Agents Smash $1 Million Dope Ring
Federal agents in New York dismantled a million-dollar narcotics ring after three months of surveillance and undercover purchases. Three men Angelo Abbrescia Ugo Mariani and Charles Santora were arrested on conspiracy and narcotics charges and held on combined bail of 155000.
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Angelo Abbrescia
Queens
Ugo Mariani
Newark
N. J
Charles Santora
Manhattan
Abbrescia
Santora
Mariani
U. S
Maurice A. Bungard
Waxey Gordon
Lucky Luciano
Gordon
Irving Wexler
Charles Luciano
Italy
United States
Ryan
Angelo Bozzi
CIO Names Unqualified Candidates for Senate Nomination
The New York State CIO Council says several Democratic senatorial candidates are definitely unqualified due to lack of experience or reputation. In a letter to Democratic State Chairman Paul E. Fitzpatrick, signed by CIO Council president Louis Hollander and secretary treasurer Harold J. Gano, the group requests a chance to present views at the State Convention on August 28. If no candidate meriting CIO support is chosen, the Political Action Coordinating Committee will act at the Buffalo convention in September.
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New York
CIO
New York State
CSO
Buffalo
Seamen Donate 250 to Polio Victims Via MSTS Aid
Seamen aboard the freighter Diphda gave 250 dollars to the Hjornevik family of Taylor Wisconsin to aid polio relief. The gift came after the ship’s skipper requested payroll deduction and MSTS approval. One Hjornevik child died of polio and four others contracted the disease.
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San Francisco
Hijomnevik
Taylor
Wis
Military Sea Transport Service
Hjornevik
Mid-Pacific
William J. Catlett
U.S. Posts Notice Of Embargo On Mexican Cattle
The Agriculture Department began formal action to lift the foot and mouth disease embargo on Mexican cattle and meat by Sept 1. Public views are invited until Aug 27 as part of compliance with federal rulemaking. no new outbreaks have been reported in over a year since the 1946 epidemic and joint U.S.-Mexico efforts are said to have wiped out the disease.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Federal Register
Mexico
Synagogue Leader Backs Eisenhower for President
Maxwell Abbell, head of the United Synagogue of America, endorses General Eisenhower saying he will restore honesty in government and pursue policies for the general welfare. The organization represents about 450 synagogues and 700000 members nationwide.
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Denver
United Synagogue of America
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maxwell Abbell
Chicago
Eisenhower
America
Army buys Marine type body armor for Korea troops
The Army ordered 25,000 suits of rigid fiber glass plated armor through the Marine Corps for use by soldiers in Korea. The service plans its own armor with 12 layers of flexible laminated nylon ducks, under development.
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Washington
Army
Marine Corps
Korea
Lacquer Thinner Kills 3 Convicts In Ohio Prison
Three inmates died and two were seriously ill after drinking lacquer thinner flavored with citronella bought from a convicted murderer at the London prison farm near Columbus. Maury Koblentz said John Johnson, 50, of Cincinnati, who works in the farm soap and paint brush factory, admitted selling the thinner for five packs of cigarettes. Johnson is serving a life term for murder.
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London
Maury Koblentz
John Johnson
Cincinnati
Johnson
Kobleniz
War of 1812 officer Cox restored to rank in posthumous act
President Truman signed a bill restoring William S. Cox to third lieutenant, erasing a century old court martial finding for abandoning his post during the Chesapeake Shannon action. Cox died in 1873 after the battle where James Lawrence fell. The move followed decades of protest by Rep. E. E. Cox.
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U. S. Navy
Truman
William S. Cox
Cox
Chesapeake
Shannon
Boston Harbor
James Lawrence
iCox
Ito
Ishin
Lawrence
E. E. Cox
D-Ga
Texas Holds 2d Primary Focuses on Supreme Court Race
Texas voters faced a hot day as the second Democratic primary offered a Supreme Court seat and several district runoffs. Eleven counties already bypassed runoffs after the July 26 primary while races included four congressional district contests a Civil Appeal Court judgeship three State Senate seats and 29 stateHouse posts. Sheriff T W Buckshot Lane campaigned in a repurposed school bus against alleged government waste and Communists while Rep Clark Thompson sought a third term amid New Deal accusations.
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Tex
State Supreme Court
Texas Elections Bureau
Supreme Court
Civil Appeal Court
Wharton County
T. W. Buckshot Lane
Clark Thompson
Congress
Thompson
Galveston, Tex
Injunction Blocks Lifting of Knights of Pythias Charter
A New York temporary injunction restrains the Knights of Pythias supreme judge and Earl N Genzberger from suspending the state grand lodge charter. Justice Arthur H Schwartz set September 8 for trial. The stay cites additional events since the prior action amid dissension over payments to the national body.
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NEW. York GP
Knights of Pythias
Earl N. Genzberger
New York State Grand Lodge
Supreme Court
Arthur H. Schwartz
Supreme Lodge
U S Gambler Tax Law Falls Short in Revenue Plans
The Bureau of Internal Revenue reports the gambling tax law, aimed at curbing activity and raising revenue, has yielded little money in eight months and gambling remains widespread. It says tax take for a full year would be far below the 300 million dollar estimate, and the provision may be ineffective as a regulatory measure.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Congress
Tyne 20
Bureau
Japs to Trade With Reds
Tokyo officials said Japan will allow limited non strategic exports to Communist China if payment is received in advance. Nobuhiko Ushiba announced exports may be cleared for dyes woolens machinery and paper upon U S dollar deposits or barter payment, after removal from the embargo list at the Washington talks.
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Tokyop
China
Nobuhiko Ushiba
International Trade and Industry Ministry
Ress
U. S
Far East
Wholesale Prices Up for Sixth Week
Washington reports wholesale prices rose for the sixth consecutive week. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes a 0.2 percent increase for the week ended last Tuesday, lifting the index to 112.2 percent of the 1947-49 average with gains in poultry eggs cattle and lambs. Processed foods rose 0.3 percent due to meat costs while nonfarm, nonfood items edged up 0.1 percent.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Embarrassed Dog Returns Home After Theft
In Muncie Indiana Leo Holloway an owner says his German shepherd was stolen from his dry cleaning shop Thursday night along with a $30 cash register and found Friday night tired and wary returning home.
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Muncie
Ind
Leo Hollowar
Hollowar
Foreign VIPs Bring Own Guards to U S
The article notes foreign dignitaries visiting the United States are often protected by their home guards while in the U S. Margaret Truman travels with three U S Secret Service agents. It explains the informal understanding that U S State Department guards foreign VIPs, while foreign officials may use their own guards depending on threat level.
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Washington
United States
Margaret Truman
Secret Service
Europe
Sweden
Miss. Truman
U. S
Elizabeth
Great Britain
Scotland Yard
Duke of Edinburgh
State Department
Truman
U. S. State Department
Chile
Brazil
UN Calls Truce Talks Panmunjom Meeting
The United Nations requested an impromptu meeting with Communist sub-delegates at Munsan during a seven day truce recess. The Reds agreed to the session at 3 PM and no details were released about the discussion or outcome. Communist propaganda outlets offered no comments for a second day.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
Munsan
Red
Union talks switch to New York City in rail dispute
Washington reports Union management talks in the New York Central Railroad dispute recessed until Tuesday for resumed negotiations in New York. Francis A. O Neill Jr of the National Mediation Board offered no reason for moving talks back east. The 58 grievances remain at stake as progress is still hoped without a strike.
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Washington
New York Central Railroad
New York
Francis A. O'Neill
National Mediation Board
O'Neill
Two More GIs Recovered After Flood Tragedy in Korea
The VW 5 45th Division announced the bodies of two more soldiers drowned when a platoon was trapped by a flash flood last Monday were recovered. Nineteen bodies had been recovered earlier, nine soldiers remained missing and presumed dead, and eleven soldiers survived the incident.
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Seoul
Korea
Politics Seen in Jailing of Pet Crow
In Cleveland the crow Blackie was jailed for swooping on people and deemed a public nuisance. Councilman Joseph S. Herman, owner of the bird, protested to the mayor, while Herman’s wife hinted at political foes. Mayor John Coyne dismissed the uproar with a light quip.
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Cleveland
Blackie
Joseph S. Hermen
Herman
Meyor John Coyne
Brooklyn
Miners Begin Holiday Strike Warning in 10 Day Pause
In Pittsburgh 450,000 coal miners join a 10 day memorial holiday led by union president John L. Lewis to honor dead and maimed miners. Lewis calls for safety improvements while operators urged to ready for potential strike. The pause spans five working days due to weekends and Labor Day.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Knauf Wins Broome Republican Primary by Narrow Margin
Assemblyman Richard H. Knauf won the First Assembly District renomination in Broome County by 39 votes, 6588 to 6549, over Darwin R. Wales. Wales considered a recount but was away on vacation. Knauf dismissed any recount effort. Knauf was the sole Broome officeholder to survive the primary.
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Binghamton
Richard H. Knauf
First
Darwin R. Wales
Broome County
Knauf
Edwin Arthur Hail
W. Sterling Cole
Bath
Orlo M. Brees
Warren M. Anderson
FBI Saves Bank Records From Burned Dierks Bank
FBI agents recovered partly burned checks and deposit slips from a bonfire behind the home of Opal Simmington in Dierks Arkansas. She has been arraigned on falsifying bank records and released on 7500 dollar bond. Investigators trace a loss rising from seventy thousand to about one hundred sixty thousand dollars as Banking Commissioner Edward McKinley and auditors review the bank records.
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Dierks, Ark
INS
Opal Simmington
Dierks
FBI
Edward McKinley
Eisenhower to Meet With New York State Leaders
New York State Republican leaders plan to meet with presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower next week. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and state GOP chairman William L. Pfeifer will confer as Eisenhower addresses the American Legion convention in Denver and arrives in New York for three weeks of campaign operations at the Commodore Hotel.
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New York
New York State
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Republican State Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
Republicanare
William L. Pfeifer
American Legion
Denver
New York City
Commodore Hotel
Alamogordo Ends School Segregation with First Negro Teacher
New Mexico City announces complete abolition of segregation in Alamogordo schools and hires Lawrence Pigford as the first Negro faculty member on a regular New Mexico city staff. Pigford, a Colorado State College graduate with BA and masters in mathematics, joins the new high school to teach math shop and drawing.
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Alamogordo
N. M
New Mexico
Lawrence Pigford
Colorado State College
Greeley
Pigford
Terror raids by Jap Reds predicted in Japan
A Tokyo based expert warned that Japanese Communist operatives and Korean residents in Japan will carry out guerrilla raids on police posts government offices and U S installations to discredit America and win support for communism. He cited Moscow Peiping and North Korea as leaders directing the plan with Russia steering Europe and China directing Asia.
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Tokyo
America
Moscow
Reds
Japan
U. S
Flan Mon Batine
China
Russia
Peiping
Fatling
Asia
Europe
French Envoy Sees Stalin In Courtesy Meeting
In Moscow Prime Minister Stalin met French ambassador Louis Joxe in the first interview with a Western envoy in over three years. The 20 minute meeting yielded no discloseable topics and no further comment from the French embassy. Foreign Minister Vishinsky attended the talks.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Louis Joxe
Joxe
Andrei Y. Vishiinsky
Vishinsky
Stalin
Binghamton Man Named State Works Director
Albany reports Paul G. Baldwin of Binghamton will become director of the State Works Department bureau of rights of way and claims on September 11. Baldwin, a senior land and claims assistant in the Binghamton office, was named to succeed T. Burton Hughes of Albany in the $12 000 a year post. Hughes moves to deputy public works superintendent, while Fred W. Fisch retires due to ill health.
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Albany
Paul G. Baldwin
Binghamton
State Works Department Bureau of Rights of Way and Claims
Baldwin
Land and Claims
Asiistar
Department
T. Burton Hughes
Hughes
Earler
Fred W. Fisch
Lot
Prize Baker at Butts County Fair
Tyrone Shaeffer an eight year old baker from Gridley California won second prize with a white layer cake at the Butts County Fair baking contest.
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Gridley
Calif
Tyrone Shaeffer
Butts County
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