Russian Satellites Pressed to Cede Power to Hardline Leaders
Amid Berlin crisis, Moscow reportedly pushes satellites to hand control to more ruthless Communist leaders. Rakosi and Gottwald reportedly at risk of purge. Czech officials Cepicka Zapotocki and Slan ski named as potential hardliners. Interior Minister Nosek oversees security forces, with real power already seen in subordinates. Skoda and Brno plants continue arms output in exchange for grain.
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Tashington
Berlin
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Alex] Cepicka
Antonin Zapotocki
Rudolf Slanski
Gottwald
Vladimir Clements
Baclay Nosek
Interior Post
Nosek
Antonin B. Hasal
Germany
Skoda
Brno
Wallace State on Ohio Ballot
Ohio Supreme Court rules New Party electors may appear on the ballot without Wallace or Taylor names. Electors listed as independent candidates will vote for Wallace, but signatures exceeded required totals. Ohio has 25 electors and the petition qualification was deemed a technicality.
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Columbus
Ohio
Wallace
Glen L. Taylor
Fireflies Steady at 25 C in Baltimore Market
Baltimore July 23 firefly market held firm at 25 cents per hundred. Dr William D McElroy biology professor seeks insects for Vitamin K research and has received over 3000 since offering nationwide two days ago. A masked Crawford New Jersey donation plan and 300 blinkers arriving earn praise. weather across the nation cools in parts while hot humid conditions persist in others with Boise at 99 and Fresno at 101.
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Baltimore
William D. McElroy
McElroy
Indiana
Indianapolis
Crawford
N. J
James Herman
Windsor
Tral Plains
Ohio River Valley
Great Lakes
Minnesota
Chicago
Middle Atlantic
Oklahoma
New York
New England
Rocky Mountain
Boise
Idaho
Fresno
Calif
Band leader searches 500 miles for lost sheet music
Elko Nevada July 23 Band leader Dick Dildine lost 12 fibre cases containing his band’s sheet music along U S Route 40 between Salt Lake City and Reno. He fears missing next engagement at San Francisco Palace Hotel and asks police and media to aid in recovery.
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Elko
Nev
Dick Dildine
Salt Lake City
Reno
Dildine
San Francisco
Palace Hotel
Chicago Weather Summary Previewed Cooler Air Intrudes
Chicago area forecasters report a cool air mass moving in from the north promising relief from heat. The brief notice notes near term temperatures dipping and a possibility of unsettled skies as humidity remains gift in the Midwest summer pattern.
Pueblo Storm Wrecks Amusement Center and Baseball Game
A cyclone driven hailstorm battered eastern and southern Pueblo causing extensive damage last night. At Minnequa Park the new amusement center lost its boardwalk and multiple concessions. Runyon Field saw golf ball sized hail during a Western League game featuring the Pueblo Dodgers and Sioux City Soos. Hail varied from cube like in east Pueblo to nickel sized discs downtown.
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Pueblo
Colo
Minnequa Park
New Amusement Center
Runyon Field
Pueblo Dodgers
Sioux City Soos
Robert Spratten
KCSJ
East Pueblo
Confederate flag sales surge after southern Dem meeting
Birmingham merchants report a boom in Confederate flag orders driven by out-of-state interest. The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce cites the recent southern Democrats gathering as the catalyst, with inquiries flooding in from California and New York. Many buyers express strong states rights sentiment.
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Birmingham
Ala
California
Brooklyn
Alabama
Thames Girl Meets American Pen Pal In New York Visit
Two 13 year old pen pals Brenda Hill of Gravesend England and Mary McCurdy of Eureka California met at La Guardia Field New York. They had corresponded for two and a half years and Marys father funded Brenda’s trip. The McCurdy family hosted Brenda. they will travel to Chicago for four days before Eureka.
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New York
la Guardia Field
Brenda Hill
Gravesend
Kent
England
Mary McCurdy
Eureka
Calif
Mary
Arthur E. McCurdy
Brenda
America
McCurdy
Chicago
Witness Released in Lake George Woman Drowning
Thomas Short of Schenectady, 32, was released as a material witness in the July 5 drowning of Miss Delia McClurkin, 37, of Schenectady at Lake George. The Warren County coroner ruled the death accidental.
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Glens Falls
N. Y
Thomas Short
Schenectady
Lake George
Warren County
Delia McClurkin
Baltic refugees reach Boston after 43 day ocean voyage
A 29 member group from Latvia Lithuania Sweden and Russia arrived in Boston Harbor aboard the 64 foot ketch Gundel seeking US entry. Capt John Rosenberg led the party which fled Soviet lands for Sweden then England and sailed to America with only a wrist watch and sextant. Immigration hearings likely span three days with possible appeals to Washington.
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Provincetown
Mass
Atlantic
Boston
Immigration Service
United States
Associated Press
John Rosenberg
Canada
Baltic
Sweden
Dover
Eng
Immigration Commission
Washington
U. S. Attorney General's Office
L A Woman Held in $350000 Gyp Case
Mrs Margaret Sullivan a 40 year old mother of three is under arrest on charges of setting up a dummy company with phony letterheads to fleece a bank and a finance firm of 350000. Deputy District Attorney Herbert Grossman says she faces 15 counts of grand theft and 15 counts of forgery for creating the Plastic Box Co fake invoices and forged bills of lading to obtain loans on nonexistent deliveries.
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Los Angeles
Margaret Sullivan
Herbert Grossman
California Bank and Pacific Finance Co
Grossman
Four 4-H Girls Vie for Movie Role in The Green Promise
Hollywood reports that four Midwest 4-H Club girls from 10 000 nationwide applicants will fly to Hollywood for final screen tests for a feature part in The Green Promise. Robert Paige and Monty F. Collins narrowed from 28 finalists after touring 22 states by air.
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Hollywood
Midwest
Robert Paige
Judy Stewart
Mukwonago
Wis
Jeanne la Duke
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Patsy Ann Mayer
Canton
Okla
Marian Lucile Freed
Stevens Point
Paige
Monty F. Collins
Italy Premier Defends Government in Senate
Premier Alcide De Gasperi pledges to fight Communists and fascist threats on two fronts. He rebuts a no confidence motion after Communists blamed the government for last week’s shooting of Palmiro Togliatti and rejects their call for wider political inclusion.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
de Gasperi
Senate
Palmiro Togliatti
FCC Authorizes California Radio Station in Chico
The Communications Commission approved Sacramento Broadcasters Inc to build a new standard radio station at Chico California. The station will operate on 1150 kilocycles with one kilowatt power and unlimited time.
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Washington
the Communications Commission
California
Sacramento Broadcasters, Inc
Chico
Calif
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OFEN
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Anaheim
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Egbert
Gales Rio Pueblo
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Dolly Mitchel
Kay Kyser
Bob Hope
Dick Barry
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