Vargas Says Generals Betrayed Vargas Loss Powers After Push
Rio de Janeiro Brazil General Zenobio Da Costa charged that fellow generals betrayed Getulio Vargas as the president resigned under pressure from the army and air force leaders. Da Costa accused Joao Cafe Filho of backing away from plans to keep him as war minister amid a crisis over an attempted assassination and political feuding. He said he planned to arrest generals who broke their oath, and noted tensions involving Vargas family and the military leaders. Cafe Filho appointed Teixeira as new war minister and named Geral Menezes Cortes to police duties.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Zenobio da Costa
Getulio Vargas
Vargas
Henrique Baptista Teixeira
da Costa
Joao Cafe Filho
Cafe
War
Navy
Var
Oswaldo Aranha
Republic
Air Force
War Ministry
Benjamin Vargas
Carlos Lacerda
Texeira
Cafe Today
Geral Menezes Cortes
Rio
Two Naval Planes Lost In California
Rescue teams hunted for two Navy Skyraiders missing after a 2:30 a.m. training flight from Moffett Field. The craft likely crashed between the San Francisco Bay area and Fallon, Nevada, with pilots Lt. Comdr. Hubert L. Worrell and Lt. (jg) Roger W. Tilson Jr. aboard. A related Napa County B25 crash killed 1st Lt. Robert W. Gustafson and eight others, marking a third recent service plane tragedy in California.
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San Francisco
California
Air Force
Here
Joseph McConnell Jr
Navy
San Francisco Bay Area
Fallon
Nev
ADG Skyraiders
Moffett Field
Hubert L. Worrell
Sunnyvale
Calif
Hutchinson
Kan
J.z
Roger W. Tilson Jr
Mountain View
Middleboro
Mass
Mather Air Force Base
Sacramento
Napa County
Robert W. Gustafson
South
Minneapolis
Minn
Taruc Pleads Guilty Sentencing Postponed
Taruc, once a leader of 12 000 Huk rebels, pleaded guilty to rebellion murder arson robbery and kidnapping. Prosecutors asked for a life sentence but Judge Gregorio Narvasa postponed ruling until Saturday or Monday after the defense sought leniency.
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Manila
Luis Taruc
Huk
Gregorio Narvasa
Attorney In FHA Inquiry Fails to Appear
New York reports attorney Abraham Traub associated with a four million dollar windfall in Brooklyn government insured apartments did not appear as ordered by Senate Banking and Currency Committee chair Sen Prescott Bush Traub had testified about visits to former FHA head Clyde Powell and claimed no detailed records for about 500000 in checks to cash He was ordered to produce books when the committee reconvenes Sept 27 and faces possible action.
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New York
Brooklyn
Senate
Bush
Traub
Powell
Fond du Lac Woman Killed Crossing Street
Fond du Lac Wisconsin Miss Eva Kinkel age 69 was killed Thursday when struck by a car as she crossed a business district street. The car was driven by Charles F Balmis 37 of rural Fond du Lac who was not held.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Eva Kinkel
Charles F. Balmis
Balmis
Complacent U S Heading Into Communism Says Gen Lawton
Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton, retiring commander of the Army Signals Center, warned 300 religious leaders that complacent America is marching toward communism. Speaking at a farewell banquet, he urged the nation to think hard and recalled the days when officers could advocate worship openly, noting changes that prevent sending soldiers to church today.
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FT. Monmouth
Kirke B. Lawton
Army’ Signal Corps
America
Lawton
Banjaret
Missiles Outmoding Planes and Carriers, Hinshaw Warns
Washington Republican Rep. Carl Hinshaw told the American Legion that guided missiles will outmode bombers, fighters, and aircraft carriers, signaling a new era of truce pushbutton warfare. He urged a shift to scientists over soldiers and a critical look at defense planning and manpower.
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Washington
Carl Hinshaw
Calif
American Legion
Legion
Hinshaw
Joint
House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee
National’ ‘Security Commission
Commission
Eisenhower
Denver
Legion Security Commission
Seaborn Collins Jr
Las Crutes
N. M
Air Transport Command
UMIT
Collins
Idoor
Marx
Lenin
Stalin
Lawton
America
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Army
McCarthy
Ft. Monmouth
Robert T.stevens
Ex-VA Clerk Nabbed as Check Forger in Washington
A 43-year-old former Veterans Administration clerk, Leslie E. Stout, was arrested in Glendale, California, by Secret Service agents for cashing two forged ten thousand dollar death benefit checks. He allegedly accessed death claim vouchers, changed beneficiary addresses to Washington, and cashed the checks, one at the Treasury building. About $2,000 remained on hand. about $3,000 was spent on a car with much lost to gambling. Names of beneficiaries not released.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Secret Service
California
Veterans Administration
Leslie E. Stout
Glendale
Calif
Stout
Treasury Cash Room
Nab Leader In $535,000 Extortion Plot
New York police trapped a leader of a $535,000 extortion scheme at Serge Rubinstein home on Fifth Avenue. Emanuel Lester, 31, and two others were arrested after detectives taped a meeting and heard threats about a pending $750,000 federal suit. Lester, formerly Emanuel Lieberman, faces attempted extortion and conspiracy charges.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Serge Rubinstein
Milienaire
Rubinstein
Emanuel Lester
Lester
Emanuel Lieberman
Dist
Frank Hogan
Hogan
Raymond H. Shepard
William Love
Shepard
Love
Woman Polio Victim Gives Birth in New Orleans
A 34 year old bulbar polio patient, critically ill, gave birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 54 pounds Thursday night with the aid of a home-type iron lung. Mrs Elster Courville improved to much better condition at Charity Hospital the day after the birth.
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New Orleans
Elster Courville
Charity Hospital
Typhoon Near Luzon Could Hit the Bancas Islands Saturday
A Pacific typhoon east of the Philippines today generated winds up to 179 mph and was 290 miles east of the Philippines. The weather bureau warned it could strike the Balayan Islands off northern Luzon on Saturday.
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Manila
Philippines
Weather Bureau
Balanes Islands
Luzon
Nationalists Brace Kinmen Island After Red Raid
Chinese Reds attacked Kinmen Island near Amoy, with Peiping reporting a 40-man raid. Nationalists rushed troops, ships, and air forces to reinforce the defense, pledging to hold the island against further Red assaults. The story notes heavy fortifications and prior Red losses on the windswept outpost.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
Quetnmoyt Kinmen
Chiang Kaishek
Liile
Amoy
Chiang
Peiping
Quemoy
Kinmen
Chiane
Chou En-Lai
Chiang Kai Shek
School Chief Is Winner In Maryland Vote
George P. Mahoney conceded the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Dr. H. C. Byrd, the University of Maryland president, ending a two month fight over the June 28 primary. Byrd held an 80 72 county unit margin and about a 4 000 statewide edge. Philip H. Dorsey Jr withdrew from contest in Mahoney’s ticket, and Byrd will face Gov. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin in November.
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Baltimore
George P. Mahoney
H. C. Byrd
University of Maryland
Mahoney
Maryland Court of Appeals
Byrd
Philip H. Dorsey Jr
C. Ferdinand Sybert
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin
McKeldin
Maryland
Exer
Coty Returns for Cabinet Meeting on European Army Plan
Paris. President Rene Coty rushed from Normandy to preside over a cabinet meeting on strategy for the National Assembly debate on the European Defense Community. Premier Mendes France and ministers met at the Elysee to plan four days of votes and amendments as pro EDC forces seek postponement to broaden support and alter the six nation pact. Spaak proposed a route for France to join without sacrificing interests, but a government spokesman dismissed it. The Assembly faces a stormy session with potential delay affecting ratification chances.
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Paris
Rene Coty
Normandy
National Assembly
Pierre Mendes-Francel
Coty
Elysee Palace
European Defense Community
EDC
Popular Republican Parity
MRP
Assembly
Paul Henri Spaak
France
Spaak
West Germany
Italy
Bele
Netherlands
Luxembourg
EDC Brussels
Wolfson Opens Fight To Take Ward Co From Avery
New York financier Lews E. Wolfson launched an aggressive campaign to wrest control of Montgomery Ward & Co from chairman Sewell Avery. Ward stock jumped to 78.50 on the San Francisco Exchange after the announcement. Wolfson, claiming to hold the largest block of shares, denounced Avery and Ward management as backward and misaligned with the company's future.
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Montgomery Ward
Louis Wolfson
Florida
New York
Montgomery Ward & Co
Chicago
Sewell L. Avery
Wolfson
Lews E. Wolfson
Sewell Avery
Ward
San Francisco
L Fund, Inc
Avery
Welfson
Montgomers ‘Ward Management
Italian Barber Claims World's Fastest Shave
In Naples, Italian barber Francesco Buono claimed a world record for the fastest shave finishing in 16 seconds. He says he won the crown from German Albert Heinrich, who shaved in 23 seconds.
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Naples
Italy
Francesco Buono
Buono
Albert Heinrich
Kremlin Repositions Power Structures to Move from Kremlin
Soviet officials plan to shift government offices from the Kremlin to scattered Moscow villas and new buildings along the Moscow River. A new pantheon for Lenin and Stalin is proposed, while the Kremlin may be opened to the public as a museum.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Nikolai Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Red Square
Lenin Hills
Moskovoretz
Clement Atlee
Labor Party
Nikitas
Khrushchev
Malenkov
Appeals Court Voids Treason Verdict Of Provoo Case
The U S Court of Appeals reversed the treason conviction and life sentence of former Army Staff Sgt David Provoc for aiding Japan after Corregidor. It ruled the trial in New York was improper and that prosecutors erred in introducing homosexual conduct as collateral matter. The ruling states no prior court martial or civil court had convicted Provoc of morals offenses and this evidence could not affect treason guilt.
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New York
U. S. Court of Appeals
Army
David Provoo
Provoo
San Francisco
Corregidor
Philippines
Provoc
Tria
Treasor
PW Exchange Date Extended
Paris report says five more days were added to the prisoner exchange deadline in North Indochina between French forces and Vietminh. About 3,000 of 28,000 French Union veterans held were released. nearly 17,000 Vietminh had been freed. France protested, warning against psychological effects at home. Proposals to build trust were presented by the International Armistice Commission, details undisclosed.
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Paris
France
International Armistice Commission
Four Brooklyn youths indicted for first degree murder
Four teenage thrill killers from Brooklyn were indicted on first degree murder charges and could face the electric chair. They confessed to police they killed two men for thrill. Willard Menter, 34, found burned in the East River. Two suspects, Melvin Mitt erman 17 and Jerome Lieberman 17, also charged with another murder.
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New York
Dane
Brooklyn
Willard Menter
East River
Melvin Mitterman
Jerome Lieberman
Rheinhold Undrickson
Jack Koslow
Robert Trachtenberg
Sand Mittman
Lieberman
Wisconsin Weather Forecast And Readings
The Weather by the Associated Press notes considerable clouds with showers and thunderstorms tonight with warmer conditions in the north. Highs Saturday range 76 to 83, lows 53 to 64 in the north and 62 to 68 in the south. Winds shift from south to west then northwest 10 to 15 mph, with 15 mph winds in the east tonight. Observations show 7:30 a.m. temperature 68 and 12 m 76, Buckstaff and Randall readings report crest levels and precipitation. Maximum 52, minimum 52, no precipitation, monthly deficit 1 inch, yearly deficit 2.18 inches.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
North
Toment
Fox River
Menasha Dam
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FHA
U.S
Gen. Lawton
Arthur J. Connell
United Nations
Connell
United States
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Nab
Dar Ang
Buckstaff Observatory
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