Major Break Feared In Flood Area Near Winnipeg
Winnipeg flood fears persist as officials warn of a possible major break. The Red River and tributaries hold steady while Emerson and Letellier show modest drops, but rain and high currents sustain risk. Evacuation plans remain ready as 90,000 plus residents have already left the area and more may follow.
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Winnipeg
Man
Red River
North Dakota
Emerson
Letellier
Manitoba
Brig
Ronald Morton
Red
Assiniboine
Seine
U. S
Morris
D. M. Stephens
McGillivray Dike
United States
Royal Canadian Airforce
Greater
Akron women die in Erie train crash
Mrs Wilma Odom 36 of Akron and Dolores Mae Weinsheimer 19 of Wadsworth were killed yesterday when an Erie railroad passenger train struck their car. The two were employed as waitresses in a Wadsworth restaurant.
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Akron
O. (Ap
Wilma Odom
Dolores Mae Weinsheimer
Wadsworth
Erie Railroad
South Amboy Blast Kills Several and Destroys Waterfront
A massive explosion rocked South Amboy New Jersey as four ammunition barges blew up near the waterfront showering debris across Broadway. Rescue crews from New York and New Jersey battled fires and searched for victims as officials declared a state of emergency and warned of possible live ordnance.
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New Jersey
Leonard Leddington
New York Harbor
Wharf
Frank Cinelli
Jersey City
Syverd Hagen
Brooklyn
John Leonard Seed
Charles Bersin
New York
New York City
Pennsylvania
Mile Square
Ins
Raritan Bay
Isbrandtsen Line
Far East
Lad Signs Confession He Killed Grandparents
Jack Hartman 18-year-old confessed to killing his maternal grandparents, telling Prosecutor Gibson L. Fenton a special grand jury will convene Wednesday. He will stay in Williams County jail until then. He planned to see his bride Dolores before surrendering, but was arrested in Parkersburg. He said he killed Mr. and Mrs. Fisher after taking about 135 dollars his grandfather gave him. He described shooting his grandmother when she screamed. Hartman waived extradition. authorities kept weapons charges from pressing. The couple worked in a Bryan toy factory. his parents are divorced.
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Jack Hartman
Gibson L. Fenton
Hartman
Williams County
Young Hartman
Dolores
Michigan
Parkersburg
W.va
Helen Hartman
Sheriff's Deputies
George W. Fisher
Robert
Despie
Fisher
Fenton
Marvin Prince
Ohio
West Virginia
Wayne Hartman
Columbus
Arcave Scratched From Pimlico Preakness Race
Baltimore AP Dispatch Arcave trained by W Labrot was scratched from Pimlico's Preakness as conditions would slow due to recent rains. The move trims the probable field to six runners.
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Baltimore
W. Labrot
Pimlico
Michigan Patrolman Shot In Pursuit Of Convicts
A state policeman was wounded early today in northern Michigan while pursuing two fugitive Ohio convicts, Lloyd Russell and Paul Russell. A chase along M-94 ended with the suspects’ car abandoned ten miles south of Shingleton. Detective George Strong was hit by rifle fire but not seriously injured.
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Munising
Mich
Ohio
Michigan
Hiawatha National Forest
Here
Lloyd Russell
Paul
George Strong
Strong
Shingleton
Boot Lake
Willard Wixom
Mar
Stanley Gibbard
Sault Ste. Marie
Bibbard
Psychiatrist To Test In Arson Case
A 21 year old Circleville man Robert D Segee formerly with Ringling Brothers Circus will undergo psychiatric evaluation next week on charges of arson and attempted arson in recent fires near Circleville Ohio Prosecutor Guy Cline said Segee told of a night time vision of The Red Indian a flaming horseman used by the National Board of Fire Underwriters He was bound over to the grand jury and jailed in Columbus after questioning and charges in Ashville Ohio authorities noted no firm link to the Hartford circus fire but did not rule out incendiarism entirely.
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Columbus
Ringling Brothers Circus
Hartford
Conn
Robert D. Segee
Circleville
Segee
Pickaway County
Guy Cline
National Board of Fire
Cline
Connecticut
Edward J. Hickey
Hickey
Franklin County
Ashville
Rail strike postponed as talks set to start
The Switchmen's Union will begin wage hour talks with 10 western railroads Tuesday instead of striking. The walkout was delayed until June 1 by Union President Arthur J. Glov er after the National Mediation Board pledged to start peace talks next week to break the deadlock.
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Washington
Switchmen’s Union
Arthur J. Glover
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Civil Rights Plan Shelved For Present
Washington AP reports President Truman’s civil rights program stalled in Congress as the Senate rejected a cloture petition 52 to 32. The vote blocks bringing up a compulsory FEPC bill, with 6 Republicans and 26 Democrats joining to sustain the southern filibuster. Lucas pledges a new bid, Taft doubts passage, and focus shifts to anti-poll tax and anti-lynching efforts in the upcoming election campaign.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Lucas
Illinois
Taft
Ohio
GOP
South
Preparedness urged in talks across the nation
President Truman and Defense Secretary Johnson urged extended universal training and draft mobilization to bolster national defense. In remarks at an Armed Forces Day dinner in Washington, Truman linked past delays to the current Cold War risk, while Johnson described building a formidable defense to deter aggression.
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Defense Johnson
Washington
Congress
Johnson
Defense Department
Man Admits Slayings After Hiding For Year
Carrollton, O AP Ernest Bennett Deem 43 confessed to the shotgun killings of John D. George 40 and Virginia George 35 at their Carrollton farm on June 3. He fled to Webster County West Virginia after the murders, stayed with Ocar Cogar on Gauley Mountain, and was identified by Pete Barbe 72 who spotted him while visiting. Deem was returned to Carrollton after waiving extradition.
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Carrollton
West Virginia
Webster County
W. Va
Ova M. Carpenter
Ernest Bennett Deem
Carpenter
Deem
John D. George
Virginia George
Roy Orwick
Ocar Cogar
Gauley Mountain
Cogar
Pete Barbe
Webster Springs
Barbe
Sheriff Orwick
Lindy Got Across Still A Thrill After All Those Years
In May nineteen twenty seven crowds hailed Charles Lindbergh after he flew the Spirit of St Louis to Paris. Now twenty three years later readers are reminded of the feat that made him a national hero during the Roaring Twenties when the Great Boom and Coolidge era defined the era.
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Coolidge
White House
Ruth
Lindbergh
Spirit of
St. Louis
Lindy
Paris
Bingo Battle Ends In Playing Euchre In Mechanicsburg
Mechanicsburg Ohio residents shifted from a planned charity bingo to euchre after Mayor Chaney warned of an anti gambling ordinance. An out-of-town bingo official failed to arrive, but Eagle lodge secretary Emerson Vordermark said the event will be rescheduled for June 2 and the group will press the no bingo edict challenge.
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Mechanicsburg. O
Champaign County
Joseph Chaney
Order of Eagles
Mechanicsburg Aerie 2842
Chaney
Ira Holley
Delaware, O
Aerie
Mechanicsburg
Lodge Brothers
Emerson Vordermark
Eagles
State Supreme Court
Probe Sought for Senate Inquiry on Homosexual Government Workers
Washington lawmakers demand a swift Senate inquiry into federal employees described as likely Communist tools. A resolution for a full investigation followed an Appropriations subcommittee report estimating about 3,750 homosexuals in government jobs in Washington.
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Washington
Senate
Appropriations
France Outs Dated Policy to Forge Western Third Force
London AP reports France unveils a dynamic foreign policy to form a western European third force. The plan, tied to the Schuman coal and steel pooling, seeks European economic rebuild and unity while not anti American. It aims to reduce sovereign surrender fears and invites Britain to join.
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London
Atlantic Council
Europe
France
West
Britain
Police
United States
West Europe
Schuman
Germany
Death Mystery Surrounds Walnut Hills Woman's Death
Cincinnati AP report says Miss Frances Ray 19 died in an undetermined manner not from an automobile crash. Her fiancé received two days in the work house after a traffic court conviction as authorities investigate.
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Cincinnati
Walnut Hills ‘District
Herbert P. Lyle
Frances Ray
Striking Women Told To Return To Work In Toledo
In Toledo Ohio striking women office employees of CIO United Auto Workers Local 12 ignored union orders to resume duties today. About 1 400 members at a two hour meeting instructed the 12 workers to return and settle grievances later. None of the workers commented.
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Toledo, C
United Auto Workers Local 12
Toledo, O
CIO United Automobile Workers
UAW
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