Authorities Hunt Negro Seized by Lynching Party
In North Carolina authorities search pine forests of Northampton and Hertford counties for 24 year old Godwin Buddy Bush seized by masked white men from Northampton jail after being accused of attempting to rape a white woman. Sheriff fears a lynching. FBI ordered to locate those responsible as officers race to find body or captors.
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Jackson
N. C
Northampton
Hertford
J.C. Stephenson
Godwin
Buddy) Bush
Northampton County
State Bureau of Investigation
Raleigh
R. Gregg Cherry
FBI
Hit Skip Driver Sought After West Hunter Street Crash
Police sought the unidentified driver of a hit and run vehicle that struck a parked car owned by Joe Shanley on West Hunter Street near midnight. A smashed headlight fragment was found at the scene.
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Hitskip
West Hunter Street
Joe Shanley
Hunter Street
Shanley
Deaf mute Caudill questioned in northwest Portsmouth robbery
Hermie Caudill a 35 year old deaf mute was picked up in a field with 373 in a shoe and questioned by sheriff's deputies about a reported 600 robbery and six knife wounds to 66 year old general store owner Newton Rice at the Dry Run store four miles northwest of Portsmouth. Deputy Burl Justice said Caudill from Salyersville Ky was identified by Rice as the assailant who slashed him yesterday.
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Portsmouth
Hermie Caudill
Burl Justice
Caudill
Salyersville
Newton Rice
Censorship Proposal For World Wide Peacetime News
United Nations subcommission on freedom of information voted 9 to 1 to study eliminating peacetime censorship at next year’s International Conference. The US proposals urge open directives, prompt notice of deletions, and protections for accredited correspondents against expulsion amid Russian opposition. The conference may be held in Geneva or Prague.
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Freedom of Information
Geneva
Prague
United States
Agriculture Funds Sliced Deep Prompting GOP Farm Fight
Rep. Cannon denounces a 32 percent cut in the 1948 agriculture appropriation as the worst bill sent to the House. He and Rep. Gore vow a Democratic fight as the bill heads to debate and elections, noting a large overall budget reduction despite sizable council cuts.
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Washington
Cannon
D-Mo
House
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
Rep
Gore
D-Tenn
Appropriations Committee
Slayer of Boy Pleads Innocent
Joseph E. Watts 37 year old cab driver pleaded innocent to first degree manslaughter in the shotgun death of 14 year old Donald Dethy. Case continued to June 17. Watts arrested at his home and released on 1000 bond.
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Columbus
Joseph E. Watts
Donald Dethy
Wayne Fogle
Young Dethy
Donald
Raymond Dethy
Thomas A. Scully
Ray Snowden
Watt
Hatfield-McCoy Feud Slayer Convicted In West Virginia
Allen Hatfield, 51, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Hubert McCoy, 28, in Williamson West Virginia. Judge Charles W. Ferguson set May 27 for arguments on a defense motion to set aside the verdict, which carries a one to five year term. Hatfield, a former Matewan police chief, said he shot McCoy when McCoy grabbed a policeman consented pistol during a February 17 arrest.
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Hatfield
Matewan
McCoy
Curtis Coleman
Milk Prices Cut in Cincinnati Retail Market
Cincinnati reports a one cent per quart reduction in retail milk price effective Monday, according to industry spokesmen.
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Cincinnati
Experiments Seek Path to Human Flight at Extreme Altitude
Dayton reports Dr. Fred Hitchcock of Ohio State University warns manned flight to 100000 feet faces unknown human risks. Army projects jet ships and guided missiles reaching the altitude next summer, but animal tests only simulate up to 70000 feet. Explosive decompression remains the key study field for pilot safety.
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Dayton
Fred Hitchcock
Aviation Medical Department
Ohio State University
College of Medicine
American Physiological Society
Wright Field
Hitchcock
Army
Cricket Fighters Losing Ground to Ravenous Horde
Pushed back by a relentless advance of Mormon crickets, farmers near Ordnance Oregon race to establish a new extermination line three miles from town. Crickets move from sagebrush around the Umatilla River farmlands, covering a 500 square mile area on a 12 mile front as Hermiston and Ordnance brace for impact.
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Ordnance
Ore
Oregon
Umatilla River
Hermiston
Change in Tax Forms Unlikely
Senator Millikin predicts the Senate will reject proposals to raise income tax exemptions and apply community property laws. He argues changes belong in a general revision, not in a relief bill. Senator McClellan introduced amendments offering higher exemptions and income splitting for taxpayers, aiming to save about 3.8 billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Millikin
Cole
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
McClellan
D-Ark
McGathey Services Moved To Sunday
Pearl Mc Gathey Sr., 76, died Wednesday at his Haydenville home. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 P M in the New Plymouth Methodist Church, Rev. Carroll Chesser officiating, with burial at New Plymouth Cemetery. He was a retired Natco employee and was found Thursday. death occurred about 9 P M Wednesday.
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Pearl McGathey
Haydenville
New Plymouth
Lynch Trial Verdict Assailed by Clark
United States Attorney General Tom Clark condemned the lynching verdict bolstering local judicial strength to curb injustice. He said the Justice Department may go to court over the outrage in South Carolina where a local jury freed all admitted participants.
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Topeka
Kas
United States
Tom Clark
Justice Department
South Carolina
County awards coal contract and eases Memorial Day funds
Hocking County commissioners awarded a 100 ton coal contract for the courthouse and county home to Rush Coal Co of Logan at 5.25 per ton, beating Bernard Boyle at 5.70 and White Bros. at 7.00. They voided Dr. H G Southard as county coroner after he declined the post. Grants of 50 each were approved for local veterans posts to cover Memorial Day expenses. Remodeling of the former Selective Service HQ has begun, with William Loomis & Son, Logan, chosen for the work.
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Hocking County
Rush Coal Co
Logan
Bernard Boyle
White Bros. Coal Co
H. G. Southard
Dr. Southard
Hocking County Health Department
Logan Post
American Legion
Post Hocking Veterans of Foreign Wars
Laurelville Post
Murray City’s Legion Post
The
Disabled American Veterans
Selective Service
Willliam Loomis & Son
Volunteers Search For Missing Girl in Vermont Hills
In Bennington Vermont today about one hundred volunteers began a fresh search across 24 square miles of mountains for Paula Welden an 18 year old Bennington College sophomore who vanished last December while hiking toward trails to Glastonbury and Bald Mountains Her father W Archibald Welden joined the teams made up of woodsmen Boy Scouts National Guardsmen and other volunteers split into units of ten to comb the area for clues.
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Bennington
Paula Welden
Bennington College
Stamford, Conn
Glastonbury
Bald Mountains
W. Archibald Welden
Methodists Near End of Conference in Cincinnati
Ohio annual conferences closed a weekend session as lay delegates chose representatives to the 1948 general and jurisdictional conferences. Clerical delegates elect nine members for the Indianapolis jurisdictional meeting and one more for the Boston general conference. The conference will adjourn Monday.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Methodist Church
Indianapolis
Boston
Radio Permit Sought for Lancaster Station
The Communications Commission received an application from Richard Field Lewis Jr and Winslow T Porter doing business as Lancaster Broadcasting Co for permission to operate a new radio station in Lancaster Ohio.
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Washington
the Communications Commission
Richard Field Lewis, Jr
Winslow T. Porter
Lancaster Broadcasting Co
Lancaster, O
Cincinnati Socialite Emily Randolph Dies in Garage
Socialite Emily Randolph 30 was found dead in the front seat of a car in a fume filled garage at her suburban Cincinnati home. Police Lt. Charlies Fricke said the couple argued after a cocktail party and Mrs. Randolph went to pack for a Florida trip before being discovered by a caretaker.
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Cincinnati
Emily Randolph
Charlies Fricke
Fricke
Randolph
Cincinnati Country Club
Florida
Dayton bowling alley owner slain by two gunmen
Dayton police report 59 year old George K Zavakos, operator of Varsity Bowl and Dayton Recreation alleys, shot twice in the chest after an ambush near his home. About $1100 found on him, motive unclear. Gunmen fled in a green and dark Oldsmobile sedan. Zavakos helped pioneer Dayton bowling with brothers Otto and Louis before their split a decade prior.
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Dayton, O
George K. Zavakos
Dayton
Dayton View
Dayton Recreation
Zavakos
Otto
Louis
George
Royal
Flames Wreck Two Foundry Departments at Crown Pipe Plant
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed two foundry sections of the Crown Pipe and Casting Co. in Jackson causing about 50,000 dollars in damage. The plant, with about 150 workers, was closed temporarily as crews fought the blaze yesterday.
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Jackson, C
Crown Pipe and Casting Co
Motorists Fined In Mayor's Court
Two motorists faced fines after pleading guilty to traffic violations. William R. Hawk, 54, of Athens, paid $100 plus costs for driving while under the influence. arrested early Friday by city police. Paul Pritts, Logan Route 3, fined $10 and costs for reckless operation after citation by city police.
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W. Denzil Weltner
William R. Hawk
Athens
Paul Pritts
Logan
Argentina says eight more Nazi agents deported
Buenos Aires reports eight more Nazi agents were expelled, bringing total deportations to 60. Foreign Minister Bramuglia says Argentina has met hemispheric obligations, while stating 125 suspected German spies: 60 deported, 16 traced to neighbors, 43 remaining, others either free with UN approval or jailed for Argentine laws violations. Beceerk and Burkhardt remain at large. Harnisch was among the eight sent to Germany.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Argentina
State Department
Washington
Juan Pramuplia
U.S. State Department
Bramuglia
United Nations
Gustav Adolph Seraphin
Johann Siegfried Beceerk
Walter Burkhardt
Hans Harnisch
Germany
Missing Occupants of Fortress Sought
Ground rescue parties and patrol planes hunted for the missing occupants of a U S Army B 17 that caught fire over a Nicaraguan jungle with 15 men aboard. Five parachuted to safety and were returned to a Canal Zone base. survivors say the craft was at 14 000 feet when they bailed.
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Panama
Canal Zones
Alambamba
Nicaragua
Canal Zone
Kelly Field
Tex
Logan High School 1947 Baccalaureate and Commencement
Baccalaureate services for the 1947 Logan High School graduating class are Sunday at 2 30 P M in the senior high auditorium with Rev Robert C Bowman of First Presbyterian Church Lancaster delivering the sermon Commencement will be held Wednesday evening in the same auditorium with Dr H L Yochum president of Capital University Columbus as speaker Diplomas will be presented and scholastic awards made during the exercises
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Logan High School
Robert C. Bowman
First Presbyterian Church
Lancaster
H. L. Yochum
Capital University
Columbus
Paintings in Army Office Loot of Nazis Returned to Netherlands
The American Military Government announced six paintings in Gen. Lucius D. Clay's office were Nazi seizable loot and would be returned to the Netherlands. The works included Portrait of a Woman by Van Dyck, bought in good faith for about 6640 dollars from a German firm in Baden Baden in late 1945. The German seller was asked to repay the purchase price.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Netherlands
van Dyck
Baden
Roomerbad
Badenweiler
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