Finland Party Paves Way for New Cabinet
In Helsinki on September 13 Finland paved the way for a new cabinet likely to exclude Communists. Premier Urho Kekkonen and his Agrarian party coalition offered resignations to President Juho Paasikivi after elections. Kekkonen expected to form the next government. Reds were deemed unlikely.
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H&lsinki
Finland
Urho Kekkonen
Agrarian Party
Juho Paasikivi
Kek’konen
Reds
San Francisco Mayor Announces Re election Bid
San Francisco mayor Elmer E. Robinson formally announces he will seek reelection.
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S. F
San Francisco
Elmer E. Robinson
Elephant Dead So King Plans New Truman Gift
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia regrets that the bull elephant named Oscar died at sea en route to Washington aboard the SS Steel Surveyor. He will send another gift of value, choosing a transportable statue from Angkor. The elephant was buried at sea near Capetown, South Africa.
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Phnompenh
Cambodia
Indochina
Norodom Sihanouk
Truman
Washington
Oscar
Capetown
South Africa
Angkor
U S Information Aids Ambushed on Luzon
Two U S Information Service officials escaped injury after their jeep was ambushed in northwestern Luzon. Darwin Shopoff of Washington DC and Allen Gillis of Los Angeles identified themselves to Laoag police. Their jeep was struck by six bullets, two through the windshield, as they swerved to avoid a roadblock of logs.
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Manila
Philippines
U. S. Information Service
Luzon
Darwin Shopoff
Washington
D. C
Allen Gillis
Los Angeles
Laoag
Pacific Fisheries Pact Anticipated Negotiations Move Forward
SAN FRANCISCO September 13 The U S Department of State notified the Pacific Fishery Conference it is ready to negotiate a north Pacific fishery convention with Japan Miller Freeman chairman of the conference announced the department plans to send a delegation to Japan soon to negotiate and hopes to include Canada in talks Freeman said Jamaica?
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San Francisco
U. S. Department of State
Pacific Fishery Conference
Japan
Miller Freeman
State Department
Protest Honesty Purloiner of Kiss Lands Behind Bars
In Manila on September 13 1962 police jailed Ramon Vallaluz 22 for kissing Magdalena Rodriguez 21 without authorization. Vallaluz proclaimed from the calaboose he is ready to marry Magdalena anytime anywhere under any circumstances while Magdalena remained discreet.
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Manila
Naic
Cavite
Ramon Vallaiuz
Magdalena Rodriguez
Magdalena
Vallaluz
Calaboose
Water line for San Diego Navy supply bill approved
Washington Sept 13 The House by voice vote passed a bill to let the Navy build a second water supply line into the San Diego area. The $18 million project will be repaid in 40 years by the San Diego Water Authority. The line will bring water from the Colorado River and connect with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Aqueduct.
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Washington
House
Senate
Navy
San Diego
Calif
Quakes shake Srinagar as Kashmir towns report damage
Two severe earthquakes struck Srinagar and nearby towns causing widespread panic. Homes suffered property damage but no casualties were reported. The tremors were felt across the Kashmir region late in the night, prompting residents to seek safety outdoors.
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Kashmir
Srinagar
India
Efforts to Influence RFC on a Loan Exposed in Testimony
Toole's diary excerpts tie American Lithofold to RFC loan attempts and named officials including James Finnegan and Frank Prince. Williams, the RFC examiner on the $645,000 loan, testified he never discussed the matter with Boyle. Boyle testified before a separate Senate panel examining election law reforms.
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Toole
Lithofold
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Boyle i
RFC
Boyle
James P. Finnegan
Internal Revenue
St Louis
Frank Prince
War Plants Corp
SWPC
Finnegan
Blauner
Senate
Prince
Alabama
Harley Hise
Ernest Howard
RPC
Charles Friffin
Chauncey ¥. Dodds
J. Frank Williams
Two Survivors Escape West Wind Fire Off Lower California
Anton Viksinick of Wilmington and Everett Klaumann of San Pedro fled in a skiff after the West Wind caught fire off Lower California. The fishing boat Lucky Star rescued the two and towed them to San Diego as the West Wind sank after a fierce engine room blaze.
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Anton Viksinick
Broad J Ave
Wilmington
Everett Klaumann
San Pedro
West Wind
Lower California
Jack Munson
Gulf Ave
Lucky Star
San Diego
Coast Guard
Police Shoot Youth Fixing TV Antenna
NEW YORK September 13 Four teen year old Julian F Sweeney died yesterday of a bullet wound in the head a case of mistaken identity He was fixing a TV antenna on the roof of his sister s home when neighbors mistook him for a prowler Patrolmen Cronin and Peppard fired four warning shots and then twice more after he fled down a fire escape He was struck by a bullet in the head official quote says a case of mistaken identity due to the man s good deed.
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New York
Julian F. Sweeney
Queens
Howard Cronin
Robert Peppard
Sweeney
USAF Develops Robot Bomber for Pilotless Flight
The Air Force plans a pilotless light bomber squadron at Cocoa Florida on Oct 1 to train in the Matador guided missile. The B-61 Matador, built by Martin, is described as a small bomber style missile with no cockpit and is launched from the ground. The unit will train under the 16555th Guided Missile Wing before possible combat deployment.
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Joseph K. O'Mahoney
D.wyo
Senate
America
O'Mahoney
Martin ‘Siatador
Air Force
Missile Test Center
Cocoa
Fla
Glenn L. Martin 1Co
Baltimore
U. S
Martin
Holoman Air Base
Alamogordo
N. M
16555Th
Research and Development Command
Tactical Air Command
Austin to Head U S Delegation in Paris
President Truman named Warren Austin to lead the United States delegation to the U N General Assembly in Paris in November. He will be senior representative when Secretary of State Acheson is absent, with Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt Rep Mansfield Rep Vorys and Philip C. Jessup also nominated.
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Washington
Truman
Warren Austin
United Nations
U. S
LU. N
General Assembly
Paris
Vermont
State Acheson
Ihairman
Austin
Franklin Roosevelt
Mansfield
D.mont
Rep
Vorys
Ohio
Philip C. Jessup
Leipzig Civilian and Red Police Clash Reported
An underground report from the Russian Zone said many people were injured and over 100 arrested during a battle in Leipzig between about 3500 civilians and 400 Communist controlled people’s police. The clash followed an attempt by citizens to storm a police station after two youths were arrested for a lighted firecracker striking a policeman at a city fair.
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Berlin
People's Police
Leipzig
Indiana to Appeal Deprivation Rulings
Indiana officials will appeal federal rulings that would cut almost $20 million in annual welfare funds. A federal judge in Washington upheld Oscar Ewing’s order to withhold aid, citing Indiana’s law exposing welfare recipient names as conflicting with federal secrecy requirements.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Washington
Alexander Holtzoff
Oscar Ewing
Ewing
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