Acheson Succeeds Marshall As State Department Head
Dean Acheson was sworn in as secretary of State in the White House with Chief Justice Vinson administering the oath. The ceremony drew officials and Congress leaders as Truman outlined plans to shift toward private capital for foreign investments. Acheson faces NATO treaty drafting, an overall foreign aid program including the Marshall Plan, and lifting living standards in underdeveloped regions.
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Fred Vinson
Acheson
Truman
Mr. Truman
Congress
George Marshall
White House
State Department
United States
Canada
Europe
Senate
Britain
France
Washington
Latin America
Asia
Baby dies in Millersburg cottage fire
In Millersburg Ohio six month old Billy Clark, son of Mr and Mrs Harold Clark, died when a fire engulfed their one room cottage. Fire Chief Gordon Barton cited an overheated stove pipe as the cause. The mother was with a neighbor and the father was at work.
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Millersburg
Billy Clark
Harold Clark
Here
Gordon Barton
Clark
Truman May Channel Aid Through UN Involvement
President Truman signals a bold new program to aid underdeveloped nations through UN agencies. The Economic and Social Council meets February 7, with observers speculating he will unveil concrete proposals for technical assistance to counter communism. The council agenda already includes an urgent request from the General Assembly on aid measures.
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Max Harrelson Lake
Truman
UN Economic and Social Council
Asia
Latin America
Middle East
Economic and Social Council
General Assembly
Czech Guards Open Fire On U S Patrol
In Frankfurt Germany AP report says Czechoslovak border guards fired on a U S constabulary patrol while investigating a border crash. The Americans returned fire with no reported casualties. Earlier a truck crash and gun duel at a German border post left the driver wounded. The incident occurred in the American zone bordering Czechoslovakia, a Communist state since last February.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Army
Czechoslovakia
Judge's Son Edward Matthias Dies in Columbus Home
Edward D. Matthias, 49, son of an Ohio Supreme Court judge, died yesterday at his parents' Columbus home after a long illness. A Van Wert native, he had lived in Columbus 33 years.
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Columbus
Edward D. Matthias
Ohio Supreme Court
Edward S. Matthias
van Wert
Judge awards dog custody to girl's family in custody case
In Portsmouth Ohio Municipal Court Judge Kenneth Cranston resolved a dispute over a shaggy white collie named both Laddie and Shag. He found the dog in effect shared between a 10 year old girl Juanita Davies and her 7 year old neighbor Sam Parker. The dog was registered to Mrs Davies with a 1949 December tag, implying ownership. The judge ruled Laddie goes to Juanita Davies.
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Portsmouth
Kenneth Cranston
Mabel Davies
Juanita
Nora Parker
Sam
Juanita Davies
Three Indicted in Hart Killing by Grand Jury
A Newark grand jury indicted Mrs. Maxine Dermer Sullivan 23, her brother Robert Dermer 19, and Alfred Ray Hefley 22 all of Newark on first degree murder charges in the death of Edwin Hart 49 of Hebron. Hart was beaten fatally near a Newark cafe and died Tuesday night. Arraignment set for January 27 before Judge Charles B. Holtsberry.
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Newark
Licking County
Grand Jury
Edwin Hart
Hebron
Maxine Dermer Sullivan
Robert Dermer
Alfred Ray Hefley
James H. Pollock
Hart
Common Pleas
Charles B. Holtsberry
Geologist dies after fainting near White House inaugural stands
Stephen Reid Capps, 67, a United States Geological Survey geologist famed for Alaskan expeditions, died of a heart attack Wednesday night after being stricken in front of the White House inaugural stands.
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Washington
Navy's Kodiak Assault Faces Heavy Gales Ahead
Navy assault force heading to Kodiak aboard five ships with 1,500 Marines as forecast gales from Honolulu threaten the convoy. Weatherman Halloran warns winds 28 to 38 knots may cross Jan 23 with seas 12 to 15 feet, and will intensify near Kodiak amid 90 to 120 mph williwaws. The operation Icicle involves 40 ships and about 18,000 men, with further units to depart California around February 1.
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Ralph Dighton
Kodiak Island
Honolulu
L. P. Hailoran
Kodiak
North Pacific
Navy
Halloran
San Diego
Calif
Long Beach
Bitter cold grips Rocky Mountain and Northern Plains
The Associated Press reports the northern plains and Rocky Mountain states faced bitter cold with temperatures from 30 to nearly 40 below zero in the Dakotas and Montana. Nebraska Wyoming Colorado Idaho Kansas and Minnesota also saw subzero readings. Early morning lows ranged from 36 in Bozeman to 4 in Goodland. Caribou Maine reported 8 below. Federal forecasters expected little warming, with modest relief not until Saturday.
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Plains
Rocky Mountain
Dakotas
Montana
Nebraska
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Colorado
Idaho
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Mont
Philip
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Mobridge
Scottsbluff
Neb
Sheridan
Douglas
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Malad City
Alexandria
Minn
Goodland
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Caribou
Bismark
Ferguson Raps Fairgrounds and Office Site Plans
Ohio Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson blasted proposals to buy land for a new state fairgrounds and a new state office building. He warned no land will be bought as long as he serves as auditor, estimating fairgrounds costs at 50 to 75 million dollars and claiming the present facility can be improved for about 2 million. He accused officials of wanting to spend over a half million on a parking lot and urged using existing land north and south of the current building.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ohio Association of the Ohio Association of Township Trustees and Clerks
Ferguson
Front St
State Office
Purification Plan Started At Loudonville
Loudonville mayor says a $130000 lime soda water purification plant plans should be ready by February 1 and bids will be sought promptly. A recent enteritis outbreak affected about 1000 of 2600 residents after a chlorinator breakdown left deep well water unchlorinated for three days. State health tests confirmed coli bacilli in the water. The administration defends its safety record and notes voters approved the bond for the project to ensure a safe supply.
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Loudonville, C
Fred Church
John D. Porterfield
Columbus
Church
Bigamist Gets Term in Jail in Kentucky Case
In Greenup Circuit Court Greenup Kentucky Ard Horner 26 formerly of Portsmouth Ohio was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to three years in prison at La Grange He had previously faced a non support charge for three children with first wife Jessie Sparks Horner who testified they married March 2 1945 His father in law Harry Sparks testified Horner married Della Risner in Greenup May 10 1946 Horner admitted the second marriage saying it happened after he had been drinking and did not know what he was doing He has not seen his second wife since the ceremony.
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Greenup
Howard E. Horner
Portsmouth
la Grange
Jessie Sparks Horner
Horner
Harry Sparks
Della Risner
Middletown Sunday features and playful news bits
A collage of local items centers on Leightning Leight as Middletown High School’s famed magician nicknamed Blackstone, plus an AP weather feature advising self-made forecasts. Robert Harris profiles a local Olympic hopeful breaking Army track records, and a Hawaii story highlights a hometown success. A quirky note about pinball and police licensing rounds out the column.
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Middletown High School
Blackstone
Tom
Middletown
Robert Harris
Hawaii
Paves Way For His Return Is Peace Not Accomplished
ISRAEL EGYPT PEACE PARLEY BOGGED DOWN. UN says boundary disputes in Negev hinder armistice talks while Shertok reports Israel Lebanon and Trans Jordan in varying stages of talks with no decisive phase yet reached. Bunche seeks accord on force withdrawals. Chiang Kai-Shek travels south while Li Tsung Jen acts as president amid rumors of retirement and pursuit of peace with Communists.
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L. S. Chakales Rhodes
Israel
Egypt
Negev
United Nations
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Moshe Shertok
State Council
Lebanon
Shertok
Trans-Jordan
Ralph Bunche
Harold K. Milks
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Li Tsung-Jen
Chiang
Hangchowg
Coat
Fenghau
Chekiang
Li Tsung- Jen
Yale Special crash findings due for submission
The Civil Aeronautics Board panel completed its findings on the Yale Special DC-3 crash that killed eleven New Haven students and three crew members on January 2. The hearing drew criticism from Airline Pilots Association officials over emergency firefighting readiness at airfields and CAB liability. Witnesses noted only three firefighters were on duty at the time of the crash.
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Seattle
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington, D.C
CAB
Airline Pilots Association
Joel L Crouch
Oxford Man Misses Trip On Eastwind
Gerald R. Horner a seaman from Oxford Ohio was one of two regular crew on the cutter Eastwind who missed the cruise the vessel took when it collided with a tanker off New Jersey Coast Guard said yesterday no reason was given for the absences.
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Washington (Ap
Gerald R. Horner
Oxford, O
Eastwind
New Jersey
Coast Guard
French to Sell 00 Billion Franc Bonds Monday
Paris reports Finance Minister Maurice Petsche announced France will sell five percent bonds worth 00 billion francs on Monday. Cabinet called to a special session. stock exchanges in France and North Africa closed today to curb unhealthy speculation, with trading to resume Monday after details of the new government loan are released.
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Paris
Maurice Petsche
Finance Ministry
France
North Africa
Maniac Sought After Youths Body Is Found
The body of 18 year old Walter Joe Parsons was found nude and frozen on a snow bank near Colorado Springs Garden of the Gods. Acting Police Chief Cy Close said Parsons was slain by a degenerate. Parsons was second teenage male murder case in a year, linked to an earlier assault on Richard Shanahan. Sheriff Norman Short headed a posse to search foothills for Gerald Skelton, missing for a week, fearing a connection.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Walter Joe Parsons
Cy Close
Parsons
Alvin Lee Bundy
Jimmy Fox
Richard Shanahan
Shanahan
Close
Henry W. Mary
Parson
Gerald Skelton
Norman Short
Skelton
Reprieve Granted In 1945 Murder Case
Eliseo J. Mares Jr of Antonito Colorado, convicted of first degree murder in the 1945 slaying of Jack Durwood Stallings of Corning California, was granted a new reprieve by the State Pardons Board and indefinitely postponed consideration of a commutation plea.
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Salt Lake City
Eliseo J. Mares, Jr
Antonito
Colo
Jack Durwood Stallings
Corning, C
State Pardons Board
AFL chief to dedicate ICWU headquarters in Akron
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor will dedicate the International Chemical Workers Union headquarters in Akron on Monday. The building was bought in July and occupied by the AFL ICWU last October.
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Akron. C
William Green
American Federation of Labor
International Chemical Workers Union
AFL Icwu
Election Activity Survey Is Planned
COLUMBUS AP County Election Board members will meet here January 26 at the request of Secretary of State Charles F. Sweeney to discuss his new program coordinating county boards election activities. The program is expected to cover election reporting and routine handling of returns.
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Columbus
Charles F. Sweeney
Truman Sworn In As Inaugural Ends Quiet, Low-Key Day
President Truman begins a four year term with a restrained pace after a formal inaugural day. Dean Acheson becomes secretary of state as Truman settles into the White House. The president attends a quiet reception and inaugural ball while his daughter Margaret enjoys the festivities.
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Margaret
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