Italian Envoy Pleads For An Easier Peace Treaty
At the Paris peace conference Premier Alcide De Gasperi urged a one year delay on the Trieste issue and overall settlement arguing the treaty was punitive and beyond Italy's capacity. He cited armaments cuts reparations and frontier changes as reasons to postpone while warning of broader European instability.
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Paris
Italy
Trieste
Alcide de Gasperi
de Gasperi
Venezia Giulia
Germany
Europe
Albania
V. M. Molotov
Greece
Balkans
U S Protests Red Arrests in Romania
The United States protests Romanian arrests of Romanian citizens employed by U S missions in Bucharest. Three cases since May 26 include Elvira Olteanu detained on alleged information leakage, Teodor Manicatide aided by Gen Schuyler, and Alexandru Stanescu missing. Officials oppose secrecy and warn of hostility.
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Washington
United States
Romania
Bucharest
Britain
Elvira Olteanu
Burton Y. Berry
Berry
Miss Olteanu
Teodor Manicatide
C. V. R. Schuyler
Allied Control Commission
Schuyler
Manicatide
Alexandru Stanescu
Amputees To Get Free Special Autos Fast
General Bradley said the new $30 million bill signed by President Truman authorizes purchases of cars for amputees as soon as possible. About 18,000 veterans may qualify with the government paying. Each car with required equipment cannot exceed 1600 dollars.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Truman
Bradley
Clear and cool Sunday in La Crosse area
Local weather for La Crosse and vicinity calls for clear skies and a cool day with a high in the afternoon around 76 degrees.
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la Crosse
La Guardia Reacts to Beer Gift in Prague
UNRRA chief Fiorello La Guardia in Prague criticized the reception beer as wine for grain needs. He warned a re survey of Czechoslovak grain requirements could cut relief supplies. Czech locals noted beer as part of daily diet amid scarce grain and fuel.
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Prague
UNRRA
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Czechoslovakia
la Guardia
Government to Start Building Reserve War Goods Stockpile
Undersecretary of War Kenneth C. Royall announced immediate action to create a 2.1 billion dollar war reserve stockpile of strategic materials. The plan, approved by Congress, will spread purchases over five years to limit domestic disruption and inflationary pressure while securing scarce resources for emergencies.
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Washington
Kenneth C. Royall
Truman
Royall
Treasury
Armed Services
War Department
Army and Navy Munitions Board
Manila
Army
Richard R
Pace
Cincinnati
Manila Board
Congress
Depree
Gertrude Stein Will Bequeaths Art and Archives
The Stein will filed in Baltimore probate names beneficiaries Alice B. Toklas and institutions. It leaves a Picasso portrait to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, manuscripts and correspondence to Yale University Library, and funds to Carl Van Vechten for printing unpublished works.
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Baltimore
Gertrude Stein
Alice B. Toklas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale University Library
Orphan’s Court
J. Kemp Bartlett, Jr
Neuilly-Sur-Seine
Miss Stein
Picasso
Paris
Metropolitan Museum
Carl van Vechten
New York
Peculiar housekeeper tied to suspected poison plot
In Madison Indiana Mrs Lottie Lockman 62 is charged with attempting to murder Mrs Mamie McConnell wife of hardware merchant Forrest McConnell of Dupont. McConnell says Lockman dominated the household and made all decisions while Dr Harger in Indianapolis studies the exhumed body of Minnie McConnell. Police plan further exhumations and Lockman offers to cooperate with examinations of more graves.
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Madison
Ind
Lottie
Tot) Lockman
Mamie McConnell
Lockman
Walter Sauley
McConnell
Forrest McConnell
Dupont
Indianapolis
R. N. Harger
Minnie McConnell
Here
Harger
Gala Program Set For Fair Sunday Finale
Inter-State fair draws near record one day attendance of 18 000 as plans unfold for a Sunday finale featuring a new grand stand revue top notch sulky races and the county dairy queen selection Dick Mack the seven year old pacer owned by George Joseph returns for a 2 pm grandstand start with additional races vaudeville acts and a fireworks finale Frisch notes the Saturday crowd filled the grandstand to capacity with standing room only and the John R Ward carnival runs through Sunday until midnight prior to leaving for Dubuque livestock exhibits stay open until 4 pm Sunday for late visitors and ribbons
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Joseph W. Frisch
la Crosse County
Dick Mack
George Joseph
la Crosse
Joseph
West
West Allis
Frisch
John R. Ward
Dubuque
Wealthy Westerner Marries Woman to Birth Certificate Status
San Francisco man Gus Woerner a 78 year old lock maker wed Juanita Smith a 45 year old woman in Albuquerque after a romance of 30 years. The ceremony was witnessed by Woerner and their 15 year old daughter as Woerner said the marriage was to provide a birth certificate for the child.
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San Francisco
Gustav Woerner
Juanita Smith
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Justice of the Peace
Miles Kangan
Woerner
the Examiner
the Call-Bulletin
Tulsa Garbage Men Strike Sheds Light on City Trash Backups
Tulsa officials warn nearly 1,000,000 pounds of refuse could go uncollected as garbage collectors and street workers strike. Health department workers will operate eight trucks to supplement five vehicles run by university students and young businessmen.
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Tulsa
Okla
George Stoner
City Health
R. M. Adams
Health Department
Sample Ballots Illustrated for August 13 Primary
The Tribune prints a double page spread of sample ballots for the August 13 primary. City Clerk Fred Kramer asks voters to save the pages and bring them to the polls to avoid confusion. A practice voting machine will be available at each precinct to familiarize voters with machine voting.
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Tribune
Fred Kramer
La Follette Assails Opponents Over Mud Slinging
Senator La Follette denounces his political opponents for mud slinging and false charges. He says Congress adjournment allowed “field day” attacks and that the opposition offers no constructive program to voters while promising smear and confusion.
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Associated Press
Sen. la Follette
Green Bay
Washington
Congress
la Follette
Senate
Wisconsin
Open Parleys Sought for Berlin Control Council
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney proposed that Allied control council meetings in Berlin be opened to the world press to dispel distorted reports and rumors. British French and Russian reps reportedly opposed the idea, noting secrecy surrounds four power governance in Germany.
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Berlin
Joseph T. McNarney
Germany
Allied Control Council
Paris
McNarney
Control Council
Broken Down China Relief Is Flayed
Shanghai reports Soviet delegate Leon Semenas blasted UNRRA relief distribution in China and demanded an accounting from CNRRA. He accused political factors of skewing aid and urged fair allocation, proposing steps to extend beyond emergency food shipments as ordered by UNRRA Director General LaGuardia.
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Shanghai
China
Leon Semenas
Far Eastern Council
UNRRA
CNRRA
Semenas
LaGuardia
Boxcar Breaks Free On Mount Washington Collision
Boxcar on the summit of Mt. Washington broke loose and crashed into a Cog Railway passenger train. Twenty people were injured, two with possible broken backs. Police could not immediately identify the injured, and hospital officials reported all 20 under treatment.
Senate probes lend lease favors and broker profits
The Senate war investigating committee reports former treasury staffers benefited from brokers in lend lease deals. Counsel George Meader cites possible 955 percent gross profits and says two men and a woman in the procurement lend lease division were fired for accepting favors. Investigators found weekend trips and parties connected to contracts.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Treasury
George Meader
Meader
Lendlease
Legion protests G L K Smith at Viroqua centennial
La Crosse American Legion Post 52 commander L V Weisensel urged locals to stay away from the Viroqua centennial program if Gerald L K Smith appears. He called Smith one of the era’s most infamous hate-peddlers and noted labor groups echoed the protest. Weisensel cited national Legion condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan and Smith in The National Legionnaire.
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L. V. Weisersel
American Legion
la Crosse
Gerald L. K. Smith
Viroqua
Smith
Weisensel
American Legion Post
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organization
America First Party
The
John Stelle
National Legionnaire
Seek Pact Change Istanbul Reportedly Requests Montreux Revision
An unofficial but reliable source said Russia formally asked for revision of the Montreux convention governing straits traffic. The move was reported as occurring shortly before the Friday midnight deadline for pact modifications.
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Istanbul
Russia
Montreux
Dardanelles Straits
Six of seven killed identified in Montana fair plane crash
Great Falls Montana officials named six of seven victims in the North Montana state fair collision and fire. Captains Howard Melroy George F Osgood Lt George B Colwell Jr and three others died in the flaming wreckage of two A 25 Invader bombers. One civilian victim remained unidentified. Andy Seaman Dorothy Szabo and Arthur Pelletier were among those identified earlier.
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Great Falls
Mont
North
Montana State Fair Grounds
Sanford Moats
Great Falls Army Air Base
Howard Melroy
Lake Charles
George F. Osgood
Agnes
Rotterdam Junction
N. Y
George B. Colwell, Jr
Mary
Luling
Tex
Tim
Harold Mady
Mady
Andy Seaman
Rexburg
Idaho
Seaman
Arthur Pelletier
Coleraine
Minn
Dorothy Szabo
Belt
Montana State University
Rioting in Athens After Race Fight Injures Many
In Athens Alabama a fist fight between two white veterans and a Black man sparked race riots. Authorities estimated 50 to 100 Black people injured as mobs of up to 2000 chased and trampled victims. About 10 white men were arrested and order briefly restored by state guards and police.
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Athens
Ala
D. L. Rosenau
Rosenau
Alabama
R. H. Richardson, Jr
Rosenal
Gadsden
Huntsville
Florence
Japs Skeptical Of Leaders MacArthur
Tokyo report details June cabinet doubts as to government strength. MacArthur cites food production and distribution failures, weak coalition, and divergent economic views hindering a clear program. Relief expected from extended fishing areas and increased seafood production.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Allied
Garsson Firm Names New President in Batavia Purchase
I G Grawoig a Chicago industrialist said he would head Batavia Metal Products Inc in a sale tied to a senate probe. James Stein Herman Starr and others announced Grawoig’s appointment in New York, with Garsson’s stake sold subject to ongoing court action.
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Chicago
I. G. Grawoig
Batavia Metal Products, Inc
Senate
Henry Garsson
Grawoig
New York
James Stein
Herman Starr
Stein and Starr
Garsson
Batavia
British Plans In Iran Defense Legal Say
British circles said Saturday that if Britain moved troops into oil-rich Iran to protect British subjects and property such action would be in full accord with the United Nations charter. Informants said Britain would consider any attack on British subjects or property as an attack on Britain and could take threatened military action in self-defense under article 51 of the charter.
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New York
Britain
Iran
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U. S
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Sauley
Negress
Favors
Hudson
By Jack Bell
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Raps
G. L. K. Smith
Montana
Storm Stores
Garsson Firm
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