Rockefeller Public Service Awards Selection Committee Named
Princeton announces a committee led by Dr. Karl T. Compton to choose Rockefeller Public Service award revisients. Members include Eliott Bell, Ralph Bunche, Philip Graham, Edward Mason, Thomas Parran, Anna Strauss, Leonard White and others. Applications for first awards are due by October 1.
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Princeton
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Harold W. Dodds
Princeton University
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eliott V. Bell
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Laird Bell
Esq
Chicago
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nationsfficial
Philip L. Graham
The
Washington Post
Edward S. Mason
Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration
I. Myers
College of Agriculure
Cornell University
Thomas Parran
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Anna Lord Strauss
League of Women Voters
Leonard D White
University of, Chicago
Charles E. Wilson
Office of Defense Mobilization
Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Dodds
Facor
Rockefeller Public Service Awards Committee
Woodrow . Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Pheasant Flies Into Car Causes Fatal Crash In Cheektowaga
Kenneth W. Joan, 21, of Cheektowaga, was driving a vehicle on the Thruway when a pheasant struck the windshield. He lost control and crashed into a bridge abutment, suffering fatal injuries.
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Kenneth W. Joan
Cheektowaga
Winnfield Woman Chosen Miss VFAW 1952
Jenna Fae Whatley, 19, of Winnfield Louisiana, was selected Miss VFAW 1952 at a beauty contest held during the Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Jenna Fae Whatley
Winnfield
VFAW
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Chicago gambling boss Theodore Roe gunned down in ambush
Theodore Roe a 53 year old wealthy black gambling boss was killed last night in a South Side ambush. Police found four shotgun shell casings behind a signboard near Roe’s apartment. Witness Joseph Turnec, 45, saw three white men in a car nearby about 20 minutes before the shooting. Roe had resisted syndicate control of the policy racket. Investigators say Roe and associates earned about five million dollars from the operation over six years, with Roe previously implicated in Kefauver hearings.
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Chicago
Theodore Roe
South Side
Roe
Old Guard
Joseph Turnéc
Fred
Ami
Vacenr
Caifano
West Side
Aessuch
Erin
Iade
Jones
Clifford “Davis
Kefauver Crime Investigating
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Diplomatic Ties Resume Between China and Spain
China and Spain restore diplomatic relations after a 12 year gap. Ambassador Antonio Cullen Gomez presented credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek at a ceremony in the national defense building.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
Spain
Antonio Cullen Gomez
Chang Kai-shek
National Defense Building
New AP Radioteletype Service Launches for Latin America
The Associated Press launched a radioteletype service to feed newspapers and radio stations across Latin America and the West Indies with faster, more complete news reports. The service integrates radiophoto transmissions with daily news copy, allowing interchangeable reception of pictures or news. In Connecticut, Anne Thompson rescued an injured pigeon and fed it coffee, then her cat befriended the bird, and the two have since remained companions.
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York
Latin America
West Indies
Peper
Gine Ten
Morse Wireless
Lari Pepe
Radioteleype
Madopts
Anne Thompson
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