Western Balkan inquiry probes Greek border clash as UN moves in
The United Nations Balkan commission flew into northwestern Greece to investigate Greek charges that an international brigade, allegedly from Albania, invaded Greek territory around Konitsa. The field team includes Australia, the United States, Russia, Brazil and Syria, while Security Council debate on the Balkans continues.
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Associated Press
AKE SUCCESS
United Nations Balkan subsidiary commission
Greece
Albania
USM
security council
Balkan
United States
Russia
Salonika
Konitsa
Australia
Brazil
Syria
tate
Evelyn Dick Enters Prison for Life Manslaughter
Evelyn Dick arrives at Portsmouth penitentiary to serve a life sentence for manslaughter in her infant son Peter David White’s death. Her father Donald MacLean, already jailed for accessory to John Dick’s slaying, serves five years nearby as Crown appeals her earlier acquittal.
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KINGSTON
Ont
Evelyn Dick
John
Hamilton escarpment
Portsmouth penitentiary
Peter David White
Donald Maclean
Evelyn
Hamilton
Barton Street
John Dick
Turned Back by Desert and the Desert Trek News
A Nottingham family returns from a 1000 mile Sahara trek to Britain and reports other overland explorers brave the desert instead of waiting for a sea passage. The item notes ongoing overland journeys and contrasts with sea routes in the Cape region.
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London Daily Mall
Nottingham
Britain
Sahara
Cape
Tulsa Police Report Tidy-Didy Truck Stolen
In Tulsa on July 19 a dispatcher details the theft of the Tidy-Didy service truck labeled with Rock-a-Dry-Baby. The routine day turns to concern as police relay the recovered information to squad cars.
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TULSA
Okla
Tidy-Didy service
Russian Arms Used in Sinkiang Skirmish Near Peilashan
Report from Northwest China notes Outer Mongolian forces attacked Peilashan in Sinkiang on July 5 with German and Soviet weapons and gold medals bearing Stalin’s profile. Two 22-year-old cavalry defenders, including Cherezima, claim a typical skirmish with ground troops, air support, and a downed biplane. Captured officer Sagmet wounded, then executed. Mongol booty listed as Soviet and German weapons, ammo, grenades, gold medals, and Soviet/Japanese-era photos. American weapons allegedly captured by Chinese communists cited by Moscow as exceeding needs. Newswire also cites mass Communist mobilization near Szepingkai and Tsingtao, with railway damage and planned drives against coastal positions.
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TSHWA
Northwest
China
Peilashan
Sinkiang
Stalin
Cherezima
Peitashan
Peltashan
Outer Mongolian
Sagmet
Marshal Choibsisan
WEAFONS
MOSCOW
Sevestia today
Matithuria
NANBING
Szepingkai
Manchuria
North China
Tsingtao
Shantung
Liu Po-Cheng
US Elevators Swamped By Wheat Crop
About 450 southwestern United States elevators shut down or partial due to a boxcar shortage that limits grain shipments. Railroads report record weekly carloads of iron and grain despite fewer cars in use. Cars on order total 137,000. Canada’s CPR plans to add 500 boxcars by September 1 to meet crop needs.
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CHICAGO
A.P
United States
pbugene W. Coughlin
Washington
car service division
Association of American Railroads
Santas
Oklahoma
Coughly
Midwest Snippers Advisory board
Coughlin
seaboard
Midwest Shippers Advisory board
CANADA
WINNT
Canadian Pacific Railway
William Manson
Manson
Bank employee on probation for embezzlement
DETROIT July 19 Judge Frank A. Picard placed 42 year old Arthur A. Craig a bank employee on probation for a $2000 embezzlement and commented that the bank seemed to have invited what they got. Craig testified he took $100 at each substitution as teller by juggling service charges to customers accounts and noted his salary plus bonus totalled $230 a month.
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DETROIT
Frank A. Picard
Arthur A. Craig
messenger
Commonwealth bank
Picard
Craig
Congress Passes Bill To Finance U S Policy
Washington July 19 A p Housed approved a 1 603 199 004 appropriation measure carrying 1 953 024 900 to finance American foreign policy. The action came by voice vote in about an hour amid protests to halt aid to Soviet dominated nations. Chairman John Taber said aid will be denied to ideologically allied states unless they cooperate with free nations.
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WASHINGTON
A.P
Greece
Russia
house of representatives
senate
House
John Taber
Rep. N.Y
house, appropriations committee
Soviet Union
British Princess Told To Leave Country Over Bad Cheques
Lady Iris Mountbatten, cousin of the King and great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was denied a renewed visa and ordered to depart the United States by Sept. 1 after charges in New York and Philadelphia that she cashed worthless cheques totaling about 185 dollars. Her host, Donald Neville-Willing, said a business associate would fly to Britain to explain the matter to her parents, while blaming cultural misunderstanding of American banking.
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Tris Mountbatten O Malley
King George VI
Queen Victoria
New York
Joseph Sulik
Washington, DC
Hamilton Keyes-O'Malley
Donald Neville-Willing
Iris Mountbatten
Britain
Iris
Victoria
bureau of immigration and naturalization
Washington, D.C
Neville Willing
England
immigration bureau
Philadelphia
Lady Iris
United States
White Man Wins Car in Negro Drawing
Louisvill e Ky July 1947 Charles H Wabnitz a white man was awarded an automobile in a sorority drawing. The committee noted the winner’s white address and the draw was held before news of a separate North Carolina incident. Wabnitz gave his old car to the ticket seller Lee Roy Smith, a Black hospital janitor.
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LOUISVILLE
Charles H. Wabnitz
Aeero college
Wis
Corviyn
Bianiun
Wabnite
Wabnitz
Lee Roy Smith
No Action Taken As Bank Strike Begins In New York
In Brooklyn Trust Company strike action, three young women chained themselves to the bank entrance as 400 of 700 employees walked out. Guards used hacksaws to free customers while 18 of 24 branches ran poorly. Police investigate alleged brutality.
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NEW YORK
Brooklyn Trust Company
Financial Employees Guild
guild
United Office and Professional Workers of America
Arthur W. Wallander
Palestine Claims Jewish Support for Lawlessness in Palestine
The Palestine government told the United Nations that Jews organized a campaign of violence to advance political aims in the Holy Land. In a supplementary memorandum, Britain’s Palestine administration accused Jews of using force since 1945 and aiding dissidents, while some leaders refuse to aid suppression of terrorism. In Haifa, the Exodus 1947 captain was jailed after a clash between 4500 Jewish refugees and British marines left three dead and over 30 injured. Walter Bernstein of Los Angeles identified among the dead. The ship, the former President Warfield, was intercepted off Palestine’s coast by five British warships as refugees headed to Cyprus.
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JERUSALEM
Palestine
Holy Land
United Nations special committee on Palestine
HAIFA
Exodus
uie
Walter Bernstein
Los Angeles
Bernstein
President Warfield
Brit~ wish
Hope Arbitration Sought to End Indonesia-Holland Crisis
Atavia July 19 Indonesian Republicans seek last minute British arbitration to end the Dutch imperial standoff. Indonesian cabinet at Jogjakarta rejects cease-fire, backs 10 appeals to the Dutch, and calls for peace while awaiting Dutch terms. A British consul general advised compliance with Dutch demands after talks with Republican leaders and foreign envoys. The Hasne note says no basis for further contacts, as the deadline to withdraw from front-line posts looms.
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ATAVIA
Britain
India
Australia
Indonesia
Holland
Jogjakarta
Batavia
Amir Sjarifuddin
Netherlands
Hasne
Netherlands East Indies
Toronto Star Appeals Ruling For New Trial
Toronto Star asks the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn an Ontario Court ruling ordering a new trial in Premier Drew's libel suit against the paper. The case centers on Star editorials accusing the government of running a Gestapo during the life election campaign. The appellate court had unanimously overturned a jury verdict, granting a new trial.
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TORONTO
supreme court of Canada
Toronto Star
Ontario Court of appisl
Gestapo
Prenier Grew
appelate court
Bevin warns wrong decision could set future war
Morpeth Northumberland July 19 Foreign Secretary Bevin warned a wrong decision in postwar power relations could condemn children in 40 or 50 years to war. He spoke at a coal miners picnic and urged unity with the United States and Soviet Russia while defending European security and Germany Ruhr reconstruction concerns.
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MORPETH
Northumberland
Eng
Bevin
voal
United States
Europe
Russia
France
Germany
Ruhr
Five Burmese ministers slain in Rangoon attack
London reports a murderous attack on a Rangoon executive council meeting left five Burmese ministers dead. Burma’s government confirmed the killings and promised further information as details were awaited. The Burma office noted the incident followed the recent push for independence and the anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League’s leadership in Burma.
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LONDON
Burma
executive council
Rangoon
U Aung Sen
People's Freedom League
constituent assembly
Union of
Sparks and Accord clash in Baltimore police court
Sparks testified in Baltimore court as John Accord, 45, a former resident of Sparks' apartment, was accused of entering Sparks' home and triggering a violent confrontation. Sparks recalled a police officer advising him to strike if the intruder returned, ending with Accord’s fate unclear.
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BALTIMORE
Sparks
Accord
Henry Sparns
John Accord
Western Allies Clash Over Ruhr Coal Plan
Washington reports a three sided rift among Britain, France, and the United States as the Marshall plan faces a split over Ruhr coal and industrial production. Britain wants a broader conference scope and funding details while France opposes widening German industry and suggests relocating Ruhr plants to France to curb perceived war potential.
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WASHINGTON
Ruhr
Marshal
Europe
Marshall
Britain
United States
France
British Warships Arrive in Phaleron Bay
G B Warships off Greece. The Liverpool cruiser and four other British Mediterranean fleet ships arrived in Phaleron Bay yesterday. Father John Hannon, 63, Jesuit assistant to the secretary general, died Friday in Canada. He was a native of Limerick Ireland.
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ATHENS
Reuters
Liverpool
Phaleron Bay
VATICAN CITY
John Hanon
Sacety of Jesus
Jesuits
Canada
England
Ireland
Belgium
Australia
Hannon
Limerick
Eire
Vauxhall Farmer Killed In Tractor Accident
Ray Seeley about 30 a farmer living three miles southwest of Vauxhall died when the tractor he rode with Adrian McAndrews of Vauxhall overturned on the road to his home. Tid ing in a trailer behind the tractor was Russell Owen. McAndrews was thrown clear while Seeley was pinned beneath the machine. RCMP investigated as funeral plans for Seeley with widow and one baby pending.
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VAUXHALL
Ray Seeley
Taber
Adrian McAndrews
Holy War Warning in Batavia A.P.
Indonesian spokesman warns against Dutch hostilities within a month. If skirmishes resume, Indonesia could mobilize its 70,000,000 Muslims during Ramadan the holy month of fasting.
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BATAVIA
ava
Indonesia
Mostem
GREECE
ATHENS
ministry of public order
VICTORIA
Luther Harold Nelson
Axel
sun
REGINA
C.P
Donald Cheney
Ottawa
John Swelman
Vermilion
Alto
HONG KONG
Reuters
Chilang Point
United States
MILWAUKEE
Wis
A.P
United States Soil Conservation Service
Towa
Missouri
Wllngis
ALASKA
SEWARD
Kenai Peninsula
Kenai river
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Hubert Rance
Burma office
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