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Newspaper

The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 25, 1949

Page

5

Senators Study U S Capacity To Share Arms

Washington April 25 AP Congress urged to assess if a proposed foreign arms program could weaken American strength. Senator Gurney says analyze terms to see effects on military production and diverted materials. Hearings on the security pact with Acheson begin Wednesday, with $1.13 billion in military equipment for 11 NATO partners under discussion.

Washington Congress Gurney South Dakota Senate Armed Services Committee United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Hughes Anniversary Banquet Honors WWII Veterans and Unpreparedness Warning

Ohio official Robert W. Levering, Bataan survivor, blasted unpreparedness at Floyd Hughes Post 11th anniversary banquet. He recalled the Bataan death march and prison camps, urging VFW to defend democracy and fight communism. Other speakers praised post leadership as united, with several auxiliary and department officers in attendance.

Bataan Robert W. Levering Ohio Floyd Hughes Post W.F. W Harry L. Bowen Floyd Hughes Arthur Willard Ohio V.F.W Willard Ohio V. F. W Department of Ohio

Mount Professor's Book Published in Tennessee

A book titled How to Improve Your Church School by Robert R. Powell of Mt. Union College has been published by Abingdon- Cokesbury Press in Nashville Tennessee. Powell directs adult work on the Northeast Ohio Conference Methodist Church boards of education. The work targets pastors managers and educators, proposing methods to improve church school teaching.

Repository Bureau Alliance Robert R. Powell Mt. Union College Abingdon- Cokesbury Press Nashville

Canton Ohio Weather Forecast From U S Weather Bureau

Forecast for Canton and vicinity: sunny today with high near 62, increasing clouds and a low around 40 tonight, then showers and mild Tuesday with highs 64 to 68, showers Wednesday with continued mild air. Readings show temperatures rising above 60 after a brief cold snap, with scattered showers across the state by night and tomorrow.

Canton U.S. Weather Bureau Akron-Canton Ohio International The Mercury C. G. Andrus Associated Press Akron Boston Buffalo Clady Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Payton Denver Detroit Clady Duluth Los Angeles Miami New Orleans Clidy New York Pittsburgh Toledo Tucson Washington Clear Kent State Univ. Canton

Miracle Liver Shunt Operation Cures Alliance Woman

Alliance, April 25. Mrs. Ann Manypenny of 204 Senecast recovered at home after a successful liver bypass operation performed April 9 at West Penn Hospital Pittsburgh. It was among the first, if not the first, in Pittsburgh to use the shunt method to bypass the liver, offering new hope for cirrhosis patients. The three hour procedure required six pints of blood during and three more after and she returned home Sunday after five days in bed.

Repository Bureau Lliance West Penn Pittsburgh Ann Manypenny Senecast

Wayne County students plan 40 day trip to Mexico

Ches ter Township High School seniors will spend 40 days in Mexico this summer funded by a class kitty of 3000 dollars. Roy Bates, history teacher and basketball coach, and Mrs Bates will chaperone a group of nine boys and five girls. The trip will begin May 21 with a route from Laredo to Mexico City and back via Guadalajara Laredo Chapultepec and Paricutan volcano. If homesickness or issues arise the group may return via the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone.

U.S.A Mr. Bates Mexico Laredo Tex Mexico City Caxco Guadalajara Chapultepec Paracutan Grand Canyon Yellowstone National Park

Immigrant Goal Highlighted at Hadassah Conference

Israel aims to admit one million immigrants this year as Hadassah regional gathering at the Onesta Hotel heard Victor H Bernstein Jewish Agency relations director report more than 1000 arrivals daily and extensive national building plans. He compared Israel birth to the United States birth and urged UN membership support. The meeting featured speeches on Israel's rehabilitation education and medical services with regional officers to be elected.

Israel New Republic Victor H. Bernstein Jewish Agency For Palestine Hadassah Onesta Hotel Bernstein United States America United Nations Partition Sigmund Braverman

Student Nurse Richey Graduates in Cleveland

Miss Norma Jean Richey daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Richey of Big Prairie graduates from St Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in Cleveland. She earlier finished Ripley High School and entered the nursing program in 1946.

Big Prairie Norma Jean Richey Roy Richey St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing Cleveland Richey Ripley High School School of Nursing

Reds Endanger U S Tradition Diplomat Says

Montreal April 25 AP Laurence A Steinhardt United States ambassador to Canada warns at the Montreal Canadian Club that living under a Communist regime would stagger the imagination and undermine the way of life in North America He says communism is foreign repugnant to both nations and North America would be poor soil for such planting The North Atlantic Treaty is a response to Soviet failure to cooperate in making the United Nations a peace instrument and would bring home to the Soviet government the determination of a global majority to preserve peace

Montreal Laurence A. Steinhardt United States Canada Steinhardt Moscow Prague Ottoma North America United Nations

Philip Fleischer Feted on 60th Birthday by Philomatheons

Philip C. Fleischer was honored at a 60th birthday party hosted by his wife at the Philomatheon Society for the Blind in Canton at 716 Cleveland Ave SW. About eighty guests, blind and sighted, attended. Speakers included Ruth Lehmiller, Maurice Frederick, and Lillian Williams. Entertainment featured Alfred Ransom, Eva Tarpley, The Cantones, and a Sun shine Club group. Out of town guests came from Alliance and Akron.

Philip C. Fleischer Philomatheon Society For the Blind Cleveland Ave Fleischer Canton Ruth Lehmiller Lehman High School Sears Roebuck Maurice Frederick Cleveland Ohio Council For the Blind Lillian Williams Sunshine Club Alfred Ransom Eva Tarpley The Cantones Joseph Williams Frederick Guy Allott Alliance Clyde Ross Akron

Traffic continues after page one crash notes

Two city accidents Sunday left Esther Morris nine and Dessie Mitchell twenty eight with injuries. Morris was treated at Mercy Hospital after a car driven by George Ehmer struck her at Cleveland Avenue and Tuscarawas Street West as signals favored motorists. Wess, a passenger in a car with Ernest Wess, rear ended a parked vehicle on Tuscarawas Street East. Wess was arrested for reckless driving and Mitchell was treated at Mercy Hospital.

Esther Morris 5Th St NW Mercy Hospital George F. Ehmer Cherry Rd Massillon Clevweland Ave Tuscarawas St W Dessie Mitchell 2Nd St Ernest W. Wess Ellis Ave John A. Carlton Tuscara Tuscarawas St Wess

Auto Crash in Alliance Injures Two Men

Alliance city hospital reports Donald L. Wylam nineteen of 550 Milton street Alliance with a fractured right arm after a Saturday night auto collision at S Seneca and E State. Bernie Bernard forty of 956 E Patterson Alliance treated for a fractured right rib and back injury. Bernard arrested for reckless driving held on two hundred dollar bond.

Alliance City Hospital Donald L. Wylam Milton St. Aliance Bernie Bernard E. Patterson St. Alliance S. Seneca E. State Sts Bernard

Millersburg Cancer Fund drive tops Holmes County totals

Fred Marti Holmes County Cancer Fund treasurer reports donations of 1119.46 since January as the 2030 Club of Millersburg led by chairman Jack Reining conducts the annual drive in Millersburg.

Millersburg Fred Marti Holmes County Cancer Fund 2030 Club Jack Reining

Shanghai Evacuation Amid Red Threat at City Airport

United Press report by Frank H Bartholomew describes Shanghai’s crowded airport as refugees flee Reds. Wealthy Chinese await air evacuations while currency collapses and customs are overwhelmed. MacArthur signals aid. military views favor bombers on coastal islands to maintain balance.

Frank H. Bartholomew United Press Peereepnage Abell William Carthy Tokyo Northwest Airlines Shanghai U. S Grigori Prokine Ivan Titov MacArthur Supreme Command For Asia Pacific Air Force China Aleutians Japan Okinawa Marianas Bonins

Workers Stay Out At Danner Press

About 400 employees at Danner Press in Akron Canton and Medina walked off the job after a walkout by 16 mail room workers. Local 82 president Melville Royce cited the firm’s failure to include Canton plant in contract talks as the strike cause. Danner says Canton, known as Rotary Press, negotiates separately.

Akron Danner Press Canton Medina Melville Royce Independent Mailers’ Union Robert Danner Danner, Inc Danner Rotary Press

Treasurer Warns RD 4 Residents To Get Tax Bills

Stark County Treasurer Frank Hoffman warns RD 4 Canton residents to update addresses after hundreds of June real estate tax bills were returned. He suspects new house numbers on Waynesburg Road SE rural route hinder mail delivery. Final payment for June taxes is June 22 and timely payment is required.

RD 4 Canton Frank Hoffman Hoffman Waynesburg Rd Stark County

Pension Case Won by Union

The Supreme Court ruled that employers must bargain on pensions when unions demand it, refusing Inland Steel Co. an appeal. The case upholds the National Labor Relations Board ruling that retirement plans are a proper subject for bargaining under Wagner and Taft-Hartley. The NLRB order to bargain with the CIO United Steelworkers was conditioned on union compliance with the anti Communist section of Taft-Hartley.

Washington Supreme Court Today Inland Steel Co National Labor Relations Board C. I. O. United Steel Workers

Bicycle mishap injures Raymond Harvey in Ohio street wreck

Raymond Harvey of 1027 Tuscarawas Street East was treated at Mercy Hospital for ankle and knee scratches after his foot caught in a bicycle sprocket while a passenger on the handlebars. The accident occurred around 12 30 p m Sunday in the 800 block of Tuscarawas Street East, police said.

Raymond Harvey, S Tuscarawas St E Mercy Hospital Tuscara Was St E

Rabid Canines Reported in 2 Stark Sections

County health officials warn residents in Paris Township near Minerva and Marlboro Township near Alliance of rabid dogs. Six other dogs bitten in Paris. Dogs should be kept tied and bite cases reported to dog warden Nicholas DiSimone or health commissioner P L Harris to prevent a potential outbreak.

County Health Department Nicholas DiSimone Paris Township Minerva Marlboro Township Alliance Paris P. L. Harris DiSimone

Lack of Evidence Ends Liquor Case in Municipal Court

Municipal Judge Gordon Burris said lack of evidence will force State Liquor Department agents to build stronger cases. Charles Virgil Day, 30, of 517 Rexave NE, was found not guilty on the charge of illegal sale of liquor after a two hour trial with three defense witnesses denying an agent’s accusation he paid $1 for shots at Day’s residence. A second charge of keeping a place where intoxicating beverages were sold was dismissed for lack of evidence after the prosecution’s case. Day was arrested March 4 amid a district shakeup in enforcement with a new chief and six inspectors transferred from Canton.

State Liquor Department Gordon J. Burris Charles Virgil Day Rexave Canton

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