Berlin Rail Strike Heads Toward End After Mediation
The 22 day Berlin rail strike set to end tomorrow under mediation terms brokered by the American command and agreed by the Soviet authorities. UGO leaders will formally accept the deal which pays wages largely in west marks and avoids reprisals, though formal recognition from Reichsbahn management is still unsettled.
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Catholic Action secretary seized by Czech police
Prague reports say Dr Antonin Mandl, 30, secretary of the secular Catholic Action, was seized by security police last night. Priests are being arrested daily and more than 100 are in Czechoslovak prisons while a progovernment faction formed an anticapitalist group. Archbishop Beran warned the move would be outlawed and remains in Bohemia touring as authorities press church autonomy clash.
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Ex-Albania Official Sentenced to Death
London dispatch reports on June 11 that Koci Xoxe former Albanian vice premier and ex interior minister was sentenced to death for traitorous activities. The Tirana radio and Albanian telegraph agency cite a high court ruling also sentencing three others to prison terms up to 20 years for related charges.
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Tirana Radio
Koci Xoxe
Albanian Telegraph Agency
High Court
Xoxe
Albanian Communist Party
Truman warns world still unsafe despite peace progress
President Truman, at a World War memorial ceremony in Little Rock, warned that the world remains threatened by communism. He argued the United States is only midway in building world peace and opposed Senate moves to cut European Recovery Program funds for a second year, calling it a false economy. He outlined a three point lasting peace program centered on a strong United States and shared efforts with free nations.
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Truman Pals Toss His Hat in Ring Again
In Little Rock, June 11, President Truman’s Battery D friends revived talk of a 1952 bid at a breakfast with World War I battalion survivors. Monroe Johnson, an Interstate Commerce Commissioner, sparked the plan, recalling Truman’s Washington inauguration.
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Caltech Veteran Ferrell Named Nation's Smartest Candidate
Navy veteran Richard Allen Ferrell of San Francisco, 23, earns a master of science at Caltech with straight A grades in all graduate physics courses, averaging 100 percent in electricity and magnetism. He plans to work at Los Alamos this summer and enroll at Princeton in September on an Atomic Energy Commission predoctoral fellowship. His mother, Elsie H. Ferrell, is set to receive a medical degree at UC Berkeley next Friday.
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Los Alamos
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California Institute of Technology
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Atomic Energy Commission
Elsie H. Ferrell
University of California
Man Dies Twice In Operation Then Returns To Life
James W. Stanek, a 49 year old printer, appeared dead twice during surgery at Maryland General Hospital when his heart and breathing stopped for 20 minutes and 9 minutes respectively. Surgeon Dr Joseph V Castagna massaged the heart, revived him both times, and Stanek regained consciousness after time in an oxygen tent.
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James W. Staneck
Maryland General Hospital
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Stanek
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Hooded Raiders Roam Birmingham and Brookside
Hooded and robed men terrorized Birmingham residents harming a woman and torching a cross while another group seized a cafe in Brookside threatening the operator. Deputies responded as armed assailants boasted of enforcing their own law.
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Hugh McDanal
Luther F. Williams
Plot Nipped by Arrests in Lebanon
BEIRUT Lebanon June 11 Three hundred members of the Syrian National party were arrested today on charges of plotting against state security. Government officials said the party planned a coup detat and a search of headquarters and members homes disclosed documents arms and other evidence. The Beirut correspondent of Al Misri said a nationwide roundup was ordered charging the party with plotting a rebellion. Police seized arms maps and the fenee of ministers among other items.
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Odom Cracks Up on Danver Airport
Denver dispatch reports Capt. Bill Odom, a round the world flyer, escaped injury when his small cabin plane crashed on takeoff at Stapleton airport. No other person was aboard. Odom planned to fly to Casper Wyoming after arriving from Chicago yesterday. the plane was damaged.
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White House Aid and Kent Tied to Coplon Spy Case
In a Coplon spy trial update, FBI reports name Presidential Assistant David K. Niles and Morton Kent, a Washington businessman who died by his own action. Niles allegedly helped obtain a passport for Philip Levy despite State Department reluctance. Kent allegedly secured Sotirov’s New York address for a possible UN sales entry, amid claims of Kent’s tragic death by self-inflicted wounds and prior law practice. The trial paused until Monday as prosecutors press to finish their case.
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Three Die Two Missing in Sunset Boat Capsize
Seattle June 11 Three men died and two were missing when the fishing vessel Sunset capsized near False Pass in the Aleutian chain. Four survived after being rescued by the Johnnie B of Seattle, which rushed survivors to the Ikatan cannery. crewmates included Nick Mardesich of Everett skipper and four of his sons plus Tony Mardesich of San Pedro.
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False Pass
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Wash
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Tony Mardesich
San Pedro
Calif
Washington State
Tony P. Mardesich
Snohomish County
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Bellingham
Aniton R. Morrowich
Vincent Viastelica
Frank Suryan
Anacortes
Ikatan
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Ex-Vice President of DuPont Dies in Delaware
Wilmington June 11 Robert R M Carpenter Sr retired vice president of E I du Pont de Nemours Co died today in Memorial Hospital He was 71 and a longtime executive in the DuPont firm born in Wilmington and active in local business affairs prior to his retirement.
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Memorial Hospital
Bus and truck crash injures seven near Livingston
MARCED June 11. A Greyhound bus with twenty passengers collided with a big truck and trailer near Livingston. Seven people were injured, none seriously. Among the injured were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Moore of Los Angeles O W Clark of Sacramento and Mrs. Blanche Rugland of Wilmington. They were treated and expected to be released after emergency care.
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Los Angeles
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Sacramento
Blanche Rugland
Wilmington
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Jaguar Destroyed After Two-Day Ship Rampage
In Palmas Canary Islands on June 11 Spanish marines ended a two day jaguar on a Belgian freighter bound for Antwerp carrying Brazilian wild game. The cat escaped its cage and prowled the decks causing four dead monkeys before mortars and two Tommy gun volleys pacified it.
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