Nation's No 1 gangster Bugsy Siegel slain in Beverly Hills
Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, 42, famed to be the nation s top gangster, was shot to death as he sat with his back to a window in a dim living room. Police believe rival gangsters carried out the ambush after parties and dinner. Smiley, uninjured, sat nearby with the cocker spaniel.
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Beverly Hills
Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel
Hollywood
Siegel
New York
Murder, Inc
W. W. White
Allen Smiley
Smiley
Los Angeles
Harry Greenberg
George Raft
Segal
Louis “Lepke
Buchalter
United States
Frank Carbo
Harry Segal
Harry Schachter
Greenberg
Bugsy
Two Families Struggle for Shelter In Cedar Rapids
The Brandon family of five and the La Rose family, both employed but homeless, live in a Cedar Rapids car and a Marion yard tent respectively. The Brandons, with children Dickie 5 Teddy 11 Patty 7, roam for meals and shelter, visiting Sunshine Mission and seeking affordable housing as they wait for a chance at a home.
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Cedar Rapids
C. W. Brandon
Brandon
LaRose
Marion
Mid-State
Sunshine Mission
Dickie
Teddy
Patty
Cedar Rapids Food Price Index Holds Steady Across Apr May
The Cedar Rapids all items food price index shows no change from mid April to mid May with subgroups shifting. Dairy products fell six percent from a month ago while fats and oils dropped 17.1 percent. meats rose 16 percent and overall prices remain 33.2 percent above 1940 levels and 53.7 percent higher than 1946 in certain categories.
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Cedar Rapids
Bureau of Labor Statistics
United States Department of Labor
Took Him at Word
Baltimore police report Elwee T Harris told officers he would save his girlfriend Adele Roberts 22 if she jumped into the harbor. After she leaped he followed. patrolmen rescued him with a rope but the girl's body was recovered thirty minutes later.
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Baltimore
Elwee T. Harris
Adele Roberts
Harris
Adele
Thundershowers Forecast for Iowa Tonight
Central and southern Iowa faced heavy rains on Saturday with Cedar Rapids recording only .08 inch by 2:30 pm. Weather forecasts anticipate showers and thundershowers statewide tonight and tomorrow. The Cedar River near Cedar Rapids stood at 9.3 feet, up 0.3 feet in 24 hours, with temperatures low 60s to mid 70s and a recent daily high near 76.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Cedar River
Woman's Punch Floors Would-Be Holdup Man
INDIANAPOLIS AP Barbara Kassenbrock 45 said 15 years of piano playing gave her strong muscles and she punched a would be robber after noticing a toy pistol She screamed but knocked the attacker to the floor before police arrived in the bicycle and toy shop incident
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Indianapolis
Barbara Kassenbrock
Kassenbrock
Senator Taylor Speaks for Over Eight Hours at Senate Filibuster
Washington AP reports Senator Taylor of Idaho spoke for eight hours and twenty five minutes in a prolonged floor debate over overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft Hartley labor bill. He kept the floor past midnight with casual remarks on fishing, Wall Street plots, and family, ending after 3 a.m. once a quorum was met.
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Washington
Sen
Taylor
Idaho
Senate
Truman
Wall Street
West
Huey Long
Pepper
D-Fla
Odd Way To Reach Omaha
Police arrested a 31 year old woman who stood with one foot in the Missouri river and sent her to county hospital after the incident. She told officers she had trouble with her boyfriend.
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Omaha
INS
Missouri River
Servant Attacks Mrs. Rinehart in Whodunit Writer Case
E Abbott reported a longtime employee Reyes attacked author Mrs. Rinehart with a pistol and knives after giving notice. The pistol misfired due to old ammunition. two other workers subdued Reyes as Mrs. Rinehart tried to call police. Chauffeur Falkenstrom was cut defending the writer. Reyes, described by Rinehart as faithful, said he felt discouraged and wished to return home.
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E. Abbott
Abbott
Reyes
Rinehart
Theodore Falkenstrom
Tree crashes on honeymoon couple killing groom in Tahoe
A 100 foot tall spine thicket tree fell across a high road near Tahoe City California Friday killing bridegroom William McVea age 21 and injuring his bride Nina in a hospital Saturday with skull injuries.
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Tahoe City
Calif
William McVea
Nina
Apes Immune To Polio After Vaccination
Johns Hopkins researchers Isabel Morgan Howard Howe and David Bodian report that monkeys vaccinated with active polio virus achieved solid immunity. They note it is too dangerous to vaccinate children with live virus and explain how ordinary vaccines work by triggering antibody production without disease.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Microscope Corps
Hopkins
Isabel Morgan
Howard A. Howe
David Bodian
Hopkins Poliomyelitis Research Center
Italian non red regime wins test in Italy vote
Premier Alcide De Gasperi's fourth government, the first since liberation to exclude Communists and Socialists, won a confidence vote in the constituent assembly by 43 votes. The measure solidifies the anti left coalition and sets a new political alignment in Rome.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Liberation of
Italy
Italian Constituent Assembly
Labor Rally Outlines Coming Battle Over Iowa Legislation
About 1,000 union members in Cedar Rapids heard a plan for labor to oppose restrictive Iowa measures. Speakers included Des Moines attorney John Connolly and Harold J. Nelson of Sioux City, who urged primaries coordination, a sustained fund drive, and a Labor Day show of strength.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
AFL
CIO
Independent
Polis
Truman
Nolly
Des Moines
Connolly
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Knight
Cipie
Labor
Ralph Helstein
Chicago
International
United Packinghouse Workers of America, Cio
Harold J. Nelson
Sioux
Woodbury County
Taft
Congress
Plan of Marshall Considered by Soviet Leaders
London reports indicate the Marshall aid plan is under study by the Soviet government, while Bevin demands speed in tri power talks. Moscow says Moscow studied and Moscow leaders attended a Kremlin session as Britain and France push for immediate Europe wide coordination with the United States.
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London
INS
Russia
Bevin
Europe
Moscow
Tass
Stalin
Molotov
Communist Party
Supreme Soviet
Russian Federation
Kremlin
Tes
Geneva
Foreign Office
U.N
U. S
William
United States
Washington
Claytoni
Truman Taft argue over Taft-Hartley labor bill on radio
President Truman and Senator Taft debated the Taft-Hartley labor bill in separate radio addresses. Truman called the bill bad for labor and the country, while Taft countered that it would help mediate strikes and delay action. They clashed on government seizure and union power.
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Mr. Truman
Taft
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Truman
United States Army
Congress
Truxnan
Filibuster Delays Senate Vote On Labor Veto Override
A small bloc of senators prolonged the session delaying the override vote on President Truman's labor bill veto until 1 p.m. Monday. Morse spoke for 10 hours in a historic filibuster with support from Taylor Pepper and Kilgore as the chamber faced a potential tighter margin than expected.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
G.O.P
House
Taylor
D-Idaho
Morse
Pepper
D-Fla
Kilgore
W. Va
Barkley
Marine's Troubled Reunion Ends With Legal Entanglement
Michael Lonardo, a former Marine staff sergeant, waited at a New York pier to greet Swiss girl Jeanette Provost, but Dr. Robert Tirman claimed the meeting. Tirman said Provost had told him she planned to marry him after Lonardo posted bond for her under the G-1 rights. The ship visit ended without a pass for Lonardo.
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New York
Michael Lonardo
New Haven
G.I
Paris
Marine Falcon
Jeanette Smirnoff Provost
Robert M. Tirman
Brooklyn
Array
Dr. Tirman
Lonardo
Miss Provost
Bond
le Havre
Dr. A
Iowa Boy Buried Under Corn Slide
Merle Pickering a 16 year old Red Oak high school athlete was suffocated when a corn slide buried him during flood cleanup at the Dannen mill. He was clearing corn from a bin into an elevator shaft when the slide collapsed trapping him for about 15 minutes before responders reached him.
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Red Oak
Merle Pickering
Dannen Mill
Owehing
Morse filibuster fuels push for immediate Senate vote
Washington AP Morse of Oregon says the majority seeks an immediate ballot while Hickenlooper of Idaho notes Morse once castigated the minority over a proposed employment practices commission. Morse says the filibuster aims to ensure unlimited debate and allow public reaction to the presidential veto and message.
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Washington
Sen
Morse
R-Ore
Hickenlooper Aloway
Cooper
Senate
Plans Made for Jap Warship Assignment
The first 32 of 92 Japanese destroyers and escort vessels will sail from Kyushu early in July. The ships will be assigned to the United States Britain China and Russia by lot with representatives of the four powers taking part in the drawing.
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TOKYG
United States
Britain
China
Russia
Kyushu
Far East
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Nelson
Robert D. Blue
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