Refreshing Rains Bring Odessa Brief Relief
A slow cooling rain eased Odessa heat last night though temperatures returned to around 100 degrees today. The city saw wide rainfall, with .51 inch in north and central areas and .13 inch at the south edge, while Odessa Midland Airport measured 1.07 inches ten miles east. Weather officials predict more scattered showers in the Permian Basin with continued hot conditions overall. Local heat records include a 103 degree high tied Monday and 68 degree overnight low, as other Texas and nearby states report varied readings.
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Odessa-Midland
Odessa
U. S. Weather Bureau
Permian Basin
Presidio
Phoenix
Yuma
Ariz
Big Spring
Abilene
Wichita Falls
Mineral Wells
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Texas
Muskogee
Okla
Great Lakes
Ohio
Mississippi
New England
Montana
Italy to Try Two Americans in Absentia for WWII Slaying
Rome government spokesman says two Americans charged in the 1944 killing of Maj. William V. Holohan in the Alps may be tried in absentia after Buffalo judge denied extradition for Carl G. Lodolce and Aldo Icardi. Italian partisans Tossini and Mannini held. Lodolce’s extradition rejected due to 1868 treaty issues.
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Rome
Alps
Italy
Buffalo
WN. Y
Carl G. Lodolce
Office of Strategic Hermogs
Rochester
Stokenhen
Lodolec Enu Icardi Probato
Icardi
Gualtierro Tossini
Guiseppe Mannini
Holohan
OSS
Lodolce
Lake Dorta
John Knight
Icardi Plans Libel Suit Against True Magazine
Former OSS Lt Aldo Icardi said he will sue True magazine for libel over its linking of his name to the wartime death of OSS Maj William Holohan. He praised a Buffalo ruling that Italy had no jurisdiction to extradite Carl Lodolce and said he might sue the U S government for libel due to a Defense Department release he calls false.
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Pittsburgh
OSS
Aldo Icardi
True Magazine
William V. Holohan
Icardi
John Knight
Buffalo
N. Y
Carl G. Lodolce
United States
Defense Department
Cops Seek To Crack Sex Ring In Chicago Case
Chicago police hunt seven young men and six girls after arresting three men and three girls tied to a sex ring that held parties in parked cars and tourist cabins. One girl said she had relations with two youths multiple times. Authorities said the group of 11 youths and nine girls held several sex parties in dark lanes near Dalton and Riverdale with more arrests anticipated.
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Chicago
Dalton
Riverdale
Ill
Arthur Ahern
Sea Herald Delivers Eight U.S. Jets to French Air Force
The American freighter Sea Herald arrived off St Nazaire France last night carrying eight American jet planes for the French Air Force.
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ST. Nazaire
Two 13-Year-Olds Wed. Parents Seek Annulment in Arizona
In Nogales and Tucson Arizona two 13-year-old girls wed after affidavits claimed they were 16 and 18. The Tucson groom faced a delinquency charge, was bound over to Juvenile Court, and all four sets of parents pressed for annulment. A sailor from San Diego was named in one complaint.
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Tucson
Ariz
Nogales
Justice of the Peace
Fred Allen
Santa Cruz County
San Diego
Sheriff's Deputies
NATO Fails To Agree On Uniform European Service
Paris reports six nations backing a European Defense Community failed to agree on a uniform service term. France, Italy oppose extending beyond 18 months. Netherlands ranges 20 months for army and 24 for specialists and air force. Ridgway urged two years as standard.
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Paris
France
Italy
Matthew B. Ridgway
European Defense Community
Belgium
Europe
Herve Alphand
West Germany
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Ridgway
New York City Sees Crime Rise in Early 1952 Six Months
Police data show New York City recorded 132 homicides and 22,005 burglaries in the first half of 1952, up from 116 homicides and 14,961 burglaries in the same period in 1951, with all major crime categories increasing sharply.
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New York
New York City
Police Department
Parents press State Department over ex-GI Hvasta data
Mr and Mrs Michael Hvasta of Hillside New Jersey and their son Steve traveled to Washington to seek help from the State Department. They seek information about John Hvasta an ex GI said to have escaped a Red prison near Bratislava on January 2. A Czech refugee claimed Hvasta escaped with four others and remains alive in Czechoslovakia. Representative Rodino said officials promised definite action but gave no specifics.
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Washington
John Hvasta
Frm
Zechoslovakia
State Department
Michael Hvasta
Steve
Hillside
N. J
Bratislava
Jaroslav Burec
Munich
Germany
Hrasta
Czechoslovakia
Rep
Rodine
D-Nj
Hvastas
Eden Praised For Courtship Of Churchill Heiress
London reports Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden received praise for courting and proposing to Clarissa Spencer-Churchill Winston Churchill's niece. The engaged couple, aged 55 and 32, announced their plans after formal notices in Times and Telegraph, amid surprise over Eden's busy schedule and prior social companions.
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Loondon
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
Clarissa Spencer- Churchill
Britain
Times
Daily Telegraph
Duchess of Kent
Elizabeth II
Paulette Goddard
Screenwriter Niven Busch reports missing son located in London
Hollister California August 12 UP Niven Busch said a letter from his 16 year old son Briton Cooper Tony Busch who had been missing on a European hitchhiking trip since July 19 arrived from London England dated August 7 but gave no return address.
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Hollister
Calif
Niven Busch
Briton Cooper
Tony Busch
Busch
London
England
Ex Baylor Man among missing air search party
An air search began for Jackie Robinson former Baylor star who led a week long Odessa youth meeting with two companions. They departed Brownsville Monday and were reported overdue between Mexico City and Brownsville prompting CAP planes and Ellington AFB search activity.
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Odessa
Texas
Mexico City
Jackie Robinson
Baylor
J. W. Marshall
Wayland College
Plainview
Sam Choy
United States
Brownsville
Baylor University
Brownsville International Airport
Wayland Baptist College
Fort Worth
Marshall
Bogota
Colombia
Civil Air Patrol
Ellington Air Force Base
Houston
International Airport
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Rio Grande Valley
Robinson
First Baptist Church
Mrs Manville warns on ninth marriage
New York August reports Tommy Manville plans to wed again after announcing engagement to Corrine Daly of Brooklyn. His ninth wife Frances Roddy Eden doubts the Mexico divorce she thought she had counts, while Manville contemplates No 10 with caution amid ongoing question over validity of prior decree granted in Reynosa.
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New York
Tommy Manville
Mexico
Frances Roddy-Eden
Tommy
Reynosa
Nuevo Laredo
Food Price Hike Looms as Crop Output Declines
Washington August 12. The Agriculture Department reports that this year’s production of 23 popular crops lags behind 1951. Fruits and vegetables are most affected as supplies shrink and prices rise, though farmers expect a bumper wheat crop and a strong corn yield. Readily shorter supply this year includes apples peaches grapes pecans milk and many vegetables.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Unusual Will Filed by Blind Woman in Los Angeles
A will written by a blind woman, ink ran out, was filed for probate in Los Angeles Superior Court. Beth A. Baer, 59, authored the document. Handwriting expert Clark Sellers traced the words from indentations on the paper.
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Los Angeles
Superior Court
Beth A. Baer
Clark Sellers
Marines Repulse Reds In Counterattack On Outpost Ridge
U S Marines beat back a late day assault by about 400 Chinese troops on Bunker Ridge near Panmunjom in the Siberia Hill area. Marines used air strikes tanks and small arms to seize the ridge after a nightlong fight.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Bunker Ridge
U. S. Eighth Army
Panmunjom
Siberia Hill
Siberia
Navy
J. R. Pierce
Barton
Mounts Bay
Wonsan
U. S. Far East
Sam Summerlin
Bunker Hill
U.S
Eighth Army
UU. N
Anhour
Harem Husband In Real Stew Bigamy Charges Promised
New Orleans reports Leroy Holzman a French Quarter guide who secretly married four women since 1947 using different names. He borrowed 2200 from wife No 4 and 2000 from wife No 2 to fund plans including a tugboat and house, facing theft and bigamy charges while his wives seek repayment. He describes a rotating schedule courting each wife, with hopes to reunite with his claimed true love.
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New Orleans
Leroy Holzman
Holzman
Ernestine Palmer Holzman
Mary Cecile Theresa Ducote
Wife No.4
Wife No
Georgia
Baltimore
Emile Nolan
Miss Palmer
Mitchell
Martha Jo Myers
Leroy Braddock
Martha Jo
Nolan
Cecile
Elwood Braddock
Slim
Clara
Ernestine
Lover Boy
Muted Role For Truman May Be Asked In Demo Campaign
Washington reports urge Truman to play a muted second fiddle to Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson in the Democratic bid for the presidency. Stevenson may ask Truman to avoid whistle stop tours while focusing on civil rights assurances, with talks of a Sept. 1 Detroit speech and Milwaukee same day plans. Senator Kefauver urged Stevenson to emphasize youth and new faces and may push for Stevenson to address Nashville.
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Truman
Washington
Adlai E
Stevenson
Illinois
White House
William Flannigan
Springfield
Ill
Detroit
Flannigan
Milwaukee
Sen
James Murray
Montana
West
Murray
Ralph E. Flanders
R- Vt
Flanders
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Gov. Stevenson
Sparkman
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Tennessean
U. S
Nashville
Draft Boards Eye 19-Year-Olds Eye Draft Increases
A Selective Service spokesman says growing manpower needs may force drafting 19-year-olds. Current calls use men 20 and older, with October drafts at 47,000 and September higher by 17,000, suggesting high quotas for year end 1952 while no change has been made to the existing order favoring older draftees.
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Washington
Selective Service
Armed Services
Lewis B. Hershey
Polio Incidence Remains High Across Texas in Summer Surge
Polio cases continued to mount in Texas with four new bulbar cases amid a steady weekly toll of eight to 31 since June 1. Houston and Dallas hospitals treated several children from Dallas, Grand Prairie, Denison, Tyler, and Harris County, amid a statewide total of 337 cases and 12 deaths in 1952.
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Texas
Houston City
Parkland Hospital
Housweekend
City
Harris County
Houston
Dallas
Grand Prairie
Denison
Janet Buchanan
Judy
Buchanan
Jimmy
Bill Buchanan
Oklahoma
East Texas
Tyler
Mother Frances
Smith County
Cloudburst Drowns Passenger On Greyhound Bus
A cloudburst swept a Greyhound bus off a Missouri highway injuring none then drowning one passenger and forcing a dramatic rescue. W S Thompson of Euclid Ala saved a child and helped the driver and another adult to safety as passengers waited inside the flooded bus for aid. Five inches of rain in three hours caused the flood on a normally small stream.
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Cape Girardeau
Greyhound
I State
Cooper Swingle
W. S. Thompson
Eufaula
Ala
Swingle
Earl Davidson
Davidson
Thompson
Mysterious Shots Fired at Norfolk and Western Train
A Norfolk and Western passenger train near Shennandoah Junction West Virginia was hit by rifle fire and rocks as it departed. An engineer and brakeman reported near misses, and a window was broken in a passenger car but no injuries among the 15 passengers.
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Shennandoah Junction
W. Va
Norfolk and Western
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Knight
Ieardi
Magazine
NATO
FBI
William Merle Martin
Johnson County
Kas
Willard Carver
Martin
Joplin
Manville
The
Associated Press
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