Bride of Frank White Identified in Karuizawa Photo
A portrait taken at Karuizawa, Japan, by former Army Air Forces correspondent Andrew J. Seraphin, is identified as Pia Kurusu, daughter of Japan’s envoy to the U. S. at Pearl Harbor time. Pia Kurusu married Frank White, ex American Army officer from Somerset, Pennsylvania, yesterday in Japan.
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Karuizawa
Army Air Forces
Pia Kurusa
Japan
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Miss Kurusa
Frank White
Somerset
Andrew J. Seraphin
Philadelphia
Pia Kurusu
A. P. Wirepirates
India Chiefs Plead for Masses to End Religious Slaughter
In Delhi and Calcutta, leaders urge peaceful methods as India marks independence. Nehru cabinet calls for nonviolence while Gandhi holds a peace mission. vast crowds celebrate, yet Punjab rioting in Lahore claims hundreds of lives and mass fires.
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India
Delhi
Ags.a.p
Dominion
Pakistan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Punjab
Lord Mountbatten
A. Jinnah
Harachi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Bollaghatta
Calcutta
Gandhi
Lahore
Collapsing Wall of Theater Falls on Five
In Springfield Illinois on Aug 15 a wall and part of the roof of the Senate movie theater collapsed before show time. Three men and two women were injured and pulled from the brick and wood debris in the alley beside the theater. The workers were remodeling staff and cleaners.
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Springfield
Senate Movie Theater
Brazil Urges Pan American Unity At Inter-American Conference
Petropolis Brazil Aug 15 President Eurico Gaspar Dutra urged 20 nations to show universal unity and Pan American solidarity against future aggressors. Delegates elected Raul Fernandes Brazil’s foreign minister as conference president to seek a mutual defense treaty. Dutra said organized international society must merge law and action and urged UN-like restraint for the community's good.
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Petropolis
Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Raul Fernandes
Dutra
Flo
United Nations
The
Devils and Opposing Towns Battle Over Heat
In Hartford yesterday August 135 610 residents of Satan's Kingdom and Lord's Corner debated who felt the heat most. Weather Bureau logged maximums across several local places: Satan's Kingdom 98 degrees, Lord's Corner 96, Devil's Den 97, Devil's Hopyard 94, Furnace Hollow 93, Promised Land 97.
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Hartford
Conn
Satan's Kingdom
Lord’s Corner
Weather Bureau
Satan’s Kingdom
Devil's den
Devil's Hopyard
Furnace Hollow
Promised Land
Tremendous Blast Hits Coal Mine Near Whitehaven
A massive explosion in a coal mine under the Irish Sea near Whitehaven England tonight is believed to have killed 118 miners. Rescue parties entered soon after the blast at 7 pm local time but contact with trapped miners has not been established. The Willian mine has a history of deadly incidents and fire after previous blasts. one worker survived nearby. Panic spread in Whitehaven as rescuers search the dark smokefilled pits with no trace of the missing miners.
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Whitehaven
England
Irish Sea
Britain
Williberland
Willian
Solway Firth
Ismoke
Harry Allen
White
Haven
Wellington
Eisler Found Guilty on Fraud Count
A Federal Court jury found Gerhart Eisler, alleged top Communist in the United States, guilty of giving false information on a passport application in 1945. The charge carries up to five years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine. Sentence not immediately pronounced after a two hour plus deliberation by a five-women seven-men jury.
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Washington
Corvicted
Gerhart Blujer
United States
New Jap Volcano Eruption Reported
Army headquarters announced that Mt Asama eruption killed three Japanese and left two missing after ash was thrown up on Thursday. Capt Charles Hodison reported a separate 7000 foot eruption near Nagano, about 310 miles north of Tokyo.
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Mt. Asama
Tokyo
Army
Charles Hodison
Hutchinson
Kan
Nagano
US Rejects Soviet Demand on Japanese Peace Pact
The United States rejected a Soviet proposal to have the Big Four draft Japan’s peace treaty. The State Department note says the treaty should be drafted at a conference of nations led by the United States Britain China and Russia. Attendees include Britain China France the Philippines Canada Australia New Zealand India and the Netherlands. all except Russia have accepted.
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Owever
Ed Jtachipe
Soviet Union
Britain
China
Frussia
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands
France
Philippines
India
Canada
Russia
United States
Council of Foreign Ministers
U S Raps Brutality of Reds in Romania
The State Department charged third degree methods are used in Romania to extract confessions from political prisoners. White said reports show almost 2000 victims languishing in prisons and camps, with treatment described as cruel and inhuman and aimed at extermination.
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Ashington
U.P
State Department
Romania
Lineal White
United States
Wrrneg Wean
Cues Dua Ares Arape Bourne
U. & Teprasenta
Uve
Bucharest
Hungary
White
Massacre in Arab-Jewish clash.
At Tel Aviv an attack by twenty five armed Jews killed sixteen Arabs and one Jew in an orange grove and near a house. Government reported twelve Arab bodies recovered including four children. In Washington President Truman met with his cabinet in a regular Friday session as the six days of sporadic fighting continued.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Washington
Truman
Announced Arrival of Crying Twin Before Birth in Cincinnati
A day-old girl at Good Samaritan Hospital was said to have cried a full hour before birth, and her twin sister followed shortly after. Dr. Joseph Crotty noted it was the first such case in over a decade in his obstetric practice. The hospital reported both babies and mother as doing well.
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Incinnati
Good Samaritan Hospital
Joseph
Crotty
Cincinnati
Lyin
New York
Tampico Battles 95 mph Hurricane Panic Arrives
Tampico Mexico August 15. A tropical hurricane roared ashore with winds to 95 mph smashing into the Gulf coast south of the city. Eighteen-foot seas and heavy rains battered Tampico, flooding streets and forcing residents to seek shelter. The center of the storm reached the city at 45 p.m. yesterday, with wind speeds climbing to 60 mph by 2 a.m. and gusts to 95 mph by 7 a.m. A canal overflowed and the weather office suffered damage as signs toppled and business halted. Jesus Aguirre Ortiz, port captain, called the situation very alarming as locals recalled the 1933 disaster.
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Tampico
Mexico
Here
Gulf Coast
Jesus Aguirre Ortiz
Explosion in Sky Investigated by CAA
Civil Aviation Administration officials today investigated an explosion of an unidentified silvery object in the sky 15 miles north of here. Two witnesses, including a private pilot, reported the explosion at about 2,000 feet.
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Baker Issb
Civil Aeronautics Admini
Heale
Here
Brink's 'Vagged' No Relief Back Home in Nowata
Mr and Mrs James Brink and their nine children returned from California to Oklahoma on Los Angeles County relief funds and were arraigned in Nowata County Court on vagrancy charges Judge Leslie Coliman set pleas due by 10 pm tomorrow They were released on their own recognizance County Attorney J M Springer said taxpayers should not support the Brinks and they must either work or leave town The Brinks were given expense money to return to Oklahoma to exit relief rolls
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Nowata
Okda
James Brink
Oklahoma
California
Los Angeles County
Leslie Coliman
Nowata County
Brinks
Mysterious fumes sicken worker as investigation begins
An electrician at a new Westminster house was overcome by fumes and rescued by coworkers. Orange County rescuers supplied oxygen while investigators seek the source of the unidentified “gas pockets.” The attacked man recovered enough to return home, with earlier notices of odors prompting multiple citizen complaints.
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Westminster
Robert Curtis Atehley
Seal Way
Seal Beach
Charles F. Hockersmith
Jefferson St
Midway City
LeRoy Ealy
Orange
State Division of Forestry
Atchley
Orange County
Orange County Sheriff's
Locust St
Maine St. Westminster
Santa Ana
Russia Greece break report nearing diplomatic split
Report says both the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia may cut diplomatic ties with Greece. Moscow demanded a Greek reply to protests over alleged mistreatment of Soviet staff. Yugoslavia shifts its envoy to Belgrade, leaving only a charge d affaires in Athens.
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ACESS
A.P
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Greece
Belgrade
Yuposlav Legation
Isadore Cancar
Thelion
sWrLy “ Owe di
Panayotis Pipingli Serit Schovic
Nicholas Tchernichev
Pipineliis
Daffaires
Attsalan
Moscow
Holland Defies U N in Indonesia Dispute
In New York the Netherlands told the United Nations Security Council that it would “never” accept UN arbitration of the dispute with Indonesia. The stake centers on control of areas in Indonesia and the Dutch position rejects external mediation.
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Lake Success
Netherlands
United Nations Security Council
U. N
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