Second Hocking County auto death reported
Logan area reports a second fatal auto accident this year after Norman Burdette fell from a station wagon and was run over on Route 33. Preston Dexter, driver of the other car, faced DWI charges. multiple Columbus men in the wagon were fined for intoxication. Burial details and war service noted.
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Logan
Hocking County
Norman Burdette
Columbus
Preston Dexter
Nelsonville
A. J. Waldron
Burdette
Dexter
Waldron
Poston Curve
J. Ward Doering
Hocking Valley Hospital
Robert Baker
Baker
Hudson McFann
Roger Friend
Robert Burdette
Robert Mays
Rex Dunston
Florence
U. S. Navy
Leon
W. Va
O. H. Bryan
Charles Miller
McFann
Lloyd Frazier
Carl Freeman
Carl Freeman, State Highway Patrol
Roberts
Cook and Son Funeral
Brigitta Sperber
Polio Outbreak Shuts Pomeroy Schools After Kelton Death
Meigs County becomes first polio death in 16 years as 15 year old Pomeroy High student Thomas Jay Kelton dies in Columbus Children's Hospital. Mayor orders 10 day closure of schools theaters and churches while two teammates are hospitalized and a third shows illness.
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Pomeroy
Thomas Jay Kelton
Kelton
Children's Hospital
Columbus
Don Young
Children’s Hospital
Meigs County
Mise Nelle Bing
Pomeroy Board of Education
Delmar A. Canaday
Chauncey and
Galipolis
W. A. Smith
O. Patterson
L. W. McComas
Middleport
Young Kelton
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Columbus Hospital
Grace Episcopal Church
Henry Ewing
H. D. Porterfield
Episcopal Church
Pomeroy High School
Mer
Aaron Kelton
Ieters
Rhea Ann
Aaren Sue
W. D. Kelton
Jay Myers
Young
Don Grueser
Smith
Canaday
Church Group Defies Police in Rome Secret Services
Protestant Church of Christ members held clandestine services in Rome after police blocked their regular meeting place. Leader Cline R. Paden of Brownfield Texas said services occurred at a member's home with names withheld to protect participants. An Italian source links crackdown to 1000 postwar conversions and Paden challenged the Interior Ministry over constitutional guarantees.
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Rome
Church of Christ
Cline R. Paden
Brownfield
Tex
Italy
Paden
Interior Ministry
Lodge Discloses Taft Endorsement For Senate Re-Election
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts says Senator Robert A. Taft backs his bid for another term. Lodge helped promote Eisenhower for president and led his pre convention campaign. Taft reportedly expressed support in a letter to a Massachusetts voter. Representative John F. Kennedy opposes Lodge in the race.
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Boston
Henry Cabot Lodge
R-Mass
Robert A. Taft
Lodge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Polio Toll Rises in Northeastern Ohio
More than 50 people have died from polio in Northeastern Ohio this year. Akron's Children’s Hospital treated 460 polio patients with 33 deaths, City Hospital in Cleveland reported 12 fatalities from 441 cases, and five deaths occurred over the weekend.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Akron
Children’s Hospital
City Hospital
Fugitives Elude Police Net Near Allentown Bank Robbery Trio
Three convicted bank robbers, Joseph Nolen 26 Ballard Nolen 22 of Kentucky and Elmer Schuer 21 of Chicago, remain missing after fleeing the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. State police FBI and local officers patrol hundreds of miles around Allentown Pennsylvania with roadblocks enforcing the massive manhunt.
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
FBI
Arthur Cornelius
Philadelphia
Joseph Nolen
Ballard
Harlan County
Elmer Schuer
Chicago
Federal
Lewisburg
Ohio Mishaps Fatal to 14
At least 14 persons died over the weekend in Ohio from traffic accidents drownings and other mishaps. Eight killed in auto crashes two drowned and four in miscellaneous incidents. Saturday deaths include Roy C Olden 20 of Cambridge injured when a tractor overturned near Cambridge and Donald Higbie 11 of Miamitown drowned in the Big Miami River.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Roy C. Olden
Cambridge
Donald Higbie
Miamitown
Hamilton County
Miami
Sabre Jet Aces Down Nine Mig Fighters Over Korea
Sabre jet crews claim nine MIG 15s shot down near North Korea with another possibly destroyed and two damaged. Allied fighters also struck the Red industrial complex at Sinuiju near the Manchurian border, hitting an oxygen plant an alcohol distillery and a rope factory.
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Sedoul
Korea
S&s
North Korea
Red
Sinuiju
Manchurian
Manchuria
U. S. Navy
Hoeryang
Wife of Noted Author Dies at Malabar Farm
Mrs. Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield 60 wife of author farmer Louis Bromfield died in sleep at Malabar Farm near Lucas Ohio after months of heart illness. Born Mary Appleton Smith Ipswich Massachusetts she wed Bromfield October 12 1923 in Ipswich. Survived by husband three daughters two grandchildren and two daughters in Monroe Township Richland County. Memorial services set for 3 p m Saturday in Mansfield.
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Mansfield, O
Mary Appleton Wood Bromfield
Louis Bromfield
Malabar Farm
Lucas
Bromfield
Mary Appleton Smith
Ipswitch
Mass
Robert Stevens Jr
Carson Geld
Ann Bromfield
Monroe Township
Richlant County
Ohio
Melania Snow Stevens
Stephen Carson Geld
Mansfield
Taft to Open Campaign Broadcast From Springfield
Senator Robert A. Taft will deliver his first Eisenhower campaign broadcast at 9 p.m. Wednesday over NBC from a Springfield rally. The address titled Progress Through Liberty marks the GOP opener in a series of nationwide speeches led by Arthur Summerfield, Republican national chairman.
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Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
Eisenhower
United States
Stevenson
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Ind
Adams
Korea
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Morse
Washington
Sen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NBC
Arthur E. Summerfield
Taft
Springfield
Formosa Chinese Abroad Warned of Blacklist Policy
In Taipei authorities warned overseas Chinese and Formosan residents they would be blacklisted as traitors if they celebrate the National Day on October 1. The move signals a hardline stance on foreign celebrations linked to Red China.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
AFL Delegates Mulls Presidential Endorsement At Convention
At the AFL convention in New York President William Green notes the Taft Hartley Act as a failure and wage price controls unfair to labor. Delegates, eight million members strong, will decide on endorsing Adlai Stevenson or Dwight Eisenhower after speeches and platform comparisons.
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New York
AFL
William Green
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Executive Council
Green
Eisenhower
Robert M. LaFollette
Lewis Convenes Policy Committee Amid Soft Coal talks
John L. Lewis gathers the United Mine Workers Policy Committee in Washington as a possible coal strike looms. The contract with Northern mine owners expires on Saturday and negotiations with Southern Coal Producers and Pennsylvania hard coal owners extend to Sept. 30.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Northern
Lewis
Soi
UMW
John Busarello
Pittsburgh
Harry Moses
Southern Coal Producers Association
Wrong Man Gun Victim Shocking Cincinnati Shooting
A 37 year old guitarist Abby Southerland was critically wounded with five bullets in a tavern attack by Harry P. Alvin 46 of Cincinnati and Madison Indiana. Alvin said he aimed at guitarist Andrew Pottinger over alleged jealousy toward his wife Jeanette. He admitted firing at the two players and apologized for shooting the wrong man.
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Cincinnati
St. Bernard
Harry P. Alvin
Madison
Ind
Abby Southerland
Good Samaritan Hospital
Alvin
Southerland
Andrew Pottinger
Pottinger
Jeanette Alvin
India urges Big Five to settle East West differences
Prime Minister Nehru led India's All-India Congress in Indore to back a resolution urging the United States Britain France Russia and Communist China to meet for world disarmament. The proposal, reportedly drafted by Nehru, called for a Big Five conference.
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Bombay
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
All- India Congress Party
United States
Britain
France
Russia
China
Congress Committee
Indore
Nehru
Canada Pacific Trains Collide Head On in Fog
In Matawa Ontario a foggy Sunday caused two Canadian Pacific passenger trains to collide head on. Two people were seriously injured.
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Mattawa
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Swell Japan Ford Tokyo Youths Apply to Police National Army
About 100000 Japanese youths have applied to join a national police or army like force in Tokyo. The applicants seek to serve amid postwar security concerns and rising defense ambitions.
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FORD
Tokyo
National Police Reeive
Expert Plans Iran Aid After Harsh Assessment
German financial expert Hjalmar Schacht left Tehran promising an economic reform plan for Iran. He warned Iranians they were lazy and must boost productive labor and private enterprise. He urged more insurance, cooperative and banking firms and elimination of government monopolies. He would prepare a full reform report.
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Terhan
Iran
Hjalmar Schacht
Schacht
Hitler
Tehran
Retired Coal Miner and Wife Shot in Ohio Home
In Bellaire Ohio police awaited autopsy results as clues emerged in the deaths of 62 year old George Mihalovitch, a retired coal miner, and his 59 year old wife Anna. They were found dead in their Powhatan home Sunday by their married daughter and her husband. A shotgun lay beside Mihalovitch on the bedroom floor while his wife was discovered in the basement. both victims died from gunshot wounds to the head.
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Bellaire
O —P
George Mihalovitch
Anna
Powhatan
Mihalovitch
Stevenson Plans Second Major Campaign Swing
Gov. Adlai Stevenson advances his 1952 bid by mapping a route through Connecticut Massachusetts New York Maryland and Virginia toward the Atlantic seaboard. He aims to let voters see him and soften up the territory for the bigger push while steering clear of deep issues in the Western leg.
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Springfield
Adlai Stevenson
Atlantic Seaboard
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Maryland
Virginia
Henry Wallace
Progressive
F Eisenhower
Mass
Stevenson
Klaxon
West
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Water Haul To Jefferson Amid Drought Crisis
ASHTABULA Ohio trucks delivered 7000 gallons to Jefferson, but the drought cripples the 1700 resident village. Mill Creek reservoir runs dry and a state of emergency was declared. Water shipments resumed limited service, with laundry bans and industry closures. Cattle face death without more water.
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Ashtabula
Jefferson
Mill Creek
Samuel P. Nizen
Walter Wanger Seeks Reconciliation With Wife Joan Bennett
Hollywood report says film producer Walter Wanger is out of jail and his actress wife Joan Bennett has returned to Los Angeles. She arrived from Portland and was met at her Holmby Hills home with orders not to be disturbed, hinting at a possible reconciliation.
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Hollywood
Walter Wanger
Joan Bennett
Miss Bennett
Piane
Portland
Ore
Holmby Hills
Wanger
Polio Safeguards Discussed in Meigs County
A Meigs County Health Department meeting will inform residents about polio safeguards at 1 pm Wednesday in the Meigs County Courthouse. Dr. Frederick H. Wentworth of the state Health Department will speak to the Meigs County Medical Society school officials public officials and interested residents.
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Meigs
Rumor Grain Probe Report Hints at Shortages
Washington rumors swirl around the Senate Agriculture Committee probe into alleged million dollar grain shortages. Chairman Ellender holds copies of a proposed report but has not released them to fellow members including Aiken of Vermont. The inquiry began in January and may soon surface in debate.
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Washington
Senate
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
Agriculture Committee
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Aiken
Ellender
Two Suitors Claim Boy as Father in Auto Crash Case
Sioux City bacteriologist Dr Thomas Carothers seeks the mother's blood type to determine paternity for a 5 year old boy after Violet Phillips died in an auto crash. The two claimants Wilmur Johnson and Glenn H Phillips have blood types O and A respectively, matching only one potential link. The test results were inconclusive and further data is sought from the hospital records.
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Sioux City
Thomas Carothers
Violet Phillips
Wilmur Johnson
Glenn H. Phillips
Phillips
Johnson
Carothers
Corothers
Despair Marks Wests Effort To Solve Iranian Oil Crisis
American officials express growing despair over ending the Anglo Iranian oil impasse as Premier Mossadegh shows no interest in the Truman-Churchill plan to restart negotiations. Two Iranian figures tied to Mossadegh, Hussein Makki and Ambassador Allahyar Salih, are due in the United States for talks and a review of oil industry relations.
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West
John M. Hightower
Washington
Mohammed Mossadegh
Truman
Churchill
Mossadegh
Hussein Makki
Mossadergh
National Front Party
Robert L. Garner
World Bank
Makki
Germany
United States
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
Iran
Seized Alleged Police Slaver Surrenders After Two Officers Shot
In Jasper Alabama Horace Bradberry, a 20 year old accused bootlegger, surrendered ending a manhunt. A 300 strong posse and two airplanes searched thick woods where Bradberry fled after the killings of Deputies Herman Treeece and Frank Harbison. Bradberry admitted shooting the two deputies to Coroner Porter White moments before authorities closed in.
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Jasper
Ala
Horace Bradberry
Birmingham
Bradberry
Porter White
White
Herman Treeece
Frank Harbison
Defense lists 67 Korean War casualties
The Defense Department identified 67 Korean War casualties in a new list, reporting 16 killed, 46 wounded, two missing and three injured.
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Washington
Defense Department
Two missing in Kyushu floods report
Kyodo News Agency reports two people are missing after floods hit Kyushu, Japan's southern island, with rescue efforts under way and details not yet confirmed.
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Tokyo
Kyushu
Japan
Kyodo
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