International Counterfeit Ring Smashed By T Men
Secret Service agents cracked a multi million dollar international counterfeit operation in Chicago. Five men arrested and others sought as officers said more than 2.2 million dollars in bogus ten and twenty dollar notes were produced over four years and circulated nationwide and abroad. The ring included Sferas Printing Co. owners James and Samuel Sferas. Ex convict William Skally acted as plotter and sales manager. Bonds and other evidence tied to additional crimes are under investigation.
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United States
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Paris
Rome
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FBI
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West Side
Sferas Printing Co
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William Skally
Sterns Brothers
Skally
U. S
Bentley Pike
John Drake
Colonel Holds Russia Guilty In Massacre
Col John H Van Vliet told a House committee he is convinced the Russians killed Polish prisoners at Katyn Forest in 1940 41 and that a secret report he authored on the slaughter was suppressed He said Germans showed him bodies in 1943 to implicate the Soviets in the atrocity with Soviets later claiming Hitler's forces were responsible
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Washington
John H. van Vliet
Katyn Forest
Hitler
Smolensk
Russia
van Vliet
House Committee
Jence
Cam
Ohio River to dip below flood stage today
The Ohio River was falling at about a tenth of a foot per hour and weather officials forecast it would drop below the 52 foot flood stage by noon today. At 10 am the river stood 52.6 feet and was sliding, with earlier forecasts shifting to Monday noon for the drop. In Addyston the Hamilton County Health Board offered anti typhoid vaccine after flood water contaminated the village water supply, aiming to prevent a typhoid outbreak.
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Addyston
East Berlin Police Shakeup Reported in Soviet Zone
Berlin sources report a shakeup in the Soviet zone police force in East Berlin including the dismissal of chief of staff Bernhard Bechler. West German radio says Bechler is succeeded by Commissar Walz. Reasons unknown.
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East Berlin
Berlin
Soviet Zone
Bernhard Bechler
Bechler
Walz
Silent Lewis Puzzling To Mine Owners
Washington AP John L. Lewis delays five days without public notice to start new contract talks. The 71 year old UMW boss leads about 475000 miners. Possible reasons include steel wage disputes and a push for federal mine safety law. Industry officials stay tight lipped as bargaining begins.
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Rowland Evans JR
Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Wage Stabilization Board
Congress
Latvian Tells Of Fight To Escape Reds
A 25 year old Latvian lumberman refugee in Stockholm said he fought his way out of the Soviet embassy with a knife after being attacked by six Russians. He was lured to the embassy by an Estonian friend, seized attemped passport seizure, and fled to a Swedish factory where he told workers his story. Police questioned him and later escorted him to security police. The embassy car drove off as the Russians fled.
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Stockholm
Sweden
General Assembly Adjourns At Paris
The sixth United Nations General Assembly adjourned in Paris after approving a Western plan to postpone Korean issue discussions until an armistice. President Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico struck the final gavel at 8 14 a m EST, receiving tributes from Secretary General Trygve Lie and other leaders. The assembly also thanked France and its people, with a moment of silent prayer marking the closing act of the session.
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United Nations
Luis Padilla Nervo
Mexico
Trygve Lie
France
Maybank to Introduce One Year Defense Production Bill
Senator Maybank proposes a one year extension of the Defense Production Act to keep wage price rent and credit controls in effect. He aims for early hearings before White House input and cites planned presidential guidance later this week. The measure would also extend Small Defense Plants Corp and keep Defense Housing Act provisions active while expiring import curbs on fats oils and dairy as scheduled June 30.
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Congress
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Small Defense Plants Corp
Indiana City Threatened With Strike in Anderson
Mayor Noland Wright and city officials planned to meet state officials in Indianapolis to avert a threatened service interruption at the city light and water plants. Neil Julius, president of the CIO Municipal Employes Union local, said the stoppage would occur before 8 a.m. Wednesday unless three municipal employees are reinstated. The union accuses political motives, while the mayor insists firings were for efficiency and economy. The dispute was to be submitted to neutral arbitration after a Monday meeting.
Florida Storm Causes Million Dollar Crop Damage
MIAMI Fla The storm that swept part of Lower Florida with 60 mile an hour winds over the weekend caused crop damage estimated at about one million dollars.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Inside Help Suspected In Judd Escape
Phoenix officials probed possible inside help in Winnie Ruth Judd suspension from the Arizona State Hospital for insane. Superintendent Dr M W Conway tested a 48 foot rope said to have been used to descend from a third story window. knots loose, weigh 125 pounds. Sheriff Boies doubted rope use and noted a staffer may have aided Judd. Police said efforts to locate her continued. Judd, red hair now gray, was committed to the asylum in 1933 after being convicted of shooting two friends.
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Arizona State Hospital For the
Phoenix
International Soundphoto
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Arizona State Hospital
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L. C. Boies
Winnie Ruth
Asylum
Democrats Half Vote To Weaken Kefauver Power
Ohio Democratic leaders voted to send 16 delegates at large with half a vote each to the national convention next July. The plan aims to curb Estes Kefauver supporters by reducing their potential impact to four votes if all are elected. The slate also includes two full vote district delegates from each of 23 districts and favors Robert J. Bulkley as a favorite son candidate.
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Columbus
Ohio
Democratic State Executive Committee
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Pentagon Budget Fight Fears Cold War Slump Risk
Senator O Mahoney warned Pentagon leaders gamble that Soviet Russia will not start a new war before 1954. He pressed for a defense program to match air power growth while Lovett testified the budget falls short of chiefs demands. Lovett said production goals for aircraft and tanks were cut back to avoid trapping the nation in a hot war while facing cold war dangers.
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Sen. O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Pentagon
Soviet Russia
Defense Lovett
Army
Navy
Air Force
O'Mahoney
Appropriations
Lovett
Tax Scandal Probe Opens Public Hearings In West
Congress a Ways and Means subcommittee opened public hearings into Internal Revenue Department scandals in Northern California and Nevada. William Frank a Seattle special agent led today’s session with testimony while Arthur H Samish liquor lobbyist avoided public questioning as an information witness.
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King
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Artie) Samish
Samish
U. S. Senate
Kefauver
California
Truman to stay on New Hampshire primary ballot
President Truman will keep his name on the Democratic ballot in the New Hampshire primary to test Kefauver strength. He yielded to requests from party leaders and said preferential primaries are not decisive for convention delegates, while Kefauver maintains a presence in the race.
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Kefauver
New Hampshire
Washington
White House
Frank McKinney
Democratic National Committee
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Bond Denied for Cincinnati Businessman Razete in Bribery Case
Lawrence A. Razete of Cincinnati, head of Baytronics Co., is denied bond while appealing. He already received a three year prison term and a $2000 fine after being found guilty of conspiring to bribe a civilian purchasing department employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Lawrence A. Razete
VU. 5 S. Art of Appeals
Razete
Cincinnati Baytronics Co
U. S
Robert R. Nevin
Dayton
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Editor Thomas F. Hook Dies in Dayton at 53
Thomas F. Hook, 53, long time news editor of the Dayton Daily News, died here today after several weeks illness. He joined the staff in 1922, working on sports, local news and the telegraph desk, rising to a top editorial post.
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Dayton
Thomas F. Hook
Dayton Daily News
Hook
News
Telegraph
Ohio Trucker Strike Over Pay Hike Ends
A Columbus spokesman said the five day trucker strike over higher pay is over as most Ohio firms signed the new wage agreement. Leaders from AFL Central States Drivers Council and Columbus Teamsters reported widespread acceptance including Toledo Dayton and Springfield with few unsigned in Cleveland and Cincinnati. The contract offers a 19 cent per hour raise with further increases over two years.
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Columbus
Ohio
W. Dale Mann
AFL
Central State Drivers Council
Columbus Teamsters
James R. Riley
Suburban Motor Freight Co., Inc
Don Pfeiffer
Ohio Drivers Council
Pfeiffer
Toledo
Dayton
Springfield
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Central States Drivers Council
Missing Crewmen Sought By Planes
U S Air Force planes searched for the 87 foot Colombian schooner Gloria missing with 18 crewmen. A red oil drum was found. four survivors were rescued in a lifeboat 90 miles from Cristobal Canal Zone. The crew tried to lash four red drums into a raft but two drums were swept away.
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Panama
U. S
Gloria
U.S. Navy
John F. Thorsen
Cristobal
Canal Zone
Airliner Crash Kills 15 in Congo Jungle
Belgian Airlines announced a twin engined Congo line liner crashed in the African jungle killing all 15 aboard.
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Brussels
Belgium
Bravest Man In U S Navy Won't Fly Again
Cmdr. Paul N. Gray of Fighter Squadron M4, known for four near fatal missions in Korea, is ordered to stop dangerous low level flights. Admiral John Perry of Task Force 77 declares Gray will shift to paper work after surviving multiple crashes, explosions, and freezing waters. Gray’s record includes dangerous rescues, repeated landings on damaged aircraft, and a final decision to retire from flight duties.
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Perry
Cmdr
Paul N. Gray
Decision Expected At Conference Of U S Ambassadors
The United States weighs closing all American Embassies in Russian satellite states with a Paris meeting of ambassadors planned for early March to study protection needs for embassies and private Americans in Eastern Europe. A shift from open mission policy could occur amid growing harassment by Communist regimes.
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U.S
Europe
UN says quick Korean armistice unlikely
The U N Command in Tokyo warned that a rapid truce in Korea is unlikely. It described Communist tactics at Panmunjom as a quagmire and said recent minor concessions do not alter their main bargaining inertia. Red negotiators have conceded none of the major points.
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Panmunjom
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Aerial Strikes Hit Communist Supply Centers Near Panmunjom
Seoul based reports say American warplanes blasted two large Communist supply centers, one northeast of Sinmak and the other east of Namchonijom, with 500 pound bombs and flaming rockets, causing large fires and explosions. Ground action remained relatively quiet near Panmunjom.
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Korea
Sinmak
Namchonijom
Panmunjom
United Nations outlines armistice talks drift at Panmunjom
The UN bulletin from the five nation truce talks notes little progress at Panmunjom and a brief press briefing. Allied spokesmen say no briefing session was needed as talks resume for the plenary meeting to discuss prisoners exchange and armistice supervision while substantive issues linger.
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U.N
Cincinnati Fire Ravages Two Buildings in West End
A duplicate blaze today in Cincinnati destroyed two Troy Laundry buildings in the West End, causing about 100000 dollars in damage. One fireman was slightly injured as investigators sought the cause of the latest in a string of fires over eight days.
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Cincinnati
New Troy Laundry
West End
Nye Files Petitions for Democratic Nomination in Ohio
Lt. Gov. George D. Nye of Waverly filed petitions with the secretary of state for another term as Democrat. Francis B. Douglass of Cleveland sought the Republican nomination for Ohio Supreme Court judge, challenging James G. Stewart of Cincinnati.
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Columbus
George D. Nye
Waverly
Francis B. Douglass
Cleveland
Ohio Supreme Court
James G. Stewart
Cincinnati
306,070 Men Casualties In Korea
Paris W The United Nations announced today 306 070 men in U N forces had been killed wounded and captured or missing in Korea from the beginning of the war to Dec 31 The figure was substantially less than that compiled unofficially two weeks ago by The Associated Press which showed total casualties of 414 945 reported by the various nations which had contributed troops to defend South Korea A N spokesman said its casualty figure for the Republic of Korea 192 860 was lower probably because it came from the unified command The AP figure 301 864 casualties was obtained direct from the Korean government which lists persons not carried on the command's rolls U S casualties were listed by the N as 103 739 The U S Defense Department last week reported latest figures on American casualties as 105 001 including 16 270 killed in action 76 112 wounded and 12 619 missing.
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Paris
United Nations
U. N
Korea
Associated Press
South Korea
Republic of Korea
Unified
U. S
U. S. Defense Department
Peace Offer To Egyptians Reported By Cairo Paper
Cairo news reports a British peace proposal for Egypt including evacuation of the Suez Canal zone a plebiscite for Sudan and an Arab security pact as a base for Middle East defense Al Misri the Wafdist organ said London handed the plan to Iraqi Premier Nuri al Said who with King Ibn Saud had been mediating Britain Egypt tensions
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Egypt
Suez Canal Zone
Sudan
Middle East
al Misri
Wafdist Party
A! Misri
London
Nuri el Said
King Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Britain
Runs For Governor in Indiana Senate Nomination
VALPARAISO Ind Prefi t pro tem John W Van Ness the Indiana Senate is the second man in the race for the Republican nomination for governor.
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Ind
John W. van Ness
Indiana Senate
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