British Troops Siege Radio Berlin Amid Cold War Tensions
British forces ringed Radio Berlin in West Berlin after blocking the building with barbed wire as Red forces guard the station. A Dengin Coleman meeting yielded no final accord though progress was claimed. A Russian German killed crossing toward the American sector. mines reported in Lueneburg security belt.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Eiskeller
Rundfunkhouse
Radio Berlin
Coleman
West
ADN
Dengin
German Democratic Republic
Free Berlin
Bridgeport Weather Forecast And Tides
Official weather bulletin notes partly cloudy mild day with a high near 75 in Bridgeport and fair cool tonight with a low around 68. Tomorrow remains fair with little temperature change. Winds shift from SW to NW tonight. Tide times and heights listed. Local city of New York City forecast identical.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Bridgeport
New York City
Blaze Suspected in Wirth Home as Firemen Probe
Fire officials say a basement blaze at 350 Wade Street, home of Max Frauwirth, was definitely set. The January fire follows a previous May garage fire on the same property. No injuries reported. police rerouted traffic as units responded.
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Blaze
Max Frau Wirth
Peterson
Normandin
Goldstein and Peck
Raybestos-Manhattan
Stratford Avenue
Waterman Street
Michael V. Sciortino
North Avenue
Edith Donegan
Whitney Avenue
Theodore F. Lockwood
Stratford Fire Department
Douglas Hakey
Stratford Police Department
William H. Broadbin
Bridgeport Police Department
Donegan
Broadbin
Arthur B. O'Keefe
New Haven
Wade Street
Max Frauwirth
Frauwirth
John P. May
May
Joseph Capossella
Man Kills Wife in Miami Courtroom
David Brecher, 44, a truck driver, shot his wife Anne Brecher, 36, to death in a courtroom after a peace bond was issued. Justice of the Peace Kenneth Oka ducked and Brecher fired multiple times then surrendered. He is detained for investigation and pending charges.
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Miami Beach
Fla
David Brecher
Justice of the Peace
Kenneth Oka
Brecher
Anne
Oka
House Probers Debate Dagmar Neckline as TV Standards Discussed
A House subcommittee hearing on radio and television morality shifts to Dagmar’s neckline and a hoochie coach dancer. Rep Klein urges turning off sour programs, while Rep Gathings cites Dagmar’s attire and calls for a standards study. debate continues as the panel probes industry code effects.
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Washington
House
Dagmar
Klein
D-Ny
Gathings
D-Ark
Interstate Commerce
Rep. Chenoweth
R-Cole
Senate moves to pressure steel crisis with seizure talk
Democrats set several heavy handed options in motion to rush a settlement in the steel dispute. Taft opposes immediate emergency legislation while Fowler warns a prolonged strike imperils defense output and may require cutting July quarter steel allotments and delaying building relaxations.
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Senate
Democrats
Washington
Senate Democrats
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Talks Deadlock at Stanley Works
Representatives of Stanley Works and striking CIO Steelworkers failed in an eight hour session to agree on a 30 day contract extension and resumption of talks. No date for another meeting was set. About 850 Local 2215 members walked off after a Supreme Court decision voided Truman’s steel seizure and a nationwide strike of about 650,000 workers was called.
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Stanley Works
CIO
Clemens J. Diemand
Wage Stabilization Board
United Steelworkers of America
Supreme Court
Truman
USW
Philip Murray
Conferees OK Four Hundred Million Dollar Foreign Aid Bill
Senate and House conferees approve a military and economic aid program totaling 6.447 billion for the year starting July 1, 1949, about 1.469 billion less than Truman asked. Connally says the panel split the difference and quick Senate passage is likely, with a separate appropriation bill to follow. The package funds Europe, the Far East, Latin America, population moves, relief freight, and UN children fund.
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Washington
Senate House
Truman
Senate House Conference Committee
Sen
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Conference Committee
Far East
Pacific
Latin America
Iron Curtain
Sen. Rem
R-Mo
Russia
United Nations International Children Fund
POWs Haul Down 32 Flags At Kojue Island Korea
North Korean compound 96 lowered its 32 communist flags overnight amid threat of a showdown. POWs in compound 85 faced a 7 am deadline to remove Red banners as troops and armor prepared to move in. A lone flag later appeared over compound 60 housing about 200 suspected war criminals.
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Koje Island
Korea
Haydon L
Bull) Boatner
Boatner
Taft Leads Eisenhower in South Dakota GOP Primary
In South Dakota Taft widens his lead over Eisenhower in the presidential primary as 14 GOP delegates are at stake. With 1,368 of 1,946 precincts reporting Taft has 49,194 votes to Eisenhower 46,009. Kefauver wins all eight Democratic votes as his slate defeats an uninstructed one.
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Sioux Falls
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South Dakota
Taft
Eisenhower
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
UD Plans Mapped At 3 Meetings
Civilian Defense groups met three times to map mass feeding plans for city residents in case of air raid. 175 volunteers, mainly teachers, were fingerprinted and sworn in at CD headquarters. Col Swett outlined mobile unit plans and mass feeding details with John Dobey at separate sessions.
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Main Street
Chris Wesche
Col
Stuart S. Swett
Burroughs Public Library
Wesche
Bernard Splave
Col. Swett
John Dobey
Warren Grabs Lead In California Fight
AP dispatch from San Francisco reports Gov Earl Warren pulling ahead in California Republican delegate race as partial returns show Warren 15106 to 11430 for Werdel with Kefauver leading the Kefauver Brown slate and Brown taking the Truman delegation. Warren appears poised to secure California's 68 convention votes.
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San Francisco
Earl Warren
California
Thomas H. Werdel
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Edmund G. Brown
Truman
Vivien Kellems backs Taft in GOP race at Omaha rally
Vivien Kellems of Stonington Connecticut announced her support for Senator Taft of Ohio for the Republican presidential nomination. She condemned Connecticut party leadership for using “Hitler tactics” to line up delegates for Eisenhower and urged Liberty Belles members to choose independently.
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Omaha
Neb
Vivien Kellems
Stonington
Taft
Kellems
Liberty Belles
Miss Kellems
Senator Taft
Connecticut
Eisenhower
Eisenhower Ends Army Career to Launch White House Bid
General Dwight D. Eisenhower retires after 37 years in the U S Army and moves into the Republican presidential race. He flies to Kansas City then Abilene to begin his first post civil career speech amid Taft criticisms of air power policy.
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Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Kansas
Kansas City
Kas
Fairfax
Abilene
Taft
Pentagon
Kan
West Point
Republican National
Star of Kansas
Barnum Hop Contest Adds Charleston Dance Excerpt
Surge of popular demand brings the Charleston into the Barnum Hop five contest categories at the 1952 Bar num Festival. The event at Pleasure Beach runs July 5 from 8 p m to midnight and features Dolores Koizen of Southport and John Ryan Thornbury of Milford as leading Charleston entrants. details noted by WICC in Cisco building offices.
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Charleston
Pleasure Beach
Pionship
WICC
Cisco
Dolores Koizen
Arbor Drive
Southport
Roger Ludlowe
Fairfield
John Ryan Thornbury
North Broad Street
Milford
Rocky Clark
Wnhc-Tv
Con
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Elizabeth Stevens
Lapeer
Mich
Stevens
Gregory
L. J. Normandin
Superior Court
Fairfield County
Leo J. Normandin
Fairfield Avenue
Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc
John Peterson
Carleton Street
John H. King
Mr. Normandin
St. Vincent's Hospital
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Miami
Henry H. Fowler
Defense
Fowler
Congress
Sen. Connally
Kojue
Ike
Telegram
Angelo Patri Serene
Constantine Brown
Herman Bundesen
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