Studio: Run Ragged by Small Guest
Aline Mosby reports a Hollywood curiosity as 12 year old Veta Lee Wood tours Warner Brothers Chicago bound train for lunch with Ann Sheridan. She trades a stamp for a fan letter, collects autographs, and asks questions about every studio department while writing a school essay on Hollywood. Vera travels with her mother and even owns a Holstein cow named Goldstein. Her father is a mailman and she has amassed hundreds of star photos since age seven.
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Vera’s Busy Day In Hollywood Ends In Rain
Laff a day excitement surrounds Vera who gathers scraps from studio life while Wayne Morris misses an autograph and Vera kisses him. She keeps busy collecting sheets passes and menus then lands a bit part in Sheridan’s Silver River though rain halts filming. Vera says she’s not tired and Hollywood remains wonderful.
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Help for Greece's Leftists Reported
In Athens authorities reportedly learned that first elements of an international brigade formed in France and Italy to aid Greece's leftist campaign had arrived at Split. The brigade, said to be modeled on forces from the Spanish Civil War, was referenced by a Communist newspaper over a month ago and repeated in later reports.
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Tito Turns Down U.S. Protest on Trieste Seizures
Washington reports Yugoslavia, after six weeks of silence, rejected a U.S. protest over Tito’s seizure of Italian property in Trieste. The State Department cited removals from Zone B under temporary Yugoslav administration, claiming the property belonged to Fascists. Officials said the United States permitted Italian exit from Trieste Zone A and provided evidence Tito’s regime acted on its own.
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Dominant government seizes much in Trieste zone
A dominant government has seized about everything it could get its hands on in its zone of Trieste, asserting tight control over resources and operations. Local authorities claim to maintain order, while residents report heavy oversight and limited freedoms amid occupation measures.
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No Iowans Among Dead In Japan Air Crash
The list of 40 killed in the C-54 transport plane crash west of Tokyo was released. None were from Iowa. Names include Philip A. Adier, veteran foreign correspondent for the Detroit News, and Col. Theodore B. Anderson, deputy commander of the United States air forces.
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States army air forces base at Kimpox Korea
A location cited as the States army air forces base at Kimpox Korea where the aircraft originated. No additional details on mission, aircraft type, or personnel are provided in the fragment.
Voters Wouldn't Like Tax Veto
Washington by United Press news service Democratic Senator Johnson of Colorado said a presidential veto of the tax reduction bill would anger voters and likely boost Republican hopes in the 1948 race. He voted against the bill and warned that a veto would be unpopular with the public.
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Fourth Set of Twins Born in New York Family Story
New York AP report notes Annette Marie Cummo, nine, told a friend that her mother gave birth Sunday to a fourth set of twins in the Cummo family. The previous children included three single births in ten years and one twin pair that died. The father is a postal worker with a biweekly take-home pay of $118.
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