Lassie the star dog earns a kingly wage in Hollywood
Earl Wilson reports on Lassie the famous collie star earning an estimated 260000 a year under a 52 week contract, more than many Hollywood stars. Lassie’s trainer Rudd Weatherwax describes his intelligence and even notes Lassie’s boredom on set. The article also mentions Churchill refusing his £8000 MP leader salary despite absence from the House.
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Jeanette McDonald
MGM
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Churchill
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Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Woman Drowns In Canal Near Welland Ont
An American woman, Miss Anne Lewkowski, 24, of Welland, fell into the Welland Canal and drowned while attempting to retrieve money tied to a black market deal in yuan. Market operators faced punishment as prices for rice and currency spiked in the incident fallout. Foreign reports from Rangoon and Shanghai described Burma’s political moves and a failed Communist landing attempt 100 miles south of Shanghai, with unconfirmed details.
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Welland Canal
Anne Lewkowski
Shanghai
Here
Atomic Lab Labor Pact Ends Dispute
The long running labor dispute at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ends with a contract settlement. An average hourly wage increase of 1.54 dollars is provided for about 875 production workers. The agreement follows a March 1 takeover by Carbide and includes an end to an 80 day injunction on a walkout. Full terms await signing.
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Tenn
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Linwood
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Ihi National Laboratory
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Carinde and Carbon Chemeats Corp
Alpnne Energy Commission
Carbide Tooe
Red Rider Removed From Two Money Bills in House Vote
The House approved removing the red rider from a Treasury Post Office appropriation bill, sending the $248,414,255 measure to President Truman. The rider would have barred using Treasury-Post Office funds to pay salaries of anyone in a union whose officers did not comply with Taft-Hartley. Separately, other news items include a runaway bridegroom tale in Revere, a 65-year-old woman found slain in Chicago, union veterans splitting from the American Legion, and pilots Yeager and Fitzgerald reporting on a supersonic XS-1 test.
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Washington
Treasury Post Office
Fruman
Senate
Chicago
West Side
Anna Heidsick
Celebrity sightings and industry chatter spill into Eden
A jumble of celebrity notes and showbiz updates fills the page. Lassie autographs spark a pawprint replica joke while Weatherwax debates star status. Eden, Miss N, Raven Malone, and Phil Gordon-linked projects surface amid touring, TV, and stock-season chatter with cast member moves and brief industry whispers.
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Eden
Abbet
Eddie Foy, Jr
Harkness Pavilion
Walt Disney
Ernest Hemingway
Raven Malone
Jersey
Tony Farrell
Jean Parker
Peter Donald
Blues Angel
Phil Gordon
CBS
Comedienne
Mary McCarty
Tatty Tutte
Carl
Notable Deaths Across North America Include Prominent Figures
Obituary notices report deaths of Dr Otto Marburg at 74, a Columbia neurology professor. Henry Pelouze DeForest at 83, linked to the first fingerprint file in the U.S.. Joseph Edouard Parrault at 74, former Quebec attorney general and cabinet minister. James L Frise at 58, Toronto cartoonist of Jupiter Junction. Cesare Antonio Monets at 69, Montreal restauranteur. and Harry J Kelfer at 55, a Columbia dispatch cartoonist.
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Columbia University
New York City
Henry Pelouze Deforest
Fulton
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Ont
Cesare Antonio Monet
Harry J. KE
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Jet Planes to Cross Atlantic from London Await July Takeoff
The Air Ministry announced six Royal Air Force Haviland Empire Jets will depart around July 1 for the first Trans Atlantic hop. The aircraft are slated to fly to Canada and the United States with U S Air Force support and interception duties under field conditions at the Ninth Tactical Air Force Base in Greenville, South Carolina.
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London
Air Ministry
Royal Airforce
Haviland Empire
Canada
United States
U.S
Ninth Tactical Airforce
Greenville
S.C
One Man's Opinion By Walter Kiernan
Walter Kiernan's column argues Truman's stance sharpens, backing curbs on Congress and distancing Democrats from spring floods while avoiding named Republican blame. It notes a political song controversy, intra party tensions, and campaign climate. The piece jokes about fast planes in relation to speeches and the era's dollar speed.
Australia denies super weapon report by Sun
Defense Minister John Dedman dismissed a Sydney Sunday Sun claim that Australia is developing a guided mic capable of delivering atomic bombs over long distances. He insisted he would know about such developments.
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Australia
John Dedman
Sydney Sunday Sun
Polk Death Probe Ends As Donovan Flies To New York
William J Donovan, special American investigator in the George Polk murder case, heads to New York by plane as Greek authorities report satisfaction with the case. In Tripoli, rioting by Jews and Arabs ends but some shops burn. casualties include 12 Jews and four Arabs killed, 21 Jews and 29 Arabs injured. Anmuted note: local arrests for rioting and curfew violations.
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Endsatmens
Wiliam J Donovan
CBS
George Polk
New York
Donovan
Tripoli
Libria
Mother Accused in Girl's Death
In Cincinnati Mrs Mary Clay Watts 43 faces a first degree murder charge over the death of her daughter Barbara Ann. Hamilton County pathologists tie the girl's illness to long term poisoning by mercury and barberites. The husband Willis Watts died earlier in Kentucky after a spinal injury. Meanwhile Buffalo issued 80 marriage licenses at City Hall, a one day record.
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O. Cins
Mary Clay Watla
Barbara Aan, Jr
Hamilton County
Herbert Lyle
Tre
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Norwood
Charle W. Fritz
Tam
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Uwa
Frank Dutro
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Barbara
Buffalo
City Hall
Food Poisoning Fells 90 Students
CHARLOTTE North Carolina Gomi cists of Johnson C Smith University reported about 90 students were victims of food poisoning yesterday. Dr G M Wiking former army physician and staff physician at God Samaritan Hospital gave the report after a midnight count. Twelve students hospitalized and in fair condition. about 180 seriously affected under treatment at the infirmary and a dormitory.
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N.C
Johnson C. Smith University
G. M. Wiking
Army
God Samaritan Hospital
Stunt Flyers Killed in Plane Crash Near Kernville
Frank Clark aged 50 and Mark Owen aged 51, veteran stunt flyers for the movies, were killed Saturday when their plane developed motor trouble during a climb and crashed on Dutch Flats near Isabelle, en route to Kernville. Their former Army trainer was aboard.
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Callivy
Frank Clark
Mark Owen
Kernville
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