Reds Set Up Foreign Exchange Control in Shanghai
Shanghai reports foreign exchange control measures and a tariff free cotton import invitation amid halted shipping. Nationalist mines in the Yangtze mouth caused ship movements to cease, with uncertainty over mine presence.
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Reds
Shanghai
Yangtze River
Control Commission
National City
Chase National
Hong Kong- Shanghai
Bank of Moscow
Military Control Commission
US Economic Cooperation Administration
Fort Travis Will Be Sold To Highest Bidder
Historic Fort Travis on Bolivar Peninsula in Texas will be auctioned by the War Assets Administration with sealed bids due June 27. The 97 acre site includes 27 buildings and underground rooms used as hurricane shelters. Access to the chambers will be required if a hurricane threatens.
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Dallas
Fort Travis
Galveston Harbor
War Assets Administration
Bolivar Peninsula
Woever
Karl E. Wallace
WAA
Wallace
Gulf
Lovers Lane Slaying Shocks Colorado U Again
Colorado University in Boulder reels after Roy G. Spore Jr. is found dead near a lovers lane, 150 feet below where his companion Doris Ann Weaver was struck by a iron pipe blow. Weaver survives with a scalp wound. the attacker remains at large as police pursue clues. The campus, still haunted by Theresa Foster's 1950s rape and murder, braces for a serial- sex attacker. Sheriff Everson and University President Stearns appeal for information while defender Joe Sam Walker fights a new trial motion.
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Boulder
Colo
Colorado University
Roy G. Spore Jr
Jolly Boulder Creek
Doris Ann Weaver
Spore
Arthur Everson
Boulder County
Denver
Theresa Foster
Greeley
Coal Creek
Joe Sam Walker
Lonely Lee's Hill
University
Robert Stearns
Miss Weaver
Mechanic Builds His Own Dream Car
Atlanta mechanic William R. Jackson, after 25 years with stock autos, prepared to showcase his self built dream car. He claims it can reach 130 mph and will start on hills in high gear, using only two gears for forward and reverse. The engine sits mid vehicle with a central front steering wheel.
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Atlanta
INS
William R. Jackson
Jackson
McKellar accuses Hoffman of resignation threats in hearing
Senator McKellar challenged Paul Hoffman over alleged threats to resign to pressure the Senate on foreign aid funds. Hoffman denied threats while underscoring that he would resign only if unable to administer the program. The clash followed Hoffman's testimony urging at least 4 billion for the coming year.
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McKellar
Hoffman
House
Senate
Ferguson
R-Mich
Hoffman-McKellar
ECA
United States
Europe
Lost Pencil Reunites War Buddies at Camp Hood
At Camp Hood near Gatesville two 36th Infantry Division officers who were former German prison camp cellmates reunite after a pencil bearing Captain Ted Roggen's name passes through Captain Tom Berry and Major Cecil Eubanks, revealing their past bond from Poland days and liberation.
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Gatesville
INS
Camp Hood
36Th Infantry Division
Ted Roggen
Houston
Tom Berry
Austin
Berry
Cecil Eubanks
San Antonio
Eubank
Poland
ECA Chief Named In Western Germany
Norman H. Collisson named chief of Marshal Plan operations in Western Germany by Paul G. Hoffman. Collisson has run ECA activities there for ten months under Ambassador W. Averill Harriman. He is a Philadelphian who joined the recovery program last August.
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Washington
Norman H. Collisson Friday
Marshal Plan
Germany
ECA
Paul G. Hoffman
Collisson
W. Averill Harriman
Vandalism Blamed on Poor Students in Marietta
In Marietta Georgia police act on a wave of vandalism blamed on failing students. School Superintendent Antley provided names of suspects after vandals broke into the high school stole a history stencil and disrupted graduation decorations.
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Marietta
INS
Sculer Antley
Lucius D. Clay
Jaguar Terror Aboard Belgian Ship Captains Call For Sharpshooters
The Belgian freighter Christian Shheid halted near LAS PALMAS as a jaguar escaped its Brazil to Brussels Zoo enclosure roamed the ship. Passengers were confined to cabins while the captain requested rifle sharpshooters to kill the animal and keep it from leaping ashore.
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Las Palmas
Canary Islands
Christian Shheid
Brazil
Brussels Zoo
Mesage
Jester Grants 30 Day Reprieve for General Kerzee
Governor Beauford H. Jester granted a 30 day reprieve to General Kerzee who was sentenced to death for murder in Dallas County. The stay pauses execution from July 11 to August 10.
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Beauford H. Jester
Kerzee
Dallas County
Memphis Officers Recover Stolen Car in Reno Chase
Lieut. H. E. Soule of the Memphis police and a fellow officer, driving the stolen car toward Memphis, are stopped in Reno after four police units converge. They explain they forgot to cancel the pickup on a car recovered in Salinas, California. Prisoner Charles Slinker ends up at the scene.
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Reno
Nevada
H. E. Soule
Memphis, Tenn
Soule
Memphis
Salinas
Calif
Charles Slinker
Labor Party delegates back more socialism platform
Blackpool witnesses Labour leaders push a platform for state ownership of key industries including life insurance cement sugar refining water and meat wholesale as Irish protesters denounce Belfast politics. Morrison hints platform may adjust with economic conditions ahead of the next general election.
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Blackpool
England
Britain
Labor Party
Irish Republic
Belfast
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Laborites
Bank of England
Worldwide Communications Net
Cable and Wireless Company
Herbert Morrison
Singer Frankie Laine Divorces Wife Over Drinking
In Los Angeles on June 10, singer Frankie Laine won a quick divorce from Nellina Laine after testifying she drank heavily. The couple wed in Las Vegas on October 11, 1948. Nellina did not contest. A property settlement gives her 5000 dollars and personal property.
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Los Angeles
Frankie Laine
Bobby Soxers
Laine
Nellina
Laines
Las Vegas
Nev
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