Port City Kids Enjoy Exchange Club Picnic At Kingston Park
Portsmou th playground youngsters flocked to Kingston State Park for a large picnic hosted by the Exchange Club. Navy yard staff and Red Cross volunteers assisted as kids swam, boated, and played softball and volleyball under sunny skies.
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Portsmouth
Exchange Club
Kingston State Park
Raymond F. Blake
Ad Weft
Robert HL. Whalen
Lester Faulkingham
Richard O'Brien
Portsmouth Herald
Photon
Shout
Portsmcouth
Navy Yard
Anthony Mermards
Aidenman
Red Cross
Edith Spaulding
Henry Gage
Leslie Faulkingham
Ronald Simpson
Ralph Hunslander
Ben Hoyt
Arthur Giovanis
Robert Whalen
Presiden
Fond
Mne
Louise Smith
Freda Flanagan
Mom Convinced Son Was Lured To His Death
EASTHAMPTON Mass Aug 17 to Fracericksburg Va where the body of Edwin J Gregory was found Stafford County Coroner L F Lee planned further talks with investigators before ruling on cause of death The boy missing since June 27 vanished from a train between Washington and Richmond He was bound for Savannah Ga to visit grandparents His mother said the trip was routine and he could not have fallen from the train The crash occurred six miles north of Fredericksburg in a bushy embankment where the body was found The parents had put him on the New York bound train with a porter watching over him additional details scarce
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Mass
Deannebte Gregory
Fracericksburg
Stafford County
L. F. Lee
Edwin “J. Gregory
Washington
Richmond
Savannah
Cit
Ani
Geogory
Frecericksburg
New York
Gregory
Ind
Miami
Truman to Take 9 Day Cruise
President Truman will depart Friday on a nine day cruise to study plans for a nationwide campaign for the presidency. White House press secretary Charles G. Ross said the president will board the presidential yacht Williamsburg Friday afternoon.
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President Truman
White House
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Blockade backfires as German workers strike over shortages
Soviet and Western blockade tensions ripple through Berlin and the Russian zone. German workers at Magdeburg protest food shortages while others in the British zone report industry and commerce shutdowns amid scarce supplies. Demonstrations, arrests, and continued food anxieties highlight economic strains in postwar Germany.
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Madgeburg
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Poland
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Stade
Reds Seal Border With Rockets in Berlin Crisis
The Telegraf of Berlin reports Ruselane seal part of the British Soviet border near Balawedel in North Germany and place pocket guns. Rumors of heavy artillery and trenches appear as Western diplomats continue Berlin talks with Molotov. Moscow officials discuss leadership changes amid the crisis. Across the region, Trans-Jordan sources claim Jews in Jerusalem seized a government building near the Red Cross zone. Greek forces claim victory in Grammos mount campaign with 3,840 guerillas killed or captured since June.
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Berlin
Balawedel
Germany
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Telrgraf
Molotov
Gebling
London
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Montags Echo of
Wassily Bokopvysky
Moscow
Sokolovsky
Trans-Jordan
Jerusalem
Red Cross
Grammos
Albania
Markos ‘Vaflades
Pfc House's Body Arrives for Burial
A Portsmouth war hero, Private Guy B. House, Tr. 18, arrives by train at 6 20 tonight to be met by Frank E. Booma American Legion post members. House son of Guy E. House Sr of 227 Cutts Street was killed in action in Italy in May 1944. Funeral services set for tomorrow at Court Street Christian Church.
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Portsmouth
Guy B. House
Frank E. Booma
Babe Ruth Dies After Long Illness in 1947
New York August 17 AP The famed baseball star Babe Ruth died at 7 01 pm after two years of illness cancer of the throat. He was 53. Mass to be held at St Patrick’s Cathedral funeral plans incomplete. President Truman led national tributes calling him the home run king and symbol of the sport.
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Memorial Hospital Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
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Thomas H. Kaufman
St. Catherine of Siena
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Roth
Sunithy
Bao Ruth
Paseball
Black Sox
Yankee Stadium
City Selects New Auditor With Salary Holdout
Portsmouth council picks Wilfred B. Young to replace Jack Fenwick but he will not accept unless pay rises from 3000 to 4000. A special committee will study a city wage scale and clash with the current municipal merit plan as the charter requires salary revisions. The move includes a survey covering all city employees and department heads to address meager wages and attract qualified appointees.
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Wilfred B. Young
Holden
Mass
Jack Fenwilek
Richman & Margeson
Young
Simes
Mary ©. Dongeto
Simcns
Adeistory Board
Michael A. Barrett
Nathan H. Wells
Leslie C. Manning
Mr. Young
Fenwick
Samuel Levy
Cornellmen Paterson
Margeson
Linchey
Lester R. Whitaker
Roland I. hNoyes
Neal
Dondero
Cornelmen Simes
John Leary
Noyes
Paterson
Whitaker
Widow Fights Over Exeter Hero's Remains In Court
A New Hampshire war widow and the soldier's brother battle in Rockingham County Superior Court over the remains of World War II Air Force Corporal James G. Dirsa. The body rests at J Harold Carbonneau funeral home in Exeter as judges decide who may claim the 33 year old hero for burial. Mrs Elizabeth DeWitt of Seabrook seeks a military funeral in Seabrook, while Mitchell Dirsa of Methuen Mass. pushes to have the body buried in Exeter with military rites. The court previously ordered the body held until a ruling clarifies next of kin and burial rights.
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Exeter
Rockingham County Superior Court
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Actiion
North Africa
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Methven
Mass
Stephen M. Wheeler
Lind
Rochester Man Held in Florida Slaying
In Ormond Florida police sought two sex maniacs in connection with the seaside rape and death of a young office worker and the slaying of her dark-haired companion. An extensive net was spread for their questioning.
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Fla
Frida
Soviet Consul Blames White Russians After Jump
New York Aug 17 AP Soviet Consul General Yakov Lomakin said the Russian woman teacher who leaped from a third floor window at the Soviet consulate attempted suicide in despair after a nervous breakdown. He blamed White Russians and American officials for the leap and said anti communist elements draped and tugged the victim, Gsksana Stepancyns Kossakina, before she jumped. Meanwhile four white youths, one Rochester N Y, and two Negroes were questioned in the fatal assault on Mary Hucks and Gregory Blount at a moonlit East Point Ga beach. Police described a rape followed by beating and killing, with a gunman also killed. A store clerk in Daytona Beach reported a tall man in bloodstained clothes seeking a room, then leaving with another man.
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Yakov M. Lomakin
Lomakin
Nadel
Gksana Stepancyns Kossakina
Ameticans
Kosenkina
Roosevelt Hospital
Lamakin
Ge Mogenkina
Nellie
Con
Rochester, N
Mary Hucks
East Point
Gregory Blount
University of Kentucky
Daytona Beach
Matthews
Hucks
Spy Hearings Recess in Faror Over
The House Un American Activities committee showed tension over a leak after Alger Hiss testified behind closed doors. Members vow to investigate the leak while planning next week’s session to face Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Treasury official Harry D White dies in Fitzwilliam
Harry Dexter White 66 longtime Treasury assistant secretary died here after a heart attack at his summer home. A key monetary expert, he helped author the Bretton Woods plan and faced questions in a congressional probe over alleged covert exchanges with Red agents. Survived by widow Anne Yerry and two daughters Joan and Ruth. Private funeral in Boston Thursday.
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Boston
Harvard
U.S. Treasury
Bretton Woods
Anne Yerry
Springfield
Joan
Ruth White
White
Washington
House un-American Committee
Coal Institute To Open Sept. 14 At University
New England coal deniers will spend three days at the University of New Hampshire in Durham discussing mutual problems. The New England Solid Fuels Institute opens Sept. 14 under the University Extension service with cooperation from the New England Fuel Dealers Association Retail Fuel Institutes the Anthracite Institute and the Bituminous Coal Institute. Speakers and discussions cover more than 20 topics from economic outlook to routing scheduling deliveries telephone sales and training for service men.
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University of New Hampshire
Durham
New England Solid Fuels Institute
University Extension Service
New England Fuel Dealers’ Association
Retail Fuel Institutes
Anthradite Institute
Bituminous Cosl Institute
Club Thieves Use Apron for Disguise
Two quick-witted sneak thieves evaded capture yesterday as one donned an apron and posed as staff at the Panna way club. Horace Powell, returning to the scene, heard of a Yong Daniels day outing and notified Tra Brown, the club’s proprietor, who found the cupboard bare of a few tonic bottles.
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Horace Powell
Yong Daniels
Powell
Tra Brown
Mr. Brown
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