Mississippi floodwaters ease but Midwest rains keep rivers high
Mississippi River crest near Cape Girardeau expected at 41.93 feet, down from earlier levels, as Southeast Missouri waterfront towns flood. Heavy Midwest rain slows receding near St Louis, flooding basements in Alton and surrounding areas. Kansas rivers overflow, Ohio joins flood dynamics, utilities plant and shoe factory threaten disruptions but remain protected.
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International Shoe Company
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Washington
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Cairo
Navarre Youth Sane Faces Term for Attack
Robert Smith 21 of Navarre has been found sane by Lima State Hospital officials and will be returned to the county jail. After three trials he was found guilty of criminally assaulting a 15 year old Dover girl last January and will be sentenced by Judge John S. Hare on August 1. The charge carries a 3 to 20 year term.
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Robert Smith
RD 2
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Lima State Hospital
Paul Pancher
Smith
Dover
John S. Hare
Weather Forecast for Canton and Vicinity
Partly cloudy today through Wednesday with a probable low of 64 tonight and a high around 85 tomorrow. Five day forecast shows scattered thundershowers in western and southern Ohio, with total rainfall generally one quarter to one half inch and warmer in the north, cooler the weekend. other cities listed with highs in the 70s to 90s and variable conditions. Readings include barometer at 28.86 inches, humidity around 55 percent, and almanac data for tomorrow about sunrise and moonset.
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International News Service
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Canton
Pension plan costs $225 000 to retired lawmakers
Washington July 24 The five year old congressional pension system pays 225000 annually to sixty eight former legislators on the pension rolls, 16 more than a year ago. Benefits range from 793 to 7375 dollars yearly, based on service length and fund contributions. The program, approved in 1946, keeps pension identities confidential. among possible beneficiaries is former Rep Andrew J May of Kentucky who served a bribery war contracts sentence. Also mentioned is former Rep J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, soon eligible at 62, after serving a jail term for salary kickback charges.
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Congressional
Civil Service Commission
Congressional Pension System
Congress
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Andrew J. May
Kentucky
J. Parnell Thomas
New Jersey
House UN- American Activities Committee
Thomas
Kefauver Eyes Cleveland Gambling Ties In Senate Probe
The Kefauver committee notes Cleveland figures tied to 1948 49 syndicate activities including Lookout Yorkshire Club and Testimony by Louis Rothkopf and Morris Kleinman earlier. Contempt citations were recommended but not acted on, and local Kenton Campbell officials learned only during January hearings of casino interests. Kefauver doubts the Cleveland group has fully exited, though some witnesses claim they did.
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Lookout
Cleveland
Louis Rothkopf
Morris Kleinman
Crime Committee
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Kleinman
Senate
Kenton
Campbell
Cleveland Syndicate
Senate Committee
Kefauver
Cleveland Group
Senators Begin Debate On Agriculture Finances
The Senate opens debate on the fiscal 1952 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill. It appropriates over a billion dollars for farm programs, with a Senate version $45 million above the House bill. Key items include a 10 percent payroll cut, 456 million for production and marketing, 280 million for conservation and use, 751 million in cash, 262 million in loans, and 19 million for rural electrification.
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House
D A V Delegates Named for State Convention
George R. Gill commander Peter Stuffel service officer and Thomas G. Talarico senior vice commander of St Mihiel Chapter will serve as delegates to the state convention of the D A V in Dayton on Friday Saturday and Sunday.
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Peter Stuffel
Thomas G. Talarico
St. Mihiel
Dayton
O Neill Rules On Annexation
Columbus July 24 AP Attorney General C William ONeill ruled that citizens may petition county commissioners for annexation to an adjacent village even after a prior popular vote rejection The ruling covers Hubbard Township and the village of Hubbard and limits a second election to five years He also clarified residence requirements for soldiers relief eligibility including one year in state and six months in the county before May deadline
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C. William O'Neill
John H. Anderson
Trumbull County
Anderson
Hubbard Township
Hubbard
O'Neill
O’neill
Jackson Bosch
Butler County
Cambridge Fights Ohio Consolidated Rate Hike Request
Cambridge residents protest Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co rate hike filed with the PUC. The earlier 94 percent rise already fueled anger as Cambridge vows a final fight, with residential and business line surcharges discussed and rural subscribers facing monthly increases. Counts Jefferson Harrison Carroll counties served.
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Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co
State Public Utilities Commission
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PUC
Jeffersonian
Ohio
Jefferson
Harrison
Carroll
Free World's Rubber Supply at All Time High
Akron reports B F Goodrich Co says crude rubber stocks reach 1 525 000 long tons the highest on record with production also at peak. Total output for the year to April reaches 1 977 500 long tons and is expected to exceed 2 000 000 tons by June 30. Consumption is falling due to synthetic rubber usage, forecast at 1 550 000 long tons versus last year 1 670 000.
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Free World
Pearl Harbor
B. F. Goodrich Co
Iron Curtain
Goodrich
Iran ministers weigh reopening oil talks with Britain
Iran's cabinet met amid signals to restart discussions over the oil nationalization dispute. No decision was announced, but officials voiced hopeful prospects of revived talks with Britain while seeking a formula the government could accept, with Harriman involved in possible mediation.
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Mohammed Mossadegh
Britain
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Karim Sanjabi
Harriman
Sanjabi
W. Averell Harriman
Truman
Oil Board
London
Francis Shepherd
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
A.I.O.C
Abadan
A.I.C.C
Europe
Judge Rules Man Not Required To Tolerate Nagging Boss
EY HAVEN Conn July 24 AP A Superior Court judge reversed an unemployment ruling, saying an employee may quit a $135 a week garment cutter job after constant nagging by his boss Bernard Gantmacher. The judge described the employer as a perfectionist whose fault finding was largely meaningless and held no one should endure perpetual nagging. The decision grants unemployment compensation eligibility despite the prior commission finding.
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Conn
Thomas J. Molloy
Employment Compensation Commission
Michael Goldberg
Goldberg
Bernard Gantmacher
Molloy
Gantmacher
Connecticut
Kuznetsov Named New Soviet Navy Minister
MOSCOW July 24 AP Admiral of the Fleet Nikolai G Kuznetsov was appointed minister of the Soviet navy replacing Admiral Ivan S Yumashev who asked to be relieved. Yumashev had led the Far Eastern Fleet during World War II and became navy minister in February 1950 as part of reorganizing the armed forces under a separate navy ministry.
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Moscow
Nikolai G. Kuznetsov
Ivan S. Ymashev
Ymashev
Umachev
Soviet Union
Turner Rites Set Friday: Drug Stores Will Close
Clarence E. Turner known as Tuck Turner. Alliance drug stores close Friday 2 to 3 p m Eastern Daylight Time. Three Turner stores in Alliance and one in Sebring close noon for the rest of the day. Funeral Friday at 2 p m Cassaday and Turkle funeral home. Rev C F Kennewey officiates burial at Fairmount Memorial Park. Friends may call Thursday 7 to 9 p m.
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Repository Bureau Alliance
Clarence E
Tuck) Turner
Akron
Budget requests for Fairmount Home and relief funds outlined
The Stark budget details a new aid for disabled fund costing 57,030 funded largely by federal sources. Poor relief requests total 300,000, down 26,300 from last year, while the dog and kennel fund rises to 42,250, up 5,090.
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Aid
Picket line at Philo plant triggers court order
Union leader Joseph Hartman announces charges against a company man who tried to enter the Philo plant as eight pickets were hurt. Muskingum County court restricts to four pickets per entrance and bars blocking workers. Court attaches served on 50 named pickets, including Hartman who is also Philo’s mayor.
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Zanesville
Chicago
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Bribery allegations rock Peoria basketball turmoil
Shore says players in Peoria basketball era were offered bribes to keep scores within a spread rather than to throw games. Melchiorre allegedly offered $5,000 to throw a City College of New York game in 1950 at Madison Square Garden, which he rejected. Investigators plan to present the case to the next grand jury while praising the players for cooperation.
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Melchiorre
City College of New York
Bradley
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Madison Square Garden
New York City
Peoria
Vincent O'Connor
New York
James Oakey
John Boyle
Cook County
Chicago
University
Wooster Youth Admits Assault Bound to Jury
Odell Burham an 18 year old of Wooster pleaded guilty to criminal assault before Justice James Shelly and was bound over to the September grand jury under a $1000 bond. He was arrested Saturday by the Wayne County sheriff after a 16 year old girl was accused by her mother of the crime.
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Odell Burham
Justice of the Peace
James Shelly
Madisonburg
Burham
Wayne County Sheriff's Office
Jenner Makes First Smallpox Inoculation in 1796
In 1796, Edward Jenner performed the first inoculation against smallpox, marking a pivotal moment in medical history as the method developed to protect against the deadly disease.
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Jenner
Odd and Interesting Facts by W L Gordon
The column notes contrasts in interest on a hypothetical penny from 3051 B C at five percent. It claims one cent would be worth 1 329 212 96 after compound interest. It cites Leadville Colorado as the highest U S city at 10 140 feet. It compares modern average vocabularies to Shakespeare's.
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Colo
Shakespeare
Weather Halts Deep Alaska Plane Search
Severe weather hampered a search for a Korean airlift plane missing off Alaska with 38 aboard. Sixteen planes and three Coast Guard cutters scoured Gulf of Alaska waters and high peaks, but fog and low clouds slowed operations. The last radio report from 80 miles west of Juneau. Missing are 26 U.S. servicemen, three civilians on a UN mission, two Royal Canadian Navy sailors, and seven Canadian crew.
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Juneau
Air Force
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Royal Canadian Navy
Senate approves pension and insurance bills for veterans
The Senate passed measures to grant pensions up to 120 dollars monthly for veterans needing nursing care with income limits, adding thousands to rolls from World War I World War II and Spanish-American War. It also approved renewing five year term insurance for World War I vets and increasing widow's benefits with dependents while standardizing pension rates for older wars.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Slaving Trial Details Lady of Mystery Case Evidence
Proceedings in Canton recount the slaying of Le Masters in a hotel room after Sandra and Muskus allegedly arranged the encounter for pay. State witnesses describe the confrontation, strangulation, and a fatal fight as artifacts including a necktie and dresser scarf were found. The defense contests motive and responsibility, noting heavy drinking and alleged intruder behavior. The jury viewed the crime scene before opening statements.
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Canton
Milner Hotel
Robert Starr
LeMasters
The
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Muskus
Sandra
Cleveland
E. C. Reno
Common Pleas
D. Deane McLaughlin
Carl F. Klein
Ralph Ross
George A. Howells Jr
John Rossetti
Samuel Krugliak
McCarthy Probes Secret File Policy
Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin asks Secretary Acheson if access to secret State Department documents is denied to 29 individuals under loyalty review. He questions safe practice of exposing such materials to people under investigation and hints he may名字 name them in a Senate speech, noting two named figures are Ambassador Philip Jessup and diplomat John Carter Vincent.
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McCarthy
Wisconsin
Acheson
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Congress
Senate
Philip Jessup
John Carter Vincent
New Lock Secures Jail Fugitives Still Free
Massillon July 24 two fugitives Brown and Rhodes from White Sulphur Springs W Va remain at large after escaping Massillon city jail. A lock they picked was missing but a new complex mechanism now seals the barred window. Brown 20 and Rhodes 24 were held for West Virginia authorities. Brown is described as an expert lock picker.
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Assillon
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George E. Brown
Paul M. Rhodes
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
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