West Point Expels 90 cadets for honor violations
The army cashiered 90 West Point cadets including some varsity football players for receiving outside help to pass tests. Names will not be released. Secretary Pace approved the action on a unanimous board recommendation set up by Gen. Collins. The academy, with about 2400 cadets, upholds a strict honor code, and the superintendent called the move stern yet necessary to preserve the honor system.
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Washington
Army
West Point
Pace
J. Lawton Collins
Frederick A. Irving
Irving
Military Academy
Labor Board reverses itself on CIO union shop contracts
The National Labor Relations Board for the first time reverses a ruling and voids 4700 CIO union shop contracts. The 3 to 1 decision says a CIO contract signed before CIO leaders filed non Communist affidavits still blocks rival unions from new representation elections. The AFL Blacksmiths petitioned Ford Motor Co Canton Ohio for a new vote at the forge division where CIO United Auto Workers already held a contract.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
National Cio
AFL
Ford Motor Co
Canton
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
NLRB
Highland Park
Four Polish Refugees Land Plane in Sweden
Four Polish refugees arrived in Stockholm in a patched-up single engine plane and sought political asylum. They came as authorities questioned twelve Polish seamen who had earlier landed after mutiny aboard a Polish minesweeper.
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Sweden
Stockholm
WUP
Berlin Exports Flown To West Germany
In the last 24 hours Berlin exported 90 tons of goods to West Germany as part of an expanding effort to beat Russian controls that have cut overland shipments. The figure more than doubled the tonnage from two days earlier as three airlines join in offloading freight and awaiting more freight planes to grow the program.
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Berlin
West Germany
Ex Show Girl Jailed For Hoax at Air Base
Madele Frances Evans eighteen twenty six year old former show girl was jailed after impersonating a WAF lieutenant at Bergstrom air base near Austin Texas She hitchiked on a major’s plane to Bergstrom obtained temporary ID and staff car transport and won lodging at the nurses quarters before being exposed by Col Ben Lichty The motive cited was to help her husband a newlywed sergeant bound for England as she sought a commission in the WAF saying it was a joke and not meant seriously.
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Austin, Tex
Madele Frances Evans
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Bergstrom
Air Force
el Paso
Tex
Evans
WAF
Austin
Ben W. Lichty
Lichty
Hold Former Beer Baron Held on Large Bail
Waxey Gordon once top bootlegger and public enemy No 1 jailed in New York on $250000 bail as a major narcotics peddler. He and three others allegedly carried heroin worth over 150000 in a coast to coast black hand ring. Gordon, real name Irving Wexler, waived exam. Saypol notes he still owes 1 million in taxes. Gordon previously faced tax evasion trial in 1933 with Dewey.
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New York
Waxey Gordon
Gordon
U. S
Edward W. McDonald
Manhattan
Irving Wexler
McDonald
Irving Saypol
Saypol
Elizabeth Philip Will Visit U S
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip will visit Washington October 24 to 26 to meet President Truman. They will stay at Blair House while the White House is rebuilt after their Canadian trip and will sail from England on September 25 aboard the Empress of France.
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London
U.S
Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Truman
Washington
Buckingham Palace
Blair House
White House
Canada
England
Butler Campaign Tactics Denounced by Probers No Ouster Move Sought In Report
Probe reports say Butler campaign tactics were denounced while no ouster move is sought. The piece notes UN cease-fire talks in Korea with lines drawn near Kaesong, amid disputed North–South front positions and ongoing negotiations. It mentions Brig. Gen. Nuckols and Vice Adm. Joy in updates from Kaesong.
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Butler
Kaesong
Korea
U.P
United Nations Command
Seoul
William P
Nuckols
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Nam II
Nam I
Halt Streamliner Near Broken Rail Detected in Winthrop Harbor
Deputies Leo Sikora and Edward Krok with Zion and Winthrop Harbor police halted a speeding North Western "400" six blocks from a track break in Winthrop Harbor. An eight inch rail tear was found after Ray Neal alerted authorities. The line was rerouted and repaired by section hands by 10:30 p.m.
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Zion and
Winthrop Harbor
North Western Railroad
Leo Sikora
Edward Krok
Armala Tnaertadian
Willaca
Zion
7Th St
Chicago
Derradian
Family of Four Flee From Night Fire
A 49 year old man Arthur Schulkowsky and his three children escaped a fire that destroyed their four room frame home on 5523 4th Ave. He suffered third degree burns to his right foot and was treated at Kenosha hospital. Fire origin undetermined. neighbors provided shelter.
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Arthur Schulkowsky
Arneson Foundry
Arthur
Shirley
Schulkowsky
Kenosha
Kenosha Hospital
Russell Arneson
Tighten Rules On Eviction
Washington announces new safeguards against unjust evictions for tenants, especially families of military service members. Measures limit removals for company housing, require proof of need for self occupancy, and ensure rent ceilings and conversion rules respect tenants. Evictions to permit alterations must show increased housing or necessity and that work cannot occur while occupied.
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Washington
Office of Rent Stabilization
Tighe E. Woods
Milwaukee druggist fined and jailed for income tax evasion
Frank B. Gerrits a 50 year old Cedarburg druggist was fined 3000 dollars and sentenced to three months in federal prison for income tax evasion. He admitted to evading seventeen thousand nine hundred forty four dollars in taxes for 1944 to 1946 in Judge F Ryan Duffy's circuit court proceedings.
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Milwaukee
Franklin B. Gerrits
Cedarburg
Gerrits
F. Ryan Duffy
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
OPS Upholds Newsprint Price Hike
Four more paper firms sought increases as OPS upholds a newsprint price rise. Crown-Zellerbach raised to 116 dollars per ton matching Canadian levels protested by Price Stabilizer DiSalle. Officials did not disclose other requests while a House subcommittee plans a Canada visit this fall to study newsprint shortages.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
Crown-Zellerbach Paper Co
San Francisco
Michael V. DiSalle
OPS
House
Canada
U. S
O Dwyer Deal Deemed Proper Transfer Contained
William O Dwyer transferred 1 million dollars from Mexico to New York in a regular financial transaction between the Mexican and U S governments. Officials said there was no impression of an extraordinary move and rejected reports as baseless and unfounded.
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Kaesong
Red
Tokyo
United States Army
William O'Dwyer
Mexico
New York
U. S
Cool Nights Ahead Bring Sleep Time Relief
Forecasters predict fair, cooler conditions tonight with chilly lows varying by region from 32 to 60 degrees. In the southeast, expect a low near 34 to 60 while other areas dip to about 46 to 32 as temperatures ease for restful evenings.
Favor More Wage Hikes
A brief note argues in favor of increasing wages, suggesting broader economic benefits and improved living standards for workers amid rising living costs. The piece emphasizes impact on families and local business vitality.
Army to Have Team Despite Dismalson Findings
Chicago street corner reports discuss drug addiction concerns with court judge Gilson E. German proposing examinations of children after September classes to detect addictions. Separate items note Peron invoking emergency powers to end a railway engineers strike and Wisconsin golf semifinals with Billy Sixty Jr. leading near the end of the first half.
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Chicago
Sereetion Court
Gilson E. German
Todey
Sixty
Jamieson
Janesville
Wis
Billy Sixty, Jr
Milwarker
Walter Atwood
Madison
John Jamieson
Madcon
Jerry Wellam
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W. G. Switzer
Atlantic Fleet
J. J. Ballentine
Norfolk
Fechteler
Forrest P. Sherman
Labor Board
Philip
Mountain
United Nations
5Th Air Force
Pyongyang
Tydings
Roar AB Enone Og Oy
Tidings
Bart Browder
Shasta Dam
Calif
Sacramento River
San Joaquin Valley
California
Central Valley
Washington State
Grand Coulee
Broken Rail
Salalwveana Sour Ummm EE
Vaaseer
Kenosha County
Lyle Greene
Henry Lybe
Lutheran Hospital
Cleveland
Eleanor
Frances Forystek
Barbara Ann Greene
Terese Ann Sybo
O’dwyer
Tehran
Peron
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