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The Times Recorder from Zanesville, Ohio • 18

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a a a a a THE TIMES RECORDER, from yesterday's storm was unoccupied home of James Epi. the roof from building becompany was thrown against buildings was estimated at this 400-foot long bridge Bethlehem Steel Co. buckled wind pressure. No one was Storms Leave Path Of Destruction And Injuries (Continued from Page 1) broke loose," said Egler, Damage to his bakery, however, was relatively minor. Not far away, a Newcomerstown policeman, Paul Frye, heard the storm approach: "It sounded like one big long freight train roaring by on the panhandle," a Pennsylvania railroad division that passes through here, Frye said.

THE INJURED persons, both hit by flying bricks as they lay in their beds in their respective homes, were Mrs. Archie Fletcher and Clarence Watts. Neither was hurt seriously. After the storm passed to the east, Newcomerstown found its streets 8 tangle of wires and wreckage and one of its schools virtually ruined. The wind had ripped off part of the east end elementary school, as well as damaging the community's two other school buildings, All school children had a holiday, and the 289 east end pupils will be sent to the other buildings until their own is repaired.

OTHER DAMAGE here: STORM DAMAGE-Damage widespread. At left is the fano at New Lexington, where longing building. to the Perry Damage to Distributing both $15,000. Right: At Johnstown, in the Johnstown plant of the and toppled to the ground under injured. Part of the roof of the Lutheran church was torn off.

A railroad water tower was uprooted and dropped grocery store. A small building of Newco frame" Products a furniture manufacturer, was demolished. Lightning set an office of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. afire, causing minor damage before the blaze was extinguished. Several garages and similar structures were crushed.

Four cows were killed when a barn belonging to farmer Foster McDonald caved in. Police estimated damage in the area would range between 1000 and $200,000. AMONG THE lesser inconveniences here was lack of gasoline. The storm disrupted electrical service for a time and filling stations were unable to operate their electricity-powered pumps. Near Leetonia, a house lost its roof and several farm outbuildings were smashed.

One garage collapsed on a school bus parked inside. At Steubenville, lightning blasted a gaping hole in the dome of St. Peter's Roman Catholic church, with damage estimated at $30,000. Tile from the dome piled up in a street below, with some pieces sailing through windows of a convent 200 feet away. IN THE Union City fire, damage estimates ranged from $250,000 to a million dollars.

Firemen believe lightning hit a transmitter at the rear of a three-story brick business building and set off the blaze. Spurred by a roaring wind, the flames spread to at least seven business places. Other damage reported through the state included: Ansonia, Drake county--a New York Centra! railroad brick roundhouse was blown down. CINCINNATI wind destroyed three airplanes and damaged three other at the greater Cincinnati airport across the Ohio river in northern Kentucky, The planes had been moved there from Lunken airport near Cincinnati because of the flooded Ohio river. East Liverpool wind blew windows out of the power house at Ohio river dam No.

9 at nearby New Cumberland, W. and tore tiles off the building. The line of storms, much like a giant wedge, moved into Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But for days, possibly months, Ohio still will be cleaningup its refuse. Nervous Witness Delays Trial LAGRANGE, March 11, (P)-The murder trial of Herman C.

Howard of Norwood, Ohio accused slayer of a LaGrange policeman, was postponed today because of the nervous condition of a woman he held hostage. Oldham Circuit Judge Coleman Wright set the trial date for May 23 after hearing that Mrs. Milo Baxter was unable to appear as a witness. A statement from her physician said Mrs. Baxter had been under his care since she, her husband and their 10-month-old son were held captive by Howard in their Henry county home.

Howard, 32, a former convict. had insisted he was ready for trial immediately on a plea of guilty. He said this was true although he had written Judge Wright eara asking a postponement at the request of his mother. He said he had decided he didn't want any members of his family at his trial. the" the was courtroom called were today Mrs.

when W. D. Porter, widow of the special policeman Howard is accused of killing, and her son, Melvin, 34. Porter, a part time policeman, was shot to death outside Lagrange when he and Police Chief Robert Waits intercepted Howard, who was fleeing after robbing a Louisville supermarket. PIANIST RECOVERING BUFFALO, N.

March 11-(P) -Pianist Jose Iturbi, convalescing from a heart ailment, was reported in good condition at Sisters' hospital today but his doctor said he would be in the hospital for at least six more weeks. Mister Breger By DAVE BREGER Copr. King Features Syndicate, Inc. World rights reserved decided to name him John family PAGE 14. Interesting News Briefs Mrs.

H. K. George and children, Byron and Arlene have returned to their home in Joliet, after being called here by illness of the former's mother, Fred P. these patient in Good Samaritan hospital. Watkins flowers "are the bestPickup your give us a test.

Miss Eleanor Twiggs of the East pike, a medical instructor at Bethesda School of Nursing, will attend the national meeting of the Sigma Theta Tau Sunday at Pittsburgh. Mrs. Albert Schenk of 524 Richmond avenue is visiting her son-inJaw and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. is.

Gene Parkinson of Bainbridge, Md. Fresh cut flowers-Special today. 81-Miller Pir. Dr. and Mrs.

James McCormick of Willow Lake are spending a few weeks' vacation in California, Mrs. Robert McConnel has returned to her home in Florida after spending two weeks here with her mother, Mrs. Brown Miller of McConnelsville, a patient at Bethesda hospital. Mrs. Miller has been removed to a rest home at Columbus.

Dr. and Mrs. S. Cohen and son, Alan and daughter, Sandra, of Cleveland will spend the weekend visiting Mrs. Cohen's mother.

Mrs. Flora Loeb of 721 Mcintire avenue, Mrs. Morris Pollock of Harding road is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Morton West of New York City, Mrs.

Minnie Spragg of Adamsville has returned home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harry Spragg of Fountain square, Mrs. Ray Waller of Clarendon hotel has returned from Ironton, O. where she visited her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. A. Rouse. Oil-Laden Ship Seeks Trouble (Continued from Page 1) had been chartered "to a foreign country" and the Finnish governwas without legal authority to prevent the trip.

The Red broadcast March 9 said all such Nationalist seizures in the past were accomplished "under the protection of the United States" and that country "will have to bear the full responsibility for such piracy" should the Aruba be intercepted. THE STATE department declined comment in Washington Friday on the report of Nationalist plans to intercept the tanker.) The U. S. state department reiterated disapproval of the Aruba's voyage after the Peiping broadcast. Responsible quarters on Formosa said interception of the Aruba would be just a part of the routine duty of carrying out U.

N. embargo, goods against to Red shipment China. of straONCE THE Aruba has passed Singapore, extra vigilance will be exercised by Chiang's warships and planes. years ago, another Finnish tanker, Wiima, tried to haul 10,000 tons of the jet-fuel kerosene to Red China. It stopped at Singapore because of western protests and sold the cargo to the U.

S. government. the Aruba passes Singapore, the tanker would have two choices. It could try to sneak into the Pearl river leading to Canton. Or it could take the long way through the Java sea, Makassar strait, the Celebes sea, then out into the Pacific and head for Shanghai.

Delicious Delco PIZZA featured at LIDO WINE STORE S. 5th Street ROSTA CAFE Underwood St. STEAK STIEN N. Maple Ave. MAYSVILLE Tavern Maysville Ave.

CAFE Linden Ave. JOHN'S CAFE Underwood Street -Distributed ByB DISTRIBUTORS 1107 Arch St. Ph. 3-2322 March Wind Becomes Tornado (Continued from Page 1) 100 foot warehouse was twisted off and tossed against the James Eplfano residence which was unoccupied. Damage was estimated at $5,000 at the Park Poultry farm near New Lexington where brooder house was unroofed and one end of a concrete block building was blown in.

None of the 000 pullets in the ho house were killed. a A window in the jury room of the Perry county court house was blown across the room knocking a panel out of a door, IN CROOKSVILLE the major damage was the unroofing of straw shed at the Maurice A. Knight pottery. A number of windows were shattered by the blow but no one was injured. The roof was blown off a silo at the Muskingum county home on Newark road but there was no 1m- mediate estimate of the damage.

The roof of a garage' and a barn at the Philip McClain home on Dietz Lane was blown against the residence, causing considerable damage. In Zanesville, the roof of a 100- foot long storage building the Chicago Standard Transformer plant on Ceramic avenue was torn off, and the roof of an unoccupied residence at 1052 Harvey street was hurled against the home of Mr. and Mrs. James McGee next door, causing considerable damage. The McGees and their son, David, 4, were asleep in a first floor bedroof and unharmed, but Jess Bailey, 21, who resides there, had a narrow escape when a corner of flying roof pierced the wall of the room where he had been in bed.

A piano in the room was overturned by the Impact. THE ROOF of a Maysville pike refreshment stand was tossed 40 feet into the yard of the James Cooper residence. A garage William Joseph farm on Frazeysburg road lost its roof and and the smokestack at the Clossman dry cleaning plant on Pine street was bent over by the wind. A television tower at the R. K.

Austine residence. 836 Keen street fell across electric wires, causing shower of sparks until Ohio a Power workmen arrived on the scene. Ohio Power crews also went to East pike where a wire was torn down by a falling tree branch. Among the many trees blown down in the city was a large oak in front of the home of Dr. Walter Dickhaut, 1040 Culbertson avenue.

It landed against the Walter Snoke residence at 1028 Culbertson, ripping off the porch and caused other damage. I THE STORM had been forecast in a weather dispatch received at the CAA station at 3:55 a. m. from Kansas City, but because of the hour, most people were not warned. Street lights were off in most parts of the city during the peak of the storm, and many residential areas were also without power until repairs could be made to the broken lines, It was part of a squall line that swept across the state, and into Pennsylvania and other eastern areas.

Goes To Reformatory For Manslaughter CLEVELAND, March 11 Archie Faggaini, 20, convicted previously on a first degree manslaughter charge in the death of his fiancee's father, was sentenced to 1-20 years in the Mansfield reformatory today by Judge Charles W. White. Faggaini admitted he shot Aubra Webb, 46, during a quarrel. Webb objected to Faggaini's attentions Ito his daughter. 52-Gal.

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our actual retail price. Limited Time Only Deal Where Your Dollar Has More Cents MIDWAY APPLIANCE Open Evenings 'Til 8 P. M. Dresden, Ohio Ph. 8-3141 ZANESVILLE, OHIO Bingo Question To High Court COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 11-49 -The Ohio supreme court today considered the question of whether Common Pleas Judge Vernon Smith of Scioto county should preside in further action by the state to padlock 8 bingo parlor near Portsmouth.

In a hearing before Chief Justice Carl W. Weygandt of the Ohio preme court, Judge Smith testified he should preside over the action for a permanent injunction and other proceedings. The high court is conducting the proceedings on an affidavit of bias and prejudice filed against Judge Smith by Robert B. Krupansky, assistant Ohio attorney general. Krupansky said he also filed his affidavit against Judge Smith because of what he termed different ideas over how to proceed with the case.

He said he accused Judge Smith of prejudice after a February talk with the jurist about proceeding with the bingo case in court the following day. Krupansky filed a padlock tion on Feb. 24 against the Chez Paree near Wheelersburg, claiming that bingo games there were gambling. He asked temporary and permanent injunctions to close the place as a common nuisance. Auto Thief Sentenced To Prison Term COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 11 -(P Federal Judge Mell G.

Underwood today sentenced Clarence G. Johnson, 24, of East Liverpool, to one year in prison for transporting a stolen automobile in Interstate Commerce. FBI officers said Johnson stole a car Nov. 18, 1954, in Parkersburg, W. and drove it to Lowell, Ohio." KING IS ILL STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 11 4P-King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden is in bed with a cold, the court announced here today.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955 (Two Kidnaped Girls Released CHICAGO, March 11 -B- Two kidnaped girls were released une harmed today, and police pressed a search for a man who lured them into his automobile 14 hours earlier. The girls, Kathleen Neumann, 9, and Carol. Tillotson, 7, told poo lice their abductor is a man about 24 years old named George. They said he held them overnight in an apartment with an elderly man and woman they believed were his parents, They said be drove them early today to a street intersection near their homes on the northwest side and released them. It was in the same neighborhood that they were lured into the kidnaper's automobile last night with promises of candy and ice cream.

The girls told police they were not molested except that the man insisted on cutting several locks of Kathleen's blond hair, She said he added her hair to other curls he kept in a locket. munity, and former Alabama Atty. To Prison For Life (Continued from Page 1) Leon Ritter, an aircraft plant employe and foreman of the jury. Just before the verdict was read Fuller turned his head and winked at a reporter behind him. HIS FACE froze into an impassu-sive mask as he heard the jury report.

A few minutes earlier while waiting to learn his fate, the 200- pound defendant who had appeared almost nonchalant throughout the trial smiled papermen and said he was ing fine right now." With his pretty, blonde wife, Avon, a county health nurse at Phenix City, Fuller was taken immediately to the chambers of presiding Judge J. Russell McElroy before being transferred Jefferson county jail on the top floor of the courthouse, and ultimately to prison. JUDGE McELROY, taking unprecedented precautions after that the jury had reached a verdict, ordered the courtroom emptied and the tators searched once more concealed weapons before the jury filed in. The verdict, read to the packed courtroom was: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the indictment. and fix the penalty at life imprisonment." Only a jury can decide on the extent of punishment for murder (in Alabama.

Prosecutor Cecil Deason in his closing argument yesterday had asked for the death penalty. TODAY he told newsmen he still thought the evidence justified a sentence of death but he had no criticism of the jury's action. Fuller is the first of three former public officials to be tried for the Patterson slaying. Indicted with Fuller were Arch Ferrell, who was prosecuting attorney in the vice-ridden Gen. Si Garrett who had fought vigorously to keep Patterson from being chosen as his successor in office.

Bender Invites Reds To See Ohio WASHINGTON, March 11 -4P- Sen Bender (R-Ohio) said he would like to' see Russian students visit Cleveland courtrooms, meet members of the state legislature and city councils of Ohio's big cities. The senator, noting in a speech service yesterday has sanctioned a one-month that the immigration visit in this country by 11 Russian student editors, has offered to take some of the students on a personally conducted tour of Ohio this year. Bender said he would like to take the students to a Cleveland Indian ball game. They also might talk with Ohio farmers, he said. "I think we could top it all off with a visit to some of Ohio's colleges," said Bender, show them the work being done in our community centers, and let them ask all the questions they, Some of the Russians might tempted to stay in America, Bender said.

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