Reward for Lion Leaves Public Cold
In Oxnard California a $500 reward is offered for the return of Henry George’s pet lion cub Frank, an 8 month old 163 pound animal that escaped a ranch near Santa Paula a month ago. George says Frank is tame and loves to be petted, while Trader Horn warns the lion is now hungry and may attack. Town residents lock doors at night as tracks are found near Santa Paula and hope the lion returns for food.
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Henry George
George
Frank
Santa Paula
Trader Horn
Manila Actor Pleads Guilty in Twin Murders
In Manila actor Bernardo Anzures pleads guilty to the murders of film actress Lilian Velez and her maid. Government alienists report him as ill with obsessive neurosis. trial date pending. Anzures had starred opposite Velez and was rumored to be dropped from her next film.
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Manila
Bernardo Anzures
Lilian Velez
Anzures
Anzares
Miss Velez
Cedar Rapids baby census shows 5,918 under age four
The Cedar Rapids school district reports 5918 babies under four in 1948 including newborns. Births in the first half of 1948 totaled 667, with projections suggesting 1334 for the year, shaping kindergarten enrollments and prompting school-building plans. Boys outnumber girls 3106 to 2812. Harrison district leads with 573 babies.
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Fillmore
Jackson
Polk
Taylor
Harrison
Arthur
Buchanan
Cleveland
Garfield
Hayes
Johnson
Kenwood
Lincoln
Tyler
Edgewood
Bertram
Eighth Army Trains for Aerial Transportation in Japan
Maj. Gen James A. Lester announced intensive training in northern Japan to move Eighth Army four divisions by air. Key unit leaders are taught airborne transport principles, with one division running its own school and others planned.
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Tokyo
James A. Lester
United States
Eighth Army
Japan
Trans- Po
Atomic Toy Promises Nuclear Outfit for Children
A toy maker plans to market an atomic energy outfit for children next December. It would include samples of uranium ore and instructions, with the Atomic Energy Commission allegedly licensing the ore for the toy sets.
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Atomic Energy
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Case Wage Boost Sealed With CIO UAW
The J. I. Case Company announced on Monday a contract with the CIO United Auto Workers for an eight percent wage increase.
Polio Strikes Three Sisters in Texas Triplets
In Edinburg Texas three 20 month old sisters were stricken with polio at the same time. Two girls were in the serious ward and the third in the acute ward of the polio clinic. Parents brought two to the clinic Friday night and the third showed symptoms Saturday. Nurses noted the girls look alike and initially needed name tags to tell them apart. None have been placed in iron lungs or oxygen tents.
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Edinburg
Texas
Dixiecrats Launch State Meetings To Build Thurmond Ticket
Rebel Democrats return to grassroots in Birmingham and states to organize a Dixiecrat movement. They plan state meetings by Oct 1, name electors pledged to Thurmond Wright, and secure ballot access as Thurmond voices that they were not bolting the Democratic Party. Ballot officers in the South show readiness for the new effort.
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Birmingham
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Thurmond
Wright
Democratic Party
South
Dixiecrat Electors Vary in Ease Across States
Fifteen states including Missouri and Kentucky appear on the list of possible Dixiecrat electors. Some states would yield electors easily while others pose difficulties or are deemed impossible.
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Missouri
Kentucky
Attempt on Life of Japanese Communist Leader Tokuda
An unidentified man threw a bottle bomb at Kyuichi Tokuda during a Communist rally in Saga City Kyushu injuring him slightly in the neck and arm. The assailant escaped through a hall window as a crowd of about 3000 fled. Allied HQ opened an inquiry amid fears of rightist plots.
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Tokyo
Kyuichi Tokuda
Japan
Mainichi
Saga City
Kyushu
Tokuda
Japanese Communist Party
House of Representatives
Allied
Woman Becomes First To Fly Freight Across Atlantic
At Shannon Airport in Erie the 35 year old Virginia Witherington of New Haven Conn was acclaimed Monday as the first woman to fly a freight plane solo across the Atlantic surfacing from a historic mid air crossing with a cargo mission.
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Atlantic
Shannon
Erie
Virginia Witherington
New Haven
Conn
First Woman Flies Commercial Atlantic Crossing
Miss Witherington, holder of a navigation certificate from the U S Navy, piloted the KLM Flying Dutchman across the Atlantic Sunday. The airliner carried miscellaneous freight from New York to Amsterdam.
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Miss Witherington
U. S. Navy
KLM
New Yorko
Amsterdam
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