Wild Trading Breaks Out On Markets
Wild trading surged across London Paris Rome and Johannesburg as Britain devalued the pound by 30 percent and 18 other nations moved to cheapen currencies. The dollar showed volatility while gold and oil moved on global demand, with Canada and France delaying deeper cuts.
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Britain
London
Rome
Milan
Johannesburg
South Africa
Sydney
Australia
Stafford Cripps
Japan
General MacArthur
Canada
U. S
France
Paul G. Hoffman
Europe
Moscow
United States
Ireland
New Zealand
Egypt
Israel
India
Burma
Ceylon
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Finland
Malaya
Holland
Netherlands
Pakistan
Commissioner resigns from Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Justin A. Rollman resigned today as a member of Ohio's Development and Publicity Commission in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Justin A. Rollman
Ohio
Fire Destroys Cincinnati One-Story House
A $5000 blaze early today wiped out a one-story five room frame house in Cincinnati, causing total loss. No injuries were reported as investigators inspect the scene.
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Cincinnati
Drinking Dogs Barred From Prestwich Pubs
In Prestwich England health officers halted canine patrons from pubs after reports of dogs sharing glasses. Dr. C H T Wade and Alderman A L Williams condemned the habit while innkeeper Bernard Hadfield noted most dogs drink moderately though at least one staggered home after a night of beer.
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Prestwich
England
C. H. T. Wade
A. L. Williams
Health Committee
Bernard Hadfield
Hadfield
UN Opens Fourth General Assembly At Flushing Meadows
Delegates from 59 nations gathered to start the UN fourth General Assembly at Flushing Meadows New York to address age old world trouble spots. The opening session began with the election of a new assembly president to succeed Dr. H. V. Evatt of Australia.
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New York
United Nations
U.N. General Assembly
Flushing Meadows
Assembly
H. V. Evatt
Australia
Opening Date and Selling Period Urged for Burley Tobacco
Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation tobacco committee urged opening no earlier than November 30 and a three hour daily selling period to prevent rushed marketings of uncured crop. Burley Auction Warehouse Association had five hour days in first week last year and markets opened November 29. Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association directors meet October 5 to elect officers for a five state area.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Burley Tobacco
Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation
Burley Auction Warehouse Association
Lexington
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
Ohio
Missouri
Indiana
West Virginia
Executive Wounded By Wife's Relative in Dayton Shooting
53 year old H. E. McCrery, president of the Master Vibrator Co., was shot and critically wounded in his Dayton office. T. J. Conlin, 59, of San Francisco, brother-in-law of McCrery's wife, confessed to the shooting. No charges filed immediately.
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Dayton
H. E. MeceCrery
The
Master Vibrator Co
Fred B. Smith
T. J. Conlin
San Francisco
McCrery
Kabat named Ohio U education dean
George J. Kabat former dean at Maryland named dean of the College of Education at Ohio University by President John C. Baker. He succeeds Evan R. Collins who resigned June 15 to become president of Albany State Teachers College acting dean Harry Renz will stay until Kabat takes over.
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George J. Kabat
University of Maryland
Ohio University
John C. Baker
Kabat
Evan R. Collins
Albany, N.Y
State Teachers’ College
Harry FO Renz Nafacear
Weeny P. Row
Education
Dean Kabat
Winona (Minn.) High School
Winona State Teachers
Southern California
Minnesota
Colorado
Maryland
Winona State
Winona
Red Wing
University of Colorado
Trinidad State Junior College
Trinidad
Colo
U.S. Army
Army Engineers
Office of Strategic Services
U.S. Office of Education
U.S. Army Reserve
Murray Sees Steel Strike By Saturday
Washington AP report says President Truman has no plan to avert the steel strike and labor negotiators must reach an agreement by midnight Saturday. CIO head Philip Murray warns of a Saturday stoppage unless a company-financed welfare plan is agreed. Conciliators consider pension insurance talks as strikes widen in coal and at Missouri Pacific.
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Washington
White House
Truman
CIO
Philip Murray
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Ford Motor Coa
Murray
Ford
United Auto
No Link Seen In Deaths Of Friends
A Pleasants County jury returned a drowning verdict for Wred Berga 53 of Newport Ohio found in the Ohio River near St Marys West Virginia on Sept 13 195? The death followed the beating death of his friend Oscar Francis 75 in Newport near Marietta Ohio officials say no link found but investigations continue with two men jailed and one to take a lie detector test.
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Marietta
Pleasants County
W. Va
Wred Berga
Newport
Ohio
Berga
Ohio River
St. Marys
Oscar Francis
Francis
Here
C. E. McGinnis
London
Sympathy Strike Ties Up Columbus Terminal Dispute
A labor dispute halted the Columbus terminal of Commercial Motor Freight Inc and affected stations in Dayton Toledo Mansfield and Chillicothe. About 200 freight handlers and drivers refused to cross picket lines as auto mechanics who struck last Saturday walked out in sympathy.
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Columbus
Commercial Motor Freight, Inc
Ed Wiggins
Dayton
Toledo
Mansfield
Chillicothe
Missing Girl Janet Walker Found in Brushy Fork Creek
The body of 23 month old Janet Walker was found Monday in Brushy Fork near her grandparents home. She disappeared Saturday after a search by about 30 men. Sheriff Dwight Harmon said the child apparently fell into the creek and drowned.
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Georgetown
Janet Walker
Brushy Fork
Dwight Harmon
Youth Killed Climbing Ravenswood Flagpole at School
Dean Roush thirteen of Ravenswood died when a sixty foot flagpole cap broke and struck his head at Ravenswood High School around 8 15 p m. Two companions aged fifteen and twelve escaped serious injury and later learned of the death from townspeople. The coroner ruled accidental death and Roush leaves five brothers and four sisters.
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Ravenswood
Ravenswood High School
Dean Roush
C. Royal Kessel
Jackson County
Roush
B. M. Chambers
Paul Cox
John Woodyard
Charles Hall
Chester Roush
Howard
Racine
Marlin
Parkersburg
Earl
Robert
Galen
Leah Ann Bibbee
Northenswood
Rita Jean Roush
Blanche and
Elizabeth
Woman Held For Killing Daughter in West Virginia
In Kingwood, 65 year old Jennie McIntee is jailed on first degree murder charges after authorities say she killed her 5 year old daughter Mae Piper and kept the body at home for a week. Sheriff Benson said McIntee told him she shot her daughter because she pert her last Tuesday.
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Kingwood
W. Va
Jennie McIntee
Preston
J. H. Benson
MelIntee
Mae Piper
Grape Thicket
Court Award Is Pending in West Virginia
J W Coole of Marietta Ohio may receive 5000 from the state for false imprisonment as the West Virginia Supreme Court ordered Auditor Sims to appear January 11 to show cause. Coole, once convicted of bad checks and later pardoned, won 10000 from the court of claims, reduced by the legislature to 5000.
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Charleston
W. Va
J. W. Coole
Marietta
Ohio
West Virginia Supreme Court
Edgar B. Sims
Coole
Jackson County
Court of Claims
Sims
Heiress Barbara Hutton Plans Medical Checkup in U.S.
Princess Barbara Hutton Troubetzky, American Woolworth heiress, returns to the United States after three years for a medical checkup. She arrives pale and thin at New York and will stay several months.
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New York
Babs” Hutton
Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy
Woolworth Five and Ten Cent
United States
Pierre
Extended forecast for Columbus warms then cools
Temperatures average 3-5 degrees above normal with a high near 68 and a low around 49. Warmer midweek, cooler Thursday, then warmer Friday and cooler weekend. Rain chances scattered Wednesday and around Sunday with partial precipitation totals.
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Columbus
Norman
Sunys
Fall in Shaft Injures Man at E M Poston Plant
Edward Dailey of Pomeroy is in critical condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a 40 foot fall in a pipe shaft at the Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co E M Poston Plant under construction at Hamley Run. Dailey, worker for Gustav Hersch electrical subcontractors, reportedly struck his head on impact. The incident marks the second injury in four days at the plant following a New Marshfield man hurt when an object fell on his head.
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Edward Dailey
Pomeroy
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
E. M. Poston
Hamley Run
Dailey
Gustav Hersch Electrical
Fugitive's Habeas Action Seen Ending Today
Florida fugitive Fred Fox seeks to block extradition from Ohio in a federal habeas case that began a week ago. Fox, 21, a former probationer, has been detained in Cuyahoga County jail most of the 13 months since escaping a Florida prison camp in June 1948 while serving a 10 year term for armed robbery.
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Cleveland
Florida
Fred Fox
Cuyahoga County
Slayer of Girl Sentenced to Chair in Ohio Case
Dwight David Tudor of Columbus, 27, convicted slayer of 14 year old Springfield girl Mary Ann Page last October 3, was sentenced to electrocution at the Ohio Penitentiary on January 6. Page was shot in the Boone Station school yard near Springfield. Tudor was indicted last October.
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Springfield
Dwight David Tudor
Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Mary Ann Page
Boone Station
Here
Tudor
Jurist Heads Investigation of Ship Noronic Disaster
A Supreme Court justice, R L Kellock, will lead Canada's inquiry into the Noronic disaster. The toll stands 121 dead and 84 missing as authorities begin a formal probe after a Great Lakes steamer fire. Identified bodies reach 41. a memorial mass drew about 1500 at St Michael's Cathedral.
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Toronto
Ont
Red Cross
St. Michael's Cathedral
Taft Warns on Communism in 100 Day Appeal Tour
Sen Robert A Taft R Ohio urged in Sidney Piqua and Troy that the basic issue facing the U S is the contest with Communism He warned against abandoning the present free economic system and urged bolstering the U S Air Force while noting Russia may not attack now and Britain pound devaluation could affect trade but not U S much.
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Sidney
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Piqua
Troy
Russia
Britain
U. S
Europe
United States
Taft
Holdup Suspect Loses Extradition Fight
Nashville Tenn Charles FE Hunter 35 wanted in Lima and Piqua Ohio holdups lost his bid against extradition to Ohio. Gov Gordon Browning signed the order after a three hour hearing. Hunter is charged with shooting with intent to kill in a Piqua robbery where two officers were wounded.
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Nashville
Tenn
Charles FE. Hunter
Lima
Piqua
Ohio
Earle David Bircham
Gordon Browning
Hunter
Search Abandoned For Two Italian Fliers
New York reporters say searchers have abandoned the hunt for two Italian fliers missing since Friday night on a flight from the Azores to New York. Coast Guard issued orders to halt the search after planes and surface vessels scoured a wide area of the Atlantic. Brondello and Camboglio are presumed lost.
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New York
Azores Islands
Atlantic Ocean
Coast Guard
Bonered
M. Brondello
Camboglio
Unemployed Totals Over Half Million In Coal Walkout
Ohio miners strike blocks 700 pits after 16 000 workers walk out over welfare fund payments. District 6 chief Adolph Pacifico cites pension cuts and disability losses. some operations remain in West Virginia. Nationwide, 480 000 dues payers stay away as railroads furlough 26 000 workers amid violence reports and sharp industry criticism.
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Columbus
Adolph Pacifico
United Mine Workers District 6
Ohio
Pacifico
District 6
Windsor Power House Coal Co
Beech Bottom
W. Va
West Virginia Panhandle
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Kentuck
West Virginia
William Tuck
Virginia
UMW
Washington
Southern Coal Producers Association
Bluefield
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Paris
London Stock Exchange
Ohio U. Education
Creek
Babs’ Hutton
U.S
Slayer of Girl
Today’s Messenger
Athens Chauncey
Gallipolis
Glouster
Jurist
Lhre
Meigs County
UMWA
Joseph Moody
Southern Coal Producers
UMW Fund
Moody
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Company
Love
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