Envoys Seek Accord as Germany Talks Stalemate Persists
Paris AP reports East and West foreign ministers push for a deal on Germany's future despite stalemate in Berlin rail strike talks. Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky accepted U.S. request to end East West talks by Monday, with Four Power action possible if no agreement emerges. A four power commission may be formed to pursue peace treaties and quick action on the Berlin crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrei Vishinsky
Berlin
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Austria
Paris
West
Man held in shooting in Glouster Ohio
John LaCourte fifty is jailed in Athens County awaiting charges as investigating the shooting of former housekeeper Anna Gilmore Lewis thirty six in a downtown Glouster restaurant. He barricaded himself for three hours before surrendering to his son with no shots fired. Mrs Lewis sustained three bullet wounds from a thirty two caliber revolver and was hospitalized. LaCourte, a barber born in Sicily, said she ruined his life. his wife died fourteen years ago.
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Glouster
John LaCourte
Athens
George Bateman
Anna Gilmore Lewis
Lewis
Sheltering Arms
LaCourte
Bateman
Sicily
Wife Slain In Columbus In Domestic Tragedy
In Columbus on the south side, 51 year old Oscar Tipton fatally shot his wife Helen 49 after a long quarrel and then killed himself. Helen died an hour after the shooting. Oscar is in critical condition with a chest wound. Son-in-law William Reese said the couple had argued for 15 years.
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Oscar Tipton
Helen
Tipton
William Reese
Ella Raines to London with steaks and beer aboard
Hollywood reports Ella Raines is leaving for London to rejoin Maj. Robin Olds in England. She travels with 20 frozen steaks a case of avocados and three cases of beer and plans a barbecue for British friends.
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Hollywood
Ella Raines
London
Maj
Robin Olds
England
Ella
ECA Leader Pressures Hoffman as Funds Face Cut
Washington AP reports Senator McKellar denounced ECA head Paul Hoffman after Hoffman warned he would resign if recovery funds are cut. Several senators pledge to push for reductions, while Hoffman aims to allocate the $3.57 billion approved by the House over 12 months, arguing a possible need for up to $4 billion.
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Washington
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
ECA
Paul Hoffman
United States
Senate Appropriations Committee
McKellar
Hoffman
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
House
Senate
George
D-Ga
McCarran
New
Appropriations Committee
Truman Joins Buddies For Annual Reunion Talk Slated Saturday
President Truman flies to Arkansas to reunite with his World War I 35th Division battery mates. He plans to march in the parade Saturday and deliver an address at 3:30 p.m. EST. Duffield, Duffield survivor of a Japanese rescue boat fire, reports all others perished near Sen dai.
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Truman
Buddies
Tokyo
U. S
Japan
Air Force
Albert N. Duffield, Jr
Willow Grove
Sendai
Duffield
Far East Air Force
Washington
Little Rock
129Th Field Artillery
France
Acheson
Paris
Senate
White House
Arkansas
Charles G. Ross
Matthew J. Connelly
John R. Steelman
Frank Pace
Arkansan
Harry H. Vaughan
Army
Robert D. Dennison
Navy
Robert B. Landry
Omaha
Kansas City
American Legion
Margaret
New York
Independence
Men Sought in Gem Theft Near Cambridge
About 30 police officers searched near Cambridge Ohio for two men questioned in a jewel robbery. The fugitives were seen in the woods at old Washington as night fell, with roadblocks set on Routes 22 and 40. A third man, George Drake, 29, of Pittsburgh, was captured after police found a waste basket nearly full of jewelry later linked to a Hebron burglary in Ohio.
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Cambridge
Lithuanian General Works in U S as Valve Assembler
Gen Stasys Rastikis once led the Lithuanian Army now works in a Hartwell Aviation back shop in Culver City California assembling airplane hydraulic valves. He arrived in New York as a displaced person with his wife after nine years of fighting and imprisonment. One daughter is said dead. the others have not been heard from.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Culver City
Cal
Stasys Rastikis
Hartwell Aviation Company
Helen Marie
New York
Siberia
Lone convict recaptured as others remain at large
Gerald Noland, 19, one of two escapees from the West Virginia state penitentiary, was recaptured near Ravenswood after a three day search in the Parkersburg area. Eddie Starcher, 23, remains at large among the 14 who escaped, all from West Virginia.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Gerald Noland
Escap
Orel J. Skeen
Noland
Baltimore and Ohio
Ravenswood
Parkersburg
Eddie Starcher
Liberty
West
Senate Labor Bill Battle Heats Up In Senate Debates
The Senate moved toward a test of the Taft-Hartley repeal as speeches by Humphrey Murray and Neely preceded a one by one amendment review. John L. Lewis sets a coal strike week while Truman defends inherent powers and presses to end court orders for emergency strikes.
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Washington
Senate
Humphrey
D-Minn
Murray
D-Mont
Neely
Dwva
Truman
John L. Lewis
Congress
Lewis
United Mine Workers
T H
Taft
Ohio
Morse
R-Ore
Famed Chicago Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon Dies
John T. McCutcheon 79 prominent Chicago Tribune cartoonist and writer, war correspondent, Pulitzer winner in 1931, died at his Lake Forest home. He retired in 1946 after a long Tribune career begun post Purdue. Survivors include widow Evelyn Barr, three sons John Jr Shaw and George, and sister Jessie Nelson.
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Chicago
John T. McCutcheon
The
Chicago Tribune
Lake Forest
McCutcheon
Tribune
Old
Chicago Record
Purdue University
Evelyn Barr
John T. Jr
Shaw
George Barr McCutcheon
Jessie Nelson
Sherman, Conn
Danny Kaye Denies Communist Ties Report
Glasgow AP reports comedian Danny Kaye calling a California Senate Committee on UnAmerican Activities list false. The panel alleged Kaye and other Hollywood figures followed or approved parts of the Communist party line over a long period.
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U. S
California State Senate Committee On
UnAmerican
Kaye
Hollywood
Woman Found After California Trip Missing Since June
Mrs Magdalena Fry 78 reported missing June 3 on a trip to California arrived at Madera Calif. She told relatives she missed a Chicago train and boarded a later one.
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Washington C. H
Magdalena Fry
California
Madera
Cal
Chicago
Three Mental Patients Sought After California Escape
Sonoma residents fear renewed escape attempts as authorities hunt three fugitives from the Sonoma state home. Rudolph Wright, 19, already jailed for the Zimmerman slaying, plus Stanley Nelson, Stanley Barksdale, and William Young, all deemed potentially dangerous and armed with razors seized from a ranch. Escaped May 3 by cutting fence. new Atascadero maximum security facility planned.
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Sonoma
Cal
Sonoma State Home
Valley of the Moon
Rudolph Wright
Paul Zimmerman
Stanley Nelton
Stanley Barksdale
William P. Young
E. M. Porter
Barksdale
Young
Nelson
Sacramento
Lawrence Kolb
State Mental Hygiene Department
Atascadero
Man dies fighting home blaze near Tolu Ky
A second mysterious fire at Henry F Todd’s home near Tolu killed the 56 year old bachelor who died while attempting to extinguish the flames He had reported finding his bed afire after a trip and valuables were missing Sheriff John A Hunt investigates with the surviving brother Will Todd saying the brothers were working in a field when the fire started and could not save the house Todd died while removing tools from a nearby garage
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Marion
Henry F. Todd
Tolu
Crittenden County
John A. Hunt
Todd
Hunt
Will
Russian Barber and Editor Named in Spy Trial Reports
FBI reports described as the hottest in Judith Coplon’s espionage case were set to be read in Washington. The material sparked headlines beyond Coplon’s alleged government secrets theft, including counter espionage in the Russian embassy, an alleged barber at White Sands seeking atomic data, and a San Francisco Russian paper subsidized by Moscow. The barber and newspaper protested the allegations.
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Associated Press
FBI
Judith Coplon
Washington
Ale Ready
Miss Coplon
White Sands Proving Ground
New Mexico
Mexico
San Francisco
Senate probes atomic shipping and Norway isotope case
A Senate hearing examines if atomic materials should be shipped abroad, with Michigan senator pressing for pre approval by the Military Liaison Committee. David Lilienthal defends the AEC stance on Norway being a friendly nation, as Hickenlooper seeks evidence of loyalty and insider questioning in the management inquiries.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Michigan
Atomic Energy Commission
Army
Navy
Air Force
David E. Lilienthal
The
Atomic Agency
Norway
Commission
Lilienthal
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Hickenlooper
Rrowa
Man Slain in Hillsboro as Suspect Admits Shooting
Paul E. Young, 34, of Seaman, Adams County, was slain in Hillsboro. Hansford L. Hawkins, 57, admitted shooting with a .32 revolver after Young allegedly lunged toward Hawkins. Witness Cary Young, 22, reported the incident. Thelma Heppard, 26, held as a material witness. Charges pending.
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Hillsboro
Paul E. Young
Seaman
Adams County
Highland County
Darrell R. Hottle
Hansford L. Hawkins
Young
Thelma Heppard
Hawkins
Hottle
Cary Young, Jr
Miss Independence nominees to be announced Sunday
The Middletown Junior Chamber of Commerce will reveal the ten public vote finalists for Miss Independence on Sunday with each girl pictured and biographed. An official ballot also appears in the Sunday paper.
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Middletown
Ickes Appears as Defense Witness in Coplon Case
Harold L. Ickes former Interior secretary showed up as a defense witness in the espionage trial but was excused for now. He told reporters he knows nothing beyond what he sees in the paper while Archibald Palmer the defense attorney sought him to testify about a data slip found in Miss Coplon’s purse during her arrest in New York on March 4 alongside Valentine A. Gubitchev a Russian.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
Archibald Palmer
Palmer
Miss Coplon
New York
Valentine A. Gubitchev
Trials unfold as Hiss case heats pace in New York
In New York the government nears the end of its case against Alger Hiss with more witnesses to bolster the perjury charge. The Coplon trial, in its seventh week, features data slips found on Miss Coplon, 28, and Valen tine A. Gubitchev. John Gates of the Daily Worker admitted lying yesterday, saying history would justify it.
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Washington
New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
John Gates
The
Daily Worker
Coplon
Miss Coplon
Justice Departement
Valentine A. Gubitchev
Archibald Palmer
Palmer
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Soldier is Convicted of Desertion in England
Delbert E. Hill, an Air Force airman from Philadelphia, was found guilty by a U S Air Force court martial in Burtonwood England of desertion after a four year absence while serving as Donna Delbert on the English Music Hall stage. He received two years hard labor and a bad conduct discharge, maintaining he did not desert.
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Burtonwood
Eng
Air Force
Delbert E. Hill
Donna Delbert
Hill
Japan
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Christ Euteneier
Tampico Saddle Club
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Raps Report
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Scotland
Danny Kaye
Stalin
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
Moscow
AEC
Franklin
Portsmouth
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