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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1950
Page
1
President Truman made an surprise visit to the Marine Corps League and urged no more misunderstandings while defending his apology for earlier remarks. He urged unity, thanked the Marines, and urged support for the Korea War and world peace amid political attacks.
Allied forces repelled a Taegu target by 50 000 Red Koreans as 120 miles of front saw continuous fighting. US Marines and doughboys battled hand to hand while ground combat and artillery pounded North Korean formations. Casualties reached into the thousands on both sides.
Ravenna-4 reports 17 year old Donald Overholt who admits strangling seven year old Linda Hickman and hiding her body in a closet. The hearing in probate court comes after mental tests, with Overholt expressing ruined college dreams of becoming a doctor.
A Messenger photographer dropped a photoflash extension unit while rushing to a Wednesday assignment. He placed a Lost Found notice stating the ONE Heiland photoflash extension unit was lost in front of the Post Office and asked for its return to The Athens Messenger.
Bernard Baruch told the Evening Sun he supports using Congress approved price wage and credit controls promptly. He warned drift risks and urged simultaneous mobilization measures including higher taxes and ending procurement overlap to prevent inflation and possible future war.
In Youngstown workers and women entering a General Electric plant clashed at the main gate. A woman was bruised but police made no arrests. About 100 women production workers entered the plant as 12 CIO Local 735 pickets blocked the gate with locked arms. Additional sympathizers from CIO United Steelworkers were nearby.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reportedly told senators his agents could arrest 12 000 dangerous communists if conflict with Russia occurs. A Senate aide quoted him saying more funds are needed for extra agents to monitor these individuals. He said agents should be able to keep tabs on them day and night.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey's expected renomination by New York Republicans promises sharper GOP attacks on the Truman administration's foreign policy. Dewey's likely opponent for the New York governorship is Representative Walter A. Lynch, a Truman fair deal supporter, in Albany.
Kaiser-Frazer Corp and CIO United Auto Workers reached an agreement to raise hourly pay for 16,000 production employees by 12 cents and by 17 cents for skilled workers in Detroit.
Dayton report shows Charles Arnold, 24, in the 423rd engineer construction battalion, has feet so small he wears a four and one half triple E shoe. As activation nears, a supply sergeant struggles to fit boot footwear with padding. Arnold recalls fitting in the last war as an artillery man with the Americal Division.
Columbus Ohio Selective Service headquarters announced a fourth draft call of 1 567 men for Sept 22 to meet a shortfall as Ohio’s October quota is 3 940. The September total reaches 3 874, over the 2 850 monthly quota, with Col Chester W Goble noting declines in the pool and some deferments.
Circleville health commissioner banned sale of Columbus and Franklin County milk in Circleville yesterday. Commissioner Clyde O Leist acted with city council approval after Circleville adopted a strict milk code. Leist says Pickaway County milk now meets Columbus standards.
Washington reports Russia seeks to limit conflict with the United States to diplomacy. U S authorities insist on UN in Korea plane incident. Moscow notes and UN Security Council filing followed a Russian broadcast and a proffered protest. A Russian note arrived at the State Department via a messenger, then returned to the Soviet embassy.
Walter J. Berg 76 of Cincinnati was killed instantly on US 127 near Mason Michigan after stopping to check a tire and crossing the road, struck by a car driven by Stanley F. Hosch of Cleveland. Berg published Church Press in Cincinnati and produced monthly church papers for several Ohio cities.
A captured lieutenant disclosed to American intelligence a plan to seize Taegu by a surprise operation through Waegwan and Kunwi. He said the assault began with the Red 15th Division joining North Korean units but was aborted by rapid American resistance and Yongchon’s retaking. He noted supply lines kept moving via a cycle of forced village shipments, termed a bucket brigade.
Reports from Tokyo Pan ama and Paris describe police actions against communists and suspected agents. Panama's supreme court upholds a cabinet anti communism measure while Argentina contacts UN forces in Korea. In New York Argentine envoy Remorino confirms aid. Pittsburgh foresees possible broader draft reducing discretionary power to draft boards.
President Truman signed a record $35,554,600,425 government funding bill and refused a loan to Spain under Franco, saying the United States would lend only if it served U.S. foreign policy. He criticized the bill’s $550 million non defense cut requirement, but pledged to implement reductions that do not impair essential services. The package combines regular funds. another $16.7 billion emergency defense bill is pending. An Episcopal rector in Delaware warned against using a hydrogen bomb in self defense before Ohio Methodist ministers.
Bermuda alerts as a great storm nears from the Atlantic while Florida and Georgia feel the gulf hurricane’s last effects. The Fort Myers area reported three deaths from fallen electric wires as the storm caused havoc and power risks across the region.
Henry T. Bannon longtime Republican leader and former county prosecutor and congressman from Portsmouth district 1905 to 1909 died last night at age 83. He was a GOP national convention delegate nearly every year from 1912 to 1940 and part of the law firm Bannon Bannon and Howland of Portsmouth. He also served as director of Shelby Shoe Co National Bank of Portsmouth and Hill Saving Bank at Oak Hill Ohio.
New York reports actress Tallulah Bankhead has settled her suit over a radio jingle for a Tallulah shampoo product. The settlement was described as substantial and confirmed by Procter and Gamble, Benton and Bowles, with initial filing against Columbia Broadcasting System and Rendoned Broadcasting Co. The amount previously discussed reached near 1 million dollars.
President Truman announced a Saturday night radio address to outline civilian driven homefront economic controls during the emergency. He said there will be no military dictatorship and that the anti inflation bill is under federal analysis as he plans to sign it soon. He rejected an independent agency and addressed Korea UN forces retaking lost ground this week.
Senator Robert A Taft spoke in Morgan Guernsey and Muskingum counties accusing labor leaders of running a hate campaign using communist techniques. He urged voters to elect a Republican Congress to press for foreign and military policy statements from the state and defense secretaries.
Gene Mel Pherson, 23, Ohio State University graduate, began a 1 000 mile bicycle trip to Buenos Aires Argentina yesterday. He aims to finish in 90 days traveling the Pan American highway through Mexico Central America and South America.
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