Life At Standstill In Tel Aviv Amid Manhunt Push
Tel Aviv, July 31. Civic life halted as a British manhunt for underground Jewish groups intensifies. Up to 3,000 arrests expected. 133 men and 10 women already detained. Curfew 22 hours, tanks and troops, power plants shut, communications suspended. Suspects moved to Rafa Prison Camp and Latrun Detention Camp for questioning.
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Serusalem
Tel Aviv
Tommica
Ffen
Oomit
King David Hotel
Holy Hand
Youndup
Irgun Zvai-Leumi
Stern Gang
Rafa
Latrun
A. J. H. Cassels
Security Tax May Jump To 2 1/2 Percent
Washington reports clashing House and Senate views over Social Security payroll taxes. With adjournment near, a deadlock blocks a compromise to avoid a 2.5 percent tax on January 1. Debate centers on federal grants for needy categories in low income states.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Doughtoin
D‘nc
Senate House
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Coughton
Workers Die In Explosion At Permanente Plant
In San Jose California a premature explosion at the Permanente Mercury Cerpocretion plant ignited a fire that destroyed nearby sheds. Jean Tapghetta, 33, died immediately and Eugene Bayne died hours later. Ulysses Davis, 27, was treated for burns as the blaze spread over six acres before the fire department contained it within thirty minutes.
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San Jose
Cali
Wuly
Permanente Mercla
Jean Tapghetta
Eugene Bayne
van Loenen
Sehaiege
Ulysses Davis
Permanente Fire Department
Derby champion Jerry O'Malley wins Scranton derby
Jerry O'Malley, 14, of Carbondale, won the Scranton soap box derby championship and earned the right to represent the city in the national finals at Akron, Ohio, on August 18.
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Scranton
Jerry O'Malley
Carbondale
Akron
Ohio
Dickie Heads Cub Scout Organizing in Homer City
Russell Dickie and the Southeast District extension committee led a preliminary Cub Scout organization meeting at Homer City Presbyterian Church. A survey will count boys aged PR to it to gauge need for two to three Cub Packs with Presbyterian and Lutheran church sponsorship explored. District officials and local residents attended to support a home based program with parent involvement emphasized.
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Russell Dickie
William Penn Connell Boy Scouts of America
Homer City Presbyterian Church
Robert, Mathieson
Homer City
Edward M. Thomas
Presbyterian Church
R. E. Walbeck
W. D. Sievers
Joseph Reschini
Central District
Ralph Burt
Dean Kunkle
Robert Mathieson
Anthony Vanity
E. M. Thomas
Escapist Is Safe and Well
Mrs Barbara Waller disappeared from a picnic last Thursday then phoned her brother in Harrison Maine saying she was safe and well from Sacramento California. State Police said she was a 23 year old mother of a two year old son and planned to send a letter. authorities dropped the search after United Airlines reported a woman matching her description traveling under the name Miss Margaret Waller boarded a plane in Chicago and arrived there Saturday.
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North Conway
N. H
Herbert Taylor
Barbara Waller
Harrison
Sacramento
Calif
Langdon
New Hampshire
Mrs. Walker
United Airlines
Timmy Fond Of Trash Pile Amid Newport Feud
In Newport Rhode Island a wealthy neighborhood clash centers on Timmy Sullivan known as The Woodpecker who defends his yard clutter as harmless. Residents led by Mrs Peyton Van Rensselaer petition the city to address a reported trash heap stretching 252 feet long and 15 feet high with an unpleasant odor.
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Newport
Sullivan
Mar
Timmy
Peyton van Renssellaer
City Board of Re-New
Seek Missing Girl Near Boston Area
An extensive air sea and land search was under way for 25 year old Ruth McGurk missing since Saturday in the Onset Massachusetts area. Assistant District Attorney Robert D Clark said he believes she is being held against her will or that something fatal may have happened to her.
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Onset
Mass
Ruth McGurk
Robert D. Clark
The
Gazette
UN Atomic Group Reviews Soviet Proposal At UN
In New York on July 31 delegates to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission met in session to reopen discussion of the Soviet proposal to outlaw the production and use of atomic weapons. The Soviet plan emphasized outlawing weapon production while seeking stricter controls and nation penalties for violators, with U S Netherlands and Brazil seeking more details and a stronger control framework.
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Max Harrellson
New York
United Nationstomic Energy Commission
Soviet Russia
Clos
Fis
United States
Netherlands
Brazil
Rue
Gromyko
U. S
Game Commission lecture to Kiwanis Club by Dr Hope Alexander
Dr Hope Alexander of the Pittsburgh Health Department spoke to the Kiwanis Club about wildlife and conservation. He noted a six million dollar backlog due to wartime underspending and limited personnel, hoping the program will resume soon. A moving picture Realm of the Wild was shown after the talk by Mr Staley of Rieck-McJunkin Dairy. Introduced by Indiana County Game Commissioner B W Catherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Alexander
Department of Health of
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Kiwanis Club
Alexander
Game Commission
Mr. Staley
Rieck- McJunkin Dairy Company
Dr. Alexander
B. W. Catherman
Indiana County
Fire aboard Brazilian liner Duque De Caxias aft of coast
The 17,000-ton Duque De Caxias with 1,060 passengers and 300 crew suffered a fire six miles off Cathorfic, Rio de Janeiro state. Five warships assisted as passengers were transferred to the British ship Tower Hill. Navy said no confirmed casualties though unofficial reports spoke of deaths and injuries. The vessel, built in 1918 in Philadelphia, sailed from Naples via Lisbon and Marseille on her third voyage and had been converted to a transport in 1941.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Navy
Buque de Caxias
Naples
Lisbon
Marselle
Philadelphia
Tampa
Fia
Sicily
Pacific
Army Truck Ambushed Near Tarvisio in War Zone
Unidentified attackers fired on an American Army truck crossing a Bailey bridge near Jugoziza five miles west of Tarvisio, but no casualties occurred. The 351st Regiment searched for assailants along the Morgan Line dividing US Britain zones from Yugoslavia in the Italian Adriatic head. Earlier this month an American jeep was ambushed, killing one soldier and wounding two.
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Gorizia
Trieste
351St
Jugoziza
Tarvisio
United States
Britain
Yugoslavia
Noon Stock Rundown of Major Firms and Percent Changes
A compact list of stock prices and percent changes for leading U.S. corporations and utilities. Firms include Am Can, Am Rad & Si, Anaconda, Atch T& SF, Boeing, Chrysler, Edison, General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, U.S. Steel, Boeing, IBM, and many others with varying percentage shifts from the prior close, reflecting daily market activity.
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Rad & Si. S
Smelt & R
Tel & Tel
Atch
T& SF WM
Balt & Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Budd Co
Ches & Ohio
Chrysler Corp Lit Colum G
É& el Lit
Cons Edison de
Curtiss Wright
del Lack & West
Douglas Aircraft
Duy Pont de
Eastman Kodak
el Auto
Pullman
Radio Corp
Reading Co
Repab Steel
Sears Roebuck
Socony Vacuum
Sperry Corp
Stand Hrands
Stdg&e Pt
Stand Oil Ca
Stand
Oi Ing
Stand Oil NJ
Studebaker Corp
Sutherland Pup
Swift & Co
Texas Co
United Aircraft
Ussmet A&m
Princess Leenburgh Buedingen says she was kidnapped
Princess Leenburgh Buedingen reports an American officer questioned her about the disappearance of art treasures from her 1000 year old castle near Buedingen Germany. She claims she was kidnapped and threatened to change her story while the treasure mystery remains unsolved. Her husband Prince Otto Isenberg Buedingen says he was also threatened. A Nazi court awaits the prince on related charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buedingen
Germany
Leenburgh Buedingen
Frankfurt Art Museum
U. S
Tha Tregaures
Ruben
Prince Otto Isenberg- Buedingen
Ask Children Be Declared Illegitimate
Robert K Molloy of Richmond Virginia petitions a Pennsylvania common pleas court to declare any child born to his estranged wife illegitimate. He cites inheritance rights for two legitimate children and seeks to restrain his wife from leaving PA and to require paternity tests for any future child. He separated from his wife December 6 1944 and filed for divorce March 26.
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Philadelphia
Robert K. Molloy
Richmond
Pennsylvania Common Pleas
Molloy
Pittsburgh
Robert K.molloy, Jr
Carol
Colleen Jenkins
Lansdowne
Keystone State
Rocket tops 104 mile altitude record at White Sands
A German V-2 rocket built from captured parts reached 104 miles altitude at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. The 14 ton guided missile set a new world record, beating the prior July altitude by 20.5 miles as it vanished briefly in overcast before descending 68 miles north of the launch site. Col. Harold R. Turner noted payload sensors would collect data on cosmic rays, temperatures and pressure above 100 miles. Instruments remained intact after detonation and parachute separation.
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White Sands
N. My
White Sands Proving Ground
Harold R. Turner
Agid
New Mexico School of Mines
Laney Wins Arkansas Governor Nomination in Primary
Gov Ben Laney captured a second two year term in the Democratic preferential primary as statewide races drew no runoff. Nathan Gordon Morriston attorney and Medal of Honor recipient won the lieutenant governor nomination while J Oscar Humphrey, the incumbent auditor, was re nominated. Laney's main opponent J M Malone of Lonoke conceded defeat late.
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Little Rock
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Nathan Gordon
Morriston
J. Oscar Humphrey
J. M. Malone
Lonoke
Laney
Surplus Sold In Overseas War Assets Report
Acting Secretary Dean Acheson said overseas war surpluses costing 3.6 billion have been sold for over 1 billion, a substantial achievement noted in a Congress transmittal letter. The Foreign Liquidation Commission reported two large properties costing 172 million were abandoned, the Stilwell Road and the Mid-to-Russia road through Iran and Iraq.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Congress
Thomas B. McBride
Stilwell
Burmg
Ching
Russia
Iren
Iraq
Heirens Plan for Confessions Collapses in Chicago
Chicago July 31 a high profile conference between state's attorney officials and William Heirens collapsed as the 17 year old refused to speak amid questions about the Degnan Brown and Ross murders. His attorneys said the meeting followed his written directions. they may call again in about a week. His mother met him briefly before he was returned to jail.
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Chicago
William Heirens
O “Eget Heirens
Suzanne Delran
Frances Brown
Degnan
Tuohy
University of Chicago
Elimax
Helrengs
Brown
Dexense
Helms
John P. Coghlan
Heirens
Coghlan
Malachy Coghlan
Constellation Crash Probed After Five Die Near Reading
CAB probes the July 1 Constellation crash near Reading Pennsylvania that killed five aboard and left one survivor. Capt. Richard Brown testified the No 3 engine backfired before a fire engulfed the cabin prompting grounding of all four engined Constellations pending the inquiry.
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Reading
Constellation
Here
Civil Aeronautics Board
Brown
TWA
Lisbon
CAB
Robert B. Chrisp
Philadelphians Confront Bread Strike Threats
Philadelphia faces food shortages as AFL bakery workers threaten a midnight strike at eight large bakeries producing a million loaves daily and Local 168 warehousemen plan a Friday morning walkout at four major grocery distributors, both seeking an 18.5 percent wage increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Uniong
DAR Regent Mrs Kent Dies in Philadelphia
Mrs. Louis L. Kent, 79, former National and Pennsylvania Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died yesterday at Hahnemann Hospital. She was a native of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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Philadelphia
Louis L. Kent
National
Pennsylvania
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hahnemann Hospital
Charlestown
Mass
Plan Dividing Palestine Into Four Areas
Lord Addison disclosed that American experts proposed partitioning Palestine into four areas with a Jewish province. Each area would have power to determine eligibility for permanent residence, addressing how many wandering Jews could migrate to the Holy Land.
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London
Addison
Anilo
Palestine
Holy Land
Bilbo Threatens Florida Paper Censorship
Miami newspaper reports a letter from Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi claiming he may introduce a bill to outlaw and suppress the Miami Daily News over editorial views. Bilbo says the News is the "meanest paper" in the country and cites a July 5 1946 editorial as justification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Miami Daily News
Theodore Bilbo
D-Miss
News
Bilbo
Washington
Thomas W. Hagan
the News
National Action
Senate
United States Senate
Miami :Delly
Theo G. Bilba
Invalid Kills Stepfather After Attack
Springfield New Labrador July 31 coroner W L Dragoo reported Miss Jacqueline Colburn 19 confined to a wheelchair said she shot and stabbed to death her stepfather James Lawrence Barregarye 36 in their home after a family quarrel No charges were filed though the case will go to a grand jury The girl claimed Barregarye advanced toward her and she fired then fought over a gun while stabbing him with scissors Her mother Loretta Barre Barre had bought the gun for protection after a prior assault Subscribe for the Gazette Now.
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Springfield
W. L. Dragoo
Jacqueline Colburn
Jawrence Barregarye
Draggo
John W. Curren
Curren
Barregarye
Lice
Loretta Barre- Barre
Barre Barye
Barregaryes
Adjourment Threatens To Kill US Foreign Policy Laws
Three administration bills to sharpen US world power and defenses stall in Congress adjournment. Only one seems likely to pass before Friday. two appear dead. Proposals include authorizing military missions abroad, standardizing Western Hemisphere arms, and aiding a Chinese army of up to one million if Marshall unifies China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Associated Prosg
Washington
Congress
House
State Department
Senate
Western Hemisphere
Arctic Circle
Antarctic
South America
George C. Marshall
China
Marshall
Marines Report Dead and Wounded in Ambush Near Peiping
Unofficial reports speak of a higher toll from Monday’s ambush 35 miles southeast of Peiping where 200 armed Chinese attacked a Marine convoy. Peiping garrison says three Marines were killed and 12 wounded, with one missing. Communist involvement denied by a spokesman who notes troops active nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beiping
Peiping
Marine Corps
Tientsin
Cornfield Batte
Poll Tax Bill Shelved Until Next Session
Washington July dL The Senate prepared to shelve the anti poll tax measure until the next Congress. Debate was limited by a cloture vote plan, with supporters needing two thirds. Southerners have historically used filibusters to block such bills, and leaders aim for adjournment by Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
Senate
Bak
Congress
Letters Held As Will Of WWII Prisoner In Pa
Judge J Burnett Holland admitted three letters as the will of Lt Warwick Potter Scott USNR of Gladwyne Pa. Scott wrote the notes while a prisoner of the Japanese after Corregidor fell. He left his 480000 dollar estate to brother Edgar Scott and sisters Anna Kennedy and Susan Wheeler. Scott was killed December 15 1944 when American bombers sank a Japanese prison ship.
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Norristown
J. Burnett Holland
Warwick Potter Scott
USNR
Gladwyne
Scott
Montgomery County
White
Corregidor
Philadelphia
Edgar Scott
Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Anna Scott Kennedy
Susan S. Wheeler
Church Raps Black Marketeers in Milan Letter
Alfredo Cardinal Schuster Archbishop of Milan warns black marketers will be denied sacraments. The dispatch notes the warning in a letter to archdiocesan clergymen after city prefect sought cooperation in fighting the black market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Alfredo Cardinal Schuster
Milan
US Worker Shot To Death In Manila Depot
George J. Sorrell, American civilian worker at the Manila quartermaster depot, was fatally shot on July 25 for “refusing to cooperate” with a theft ring. He signed a deathbed statement accusing a Filipino guard at the depot of the shooting. The guard has not been apprehended. Sorrell, recently married in Manila, took his army discharge there. home town not announced awaiting next of kin notification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
U. S. Army
George J. Sorrell
Sorrell
Obituary of Frank Kelly 70 of Saltsburg Indiana County
Frank Kelly 70 of Saltsburg formerly near Newrytown died July 20 at Indiana Hospital. Born 1974 in Conemaugh Township he lived near Newrytown most of his life. Survived by wife Ida, three daughters, one brother and three sisters. Services at St Matthew's Church Saltsburg August 1 9:00 a.m. Interment St Matthew Cemetery.
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Frank Kelly
Saltsburg
H. D
Fight Looms In Selection Of Delegate
Washington July 31 The Labor Department chief Schnellenbach backs sending a CIO delegate to the ILO meeting triggering White House pressure and AFL anger. Truman faces choosing between CIO preference or AFL prominence as the labor split over representation in the ILO looms amid a 7 million AFL and 6 million CIO memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Ward
Washington
Secretary of Labor
Schnellenbach
CIO
International Labor Office
ILO
Truman
White House
APL
William Green
George Meany
Matthew Woll
AFL
Schwellenbach
Plano
U. S
Reds sulk over seating at Paria Peace conference
London dispatches report Radio complaints that the United States received choice seats at the Paria Peace Conference, with front row status noted and an alphabetical seating system deemed clumsy. Evatt's push for equality drew criticism as Anglo American bloc influence cited by Moscow monitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moaran Radio
United States
Paria
Paris Dispatches
U. S
James F. Byrnes
V. M. Molo«hoy
Soviet Monitor
Herbert V. Evatt
Evatt
Byrnes
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