Battered Arms Program Goes Before Senate
The House passed the administration foreign arms aid bill 238 to 122 after sharp cuts and new restrictions. A 50 percent cut reduced the Western European allotment to 1.16 billion dollars, with conditions on flag ships and non combat troop use. Greece Turkey Iran Korea Philippines funding was kept intact, while amendments seeking China aid and other measures were defeated. Opponents argued Russia would seize on the cut as anti allied signaling.
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Washington
House
Senate
Harry Truman
Congress
United States
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Korea
Philippines
China
Southeastern Asia
U. S
Britain
Ireland
Russia
Bridges Agrees To Accounting For Pension Fund Fees
Sen. Styles Bridges said he will provide an accounting next month for his 35 000 annual services as a trustee for the United Mine Workers pension fund. He told a reporter the disclosure aims to cause political embarrassment and noted funds paid for actuarial studies and legal counsel were charged to the fund.
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Washington
Styles Bridges
R-N.h
United Mine Workers Pension Fund
Bridges
Senate Banking Committee
Glen Taylor
Didaho
Robert D. L'Heureux
l’Heureux
Welfare Fund
Lucas Says Congress Must Act on Big Issue
Sen. Scott W. Lucas promises Congress will not adjourn before tackling key bills including farm income support reform, expansion of the Displaced Persons act, and raising the minimum wage to 75 cents. He spoke in his weekly radio report aired on 29 Illinois stations.
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Washington
Scott W. Lucas
D-Ill
Congress
Senate Majority
Illinois
McCarthy Links Paris Flight, Freezer Gifts in Probe
Senator McCarthy says Senate investigators are getting information about Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan from sources close to the President and to Vaughan in the White House. Senator Mundt ties a 1945 Paris trip by three Chicago perfume agents to gifts of home freezers to Vaughan, Mrs. Truman, and others. Vaughan and John Maragon are expected to testify when hearings resume.
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Washington
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Harry H. Vaughan
McCarthy
Vaughan
White House
Karl Mundt
R-S.d
Paris
Chicago
Mundt
Harry S. Truman
John Maragon
Allied Forces Conduct Air and Surface Manoeuvres Off Honshu
Tokyo reporting by AP says British and U S forces are engaged in combined air and surface maneuvers off the southern coast of Honshu, Japan, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters confirms.
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Tokyo
U. S
Honshu
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Weather Summary With Rain and Temperature Outlook
Occasional rain tonight followed by cooler conditions and gradual clearing Saturday. Tonight low 60 to 65, Saturday high 77 to 80. Thur temperatures show a low near 71 and a noon high around 94. Precipitation from yesterday 7 am to today 7 am is 0. Sunrise 5 13 am, sunset 6 53 pm. Crab Orchard Lake spillway level Sunday latest reading. Little Grassy Lake 13 feet below spillway. no reading for Mississippi River at Grand Tower.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Mississippi River
Grand Tower
Illinois Temperature Fluctuations and Rain Outlook
State forecasts show average highs near two degrees, cooler tonight and Sunday, then cooler Monday before a warmer Wednesday. Rain totals vary from %% inches in the north to 1-2 inches in the south with showers and thunderstorms tonight through Sunday into Monday, heavier in the south.
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Illinois
May Be Last Day Before Cameras for Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman plans to film a final scene in a Rossellini movie as she begins divorce proceedings from Dr Peter Lindstrom and retires. Her representative hinted the director may persuade her to resume acting, while attorneys prepare to file for divorce in the coming days possibly in Rome.
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Ingrid Bergman
Peter Lindstrom
Robert Rossellini
Miss ‘Bergman
Rome
Air Crash Kills 22 in England
A British European Airways Dakota transport plane crashed near Oldham on August 19 killing 22 of 32 aboard. The craft, from Belfast, was near Manchester in bad weather when it fell into Dow valley. Eyewitnesses heard a thud and saw the plane break apart and burn on the moorland.
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England
British European Airways
Oldham
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Manchester
Dow Valley
Yorkshire
Ex King Carol Weds Elena Lupescu in Religious Rite
In Lisbon at the Es toril residence former King Carol of Romania and Elena Lupescu married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony led by Rev Hartinan Ivinovitch. The couple’s romance spanned over two decades amid family and political upheavals after a 1947 civil wedding in Rio de Janeiro during Elena’s perceived peril.
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Carol of
Romania
Mme
Elena Lupescu
Estoril
Hartinan Ivinovitch
Paris
Carol
Elena
Rio de Janeiro
Pope to Proclaim Assumption as Dogma
Vatican sources say Pope Pius XII will declare the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin as dogma. The proclamation, likely during the 1950 Holy Year, defines the mother of Jesus as taken bodily into heaven and makes disbelief heresy.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Pius XII
Finland Moves To Smash Red General Strike
Helsinki reports the Finnish government moved quickly to crush a Communist led strike amid clashes in Kemi where 1,500 lumberjacks fought police. Arrests included a city council chairman Lahja Heikkilae and another council member. Government vows crushing defeat while unions show mixed loyalty and a mass strike of about 45,000 workers.
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Helsinki
Kemi
Eivil
Lahja Heikkilae
Finland
Kem
Red
Anto Varjonen
Bunche Attacks Senate Charge on UN Terrorism Claim
Dr. Ralph Bunche denounces a Senate judiciary committee for circulating charges that the United Nations secretariat is terrorized by Communist agents. At a welcome home rally, Bunche calls the testimony a witch hunt and condemns government officials for giving it credence.
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Los Angeles
Ralph Bunche
Senate Judiciary Committee
United Nations Secretariat
U.N
Palestine
Subcommittee
Pioneer Jazz Musician Paul Mares Dies at 49
Paul Mares, a Chicago based cornetist and early New Orleans era figure, died yesterday at age 49. He came to Chicago in the early 1920s with George Brunis and formed a notable orchestra with Leon Rappolo, Jack Pettis, Elmer Schoebel and others that played at Friar's Inn.
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Chicago
Paul Mares
New Orleans
Mares
George Brunis
Leon Rappolo
Jack Pettis
Elmer Schoebel
Friar’s Inn
Radio Prize Programs Given Death Blow in New Ruling
A barricaded Ernest Craig 28, fired on 125 police for three hours at 2639 West Washington Blvd Chicago. Fire and gas bombs deterred him as he shot at officers and a child was wounded. Two detectives and several officers wounded as Craig died in a final gun battle with police. Spectators watched as flames engulfed the two story home.
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Chicago
Ernest Craig
Craig Wen
Craig
Marshall Pidgeon
Lloyd Nethergall
Drake Atkins
Lawrence Mack
Mack
Atkins
West
Washington Boulevard
Flier Dies After Landing Mishap at Metropolis
Staff Sgt. Willard Clairday, 30, of Scott Air Force Base, died from injuries after his private plane BT 15 crashed near Metropolis Municipal Airport during a second landing attempt. The plane struck a tree, then plunged to the ground. authorities cited misjudgment and loss of speed on approach. Clairday intended to stop in Metropolis en route to Wright Patterson Field.
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Willard Clairday
Scott Air Force Base
Fisher Memorial Hospital
Metropolis
Herbert Goyert
Clairday
Wright-Patterson Field
Dayton
Ohio
James L. Clairday
Temple Hill
Dwayne Linton
Herrin
Southern Illinois
Linton
Gas Bomb Explodes at Chicago Police Headquarters
A defective tear gas bomb exploded today at Chicago police headquarters injuring one officer and temporarily blinding three. The blast affected visitors and courtroom personnel on three upper floors while investigators trace the failed device from a gun battle with Ernest Craig, 28, who was killed after a three hour shootout with ten others injured. Sgt. John Nelligan sustained burns to his chest shoulder arm and leg.
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Ernest Craig
John Nelligan
Chicago mother confesses to strangling six day old daughter
Dorothy Skeoch 22 admitted killing her six day old daughter Susan after saying she was low in spirits because her husband Thomas 21 was unemployed. The baby died with a plastic diaper tied around her neck in their South Side apartment. Skeoch initially claimed a Negro prowler entered and demanded money.
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Chicago
John Enright
Dorothy Skeoch
Susan
South Side
Viola Venkus
William Hennessey
Skeech
Train Wreck Kills 3 Men Near Mackinaw
A New York Central freight derailed near Mackinaw killing three men and injuring one. Engineers C. E. W. Hyatt and Frank Chaney from Urbana and Roy Bein of Farmer City died. conductor Clark Chamberlain was slightly injured. An open switch half a mile west caused the crash.
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Mackinrw
New York Central
Indianapolis
Peoria
C. E. W. Hyatt
Urbana
Frank Chaney
Roy Bein
Farmer City
Clark Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Mackinaw
H. G. Cooke
Danvers
Til
H. A. Powell
Galesburg teen’s quiet birthday amid hospital stay
Ellen Bloomgren, 17, a Galesburg High School student injured in a polo accident, celebrated with an engagement ring from her fiancé John Heck, 20, as hospital staff and parents joined a cake moment at St. Francis hospital. Ellen, recently moved from an iron lung to a lighter chest respirator, remains unable to move both arms, needing nurses to raise her left hand for viewing the ring.
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Peoria
Ellen Bloomgren
Galesburg
John Heck
Elmer Bloomgren
St. Francis Hospital
Ellen
Fight It Out: Steel and Labor Faceworth Bargaining
C M White, president of Republic Steel, told a three man fact finding board led by Truman that labor and management must fight it out to reach results. He warned a 30 cent per hour package demand by the United Steelworkers would cost Republic about 38 million dollars yearly as steel strike looms until September 14.
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Republic Steel Corp
C. M. White
C.S.O. United Steelworkers
Republic
Cool Autumnlike Weather Sweeps Nation
A broad air mass brings cooler than normal temperatures nationwide. Kinross Michigan saw 41 degrees early today while most areas reported fair skies or scattered showers. Topeka Kansas logged the heaviest rain with 2.89 inches as coastal New England and the lower Mississippi Valley faced showers.
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Chicago
Kinross
Mich
Mississippi Valley
New England
Topeka
Kan
Man Sets Self Afire in Texas Suicide
Jeptha J. Allen, 50, in San Antonio, saturated himself with gasoline and died after lighting his clothes on fire. Justice of the Peace John N. Ogden returned an inquest verdict of suicide.
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San Antonio
Texas
Jeptha J. Allen
Justice of the Peace
John N. Ogden
Thirty five servicemen Escape Plane Crash Near Harmon Field Newfoundland
Thirty five American servicemen escaped drowning when their transport plane plunged into St Georges Bay near Harmon field on the west coast of Newfoundland last night.
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Stephenville
Mid
St. George’s Bay
U. S
Harmon Field
Newfoundland
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