Hollywood gossip and columnists spark tense Hollywood talk
Earl Wilson recalls debates over press coverage of Hollywood figures. Dennis Morgan and Mrs Morgan defend the industry’s public image while a gossip columnist nicknamed Jimmy Violinist is referenced. The piece notes Hollywood inflation chatter and other industry chatter from Akron Beacon Journal events.
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Akron
Hollywood
Dennis Morgan
Tam
Mayflower
Akron Beacon Journal
Morgan
Jimmy Violinist
Petition seeks legalization of voluntary euthanasia in New York
A petition signed by 1 000 physicians urging that voluntary euthanasia be permitted by law has been sent to every member of the New York State Legislature. The drive was organized by a committee of 1 776 physicians for legalization and the Euthanasia Society of America.
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New York
New York State
The
Euthanasia Society of America
Arrests of 24 foreigners near Dijon labeled observers
French authorities say 24 foreigners were arrested in the Franco-Spanish frontier region of Côte d Or near Dijon after entering France illegally. The detainees described themselves under questioning as observers.
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Paris
INS
Cote D'or
Dijon
France
Ilegally
Fire Damages Three 5 and 10 Cent Stores in Cohoes
A basement fire at M. H. Fishman store spread to a Woolworths, damaging three adjoining five and ten cent shops in downtown Cohoes. Smoke and water affected an S. S. Kresge store while the blaze was contained.
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Cohoes
M. H. Fishman
F. W. Woolworth
S. S.kresge
Farm Bureau Parley Faces Price Policy Fight at Convention
The American Farm Bureau Federation heads into its 29th annual convention amid expected a wide debate on government farm price policies while electing a successor to Edward A. O'Neal. Convention sessions start Tuesday as housing officials face a congressional probe into mismanagement and possible fraud at the Public Housing Authority in California.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
Washington
INS
Public Housing Authority
California
Rep
Harness
R-Ind
House
Subcommittee On
PHA
San Diego
Reds oppose international court on human rights in Geneva
Russia objects to a proposed UN five member commission and an international court for arbitration, calling it a violation of national sovereignty. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the Human Rights Commission which had advanced the plan for handling complaints. In Greece, Lt Col Allen C Miller was slightly injured in a jeep crash between Arta and Agrinion. Paris reports France decreed Russians repatriated from France cannot take French wives or children born in France, after Moscow barred French repatriates from taking Russian spouses or children born in Russia.
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Switzerland
Russia
United Nations Human Rights Commission
Eleanor Roosevelt
U.N. Commission
IU. S
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Greece
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Aoe Nations Special Committee
Balkans
Arta
Agrinion
Paris
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France
Moscow
China War Reignites Across Three Fronts After Two Week Lull
Civil conflict surges in western Manchuria northern Honan and central Hupeh Anhwei Kiangsi as government forces face renewed Red offensives. Kaifeng near Nanking becomes focal point with a push toward Chenghsien. foreign evacuees from Kaifeng reach Shanghai amid escalating turmoil.
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Honan Province
Hupeh- Anhwei-Kiangsi
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Kaifeng
Nanking
Chenghsien
UNRRA
Shanghai
Central China
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South China
Peiping
Chen Chang
Liaoning
Sennett Admits Involvement in Girl's Slaying in Wisconsin
Jefferson Wisconsin District Attorney Francis Garity says Buford Sennett has admitted involvement in the disappearance and death of eight year old Georgia Jean Weckler of Fort Atkinson. He says Sennett and an unnamed companion gave sleeping pills and dumped the body in the Blue River near Blue River after an earlier related murder case.
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Jefferson, Wis
Francis Garity
Buford Sennett
Georgia
Jean Weckler
Fort Atkinson
Garity
Sennett
University of Wisconsin
Blue Rivers
Blue River
Robert Winslow
Carl Carlson
Wisconsin
Deaths list notes notable figures from religion to arts
DEATHS INCLUDE GEN EDWARD J HIGGINS 83 third international leader of the Salvation Army who succeeded Bramwell Booth in 1929 and served until 1934 in Summit New Jersey ARTHUR WALSH 5h executive VP Higgins Thomas A Edison Inc and former U S Senator from New Jersey in New York City DR SAMUEL FRIEDMAN 72 medical practitioner and inventor said to have devised the first railroad block signal system in New York City THE KEY JOWAN JOSEPH KEEP 55 former president of Gonzaga University in Portland Will Fyfe 61 Scottish comedian and actor in London ARTHUR MACHEN 84 British writer in Beaconsfield England LOUIS DELAGE 73 French automobile manufacturer in Paris.
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Edward J. Higgins
Salvation Army
Bramwell Booth
Summit
N. J
Arthur Walsh
Higgins Thomas A. Edison, Inc
U. S
New Jersey
New York City
Samuel Friedman
Jowan Joseph Keep
Gonzaga University
Spokane
Portland
Ore
Will Fyfe
London
Arthur Machen
Beaconsfield
England
Louis Delage
Paris
Deuel Named to Niagara Frontier State Park Commission
Alanson G. Deuel publisher of the Niagara Falls Gazette was named by Gov. Dewey to the Niagara Frontier State Park Commission to complete the term of the late Paul A. Schoellkopf. The seven member panel serves without salary and the term ends April 25, 1948.
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Alanson G. Deuel
Niagara Falls
Dewey
Niagara Frontier
State Park Commission
Deuel
Paul A. Schoellkopf
One Mans Opinion on Poultry Show and Fights
Walter Kiernan vents on a chaotic mix of events from the National Poultry Show at Madison Square Garden to a controversial boxing judging moment. He notes Loui s predicting a future knockout, while Stassen rivals Truman and Dewey for influence and humorously muses on Russia and public opinion.
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National Poultry Show
Madison Square Garden
Purina
Marty Monroe
Polish deputy premier accuses Russia of coal grab and war-like coercion
Stanis law Mikolaczyk, fugitive Polish deputy premier, alleges Russia seizes coal from Poland under wartime rhetoric. He cites domestic shortfalls, a global price disparity with Western Europe, and claims security forces include exiles trained in Moscow and Paris amid Nazi infiltration concerns.
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Warsaw
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Europe
Moscow
Paris
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