Auditor Reports Coshocton Finances in 1945 Balance
City Auditor W. J. Beall reports Coshocton in first class financial condition with 1945 balance of 167239.63 dollars after paying bills. Outstanding checks 4136.42 will raise total to 171376.05 when received. Waterworks led receipts at 101030.75 with 97230.02 balance.
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Coshocton
W. J. Beall
Beall
Coshocton National Bank
Waterworks Improvement Bank
General Fund
Coshocton National Bank and Waterworks Fund
Ohio Bureau Denies Unemployment Aid in Labor Disputes
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation rules unemployed workers tied to a wage dispute are ineligible for benefits under state law or the Readjustment Allowances Act. The decision mirrors a nationwide ruling that wages affected by a strike mean ineligibility even for nonmembers. In Columbus police search Kroger on Main Street for thieves who took about 500 to 1000 dollars in Saturday night to early Sunday break in and theft of several packages including cigarettes.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio
Charles H. Jones
Bureau
General Omar N. Bradley
Washington
John Cody
General Motors
Flint
Mich
General Bradley
Mr. Jones
Kroger
W. W. Rodabaugh
Rodebaugh
Navy Specialist Predicted Jap Attack on Sunday
Capt M Zacharias a naval intelligence specialist testified he forecast the Pearl Harbor attack nine months before December 7 1941. He told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee he warned Admiral Kimmel in March 1941 that if Japan began war with the United States it would likely start with a Sunday morning air strike on the fleet at Pearl Harbor. He said he did not try to predict the exact date.
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Washington
M. Zacharias
Naval Intelligence
Pearl Harbor
Zacharias
Adm
Husband E. Kimmel
Japan
United States
Fined $50 For Disturbance In Newcomerstown
NEWCOMERSTOWN Elmer Nichols was arrested Saturday for disturbing the peace and intoxication. He was fined $30 and costs and committed to Tuscarawas county jail in default of payment. The hearing was in the office of Mayor Ellis Bartholow.
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Newcomerstown
Elmer Nichols
Tuscarawak Country
Ellis Barthalow
Pipe line bid plans ready for city contractors
Plant and specifications for city contract No. three the building of a pipeline from municipal waterworks to General Electric plant were submitted to contractors today. Accepted bids must be returned to Safety Service Director Trubenbachs office by noon Feb. Contractors from Baltic Mansfield Mount Vernon and Chillicothe will consider city plans for acceptance.
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Municipal Waterworks
General Electric
Safety Service
Trubenbach
Baltic
Mansfield
Mount Vernon
Chillicothe
Woman Found Murdered in Her Bed in Springfield
Mrs. Margaret A Koons a 46 year old widow was murdered in her east side home. Coroner Austin Richards said her skull was crushed with a blunt instrument and she lay on a blood soaked bed. Police said her son Russell a 22 year old Navy veteran had been living with her but his bed was unused Friday night.
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Springfield
Margaret A Koons
East Side
Austin Richards
Japanese Farmer Accuses U S Forces Torture Killings
A Japanese farmer’s letter to American authorities accuses Higashi Mura home defense head in Chiba prefecture of torturing and executing three American airmen who parachuted from a crippled B 29 last July or August. The letter says the aviators were bound beaten and killed at a primary schoolhouse in a degrading and shameful manner.
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Tokyo
Home Defense Corps
Higashi Mura
Chiba Prefecture
Wer
Treasury launches largest tax evaders crackdown
The United States treasury plans a massive raid against tax evaders, aiming to recover an estimated 5 billion dollars yearly. Authorities claim undercover operations already active and Florida resorts like Miami targeted as investigators expand books of life insurers and large paid up annuities. About 6 000 new agents are being trained for a 7 000 strong effort, surpassing earlier budgets and tying to Morgenthau’s figure.
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Washington
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Miami
Cambridge Man Held in Fraud On Check Charge
Cambridge resident Robert Reynolds denied signing a $1,000 check made out to a Newark Mr Reynolds. He posted $4,000 bond after arraignment in mayor's court on an affidavit by Fred Schultze, Cam bridge bank cashier. The check came via the Egg Producers association of New York from Newark where Reynolds formerly lived. The Newark Reynolds never received the instrument.
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Cambridge
Robert Reynolds
Liberty
Newark
Fred Schultze
Cambridge Bank
Egg Producers Association of
New York City
County Fox Fund Receives $600 Boost From Commissioners
County commissioners approved a $600 addition to the fox bounty fund their third consecutive appropriation. Two prior grants were exhausted, and more than four foxes have been killed with bounty payments since January 1.
Recruiting Officer Assigned to Coshocton Area
Sgt. Tom Mattingly will be stationed in the Chamber of Commerce building from 8 to 5 daily on recruiting duty. Coshocton Zanesville area ranks third in Ohio for recruitment. Mattingly, a 10 year veteran, returned from the South Pacific after participating in the Philippine Liberation. He previously taught at Ohio State University for two and a half years. Since joining, he has served in 45 states. About 90 percent of Coshocton enlistments go to the air corps, prompting permanent assignment here due to high local activity.
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Tom Mattingly
City Chamber of Commerce
Coshocton
Zanesville
Ohio
South Pacific
Ohio State University
Sgt
Mattingly
Ten Die In Fire Of Tenement Apartments
Kansas City records its worst rooming house blaze in 20 years claiming ten lives. Among the victims are five children unable to attend school. The 27 families, about 90 residents, were housed in a deteriorating third floor building as flames spread from a first floor closet. Desperate residents clung to ledges and fled via the fire escape.
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Kansas City
Three Are Fined In Mayor Court For Light Violations
Donald Bailey James W Moore and Charles Wright were fined two dollars each in the mayor s court today for operating vehicles without proper lights.
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Donald Bailey
James W. Moore
Charles Wright
Radio fans hate Jack Benny contest winners named
Hollywood report says 277000 letters joined a contest on why they cannot stand Jack Benny. P Craig of Pacific Palisades won 2500 first prize, with 277k entries total. Charles Doherty of Cleveland won 35000 second prize and Joyce O Hara of Detroit won 1000 third prize. All prizes paid in victory bonds.
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Hollywood
Carroll P. Craig
Pacific Palisades
Calif
Jack Benny
Craig
Charles 5. Doherty
Bolton Square
Cleveland
Joyce O'Hara
Detroit
Fire devastates downtown Charleston in million-dollar blaze
A major fire in downtown Charleston destroyed 10 buildings over two blocks, causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Ruffner hotel guests evacuated after seven story walls and exploding shopfronts. four injuries reported, one hospital patient died during darkness and a birth occurred.
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Charleston
W. VA
West Virginia
Kanawha Valley Hospital
Owniy
Ruffner
N. Clark
Two Are Caught While Robbing Store
EAST LIVERPOOL UP two Youngstown men were arrested after attempting a supermarket robbery. They were being questioned about recent store robberies in Cambridge and Canfield Ohio and Wellsburg West Virginia. Police identified the suspects as Joseph Bova 36 and Joseph Reiba 23, held on armed robbery charges.
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East Liverpool
Youngstown
Cunmmbrina
Canfield
Wellsburg
W. Va
Joseph Bova
Joseph
Reiba
Meat Famine Averted In Major Packing Centers
AFL and CIO workers back to duties as 134 seized plants resume under federal supervision. Department of Agriculture officials warn it will take nearly a week for steaks to return. Meat counters thaw as Swift Armour Wilson and Cudahy plants report improved attendance. New York faces possible ongoing shortage due to a separate driver strike.
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Chicago
AFL
CIO
Paw
Department of Agriculture
Meat Capital
Swift, Armour, Wilson and
Cudahy
Omaha
St. Paul
Minn
Dess Moines
Kansas City
Kan
UL Teamsters
Big Four
Army to Run Germany Through 1946 Despite Civilian Plan
State Department asks War Department to continue administering occupied Germany at least until end of 1946. Aiming to transfer only police functions after July 1, officials cite top level indecision on future responsibility for actual operations. A paper transfer may occur this summer as the Army civil-izes the setup amid civilian recruitment uncertainty. President Truman had set a July 1 civilian authority goal last fall under White House oversight.
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Washington
State Department
War Department
Germany
Truman
White House
City Council to Discuss Meters and Park Addition
In the second meeting of the month city council members will convene this evening in city hall county chambers. Parking meters and the Cambridge Park addition will be placed under consideration.
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City Hall County
Cambridge Park
Ohio utility workers seek talks in Washington over power strike
Union and company conferees head to Washington after CIO unions postpone a strike threat by 8 000 workers across Ohio Edison Ohio Power and Light and Dayton Power and Light. The dispute centers on a 20 cent hourly wage rise as 2 500 000 customers would face outages. The meeting with Secretary Schwellenbach aims to avert a shutdown and test a fact finding panel.
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CIO
Ohio
Ohio Power
Ohio Editson
Dayton Power and Light Companies
Washington
Che
Weston Brown
Philo
Ohio Power Company
Coshocton
Zanesville
Br. A. Lewis
Canton
United Electrical Workers
Dennison
Uhrichsville
New Philadelphia
Guernsey County
United Utility Workers
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Schwellenbach
Ohio Edison
Ohio Power and Light
West Virginia
Ohio Edison Co
Akron
Walter H. Sammis
Joseph A. Fisher
New York
Utilities Workers Union
William R. Munger
Dayton
Landon Critiques U.S. Policy in Europe
Alfred M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential candidate, accuses U.S. policy of inconsistency from Moscow to San Francisco. He says the United Nations charter was walked out on and warns the policy risks dividing the world into spheres of power and influence. He cites differing stances at Moscow Yalta London and San Francisco and claims Byrnes "winked out" on the UN charter.
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Topeka
Kan
America
United Nations
Alfred M. Dandon
Women's
Republican Club
Moscow
Yalta
Council of Ministers
London
San Francisco
Landon
Russia
Europe
Balkans
James ¥. Byrnes
San F
Auto Pacts Setting Pace For Others
United Press reports a wave of labor accords as two auto makers and a government mediated deal end strikes. Ford and Chrysler grant 18 percent hourly boosts, CIO and AFL packinghouse workers return to work, and railroad and electrical wage disputes move toward arbitration and settlement prospects.
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United Press
CIO
AFL
CTO
United Auto Workers
Ford and
Chrysler
UAW
Ford
Ohio
Virginia
Kentucky
Radio Corporation of America
United Electrical Workers
RCA
Camden
N. J
General Electric
Westinghouse
General Motors
Union Shows Picket Power But Withdraws
In New York 2000 striking ACA CIO members formed a shoulder to shoulder cordon around the Western Union building and blocked 400 non-striking workers briefly. ACA President Joseph P. Selly ordered the blockade lifted, saying it showed union power with one minor fistfight and an arrest. Ashes Scattered near Kelleys Island. A chartered plane scattered Albert L. Cook’s ashes in Lake Erie after his death Friday, as requested.
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New York
American Communications Association
CIO
Western Union
ACA
Joseph P. Selly
Selly
Sandusky
Albert L. Cook
Kelleys Island
Lake Erie
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Bill
Waterworks Department
Navy
Jap Farmer
Treasury Department
FOX
Manhattan
Bikini Island
Pacific
Fred Ellenberg
U. S
Kearly
Nion
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