Rain Fails to Ease Forest Fire Peril in Portsmouth
Rain offered little relief to fire crews in the Portsmouth area as only small amounts fell in southeastern counties. Forecasters warned the threat remains high with heat and winds. Fire patrols were saturated in Wells and other towns as crews reported minor blazes and toppled trees from storm winds.
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Portsmouth
Southeastern
Park Counties
New England
Wells
Maine Forestry de
Russell
Hamp
Icewoman Praises Diet While Hauling Ice in Plymouth
Plymouth Mass August 29 1930s era feature profiles Eliza beth Folger a 38 year old mother of three billed as Ply mouth’s icewoman. She lifts a 120 pound front of her ice truck and carries 20 pound cakes while following a sparse diet of black coffee and little solids. She claims to avoid starches sugar and milk and says most women eat too much and are too lazy to try.
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Plymouth
Mass
Tapi
Elizabeth Folger
Yugoslavs Calmly Survey Mass of Word War Tales
Belgrade Aug 29 1944 Yugoslav gov spokesmen said rumors of a Russian Yugoslav power struggle were unfounded while denials abounded that Yugoslavia sent troops to Istria or that Russia would use Don waters. Tanjug reported no sabotage in the Fiume refinery fire and dismissed as false reports from hostile presses. Yugoslav leaders continued normal duties amid the war nerves.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Ris
Hussis
Marshal Tito
Osps
Istrian
Don
Danube
Hungary
Romania
Yugoslavia Fontier
Tanjug
Fiume
Ministry of Information
Cominform
Communist International Information Bureau
Tito
Seabrook Court Fines Long Agent In Liquor War
In Seabrook municipal court Saturday night Alfonz Wallace 26 of Wakefield Massachusetts was fined 5 with 4 70 in costs after a plea of not guilty on a charge connected to a liquor store near Seabrook He was an auditor in Tax Commissioner Henry F Long s department Wallace arraigned before Judge Ralph Bragg and promised to return a list of Massachusetts license plates Wallace denounced the constable as a publicity seeker and criticized cross state liquor purchases asserting taxes are evaded The case stems from a driving near the Seabrook liquor store and involved allegations of tax evasion and cross state purchasing dynamics.
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Massachusetts
Snooper
Seabrook
Alfonz Wallace
Wakefield
Mass
Alfred W. Locke
Wallace
Henry F. Long
Ralph ©. Bragg
Bragg
Locke
Bay State
Constable Locke
New Hampshire
Commissioner Long
Registration Opens For Local Schools In Portsmouth
Children entering Portsmouth schools for the first time must register this week. Kindergarten and grammar registrations are 8 am to 5 pm at city hall. Junior high with 9 am to 12 noon and 2 to 4 pm on Thursday Friday and next Tuesday. High school same days 8 pm to 4 pm. Five by Jan 1 1950 for kindergarten and six for first grade. No exceptions.
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Portsmouth
City Hall
Bay State Trio Hurt in Accident
Three Massachusetts residents sustained minor bruises and cuts when their car skidded off Interstate Highway at Boyd road rolled over and righted in a ditch. Driver James J. Howland 36 of Brighton his wife Margaret 38 and Catherine Ballantyne 58 of Jamaica Plain treated and discharged from Portsmouth hospital. Eleanor Downs four suffered head and shoulder injuries after falling from a moving car in Newington. Her condition was not serious. Car was operated by Alden Nixon of 84 Rockhill avenue.
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Massachusetts
Boyd Road
Portsmouth Hospital
James J. Howland
Brighton
Mass
Margaret Howland
Catherine Ballantyne
Jamaica Plain
Forrest E. Hodgdon, Jr
Herbert L. Whitehouse
Eleanor Downs
Roscoe W. Downs
Rockhill Avenue
Newington
Aldennixon
Vaughan to Face Quiz on Influence In White House
Washington Aug 29 Senator Mundt wants to question Maj Gen Harry H Vaughan about authority at the White House amid the five percenter influence inquiry Vaughan, Truman's army aide, is to testify on the eve of a key hearing He has linked to a 1945 home freezer gift from a Chicago perfume firm and a Europe bound plane trip for John Maragon The panel seeks to learn if Vaughan acted as a good colleague or for other reasons Margaret Chase Smith pressed for clarity on Vaughan's motives and actions.
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Washington
API
Mundt
Truman
Vaughan
Mr. Truman
Europe
John Maragon
Maragon
Senate
Albert Verley Co
Margaret Chase Smith
Rme
Missouri
Legion
Women's Auxiliary
Harry H. Vaughan
White House
Louis A. Johnson
U. S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Veterans file for GI insurance dividends at VA office
More than 160 World War II veterans filed GI insurance dividend applications at the Portsmouth VA office. Eligible New Hampshire veterans may receive up to about 200 dollars. renewal forms are available at post offices and Red Cross chapters.
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Portsmouth
Veterans Administration
E. Raymond Childs
Childs
Red Cross
Veteran's Administration
Manchester
Quaintness Costs Boston Plenty for Fire Protection
Boston has the most expansive fire department in the country and about one in a hundred men leads a spark down the shiny brass pales. A Boston Finance commission report urges 41 changes to bolster protection for the Ancient City. It criticizes lax enforcement of parking rules on narrow congested streets and notes many dwellings are fire resistive weak, explaining need for more firefighters than similar cities.
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Boston
No Trace Found Of BU Professor Missing in Maine
CARATUNK Me Aug 29 AP Searchers seeking lost Boston University professor Dr Catt E Purinton 49 professor of religion at University College of Liberal Arts vanished after noon Saturday with companion Prof Walter Banfield of Amherst College while tracing an old trail near Mt Dimmick three miles from Pleasant Pond camps. Rain hampered ground and forestry air support as teams fanned wooded rocky terrain ten miles apart seeking any sign of Purinton wife Ruth and two daughters Louise and Jane and his brother Edwin awaited word.
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Caratunk
Boston University
Mt. Dimmick
Catt E. Purinton
University College of Liberal Arts
Br. Purinton
Walter Banfield
Amherst College
Dimmisk
Little Dimmick Pond
Pleasant Pond
Elmer Ingraham
Dr. Purinton
Ruth
Louise
Jane
Edwin
Board to Meet the Comdon On Oil Tank Plan
A public hearing will be held at 7 o clock tonight in the council chambers city hall to consider C H Sprague and Son Co request to erect oil storage tanks near Gos ling road with officials present to hear objections and remarks.
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Comdon
City Hall
C. H. Sprague & Son Co
Gosling Road
Supreme Court Justice Rutledge Ill at York Hospital
Justice Wiley B Rutledge was reported in improved condition at York Hospital where he was treated for a circulatory problem. He arrived Saturday while on vacation in Ogunquit. Dr Elmer Tower treated him and Dr Fred Geier flew from Washington for a consult before returning to the capital.
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Supreme Court
Wiley B. Rutledge
York Hospital
Rutledge
Ogunquit
Elmer Tower
Osucquit
Tower
Fred A. Geier
Justice Rutledge
Washington
Geier
Air Force
Portsmouth
Thomas M. Dale
Rye
Yankee Airways
Iowa
University of Iowa Law School
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Prosperity Held A Necessity in Achieving Peace
President Truman pledged full American cooperation to crisis ridden Britain as part of a joint effort by free nations to achieve lasting prosperity and peace. He warned of a world trade imbalance and offered mutual concession to British officials arriving for negotiations while defending Britain's Socialist government and stressing that world prosperity is essential to national well being.
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U.S
Britain
Truman
Philadelphia
APY
Russia
Washington
United States
Legionnaires at 61st convention fight communism abroad
The American Legion opened its 61st annual convention in Adelphi with a focus on combating communism in China as the top issue. Some 6,500 delegates weigh about 1,000 resolutions while Truman attends a joint session. Internal bickering surfaces over leadership and finances as the four day event proceeds.
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Phi. Adelphia
American Legion
China
Legion
John E O'Brien Ex Legion Head Dies in Portsmouth
John E O'Brien longtime Portsmouth resident and former post commander of Frank E Boome American Legion dies after a long illness at Portsmouth hospital He served in World War I and II held roles in Veterans of Foreign Wars and state American Legion committees Survived by wife Mary two sons Donald and Robert and daughter Meanor with several siblings in Maine and Portland.
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John E. O’brien
Legion
John E. O'Brien
Union Street
Portsmouth
Frank E. Boome
American Legion Post
Mr. O'Brien
Portsmouth Hospital
Veterans’ Hospital
White River Junction
Portland
O'Brien
Jeremiah
Mary Logue) O'Brien
Chicago Technical Institute
Portland Stadium
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Emerson Hovey Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans’ Preference
State Department of the American Legion
National Veterans’ Preference Committee
York Beach conducts drunken driving road blocks
York Beach and Maine State police set up three checkpoints in York Beach late Saturday night to deter drunken driving. Officers checked hundreds of cars with no York Beach arrests. state police reportedly made two arrests. Checkpoints ran from 11:45 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Long Beach Ridge Road and Ogunquit Road.
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York Beach
Maine
Arthur Perkins
Long Beach
Ridge Road
Ogunquit Road
Army Engineers Lobby Target in Congress Probe
Representative Sabath labeled the Army Engineers the number one target of a looming congressional lobbying investigation. The House Rules Committee chair predicted a probe after recess, citing engineers as pivotal to influence in Congress. Sabath cited private lobbies from oil, power, and real estate and named major expenditures by groups including the National Association of Electric Companies and the AMA.
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Washington
Sabath
D-Ill
Army Engineers
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Army Corps of Engineers
Congress
President House
Hoover Commission
National Association of Electric Companies
National Physicians
American Medical Association
General Electric Company
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Association of American Railroads
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
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Eastport
Block Island
Icewoman
United Nations Security Council
Seabrook Court
Boston Finance Commission
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Small York Hospital
Judge Rutledge
Oregon
Hubert A. Good
Perry Brown
Beaumont
Tex
Good
Legion's Auxiliary
The
National Executive Committee
National Coundr
Brown
Frank N. Belgrano, Jr
Ire
Belgrano
Army Engineers Lobby
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