Slain railroad president amid long strike near Peoria
George P. McNear Jr., 55, president of Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad, was ambushed and shot near his Peoria home. The strikebound line has endured 17 months of labor turmoil, with past shootings and deaths tied to the dispute. Police pursued no motive or suspect immediately. McNear, a Cornell engineering graduate and former Wall Street investor, built the line from losses to profitability and opposed the railroad brotherhoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
George P. McNear, Jr
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
Illinois
Effner
Ind
Keokuk
Gridley, Ill
McNear
Ilinois River
Robert Sutton
Sutton
St. Francis Hospital
Elizabeth
Bradley University
Colorado
Ohio Senate Faces New School Funding Fight
Ohio senators move two expiring tax levies totaling about 30 million dollars annually for quick passage while committees tackle the bingo bill and three other measures. Hamilton County proposes 14.5 million dollars yearly in retroactive teacher bonuses for two years to sustain the 1946 program amid salary and qualification changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Hamilton County
Senate
Senate Education Committee
Ne w Phi Beta Kappa electee at age 15 in Cincinnati
Darwin Turner, a 15 year old Negro senior, qualified for membership in the University of Cincinnati Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Dr. Harry R. Muegel said Turner may be the youngest electee in the chapter's history. Twenty six other liberal arts students, including seven WWII veterans, were elected. Turner entered the university at age 13 in 1944 to study English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Darwin Turner
University of Cincinnati
Phi Beta Kap
Harry R. Muegel
R. Muegel
College of Liberal Arts
Turner
University
Auditor Quits After Assuming Office in Ohio
McARTHUR March 11 eo after he was sworn into office as Vinton County auditor Franklin Frazee Hamden submitted his resignation. He said the press of business at a hardware store he operates in Hamden necessitated the action. Vinton County commissioners in a special session then appointed Carl R. Smith former county treasurer to the post. Before his appointment Mr Smith had been rated as county superintendent of the state highway department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McArthur
Vinton County
Franklin Frazee
Hamden
Carl R. Smith
Smith
State Highway Department
City Council to Meet for Regular Session Tonight
City council will consider routine business during a regular session in city hall at 7 30 P M today. Mayor W Denzil Weltner reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Denzil Weltner
Probers Study Liquor Permits In Ohio Senate Hearing
A special Senate committee in Columbus studied a 1946 47 over quota liquor permit report listing 37 private clubs six night clubs and five bars. Frank J. Collopy said the list should be completed this week and cited or revoked licenses were noted from a separate inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Senate
Liquor Department
Frank J. Collopy
Atty
Hugh S. Jenkins
Tax Bill Signed
President Truman signed legislation extending wartime excise tax rates. March 11 in Washington. The measure shifts the wartime tax structure to continue levies that funded postwar plans and military needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Atom Energy Control Remains in Muddle
In Lake Success New York March 11 Russia and the United States remain in disagreement over world atomic control. The Security Council sent the issue back to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission urging continued study and later drafting of ultimate proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
N. Y
Russia
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Security Council
Michigan Business Man Faces Penalty for Fleeing Ohio
Melvin Shane alias George Mason, once a Cleveland escapee, is likely to be sent back to the London Prison Farm before transfer to Ohio Penitentiary. Michigan Gov. Sigler authorized extradition after 12 years as a Detroit war plant operator. Prominent Detroiters urged clemency as Shane, rehabilitated in Michigan, faces return and potential parole-completion requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
London
Melvin Shane
George Mason
Cleveland
Michigan
Ohio
Detroit
Kim Sigler
Sigler
Foremen's Union Decision Puts Issue Up to Congress
The Supreme Court signaled Congress to write a new law if foremen are to be excluded from unions. A 5 to 4 ruling urged a clarifying provision in the Wagner Act to extend or deny collective bargaining for supervisory unions. The Lewis mine foremen case remains in lower courts, awaiting further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
Packard Motor Car Company of
Detroit
Foremen’s Association of America
High Court
Lewis
GOP Freshmen Senators Unite Against Lilienthal Nomination
Washington March 11 A drive mounts to line up most of the 16 Republican freshmen against confirming David E Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Three new Republicans Bricker Flanders and Kern oppose while Ives will vote for him Senate tabulation shows 36 in favor 18 opposed with 48 needed for confirmation. Democratic Downey and Thomas join the Lilienthal camp as others weigh in in a bitter likely long fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Bricker
Ohio
Flanders
Vermont
Kern
Missouri
Ives
New York
Lilienthal
Sheridan Downey
California
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Smith
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Building Collapses Trapping Six Men in Cincinnati
Fire Chief Barney J. Houston said five of six men trapped in a downtown collapse could not be reached in time to save their lives. The building fell into its own basement around 9 am, trapping people amid gas leaks and risk of further collapse. Rescue limited to four firemen at a time. Sam Ostrow of Western Fixture and Bar Supply was trapped on the first floor under fallen timbers, with hope of survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Barney J. Houston
Houston
Sam Ostrow
Western Fixture and Bar Supply Co
School Head Resigns As Pupils End Strike
West Jefferson Ohio reports 100 striking students returning to classes as Superintendent Herbert Kell resigns after the school board mandates a grading reform. Kell stated he would not run the school and that the board must take over. Pupils walked out to protest demerit penalties on final grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Jefferson, O
West Jefferson High School
Herbert Kell
West Jefferson
Milk Hike Sought in Columbus Area
Higher production costs and competition from other markets prompt milk price increase requests of about 35 cents per hundredweight in the Columbus area. The hearing opened here yesterday before U S Department of Agriculture representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Mystery Temblor Shakes Barberton City
An unexplained earthquake-like tremor struck Barberton Ohio. Residents were unsettled but uninjured and no damage was found. A San Diego seismologist noted a pronounced disturbance at about the same time, but could not locate the source and other US seismographs showed no activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barberton
San Diego
Cal
Truman's Speech To Be Televised
President Truman will deliver his message to Congress on the Greek situation tomorrow and it will be televised in New York Philadelphia and Washington through a cable network. Five stations, including three in New York, will carry the broadcast starting at 12 30 PM EST ahead of the radio opening at 1. The telecast marks the third time cameras have filmed from the capitol since Congress opened January 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Truman
Congress
Capitol
Philadelphia
Washington
Sand Run Man Fights Wildcat Stealing Chickens
William Sheren of Sand Run chased a three foot long 25 pound wildcat that was raiding his hen house. After a running battle the animal lay unconscious, was dispatched with a hatchet, and sent to Logan for guidance on a bounty from Sheriff Floyd Duffy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sand Run Man
William Sheren
Sand Run
Mr. Sheren
Hoover Scales Down Needs For Relief to Austria
Washington reports Herbert Hoover urged a 155 million dollar aid plan for Austria over 15 months with aid continuing at least to July 1, 1948. He argues a smaller program than a UN plan but aims to keep food at a sustaining level while avoiding excessive taxpayer drain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Austria
Washington
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Rep. Bloom
House Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
United Nations
U.N
United States
Safecracker Held After New Straitsville Burglary
Perry County Sheriff spokesman says Joseph L. Smith 51, ex Cleveland convict, captured by New Straitsville Marshal Charles Donley while fleeing a garage safe burglary at Pearl Slatter’s New Straitsville home. No charges filed. Smith held at Perry County jail. Co-defendant unnamed. no one wounded in gun battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry County
Clair Butts
Joseph L. Smith
Cleveland
New Straitsville
Charles Donley
Smith
New Lexington
Marshal Donley
Pearl
Pud
Cincinnati Man Tortures Infant Son
Jack Slagle, 34, faces a municipal court charge for applying a lighted cigarette to his five month old son Lionel’s feet. The warrant, signed by his wife Ann, cites a statute on torturing or neglecting a child. Jo Ann, four, blamed her father for the burns as police found Lionel’s blistered feet after a disturbance at the Slagle home Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Jack Slagle
Lionel
Ann
Slagle
Jo Ann
Robert Klug
Klug
Baby Lionel
Man Dies Under Train in Columbus
In Columbus on March 11 a freight train struck and killed 22 year old Robert Bliss Lanham. Police said Lanham stood on the track to watch the approaching train and was fatally injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Robert Bliss Lanham
Lanham
Ex Soldier Howard Freeman Killed After Car Crash
Wooster Ohio March 11 A week after discharge from the Army Howard Freeman 20 was killed when the car he rode in over turned near Creston. His companions escaped injury. Freeman had enlisted in the Army last year and was stationed at Camp Perry. The investigation is pending.
Outbreaks of Flu Close Ohio Schools
Influenza outbreaks led to closures in Cambridge and Gallipolis with plans to reopen in Gallipolis and potential two day shutdowns in Norwalk. Officials reported widespread illness among pupils and teachers and monitored several schools for further spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Cambridge
Gallipolis
Norwalk
Homer Ellis
Fire hits village in Mason County West Virginia
A blaze on Main Street in LEON Mason County destroyed four buildings and damaged three others today. Fire crews fought the flames through the afternoon with no injuries reported. The cause was not yet known as investigators arrived at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon
W. Va
Mason County
Test of Power With Molotov Is Shaping Up
Moscow reports a second session of the four power Foreign Ministers Conference opens with Russia proposing to place the Chinese question on the agenda Marshall likely rejects unless Chinese representatives attend China’s sovereign rights and UN membership are at stake diplomats see this as a test of strength between Marshall and Molotov and a possible move toward a new big power accord Potential moves include occupation force reductions and possible joint intervention in China with Britain and the United States questioned by Western diplomats
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Four Power Foreign Ministers
U. S
George C. Marshall
V. M. Molotov
Marshall
China
Molotov
United Nations
Paris
Italy
New York
Europe
Russia
United States
Walter Prather Sings At Rotary Meeting
Walter Prather accompanied by Mrs. Prather sang a group of songs at the Logan Rotary Club meeting. Jim Bob King served as program chairman. Plans were announced for a Ladies Night program at the Lancaster Hotel next Monday at 6 30 P M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Prather
Bare Facts Shown at Columbus Style Show
A Columbus style show by the Ohio Dorset Congress featured a bridal party in white satin and pink accents. The bride wore satin foundation with a three quarter veil, maid of honor in pale blue satin, bridesmaids in pink, and halos of roses. The display, at the Neil House, drew 175 attendees with editor Louise Gampe endorsing ensemble dressing and color matching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Columbus, O
Neil House
Ohio Dorset Congress
Louise Gampe
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Abel
Fells Railroad Head
Chester W. Nimitz
U.S. Navy
Republic of China
W. K. Wellington Koo
U.S
Ohio Senate
Kyle F. Brooks
Fred G. Reiners
Stanley G. McKie
Earo
Phi Beta Kappa
Council
Probers
Minnie Thornton
State Civil Service Commission
Miss Thornton
Shane
Mason
Henry Coleman
Pardon and Parole Commission
GOP
Harry Cain
Mystery Temblor Rocks
Foreign Ministers Council
Rotary
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!