Great Throng Mourns King of Baseball
A crowd of about 75,000 filled the area around St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Babe Ruth’s funeral. Cardinal Spellman led a requiem mass as Ruth’s widow and family joined in prayer. Gov. Dewey and Mayor O’Dwyer paid tribute, and Ruth’s casket lay in state amid orchids and candles before interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
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Charles Mercer
New York
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Babe Ruth
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Babe
Claire Ruth
Richard Flanders
Dorothy Sullivan
Dewey
Thomas E
O’dwyer
Baltimore
Joseph F. Flannelly
Ruth
Flanders
Sullivan
Wilbur Moberly
Gov. Dewey
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Mount Pleasant
N. Y
Thomas F. Mulligan
46Th
56Th Sts
Madison Ave
Avenue of the American
Fifth Ave
St. Patrick's
Angry German Crowd Jeers at Communists in Berlin
In Berlin the Russian sector saw a mob of 600 plus Germans taunt police from the Soviet zone as cars were pursued toward the American and British sectors. Early reports said one killed and another wounded amid the mass anti Communist demonstration.
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Berlin
Four Booked in Hollywood Gang Slaying
Hollywood August 19 AP report says one man died and three others were wounded in a gang related shooting at Michael Cohen’s office. Harry Rothman 36 killed Albert Snyder wounded James E Rist 37 surrendered later Cohen and Rist booked on suspicion of murder with two Cohen aides Sol Davis 42 and Meyer Horowitz 54 also sought. Investigators found shotgun shells at the scene.
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Hollywood
A.P
Michael
Mickey) Cohen
Sporting World
Cohen
Rothman Fs
Snyder Calla
Rist
Rothman’s
Ray Morris
Sheriff's
Sol Davis
Meyer Horowitz
Beverly Hills
Thad Brown
Davis
Jowitz
Sunset Blvd
Snyder
Rothman
Col
Gambler
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegel
Siegel
Atomic Board in Plea to Green
The Atomic Energy Commission halted work at its Alamos, New Mexico project warning of serious damage to the nation's atomic weapons program. The plea went to A F L President William Green asking him to urge idle construction and maintenance workers to return to work after union workers quit when a sixth contractor hired nonunion labor.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Alamos, N. M
William Green
Hog Prices Break Records as Market Rises
Chicago reports live hog prices climbing to a new high of 31.75 per hundredweight, bested later by a load at 31.85 to an eastern buyer. A 40 head Hamp shire lot averaged 215 pounds, with total value around the higher level as supplies were 1000 head fewer than expected and total sales reached about 6000 with 1500 head on direct consignments to packing plants.
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Chicago
Unseemly Haste Laid to NLRB in Hiringhall Case
The NLRB ruled that Great Lakes hiring halls run by the CIO National Maritime Union are illegal under Taft Hartley. The CIO calls the decision hasty and unconstitutional, while Arthur Goldberg vows court reversal and defends the hiring halls as stabilizing to maritime industry. The board found the union and six officers guilty of unfair labor practices against four tanker companies and barred further demands and strikes. This ruling eases the threat of a September maritime strike on the lakes.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Paul M. Herzog
Great Lakes
C. I. O. National Maritime Union
Joseph Curran
GIs and Japanese police end Jap sitdown at Tokyo movie studio
American soldiers and Japanese police cleared 1500 Communist influenced sitdown strikers from Toho Kinuta studio in Tokyo. Ma j Gen William C. Chase said troops would back police if needed as 700 police, tanks, armored cars and aircraft secured the site after the March 31 disruption. The Toho Co. had dismissed 900 workers, 270 of whom refused to leave.
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Tokyo
Toho Cb
U. S. First Cavalry Division
William C. Chase
Toho Co
Kinuta
Mosquito Abatement Plans Along LA River Highlighted
County officials announce a program to reduce mosquito breeding along the Los Angeles River. Waterfront employers defend their hiring hall amid industry concerns. A Long Beach woman, polio survivor, experiences a Caesarean birth after living with an iron lung.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
Catholics accuse Jews of violence against churches
A brief page note reports sectarian tension with Catholics accusing Jewish groups of attacking churches. No names or dates provided. The item reflects a controversial stance from the period and notes heightened religious friction in the community.
Local Page Index Prompts Reader Navigation
The note lists where to find various sections in the newspaper. It directs readers to Bridge on A-13 Comics and Editorial on A-12 Local news on B-1 Markets on B-6 Radio on A-13 Sports on B-9 to B-11 Theaters on C-4 Tides and temperatures on C-7 and Women’s Activities on C-1 to C-3
U S Rules Kosenkina Refugee Beyond Soviet Control
The State Department ruled that Mrs. Oksana S. Kosenkina remains beyond Soviet government control while in the United States. Ernest A. Gross announced the decision in a letter to Justice Samuel Dickstein as the habeas corpus case against Soviet Consul-General Lomakin looms. The ruling clarifies that Russia may aid its nationals abroad but cannot claim charge over them here.
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Washington
State Department
Oksana S. Kosenkina
Ernest A. Gross
Marshall
Samuel Dickstein
New York State Supreme Court
Kosenkina
New York
Dickstein
Department
Gross
Lomakin
SOS Call Triggers Search From San Diego Coast Guard
Coast Guard and Navy planes along with destroyers Turner and Perry searched 39 miles south of San Diego after an SOS from an unidentified surface vessel. The 11th Naval District reported no details immediately available.
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San Diego
Coast Guard
Navy
Turner
Perry
11Th Naval District
Rita Hayworth Visited Spain With Aly Khan
Madrid radio reports Rita Hayworth visited Spain for two days. The broadcast said she arrived with Aly Khan, 37, son of the Aga Khan, and left for Lisbon after the visit.
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London
Madrid
Rita Hayworth
Spain
Aly Khan
Aga Khan
Fearch
Lisbon
Warren Calls For Unified Faith To End Disunity
Gov. Earl Warren urged Illinois Republicans to unite across factions and defend freedom and institutions. He warned against strange life and government concepts, saying only the Republican party can restore national unity with Gov. Dewey as leader to end dissension and doubt.
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Pringfield, Ill
A.P
Earl Warren
California
Illinois
Republicans Today
America
Warren
Fairgrounds
Warren Aids
Abraham
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Three New Deal Lawyers Called in Red Spy Probe
The House Un American Activities Committee orders three former New Deal lawyers Nathan Lee Pressman and John J to appear for questioning in its Communist spy ring inquiry. Alger Hiss refuses to submit to a lie detector test and heads the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. President Truman denounces the committee as infringing the Bill of Rights, saying hearings add no new information and that the loyalty program is a complete success.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
New Deal
Nathan Bing Lee Pressman
John J
Alger Hiss
State Department
Washinton
Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Truman
Senate
House Committee
FBI
Women Censors Form Board to Review Comics
In Sacramento a seven woman censorship board was created to review comic books sold in the city Mayor Belle Cooledge announced. The panel will consider banning works that stress crime violence torture or sex and was authorized by the city council after parental complaints.
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Sacramento
Belle Cooledge
Blasts Wane as Swiss Return to Homes
In Goeschenen Switzerland 800 residents returned home after a series of explosions at a mine depot waned yesterday. The town evacuated when fires touched off blasts threatening main stores in the mountain redoubt.
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Goeschenen
Switzerland
Truman Says U.N. Forces Only for Judea Palestine
President Truman stated the United States will deploy troops only as part of a United Nations force under UN decisions. He noted U S troops in Palestine as UN observers and said loan talks with Israel are under consideration by the Export-Import Bank. He commented on Italy’s colonies and four power talks, and spoke on new Fed credit curbs and potential oil shortages this winter.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Palestine
United Nations
U. N
Holy Land
U. S
Israel
Italy
Africa
Russia
Britain
France
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
U.N
U. N. General Assembly
Paris
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Rooster Saved Costs Youth In Balancing Act
Shawnee Ohio August 19 Dwight Bowen 18 acted as Good Samaritan when a dog seized a prize rooster. He struck the dog with a stone causing the rooster to escape but the stone ricocheted and broke a window. Bowen paid 1.50 to replace the pane.
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Shawnee
Ohio
Dwight Bowen
George Myers
Bowen
Woodrow Thomas
Manila Port Faces Longshore Strike
Manila on August 19 faces a threatened general strike by forty thousand longshoremen over the reinstatement of 75 Luzon Stevedoring Company marine department workers. A court ruling reinstated the 75, a move the Union of Stevedore Workers says violates its closed shop contract.
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Manila
Court of Industrial Relations
Luzon Stevedoring Company
Marine Department
P E Train Stones Locomotive at Allied Chemical Plant
In El Segundo a Pacific Electric locomotive was stoned as it attempted to move freight cars through CIO picket lines at the Allied Chemical and Dye General Chemicals Division. Pickets from the oil workers union had previously idle 90 workers over clothing dispute.
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EL Segundo
Pacific Electric Railroad
General Chemicals Division
Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation
Oil Workers Union
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Moscow
Germany
Stalin
Molotov
Berliner Zeitung
National Zeitung
Mickey Cohen
NLRB
U.S
Madrid Radio
Rita
Red Spy
Judea
Rooster
P. E
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