Eight Bradley players admit taking bribes to fix games
District Attorney Frank Hogan said eight Bradley University basketball players including an All America athlete admitted taking bribes to fix games dating to 1948 49. Names named include Eugene Melchiorre William Mann Aaron Preece and Charles Grover with totals cited up to 2700 dollars.
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Peoria
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Hogan
Eugene Melchiorre
Highland Park
William Mann
Aaron Preece
Charles Grover
Michael A. Shore
Shore
Washington State
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Oregon State
Madison Square Garden
Nick Englese
Nick the
Sollazzo
Salvatore T. Sollazzo
Preece
Mann
Grover
Bowling Green
Melchiorre
Kefauver Urges Probes Into Cleveland Gambling Syndicate
Senate Crime Committee spent 11 hours examining gambling in Kenton and Campbell counties across the Ohio River in Cincinnati. Kefauver urged prosecutors to pursue the Cleveland syndicate behind northern Kentucky casinos and apply conspiracy and five year statute of limitations laws.
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Kefauver D
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Cincinnati
Kefauver
Crime Committee
Cleveland
Campbell
Kenton
Downey Rice
Kentucky
Cleveland Syndicate
Beverly Hills Country Club
Yorkshire Club
Lookout House
Louis Roth
Rothkopf
Kleinman
Senate
Carbell
Senate Committee
Cleveland Group
English Bomber In Polar Flight
The Air Ministry reports a Lincoln Aries long range bomber is flying from Iceland over the North Pole toward Fairbanks Alaska. No word has been received yet, but it should cross the Pole around 6 a.m. EST and land at Eielson Field near Fairbanks at 6 p.m. EST after a nonstop 3,558 mile, 17 hour flight. This is part of arctic training by the R A F College at Manby.
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Air Ministry
Iceland
North Pole
Fairbanks
Alaska
U.S
Eielson Field
Whipping Banned in Colorado Prison Riot Aftermath
The State Institution Board outlawed the use of the whip in Colorado prisons after a riot involving six convicts, in which two guards were shot. Warden Roy Best faces no charges as the board declined to pursue action against him.
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Denver
Colorado
State Institution Board
Roy Best
Doctor and policeman rescue two men from 75 foot crane
Dr Lubov Elias and Patrolman Thomas Coohill balanced on a swaying crane platform to aid two injured workmen 75 feet above a Brooklyn tank. Walter Hamilton, 55, and Harry Smith, 45, were hurt in a fall at Owl's Head pollution plant as a crane lowered them to safety.
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New York
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Atre
Brooklyn
Walter Hamilton
Manhattan
Kings County Hospital
Harry Smith
Ridgewood
Queens
Thomas Coohill
Joseph Kovatch
Oil Talks Between Iran and U S Stall Over Basis of Talks
Iran and United States negotiations overseen by Harriman pause after 10 hours of talks with Premier Mossadegh’s cabinet. Both sides outline plans for a British-Iranian oil nationalization framework but differ on how an operating company would handle distribution, marketing, and production.
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Iran
Truman
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Oil Nationalization Board
Mohammed Mossadegh
Britain
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Abadan
Persian Gulf
Senators Question Need to Increase Armed Forces
Senators pressed for more data on Truman's call to raise the armed forces beyond 3,500,000. Senator Sparkman said no clear reason for a hike unless trouble grows, after touring Western Europe with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The president urged rapid military buildup and warned against inflation controls being weakened.
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Truman
Senate House
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Senate
House Rent
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D.ala
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dwight D Eisenhower
North Atlantic Defense Forces
Death sentence for Nazi general in Warsaw massacre case
Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Stroop, former Nazi SS general linked to the Warsaw ghetto massacres in 1943, was sentenced to death by a Warsaw provincial court after conviction of war crimes. His aide Capt. Franz Konrad was sentenced alongside him.
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Poland
Jurgen von Stroop
Warsaw Ghetto
Stroop
Franz Konrad
U.S
Let Ike Alone Senator Says Eisenhower Should Work On Defenses
Senator Sparkman urged politicians to let General Eisenhower focus on Western Europe defenses and delay political questions. He saw a possible presidential bid if he returns to civilian life by next spring, while Senator Smith suggested a Republican nomination could come if suitable for world peace. Both said politics should not be discussed during their Paris conference and touring.
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Washington
Sparkman
D-Ala
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Eisenhower
Alabama
Paris
H. Alexander Smith
Smith
Street cave-in swallows car as residents flee nearby homes
A West Philadelphia street over a 60-year-old sewer collapsed last night. An unoccupied 1951 car fell 35 feet through the hole. The cave-in prompted evacuation of 100 residents from seven apartment houses and led to the closure of a tavern as a precaution after two earlier accidents on the same block.
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Philadelphia
European Army Plan Studied By Officials
U S officials review a weekend proposal to fuse five European nations military forces and finances for a unified defense. The plan aims to streamline NATO structure by a five nation defense minister and a finance minister to standardize arms and training and enable joint units under a common command. General Eisenhower must secure NATO approvals as new governance and funding questions arise.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Neonnnee Ee
Ranarte
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Primary Fight Shapes Philadelphia GOP Future
In Philadelphia the Pennsylvania primary centers on the GOP struggle between Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling and Walter P. Miller for the party’s nomination. The Old Guard, led by Bernard Samuel, faces a challenge as voters choose between independence and affiliation with the established faction.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Daniel A. Poling
Walter P. Miller
New
Bernard Samuel
Samuel
Miller
Dr. Poling
Okd
GOP
Gunman Kills Drug Clerk In Cincinnati West End
An unidentified gunman shot and killed Fred H. Schmidt a 65 year old drug store clerk at Sam Horowitz in Cincinnati West End Police Lt Dana Mills said robbery motive suspected Mrs Anna Huff 65 and her daughter Mary 45 who lived above the store witnessed the attack describing a struggle before the fatal shot Schmidt died on the scene with a face wound while the gunman fled
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Cincinnati
Fred H. Schmidt
Sam Horowitz
Incinnati
West End
Schmidt
Dana Mills
Anna Huff
Mary
Fire Department Life Squad
Snyder Replies To Indignant Texas Ladies
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said he will answer a letter from rebellious Marshall housewives who refuse to collect federal withholding taxes for Social Security on domestic servants. He noted he will respond in due course and leaves public disclosure to them. He could not be swayed from maintaining formal propriety in his communications.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Marshall, Tex
Emily Post
Lausche Heads Tour of Ohio Strip Mines
Governor Frank Lausche leads a two day inspection tour of Ohio strip mine areas with state officials in Columbus. The visit aims to assess mining practices and environmental impact across several sites.
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Lausche
Ohio
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Talks Resume At Kaesong Wednesday
United Nations truce negotiators return to Kaesong for a decision on a Korean war armistice agenda with Communists pressed to drop demands for withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. Pyongyang broadcasts say the answer will be no as shipments and rail lines face Allied strikes amid renewed fighting near Pyongyang.
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Moscow
Kaesong
Korea
United Nations
Pyongyang
Communist “Korean Central Press
Red
Peiping
Red China
Yang
Pyongyang Radio
United States
Red Radio
U.S
South Korea
Nander
Matthew B
Ridgway
Kangdong
Sariwon
Peiping Claims 7 Jet Kill in Merger Border Clash
Peiping radio asserts Chinese Communist aircraft shot down seven of eight U S jet fighters accused of violating the Manchurian border on July 21. The report frames the clash as a border incident with military significance and alleges American aggression.
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Peiping
Tokyo
U. S
Manchurian
Sherman to be Buried Friday at Arlington
Adm. Forrest P. Sherman will be buried Friday afternoon with high military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. The former Chief of Naval Operations will lie in state in Washington Cathedral according to the Navy.
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Forrest P. Sherman
Arlington National Cemetery
Navy
Naval Operations
Washington Cathedral
Hourly Earnings Rise in First Year of War
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports factory production workers earned 15 cents more hourly in the first year of the Korean War. Weekly earnings, including overtime, rose to 65.44 dollars.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ike Names Michaelis As Observer
General Dwight D. Eisenhower designated Brig. Gen. John J. Michaelis as his observer for conferences on forming a European army, naming the Korean wart hero in Paris.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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