DAREDEVIL RAID Aviator frees patient from Stockholm asylum
Swedish police report Lt. Thorsten Akrell, 34, an aviator, broke into a Stockholm mental hospital and freed patient Mrs. Luise Forsell Kaage, 25, fleeing with her to Norway in a light sport plane. They were held by Norwegian authorities for extradition. Kaage, sister of Dr. Jacob Forsell, had a history of prior flights with Akrell and past injuries.
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Forsell Kaage
Stockholm
Sweden
Thorister Akrell
Norwegian
Norway
Associated Press
Thorsten Akrell
Kaage
Akrell
Jacob Forsell
John Forsell
Stockholm Royal Opera Company
Stockholm Zoo
Stockholm Tidningen
Thea
America
Tidningen
Akrel
Mra. Kango
Sanltarium
Explosion at British ammunition dump near Ismailia
El Ahram reports a heavy explosion yesterday in a British ammunition dump near Ismailia in the Suez Canal zone. Fires continue to burn in the area today with no casualty figures available.
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Suez Canal Zone
Cairo
el Ahram
Ismailia
Nimitz Announces December Retirement As Navy Leader
In Dallas on All Veterans Day Admiral Chester Nimitz said he will retire as chief of naval operations in mid December and will remain on active duty. He named five potential successors and noted a new law allows five star officers to stay active. He plans to live on the west coast and may assist the Navy as needed while declining a diplomatic post.
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Dallas
Texa’s
Ale
Awas
Adm
Nimits
William i. P. ‘Blandy
Louis Denfeld
K. C. Ramsey
Richard L. .Gonolly
Ite
United States Navy
Former Indiana Senator James Watson Gravely Ill in Hospital
Washington Oct 14 Former Sen James E Watson 33 of Indiana once Senate Republican leader during Hoovers era remains gravely ill in a local hospital doctors said He is described as a very sick man with his condition not good
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Washington
James E. Watson
Indiana
Senate
Hoovers
William S. Detwiler
Dual Inquiry in City Lines Situation In Long Beach
Long Beach City Lines faces a two pronged probe into earnings and fare reductions and a study of municipal ownership amid a state commission challenge to cease operations without a certificate. City council also adopts a show cause order and calls on Governor Warren to outlaw strikes in public utilities.
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Long Beach
City Council
J R. McHenry
Long Beach City
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City
McHenry
City Lines
Basil A. Carleson
Earl Warren
Warren
Warren Pledges State Food Aid Cooperation
SACRAMENTO October 14 California Governor Earl Warren announced she has wired President Truman that California will cooperate in the food saving program. She will designate a state agency to work with the citizens food committee and encourage communities to do their full part in the program’s success.
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Sacramento
Earl Warren
Truman
California
Warren
Ci Zens
Minnesota group rejects Truman food plan in Fairmont
At a Fairmont meeting October 14 the Restaurant and Hotel Men's Bureau of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce rejected President Truman's food conservation recommendation. Sumner Scott, operator of two rural stock houses, led the motion with a blunt statement opposing feeding Europeans to empower them against Americans. he warned it would deprive his customers and endanger his son in 18 years.
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Minn
Fairmont Chamber
Commerce
Truman
Sumner#Scott
Grain Advances Despite U K on Liquor Holiday
Grain prices show mixed movement amid liquor holiday chaos as Chicago yards report heavy receipts and prices drift. Wheat, corn, and oats rise slightly while bread prices jump 1 cent in Pittsburgh. Washington bakers’ aid seeks 3.5 million bushels monthly wheat savings to aid Europe. whisky distillers halt production. restaurant and baking groups coordinate to conserve grain.
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Omaha
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New York
John ‘Turner
Food Distributors Association of Ilinois
Turner
ASKHD
Washington
Charles Tauckman
Citizens' Food Committee
Europe
Whisky Distille's
Luckman
U S Plan Under Fire In U N Debate Clash
Soviet Andrei Vishinsky grills John Foster Dulles before the General Assembly political committee as it debates the U N year round little assembly plan. Vishinsky accuses the United States of war propaganda and aims to weaken the United Nations, while Dulles urges steps to restore confidence and support for the UN. The exchange follows Dulles advocacy of a permanent UN forum to address peace problems.
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Russia
Andrei ¥. Vishinsky
John Foster Dulles
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General’ Assembly
Vishinsky
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Dullés
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Regular Assembly
Marshall
Assembly
Gasoline Rationing Foreseen for East
New York October 14. A L Nickerson marketing director for Socony Vacuum Oil Co told a meeting of the Empire State Petroleum Association that new federal demands on gasoline and fuel oil would most certainly lead to rationing of petroleum products in the east this winter.
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New York
A. L. Nickerson
Socony Vacuum _Oil Co
Empire State Petroleum Association
Father shoots, two daughters wounded in Newton home
Police say Flore D Antonio, 42, shot daughter Nina 18, beat Mary 19 with shotgun butt, then lay unconscious in cellar. A son, Gino 16, found them. both older daughter and father in critical condition at Newton Wellesley Hospital. No motive given. neighbors heard nothing.
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Sheridan
Flore D'Antonio
Nina
Mary
DiAntonio
D'Antonio
Newton
Wellesley
Gino
Earl
Wreckage of Corsair Found in Chocolate Mountains
Blythe October 14. The Navy and Marine Corps were checking today on a rancher W H Todd report that he found the wreckage of a Corsair fighter plane in the Chocolate Mountains about 45 miles southwest of Blythe. No sign of a pilot was found.
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Navy
Marine Corps
W. H.todd
Here
Temblors report from distant quake observed abroad
A compact report notes a tremor severity around 133 on the scale, detected approximately at 9:00 PM, with a reading 8000 miles from New York in an unspecified direction. The record mentions university involvement and a dust nighttime observation tied to the event.
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New York
Gale Lashes Florida Then Hovers Toward Carolina
A tropical gale moved off Florida and north toward the Carolinas, with a secondary center deepening and likely to move north at about 10 mph. Shipping warned along the coast, flights dispatched from Charleston to Delaware, and Wrightsville Beach reported 25,000 in gas and sewer damage as winds reached up to 50 mph inland. Florida faced rising waters and heavy rains with widespread floods and thousands homeless in Hialeah and Miami Springs as the National Guard prepared patrols.
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Delaware
Wrightsville
Sear
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National Guard
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Miami ‘Springs
British patrol returns after missing crossing into Yugoslavia
Vienna dispatch reports a six man British patrol, long overdue after crossing the Austrian border into Yugoslavia last Sunday afternoon, has returned. No further details were provided.
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Vienna
Yugoslavia
Passengers Doped Train Robbery Reported in Bucharest
A band of thieves allegedly gas the passengers in a Bucharest railway carriage to sleep and robbed the night train to Iaal. Passengers awoke at the last station to find all luggage missing.
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Bucharest
Romania
Iaal
Natiunea
Bermuda Sky Queen Crash Sparks Coast Guard Rescue
A Bermuda Sky Queen flying boat carrying 69 aboard made a forced Atlantic landing. Coast Guard rescue crews near New York, with help from British and American observers, reported no injuries. Plane carried passengers bound for the United States and Canada. weather and fuel issues prompted the distress call and aerial search.
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Canada
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Charles" Martin
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