Telephone Traces White House History President Hayes Had First Phone
The piece recalls the White House phone history from Hayes era when one line existed and few offices had phones to Roosevelt era with a five position exchange and 200 extensions. It highlights Louise Hachmeister Hackie as the famed operator and notes rising call volumes through wartime years and Truman era usage.
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Ashington
White House
Truman
Republican Congress
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ohio
House
Senate
Hayes
Cleveland
McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Louise Hachmeister
Hackie
Louis Howe
Friends of Roosevelt Headquarters
Russian Enigma Illustrated Boris Krelov Shows Quiet Soviet Ties
The piece profiles Boris Krelov of Tass who spent three years in Washington. It notes his unaffected friendliness despite firm Marxist Leninist Stalinist ideology and questions whether personal warmth hid ideological rigidity. A host’s remark implies Russians see Americans as too ignorant for communism. Kipling’s verse frames the foreigner’s difficulty.
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Boris Krelov
Tass
Washington
Russia
Sam Welles
Time
Moscow
Boris
Krelov
Bells Toll As Hiroshima Marks Two Years
The second anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing observed with city bells tolling and quiet prayer as residents contemplated the devastation. Across the globe experts warned of the atomic age while U S Hungarian tensions rose over the arrest of Stephen Thuransky and a harshly worded state department protest.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Jrobert M.hutchins
University of Chicago
United States
Russia
Welles challenged to bullfight in Tijuana for charity
Fortunio Bonanova writes to Orson Welles proposing a charity corrida in Tijuana this season. Bonanova notes killing 20 bulls is a lot and suggests two bulls apiece with admissions for a motion picture relief fund.
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Orson Welles
Mars
Fortunio Bonanova
Tijuana
Mexico
Bonanova
Welles
Motion Picture Relief Fund
Shady Side
Sunny Side
Four Drown In Lake St Marys Rowboat Tragedy
Two brothers from Lima Ohio and four younger men clung for ten hours to a capsized rowboat in Lake St Marys until rescue crews arrived. The drowned were Harry Lee 53 George Gawson 60 Joseph Gawson 32 and Paul Gawson 40. survivors suffered sunburn and exposure.
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ST. Marys
Ohio
Lake St. Marys
Roger Lee
Harry D
Lima
Lake By
Lee Brothers
Harry E. Lee
George Gawson
Head River
Ore
Joseph
Wheaton College
Wheaton
Ill
Paul
Veterans’ Hospital
Indianapolis
Harry
Lee
Joseph Gawson
Aleutians Kept Ready for Rapid Expansion in Defense System
General Eisenhower disclosed that the Aleutian base framework remains intact for potential expansion. After inspecting the northern defense line, he said the islands are not being abandoned but undergoing a centrary potential for future use.
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Aleutian Islands
Dwight Eisenhower
Aleutians
Eisenhower
75 Million Acre Wheat Goal Set for 1948
Washington reports the agriculture department supports a revised 1948 wheat acreage goal of 75 million acres, up from last year. The goal depends on weather, soil suitability, and especially the $2 per bushel market price to drive planting decisions amid ongoing world food shortages.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Department
United States
United Nations
Stork Delivers Premature Baby After Four-Way Crash
In Philadelphia a four-vehicle crash injures Mrs. Stanley Prybella who rushed to hospital in an emergency car. The collision causes her to give birth prematurely in the hospital waiting room to a 40-pound boy attended by doctors and police.
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Philadelphia
Stanley Prybella
Police Officer Kills Wife By Mistaken Identity
In Kankakee during a storm Policeman George Buick 49 shot and killed his wife Helen 24 in what authorities call a tragic mistake. He says he mistook her for a prowler, leaving two children Cherilyn 4 and Jerold 1 motherless. Police Chief Bergan calls it a case of mistaken identity.
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Chicago
George Buick
Kankakee
Helen
Bjick
Daniel Bergan
Cherilyn
Jerold
Food Plunderer Killed by German Railway Police
Soviet controlled papers say railway police in Berlin vicinity shot and killed a German gang member during an attack on guards. The incident occurred near Woltersdorf as robbers tried to plunder a potato train. Officials warned of rising railroad robberies with 43 suspects run over by trains in three months.
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Perlin
Woltersdorf
Berlin
Pattern 7321 Needlework Pattern Ad
Pattern 7321 offers 14 motifs to transfer in a 2 by 2 grid across 104 inches with easy to read charts photos and complete directions. Due to high demand orders may take longer to fill for popular numbers. send your order to the listed address.
310 Wives and Concubines Sacrificed at Raja's Death
The death of Raja Suchet Singh in Lahore in 1844 led to a major suttee display. He kept ten wives who, in Lahore Jammu and Ramnagar palaces, sacrificed themselves on funeral pyres after his death.
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Suchet Singh
Lahore
India
Jammu
Ramnagar
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