Democrats Still Hope to Draft Gen Eisenhower
Anti Truman Democrats push Eisenhower for president with Elliott Roosevelt igniting the draft at the Democratic National Convention. ADA rally in New York by Americans for Democratic Action. McGrath doubts Eisenhower candidacy while Southern rights leaders back Truman. Dixie and border state governors urge opposing Truman, boosting Alben Barkley as potential alternative.
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Gen
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Elliott Roosevelt
Ae Ham
York
Americans For Democratic Action
Mas Ee E. Schwartz
J. Howard McGrath
D-Ri
New York
McGrath
Columbia
Migs
Dixie
Border State
Aatesk Hentzer
Markets Day Overview Mixed Grain and Sharp Hog Declines
Wheat and corn show mixed to higher moves on short covering while oats follow. Hogs slip to 765 cents and near 28.50 top with sparse trade. Cattle rise unevenly to 39.00 top as stocks drift steady and bonds vary with some rails advancing.
Polio Strikes Six of Local Man’s Eight Children
Infantile paralysis hit six of Oscar Ray's eight children yesterday in Cleveland. The illness raised concern for the family as health authorities investigated and advised care for affected members.
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Cleveland
Oscar Ray
2 500 Killed or Injured In Japanese Earthquakes
Fukui reporting area suffered strong tremors with casualty estimates ranging from 300 up to 2 500 dead and injured. Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Swing suggested totals may reach 5 000 injured nationwide. no tsunami reported.
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Fukui
Japan
Joseph W. Swing
U. S. Army First Corps
Kyoto
Sea of Japan
Tokyo
Asahi
Two Fire Alarms During Windstorm Hit Homes
High winds and a thunderstorm at 1 30 PM caused two fire alarms within five minutes. A rear wire fell at John Brown’s 687 North Walnut Street, and a line toppled onto a beauty parlor roof at Mr. and Mrs. James Krieg’s South High Street home. No damage reported. Light planes damaged at Logan Airport, with one blown onto Route 33 and another overturned. Tree limbs down in Logan and West Hunter Street. cars damaged by a fallen tree. Several streets blocked. county-wide disruption possible.
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John Brown
North Walnut Street
James Krieg
South High Street
Logan
Hunter Street
Lightning Kills Glouster Boy Watching Storm
An 11 year old Glouster boy Sam Limo was killed instantly by a lightning bolt while watching a storm from his porch last night. His 10 year old sister Louise was shocked but unharmed.
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Athens
Sam Limo
Glouster
Louise
Studebaker Resigns as U S Education Commissioner
Dr J W Studebaker resigns as U S commissioner of education citing inability to afford serving in the federal government. President Truman accepts the resignation effective July 15 after a 14 year tenure spanning economic lows wartime mobilization and post war adjustment.
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Washington
J. W. Studebaker
U.S
Truman
Logan FFA Members Visit Malabar Farm by Bromfield
Logan Future Farmers of America and 125 members from 20 Ohio classes toured Louis Bromfield's Malabar farm near Mansfield. Bromfield showed his nine year restoration, noting 200 acres of hay, wheat, corn, and pasture for Holstein cows. He said conservation practices must pay for themselves, citing $20 per acre turned into hay producing $60 to $80 the next year. Bromfield invites farmer groups to visit, preferably on Sundays.
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Logan
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Ohio
Louis Bromfield
Malabar
Mansfield
Mr. Bromfield
Breach Between Tito Yugoslavia and Moscow Cited Over Aid
U S aid through the Marshall Plan is seen as a factor in the split between Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc. Cominform condemns Tito while Italy and Ireland sign plan agreements. British sources call the Cominform Kremlin instrument amid Berlin blockade tensions.
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U.S
Kremlin
Associated Press
Yugoslavia
Russia
Europe
Marshal Tito
Balkan
West
Italy
Tito
Moscow
Ireland
Prague
Cominform
Berlin
Brian Robertson
Germany
Reserves Win Retirement Pay Rights for Officers and Men
President Truman signed a bill granting retirement benefits to reserve officers and enlisted personnel of the Army Air Force and Navy. Reserves gain retirement credit for time served, with eligibility at age 60 after 20 years in the reserve for WWI or WWII veterans. Pension calculations cap at 75 percent of the highest active duty pay, and the law overhauls promotion and retirement processes across services.
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Washington
Truman
Army
Air Force
Navy
United States
Charles Campbell Rites Held Today
Funeral services for Charles W. Campbell 70 who died Saturday at his Lancaster home were conducted at 2 PM at Ray Wise Funeral Home with Rev. George Herd officiating. Burial followed in Greenlawn Cemetery Nelsonville. He is survived by wife Maude two sons Leroy Lancaster and Donald Amanda Route 2 a brother Leonard Murray City and four grandchildren.
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Charles W. Campbell
Lancaster
Campbell
Maude Campbell
Leroy
Donald
Amanda
Leonard Campbell
Murray City
Ray Wise
George Herd
Greenlawn
Nelsonville
Dangerous Crisis Declared in Peru
President Jose Luis Bustamante declares a state of acute national crisis in Lima on June 29 and says he will legislate by decree using extraordinary powers. The move signals a political emergency following unrest and economic strain.
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Lima
Peru
Jose Luis Bustamantese
Mrs Jesse Kitchen Dies Monday Night
Mrs Daisy Kitchen 64 wife of Jesse Kitchen died at 10 45 P M Monday at her Washing ton Township home after a short illness She was a native of Ross County and lived most of her life in Hocking County Survivors include husband two sons Howard Kitchen Logan Neil Kitchen South Bloomingville two daughters Madeline Armstrong Logan Route 3 and Louise Kitchen Miami Fla and one sister Meda McCreary South Bloomingville Funeral services set for 2 P M Thursday at the Logan Evangelical United Brethren Church Friends may call at Leonard Funeral Home through Wednesday morning before the body is moved to the residence
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Daisy Kitchen
Jesse Kitchen
Washington Township
Ross County
Hocking County
Howard Kitchen
Logan
Neil Kitchen
South Bloomingville
Madeline Armstrong
Logan Evangelical United Brethren Church
Thunderstorm Drops Heat After Afternoon Peak
A driving thunderstorm began around 1 30 p m lowering the day’s temperature after a noon high of 90 degrees. Strong winds damaged electric lights and trees as yesterday reached 93 degrees and last night’s low was 65.
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Esterday
Super Chief Derailed in Winslow Yards
The Santa Fe Railroad luxury train the Super Chief derailed in Winslow yards with no immediate reports of injuries.
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Winslow
Ariz
Santa Fe Railroad
Winslow Yards
Santa Fe
Beauty Contest Winner Appeals to Pope Pius XII
Miss Mariiuth Ford, 18, from Wheeling, pleads before Pope Pius XII after facing potential expulsion from the Catholic Church. She won Miss Wheeling and a chance at Miss West Virginia with a $2,000 scholarship, amid church protests and excommunications threats for contestants.
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Pope Pius
Wheeling
W. Va
Mariiuth Ford
West Virginia
Moundsville
Atlantic City
John J. Swint
Miss Ford
Mine Union Cited For Strong-Arm Tactics in WV
Robert N. Denham of the United Mine Workers District 31 charged that UMW members blocked mine entrances and barred non-union workers from coming to the surface until signing UMW cards. The incident happened during a six week pension dispute shutdown in March, with Ruthbell, Hartman, Borgman, and George Kefover coal firms filing the complaint.
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Washington
Robert N. Denham
National Practice District
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Denham
UMW
West Virginia
Ruthbell Coal Co
Hartman Coal Co
Borgman Coal Co
George Kefover Coal Co
State Ruling Defines Relief for Disabled In Ohio
Columbus June 29 The attorney general ruled local relief authorities may not pay rest home costs for permanently disabled indigent residents The county must bear these costs The ruling allows care at local poor relief funds only for homeless indigents who are permanently disabled
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Columbus
Hugh S. Jenkins
Gasco Notes Approved for $18 Million Sale
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved Ohio Fuel Gas Co. to sell 18 million dollars of 3 percent installment promissory notes to Columbia Gas System Inc. Proceeds will fund construction and other purposes.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Columbia Gas System, Inc
Lunsford Dies After Long Illness at 65 in Columbus
Azro Lunsford 65 of 956 Church Street died at 1 10 A M in Doctors Hospital Columbus after four years of ill health. Born Lawrence County November 3 1882 he moved to Logan in 1919 and ran a contracting firm 25 years. He worked six years for the county road department. Survived by wife Rhea son Paul four sisters two brothers and three grandchildren. Heinlein Funeral Service arranging.
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C. Azro Lunsford
Church Street
Doctors Hospital
Columbus
Lawrence County
Lunsford
Logan
Rhea Lunsford
Paul
Guy Griffith
Ida Stewart
Ironton
William Brown
Pedro
John Weaver
Charles
Waterloo
Dennis
Chesapeake
Heinlein Funeral Service
Auto Skids on Wet Pavement Fatal Crash Near Murray City
Three youths died when an automobile skidded on a wet Route 216, crashed into a tree near Murray City. Victims were Jack McCall 22 of Columbus, Glen Pierce 23 of Nelsonville, and Glen Starrett 20 of Carbondale. All WWII veterans. McCall reportedly drove. Pierce Navy veteran with family in Nelsonville. Starrett Navy veteran from Carbondale. Funeral details announced by Stout Funeral Home with services set in Nelsonville and Carbondale.
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Route 216
Murray City
Jack McCall
Columbus
Glen Pierce
Glen Starrett
Nelsonville
Britain and U S Plan Jet Atlantic Flights
Six Vampire fighter planes are ready to fly Thursday from Odhham Airport England to Iceland Greenland Labrador and Canada. Sixteen Lockheed Stars of the U S Air Force plan the reverse crossing around July 7.
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London
Britain
United States
Atlantic
Odiham
England
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Canada
U.S. Air Force
Fortune in Dope Found in Garbage in New York
New York police uncovered a fortune in smuggled morphine and heroin valued between 800000 and 2000000 after four days of digging through tons of garbage. A cache of illicit drugs was found hidden in a sewer, with investigators assessing the vast quantity seized.
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New York
Japanese Officers Hanged for Bataan Death March Crimes
Two former Japanese officers Maj. Gen. Yoshitaka Kawane and Col. Kurataro Hirano were sentenced by a U.S. Eighth Army tribunal to be hanged for their responsibility in the 1942 Bataan Death March. The decision was announced at Yokohama on June 29.
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Yokohama
Yoshitaka Kawane
Col
Kurataro
Hirano
Bataan
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Kanazawa
Eisena
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Bromfield
Belgrade
Charles Campbell
Leonard Funeral Home
Super
Mariruth
Mine Union
Gasco Notes
C. A. Lunsford
Hazel Smith
Bobbie
Hugh Power
Solon M. Davis
Mrs. Smith
Smith
Naomi Leonard
Ben Jenkins
McCall
Mr. McCall
Gay Stidwell
Frank McCall
Warren
Pierce
Nelsonville High School
John Pierce
Robert
Ralph
Walter
Jane Pierce
Stout Funeral Home
Wn«Ville
Starrett
Carbondale
Elizabeth Starrett
Leslie
Wilma Devol
Ruth Stevenson
Madeline Dingo
Mary Jones
Springfield
Vivian Six
Carbondale Methodist Church
Asbury Cemetery
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