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8 The Record-Herold Wednesday, April 20, 1949 Washington Ohio Mon Faces Two Charges In Police Court Here James Gilbert Rodgers, 25,1 Weirton, W. student in Cincinnati, is scheduled to appear in police court here Saturday, on two charges filed by the police here. The first charge is operating an auto without a license, and the other was reckless operation of an automobile within the city limits. He posted $35 on the latter charge. Huge Amounts Expended by Railroad Some New Equipment Added to Newark Division Here The new Diesel engines in use on the Newark division of the B.

O. Railroad, together with some new freight ca are just a small part of the huge amount! of equipment purchased by the road during the last year or two. Funds silent or the two local branches of the road ase a very, small part of the $58,600,000 spent I for and new equip- rrcnt during the past year. Of the foregoing amount $14- I 869,555 Wcu spent on road prop- erty; the remainder represented! cost of new equipment and improvements to othe, equipment. Locomotive units acquired consisted of 128 new for freight service and 70 Three steam locomotive constructed in company Freight ear supply creased by 5,634 ne it if! ('cai were also, wert "umps req ai I and 25 in com sleeping mg the sleeping cai the Pullman for service more metier cured.

Other imp points out, diiional revel among these Spur of the wh up a 100,000,000 ton ditchers. were shops, was cars, were constructed I ops. Eight new squired 153 standard ired from provide nth until in he to the pits, the report ce to bring itio road. Chief new Elk Creek i opens .1 field near erfield, W. Va.

It I expected to produce additional revenues: of about $1,445,000 duping the first year and greater revenue in later Other facilities put into lion in 1948 which ex pelted increase the revenue potentialities of the railroad include new dumping facilities on Staten Island 1 in New York harbor, and new coal and ore handling facilities at Toledo and Lo ain, Ohio. As a result of money-saving improvements, several HAO operating efficiency were et during 1948. The annua! report that revenue ton miles in 1948 were 3 82 percent less than for the record peacetime year of 1947. Revenue passenger miles showed of 17.07 percent. However, both freight and passenger revenues showed an increase over 1947 because higher fi eight and passenger rates were in effect.

Freight revenues in 1948, at $353,289.835, showed an increase of 12.53 percent over 1947, while expenses climbed 7 9 percent in the same period. The report points out that during the ten-vear period erg)mg December 31, the It A funded debt, excepting equipment obligations was reduced by more than $131,000,000. Annual interest charges on the company's debt, including equipment obligations, outstanding at December 31, 1948, amounted to $25,654,751. This was 15.87 percent less than the nulli Interest charge at the end of 1938. During 1948 the railroad employer I an average of 57,197 workers I at an average annual wage of 320.

Including payroll taxes, the payroll cost per employee was 718. The total payroll, including payroll taxes, was mer half of the total operating Watch Set Up In Cancer War Toledo Physicians Stress Time Element COLUMBUS, April Toledo physician has reported a unique plan for obtaining early diagnosis of cancer of the uterus. Dr. Edward Burns explained the plan, formulated two years ago by the Toledo and Lucas County Academy of Medicine, to the opening session of the annual Ohio State Medical Association meeting. how it works The patients agree to visit their physicians twice a year.

At a visit, the family physician takes a papanicolaou vagin*l smear test. The slide i examined by a pathologist. The pathologist prepares two copie of his report. One goes to the family physician; one to the office of the Academy of Medicine. The academy maintains a registry containing clinical historic? of each patient At six-month intervals the academy mail out notice? to the doctor, notifying him it i time for patients to he re-examined The notice contains an appointment card which the physician fill? out and mails to the patient The medical technique are standard, ut the reminder method i Intqut, Dr Burns said The Toledo doctor said patient; who are examined regularly have about a 90 (fervent chance of having a cancer discovered while it still is cm able.

The association meeting will continue through Friday. tragedy yesterday were Kenneth Kaye, IO, arui Stephen, 5, of Mr and Mrs Albert Kaye The two died in Scranton State Hospital shortly after they were found in their home, each with a bullet in the head. A souvenir Belgian semi-automatic pistol owned by their father was found beside Kenneth. READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS JOUAM Backs Sales Tax Law Stand Is In Line With School Policy The Washington C- H. council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics came out today against certain provisions of the present Ohio sales tax.

The fraternal order came out flatly with an endorsem*nt of the Guthrie bill, which for a revamping of the sales tax and more economical administration of the tax, passed. Under the provisions of the Qu th tie Bill, tax stamps would be eliminated and revenue estimated at would be taken in from a gross sales tax, can be provided for hooks without new Harry Eye, councilor of the lodge here said. The 95-year-old organization Is dedicated to public school improvement. eliminating the cost and nuisance of tax stamps and many of the exemptions which have been written into the present law by powerful selfish interests. funds can be provided for schools without enacting new Eye said- cannot afford to further neglect public schools.

Trainer! teachers must be provided for the many thousands of additional children who will enter school during the next few he added. Eye said that the 175 local councils of the fraternal order in Ohio are backing the Guthrie bill. Woman is Bitten By a Rabid Fox Mrs. Leslie Hawks, Circleville Route 4, is undergoing treatment to prevent rabies, after she had been bitten in the face, left arm and both hands by a rabid fox while she was attempting to drive the animal away from her chickens. When she heard a commotion in her henhouse and when she opened the the rabid fox leaped upon her and began biting Hex husband killed the fox with his pocket knife.

of the head it had rabies. It is i animal killed in this year that from rabies Probationer Is Back In Prison George Hamlin, 24, Bainbridge, turning against a former benefactor, is back in the toils once more after violating his probation extended by the court some months ago, when he pleaded guilty to forgery. This time Hamlin was arrested for attempting to pass a $15 check bearing the name of Charlie a who had gone to aid last fall he was up on a bad check charge. Revocation of his probation is expected when Hamlin faces the court. Former Resident Again Fugitive Lawrence Tipton, formerly of this city, who has a long string of offenses to his credit in this and adjoining states, is now wanted in Springfield for armed robbery.

Notice has been received by the police here to be on the lookout for the man for the Springfield authorities. Accompanying the notation is a long list of terms meted out to Tipton for various offenses, some of which were committed in Fayette County. Several of the charges were for breaking and entering, or burglary Suspect Seized In Kidnap-Robbery PITTSBURGH, April 20 John Lee Keenan, one of two Youngstown, Ch, men charged with abducting and robbing a New Castle, construction foreman, was freed under $10,000 bond ye: I terday I Ralph K. Jones, 38, the foreman, aid he was abducted as he emerged from a bank last March 18 with a $2,485 payroll. Keerion and Bernard Cantff, 48, were arrested after a three- tate search by police and FBI agents Italian Artists To Teach 'Life' 'Lesson' Paintings To Be Shown in U.

S. By WILLIAM MAIRANI MILAN, Italy, April Italian artists are going ro try to teach America the modernistic aimed at calming down frenetic Americans. And just to show how serene Italians, are, they are going to try to get the paintings to America by sailing them across in a 30-foot schooner with a three- man crew. To confuse things a bit more, this is not the real object of the risky journey. The schooner is taking to the high seas to collect exotic underwater plants for the Milan Museum of Natural History.

The schooner is the It is slated to sail from Genoa en route to New York on May 25. Right now the is here in land-locked Milan, on exhibition at a fair which opened April 12 Its captain is Vergano Maggira, 43, a former electrician who ed to art and painting and made a success of it. He will be assisted by a 29-year-old naval officer, Aurelio Matteini, who will be navigator, and a third man, whose name is being withheld to keep his wife from worrying. The collections of paintings the will carry will be exhibited at a New York show. Each painting, Maggiora said, be a message from one Italian to an American will be mostly appealing to the fantasy of the onlookers.

Maggiora said. are intended to be an example of the serene life one should As an example. Maggiora said a special ing will be dedicated to the owner of the Ford facto. les. It represents an machine.

Among other compositions in the cargo be surrealistic studies of Vesuvius and Venetian Gondolas. Another, Maggiora said, portrays a bottle which got drunk all by itself. The schooner, commissioned to get rare underwater plants for the Milan Museum to replace a collection destroyed by bombing, will stop at the Balearic Islands, Cape Verde. Martmque, Florida and New York Maggiora said the craft a jewel of its kind, with a complete set of sails an auxiliary Diesel engine, a generator. rariio-tele- phone and even a gas stove, to bake fresh bread every day He said he had had many offers from volunteers to accompany him on the adventurous voyage, but had to turn down ail of them because of the limited space aboard.

The snorkel, a device which permits submarines to while under water, was placed on Dutch ships beforfe World War II and perfected by the Germans during the war. READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS COURTEOUS EFFICIENT EXPERIENCED AUCTION SERVICE W. E. (Bill) WEAVER Phone 2561 HARD OF HEARING Don't Miss This Special Demonstration OTARION HEARING AIDS Friday, April 22nd, IO A. M.

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