Chinese Nationalist Fliers Bomb British Ship Wounding Four
Chinese Nationalist planes damaged the British freighter Anchises injuring four crewmen during a thirty minute raid near Shanghai. The attackers also struck a Shell Oil Co. warehouse destroying 20,000 tons of kerosene and other petroleum products. The raid prompted naval diversions and a Nationalist blockade announced to begin June 26, as Communist forces pushed north from Foochow.
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Anchises
Shell Oil Co
Shanghai
Foochow
Are
Manchuria
Yangtze
Whangpoo River
J. E. Watson
Watson
Kobe
Hong Kong
London
Consort
Amethyst
Black Swan
Yangtzes
Here
Nanking
Ex-theater Pair Found Shot to Death in Home
NORFOLK Conn June 21 former Boston theater manager Alfred Gordon Munro 73 and his actress wife Viola about 55 were found shot to death in their apartment. State Police said the shooting was murder and suicide with a revolver near Munro’s body. Munro once managed Hartforts Parsons Theater and later led a Shubert chain theater in Boston.
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Norfolk, Conn
Boston
F. D. Arsone
John C. Kelly
Alfred Gordon Munro
Viola
Elton Nolan
Cannon Barracks
Lester Roberts
Munros
Roberts
Munro
Nolan
Parsons
Hartfort
Shubert
Munron
Charles Munron
West Hartford
Steamer Princesa Aatrid Sinks After Mine Hit
A Belgian steamer Princesa Aatrid carrying 384 aboard struck a mine and sank off Dunkerque France. Six crew and passengers were killed and eight injured. Rescue efforts were underway as the vessel went down in the Channel.
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Dunkerque
Punkerque
France
Pailee
Reds tired of rail strike in Berlin walkout denials
The Rucalans vow no punishment for workers walking off the job as Berlin’s rail strike lingers. An Allied official says the development could aid settlement while Soviet transport head Kvashnin notes railway management is bound to earlier promises. 14,000 strikers rejected a two week old compromise that offered no reprisals but sidestepped union recognition.
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Erlin
Rucalans
Berlin
Apalicaman
Abr
Rte
Pavel Kvashnin
Atrikyers
Atrikyre
Rua
Acheson Returns to U.S. After Paris Talks
Secretary of State Acheson arrived home from the Paris Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference to a welcoming reception by President Truman and top officials. Truman praised his work, noting Acheson would report to him later. The Paris session yielded limited results on Cold War issues but produced agreements to pursue a cooperative stance in a divided Germany and to seek an Austrian independence treaty this summer. The absence left a large workload for Acheson awaiting his return.
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Acheson
Truman
Alben W. Barkley
Grant
Dean Acheson
National Airport
Washington,d. C
Foreign Ministers
Paris
Associated Prats
Washington
Barkley
Mr. Truman
Achson
Dean
State Department
Army
Navy
Air Forces
White House
Europe
Germany
Secretary of State
Significance of ex-See Byrnes welfare warning weighs
A brief note highlights ex See Byrnes warning about the welfare state as a topic of national concern. The item appears among local news and editorial briefs, indicating its relevance to readers of the town paper.
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Byrnes
Truman
Unidentified Sub Seen Near New Rocket test Area
A Coast Guard report notes an unidentified submarine sighted off South Florida near the Banana River rocket testing zone. Navy planes searched the area while officials classified details. the long range proving ground funding and project approval were announced in May.
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Miami
Fls
Coast Guard
South Florida
Banana River
Truman
O. D. Weed
Washington
Navy
Leonard Cullat
FR. C. Knowles
U. S.6
United States
Fugitives Recovered After Roadside Sighting at Sonoma
Four women who escaped Sonoma State Hospital Sunday night were recaptured by deputies late last night near Sonoma. They reportedly eluded staff by hiding in a haystack before being returned to the institution’s maximum security quarters.
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Santa Rosa
Sonoma State Hospital
Toadside
Sonoma
Defense Chief Proposes Flattop Modernization Plan
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson with President Truman’s approval proposed modernizing two aircraft carriers at a total cost of 80 million dollars. Speaking to 114 graduates of the National War College Johnson argued that Russia makes a strong U S defense necessary and warned against relying solely on atomic weapons. He said modernized carriers would raise the number of heavy postwar launchers to eight and dismissed claims that canceling the Navy’s supercarrier harmed naval air power. Lt Col Louis W. Truman, a president relative, received a diploma. Patterson to chair civilian defense board.
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Ashington
Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson
Truman
Tolday
Johnson
National War College
Scuacl
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
Louis W. Truman
Kansas City
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Robert A. Patterson
Defense Setup
Ee ‘Patterson
Widow swindled by Wooer Found con man hunted
CHICAGO June 21 A widow missing since June 12 notified police she was pursued by a man described as a veteran confidence man. Mrs. Reseda Corrigan 39 denied details and said she traveled east to meet Sigmund Engel 73 who posed as a suitor. A warrant charged Engel with causing a £5000 loss after a promised marriage. The con man also reportedly swindled Mrs Pauline Langton who said she married Engel believing him to be Carl Laemmie Jr. in New York.
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Chicago
Reseda Corrigan
Daniel Gilbert
Newark
N. J
Sigmund Engel
Gilbert
Engel
Sam Engel
Grand Central Terminal
New York
Sam Engle
Carl Laemmie Jr
Laemmie
Hollywood
Cougar Kills Indian Bay Hunt Ends in Tragic Beach Deaths
A dangerous hunt for a cougar near Alberni British Columbia ended when the animal attacked and killed several Indians on a Vancouver Island beach. Authorities and locals reported the incident as a fatal encounter during a hunt gone wrong.
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Alberni
B. C
Vancouver
Tobey Seeks Action Over War Contract Grafters
New England Senator Tobey urged Congress to act against those who used or claimed influence to win wartime government contracts. He referenced a committee chairman's federal prison sentence and noted Rep. May’s 1947 bribery conviction. McCarthy backed Larson but Tobey called wartime contracting a detestable chapter in American history.
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Washington
Sen
Tobey
Senate
Congress
House
Rep. May
D.ky
Larson
Typhoon Devastates Southern Japan and Okinawa
A typhoon battered Okinawa and southern Honshu causing hundreds of deaths or disappearances in Japan. Okinawa reported winds up to 115 miles per hour with no American casualties. Police estimate 40 dead and 563 missing in Kyushu as the storm moved toward the inland sea and Hongshu.
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Tokyo
Japan
Honshu
Okinawa
U. S
Washington
Kyushu
Hongshu
Sea of Japan
Korea
Corporation Restock After Flood Destroys Store
Garland Texas June 21 Houston Press reports H K Hirsch rebuilt his radio appliance shop after the Duck Creek flood last week ruined stock and equipment. Hirsch and wife were overwhelmed by new products and patent equipment. T P Robinsse of Dallas Radio Sales and Service Association helped organize support from two members.
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Garland
Texas
H. K ‘Hirsch
Duck Creek
Dia
Hirsch
T.P. ‘Robinsse
Dallas Radio Sales and Service Association
Rerk
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Jacksonville
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Dolphie
Associated Press
Wiraphoto
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Solon
U.S
Defense Chief
New England
James V. Hunt
Quartermaster Corps
Paul Grindle
Framingham
Mast
Corporation
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