Churchill urges showdown with Russians to halt atomic progress
London January 23 Winston Churchill urged Western Europe to unite and confront Moscow before atomic weapons emerge. He backed Bevin's plan for a democratic union of Western Europe with France Benelux and Italy and called for rapid action beyond party politics. The stance signals a major shift in British foreign policy.
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London
Winston Churchill
Europe
Moscow
Churchill
House of Commons
Bevin
Soviet Union
France
Benelux
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Italy
United States
Fulton, Mo
Russia
Western Europe
Stassen to Seek Delegates in Ohio Primary
Harold E. Stassen plans to announce his bid for presidential delegates in Ohio primaries within 48 hours, said supporter Ray Finley of Akron. Finley will line up delegates in the 14th district while Stassen eyes ballot entries in Cleveland Toledo Youngstown Dayton East Liverpool Steubenville and possibly Springfield.
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Akron
Harold E. Stassen
Ohio
Ray Finley
Finley
Stassen
Washington
Earl Hart
Cleveland
Toledo
Youngstown
Dayton
East Liverpool
Steubenville
Springfield
Low Temperatures Threaten Ohio River Traffic
In Huntington West Virginia on January 23 forecasters predicted subzero temperatures dipping to minus five to eight degrees may halt river traffic on the Ohio River between Huntington and Cincinnati. Meteorologist Leroy Stone of the Huntington weather bureau warned of the dangerously cold night.
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Huntington
W. Va
Cincinnati
Leroy Stone
Huntington Weather Bureau
Red Cross Conference Set for Columbus February 10
A regional Red Cross conference will bring chapters from Ohio Indiana and West Virginia to Columbus on February 10 for regional discussions and planning sessions.
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Washington, D. C
Red Cross
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Columbus
Zero Weather Moves In For Indefinite Visit
Cold snap settles across Ohio with overnight lows from six below at Washington Court House to seven above in Cincinnati. The article notes persistent low temperatures with no expected relief.
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Columbus
Ohio
Washington Court House
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Cold snap yields subzero readings in Logan and Hocking
A low of three degrees above zero was recorded at the state highway garage thermometer in Logan and Hocking County. By noon a warm sun pushed the temperature to 13 above as highways cleared of snow and ice though some secondary roads remained snow covered.
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Logan
Hocking County
State Highway
Winter storm prompts gas emergency in Ohio
Snow flurries left highways slippery from Salem to Ashtabula while Akron and Columbus reported cold conditions. The Ohio Fuel Gas Company declared a public gas emergency with a 100 percent curtailment for 178 large users and urged major reductions in commercial and residential consumption. The cold spell contributed to three fires in the Cleveland Lorain and Cuyahoga Falls area causing $40,000 in damages and displacing two families.
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Columbus Weather Bureau
Salem
Alliance
Mount Gilead
Circleville
Wilmington
Georgetown
State Highway Department
Medina
Akron
Chardon
Painesville
Warren
Ashtabula
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Columbus
Cleveland-Lorain-Cuyahoga Falls
Theatrical Producer Killed in Manhattan Explosion
Max Jelin a 40 year old theatrical producer was killed in a powerful blast in his mid Manhattan apartment. Police said fumes from four open gas jets in the kitchen triggered the explosion which destroyed his unit and damaged two neighboring flats in the 18 story building at 300 East 57th Street.
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New York
Max Jelin
mid-Manhattan
East 57Th Street
Stassen Accuses Pauley of Grain Trade Profits
In Washington on January 23 Harold E. Stassen testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee that Edwin W. Pauley earned forty thousand one hundred seventy five dollars in profits from two grain transactions after a speech by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson. He said Pauley exploited Anderson’s off the cuff remarks on September 19 that grain prices were not realistic.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Edwin W. Pauley
Anderson
Stassen
Senate Appropriations
Pauley
Senators Near Accord On Marshall Plan Setup
Senators Vandenberg and Taft near a plan to run the European recovery program outside the State Department with the President as arbiter. A separate administrator would sit with a cabinet-level group while retaining broad independent powers, a proposal also backed by NAM.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Taft
State Department
Two Sleepers Die In Fire Set By Firemen
Oklahoma City January 23 Two men died early today from fatal burns in a blaze set by the city fire department to burn off a weed patch near the Santa Fe railroad tracks. The victims were found sleeping in the patch when the flames were started to remove a hazard.
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Oklahoma City
Gas Well Explosion Fatal to Farmer in Ohio
Amil Dibling, 76, farmer of Fostoria Ohio, died from burns after his private gas well exploded while he attempted to thaw a frozen connection at the cap. The well supplied gas to his home for cooking and heating. the blast blew the cap off and ignited the gas, striking him in the face.
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Fostoria
Amil Dibling
Man Leads Police To Body of Wife
A 63 year old retired merchant led officers to a shallow grave containing his third wife’s body. Neighbors say his second wife Sarah Lane accompanied him on a trip to West Virginia over two years ago and did not return. The missing 46 year old Ellen Buckingham Coyle Hayton was found buried in a canvas bag beside a highway north of Seattle.
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Seattle
Kitsap County
Dean Jones
Roscoe Lee Hayton
Sarah Alice Lane
West Virginia
M Hayton
Ellen Buckingham Coyle Hayton
Here
Senate Extends Grain Use Ban for Liquor
Washington January 23 Senate passed legislation continuing through February 29 the Agriculture Department authority to limit grain use in liquor. The measure, approved by voice vote, extends an expiration previously set for January 31 and now awaits House action.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
House
Authority
Munich Eats: Bavarian Workers Stage Mass German Strike
Munich reports hundreds of angry commuters mobbed American military trains as a hunger strike paralyzed southern Germany. Up to a million workers across 26 cities walked out, disrupting rail service and signaling continued action through the weekend.
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Munich
Germany
Axes Cows Ruining Ohio Sugar Maples
Geauga County sugar bush farmers heard from Cornell expert J A Cope that Ohio has the most ruthless slaughter of maple trees in the nation. He noted the number tapped fell from 2 5 million in 1916 to 0 5 million in 1946 while urging conservation at the maple production meeting.
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Chardon
Ohio
Geauga County
Cornell University
J. A. Cope
Ohio Agricultural Extension Service
Cope
Department of Agriculture
Slayer Convicted in Canton Theater Stabbing
A Canton common pleas court jury found 37 year old William E. Rehfus guilty of first degree manslaughter for the October 10 stabbing death of 26 year old Paul H. Hess at a Canton motion picture theater.
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Canton, O
Common Pleas Court
William E. Rehfus
Paul H. Hess
Canton
Kay Francis Ill as Stage Manager Is Held in Columbus
Kay Francis, renowned actress, fell seriously ill under mysterious circumstances in Columbus. Howard Graham, 37, her stage manager, was booked for investigation of assault to kill after witnesses reported a wild party at the Deshler Wallick hotel where Miss Francis was staying. She was moved to White Cross Hospital in fair condition and remained unconscious hours later. A hospital visit and police inquiry followed, with doctors not disclosing the illness details.
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Columbus
Kay Francis
Howard Graham
Miss Francis
Graham
State of the Union
Deshler- Wallick
White Cross Hospital
OSU Agriculture College Relocation Plans Announced
Ohio State University will relocate and expand its College of Agriculture west of the Olentangy River. Groundbreakings are planned this year for three new structures funded by the General Assembly, including a major agricultural laboratories building and additions to existing facilities.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
College of Agriculture
Rummell
General Assembly
Princess Greets Mihai with Kiss in Davos Meeting
Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma greeted former King Mihai of Romania with a kiss in Davos Switzerland. She arrived with Princess Margarethe for their first meeting since Mihai abdicated nearly a month earlier. Mihai waited in a jeep.
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Davos
Switzerland
Anne of
Bourbon-Parma
Mihai
Romania
Margarethe
Michael
Amish Father Accused of Chaining Daughter
Samuel Hochstettler, 75, an Amish elder in Northeastern Clinton Township, is jailed on charges he restrained his 41-year-old daughter Lucy to her bed for ten years because she refused to stay Amish. Neighbors complained. sheriff reports chains on her wrists and a nonheated eight by sixteen foot room.
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Goshen
Ind
Samuel Hochstettler
Lucy
Hochstettler
Clinton, Township
Luther Yoder
Here
Old Maps Hold Key To Buried Treasure
Mrs. Bula Edmundson Croker widow of Richard C. Croker says she owns two maps locating $76 million in pirate gold buried between 1781 and 1783 about 40 miles from Pensacola Florida. She seeks a contractor to recover the treasure.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Tammany Hall
Bula Edmundson Croker
Richard C. Croker
Pensacola
Green Grass of Wyoming premiere set for Lancaster Ohio
Lancaster to host the world premiere of Green Grass of Wyoming on May 26 after a bidding clash with Cheyenne Wyoming. The film shot partly at the Fairfield County fairgrounds features stars Charles Coburn Lloyd Nolan Burl Ives Peggy Cummins and Geraldine Wall with scenes filmed in Lancaster last June drawing thousands of local fans and Ohio extras.
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Fairfield County
Wyoming
Chamber of Commerce
Cheyenne
Wyo
R. Kenneth Kerr
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Logan Daily News
Kerr
Fairfield County Fairgrounds
New York
Hollywood
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Charles Coburn
Lloyd Nolan
Burl Ives
Peggy Cummins
Robert Arthur
Geraldine Wall
Fairgrounds
Pole Halts Flight Of Shackled Pair
In Youngstown Ohio two handcuffed prisoners Arthur Neff and Charles Kennedy fled a police car after a Lisbon court appearance. They split, Kennedy shouting let us go, but a telephone pole blocked the escape, dumping them. Deputies recaptured the dazed duo near Mahoning County Jail.
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Youngstown
Arthur Neff
Charles Kennedy
Mahoning County
Lisbon
Columbiana County
Ray Cullison
Kennedy
Leff
Kentucky Slayer Convicted by Jury
Cincinnati dispatch reports Elmer Curnutt of Otas Kentucky was found guilty of first degree murder in the December robbery of Thomas M. Wilson a tavern keeper. The jury fixed the penalty as death in the electric chair by failing to recommend mercy.
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Cincinnati
Elmer Curnutt
Otas
Curnutt
Thomas M. Wilson
Dennis Day to Wed College Graduate in Catholic Rite
Dennis Day announced marriage plans to Margaret Ellen Almquist a 23 year old University of Southern California graduate. The couple will wed in a Catholic ceremony at a Santa Barbara church likely January 29 with Day 29 saying the event will be held in the near future.
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Hollywood
Dennis Day
Margaret Ellen Almquist
University of Southern California
Day
Santa Barbara
Eisenhower Declines Nomination For High Office
General Dwight D. Eisenhower stated he is not available for and could not accept a nomination to high political office. He cited not wanting to appear boastful and a duty to country, saying he would respond to any government call to military duty if needed. The piece notes his upcoming terminal Army leave around February 15 and that he would oversee Columbia University in June. It also reports CIO split over Henry Wallace’s third party bid, with a 33 to 11 vote against Wallace and a pro Wallace faction of about 1.25 million members.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Columbia University
CIO
Henry Wallace
The
Labor Organization
Roosevelt
Wallace
New Chinese Aid Program in Works
Secretary of State Marshall said a definite Chinese aid program has been worked out by the State Department but is not yet ready for Congress. He told Senator Bridges that the plan must first go to the National Advisory Council and the Budget Bureau for review before submission.
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Truman
Secretary of State
National Association of Manufacturers
Foreign Relations Committee
Curtis E. Calder
NAM
State Department
Washington
Marshall
Congress
Bridges
R-Nh
National Advisory Council
Budget Bureau
Vote to Determine Bargaining Agent at Vandervort Plant
A consent election will be held at the G. W. Vandervort Company in Portsmouth on January 29 to determine a bargaining agent for the workers. The election was announced by Jack Evans, regional director of the International Moulders and Foundry Workers of North America AFL, who described the company’s production as just beginning.
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Cincinnati
G. W. Vandervort Company
Portsmouth
Jack Evans
International Moulders, and Foundry Workers of
Northica
AFL
Vandervort Company
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