Spectre of Another War En Route to Paris
A Paris peace conference faces delays and Soviet tactics as Russia seeks Balkan influence while American diplomacy is labeled unprepared. Observers credit Sen Jim Mead with renewed probing, and radio programs expand coast to coast amid capital chatter on policy and personnel moves.
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New York
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American Transit Association
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Leif Johnson
Bill Benton
Latin America
U.S
Maxim Litvinov
Argentina
Stalin
Litvinov
Jim Newman
Winchell’s Vacation Spin on Hollywood Gossip
Walter Winchell sits out. Jack Lait guest writes as this space previews unreported Hollywood items. Betty Grable and Mary Pickford moves, Howard Hughes oddities, John Perona Paris trip, plus a donkey egg promo and government refunds intrigue readers with sharp, brisk anecdotes.
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Jack Lait
Winchell
Hollywood
Bureau of Information
Betty Grable
Harry James East
New York
John Perona
Paris
Mary Pickford
Bill Cagney
Howard Hughes
Pasadena
Mihailovitch Trial Seen As Propaganda Farce
The piece denounces Mihailovitch’s Belgrade trial as a Soviet backed propaganda stunt. It accuses Tito and Russian influence of coercive methods and slanted justice, claiming the so called trial served Moscow aims rather than truth. It argues Russia blocks genuine peace efforts and manipulates the UN process.
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Mihailovitch
Washington
Belgrade
Russia
Nazis Planned To Bombard N.Y.
Washington report details Nazi secret weapons as World War II neared end. Col. D L Putt described a bomb capable of reaching 154 miles high and a fleet of 100 bombers to strike any city, plus long range missiles and guided weapons like Enzian Wasserfall X-4 Ruhrstahl Fritz X HS 117 and V-2.
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Washington
Hitler
New York
Army Air Forces
Col
D L. Putt
Air Material Command
Technical Intelligence
Army Air Forces Review
Putt
Atlantic
Wasserfall
Salerno
Rheintochter
Lovesick German Maid Slays Soldier Friend
In Frankfurt a German housemaid per party mood shot and killed Tech Sgt Steve Chinchar of Tuscarora Pa with his service revolver in his army billet. Provo Marshal Col Connolly said the pajama clad body was found by another GI with Miss Ingeborg Fischer standing by the corpse. She faces trial by military court.
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R. J. Connolly
Tech
Steve Chinchar
Tuscarora
G.I
Ingeborg Fischer
Miss Fischer
Tacoma violator pays $1 fine with excuses note
Jane Bradley, Tacoma police court clerk, received a parking ticket payment of $1 along with a scolding list of excuses. The note claimed a pawned watch, a pregnant wife, a son wiser than his teacher, and job loss, while praising police fairness over 25 years in Tacoma.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jane Bradley
Vienna death rate doubles 1945 figures says report
London report from UNE RRA notes Vienna mortality in 1945 was triple 1930 and double 1944. The study warns a rising death by own action rate. It cites 1 723 personal crisis reports for 1945 versus 670 in 1943 and 408 in 1919.
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London
Vienna
Austria
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Hoover Warns Nation Faces Army of Six Million Criminals
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warned of a rising crime wave taxing law enforcement. He said the United States faces a vast army of criminals, with a 12.4 percent rise in crime this year and crimes occurring at alarming intervals daily. He blamed moral laxity, weak parental control, and penal system abuses, urging homes to become sanctuaries for good citizenship.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
America
Recreation Cost Put at Four Billion
The Commerce Department estimates Americans will spend about 4 billion dollars on recreation this year, a record outlay. Through June 1946, consumer expenditures reached about 1.725 billion, vs 1.455 billion in the first half of 1945.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Collette gets 10 year term for Pearl of Asia theft
Yvon Collette, who escaped a mental hospital, receives a 10 year prison sentence in absentia and a 50 000 franc fine for theft of the Pearl of Asia valued at 200 000 dollars. His wife Georgette and accomplice Joseph Klop receive lesser penalties. The jewel was recovered from a Marseille hotel tank and returned to R. P. Robert. Collette remains at large.
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Paris
Yvon Collette
Collette
Georgette
Joseph Klop
Marseille
R. P. Robert
Industry Booms in Russ ian Zone Saxony Thuringia
German officials report no unemployment in Saxony and Thuringia and a labor shortage in parts of the Soviet zone. Most finished factory products go to Russia for reparations, with Zeiss in Jena supplying 90 percent of output to the USSR, per the factory director.
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Germany
Saxony
Thuringia
Saxony - Thuringia
Russia
Zeiss Optical Works
Jena
Japanese Exports Almost Twice Total of Imports
Tokyo reports Japan's postwar trade balance shows exports worth 51.48 million dollars versus imports valued at 27.85 million, yielding a favorable margin exceeding 23 million dollars. The figures were presented to the Allied council for Japan by L. P. Fleming, head of the SHAEF export-import division.
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Tokyo
Japan
Allied Council For Japan
L. P. Fleming
Supreme Headquarters
Car Bargain Leads to Unplanned Arrival
A farmer and his wife, expecting a child soon, rush to buy a cheap Model A for $200. They race to the hospital, aided by a doctor, only to discover Marie has given birth at home to Donalda and five kittens, delaying the fatherhood by six weeks.
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Kayes
Marle
Donalda
Costly Peru Central Railway Project
The Central Railway of Peru from Callao to Oroya took 12 years to build, covering 138 miles and crossing the Andes to 15,665 feet. It required 65 tunnels and 67 bridges, with 11,000 of 13,000 workers dying from accidents and disease during construction.
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Central Railway of
Peru
Callao
Oroya
Andes
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