Heirens Figures in Unsuccessful Self-Hanging Attempt
Chicago U P reports William Heirens the confessed killer of Suzanne Degnan Frances Brown and Josephine Ross attempted to hang himself with a sheet in his Cook County jail cell around 1 am. Guards intervened quickly and he faced imminent sentencing. four guards were suspended for leaving posts.
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Chicago
U.P
William Heirens
Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Frances Brown
Josephine Ross
Michael Mulcahy
Mulcahy
Cook County
George Murman
Murman
Truman rules out special session this year
President Truman said at his first news conference since returning from an 18 day sea voyage that he sees no emergency warranting a special session of Congress this year and has given no thought to one after the current session ends. He backed the New York Democratic ticket and cited continuing maritime strike negotiations. He reiterated support for Jewish immigration to Palestine and noted Allied plans to try war criminals.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
New York
Mead
Herbert Lehman
Labor
Schwellenbach
Palestine
May
Daniel J. Andersen
Senate Committee
Prestonburg
Kentucky
Cumberland Company
Burglar Uses Rice Trail to Escape in Kansas City
Ronald Quinn woke, slipped, and investigated with his wife who felt like stepping on tacks. The burglar had fled through an open window after stealing $52 and scattering about two pounds of rice to hinder pursuit.
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Kansas City
Ronald Quinn
Quinns
Government Aid Planned for Great Lakes Erosion Fight
The 79th Congress limits will aid Wisconsin Illinois and Michigan shore communities facing erosion along Lake Michigan. City surveys will be done by Army engineers and federal help will cover one third of seawall and shoreline protection costs with construction delayed a year or more.
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Wisconsin
Illinois
Washington
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Michigan
Lake Michigan
Washington News Service
Kenosha
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Pacific
Interurban Train Kills Woman Near Racine County
Milwaukee widow Mrs. Mary Santalucia, 35, died last night after an electric interurban car struck her one mile north of the Racine county line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Mary Santalucia
Racine County
Molotov Returns from Moscow as Paris Peace Talks Lag
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov arrives from Moscow amid a stalled Paris peace conference with Byrnes in Germany and Bevin en route to London. Vishinsky blasts Italian policy and insists Trieste terms by the conference must stand, while Soviet Yugoslavia and Russia push to limit reparations for damage in Romania.
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Paris
U.P
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Stalin
Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Germany
Ernest Bevin
London
Andrei Vishinsky
Italy
Vishinsky
Ivanoe Bonomi
Trieste
Bonomi
OPA Restores Meat Ceilings While Holding Lip On Cosmetics
The OPA lifts ceilings on lipstick toothpaste and cosmetics but keeps meat price limits until Monday. It vows action against meat black market and monitors big stockpiles in New York and Chicago. Milk and butter ceiling status under review with no hearing planned. Beef pork veal pork ceilings to rise about three to six cents per pound aiding livestock prices. Continuous suspension of some cosmetic items set to resume if prices exceed 25 cents.
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Washington
OPA
New York
Chicago
Decontrol Board
Roy L. Thompson
Agriculture Department
AAA Pays Farmers to Harvest Clover and Alfalfa Seed
Kenosha county AAA chairman Frank M. Fox announced a special payment plan to boost red and alsike clover and alfalfa seed harvest. Seed sold to dealers earns nine cents per pound for red clover and seven cents for alsike clover and alfalfa. farmer grown seed is ineligible. Acreage payments are suspended this year to maximize seed yield.
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Frank M. Fox
Kenosha County
AAA Committee
Fox
AAA
Triple-A
J Agricultural
City Reports No New Polio Cases in Kenosha
For the first time since August 7 no new poliomyelitis cases were reported in Kenosha. The city totals 87 cases in city and county with 18 in the county and 69 in the city. Dr. A J Randall says polio is on the down grade and schools will be sprayed with DDT to curb disease carrying insects.
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A. J. Randall
Forrest E. Conner
Conner
National Four
Strike by AFL Seamen Ties Up Atlantic Pacific Ports
AFL seamen strike affecting New York Baltimore San Francisco Oakland Portland with 100000 seamen 300000 other AFL members and CIO groups walking off ships. President Truman said Wage Stabilization Board dispute is in Labor Secretary Schwellenbach hands as rail embargo halts export freight and picket lines go up coast to coast.
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New York
AFL
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf Ports
Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Labor
Schwellenbach
Baltimore
Seamen's International Union
Seamen's Union of the Pacific
John Hawk
The
SIU
Washington
Association of American Railroads
Charles Spencer
U. S. Maritime Commission
SAP
Hawk
John Morgan
Boston
New England
SUP
Seafarers’ International Union
WSB
City Council Funds Electroencephalograph Purchase
Alderman Bowler urged the finance committee to okay 2300 dollars for the municipal court's psychiatric institute to buy an electroencephalograph. Critics and jokes followed as the group approved the purchase, with minutes not detailing the device.
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Chicago
James B. Bowler
Psychiatric Institute
Duffy
Gillespie
Bowler
Army Clears Garsson Munitions Firm in Mortar Shell Deaths
The Army cleared the Garsson Munitions Combine of responsibility for defective 4.2 mortar shells that killed 38 soldiers and injured 127. A War Department report attributed defects to faulty fuses and named four principal fuse makers led by Dr. Henry M. Garsson. The report, released to the Senate War Investigating Committee, identified William Fencil Co, Huntley Ill. Milwaukee Stamping Co, Milwaukee. Casco Products Corp, Bridgeport Conn. National Fire Works Co, West Hanover Mass.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
Senate War Investigating Committee
Prestonburg
Garsson Munitions Combine
Kentucky
May
Mana
TIA Ntv
Army
War Department
Henry M. Garsson
William Fencil Co
Huntley, Ill
Milwaukee Stamping Company
Milwaukee
Casco Products Corp
Bridgeport
Canada Names New Ambassador to the U. S.
Ottawa Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King announced a diplomatic shuffle naming Hume Wrong as the new Ambassador to the United States. Wrong, 51, will succeed Lester B. Pearson in Washington after serving as Associate Undersecretary of State for External Affairs.
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Ottawa
W. L. MacKenzie King
United States
London
Canada
Hume Wrong
Lester B. Pearson
Washington
Wrong
Housing Shortage Approaches New High in Honolulu
Honolulu faces a growing housing shortage reaching a new high. An advertisement in the Star lists a furnished roof for rent at 721 Captain Cook Avenue as a glimpse of the market.
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Honolulu
The
Star. Bulletin
Captain Cook Avenue
Widespread Car Swindle Bares Slim Leg of Two Women
Sheriff and district attorney issued warrants for two women tied to a multi state confidence game. Victims in Kenosha and Fond du Lac were duped by the same car sale scheme with a 1940 Chevrolet and a 1941 Dodge. The suspects named Anne Shapiro alias Carol Falsetti and Dolores Shapiro are described in detail as a nationwide search unfolds.
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Milton LaViolette
K. T. Savage
Kenoshans
Joseph J. Feest
Box 53
Lamere
Sealond
Thea
WNW
Eetrer Dts
Salome
Sheriff's Department
Frank J. Odar
Kenosha
Feest
Dolores Shapiro
William Schmidt
Kenoshan
Louis Sanford
Twenty-third Avenue
Sanford
Schmitt
Fond du Lac
Carol Falsetti
Anne Shapiro
Carol Faletti
Michigan
Maj. R
Plane crash near Elko claims at least eighteen lives
A twin engine DC-3 with 21 aboard crashed into a hill near Elko Nevada early today killing at least 18. A two year old survived and was hospitalized. Two others were missing and presumed dead. The Newark to San Francisco flight went down at 1 17 a m PST near the desert town.
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Elko
Nev
U.P
New York
San Francisco
Elko General Hospital
Charles Smith
Newark
N. J
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Racine Couty
Balkan Economic Commission
Russia
Yugoslavia
Romania
United Nations
V. S. Gerachenko
Avaveau
House Military Committee
Senate
Kentucky Democrat
Combine
Cumblerland Lumber Company
Garsson
Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc
Batavia Metal Products, Inc
Garsson Group
Cumberland
Miami
Fla
Federal Board
CIO National Maritime Union
Council
City Hall
U. S
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