Two Lads Die in Crash of Rented Plane
Parkerburg youths Allen Pennybacker and Billy Marlow Hawk died when their rented Piper Vagabond struck a high tension power line near Lake Washington eight miles south of Parkerburg. Witnesses said the plane buzzed the pier before the crash. bodies were recovered about ninety minutes later as investigators prepared to inspect the wreckage.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Here
Lake Washington
Hubert H. Stark
State Aeronautics Commission
R. M. Reger
Reger
Richard Corbitt
Plane crashes kill Oregon lawmakers near Klamath Falls
A private plane plunged into a lake near Klamath Falls Oregon killing four Republican leaders. Representatives Earl Johnson and William H Fluhrer died along with a Senate nominee and a House candidate. Their bodies were recovered at dusk last night in the lake.
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Klamathalls
Ore
Oregon
Three Children Caught Trying To Open Safe
Cincinnati police nabbed two young girls and an eight year old boy attempting to break into a car sales office safe. Detective Chief Clem Merz said patrolman Albert Thiele found the youngsters hammering the safe after they had broken a window to enter the showroom. The youngest thief is noted as the first under nine arrested here for such a crime with a watching four year old girl present.
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Cincinnati
Clem Merz
Albert Thiele
Merz
Thielen
Truman greets Midshipman at Naval Academy
President Truman visited the Naval Academy in Annapolis and shook hands with a tall cadet from Piqua Ohio. He remarked on living up to his name. Midshipman John Paul Jones, regimental commander, told reporters he is not a descendant of the revolutionary figure.
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Annapolis
Truman
Naval Academy
Piqua
John Paul Jones
Three Sailors Dead One Missing In Blast
In Newport Harbor a yacht blast left three sailors dead and one missing after a fire and explosions at a Navy gasoline tank farm. Sailors Fendley P. Hansen of Utah and David S. Moon of Maine were killed while William W. Foster of New York was seriously burned.
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Navy
Naval Establishment
Guam
Washington
Fendley P. Hansen
Garfield
Utah
David S. Moon
Portland
William W. Foster
Booklyn
N. Y
Armed Robbers Hold Up Youngstown Hotel
Two armed men looted the Youngstown hotel in a half hour heist. They forced the night clerk to surrender 660 dollars from the safe and drawers, held five employees and two guests, and escaped in a car after taking a guest’s wrist watch.
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Youngstown, O
Youngstown
Bombings Hit Two East Side Cleveland Homes
Police probe blasts at the residences of 17th Ward Councilman Charles V. Carr and former policy game operator Buster H. Mathews. Several homes were damaged, no injuries reported, 17 police figures questioned, five released, others held for further inquiry. Carr and Mathews blamed enemies as authorities pledge thorough investigation into the high powered explosions set under front porches.
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Cleveland
East Side
17Th Ward
Charles V. Carr
Buster H. Mathews
Mathews
Mamie McDonald
Laura Brookins
David L. Cowles
Cowles
Alvin J. Sutton
Lieved
Sutton
Ernest Molnar
Carr
Los Angeles
Molnar
Charles QO
Contest Winner Gives Hollywood Glamour The Gate
Kathleen Cecil Flynn, five, of Spokane, Wash., crowned Little Miss America 1948 by the Screen Children's Guild. Her mother chose family over radio, TV, and film work, sending Kathleen home with siblings. Michael Louis Perich, 12, of Sacramento, named All-American Boy, remains for glamour events with his mother.
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Hollywood
Kathleen Cecile Flynn
Spokane
Wash
Hollywood Glamour
Mama
Kathleen
Howard A. Flynn
Gunmen seize $23 000 loot from Chicago radio executive home
Five masked gunmen bounded radio executive Gene T Dyer his wife Evelyn and friend E J Bullwinkel at the Dyer home near Mundelein and escaped with jewelry and more than 23000 dollars in valuables including a $10000 diamond ring. Mrs Dyer freed herself first and Dyer alerted Lake County authorities.
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Chicago
Gene T. Dyer
Dyer
WAIT
Evelyn
E. J. Bullwinke
Mundelein
Bullwinkel
Dyers
Death Probe in Cincinnati Joins Homicide Squad
Coroner Herbert P. Lyle and Cincinnati homicide detectives probe the death of William Bellamy, 51, found in bed. Lt. William Burks joined the investigation after Bellamy’s bruised lips were noted. the body was found by his son, William Jr.
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Cincinnati
Herbert P. Lyle
William Bellamy
William Burks
William, Jr
Top Military Leaders Reach Agreement On Roles
Washington AP The nations top military leaders announced a general agreement on duties of the Army Navy and Air Force in peace and war after weekend talks at Newport R I The statement from Secretary Forrestals office says the Air Force main job remains strategic air warfare but other services may participate Navy Air Force friction over air duties since the Air Force became a separate department is noted The Navy disputes a proposed super carrier while the Air Force desires a 5000 mile guided missile capable of delivering an atom bomb at speed faster than sound and cites Gen Carl Spaatz final report as urging such weaponry
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Washington
Newport
R. 1
Army
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Joint Chiefs of Staffs
Key West
Fla
Carl Spaatz
Hoyt Vandenberg
World Council of Churches Opens Meeting in Amsterdam
The World Council of Churches formally begins after 10 years as a provisional body with 450 delegates from 40 countries in Amsterdam. Delegates will form committees on constitutional basis policy program and administration as the assembly runs through September 4.
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Amsterdam
The
Holland
Samuel McCrea Cavert
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Child Killed In Fall From Roller Coaster
A five year old, John R Estes of Cleveland, died after falling 75 feet on a roller coaster at Brady Lake Park in Portage County. The weekend also saw eight other deaths across Ohio and nearby areas, including an eight year old who drowned in Stonelick Creek near Batavia and a multi-vehicle collision near Carrollton that claimed two more lives. Local families and emergency crews responded as investigators reviewed the incidents.
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John R. Estes
Cleveland
Brady Lake Amusement Park
Portage County
John F. Estes
Donald Honneycutt
Stonelick Creek
Batavia
Ernest Honneycutt
Sarah Berry
Claysville
Elsie Berry
Eighty-Four
Stephen Mitchell
Alliance, O
Carrollton
Robert M. Berry
Berry
Robert
Rebecca
Mitchell
Carl Satcher
Cambridge
Guernsey County
Wilmer O. Oliver
Alfred Davis Micks
Union
Montgomery County
Richmond
Ind
Patricia Lois Fail
Crooksville Hospital
Roseville
Dole Heir in Yacht Danger Off Diamond Head
Richard A. Dole and three companions survived a swamped 22 foot sailboat off Diamond Head while Kathleen Burkhalter died near shore after being pulled through heavy seas by Samuel Gilbert Jr. Marie Akers was rescued by the Yacht Mokuola crew led by Coast Guard Commander Arthur Powlison Barbara Steffee reached shore.
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Honolulu
Richard A. Dole
Hawaii
Diamond Head
Kathleen Burkhalter
Tuscaloosa
Ala
San Diego
Cal
Samuel Gilbert, Jr
University of Southern California
Dole
Marie Akers
Medina
Wash
Coast Guard
Arthur K. Powlison
Barbara Steffee
Nine to One Chance for Baby’s Corrective Surgery
In Chicago a panel of six medical experts assessed Pamela Frances Lamphere, a 22 month old with bladder outside her body, and found a nine-to-one chance of surviving the planned corrective operations. The court ordered surgery within two months despite initial parental objections and ongoing divorce actions.
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Chicago
Pamela Frances Lamphere
Walter R. O’malley
O'Malley
Fred Lamphere
Irene
Lamphere
Pamela
Babe Ruth wills portion for the kids of America
Babe Ruth’s will filed for probate provides for his widow Clara Ruth and two adopted daughters with 10 percent of the residue to be given to The Babe Ruth Foundation Inc for the kids of America after Mrs Ruth’s death. The document names gifts to family, a separate trust for them, and specific bequests to aides.
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New York
Babe Ruth
America
King
Ruth
Melvyn G. Lowenstein
Memorial Hospital
Clara Mae Ruth
Julia Ruth Flanders
North Conway
N. H
Dorothy Ruth Sullivan
New York City
J. Paul Carey
Lowenstein
Ruth Memorial Stadium Planned At White Plains
Cardinal Spellman announced a Babe Ruth Memorial Stadium will be built on Archbishop Stepinac High School grounds in White Plains New York. A anonymous California donor sent 10000 dollars as the initial gift to the building fund.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Japanese Generals Accept Blame for War Crimes in China
Four Japanese generals convicted of war crimes in China admitted responsibility for rape and massacre by Japanese troops. Three received life sentences and one 20 years. they defended their commander General Yasutsugu Okamura, who denied knowledge of the crimes as he faced trial.
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Shanghai
China
Yasutsugu Okamura
Okamura
Truman Wins Tennessean Support Amid Electoral Tensions
Senator McKellar of Tennessee declared backing for President Truman in the upcoming election despite reports that two of Tennessee’s 12 Democratic elector candidates favor the states’ rights ticket led by Gov. Thurmond. McKellar said he always votes for the Democratic ticket and will continue to do so.
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McKellar
Tennessee
States’ Rights
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Virginia
Truman
South
Pepper
D-Fla
Senator Connally
D-Tex
Border States
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Kilgore
West Virginia
Dixie Senate
49 Box Cars Are Derailed Near Lodi
A defective rail caused 49 loaded box cars to derail one mile south of Lodi. No injuries were reported though 10 cars later caught fire as the train lay on the line. A W Colnet Akron division superintendent said about a quarter mile of double track was torn up.
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Lodi
Baltimore and Ohio
A. W. Colnet
Akron
Free Russian held and released in Berlin tensions flare
In Berlin the Russians freed three U S Military Government officials they had seized as cross zone tensions eased. Franz Erdmann head of the eastern Berlin police criminal division was released after being arrested at a boxing match and charged with abduction and presumption of authority. A German photographer was seized in central Berlin while a tenth German was captured along the border. The Americans also released Thomas P Headen Lt Sherman Turner and Roland Myers while Paul Hoppe was released after seeking to help policemen. Russian incursions into the American sector continued amid a state of civil war between rival east and west police forces.
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Berlin
U. S
Germany
Franz Erdmann
Thomas P. Headen
Potsdamer Platz
Sherman Turner
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Roland Myers
Brooklyn
Mellrichstadt
Frankfurt
Turner
Hoppe
No-Man’s Land
Headen
Franz Erdemann
Olympic Stadium
Erdmann
Western Zone
Senate panel to probe Kaiser-Frazer lease of Cleveland blast furnace
The Senate Small Business Committee will hold a public hearing Wednesday on the lease of the government owned Cleveland blast furnace to Kaiser-Frazer. Witnesses include Republic Steel executives Henry Kaiser and Edgar Kaiser as well as War Assets Administrator Jesse Larsen and laboring industry figures. The transfer is said to threaten pig iron supplies and could force as many as 10 000 to 15 000 foundry layoffs across the east and midwest.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
Kaiser - Frazer
War Assets Administration
Wherry
C. W. White
W. W. Hancock
Republic Steel
Jesse Larsen
Kaiser-Frazer
Henry Kaiser
Edgar Kaiser
K-F
Preston
Tucker
Chicago
Raymond L. Collier
Gray Iron Founders’ Society
Charles C. Fichtner
Burefalo Chamber of Commerce
Colliers
East
Middle West
Senate
New York State
New England
Republic
Collier
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Lake
Allen Pennybacker
Billy Marlow Hawk
Beulah Louise Overell
Miss Overell
Robert Cannon
Omaha
Neb
Bob
Ruth Cannon
Stockton
Cannon
Laverne del Santo
George
Bud) Gollum
Walter E. Overell
Newport Harbor
World Council of Churches
Potsdam-Platz
Henry Burroughs
Associated Press
Ohio
Ohioans
Tennessean
D-Tenn
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