Glidden tour caravan sails toward Detroit by steamer
A 1946 Glidden tour caravan of early autos heads to Detroit by steamer after loading from Rochester, with the lake steamer due to reach Detroit at 9 A.M. local time. Also: longshoremen walkout spreads to 26 Brooklyn piers, a man dies after plunging from the George Washington Bridge, Jamestown considers a 10 percent electric dividend, soap shortages persist, and New York Farm Bureau notes potential crop surpluses in western New York.
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Detroit
Buffalo
Rochester
New York
Brooklyn
War Shipping Administration
Roger A. Kingsbury
West 144Th St
Fenese
George Washington Bridge
West 152d St
Warren W. Hawley, Jr
Batavia
New York State Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Hawley
Plane Crash Kills Two In Illinois Flight
A chartered plane crashed near Moline airport killing Captain James Steen and Marvin Fox, with 10 passengers injured. Names and home addresses of the dead were not released at once. The scene prompted updates on the flight and casualty details.
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Illinois
Moline
James Steen
Marvin Fox
Bridge collapse and gas outage disrupt New Jersey towns
A 35 foot section of the Brielle Point Pleasant bridge collapsed and a six inch gas main feeding Point Pleasant to Seaside Park was carried away. The incident left multiple communities without gas for hours and disrupted service.
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Brielle
Point Pleasant
Seaside Park
Michigan coach Fielding Harris Yost dies at 75
Death notices report Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach of 39 years who later became athletic director emeritus, in Ann Arbor. Also named are Rev Dr David McConaughty, 85, founder of the first YMCA in India and longtime World Stewardship Council chairman, in Winter Park, and A Cunningham, 61, president of Standard Oil of Texas, in El Paso.
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Fielding Harris
Murry Up" Yost
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Mich
David McConaughty
Young Men's Christian Association
India
World Stewardship Council
Winter Park
Fla
A. Cunningham
Houston
Standard Oil of Texas
el Paso
Stern Gang Threatens Killings Over Death Sentences
In Jerusalem the Stern Gang warned of wholesale assassinations of British authorities if 18 members sentenced to death at Haifa are executed. The palms of vengeance were outlined in the clandestine Humans publication. A wide code sharing plan for handling straying individuals and espionage suspects was announced by American and Soviet occupation zones in Germany.
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Stern Gang
Jerusalem
INS
Palestine
Haifa
Berlin
United States
Germany
Joseph T. McNarney
NKRVD
Major Row Over Vote Probes Emerges in Congress
Washington reports a partisan clash over election campaign inquiries. Republicans pressure speed and procedure amid stalled hearings on the CICs PAC role. Senate panel aims to reconvene in early September with Barker dispute unresolved. Barker denies claims of being fired.
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Washington
C.I.0
Political Action Committee
Leo Allen
R-N
Allen
House Campaign Expenditures Committee
Rayburn
D-Tex
C.I.C
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Montana
Ellender
D-La
Senate
Robert B. Barker
Barker
Ed Johnson
D-Colo
Three Held In Widow's Death In Missouri Well Incident
Three farmers were charged with first degree murder in the drowning of 73-year-old blind widow Dora Bachstein at her Clarence Missouri farm. The men allegedly coerced her into transferring a 58-acre farm and conspired to kill her to fulfill promises of lifelong care. Mark Hundlt confessed to joining Stanley Brown in abducting her from her bed and pushing her into a well on November 17, 1938, while Stanley Brown’s father Sam Brown allegedly paid $500 to aid the crime.
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Macon
Bblind
State Highway Patrol
H. A. Hansen
Mark Edward Hundlt
Stanley Brown
Dora Bachstein
iClarence
Stanley
Sam Brown
Hitler's War Plan Misread Through Draft Day Hurdles
Walter Kiernan notes the 1940 draft registration day as a distraction while Hitler and Japan misconstrued U.S. intentions. He argues Fühlter underestimated American resolve and misread allied signals, linking campaign rhetoric to false threats.
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Tokyo
Manchuria
Defeat of MacArthur by Four-Power Council in Tokyo
In Tokyo Gen. MacArthur faced his first major reversal as the four power council for Japan rejected his plan to invite the seven other Allies to sit in council discussions. Britain and Russia blocked similar moves and demanded that MacArthur present his views on each council recommendation. Lt. Con. Kuzma Derevyanko and W. MacMahon Ball advocated transparency on MacArthur's stance to aid council deliberations.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Attec Council
Japan
Russia
Con. Kuzma Derevyanko
British Commonwealth
W. Mac
British to Take Ruhr Industry Under British Ownership
Britain informs the Allied Control Council it will confiscate the German iron and steel industry in the Ruhr pending future status decisions. Officials work on a public statement that properties will not be restored to former owners.
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Berlin
Ins
Ruhr
Britain
Allied Control Council
Bouquet left at Milan station for Mussolini
A bouquet of red and white dahlias was found tied to a station girder in Milan where Benito Mussolini's body once dangled before an angry crowd after his execution by partisans last year. A ribbon read to the duce from his most faithful.
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Rome
Milan
Benito Mussolini
Russians Suspect Detention Of Meissen Bishop
Catholic sources say Russia likely blocked Bishop Petrus Legge of Meissen from leaving the Russian zone to attend the opening of the annual secret conclave of the German Catholic hierarchy in Fulda Germany. Legge was the sole German bishop absent from the meeting.
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Fulda
Germany
Russia
Petrus Legge
Meissen
Ecret
Legge
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