U N Calls for Second Cease Fire in East Indies
The United Nations Security Council urged Dutch and Indonesians to halt hostilities for the second time. The vote 10 to 0 with Britain abstaining reflected disputes over the August cease fire and UN authority in the Indonesian conflict.
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Lake Success
Security Council
East Indies
Britain
United Nations
France
Belgium
International Court of Justice
United States
Minister faces murder charge after faith test poison death
Rev. Gordon Miller of the Free Church of God was arrested at the graveside of Ernest Davis after Davis drank poison to prove faith. Miller reportedly drank poison too but survived. Davis died Saturday and Sheriff A H B Glenn noted the act as a deadly faith test.
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Gordon Miller
St. Mark
A. HB. Glenn
Glenn
Rev. Miller
Ernest Davis
Davis
W. A. Hyden
Trion
Miller
Free Church of God
T. J. Esty
Sam Davis
Jim Headrick
Devis
Vets Set to Move to Australia in September Tour
A large number of American veterans seek to settle in Australia and the San Francisco consulate is strained. A first group of 44 will depart September 5, with larger contingents planned for October and December.
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Autralia
San Francisco
Australia
NLRB Faces Union Challenge to Taft Hartley Review Plan
Washington officials express private concern that union suits could slow applying Taft-Hartley provisions to 3500 old NLRB cases. Denham supports reviewing old cases under the new act, citing Geraldine Novelty Co. and Clo fur and leather workers. Ben Gold, union president, is an avowed communist and may affect standing.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
CIO
Robert N. Denham
Denham
Geraldine Novelty Co. Inc
Gloversville
N. Y
Clo Fur and Leather Workers
Ben Gold
Freeport Car Damaged In Hit-and-Run Intersection Crash
A hit-and-run driver struck Maim A. Gale’s car head on near the 18th avenue and 6th street junction at 7 45 last night. Gale reported the other vehicle appeared intoxicated and fled the scene after saying he was turning around. Damaged left front end estimated at Leo Gale's car.
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Maim A. Gale
Freeport
18Th Avenue
6Th Street
Gale
Leo Gale
Defense Aims to Prove Alibi in Overell Yacht Murder Case
Defense for Louise Overell and George Gollum argues it was physically impossible to kill Mr and Mrs Walter E Overell as charged. Attorney S B Kaufman vows explosive expert testimony that a household alarm clock could not have caused the blast aboard the Overell yacht on March 15.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
George Gollum
Walter E. Overell
S. B. Kaufman
Gollum
Navy Skystreak Smashes Speed Record At Mojave
Maj. Marion E. Carl of Hubbard Oregon and Patuxent River Maryland piloted the blood red Douglas jet Skystreak to a new 6506 mile per hour international speed mark over a three kilometer course at Muroc California. The four passes yesterday surpassed the prior record set last week by Comdr Turner F. Caldwell Jr. of Arlington Virginia.
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Muroc
Calif
Mojave
Maj
Marion E. Carl
Major Carl
Hubbard
Ore
Patuxent River
Navy
Comdr
Turner F. Caldwell Jr
Arlington
Legion opens in town with parade and noise protests
New York brief notes the 29th American Legion session opening Thursday with a festive mix of Mardi Gras football and a political convention. Sirens from Chicago and a Fort Lauderdale drum corps drew crowds while Florida delegates brought gators coconuts and bugle corps as veterans march plans loom in Manhattan amid housing and defense committee reviews.
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New York
American Legion
Chicago
Commonwealth Edison Post
Eighth Avenue
Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Legion and
Auxiliary
Legion
National Housing Committee
National Security Committee
National Defense Committee
Janesville Industrial Chief Blodgett Dies by His Own Hand
Frank C P Blodgett 50 prominent local industrialist was found dead at home with a gas stove. Coroner said suicide likely due to nervous exhaustion from heat and stress around his daughter's wedding. His daughter Dorothy wed Charles Aring Jr and they were en route to Virginia on honeymoon. He led Frank H Blodgett Inc a rye and buckwheat flour mill. He was Northwestern graduate and WWI veteran. Survived by widow, one daughter, two sons, two sisters and his father.
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Janesville
Frank C. P. Blodgett
E. J. Overton
Bloggett
Wauwatosa
University of Wisconsin
Virginia
Blodgett
Frank H. Blodgett
Sandia base near Albuquerque linked to top secret atomic work
The army and navy announced that construction and operations at Sandia base near Albuquerque New Mexico are top secret under the atomic energy act of 1946. They jointly refused to confirm or deny reports in the Denver Post about caverns dug in a mountain range for atomic war defenses.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Sandia
Albuquerque
N. M
Denver Post
Top Wage Earners in 1945 46 Treasury List
Charles P. Skouras tops the treasury list with 568143.60 in compensation from two corporations. Betty Grable earns 208000. Paramount producer director Thomas Leo McCarey drops to fifth. Thomas J. Watson IBM and F E Fowler Southern Comfort also high. GM shows 33 top earners, with Charles E. Wilson at 303990.15. Figures are pre tax and exclude many firms yet to report.
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Charles P. Skouras
Moving Picture Theater
Betty Grable
Treasury
Charles H. Strub
Los Angeles Turf Club, Inc
Paramount
Thomas Leo McCarey
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
General Motors
Charles E. Wilson
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Hemisphere mutual defense proposal gains pace at inter-American talks
A US backed plan to defend the entire western hemisphere from Alaska to Antarctica as a security region was approved by a 14 nation subcommittee. The pact would treat any attack on an American state as an attack on all, invoking collective self defense under UN Charter article 51.
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Philip Clarke Quitandinha
Brazil
United States
Arctic
Antarctic
Alaska
Greenland
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Mexico
Peru
Bolivia
Panama
Alaska Territory
July Swiss Cheese Prices Rise in Trade Reports
Offers are being made for July Swiss cheese at a cent and a half above June top grade. The factory price is 500 cents per pound, versus 49 cents for June top grade. Wisconsin B adds two cents to reach 46 cents, up from 44. No reports on Wisconsin C or grinders.
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Wisconsin
Beloit Man Suffering Fractured Neck After Jail Fall
James Stephens, 36, of Beloit, was in poor condition at Municipal hospital after fracturing his neck in a fall from the top of the cell block at the city jail while held on a vagrancy charge.
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Beloit
James Stephens
Municipal Hospital
Stephens
Boy Denies Peeping in Monroe. Juvenile Held
A 15 year old farm boy admitted 22 window peeping complaints to police but later denied the acts in juvenile court. Judge Harold J. Lamboley ordered him to stay off the streets after dark without a parent or employer and to turn over part of his earnings to his parents. He was questioned after being seen near homes and later denied any molestation of minor girls. case left open for further investigation.
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Harold J. Lamboley
Lamboley
Monroe
Alvin W. Marti
J. H. Schwaiger
West Bend
St. Clare Hospital
C. E. Baumle
J. W. Gray
West Bend Hospital
Rudolph P. Reger
Washington County
Jane Howard
Gnagi
Ross
Elkhorn
Tribute Paid To M. E. McCaffrey at University
Madison Wisconsin officials paid tribute to M. E. McCaffrey for 40 years of service to the university. President Fred praised his inspiring record and the university community sent condolences to the Arene family. A W Peterson noted McCaffrey’s trusted leadership and personal regard, crediting him with Arboretum work and managing $4,000,000 in funds across 30 accounts. Funeral services are set for tomorrow afternoon at Christ Presbyterian Church followed by burial at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin
M. E. McCaffrey
Fred
Arene
A. W. Peterson
McCaffrey
University Arboretum
University Trust
Christ Presbyterian Church
Forest Hill Cemetery
Veterans Club Fights Lowered Line in Women's Fall Fashions
The University of Kentucky Veterans club in Lexington condemns the lowered hem line in fall women’s fashions as a deliberate exploitation of the public. They urge married veterans not to buy the new dresses and single vets to avoid dating women in longer skirts. President Darrell Hancock says the fight is a grave concern as budgets stretch for essentials.
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Lexington
University of Kentucky Veterans Club
Club
Darrell Hancock
Jimmy De Santo Out Of Cleveland Races
Parachute tests preceded a qualifying run as Jimmy De Santo of Atlanta Ga bailed from his P 60 Curtiss experimental plane after a tail assembly failure during a test hop yesterday afternoon. He landed safely near the wreckage stating he had put his last dollar into the aircraft.
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Cleveland
Jimmy de Santo
de Santo
Atlanta
United States Efforts Fail To Solve Greece Crisis
The United States failed to resolve Greece's government crisis as Tsaldaris struggles to form a new cabinet amid Democratic tensions. Sophoulis refuses to join a coalition, while Eaton warns Greece could be a powder keg risking global war.
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U.S
Greece
Associated Press
Washington
Eaton
R-Nj
U. S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
Tehran
Iran
Red Army
Russian
Azerbaijan
Moscow
Russia
Soviet Union
Bulgaria
Demetrios Maximos
Constantin Tsaldaris
Liberal Party
U. S
Lincoln MacVeagh
Sophoulis
Dwight P. Griswold
Griswold
Tsaldaris
Souhoulis
Muse
United States
Turkey
Mediterranean
State General Fund Surges Three Million in July to August
The state's general fund rose from 7.95 million to 10.10 million in one month, excluding 29.1 million in government bonds for emergencies. Highway funds grew from 4.12 million to 5.79 million. Inheritance and estate taxes show the sharpest rise, and July receipts for liquor, beer, cigars, motor vehicle fees, and gasoline also increased. The period marks the first month of a new biennium.
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Madison
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Harold W. Ward
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Southern Comfort Corp
St. Louis
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Company
Dia
Argentina
Truman
Palestine
Empire Comfort
Haifa
Cyprus
Holy Land
James Pringle
Stephen
John
Danny
Holy Name Cathedral
Daniel
Frank Gillespie
St. Vincent's Orphanage
David Atwood
Dane County
Burr McWilliams
Atwood
McWilliams
Veterans Club
Fatherland Front
Nikole Petkov
Agrarians
Petkov
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