Hungary demands return of ancient crown for Vogeler bargain
Hungary offers an exchange seeking the return of the 1000 year old St Stefan crown in a swap for American executive Robert A Vogeler who is imprisoned in Budapest. The crown dating to 1001 was taken by Nazis and later found by American troops now allegedly in western Germany. Vogeler and British associate Edgar Sanders were convicted in February with long prison terms.
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Hungary
Robert Vogeler
Vienna
Austria
St. Stefan
Robert A. Vogeler
Vogeler
Germany
Wiesbaden
Budapest
Stefan I of
Stefan
Silvester
United States
U.S
State Department
New York
Cleveland
International Telephone & Telegraph Co
Edgar Sanders
Hoffman Urges Peace Over War In Governors Conference
Foreign Aid Administrator Paul G. Hoffman told 46 governors in White Sulphur Springs that peace is the road to victory in the Cold War. He warned against World War III as unwinnable and urged unity against dissension while noting signs of strain in the Soviet bloc. President Truman appealed for renewed public support for world peace at the event.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Paul G. Hoffman
Free World
Russia
Marshal Plan
Hoffman
Truman
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Oilman Scoffs At Import Fears
B Brewster Jennings president of Socony Vacuum Oil Co says imports can grow without excess. He cautions that import limits affect demand in Europe and South America and may offset gains. A Senate labor subcommittee finished hearings and will file a report later this month.
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Washington
B. Brewster Jennings
Socony- Vacuum Oil Company
Jennings
U. S. News & World Report
Europe
South America
Senate Labor
Germans Allowed Sporting Guns After War Restrictions
Bonn report states Germans may manufacture and possess guns for sporting use for the first time since the war. The allied high commission lifts the postwar ban on firearms but imposes strict limits on size and quantity of sporting arms.
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Bonn
Germany
Allied High Commission
Black Bear Interrupts Virginia Tech Baseball Game
A 275-300 pound black bear wandered through Blacksburg near Virginia Tech on June 19, briefly appearing at Miles Stadium during a game between Southside and Central Virginia FFA teams. The bear roamed campus buildings, was chased by hundreds of residents, but was not harmful and eventually disappeared into the woods northeast of town. Spectators said it appeared healthy with a glossy coat while avoiding gunfire from pursuers.
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Blacksburg
Draper's Meadow
Frontier Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Miles Stadium
Southside
Central Virginia
FFA
Price’s Mountain
Brush Mountain
Worker Dies After 70 Foot Fall From Water Tower
Kenneth W. Gilbert, 31, a welder from York Pennsylvania, fell from the top of a water tower under construction at Peery Ohio and was killed. He worked for the Pittsburgh Des Moines Co. and was welding when he slipped. Survived by wife Gladys and two sons Jack and Robert, plus his parents and five brothers in York. Body at Nixon funeral home and to be returned to York for burial.
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Painesville
York
Peery
Kenneth W. Gilbert
Pittsburgh Des Moines Co
Pittsburgh
Gilbert
Gladys
Jack
Robert
Nixon Funeral Home
Heavy Rains Hit Southern West Virginia City
Rainstorms disrupted telephone service and knocked out power across parts of southern West Virginia. Logan and Kermit saw the heaviest totals with 2.53 and 2.03 inches in 36 hours, while places like Huntington, Charleston, Oak Hill, and Radnor reported significant rain and road washouts on U S Route 52.
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City
West Virginia
W. VA
Huntington
Souther
Williamson
Charleston
Logan
Pikeville
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Sharples
Twelve Pole Creek
Wayne County
Road Commission
Missouri Branch
Genoa
Radnor
Kermit and
Weather Bureau
Kermit
Oak Hill
East Rainelle
Union
Parkersburg
Elkins
Miners Earnings Fall Despite Wage Jump, Tierney Claims
Roanoke, June 19. Lewis C. Tierney, president of East Sales Co., argues miners are worse off than in 1940 due to inflated dollar value and shorter work weeks. He says a $62.67 check today equals only $27.18 in 1940 dollars, despite higher cash wages.
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Roanoke
Lewis C. Tierney
East Sales Co
Bluefield
Tierney
North Carolina Retail Coal Merchants Association
J. R. Fields
Guyan Eagle Coal Co
Amherstdale
W. Va
R. H. Smith
Norfolk and Western Railway
United States
Carolina
Virginia
Byrd Gains 55 Senate Pledges Against Hutchinson Nomination
Senator Byrd D Virginia says 55 of 96 senators will oppose Martin A. Hutchinson for federal trade commissioner. A Byrd ally notes the opposition could exceed 25 votes, while the commerce committee previously rejected Hutchinson’s nomination. Hutchinson, a Richmond lawyer, ran for Byrd’s Virginia Senate seat in 1946.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Martin A. Hutchinson
Virginia
Hutchinson
Senate Commerce Committee
Truman
Richmond
Gambler Frank Erickson pleads guilty to 60 bookmaking counts
Frank Erickson, a longtime bookmaker, pleads guilty to 59 counts of bookmaking and one conspiracy count in a New York court. He faces up to 60 years and $30,000 in fines, with sentencing set for next week. Investigators tied his nationwide operation to customer bets and underworld figures.
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New York
Frank Erickson
Erickson
Special Sessions Court
Nathan B. Perlman
Frank Hogan
Hogan
United States
Ericson
Senate
Park Avenue
Grand Jury
Gordon Dean
California
Thomas Murray
Henry Dewolff Smyth
New Jersey
Congress
Accused Spy Slack Transferred Toward Tennessee
A removal warrant was signed in district court to move Alfred Dean Slack from Utica to Knoxville Tennessee. Slack, a Syracuse chemist, is held in Oneida county jail as federal agents say he admitted giving Harry Gold samples of the RDX explosive and production secrets to a Soviet agent. Slack previously worked at Kingsport Tennessee in 1943 44 where the explosive was made. Gold and a third associate David Green were involved in the atomic secrets case.
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Albany
N. Y
Alfred Dean Slack
Utica
Knoxville
Tenn
James T. Foley
Syracuse
U. S
Jack
Oneida
Tennessee
Slack
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Gold
Kingsport
FBI
Klaus Fuchs
England
David Greenglass
New York City
Gale-Like Winds Strike Danville Area
Gale like winds swept Danville Virginia and nearby areas causing damage in the thousands of dollars. No injuries were reported. A violent thunderstorm produced high winds and hail centered over the city around 1 30 p m. Trees were uprooted power and telephone lines were downed in several parts of the city and hundreds of windows were broken by wind driven hailstones some as large as quarters.
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Danville
Trunk captivity ends in fatal shootout after car chase
Police in Mingo Junction shoots and kills Joe Pacific 32 of Canonsburg Pa after a 90 minute pursuit. He had confined two Pennsylvania youths, Nick Cursi 18 and Joseph Zelenchik 19, in a car trunk for 43 hours during a robbery. The youths were rescued uninjured.
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Steubenville
Mingo Junction
Pennsylvania
Joe Pacific
Canonsburg
Rocco Crumgmale
Pacific
Crumgmale
Nick Cursi
Joseph Zelenchik
Cokeburg
Cursi
Cannonsburg
Hurley accuses John S Service of sharing top secret docs
Patrick J. Hurley, former ambassador to China, charged that John S. Service gave state dept documents to Communist leaders in China. He claimed officials hid the theft of top secret papers for five years and said Service aided Mao Tse-Tung in 1944 while Hurley was ambassador to support Chiang Kai-Shek. He spoke at his Santa Fe home.
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Santa Fe. N. M
Patrick J. Hurley
John S. Service
Amerasia
State Department
China
Hurley
Mao
Foreign Service In
Mao Tse - Tung
Chiang Kai-Shek
Senate
Service
Rent Control Bill Ironed Out in Washington
A conference committee reached a compromise extending federal rent controls through 1950 and for six months more in communities choosing them. The bill aims for quick action before June 30, with a Dec 31, 1950 termination for nonparticipants and counties may lift controls earlier. About 8 million housing units are under controls.
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Washington
Senate
House
HST
Truman
Congress
Truman Considers 300 Million H Bomb Financing
President Truman prepared to ask Congress for 300 million dollars to accelerate hydrogen bomb work. Details remain secret whether funds will cover construction at Oak Ridge Los Alamos and Hanford or broaden research. Congress may receive the request within days.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Capitol
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Los Alamos
N. M
Hanford
Wash
Atomic Energy Commission
White House
Sumner T. Pike
Maine
David E. Lilienthal
House Group Bids For Truman Favor In Tax Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee votes to boost the yearly tax on big corporations by 433 million dollars as part of a 1.01 billion dollar excise tax cut bid aimed at presidential approval. The plan would set a 21 percent normal corporate rate and a 20 percent surtax on earnings over 25 thousand, offset by other tax changes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Farm Family Beaten To Death in Leigh Nebraska
Four members of the Bahns family were bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer while asleep at their Leigh area farm. Henry Bahns, 49, was later found in an abandoned well. The surviving son Dennis, 25, learned of the killings after visiting the home. An inquest was ordered, with authorities citing no motive or robbery. The family had been financially secure and owned a 160 acre rented farm.
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Schuyler
Neb
Leigh
Henry F. Bahns
Eldon
Ardith
Helen
L. L. Pospischil
Bahns
Pospischil
Nebraska
Dennis
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Va. Tech
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O. C. Keeney
Big Gambler
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