Masks and a Letter Cutter Kill Student in Harlem School
Two 12 year old girls wearing masks fatally stabbed Margaret Patton 9 after tattling on them. Madeline Kirkland and Eileen Foster were arrested on serious and delinquency charges as police described a motive tied to stolen report cards and school materials. The attack occurred in a school recreation room with about 150 pupils and several teachers present.
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New York
Margaret Patton
Margaret
Madeline Kirkland
Eileen Foster
James Weldon
Harlem
Central Park
Eileen
Madeline
Weldon
Report details burnings at Eileen’s home scene
Police found a backyard bonfire where report cards school papers masks and a paper cutter were burned after Eileen’s death admission. The footage shows the girls nearby as investigators documented the incident and gathered evidence for the case.
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Eileen
Weldon
Little Opposition To Ponape Bombing
Army bombers faced only moderate anti air fire as they bombed Ponape airfields between Truk and the Marshalls. A Pacific fleet press release said Sunday air activity in the Central Pacific also blasted enemy coastal guns anti aircraft batteries and a power station on Japanese held islands in the Marshalls group.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Ponape Island
Truk
Marshalls
Navy
Pacific Fleet
Central Pacific
Marshalls Group
Navy Big Three Hold Conference in San Francisco
The Navy disclosed that Adm. Ernest J. King Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Adm. William F. Halsey Jr held a war council in San Francisco Sunday. King presented Nimitz with a Distinguished Service Medal for leadership and strategic skill in naval actions against Japan, with Halsey attending at Vice Admiral David W. Bagley’s Western Sea Frontier headquarters.
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Washington
Navy Department
Adm
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
William F. Halsey, Jr
South Pacific
San Francisco
King
Nimitz
Congress
Japan
Navy
Halsey
David W. Bagley
Western Sea Frontier
Ford and Foreman Union Sign Contract
Ford Motor Company announced it signed a contract with the Foreman’s Association of America, becoming the first major Detroit area employer to reach an agreement with supervisory employees.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Foreman’s Association of America
Two Creamery Firms Settle OPA Judgments
In Waterloo, the Silver Spring Creamery of Delhi paid 79474 and West Union Farmers Creamery of West Union paid 81886 in federal court for violating OPA rules on butter sales above ceiling prices.
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Waterloo
Silver Spring Creamery Company
Delhi
West Union Farmers Creamery Company, Inc
West Union
OPA
Ban on May Wheat Futures Suppressed by Board of Trade
Chicago AP reports the Chicago Board of Trade prohibited trading in May 1944 wheat futures. The ban takes effect Wednesday and allows only liquidation of contracts open as of Tuesday close.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
East St Louis Stockyards Enforce Indefinite Hog Embargo
East St Louis stockyards declared an indefinite embargo on hog receipts due to heavy runs and large holdovers. Meanwhile South St. Paul stockyard officials urged farmers to withhold hog shipments to ease a Midwest glut.
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Chicago
East St Louis
South St. Paul, Minn
Dame Ethel Smyth Dies at 86 in London
The death of Dame Ethel Smyth an English composer author journalist and suffragette aged 86 was announced in London on Tuesday.
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London
Ins
Dame Ethel Smyth
iLondon
Illinois Central Urges Rail Workers to Support War Effort
A wartime appeal to Illinois Central employees stresses duties at home while troops fight abroad. It notes shortages in essential railroad jobs and calls for recruits to maintain tracks signals and operations. The message links worker efforts to swift victory and postwar service improvements.
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Bud
Illinois Central
Two Refugee Women Held for Smuggling Messages
The Justice Department said two European refugee women who arrived March 15 aboard the Gripsholm are held at Ellis Island accused of hiding coded messages. FBI tests found 20 notations in coats, a compact mirror, a boot heel, and a spool of thread. the women Helen Delinikajtis Braun, 24, and her sister Mary Anna Delinikajtis, 40, deny any wrongdoing.
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Washington
Justice Department
Europe
United States
Gripsholm
Ellis Island
FBI
Helen Delinikajtis Braun
Mary Anna Delinikajtis
Flood Control Fund Approved by House
The House approved a flood control bill as part of postwar public works, authorizing $810 million in construction and stating no wartime appropriations would be requested. The vote was by voice amid arguments over states rights.
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Washington
House
Youth Heads Nazi Air Arm in West
A European underground source says Adolf Hitler appointed Maj. Gen. Pelz, 29, as chief of the western Nazi air forces tasked with building a strong anti invasion air power. Germany reorganizes to three corps, fights production losses, aims to blunt Allied invasion.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Pelz
Hitler
West
Trunk Killer Confesses to Slaying Bride in Quarrel
Sayla Ville Villegas, 26, held in Crystal City Texas awaiting extradition after confessing to killing his 23 year old Chicago bride of three weeks in a drunken quarrel and shipping her semi nude body to Los Angeles in a trunk. Victim identified as Louise Wright of Myrtle Mississippi through fingerprints. Villegas had hidden marriages and was tracked after photos showed the murdered woman resembled his Memphis connection.
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Chicago
Sayla Villegas
Crystal City
Texas
Los Angeles
Louise Wright
Myrtle
Miss
Villegas
Louise Alexander
Memphis
Tenn
Joel Wiley
Mexican
Mexico
John Lopez
Humboldt Woman Injured in Tuesday Car Crash
Mrs Erwin Schulze, 41, Humboldt, was reported in serious condition Tuesday with multiple injuries including broken bones and chest trauma after a car crash.
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Humboldt
Erwin Schulze
Local Auto Collision Injuries Involving Humboldt Farmer
Juries suffered injuries in an auto collision involving a car driven by Jr. Ford, a Humboldt farmer. The incident details and outcomes are not fully disclosed in the fragment.
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Jr. Ford
Humboldt Farmer Ford Re
Kellogg’s All-Bran advertised for gentle constipation relief
An unsolicited letter from Knoxville Tennessee endorses Kellogg's All-Bran as a gentle regulator of bowel movements. The writer claims stopping pills after using All-Bran for over a year and recommends All-Bran muffins with plenty of water for lasting relief.
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J. F. Grubb
Broadway
Fountain City
Knoxville
Tenn
Kellogg's
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
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