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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1950
Page
2
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer urged continuation of defense measures after Korea. He hinted at new business controls to direct more productive resources to armament and warned against forgetting the war. Possible orders include prioritizing military needs and materiel hoards may be seized if necessary.
The Sandy Valley school district forms a speakers committee led by R V James and T C Knapp to advocate a 590000 bond issue for district schools. The Sunday meeting at Magnolia School drew 45 participants and urged building to relieve overcrowding in Waynesburg East Sparta Sandyville and Magnolia.
Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven aged 87 dies after extended illness in London. Private funeral today at St James Palace with burial at Whippingham Isle of Wight. Grandmother of Princess Elizabeth's husband Duke of Edinburgh and mother of Crown Princess Louise of Sweden.
Enrollment at Miami University is expected to pass the five thousand mark as Western College's enrollment, though incomplete, probably will be three hundred fifty.
In Rangoon, Burma, Sept 25, an American missionary doctor Gordon S. Seagrave was ordered held two more weeks in prison awaiting trial for high treason on Oct 9. He appeared fatigued and thinner, citing dysentery and a 15 pound weight loss since his Aug 20 arrest on charges of aiding Karen rebels.
An express train derailed near Nancy injuring seven seriously and killing six. The locomotive and first five coaches overturned on the Nancy to Paris route after reportedly running a warning signal set by workmen repairing the right of way.
In Herrin Illinois Roy Armes 32 brother of a Shelton gang member was killed by rifles and a shotgun in an ambush as he sat in his car outside a tavern. Two killers hid behind a picket fence firing at least 10 shots. James Scott, linked to Blackie Armes in prior killings, was present and survived. The coroner's jury cited unknown parties as responsible.
New York September 25 A threatened strike by the CIO Transport Workers Union was averted at least temporarily after American Airlines said the walkout planned to begin this morning to block 383 ground personnel layoffs tied to a merger of overseas operations.
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