Wallace Accepts Nomination For Progressive Party Race
Wallace becomes the Progressive Party presidential candidate at Philadelphia as backers say voters face a choice between Wallace and war. He accepts the banner with Taylor as running mate, vows to seek peace with the Soviet Union while denying Communist support.
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Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
U.S
Wallace
Presi
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Cheerin
America
Howard
Shibe Park
Glen Taylor
Idaho
Taylor
Fred Stover
Farmers Union
Iowa
Larkin Marshall
Georgia
United States
Soviet Union
Dixiecrats Meet To Discuss Strategy In Atlanta
South leaders of the states rights faction in the Democratic Party met in Atlanta for a top secret strategy conference to plot how to defeat President Truman and his civil rights program and threaten a southern political revolt within the party.
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Atlanta
Democratic Party
Truman
National Party
Quarantine at Ravenna Arsenal Over Polio Concerns
About 125 children at the Ravenna Arsenal have been quarantined as a precaution against polio. The arsenal swimming pool is closed until further notice.
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Ravenna, .O
Ravenna Arsenal
Arsenal
Loan Firm Reports Third Bandit Raid
The Merchant's Finance Company in Hamilton Ohio lost $500 in its third robbery since last March. Police described the suspect as a lone bandit who forced a clerk, Mrs Neva Crouch, and two customers into a back room while handcuffing the clerk to the floor during the raid yesterday.
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Hamilton, O
Neva Crouch
McArthur Man Dies After Stabbing At Hospital
Austin A. Blake, 60, of Mc Arthur, died in a Gallipolis hospital from throat and chest wounds. Police said the injuries were self inflicted in a personal safety incident.
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Gallipolis
Austin A. Blake
McArthur
Flying Glass Fatal in Fremont Car Crash
Flying glass fatally injures Robert Kizer 24 of Tiffin in a Fremont auto collision. He died en route to a hospital after the crash early today.
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Fremont, O
Robert Kizer
Springfield Doctor Abducted and Robbed Near Here
Dr Herbert L Fish Jr said a tall blond man with a revolver abducted him from his office in Springfield after a 15 year old boy feigned illness. He was driven south, slugged, robbed of $60 and his credentials, then dumped in a ditch five miles south of town.
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Springfield
J. Arthur Shuman
Here
Shuman
Herbert L. Fish, Jr
Fish
Abitibi Raises Newsprint Prices By Four Dollars A Ton
Toronto reports the Abitibi Power and Paper Co confirms a contract price hike for standard newsprint of four dollars per ton effective August first. Current prices stand at 96 dollars per ton in the United States and 92 dollars per ton in Canada.
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Toronto
Abitibi Power & Paper Co
United States
Canada
Miller Named Ironton High Principal on One Year Pact
Marvin Miller, superintendent of Liberty Consolidated School at Lancaster, was awarded a one year contract to serve as principal of Ironton High School starting this year.
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Ironton, O
Marvin Miller
Liberty Consolidated School
Lancaster
Ironton High School
Electrician Dead After Work At Adams Manufacturing Plant
Lloyd Crowell a 46 year old electrician was killed by electric shock while working at the Adams Manufacturing Co plant in East Palestine Ohio yesterday.
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East Palestine
Lloyd Crowell
Adamson Manufacturing Co
Rat-Infested Russian Ship Escapes Sinking
A Russian freighter the Pobeda faced a nine hour docking delay in Jersey City after a rat inspection sparked a dispute between US Public Health Service inspectors and Captain Nikolay Pokholok. A Customs officer warned “shoot to sink” if the ship moved. fumigation papers were later signed and the Pobeda proceeded.
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Jersey City
N. J
U.S Public Health Service
Nikolay Pokholok
Coast Guard
Pobeda
New York Harbor
Amtorg
Russian Trading Corporation
U.S
Joseph Feinstein
Flood Evacuation At Scout Camp After Cantilevered Flood
Sixty Columbus Girl Scouts were evacuated from Camp Wyandotte near Rockbridge as Clear Creek flood waters cut access. A bridge washout halted exits. crews rebuilt the road and bridge for bus evacuation while Rockbridge residents mopped up flood damage. 3.65 inches of rain fell in 48 hours setting a county record.
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Columbus
Camp Wyandotte
Rockbridge
Clear Creek
Hocking County
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Logan
State Highway Department
Lancaster Families Return To Homes After Flood
About 2 000 families affected by Thursday’s flash flood had returned to their homes by nightfall. Twenty families remained in Red Cross shelters at Sherman Armory and Salvation Army. Flood damage was estimated over 2 million dollars. All main routes out of Lancaster remained open except US Route 22 west of the city. In Columbus, National Guard units pledged to patrol after orders from Gov Herbert.
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Lancaster
Red Cross
Sherman
Salvation Army Center
West Lancaster
Columbus
Chester W. Goble
National Guard
Thomas J. Herbert
U S to Double Supply Flights Into Berlin
Gen Lucius D Clay announced plans to double airlift into Berlin from 2 000 to 4 500 tons daily by adding many C 54 transports and enabling more tonnage. A new US air field at Templehof will relieve bottlenecks and permit greater deliveries amid the Soviet blockade.
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Washington
Berlin
Russia
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
U. S
Truman
Marshall
Clay
England
Templehof
William B. Clary Dies at 75 in Chauncey
William B. Clary 75 of Chauncey, a longtime Logan area miner, died at his daughter's home. Funeral set for Sunday at 2 PM in Chauncey Christian Church with burial in Carr Bailey Run family lot. Survived by four daughters, a stepson, two sisters, 13 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren. wife Susannah preceded him.
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William B. Clary
Chauncey
Logan
Woodrow Ferrell
Clary
Lawrence Evans
Wood Street
Christian Church
Carr-Bailey Run
Jagers
Ferrell
Cleo Pincelli
Athens
Clell Cunningham
Cleveland
Viola Sanders
Nelsonville
Charles Carr
Millfield
Viola Kepler
Myrtle McGee
Cuyahoga Falls
Susannah
Daniels Says He Shot Niebel Family and 3 Others
In Celina Ohio 22 year old Robert Murl Daniels admits six murders in 14 days blaming partner West for three deaths. He describes the Niebel family killings at Mansfield and the Ambrose and Smith slayings during a crime spree that spanned several states. Daniels says he planned to kill more if not stopped and notes West was killed by police during a roadblock. He faces first degree murder charges in Richland County with authorities preparing cases.
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Robert Murl Daniels
van Wert
John Coulter West
Daniels
Celina
International Soundphoto
Robert “Murl” Daniels
John C. West
West
Earl C. Ambrose
Columbus
James Smith
Tiffin
Orville Taylor
Niles
Mich
Michigan
Frank Krech
Flat Rock
Krech
Richland County
Mansfield Reformatory
Theodore Lutz
Mansfield
Parkersburg
W. Va
Niebel
Niebels
Ambrose
Ambrose Place
Ohio
John Dillinger
Smith
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