Middletown to land Clare Steel plant near Amanda
A new industry valued at about a million dollars will be built north of Crystal Tissue in Amanda and serve Middletown. The Clare Steel Corporation, led by J M Kratze of Detroit, plans a $250,000 first unit, 40 by 280 feet, employing 50 at start and up to 225 to 250 later, with construction to begin December 20 and completion by January 10.
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Middletown
Middletown Chamber Commerce
Clare Steel Corporation
Crystal Tissue Company
Amanda
Walter Bender
Roy Patterson
Chamber of Commerce
J. M. Kratze
Detroit
Warren Steel Corporation
J. H. Karlet
Kratze
Joe Swain
Middletonian
Warren Sales Organization
R. C. Machon Company
Troit
Miami Valley
United States
Noronic Fire Blamed on Ship Owners and Master
In a Toronto dock fire that killed 118, Canada Steamship Lines and Captain William C. Taylor were judged at fault by Justice R L Kellock, who suspended Taylor’s master's certificate for a year and urged tighter vessel safety rules. The 30 000 word report urged measures to prevent future disasters and identified 111 identified dead with seven to be identified.
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Ottawa
Noronic
Supreme Court of Canada
Toronto
R. L. Kellock
Transport Department
William C. Taylor
Sarnia
Ont
House of Commons
Justice Kellock
Kellock
Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd
Taylor
C. D. Howe
Ting
troit-Cleveland
Owens Taylor
Cleveland
Detroit
U S Appeals to 30 Nations Over Ward Imprisonment
The United States asked 30 nations including Russia to urge Chinese Communists to free imprisoned American consul general Angus Ward and four staff members jailed October 24. State Department said Secretary Acheson sent urgent messages Friday night seeking government concern over Ward's detention.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Angus Ward
State Department
Acheson
Ward
Fire Rages Through Pottstown Stores in Pennsylvania
A major blaze in Pottstown's business district began around 10 a.m. in the Kesier drug and department store, spreading to Kinney's shoe store and the city high school building. Firefighters fought the flame as hundreds watched. at least six people were injured and seven sales girls were temporarily trapped but rescued.
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Pottstown
Kessier Drug and Department Store
Philadelphia
Kinney
Pottstown Business School
American Held By Hungarians
U S legation in Budapest said it was seeking details from the Hungarian government about the arrest of Robert A Vogeler Jr 38 assistant vice president at International Telephone and Telegraph Company ITT. Vogeler left Budapest Friday for Vienna and has not been heard from his wife believes he is being held incommunicado.
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Budapest
Hungary
U. S
Legation
Robert A. Vogeler, Jr
International Teenhone and Telegraph Company
Vienna
Vogeler
I. T
Europe
Robert A. Vogeler
Jackson Heights
Long Isand
Woman Sues Government Over Income Tax Withholding
Vivien Kellems filed suit in federal district court to recover 7,819.20 seized by the Treasury after refusing to withhold taxes at her cable manufacturing plant. She compared Secretary Snyder to Jesse James and invited indictment to test constitutional withholding law. The money was seized in May 1948 after she stopped acting as an unpaid tax collector and her employees paid taxes themselves.
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Bridgeport
James
Kellems
Snyder
Treasury Department
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce
Miss Kellems
Westport
Stonington
Treasury
Plane Missing Off Oslo With 28 Jewish Children Aboard
An Aero Holland DC-3 carrying 28 undernourished Jewish refugee children from Tunis and 7 others vanished near Oslo. A search by hundreds followed reports of a bright flash and explosion near Gjersjoen lake, close to Fornebu airport, as the group headed for rehabilitation en route to Israel.
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Oslo
Norway
North Africa
Fornebu
Gjersjoen Lake
Tunis
Israel
Aero Holland
Oslo Fjord
Ear
Haguetherlands
Odds Against A Bomb Attack On U S
Washington AP reports Senator Edwin C. Johnson says the odds of a surprise atomic bomb attack on the United States are about one million to one against in the next 20 years. Johnson sits on the Senate House Atomic End and cites secrecy among top officials. Other lawmakers push civilian defense hearings and Congress readiness after Truman’s disclosure of a Soviet atomic test.
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Washington
United States
Edwin C. Johnson
Dcole
Johnson
Senate House
Atomic Energy Commission
Congressional Atomic
McMahon
D-Conn
Joint Committee
Tydings
D-Md
Senate Armed Services Committee
Truman
Soviet Russia
Airmen adrift for 79 hours saved off Bermuda
Eighteen airmen from a ditched B 29 were rescued after 79 hours on two life rafts in heavy Atlantic swells north of Bermuda. Two crewmen died. four on stretchers, 14 walked ashore with minor injuries. Pilot Lt Col John Grable led survivors, air captain praised morale and unity aboard the Haida picked them up after a U S Air Force B 17 spotted them northeast of Bermuda.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Findley Air Base
Bridges Trial Defense To Cost Union 200000
Longshore leader Harry Bridges perjury trial resumes in San Francisco with defense costs estimated at $200000 funded by a broad subscription from many sources including other unions. Union officials say locals voted assessments from $1 to $5 per member. The case also involves two co-defendants Henry Schmidt and J R Robertson on conspiracy charges. Government witnesses expected to begin today after a recess.
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SAN Francisco
Harry Bridges
CIO Longshoemen
Morris Watson
Bridges
Henry Schmidt
J. R. Robertson
Lloyd H. Garner
Immigration and Naturalization Examiner
Mine disaster near Lagos kills eighteen in Nigeria
An explosion or collapse at a coal mine near Lagos, Nigeria, on Friday killed eighteen people and injured thirty one others, authorities said. Rescue teams worked through the aftermath as the number of missing remained uncertain.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Here Friay
Lewis Bridges In Battle Over Miners Welfare Fund
Washington AP reports a feud between John L. Lewis and Senator Bridges over spending from the coal miners welfare fund. Trustee transitions occur as Dawson replaces Van Horn, while Bridges seeks to restrict disbursements from post June 30 collections amid a stalled miners contract and a looming court accounting.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Senator Bridges
Dawson
Lewis and
Bridges
Lewis
UMW
Mississippi
Widow Hurt Enroute To Burial Service
Mrs Libbie Murstein sister in law of Mrs Ben Bender of Middletown and widow of Lafe Murstein died Sunday in Hamilton. She was among two injured when their car skidded and overturned on Route 73 three miles east of Springboro. Sanford Baffy of Wilmar's Hamilton department store rode in another car and continued to Sharon Pennsylvania. the Highway Patrol investigates.
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Libbie Murstein
Ben Bender
Middletown
Lafe Murstein
Hamilton
Springboro
Murstein
Fort Hamilton Hospital
Sanford Baffy
Wilmar’s
Sharon
Benjamin Leman
Elliott Marstein
Piqua
Marstein
Lafe Marstein
Route 73
Highway Patrol
The Photographic Nut Hobbyist’s Darkroom Obsession
The piece celebrates the photographic nut who dives from a beat-up box to a full darkroom mastering f stops and shutter speeds. Martin reads widely, hires books, builds a private lab, and brags of his speed with a speedy soup.
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Martin
Slot machines taken in raids across Ohio counties
State Liquor Enforcement Chief Anthony A. Rutkowski announced nine slot machines seized after weekend raids. Unlicensed Monte Carlo Club in Smith Township closed. Charles Nanes fined for illegal liquor sales. Akron Post Firestone VFW had six slots confiscated. Sandusky Pioneer Club seized three slots with liquor, Charles Eagles charged. Cleveland Sunday sales charged at Nickle Plate Grill Greek Village and Quad Hall Lounge Bar.
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Cleveland
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Alliance
Dry Smith Township
Mahoning County
Nicholas E. Sisler
Canton
Charles Nanes
Justice of the Peace
Akron
Firestone Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Stanley Cmich
Sandusky
Pioneer Club
Charles Eagles
Steve Gresch
Quad Hall
Cleveland Club Sold By Veeck
Cleveland AP Dynamic Bill Veeck sold the Cleveland Indians to a local businessmen group for about 2200. Tribe President Ellis Ryan leads the new ownership after weeks of bidding. More than 150 people attended at Cleveland Stadium for the signing, noted as the biggest crowd since Bob Feller’s signing. The price contrasted with the 1946 purchase of the Tribe and its holdings for roughly 1,250,000.
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Cleveland
Bill Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Ellis Ryan
Veeck
American League Baseball Club
Bob Feller
Old League Park
GE Employes Join New Union in Pittsfield Mass
General Electric workers in Pittsfield voted a 11 to quit the United Electrical Workers Union and join the CIO International. Local 255’s 6,000 members, about 60 to 75 percent Catholic, faced strong sermons during mass urging a choice between Washington and Moscow and Christ and Stalin as the reason for the switch after the UEW was expelled as Communist dominated.
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Pittsfield
Mass
General Electric
United Electrical Workers Union
CIO International
John Callahan
Washington
Moscow
Christ
Stalin
United Electrical Workers
Lauder Sees Signs of Recovery in Scotland
Strathaven Scotland AP Sir Harry Lauder, aged 70, shows improvement from a blood clot and kidney ailment that left him critically ill three months ago. Dr John Stewart reports he sat up in bed yesterday and resumed his humor and pipe, indicating progress.
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Strathaven
Scotland
Harry Lauder
John Stewart
Lauder
Twelve Ohioans Die In Weekend Accidents
A weekend toll across Ohio includes a Glenwood fire claimed by Sheriff McKee killing Kenneth Cagg 22 his wife Almeda 21 and their 15 month old son Ronald plus other fatalities from crashes and gun, fall, and hunting accidents. Names and ages include William Schroeder 68 in Cincinnati, Harry Perks 51 near Lebanon, Oliver Terry 19 in Sidney, William H. Conners 46 of Milford, Aloysius Fragnowski 32 Vermilion, James Hendrix 17 west of Port Clinton, Roy Brown 38 near Portsmouth, Floyd Thomas 25 Indianapolis, Charles Stoops 1 Zanesville, and a tractor overturn death near Zanesville.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Glenwood
Oble County
Clayton McKee
Kenneth Cagg
Almeda Cagg
Ronald
William Schroeder
Cincinnati
Harry Perks
Lebanon
M. Williams
Oliver Terry
Sidney’ Hospital
William H. Conners
Milford
Batavia
Aloysius J. Fragnowski
Vermilion
James A. Hendrix
Port Clinton
Roy Clarence Brown
Portsmouth
Floyd Thomas
Inapolis
Tiffin
Charles B. Stoops
Zanesville
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Union
Mary Novak
Mobile
Ala
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Ohio State
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K. L
Tug) Wilson
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