Deaths and incidents loom in New York area reports
A Chicago woman 25 died in a seventh floor fall at the Empire Hotel Times Square leaving a note reading sorry please forgive me A 19 year old Washington purser jumped before a subway car in New York City leaving a severed foot A 50 year old woman freed after serving part of a false alarm fire sentence as one child pledged his severance pay A 49 year old man is held on a murder charge in Buffalo for the fatal shooting of his wife Union talks to end a nine day upstate truckers strike in Albany A Long Island Railroad dispute heads to mediation as a strike looms in New York City Anisee Borowski Buffalo named chairman of a Polish American convention in Utica
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New York
INS
Marjorie Allbee
Chicago
Hotel Empire
Times Square
Tam
Cerorge Torre
Nation Alamo declares war on political machines
Veterans from nine Tennessee counties formed a statewide structure to restore a fair ballot to the people. In Gloucester Massachusetts a fleet of 150 draggers will resume fishing, while Plymouth sees Charles Goodale held for murder in the Ruth McGurk case. Grayling Michigan reports a fatal two car crash. Clinton Engineer Works workers vote on union choice. Byesville jail riot frees Clifford Shatto. Maj Daniel Richardson restrained in a separate maintenance suit in Redwood City.
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Alamo, Tenn
Tennessee
Plymouth
Mass
Charles Russell Goodale
Onse
Plymouth County
Ruth McGurk
Cambridge
Ile
Wareham
Redwood City
Calif
Daniel G. Richardson
Vienna
Deaths of notable figures span journalism faith and medicine
Col Charles S. Diehl 92 former AP executive and San Antonio Call publisher who reported on the Chicago fire Sioux Indian campaign and Spanish American war died in San Antonio Texas. Ben Stad 61 Philadelphia violinist and instrument collector founder of the American Society of Ancient Instruments died in Gloucester Massachusetts. Rev Dr John R Sampey 82 former president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary died in Louisville Kentucky. Dr Royal Whitman 88 retired joint disease surgeon and author died in New York.
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Charles S. Diehl
Associated Press
San Antonio Call
San Antonio
Tex
Ben Stad
Philadelphia
American Society of Ancient Instruments
Gloucester
Mass
John R. Sampey
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Royal Whitman
New York
Canada Reports Bumper Wheat Crop For 1946
The Canadian Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada's 1946 wheat harvest at 450 million bushels. The figure exceeds last year's crop by 150 million bushels and tops the 15 year average by 80 million bushels.
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Canada
Ottawa
INS
Canadian Bureau of Statistics
La Guardia Arrives in Bern to Discuss UNRRA Poland Visit
UNRRA Director Fiorello La Guardia landed at Templehof in Bern from Geneva at 2:35 PM. He plans to depart tomorrow for Warsaw to discuss UNRRA affairs in Poland.
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Berlin
INS
UNRRA
Fiorelin Hf
la Guardia
Templehof
Bern
Geneva
Warsaw
Poland
Philippine government buys stake in Philippine Air Lines
The Philippines government takes 34 percent of Philippine Air Lines Inc, capitalized at two million pesos, claiming no effect on free airline competition. A new Chinese political party, the Social Democratic party, will form from a merger of two current groups and launch in 2-3 months. Siamese King Phumi phon Adaldet, age 19, travels from Colombo with his mother and entourage by air to Karachi en route to Switzerland.
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Manila
Philippine Air Lines, Inc
Philippine Airlines
NEW Party IN China Shanghai
China
Carson Chang
National Socialists
Social Democratic Party
Chang
National Socialist
Overseas
Colombo
Ceyton
Phiumiphon Adaldet
Siam
Colombia
Karachi
India
Switzerland
Battle Looms Over Klan In Georgia
Georgia confronts a renewed Ku Klux Klan as Gov. Ellis Arnall backs a suit to revoke the Klan charter. Georgia Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel Green claims membership far higher than official figures amid a postwar revival centered near Atlanta on Stone Mountain.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Ku Klux Klan
Hooded Order
Beling
Stone Mountain
State Order
Grand Dragon
Samuel Green
Red-Gall
Gene Talmadge
Green
Talmadge
Klan
C.S. O
Masons
Monroe
C.I.Q
South
Ellis Arnall
State Legal Department
Sult
Fulton County
Association of Georgia Klans
Invisible Empire
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Riots Darken Calcutta as Food Scarcity Worsens
Rioters battled in Calcutta streets harming the new market and bakeries. Prices rose with eggs at 16 cents while refugees crowded police stations. Bengal government called the bloodshed under control though casualties ranged from 2000 to 3000. American personnel reported not involved and kept at Camp Knox.
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New Market
Bengal
Calcutta
Bustee
India
Edward Standard Bladen
U. S
Camp Knox
Margaret Rose to Reach Sixteen Tomorrow
London reports Princess Margaret Rose, younger daughter of the king and queen, will turn 16 the next day. Buckingham Palace says the milestone lowers childhood barriers but she will not enter a life of constant balls and parties. A royal friend compares her to an American girl, fond of dancing, radio tunes, gadgets, and candy rationing.
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London
Margaret Rose
Britain
Buckingham Palace
Fighting flares in Shansi near Tatung Railway
Chinese reports say Communist forces captured Hingung and isolated Chaocheng village as clashes along the Tatung Puhow line intensified. A cease-fire team sent to negotiate vanished, disabling the mission and forcing withdrawal.
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Lie
Yi Shih Pad
Shansi
Tatung-Puhow
Hingung
Chaocheng
Tatung
Italy Seeks Amendments to Preamble in Treaty Draft
A Paris committee reviews proposed changes to Italy’s preamble in the Italian treaty draft. Suggestions include calling Italy at war with some Allied powers and stressing the Italian people’s role in overthrowing Mussolini. Debate over a free territory of Trieste and the Italian Romanian treaty drafts continues.
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Italian Political and ‘Territorial Committee
Italy
Mussolini
Germany
Poand
Belgium
Netherlands
Czechoslovakia
Ialian Nate
Trieste
Truman Heads South As Cold Atlantic Weather Hits
President Truman canceled a planned cruise north of Massachusetts and steered the presidential yacht Williamsburg southward. Charles G. Ross offered no destination details calling the voyage a journey into nowhere while noting the president’s preference for warm weather.
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Truman
Atlantic
Ins
Massachusetts
Meine
Williamsburg
Charles G. Ross
Cruse
Ross
Kent State to Establish News Photography Hall of Fame
Kent State University will establish a hall of fame for news photography. Ten years after starting a short course for news photographers, President George A. Bowman announced the plan. Each year the top published news picture will be honored with a special university citation, inaugural in 1947.
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Kent
Kent State University
George A. Bowman
Planes Missing Over Yugoslavia Trigger Diplomatic Strain
Witnesses described a C-47 explosion after attacks near Klagenfurt and Bled as Yugoslav forces pursued the aircraft. The incident follows another gunfire incident on Aug. 9, with seven Americans interned and U.S. protests escalating across Vienna, Udine, and Trieste amid Allied tensions with Yugoslavia.
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London
U. S
Yugoslavia
Vienna
Udine
Italy
European Air Transport Service
Vienna-Udine
Isonzo
Foreign Office
Marshal Tito
U.S
Richard C. Paterson
Girl Jump From 160 Foot Bridge Survives Leap
Joan Deyo 15 leaped 160 feet from a St. Paul bridge into the Mississippi River and lived. She told rescuers she had the urge to jump and offered no reason. Doctors said she was mildly shocked.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Ins
Joan Deyo
St. Paul
Mississippi River
Ancher Hospital
Bevin Says Britain Waiting on Palestine Report
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the United Nations Assembly in January that Britain would await the British American inquiry committee report on Palestine before deciding the country's future.
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Holy Land
Ernest Bevin
United Nations Assembly
Britain
Palestine
War of Nerves Opens for British in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem the British tightened security with barbed wire barricades armored cars and reinforced guards as a tense war of nerves unfolds. Anonymous warnings of explosions and fears of kidnappings have officials on edge while 50 000 British troops rotate as sentries amid the threat of underground seizures and deportations to Cyprus.
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Jerusalem
Cyprus
Troops Dislodge London Squatters in Army Hut
British troops moved into a hut at an army camp near Iver Heath Buckinghamshire removing Mrs T J Robson who had occupied it with other squatters. The incident prompted nearby residents and other squatters to form protective pickets guarding the huts in the housing shortage clash.
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London
Iver Heath
Buckinghamshire
T. J. Robson
Continue Famine Fight Says Stark in Buffalo
Paul G. Stark of Washington, executive director of the National Famine Emergency Committee, told a memorial auditorium crowd that the famine battle is not over. He warned the gap between world food needs and supplies has narrowed but not closed and urged continued maximum conservation through 1946 and into 1947. A separate report notes a three-man executive HQ team probing the July ambush in Peiping interviewed Marines and Army officers from the convoy.
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Buffalo (P
Paul G. Stark
Washington
National Famine Emergency Committee
Memorial Auditorium
Stark
Europe
Asia
UNRRA
Peiping
Executive Headquarters
United States
Hsiangho
Egypt Rejects British Egypt Treaty Revisions
Alexandria Egypt 7 delegates reject unanimously new British proposals on revising the 1936 Anglo Egyptian treaty said Makram Edeid Pasha a delegation member announced today.
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Egypt
Alexandria
Makram Edeid Pasha
Said
AT SEA (by pigeon) Quiet warning of a Republican raid
The report describes a covert operation aimed at Republican targets as a ship led by Trusman rolls ahead in radio silence toward an expected rendezvous with a Main Democratic underground leader. It mentions Lighthorse Harry and the All American Football Conference pass, a mission to destroy evidence, and a shift noting the attackers as Reuther with a new plan.
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Trusman
Lighthorse
Harry
Adm Blandy Hopes A Bomb Is Shelved
Vice Admiral Blandy director of Bikini atomic tests arrived in Washington and told reporters he hopes the atom bomb will be abolished. He noted the Bikini experiments provided useful information but urged a practical UN backed plan before abolition.
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Washington
INS
W. HL. P. Blandy
Bikini
Blandy
Naval Air Transport Command
California
United Nations
Silk cloth shipment from Japan to reach United States
The first post occupation silk cloth shipment from Japan will depart for the United States before month end. Five million yards of various grades for industrial and clothing use were ordered unfrozen for immediate shipment.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
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