Thumbs Down on Nicaraguan Coup
The United States rejects official relations with Gen. Anastasio Somoza's new Nicaraguan regime after a coup. Several American nations also withhold recognition as consultative talks begin among the republics. Advance discussions are already under way. Plan July Rodeo in Kerrville set for July 2-5.
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Washington
United States
Anastasio Somoza
State’ Department
Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa
Somoza
Panama
Guatemala
el Salvador
Woodman Spare That Tree Rescue Sparks Park Hearing
Two men Paul Agni chek and John H Kruste faced charges for destroying park property after rescuing a frightened seven year old girl by prying apart branches of an elm with a garage jack. The hearing was continued to allow Battalion Chief Hughes to testify on their defense and bond was posted at twenty five dollars.
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Chicago
Paul Agnichek
John H. Kruste
Charlene Koenig
William Hughes
al Ready
Agnichek
Kruste
Park District
Maxwell Street
Accused Killer 16 Led Double Life in Court
In a St Joseph trial the defense described Stuart B. Allen as a Doctor Jekyll and a Mr Hyde, contending the 16 year old was insane at the time of the murder of Frank a 58 year old church sexton. The case centers on the April 1 killing in the Christ Episcopal Church crypt with a hammer and body mutilation by an electric drill. Brown the defense attorney sought to prove a split personality and past mental decline while noting the youth used the name of a well known murderer on a music store sales slip.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
Stuart B. Allen
Doctor Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Robert A. Brown, Jr
A. Frank
Christ Episcopal Church
James Allen
Frank
Brown
Young Allen
Doctor Jekyll and
Wallace Voices No To Truman For Reelection
Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, in Raleigh, said he would vote against Truman if the Truman doctrine continues to push for war. He criticized Truman foreign policy and aid to Greece and Turkey and said he wants the Democratic Party to remain liberal. He indicated he may push for party reform if the party becomes a war party or reactionary. The same dispatch notes a Texas A&M research foundation meeting set for June 10 in College Station.
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Raleigh, NC
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Wallace
Greece
Turkey
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
College Station
Texas A&m Research Foundation
Peace Pacts Approved As Better Than None
The Senate ratified four postwar peace treaties with Italy Bulgaria Romania and Hungary by a 79 to 10 vote amid concerns over communist influence after occupation ends. Russia would hold forces to guard supply lines while Danube navigation stays open and Trieste remains a free city under the arrangements.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Italy
Garia
Romania
Hungary
State Department
Vandenberg
Michigan
America
Connally
Fulbright
Arkansas
Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Germany
Austria
Britain
France
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Yugoslavia
Greece
Ethiopia
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Danube
Trieste
Radio Interruption Hails Peron Speech in Buenos Aires
A strange voice interrupted President Juan D. Peron's radio address in Buenos Aires with threats against Peron and a claim about revealing false policy. The event occurred amid political tension following General Velazco's resignation, during Eva Peron's public farewell tour.
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Buenos Aires
Peron
Juan D. Peron
Eva Duarte de Peron
Filomeno J. Velazco
Federal
Pardoned Texan Arrested for Weatherford Bank Robbery
James Clifton Wheeler, 26, near completion of a conditional pardon, was arrested at his grandmother’s Weatherford home for yesterday’s Citizens National Bank theft. He confessed, admitting $2,950 of the $3,032 taken was in his pockets, with $82 blown from a car en route. The FBI plans charges. authorities say the pardon would be revoked.
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Fort Worth
James Clifton Wheeler
Citizens National Bank of
Weatherford
R. S. Dysart
Wheeler
FBI
Dysart
Here
Highway 80
Vaudine Bullington
R. B. Kearby
Will Barnett
Dallas
Tarrant
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Marshall urges European initiative for reconstruction plan
Secretary of State Marshall told Harvard alumni that Europe must draft its own postwar recovery program with United States aid, warning against profiteering and stressing a joint European effort. He said U S involvement should be limited to friendly guidance and practical support.
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Cambridge
Mass
Marshall
Europe
United States
Harvard
America
Legislature approves nearly five million in new state appropriations
Austin reports six appropriation bills totaling 4.8675 million may push the state into the red under pay as you go rules. Comptroller certification could send the measures back to both houses for final approval as emergencies by four fifths. Rural road funding faced Senate opposition ending those plans. Other items include 90k each for Texas Tech and West Texas State Colleges museums, 1 million for Dallas cancer and pellagra hospital, and 1 million to establish Lamar State Technological College Beaumont. Odessa notes visit by Jane Withers and fiancé Bill Moss to meet Moss family. Sectional leather office furniture ad follows.
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Austin
House
Senate
San Antonio
Dallas
Texas Tech
West Texas State Teachers College
Dallas Cancer and Pellegra Hospital
Lamar State Technological College
Beaumont
University of Texas Medical
University of Texas Memorial Museum
President Truman Attacks Taft On Boom and Bust Plan
President Truman criticized Senator Taft at a news conference calling his boom and bust doctrine fallacious and dangerous. He argued foreign aid is essential to counter totalitarian aggression while urging further price cuts at home. Truman cited May wholesale price declines and warned against reducing demand as a path to lower prices.
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Washington
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Judge Rebukes Exhibit of Eight Inch Shell in May-Garsson Trial
In Washington the May Garsson war bribery case features Henry Garsson displaying an eight inch shell in court to support testimony about bribe payments to former Congressman May. Judge Schweinhaut warns against exhibits and notes the shell’s distracting effect on the jury as Garsson alleges May received 55000 dollars in bribes related to Garsson’s 78000000 munitions business.
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Washington
Henry Garsson
Ol Wis
Garsson
Murray Garsson
Andrew J. May
House Military Committee
May
Kentucky
Charles J. Margiotti
Margiotti
Schweinhaut
Illinois
War Department
Military Committee
Zoo Lionizes Sue Mama of Quints
Sioux City Sue the lioness at Druid Hill Zoo is mother to quintuplets born May 16. Zoo officials kept the birth secret until yesterday. Sue was nervous and refused visitors for a period. Zoo Director Felix Leser noted such cotanite are rare in lions.
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Baltimore
U.P
Sioux City
Sue
Druid Hill Zoo
Felix Leser
Body of Missing Coed Found at West Lafayette Embankment
Miss Anna Catherine Fox 21, Purdue University honor student and pharmacy junior, had been missing since Tuesday night. Her body was located two thirds of the way down a 60 foot rail embankment by Purdue fraternity members and state police. Evidence included a woven cord around her wrists and matching strands found in her room. Fox was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Fox of Connerville. She departed from Glenwood Cooperative Home to the campus library Tuesday evening.
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Lafayette
Anna Catherine Fox
Purdue University
West LaFayette
Robert O’neal
New York Central Railroad
Western Indiana Gravel Co
Purdue Fraternity
Jack Fisher
State Police
Jay Watson
Major O’neal
Major O'Neal
Miss Fox
Herman Fox
Connersville
Purdue School of Pharmacy
Purdue
Glenwood Cooperative
University Library
Messersmith Resigns as Ambassador to Argentina
The State Department announced the resignation of George Messersmith as American ambassador to Argentina, completing a purge of two officials split over policy toward President Peron. Assistant Secretary Spruille Braden had resigned the day before, as the United States and Argentina agreed to proceed with an inter American defense conference with Argentina attending. The dispute centered on Peron’s failures to purge Nazi influences, delaying U.S. participation.
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Washington
State Department
George Messersmith
Argentina
Juan Peron
Spruille Braden
United States
Truman
Peron
Whitewash charge in KC vote probe sparks Senate clash
Missouri Senator Kern accuses the Justice Department of whitewashing Kansas City vote fraud, while Attorney General Clark and FBI Director Hoover defend a preliminary inquiry that found no grounds for prosecution. The hearing, part of a broader probe, cites 1936 convictions as a contrast.
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Washington
Kern
Missouri
Justice Department Today
Kansas City
Clark
Senate
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kenn
FBI
Congress
Kem
Alden A.stockard
Jefferson City
Kemaide
Justice Department
Hoover
Weather and political notes mix with labor action
Amarillo and West Texas forecast calls for partly cloudy days with warm highs from 75 to 95 across regions. The text also cites a Hoover FBI inquiry and Truman comments on election fraud, plus Paris bakery workers voting to return to work after a strike.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Brassiere Case 'Fastenates' Court
Buffalo New York June 5 The question of how a woman's brassiere is fastened figured to day in an automobile accident suit settled for 5000 after testimony before State Supreme Court Justice Leo J Hagerty Mrs Erna C Douglas testified that a shoulder injury limited the motion of her arm so that she couldn't fasten her bra in the back Defense counsel William D Hassett said he understood that some women fastened their bras in front and then twisted them around
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Buffalo
State Supreme Court
Leo J. Hagerty
Erna C. Douglas
William D. Hassett
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