19 American nations reach agreement on mutual defense pact
In Quitandinha Brazil on Aug 27 officials near Rio de Janeiro prepared for the signing next Tuesday of a 19 nation defense treaty to fight aggression in a vast western hemisphere security zone from the Antarctic to the Arctic and from Hawaii to the Falklands. The inter American conference aims to broaden peace cooperation with automatic aid among nations and consultations on territorial integrity and security, aligned with the United Nations charter.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Itamaraty
Truman
inter-American Conference of Foreign Ministers
Antarctic
Arctic
Hawaii
Falklands
Bogota
Nicaragua
Ecuador
Quito
U. S
Alaska
Greenland
Canada
United Nations
Midwest Quake Rumor Reaches Chicago Family
Chicago August 27 members of the Dan Marchese family learned by clipping from an Italian paper that a catastrophe in 1871 repeated with Chicago in flames after an earthquake. The Aug 10 issue claimed Chicago Cleveland and Detroit were devastated by quakes and fires though no serious damage was reported locally. Separately, General Assembly opening September 16 in New York may last three months according to Secretary-General Trygve Lie.
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Chicago
Dan Marchese
Italy
Marchese
la Spezia
Middlewest
Lake Success
L.P
Trygve Lie
General Assembly
New York
Parking Meters Are All Ours
Adrian now owns the 151 Duncan Meter Company parking meters installed on Main Street since June 12 1946 and Maumee Street since Oct 25 1946 Final payment of 33301 is announced by city clerk E A Ballenberger The total expenditure for meters and installations was 13216 46 with a credit balance of 1975 38 in the fund after repairs and supplies through Aug 25 City commission members deem the investment sound and paid out in just over a year
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Adrian
Duncan Meter Company
Main Street
Maumee Street
E. A. Ballenberger
Poison Plot Discovered at State Boys Vocational School
Lansing August 27 state police uncovered a plot by six boys at the State Boys Vocational School to kill cottage manager Stephan Hamilton 33. Alvernon A Chambers 17 of Detroit named ring leader. warrant for attempted murder issued. Chambers and five others planned using what they believed was poison in Hamiltons coffee. Hamilton did not fall ill.
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Lansing
State Boys’ Vocational School
Charles R. MacLean
Alvernon A. Chambers
Detroit
Chambers
Hamilton
Siamese Twins Die After 3 Days
Rock Springs report on the death of three day old Siamese twin daughters of Mr and Mrs Harding Brown six hours and 15 minutes apart the first died at 12 30 pm the second after seven beats per minute for six hours 15 minutes more. doctors cited impossibility of surgical separation and noted total birth weight 12 pounds four ounces.
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Rock Springs
Wro
Harding Brown
Brown
K. FE. Krueger
Blaze Destroys Piehl Alfalfa Mill Storage in Blissfield
A night fire destroyed a large storage building of baled hay at Piehl Alfalfa Mill on US-223 east of Blissfield. Firemen from Blissfield Riga and Whiteford Center saved the grinding mill and nearby structures. Estimated loss 39,000 dollars, insured. hay grinding delayed until new supplies arrive.
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Blissfield
Us-223
Riga
Whiteford
Fred Piehl
Piehl
Couple tells troubles after abandoning boys in Chicago cathedral
Frank Gillespie and Geraldine Gillespie told domestic relations court they wandered 30 months seeking a home while their four children were left unsupervised. Police seized the trio after the three younger boys were found in Holy Name Cathedral. The couple described sleeping in parks and living in many locales, taking odd jobs to stay briefly together.
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Chicago
Frank Gillespie
Geraldine
Daniel
Steven
John
Holy Name
Gillespie
Margaret Ann
Nmother
Fence
Wis Gillespie
Canada
Senator Porter Challenges County School District Law
Blissfield Republican Sen Elmer Porter attacks the 1947 county school district law as unconstitutional urging Auditor General to withhold a 250000 salary appropriation while awaiting a ruling from the attorney general. He cites electors qualifications salary raises and uniformity provisions. Porter and fellow senator discuss the bill. Porter argues system changes advance rural education.
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Lansing
Alg
Elmer &. Porter
Blissfield Republican
Porter
Murl K. Aten
Aten
Eugene F. Black
Board of Supervisors
Porter Milton Porter
Sen. Porter
Wayne
Oakland
Ohio
Indiana
Lenawee
Public Schools Plan Reopening Next Week In Adrian
Adrian public schools prepare to reopen Wednesday Sept 3 with about five juniors and seniors enrolling. Superintendent George Little anticipates crowding in some grade schools but no major difficulties. Overflow in Jefferson area to be moved to Washington and McKinley by bus if needed. Furniture arriving by Monday. two high schools have added over 4000 dollars in improvements including a new garage for two buses. A potential state law may raise high school attendance. students must stay in school until 16. Parochial schools in Detroit archdiocese begin Sept 4 with solemn Mass Sept 3 at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral.
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Adrian
A. J. Hypes
George Little
Jefferson Area
Washington and
McKinley
Washington
Archdiocese of
Detroit
Msgr
Carroll F. Deady
New York Drenched By Thunderstorm And Flood
The Associated Press reports a cold front cooled much of the nation after a Midwest heat wave. Thunderstorms hit New York City with injuries, basement flooding, and service outages as a three day hot spell ended. The Empire State Building endured lightning. several streetcars were struck and crowds fled. Temperatures fell from a record high to 67 within hours.
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Associated Press
Midwest
North Atlantic
New York City
Hudson Man Injured When Car Overturns
Frank J. Kingsley Jr., 27, remains unconscious at Thorn Memorial Hospital after his car rolled over four or five times on M-34, one mile west of Hudson. Edward Weber, driving west, says Kingsley swerved and the vehicle ended in a wreck with head abrasions and concussion. X rays scheduled to assess injuries.
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Hudson
Frank J. Kingsley, Jr
Thorn Memorial Hospital
Edward Weber
Kingsley
Fruehauf shows profit for six months in New York
Fruehauf Trailer Co reports six month net profit of 2,759,161 dollars, 2.05 per share, up from 2,301,253 dollars or 1.69 last year. Hupp Corp. posts quarterly profit of 106,000 dollars, five cents a share, reversing a loss of 346,767 a year ago.
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New York
Fruehauf Trailer Co
Hupp Corp
Chicago Bar Probes Opressing Sentence For Bakery Worker
Albert Yoos a 45 year old Chicago baker was jailed for a $200 fine after being cited for disorderly conduct for eating bread and frankfurters in a vacant lot. Bar committee and the state prosecutor call the penalty a miscarriage of justice and seek his release and conviction review.
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Chicago
Chicago Bar Association
Albert Yoos
Neu
Leon M. Despres
Bar Association Committee On Defense of
Yoos
John J.faissler
Maurice J. Mettel
Mettel
Frazer buys rights to Swiss tractor and farm implements
New York Aug 27 Joseph W Frazer said he obtained manufacturing rights on a new Swiss tractor and several other farm implements designed in Europe for small acreage and subsistence farms. He plans development of a magnesium roto filler and may start production in England.
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New York
Joseph W. Frazer
Europe
Graham-Paige, Motors Corp
England
Germans join Spanish Legion report seen by Army
U S army sources said there are several indications that Germans especially former SS men are being recruited in occupied Germany for a Spanish foreign legion in Franco's Spain. Officials noted no proof of Luftwaffe pilots being hired, but said many Germans seek refuge in Spain or Argentina, via covert routes through Switzerland and France.
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Richard O'Regan
Frankfurt
U. S. Army
Germany
Spain
Luftwaffe
United States
Argentina
Atlantic
Virgin- Steppes
Congoland
Plane Crash Injures Two Men Near Buchanan
Two South Bend men were injured when a light plane crashed in a field about four miles south of Buchanan in Berrien county. Pilot Harold Baker lost one leg while passenger Clifford Scamehorn, 37, was treated for shock. State Police Trooper Andy Palik said the plane was flying low near Scamehorn’s property when it plunged to the ground.
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Buchanan
South Bend
Ind
Berrien County
Here
Harold Baker
Andy Palil
Clifford Scamehorn
Palik
Scamehorn
Early A Friendly Divorce
Pat Dane Dorsey, freshly divorced from Tommy Dorsey, heads to Los Angeles for a date with her ex-husband after District Judge William McKnight grants the divorce on grounds of extreme mental cruelty. The two, married in 1943 at Las Vegas, had no children and arranged property rights by written agreement last May.
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Reno
Nev
Pat Dane Dorsey
Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey
William McKnight
Las Vegas
Tommy
Unanimous Car Price Increases Across Industry
Detroit reports widespread boosts on new cars with adds from $45 to $225, Ford and Studebaker among producers signaling year end stability. Observers note 1948 model changes and tool costs may drive further rises. payroll and material costs cited as primary factors.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Studebaker Corp
Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Ford
Lincoln
Mercury
Ford Concern
Chevrolet
Plymouth
Hudson
Cadillac
Packard
Lampreys Reported in 71 State Streams
Lansing Aug 27 The conservation department investigator Vern Applegate announced streams infested by sea lampreys have increased by three to 71 since last year. He is finalizing a survey of the early summer spawning run by amateur observers and noted nine other streams with unverified lamprey reports.
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Lansing
Vern Applegate
Conservation Department
Shore erosion study set for Michigan coast
U P reporters say U S Army engineers from Detroit Milwaukee and Duluth districts are invited to a conference at Governor Sigler's office on September 3 to determine if a shore erosion prevention program is feasible along Michigan Great Lakes shores. The executive office cites erosion damage reports in Grand Rapids Port Huron and other areas.
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Lansing
U. S. Army Engineers
Detroit
Milwaukee
Duluth
Sigler
Michigan
Great Lakes
Grand Rapids
Port Huron
Sikh Attack on Train Kills 15 Moslems in India Border Riots
Traveling Americans Lt Col Charles Caple and Jane Loranger report a Sikh mob halted a train at Muir on Sunday. They describe windows smashed, doors forced, and a joining compartment breached where three men and a woman were killed. Eleven bodies were recovered at Baatinda, with four more dying before Ferozepore. Escalating Punjab border clashes prompt refugee movements.
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Isahore
Pakistan
U. S. State Department
Charles Caple
Little Rock
Ark
U.S
New Delhi
Jane Loranger
Sacramento
Calif
U. S. Information Service
Muir
Caple
Baatinda
Ferozepore
Kashmir
India
Punjab
German Directors of Farbirm Trial Open in Nuremberg
A four man U S court opened the war crimes trial of 24 I G Farben directors charging they fostered Hitler s wars for profit. Brig Gen Telford Taylor said they aimed to conquer and dominate the world chemical industry. Twenty one defendants pleaded innocent. The indictment calls for wholesale enslavement plunder and murder and links Farben to war effort via 1934 agreements delaying synthetic rubber and fuels.
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Nuremberg
Germany
U.S
I. G. Farben Chemical Trust
Adolf Hitler
Telford Taylor
Taylor
United States
Farben
I. G. Farben
I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Hermann Goering
Gen. Taylor
Hitler
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Chemical Trust
Farben- Standard Oil
Security Council Veto Debate Hits Limits in UN
Faris El Khoury, UN Security Council president, pushes to restrict veto to peace enforcement while admitting little chance of change. He argues veto should not block actions like admitting new members. Delegates from Soviet Union and Colombia to speak on Egypt case, with a Brazilian resolution urging Egypt and Britain to resume talks. Demonstrators disrupted yesterday’s Egypt meeting as UN guards ejected them. The council aims to adjourn for vacation, with the assembly set for Sept 16.
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Faris el Khoury
Security Council
el Khoury
United Nations
Russia
France
Council
U. N
Colombia
Egypt
Britain
Manhattan
U.N
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Shah- Shah
Miss Crain
Shah-Shah
Los Angeles Zoo
Blessed Sacrament Cathedral
Empire State Building
Fruehauf
Justin F. McCarthy
Municipal Court
Frazer
Switzerland
Chemical Combine
Farbenindustrie
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