Briton Blames Party For His Capture In Jerusalem
Albert Britten, 23, a Suffolk Regiment private, says he got separated from his unit on May 13 and was captured by the Arab legion during the conquest of the old Jewish quarter. He claims he did not fight for the Jews but helped tend the wounded at a nearby hospital. The British consul at Amman may intervene.
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Professor Free on $3500 Bond
In Columbia Missouri a 50 year old Missouri University professor of advertising F Johnston was removed from teaching duties and released on a 3500 bond after perversion charges. Preliminary hearing set for June 11. Also held on 2500 bond for the June term are Willie Coots and Warren Heathman charged with perversion.
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Shippers Union Talks Break Off in San Francisco
May 29 report from San Francisco states Pacific American Shipping Association and the CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards Union ended conciliation talks hours after starting. Union leader Hugh Bryton charged employers with rejecting all proposals including hiring hall retention, 40 hour work week at sea, paid vacations, and wage increases. Federal conciliator Omar Hoskins to meet other unions next week ahead of a June 15 strike deadline. Peter Seltz of the Federal Mediation Service to confer with ILWU and Waterfront Employers Association, unclear if a Taft Hartley board of inquiry will be formed. Northwest ILWU director William Gettings says soup kitchens and housing planned for 15,000 maritime workers likely to strike by June 16.
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Wisconsin Has Freeze and Weather Map Highlights
Chicago dispatch describes a cold front spanning from the Rocky Mountains to near the Ohio River. Wisconsin reports sub freezing temps in the north while Minnesota Michigan and the Dakotas see near 32 degrees, with rain and flooding causing extensive damage and homelessness.
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Rockies
Local Briefs Cash Stolen at Hardware Store
Cash amounting to 32 dollars was taken from a hardware store drawer at 5810 East Second Street during the proprietor Horace Co. Stovall’s brief absence. Police report the incident. A separate theft at the air base involved a bag valued over 400 dollars containing clothing, reported by Lt. Joseph A. Birdwell.
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Car Dealers Go on Buying Strike in Cleveland
In Cleveland on May 29, an auto auctioneer reported used car dealers are adopting a not buying policy due to high prices for nearly new autos. R K Patton of the Cleveland Auto Auction Co said selling a 1947 model for 1775 last week failed to fetch 1400 yesterday, with 1948 models not moving. About 75 late-model cars remained unsold despite price cuts of 200 or more, and only two cars were sold.
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Cleveland
R. K. Patton
Cleveland Auto Auction Co
Optical Trust Case Against 15 Dropped
Federal Judge Walter J. Labay dismissed charges against 15 individuals in the government antitrust case involving Bausch & Lomb American Optics Co. and others. The moves came at the request of Willis L. Hotchkiss, U.S. attorney general aide. The government alleged price fixing of eyeglasses via rebates to eye doctors.
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Chicago
Walter J. Labay
Willis L. Hotchkiss
U.S
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American Optics Co
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Yugoslav Court Orders Five Deaths in Mostar Case
A Belgrade dispatch reports a Mostar court sentence for five to death on charges of belonging to an illegal organization intended to overthrow the government through organized killing violence and sabotage. Other defendants received prison terms from five to 200 years for the same offense.
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Yugoslavia
Mostar
Ustad
Mouse Scares 50 Women In Chicago Jury Room
Fifty women jumped from chairs and screamed in the Chicago criminal courts building jury room. Court Clerk James Bernardo pursued a mouse that leaped from knitting yarn and killed it with a window pole after Mrs. Mable Zirbee helped corner the rodent.
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Criminal Courts
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Mable Zirbee
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Talks in Railroad Dispute Recessed
Washington May 29 The White House recessed talks in the 11 month rail dispute after reporting no progress. Three day conferences set to resume Tuesday with John R Steelman shuttling between unions and company spokesmen. The government holds railroads in legal possession with the Army in charge and engineers firemen and switchmen remain on the job under a temporary restraining order extended to June 11.
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White House
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Naval Nuclear Lab Head Named for Navy Work
Dr Fr Kurie of Washington University was named to organize a nuclear physics research laboratory for the Navy in Washington DC. He becomes superintendent of the naval research laboratory’s nuclear physics division and will consolidate Navy operations in that field. Kurie helped develop early atom splitting methods and will report in Washington in July.
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Boy Loses Life While Playing Cowboy
Hayward scene details a tragic accident as 10 year old Danny Shelton died while playing cowboy and Indian. He climbed a tree and was found hanging by a rope 13 feet above the ground by his playmates. Police reported no witnesses to the fatal incident.
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Hayward
Danny
Shelton
Chile Takes Dispute with Russia to United Nations
LAKE SUCCESS May 29 Chile has taken its argument with Russia over wives to the United Nations. A Chilean complaint charges Russia violated human rights by blocking Russian wives of foreigners from leaving the country and breached diplomatic protocol by not allowing a family member of the former Chilean ambassador to travel with him. The Chilean group remains in Moscow and about 50 Russians including the Soviet ambassador stay in Chile.
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Luis C. Cruz Ocampo
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Chile
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Poland and Bulgaria Sign 20 Year Mutual Aid Pact
Poland and Bulgaria signed a twenty year pact of friendship and mutual assistance in Warsaw, described as aimed against German aggression. It commits immediate military aid if either is attacked by Germany or its allies, marking Poland's first pact with a former German wartime ally. The accord follows earlier alignments with Soviet Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
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Seven Boys Sentenced Over Brooklyn Shooting Incident
Five youths were sentenced to indeterminate terms at Warwick training school while a sixth got probation and another to the city youth house until June 7. The group, accused of stealing .22 rifles from a Coney Island gallery, fired at Margaret Jokiel’s home to terrorize her math class. The private sentencing left exact terms undisclosed.
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Brooklyn Children's Court
James V. Mulholland
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Margaret Jokiel
Annual Fete at Annapolis rings in midship events
Annapolis Maryland on May 20 hosts a six day naval academy fete with President Truman among dignitaries at crew races and sports. Queen of all Annapolis is Mrs Katherine Wainwright Austin of North Andover Mass the 1948 color girl arriving as war widow at 26. Midshipman Herman W Jones of New Castle Indiana chairs the ring dance in Mac Donough Hall escorting Miss Lucy Wood of Harrisburg. The hall entry features a giant class ring and a binnacle with water from seas worldwide symbolizing journeys to come.
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Woman Shot but Blamed Dream Mate Kills Self
In Monte Vista on May 29 Joseph B. Giacobbi, 75, a retired gem cutter, warned his son‑in‑law he feared harming someone he loved. Later his wife Gertrude, 74, awoke to a gunshot wound and found him dead, believing it was a dream before awakening to a terrible headache and blood on the pillow. She escaped to neighbors for help.
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Within These Walls ends a city with fading power
In blockaded Jerusalem on Thursday May 27 a brief cinema notice marks the last film shown before outages. The ad promotes the title Within These Walls as the final screening amid shortages of food water and electricity.
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Jerusalem
Jace
Boy to Face Murder Trial In 14 Year Old Sally Case
Chicago May 29 State's Attorney plans indictment against Roy Adams a husky baby faced 14 year old for the suffocation murder of Nancy Schuler a 9 year old neighbor and playmate Adams altered his story and admitted the act may have been sexually motivated in a bedroom incident after an all night police search he initially claimed the girl was smothered with pillows during a quarrel over comics
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William J. Tuohy
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