Teacher in Account of Her Trials
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, in a Roosevelt hospital room, says she fled the Soviet Union to avoid return and to find her husband and son who were swept into anti state actions. She details persecution, her escape from the Russian consulate, and claims officials urged a staged message to reporters.
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Roosevelt Hospital
Russia
America
Komsomol
Communist Youth Movement
Panyushkin
Lomakin
AFL Committee To Back Truman Ticket Formed
The AFL reaffirmed it will not endorse presidential candidates but formed a committee to support the Truman Barkley ticket. The panel will include international presidents of AFL unions willing to join, led by George M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.
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Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Truman-Barkley
AFL
George M. Harrison
The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Lomakin Credentials Revoked by President
President Truman canceled the credentials of Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin at Yorktown after the State Department request. The presidential yacht was docked there during the action.
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Lomakin
Yorktown
Truman
Jacob Lomakin
State Department
Painter Shows Neighbor Aged Portrait In Punchline
An amateur artist invites his doctor neighbor to view a new painting. After a brief look the doctor comments the work resembles pneumonia, delivering the humor of the age theme in a concise punchline.
Sixteen Superfortress crewmen die in Hawaii crash
A Okinawa bound B 29 bomber from Spokane’s 98th Bomb Group crashed near Hickam Field Hawaii on Tuesday night killing sixteen airmen and seriously burning four others. The plane failed to reach Barber's Point and struck a parked transport, exploding near a power substation before ignition of emergency lights and rescue efforts.
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Hickam Field
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Barber's Point
98Th
Spokane
Dad Offers Eye To Keep Family From Orphanage
Victor St. Cyr a 39 year old carpenter and restaurant worker in Woonsocket Rhode Island offers his right eye for 10000 dollars to keep his seven children ages 1 to 12 out of an orphanage after eviction notices and rising living costs left him unable to provide. He plans to buy a farm in Vermont with the money if someone buys the eye.
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Woonsocket
R. I
INS
Victor St. Cyr
St. Cyr
City Council Shifts Meeting to Court Room in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids City Council and police department grievance committee will meet in the superior court chambers on the fourth floor of city hall. Safety Commissioner Gordon Hughes proposed the move to accommodate a larger crowd, a suggestion approved by Mayor Frank K. Hahn. Firefighters also plan talks with Fire Chief Emil Kohout about recent grievances, described as routine by Jesse Hunter of Local 11 IAFF.
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Police Department
Superior Court
City Hall
Gordon Hughes
Frank K. Hahn
Emil Kohout
The
International Association of Fire Fighters
Jesse Hunter
Cedar Rapids
Yugoslavs Charge Romanian Officials With Plot to Topple Government
Yugoslavia accused Romanian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker and other officials of trying to overthrow the Yugoslav government. The claim was delivered to the Romanian ambassador in Belgrade by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Sinic in a Belgrade broadcast.
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London
Yugoslavia
Ana Pauker
Belgrade
Stanoje Sinic
Returns for Funeral of Wife Finds Her Alive
INDIANAPOLIS UP Corporal Marion Williams returns from Germany to find his wife alive after a funeral he attended for her, believing she had died from a Red Cross cable. The couple learned the mixup when Williams called home after landing in Massachusetts and heard his wife answer.
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Indianapolis
Marion Williams
Germany
Williams
Red Cross
J. C. Williams
Kenefick
Okla
Westoverfield
Mass
Gracie
Bud
Mrs. Williams
Wholesale Food Index Drops 13 Cents
New York reports the Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index fell 13 cents to 6.94 for the week ended Tuesday. Prices were cut in 16 of 31 commodities, the lowest since May 18, with the index 5.7 percent below the all time high of 7.36 reached July 13. It compares with 7.07 last week and 6.64 a year ago.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
Pass Rally To Aid Of Legless Boy
In Inglewood California Paul Homan aged 7 lost a leg after a freight train severed his limb and his remaining leg was amputated. His friends organized a charity drive collecting rags magazines and scrap metal raising 145 dollars in less than a week and extending the drive to Hollywood. Paul emerged from an eight day coma and later took his first food though he does not yet understand his loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inglewood
Calif
Paul Homan
Paul
Hollywood
Carrier Youth Trip Ends After Chicago Adventure
The Gazette carrier group of 115 youths from 55 Iowa communities returned to Cedar Rapids Tuesday night after a three day Chicago tour. They toured the Museum of Science and Industry, Lincoln Park Zoo with Bushman the gorilla, and enjoyed a Lake Michigan cruise. The trip funded by 26 weeks of saving plus Gazette support marks the first carrier tour of its kind. Doris Ebersole of Toledo and others from Oelwein Decorah Mt. Vernon and more shared experiences before settling in for the long train ride home.
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Chicago
Gazette
Union Station
Iowa
The
Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
Lake Michigan
Windy City
Sherman Hotel
Man Dies After Fall From Roof at Cedar Acres Ballroom
John Walker, 25, of 664 Thirty third street NE, died at 9:35 a.m. Wednesday in St. Luke's hospital from injuries after a Tuesday afternoon fall from the roof of the ballroom under construction at Cedar Acres. An employee of Midwest Air Conditioning Co. of Des Moines, he suffered head and back injuries and was transported by Ambulance Service. He lived with his father in law, Hugh E. Rick, contractor overseeing the project. Survived by wife and two young daughters Julie Ann 22 months and Joyce Ellen 8 months, and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walker of Brooklyn. Funeral plans pending.
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Cedar Rapids
John Walker
Thirtythird Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Acres
Brooklyn
Midwest Air Conditioning Company
Des Moines
Hugh E. Rick
Julie Ann
Joyce Ellen
Harold Walker
Consul Ties To U.S. Cut By Russians
The Soviet government severed all consular ties with the United States in response to the expulsion of the Russian consul general from New York. It closed the Moscow New York and San Francisco consulates and the U S consulate in Vladivostok, and voided the agreement allowing a U S consulate in Leningrad, in the Kasenkina affair.
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New York
Counsul
Lomakin
Reed Farm
Moscow
United States
San Francisco
Vladivostok
Leningrad
Kasenkina
Soviet Vice-Consul Chepurnykh Leaves for Good
Soviet Vice-consul Zot I Chepurnykh announced to reporters on Wednesday he is leaving the Russian consulate for good and is en route to LaGuardia Airport, New York.
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New York
Zot I. Chepurnykh
LaGuardia
Diplomatic battle over Kasenkina case heats up
The United States asked Russia to recall Jacob Lomakin the Soviet consul general in New York over his role in the Kasenkina case. Moscow rejected the claim that Soviet officials overstepped legal rights, saying Soviet actions defended citizens from infringements and that US authorities impeded consular work. The note accuses US police of invading the Soviet consulate and cites FBI involvement and the Tolstoy Fund as part of the case.
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New York
United States State Department
Jacob M. Lomakin
Kasenkina
United States
Lomakin
Oksana Kasenkina
Mikhail I. Samarin
Samarin
Soviet Union
State Department
M. I. Samarin
Registration of Youths for Draft Opens in Iowa
Eastern Iowa men aged 18 to 25 begin draft registration Monday with about 5 000 expected at the Cedar Rapids armory between Aug 30 and Sept 18. Age groups and dates are listed, with instructions for veterans reservists conscientious objectors and temporary registrants. Barron notes most will not be drafted and registrations proceed under presidential guidelines.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
William J. Barron
Linn County
Memorial Coliseum
Heat Breaks Pending In 48 Hours In Iowa
Cedar Rapids nervously awaits relief as a 95 degree spell continues amid forecasted thundershowers and cooler air edging in from the west. Forecasters warn a slow cooldown with scattered Iowa showers Saturday while state drought persists. Cedar Rapids pumps a record 12.42 million gallons as forests burn nearby in Wisconsin.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Hiss Is Confronted Over 1936 Car Gift to Communists
Washington investigators pressed Alger Hiss on a 1936 transfer of a 1929 Ford to Whittaker Chambers for use by a party organizer. Chambers testified the vehicle served the Communist underground. Hiss claimed he gave it to aid a poor organizer. The panel warned of possible perjury as it pursued the truth behind conflicting accounts.
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Washington
House
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
New York
Chambers
Time Magazine
Hiss
State Department
Thomas
R-N.j
Communist Party
Middle West
Peter
J. W. Peters
Peters
Transcrptt
Louis J. Russell
Cherner Motor Company
William Rosen
Russell
Rosen
Chamebers
Bucking Horse Injures 21 at Colorado State Fair Rodeo
Twenty one people were hurt at a Colorado State fair rodeo when a bronc named Bear Cat charged into the crowd after throwing its rider. Injuries ranged from four to seventy six years old, with three in serious condition.
Violent quake rattles northwestern Argentina
A violent earthquake struck the mountainous region of northwestern Argentina early Wednesday. Initial reports say damage was slight but one person died in the quake.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
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Milwaukee
Don Padilla
Loop
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Museum of Science and Industry
Jackson Park
Lincoln Park Zoo
Bushman
Bush
Pin-up Boy
North Western Station
Finis
Doris Ebersole
Toledo
Doris
Harold Primrose
Norway
Hal Trotsky
Nick Strawn
Oelwein
Carl and
Davis Swenson
Decorah
Larry
Jerry Ringer
Mt. Vernon
Ann Riech
Littleport
John Easton
Luana
LaVern Moennich
Conroy
Galen Rubens
Harper's Ferry
Loren Everett
Wadena
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Marshall
Amtorg Trading Organization
Barron
Linn County Board
Ee Boven
Minnesota
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Iowa High
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Marquette
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Wis
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