World law urgency urged by Justice Douglas at Ohio U
Associate Supreme Court Justice William C. Douglas urged Ohio University graduates to embrace world law as the path to peace. He warned that reliance on force risks destroying civilization and that the United States must first solve its own problems to aid global security.
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United States
William C. Douglas
Supreme Court
Ohio University
Douglas
Memorial Auditorium
United Nations
Justice Douglas
Army secrecy marks probe of crown jewel theft
Washington reports the army maintains secrecy over developments in the sensational theft of Hessian crown jewels valued at 1.5 million dollars from Kronberg castle. Maj. David F. Watson and Col. Durant and his wife face potential court martial in Germany as the chain of custody and transfer of the gems to the United States remains unclear.
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Washington
Rhineland
War Department
David F. Watson
Burlingame
Calif
Germany
Jack W. Durant
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Col. Durant
United States
Kronberg
WAC
Col Durant
Army
Durant
Ng Ge
Chicago
Kathleen Nash Durant
Hudson
Wis
Col
Falls Church
Kronberg Castle
Frankfurt
Kettering Predicts Atomic Bomb Defense in Time
Dayton scientist Charles F. Kettering cautions that defense will be found for the atom bomb, while urging not to discredit those who built it. He predicts the weapon may become obsolete within a century, likening it to the crossbow in modern times.
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Dayton
Charles F. Kettering
23 Are Believed Killed As Plane Hits Mountain
WEST PALM BEACH FL AP Army authorities plan to probe a C 54 crash from Morrison Field believed to have killed 23. Rescue teams recovered 19 bodies from Taboga Island wreckage as night fell amid heavy rain and poor visibility. The crew included six officers and 13 enlisted men with two West Point cadets and a civilian among passengers. Names not released pending kin notification.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Morrison Field
Seo
Taboga Island
Canal Zone
Albrook Field
John
Owens
West Point
Panama
UN Debates Atomic Energy and Franco Spain in New York
The United Nations faces a packed week with talks on atomic energy and Franco Spain. The Economic and Social Council seeks to reconcile US Soviet British differences, aiming for a June 20 adjournment. The Security Council planned a 3 pm session on a Franco regime sub committee report.
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New York
United Nations
Atomic Energy
Spain
Economic and Social Council
Russia
United States
Britain
Council
Security Council
Generalissimo Franco
General Assembly
Toll in Storm Rises to Nine in New England
Boston dispatch reports the storm toll climbing to at least nine with property damage exceeding 750000. The latest victim was Mrs. William Barber of Natick who died in Leonard Morse Hospital after a tree fell on the family automobile in Sherborn. Her husband also perished.
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Boston
New England
William Barber
Natick
Leonard Morse Hospital
Sherborn
Stassen Bets On Gristwood In Nebraska Senate Race
In Nebraska, former Minnesota governor Stassen backs Dwight Griswold against incumbent Hugh Butler, linking foreign policy lines to the race as a test for his 1948 GOP nomination bid. Griswold seeks the party nod, and Butler's stance on the British loan features prominently in the contest. Idaho and Indiana primary notes follow, with Gossett vs Donart and Geddes, and Willis vs Jenner shaping GOP renomination dynamics.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dwight Griswold
Hugh Butler
Wendell L. Willkie
Wisconsin
Willkie
Stassen
Butler
Griswold
Idaho
Tommorrow
Charles C. Gossett
George E. Donart
Paul L. Geddes
Indiana
Raymond J . Willis
William E. Jenner
GOF
Shortjterm
Case Bill Veto Seen Tuesday
White House associates expect President Truman to veto the Case Labor Disputes Bill on Tuesday after two days of study. Administration spokesmen would not confirm a decision, while noting the measure would create federal mediation machinery and impose sweeping union regulations.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Capitol Hil
Overseas Draft Ban Proposal Aims at Senate House Standoff
Rep Sparkman proposes 18 year old draftees be limited to US service only with voluntary overseas deployment. The plan seeks to break the deadlock over extending the draft and would not affect 19 year olds already eligible for overseas service if drafted before May 15.
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Washington—T
Senate House
Sparkman
Ala
House
Senate
Armed Forces
United States
Beating of Aged Man Brings Prison Term
Lawrence Speece of Hammondsville Ohio was sentenced by Judge Wingerd to seven to fourteen years in Eastern Penitentiary for armed robbery burglary latency and aggravated assault and battery arising from the robbery and beating of an elderly man in a rural home, where $100 was taken at gunpoint.
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Chambersburg
Lawrence Speece
Hammondsville
Ohio
Edmund C. Wingerd
Eastern Penitentiary
Clayton
Speece
Plaintiff Blames Elephant For Injuries In Store
A woman sues Marshall Field and Co. for 2000 dollars claiming an elephant broke loose in the store on November 20, 1944, knocking her down among fleeing spectators as it was being moved to an elevator. Also notes Earl Browder’s expected week in Moscow.
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Chicago
Marshall Field and Co
Florence M. Williams
Hamilton Named Chief of Surgical Service at Walter Reed
Lt. Col Frank E. Hamilton former assistant professor of surgery at Ohio State University is named chief of the surgical service at Walter Reed General Hospital, marking a senior leadership appointment in the Army medical corps.
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Washingson
Upi
Frank E. Hamilton
Ohio State University
Army
Walter Reed General Hospital
Union Rejects Proposed Pay During Leave
The CIO National Maritime Union rejected a Labor Department plan to grant seamen shore leave with pay as a way to break a deadlock over a shorter at sea work week. The union called the idea impractical and vowed to press demands for an 8 44-hour week, while preparing for a possible strike and setting up strike measures.
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Washington
CIO National Maritime Union
Labor Department
NMU
National Council of the Union
Lakes Rivers Of Ohio Claim Lives Of Four
The Associated Press reports at least four Ohioans drowned during a weekend heat wave as crowds swarmed streams and lakes. Sisters Freda and Gloria Holbert Long aged 18 and 19 died in the Hocking River near Coolville. David E. Webster, 63, of Akron, was recovered from Sandusky Bay while two others, Grover Cruise, 34, and William Edder, 70, of Mogadore and Akron suburb, remain missing. Josephine Hardy, 13, of Chesapeake, drowned in the Little Miami River near Clifton.
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Associated Press
Freda Holbert Long
Gloria Holbert
Grover Cruise
William Edder
Mogadore
Akron
Josephine Hardy
Chesapeake
Little Miami River
Clifton
Beating Story Is Told by GI In Lichfield Trials
In Nuremberg era style testimony at the Lichfield field trials a U S soldier prisoner named Mike Koblin sky from Saginaw Michigan said they have concentration camps in the U S Army He and 11 other prosecution witnesses ended a silence strike by speaking about alleged abuses including beatings by guards in 1944 and 1945 at Lichfield. Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger approved a 50 year sentence for Lt Miyotoku Okada former Nagoya camp commandant in Yokohama Japan.
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Bad Mueheim
Germany
Lichfield
U. S
Mike Koblinsky
Saginaw
Mich
Koblinsky
Yokohama
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Miyotoku Okada
Nagoya
Dubuque Hotel Fire Leaves 15 Dead and 23 Missing
Fire at the Canfield Hotel in Dubuque cites 15 dead with 3 unidentified among them and 23 unaccounted for as search crews brace the ruins. Twenty one injured people remain in area hospitals while investigators plan a three way probe into the blaze that began in the basement.
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Dubuque
Canfield
American Red Cross
Zach Cook
Perry Kirch
Red Cross
Kirch
F. S. Leonard
John Strohm
Des Moines
Attornney
E. J. Keane
Jeint
Hetera Kirch
Harold Cosgrove
Willian Canfield, Jr
John Becker
la Salle
Chicago
Battles Rage After Chinese Truce Declared
Field dispatches report fierce fighting in Manchuria and central China hours after Chiang Kai-shek ordered a 15 day truce. Government and Communist leaders planned separate talks with U S General Marshall on terms for peace in a country bruised by civil strife for 18 years.
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Nanking
Manchuria
China
Chiang-Kai-Shek
U.S
Marshall
Associated Press
Tom Masterson
Peiping
Central
Chiang
Masterson
Red
Shantung Province
Teisien
Tsinan
Yingkow
Mukden
Anshan
Treason Trial Of Mihailovic Starts Today
Belgrade reports that General Draja Mihailovic Chetnik leader and 23 co defendants face treason charges over relations with German occupation forces and the Nazi puppet government. Prosecution seeks to prove links between Mihailovic forces and leaders in the King Peter II exile government and Milan Nedic's Yugoslav puppet regime.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
Mihailovic
Peter II
Peters
Milan Nedic
Nedic
Nurses Oppose Federal Medical Plan in Senate Bill 1606
The Ohio State Nurses Association adopted a unanimous resolution during a two day convention here criticizing Senate Bill 1606. It argued the plan would destroy free enterprise in American medicine and subject care to federal dictates. The association warned the cost would rise beyond many voluntary prepayment plans and would deteriorate medical services nationwide.
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Cleveland
Ohio, State Nurses Association
Harmon Oiler Dies at River View Home
Funeral services for Marmon Oiler 68 who died at River View Rest Home Sunday night will be held at Finsterwald funeral home Rutland Wednesday at 2 pm. He is survived by his wife and six children Sylvester Canton Mrs Matie Larkins Columbus Mrs Bessie Spires Wellston Watson of Detroit Mich Mrs Stehn Coy Gallipolis and Miss Mildred Osler of Ewington. Burial will be in Miles Cemetery Rutland.
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Middleport
Marmon Oiler
Riverview
Finsterwald
Rutland
Ohio Couple Killed On Vacation Journey
Fred Peter man, 33, and his wife Mary of South Zanesville, Ohio, were killed in a truck motor cycle crash in Lamb County. The truck driver Johnnie J. Serratt, 36, faces negligent homicide charges. State Patrolman Rowland said the Petermans were motorcycling to the coast for a vacation.
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Sudan
Texas
Fred Peterman
Mary
Zanesville
Johnnie J. Serratt
Lamb
T. A. Rowland
Petermans
Grand Mufti Reported Set to Enter Struggle
Jerusalem dispatch reports the grand mufti, banished in 1937 for anti British activities, returning to the Middle East and preparing to join the Arab struggle against Jewish immigration to Palestine.
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Jerusalem
Middle East
Palestine
Siam Names Phumiphon New King After Brother’s Death
Prince Phumiphon Aduldet 18 was named ruler of Siam after King Ananda Mahidol 20 was found dead from a bullet wound. The legislature, meeting 12 hours after the death, unanimously chose Phumiphon as Aduldet was born in Boston and educated abroad. The scene in Bangkok reflected national mourning as regents and officials prepared for a rapid transition.
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Bangkok
Phum
Iphon Aduldet
Siam
Ananda
Terai
Anjanda
Phumiphon Aduldet
Boston
Mass
Prince
Songkhia
Portsmouth
Emory
Harvard
Phumiphon Aduldet Whitt
Land
Portsmouth Steel Co
Switzerland
Council of
Bleachers for 40 600 Planned for Air Race
Cleveland officials announce temporary seating islands will provide space for 40 600 spectators at the National Air Races. Glenn W. Thompson district manager of the Civilian Production Administration stated the plan would augment local materials rather than deplete them.
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Cleveland
Glenn W.thompson
Civilian Production Administration
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William T. Wood
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Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
al Karan
Harmon Oiler
River Home
King
Pridi Phanomyong
Anor
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