May Finish Evidence Monday In Slaying Case
Surprising speech closed Friday session of the Abbott murder trial as experts predicted the state may rest Monday. Cyril Gordon and Marie Abbott face police confessions, witness testimony from Sheriff Walke and investigator McSavney, and a reading of love letters. motions for acquittal may follow. The trial, opened Tuesday, featured testimony on the Memorial Day killing at the Abbott farm and the affair between Gordon and Marie Abbott.
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Abbott
Cyril
Shorty) Gordon
Morris R. Abbott
Marie Conn Abbott
Gordon
Charles B. Walke
Everett L. McSavaney
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Marie Abbott Jordan
Gene Derickson
Scotty
Lordon
Reily
Grace Conn
Marie Abbott
Baden
Bomb tests at Eniwetok reveal design upgrade and aims
Washington AP report states the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed that the three new and improved atomic bombs tested at Eniwetok proved the U S position has strengthened and that the tests sought greater explosive force. The commission warned of limited peacetime power replacement and highlighted isotopes aiding medical and industrial use.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
United States
Congress
Pacific
Eniwetok
Goiter
Marie urged assembly on ERP end and workers fate
Andre Marie, likely to form France’s 10th postwar cabinet, urged the National Assembly to focus on the ERP’s end and the fate of workers left unemployed when factories close. Paul Hoffman said ERP lasts four years, regardless of U.S. election. Marie appears to command 311 votes. socialists back him. vote expected tonight.
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Paris
Andre Marie
National Assembly
Marie
Paul G. Hoffman
European Cooperation
ERP
Maine
MRP
Republican Liberty Party
Made principal Ironton high school in Ohio
Marvin Miller, superintendent of Liberty consolidated school at Lancaster, received a one year contract as principal of Ironton high school. His salary will be four thousand dollars annually. He succeeds Paul G. Gunett who resigned to become principal of Barberton high school.
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Ironton, O
Marvin Miller
Liberty Consolidated School
Lancaster
Ironton High School
Miller
Paul G. Gunett
Barberton High School
Earth Tremors Reported From Turkey Near Boston Seismographs
The Boston College seismograph station logged a very strong tremor near Turkey at 2 14 32 EDT, estimated 4900 miles east northeast of Boston. In London a seismologist reported a sharp quake at 12 08 a.m. EST, likely centered in the Dodecanese Islands about 1750 miles from London.
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Weston
Mass
Turkey
Boston College
Daniel J. Linehan
S. J
Boston
London
H. V. Shaw
West Bromwich
Dodecanese Islands
Court finds Benson sane in Cannons gas murder case
Cincinnati AP reports court alienists declared Walter Benson also known as William Taylor sane. He faces first degree murder charges in the gasoline killing of two year old George Cannon Jr whose mother Ann testified a robber dumped gasoline on the bay and set it alight after taking 250 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Walter Benson
William Taylor
Benson
George Cannon, Jr
Ann
Killer Marksman Daniels Says He Regrets Not Shooting It Out
Unrepentant 22 year old Robert Daniels details six killings in 14 days after arrest near Van Wert. He describes plans with John West to “beat hell out of him” at the Mansfield reform school and recounts the Niebel family slayings. West died in a police roadblock shootout. Daniels awaits first degree murder charges in Richland County.
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Celina
Robert
Mark’’ Daniels
John C. West
F. Ray Shaffer
van Wert
Daniels
West
Shaffer
Dazved
L. D. Conn
Conn
Frank Freimoth
Summer Walters
van Wert County
Walters
Here
John E. Niebel
Mansfield Reformatory Farm
Noranda
Phyllis
Earl C. Ambrose
Columbus
James Smith
Tiffin O
Orville Taylor
Niles
Mich
Michigan
Frank Krech
Flat Rock
Krech
Richland County
Mansfield Reformatory
Niebel
Prosenter
Theodore Lutz
Mansfield
Parkersburg
W. Va
Johnny
Reformatory
Red Phillips
Niebels
CIO Defeated In Voting At Dayton Plant
Dayt on Ohio AP employees of the Univis Lens Company, on strike since May 1, voted 302 to 272 to oust the CIO United Electrical Workers Union as their bargaining agent. The de certification election was requested by 300 workers and followed by a back to work call from UEW President M H Stanley. The union will keep the strike with a picket line and alleged NLRB collusion with management to defeat the UEW.
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Dayton, O
Univis Lens Company
CIO United Electrical Workers Union
National Labor Relations Board
M H. Stanley
GM Increases Prices of Passenger Cars Nationwide
General Motors announced about an eight percent price increase on all passenger cars with effect next Monday. President C E Wilson cited rising wages and material costs as the cause. The move follows an 11 cent hourly wage rise granted to the CIO United Auto Workers, likely adjusted upward in September, and is GM’s first general price rise since August 1947.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
C. E. Wilson
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Jury Returns Murder Charge In Stark County
Canton Ohio AP John R Burson 33 indicted by Stark County grand jury on first degree murder for a July 8 shooting spree that killed Ellsworth Ruch Jr 24 and wounded three others including his wife Vera 39 He faces kidnapping charges tied to a failed escape from police after the wife at Genoa The same jury also returned a second degree murder bill against Hazel Everhart 44 for stabbing her husband Wade 54 at their Massillon home July 6
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Canton O
John R. Burson
Stark County Grand Jury
Burson
Ellsworth Ruch, Jr
Vera
Ruch
Genoa
Hazel Everhart
Wade
Massillon
Clinton Dickey, longtime Conneaut schools chief, dies
Clinton M. Dickey, 77, former superintendent of Conneaut schools, died yesterday in a local hospital, leaving a legacy in the district's education leadership. He had guided several programs and served the community for years.
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Conneaut, O
Clinton M. Dickey
Conneaut Schools
Wallace to Accept Progressive Nomination Tonight
Wallace will accept the Progressive Party nomination in Philadelphia tonight as he enters 1948's pivotal race. The former vice president challenges Truman and Dewey on a platform framed by backers as a choice against high prices, foreign policy and what they term Jim Crowism. Keynoter Charles P. Howard urged plain people to join Wallace in a fight against the old parties.
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Convention Hall
Philadelphia
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
U. S
Wallace
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Charles P. Howard
Iowa
Congress
Armed Battle of Races Opens in Mississippi
In Hazelhurst near Dentville a gun battle looms as 50 to 75 armed Negroes are reported in Turkey Creek Woods. A 200-man white posse hunts two Negroes tied to a shooting of Sheriff Julius Harper. The posse splits into three groups to search woods, surround a home, and detain Negroes in Hazelhurst.
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Mississippi
Turkey Creek Woods
Dentville
Miss
Hazel
Man Who Bombed UN Under $50,000 Bond
Stephen J. Supina, a former Army flyer, bombed United Nations headquarters saying he sought world peace. He was held on $50,000 bond for mental examination after arraignment in New Haven City Court and a continuance granted until Monday. He told reporters he aimed to force attention on the United Nations and planned to return to Lake Success to "finish my fight for world peace."
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New Haven, Conn
Stephen J. Supina
United Nations
New Haven Register
D. W. Celotto
Rough Going Faces Truman In Congress
President Truman laid out his inflation battle plan as he rode the Williamsburg in the Potomac and anticipated Congress’ response. Republicans signaled tough reception amid a looming Civil Rights revolt and a filibuster threat from within his party, while Truman prepared to deliver his message next week and urged agencies not to push independent legislation.
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Washington
Truman
Potomac
Congress
Williamsburg
Capitol Hill
Fastland
D-Miss
Philadelphia
Monay
Dewey to Meet With Senator for Berlin Crisis Update
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey plans a dinner conference at his farm with Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg to receive an up-to-date report on the Berlin crisis. John Foster Dulles will join the discussion. Earlier, Dewey addressed five farm editors at Pawling Grange Hall about reversing livestock and poultry declines through smarter use of grain.
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Dewey
Pawling Grange Hall
Priest Becomes Army Chaplains Deputy Chief
Brig. Gen. James H. ONeill 56 a Catholic priest and one of five Army chaplains to reach one star is named deputy chief of chaplains. He succeeds Col. Patrick J. Ryan who will be stationed in San Francisco as Sixth Army Chaplain.
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Washington
James H. O'Neill
Army
Col
Patrick J. Ryan
San Francisco
Sixth Army
U S Plan to Double Berlin Airlifts Meets Soviet Blockade
General Lucius D. Clay announced a plan to double air shipments to Berlin, from 2,000 to 4,500 tons daily, adding C-54 transports and C-47s while expanding Templehof access. He said peace chances are excellent but warned against war and noted no B-29 landings on Templehof runways.
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Truman
Washington
Berlin
Russia
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
U. S
Marshall
Clay
Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
London
Lewis Douglas
Bohlen
Douglas
England
Templehof
Russia readies new Berlin money in Soviet zone claim
Marshal Sokolovsky announces a new permanent Soviet currency for the eastern German and Berlin occupation area and declares it the sole legal tender in the Soviet zone. Western powers counter with their own currency while air operations and supply flights continue.
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Berlin
Russia
Germany
Hamburg
Sokolovsky
Liners America to be bought for seven million four hundred sixty thousand
United States Lines will repurchase the 26 314 ton liner America from the government for 7,460,000 dollars after negotiations with the Maritime Commission. John M. Franklin, president of U S Lines, announced the deal, noting the ship is now operated under charter. The government had bought the liner in 1942 for 10,853,791 dollars.
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New York
America
United States Lines
John M. Franklin
Line
Maritime Commission
U. S. Lines
Physician Robbed and Abducted Near Springfield
Dr Herbert L Fish Jr an osteopathic physician aged 41 told Sheriff J Arthur Shuman he was lured from his office by a sickly appearing boy then abducted by a tall blond man with a revolver. The doctor was driven south from Springfield slugged and left in a ditch after losing a wallet containing 60 dollars and his credentials.
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Springfield, O
J. Arthur Shuman
Here
Shuman
Herbert L. Fish, Jr
Fish
Springfield
Soldier Sentenced for First Attack on Woman in Occupation Japan
AP report from TOKYO states 25 year old Stanley E Reed of Lima Ohio was sentenced to life imprisonment by a first cavalry division court martial after conviction for attacking an American woman on April 25. It marks the first such case under the occupation.
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Tokyo
Stanley E Reed
Lima
First Cavalry Division
Japan
Runaway Car Strikes 84-Year-Old in Cincinnati
An eighty four year old man Curtis Dansberry died in a local hospital after being struck by a runaway automobile while seated on a curb in Cincinnati. The incident occurred last night and was reported by AP.
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Cincinnati
Curtis Dansberry
Newfoundland Votes to Join Canada in Referendum
In St John’s Newfoundland the referendum shows 72 756 votes for union with Canada and 69 550 for self government with incomplete but apparently conclusive results. The Canadian government is expected to wait at least a week before commenting on the results.
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ST. John's
Newfoundland
Canada
Flood victims back in homes in Lancaster Ohio
Lancaster Ohio faced a flood crisis affecting 2900 families with most returning home by nightfall. About 20 families remained sheltered at Red Cross facilities in the Sherman Armory and Salvation Army Center. Damage tallied above 2.0 million dollars as roads reopened and National Guard patrols continued in Columbus.
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Lancaster
Sherman Armory
Salvation Army Center
Red Cross
Columbus
Chester W. Goble
National Guard
Thomas J. Herebert
Body Identified After Ohio River Tragedy Near Cincinnati
Police identified the body recovered from the Ohio River at Sweetwine as Mrs Mildred Gaskins 38 of Cincinnati. She and her 22 year old niece Mrs Ruth Crenshaw of Tabasco Ohio drowned when a rowboat capsized after striking a buoy. Two men in the boat survived.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Sweetwine
Mildred Gaskins
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