Mrs. Truman's Condition Stays Steady Amid Illness
GRANDVIEW Mo May 21 INS President Truman's mother age 94 remained "about the same" after a restless night as he visited her Grandview home. He said she is holding her own but weak with a tired heart and had a light breakfast. Brig Gen Wallace Graham, his physician, arrived shortly before him.
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Grandview
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Truman
Kansas City
Mr. Truman
Mr.Truman
Wallace Graham
Pa Newe Observes In the flower garden and bus route notes
Pa Newe reports lilacs blooming in Dr G E Seal s garden on East Washington Street and discusses gardening delays from wet ground on nearby plots. Four trees on South Mill Street were removed for modern improvements with a new wider sidewalk and no bus stop signs yet on Butler Avenue route.
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Dr. G. E. Seal
Washington Street
South Mill Street
Butler Avenue
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24-hour period ending at nine a.m. report a maximum of 73 and a minimum of 56 with traces of precipitation and a river stage of 9 feet. Figures from the same date last year show a high of 76, a low of 54, and 0.84 inches of precipitation.
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United States
Soviet Russia Seeks British Credit For Timber
A British official confirmed Russia requested some form of credit from Britain in exchange for timber. The London Daily Mirror claimed a 400 million dollar credit. Britain expects no Soviet timber this year due to the current Russian situation.
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London
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Russia
Britain
London Daily Mirror
Eleven Injured In Explosion At McKees Rocks
Eleven men were injured or burned when a boiler and furnace exploded at the Lockhart Iron and Steel Company plant in McKees Rocks. Witnesses said bricks and steel showered the area as 400 employees reported for work. The blast toppled a smokestack foundation. the plant was closed for full investigation.
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Pittsburgh
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Lockhard Iron and Steel Company
McKees Rocks
Nick Radio
T. J. Gillespie, Jr
Lone holdup man pockets $1000 at Continental bank
A lone gunman held up the Continental bank in Continental Ohio and fled in a waiting car with about $1000. Cashier Wilbur Kruse said the bandit forced the cashier’s cage with a revolver and demanded money, exiting as cash was handed over. Three employees and a customer were inside. Continental lies about 30 miles from the Indiana border in northwestern Ohio.
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Continental
Wilbur Kruse
Indiana
Ohio
Buddy Poppy Sales Day Proclaimed in New Castle
The 1947 Buddy Poppy Sale is declared a city wide event on May 24 by Mayor John F. Haven to honor the dead by aiding the living. Proceeds benefit the National Home for Orphans of Service Men and veteran rehabilitation. endorsed by the President of the United States.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
New Castle
Pennsylvania
United States
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
The
Cross of Malta
John F. Haven
Buddy
Great Britain Plans To Quit India By 1948
A British government spokesman said Britain will withdraw from India by June 1948 no matter what happens. He stated there is no need to seek US defense aid for India and that the best path is the original plan for a unified Indian state with factions sharing in a national government. He added another effort will be made to obtain Indian acceptance of the negotiations.
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George C. Marshall
Washington, D. C
America
War Department
Marshall
London
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Britain
India
Subcontinent
United States
Mother Earhart's Mother Concedes Daughter Lost Alive
In Medford Massachusetts on May 21 Amy Otis Earhart 79 admitted she gave up hope of Amelia Earhart being alive years ago. She said reports of landing on a Pacific island and being captured by the Japanese were not substantiated and she no longer believes her daughter survived.
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Medford
Mass
Amelia Earhart
Earhart
Amy Otis Earhart
Amelia
International News Service
Pacific
Fly Greco-Turkish Aid Bill To Truman
The White House says the 400 million dollar Greco Turkish aid bill is flown to Kansas City for President Truman to sign tomorrow at 8 a.m. in his hotel suite. The event marks the presidential signing of the Stop Communism measure.
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Washington
White House
Kansas City
Truman
Bus Workers Stage Regional Walkout Across Nine States
An Inland press report says an employee strike at Southern Trailways Bus Lines triggered a nine state walkout. About 1,000 workers left their posts across Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi Alabama Texas Tennessee Kentucky Missouri and Illinois.
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Alexandria
Southern Trailways Bus Lines
An Alexandria
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississipi
Alabama
Texas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri
Illinois
Nitti Fails To Form Cabinet In Italy Crisis
Rome May 21 Francesco Nitti withdrew from attempts to form a new Italian government as minor left wing leaders blocked his program. He will resign to President De Nicola who may hand crisis to Vittorio Orlando the WWI premier and lone Versailles Big Four survivor. Orlando would join only if he could resign after ratification of the treaty. The bloc meeting at Nitti’s home ended the effort.
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Frances¢éo Nitti
Enrico de Nicola
de Nicola
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Versailles
Orlando
Nitti
Phone Service Restored in Ohio as Bell Workers Return
Normal telephone service resumed across Ohio as pickets from the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers left their posts. About 15,000 union members began manning switchboards again after the nationwide Bell system walkout ended. The Communications Equipment Workers Association lifted pickets at Ohio Bell properties following the settlement.
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Cleveland
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Ohio
Bell System
Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers
Bell
Washington
Association of Communication Equipment Workers
Western Electric Company
Betty Grable Delivers Second Daughter in Early Cesarean
Film star Betty Grable and husband Harry James welcomed their second child, a daughter born five weeks early by cesarean. The baby’s name will be chosen after James returns from the East. older sister Victoria Elizabeth is three.
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Hollywood
INS
Betty Grable
Harry James
Victoria Elizabeth
Miss Grable
James
New Water Line To Walmo Area In City Project
The City of New Castle Water company begins laying 3.5 miles of pipe from above Elizabeth street on Wilmington road toward Walmo district. The project serves 107 customers and 19 fire hydrants plus the school, with interruptions to service during construction.
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Neshannock Township
Wilmington Road
City of New Castle Water Company
Elizabeth Street
City Water
J. Lepere Matthews
Fairmont Avenue
Maitland Lane
Castle View Burial Park
Burial Park
Old Plank Road
Buena Vista Street
Wilmington
Beechview
Orchard Way
Ludwig Lane
MacArthur Denies Involvement In Japanese Premier Choice
In Tokyo on May 21 official Allied HQ in Tokyo denied rumors that General MacArthur was influencing Japan’s next premier. Brig. Gen. Courtney Whitney said MacArthur is neutral on domestic politics and not guiding cabinet selections or peace treaty plans.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Allied
Social Democratic Party
Japan
Courtney Whitney
International News Service
Whitney
Second-best pants stolen from Philadelphia officer
Philadelphia police reported a thief raided a bedroom and stole Officer Felix Calavita's trousers with $27 in the pockets. Calavita called the cops who found no trace of the pants or the thief.
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Philadelphia
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Fairolman Felix Calavita
Calavita
Conferees Advance On Labor Bill With Feathers at Stake
Washington May 21 conferees report rapid progress on the House Senate labor bill with major issues near settlement. The featherbedding and sympathy strikes dispute dominates talks as Sen Ellender and Sen Taft express optimism that a compromise will be ready for House and Senate action by next Wednesday after full sessions.
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Washington
House
Senate
Sen
Ellender
Taft
Ohio
Anniversary Party For Lindbergh Missing Lindy Fails To Appear
In New York at the 21 club reporters who covered Charles Lindbergh's 1927 trans Atlantic flight gathered for an anniversary event. An empty chair indicated Lindbergh's absence while some attendees speculated he was in Arizona avoiding the gathering. Twenty years earlier Lindbergh piloted the Spirit of St. Louis solo to Paris in 33 hours as the world celebrated.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindy
Lindbergh
Fligh Bergh
Slim
Siim
le Bourget Field
Paris
St. Louis
YWCA Names New Directors At Annual Meeting
The YWCA annual meeting on the Public Square elected new board directors including Mrs. O P Brown, Mrs. Blanch Dillard, and others. Miss Rosalie Allen spoke from India and Miss Olive Webb chaired the tellers with a program of World Fellowship songs led by Betty Smith White.
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Y Building
Public Square
Rosalie Allen
India
O. P. Brown
Blanch Dillard
Harold Glenn
Marjorie Hildebrand Headland
G. G. Horchler
Roy Long
Walter Reneker
Edith Wogan
Jesse Kerr
Alice Sterling
John Byers
William Caldwell
James Green
Olive Webb
Frances Hammond
Mildred Miller
Howard McQuiston
DeLace Cole
Cora Rose Cohen
Alice Gillespie
Emma Patton
Heber Anderson
Fankhauser
A. B. Fankhauser
C. M. England
Betty Smith White
Clenmore School
World Fellowship
D. L. Ferguson
Highland United Presbyterian Church
Woman Slain in Brooklyn Jealousy Tragedy
In New York City on May 21 a 31 year old mother of two, Mrs. Margaret Tannazzo, was shot five times by another woman in Brooklyn and died. Police pursue a jealousy triangle motive amid a divorce suit and pending final papers.
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New York
Brooklyn
Margaret Tannazzo
Tannazzo
Seven Die In B-25 Crash Near Chanute Field
Army authorities report seven crewmen killed when a B-25 crashed near Chanute Field at midnight while returning from Scott Field. The crash occurred two miles west and two miles south of Chanute Field on the F. Flessner farm. names of the dead were not announced immediately.
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Ill
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Scott Feild
F. Flessner
Death Record Notice for Elanor Brown and Charles DeMark
A death notice records Miss Elanor S Brown age 76 of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Charles DeMark age 66 of West Pittsburgh in the Wednesday May 21 1947 issue.
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Miss Elanor
Brown
Pittsburgh, Pa
Charles DeMark
West Pittsburg
Man Awaiting Execution Found Dead In Jail Cell
Julius Dolly Weisberg, awaiting execution for a 1945 Chicago bar slaying, was found dead in a jail cell. Coroner Brodie ordered chemical tests to confirm cause amid suspicions of poison. Sheriff Walsh ordered a full jail condition probe as autopsy cited heart attack.
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Chicago
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Cook County
Julius
Dolly” Weisberg
Despit
Weisberg
A. L. Brodie
Brodie
Michael Walsh
Dapper
Joseph W. McKnight
Evanston
Ill
Jerry J. Kearns
May Declares Wartime Favors Were Authorized
Ex congressman May of Kentucky testified in the May Garsson conspiracy trial that wartime favors to the Garsson Brothers were authorized by Congress and part of his duties as House military committee chairman. He claimed the about $32,000 he received covered Cumberland Lumber Company expenses in Prestonburg and not personal gains.
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Washington
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May
Garsson
Congress
House Military Committee
Garssons
Cumberland Lumber Company
Prestonburg
Report 19 Leave Plane By Chute
Biggs field authorities reported 19 crewmen parachuted to safety before a B-29 crashed 20 miles west of Abilene Texas. Rescue planes dispatched. One man suffered a leg injury. The B-29, flying from Roswell New Mexico, reported engine fire near Sweetwater Texas before bailout. An American Airlines pilot in El Paso saw an explosion.
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EL Paso
Tex
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Biggs Field
Abilene
Biggs Air Rescue Service
Roswell
N. M
Sweetwater
American Airlines
Foremen Strike Halts Ford Plant Operations
About 3,800 Ford supervisory foremen walked out at the Rouge Highland Park and Lincoln plants shortly after 10 am leaving only around 5,900 on duty. FAA president Robert H Keys warned production could not continue beyond three or four days.
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Detroit
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Ford Motor Company
Foremen’s Association of America
Rouge
Highland Park
Lincoln
Robert H. Keys
FAA
Ford
U N Group Faces Gloomy Outlook On Atom Treaty Efforts
Lake Success New York May 24 Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko will be called on to state Russia s intentions on joining a global atom control system as the resumed effort to lay the foundation for an atomic treaty opens. The 12 nation group faces a dim outlook with U S Osborn presiding as members resent Gromyko s Monday night declaration that outlawing the atomic bomb must come first. Some delegates consider challenging his procedure in today s session.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations
Russia
The
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Frederic H. Osborn
Gromyko
People United Nations
Gyromyko
United States
Radar Cooked Dinner in Record Time at Boston Hotel
A group of gourmets at a Boston hotel sampled the first radar cooked dinner in American history. Ray Wharton of Raytheon demonstrated radar range cooking with meals ready in under four minutes. Dishes included baked lobster in 2 minutes 15 seconds and grilled ham steaks in one minute.
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Boston
Raytheon Manufacturing Company
Ray Wharton
Three Are Killed In Palestine Clash
British officials report two Arabs and one Jew killed in clashes near Petah Tiqva. Six Arabs wounded as fighting spilled from last night. Haganah claimed retaliation against an Arab gang and planted bombs in a cafe said to be the gang's HQ. Royal engineers detonated the site.
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Jerusalem
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Petah Tiqva
Tel Aviv
Haganah
Royal Engineers
Fishing in Rainy Weather
Arthur Mometer endures wet conditions yet finds joy in fishing. He trudges miles over hills and dales and sits long on a bank with a rod in hand. Weather notes a steady eighty one as he remains absorbed in his one track pastime.
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Hill and Dale
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