Illnesses Hit City and County Schools in Outbreak
An influenza and illness outbreak affected Logan and many Hocking County schools. Union Furnace led absences with 103 students, Logan High 41, West 30, Central 24 of 300, and East near normal. Carbon Hill 32, Rockbridge 15 percent, Laurelville about 10 percent, South Bloomingville six percent. Some games canceled and schools closed due to high water.
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Logan
Hocking County
Union Furnace School
Logan High School
West School
Central School
East School
Carbon Hill High School
Carbon Hill
Buchtel
Rockbridge School
Laurelville School
South Bloomingville
Gibisonville
Murray City
Parents Kill Daughter For Mocking God in Winnipeg
Police read a coroner's statement detailing how Gavin McCullough and his wife Lillian beat and strangled their seven year old foster daughter Martha Louise for mocking God and refusing to pray. The couple, former Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce official and wife, were charged with murder after the child’s body was found amid religious pamphlets at their home. Police say they prayed overnight in sub zero weather at a vacant lot as they waited for God to establish a second kingdom in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
Man
Gavin McCullough
McCullough
Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce
Lillian
Martha Louise
God
She Actually Didn't Have A Thing To Wear
In Los Angeles on January 29 model June Bright wife of DJ Gene Norman claimed she had no clothes when police questioned her. She wore a black satin bathing suit while packing in 76 degree weather and left her $4 000 wardrobe in her car before dinner. it disappeared. Police noted the fashion conscious blonde did not appear to need clothing.
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Los Angeles
June Bright
Miss Bright
Gene Norman
Cleveland Board Grants COLA Pay Increase to 4500 Staff
The city board of education voted to raise salaries with a $175 cost of living increase this year. Each of about 4,500 employees receives $100 this semester and $75 next semester.
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Cleveland
City Board of Education
Steel Price Hike Hinted In Government Review
Washington officials suggest a small price increase for steel under the Capehart amendment as the Industry Advisory Committee reviews price calculations. U S Steel earnings and industry profits show weaker after tax profits through nine months, while sales rise, informing wage and price discussions.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
United States Steel
Putnam
U. S. Steel
U S Canada Swap Atomic Data Confirmed
United States and Canada conduct exchanges of sensitive atomic information under a beneficial arrangement. Atomic Energy Commission chairman Gordon Dean said details remain classified and did not reveal specific topics, though speculation centers on Canada’s heavy water reactor data.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Gordon Dean
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Uni
Floods Test Loyalty of River Town Residents
Middleport Ohio endures regular river floods with a population near 3,600. Residents stay, work in mines and railroads, and evacuate with a disaster committee guiding relief. Flood authorities like Charlie McMaster and Ed Grant coordinate rescues, while homes are repeatedly cleaned and stocked for the next rise.
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Pomeroy
Ohio
Charlie McMaster
Ed Grant
Middleport
Ohio River
Soviets Claim Two American Generals Command Burma Shock Troops
Paris report says Stalin era claims two American generals lead a shock force of Chinese Nationalist troops in Burma poised to strike Communist China. Malik alleged seven American colonels and 27 majors attached to Nationalist fighters taking refuge in Burma after Chiang Kai-shek fell.
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Paris
Russia
Burma
China
Jacob Malik
United States
Malik
Chiang Kai-shek
United Nations
11 Bodies Found In Apartment Fire
Minneapolis firemen recovered 11 bodies from the three story apartment house rubble after a blaze. Fire Chief Reynold Malmquist said six more were missing and presumed dead in the tangled bricks and wood. The first bodies were not immediately identified.
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Minneapolis
Reynold Malmquist
Bomb Laden B-29 Crashes Near Tokyo
A U S B-29 crash south of Tokyo Tuesday resulted in an explosion with an earth shaking roar. Three hours later 12 crew members were accounted for with two slight injuries. Air Force said it believed all 13 aboard had bailed out.
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Tokyo
U. S
Korea
Air Force
Australian Soldier in Madame Butterfly Tale Faces Deportation
In Tokyo a former Australian serviceman Frank L. Weaver now Tetsuichiro Kitagawa sits in a Japanese jail awaiting deportation after a seventh attempt to reenter Japan to be with his Japanese wife Sachiko. He alleges Sachiko betrayed him by loving two other Australians. Two Japanese lawyers have offered to defend him.
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Cho Cho San
Orient
Frank L. Weaver
Tetsuichiro Kitagawa
Weaver - Kitagawa
Japan
Sachiko
B. F. Pinkerton
U. S. Navy
Madame Butterfly
Weaver
Political Programs a Dime a Dozen in Reawakening
NILES Jan 29 Rep Joseph W Martin says America is saddled with unprincipled men and un principled programs. He argues Republicans face a stale charge of lacking programs but notes a re awakening as voters rediscover that political programs are a dime a dozen.
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Niles
Joseph W. Martin
R-Mass
America
Alexander Slated As Defense Chief
London January 29 Prime Minister Churchill selects Field Marshal Viscount Alexander to become defense minister at age 60. Alexander who has served as Canada’s governor general since 1946 will be replaced by Vincent Massey and return to Britain in mid February to assume the post on March 1.
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London
Winston Churchill
Viscount Alexander
Alexander
Canada
Vincent Massey
Wee
Temperature Drop Ends Rain Flood Pressure in Ohio River Region
Cold snap drops to 13 degrees and powers rapid fall of floods in Hocking County. Rush Creek recedes and Route 664 reopens while Hocking and Scioto rivers crest and then fall. In Marietta 7,000 homeless, nine dead as Ohio River recedes from 44-foot crest toward 35-foot flood stage.
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Hocking County
Rush Creek
Ohio River
Hocking River
Ohio
Bremen
Athens
Marietta
U. S. Weather Bureau
Cincinnati
Mississippi River
Wheeling
W. Va
Scioto
Chillicothe
Hocking
Soviet Industrial Output Shows Gain
Soviet Union reports 1951 industrial production 16 percent higher than 1950 levels with overall output surpassing the state plan by 3 percent. Worker and peasant income rose 10 percent, while timber and cotton growing and railways missed small quotas.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Flames Destroy Home on Maysville Road
A noon fire on the Maysville Williams road destroyed a six room house and all its furniture and clothing. Leslie Linton, aided by A O Eschbacker and William Grove, fought the blaze to prevent spread to a corn crib and barn. Linton lost nearly all possessions with little insurance. cause undetermined. He then stayed with his brother Charles Linton on the same road.
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Leslie Linton
Maysville- Williams Road
Mr. Linton
A. O. Eschbacker
Logan
William Grove
Gore
Charles Linton
Maysville-Williams Road
Police Chief Warns School Zone Speeders
Logan area police chief Sol Ellinger announced a crack down on speeders near Logan high and Central schools. He noted many complaints involve teenage boys, especially at noon when students leave or return to class. The 20 mph zone will be enforced, with juveniles cited to juvenile court and adults to Mayor Friend's court.
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Sol Ellinger
Logan
Central School
Ellinger
Roger Friend
Solon Seeks $82 Million for U.S. POWs Compensation
Representative Dempsey appeals to the House to pass a bill authorizing about $82 million in payments to former American prisoners of war from World War II. The measure would require Japan, Germany and other nations to compensate for compulsory labor and inhumane treatment. Dempsey notes prior Geneva Convention payments of $169 million but says no payments have reached the POWs or their dependents.
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Washington
Dempsey
House
Japan
Germany
Dermosey
Car Plunges Into Ditch Killing Seven in Kansas
A car slammed into a bridge abutment and plunged into a deep ditch near Kingman Kansas killing seven people. Only one occupant survived Betty Thomas 13 escaped through a broken window and surfaced. The dead include Ida May Thomas Bettys mother Connie Mae Anderson and her year old daughter plus four of Mrs Thomas children.
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Kingman
Kas
Betty Thomas
Ida May Thomas
Betty
Connie Mae Anderson
McGrath Probe Ordered By House Panel
The House Judiciary Committee voted to appoint seven members to investigate the Justice Department and Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. The closed session decision follows tax scandal disclosures linked to McGrath and Truman’s anti corruption drive, with public description of the session restricted.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Justice Department
J. Howard McGrath
Celler
McGrath
Truman
Keating
Cairo Rioting Death Toll Rises to Sixty Seven
Cairo reports five more bodies found in ruins of the British Turf Club and Shepheard's Hotel, bringing total dead to 67 from Saturday rioting. Fire crews battle smoldering sites as martial law remains in force and Maher Pasha replaces Nahas Pasha after mobs rioted.
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Cairo
Shepheard
U. S
Lamar Mulliner
Farouk
Mustapha Nahas Pasha
Maher Pasha
Legless GI challenges Dallas car tax claim
World War II veteran Roscoe H. Collier who lost both legs on Bougainville argues his automobile is an artificial part and should not be taxable. Dallas says Collier owes $63 in personal property taxes on his car.
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Dallas
Roscoe H. Collier
North Korea Seeks Change in Armistice Program
North Korea called for changes to the Allied plan for supervising the truce in Korea during staff talks in Munsan. The Reds rejected part of the UN draft on prisoner exchange and military administration while UN and Communist jets clashed in Mig Alley.
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North Korea
Red
Korean Peoples Army
Chinese People’s Volunteers
Chang Chun San
William P. Nuckols
Nuckols
Cop And Gunman Killed In Duel In Tijuana
In Tijuana on Monday night a running gun fight left a policeman and an unidentified man dead and four others wounded. The officer killed was 40 year old Adalberto Villa Lamadrid who was shot five times during a chase with a two gun assailant.
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Tijuana
Mex
Adalberto Villa Lamadrid
Judge's Wife Dies in New Lexington at 57
Mrs Mell G Underwood wife of the Columbus U S district court judge died Monday in New Lexington at age 57 The obituary notes her passing and identifies her as the judge's wife with the early 20th century locality.
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New Lexington
Mell G. Underwood
Columbus U. S. District Court
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DiSalle
Wage Stabilization Board
New York
Atom
Ohio Crest
U.S
Maysville Road
Solon
Munsan
Red China
Libby
Lee Sang Cho
International Committee of the Red Cross
Red Crosses
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