not in farmers or public interest, noting the tax was meant to aid distressed schools during hard times.
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Columbus
Ohio Farm Bureau
Edward J. Hummel
General Fund
D. R. Stanfield
Farm Bureau
Prices Block Bus Purchases In Ohio
Ohio school boards delay ordering 500 buses as prices deter purchases. 1,593 districts need at least 1,100 buses with 600 already ordered. Costs for 48 passenger buses run 3,500 to 4,800 dollars and larger models 4,500 to 7,500 dollars.
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Columbus
Ohio
Earl G. Welshimer
Clyde Hissong
Broader Greek Government Favored By Leading Politicians
In Athens Themistokles Sophoulis aged 86 is expected to form a broader Greek government with Premier Constantin Tsaldaris and the Populist party to ease a 37 year political feud. The present administration is dominated by Populists and Rightists.
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Athens
Greece
Liberal
Themistokles Sophoulis
Constantin Tsaldaris
Commander elected supreme commander at VFW meeting
Richard E. Hodges of Findlay Ohio was elected supreme commander of the Military Order of the County a VFW organization yesterday in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Richard E. Hodges
Findlay, O
Military Order of the Coutty
VFW
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