Brinks Car Robbery Solved by Former Employee
A 26 year old former Brinks employee, Ray Eugene Farmer, confessed to rifling a parked armored car of 65 000 dollars at noon. Police recovered the money buried at Glen Echo Park and charged him with grand larceny after an all night questioning by Inspector Jeremiah Flaherty and Chief Robert V. Murray.
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Washington
Brink's Armored Car Service
Jeremiah Flaherty
Ray Eugene Farmer
Faherty
Farmer
Flaherty
Glen Echo Park
Maryand
Brinks
Robert V. Murray
Murray
Brink
Melvin A. Goodspeed
Brink’s
United States
Hallowe’en
Thompsonville
Conn
City to proceed with intersection work despite threat
City crews began squaring off the Division Avenue and Third Fourth Street intersection yesterday to reroute traffic to Third Street to Gershaw Drive. Karl Kraemer, operator of a service station on Fourth Street, threatened a injunction and hired an out of town lawyer, claiming a bylaw makes Fourth Street the highway. City solicitor J G Kidd indicated the city can proceed, with Alderman Jack Cocks defending the plan as an alteration of the intersection rather than road closure.
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Division Ave
Third
Karl Kraemer
Fourth St
Wilson. Riley
Kraemer
J. G. Kidd
Kidd
City Works Department
Jim Carswell
Lethbridge
Third St
Gershaw ‘Drive
Hall-Third“St
Medicine Hat
Jack Cocks
Council of the Safety ‘Council
Change for Better In Calgary Polio Situation
Calgary health official reports a drop in polio cases with no new Friday cases, three Sunday and one outside the city yesterday. Western Canada polio total rises to 849 with 10 Alberta cases and Manitoba revision. Calgary city lists 78 cases amid provincial totals and new daily arrivals.
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Calgary
L. C. Allan
Allan
Edmonton
Canada
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Manioba
B.C
Calgary and District
Winkler and
Kimberley-Cranbrook
Winnipeg
New Caess
Lethbridge
Kitscoty
Delbourne
Jasper
Athabasca
Hvansburg
Blairmore
Wound Red POWs While Restoring Order in Camps
UN guards in Korea wounded 38 communist prisoners of war during three demonstrations at Koje and Cheju islands. Aug. 11 at Koje guards fired riot guns after tear gas and rocks. Aug. 13 at Koje used tear gas to break a training march. Aug. 15 at Cheju threeA pen forced prisoners to lower and burn flags behind tear gas. Leaders placed in solitary confinement.
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Seoul
United Nations
Koje
Cheju Islands
United States
Chejusland
Pen 3A
Haydon L. Boamner
Peiping
London Demonstrates Television Telephone
Reuters reports a television telephone shown in London allowing a caller to see the other end. Aimed at business use, it could be adopted for transatlantic systems. The device features a small screen and was demonstrated at the national radio show.
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London
Reuters
Eight-Hour Fight Rages to Control Bunker Hill
UN infantry repelled three Chinese assaults near Bunker Hill on the Korean western front. About one third of the 800 Communist force were killed or wounded after eight hours of hand to hand combat in muddy trenches. UN tanks and artillery, plus US B 29 and B 26 bombers, hit supply and communication centers near Pyongyang as Gen Mark Clark reorganized the Far East command to balance navy air force influence with the army in planning for the war and talks.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Bunker Hill
U.N
United States
Pyonyang
Tokyo
Mark Clark
Far East
Navy
Air Force
Army
Requiem Mass for Eva Peron in London
A requiem mass will be celebrated at Westminster Cathedral at noon today for Eva Peron the wife of Argentina's president.
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London
Westminster Cathedral
Eva Peron
Argentina
Nine Escape Death As Crippled Plane Lands
Riverton Manitoba witnesses a dramatic landing as Ballanca Skyrocket with one pontoon limps to a field. Pilot Bob Shinnie 18-year-old Winnipeg youth injured eye and passengers throw baggage overboard to ease weight. William Pruden 47 and Walter Saunders suffer fractures. Plane splits on impact. all survive.
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Riverton
Man
Riverton Airways
Winnipeg
William Pruden
Gimli
Walter Saunders
Roblin Hotel
Bob Shinnie
Western Canada
Norway House
F. E. Scribned
Shinnie
Riveron
Oddur Olafson
Dr. Scribner
Over-Subscribe Wheat Agreement in 1951 52
Canada over subscribed the International Wheat Agreement for 1951-52 by 3.123 million bushels. Canadian Wheat Board figures show 241.613 million sold against an export guarantee of 238.49 million. Sales exceeded the July 31 deadline as some imports arrived at pact prices.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Canadian Wheat Board
I.W.A
Greece Recognizes Egypt King Fuad I Without Significance
Greece announced that recognizing Egypt's infant King Fuad I as monarch of Egypt and the Sudan has no political significance. The foreign ministry said the move does not affect Sudanese self determination and is only a courtesy to friendly Egypt.
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Athens
Greece
Egypt
Fuad I
Sudan
Foreign Ministry
New Dragline Digging Ditch At Slipping Hill
A Calgary bring in dragline is digging the ditch at the top of the slipping hill between Eighth and Ninth streets. It aims to reach clay surface by week’s end with a 40 foot boom twice the size of the old machine. Water is pumped out as work continues and wooden supports slow progress. The foreman warns parents to keep children away due to ongoing cave ins.
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Calgary
Eighth
Ninth
Polish immigrant hanged for New Year’s Day murder in Fort Saskatchewan
Kaspar Gorczak, 34, walked to the gallows at midnight in the Fort Saskatchewan provincial jail for the knife slaying of his estranged wife Staffy. The trap was sprung at 12:03 am Tuesday and he was pronounced dead at 12:15 am.
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Edmonton
Kaspar Gorczak
Fort
Saskatchewan
Staffy
Gorczak
White Collar Workers Mobilized for Harvest Across Canada
Canadian Press reports a massive wheat harvest may force white collar workers to leave desks for field work. Labor from Europe has added 700 workers in Saskatchewan and Alberta, but central and eastern Canada will supply only about 1,000 of the 3,000 needed. Wages reach near 200 dollars monthly with board in western regions, while Ontario workers earn 75 to 100 and Quebec workers 65. Potatoes and apples harvests in Atlantic provinces and Newfoundland face late starts and wage competition with construction camps.
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Prairie Agricultural
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Ontario
Points East
Central
Québec
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Everything Ready For School Opening
The city public school board announces all fixes completed and vacancies filled for the new term starting Sept. 2. One new teacher, Mrs. Marjory Bolick, joins 67 teachers serving 61 classrooms. High school advance registration shows 625 students. Connaught and Riverside gain rooms, Toronto Street building use uncertain. Regular maintenance kept up. trustee W A Church says all buildings are in good shape.
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Marjory Bolick
W. Bolick
Alexandra Composite High School
Connaught School
Riverside
Toronto St
Connaught
W. A. Church
Eisenhower to Pitch Heats Up Campaign in New York
Eisenhower ailing campaign early strength but plans a tougher push. He seeks Taft support and to attack Stevenson and Truman era policies while addressing the American Legion and farm talks in Springfield and Detroit. He will open Labor Day in Detroit.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
Adlair Stevenson
Illinois
Truman
New York
American Legion
Stevenson
Springfield
Ill
Clyde Sdybold
National Rural Electric:Cooperative Association
Herschel Newsom
National Grange
Detroit
Teen Driver Training Cited in Vehicle Loss of Control
A motorist loses control after attempting to teach a teenager to drive. The incident underscores dangers of training inexperienced drivers on public roads.
Wheat condition rises in Saskatchewan crop report
Regina CP reports the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool says the wheat condition index jumped six points to 166, among the season’s highest readings. Preliminary outturns suggest an average provincial yield of 24 bushels per acre, aligning with government estimates and marking the steadiest crop since 1935.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Saskatchewan Agriculture Department
Wheat Pool
British carrier Glory to visit Barcelona on Mediterranean cruise
The aircraft carrier Glory and three destroyers will make a five day port call in Barcelona next month as part of the British Mediterranean fleet summer cruise program.
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London
Reuters
Glory
Barcelona
Spain
Rocket Fire By Mistake Sinks B17 Over Gulf
At Eglin Air Force Base Florida an automated F86D rocket fired by error sent a B 17 bomber into the Gulf of Mexico. All eight crew members may be killed. debris and waves hinder rescue efforts 50 miles south of Panama City. The pilot Col Arthur R Debolt 39 of Columbus Ohio misidentified the bomber as a drone on radar.
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Eglin
Air. Force Base
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Panama City
Air Force
Arthur R. Debolt
Columbus
Debolt
Canberra jet bomber completes first single day double Atlantic crossing
Aldergrove airfield, Northern Ireland, saw Britain's Canberra jet bomber set a new double Atlantic crossing record. The flight totaled 4,145 miles in 10 hours 2 minutes with a Gander stopover, outward 4 hours 38 minutes and homeward 3 hours 26 minutes. The round trip averaged just over 600 mph on the return leg, though headwinds slowed the eastbound leg. The crew included Wing Cmdr Roland Beamont. co-pilot Flt Lt P Vi Hillwood.
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Aldergrove
Northern Ireland
Britain
Atlantic Ocean
Gander
Mld
Este J
Roland Beamont
R. A
H. T. Merrill
J-S
United States
Aero Nautical Federation
E Town
D. A. Watson
P. Vi Hillwood
Schooner Crew Rows 50 Miles After Ship Burns
report from St John s Newfoundland states the schooner crew rowed fifty miles to shore at Cabo San Lucas after their vessel burned. authorities noted no survivors and speculated an explosion may have killed the crew. Lloyd s list mentions the ship in United States service.
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ST. John's
Cabo Sy
United
Weather outlook cool air embarks across western regions
Cool northwest air touched Peace River Red Deer and Calgary last night with overnight lows around 35. Elsewhere minimums stayed mid forties as sun returns today and Wednesday. Afternoon highs near 70 with some northern showers unlikely to hinder harvest operations. Medicine Hat sees sunny today and tomorrow becoming cloudy, light winds west to southwest, lows tonight and highs tomorrow around 45 and 15.
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Northwest
Peace River
Red
Deer
Calgary
Ungrammatical note hints at a sexual misconduct verdict
Fragmentary OCR suggests a court verdict involving a defendant named Kit. The text implies a guilty finding and mentions a sexual offense, but the source is incomplete. Further readable context is needed to confirm names, charges, and jurisdiction.
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Key West
Florida
Boca Chica’ Air Station
Elgin ‘Air. Force ‘Base
Ence
Kit
Igungojnt “Sex
Den
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