Western powers call Berlin blockade obstacle to talks
Paris AP reports at the United Nations Security Council the western three powers refuse to negotiate with the Soviet Union while the Berlin blockade remains. Sir Alexander Cadogan led the attack citing a tightening stranglehold on road rail and river routes as Andrei Vishinsky sat ill in silence.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Soviet Union
Germany
Berlin
Philip C. Jessup
United States
Berelin
Security Council
Andrei Y. ‘Vishinsky
Britain
France
Jessup
Alexander Caedogan
Stalin
Juan Atilio Bramuglia
Alexander Cadogan
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Alexander
Cadogan
Bramuglia
Council
Ceremany
Reuther Death Plot Revealed Before Court
A witness testified that Carl Bolton offered 15000 to kill Walter Reuther, CIO UAW president, with plans to also assassinate Kenneth Bannon. Bolton spoke of a “dirty Red Communist” and said the job would pay after completion. Bolton and Bannon discussed future acts while Reuther recovered from a home shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Carl Bolton
Walter P. Reuther
Cio-United Auto Workers
John Miller
Bolton
Kenneth Banyon
Union
Ford Department
Reuther
Miller
Walter Reuther
Bannon
Ken Bannon
Ford
Uawcio
Manchuria Capital Changchun Falls to Reds
AP reports Chinese Communist radio says Changchun, Manchuria’s capital, was captured by Reds after government forces allegedly halted resistance. The Seventh Army reportedly downed arms at noon Chinese time, with the mutinied 60th Army involved in internal fighting. The city, housing about 1,000,000 people, had been previously abandoned then disputed.
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San Francisco
Changchun
Communist
China
Seventh Army
Actress Elis a Landi in serious condition at Kingston
Elis a Landi, a screen actress, remained on the hospital’s serious list at Kingston Hospital. Doctors say she is suffering a chronic condition after ten days on the critical list.
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Kingston, N. Y
Elissa Landi
Kingston Hospital
Breck Lutes Sentenced in Cross-State Car Theft Case
Breck C. Lutes, 48, once a trusted chauffeur for several Ohio governors, received a federal prison term of one year and one day for taking a stolen car across state lines. Indicted and sentenced in an hour, he pled guilty through counsel Sawyer Smith, with U. S. District Judge Mac Swinford presiding. Lutes, from Middletown Ohio, was serving a life term for murder in Ohio Penitentiary, and former Governor Frank Lausche pardoned him before leaving office two years ago.
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Covington
Breck C. Lutes
Ohio
Sawyer Smith
U. S
Mac Swinford
Lutes
Middletown
Frank J. Lausche
Youth Tricked Into Shooting Self in Michigan Incident
Cleveland AP reports 16 year old Hugh Mellon invited a 10 year old boy to see his .22 rifle at home in Ann Arbor Michigan. The boy pulled the trigger believing the gun unloaded, the bullet struck Hugh in the head and killed him. A suicide note stated the plan to die half an hour after writing.
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Cleveland
Hugh Mellon
Ann _ Arbor
Mich
Hugh
Mexicans Win Death Awards in Train Collision Case
In Cleveland Ohio Esther Ruiz and Mrs. Paulina Ochoa were awarded $9,000 each in a federal settlement over the 1945 train truck crash near Hebron Seneca County that killed Mauricio Ruiz and Amada Ochoa. They sought $70,000 from Nickel Plate Railroad.
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Cleveland
Mexico City
Esther Ruiz
Paulina Ochoa
Nickel Plate Railroad
Mauricio Ruiz
Esther
Amada Ochoa
Ochoa
Gypsy violin king Margitza to be buried with his music
Andrew Margitza, famed Gypsy violinist, dies age 60. He asked his son to gather old and young musicians for a grand funeral procession to St Michael's Church and Braddock Cemetery. The family, from Austria-Hungary roots, urged teaching grandchildren music as a way of life.
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Elaine Kahn
Pittsburgh
Andrew Margitza
Margitza
William
St. Michael's
Mirotza
Austria - Hungary
Omaha
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Julius
Louis
Alex
Mildred
Martha
Moon Teen Fatally Injured After Fall From Car
Cincinnati news reports 18 year old Naval Air Corps technician Joseph Moon was injured fatally when he fell from a car’s running board and was run over. He is the son of Mrs. H. M. Hamburger of Golf Manor.
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Cincinnati
Joseph Moon
Naval Air Corps
H. M. Hamburger
Golf Manor
Death of German Field Marshal Walter Von Brauchitsch Ends Controversial Career
Former German Field Marshal Walter Von Brauchitsch died at 67 in a British military hospital in Hamburg while under guard awaiting war crimes trial. He and three other senior officers Gerd Von Rundstedt Erich Von Manstein and Adolf Strauss faced charges. Brauchitsch reportedly died of coronary thrombosis after being placed on the critical list. His wife Charlotte, also ill, was at his side as the four generals were kept under guard after transfer from a disposal center. Brauchitsch rose to commander in chief in 1938, was fired in 1941, and testified at Nuremberg that Hitler allowed resignations only as scapegoating for Russian losses.
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Hamburg
Germany
Walther von Brauchitsch
von Brauchitsch
Gerd von Rundstedt
Erich von Mannstein
Adolf Stra
Charlotte von Brauchitsch
von Rundstedt
von Mannstein
Strauss
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
Hitler
Werner von Blomberg
Baron Werner von Fritsch
Brauchitsch
Moscow
Nuernberg
Russians Tighten Berlin Blockade With City Gate Checks
Soviet authorities order all Berlin entry via the eastern sector with strict searches for contraband food and goods. Police confiscate foods and restrict traffic from Potsdam and the southwest as Brandenburg closes 40 rail stations to west Berlin. Training for Berlin airlift crews begins at Great Falls base with a three week course for 100 three man teams each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Potsdam
Great Falls. Mont
Great Falls
Brandenburg
Truman and Dewey campaign across the South and Midwest
President Truman urges southern voters to resist passion and prejudice while Dewey resumes a campaign swing with multiple stops in Chicago Cleveland Boston and Madison Square Garden. Henry Wallace campaigns in Pennsylvania attacking labor leaders and facing egg splatters at a Wallace event.
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Raleigh, N. C
Truman
Associated Press
Raleigh
Thomas E. Dewey
Albany
Midwest
Mr. Truman
North Carolina
Texas
Pacific Coast
Jackson
Polk
Johnson
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Cleveland
Boston
Madison Square Garden
Brooklyn Academy of Music
St. Louis
Dewey
New York Herald Tribune
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Mr Truman
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Pennsylvania
Girl masquerades as boy held for grand larceny in Greenville
A 17 year old girl using a crew haircut and the name Roger Stephens was jailed in Greenville on grand larceny charges after posing as a medical student visiting a friend. She admitted a Juvenile Court record in Cincinnati and was returned from Asheville, North Carolina. She is accused of stealing clothing valued at 50 dollars from two Greenville homes during the week of October 3.
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Greenville
S. C
Shirley Waddell
Cincinnati
Roger Stephens
J. H. Jennings
Asheville
N. C
New York University
Jennings
Attempt on Rhee's Life Near Seoul Discovered
Seoul police found 60 pounds of dynamite planted under the road to the presidential mansion along with 500 yards of wire and a concealed battery. The pole charges were spotted by a patrolman, one man loitering nearby fled with a pistol, and Dr. Syngman Rhee arrived safely in Tokyo aboard General MacArthur's plane. Authorities blamed possible involvement by Communist or anti administration groups, while Rhee prepared for a courtesy call in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
General MacArthur
Seoul
Kim Tai Sun
Rhee
MacArthur
Bataan
Crisis builds as France coal strike widens across regions
Public services failed in northern fields while mines flooded in the south as pickets and troops massed for a showdown. Lens saw water supply failures and power cuts. Cevennes mines flooded with rising water. Lorraine’s second largest basin saw limited participation with about 8 000 of 41 000 workers on strike.
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Paris
Lens
Flanders- Artois
Cevennes
Lorraine
France
Leaking Exhaust Pipe May Save Boy's Life
Medina Ohio AP report on Clark Hill 19 accused of giving Jeanette Weimer 17 a sex stimulant and using exhaust fumes to kill her. Defense notes pipe leaked. police traced fumes and evidence shows carbon monoxide in Weimer’s blood and a sedative used on animals in her milkshake.
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Clark Hill
Hill
State Highway Patrol
Ion
Victor J. Ledinsky
Cuyahoga County
Samuel R. Gerber
William G. Batchelder, Jr
Four Die in Gas Blast at Texas City Crossing
Four people died and about 40 were injured in a gas explosion and fire that swept a line of autos at a blocked railroad crossing near the Stone Oil Refinery in Texas City. The blast, caused by leaking manufactured gas, occurred about 7:30 p.m. and followed rumors of a repeat of the 1947 disaster.
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Texas City
Clarence Stewart
Galveston
Cornel Oliver
Sylvester Villareal
Jack Flynn
Joplin
Galveston Bay
Fred Dowdy
Highway 146
Stone Oil
Mamie Price
Stone
Explosion Injures Seventeen at Seeger Refrigerating Plant
An explosion in the basement of the Seeger Refrigerating Company plant in Evansville injured seventeen workers. The blast damaged the first floor experimental department while 1,000 other employees were sent home. Cause and full extent of injuries were not immediately known.
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Evansville, Ind
Seeger Refrigerating Company
Accused Slayer's Fiance Is Indicted
Columbus AP Franklin County grand jury indicted Lillian Weaver 30 former police record clerk on harboring a felon. Her fiancé Dwight David Tudor faces first degree murder in Clark County in the slaying of Mary Ann Paige 14 Springfield. Weaver said Tudor confessed he killed but she did not believe him.
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Columbus
Franklin County
Grand Jury
Lillian Weaver
Dwight David Tudor
Clark County
Mary Ann Paige
Springfiel
Driver dies in Lakewood crash near Chardon
Terrance O'Brien, 27, of Lakewood Ohio, died when the car he rode in overturned near Chardon. Police reported the accident occurred last night and the vehicle turned over on a rural route.
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Cleveland
Terrance O’brien
Lakewood
Chardon
Legion Parade Highlights 30th American Legion Convention
The American Legion holds a four mile parade through downtown Miami and Biscayne Boulevard to open its 30th annual national convention. Officials expect about 300000 spectators for the eight hour event featuring departments from all states, colors, bands, drum corps, floats and vehicles marching with top Legion and military officials.
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Miami
Biscayne Blvd
Legion
Army
Contempt Order Stayed Against AFL ITU
Chicago AP report states Judges Minton and Major stayed a contempt citation against the AFL International Typographical Union after Judge Swygert sought to avoid delay. Swygert had found the union in contempt for maintaining closed shop contracts with newspaper publishers despite prior injunction issued March 27. The stay requires the union to appear October 26 to show compliance.
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Chicago
AFL International Typographical Union
Sherman Minton
J. Earl Major
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Luther M. Swygert
South Bend
Ind
Swygert
ITU
Ben Nett E Meyers Indicted Again For Tax Evasion
Former major general and wartime procurement officer Ben Nett E Meyers was indicted by a Baltimore federal grand jury on income tax evasion charges totaling 45 731 37 for 1942 to 1946. He previously faced 1941 evasion charges and is jailed for inducing a former associate to lie to a Senate committee.
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Baltimore
Bennett E. Meyers
Air Forces
Meyers
Senate
Light traps lure crop pests to death by own action
Wooster Experiment Station researchers say ordinary porch bulbs attract May beetles corn borers and other pests. They report 12 to 15 traps catching about 20 000 May beetles during the flight season, offering a useful alternative to sprays for certain species.
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Wooster, O
Wooster
C.R. Neiswander
Neiswander
University of Purdue
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