Laraine Day Attacks Rickey After Dodgers Giants Clash
Laraine Day spared no praise for Leo Durocher’s return to Brooklyn after the Giants pounded the Dodgers 13 to 4, accusing Branch Rickey of opposing Leo and saying she never trusted him. She spoke from the Ebbets Field clubhouse, recalled Rickey’s firing attempts, and described Leo’s shaky contract situation and the emotional shock of viewing Rickey as an adversary.
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Branch Rickey
Leo Durocher
Ebbets Field
Giants
Dodgers
Laraine
Leo
Brooklyn
Rickey
Star
M Rickey
Mr. Rickey
Ceveren
Lee
Bethlehem Steel Lowers Prices to Meet Competition
Bethlehem Steel Co cuts prices on more than two dozen slice products by one to three dollars a ton to compete after a prior price rise of two dollars to 124 a ton. Other items note include a federal suit involving Frank Jay Gould over a 400000 check and Tito pressing the UN on the Trieste issue. A theft story from New York reports a jewelry shop burglar cutting a ceiling hole to steal 10000 in gems but triggering the alarm on the way out, leading to capture.
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Bethlehem Steel
New York
Bethlehem Steel Co
Bethlehem
U. S
Creck
Frank Jay Gould
Nuc
Mme
Anne Vilbert de Lairigne
Memorial to Two U S Fliers Erected in Berlin
In Western Berlin a memorial honors Lt. Charles H. King of Britton and Lt. Robert W. Stuber of Arlington California who died last Sunday in the blockaded city. The tablet marks the site of their crash and notes each left a widow and child in Wiesbaden. A Royal Air Force team will visit the United States for a month of tours to discuss navigational problems and bomber efficiency.
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U. S
Berlin
Charles H. King
Britton
Robert W. Stuber
Arlington, Calif
Wiesbanes
RAF
U.S
London
Civil Air Ministry
T Transport
Royal Air Force Maison
Tsingtao
United States
Conuith
Richard E. ‘Yarbel
Logan
Utah
Police Nip Attempt To Steal Millions
London nine gangsters were arrested after a clash with police during an eight million dollar gold ingot heist at a warehouse near the airport. Forty officers challenged the thieves who used a dilapidated dairy van. A seven battie ensued with detectives injured. defendants appeared in Uxbridge Police Court for arraignment. The ninth suspect remained hospitalized.
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London
INS
Uxbridge
Inter
Colored Route Numbers Tried in Connecticut
Connecticut tests color coded highway routes to aid navigation in New Haven with Route One in red Route Five in green and Route Ten in yellow. The plan aims to reduce driver confusion as the state experiments with color designations on key corridors.
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Connecticut
Hartford
Conn
INS
Mye Stain Highway Department
New Haven
Presbyterians Grow as General Assembly Reports Membership Surge
The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America reports 49,466 new members in the last nine months and Sunday school enrollment up by 12,054, reflecting historic growth. Motor vehicle production in the U.S. this week totals 111,804 units with 87,564 passenger cars and 24,240 trucks built. A weekly church notice warns of a missing plastic raincoat left at a Memphis church three weeks ago, urging the owner to claim it.
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Philadelphia
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Follay
Hargest
Organized Presbyterianism
America
General Assembly
Imovtor Ganocteue
United States
Automotive News
Lasten
IFAIR
Memphis
Tenn
Richard B. Gibbs
British Stop Cutting Size Of Army LONDON CUP
In a Commons statement Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin announced Britain has halted demobilization of certain RAF units due to the Berlin crisis and the Soviet blockade. He urged Three-Power discussions with the Kremlin to seek a peaceful European settlement and stability for all.
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Great Britain
Berlin
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Russia
House of Commons
Commons
Kremlin
Europe
Royal Air Force
Bertin Sleps
Labor Deputy in Japan Quits Post
TOKYO (WP) Paul S. Stanchfeld deputy labor chief of Allied headquarters resigned in protest against General MacArthur’s restrictive labor policy for Japanese government workers. He hopes to return to the United States with his boss James Killen, who announced resigning as labor writer. A teachers’ strike has spread in Japan over MacArthur’s no strike edict.
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Tokyo
Paul
Stanchfeld
Allied Headquarters
Douglas MacAiihuc
United States
Willyws
James H. Killen
Japan
MacAbbue
Edilor
IDEATHS OF PROMINENT FIGURES IN AMERICA AND ABROAD
Obituary notice listing several notable deaths including Fred Preston Cone former Georgia governor, John Wheeler Griffin admiralty lawyer and War Shipping Board counsel, Constantine Toumanoff linked to Russian royal lineage and Harvard affiliate, and Frederick A. Stevenson president of American Car and Foundry Co. deaths reported in New York City Cambridge Wilmington Memorial Hospital.
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Fred. Preston Cone
Fiori
Lake City
Fla
John Wheeler Griffin
Admiralty
King Haakon of
Norway
War Shipping Board
New York City
Constantine Toumanoff
Hartyard University Business School
Cambridge
Frederick A. Stevenson
American Car and Foundry Co
Memorial Hospital
Wilmington
Del
No Spy Hunt Made at Lake Success
The State Department assured the United Nations that no spy hunt will be conducted at the Lake Success headquarters. The move was intended to calm outraged delegates and employees who believed they would be investigated by a three man committee appointed by Secretary Marshall.
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Lake, Success
State Department
United Nations
Lake Success
Marshall
Endicott Johnson Announces Bonus Plan For Employees
Endicott Johnson Corporation will pay a 1.3 million dollar bonus to up to 18,000 employees as an alternative to a third wage increase. George W. Johnson said the bonus equals 80 percent of each worker’s average hourly base pay for 26 four‑week 40‑hour periods, with eligibility for those on the payroll as of December 1, 1947.
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Npilotn Upl
Endicott Johnson Corporation
George W. Johnson
Johnsain
Vishinsky to Attend Talks in Belgrade Conference
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky arrived in Prague en route to the Belgrade conference on Danube River shipping. He will participate as a spokesman on foreign affairs, accompanying Deputy Trade Minister Borisov. They were greeted by Czechoslovak officials including Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementi.
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Prague
Andrei
Vishinsky
Ler
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Wishinsky
Russia
Woman Tries Suicide With Gas After Husband Prefers Music
Alice Thomas age 19 attempted suicide by turning on home gas jets after five weeks of marriage. husband favors classical music over boogie woogie triggering police report.
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Chicago
Alice Thomas
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