Military Chiefs To Visit Alaska Defense Posts
The Joint Chiefs of Staff will depart Washington Tuesday to inspect defenses at Alaska's military installations. Participants include General Omar Bradley chairman Air General Hoyt S Vandenberg Army General J Lawton Collins and Vice Admiral Arthur D Struble as they visit unified commands to study mutual defense problems.
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Military High Command
Alaska
Defense Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
Army
Navy
Air Force
Europe
Omar Bradley
Air
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
J. Lawton Collins
Arthur D. Struble
Naval Operations
Ex Clerk Sought In Mail Fraud Case Arrested
Chicago authorities report the arrest in Phoenix Arizona of Edward R. Korpusinski 40 long hunted on a $100000 mail fraud charge. He worked in a Chicago heat and power firm sales dept and used order blanks to divert pipe to contractors. Betty Rose 30 is not charged. Korpusinski extradition waived bond set at $25000.
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Chicago
Phoenix
Ariz
Edward R. Korpusinski
Harry H. Smith
Korpusinski
Thomas Moore
Milton Goldsmith
Chicago Heat and Power Company
Valley Steel Company
East St. Louis
Chicago Company
Greek Albanian clash revealed on Greek soil gains disputed
The Greek general staff disclosed that Greek forces fought regular Albanian troops on Greek soil, denying invasion of Albania while noting Albanian charges of a 30 mile front. It stated Greek troops avoided pursuing rebels due to caution and mentioned 1,000 rebels slipping into Yugoslavia amid Vitsi Grammos fighting. Premier Tito had said frontier closures were planned.
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Greece
Albania
Vitsi
Grammos
Yugoslavia
Tito
Gainesville Community Circus Days Proclaimed
Acting Governor G C Morris declared Sept 2 and 3 in Austin as Gainesville Community Circus Days in honor of the Gainesville group The Gainesville Community Circus. The memorandum notes the circus is citizen driven with profits benefiting local charitable and civic projects.
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Gainesville
G. C. Morris
Austin
Morris
Capital City
Kiwanis Club
Statehouse
Gainesvile
Old University at Al Azhar Founded in 970 A D Cairo
The Moslem University at Al Azhar in Cairo Egypt was established in 970 A D. The article notes its long history and founding date.
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OLD University
Al-Azhar
Cairo
Egypt
Farewell to St Nicholas Church in New York City
A passerby leaves a rose and a blue note at the closed doors of the Protestant Dutch Church of St Nicholas on Fifth Avenue and 48th Street. The church, a 73 year old landmark, is set to be torn down for a skyscraper near Rockefeller Center as progress moves forward.
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New York
New York City
Church of St. Nicholas
Special Grand Jury Called In Slayings
Decatur reports a special grand jury will convene Friday to probe W. I Arwine in the Bridgeport farm double slaying of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mash on August 23. A habeas corpus hearing follows in the same district court. Arwine is a former Bridgeport constable.
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Decatur
W. I Arwine
J. E. Mash
Bridgeport
Arwine
Stag Party Slated For Thornberry
Congressman Homer Thornberry will be honored at a stag barbecue in Taylor at the Wilson Fox grounds on the San Gabriel River Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Men of Williamson County are invited and tickets are sold at Preslar and Hewitts in Taylor through committee members.
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Taylor
Homer Thornberry
Taylor and
Williamson County
Wilson Fox Grounds
San Gabriel River
Preslar and Hewitts
Craig Rice Released After Sanity Inquiry
Mystery writer Craig Rice was discharged from Los Angeles General Hospital after a sanity inquiry following the discovery of two bottles with 19 sleeping tablets in her hotel room. Psychiatrists ruled she was normal and the booking was dropped. she had filed for divorce from Henry W. Demott Jr., radio writer, last week.
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Los Angeles
Craig Rice
Los Angeles General Hospital
Santa Monica
Miss Rice
Henry W. Demott Jr
Worker killed under moving gravel train
In Grand Prairie a construction worker Demas Hernandes 67 of Grand Prairie was killed when a scaffold accident occurred as moving gravel cars passed a spur track at a pit northeast of the city. Police Chief R A Weaver identified the victim and said he worked for Southwest Construction Materials Co.
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Grand Prairie
Here
R. A. Weaver
Demas Hernandes
The
Southwest Construction Materials Co
Weaver
Hernandes
Tokyo Typhoon Death Toll Rises Across Honshu
The Tokyo area typhoon and flood killed 68, with over 50 missing and 223 injured. An American soldier was among the lightly hurt. Central Honshu was affected as rivers rose and 100,000 levee workers protected Tone and other rivers. In Tokyo 49,000 people faced housing loss or danger.
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Tokyo
National Rural Police
Honshu
Japan
Tokyo Metropolitian
Tone
Bob Long Named to Interim Criminal Code Panel
District Attorney Bob Long of Austin was named by Governor Allan Shivers to the interim committee on criminal and penal code study. The panel, created by the 51st Legislature, will include two appointees by the Chief Justice, five House members, five Senators, and three governor appointees led by Long.
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Bob Long
Austin
Allan Shivers
Long
Court of Criminal Appeals
House
Highest Point Aconcagua Elevation Fact
The record states Mount Aconcagua stands as the highest point in the Western Hemisphere with elevation measured in feet above sea level.
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Hemisphere
Mount Aconcagua
Blanco Essayist Wins Large Prize
Irene Cento of the State Grange announced Allen Heimer of Blanco as winner of the state grange contest. Heimer read his paper at the state banquet in New Braunfels. John Dollahue was elected overseer of State Grange and his daughter Lucile became Pomona of the state organization.
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Blanco
State Grange
Irene Cento
Allen Heimer
Allen
New Braunfels
John Dollahue
Lucile
Pomona
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