Kidnapper Quesns Wife After Spurned Courtship
A former suitor forced 26 year old Mrs Mary Kimmey from bed beside her husband in Little Silver New Jersey and kidnapped her at gunpoint. The suspect Chalmers Laubaugh, an ex convict recently paroled from a Washington DC jail, posed as an FBI agent before revealing the weapon. The FBI is handling the case per New Jersey police.
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Freehold
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Mary Kimmey
Little Silver
Rome
Glynn F. Kimmey
Kimmey
Chalmers Laubaugh
Washington, D. C
FBI
Samuel K. McKee
New Jersey
Meat Decontrol Fate Uncertain As Western Cattlemen Advise
Washington critics predict meat shortage will linger with no quick relief. Price Decontrol Board Chairman Thompson refuses to reveal possible actions on packers decontrol petition while noting current ceilings may stay. Army demand cuts offer slight relief but civilian impact remains unclear.
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Washington
Roy L. Thompson
Price Decontrol Board
Thompson
Cafe Prices Go Back Up
OPA conceded defeat in its attempt to roll back restaurant meat meal prices to June 30 levels. An upcoming nationwide increase will be set at a conference with National Restaurant Association spokesmen, following protests from hotel and restaurant owners and a Chicago rent ceiling dispute raised by Mayor Edward J. Kelly.
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Washington
OPA
National Restaurant Association
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Paul Porter
Porter
Kelley
Maurice W. Lee
Six Dead as San Antonio Flood Rises to Gulf
A cloudburst flood south of San Antonio kills six with at least seven others missing, including four military policemen. Rescue boats and aircraft evacuate marooned residents as damage estimates range from one to eight million dollars.
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Ebbing Waters
San Antonio
Here
Gulf of Mexico
Weatherly
Russia accuses U S of Danube meddling near Danube seizure
Lake Success New York September 27 Russia accuses the United States of direct interference over the seizure of 167 Yugoslav and 47 Czech Danube vessels held by American occupation authorities. The U N council was urged to arrange a conference in Vienna by November 1 to restore unrestricted Danube traffic.
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N. Y
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Soviet Union
United States
Europe
United Nations Economic and Social Council
America
Vienna
John G. Winant
Nikolai Feonov
Feonov
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Bevin Sees No Likely War, Urges Peace Efforts
Foreign Secretary Bevin told a London Labor meeting that he agrees with Premier Stalin that another war is unlikely for the moment. He warned against a war of nerves and said the acid test lies in UN cooperation and conference-room approach to postwar problems.
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Stalin
London
Russia
United Nations
Labor Party
Wandsworth
Temperatures by Hour Yesterday
A list of hourly temperatures shows readings from morning to night with highs near the mid 80s and lows around the mid 60s. Sunrise at 6 39 AM and sunset at 6 36 PM.
Panic Grass And Feverfew Continued In Hiroshima Series
In the twelfth article of the Hiroshima series John Hersey recounts Aug 18th scenes as Father Kleinsorge, carrying a talismanic suitcase, trudges into a destroyed city. He notes fatigue, injuries, and mounting hair loss suffered by Mrs. Nakamura and her family amid the post blast struggle.
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John Hersey
Adano
Daily News
New Yorker
OO He
F-R Publishing Corp
Kleinsorge
Society of Jesus
Yokohama Snaka
Ranlink Mhiail Ee
Strikers Warned as Transit Service Breaks Down
The AFL-Pittsburgh Central Labor Union warned against interference by Duquesne Light Co. workers on strike, prompting irregular streetcar and bus service. Some routes ran from seven barns while five others halted. CIO and AFL tensions surfaced as a 45 minute negation with Duquesne Light Co. broke up.
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Afl-Pittsburgh Central Labor Union
Duquesne Light Co
AFL
Central Labor Union
CIO
Independent
Anthony J. Federoff
George L. Mueller
Eisenhower Arrives in England for European Tour
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower landed in Southampton on September 27. They planned to stay aboard the Queen Mary that night and fly to Frankfurt the next day to inspect U.S. troops in Germany, Austria and Italy.
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Eng
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Frankfurt
Germany
U.S
Austria
Italy
Labor Crisis Looms As US Faces Longer Work Week
Labor official John D. Small warned a longer work week may be needed to lift overall production. With 58 million employed and 2 million jobless, he cautioned manpower could tighten by year end unless overtime is paid. August output of radios, stoves, irons and vacuums rose 40-65 percent above prewar rates. auto production targets for Sep–Nov reach about 1,000,000 cars. Building materials and residential construction also surged, marking a historic rise in materials output during a period of urgent war-time productivity.
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Washington
John D. Small
Small
It's No. 27 for Negro Woman
A 65-year-old negro woman and her day-old daughter, said to be her 27th child, were reported doing very nicely at University Hospital in Columbus. Mrs Mary Jones showed a family Bible listing her birth date in 1881 and the birth dates of 27 offspring, including six sets of twins. Twenty-one are living. the oldest are 41-year-old twin sons in Washington.
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University Hospital
John Holzaepfel
Hopital
Mary Jones
State of
Washington
Mutiny Plea Anchors Joyce Kilmer Crew Members
Three crew members of the merchant ship Joyce Kilmer pleaded guilty to mutiny and were remanded to prison in default of $5,000 bail pending sentencing. GamER Friberg from Wisconsin James O Claire of Pennsylvania and Robert E Furman of New York admitted entering the captain's cabin and threatening him when he refused to delay sailing from Rouen. Captain Charles Perez, who said he was injured defending himself, reported the attack to FBI agents and Coast Guardsmen.
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Joyce Kilmer
Gamer Friberg
Waukesha
Wis
James O'Claire
Franklin
Robert E. Furman
Binghamton
N. Y
U. S
Norman J. Griffin
Rouen
France
Charles Perez
FBI
O’claire
Perez
Coast
Peonage Indictments Against Texas Officers
A U S federal grand jury indicted W. J. Price and J. Pullen along with Luther Hunter William Frazier and Norris Pierce on peonage charges after R. D. Andrew a Rockwall resident was held in involuntary servitude. A separate count charged A. Lee Price and Avalois Hannon with civil rights violations for the same case. Andrew was jailed in Terrell then Rockwall and allegedly beaten on two occasions.
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Rockwall
R. D. Andrew
W. J. Price
Luther Hunter
William Frazier
Terrell
Kaufman County
Jack Pullen
Norris Pierce
A. Lee Price
Avalois Hannon
Price
John Pullen
Andrew
Jet Blast Kills English Ace
Geoffrey de Havilland, famed test pilot and scion of a renowned aviation family, is presumed killed when the experimental DH 108 Swallow turbojet exploded at dusk over the Thames estuary during a final test. Lord Winster paid tribute as RAF announced wreckage was found by a Mosquito search plane.
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England
Geoffrey de Havilland
Royal Air Force
Thames Estuary
Lord Winster
Civil Aviation
de Havilland
de Havilland Company
Newton Trial Slated at Tulia
Dr. W. B. Newton of Cameron Texas faces assault with intent to murder for the May 21 1942 shooting of Dr. Roy Hunt near Littlefield. The case moved from Lamb to Hale County with a Swisher County seat. prior trials yielded a seven year sentence and a hung jury. Lawyers Camp Camp Miller Lyles Potter and Day have represented him.
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W. B. Newton
Cameron
Tex
Tulsa
Newton
Roy Hunt
Littlefield
Hale
Lamb County
Swisher
Dr. Newton
Camp & Camp of
E. T
Dusty) Miller
Amarillo
Robert Lyles
Angleton
T. Wade Potter
Fred R. Day
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