Razor Blade Found Hidden in Heirens Book
Chicago authorities report a razor blade hidden in a book William Heirens had requested. Heirens, a 17 year old University of Chicago student, has confessed to multiple killings including Suzanne Degnan and Mrs. Josephine Ross. Prosecutors seek possible death penalty and mental examination ahead of arraignment.
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Chicago
William Heirens
Williams&. Tuohy
Josephine Ross
Michael F. Mulcahy
Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
University of Chicago
Ross
Frances Brown
Veronica Hudzinski
Judge Ward
Degnan
Brown
Ward
Ex-GIs Join State Police in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Aug 71 The Pennsylvania state police have recruited 186 ex-GI’s since the war, according to Commissioner G M Wilhelm. Eighty of them completed postwar training and are on duty. Wilhelm said veterans adapt quickly to police work and aims to reach a strength of 1600, with current staffing at 1413 plus 67 on military leave.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Police
G. M. Wilhelm
Tony
Col. Wilhelm
Psychiatrists Call Heirens Cool Cagey
Three Chicago psychiatrists assessed William Heirens the confessed killer of three. They described him as cagey cool and calculating with possible memory lapses or amnesia-like states raised by emotional shock. They agreed he acted with planning during burglaries and killings and warned against a straightforward insanity plea.
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Chicago
INS
William Heirens
David S. Rotman
Heirens
V. G. Urse
Psychopathic Hospital
Rudolph G. Novick
Kinois Society For Mental Hygiene
Rotman
Great Grandmother Charged With Murder in Arsenic Deaths
In Fairfield Missouri authorities exhumed two more graves as they probe arsenic deaths in a farm family. The case centers on 76 year old Mrs Illie B Winter charged with murder over the death of 3 year old Donald Eugene Martin. St. Louis lab tests and a possible grand jury investigation follow.
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Fairfield
Mill
Donald Eugene Martin
Virgil W. Mills
Illie B. Winter
Shannopin Miners Prepare To Decide On Return
About 450 striking miners at the Vesta Shannopin mine of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp will meet tomorrow to act on a UMW plea to return to work. The walkout began over coal cutter assignments for timbering and prompted a union official to urge referral to a prior committee. A J and L official called the stop a possible unauthorized walkout during a national relations board hearing on UMW supervision at the mines.
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Pittsburgh
Vesta Shannopin
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
United Mine Workers Union
William J. Hines
UMW
Uniontown
Coal Mines Administration
National Relations Board
Isue
E. R. Cooper
Cooper
Injured Miner Admitted To Somerset Hospital
John Gentis of Boswell R D 2 was admitted to Somerset Community Hospital at 1 15 a m today Thursday for injuries from working in the mines. His condition was reported as fair.
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John Gentis
Boswell
R. D
Somerset Community Hospital
Bankers and farmers tour draws 300 in Somerset
About 300 people joined the annual bankers and farmers auto tour in Somerset County. C McDowell and Glenn Ellenberger led demonstrations at George Kirch’s farm with modern equipment and a planned fish pond. The group viewed a lawn treated with 2 4 D and heard a home freezing talk by Eliza Jane Corbin.
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John E. Reiley
Bankers and Farmers
Somerset County Agricultural Extension Office
C. ©. McDowell
Glenn Ellenberger
Somerset High School
George Kirch
Somerset R. D. G
Kirch
Cletrac Corp
Larmer
Pennsylvania
Hilltop Floral Co
Friedens
Eliza Jane Corbin
Home Economics Dept
County Extension Office
Beaver Manuscripts Found in Old Home Hidden Room
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania workmen uncover faded manuscripts in a sealed room of the late General James A Beaver's mansion. Penn State scholars report letters and Civil War era items including a Mathew S Quay letter and a Daniel Hastings signature now housed at the university library.
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Penn State College
Mathew S. Quay
Gleason
Philip S. Klein
Penn State
Penn State Library
Dr. Klein
Johnstown
Witten
Daniel Hastings
Beaver
College
Klein
Pennsylvania
Restaurants Ordered to File Price Lists in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh today reports that restaurants that raised prices during the temporary OPA suspension must revert to June 30 figures. Food purveyors must file revised prices with the nearest price board by week’s end. The order excludes meat milk cheese butter eggs poultry and items no longer under price controls, though increases on those items will be limited to specific percentages to curb profiteering.
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Pittsburgh
Opa
Group of Japanese Elders Helped Secure Surrender, Okada Says
Former Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada details a trusted circle that influenced Emperor Hirohito to accept Potsdam terms on August 13 1945. He cites peace overtures through Russia in February 1945 and argues preserving the emperor was central to Japan's surrender while army resistance sought no occupation.
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Russell Brines
Tokio
Japan
Adm
Keisuke Okada
Hirohito
Okada
Potsdam
Crowd and fire jam Oakland district after Pirates Cardinals game
Thousands leave Forbes Field to clog Oakland streets causing a major traffic tie up. Fire engines fighting a two alarm blaze at Atwood street hampered, smoke injuring two firemen and forcing residents to flee.
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Cardinals
Forbes Field
Oakland
Atwood Street
S. S
Edward Kraft
Patsy Scillo
Forbes
Pittsburgh Railways Co
Fifth Avenue
Abe Krieger
Prisoners urged to return to Japan to testify
Former war prisoners were urged to travel to Japan to testify against Tojo and other war crimes suspects. General MacArthur's headquarters notes civilians receiving five hundred dollars monthly while in Japan to testify, and Col. Guy H. Stubbs of York County Pennsylvania called for live eyewitness testimony from those who suffered in camp.
Ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx Dies in Bonn at 82
Dr. Wilhelm Marx former chancellor of Germany under the Weimar republic died in Bonn aged 82. He first became chancellor in 1923 leading a Centralist Democratic coalition and guided Germany through inflation chaos. He headed cabinets again on three occasions and backed the Dawes plan to address reparations.
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Bonn
Germany
Wilhelm Marx
Dr. Marx
Peace Conference Invites Five Former Enemies to Deliberate
The 21 nation European peace conference invited Italy Romania Bulgaria Hungary and Finland to participate in plenary sessions and committees starting Saturday under a Byrnes backed rule amendment. The rules committee reported after a lengthy session and prepared for a plenary session the next day.
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Joseph Dynan
Paris
T. S
Byrnes
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Rules Committee
Russia
Molotov
Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers
Army plans to test cold exposure to save lives
Washington reports reveal Army experiments on freezing and unfreezing guinea pigs as part of Arctic operation research. An officer close to the project notes the goal is to gain knowledge to protect people in sub-freezing temperatures while a surgeon general spokesman says details and methods are not yet disclosed.
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Washington
Army
Arctic
Purse Snatchers Take Vacation Plans in Philadelphia
Two men snatched the handbag of Miss Reba Rosenfeld on West Philadelphia steps stealing $60, department store coins, and her vacation plans including a Quebec trip with airline ticket, Frontenac hotel reservations, baggage slips, and a steamship cruise ticket. Her vacation was set to begin Saturday.
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Philadelphia
Reba Rosenfeld
West Philadelphia
Quebec
Frontenac
Flying boat crash near Point Arena kills six
The coast guard reported a twin-motored Catalina flying boat with six aboard crashed about 300 yards offshore one mile north of Point Arena light station, 100 miles north of San Francisco. Two bodies were found by nightfall as Army and Navy planes searched the area. names withheld until next of kin are notified.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Point Arena
Mead Probers Name Subcommittee On Pre Pearl Harbor Work
Sen Mead chair of the Senate war investigating committee plans a five member sub committee to probe pre Pearl Harbor construction at the joint request of the Pearl Harbor group. The probe will examine Col Theodore Wyman Jr and Hans Wilhelm Rohll and may hold hearings on the west coast Honolulu and Los Angeles. A second subcommittee will study the unfinished Inter American Highway project with a possible trip to Central America.
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Mead Committee
Pearl Harbor
Washington
INS
Sen
Mead
D-N.y
Senate
Joint
West Coast
Honolulu
Los Angeles
Briggs
D-Mo
Central America
Garssons Sell Batavia Metal Products Co. Sale Amid Probe
In Chicago Henry Garsson announced the sale of Batavia Metal Products Co. to a New York syndicate led by James Stein and Herman Starr for 3000 plus a share of future earnings, not to exceed 3500,000, at a bankruptcy hearing. Seven creditors including the U.S. government seek to place the company and one subsidiary into bankruptcy amid Senate war contract probes.
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Chicago
Henry ‘Doc’ Garsson
Batavia (Ill
U. S
Batavia Metal Products Co
Garsson
Paler Empire
Garssons
Henry Garssons
Murray
Empire
Mead Senate Committee
Henry Garsson
Stein
Metaplast Company
United States
U.S
Senate
Campbell
Moscow Silent On Criticism At Paris Peace Conference
Radio Moscow did not mention Secretary Byrnes' critique of Russian Foreign Minister Molotov at the Paris peace conference. Instead it reported other speeches after Byrnes relinquished the floor, noting Molotov's assurance that Russian press would cover his remarks.
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United Nations
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgium
Britain
United States
General Assembly of the
U.N
Russia
Norway
U. N
Germany
Italy
Byrnes
Molotov
Foreign Ministers’ Council
London
INS
Radio Moscow
Paris
Union bosses boost accidents in mines during drive
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp says accident rates more than double in four captive mines amid unionization drive. E R Cooper, general mine superintendent, presented charts to a labor board examiner to show miners’ safety rule violations were no longer reported by bosses during the campaign.
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Pittsburgh
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
E. R.cooper
National Labor Relations Board
Costs Up Less School In Berkeley County West Virginia
Berkeley county plans a school year of eight and a quarter months, about three weeks shorter than normal, with a staff drop from 182 to 179 teachers. Superintendent G William Ropp cited rising operating costs that left the board $19 000 over income in the past year.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Berkeley County
G. William Ropp
Ropp
Kaiser Ready to Be Probed Over War Contracts
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser told a news conference in Oakland that he welcomes a congressional investigation into his wartime contracts. He rebutted Senator Bridges and said investigations could reveal the true story about steel and RFC dealings, including Fontana loans and Geneva plant funding.
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Oakland
INS
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser
Bridges
R-Nh
Mead Committee
West
Congressional Committee
Congress
Langer urges Kaiser charges to be investigated now
Sen Langer of North Dakota pressed the Mead committee to reconvene immediately to hear Henry Kaiser who claimed character assassins target him Kaiser complained of a 115 million dollar wartime loan issue he says the Reconstruction Finance Corporation favored United States Steel Kaiser offered to testify and Langer pledged a January hearing on the steel industry
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RFC
Bridges
Kaiser
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Fontana
California
Geneva
Utah
U. S. Steel
William Allen
Kaiser Shipyards
U. S. Steel Corporation
Washington
INS
Sen. Langer
R-N.d
Senate Mead Committee
Henry J. Kaiser
West Coast
Sen. Bridges
Mead Committee
Senate war committee flags secret Garsson files raid
The Senate war investigating committee disclosed that the FBI is probing a pre-dawn raid on its Garsson munitions files. Missing items include anonymous communications and chemical warfare service documents linked to renegotiation and a 20 to 30 page audit copy of the M-74 bomb contract transfer.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Garsson
FBI
Chemical Warfare Service
Interoffice
Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc
Batavia Metal Products
Erie Basin
Batavia Metal Products Companies
Combine
Rep. May
House
War Department
Somerset Weather Report From Local Observer
Daily weather notes from David Grove report 24 hour period ending 5:30 pm Wednesday. Temperature 73 degrees at Barat Uted and 60 degrees at previous year comparison. garbled OCR text limits full details but conveys a temperature summary.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. B. Weather Observer
Barat Uted Ececdiciesseeses
DME
MAUM
Weather Outlook for the Mid-Atlantic States
Eastern Pennsylvania forecasts fair skies and a warmer afternoon Thursday. Friday brings partly cloudy skies and increased warmth. Maryland predicts fair weather with a warmer Thursday afternoon following morning coastal clouds and a Friday of mostly partly cloudy warmth. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia expect fair conditions and a warmer Thursday followed by partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with scattered showers Friday evening.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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