Giannini and Bank of America Founder Dies at 379
A. P. Giannini founder of Bank of Italy, later Bank of America, died yesterday at 379. His rise reshaped California finance, serving ordinary people and challenging traditional bankers as the Bank of America grew into the world’s largest by 1946. His life inspired readers and illustrated the shift from hometown banks to modern finance.
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California
A. P. Giannini
Thalian
San Francisco
Bank of Italy
Giannini
San Ferancisco
Pole
Suspect Foul Play in Ice Box Deaths
Walnut Ruge June 4 UP foul play suspected in the deaths of three children found crammed in two compartments of an old ice box near Alicia. Chief deputy Elmer Etchison said foul play is suspected though no motive is known. The Chastains’ two children were found in lower compartments. the other child in the upper section. All three were bruised and scratched. investigators noted none of the injuries appeared from a self locking incident and no strangers were nearby. The girl died after admission to a Jonesboro hospital following treatment at Walnut Ridge clinic.
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Walnut Ruge
Elmer Etchison
James Delbert Chastain
Joyce Ann Chastain
Ed Chastain
Alicia
Here
Shirley
Ethel Ramsey
Walnut Ridge
Richinson
Chastain Bay
Ramsey
Chastain
Jonesbury Hospital
Etchison
Judge Lemley Hospitalized in Texarkana Care
Texarkana reports Judge Harry J. Lemley of Hope is confined to a local hospital for treatment of an apparently non serious throat infection. Attendants expect a brief stay and a speedy return to duties.
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Harry Lemley
Texarkana
Harry J. Lemley
Hope
Lemley
Farmer Near Spring Hill Harvests Cotton Stalk with Four Squares
Andrew organs reported a cotton stalk with four squares from near Spring Hill. He found several stalks showing four squares while planting in April. Logans brought in a stalk with squares around the same time last year.
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Andrew Organs
Near Spring Hill
Logans
Arkansas Weather Forecast Passages
Cloudy conditions expected across Arkansas with showers in the northwest tonight and Sunday. A tempershift and lingering drizzle possible as a cold front approaches, with winds light to moderate and temperatures remaining mild through the period.
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Arkansas
Senate Leaders Rally Labor Votes On Compromise Bill
Washington reports Senate leaders strive to drum up support for a compromise labor bill amid mixed reactions. Ellender and Byrd warn voting tracks may shift toward GOP substitutes while Neely Murray and Pepper urge no change, as Barkley and Truman seek the best bill possible pending Monday debate. The administration plan would repeal Taft Hartley and re enact the old Wagner Act with changes. Taft Donnell and Smith offer a rival bill with over twenty TH modifications. One amendment proposes presidential seizure of struck plants in national emergencies.
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Senate
Ellender
D-La
Neely
WVA
Murray
Mont
Pepper
Fla
Barkley
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Donnell
Via
Smith
Set Up of Atomic Labor Panel to Settle Disputes
Washington June 4 President Truman completed organization of a three man labor relations panel to settle disputes at atomic energy plants. The group includes Chairman William H. Davis and appointees Dr Edwin E White and Aaron Horvitz. A strike at Oak Ridge Tenn may be halted if the panel is fully formed and takes the case.
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Washington
Truman
Threeman
Oak Ridge
Prisoner Risks Life to Save Dying Child
A Sing Sing inmate, without promise of reward, risked his life to aid an eight year old girl with leukemia. Over five hours across four days the prisoner’s blood circulated into hers, eighteen quarts exchanged in a controversial life saving experiment.
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Wasunong
Ufe
Sing Sing
Liss
Optimism as ministers meet over Berlin problem
U S secretary of state Dean Acheson hosts Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky for dinner as four power talks in Paris enter a second day. Observers say both sides hope for a gentler approach to Germany while a news blackout preserves secrecy. Pravda accuses Western powers of breaking Potsdam while Moscow seeks unity for Germany. In China, Communist forces number about 800000 moving toward Canton as Nationalist defenses hold at 300000 in the south and 250000 near Chungking.
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Paris
Westerm
Berlin
U.S
Dean Acheson
Andrei Vishinsky
Acheson
West J
Germany
Isecrecy
Russia
Moscow
Pravda
Nanking
China
Cantor
National
Siy
Chungking
Canton
Firebug Tries to Burn Home of John L. Lewis
A vandal set fire to John L. Lewis’s home in Alexandria while a watchman was away. Fire started in dining room and basement. caller to papers bragged of the act and warned of a bigger fire next time. Firemen found heavy smoke and scorched papers but limited access to flames.
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Alexandvia
Volune
John Fb
Lewis
Ladng
Washington Post
Limes Herald
John
Jame Lewis
Bluefield
W. Va
Moran refuses life story bids from Capone era gang rival
Columbus reports Warden Ralph Alvis at Ohio Pen says Bugs Moran, 58, jailed for armed robbery, declined offers up to 130000 for his life story from Chicago Tribune and a Hollywood columnist. Moran fears renewed violence and a ruined life if he talks, remaining a modest, isolated inmate after gall bladder surgery.
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George
Bugs) Moran
Moran
al Capone
Chicago
Ralph W. Alvis
Ohio Penitentiary
Dayton
Alvis
Chicago Tribune
Lauella Parsons
St. Valentine's Day
Eleven Plotters Turned Over to French Military
Paris June 4 Eleven anti Communist plotters arrested by security police on suspicion of trying to demoralize the French army were turned over to military authorities today. Police laid conspiracy charges against five others nabbed yesterday in a raid that seized four tammy guns seven automatic pistols and ammunition. Two of the arrested men were top figures in General Charles De Gaulle s Rally of the French People party which denied knowledge of the plot calling it an effort to smear the general.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Rally of the French People
Convicts Fight It Out in Prison in Bristol Tennessee
Two Arkansas inmates sentenced to 30 years each for breaking and entering burglary with explosives fought in their Bristol jail cell. Norman E. Wright stabbed Paul Kaufman 17 times with a pen knife after a court adjournment. Kaufman received treatment and was reported resting satisfactorily. doctors deemed most wounds shallow.
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Arkansas
Sullivan County
Holton
Kingeport
Eit
Bristol
Tennessee
Norman E. Wright
Paul Kaufman
Kaufman
Kings Mountain Memorial Hospital
Texas
Hope
Tennessee Supreme Court
Jim Newland
Monroe Arrants
Wright
Ayrantz
A Soldier’s Urge to Return Across Time and War
HAL BOYLE asks veterans if they wish to go back and relive the war as he plans a two week furlough. He recalls Normandy, stilted hedgerows, St Lo, Calvados, and Paris, noting how the world has changed, yet men remain haunted by past battles and friendships. He ponders reunions, cemeteries, and the difficult return to a changed life.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Ave
Europe
Piccadilly Circus
Omaha Beach
Normandy
Soldicey
Pai
Nas
St. Lo
Paris
Soldier
Rheims
Spa
Luxembourg
Ming
Germany
Frank- Sart
Berlin
Espionage Suspected in Atomic Material Disappearances
Washington, June 4. Senator Hickenlooper urged that espionage remains a possible factor in the loss of four grams of enriched uranium from the Argonne laboratory while Senator McMahon cautioned against premature conclusions. Recovery of most missing material and ongoing waste dredging at Oak Ridge are cited as context, with inquiry into Atomic Energy Commission management continuing under Chairman Lilienthal.
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Washington
Senglor Hickenlooper
R-Town
Atomic Energy Commission
McMahon
DiConn
Senate-Houst Jatormic Energy Committee
Atomic Agency
David E. Lilienthal
Hickenlooper
Canada
FBI
Argonne Atomic Laboratory
University of Chita
Oak Ridge
Connecticut
Hickenjooper
Isda
Lilenthal
Atomic ‘Commission
Qaic Ridge
Argonne Igboratory
One of 14 Convicts Recaptured in West Virginia
One of fourteen escaped convicts from the West Virginia penitentiary was captured near Rusby Rock after entering a grocery store four miles from the prison. Citizens detained the man until a prison guard arrived. A large manhunt extended across the tri state area, with law enforcement and national guard participating.
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Moundsville
W. Va
UPI
West Virginia
Orel Skeen
Rusby Rock
Skeen
Ohio River
Tri-State
West Virginian
Ohio
Pennsylvania
National Guard
Coast
Shadyside
Crossett Girl Seeks Regional FHA Office
Betty Ethridge of Crossett will seek the Southern regional nomination for national president of the Future Homemakers of America. Named at the Arkansas FHA closing session at Camp Coughdaly, she competes with southern state reps for the Memphis regional convention nomination. Arkansas FHA officers elected include Sue Swaton president and Mary Harrison first vice president, among others. Two hundred and mighty girls from 192 chapters attended the Arkansas gathering.
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Hot Springs
Crossett
Betty Ethridge
Homemakers of America
Arkansas Fha
Camp Coughdaly
Miss Ethridge
Memphis
Sue Swaton
Bald Kisob
Mary Harrison
Murfreeshorn
Set Free Man Who Seeks to Renounce U S
Danny McCarthy, 22, of Long Island, renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Germany and was freed by U.S. military authorities pending his June 13 trial for illegal entry. District Attorney Johnson arranged a $800 bond cancellation after a private meeting, and McCarthy said he would remain in Germany. He has returned to jail awaiting trial for lack of $600 bail. His mother in New Hyde Park urged him to return Rome, but he chose to stay.
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Frankfurt
Danny McCarthy
Long Island
McCarthy
Germany
Fred
Cohn
Ral C
Fiey
William IF. Johnson
St. Louis
Danny
Catherine McCarthy
New Hyde Park
N. Y
Rome
Baglk
Johnson
New York
Bunny Oak
United States
Goodyear Cuts Prices on Premium Tire Lines
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. announced price reductions on its premium tires, effective Monday. Cuts range from five to seven and a half percent, affecting models such as Double Eagle, Super Cushion, and De Fusces tires, with current prices listed for several sizes.
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University Budget Totals 5 430 000 for Year
Fayetteville June 4 The University of Arkansas will operate on a budget of 5 430 000 for the 1148 50 school year approved by the board of trustees. The budget allocates 2 530 000 to the university proper 1 700 000 to the agricultural extension service. Expenses for the medical school Little Rock were not included.
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Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Little Hank
Agriaitayat Extenesien
Perjury Trial Hiss Case Tests Chambers Testimony
New York June 4. Key witness Chambers testified he perjured himself and remains loyal to the Communist Party after breaking with it in 1936. The defense pressed him on his party ties and alleged misstatements as Alger Hiss's perjury trial continued under cross examination by Stryker.
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New, York
Gant
Iinet
Alger
Lie Stryker
Time Magazine
Chari
Hiss
Dudge ‘Batnuet Hy Kaufman
Hiss Vane
Tratas
Russia
Chambers
New York
Taker Chambers
Alger “Hiss
State Department
Portune
Ti Stryker
Stryker
Communist Party In America
Internation Imunism
Sryker
Agai
Second Brother Sentenced in Slaying of Town Marshal
Leon Ogles was found guilty of second degree murder and received a ten year sentence in a Mississippi county case stemming from the fatal shooting of Town Marshal Tom Green of tar, Ark. The jury deliberated hours after Darrell, his brother and defense witness, is already serving life for a county conviction. A separate jury in Blytheville considers first degree murder charges in the death of Giles Blanchard, a 68 year old who died from injuries after a dispute at a lumber company.
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Tom Green
Tar
Ark
Mississippi
Leon Ogles
Darrell
Tucker
Lear
Green
E. R. McGahan
Blytheville Carpenter
Giles Blanchard
Blanchard
McMath Returns to State After Washington Visit
McMath traveled from Washington to Arkansas after a Kansas event. A party flight stopped at Newark overnight. The group arrived in Little Rock and stayed briefly this afternoon.
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McMath
State
Washington
Little Rock
Agernot McMath
Atengix
Truman
Arkansas
Newark
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