Portsmouth City Ends City Manager Tussle
Portsmouth officials suspend city manager Donald C. Wagner amid a dispute over removal. Acting head Charles S. Stevenson takes over as the city joins Ohio towns in city manager crises. Wagner demands a hearing and written reasons before any final vote.
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Portsmouth
Charles S. Stevenson
Ohio
Donald C. Wagner
Wagner
Toledo
Springfield
Hamilton
George Weat
John Salladay
Long Beach
Glen Kizer
Steve Stewart
Albert Weghorst
George Koerner
Kizer
Weghorst
Koerner
Couple Indicted For Illegal Renting Case In Columbus
Kenneth M. Morris and his wife Mary both 32 were indicted by a grand jury in Columbus Ohio for renting a home they did not own. They are charged with obtaining money under false pretenses for six months rent amounting to 325 dollars from Mrs. Willard Parsley. The indictment does not reveal how they convinced Parsley they held the rental.
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Columbus, CO
Kenneth M. Morris
Mary
Willard Parsley
Parsley
Plane crash kills Dayton businessman and two women
Dayton general manager W. J. Blanchard, 48, of General Motors Aero Products, and two Dayton women Miss Vivian Johnson, 29, and Miss Betty Charles, 28, were found dead in a Navion wreckage 10 miles west of Columbus after a missing flight from Jamestown, New York. Coroner's findings indicated a likely forced landing with the plane bouncing through trees into a small stream. An extensive four‑state search followed the overdue report.
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State Highway
Columbus
General Motors Corp
W. J. Blanchad
GM Aero Products
Dayton
GM Dayton
Betty Ann Charles
Vivian Johnson
International Soundphoto
Here
Jamestown
N. Y
W. J. Blanchard
General Motors’ Aero Products
Betty Charles
Robert A. Evans
Evans
Blanchard
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Ground Is Broken For Lake Logan Dam
Ground breaking occurred today for the dam to impound 404 acre Lake Logan on Clear Fork. Bulldozers work at the site as construction is expected to gain momentum. Parkersburg Excavation Co., holder of the contract, estimates completion within two months.
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Logan
Clear Fork
Parkersburg Excavation Co
Truman to Meet Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Friday
President Truman will meet with Madame Chiang Kai-Shek on Friday, as announced by the White House. The talks will occur amid ongoing U.S. policy considerations in Asia and relations with the Chinese Nationalist government.
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Truman
Chiang
Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
White House
Cantwell 88 Dies After Ill Health at Daughter’s Home
John Cantwell aged 88 died at 7:20 PM Monday at his daughter’s home in Ohio Valley. A Washington County native and retired pipeline worker he lived with his daughter for 19 years. Funeral 1 PM Friday at Goose Creek Baptist Church Ritchie County West Virginia with Cantwell Cemetery burial. Survivors include three daughters, two sons, four brothers and a sister.
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John Cantwell
Vern Hankison
North Orchard Street
Washington County
Cantwell
Goose Creek Baptist Church
Ritchie County
W. Va
Augusta Dotson
Logan
Lucy Daugherty
Petroleum
Helen
Gunman Uses Bicycle to Flee Scene of Holdup
In Muncie Indiana a daylight holdup of two Ball Stores officials yielded $28570. The gunman fled on a bicycle left in an alley after being chased by passerby M Ray Applegate advertising agency owner. Fred Staver credit manager pursued a second robber but was outdistanced.
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Muncie
Ind
M. Ray Applegate
Fred Staver
Ball Stores
Lame duck session erupts in loud Capitol antics
In Columbus Ohio the 97th General Assembly hosted a noisy session as Gov Thomas J Herbert delivered a stern message while workmen on the capitol roof rapped with voices and wooden duck calls echoed through the chamber. The scene grew as lawmakers and a pressroom bard chronicled a chorus of quacks and gavel blasts amid hurried roll calls.
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Ken Davis
Columbus
97Th General Assembly
Thomas J. Herbert
State Capitol
Ohio legislature approves extra TB hospital funds in special session
The lame duck Ohio General Assembly met for nine hours and approved a 1 million dollar emergency appropriation for a tuberculosis hospital at Ohio State University Medical Center. Gov. Thomas J. Herbert plans to sign after seeking 907 thousand more for a Wooster Apple Creek project. Thirty-seat Senate vote and House approval followed amid bids deadline December 10. Senate also confirmed 17 gubernatorial appointments including Bricker to OSU and Hughes to Wilberforce State College of Education and Industrial Arts.
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Columbus
Ohio
Thomas J. Herbert
House Senate
Ohio State University
Medical Center
House
A. G. Lancione
Belmont County
Paul Hinkle
Mercer County
Lee D. Kepner
Trumbull County
Senate
Apple Creek
John W. Bricker
Ray T. Hughes
Wilberforce University
State College of Education and Industrial Arts
Services Arranged For Mrs Allie Bay
Funeral services for Mrs Allie Bay 90 widow of Thomas Bay will be at 2 PM Thursday at Heinlein Funeral Home with Rev Lloyd Evans of Nelsonville officiating burial in New Plymouth Cemetery. Mrs Bay died Monday in Lowell Indiana at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Paul Riggs. She taught at Smith Chapel Methodist Church and was a longtime member of New Plymouth Presbyterian Church and a charter member of the New Plymouth WCTU and grange.
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Allie Bay
Thomas Bay
Heinlein
Lloyd Evans
Nelsonville
New Plymouth
Logan
Lowell
Ind
Bay
John A
Josephine Ralston Shaw
Smith Chapel Methodist Church
New Plymouth Presbyterian Church
Old
Red Army Planes Fly In Berlin Airlift Lanes
Russian military planes flew in all three Western airlift corridors to Berlin today in what Allied officers described as a normal amount of sorties for a clear day.
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Red Army
Berlin
Ohio Democrats Set Caucuses to Map Strategy
Democrats in Ohio begin the 98th General Assembly with caucuses to plan strategy. Senator Margaret A. Mahoney of Cleveland is named Senate majority floor leader. House contenders for speaker include John F. Cantwell and others as new majority seeks control.
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Columbus
Margaret A. Mahoney
Cleveland
Senate
98Th General Assembly
Ohio General Assembly
Anna F. O’neil
Akron
O’neil
House
John F. Cantwell
Youngstown
C. William O'Neill
Washington
Cantwell
James M. Carney
Ray M.white
Millersburg
Stephen A. Zona
Roy E. Harmony
Sidney
Shelby County
Delbert Nixon
Stratton
Jefferson County
William Watts Dies After Sudden Heart Attack
William Watts, 77, a retired farmer and lumberman from Washington Township, died Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. of a heart attack at his home while tending corn on his farm. A lifelong resident, he is survived by two sons Otis of Logan and Russell of Lancaster. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Leonard Funeral Home with Rev. A. N. Grueser officiating. burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral home where friends may call.
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William Watts
Washington Township
Watts
Leonard Funeral Home
A. N. Grueser
Oak Grove
Postmaster General Seeks Higher Rates Across Mail
Postmaster General Donaldson said he will ask Congress to boost rates on all mail except first class. He noted that higher rates will have to come on all low revenue producing mail.
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Washington
Donaldson
Congress
Chambers Faces More Questions By Grand Jury
Whittaker Chambers, the confessed courier for a pre-war communist ring, faced further grand jury questioning in New York. The hearings followed sworn testimony by Chambers and Alger Hiss about restricted documents and a hollowed-out pumpkin evidence linked to Soviet espionage. Rankin alleged State Department espionage contributed to Pearl Harbor, without naming individuals.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Grand Jury
House un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Maryland
House Committee
House
Washington
John Rankin
D-Miss
Pearl Harbor
Louis Van Demis Dies at 67 in Logan
Louis Van Demis 67 coal dealer in Logan died at 825 p m Monday in Hocking Valley Hospital after six weeks as patient. Native of Massachusetts he lived in Logan 17 years coming from Mannington West Virginia. Funeral services by Heinlein Funeral Service to be announced. Survivors wife Virginia daughter Chester Parrish brother Frank and three sisters. Member of Izaak Walton League Hocking County Chapter and Masonic Lodge.
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Louis van Demis
Logan
Hocking Valley Hospital
Massachusetts
van Demis
Mannington
W. Va
Heinlein
Virginia
West Main Street
Chester Parrish
Rachel
Frank
Utica
van Dennis
Hocking County
Izaak Walton League
Masonic Lodge
Chiang Admits Army Trapped In Central China
Government sources admitted communist forces have encircled about 110 000 Nationalist troops on a front eight miles long and five miles deep southwest of Suchow. Eight or nine Red columns complete the trap as Nationalists retreat toward Peiping. Civil officials evacuated Suchow hindering operations. The government denies the encirclement though admits reports.
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Nanking
China
Central China Front
Suchow
Chen Yi
Peiping
Twelfth Army
Nelsonville Hospital Contracts to Be Inked
Nelsonville moves to sign contracts this week for a new 74 bed hospital and public health center. Architect Louis F Kars berger of Columbus notes the $1 250 000 project will be built by the Sisters of St. Francis of Stella Niagara New York with 200 000 raised by subscription and a federal grant covering one third of the cost.
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Columbus
Nelsonville
Louis F. Karsberger
Sisters of St. Francis of Stella
Niagara
N. Y
Wife Reports Sgt. Smith Definitely Safe
Telegram from Sgt. Joseph L. Smith’s wife in Spokane confirms he is safe after being listed among missing in a mid ocean crash. Navy rescue on Rendova saved 33 exhausted crewmen from two crowded life rafts after a 40 hour search in rolling seas 1200 miles southwest of Honolulu.
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Sgt. Smith
Logan
Joseph L. Smith
James E. Briggs
92Nd
Spokane Air Base
Wash
Russell Mason
Bert Smith
California
Air Force
Logan High School
Okinawa
Guam
Tokyo
Sharon
Spokane
Navy
Rendova
William A. Colvin, Jr
Cross City
Fla
Robert C. Harrell
Milledgeville
Charles T. Millapaugh
Port
Honolulu
Errol Flynn Arrested After Shin Kick at Police Station
Errol Flynn 38, film star, was arrested at 2 A M after allegedly kicking Patrolman Bergeles in the shin during an argument at a police station. Flynn faced third degree assault charges and posted $500 bail with companion Robert Graham Wahn, a 36 year old publicity writer, on disorderly conduct.
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New York
Errol Flynn
Flynn
Robert Graham ‘Wahn
Wahn
John Perona
el Morocco
Joseph Bergeles
Joseph Gardner
Henry Brinkworth
Bronx
Pilice
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Mass
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