Aged Fire Pumps Compete at State Fair
Sacrament o September 4 UP The San Andreas and Columbia Fire departments contest at the state fair grandstand to see which team can pump water farthest and fastest Governor Warren will cheer for Columbia The Popeete engine claims a storied past tracing back to the Sandwich Islands and Hawaiian Kings San Francisco and Tuolumne County Days are noted with guest Bop Mathias, a 17 year old Olympian winner, highlighted at tributes and luncheons.
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Sacramento
San Andreng
Columbia Lira
Warren
Columbia Fire Degiment
Columbia Group
King of the Sandwich Islands
Francisco
San Francisco
Columbia
San Andreas
Proasitadio
Tulare County
Bop Mathias
Tu Taro
London
Mathias
Preas Rado Lancheon
Gov. Warren
State Omleyes
Calaveras County
Engles
Yiba
Fashion Industries
Tuolumne
Master Planning Ad Notice
Ad for Proas Telegram Wan promoting master planning services fits any need. Includes contact phone 6-9068. Local brief notice with wording typical of small ads.
Wilhelmina Abdicates Throne as Juliana Succeeds
The Netherlands signal end of an era as Queen Wilhelmina, age 68 and in frail health, abdicates after 50 years. Her daughter Princess Juliana ascends, with the royal family and vast crowds in Amsterdam praising the transition.
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Quaan
Juliana Laff
Royal
Amsterdam
Wilhemina
Juliana
Margrist
Netherllands
Quien
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Julians
Moses
Royal Palace
Wilelmina
Balon
Netherlands East Indies
Holland
Wallace Ends Tour of the South in Knoxville
Henry A. Wallace capped a contentious southern campaign with the Progressive party. He spoke to about 600 at Mount Olive Negro Baptist Church, while thousands more gathered nearby as hecklers hurled fruit and vegetables. The party soon boarded a plane to New York.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Henry A. Wallace
South
Progressive Party
Ey Wallace
Joe Kimsey
Mount Olive Negro Baptist Church
Wallace
New York
Mitchum Refuses Grand Jury Invitation in Marijuana Case
Attorneys for Robert Mitchum and Lila Leeds declined an invitation to appear before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury as part of a marijuana case investigation. They seek more time for their own inquiry into the arrest at Miss Leeds' home, noting other arrestees included Robin Ford and dancer Vickie Evans and describing the events as a chain of coincidences.
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Hollaxwood
Robert Mitchum
Lila Leeds
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Jerry Giesler
Grant B. Cooper
Mitchum
Miss Leeds
Robin Ford
Miss
Leeds
Barrage Drilling Barges Ride Gulf Hurricane Safely
Kerr-McGee Gulf operations director Tom Seale reports sixty drill barges crews rode out a Gulf hurricane with no real danger. The two 360 foot Navy surplus barges, converted for drilling at 250000 dollars each, rode 10 miles south anchored, while crews slept and prepared to resume near midnight.
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Berwick
Kerr-McGee of Industries
Tom Seale
Kerr-McGee Gulf Operations
Leen Frank
Philips
KX Oy Adams
Forrestal Supports Amvet Chief’s View
Ambiguously worded item notes Forrestal backing amvet chief stance amid military and naval context. Weak readable fragments mention Rand, A. Edder, cay outs, and dreational terms.
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Forrestal
Amvet
Forrestal Rand
Japanese Physicist Yukawa Visits U C Berkeley
Distinguished Japanese physicist Dr Hideki Yukawa of Kyoto University visited the University of California radiation laboratory as a guest of Dr B O Lawrence. He discussed uranium shortages and Japan's postwar democratization while noting limited experimental physics by material constraints. He has been invited to a year at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
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Berkeley
Vpi
University of California
Hideki Yukawa
Imperial Niversity
Kyoto
B.O. Lawrence
Yukawa
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
America
United States
Japan
Four Die as Navy Plane Hits House
Four persons die when a small naval fighter crashes into a four family house in Bayside Queens New York. The plane struck the roof and plowed into the cellar leaving three women burned beyond identification and a Marine pilot Lt Roger Olsen 24 killed. Eyewitnesses reported a barrel roll before the crash as Navy officials confirmed the route from Floyd Bennett Field.
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New York
Bayside
Queans
New York City
Palice
Helen Raynor
Alice. Cressmer
Louise Paul
Floyd Bennett Field
Roger Olsen
Marine Corps Reserve
New Rochelle
Navy
Naval Base
John Broderick
Warren Opposes Use of California State Reserves
Governor warns against tapping nearly 400 million in state reserves for current expenses at a California Chamber of Commerce breakfast. He urges keeping funds for construction and emergencies, urges rapid power and water project construction, and defends reserve integrity amid fears of tax cuts. Senator Knowland cautions against complacency amid global tensions. Harry A. Mitchell criticizes Proposition 49 reapportionment as an attack on balanced representation.
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Cramento
Sin
Warren
Naked's &Soup of California
California
Rapid J
U. S
William F.knowland
United States
Berlin
State Senate
Harry A. Mitchell
State Chamber of Commerce
Fifty Men Look for Girl Near Stuart Virginia
A 50 man searching party scoured the rugged Patrick County hills for Madaline Cassell Sowers, a 2 year old who vanished from her country home while her mother went to the mailbox. Sheriff Fulcher said no sign of foul play was found and searchers speculated she might have been dragged off by a bear. The Sowers home lies about 23 miles north of Stuart.
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Stuart
Patrick County
Madaline Cassell Sowers
Edward P. Sowers
Richard Fulcher
Madeline
Fulcher
Simpst
Sowers
Reds Plan State Funeral for Ed Benes in Prague
The Czech Communist government announces a full state funeral for Dr Ed Benes. His body to lie in state at Sezimovo Usti then at the Liberation Monument in Prague, with a Pantheon service at the National Museum and burial at Sezimovo Usti. The sequence includes state viewings at Benes Hospital in Tabor and a final burial at his summer home garden.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Ed Benes
Sezimovo Usti
Liberation Monument
National Museum
Benes Hospital
Tabor
Spor
Plane crashes into city home injures none. child escapes
Witness Kilmuska says a small plane crashed across the street from a house and plunged into a yard. The propeller was found nearby in a vacant lot. Two year old Dennis Raynor narrowly avoided injury as occupants, including a 73 year old woman, fled a burning building.
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Kilmuska
Cragiy
Dennis
Raynor
Forced to Church Incident Sparks Racial Tension
In Atlanta on September 4 police confronted a group of Black youths near a church. Witness Willie Rutledge alleges officers forced the boys to state their plans, with one claiming he would attend church while others faced questioning and possible arrest amid claimed mistreatment.
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Tlanta
Eyton County
Smith
Willie Lee
Hee
Ruti
Ivan
County
Lan
GIs Accused of Looting Graves at Fosse Cemetery
The Socialist newspaper Le Peuple reports American GIs stationed at the U S Military Cemetery at Fosse looted graves of Battle of the Bulge dead. Col E Z Lilly and Public Prosecutor Jean Huart discussed the case, with Lilly unwilling to reveal details. Authorities say eight charged, 18 arrested, 15 gold teeth recovered, amid claims of alcohol bribes and cover up.
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Brussels
Belgium
le Peuple
United States Military Cemetery
Fosse
E. Z. Lilly
American Graves Registration Command
Paris
Jean Huart
Iam
Lily
U. S
Fosae
Graves
Liege
Army
Heidelberg
Lilly
Frankfurt
Huart
Namur
Dinant
Unit split over politics at Detroit Wayne County CLO meet
In Detroit on September 4 the Wayne County CIO convention fractured as delegates split after a credentials report denied full voting rights to 100 right wing delegates. National CIO officials intervened as left and right factions prepared separate conventions with planned start times on Sunday. Leaders clashed over Marshall Plan policy and long standing tensions with the national CIO.
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Detroit
CLO
Wayne County
Cornell
Tonlahht
Adolph
Gomer
National
Philip Murray
Mturgay
Arayp
Wayne Council
Nave Bean
Odda
Naeti
C.lo
Zis
Wales
Peoria Prosecutor Charged in Bribe Indictment
Peoria Illinois prosecutor Roy P Hull and Sheriff Baxi Psigatench chief investigator Charles Somogyl were indicted on charges of omission and malfeasance in office with Spainbower charged with perjury. The case linked to alleged solicitation of twenty five thousand dollars from Bernie Shelton to dismiss assault indictments. The jury set Sept 3 for further action as gambling operations in the county were reportedly planned after fall elections.
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Peoria
Hy. T
ORF
Roy P. Hull
Hull
Bernie Shelton
Shelton
Baxi
Psigatench
Charles Somogyl
Spainbower
Ta Helton
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Sykon
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Glacz
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Pete Bens
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