Gen Clay denies demand on French for Germany resources
Berlin dispatch says U S General Lucius D Clay denied a Soviet backed claim that he demanded the French halt dismantling industries and removing goods in the German zone unless paid in dollars. German office stated no such letter exists and no discussion occurred with General Koenig.
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Berlin
U. S
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Clay
Berliner Zeitung
Frankfurt
Pierre Koenig
Germainy
Defense Focuses on Treason Case in Los Angeles Trial
Tomoya Kawakita’s attorney Morris Lavine urged the jury to view the treason case as a broader test of democracy as the nine week trial nears its end. U S Attorney James Carter accused Kawakita of betraying his citizenship by attempting to “ride two horses” and argued he remains a U S citizen by birth.
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Los Angeles
Tomoya Kawakita
Morris Lavine
Lavine
U. S
James Carter
Kawakita
United States
British Actress Moira Shearer Sparks Venice Festival
Moira Shearer drew loud acclaim in Venice as she starred in The Red Shoes, a British color production adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen. The red haired dancer performed with finesse in a demanding role before a discriminating audience, signaling strong international competition to Hollywood in the two week festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Moira Shearer
Aew
Acand
Miss Shearer
Britain
Hollywood
Escapees Beat Up Pal and Fled From Wichita Jail
Denver police sought three armed convicts who escaped from the Wichita jail last week after they beat a fourth prisoner who joined them and abandoned their escape car. Detective Lt. Cooper hunted them last night in the Denver area. Oscar G. Craig of Wichita said they beat him for fear he would squeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Wichita
Kan
C. C. Cooper
Oscar G. Craig
Golden
Colo
Goat Held for Bail Over Pelargoniums in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on August 20 a Toggenberg goat named Nancy is held for a $5 bail after neighbors complained the animal leaped fences to eat pelargoniums. Owner Vivian Miller, 13, seeks a babysitting job to earn the ransom. Nancy has blue ribbons and can sit up and beg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los’ Angeles
Nancy
Nanty
Vivian Miller
Russians Seem To Run Around In Release Talks
Berlin Aug 20 United States officials said Russians are giving the run around in talks over the release of Americans arrested Aug 5 after crossing into the Soviet occupation zone. The prisoners include Lt Sherman S Turner and Roland M Myers with military government officials in Bad Kissingen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States
Sherman S. Turner
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Roland M. Myers
Brookien
Frankfurt
U. S
Mexican Cabinet Resigns En Masse In Mexico City
Mexican cabinet members reportedly offered their resignations to President Miguel Aleman to allow a reorganization. The move, urged by Antonio Ruiz Galindo and Ramon Beteta, follows sharp public criticism of economic troubles aimed at those officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Miguel Aleman
Excelsior
Prensa
Antonio Ruiz Galindo
Treasury
Ramon Beteta
Mexico
Ex Capone Aids Lose in Court
Three former Capone gangsters Louis Campagna Paul Ricca and Louis Gice failed in suits seeking freedom from arrest as parole violators in Chicago. Ricca is free on ten thousand dollar bond while Campagna and Gice remain in prison. the release of D Andrea prompted a congressional inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Capone
Louis
Little New York
Campagna
Paul
Waiter
Ricca
Cherry Nose
Gice
Philip D’andrea
Actress Elaine Hammerstein Leaves $60,000 Estate to Mother
In Los Angeles on August 20, Elaine Hammerstein and her husband James W. Kays died in a Baja California auto crash. Hammerstein's will directs most assets to her mother Mrs. Jean Allison of West Los Angeles and a trust for her, with jewelry and personal effects to friends and relatives. Kays left $20,000 to three sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Elaine Hammerstein
Yesteryear
Jean Allison
West Los Angeles
James W. Kays
Baja California
Slot-machine Crackdown Costs U S in California
San Francisco reports that California's slot machine crackdown costs the U S government about 400000 dollars annually. District Director James Smyth said that in 1947 Northern California had 6008 establishments with federal licenses at 100 dollars each, while the year ending June 30 saw only 123 licenses issued and fewer than sy licenses now remain in Northern California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
United States
Internal Revenue
James Smyth
Bus and lumber truck crash near SAN AUGUSTINE kills seven
A church bus and a lumber truck collided on a narrow bridge 13 miles south of SAN AUGUSTINE Texas last night, killing seven people and injuring three. The deceased include Mrs Ethel Doyens and her son from Chinquapin and several residents of Rosevine, with names reported in partial form.
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San Augustine
Texas
Here
Beaumont Entenne
Ethel Doyens
Chinquapin
Tex Texas
Marris Brown
Jake Brown
Rosevine
Benetty Ann McBride
Asbury Oliver
Emma Blanett
Oliver
Pow Goog
Army balancing books on 11 million in World War II
Washington report notes the war department handled 11 million officers and GIs claims after WWII. It processed billions in pay checks allotments and advances and now handles recovery of overpayments and wrongful payments. It cites overpayments to dependents before overseas notices and payments after death or divorce.
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Washington
United States
Army cancels big maneuvers in Germany due to crop fear
In Gravenhwoehr Germany August 20 the U S Army canceled a planned assault crossing of the Regensburg section of the Danube by the First U S Infantry Division to protect crops. The move shifts river crossing practice to smaller units while EUCOM prepares a three week maneuver starting September 7 with B 29 Superforts and P 80 Shooting Star jets providing air cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Williams
European Command
EUCOM
Yen Thief Nabbed as Calif Hi jacker
Clarksburg West Virginia August 20 1946 Earl Lucky Brown 21 and his 18 year old wife admitted stealing 60 to 70 calves from a Pittsburg bound truck after a Marine bank inspector stole yen in Yokohama May 3 1946. Brown said a Naval court sentence of 15 years was commuted and he could go.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Earl
Lucky) Brown
Yokohama
Apan
W. E. Murphy
Tokyo
Murphy
Brown
Wife Slain Paroled Convict Hunted
Cleveland authorities hunt 26 year-old Mike Balyint after his estranged wife Mary 21 was fatally stabbed with a pocket knife. Balyint was conditionally released in 1946 after a kidnapping auto theft sentence. his mother Mary Yuhacz and sister Margaret 23 were wounded when they intervened.
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Cleveland
A. A. Cobb
Mike Balgint
Balyint
Mary
Mary Yuhacz
Margaret
Recluse Dies Aged Wealthy Woman Found in Parlor
Salt Lake City August 20 An aged recluse widow of Alfred Johnson was found dead in her untidy parlor. Police identified the woman as Mrs Ingrid Johnson in her 80s. Detectives say bank books show more than 70000 in Salt Lake City banks and another 25000 held jointly with her deceased husband in negotiable securities and real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Ingrid Johnson
Alfred Johnson
Ed Jackson
Writ Dismissed in Kosenkina Case at New York Consulate
New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Dickstein dismissed a habeas corpus writ seeking the Soviet consul general to produce Russian schoolteacher Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina. Lomakin recalled, after she leaped from the third floor of the consulate, was silent on the ruling. The incident provoked diplomatic protests and a U.S. demand for Lomakin's recall. she remains under U.S. protection at the hospital as officials discuss medical aid./
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
State Supreme Court
Samuel Dickstein
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Jacob M. Lomakin
State Department
Phone Workers in Wage Drive Begins Nationwide Action
Washington Aug 20 A wage drive against the Bell Telephone System was launched at a union meeting claiming to represent 403,450 workers. The conference was sponsored by the Communications Workers of America with 230,000 members and the CIO telephone workers organizing committee with 100,000 members. Twelve smaller independent unions also joined to back the nationwide movement for a telephone wage raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bell Telephone System
Communications Workers of America
Telephone Workers’organizing Committee
Bell System
Colubmia University Teachers College Bursar Heist
New York police report two armed men robbed the Teachers College bursar’s office at Columbia University after an armored car delivery. They held up 26 people and escaped with more than $10,000, while Miss Ruth Raborn the cashier said a larger sum was missed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Teachers College
Columbia University
Ruth Raborn
Traders Bridge Barriers Across Korean Sectors
Traders move goods across the 38th parallel amid a formalized system after Aug. 2. Oh Chung Soo notes 134 export permits issued as cross-border trade continues. North Korea and South Korea exchange light bulbs rubber cotton woolen goods shoes for fertilizers cement caustic soda and wood pulp.
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North Korea
South Korea
Oh Chung Soo
People’s Committee
38Th Parallel
South
Lomakin Tied to 1943 Shanghai Abduction Case
Washington reports Consul General Jacob Lomakin was allegedly involved in the 1943 shanghai of a Russian sailor in San Francisco. The seaman had jumped ship earlier and was seized in October and taken aboard a Russian vessel. An ex-FBI official named Lomakin as one of six abductors, with no action taken at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Jacob Lomakin
U. S
Crancisco
Lomakin
Tee
San Francisco
Nat J. A
FBI
Ncisco
State Department
En Department
Russia
United States
Germany
Russian Refugee Teacher Kasenkina Spelling Adopted
Washington dispatch notes that the Soviet consulate case settled on Kasenkina as the refugee teacher’s name, replacing the earlier Kosenkina spelling. State Department officer McDermott said Russia’s protests prompted the change. Variations also appeared for Tolstaya and Samarin in Related notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York
Kasenkina
United States
Russia
Kosenkina
Michael J. McDermott
State Department
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Tolstoy Foundation
A. L. Tolstaya
Congressional
Middies Arrive in San Francisco End Six Week Cruise
The battleship U S S Iowa with carriers Princeton and Boxer and light cruisers Springfield Pasadena and Astoria are due in San Francisco today, wrapping up 1800 midshipmen Pacific maneuvers. Carriers enter at noon, cruisers and Iowa tie up by 6 pm. Debark 8 am Saturday. The group participated in sinking Nevada and practiced gunnery off the Pacific Coast.
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San Francisco
U. S. S. Iowa
Princeton
Boxer
Springfield
Pasadena
Astoria
Pacific
Bay
Nevada
Honolulu
San Diego Transit Workers Get 11 Cent Raise
Six hundred A F L streetcar and bus drivers in San Diego won an 11 cent hourly pay increase in an arbitration award retroactive to June 1 bringing the scale to 1.46 dollars per hour. The ruling averted a threatened June 20 strike amid a wage deadlock with the union seeking 30 cents and the company offering 7 cents. Dr. Clark Kerr of the University of California served as impartial third member of the arbitration panel joined by O David Zimling of Chicago and J L Haugh of Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Clark Kerr
University of California
Amnesia Victim Held on Juvenile Enticement Charges
Jack Duane Shaw 27 was arrested in Los Angeles after claiming amnesia. Police identified him as the man sought since January on two statutory counts alleging he enticed juvenile girls at a lumber company where he worked as night watchman. Shaw was traced to San Diego for return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Jack Duane Shaw
West Los Angeles
West Hollywood
Henry W Wright, Former Assembly Speaker, Dies
Henry W Wright age 80 former Assembly speaker and longtime Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors chairman died last night in Huntington Memorial Hospital Pasadena He is survived by widow Nellie of South Pasadena and three sons Wilbur Harold and Ralph all prominent professionals in architecture commerce and mining sectors
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Henry W. Wright
Assembly
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Nellie
South Pasadena
Wilbur
Harold
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerc
Ralph
Weather Extremes Hit Wyoming in 24 Hour Span
Cheyenne reports a day of varied conditions with highs reaching 97 in Douglas and Sheridan while Big Piney recorded a morning low near 26. Residents faced a wide temperature range across the state.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Douglas
Sheridan
Still in coma on 2022nd day at Bethesda Hospital
Cincinnati August 20 Patient X remains in total coma at Bethesda Hospital after a blow to the head February 5 1943 while working in an industrial plant. Doctors say no immediate change is expected as an accumulation of a blood clot between the skull and outer brain envelope keeps him unconscious. The industrial case has already cost Ohio’s industrial commission nearly $14000 in hospital expenses and he is under care with three nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Bethesda Hospital
Industrial Commission For
State of Ohio
Television Stations Called Losing Ventures
Patrick Michael Danning, founder of State 8 in Hollywood, told the Long Beach Advertising and Sales Club that 22 TV stations nationwide are losing money rapidly. He predicted in six months seven Los Angeles stations will operate as television production grows locally, while writer Marcia Drake noted no accepted script formula yet. Marian Purdy Henderson chaired. Bob Holcomb presided. Anthony Cavalli handled programs.
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Patrick Michael Danning
State 8
Hollywood
Long Beach
New Masonic Temple
Television
Los Angeles
Marcia Drake
Canning
Marian Purdy Henderson
Bob Holcomb
Anthony Cavalli
California State Fair Eager Preparations For 10 Golden Days
California's state fair opens September 2 with exhibits from Sonoma Yolo Stanislaus Humboldt San Diego Contra Costa Santa Clara Napa and Los Angeles counties. Highlights include a 35 foot totem pole a 20 foot miner a lights animated map and two model railways. Admission remains 60 cents with 11 daily races and acts by Spike Jones Abbott and Costello and Burl Ives.
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California
James Marshall
Sutter’s Millney
Deee
Cape Horn
Oity
Sonoma County
Golden State
Yolo County
Excelsior
Stanislaus
Humboldt
Eel River Canyon
San Diego
Mexico
Contra Costa Mt. Diablo
Santa Clara
Napa
Los Angeles County
Placerita
Marshall
Coloma
Spike Jones
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Burl Ives
Ifornia State Fair
Atomic Plant Idle as Work Kickoff Fails
Los Alamos New Mexico August 20 There is no sign of a return to work among more than 3000 idle construction and maintenance workers at the atomic weapons project The three day strike threatens damage to the program Union leaders reiterate grievances against contractor Brown and Root of Houston Texas for importing nonunion labor Most AFL building trades union members walk out except emergency maintenance crews urged to stay on the job
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Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Energy Mmission
Espanola
Brown & Root
Houston
Texas
Blaze Destroys Turlock Melon Sheds
A major fire in Turlock wiped out two blocks of produce packing sheds along with 19 railroad freight cars and thousands of melons. Damage reached an estimated $400,000 with five sheds destroyed. One volunteer firefighter was overcome by smoke. no serious injuries reported. All sheds belonged to the Southern Pacific Railroad and were leased to packers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turlock
San Joaquin Valley
Southern Pacific Railroad
Army Reports Sleeping Sickness Case amid Polio Outbreak
The Army disclosed one confirmed sleeping sickness case among American occupation personnel and 64 polio cases nationwide. A patient with sleeping sickness is on Okinawa, 13 suspected cases in Japan, polio concentrated in Tokyo-Yokohama, and three Americans have died from polio this year. Tokyo records its 1573rd B type encephalitis case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Okinawa
Japan
Tokyo-Yokohama
Wallace backs hiring halls and labor unions
Wallace said his Progressive party will lend support to maritime unions in their effort to retain hiring halls on the Great Lakes. The National Labor Relations Board ruled the halls illegal under the Taft Hartley Act, and the party supports repeal of the act and restoration of Wagner Act principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
National Labor Relations Board
Great Lakes
C. I. O. National Maritime Union
Thomas Denounces Probes as Unconstitutional Hypocrisy
Norman Thomas, six time presidential candidate, denounced congressional investigations as complete hypocrisy and a violation of civil rights. He urged proper procedure and civil rights protections during a stop in Denver on his nationwide political tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Norman Thomas
Dubinsky Delivers Papal Message to U S Workers
David Dubinsky president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union carried Pope Pius XII's best wishes from Rome to the working masses of the United States. He said the Pontiff entrusted him with the message after an audience in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Po Pius XII
United States
Rome
David Dubinsky
A. F. L. International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Dubinsky
Mental health neglected by business and medicine says scholar
Dr William Line of the University of Toronto warns that neither business nor medical leadership adequately protects factory workers' mental health. He urges medicine to take decisive leadership and for mental health experts to align with both industry and labor to foster belonging and learning in workers.
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Ondon
William Line
University of Toronto
Ree
Line
Indus
Otter
North American
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S. F
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Blaze
Army
Wallace
Thomas
Pope
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