Five Women Honored as Headliners at Theta Sigma Phi
Inez Robb named headliner for a second time joining four other journalists honored at the Theta Sigma Phi convention in Kansas City. Marguerite Higgins Laura Lane Florence Taafe and Nell Snead cited for frontline Korea coverage rural life studies international public relations and fashion journalism respectively.
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Kansas City, Mo
INS
Inez Robb
Star International News Service
Theta Sigma Phi
Robb
Marguerite Higgins
New York Herald-Tribune
Laura Lane
Country Gentleman
Florence Taafe
Department of Interior
Nell Snead
The
Kansas City Star
America
Europe
Globe
Higgins
Korea
Lane
State Department
Freedom Foundation
Miss Taafe
Interior) Department
U. S
Guam
Miss Snead
Niece of McAdoo Faces Charge of Income Tax Fraud
A niece of former secretary of the treasury William Gibbs McAdoo is charged with masterminding an income tax fraud with two men. Ann Brooks Serge, Sidney Jacobs, and Charles A. Smythwick allegedly filed fake returns and cashed refund checks, netting about $40,000 in a year. They were held on $10,000 bail each for a July 12 hearing.
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NEW York
William Gibbs McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
U. S. Treasury
Ann Brooks McAdoo Serge
Tax Bureau
Third Collection District
Sidney Jacobs
Charles A. Smythwick, Jr
U. S
Moses L. Kove
Serge
Kove
Edward W. McDonald
Treasury
Jacobs
Smythwick
McDonald
War Ends for 18 Japanese Soldiers on Anatahan Island
Eighteen Japanese holdouts surrendered to a U S Navy tug at Anatahan in the Marianas after seven years of isolation. The men, carrying ashes of dead comrades, bowed to the island before boarding the tug for Guam and repatriation to Japan. The event ends Operation Removal and Lt Cmdr James Johnsons civil administration. Henry M. Hedges will become district administrator as the Interior Department takes over.
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Guam
USS. Navy
Anatahan Island
Marianas
Japan
Navy
U.S.S. Cocopa
Cmdr
James Johnson
Birmingham
Ala
Northern Marianas
Johnson
Henry M. Hedges
Chicago
Department of the Interior
Trust Territory
Boys State and YMB Open Freedom Flame Ceremony
The governor of the 1951 Hawk Eye Boys State and the Cedar Rapids YMB president will light Cedar Rapids Memorial Building Freedom Flame tonight. George Nimmer and Ted Ruffin will signal the lighting during the Municipal band intermission in the Plaza. The flame, lit by neon, will be moved from Marshalltown to Cedar Rapids for Freedom Flame week.
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Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Bill DuVall
Milton Kapp
Chamber of Commerce
Pope Excommunicates All Involved in Groesz Trial
Vatican dispatch reports Pope Pius XII issuing a major excommunication decree on all persons involved in the arrest and trial of Archbishop Josef Groesz of Budapest. Groesz, Hungary’s top prelate after Mindszenty, received a 15 year sentence on espionage charges and leadership of an anti communist revolt.
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Vatican City
Ins
Pius XII
Josef Groesz
Budapest
Hungary
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Granddaughter of Hoover Weds California Student
Joan Hoover, granddaughter of ex President Herbert Hoover, married William L. Vowels, UC Berkeley graduate student, at St. Edmund's Episcopal Church in San Marino California. The former President could not attend.
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Pasadena
Calif
INS
Joan Hoover
Herbert Hoover
William L. Vowels
University of California
St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church
San Marino
Senate aims to ease auto credit controls by Aug first
The board weighs relaxing auto lending rules as senate backed bill limits board power to an 18 month minimum term and a one third down payment cap. Maybank, head of the senate banking committee, expects House approval and a regulatory release by Aug 1.
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Board
House
Maybank
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Sen
D-N.c
Martin
Reserve Board May Ease Auto Credits
The Federal Reserve Board plans to consider allowing new autos to be paid for over a longer period. The measure aims to make vehicle financing more accessible and could affect loan terms and consumer credit standards.
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Washington
INS
Federal Reserve Board
Arson Flares in Shelton Feud
In Fairfield Illinois arsonists burned a shack tied to the Shelton feud. The fire followed a daylight shooting that wounded a sister and her husband last Thursday. Louis Sons, 52, was found murdered nearby. officials deem the blaze another Shelton feud incident.
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Fairfield
Ill
Shelton
Sheltons
Ogie
Lulu Shelton Pennington
Louis Sons
Penning
Sons
Gerald Mayberry
Socialite kills wife and self at reconciliation dinner
New York AP report says John Wells a 50 year old insurance broker shot his estranged wife Julia Wells 45 and friend J W Walsh Jr 65 at an upper East Side restaurant then killed himself. About 40 diners panicked as shots rang out.
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New York
Upper East Side
John Wells
Wells
New York Social Register
Julia Walker Jones
J. W. Walsh, Jr
Social Register
Drunkenness Arrest Leads to 30 Day Jail Sentence
San Diego police detained Ran som Isom, 40, after a drunkenness incident. He requested a 5 day sentence, but Judge John J. Brennan sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
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San Diego
Calif
Isom
John J. Brennan
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