Navy in the Mediterranean Backing U S Policy Forrestal Says
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal announced that U S naval forces remain in the Mediterranean to support American foreign policy. He stated ships would stay for some time and that the FDR would be replaced when withdrawn, outlining goals to back Turkey, aid Greece, and seek a peaceful Trieste settlement while supporting Allied occupation efforts and U S interests in the region.
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Mediterranean
Forrestal
Washington
United States
Ia Beka Imad
AL Wes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR
Turkey
Dardanelles
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Lovers’ Fatal Split at OSU Ends in Double Death
Two Ohio State University juniors in engineering, Alice Krone Patterson and Donald Throne, were found shot dead in Columbus in what police called the climax of a lover’s quarrel. Patterson’s body lay beside Throne’s after he shot her and then killed himself with a .22 pistol. The pair, who had dated about a year, reportedly faced a breakup before Throne persisted. The incident occurred near Dr. Robert Higgy’s residence, with the pistol found beside the bodies. Patterson had been living at the Higgy home since August.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
College of Engineering
Alice Krone Patterson
Allan Dewitt Patterson
Lock Haven
University Bureau of Educational Research
Donald Throne
Alma G. Throne
Eau Claire
Wis
Throne
Westiminster Foundation
Patterison
Margery Metcalf
Miss Patterson
Higgy
Washington
San Francisco
AFL
CIO
Homes Completed in August Reach 62,800 Units
Washington reports that home builders started 101,000 new dwellings in August and completed 62,800, better completions than July while starts fell by 31,400. Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt notes the August figures miss July’s goal projection of 1,200,000 veterans homes started this year.
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Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
Wyatt
Grange Plans To Boost Livestock Production Policy
Columbus report says the Ohio State Grange executive committee favors either pricing livestock to ensure farmer profit or removing ceilings. Chillicothe prepares a six day sesquicentennial celebration titled The Festival of Song beginning tomorrow, with Vivian Allen Richards crowned sesquicentennial queen. Lexington obituary notes Charles Barry Shannon, 55, Florida publisher and associate of Col. El R Bradley, has died.
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Columbus
Ohio State Grange
Joseph W. Fichter
Grange
Chillicothe
Vivian Allen Richards
Store Manager Killed in Auto Crash at Woolworth
Harry M. Brown, 4 percent manager of the F. W. Woolworth Co. store, died in Mercy Hospital Saturday from a fractured skull suffered in an automobile collision. He held a supervisory post in Tiffin. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Tiffin
Harry M. Brown
F. W. Woolworth Co
Mercy Hospital
Danube shipping freedom debated at Balkan peace talks
In the Balkan economic commission a nine to five vote backed writing a Danube shipping clause into forthcoming peace treaties with Balkan states. Senator Vandenberg urged guaranteed freedom of trade on the Danube, supported by Britain, as Yugoslavia cautioned against a river regime divided by restrictive administrations. The issue ties to Trieste disputes as the conference nears its final week.
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Paris
Balkan
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Balkans Economic Commission
United States
Britain
Romania
Vandenberg
Balkan’ Economic Commission
Gladwyn Jebb
Russia
Stanque Simic
Danube
Ile
Austria
Germany
Trieste
Free State of
Conciliators named in Pittsburgh strike action deepens crisis
Washington conciliation service and Labor Department named federal mediators to join Charles Kurtz in urgent talks with Duquesne Light Co and the 3500 member independent union. Pittsburgh fears transit halt continues as hotel workers threaten a separate strike, with Mayor Lawrence calling the city stricken.
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Pittsburgh
Conciliation Service
Washington
Duquesne Light Co
Oil Stove Explosion Claims 17YearOld Dexter Girl
Seventeen year old Janet Cleland died at Holzer Hospital after an oil stove exploded at her Nextar home Friday afternoon. Neighbors heard the blast. firemen contained the blaze. She is survived by parents Floyd and Neva Cleland and eleven siblings. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm in the Dexter Church with burial in Miles Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Janet Cleland
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Nextar
Cleland
Floyd
Neva Cleland
Miss Cleland
Weyland
Wendell
Eleanor
Jean
June
Ondine
Maxine
Earl Gardner
Clyde
Children Die Mother Held in Texas Bathtub Tragedy
In Cleveland Texas a 30 year old mother, Mrs. A H Brent, wife of an oil worker, was charged with two counts of murder after her two children Linda, age three, and James, 18 months, were found submerged in a bathtub. County attorney Jeff Cochran said neighbors broke in during frantic screams to find the children in about a foot of water. Mrs. Brent sat on the bathroom floor.
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Cleveland
Tex
A. H. Brent
Maricabo
Venezuela
Linda
James
Jeff Cochran
Brent
Labor Party Domination Expected in Australia
Early tabulations in Australia indicate Prime Minister Joseph B Chiefley’s Labor Party poised to regain power. Opponents Liberal and Country needed 13 Labor seats to gain a majority, with no clear sign many Labor MPs had been unseated.
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Sydney
Australia
Joseph B. Chiefley
Labor
Liberal
Country
House of Representatives
Illinois Legionnaires Win National Contest
The Joliet band Harwood Fest No 5 of Joliet Illinois, a 56 member group of World War II and recent war veterans, was named national champion of the Legion after beating five rivals in the first postwar contest. Canton Post No 44 of Canton Ohio finished in second place.
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San Francisco
Joliet
Legion
Canton Post
Canton
Ohio
Explosion at Gillespie Bakery Plant in Cincinnati
An overheated oven caused a blast at the Gillespie Bakery plant in Cincinnati, damaging the facility by about $3,900. Fire Marshal Joseph Flaherty reported no employees were present at the time.
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Cincinnati
Gillespie Bakery Cn
Joseph Flaherty
Yank Troops Stoned By Italian Communists
Trieste officials disclosed that a mob of pro Yugoslav Italian Communists ambushed and stoned 19 American soldiers last night. Separate item notes that Ohio State University began a mass X ray program to screen students for tuberculosis during orientation week.
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Trieste
OSU
Columbus
Ohio State University
Arraignment Expected For Librarian Slayer
James Engie, 21, is expected to be arraigned on two counts of murder in the September 19 slaying of Emily Abernathy, 30, the public librarian. A grand jury indicted Engle on first degree murder and murder while attempting rape in the library basement.
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Bryan
James Engie
Emily Abernathy
Engle
Light Frost Predicted In Ohio As Chill Spreads
A cold air mass from the Northwest drove temperatures down up to 34 degrees in 24 hours. The Cleveland Weather Bureau forecast scattered frosts statewide tonight, with none expected in Cleveland due to Lake Erie’s tempering effect. Garden vegetables and flowers may be affected where frost occurs, but mature corn should withstand the low temperature.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Weather Bureau
Lake Erie
Half Million CPA Approves Cleveland Construction Projects
The Civilian Production Administration approved 24 non housing projects in the Cleveland district totaling $500,000. Included is a four story addition to Salem City Hospital costing $175,000. Fifteen projects totaling $168,000 were denied.
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Cleveland
Cleveland District
Civilian Production Administration
Salem City Hospital
Brinkman Pilots Boat To Win in Ohio Race
In wet conditions at New Martinsville Ohio River Regatta World Trophy Race Al Brinkman of Buffalo South Carolina steered the Seabiscuit to victory before about two thousand spectators.
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Brinkman Pilots
Ohio
New
Martinsville
W. Va
UPI
al Brinkman
Buffalo, S. C
Seabiscuit
Kidnapping Case Ties FBI Imposter to Beach Photo
Mrs. Mary Pyle Kimmey, 26, of Little Silver New Jersey, was abducted from her bed by an armed man who claimed to be an FBI special investigator. The FBI has joined the search for Chalmers Howard Laubaugh, suspected of impersonating a G-man.
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Mary Pyle Kimmey
Little Silver
FBI
Military Court Convicts WAC In Jewel Theft
Former WAC Captain Kathleen Nash Durant is found guilty by a military court of stealing 1,500,000 dollars worth of Hesse family jewels from Kronberg Castle. She receives five years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. Her husband Col Jack Durant and Maj David Watson face trial for complicity.
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Frankfurt
Germany
WAC
Kathleen Nash Durant
Hesse Family
Durants
United States
Capital Trolley Strike Is Voted
Columbus unionists announce a strike by street car operators and maintenance men starting at 12:01 am tomorrow. The move would disrupt transit service for about 475 000 residents in the city and suburbs. Thomas F. Miller, CIO Transport Workers Union local president, said Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co. operators voted unanimously to strike over pay negotiations.
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Columbus
Buckeye
Thomas F. Miller
CIO Transport Workers Union
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Former OU Graduate Joins OSU Business School Staff
Robert B. Miner, former chairman of business organization instruction at the Army's G I University in Okinawa, joins Ohio State University's College of Commerce and Administration as staff, and will begin teaching when the Fall quarter opens tomorrow. Miner is an Ohio University graduate.
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Columbus
Robert B. Miner
Army
G.I. University At
Okinawa
Ohio State University
College of Commerce and Administration
Omg University
Col Ramsey Named Acting Chief of 83rd Division
Col Russell A. Ramsey of Sandusky will serve as acting commander of the Bard Infantry Division now under reactivation. The appointment was made by Maj. Gen. Robert Beightler, commanding general of the Fifth Service Command, reflecting Ramsey’s prior role as chief of staff of the 37th Division.
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Columbus
37Th Division
Russell A. Ramsey
Sandusky
Bard
Ramsey
Robert §. Beightler
Fifth Service Command
Board Will Investigate Loudonville Plane Crash
The Civil Aeronautics Authority announced an investigation into a farm crash near Loudonville involving a high trainer plane. Two Akron sportsmen were killed, Les ter T. Rang, 38, a football and basketball referee, and John W. Ross, 39.
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Loudonville
Civil Aeronautics Authority Today
Here
Akron
Lester T. Rang
John W. Ross
Huffman misinformed claim disputed by meat packers
The American Meat Institute of Chicago and the Columbus plant of Swift & Co said Saturday that U S Senator James W Huffman had been misinformed when he asserted that plenty of cattle were being held on ranges by big packers to force higher meat prices.
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Columbus
American Meat Institute
Chicago
Swift& Co
U. S
James W. Huffman
One American Soldier Killed in Manila Attack
An unknown gang armed with machineguns killed one American soldier and wounded another at Fort McKinley Manila. U S Army authorities said the incident is under investigation and details are being gathered.
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Manila
Fort McKinley
Gunfire Breaks Prison Break at Chillicothe Reformatory
Federal and local officers hunted a fugitive after gunfire halted a mass escape at Chillicothe Federal Reformatory during the liberty period. Six inmates tried to flee the east fence, two were wounded and surrendered, two more were captured, and Homer L. Bach fled into the Scioto River bottom fields. The other inmate was contained inside the fence.
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Chillicothe
Allen Shank
Reformatory
Shank
Homer L. Bach
Jeff, Ky
Scioto River
Shadow Government Formed for Palestine Exiled Mufti Heads Regime
Highly placed Arab sources report a weekend assembly at Alexandria establishing a shadow government for Palestine. They name Haj Amin El Husseini as president and Jamal Bey Tusseini as premier and foreign affairs secretary in the new regime.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Alexandria
Haj Amin el Husseini
Jamal Bey Tusseini
Murder Suspect To Lima State Hospital For Observation
Newark sheriff says Ralph D. Hoffer 22, charged with slaying 11 year old Thelma Anderson, will be sent to Lima State Hospital for a 30 day observation period. Hoffer pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in the July 27 killing.
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Newark
William McElroy
Ralph, D. Hoffer
Thelma Anderson
Lima State Hospital
Hoffer
Holland Named to Senate to Fill Unexpired Term
Spessard L. Holland, 34, wartime Florida governor, named to U.S. Senate to fill the late Charles Andrews term. Holland won appointment after Andrews widow declined. he is the Democratic nominee for the full six year term starting in January.
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Spessard L. Holland
Florida
U.S. Senate
Charles ©. Andrews
Holland
Senator Andrews
Sam Simmons Sees Rewards for Workers Regardless of Race
Ira F. Lewis editor of the Pittsburgh Courier told a Charleston conference that America will reward any union willing to work white or black. He warned the end of free enterprise may be near, noting Southern Democrats and Republicans oppose some bills and may limit opportunities. He cited Washington Carver and Marian Anderson as proof that determined workers succeed alongside Lincoln, Edison, Rockefeller, and Jackson.
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Uni
Ira F. Lewis
Pittsburgh Courier
United States
State Executive Committee
Charleston
Lewis
South
Brooker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
Marian Anderson
Paul Robeson
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas A. Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Jackson
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Berlin
Allied Control Council For
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Martin Bormann
Rudolf Hess
S. D. McCoy
Veterans Administration
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Huffman
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