Burglary Bursts Across City With Loot From Many Sites
Burglars hit stores and homes over the weekend, stealing perfumes, cigars, jewelry, cash, and other items. A suspect was arrested after a resident alerted police, with loot recovered including pennies, pens, and purses. Funeral services were held in Taylor for Annie Spragegins, and arrangements followed at Taylor City Cemetery.
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San Antonio
C. L. Yeager
Sacramento Street
Joy
North St. Mary’s Street
Yeager
C. i. Shook
Jerry Lewis
East Russell Place
Shook
Circle Pharmacy
Taylor
Annie Spragegins
Taylor City Cemetery
Pittsburgh Power Strike Faces Three Tests
Pittsburgh labor dispute enters a week of tests as 270 A F L street car operators and bus drivers boycott for eight days, an unapproved meeting considers Duquesne Light wage arbitration, and a Tuesday N L R B election pits the independ ent union against challenges from A F L International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and C T U group. Mayor Lawrence calls the strike the citys worst disaster since the 1936 flood, urging acceptance of arbitration as unions seek a 20 percent wage increase against a 5 percent offer, while hiring preferences hinder settlement.
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Bhy Agnor
Pittsburgh Power
Independent Power Union
Ranband
Duquesne Light Company
Ja. F. L
National Labor Relations Board
A. I. L. United Mine Workers’ District 30
A. F. L. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
C. T. @. Utility Workers union
David L. Lawrence
Mass picket at Columbia studio ends in arrests
Several hundred demonstrators gathered at the main gates of a Columbia studio early Monday in a mass protest. About fifty were arrested for disobeying a court order restraining mass picketing. The assembly remained orderly and no violence was reported as arrests continued two hours after the group assembled.
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Columbia Studio
Follee Salt
AFL near Chicago convention on price and wage controls
The American Federation of Labor moves toward a Chicago convention decision on whether to back immediate removal of price and wage controls. William Green urges action as Open Hearth workers return to work. CIO and AFL maritime groups plan joint strategy while shipowners and unions stall negotiations.
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American Federation of Labor
Chicago
APL
William Green
Open Hearth Foundry
United Auto
OPA Aw
Ford
AFL
AFL Brotherhood of Painters, and
OPA
Trates
CIO
Attack Case Again Postponed in District Court
The trial of Wells, charged with rape, was postponed again in Criminal District Court because Wells’ lawyer Thea Henley was out of town for another case. Trial was set for Tuesday. The lease postponement came after Wells did not report due to illness. His bond was canceled and he remains in the county jail awaiting trial.
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Bawary
Wells
Criminal District Court
Thea . Henley
Turse Snatched From Bus Stop By Youth Cadet
Mrs H B Gadner reported to police that a youth described as a young soldier or ROTC cadet snatched her purse containing $6 as she alighted from a bus at the corner of Rigsby Avenue and St Anthony Street near 540 Rayton Avenue.
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Edith Dalrymple
Rosewood Ave
George White
East Crockett Street
Mark T. Scaperlanda
West Craig
Perry Love- Lady
Devine Street
W. E. Olfer
West Harriman Place
R. J. Harper
Rigsby Avenue
Bernadine Miller
North Smith Street
Annabell Lewis
West Lynwood Avenue
Turse
H. B. Gadner
Rayton
St. Anthony Street
OPA Takes Over Veterans Emergency Housing Program
Dallas based OPA announced it will enforce the veterans emergency housing program focusing on sales prices and rents for priority housing. The plan ensures veterans get first pick to buy or rent, access to affordable housing, and housing matching FHA approved sizes, with two phases covering priorities before and after September 10.
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Dallas
OPA
Russell S. Stephens
Stephens
Federal Housing Agency
Theew
Reds Ordered Home in Protest
New York October 14 six Russians ordered to return home by their government after the justice department asked them to register as agents of a foreign power left by plane for Paris. Pavel Fedosimov Soviet vice consul said the six, including three USSR supreme council members, were not happy about leaving. Five Ukrainians also asked to register left by plane last Saturday en route home.
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New York
Department of Justice
Paris
Pavel Fedosimov
Supreme Council of the Ussr
Kidnaper of Taxi Man Sought
SAN ANGELO October 14 INS Police questioned a 25 year old man in connection with the Sunday kidnapping of a Fort Worth taxi driver Lewis H Brady 20 who said two men forced him to drive at gunpoint near Brownwood and beat him when the cab stalled he believed the assailants fled in a passing car toward San Angelo.
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San Angelo
Fort Worth
Lewis H. Brady
Brownwand
San Angela
Penalty Set on Cancelled Flights
In Chicago on October 14 the Air Transport Association announced that starting tomorrow all airlines will charge a 25 percent penalty of the one way fare on unused tickets when refunds are processed after failure to cancel before flight time.
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Chicago
Air ‘Transport Association
Hieswa Sentenced Murderer Faces U S Prison Ride
Yokoyama Oct 14 17 Pvt Joseph E Hieswa 26 a convicted murderer of two Japanese who twice escaped military prison is en route to the United States to serve the 30 year sentence to which his original death sentence was commuted.
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Hieswa
America
Yokoyama
Joseph E. Hieswa
United States
Harvard Opens Nursery for Children of Veterans
Cambridge Mass October 14 Harvard university announced the opening of its new nursery school for children of veterans. The facility will admit applicants under five years old and feature standard equipment such as tricycles dolls cutout books and block alphabets as part of the universitys educational outreach.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Harvard Nursery School
Private Rites Set for Stilwell
SAN FRANCISCO October 14 INS Private services in keeping with his military career will be held Wednesday for Gen Joseph W Stilwell. The army said only family will attend rites per the general s last wishes. After cremation the ashes will be strewn over the Pacific near Carmel Calif at Llanisir with Maj Emmett J Theisen piloting the plane carrying the ashes. Acknowledgements urged to army hospital patients in the general s name.
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San Francisco
INS
Joseph W. Stilwell
Army
U. S. Sixth Army
Stilweill
Pacific
Llanisir
Stilwell
Carmel
Calif
Emmett J. Theisen
Stiwell
Theisen
Hamilton Field
Two Jailed After Accident on Seguin Highway
Two Houston youths, Joe Lopez and Saul Gonzales Gloria, both 19, were jailed as auto theft suspects after a wreck six miles east of Seguin on the Houston highway. Mary Louise Sanchez, 17, and Janie Lopez were hospitalized at Robert B. Green with possible internal injuries but cleared of theft complicity. Public safety in Austin had sought the two youths via radio broadcast after authorities stopped two trucks that picked up the four following the crash.
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Robert B. Green
Houston
Seguin
Joe Lopez
Saul Gonzales Gloria
Mary Louise Sanchez
South Laredo Street
Janie Lopez
Catholics Oust Slavs From Church
Vatican dispatch reports the council proclaiming the excommunication of all Catholic Yugoslav officials connected with Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac’s arrest and trial. Stepinac was convicted of war crimes by a Zagreb court and sentenced to 16 years with forced labor.
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Vatican City
Congregation of the Council
Alojzije Stepinac
Zagreb
Wainwright lauds Stilwell as prime American military leader
General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Fourth Army commander, eulogized General Joseph W. Stilwell as an American leader of gallant character. He praised Stilwell’s historic service, noting his leadership in Burma during and after the retreat, and his indomitable fight back against Japanese forces.
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Joseph W. Stilwell
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Fourth Army
Wainwright
Stilwell
Burman
500 MPH Planes Seen Forecast by Johns Hopkins Expert
Baltimore October 14 01 The appearance within two years of commercial airliners powered with jet engines capable of cruising faster than 500 miles an hour was forecast today by Dr Francis H Clauser of Johns Hopkins university head of the universities newly established department of aeronautical engineering He said that revenue producing characteristics have reached a point of diminishing returns manufacturers could build bigger faster ships but would sacrifice payloads He noted the 7928 era biplane and said engineers under fierce competition have stretched the conventional airplane to the limit Martin Douglas Boeing Lockheed and others are investing in jet field.
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Baltimore
Francis H. Clauser
Johns Hopkins University
Clauser
University
Department of Aeronautical Engineering
Peter
Martin
Douglas
Boving
Lockheed
Man Jailed for Damaging Auto in South Side Incident
Eusebio Serato of 1134 South San Marcos Street faced Corporation court after allegedly breaking the window of a police scout car with his head. He was jailed for 20 days and charged with drunkenness in default of a 450 dollar fine set by Judge Augustus McCloskey.
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Eusebio Serato
South
San Marcos Street
Serato
Augustus McCloskey
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