Relatives Questioned in Dupont Poison Case
In Dupont Indiana authorities probe the poisoning case surrounding Lottie Lockman 62 a housekeeper and practical nurse as toxicologists study an exhumed body and police question relatives of several elderly patients who died while under her care Mrs Lockman free on bond faces charges of attempting to poison Mamie McConnell the ill wife of her employer Mrs McConnell describes tensions with Lockman and reports of sleep deaths and potential mercury poisoning days after the exhumation of Minnie McConnell mother in law.
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Dupont, Ind
Stout
Lottie Lockman
Lockman
Indianapolis
R. N. Harger
Minnie McConnell
McConnell
Dupont
Hurger
Lottie
Sauley
Nursing Home Patients Found Chained Down
Indianapolis authorities raided a nursing home uncovering a house of horror with elderly women manacled to beds and chained to tables. Prosecutor Blue said inmates included mental cases and the home charged with illegal operation. Capias issued for the owner’s son as relatives funded about $3,000 monthly care.
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Indianapolis
Sherwood Blue
Virgil Sheppard
Red Cross
Margaret Colvin
Thomas H. Colvin
Crimea
Donald H. Hunter
Austin T. Crawford
State Welfare Department
Blue
Senate probes war contracts to brokers and non producers
The Senate War Profits Committee disclosed that the Treasury let at least 16 war contracts to brokers with no plants or employees, only offices. Investigators found brokers subletting contracts at high profits and questioned why the government did not deal directly with manufacturers. One case showed a contractor earning nearly 1000 percent on a $22 000 contract while the manufacturer received about 2300 dollars. a steel pin manufactured for .0364 cents cost the government .34 cents per pin to the broker.
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Washington
INS
Senate War Profits Committee
Treasury Department
George Meader
House Committee
Rep. Slaughter
D-Mo
Treasury
Meader
Senate
Widow Ends Life by Toppling Tombstone in Cemetery
Salem report says Mrs. Ruth E. Barber 60 of Ellsworth killed herself by tipping a tomb stone onto her body near her husband Homer’s grave. Police noted she had been despondent since his death years before and she visited the cemetery Thursday before the fatal act.
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Salem, O
INS
Ruth E. Barber
Ellsworth
Soviet Stand Threatens To Cut Up Austria
In Vienna the Soviet commander demanded an Allied veto of Austrian nationalization, threatening to invalidate four power control by enacting separate occupation rules. General Clark refused the veto, risking a breach of the Allied control agreement if no four power veto is reached within 31 days.
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Vienna
Austria
L. V. Kurrasov
Mark W. Clark
U. S
Allied Control Council
Fox on the loose in San Francisco police hunt
A 16 month old fox named Reynard escaped from Pvt. James Crumbley at Letterman hospital. Crumbley, a veteran and war prisoner, said the fox served as a pain relieving agent and an animal companion. Police conducted a citywide search Saturday for the animal.
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San Francisco
INS
Quarry
A.w.o.l
James Crumbley
Army’s Letterman Hospital
Crumbley
Reynard
Germany
Price Hearings To Open Monday Before Price Board
Washington insiders say chairman Roy L. Thompson will lead four days of hearings starting Monday as 82 groups testify before the new price decontrol board. The panel aims to decide before the August 20 deadline under the revival act.
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Washington
INS
Roy L. Thompson
Terror in wake of new quakes hit Dominican Republic regions
In Ciudad Trujillo and the northern provinces a new pair of earthquakes on Saturday raised terror after six days of quakes and tidal waves that killed 73 and left 20 000 homeless. Government struggled to rush food as roads and bridges washed out. Bahia Escocesa saw the worst hunger and shortages of clothing and medical supplies. The quakes at 4 a.m. and 6 50 a.m. caused added fear but little extra damage.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Bahia Escocesa
Scotch Bay
Ecuador President Ends Dictatorship
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra resigned his dictatorial powers as the assembly prepared a night session to elect a provisional chief of state. Military guards crushed an armed revolt hours earlier, aimed at blocking the assembly meeting.
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Quito
Ecuador
INS
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Constituent Assembly
Ibarra
Man Dies From Injuries After Davenport Crash
Davenport police investigate an auto accident that led to a confrontation in which Morris Taylor and a woman companion claim Raike struck Taylor twice after Raike’s truck rolled backward down a hill. Raike, 49, was found dazed on a curb Saturday and died late that afternoon from head injuries.
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Davenport
Carl Raike
Morris Taylor
Harold Thordsen
Taylor
Raike
Ample Food Stocks Seen By Government
The agriculture department said Americans can expect slightly larger food supplies for the rest of 1946. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics warned prices may climb in the second half of the year unless price controls are kept, with limited shortages only for chicken and potatoes. Meat supplies should stay higher than last year into fall, while beef and lamb production may drop by October. Egg supplies stay large but milk per capita may fall. flour milling restrictions could ease with new crop grains in sight.
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Washington
INS
Agriculture Department
Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BAE
Bureau
Cedar Rapids Seeks Bids for Stadium Bond Issue
Cedar Rapids plans to sell 100000 in bonds for preliminary stadium and recreation area work. Bids due Aug 26 at 10 am in the city treasurer’s office. Bonds dated Aug 1 1946 bear interest semiannually with payments through 1966.
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Cedar Rapids
Walter E. Miller
Memorial Commission
Rockford Road
Don Hines
Wife of Canfield Fire Victim Sues for 30000
The wife of one of 19 Canfield hotel fire victims filed a $30,000 damage suit in Dubuque against the Canfield Hotel Corporation and its manager William Reifstock and the administrative estate of her husband Clarence Reifsteck.
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Dubuque
INS
Canfield Hotel
Canfield Hotel Corporation
William Reifstock
Clarence Reifsteck
Racial clash erupts in Athens Alabama
In Athens Alabama a fist fight between two white veterans and a Black man sparked race rioting. Police estimate 50 to 100 Black people injured as mobs of up to 2000 surrounded the town. Ten whites arrested, guards mobilized, stores closed, two whites jailed then released.
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Athens
Ala
D. L. Rosenau
Rosenau
Alabama
R. H. Richardson, Jr
Milwaukee Importing Beer from Mexico Now
Milwaukee, a major beer producer, faces a regional shortage and plans to import Mexican beer to meet demand. Distributors say imports will help alleviate tight supplies while local brewers cope with the shortage.
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Milwaukee
Mexico
Farley Boy Killed In Truck Collision Near Home
Six year old John Glew son of Mr and Mrs Everett Glew Farley was killed Saturday after being struck by a truck near his home Deputy Sheriff Frank Saul said the accident was unavoidable and the driver was Fred Galliart 25 of Peosta.
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Farley
John Glew
Everett Glew
Frank Saul
Saul
Fred Galliart
Peosta
Centennial Display Windows Unveiled by Cedar Rapids Stores
Cedar Rapids stores unveiled windows with a 100 years ago motif as the city begins Iowa Centennial festivities. The display highlights mark the start of statewide celebrations and feature period elements from past decades.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Italy asks delay on Trieste at peace conference
At the Paris peace conference Italian Premier Alcide De Gasperi urged postponing a year on Trieste and frontier issues, warning that internationalizing Trieste could trigger Italo Yugoslav conflict. He criticized punitive terms and armament cuts, asking for a delay and a more just settlement with Germany.
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Paris
Alcide de Gasperi
Trieste
Versailles
de Gasa Peri
Italy
de Gasperi
Venezia Giulia
Germany
Europe
Albania
V. M. Molotov
Greece
Balkans
Byrnes
Reeters
Hart and Kitty Carlisle Wed in Brief Ceremony
Moss Hart Pulitzer prize winning playwright and Kitty Carlisle were married in a five minute ceremony at Justice John Simon's home in New Hope Pennsylvania. Hart 41 and Carlisle 20 were newlyweds planning a honeymoon at Hart's Fairview farm in a nearby county.
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New Hope
Moss Hart
Kitty Carlisle
Justice of the Ie
John Simon
Hart
Broadway
Fairview
County
Newlyw
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