Three Convicts Still at Large From WV Prison Break
In the West Virginia state penitentiary breakout, 11 of 14 inmates were recaptured within 60 hours. Three life-term fugitives Gerald Nolan Eddie Starcher and Denver Vannest remained at large after an Ohio pursuit near Cadiz. Otto Neff Stanley Sheftie and John Valykeo were wounded or captured. Neff received care at Ohio Valley General Hospital and the others were jailed in Cadiz awaiting extradition.
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Moundsville
W. Va
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Jarge
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Gerald Nolan
Eddie Starcher
Denver Vannest
All Life Terriers
Bailey
Otto Neff
Tate
Stanley Sheftie
John Valykeo
Neff
Ohio Valley General Hospital
Wheeling
Sheftie
Valykeo
Cadiz
Orel J. Skeen
Mike Ables
Lima Packer Dies In Suicide At Plant Roof
Lima Ohio June 6 Robert G Thomas 41 vice president and general manager of the Lima Packing Company fell to his death from the roof of his three story plant in what coroner said was suicide He left a note whose contents were not released He held leadership roles in the Lima Association of Commerce Lima Memorial Hospital and the Ohio Independent Meat Packers Association and was a director of the American Meat Institute.
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Lima, O
Robert G. Thomas
Lima Packing Company
R. G. Hendershot
Lima Association of Commerce
Lima Memorials Hospital
Ohio Independent Meat Packers Association
American Meat Institute
Cyclist Nears Ohio on Cross-Country Bicycle Trip
Princeton University student George French rode from Pasadena toward Ohio heading home. He reached Washington, Pennsylvania, last night after riding 414 miles in two days as part of his cross-country trip.
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Washington, Pa
George French
Princeton University
Pasadena
Calif
Ohio
Washington
Molotov to Lead Soviet Orient Policy Shift
A Paris source said Vyacheslav Molotov has been placed in charge of Russia’s policies in China and the Orient. The informant forecast an early shift to a more active Kremlin stance toward the Chinese communists. No official Moscow confirmation.
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Paris
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Russia
China
Orient
Kremlin
Molotov
Stalin
Moscow
Politburo
Lenin
More Phone Lines Cut by Vandals
In Marion Ohio 500 telephone subscribers lost service over the weekend as vandals cut lines and cables of the Ohio Associated Telephone Company. The incidents linked to a recent strike by 80 Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers members begun April 6. The union denies involvement.
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Marion, O
Ohio Associated Telephone Company
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Senate Panel Approves Antilynching Bill in Session
Washington June 6 an anti lynching bill was approved today by the Senate judiciary committee the measure introduced by Senator Ferguson R Mich was the first civil rights legislation to win approval from a Senate committee this session of Congress
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
Congress
U S Deserter Turns Up As Female Fire Eater
Donna Delbert identified as Private Delbert Hill of Philadelphia, a deserter since 1945, accused by the U S Air Force of leading a double life. Trial set for Friday before a general court martial after police nabbed him in England.
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Burtonwood
England
U. S. Air Force Today
Donna Delbert
Britain
Air Force
Donna
Delbert Hill
Philadelphia
Air Force Base
Hill
Newcastle
Grain storage plan ready to ease price support issue
The Agriculture Department will announce within a day a plan to aid farmers with grain storage. It awaits President Truman's approval of congressional legislation restoring the Commodity Credit Corporation’s authority to provide emergency grain storage.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Truman
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate panel backs Atlantic Pact with ratification push
Senator Fulbright said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Atlantic Pact and a report urging Senate ratification. He left the committee’s afternoon closed session before adjournment.
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Washington
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Logan Police Set New Speed Record In Catching Thief
A 17 year old youth was arrested by Logan police near Enterprise Saturday night after a chase north on Route 33. The stolen car owned by W. W. Martin of South Logan was taken from East Main Street. police pursued after seeing it minutes earlier. The car was not damaged and the youth was held for a juvenile court hearing.
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Logan
Enterprise
W. W. Martin
South Logan
Carpenter Hardware Co
East Main Street
Second Street
Mrs Georgia Neese Clark Nominated US Treasurer
President Truman nominates Georgia Neese Clark of Richland Kansas as the first woman to serve as United States treasurer.
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Washington
Truman
Georgia Neese Clark
Richland
United States
War scars linger five years after D-Day at Omaha Beach
On D-Day plus five years the scene at Omaha Beach shows grass in fox holes and cattle in fields where the Boys from Brooklyn and the Boys from Belsen earlier fought. Memorials recall a world that sought universal brotherhood amid ruins and heroism.
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Omaha Beach
France
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Brooklyn
Belsen
Big Shot Gamblers Indicted by Jury in Cleveland
In Cleveland on June 6 Willie Hoge and Arthur Drake known as big shots in the city policy ring were indicted by the grand jury for extortion. They allegedly extorted a one third stake in the Goldfield House policy operation from numbersman Buster Mathews in 1945.
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Cleveland
Willie Hoge
Arthur
Athens Trial Set For Next Monday
Common Pleas Judge Roy D Williams set June 13 for the three judge trial of Grover E F Rawlins 18 one of two youths held in the January 6 death of church worker Miss Eleanor Gifford. The three judges have not yet been announced.
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Athens
Common Pleas
Roy D. Williams
Grover EF. Rawlins
Eleanor Gifford
Market Summary: Wheat Weak. Corn Strong Start. Hogs Cattle Steady
Today's Markets At a glance signals mixed conditions with Wheat under pressure from the Southwest, Corn starting strong, and Oats lower with corn. Hogs steady to 50 cents lower, top $22.25, and Cattle steady to 50 cents lower, top $29.50. Stocks weak to a two year low, Bonds down amid tail selling.
Court Upholds Lewis Conviction as UMW Bargaining Opens
The U.S. circuit court of appeals upholds John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers contempt fines totaling 1 420 000 for defying a 1948 court order to halt the strike over pensions. Bluefield contract talks resume with a June 30 expiry and Detroit Ford-UAW talks set for July 15.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Company
Washington
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
T. Alan Goldsborough
Bluefield
W. Va
Southern Coal Products
Detroit
Ford-Uaw
Chrysler
General Motors
Ford
Chambers Quizzed On Other Red Spies
Whittaker Chambers testified he had another source in the State Department besides Alger Hiss. Chambers identified the contact as employed in the trade agreement section and said there was a government source in the department.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Alger Hiss
Chambers
Hiss
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Stock Market Drops to Two-Year Low
New York June 6 the stock market fell to the lowest average level in two years. Losses ranged from fractions to about two points. With the exception of utility shares, nearly all groups declined further.
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New York
Evans Sentenced for Child Support Starts Indeterminate Term
Ernest Evans, convicted May 27 by a petit jury for failure to provide for minor children, was taken to the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus on Saturday to begin an indeterminate sentence. Sheriff A J Waldron and Deputy Ed Dawley escorted him to the penitentiary.
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Ernest Evans
Ohio
Columbus
Evans
A. J. Waldron
Ed Dawley
Hospital Aide Suspended For Abuse At Athens State
Neil Welch, an attendant at Athens State Hospital, was suspended for thirty days effective June 3 after an investigation found he physically abused an 80 year old patient. The action was announced in Columbus.
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Columbus
Jne
Neil Welch
Athens State Hospital
Welch
Political purge reported taking place in Russia
The New York Times reports a sweeping political purge in Russia with at least 300,000 expelled from the Communist Party and Komsomol membership fallen. Disappearing leaders include Voznesensky Kuznetzov Popkov Zhdanov Golyakov, linked to the Zhdanov faction once favored by Stalin.
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Russia
New York
New York Times
Paris
C. L. Sulzberger
Communist Party
Komsomol— Communist Youth League
N. A. Voznesensky
A. A. Kuznetzov
P. S. Popkov
Supreme Soviet
Yuri A. Zhdanov
I. T. Golyakov
Soviet
Supreme Court
Sulzberger
Editor Sentenced For Offending Pope In Milan Article
Milan editor Davide Lajolo of Venita received an eight month jail term suspended on the condition he stop writing pieces that insult the Pope. The ruling referenced his sarcastic piece about Tyrone Power and Linda Christian’s January Rome wedding.
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Milan
Italy
Tyrone Power
Linda Christian
Davide Lajolo
Venita
Lajole
Pope
Tyrone
Linda
Power
Annabelle
Miss Christian
Rome
Vandals Strike Two Columbus Churches
Weekend vandals damaged two downtown Columbus churches causing property losses estimated in the thousands. At Central Community Church on East Mound Street, police found cut cables and wires, broken doors, spilled contents, and four large doors forced open.
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Columbus
Rudy H. Thomas
Central Community
East Mound Street
U S Aid to China Ending Amid Military Political Turmoil
Hong Kong June 6 The American aid to China program is being liquidated as events unfold. Robert Allen Griffin former acting ECA China mission chief says ECA economic activity has effectively ended in China, with Canton and Swatow commodity programs remaining exceptions.
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U.S
China
Hong Kong
Robert Allen Griffin
Monterey
Calif
ECA
China Mission
Canton
Swatow
Gallia County Official Appeals Job Removal
Roscoe Allen of Gallia County today appealed to the state civil service commission seeking reversal of an order removing him from his post as county highway superintendent.
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Columbus, O
Roscoe Allen
Gallia County
State Civil Service Commission
Probe Directed at High Atomic Aide
Senator Hickenlooper said the draftsman of top secret atomic reports to Congress was once suspended as the FBI questioned his loyalty. AEC Chairman Lilienthal demanded the individual be summoned for testimony at a Senate House investigation of the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Congress
FBI
Senate House
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Fire destroys Fukuyama Castle, national treasure in Japan
A 343 year old Japanese national treasure, Fukuyama Castle, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The historic site stands in Fukuyama, noted as an old city on Hokkaido Island.
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Tokyo
Fukuyama
Hokkaido Island
FBI Told Of State Dept Intervention In Spy Case
A Buffalo rubber repairman testified before the House un American Activities Committee that an FBI agent said the State Department wanted to appease a Soviet purchasing agent. Joseph J. Franey described feeding documents to the Soviet, with FBI supervision, and noted two film deliveries were postponed at FBI direction. The spy, Andrei Schevchenko, sought ramjet and swept back wing reports. Franey recalled a request to delay actions per State Dept instructions.
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Washington
Buffalo
N. Y
FBI
State Department
Red
House un-American Activities Committee
Joseph J. Franey
Niagara Falls
Franey
Hooker Electro Chemical Co
Bell Aircraft Company
Schevchenko
New York
Empire State Building
Scevchenko
Rep
Walter
D-Pa
Roberts
Fuzz Roberts
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Buffalo War Plant
Polish Ship Cleared In Eisler's Escape
New York June 6 A Polish liner the Batory sailed at noon after her crew was cleared of involvement in Eisler family escape. The luxury liner had been under close surveillance since docking Saturday.
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New York
Gerhart Eisler
Batory
Madison Lake Road Row Closes Shoreline at Headwater Lake
Mayor E. P. Spearmaker and Ohio Conservation Department clash over a road promised before Headwater Lake’s construction. Spearmaker fenced 61 acres of donated shoreline, blocking about 4700 feet of access while the state seeks legal guidance from the attorney general.
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Conservation Dept
Madison Lake Road
London
Headwater Lake
Madison County
E. P. Spearmaker
Ohio Conservation Department
Spearmaker
H. A. (Buck) Rider
Ohio Conservation Director
Ohio Attorney General
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Marshal Bailey
Lima Packer
Son Grieves
Marvin Spiegelman
Bronx
Anna Spiegelman
Marvin
U. S
Mrs
Hitler
UAW
The
Associated Press
Union
John W. Gates
Daily Worker
Gus Hall
Henry Winston
Harold R. Medina
Gates
International
the Times
State Dept
Man
Andrei Schevchenko
Agent Roberts
Eisler
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