Mass Execution of 26 Guards at Mauthausen Ends
The U S army hanged 26 more Mauthausen guards at Landsberg completing the execution of 48 guards and foremen for war crimes. Day two saw 22 hanged. one man, Otto Spriegel, received a late stay. The commandante Maj Victor Zoller was last to die.
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Associated Press
Landsberg
Germany
U. S. Army
Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Otto Spriegel
Mauthausen
Spriegel
Victor Zoller
Zoller
Six Stores And Theater Lost In Morning Blaze
A massive morning fire destroyed Afton and six storefronts on Grafton Main Street, damaging the Brinkman block theater and adjacent shops. No injuries reported. damage exceeds $100,000. Fire teams from multiple towns aided in the three hour effort.
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Associated Press Afton
Grafton
Brinkman
Main Street
Banalede’s
Lear Jewelry
Western Auto
Sears Rochick—catalor Arderonse
C. B. Miller
Turner Flower Shop
Archdeacon
Phillips
Newburg
Bridgeport
Clarksburg
Grafton Volunteers
Court Hears Story Of Flower Patch Killing
LAPEER Mich The remarkable case of 16 year old Oliver Trempening Jr who admitted killing four playmates in a flower patch is scheduled for court today The youth is charged with the murder of Barbara Smith 16 and also admitted killing her brother Stanley 14 and her sisters Gladys 12 and Janet 2 He was captured in Toledo and returned to Michigan as prosecutors seek a waiver of jurisdiction over the minor The case raises questions about rapid trial and sentencing limits The boy described the killings calmly and said he hoped to understand why he did it while a medical examiner offered no clear explanation
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Associated Press
Lapeer
Mich
Oliver Trempening, Jr
Flower Patch
Barbara Smith
Iminy City
Don S. Leonard
Stanley Smith
Gladys
Janet
Toledo
Ohio
Michigan
Terpening
Lessie Smith
Lapeer County
Glenn C. Hollenback
Smith
Young
Oliver
Justice of the Peace
Robert H. Perking
George W. Desjardins
Supreme Court
East Lansing
Leonard
le Moyne Snyder
Oak Ridge Firm To Terminate Atomic Contract
The Monsanto Chemical Company which has run the Oak Ridge atomic energy project for two years will terminate its contract with the Atomic Energy Commission. A joint statement cites a dispute over transferring research to Monsanto laboratories in St Louis Dayton and Springfield Ohio as the main reason for nonrenewal. The AEC plans to announce new Oak Ridge arrangements and is expected to contract with a private firm rather than operate the site itself.
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Associated
Press
Washington
Monsanto Chemical Company
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Company
St Louis
Dayton
Springfield
Ohio
Russia May Call Envoy To Britain
London reports say Georgi Zarubin Soviet Ambassador to Britain has been summoned back to Moscow for consultations. Whitehall observers recall Moscow signaled readiness to begin talks with Britain on Italy's prewar colonial empire. Talks between deputies of the Big Four foreign ministers are to be arranged in London as soon as possible, according to a British foreign office spokesman.
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Associated Press
London
Georgi Zatubin
Britain
Moscow
Zarubin
Whitehall
Russia
Italy
British Foreign Office
Woman Arrested On Bad Check Charge
Christine Willard wife of Charles Willard held on forgery charge. Transferred to Berkeley County where police say she is wanted on a bad check charge. Accused of forging a $40 check and cashing it at the Atkinson store on Johnstown Road. Paris L Richards fined $10 and costs for mine law violation for carrying cigarettes into the Sprague mine where employed.
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Christine Willard
Charles Williard
Berkeley County
Panhandle
State
Raleigh Purity Grand Jury
Willard
Atkinson
Johnstown
Paris
L. Richards
G. ©. Mills
Sprague
Bevin Wins New Confidence Vote At Labour Conference
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin won a confidence vote by 2,357,000 to 1,109,000 at Britain's Labour Party conference. Delegates rejected a call for a review of military commitments and armed forces structure. Government proposals on economic planning and manpower distribution also secured victory.
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Associated Press
Margate
England
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Labor Party
Seven white men charged with kidnapping in North Carolina mob case
Seven white men were arrested and released on bonds of 2500 each on three counts of conspiracy to break and enter a jail with intent to injure or kill Godwin Buddy Bush following an armed mob seizure in Rich Square. FBI reported a confession implicating seven others, with authorities continuing the investigation.
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Associated Press
Jackson
N. C
North Carolina
J. H. Boone
Northampton County
Godwin
Buddy) Bush
Rich Square
FBI
Washington
Ernest Tyler
Bush
Strike Curb Bill On Home Stretch
Washington reporters noted Senators and House members near a final labor bill to curb strikes and union practices. Taft said major differences remained yet expressed confidence a final agreement would be reached by nightfall. Conferees voted to hold no more news conferences and to restrict statements to avoid confusion.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Ohioan
Four Inch Snow Hits Nebraska In May Weather
Capricious weather blankets Nebraska with heavy wet snow. Western towns report four inch depths around Chadron while freezing temperatures threaten gardens and shrubs across regions extending to the northeast.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Chadron
Two Kansas City Ballot Boxes Stolen In Sworn Testimony
A House subcommittee report accuses White House pressure of producing Communist propaganda films and claims the National Labor Relations Board aided Communist efforts in Hollywood. In Kansas City, the city election vault was burglarized and ballot boxes and poll books stolen less than two hours after a grand jury urged continued probes into 1946 primary fraud. Police and FBI sent detectives to investigate. no inventory was taken pending FBI arrival. Roger C Slaughter was named the Democratic nominee knockout in the Missouri Fifth District.
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON—A_ subcommittee
House UN- American Activities Committee
Lorday
White House
Hollywood
J. Parnell Thomas
Labor Board
Capitol
Kansas City
City Board of Election Commissioners
Ludwick Graves
Jackson County
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri
Election Board
Federal Bureau of Investigation
President Plans Return To Job In Grandview
GRANDVIEW Mo President Yruman said today that his mother was improving enough that he might return to the White House this weekend after a 12th day at her bedside. Sister Mary Jane Truman telephoned that she had the best night since he had been there. He has no definite plan to leave Washington yet but hopes Mrs Martha E Truman's steady progress continues to permit his return.
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Associated Press
Grandview
Yruman
White House
Mary Jane Truman
Washington
Martha E. Tru Jman
Baby Dies In Car Parked Overnight
In Huntington a three and a half month old infant, Robert Kronauer, was found dead in a parked car near a state police barracks on Route 60. Coroner Dr. Schuller gave a provisional ruling of death possibly from dysentery or colitis, pending tests on diluted canned milk found nearby. The Kronauer family, from Virginia, were en route to Missouri with three other children when the baby died.
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Associated Press
Huntington
Flx. Schuller
George W. Kronauer
Raphine
Robert
Kronauers
Missouri
Kronauer
Schuller
Picketed Grave Digging for 72-Year-Old Mother in Cleveland
Three sons dug a fresh grave for Ora Estella Blackburn at Lakeview Cemetery amid AFL strike tensions. Doctors and clergymen assisted, while union representative Martin Vanderwert condemned the pickets and denied AFL sanction for the interference.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Lonely Lakeview Cemetery
AFL
Mra
Death Tune Changes At Executions
LANDBERG Germany WINI Frey a 23 year old guard at Mauthausen camp told jailers he would sing Give Me Five Minutes More and open The Door Richard as he marched to the gallows. At execution time he was subdued and spoke haltingly the words I am praying like Jesus on the cross I am dying without fault Father forgive them.
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Associated Press
Landberg
Germany
Wini Frey
Mauthausen
Richard
Tam
Jesus
Early vote planned on tax cut bill in Senate
The Senate edges toward final approval of a 4.0 billion dollar annual income tax cut. Sen. Millikin of Colorado voiced hope the measure clears, after the finance committee chairmanship noted strong support. A defeated amendment would have allowed universal income splitting. Republicans had earlier resisted delays, signaling fewer roadblocks ahead.
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Associated Press
Washington
Millikin
R-Colo
Senate
Tomorow
Finance Committee
Revercomb
R-W. Va
Sen. Kilgore
D-W. Va
McClellan
Woman Sues Bus Firm For $10,000
Mrs. Mary Jo Tate of Crab Orchard filed suit in Raleigh County Circuit Court for $10,000 in damages after a Consolidated Bus accident at the local terminal left her seven months pregnant and her baby prematurely born. The bus seat collapsed as she rode with her mother, throwing her to the floor and injuring both mother and child.
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Mary Jo Tate
Raleighton
G. County Circuit
Leonard Baldin
Baldin
Tye
Pely
Ash- Beworth and Sanders
Tate
Ford CIO Union Wage Offer Sparks Negotiations
The Ford Motor Co offered 130000 hourly production workers a one cent per hour wage rise and boosted 20000 salaried staff by 1 percent, effective June 1. The plan excludes 3800 strikers not under contract and hinges on CIO United Auto Workers accepting the old contract with wage changes.
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Detroit
Ford Motor ‘Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Nicaragua Seeks New Leader After Coup
General Anastasio Somoza, head of the Army, promises a new election to pick a successor to President Leonardo Argüello, ousted in a Monday morning coup. Congress named Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa acting president as Somoza vows free elections and national calm amid the upheaval.
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Associated Press
Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Leonardo Arguello
Somoza
Jefe
National Guard
Arguello
Emba
Istate
Congress
Ar‘orrella
Benjamin Laciyo Sacasa
Gen. Samosa
Laciyo Sacasa
Nicararin
Nicarlagi
Weather report notes cloudiness and showers
Weather bulletin reports cloudy and windy conditions with scattered showers in the north. A local warrant was dropped and a cooler spell is expected by afternoon with possible showers and thunderstorms yesterday. costs paid and repairs noted.
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Tolstorins
G. C. Mills
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Checkup
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Harold Blackburn
Frankingham
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