Nation at stake as democracy faces cold war threat
Robert R. Bangham, assistant director of public welfare, warned at a Manchester Hotel dinner that a harsher crisis threatens the nation than in World War II. He said Soviet ideology aims to replace democracy with communism and urged Americans to unite, bolster home institutions, and support a new state mental hygiene clinic in Butler County to curb juvenile delinquency.
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Robert R. Bangham
Columbus
Department of Public Welfare
Co- Operative Club
Manchester Hotel
Bengham
United States
U. S
Russia
Europe
Bangham
Plymouth Rock
America
Co-Operative Club
Butler County Children’s Farm Project
Butler County
Cleveland
Middie Band Opens Concert Series at High School
A small audience attended the Middie band concert in Middletown High School auditorium last night under H. Vincent Carter. George Skillman directed the first number with soloists A. Nori on trumpet and Smith Hart on drums. The next concert is Sunday, April 4 at 3 p.m.
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Maddie Band
Middletown High School
H. Vincent Carter
George Skillman
A! Nori
Smith Hart
Pravda Board Opposes Plan for Eastern Europe Federation
Pravda editors reject a federation or customs union for eastern European states aligned with Bulgaria's communist premier Georgi Dimitrov. They urge independence and democratic mobilization, arguing consolidation would threaten sovereignty, following Dimitrov's Bucharest conference January 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Pravada
George Dimitrov
Bulgaria
Communist Party
Dimitrov
Bucharest
Romania
Russia
Middletown Rations Gas as Cold Wave Pushes Substitutes
Middletown endures a new cold mass and sub zero threat with temperatures near 12 at 10 am and 19 by 3 pm. Industries shift to substitute fuels as Arch Robison reports cuts and workers reassigned to other projects. Arch Robison praises domestic customers for conserving gas while American Rolling Mill and Armco switch fully to substitutes and coke oven gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Weather Bureau
The
Gas & Electric Company
Leo F. Reinartz
Miami
Armco
Alabama Governor Folsom enters Democratic presidential race
Gov James E Folsom of Alabama announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. In Steubenville Ohio officials announced the capture of Stanley Sheffie a 33 year old life term prisoner who escaped from Moundsville West Virginia state prison last July.
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Steubenville, O
Stanley Sheffie
Moundsville
W. Va
Des Moines Woman Dies After Home Fire Rescue
Mrs. Lillian Otte, 80, died from burns after attempting to save a dog, a cat, and 18 chickens from her burning Des Moines home. An earlier Health Department order had required the destruction of 32 of her 33 dogs.
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Des Moines
Lillian Otte
State Health Department
Fire destroys barn killing thirty cocker spaniels
A barn owned by J. B. Waring in Wilmington Delaware burned in 15 below zero weather, killing thirty registered cocker spaniel dogs valued at five thousand dollars. The fire caused total loss of the animals and property.
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Wilmington
J. B. Waring
Ice bound cars endangered salvage plan on Ohio river
In Newburgh Indiana a salvage plan may move 406 new automobiles from 11 icebound barges to shore if the river stays frozen. Dennis Harlander, Standard Oil terminal head, said cars would be driven onto the ice and transferred to transport vehicles for the trip to shore, with storage likely in a nearby cornfield. The barges were abandoned after towboat Sohio Fleetwing failed to reach the Green river mouth.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Newburgh
Ird
Dennis Harlander
Standard Oil
Sohio
Green River
Gas shortage triggers statewide emergency in Ohio towns
Ohio utilities issued a state wide emergency as gas pressure fell and sales curbed. Companies paused industrial service, workers were laid off in Cincinnati and Dayton, and rural schools closed while temperatures plummeted to minus values across the state.
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Overbeck
Commission
Ohio
Dayton Power and Light
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company
Delaware Gas Company
West Ohio Gas Company
Lima
Western Ohio Public Service
Greenville
Arlington Natural Gas Company
Columbus
East Ohio Gas Company
Cincinnati
New Lexington
Canelville
Muskingum County
Warren
Dayton
Steubenville
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Sidney
Ohio Fuel Gas
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co
East Ohio Gas Co
Cleveland
East Ohio
State Highway Department
Hamilton
Akron
Salem
Canton
Athens
Springfield
Bucyrus
Mount Vernon
Bladensburg
Knox County
Zanesville
Chillicothe
Lunken
Wooster
Lancaster
Cannesville
Little Muskingum County
Leaders' Meeting Tonight Canceled by Civic Building Fault
The Girl Scout Leaders Association meeting at the Civic Association Building was called off due to a furnace breakdown. Executive director Mrs. Garnet Church announced the cancellation, but the building remains open for public business per Civic Association director Tom Venable.
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Girl Scout Leaders Association
Civic Association
Garnet Church
Direcor
Tom Venable
Colder Below Than Above Alter States Cincinnati Readings
Meteorologist J. Cecil Alter reports official Cincinnati temperature 2 above zero at the coldest, but street thermometers show five to ten degrees colder with no wind. Lunken airport records 13 below zero. Kenton County airport reads 3 below.
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Lcinulinnall
Cincinnati
J. Cecil Alter
Federal Building
Alter
Lunken
Kenton County
Jewish Agency holds line on Palestine partition pressure
Jewish leaders urge immediate U S action backing the United Nations partition plan. They warn that delaying or weakening U S support amid Arab violence would betray the UN and Jewish people and demand an international force and arming of the Jewish militia with strong backing from President Truman and Secretary Marshall.
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Jewish Agency
Palestine
United States
State Department
America
United Nations
Truman
Marshall
Congress urged to fund emergency relief survey board
Jenkins says Congress should provide a few millions for an emergency relief survey board. He argues the task requires Congress and President to decide on later actions and timelines. He estimates completion within three years and a total outlay of three to four billion dollars unless urgent contingencies arise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
State Department
Jenkins
Dorsey Sorrell Bound to Jury
Dorsey Sorrell of South Avenue was ordered held for action of the Butler County Grand Jury under bond of 1500 dollars after arraignment today in Municipal Court before Judge Alton H. Combs. Sorrell is charged with cutting William Mayhan during an argument over a girl.
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Dorsey Sorrell
South Ave
Butler County Grand Jury
Alton H. Combs
Sorrell
William Mayhan
Middletown Hospital
Robbery Reported in Portsmouth Apartment
Bernard Kimble told police two masked men entered his apartment and robbed him of 1450 dollars. The robbers fled after binding and gagging him, according to the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Bernard Kimble
Kimble
Scrap shortage tightens steel industry outlook
The Iron Age reports the steel industry faces scarce scrap supplies to use rising capacity. Prices slip to 40.83 a gross ton while ingot output dips to 95 percent. Gas shortages delay Pittsburgh shipments and quotas shrink for the next quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Iron Age
National Metalworking Weekly
Pittsburgh
Mikolajczyk Aide Spy Trial Opens in Poland
Twelve supporters of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk face trial in Olsztyn for spying for an embassy. Prosecutors say they collected data on Polish Army strength militia positions economics and politics. Franciszek Kalinowski is the lead defendant.
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Warsaw
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Olsztyn
German East Prussia
Franciszek Kalinowski
Mikolajczyk
Warsaw Tribunal
U. S
NAM Supports Marshall Plan With Safeguards
Washington AP The National Association of Manufacturers backs the Marshall Plan with safeguards. NAM committee member Herbert H Schell says U S aid should be limited to nations with balanced budgets and not controlled by government. A non political board to manage the plan should be set up independent of the State Department. more production at home and abroad is seen as key to recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
Herbert H. Schell
NAM International Relations Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Schell
Congress
U. S
Marshall Plana
State Department
NAM
Europe
Bolton named to Interlake board in N. C. Bolton vacancy
Directors of Interlake Steamship Co. elevated Irving C Bolton to fill the vacancy on the board created by the death of his twin brother N C Bolton. The move was announced yesterday by the Cleveland based company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Interlake Steamship Co
Irving C. Bolton
N. C. Bolton
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Middie Band
John Dobrozsi, Jr
General Insurance
PLAS
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Homemakers
Pravda Board
Arch Robison
Ubility
Miami Valley
American
Ditmyer
Vail Ave
Mikolajczyk’s
W' AE Jewelers
Central Avenue
Operasit Ohio, Inc
Rentschler Bldg
Hamilton, Ohio
G.I
Middletown Federal Ssavings & Loan Associatio
Main & Central
AVI
Kaiser-Frazer
Kaiser and Frazer
Kaiser
Frazer
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Wendell Noble
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Willow Run, Michigan
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