Suburban Retreat Near New York Chosen as UN HQ Site
NEA reports a suburban retreat three miles from New York City is recommended as the first code for the Permanent headquarters of the United Nations Organization. The 42 square mile area straddles New York and Consequent with estates of prominent millionaires, 2500 residents, and 600 rolling acres to be transformed within five years into an international city for 51 countries. The US will be compensated for the site, which will become a UN enclave. until HQ is built New York City serves as interim capital.
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NEA
New York City
United Nations Organization
New York State
Itl
United States
United Nations
Girl Graduate Found Murdered in Columbia Home
Mary Jenkins a 20 year old Stephens College graduate was found strangled in her Columbia home. Police say she had few male friends and may have been raped, with lamp cord wrapped around her throat. She wore a bathrobe when awakened, suggesting a prowler entered the living room where the body was found.
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Columbia
Mary UN Jenkins
Fashionable
Stephens College
Glenn
Murray
Jenkins
Support Added To Tideland Bill in Washington
Washington joined 45 states in backing a bill granting states title to tidelands. Assistant Attorney General Harold A. Peebles testified that the absence of State Attorney General Smith Troy delayed Washington’s participation. Missouri has withdrawn its support.
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Washington
of Washington
Tidelands
Harold A. Peebles
Senate Judiciary Committee
Smith Troy
Anzona
Billissouri
Australia Opposes UN Site Over Land Cost
Australia argues Stamford Greenwich land for the United Nations headquarters is too expensive with estimates at 10 to 12 million dollars. W r Hodgson to press San Francisco as alternative, citing free California land and earlier conference facilities. He notes erection may take five to six years. U S aid may follow a definite U N site choice.
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London
Australia
Stamford
Greenwich
United Nations
W R Hodgson
San Francisco
Hodgson
California
America
Grass Fire Burns Fireman Gragg’s Hands
A fireman suffered slight burns to both hands while working a grass fire near the South Oates Street and Andrews Street intersection. Gragg grabbed a hot hose to move it from the flames, the hose smoldering from heat. Firefighters also responded to a motorcycle fire at 5 Foster Street caused by defective wiring.
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Gragg Siletener
Wale
Oates St. Andrews Street
Fletcher
Foster Street
Bradley Responds to Critics Over VA Policy
General Omar N Bradley rebutted charges by John Steele of the American Legion that the Veterans Administration would discharge about 50 000 veterans from VA hospitals. He warned of danger and fear among sick veterans and stated non service connected cases would not be dismissed while hospitalization is needed.
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Washington
Gan Omar N Bradley
Jone
Veterans’ Administration
John Steele
American Legion
Bradley
Steele
Congress
Stetic
British Reject Compromise In Red Dispute Over Greece
Two pickets were killed and three wounded in a gun battle with armed guards aboard an eastbound freight train. State and local police moved to Gridley and Eureka to stop violence between strikers and non-strikers. The clash began near El Paso with about 50 men attempting to halt the train, windows were broken, and two deaths were reported.
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Greece
Springfield
Ill
Toledo
Gridley
Eureka
Pontiac
Peoria
Sprmafield
Sullivar
W.E Froelich
Froelich
Tugboat seizure in New York harbor by federal government
The federal government seized the New York harbor tugboat industry at 1 01 am to ensure fuel and food movement for the city. AFL ILWU members were ordered not to strike again until an emergency meeting on the seizure and a Labor Department appeal. President Truman directed control of 91 towboat companies with Lawrence C. Turner as federal manager. The strike began Monday in a page hour dispute with the New York Tugboat Exchange.
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Associated Press
Truman
White House
Eben Ayers
New York
New York Harbor
AFL International Longshoremen's Associations
United Marine Division
Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach
Office of Defense Transportation
Contiguous Waters
Lawrence C. Turner
ODT Waterways Transport Department
Napier Field Coal Sought To Relieve Wiregrass Shortage
The Dothan Wiregrass area faces a coal shortage. The City Commission urged the Solid Fuels Administration to permit coal from Napier Field to be released to Dothan and nearby towns. Arthur H Johnson said an emergency declaration and written request are needed.
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Napier Field Coal
Dothan
City Commission
Howard J. Thomas
Alabama
Solid Facts
Coa
Napier Field
Arthur H Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Army Air Base
Johnson
Thomas
Solid Fuels Administration
Washington
Chamber
National Solid Fuels Administwation
California Florida Willing To Share Tourists Patronage
In Washington officials discuss exchanging tourist patronage due to housing shortages. Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles and Port Director R T Spangler of Miami propose mutual sharing of visitors. Spangler suggests California can take excess tourists, Bowron counters Miami can have them, amid unclear weather and shifting priorities.
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California
Florida
Washington
Cailforms
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles
R T Spangler
Miami
Spangler
Bowrog
Calfernia
Boaton
British Reject Stettinius Plan in Greece UNO Row
London sources report the Cabinet rejected an American noncommittal compromise on Greece in the UN Security Council dispute. Britain demands a clean bill of health from the council and hints a new formula, possibly a Stettinius variation, is under discussion. The session plans a formal statement by the council chair but no resolution or vote.
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London
Greece
Britain
UNO Security Council
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Stettinius
UNO
Erite
Russia
Emmest Bevin Stettinius
No J.O Makin
Security Council
Counal
World Court
Bev
Stetuimiux
River Harbor Bill Introduced in Postwar Appropriation
A 300 million appropriation bill for river and harbor and flood control projects moves to the House. The measure includes funding for the Panama Canal and Army cemetery expenses with 71 thousand for new grave markers. It also provides 42.8 million for ongoing river and harbor work, plus 2.2 million for planning on 20 projects and 87.9 million for maintenance and operation.
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Washington
Chamber Appropriations Committee
Congress
General Homma Admits Ordering Bataan Death March
Gen Masaharu Homma testified at the Tokyo war crimes trial that he issued the order for the Bataan Death March of about 70,000 American POWs and accepted moral responsibility for events under his command. He said he was not fully informed about prisoner conditions or malaria and described a high death toll during the march.
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Homma
Bataan
Manila
Masaharu Homma
Tussar
Frank Meek
Caldwell
Ida
Meeks
Honma
O Dunnell
Postwar Japanese Minister Shimomura Arrested in War Crimes Probe
Tokyo reports Gen Sidasua Shimomura, former postwar minister, ordered executions of three Doolittle fliers in 1942. Allied sources say MacArthur directed Japan to round up 16 other suspects for Sugamo Prison. Shimomura had led Japan’s Army in China in 1942 before the fliers’ execution.
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Tokyo
Sidasua Shimomura
Japan
Vies
Allied
MacArthur Alay
Sugamo
Shimomura
China
Last Of Survivors Taken From Wrecked Liner Yukon
AP dispatch from Alaska details rescue of 305 survivors from the Yukon wreck after a northland gale. About 100 people landed on a beach by breeches buoy, others ferried to Seward aboard rescue vessels. Brig Gen Harry Johnson observed survivors clustered around bonfires as winds eased. Coast Guard reported ongoing transfer plans and that 50 had previously landed at Seward.
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Ketchikan Alaska
Yukon
Johnstone Bay
Ketchikan Chronicle
Chronicle
Seward
Tedigua
Coast Guard
Harry Johnson
Palmer Dies Of Bullet Wound In Dothan
W F Palmer, a 41 year old Alabama native educated at Alabama and Vanderbilt, died from a self inflicted gunshot in Dothan. Survived by father T W Palmer and brother Robert L Palmer, funeral set at Ward Wilton chapel with Rev Jo Nurtin Dend officiating. Burial in Cm cemetery with pallbearers named as Kent, Polo Trammel, Nat Polk, John Monk and Mack Jones.
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Wiham
FF Palmer
Cus Horne
Baste Street
Jost
Acta
TY Wilkersop
Walkersen
Coranee
Aidan
Betchenehort
Palmer
Universiits
Alabama
Voorderbilt University
Beran
Terret Preparatory
Montgomery
Shedfield
T W Palmer
Robert Lo Palmer
Dothan
Ward-Wilton
Jo Nurton Dend
Bravapel
Ray Caravell
Kent
Polo Trammel
Nat Polk
John Monk
Mack Jones
Army Officials Deny Rumored NATO Military Security Plan
The Army denies reports of new security measures around the courthouse and nearby prison amid war crimes trial guarding. Sources claim halftrack armored vehicles with machine guns and low circling reconnaissance planes have been added to security forces.
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Over
Stara and Stripes
U. & Army
Adj Cent
Two Men Injured In Auto Collision
Two men were injured in a road collision near Hawkins Dale County as an ambulance crew rushed Miller of Ozark to a hospital with head injuries and Caylee Auther. The other vehicle occupants were not identified and details remained unclear.
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Seretauh
Teme
Miller Gael Tove Gayle
Gzark
Fntha
Gene Aures
Dahan Montcomecyighney
Huwtan Dale Coustylings
Fred Johnson
Miller
Caylee Auther
Ube
Ozark
Tax Officials To Discuss Inventory Study Thursday
Tax officials from Southeast Alabama Counties including collectors assessors and equalization board members will meet in the courthouse at 10 o clock to discuss a new state law that allows inventories of taxable property. Attendees from Henry Barbour Dale Coffee Geneva Covington and Russell counties include County Tax Assessor Victor Alvin Gwaltrey and members of the equalization board. The group plans to study converting the board to an inventory driven system to ensure equal tax valuation across counties and property categories.
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Equal Gation Board
Alabama
Bee
Houston
Collins
Henry Barbu
Dale
Coffee
Geneva
Coving
Russell
Collins Tax
Victor Alvin Gwaltrey
Equal Ration Board
Dt Mixon Chaiman
GC Lb
Cox
Hong State Reseaue Commanne I
Dowling
Mangonery
Cormittione
Dowing
Lax
Board of Equal Zation
Dust Storm Threatens Kansas Oklahoma Wheat Crops
Kansas and Oklahoma farmers faced the region’s worst dust storm in a decade as dirt clouds up to a mile high swept across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma. Early reports say whole wheat fields may have been blown out in 24 hours with visibility reduced to 200 yards before the storm subsided and dust stretched to the Great Lakes region.
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Kansas City
Kansas Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas City Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
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