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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1950
Page
2
FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline powder, holds false teeth more firmly. Sprinkle on plates to eat and talk more comfortably without gummy taste or texture. It helps prevent denture odor and is sold at drug stores.
A 12 person Chinese group appeals to Stalin and the United Nations on Formosa, claiming to represent 40,000 Formosan Chinese in Japan. They urge immediate withdrawal of foreign armed forces, reject UN trusteeship, and seek support for China without separation. The move echoes Soviet lines and could presage Kremlin statements or aid.
Leonard Agency secretary Fred Broad elected to receive the 33rd degree of Masonry by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in Philadelphia last week. He is a Canton civic leader and attorney, with three children and a 1927 marriage to Ida Rogers.
World War II bomber pilot Garry Davis, who proclaimed himself first citizen of the world, asks the U S Attorney General to reinstate his American citizenship. In a letter from New York he cites his war record, birth in Bar Harbor Maine, and marriage to Audrey Peters, seeking immediate restoration to fulfill rights and duties.
State liquor inspectors arrested Garfield Rutledge and Vina Jackson on illegal possession and illegal sale charges respectively. Roger King faced illegal liquor sales after agents reportedly bought a pint at an unpermitted location. Police vice squad arrested four women on dis orderly house and soliciting charges at addresses in SE.
David H. Foster of 328 14th Street Northwest, linked with Schneeberger & Son funeral home, graduated Sunday from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. Attending the exercises were his parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Foster and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schneeberger of 1137 Market Avenue North.
Murray D. Lincoln, Ohio farm leader and head of Farm Bureau insurance, endorsed Democratic senatorial nominee Joseph J. Ferguson in a paid broadcast. The move sparks talk of a major effort to win rural farm votes while Taft campaigns in rural Ohio. Lincoln, a registered Republican who votes as an independent, praised Ferguson highly and cited farmers’ best interests.
County officials postpone action after a morning conference with Sheriff and conservation leaders to decide on possible charges against Baugh & Sons fertilizer for dumping ammonium nitrate into Middlebranch Creek. The incident killed thousands of fish from minnows to 18 inches, prompting ongoing discussions this afternoon.
In Sandusky, a rented plane piloted by 28 year old Joseph H McCutcheon struck a television antenna on a one story house and crashed into a playground. He suffered a fractured skull and pelvis and police questioned why the low flight path was taken near his home.
Rabbi Chaim Elazary of Agudas Achim will address the Jewish community about his Israel trip at a Jewish Center meeting on October 15 at 8 30 p m A color film show on Israel by Joseph Sperling a flag presentation to the center by Mrs Sarah Adelman and prayers led by Rabbi Lawrence H Charney are part of the program A letter from Rabbi George Lieber man will be read The rain in the Khasi hills of north east India is reported to total 805 inches in a year
A theater patron in Hyannis laughs so hard her upper plate pops out and sails past a man ahead, landing under the seats. A search party of employees recovered the plate.
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