Time Hangs as Heavy Topic At Canton Council Meeting Tonight
City council may finally decide the daylight saving time question at tonight's welfare committee report. petitions favor fast time total 301 signatures. protests continue as officials prepare readings or suspension options. Local offices adjust hours with double shifts to accommodate the issue.
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Canton
Thomas H. Nichols
Massillon
Alliance
Louisville
James Roberts
Welfare Committee
Loren E. Souers Jr
Ralph Smith
Esther Archer
Clerk of Courts
Trash Boxes Join Drive for Canton Cleanup Week
Canton Jaycees and Street department launch Cleanup Paint-up Fix-up week with trash pickup by city trucks in the southwest. Containers placed on downtown corners urge residents to help keep the city clean. Route details show trucks working in northwest Tuesday northeast Wednesday southeast Thursday and rubbish removal by 7 am on scheduled days.
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Canton Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee
Ray DeVille
Jaycee Coordinating Committee
Karl Sachs
Joe Bartus
Coplon Goes On Trial In Spy Records Theft Case
Judith Coplon 27, a former Justice Department employee and Barnard College graduate, faces trial on espionage related charges in Washington after arrest with alleged rendezvous with a Soviet contact. Co-defendant Valentine Gubitchev and The Petite Brunet face New York indictments on conspiracy charges. The case involves alleged removal and concealment of FBI intelligence data slips from official files.
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Judith Coplon
Onc
Miss Coplon
Justice Department
Barnard College
Petite Brunet
New York
Valentine A. Gubitchev
United Nations
Washington
Archibald Palmer
Palmer
Gubitchev
FBI
National Defense
United States
State Department
Rubinstein Is Rearrested On New Stock Fraud Charge
International financier Serge Rubinstein was rearrested in New York on a stock fraud charge after completing a two-year sentence for draft dodging. He faces two indictments for a 1945 46 stock rigging scheme linked to Panhandle Producing & Refining Co. and is bail set at 50000 with May 9 motions.
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New York
Serge Rubinstein
Rubinstein
Taylorcraft Aviation Co
Alliance
U. S
Irving H. Saypol
Treasury Department
Saypol
Panhandle Producing & Refining Co
Oil Company
Federal House of Detention
Federal Penitentiary
Lewisburg
Taxes consume 11 hours of each workday at Timken company
The Timken Roller Bearing Co notes that last year taxes totaled 44 225 dollars per day worked. This implies workers spent the first 11 hours of each day earning just to cover taxes and reflects high tax burden on the business.
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The
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Health Bill's Cost Put at Six Billions
Washington April 25 AP Democrats in the Senate and House introduced President Truman's $6.0 billion national health insurance program. The bill would require compulsory prepaid coverage for 85 percent of Americans, funded by a 3 percent payroll tax split between employers and workers plus treasury support and taxes on the self-employed.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Gram
Treasury
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Congress
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Murray
Montana
Wagner
New York
Pepper
Florida
Chavez
New Mexico
Taylor
Idaho
McGrath
Rhode Island
Humphrey
Minnesota
Sullivan May Quit Navy Over Carrier Issue
Secretary of the Navy John S. Sullivan weighs resignation as President Truman considers the matter after Defense Johnson halted work on a $189 million aircraft carrier. Sullivan doubts staying amid policy clashes and seeks a heart to heart with the President. he fears carrier abandonment could threaten the Marine Corps.
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Washington
John S. Sullivan
Secretary of the Navy
Truman
Sullivan
Defense Johnson
Johnson
Navy
White House
Kenneth C. Royall
Army
Defense
Curtis Ernest Calder
Friends of Sullivan
Congress
Marine Corps
Four Cars Slam Diner Customers During Canton Accident
A freak traffic crash on Canton Massillon road near Genoa sent two Midway Cottage patrons to Massillon City Hospital with chest and ankle injuries as two parked cars were struck by two eastbound vehicles and rammed into the diner. Drivers Hambleton and Hardesty were treated at Aultman Hospital. Hambleton faces reckless driving charges. Owners of the two parked cars are Robert Roush and Irvin Stages. Damages totaled about 370 to the diner. Proceedings continued on Traffic, Page 5.
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Canton-Massillon
Genoa
Sher
Iff
Midway Cottage
John D. Young
Massillon
George Lindsey
Andrew
Massillon City Hospital
Willard Hambleton
14Th
Arthur Hardesty
4Th
Aultman Hospital
Hambleton
Hardesty
Midway Diner
Robert Roush
Kirby
Texas Woman Named Mother of the Year
The national mothers committee of the Golden Rule Foundation chose Pearle Owens Gillis as American Mother of the Year. A 60-year-old Kentucky-born Fort Worth, Texas resident, she raised six of her own children and helped educate eight others. Her expanded family works in radio, college teaching, and related fields.
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New York
Fort Worth
Tex
Pearle Owens Gillis
National Mothers’ Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
Fast Train Kills 10 at Crossing in Tennessee
In Carthage Tennessee a fast freight rammed a Sunday worshipers truck at a crossing killing ten, nine of them from one family. One survivor. The truck burst into flames and was dragged about 100 yards before the diesel halted. Victims include Jesse Bennett and wife Mattie Bell Bennett with children Douglas Melvin Earl, ages 12 and 8, plus relatives and Miss Linnie Gibbs.
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Carthage
Tenn
Tennessee Central Diesel
Hogan’s Creek
Jesse Bennett
Mattie Bell Bennett
Douglas
U. S
Melvin Earl
Paulie Bennett Dickens
Linnie Gibbs
Lebanon
Nor Cal Frost Harms Fruit Blooming Trees
Frost at 28 degrees early today damages fruit as peach trees are in full bloom and sweet cherries already hurt by earlier frost face severe losses. Apples show minor impact but full effects will take days to appear.
Russians Allow Swiss Rail Passage Near Berlin Blockade
FRANKFURT April 25 The Russians eased the Berlin blockade by permitting a Swiss food train to pass into Berlin via the Soviet zone. The one shot trip would carry food to the Swiss mission and evacuate about 400 Swiss children and 75 adults from Berlin, with transit charges payable in American dollars. The move follows a year of rigid restrictions and air lift beginnings.
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Frankfurt
Berlin
Basle
Richard Elson 89 Dies at Magnolia Village Leader
Richard R. Elson, president of A. R. Elson Co. and longtime Magnolia leader, died Sunday night at home at age 89. He founded Magnolia’s Elson milling firm, served as Bank of Magnolia and First National Bank of Dover director, and was active in Magnolia Lutheran Church. Surviving: daughter Lorene, son Mack, sister Mrs. Clement R. Jones, brothers J. R. Elson and Harry E. Elson, three grandchildren. Services Wednesday at 2 p.m. at home, burial in Magnolia Cemetery. body at McCreery-Kreighbaum funeral home, then transferred to residence Tuesday after 2 p.m. for viewing.
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Magnolia
Richard R. Elson
A. R. Elson Co
Mr. Elson
Richard Elson
Elson
Elson Milling Firm
Magnolia Cemetery
McCreery-Kreighbaum
Alarmed City May Give Up Peacefully
Shanghai residents waited in steady rain as Red armies aimed at Hangchow to trap 300,000 Nationalist troops near Shanghai. Communist forces, after taking Nanking, were reported 19 miles from Shanghai and Shanghai appeared by-passed. Military spokesmen admitted uncertainty about Red movements.
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Nanking
Peiping
Taiyuan
Shansi
Hangchow
Shanghai
Kashing
Shanghak-Hangchow
Tang En-po
Tang
Shanghai- Nanking-Hangchow
Ho Ying-chin
Li Tsung-jen
Kweilin
Chiang Kai- Shek
Amoy
U. S
John Cabot
Great Asiatic
Envoy Ordered Home From China for Consultation
The State Department ordered J Leighton Stuart U S ambassador to China to return to Washington for consultation.
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Washington
INS
State Department
J. Leighton Stuart
U. S
China
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Raymond P. Whearty
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Dutch Boy
Pratt & Lambert
Glidden
Dependable
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Michigan
Biemiller
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Shanghais
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Sea Fadors Repository
Judicial Yuan
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Wheeler Carpet Cleaning Co
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