Durant Captured Crown Jewels Case Convicted
In a German court martial near Kronberg, WAC Capt. Kathleen Nash Durant was found guilty of larceny and embeszzerment in the crown jewel theft from the House of Hesse. Sentenced to five years hard labor and dismissal from service, the case links to her husband Col. Jack W. Durant and dates to a summer Chicago arrest. Estimates value of loot up to $1,500,000.
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Frankfurt
WAC
Kathleen Nash Durant
Kronberg
VU. SS
Durent
House of Hesse
Kronberg Castle
Hudson
Wis
U.P
J. C. Lonergan
Danube Plan Talks Highlight U S and Russia Clash
At the Peace Conference the United States presses for American input in Danube internationalization as Russia challenges the stake of distant nations. Vandenberg’s maiden address sparks debate over navigation and trade along the Danube while commissions near two thirds completion on draft treaty articles.
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Paris
U.P
Arthur Vandenberg
United States
Danube
Vandenberg
James F. Brynes
Fedor Gusev
Russia
Gusev
St Lawrence River
Balkan
Europe
Germany
Black Sea
United Press
Elevator breakdown delays Nazi defendants at Nuremberg court
The guarded elevator carrying Hermann Goering and other defendants failed, delaying the reading of the summary. Workmen rushed to repair the machinery as about half the defendants were in court, and the rest arrived within a minute before the eight judges filed in.
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Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Goering
Wilhelm Keitel
Hjalmar Schacht
Hess
Wisconsin Factory Employment Rises to 1946 High
The Wisconsin industrial commission reports August factory employment at 313,900 statewide, with Kenosha at 13,220, down 9 percent from July. Wisconsin wages hit peak for 1946, average weekly pay $46.39 and hourly $1.10. Kenosha workers led state wages at $1.28 per hour and $50.61 weekly. Milwaukee County up 5.3 percent to 139,400. City figures show Beloit up 43 percent, Green Bay down 2.7 percent, La Crosse up 9.5, Madison up 2.5, Oshkosh up 2.6, Racine up 5.8, Sheboygan up 1 percent. (Continued on Page Nine)
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Kenosha
Wisconsin
State Industrial Commission
Milwaukee County
Industrial Commission
Beloit
Green Bay
la Crosse
Madison
Oshkosh
Racine
Sheboygan
US protests Yugoslavia over Trieste detentions
The United States accuses Yugoslavia of dis regard for Allied military rules in Trieste and spreading propaganda. An American note states six Yugoslav soldiers guarding UNRRA supplies in Venezia Giulia were found with concealed hand grenades and were subsequently released after an American board deemed the arrest justified.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Will Clayton
States Department
Venezia Giulia
Zone
UNRRA
Ex-Contract Expeditor Indicted for Contempt of Congress
Federal grand jury in Washington indicted ex-convict Benjamin F. Fields for contempt of Congress related to a House committee probe of a $12,936 surplus wire screening deal. The case centers on the contractor’s alleged failure to comply with congressional inquiries.
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Washington
Benjamin F. Fields
Congress
House Committee
Two Kenoshans Receive Meritorious Service Honors
Ensign Lyle S. Tennis and Gerald Wegner were awarded medals in a ceremony led by Vice Admiral George D. Murray. Tennis earned the Navy Cross for heroism near Okinawa May 4, 1945, while Wegner received the Distinguished Flying Cross and multiple gold stars for 20 to 25 combat flights in Mindoro and other areas.
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Kenoshans
Lyle S. Tennis
Gerald Wegner
George D. Murray
USN
Ninth Naval
Ensign Tennis
Nineteenth Avenue
Deerfield High School
Deerfield
Wis
Okinawa
Truculent Turtle Aims Nonstop Record Across Pacific
Navy patrol bomber the Truculent Turtle pushes from Perth toward the U S west coast in a non stop attempt to beat the world distance record. Cmdr Thomas C Davies leads the crew with Lt Cmdr R H Tabeling and Cmdr E P Rankin aboard as they plan to refuel and continue toward Seattle and possibly Bermuda if weather holds.
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Washington
U.P
Australia
United States
Bermuda
Perth
Midway Island
Central Pacific
U. S
Navy Department
Midway
Navy
Seattle
Wash
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Guam-Washington
Col
C. S. Irvine
National Aernautics Association
AAF
Irvine
Thomas C. Davies
Cleveland
W. S. Reid
Washington, D. C
R. H. Tabeling
Jacksonville
Fla
E. P. Rankin
Isapulpa
Oklo
October Draft Rate Increased
Washington reports a 35,000 man October selective service quota, up 10,000 from September with no age change to 19 through 29. Army moves to speed release of 300,000 non volunteers while replacing short-term personnel under the extended draft law to 18 months. Volunteer enlistments in early September total 23,239, nearly matching full month projections.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Predict 2,700,000 New Homes By '47
Washington reported by U P that 708,000 homes started this year and 350,000 completed as housing expeditor Wil son W Wyatt said demand exceeds supply. A survey shows 4,000,000 veterans want to buy build or rent new quarters and 2,200,000 are ready to proceed at current prices. Wyatt aims for 2,700,000 homes by end of 1947.
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Washington
U.P
Wil ‘Son
W. Wyatt
Wyatt
Forrestal Says Navy to Stay in Mediterranean
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal stated the United States navy remains in the Mediterranean to support Allied occupation forces and U S policies, with a plan to replace the Franklin D Roosevelt with another carrier. The move aligns with backing Turkey, aiding Greece, and pursuing a peaceful Trieste settlement amid broader Cold War tensions.
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Forrestal
Navy
Mediterranean
Washington
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Dardanelles
United States Navy
Atlantic
Mediterranean Sea
Europe
U. S
Six Injured in Four Car Crash on Highway 50
A Saturday night four car sideswipe crash on Highway 50 near French drive left six injured and one dead. Victims include Fred Baker 29 killed and sister Esther Baker 31 injured. drivers were David Merton 27 and others from Waukegan. Sheriff’s deputies transported victims to Kenosha hospital. traffic disrupted for hours.
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Sheriff's Department
Fred Baker
Esther Baker
French Drive
David J. Mer ‘Ton
Bassetts
Kenosha County
Jack C. Barnes
Edward E. May
William L. Nyland
Waukegan
Merton
Barnes
May
Nyland
Kenosha Hospital
Leonard J. Jensen
Chet Molinaro
William P. Schmitt
William Nyland
McAfee Road
Aimee Nyland
Harry Wilson
Washington St
Dorothy Hadsell
Connie Merton
Bessie May
Kenosha Truck Driver Charged In Fatal Collision
Fred Baker 29 died at Kenosha hospital from skull fractures after a collision with a pickup driven by Frank Hough 23 at Twenty second avenue and Sixty seventh street. Baker’s sister Esther 31 was treated for arm injuries. Hough charged with arterial violation as inquest planned next week.
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Fred Baker
Fourteenth Avenue
Kenosha Hospital
Frank Burton Hough
Zion
Twenty-second Avenue
Sixty-seventh Street
Kenosha
Hough
James A. Crossin
K. T. Savage
Crossin
Sam Westra
Glida Packard
Baker
Esther Baker
Sixty-seventh
Lyle Bolton
Walter Chase
Dean Taylor
Twentieth Avenue
Tribunal rules aggression a supreme crime in Nazi verdict
The International Military Tribunal ruled that conspiracy to commit aggressive war is a supreme crime. It sentenced 22 former Nazi leaders to imprisonment or the gallows, while acquitting the German general staff and high command and parts of the Nazi leadership as criminal organizations. Final judgments and sentences were set for the next day.
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Nuernberg
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Nazi Germany
General Staff
High Command
Reich Cabinet
Gestapo
United States
Great Britain
Russia
France
Hermann Goering
Rudolf Hess
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Britain
S. A
Reich Cab
Karl Doenitz
Erich Raeder
Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Hitler
Famed Architect's Daughter Dies in Wisconsin Car Crash
Mrs. William Wesley Peters, step-daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, and her two year old son Daniel died when the jeep plunged into a Wisconsin river slough near Spring Green. Both died of drowning en route to a Madison hospital.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
William Wesley Peters
Frank Lloyd Wright
Daniel
Wisconsin
Spring Green
Cleveland Auxiliary Bishop John R. Hagan Dies at 56
Rt. Rev. John R. Hagan auxiliary bishop of Cleveland and superintendent of Catholic schools in the diocese died Saturday. He was born in Pittsburgh.
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Cleveland
John R. Hagan
Pittsburgh
Nazi Leaders Face Fate as Nuremberg Trials Open
Twenty one top Nazi figures including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess sit in the dock as the Nuremberg trials begin. Attendees show varied expressions from resignation to anxiety while lawyers weigh potential death sentences and appeals.
Lift Press Ban At Executions
Berlin U P reports the Allied control council will admit two correspondents from each of four occupying nations to witness Nuernberg war crimes executions. The move follows a protest by United Press against a news blackout and authorizes US Britain Russia and France witnesses.
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Berlin
U.P
Allied Control Council Today
Nuernberg
Hugh Baillie
United Press Association
Joseph T. MacNarney
Council
Earl J. Johnson
United Press
U. P
United States
Britain
Russia
France
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U. S. Senate
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Holland
Andrews
Frank Farrell
Twenty-third Avenue
Chris Lehman
Eighteenth Avenue
Lehman
Frank
St. Catherine's Hospital
William M. Darkin
Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Darkin
Hughes
California
Swagger
A.P
Joachim von Ribbentropp
Julius Streicher
Wilhelm Frick
Bohemia and
Moravia
Adolf Hitler
Frick
Allied Control Council
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