30 Students Vie Tuesday For Royal Barnum Festival
Thirty boys and girls from Bridgeport area high schools compete Tuesday at 7 20 p m in Bassick high school auditorium for King and Queen of the Barnum Festival. A 9 05 p m radio broadcast on WICC will select a royal court of six, then judges will choose the King and Queen who will be crowned July 2 at Hedges Memorial Stadium.
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Bassick High School
Bridgeport ‘Area
WICC
Ballyhoo
Hedges Memorial Stadium
John Davis Lodge
Anna Baum Shane
North End
Toorist
Bridgeport
D. M. Read Company
Howland Dry Goods Company
Underwood Typewriter
Shaw Jewelers
Warner Brothers
Remington Rand
Casco Products
Frank H. Lee
Levine Coat Company
Cisco Terminal
Jennings Brothers
Columbia Records
Kamor Shoes
Jax Shoes
Jay James
Senate Leaders Debate If Congress Can Adjourn Before Conventions
Senate leaders clung to hope for early adjournment amid a heavy backlog of unfinished business. McFarland aims for early July wind up while McKellar and McCarran expect progress, yet Senator George doubts passage of all appropriation bills before July 7. McClellan remains pessimistic about finishing by convention time and opposes an early adjournment. Money bills block adjournment as eight remain out of committee. McKellar predicts several bills cleared next week and a possible July 5 adjournment if no surprises arise.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
McFarland
Arizona
McKellar
D-Tenn
McCarran
D-Nev
Sen. George
D-Ga
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ional Convention
Truce Talks Tossup Says Alexander in Korea
Field Marshal Lord Alexander said chances of Korean armistice talks succeeding are a tossup and he doubts a new world war is imminent. He urged UN unity to deter aggression, cautioned Britain against rushing a representative to talks, and noted limited British troop availability while touring the front with General Van Fleet.
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Korea
Lord Alexander
United Nations
Alexander
James A. van Fleet
U. S. Eighth Army
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Europe
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van Fleet
Becaus
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Ocean
Ceylon
Belfast
Otto Weyland
Far East
8Th Army
Farm Women Slain in Semiole. Hired Man Sought
In Semiole Oklahoma two farm women identified as Mrs. Oliver Spencer and her mother in law Mrs. Ann Clark were beaten and shot in bed. The missing hired man is being questioned as authorities search with bloodhounds and multiple units. The killings occurred late last night at a farm six miles northeast of the town.
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Seminole
Okla
Oliver Spencer
Ann Clark
Spencer
Pointblank Range
Student acquitted in slaying of wife
Chicago AP June 15 A University of Chicago graduate student Markham 35 shot his wife Mary Elizabeth 35 in their apartment March 21 then stayed with the body a week before the jury found him insane at the time of the shooting and now recovered and fit for release Judge Charles S Dougherty presided.
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Chicago
Harold Markham
University of Chicago
Criminal Court
Charles S. Dougherty
Markham
Mary Elizabeth
Maine man 22 kills woman ends own life
In Steuben Maine a 22-year-old laborer John Phinney of Milbridge shot Esther Pingham Thibeau 32 after a heated argument in a bungalow. Her sister struggled to seize a 12 gauge shotgun. Thibeau was estranged from her husband Leo. The killer then died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
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Steuben
Maynard Lindsay
John Phinney
Milbridge
Esther Pingham Thibeau
Phinney
Washington County
Thibeau
Lindsay
Leo
London Paper Denounces Rumor Margaret to Wed Yugoslav Prince
The Sunday Pictorial urged Buckingham Palace to quash Riviera rumor that Princess Margaret may wed Prince Nicholas of Yugoslavia. It noted Nicholas is related to Margaret's aunt the Duchess of Kent and warned against tying royal marriages to alliances, citing wartime suspicions of Prince Paul and Yugoslav history.
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London
Margaret
Prince Paul
Magaret
Nicholas
Caroline Child-Villiers
Earl of Jersey
Sunday Pictorial
Buckingham Palace
Yugoslavia
Prince Nicholas
of Kent
Bridgeport Holds First All Veteran Salvation Blood Drive
Bridgeport observes Gap sal Day on June 30 at the State Armory with the slogan Give A Pint Save A Life. Veterans and families urged to donate blood for armed services and local hospitals. Philip Coniglio chairs the event as adjutant of Rog ers Brothers Post 149. Red Cross bloodmobile at Bryant Electric from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Two-day goal of 400 donors. May totals show 743 pints across Bridgeport area plus 75 pints at hospitals.
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Bridgeport
State Armory
Philip Coniglio
Rogers Brothers
American Legion
Coniglio
Red Cross
Bryant Electric Company
Monroe
Easton
Newtown
St. Vincent's Hospital
Czechs Grant Asylum To U S Soldier In Prague Broadcast
Prague Radio reported Communist Czechoslovakia granted asylum to an American soldier who fled his post in Germany over disagreement with revival and rearmament of the Nazi. The man identified as Wills Bergen, born May 7 in Portland, Oregon, crossed into Czechoslovakia on political grounds and condemned American policy. U S Army in Frankfurt checked AWOL files but offered no comment.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Prague
Wills Bergen
Portland
Oregon
U.S. Army
Frankfurt
New Haven Produce Auction Reports Mixed Berry Prices
New Haven June 15 AP There were 488 crates of strawberries 24s sold at the New Haven auction last evening with high prices at 54 cents and low 18 cents, average 28 12 cents per quart. Bidding slow, quality ranged from poor to excellent, volume expected to hold for a few days then drop toward week end. Iceberg lettuce firm at 1.25 to 1.50 per box of 18 heads. Native peas offered first time at 4 to 4.50 per bushel. other items steady.
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New Haven
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