Plane lands on ice after engine sputters over Cleveland
Michael Haines of Weirton West Virginia took off from Lakefront Airport and within minutes faced engine trouble. He cleared Municipal Stadium by 100 feet and made two landings on Lake Erie ice before flying back to the airport with the sputtering engine. Mechanics blamed a blown oil pump and Haines planned to fly home to Steubenville.
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Cleveland
Michael Haines
Lakefront
Ale Rt
Municipal Stadium
Lake Erie
Haines
Weirton
W. Va
Perkins Beach
Steubenville
Cities Ready Fight On Phone Rate Hike
The Ohio Municipal League opposes Ohio Bell Telephone Co. seeks a 28.33 million annual rate increase. Law director Ralph L. Locher says the increase is unwarranted given a 7.2 percent return on investments last July, higher than sister companies. A study conference is called with officials from Columbus Cleveland Cincinnati Toledo and other areas. The phone company argues the hike is needed to stem earnings decline and fund expansion.
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Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ralph L. Locher
Cleveland
Ohio Municipal League
Public Utilities
Municipal League
Columbus
Cincinnati
Dayton
Toledo
Canton
Akron
Youngstown
Ashtabula
Ohio Bell
Locher
Utilities Commission
O Neill Rejects Dean Clemency
Columbus Ohio Gov C William O Neill refused clemency to Homer Jack Dean who was convicted and sentenced to life for the 1947 slaying of Elmo Rice. Prosecutor Samuel L Devine said a clemency resume was sent but no formal application was pending. Dean has been in Franklin County jail for 16 months after habeas corpus release from the Ohio Penitentiary.
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Columbus
Ohio
Samuel L. Devine
Homer Jack Dean
William ‘O'Neill
Dean
Elmo Rice
Devine
O'Neill
Franklin County
NYC rail cuts under review in Columbus hearing
The Utilities Commission opened a hearing on NYC service adequacy between Cleveland and Cincinnati after two trains were cut Oct 27. Urbana businessmen Kirby and Murphey testified of higher costs and delays, with complaints from Toledo, Cincinnati and others. The session continues with Bellefontaine and Cincinnati witnesses scheduled.
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Columbus
Ohio
The
Utilities Commission
New York Central
Cleveland
Cincinnati
NYC
Shelby
Urbana
Commission
Toledo
Edward E. Kirby
Kirby Hatcheries
Robert Murphey
R. H. Murphey Sons Co
Bellefontaine
Kenton
Middletown
Thief Finally Returns Money Thief Finally Returns Money
In Charlotte North Carolina an unsigned letter postmarked Pageland South Carolina asks Mayor Jim Smith to return thirteen dollars to an unnamed girl who worked at an asbestos company in spring 1929. Old timers recall a thirteen dollar theft from the girl’s purse and a thirteen fifty collection, but her name is unknown. The mayor said the money would go to charity if the owner cannot be located.
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Charlotte
N.C
Jim Smith
Pageland
S.C
Smith
ONeills Heart Damage Reported After Governor's Attack
Two physicians reported Governor C William ONeill suffered slight damage to the back heart muscle from a heart attack. They said healing may reverse the injury and that the damage arose from a temporary interruption of blood supply to the tissue.
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Colmbus
Ohio
C. William O'Neill
Robert C. Kirk
George I. Nelson
Warden Seeks Funds for 100-Gallon Soup Kettle
Grant F. Price asked county commissioners to appropriate 1425 dollars for a new 100 gallon soup kettle for the county jail. He said the old unit has leaked after fifty years of use.
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Pittsburgh
Grant F. Price
Danford To Speak For Miami Classes
Fred D. Danford of Armco Steel Corp. Middletown will discuss Financing Armco and Current Practices in Industrial Finance for Miami University corporate finance class. The talk in Hughes Hall Room 209 Thursday at 3 45 p m covers his Armco tenure since 1929 and treasurer since 1945 plus roles at Bellefonte Insurance and Aejronca Manufacturing Corp.
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Oxford
Miami University
Armco
Fred D. Danford
Armco Steel Corp
Middletown
Hughes Hall
Danford
Bellefonte Insurance Co
Aejronca Manufacturing Corp
Soviet youth paper accuses four Western attaches of hooligan acts
Komsomol Pravda quoted by Moscow radio claims US air attache Thomas Wolfe and three colleagues disrupted a Georgian train trip from Tbilisi to Baku on January 14. It says they exhibited unseemly behavior and left rooms in Tbilisi Hotel in unsanitary condition between January 12 and 14.
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London
Britlow Svetlitsky
Wolfe
Moscow
Caucasus
Komsomol Pravda
Moscow Radio
Thomas Wolfe
Charles Portaluppi
Sidney Mitchell
Laurence
Dro
Wolff
Tbilisi
Trial in Amish murder recessed in Ohio case
MILLERSBURG Ohio The first degree murder trial of Michael Dumoulin 20 Wooster Ohio and Cleo Eugene Peters 19 Muscatine Iowa for the July 18 slaying of Amish farmer Paul Coblentz on the Coblentz farm near Mount Hope has recessed until Thursday Prosecutors plan to call two Lacon Illinois police officers Peters was convicted and awaits execution in the electric chair on April 10.
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Millersburg
Ohio
Michael Dumoulin
Lacon
Ill
Dumoulin
Wooster
Cleo Eugene Peters
Muscatine
Iowa
Paul Coblentz
Coblentz
Mount Hope
Peters
Father Of Radio Leaves Hospital
Dr. Lee De Forest known as the Father of Radio, age 84, has left St. John’s Hospital after removal of a bladder tumor last Wednesday. He holds more than 300 patents and pioneered the electronic age in 1906 with his three element radio vacuum tube.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Lee de Forest
St. John's Hospital
de Forest
Hearing for Parole for Ohio prisoner in Mansfield
Notice states James H. Privetts No. 51791 confined at Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield. Eligible for parole hearing on or after March 1, 1958. Case No. 14797 burglary and larceny. sentenced 1 to 15 years. Commission clerk Forsyth dated Jan 29 and Feb 5.
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Pomme Ohio Anuary
James H. Privetts
Ohiotate Reformatory
Mansfield
Ohio
Butler County
C c. P.V
Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission
Ohio Pardon and Panols Commission. Co
Forsyth
Hansel McQuinn
S.E. Twelfth St
Ft. Lauderdale
Fila
Velda McQuinn
Common Pleas Court
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Howard H. Coldwell
Naval Air Rescue Training
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Harry F. Walsh
Said County
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