Officer Taken After 6 Month FBI Search
Navy Lt. Bascom B. Boaz 38 accused of embezzling government funds and desertion from the U S Navy after fleeing Thanksgiving with more than 519 000. He was arrested in a Pomona rooming house with Pearl Rosemary Carter, who traveled with him since last year. Boaz on leave from the Navasota and due back last Thanksgiving, faced arraignment in Los Angeles County Jail.
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FBI
Navy
Bascom B. Boaz
Boaz
U. S. S. Navagota
Pomona
Pearl Rosemary Carter
Los Angeles County
Jal
U.S
Navasota
South Gate
Cliff Brister
Long Beach
Hollywood
Sacramento
Brister
Pearl
Miss Carter
East
Japanese War Prisoner Sends Floating Message From Siberia
A Japanese prisoner in Siberia sent a note hidden in a bottle that drifted to safety over two years later. Dated March 1948 and signed T Takai, the message expresses a wish to see his wife and child before dying.
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Tokyo
Siberia
T. Takai
Gwila
House approves two year draft halt extension
The US House endorsed a two year standby extension for the Selective Service creating a draftless draft regime. The measure sustains registration and classification of 18 year olds through 1952 but bars inductions until a national emergency is declared. Senate action now looms as war fears mount and labor mobilization plans are urged.
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Ashington
Senate
House
National Security Resources Board
Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
W. Stuart Symington
NLRB
Army
Bergman Plans Honeymoon After Proxy Marriage
Ingrid Bergman, elated by her proxy marriage to Roberto Rossellini in Mexico, eyes a honeymoon in Paris and London once filming duties conclude. The absence-based union bypassed delays tied to US Swedish and Italian law, with Sweden unlikely to challenge the Mexican marriage.
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Rome
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
Paris
London
Mexico
Rossellini
Miss Bergman
Tuarez
United States
Sweden
Italy
Stockholm
Peter Lindstrom
Lindstrom
Hollywood
California
Seventeen Indicted in TV Talent School Case
Los Angeles May 25. A federal grand jury indicted seventeen persons accused of swindling hundreds of men and women out of 50 to 100 dollars each. The defendants allegedly picked names from telephone books and told victims that TV talent scouts had spotted them in a case described as mail fraud.
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Los Angeles
U. S
Ray
Xkinnison
Woman Electrocuted in Bath in Los Angeles
Los Angeles on May 25 authorities report Mrs. Lucille Christ aged 56 was electrocuted after stepping into a bathtub while holding a reading lamp. Investigators call the death accidental.
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Los. Angeles
Lucille, Christ
Flying Saucers Book Protested by U S Government
New York May 25 An official of Fawcett Publications said the government protested the forthcoming pocket book Flying Saucers Are Real. Roger K Fawcett said the book would launch June 5 unless an injunction stops it, citing national defense concerns. A Defense Department spokesman said it has never heard of the book. The work, by Donald E Keyhoe, expands on a True magazine article claiming flying saucers are spaceships from another planet. Jim Bishop, Gold Medal editor, noted the book repeats previously printed material. The title has already seen a test release and was briefly withdrawn pending the protest.
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Fawcett Publications
Roger K. Fawcett
Roscoe
Roscoe Fawcett
Canada
Washington
Defense Department
Department
True Magazine
Fawcett
Donald E Keyhoe
Jim Bishop
Gold Medal Books
Keyhoe
Bishop
Asi
Fire damages at L B Lumber Yard and millage building
Fire caused an estimated five thousand dollars in damage at L B Lumber Yard last night. The blaze damaged lumber and power tools inside the building and the main doors and pool area of the main structure.
Truman Seeks Limited Security Panel In Budget Talk
President Truman urged no need for a supergovernment as he defended constitutional governance amid debate on a national security commission. He noted the ongoing defense budget work, avoided disclosing ceilings, and opposed a voluntary FEPC plan while addressing remarks on Denham and NLRB independence.
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Washington Post
Post
Truman
Can $T . Fe
London
FEPC
Robert Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Portes Seid
Humphrey
Denham
K C Jury Indicts 3 in Tax Evasion
Kansas City reports three henchmen of Charles Binaggio including Walter L Rainey Samuel Goldberg and Jonny Mangiaracina were indicted by a federal grand jury on income tax evasion charges. Rainey and Mangiaracina faced three counts Goldberg five. The case ties to Binaggio’s Northside political organization amid ongoing underworld probes.
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Kansas City
Charles Binaggio
Walter L. Rainey
Samuel
Jen Baby) Goldberg
Jonny
the Mag
Grand Jury
Binaggio
Charles Gargotta
Truman Rd
Los Angeles Transit Strike Ballot Tomorrow
Los Angeles voters face a decision on an emergency plan as about one million streetcar and bus riders contemplate strike actions and transit disruptions tomorrow.
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Los Angeles
Lie's Optimism for Cold War End Meets Skepticism
President Truman and White House officials regard Trygve Lie’s optimism about ending the cold war with skepticism. Lie hopes for negotiations among the United States Britain France Russia and others. Truman will comment after consulting Secretary of State Acheson.
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Lie
Washington
Truman
Tolay
Trygve
Pati
U. N
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Britain
France
Russia
United Nations
New York
Europe
Stalin
Acheson
London
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Middle East Policy Fixed Ends Long Deadlock
The United States Britain and France announced a three power accord to supply arms for defense in the Middle East. Arms may go to Arab states or Israel if they assure no aggression against another state. The move ends years of Western dispute over weapons for forces in the Palestine conflict and aims to bolster confidence and security in the Near East. The statement noted both internal security and regional defense and was issued from London Paris and Washington.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Middle East
Truman
Palestine
Israel
Near East
London
Paris
NEED
Middle Eastern
Unofficial Strike Shuts Atom Plant at Oak Ridge
In Oak Ridge Tennessee on May 25 a wildcat walkout by A F L workers shut down a mammoth atomic plant construction project. The Laborers and Hodcarriers Union sparked the stoppage yesterday and it spread to all crafts on site. The Atomic Energy Commission had no information on the walkouts and arbitration had just ended on a wage dispute.
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Hodcarriers
Atomic Energy Commission Tepo
ABC
Sai
Art Arbitration Board
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