Four on Board Plane Crash Identified at Smoky Hill
Seventeen men died when a B 29 crashed after takeoff from Smoky Hill base near Rapid City. Public relations officer Bryant named four identified victims: 1st Lt. C. M. Thorp, 1st Lt. R. K. McClurg, Tech. Sat. R. Mason, and Staff Sat. P. J. Cubilla, all from the 22nd Bomb Group. A board of officers opened an investigation as teams sought to identify the rest and notify next of kin.
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Rapid City
S. D
15Th Air Force Base
Here
Smoky Hill Air Force
Bryant
C. M. Thorp
R. K. McClurg
Sat. R. Mason
P. J. Cubilla
Smoky Hill
Salina
Thomas Siegler
Siegler
Cleveland Man Killed in Barroom Love Triangle
In Cleveland an argument over another man’s wife led to a fatal shooting. Roy Rowe, 26, was struck in the heart at the Four Star Cafe after a scuffle. The shooter, a 28-year-old man, returned with a pistol and surrendered to police. no charges yet filed.
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Cleveland
Peter J. Kekic
Roy Rowe
Kekic
Rowe
Axis Sally Returns to Face U S Treason Charges
U S marshals await Mildred Gillars on arrival from a trans Atlantic flight to answer a treason warrant. The 48 year old Portland Maine native known as Axis Sally is to face a federal grand jury in Washington for wartime broadcasts from Berlin. Gillars was located in Berlin two years ago and arrested but released to the American occupation zone to report biweekly to Army authorities.
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Washington
U. S
Mildred Elizabeth Gillars
Miss Gillars
Sally
Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
Portland
Flood Control Wall To Cost $3,083,000 in Point Pleasant
In Point Pleasant West Virginia officials and flood control groups marked the start of a $3,083,000 flood wall project to shield the city from the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The ceremonial kickoff announced the plan and a target completion in 1950.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Ohio Valley Flood Control Groups
Ohio
Kanawha
Cincinnati Man Killed at Foggy Railroad Crossing
AP reports 67 year old John Schaefer died when a railroad passerby struck his car at a grade crossing in heavy fog. The incident occurred in Cincinnati and is under investigation.
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Cincinnati
John Schaefer
Eight Japs Hanged in Japan War Crimes Action
Yokohama report states ten Japanese, condemned by Eighth Army commissions for allied dead in the war, were executed today at Sugamo Prison.
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Yokohama
Eighth Army
Sugamo
Ohio teen dies in electric chair after sobbing plea
Donald Frohner, 18, from Youngstown, was executed at Ohio Penitentiary after admitting he killed William Spieth in a failed ransom plot. The condemned youth sobbed I’m sorry and pleaded for mercy as the current terminated his life amid a dramatic, highly publicized ceremony. Chapman, 17, remains serving a life term.
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Donald Frohner
Ken Davis
Columbus
Youngstown
Ohio Penitentiary
William C. Spieth
Ashtabula
Frohner
Donald
Ted
Ohio State University
C. V. Lucier
Arthur Chapman
Richard Masters
Spieth
Death Row
Soviet Consul General Lomakin Ordered Out of U S
The State Department seeks Lomakin's formal revocation of exequatur after charges he abused his office in the Kasenkina case. Russia may retaliate with expulsions and possibly reject two Kasenkina letters. Lomakin booked passage on the Stockholm with wife and two children. Roosevelt Hospital refused two doctors for Kasenkina examination, prompting Lomakin to threaten responsibility for outcomes.
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Washington
State Department
Jacob Lomakin
U. S
Lomakin
Kasenkina
New York
Carters
Considera
Soviet Union
Oksana S. Kasenkina
Truman
Department
Mikhail I. Lamarine
Jacob M. Lomakin
Stockholm
Steamship Line
Gothenburg
Sweden
Zot I. Chepurnykh
Oksana Kasenkina
United States
Stern
Roosevelt Hospital
Russia
Plane Crash Under Study Two Die In Virginia
An Air Force bomber crash near Culpeper Va killed Col G A Stone and Tech Sgt C E Chaplin with Capt H L King missing after departing Bolling Field Washington. Witnesses say fog and tree top flight preceded the crash on a Loudoun County farm. Stone and Chaplin identified. King unconfirmed.
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Culpeper
Air Force
Washington
G. A. Stone
Civil Air Patrol Executive Board
Columbus
Ohio
Tech
C. E. Chaplin
Lockbourn Air Force Base
H. L. King
Lockbourne
Loudoun County
Bolling Field
Stone
Chaplin
Princess Margaret Reaches Majority at Eighteen
London AP reports Princess Margaret is officially of age at eighteen and will assume more royal duties. With Queen Elizabeth expected to reduce public appearances, Margaret will represent King George VI at the investiture of Princess Juliana in the Netherlands.
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London
Margaret
Commonwealth
Elizabeth
Britain
George VI
Juliana
Wilhelmina
British Commonwealth
Buckingham Palace
Marquess of
Blandford
Marlborough
Winston Churchill
Massillon Surgeon Restores Heart of Young Woman
Dr. John R. Rohrbaugh of Massillon was named today as the surgeon who massaged a 31 year old woman's heart back to life last Wednesday following a medical crisis.
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Massillon, O
John R. Rohrbaugh
Massillon
Bandits Rob Payroll at Columbia Teachers College
Two men robbed the bursar's office of Columbia University Teachers College, lining up 26 staff against a wall before fleeing with a 9900 payroll. The crime followed an armored car delivery. Eugene Higgins, former socialite, left an estimated 40 million dollars to Columbia Yale Princeton and Harvard in his will.
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New York
Columbia University Teachers’ College
Eugene Higgins
Columbia
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Higgins
West's Envoys To Meet Again With Stalin
French Foreign Office sources expect the four power Moscow talks to end Sunday with another meeting of western diplomats and Prime Minister Stalin. They say the discussions were not to solve the overall Germany issue but to set the conditions for four power negotiations on the problem.
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Paris
Moscow
Stalin
Germany
Jail Is Next Judge Warns Hamilton Girl
In Chicago a judge placed two Chicago women and a sailor on three years probation for assault with intent to rob. William Hester, 19, of Mansfield, Ohio, a sailor, and the two women Phyllis Parker, 21, and Geraldine O’Hearn, 22, faced Judge Charles E. Byrne. Hester must turn over his entire pay to his pregnant wife. Parker must return to Hamilton, Ohio. They were accused by James Costello, a waiter, after an alleged robbery attempt June 16 following a tavern visit. Hester testified he struck Costello after Parker said Costello carried a large sum. the women denied the charge.
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Chicago, Ill
Criminal Court
Charles E. Byrne
William Hester
Route 5
Mansfield
Chicago
Navy Pier
Phyllis Parker
Geraldine O’hearn
Hester
Miss Parker
Hamilton
James Costello
Costello
Germans Protests Over Food Costs Rock West Germany
Mass demonstrations against rising food prices spread from western Germany to the French zone. In Trier housewives and workers staged a one hour protest closing shops and halting offices and factories. About 30,000 demonstrated at Ludwigshafen following a deadly past explosion at a chemical plant tied to I G Farben, with union speakers urging price cuts.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Radio Frankfurt
Trier
Ludwigshafen
I. G. Farben Dye Trust
Strike Injunction Blocks East Coast Dock Workers
The federal government won a temporary injunction preventing a strike by 43,000 east coast dock workers set for midnight. Judge Harold R. Medina issued the order against the AFL International Longshoremen's Association, effective until August 21.
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Government New York
Harold R. Medina
AFL International Longshoremen's Association
Family Buried by Explosion Rocks Farmhouse in Pa
A gas explosion tore through an eight room farmhouse in Westchester Pennsylvania injuring six family members buried in wreckage. Burley Parker a farm worker and a passing motorist aided by digging out Parker s wife and four children then transported them to West Chester County Hospital. Three year old Harold sustained a possible brain concussion. Police believe gas seepage from nearby containers caused the blast.
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Westchester
Burley Parker
Parker
West Chester County Hospital
Harold
Israel Won’t Get British Vote In UN
A British spokesman said London cannot approve Israel’s admission to the United Nations under present conditions. He indicated Britain will not vote affirmatively unless the Palestine situation clarifies. Israel plans to file a formal membership application soon, likely at the opening of the General Assembly in Paris.
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Lake Success
Israel
United Nations
Security Council
Council
Audrey S. Eban
Gene Assembly
Paris
Palestine
London
Britain
Assembly
Atom Plant Workers Are Given Pay Hikes
In Oak Ridge Tennessee 2700 atomic plant workers receive wage increases from five to 24 cents per hour following votes at two special union meetings held last night.
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Atom
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Local auto distributor president dies from crash injuries
Columbus businessman Earl W. Sarver 55 died from injuries sustained in a Tuesday night auto accident. He led Earl Sarver, Inc., an automobile distributing firm, and had moved to Columbus from Dayton in 192%.
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Columbus
Earl W. Sarver
Earl Sarver
Dayton
One-Armed Bandits Hit But By Sledges
Columbus AP reports the State Liquor Department demonstrated machine smash downs. Donald T. Geyer led 12 strong men to destroy 183 slot machines raided over three years. The cast aluminum boxes were crushed on a ramp at the state fairgrounds. Coins flew, jackpots were emptied, and money returned to owners. Sale proceeds to the general fund.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Donald T. Geyer
Husband Held After Slaying in Cleveland
Mrs. Vaughnettia Michaels, 24, was shot and killed at her home in Cleveland. Police questioned her 48-year-old husband Steven, head masseur at the Cleveland Athletic Club, who was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Detectives said he appeared groggy and may have taken sleeping tablets after the slaying.
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Cleveland
Vaughnettia Michaels
Steven
Cleveland Athletic Club
Michaels
James A. McArthur
Mount Sinai Hospital
Wainwright To Head DAY
Gen Jonathan M Wainwright is the newly elected national commander of the Disabled American Veterans He has appointed Col John P Duffy of New London Ohio as chief of staff Duffy a chaplain was imprisoned with Wainwright in Japan during the war The convention voted to meet next year in Cleveland Ohio
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New York
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Disabled American Veterans
John P. Duffy
New London
Duffy
Japan
Wainwright
Albert L. Daniels
Greenfield
Cleveland
Danube Pact Keeps Soviet Control Of River Outlet
Belgrade report says the Danube remains under Soviet control regardless of the Danube pact fate. Western delegates note no shipper can traverse the river from Central Germany to the Black Sea without Russian approval. Vishinsky asserts western economic penetration is not wanted and the pact rests on Soviet sovereign rights.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Danube
Europe
Russia
Germany
Black Sea
Andrei Vishinsky
Car Hits Trio Killing One In Findlay Ohio
In Findlay Ohio Clifford Henry 22 of Leipsic was killed after being struck by a south bound car on U S Route 25 in North Findlay. Injured were Richard Nedden ripp 17 of Leipsic and Doris Dishong 17 of McComb both with compound fractures of the left leg. The trio had left a cafe to cross the road when hit. The driver was Emory H. Deason of Detroit Michigan according to the State Highway Patrol.
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Emory H. Deason
Detroit
Mich
Payroll Income Tax Referendum Sought in Portsmouth
CIO leaders filed petitions with the city clerk seeking a referendum on Portsmouth's one percent payroll income tax. Councilmen said the tax, effective October 1, was adopted with the expectation there would be a referendum for the people to decide.
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Portsmouth, CO
Portsmouth
CIO
Youngstown student pilot seriously injured in plane crash
Donald Weber, a 21-year-old student pilot, was seriously hurt in a light plane crash during forced landing drills in Youngstown. He sustained a brain concussion and head cuts, according to Youngstown Hospital.
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Youngstown, O
Donald Weber
Youngstown
Russians abduct German police in renewed Berlin raids
In Berlin a new wave of by Russians sparked clashes with western sector police as two German officers were abducted from the American sector. Western authorities warned of danger of a wider clash while seeking talks with the Russian command. Reports from Dresden and northern provinces cite a Saxony food crisis with grain deliveries ordered and meat and fat shortages across the Soviet zone.
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U. S
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin
Nea-Acme
al Cocking
Tostay
Alexander Kotikov
Alexander Jelisarov
Jelisarov
Kurier
Dresden
Saxony
Mecklenburg
Brandenburg
Youth Held in Kidnapping Case Moves to Kentucky
FBI reports 20 year old Lawrence Amos Montgomery of Ashland Kentucky is jailed for removal to Kentucky on kidnapping and assault charges. He allegedly kidnapped Eldnor Gore of Columbus Ohio near Ironton Ohio by gunpoint and drove him to Kentucky where Gore was found injured. Also arrested in Ashland on the same charges are Robert Lee Hood and Charles Hill.
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Baltimore
FBI
Lawrence Amos Montgomery
Front St
Ashland
Kentucky
M. W. McFarlin
Mongomery
Eldnor Gore
Columbus
McFarlin
Catlettsburg
Montgomery
Gore
Ironton
Robert Lee Hood
Charles Hill
Asheland
Heart Attack Fatal In London Car Ride
Miss Margaret Hammond aged 44 of Youngstown died last night in a car driven by her fiancé Joseph Holland of Cleveland. Madison County Sheriff Harold R. Bidwell said she apparently suffered a heart attack during the ride.
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London, O
Margaret Hammond
Youngstown
Joseph Holland
Cleveland
Madison County
Harrold R. Bidwell
Murder charge in Canton raid on dry cleaner plant
Howard F. Paton, 29, is charged with first degree murder in Stark County indictments for the bludgeoning death of night watchman Clyde L. Engle, 60, at the Peter Pan Dry Cleaning plant. Engle died after a fatal assault at the plant.
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Canton, O
Howard F. Paton
Clyde L. Engle
Stark County
Engle
Peter Pan
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Grosse Pointe Park
Anthony Litwin
Litwin Manufacturing Company
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