Oddities in the News: Unusual Local Incidents
A Kansas City elderly man was struck by a streetcar. bystander Paul Williamson and his brother Manuel helped him to hospital and stayed with him until police arrived. In Berkeley California an interior decorator with a deep tan spoke of sun lotion. In Idaho a deer collided with a car, the deer died instantly. In Tulsa, police were asked to pour water on a group of drunks beneath a bedroom window. In Washington state a judge dismissed a war effort petition after a man slept poorly. In Chicago a purse containing eight dollars vanished from a driver’s car, later found under the seat by police.
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Kansas City
Paul Williamson
Manuel William
Unmarried Women Clubbed to Death in New York
Police investigate a savage clubbing at a Brooklyn three room apartment that killed Betty Pitteson 30 and left roommate Alice Clarfield 30 in critical condition. The medical examiner reports no confirmed sexual assault motive and a male suspect reportedly dated the two women. Clarfield later regained consciousness and said she had no injuries.
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New York
Brook
Nan
Hiss Betty Pitteson
M. E. Martin Luty
Alice Clarfield
Brooklyn Fish Hospital
Congress Open Trial Returns Spark Busy Session
Congress returns to Washington amid pending probes and budget clashes. The Senate and House face investigations into subsidies, food programs, and manpower policy, while a separate Associated Press antitrust case unfolds in New York with a bid for an open trial and broader access to news.
U S Submarines Sink Japanese Vessels Daily
United States submarines in the Pacific report sinking or damaging a large number of Japanese ships since June 1. Navy data show 33 ships sunk or damaged, including transports and tankers, with several vessels damaged and four cargo ships reported torpedoed recently. Total losses and damage climb toward 283 since Pearl Harbor.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Japan
Navy
Fuihe
Knox
Pearl Harbor
Jury Delivers Guilty Verdict in May Murder Case
In Warren county Mississippi a twelve minute jury deliberation found a young Black woman guilty of murdering Miss Annie Laura Conklin, a 65 year old spinster, on May 25. The verdict carries the death penalty.
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Vicksburg
Warren County
Annie Laura Conklin
Doberman Fig Executed For Fatal Bite In California
In Oakland on July 9 Fig the Doberman Pinscher was executed in a gas chamber after fatally biting two year old Mary Jane Lund. Pound Master Richard Trotter and her father Martin Lund ordered the death sentence. The dog reportedly dined on roast turkey before its last hour.
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Oakland
Calif
Fig
Pound
Richard Trotter
Martin Lund
Mary Jane Lund
Trotter
Lund
Congressmen on Way Home After Poll Talk
The 78th Congress breaks for a long recess after six hectic months. Key votes upheld subsidies to protect price support programs, while the Senate failed to gain control over war agency hiring and crop insurance funds. Congress back September 14 with major revenue and defense issues to tackle.
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Washington
78Th Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Congress
House
Manpower Commission
Roosevelt Orders War and Navy to Withhold FCC Probe Cooperation
In Washington July the War and Navy departments refused to aid a House investigation into the Federal Communications Commission. Under Rep Cox Georgia Democrat the committee sought interrogations and documents to support charges that the FCC interfered with military intelligence. Durr urged Cox's removal citing a Georgia radio case payment Cox said donated to charity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War and Navy Departments
Federal Communications Commission
House
Representative Cox
Democrat
Georgia
FCC
Cox
Clifford J. Durr
Commission
Robert P. Patterson
War
Shuttling Planes Rain More Bombs On Sicily
Allied air forces shuttle to Sicily attacking airfields ports and rail hubs as bombers fighter-bombers and fighters hit targets from Northwest Africa Malta and the Middle East. Axis fighters shot down and air losses reported while rail and road targets were struck.
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Sicily
North Africa
Mediterranean
Italy
Malta
Middle East
Gerbini
Catania
Comiso
Sciacca
Cap Passero
Valletta
United States
Ninth Air Force
Harris Welcomes Naval V-12 Student Trainees at Tulane
Tulane University President Rufus Harris welcomed 1,100 naval V-12 program trainees in New Orleans, urging them to balance toughness with health. He warned against hyper-masculinity and stressed knowing one’s job over appearances, noting medical care for injuries and illnesses. No female students were present.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
Rufus Harris
Harris
Navy
Helena Blasts Japanese Cruiser at Kula Gulf
Navy action in the Kula gulf near the Solomons left the Helena burning and sinking after a sudden hit, with about 600 survivors rescued from oil slick waters. Reporter Alan Jackson aboard and Australian correspondent Osmar White describe the dawn battle and chaotic scenes as the ship went down.
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Allied
Australia
United States
Helena
Kula Gulf
Central Solomons
South Pacific
Helene
Alan Jackson
American Picture Pool
Osmar White
White
Jackson
Inter
RAF Bombs Cologne as 118th Strike Sparks Night Raid
The Royal Air Force backed by heavy bombers attacked Cologne in the Rhineland during a night raid, marking their return to the daylight offensive. Eight bombers were lost, mines were laid in enemy waters, and British intruder patrols hit France and northwest Germany while German minesweepers were damaged along the French coast.
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London
Germany
Rhineland
Cologne
Air Ministry
France
Britain
Hamburg
Ruh
Berlin
Associated Press
Three Emergencies Reported With Ambulances Friday
Three accidents occurred Friday requiring three ambulances and the St. Francis hospital ER. Wesley Jones of Brown Paper mill was treated and discharged after minor injuries. An ambulance from Birmingham caught fire while transporting a patient from Ruston. patient removed, ambulance destroyed. Six year old Darlene Wilmot fractured her right leg after jumping from a moving truck. she was treated at St. Francis hospital.
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Roddy
St. Francis Hospital
Wesley Jones
Brown Paper
Mulhearn
Calhotin
Johns Ambulance Service
Birmingham
Ala
Ruston
Peters Funeral Service, Inc
Dixie Funeral Home
Darlene Wilmot
F. J. Wilmot
Cypress Street
West Monroe
Man Confesses to Killing Wife Near Alexandria
District Attorney Ben F. Thompson said Marshall Crooks 36 carnival worker and father of four confessed to firing the fatal shot that killed his wife Bertha P Crooks 33 a mile north of Alexandria. Crooks held in Rapides parish jail as state police deputies and military police joined a posse to apprehend him. He had initially claimed the shooting was accidental before signing the confession.
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Alexandria
Ben F. Thompson
Marshall Crooks
Bertha P Crooks
Thompson
Crooks
Rapides Pariah Jail
Roberts Won't Quit War Information Advisory Role
Roy A. Roberts, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, will not withdraw from the Office of War Information advisory committee. He argues the advisory capacity permits independent action and should not be limited by official pressure. The exchange followed a request by Dean Carl W. Ackerman of Columbia to resign. Palmer Hoyt, CW domestic director, defended the committee’s independence.
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New York
Roy A. Roberts
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Office of War Information
Carl W. Ackerman
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Roberts
Ackerman
The
Star
Hoyt
Portland Oregonian
Columbia Jour
Man Confesses to Knife Killing Leads Police to Body
Philadelphia July 9 A 28 year old Francis Joseph Hopkins sought a police patrol, confessed to killing a woman with a hunting knife, and led officers to a hotel where the victim lay with chest throat and forehead wounds. Hopkins jailed on homicide charge.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Costello
Costello
Francis Joseph Hopkins
Hopkins
Miners Return Amid Picket Lines In Payette County Clash
In Payette county fields miners returned to work at one coal mine after passing through picket lines. An insurgent faction refused UMWA orders, keeping about four score mines idle or half staffed. Tension rose as curses and cat-calls disrupted dawn operations and both sides clashed over access to the pits.
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Pittsburgh
Payette County
United Mine Workers
Kursk Battle Escalates As German Armored Forces Push In
German forces thrust at Kursk belgorod end and Orel Kursk sector with Tiger tanks and KV armor. Red Star warns Germany faces Red army resolve and US British support as counter attacks regain ground amid heavy losses.
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Moscow
Belgorod
Kursk
Orel-Kurek
Red Star
Hitler
Germany
Red Army
United States
England
Orel-Kursk
Praven
War spending tops $114 billion as six month session ends
The 8th Congress approved about 114 billion dollars in new appropriations for the armed forces and war departments for 1943-44. Direct war department spending neared 59.0 billion, the navy about 31.5 billion, with other war services adding around 17 billion. Total sixmonth outlay nears 107.0 billion for military needs with nonwar items completing the rest.
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Washington
T8th
Howtaltzers
Army
Navy
United States
War Department
War
Ivy Departments
Cannon
Democrat
Missour
Copy editor held as agent of Japs
Frederick Heizer Wright, a 19? year old copy editor for the New York Daily News, pleaded innocent in federal court to an indictment accusing him of serving as an agent of the Japanese government for 15 years prior to Pearl Harbor. Bail set at 3600, case adjourned for trial on August 3. Wright surrendered at the U S Attorney’s office and was arraigned without counsel.
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New York
Frederick Heizer Wright
New York Daily News
Todey
Pearl Hareher
John W. Clancy
Wright
United States
Howard F. Corcoran
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