Two Soldiers Killed In Palestine Night Of Terror
Thousands of Jews flee repatriation in Poland amid anti Semitic violence. About 1,000 Jewish slayings confirmed over ten months. Government punishes bandits, as 60,000 Jews expected to be repatriated from Russia by August 1. Most aim for Palestine or America. many attempt illegal crossings. U.S. transit permits issued daily through Germany into France.
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Larry Allen
Warsaw
Russia
Poland
Central Committee
Palestine
America
Germany
Czechoslovakia
France
Bombings and arrests rock Beth Haavara in Jordan valley
In Jerusalem on June 17 the Palestine police reported arresting all residents of the Beth Haavara Jewish settlement after a night of terror that left two British soldiers dead and multiple infrastructure blasts. Bridges at Allenby and other sites were damaged as police hunted alledged Jewish terrorists. Reports say the village was surrounded by a British unit and residents offered passive resistance during searches, injuring two Jews.
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Osgood Caruthers
Jerusalem
Beth Haavara
Palestine Police
Allenby
Jordan
Dead Sea
New OPA Price Hikes Take Effect In June
Washington June 17 OPA announces higher prices for butter and Cheddar cheese effective immediately 11 cents a pound for butter and six cents for cheese plus a 40 cent per ton rise in soft coal and possible increases for anthracite sugar utensils and wages tied to refinery and mine workers.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Triangle Shooting in Dunbar Sunday
In Dunbar a shooting left two dead and one wounded. State police said Lewis F. Lee 47 confessed to shooting Wanda Fouts DeFord 31 and fatally wounding Cecil Emory James 40 after an argument over another man. Patrolman Troy Massey heard five shots and detained Lee as James collapsed.
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Dunbar
R. G. Coen
Wanda Fouts DeFord
Cecil Emory James
Charleston
Coen
Lewis F. Lee
Self-inflicted death over paid insurance shocks Norfolk
Norfolk daily inquest to be held into the death of Donald R. Dean a 22 year old Ocean View barber who fatally shot himself after learning his life insurance was paid up. Police say he returned home at 11 p.m. and asked his wife if the policy was paid. Dean a Huntington West Virginia native had lived in Norfolk four years.
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Norfolk
C. D. J. MacDonald
Donald R. Dean
Ocean View
Leon Nogitzky
Dean
Huntington
W. Va
Movie makers top 1944 earnings list in treasury report
The treasury ranking places Leo McCarey first with 1.113 million dollars in earnings for 1944. Charles H Strub sits second at 486,537, followed by Charles P Skouras and Fred MacMurray with 393,000 and 391,217 respectively. Motor maker Charles E Wilson is fifth with 362,954 as Carmen Miranda leads the top paid women with 201,458. The list includes 593 names, covering corporate payments of 75,000 or more for 1944 and 1945 fiscal years.
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Washington
Treasury
Leo McCarey
Charles H.strub
Los Angeles Turf Club
Charles P. Skouras
Fred MacMurray
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Carmen Miranda
Paulette Goddard
Betty Grable
B. H. Bobst
Montclair
N. J
Hoffman-La Roche
Ormond E. Hunt
Albert Bradley
Theodore Seltzer
Weehawken
Beague, Inc
Darryl F. Zannuck
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Mass Collision on Fairmont Street Amid Rainstorm
Five cars damaged in a mass collision on a Fairmont street during a heavy rainstorm early today. No injuries reported by city police.
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Fairmont
French Crisis Recall Delivers De Gaulle Spotlight
Paris reports a government crisis as Socialists reject the presidency of the council and the moderate Popular Republican movement presses George Pidault as premier while Communists withhold backing. De Gaulle resurfaces after six months of silence with a Normandy Bayeux address, signaling renewed political momentum.
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Robert C. Wilson
Paris
Council
Popular Republican Movement
George Pidault
Charles de Gaulle
France
Popular
Republican Movement
de Gaulle
Bayeaux
Normandy
Gandhi unhappy with British plan for interim Indian government
In New Delhi on June 17, the Moslem league accepted a British proposal for a 14 man interim government in India. Mohandas K Gandhi, leader of the Congress party, was represented as personally very unhappy with the plan. The interim government would govern while a constituent assembly drafts a charter for independence as announced by Viceroy Lord Wavell and the British cabinet mission.
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Paul Mason
New Delhi
Tojo Defends War Causes In AP Exclusive Statement
Hideki Tojo issued an AP exclusive through defense counsel arguing the Anglo American coalition drove Japan into war. He said the prosecution cannot prove conspiratorial charges and outlined perceived causes including coalition pressure and trade restrictions.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
United States
Great Britain
Associated Press
Ichiro Kiyose
Tojo
Sailor strike settlement blocks drastic labor bill
Washington June 17 Congressional friends of labor predicted the maritime dispute settlement would stave off drastic legislation this year. Rep. Biemiller Wisconsin cited the settlement as removing ammunition for bills to curb labor rights, while Truman favored emergency strike control faced delays in House Rules. See SAY DANGER page 4
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Clair Johnson
Washington
Congressional Friends of Organ
Boy
Truman
Tose
Capitol Hill
Bie~miller
D.wis
Fa ‘Bor
Biemiller
House
Senate
House Rules Committee
Trial of Mrs Loughry Opens in Barbour County Court
Margaret Loughry 26 sits beside husband as jurors are dismissed over capital punishment views. State aims to rest its case on Wesley Leroy Loughry’s death as Judge Warder and local lawyers manage a crowded docket amid medical absence and jail relocation.
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Philippi
Margaret Loughry
John Loughry
Barbour County
Francis L. Warder
William T. George, Jr
Grafton
Wesley Leroy Loughry
14 year old Aaron Shelton Jr faces murder charge in Bucks County
Langhorne Pa June 17 A 14 year old boy confessed to killing 48 year old Mrs Walter A Shetland wife of a Trenton rubber company executive and re enacted the crime before officers and reporters. The youth from Philadelphia helped his gardener father after school and is to be arraigned today on murder charges.
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Walter A. Shetland
Trenton, N. J
Two Boys Drown Saving Girl In River Misadventure
Belle Vernon, Pa. June 17 Steve Toth and John Teano both 16, Belle Vernon High School students, drowned in the Monongahela River while attempting to rescue a girl companion who could not swim. The canoe capsized and the girl Ann Sefchock, 17, was rescued by volunteer firemen after clinging to the overturned craft amid shock.
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Belle Vernon, Pa
Steve Toth
John Teano
Belle Vernon High School
Monongahela River
Ann Sefchock
Gasoline Taxes Surpass Million in May. Charleston Report
Gasoline tax collections totalled 1,006,694.20 dollars in May, marking the second straight month over 1 million and setting a new April record. Tax commissioner George P. Alderson announced figures compare with 763,252.78 in April 1945 and 1,004,426.03 in March 1946, the first month to exceed 1,000,000, with a record 1,284,000 in July 1941.
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Charleston
George P. Alderson
Morrison says coal car shortage will linger, no relief seen
Supt. R A Morrison of the Monongah division of the B and O says the hopper car situation remains tight with no immediate relief in sight. He notes investigators from United Mine Workers and operators hope to press consignees to release cars. Loading data show Saturday shipments far below normal and most mines operating at reduced capacity amid the ongoing car shortage.
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R. A.“J. Morrison
Monongah
Supt. Morrison
Taylor County
West Virginia
United Mine Workers and Operator
D.C. Setler
Reppert Coal Company
Reppert
Wendel Coal Company
Hamilton
Delmar
Flemington
Waddell Fuel Company
Philippi
Weatherholt
Respett Coal Company
Morrison
Short-Circuit Fatality Sobs Child in Charleston
In Charleston on June 17 Elizabeth Lynn Coogan aged 2 died after a short circuit incident. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs C en toe Ol. The tragedy adds to a string of domestic electrical accidents reported locally.
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Charleston
Elizabeth Lynn Coogan
Trieste issue feared worst blocks talks at Paris
Paris June 17 The Big Four foreign ministers resume work on an Italian peace treaty with Trieste as the pivotal issue An American source says Byrnes views Trieste as a principle question and the outcome may hinge on Russia whether she concedes the Adriatic port to Yugoslavia Observers note Russia's conciliatory talk over Austria but fear renewed Western pressure against Soviet terms in Trieste
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Louis Bevin
Paris
Trieste
U. S
James F. Byrnes
United States
Russia
Adriatic
Yugoslavia
Wi Press
Railo
Witness testifies to seeing girl with Rollins at Navy club
An Annapolis court martial hears steward Walter W. Rollins accused of adultery and misconduct. Witness Aaron Wilson says he saw Mrs. Margaret A. Lima with Rollins in basement quarters, peeking through a wall aperture. Wilson identified Lima from a photograph Rollins had.
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Annapolis
Walter W. Rollins
Margaret A. Lima
Rollins
North Severn
Aaron Wilson
Naval Academy
Wilson
Officers Club
Sima
First Olds
William R. Sima, Jr
William , P. Burke
Fuidge
Rallins
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