Navy retires real sea dog K-9 in grand sendoff
In San Diego on August 13, the Navy honored Sangie a veteran mascot of the carrier Sangamon and battles in the Pacific. The injured dog boarded a Tarawa escort for Denver where she will be delivered to her former master Black at the Denver Naval Reserve Air Base. The farewell included a bluejacket guard, a wagon departure, and a formal eight bell salute for the dog who bears campaign ribbons and battle stars.
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San Diego
Navy
Pacific
U.S. S. Tarawa
Cook
Denver
Colo
Josephus Asa Briggs
Sangie
Sandy E. Flack Jr
Black
Sangamon
Ie James F. O'Brian Heft
Donald Harrison
A. P. Wiranhato
Rebels seize Morinigo home in Asuncion street fighting
Paraguayan rebels burst into Asuncion center capturing President Higino Morinigo’s residence and the mounted police headquarters. Fierce house to house fighting followed as Loyalists defended barricaded streets while civilians joined arms. Morinigo’s whereabouts unknown amid reports he planned moving the capital to Pilar.
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Brenos Aires
Argentina
U.P
Paraguay
Asuncion
Higino Morinigo
Morinizo
San Bernardino
Limpo
Iratapai
Formosa
Morinige
Plannin
Tor Pilar
Moringo
Buenos Aires
Cement Fail in Theater Injures Five in Akron
In Akron Ohio two cement chunks loosened from the State Theater ceiling and fell into the auditorium injuring five people with minor injuries. The cement surrounded a 25 foot steel I beam. Fire department assistant chief Joan F Pansler directed the scene. Initial reports of a roof collapse were corrected.
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Akron
Ohio
State Theater
Joan F. Pansler
C I O Calls Off Goodrich Strike
Akron August 13 14 In ternational President L S Buck head of the CIO United Rubber Workers asked locals to call off their planned strike at B F Goodrich Co plants after the company agreed to conduct contract talks on a company wide basis. The walkout would have started tomorrow and expanded to seven Goodrich plants nationwide by Tuesday.
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Akron
Olivia
International
L. S. Buckmaster
C. I. O. United Rubber Workers
B. F. Goodrich Co
Goodrich
United States
British loan terms to be eased in Monday talks
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder announced in Washington that Monday discussions with British officials will explore easing terms of the 3.75 billion dollar U S loan to Britain. The British delegation led by Sir Wilfrid Eady will attend, as London seeks permission to shift imports and conserve dollar supplies.
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Angociated Prenn
Treasury
Snyder
Washington
Britain
England
United States
London
U. S
45 More Killed in Fighting in Punjab Capital
Lahore turmoil claims about 150 dead over two days as communal fighting escalates. Fires burn across the city while mobs attack Hindus and Sikhs amid anticipation of the Punjab boundary commission’s partition decision between Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan.
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Lahore
India
Punjab
J Punjab Boundary Commission
Pakistan
Mayor Curley Denied Lighter Sentence
Washington August 13 Federal Judge James Proctor refused to shorten the six to eighteen month mail fraud sentence imposed on Boston Mayor James M Curley.
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Curley
Washington
James Jr. Proctor
James M. Curley
Boston
Ship Sinks After Crash In Fog Off Washington
Wide hunt on for man who walked out Long Beach police issued an all-states broadcast to apprehend Ralph King a husky prisoner who escaped from jail Monday night Chief Staidht ordered a full investigation and said disciplinary action would follow if officer negligence is found King fled after paying a $25 fine using a prisoner's property to obtain the slip and $20 plus his own $5 He and an alleged partner Clyde Varrar were arrested in Newport Beach on a robbery of $3 000 from a restaurant bail set at $10 000 with Aug 15 for preliminary hearing Varrar is in custody and King is described as 29 years old 6 feet 1 inch tall 220 pounds with brown hair blue eyes and wearing a sport outfit and felt hat
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Long Beach
Ralph ‘J. King
Husky
Alvin F. Staidht
Otto Faulkner
Willian Jovey
Lorin. Q. Martin
King
Sand
Clyde M. Varrar
Los Angeles
Charles D. Wallace
Wallace
Slaight
Germans Say Russ Fires On Island In Wannsee
German police report that Russian soldiers in a motorboat fired on an island in the Wannsee inside the American sector of Berlin. The motorboat disappeared before an American lake patrol arrived. An officer suggested the party may have been duck hunting.
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BMS
U.S
Wannsee
Berlin
Halon
Senate group urged to probe Hughes via permanent joint body
Senator Homer Ferguson said a combined Home and Senate group could handle the Hughes warplane contracts inquiry more effectively. He urged creating a standing joint panel with expert staff to air cases publicly, while his aides push further material on Army Air Forces and War Production Board roles. Hughes, in Los Angeles, claimed the Brewster clash has only begun and insisted he will press on with flight tests.
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Homer Ferguson
Mich
Washington
Senate- War
Ferguson
Senate Committee
Senate
Hughes
Army Air Forces
War Production Board
Los Angeles
Owen D. Brewster
Brewster
Hart
Pan American Airways
Buil
Piotoreconiais
Boy Held for Attempt to Wreck Train in Maryland
Kenneth McGaha of Isaur Ohio was arrested in Frederick County after a second attempt within six years to derail a freight train. Railroad police said he placed spikes on tracks near Reel's Mill. the derailing failed as the train slowed for a curve. The boy claimed he wanted to see what would happen to the engine.
Drought Eased by Showers in Corn Belt Relief in Sight
Cooler air and scattered showers spread into the nation’s scorched corn belt easing near four weeks of drought. The Weather Bureau in Chicago said relief would reach Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa with lighter rainfall than crops need but enough to ease dry fields. Temperatures fell several degrees in Nebraska while remaining hot in other corn states, with further cooling forecast later this week.
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Nalion
WU. S
Chicago
Nebraska
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Tilinals
Marshall Urges New Talks with Russia
Secretary of State Marshall proposed to the Soviet Union that the United States and Russia reexamine by August 21 their stalled efforts to agree on a unified provisional government for Korea.
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Washington
Marshall
Russia
United States
Jali Korea
President Truman Sees Off Rio Delegation for Conference
President Truman sent the U S delegation to the Pan American security meeting in Rio de Janeiro with best wishes for a successful conference. The group, led by Secretary of State Marshall, includes Clairman Van den Berg and Warren Austin, pursuing Western Hemisphere solidarity and a formal defense treaty.
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Marshall
Brazil
Truman
George C. Marshall
Washington
United States
Rio de Janeiro
National
of State
Clairman’ Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations’ Committee
Warren R. Austin
U.S
U.N. Security Council
Vermont
State Sen Slater Dies Suddenly in Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa Aug 1 State Sen Herbert W Slater dean of the California Legislature and longtime Santa Rosa newspaperman died today after a heart attack on his way to his office. He had served in the Assembly first elected in 1910 and later moved to the Senate. Blind since 1919 Slater’s career was marked by overcoming disabilities and notable achievements after coming to the United States from Hereford England in his youth.
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Santa Rosa
Herbert W. Slater
California
Imelong
Santa Rosane
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Senate
Assembly
San Slater
United States
Hereford
England
Three million salmon cargo lost aboard Diamond Knot
The Alaska Steamship Co motor ship Diamond Knot sank near Crescent Bay after a collision with the freighter Fenn Victory in fog. The 3000000 salmon cargo was aboard, all hands survived, and tugboats attempted to tow, but tides and currents doomed the ship. Diamond Knot had launched in 1944 and served wartime cargo missions to the Pacific.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Alaska’ Steamship Co
Diamond
Knat
Crescent Bay
Here
Diamond Knot
Alaska Steamship. Co
Seatte
Mone
Fenn Victory
Strait of
Juan ‘de Fura
Race Rocks
Vancouver
Island
Alaska
Esquimalt Harbor
Washington
Bristol Bay
Seattle
Long Beach
Consolidated Steel Corp
Pacific Area
Search On for Young Hunter Tohn Anthony McGinley
The 17 year old hunter is missing after being separated from his party in the Tierra Blanca Mountains east of San Diego. Joe Page and R F Mitchell last saw him on a distant boulder while Deputy Sheriff L A Mathlot directs the search. John left Long Beach Friday night and recently finished his junior year at Woodrow Wilson High School.
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Tohn Anthony McGinley
E. J. McGinley
25Th St
Tierra Blanca
San Diego
Joe Page
R. F. Mitchell
Lemon Grove
L. A. Mathlot
Jacumba
John
Long Beach
Woodrow Wilson High School
Forest fire threatens Cape Breton settlements
A vast forest fire advanced toward Pleasant Bay area on Cape Breton Island, destroying half the village. About 200 residents of Wreck Cove, Meat Cove, Bay St. Margaret’s and Cape North faced evacuation. Police cutter French and fishing boats aided as 100 people were rescued Monday night.
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Urevncamp
N.S
Cape Breton Island
Pleasant Bay
Wreck Cove
Meat Cove
Bay St. Margaret's
Cape North
T He
French
Spurned Bourbon Meet Not Desired in San Francisco
The San Francisco Convention and Tourist Bureau says it does not want the 1948 Democratic national convention. Lansing Rothschild, president, told Mayor Lapham the city has none of the conventions it needs for the next two years and opposes funding to bring the Democrats. The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution inviting the Democrats, while party officials favored the event and suggested a $200,000 city raise. Rothschild said the bureau is opposed to buying conventions and hotel accommodations for guests is out of the question.
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AN Francisco
San Francisco
California
Rothschild
OMC
Java Says Dutch Have Violated Truce 252 Times
Indonesian army communique charges the Dutch violated cease-fire 254 times between Friday and Monday. Reports say truce in Dutch Indonesian hostilities began 10 days ago with Dutch advances in eastern and western Java. A Dutch patrol vessel reportedly fired on a Chinese motor boat from Sumatra to the Riouw Archipelago. A Netherlands army communique notes a soldier killed and 16 wounded in truce violations in Java and Sumatra.
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Batavia
Java
Sumatra
Riouw
Bandoen
Jogjakarta
East Java
Soerdbaja
Russian Ko freighter unloads Army scrap cargos in Mexico
The Russian ship Ko arrived off Progreso and entered Los Angeles harbor to load fuel after quarantine. Loaded with U.S. Army trucks, scrap metal, and steel, part of the cargo reportedly came from New York. A United States scrap shortage has raised prices to about $43 per ton.
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U. S. Army
Mexico
Ko, Miles
Progresso
Siberia
Los Angeles
New York
United States
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Rio
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Cape Breton Isle
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