Prague amnesty for Catholic priests branded fake by Rome
Rome's Quotidiano called Prague's amnesty for clergy a pseudo amnesty and cited 250 priests still jailed. It claimed 22 held in Brno, 16 in Hradec Kralove, and at least 23 in Ceske Budejovice, according to unnamed sources. Prince Aly Khan took a baby's crib from London to Paris as Rita Hayworth awaits a baby in Switzerland. Panama imposes reduced prison terms for most inmates, with exceptions for serious and repeat offenders. Einaudi praised a conductor. Toscanini declined the post from the United States. American soldiers in Europe to learn atomic defense measures next year at Army training centers.
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Italian Catholic Action
Quolidiano
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Hradec Kralove
Ceske Budejovice
London
Prince Aly Khan
Paris
Rita Hayworth
Laurisanne
Switzerland
Frankfort
Germany
Europe
U.S. Army
Police Seek 40 Hour Week and 25 Year Retirement
New York policemen in 190 communities push for a 40 hour work week and a 25 year retirement plan. John E. Carton, president of the Police Conference of New York, announced the stance at a dinner honoring him. The Conference represents about 40,000 officers.
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New York State
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Police Conference of
Witnesses in Bridges Case Tie to Communist Ties
In San Francisco Irene Patti Harris testified Bridges admitted membership in the Communist Party and urged others to join. Newsman Stanley B. Hancock said he attended a meeting in San Diego with Bridges and co defendant Henry Schmidt.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Communist Party
Irene Patti Harris
Bridge’s International ‘Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Stanley B. Hancock
San Diego
Henry Schmidt
Deaths of notable figures listed in Chicago area obituary column
Barrett Conway 71 retired last week as vice president and secretary of the Chicago and North Western Railway, after nearly 50 years with the road in Chicago. G Lynn Barry 58 assistant U S pardon attorney in the Justice Department since 1944, in Washington. George R VanNamee 71 native of Watertown and longtime member of the State Public Service Commission, in St Luke's Hospital New York. John Pollock Brown 94 Princeton's oldest alumnus, retired 1931 after 50 years with Charles Scribner and Son in New York, in Ballston Spa. Mrs William Fe Werner 8 publisher Frank Gannett's (text cut).
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Chicago and North Western Railway
Chicago
G. Lynn Barry
U. S. Pardon
Justice Department
Washington
George R. Vannamee
Watertown
State Public Service Commission
St. Luke’s Hospital
New York City
John Pollock Brown
Princeton University
Charles Scribner and Son
Ballston Spa
William FE. Werner
Frank Gannett
Press Criticism Arrow Toscanini Refuses Life Senator
The Italian press harshly criticized Maestro Arturo Toscanini for declining to accept a life senatorial title in the Italian republic. In Rome, President Luigi Paria was noted, while in Paris, Premier George Bidault faced a cabinet setback as two votes fell in the lower house over a Communist pension proposal for elder war veterans.
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Rome
Arturo Toscanini
Luigi
Paris
George Bidault
Brooks Tries To Get Bail
Rochester report says Nicholas Brooks a 30 year old Rome house painter faces a first degree grand larceny charge as authorities consider an abduction warrant linked to the disappearance of his wife Glida Brooks 26. A 15 year old witness Orsemus Bitely Jr alleged Brooks pushed her from a pier on Nov 3 and forced the boy to Oklahoma City. Brooks denies the accusations and no trace of Mrs Brooks has been found. An attorney for Brooks sought bail while District Attorney Anthony Maceli contemplates the abduction case.
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Nicholas Brooks
Rome
Emil Lambiase
Brooks
Orsemus Bitely, Jr
Glida Brooks
Bitely
Oklahoma City
Rex Beach Rites Delayed in Sebring Florida
Rex Beach, 72, famed novelist of The Spoilers and The World in His Arms, died by his own hand in Sebring. Funeral arrangements were delayed awaiting arrival of relatives as doctors diagnosed throat cancer with two years of illness.
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Sebring
Fla
Rex Beach
Beach
Youths Gifted, Dies in Elevator Fall in Boston
Salvatore D Amico, 17, earned his first wages and bought Christmas gifts for his parents. He stepped into an open elevator well in an Essex Street building and fell 45 feet to his death. He had proudly shown his mother the money saved for the gifts just a day earlier.
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