Brooklyn Teen gangs clash in Memorial Day gun battle
In Brooklyn, two teen gangs the Nits and Greene Avenue Stompers exchanged about 40 shots on Memorial Day. Real and homemade guns fired as police, with 105 patrolmen, contained bursts in Lincoln Place and Prospect Park area. One Stomper was killed in a prior clash. 13 of about 20 youths captured.
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New York
Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Nits
Greene Avenue
Prospect Park
Raymond Wilson
Ben Weene
Lincoln Place
Schenectedy
Pet
Tribune
Memorial Day County
Jesse J. Horn
Osawatomie
Kan
Vincent D. Tubman
Charles
Horn
Tubman
Jean Owens
Hammond
Wis
Blanche Critzman
Pearl
Business Venture Odds Survey Shows High Risk and Reward
A survey summarized by Dun and Bradstreet notes 25 986 new incorporations in Q1 1950 up 18.6 percent from 1949 while bankruptcies rose 2 percent to 2559. A NY state handbook cites one seventh of US enterprises close annually with 30 percent failing in year one and 15 percent in year two.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
United States
State of
Rivoli Contest Winners Named in Singing Guns Draw
Rivoli theater judges select 25 winners in the Singing Guns color contest tied to the Western film Sin Guns starring Vaughn Monroe. Top five receive two tickets each. many others win single tickets. Winners include Arlene Kromke, Mary Swords, Janet Lambkin, Kay Larson, Patsy Jande and numerous addresses listed.
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Rivoli Theater
Vaughn Monroe
Rivoli
Arlene Kromke
Stoddard
Mary Swords
Johnson Street
Janet Lambkin
Madison Street
Kay Larson
Farnam Street
Patsy Jande
Jackson Street
David Hecht
Karen Nelsestuen
Barlow Street
Richard Walters
South Eighth Street
Gary Mozahn
Ebner’s Coulee
Mary Ellen Nontelle
South 30Th Street
Richard Graw
Clinton Street
David Irish
Third Avenue
Onalaska
Judy Ann Soller
Green Bay Street
John Rock
South 10Th Street
Carol Bonsack
South 15Th Street
Edwin Thrun
South Sixth Street
Clarence Niedfeldt
North
Ninth Avenue
Maribeth Timm
Rose Street
Janet Luech
Fifth Avenue
Lorna Mae Hurley
David Kerska
North Ninth Street
Barbara Cornell
South 22Nd Street
Herbert Lukas
South 16Th Street
LaVenne Cottrill
George Street
Tommy Woodard
South 19Th Street
Prague trial opens with guilty plea from Milada Horakova
In Prague Czechoslovakia the top defendant among 18 accused pleaded guilty at the trial opening. Dr Milada Horakova testified that Nazi party functionaries took directives from American British and French diplomats and admitted guilt to sabotage and spying.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Milada Horakova
National Socialist Party
Otnder
Horakova
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