Wife says husband and babysitter ran away with child
Mrs. Porter testified before a grand jury that her 43-year-old husband Meredith fled with her 17-year-old aunt who was also the baby-sitter, taking 18-month-old Billy. She also sought an indictment against her husband for abandoning her elder son Tommy.
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Atlanta
Tommy
Porter
Cleveland
Obie Porter
Atlante
Reuben Garland
Fulton County
Grand
Sitter
Associated Press
Fire damages bridal home of Princess Elizabeth
London August 30 Officials stated the blaze at the Prince ss Elizabeth's bridal home at Sunninghill Park was accidental and no arson. The south wing was ruined as ten fire crews fought flames up to 50 feet high, with investigators examining possible causes such as a discarded cigarette while the mansion underwent remodeling.
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London
A.P
Princess Elizabeth
Sunninghill Park
John Crombie
Berkshire Criminal Investigation Department &A
Mirror Lake
Princess
Phillip Mountbatten
National Fire Service
Criminal Investigation Department
Sen Pat McCarran Resting Well After Hemorrhage
Reno report says United States Senator Pat McCarran Democrat from Nevada is resting well after an internal hemorrhage. The 71 year old veteran became ill last Saturday at Tonopah Nevada and has received two blood transfusions in three days. He showed slight improvement after the second transfusion.
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Reno
United States
Pat McCarran
Nevaidli
Tonopah
Nev
Merida Plots Protest Over Electric Shock Deaths
SHOCKS KILL 25 MERIDA Yucatan Aug 30 Residents urged to refuse paying Merida Electric Company bills after an estimated 25 deaths from electric shock in the past month A committee including Francisco Sosa Dr Prospero Martinez Orlando Herrera appealed to the governor to require insulation of power lines.
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Merida
Yucatan
Mexico
Peninsular
Merida Electric Company
Francisco Sosa
Prospero Martinez
Orlando Herrera
Hemisphere Pact Ready for Signing
In Quitandinha Brazil Aug 30 the United States and 18 other American republics moved to sign a defense treaty uniting armed capability across the Western Hemisphere from pole to pole. The plenary accepted the treaty as a whole after approving 17 articles and resolving interpretation questions with Argentina and US officials amid applause.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
United States
Pole
Greenland
Aleutians
Argentina
Pascual la Rose
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
U.S
Three Killed in Flaming Air Crash Near Coeur d'Alene
Three people died when a light J-5 cruiser crashed five miles east of Coeur d'Alene Idaho. Milton Sparlin of Aviation Industries identified the victims as pilot Bulle Pullian 23 his wife and an unidentified youth. The plane belonged to Aviation Industries.
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Coeur D'Alene
Idaho
Milton Sparlin
Aviation Industries
Bulle Pulllan
Sparlin
Planes to Be Moved Farther From Typhoon
Shanghai report says all American planes flown to Nanking to escape a typhoon were prepared to move farther west as the storm thundered northward along China's east coast. Army sources provided the update on August 30.
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Nanking
Shanghai
China
Convention Pays Tribute to War Dead
New York honored fallen and living veterans from two world wars with a massive Fifth Avenue parade. More than a million spectators lined the route as 65,000 marchers, mainly Legionnaires from all states and many nations, passed landmarks including the Empire State Building and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Mayor William O’Dwyer and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey reviewed the procession, praising its impact as the Legion paused its convention activities for the grand march.
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New. York
A.P
Fifth Ave
Arthur W. Wallan
Legions
Army
Navy
Marines
Union
William O’dwyer
34Th St
Empire State Bldg
Courtney H. Hodges
Thomas C. Kincaid
George. BE. Strate. Meyer
42Nd St
New York
Public Library
Rockefeller Center
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal Spellman
Central Park
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
Legion National
Paul H. Griffth
Legion
Bridge Washout Blocks US 66 Traffic Near Sanders
A cloudburst washed out a bridge on U S Highway 66 six miles east of Sanders in Apache County. Traffic is halted with about 300 cars stalled. Sheriff reports motorists are being detoured through Springerville as the highway remains closed after the overnight washout near Holbrook.
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Holbrook
Ariz
U.S. Hwy
S Wash
Sanders
Apache County
Sheriff's Office
Springerville
Atom Bomb Theft Suspect Faces New Mexico Trial
A 27 year old Brooklyn ex soldier Frederick Kivi faces removal to New Mexico to plead to charges of taking highly confidential photographs from Los Alamos atomic institute. FBI Director Edgar Hoover announced Kivi’s arrest. He admitted removing classified pictures and showed various stages of atomic research equipment. The case marks the third such charge this year involving an atomic project.
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New York
Frederick
Kiv
Brooklyn
U.S
New Mexico
Los Alamos
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kivi
Hoover
FBI
Skeleton Left by Student Found in Canyon Near Los Angeles
Los Angeles sheriff deputies initially feared a Black Dahlia style case after a heatless skeleton was found in a mountain canyon on Thursday night. Dr Victor Cefalu, a surgeon, said the body appeared to be an elderly woman, expertly embalmed and dissected. A hiker found the remains at a picnic ground edge, wrapped and in plain sight. Police could only speculate why a student might dispose of the corpse.
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Los Angeles
Mountain Canyon
U S Receives Threat From Iran Aims at British in Iran
The U S embassy reported a letter purportedly from an Iranian Jewish organization threatening to annihilate all British in Iran. It urged Americans to wear IDs to avoid being mistaken for British.
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U.S
Iran
Tehran
Americans Freed After Detention by Russians in Porkkala Zone
Two American students and a British artist report they were detained by Soviet forces in the Porkkala naval zone west of Helsinki for over three weeks after a storm drove their 30-foot yacht into the area. They left Stockholm on July 26 and reached Hango before heading toward Helsinki.
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Helsinki
Finland
Porkkala
Ann Blumenfeld
Sao Rafeel
Calif
Rob’ Storch
Newark
N. J
Gordon ‘Thomas McGill Lawson
Blumenfeéld
Stockholm
Ling
Hango
Partition plan for Palestine agreed by UN inquiry
At Geneva on August 30 credible sources report that a majority of the United Nations inquiry committee has agreed on a partition scheme. The Jewish state would include Eastern Galilee a central coastal strip with Haifa Tel Aviv and Jaffa and most of the Negev to the Egyptian frontier. A coastal Negev strip including Gaza and Beersheba would go to the Arabs.
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Geneva
United Nations Inquiry Committee
Palestine
Galilea
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Jaffa
Negev
Gaza
Beersheba
Truman to Fly to Brazil Sunday
President Truman will depart Sunday for a week in Brazil to address the Inter-American Defense Conference and a joint session of the Brazilian Congress. He will deliver a major speech to defense conference delegates and meet Brazilian officials aboard the battleship Missouri.
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Washington
Truman
Brazil
Teuman
Long Beach
White House
Defense’ Conference
Missouri
Mantz Wins Bendix Race With Record Speed In Cleveland
Paul Mantz flying a P-51 Mustang wins the 2050 mile Bendix cross country race in Cleveland with an elapsed time of 4 hours 26 minutes 56 seconds and an official average speed of 460.423 mph surpassing last year by 25 mph. Thunderstorms disrupted opening program. several pilots set other times and statuses including Maj. Clay Albright and Eldon Klipal. Mantz earns 10000 in side money amid race intrigue and local wagers.
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Cleveland
Paul Mantz
Mantz
Hollywood
Maj
Clay Albright
el Reno
Okla
Army Air Forces
Partterson Field
Dayton
Albright
Army
van Wuys
Eldon A. Klapal
Sargent
Neb
Great Bend
Kan
Jane Page Hlavacek
St. Joseph
Leff
Nm Pp
Lear
Kansas City Munilcipal
I. M. Kinkella
Kingman
Ariz
Bendix
Puebla
Colo
Willam Odom
Nace
Texas
Glenn McCarthy
James Ruble
Houston
Relic Fans Want Letters Carried on Truman Plane
Lt. Col. Henry T. Myers said he will carry letters on the presidential airplane Independence to Rio de Janeiro and return them to the United States. He noted most letters use domestic stamps and the air mail from Rio to the U.S. costs 20 cents, risking nearly $100 if many senders seek postage. Myers plans to forward a certification on each envelope that it traveled on the flight.
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Henry T. Myers
Truman
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Myers
Associated Press
Warshincton
UPI
United States
White House
U. S
Rio
Washington
Food costs still soaring 106 percent above 1939 levels
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported July retail food price index at 193.1 percent of the 1935 39 average, up 16 percent from a year earlier and 106 percent above August 1939. Eggs dairy and meats led the rise with eggs up 11 percent and butter up over 8 percent, as 56 city prices varied 5 to 16 percent.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Fire destroys Lynwood lumber plant. losses exceed 100000
A fire of undetermined origin today destroyed the 20 acre Jim Larned Lumber and Box Company plant at 11915 S Alameda St Lynwood. County and Lynwood fire departments fought flames but losses ran above 100000. Deputies H Trout and N P Sovretovich reported the ice broke out around noon and spread through tinder dry lumber and boxes, with the blaze near the Westen Geer Works plant.
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Jim Larned Lumber and Box Company
S. Alameda St
Lynwood
H. Trout
N. P. Sovretovich
Big Westen Geer Works
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South Wing
Sen. McCarran
Hemisphere
Arnold F Kivi
Norway
Jet
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