Stassen Claims Insiders Profited Millions in War-Time Trading
Harold E. Stassen testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee that administration insiders earned about 4 million dollars trading commodities since the war. He accused Edwin W. Pauley of misreporting trades and urged a full investigation as officials discuss wheat and oats market activity and related inquiries continue.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Senate Appropriations
Edwin W. Pauley
Army
Royall
Wallace H. Graham
Truman
Department of Agriculture
Pauley
Pauly
House
Ways and Means
Rep
Hoffman
R-Mich
Andresen
Rminn
Midwest
Chicago
Rabbit Farms Operator Files for Republican Governor Nomination
William L. White a 52 year old operator with a chain of angora rabbit farms announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor He said he has circulated petitions in 51 counties and pledged a constructive program with 10 concrete working rules for all the people.
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Newark
William L. White
White
President Truman Discharges USO With Honorable Note
President Truman announced an honorable discharge for the United Service Organizations after seven years of entertaining and comforting U S armed forces and allies. He stated the USO fulfilled its commitment and completed its wartime responsibility with signal distinction in a White House ceremony.
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Washington
Jan
Truman
United Service Organizations
USO
U.S
White House
Aged Doctor Dies in Cincinnati Crash
Cincinnati's oldest practicing physician 87 year old Dr. Charles N. Cooper died from a skull fracture after being struck by an automobile last Tuesday. He passed away last night in Cincinnati where he had practiced medicine for decades.
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Cincinnati
Charles N. Cooper
Flaming Red Cone Sighted Over Wilmington Sky
Army and civilians observed a flaming red cone with a green mist over Clinton County Army Airbase Wilmington on Wednesday night. Six Army personnel reported the object moving at high speed between 7 20 and 7 55 PM as it vanished beyond the horizon.
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Wilmington
Clinton County Army Airbase
Army
Clinton County
Louisville
Thomas F. Mantell, Jr
Gale F. Walter
James Hudson
Turkey Receives Four U.S. Fleet Submarines
The United States will transfer four fleet type submarines and Navy crews to Turkey as part of a 15-vessel transfer under the $100 million Turkish aid program approved by Congress. The move comes as about 1,000 Marines head toward the region to bolster crews aboard U.S. ships in the Mediterranean amid the Greek conflict.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
Mediterranean
U.S
Greece
Russia
Europe
Marshall
Iset
Gesaael
China
New Traffic Tag Plan To Start Tomorrow In Logan
Logan's modified traffic ticket plan starts Saturday with overtime parking fines cut to five cents if paid within one hour. The five cent option is available at the police station's special parking meter. fines rise to one dollar if not paid within the hour. Mayor Roger W. Friend announced the change after city council approval.
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Logan
Roger W. Friend
Friend
Clark County Plans New Fairgrounds
Clark County Agricultural Society announced Bryan P. Sandles as construction engineer to aid in selecting a new site and building new facilities for the long dormant Clark County fair. If the site is not ready by August the 1948 fair will likely be held at the Odd Fellows Home farm, with a first fair in over 20 years expected.
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Springfield
Clark County Agricultural Society
Bryan P. Sandles
Oddfellows
Ohio Veterans Urged to Seek Bonus Money in Banks
Rep. McCulloch proposes Ohio advertise to persuade veterans to save their forthcoming state bonus payments rather than spend them. He estimates up to 800,000 veterans may receive about 300 million dollars, and urges banks, credit unions, and newspapers to promote saving in banks, building and loan associations, or government bonds to curb inflation and build a nest egg.
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Washington
McCulloch
Ohio
Erate
Lausche Silent On 1948 Ohio Governor Run
In Wooster Ohio pundits stayed puzzled as former governor Frank J Lausche declined to announce his 1948 Democratic bid at a Jackson Day banquet in Smithville He voiced views on price control aid to Europe UN and Marshall Plan while hinting at no formal commitment State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson announced another candidacy at the event
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United Nations
Lausche
Smithville
Ray Miller
Cleveland
Joseph T. Ferguson
New Orleans Bank Robbed of $100,000
Four armed unmasked men held up the mid city branch of Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans and escaped with about $100000 in cash. Detective Tardo said $60000 stored in the vault was missing and about $40000 was stolen from other vault areas and teller cages.
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New Orleans
Hibernia National Bank
Joseph Tardo
Storage House Burns at Wright Plant in Lockland
A salvage material storage house burned at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation plant in Lockland today. Firemen estimated the damage unofficially at a large amount as crews fought the blaze.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Lockland
European Aid Urgency Cited
Ambassador Lewis Douglas told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that large armament outlays and rising living costs could follow if Congress rejects a European recovery program. He warned of inflationary effects at home and the risk of an isolated, armed world if aid is not provided.
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Washington
Lewis Douglas
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
London
Europe
Douglaston
United States
Bids Sought for Burr Oak Flood Control Dam
Huntington District Engineers advertise for bids on concrete work for the Burr Oak flood control dam on Sunday Creek near Athens Ohio. Bids open February 9 with an estimated cost of 2 million dollars for an earth and rock filled structure forming a 26 900 acre foot reservoir. the project also supplies water to nearby communities.
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Huntington
W. Va
Huntington District Corps of Engineers
Sunday Creek
Hocking River
Athens
Ohio
Crippled Russian Ship Awaits Tow Off Japan
The heavily listing Russian ship Dvina with 78 passengers waits for 50 foot waves to subside so rescue vessels can tow the 7,600 ton ship toward Hakodate, 260 miles away, after drifting 50 miles from its previous position.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hakodate
Farmer Ends Life in Ohio Basement
Ravenna Ohio sheriff reports 56 year old farmer George Rosenow was found dead in his basement from a self inflicted shotgun wound.
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Ravenna, O
George Rosenow
UN Secretary Launches Palestine Commission
Trygve Lie asserts the Security Council will use all powers to enforce Palestine partition by October 1 1948 with an independent Arab state and independent Jewish state to follow. He notes the General Assembly approved the plan by a two thirds vote and vows UN authority in implementing the resolution.
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Lake Success
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Security Council
Palestine
Lie
Council
Assembly
General Assembly
Nelsonville Girl's Condition Improves After Car Crash
The condition of 5 year old Sharon Hardman improved to fairly good after being struck by a car while darting in front of a Madison Street home in Nelsonville. She sustained fractures of both arms and legs and is in Hocking Valley Hospital.
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Sharon Hardman
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley Hospital
Madison Street
Butter Price Drops for Third Straight Day in Cincinnati
Butter fell two cents a pound wholesale again in Cincinnati bringing the price to 86 cents, the third consecutive day of reductions.
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Cincinnati
Lewis Woltz Dies At Rockbridge Home
Lewis Woltz 72 retired blacksmith died at 2:20 A M at his Rockbridge home after a long illness. He once ran a Blacksmith shop with Clen Van Duren on East Front Street. Funeral at 2 P M Sunday Union Church Good Hope Township Rev Stanley Hanby officiating burial by Leonard Funeral Service. Survivors include wife Harriet two sons Francis Columbus Charles Rockbridge three daughters Alda Wharton Logan Cairo Dillon Sugar Grove Mabel Miller Pataskala six half brothers Jason Ray Isaac Manfred George Boyd all Michigan five half sisters Lola Hook Trimble Annie Knight Lancaster Grace Jewell Clara Ruth Mary Poling Michigan 19 grandchildren eight greats.
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Lewis Woltz
Rockbridge
Vic Woltz
East Fron Street
Clen van Duren
Union Church
Good Hope Township
Stanley Hanby
Leonard Funeral Service
Harriet
Francis
Columbus
Charles
Alda Wharton
Logan
Cairo Dillon
Sugar Grove
Mabel Miller
Pataskala
Jason Parker
Ray Parker
Michigan
Isaac Woltz
Manfred Woltz
George Woltz
Boyd Woltz
Mansfield
1947 Coal Output Estimate Raised
The National Coal Association today revised its 1947 bituminous production upward to 619,000,000 tons, increasing the chance final figures will come close to an all time annual record.
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Washington
National Coal Association
Marshall rejects resignation over European recovery plan
Secretary of State Marshall denied that he would resign if Congress rejects the European recovery program or alters his four year rebuilding plan. He said he appeared before the Senate committee only in advisory capacity and dismissed implications of returning to Virginia if his recommendations are blocked.
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Douglas
Marshall
Europe
Congress
Hatch
D-Nm
Smith
R-Nj
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Western
Miss Alice Bishop Dies at Age 86
Miss Alice C. Bishop age 86 of 531 East Hunter Street died at 2 A M in Hocking Valley Hospital after Monday admission. A Logan native and longtime Athens resident, she worked at Athens State Hospital and lived with sister Virginia the past 22 years. Funeral 2 P M Monday at Heinlein Funeral Home Rev Clinton Swengel officiating with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. sister is sole survivor.
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Alice C. Bishop
East Hunter Street
Hocking Valley Hospital
Logan
Bishop
Athens
Athens State Hospital
Virginia
Heinlein
Heinlein Funeral Home
Clinton Swengel
Oak Grove
Deputy Dies After Collapse En Route to Jail Duty
Joseph F. Koubek, 50, deputy sheriff at the county jail since 1943, collapsed and died on a bus while being transported to work in Cleveland on January 9.
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Cleveland
Joseph F. Koubek
Akron high school instructor charged in multiple burglaries
A 25 year old English instructor and six Akron men are jailed on burglary and larceny charges tied to a string of local robberies totaling about 10000 dollars. Detectives linked Ed ward J Phillips of Macedonia High School to several break ins with three accomplices arrested in a north side cafe.
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Akron, O
Akron
John Struzewski
Edward J. Phillips
Macedonia High School
Geofs Yee R. Guile
John Frank Basile
North Side
Struzewski
Paul A. Winngerter
Aneillio Prete
Phillips
Summit County
Akron Municipal
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Ruth Evans
Youngstown
Jack Gottleib
National Soundphoto
Clark County
Ivan Steiner
Wayne County
President Truman
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Farmer
Painter Memorial Hospital
McKeesport
Leona Lauffer
Edward Belkowski
Alice Benson
George Minda
Walter Slaters
U. N
Palestine Commission
U.N. Palestine Partition Commission
Alice Bishop
Philips
Guillet
Ugo
Basile
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