Mother Admits Tot Was Killed in Fall
In Clayville New York on November 6 194? Mrs Stellan Komorek admitted she accidentally dropped six week old Stephen causing his death. She had fabricating a kidnapping tale to hide the incident and later disposed of the body in Fauquoit Creek. Coroner ruled the death accidental and she was released after inquest.
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Stella Komerek
Tot
Clayville
N. Y
Stellan Komorek
Stephen
Preston Clark
Fauquoit Creek
Komorek
Everett Arthur
Edward J. Dougherty
Trampled Man Injured in East Austin Dice Game Stampede
Austin police investigated a dice game at an East Austin residence after a Sunday call to Brackenridge Hospital. A man with minor end and back injuries gave a terse account: a stampede occurred when someone yelled police and he was trampled.
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Austin
East Austin
Brackenridge Hospital
Police Seek Two Escapees After Austin State Hospital Break
Police hunted two of three men who fled Austin institutions after a late Saturday escape. Aubrey Lake, 23, a six foot two inmate described as a known sex maniac and burglar, wore a khaki gown. Another suspect, five feet five inches, 125 pounds, unshaven, sought in an armed robbery attempt at the Somwhere Hamburger Stand, 2705 North Congress. A third inmate was picked up early Sunday after prowling cars on East Sixth Street.
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Austin Mental Institutions
North
Guadalupe Street
Austin State Hospital
East Sixth Street
Aubrey Lake
State Farm
Webberville Road
State Hospital
Hamburger Stand
Congress
Elias Hernandez
Hernandez
Britain spends a quarter of income on frivolity
Preston England November 6 Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison said Britain is spending almost a quarter of its annual nine billion pounds income on liquor tobacco movies racing and fun and games. He noted the figure excludes a very large stake in gambling and that just over a quarter of average income goes to food.
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Preston
England
Britain
Herbert Morrison
Orrison
Amendments Fight Blamed in Lobbyists
Senator Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo charged that major company lobbyists lead the fight against a proposed constitutional amendment for annual salaries and sessions. He argues the third house and oil and gas lobbies shape opposition and warns that annual sessions would raise tax bill opportunities for all industries.
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Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Third House
Austin
Hazlewood
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Liquor Control Board
Texas
Four of Family Killed In Automobile Wreck
A head on collision near Justiceburg killed four members of an Abilene family and injured two others. J. Floyd Reynolds 49 his wife 47 their son Roy Luther 17 and daughter Mrs Ted Cook 28 died. Mrs Cook 28 was only lightly hurt Wanda 12 the Cooks daughter was seriously injured. Harry Dukes 50 driver of the other car was flown to Oklahoma City in serious condition.
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Justiceburg
Abilene
Here
J. Floyd Reynolds
Roy Luther
Ted Cook
Cook
Wanda
Harry Dukes
Oklahoma City
Rex Mays Killed in 13th Lap Crash at Del Mar Race
Rex Mays, prominent American speedster and 1940 41 national AAA champion, died after his car collided with Johnny Parsons on the south turn during a 100 mile race at Del Mar California. He was 34 and left behind a wife and two children.
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del Mar
Calif
Rex Mays
Mays
American Automobile Association
AAA
Jim Davies
Los Angeles
Johnny Parsons
Scripps Memorial Hospital
la Jolla
Indianapolis
Pole Climb Leads to Critical Burns at Bergstrom Base
Civilian Ralph Webb 311 East 14th Street was critically burned after touching a live high voltage wire on a power line pole inside Bergstrom Air Force Base. He was knocked from the pole to a work platform and rescued by firefighters, then moved to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin after initial treatment at the base hospital. Webb had been visiting relative Staff Sergeant Roy Grant when the accident occurred near the non commissioned officers club. Deputy Sheriff Perry Miller and military authorities investigated the incident.
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Ralph Webb
East 14Th Street
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Webb
Austin
Brackenridge Hospital
Roy Grant
Grant
Air Police
Fire Department
Perry Miller
Mother slashes four children in Sterling tragedy
Sterling Illinois police report a 35 year old mother, Mrs James Moughan, slashed her four children with a kitchen butcher knife then attempted suicide. Children aged two months to four years were rushed to Sterling Public Hospital with two not expected to live. mother’s wounds were not serious.
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Sterling
Ill
Sterling Public Hospital
Edward E. Ohda
James Moughan
Ohda
Mary Ellen
Richard Patrick
Michael Joseph
James Peter
Moughan
Dynamite Found At Berlin USGI Club
Five sticks of dynamite were found Sunday against a wall of the American enlisted men's club near the US mission headquarters in Berlin. Authorities reported the dynamite lacked a fuse, reducing immediate explosion danger. No arrests reported and investigation underway.
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Berlin
US High Commission
US Advocates Tighter Dollar Fund Controls
The United States presses the International Monetary Fund to tighten dollar aid to member nations as Marshall Plan funding ends in 1952. Washington seeks a formal repayment date from countries drawing dollars to keep the fund revolving and ready to supply foreign trade currencies. The fund lately approved modest October drawings for Australia Yugoslavia and Ethiopia amid protests over resource strain and devaluation.
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Washington
United States
International Monetary Fund
Conress
Australia
Dominion
Yugoslavia
Marshall Tito
Ethiopia
Treasury
Snyder
Rep
Javits
Rlib
Congress
Malenkov warns of new blood bath and world empire plans
Moscow reports Georgi Malenkov says a fresh war slaughter would bury capitalism while the USSR insists it seeks peace and controls atomic energy. He attacks a US world empire plan tied to the Marshall Plan, arguing America aims to enslave the world and surpass past empires.
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Moscow
Georgi M. Malenkov
Russia
Politburo
Malenkov
United Nations
United States
Hitler
Goering
Tanaka
Tojo
Japan
Fair and Mild Weather Forecast for Monday
Austin and the state expect fair and mild conditions with no signs of change. Temperatures reach around 70 in Austin and range from the sixties to eighties across regions as forecasters predict two more days of calm weather.
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Austin
No End in Sight Pres Fact Board Eyed for Coal Strike
Washington officials weigh creating a presidential fact finding board to tackle the coal strike if mediation fails. A last ditch push for a settlement runs seven weeks long as White House contemplates action, while labor and management hold firm and Lloyd Lewis resists outside intervention.
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Presidential Fact Board
Washington
Aly
Truman
CIO
Lukens Steel Company
Republic
John Lewis
Chicago
United Mine Workers
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal
Southern Soft
Ching
White House
Lewis
UMW Journal
Theft of Blarney Stone Stuns San Francisco Irish
In San Francisco at St Marys Cathedral during a pre Thanksgiving festival a 15 pound Blarney Stone was stolen from display. Jim Cummins blamed guard Jim Flaherty as two armored guards and several plainclothes officers were on duty. Police investigated and assigned a dozen officers to search nearby cars.
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San Francisco
Navy
St. Mary's Cathedral
Ireland
St. Mary's
Bank of Limestone
Jim Cummins
Cummins
Jim Flaherty
Thanksgiving Day feast likely cheaper this year says agriculture officials
Washington officials report turkeys and many holiday trimmings have fallen in price since last year. Crops are larger with a 29 percent rise in turkey supply and cheaper cranberries. Cauliflower is a strong buy with heavy supplies, while pumpkins may rise. Roasting chickens stay steady, pork and beef hold roughly steady, and celery and sweet potatoes vary by region.
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Washington
Long Island
N. Y
Fist Fight Ends Union Discussions in Sharon
In Sharon Pennsylvania 1500 United Electrical Workers clash at a Westinghouse plant meeting. Police deputies and firemen quell a 10 minute fracas as 200 members led by Stanley Loney and Julius Emspak exit for a separate CIO meeting. No injuries reported.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Stanley Loney
UE District Council Six
Julius Emspak
Farrell
CIO International Union of Electrical Radio
Apeso
Rye Guy Fragle
Right
Sharon
William Courtney
Italian Cabinet Misses Resignation by Two Votes
Rome reports Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition narrowly averted a cabinet crisis as the Liberal directorate voted 11 to 9 to stay in the government. The two vote margin saved the Christian Democrat premier from having to submit his cabinet's resignation to President Luigi Einaudi. Raffaele de Caro called for De Gasperi to act immediately after the vote.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Liberal Party
Christian Democratic
Luigi Einaudi
Raffaele de Caro
de Gommediately
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L. P. Beria
Beria
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Tanjug
Ivan Ribar
National Assembly
N.M. Shvernik
Soviet Union
Alexander Vasilevsky
America
USA
Tass
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Mongolia
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Boleslaw Bierut
Rokossovsky
Don Front
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United Electrical Workers
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