Registration Surges to 60 216 in Canton Voting Drive
Canton voters flocked to the board of elections on the last day of registration for the November 7 election, raising total registered to 60 218, a record gain of 2 675 over the 57 543 mark set in 1948. Officials credit Get Out The Vote efforts by both parties and the CIO PAC in opposing Taft and backing Ferguson.
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Canton
Board of Elections
Board of Election
Robert A. Taft
C.I.O. Political Action Committee
Taft
Joseph T. Ferguson
Senate
Board of Elections For Registration
Leroy T. Schirack
Schirack
Record 50,000 ballots forecast in November election
Election board officials project a near record 50,000 ballots in November with 60,218 initially listed. Deductions for Canton residents moving to rural areas and married women not reregistering, plus deaths since May, could total 1,000 or more, but the count remains a record high. Massillon lists 14,785 registered, Alliance 12,455 eligible voters, with 864 registered since the branch opened.
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Election Board
Canton
Board of Elections
Massillon
Alliance
Whic
MacArthur Authorized to Cross 38th Parallel if Needed
Washington dispatch reports Gen. Douglas MacArthur has authority to send troops across the 38th parallel into North Korea if necessary to destroy the communist army. No final decision yet on United Nations occupation postwar. President Truman reportedly approved the military step, with U.N. review possible under the June 27 Security Council resolution.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
38Th Parallel
North Korea
United Nations
Truman
MacArthur
North
South Korea
U.N
Korea
U.N. Security Council
Taft Campaign Day Stirs Stark County Support
Taft drew about 1 000 at Timken Vocational High School as he toured Stark County. He urged a Republican Congress to curb socialism, condemned Truman administration sympathy for communism, and called for UN forces to advance north of the 38th parallel in Korea. He visited Hercules Motors and Union Metal plants, greeting workers and discussing operations.
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Stark
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Truman
Timken Vocational High School
United Nations
38Th Parallel
North Korea
G. O.P
Taft
Senator Taft
Hercules Motors Corp
Union Metal Mfg. Co
Hercules
Union Metal Plant
Republican Congress
Stark County
Don. H. Ebright
Timken High
Battle of Seoul Ends as Yanks Win All of City
TOKYO Sept 28 AP The allied command in Korea says the Red invader army is defeated and reduced to dwindling pockets as Seoul falls under American control. Lt Gen Walton H Walker reports final victory near 6 p m Wednesday with Marines and infantry in wrecked streets. American forces recapture Taejon Namwon and Hadong as North Korean army collapses.
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Tokyo
Korea
Walton H. Walker
U. S. 8Th Army
Seoul
Lewis (Chesty) Puller
1St
Marine Regiment
Taejon
Namwon
Hadong
Wakker
Pusan-Taejon-Seoul
Inchon
Walker
Korean Peninsula
Acros
38Th Parallel
Grand Jury Cracks Down 13 Indicted on Gambling Charges
ORTSMOUTH Sept 28 AP Thirteen men indicted in Scioto County for slot machine and horse race betting after a two week grand jury probe. Indicted for exhibiting slot machines were Robert Taylor Harold Knittel Jerry Distel Louis Distel Earl Waddell E A Kleffner all of Portsmouth and Ed Hunt of Wheelersburg. Indicted for horse race book making were Carl Gillen Earl Cunningham C E Cropper Virgil Akers Charles Dixon Clarence Pickering all of Portsmouth.
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Scioto County
Ortsmouth
Common Pleas
Robert Taylor
Harold Knittel
Jerry A. Distel
Louis Distel
Earl Waddell
E. A. Kleffner
Carl Gillen
Earl Cunningham
C. E. Cropper
Virgil Akers
Charles Dixon
Clarence Pickering
Portsmouth
Taylor and
Knittel
Lovett Named Marshall Aide By President
President Truman named Robert A. Lovett deputy secretary of defense succeeding Stephen Early who leaves to enter private business. Lovett, a former undersecretary of state and ally of George C. Marshall, is a New York banker with Brown Brothers Harriman.
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Washington
Robert A. Lovett
Truman
Defense
Stephen T. Early
Defense Post
Lovett
Defense Marshall
New York
Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co
Canton City Lines Rejects City Fare Increase
Canton City Lines rejected a city grant raising a fare from four tokens to three tokens for 25 cents and demanded an acceptable amendment to its franchise fare section. The decision, announced after two weeks of study, follows a Sept 20 ordinance signed by Mayor Thomas H. Nichols by a 9 to 2 vote and ties service standards to prior levels, while criticizing fixed schedules as harming rider needs and flexibility.
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City Lines
City Council
Thomas H. Nichols
Canton City Lines
Today's Repository at City Lines Page 10
Local ad lists prices for stewing hens four to five pounds at 27 cents per pound Rock hens at 35 cents per pound and small capons. Park Piry at 30th and Harrisburg section of the ad.
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Park Piry
30Th
Harrisburg
Police clubs rout Reds at Ruhr headquarters
In Dusseldorf German police cleared 120 Communist Party members from the Ruhr headquarters after they attacked officers with ash trays and beer glasses. The force moved into the five story building at 12 15 p m after a British 48 hour evacuation deadline. Police used rubber truncheons to break up the defiance in the basement dining room.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Communist Party
Ruhr
England
Koreans Hint Gen Dean May Be Alive in Seoul Move
American counter intelligence says South Korean informers overheard North Korean officers discussing moving Gen William F. Dean from Chongju stockade toward Seoul. Dean has been missing since the Taejon retreat, last seen directing fire as tanks entered Taejon.
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U. S. First Cavalry Division
Korea
William F. Dean
Chongju
Seoul
Dean
Taejon
U. S
1St Calvary Division
Poun
Army
Rummage sale advertises poultry and free delivery in NE
Turn to GEN. DEAN Page 10. Harter Bank Checking Accounts Protection plus convenience. Members F.D.I.C. ad Yearling hens 27c lb Rock hens 33c Turkeys springers ducks rabbits Coopers 921 9th NE free del 58881 ad Rummage sale 1223 Cherry SE Friday morning at 8:30 ad
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Harter Bank
F.d.1.c.-Ad
Coopers
Cherry
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Britain
France
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City
38Th
Incian
Pusan
Tacjon
United Nations General Assembly
Moscow
Literary Gazette
Pyongyang
Ed Hunt
Wheelersburg
Marshall
Sherwin Williams
Comptometer School
Mellett
Council
Tia Todays
George Sokolsky
R.C.A
Admiral
Motorola
Crosley
Capehart
Fada
Raytheon Television
Jansons
Oscar Leverant
Dial
Gen. Dean
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