Fiesta Play Well Received During Fiesta de San Jacinto Night
Old Mexico themed show Mexicagazin Manend Is Another Day played at Cuernavaca setting. Community Players production under Jean Longwith drew a responsive crowd with a large cast including Elaine Curran Dimitri Drossus Merjorie Schuchardt and Raymond Ramos. The plot centers on tourist trade and local life in Cuernavaca.
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Louis Reelesh
Old Mexico
Elaine Curran
Dimitri Drossus
Merjorie Schuchardt
Raymond Ramos
Made
Girl's Body Found in Suitcase in Chicago Basement
Decomposed body of an unidentified girl about five years old, dead about six months, found stuffed in a small suitcase in a North Side Chicago basement. Police say the body matched the description of Linda Jean Rathburn, a Kentland Indiana girl who vanished about a year ago.
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Chicago
North Side
Linda Jean Rathburn
Kentland
Ind
Weather outlook for San Antonio and vicinity
Partly cloudy Saturday afternoon and night and Sunday. Slightly warmer Saturday afternoon and night. Maximum Saturday 88 degrees, minimum Sunday 56 degrees. Additional Weather details continued on page 2A.
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San Antonio
War Department Works to Improve Combat Rations
Washington April 27 The War Department announced efforts to tailor rations to soldiers tastes based on a survey of ten thousand front line troops. A 20 percent sample showed only 7 percent favor ham and eggs. preferred items included meat crackers biscuits coffee pork and beans and chocolate. A new sardine can bandoleer for carrying ration packs received praise for increasing carried supplies. All respondents served overseas with front line units.
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Washington
INS
War Department
Midwest Area Ships Mercy Grain Shipment Aids Europe
UNRRA and North Dakota wheat growers prepared 26 000 bushels of mercy wheat for starving Europe. LaGuardia urged immediate action, saying UNRRA aims to ship 110 million bushels by May 25. Anderson joined in calling for more wheat, warning the next 80 days are critical to avert shortages.
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Climaa
Europe
Fiorella LaGuardia
Unrra di
Red River Valley
Sta Py
Clinton P. Anderson
LaGuardia
Pei Brend
City Out of Bounds Amid Calm After Attack
Jerusalem April 27 British military headquarters declared out of bounds to all Beitsy troops except on duty after Wednesday's terrorist attack left seven British soldiers slain.
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Jerusalem
Aviv
Beitsy
Reds Urged to Sow More Crops
Moscow April 24 Pravda editorials urge continued rapid sowing after a report that about 13 million more acres have been planted this year. The piece stresses all levels of party and state must align to push land under sowing and production. It notes industrial labor shortages drive recruitment from collectives to support the five year plan and that demobilized soldiers return to farms.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Russia
Fall
U N Hopes For Red Note On Spain Subcommittee
United Nations Security Council members hoped Moscow would persuade Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko to accept a subcommittee investigation of Spain. Gromyko insisted Spain is a menace to peace and warned that pursuing subsidiaries would delay action against Spain.
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New York
United Nations Security Council
Moscow
Andrei A. Gromyko
France
Spain
Gremyko
Wreck probes open into Burlington crash killing 44
Two separate inquiries opened into Thursday’s Burlington wreck that killed 44 and injured 28. Engineer Blaine of the Exposition Flyer remained under treatment for a fractured skull as investigators planned to question crews from both trains about signals automatic controls and the crash dynamics.
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Naperville
Burlington
W. W. Blaine
En ‘Gineer
Aurora
Hee Hurlingtor
Chicago
Freman
Curtis H. Crayton
Mneer
AOL
Bleiner
Daniels
Blaine
Oren Edward Flynn
H. H. Urbach
Flyce
Janine
Fiesta Ends With Grand Parade Marks Final Fiesta
San Antonio wrapped up the first Fiesta de San Jacinto in five years with the Battle of Flowers parade hailed as the most spectacular yet. Police faced a large, unruly crowd as units including jeeps and calvary led by Gen. Jonathan M. Wakewright passed, with Gov. Coke Stevenson and Mayor Gus Mauermann observing. King Antonio XXIV rode a gilded coach as Fiesta’s pageant began its farewell, followed by the House of Chittin Queen and Court of Honor.
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Frank Laro
San Antonio
San Jacinto
Legion
G. Ww. Bichse
San Antonio Paraides
Jonathan .M. Wakewright
Bataan
Bernard Gunsett
Coke Stevenson
Gus Mauermann
Wiga
Antonio XXIV
Perry Shankie
Chamber of Commerce
Fiesta
Iesaly
Donothea
House of Chittin
Court of Honor
Hoover Warns of India Starvation
BANGALORE India April 27 Herbert Hoover closing his food condition inquiry warns that unless world supplies reach India tens of millions face life jeopardy. He states most districts are near a precipice with death toll uncertain if imports cease and notes about 230000 people are affected across India with rationing already breaking down in Mysore.
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Bangalore
India
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Asia
Hoover
Mysore
Lewis Granted Power to Strike in Coal Fight
John L. Lewis departed for Washington armed with full authority to sound and strike if needed to press higher pay shorter hours and especially a health and welfare fund for Pennsylvania's 75 000 anthracite miners. A 30 day strike notice was filed for April 30 as delegates at the tri district scale convention concluded a three day session amid disputes over health and welfare issues.
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Hazelton
John L. Lewis
Washington
Pennsylvania
Satrike
Lewis
U S British Unity To Win Churchill
Aberdeen, April 27. Churchill declared that unity among English speaking peoples will keep the world unconquerable. He warned hatred and confusion pose hard trials yet to come. He spoke at a freedom of the press celebration and warned science now holds agencies of destruction beyond common sense, noting bitter divisions among Scots and Welsh.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Winston Churchitl
Ely
Churchill
Mussolini Burial Plan Revealed in Venice Dispatch
The Tralty Sera reports Mussolini’s body, stolen from a Milan field, is en route by boat to Bari or Pescara and will be buried in Rome under an assumed name in the city’s main cemetery. A secret Fascist group allegedly planned the body theft since September. A separate Los Angeles item states vendor Howard Bowden, 16, was slugged and beaten by two men who stole two bags of popcorn last night.
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Rome
Tralty Sera
Venice
Benito Mussolini
Milan Potter's Field
Bari
Pescara
Los Angeles
Howard Bowden
Time change set across eastern states and others
Daylight saving time will begin at 2 a m Sunday in six eastern states and portions of 19 others. Twenty three states and the District of Columbia, however, will not observe the time change.
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Porsons
District of
Codumba
Vatican radio reports German suffering in Russian zones
London April 27 Vatican radio cites an eyewitness claiming about 50 Germans die weekly in camps in the Russian occupation zone of eastern Germany amid disease plunder and starvation. The broadcast says priests are weak, there is no food or medicine, and rape cases among girls and women rise as help requests grow.
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London
Vatican Radio
Flay
Germany
Leit
Krape
Weisbaden
U.S
First Free Vote Planned in Shanghai City Elections
In Shanghai on April 28, the first democratic election in the city’s history will occur with about 1,500,000 voters casting ballots for 18 percent of city councillors. Women constitute twenty percent of the 1,195 candidates.
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Shanghai
Tokyo to Hold May Day Parades With 300000 Laborers
The home ministry said May Day demonstrations will be permitted in Tokyo for the first time since 1926 and about 300,000 Tokyo laborers are expected to participate.
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Tokyo
Byrnes Favors Austria Freedom
PARIS April 27 The United States moves toward a four power foreign ministers conference goal to end occupation of Austria and recognize it as independent. Secretary Byrnes reportedly would press for the U S plan at today’s talks. Trieste status remains under Italian claim. The United States shifts stance on Italian reparations, proposing payment only if Italy can bear it, with a committee to study Italy's ability to pay.
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Paris
United States
Jerlien
Austria
James F [Byrnes
U. S
Trieste
Adriatic
Italy
Messia
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