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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1951
Page
12
A compact roundup of celebrity anecdotes and city lore from Leonard Lyons's Broadway Gazette. Tales cover Vice President Barkley reminiscences on temperance, Marlene Dietrich moving into Joe Cotten's home, Jimmy Durante's city roots, and various show business notes including Tallulah Bankhead and Greta Garbo.
The seventh World Boy Scout Jamboree opens near an area occupied by Soviet troops, as 15 000 scouts from 40 nations gather in a 74 acre Alpine camp at Ischl. Delegations include 3000 British and 1800 French with Americans split across three camps to avoid pressure upon Austrian youths.
In New York, police pulled a Russian from a group of demonstrators outside the Soviet UN building on Park Avenue. About 150 American-Hungarian Federation pickets protested conditions in Hungary, with one unidentified woman striking the Russian. Police ordered her from the line after the scuffle.
Theater Guide lists Ohio showings featuring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae in On Moonlight Bay with multiple daily times. Circle of Danger follows, plus Ace in the Hole with Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling and Hell's Gateway, all at Loew's. Palace features Happy Go Lovely with Vera Ellen and Road Block with McGraw, Dixon. Additional pairs include Heart of the Rockies, Texans Never Cry, Go for Broke, Down Memory Lane, The Mating Season, Smuggler's Gold, The Redhead and the Cowboy, No Questions Asked, September Affair, and The Voice of the Turtle at 8:30 on stage.
Aging gangster Waxey Gordon once a bootleg kingpin faced $250000 bail after police and narcotics officers nabbed him on a Manhattan street corner with heroin. Four men, including Katz Kass and Sam Kass, were arrested on narcotics conspiracy charges with hearings set for August 10. Gordon was previously known as Irving Wexler and was noted for taxes owed to the government.
Albania announces a new law severing ties between the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican. The state will subsidize the church, allow operation under an approved Catholic code, and train priests in government approved seminaries, amid a predominantly Muslim population of about 1.15 million with 104,184 Catholics.
Hjalmar Schacht, adviser to Hitler’s Germany, and his wife landed at Jakarta airport from Bangkok and were greeted by Dr. Zain. He will stay three months as a guest of Indonesia’s government, with military police guarding the arrivals.
In Daytona Beach Florida police received a burglary report from W H Taylor describing theft of two imitation flamingoes used as yard ornaments and a bird bath. The only clues left were tracks of three horses suggesting a curious motive or method.
The column discusses disease prevention versus treatment, noting weight, stress, and claustrophobia as factors. It explains cyanosis causes and treatment, diabetes management, horse meat as beef substitute, and flu virus survivability requiring soap and water rather than disinfectants. Locomotives now use 65 percent more power than three decades ago.
James L. Calhoun, a 22 year Canton police veteran and ordained Baptist minister, received a Bible a briefcase and a live lamb at a Thursday ceremony at police headquarters. Sgt. Howard Griffin led the event as Calhoun plans further study at Moody Bible Institute and recalled his long service since joining June 1, 1929 as one of the department’s first Black patrolmen.
Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 46,615,863 tons through August 1, the second highest midseason total on record after 47,095,056 in 1942. July moved 13,574,174 tons, the second highest for the month, with 13,588,814 in 1943 leading. Coal shipments last week reached 1,373,403 tons, boosting the season total to 22,109,274, compared with 23,342,043 a year earlier.
At a St. Louis filling station police found a ransacked shop after responding to a burglar alarm. An empty dog food can left by owner Art Mosely indicated the guarding dog was the station’s chow hound, suggesting he relied on the belligerent animal to protect the premises.
Travancore state remains cut off from the rest of India due to dense jungle and rugged mountain terrain, hindering transportation and communication. Officials report difficult access to remote districts and slowed movement of supplies.
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