Mayflower Ends Voyage At Plymouth
The Mayflower II sailed into Plymouth harbor towed by a Coast Guard tug the Yankton. Officials reported a large public works funding cut approved by the House Appropriations Committee reducing hundreds of millions from total fiscal year spending. The ceremony included a re enactment of the Mayflower Compact at Provincetown with the galleon halting for the event as tourists crowded the bay.
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Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Harbor
Coast Guard
Washington
House
Ae Ec Ae Committee
Eisen
Hower
Wonn Sant Seaname
Ceu Euvauany
Army Corps of Engineers
Interior Department
Bureau of Reclamation
Bonneville
Southeastern
Southwestern
Quartermaster Corps
Army Engineers
Eisenhower
Provincetown
Oshkosh shopping survey shows high local purchasing
The Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce reports 8,116 home responses from April 1 showing over 90 percent local buying for meats groceries paints farm supplies and many other categories. Women’s wear shows mixed results with 76.5 percent for better dresses and 80.4 percent for coats and suits.
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Bonneville Power Administration
Oshkosh Chamber of Com
Oshkosh
Merce
Southwestern
South of Commerce
Better Service Survey
Ovenle
Wenan Fram
Hink Ming
Conrad Ben Pitcher
Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce
Ell Oshkosh
Bold thief steals items from police convention hall
Police search for clues after three items vanish during the Mississippi Law Enforcement Assn annual meeting in Biloxi. Two police sirens and a parking meter were taken from the exhibition hall yesterday.
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Biloxi
Mass
Mississippi Law Enforcement’ Assn
North Central Wins Safety Council Award
North Central Airlines was among 36 American airlines named as winners of the National Safety Council Award of Honor for having no fatal accidents in 1936. North Central, a local service line, serves several Wisconsin cities. Capital Airlines, serving Milwaukee, also received the award.
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Chicago
North Central Airlines
American Airlines
National Safety Countcil
North Central
Wisconsin
Capital Airlines
Milwaukee
Retired U S Senate Dean Walter George Hospitalized
Walter F George, 79 and former U S Senate dean, was hospitalized at Emory University Hospital Atlanta for a heart ailment after a checkup. Doctors described his condition as serious and he received anti coagulants aboard a special railroad car from Washington.
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Atlanta
Walter F. George
Senate
Dean
Eisenhower
NATO
Emory University Hospital
George
Willis Hurst
Hurst
Washington
Invasion Planned Chinese Warning After Carrier Flight
UPI reports Peiping accuses U S planes of invasion and promises retaliation if aggression continues. Chinese coastal batteries fired on a U S carrier aircraft eight miles off the mainland amid tensions over Formosa. The Navy notes the Hornet and crew were not harmed.
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Red China
China
South China Sea
U.S
U. S. Navy
ALC
Peiping
Formosa
State Department
Navy
Peiping Peoples Daily
Peiping Radio
Far East
Taiwan
Formosa Straits
Hornet
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Stassen Heads to London to Ease Allied Frictions
Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen leaves Washington for London to avoid upsetting allies and limit informal talks with the Russians. He aims to discuss first-step arms cuts while engaging Allies and avoiding a European air-ground inspection zone.
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Stassen
Washington
Harold E. Stassen
London
America
New York
France
Valerin Zorin
United States
Dulles
Alles
Birthday marked for Anne Frank in Frankfurt
Frankfurt observes what would have been Anne Frank's 28th birthday. A memorial tablet was placed at the Frank family house by a German victims group. Anne, her sister and mother perished in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944. her diary became a renowned American play.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Anne Frank
Frank
Anne
New Docks at Rainbow Park Improve Boat Launching
Rainbow Park adds four 40 foot docks to expand the boat launching area on the Fox River. Park crews installed the steel and wood decks built by Vulcan Manufacturing. The new facility aims to limit use to one hour per craft with space for sixteen motorboats.
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Rainbow Park
Fox River
City Park Board
Jarea
Vulcan Manufacturing Company
Fond du Lac Park
Nick Jasperson
Park Board
Fleet disperses to home shores after world naval review
Norfolk observers watch as 35 ships of an 18 nation fleet break formation off Virginia to return to port or sail for Rio de Janeiro led by Northampton. The rest of the 111 ships stage the dispersal by sunset while public viewing continues nearby at Rainbow Park.
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Norfolk, Va
Virginia
Navy
Des Moines
Northampton
Rio de Janeiro
Norfolk
West
Algoma Street
Rainbow Division
Rainbow Park
Charles E Wilson
Birnie
Canberra
Girard Charged with Slaying on Tokyo Firing Range
American private William Girard, 21, says Army pressure on him to accept a Japanese trial for the death of Mrs Naka Sakai near Tokyo is unnecessary. Japanese charges allege he enticed the woman to firing distance and fired the fatal shot. Girard calls the death an accident. U S and Japanese officials debate trial location and possible implications for an Army court martial.
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Washington
Wiliam Gurard
Japan
U.S
Iran
Girard
Ottawa
Naka Sakai
Ins
United States
Army
Stanley F. Levin
Earl Carroll
Louis
Bill Girard
Levin
John Griffin
Carroll
Theft Reported of Piggy Bank in Detroit Home
Mrs Kathryn Brown reported to Vernor police that a piggy bank was stolen from her home. She stated the container held 15 hundred-dollar bills. Police investigated the daytime incident in the Detroit area.
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Detroit
Vernor
Kathryn Brown
Wide Area Hit by Twisters and Heavy Rainstorms
Weather across the central United States brought tornadoes heavy rains and hail marblesized in parts of eastern Kansas and Ab erdeen near the nation’s capital reported minimal injuries. Shreveport Louisiana endured 34 inch rainfall in six hours with winds over 50 mph while Oklahoma faced potential record flood crests on the Caney River and statewide flood alerts.
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United Press
Oklahoma
Illinois
Kansas
Mississippi Valley
Aberdeen
D.C
Champaign
Shreveport
Arkansas
Missouri
South Dakota
Minnesota
Caney River
Bartlesville
Fayette County
Ilnois
Kaskaskia River
Vandalia
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
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Biitarent
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Red Rock
Tanta
Suwet
Ainsworth
Farwell
Cedar Bluff
Shoshone
Wyoming
Safety Council
U.S. Senate
Man Tee Nae Aaia Dad
Zorin
Calcutta
India
Assam
New Delhi
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