Twin Renaud Twins Set to Graduate Together
Richard and Robert Renaud, twin sons of Octave and Mrs. Renaud of 929 Wadsworth, will receive diplomas at Vocational High School graduation on June 29. They are the only twin pair in the class, 17 years old, and have studied together since St Patrick’s Grammar School. Both are Naval Reserve members.
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Renauds
Vocational High School
Richard
Robert Renaud
Octave Renaud
Wadsworth Sr
Thy
St. Patrick’s Grammar School
Naval Reserve
Food Index Near Record
Dun and Bradstreet reported the wholesale food price index rose to 7.12 for the week ending yesterday, the highest since January 20 and 1.4 percent below the all time peak of 7.28 set January 13. The index covers 31 foods, with 12 prices up, five down, and 14 unchanged.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Treasury Secretary predicts seven billion dollar surplus
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder said the government will end the current fiscal year with a budget surplus exceeding seven billion dollars. He added the excess of receipts over outlays will be very close to President Truman's seven point four eight two billion dollar estimate despite an anticipated six hundred million dollar revenue loss from the recent tax cut.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Truman
Taft Faces Setback As Congress Rushes To Adjourn
Senator Robert A Taft a leading GOP presidential contender sees much of his legislation stalled as Congress hurries toward adjournment this week. Marquis Childs weighs in on the editorial page while other features and sections are listed for pages 10 18 23 27 30 33 35 36 37 41 42 43 25 28 29 20 36 42.
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Robert A. Taft
G.O.P
Congress
Marquis Childs
City Life
Winchell
Police Get Nickel Claim From Hyde Park Motorist
A Hyde Park motorist says a meter was out of order during a June 8 visit and deposited a nickel, later retrieving a nickel from a second meter. Patrolman Robert Williams returned the first nickel after a card from headquarters. The driver suggested a postal money order of five pennies, but a coin card satisfied the claim.
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Hyde Park
Robert Williams
Williams
DC-3 Cargo Plane Missing Over Three Days
Newark police report a DC-3 cargo plane owned by Arrow Airways of Los Angeles has been overdue three days since Monday. State authorities urged Eastern Seaboard agencies to remain vigilant for the aircraft.
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Newark
State
Po Nce
Nacalene
Teterboro
Arrow Airways
Los Angeles
New Jersey
Manhunts widen as two Gary gunmen elude police
Police across nine eastern states join Syracuse and state authorities in one of the era's largest manhunts. Richard Shurman of Gary and John James of Chicago, armed and dangerous, remained at large after their companions Steven Wzesinski and Norma Barbara Shurman were captured. Wzesinski, in custody in Gary, confessed to murder and several robberies totaling $38,100. Cleveland detectives question him about a 1947 bank robbery and 1946 Warsaw robberies. The fugitives were last seen on West Genesee Street in Syracuse at 11 P.M. authorities continued sweeping the city while awaiting Gary officials to take custody.
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Syracuse
Gary
Ind
Richard Shurman
John James
George James
Chicago
Steven Wzesinski
Norma Barbara Shurman
W. Genesee St
Cleveland
Oneida
Wzesinski
Troop D
Arthur Willard
Cleveland Police Department
Wreckage Sighted Near Azores After B-17 Missing
A search plane reported wreckage near Santa Maria Azores in the area where three B 17 bombers from the base were missing after yesterday’s takeoff. No life signs detected and warships head for the scene.
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Santa Maria
Azores
Birth Rate Drops Below 1947 Peak
Washington report from the Office of Vital Statistics shows 1,149,000 births in the first four months of this year versus 1,270,000 in the same period last year. The rate remains just below the 1947 boom level.
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Washington
America
Office of Vital Statistics
Warehouse Fire Claims Fire Captain In West Carrollton
A 310000 pumper failed during the largest blaze in years at a warehouse in West Carrollton Ohio. Fire Captain William Aufuldish, angered by bystander jeers, removed his hat, stomped on it and resigned from the force. Warehouse damage estimated at $10,000.
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West Carrollton
William Aufuldish
Boy Struck by Car Recounts Glass Fracture Removal
Lowell Massachusetts reports Albert Dubie fourteen year old boy was struck by an automobile. While under anesthesia at St Josephs Hospital he coughed up a glass fragment lodged in his nasal passage from a past injury. He now can breathe easily and was only shaken by the accident.
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Lowell, Mass
Mns
Lowell
Albert Dubie
St. Joseph's Hospital
Albert
Sisters reunite after 18 years in Winston‑Salem origin link
Two women, Maggie McGriff and Bessie White, who rented a room two years ago in Washington, discovered they are from Winston‑Salem North Carolina and share the surname Adams. They learn they are sisters and had not seen each other since 1924.
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Washington
Maggie McGriff
Bessie White
Winston-Salem
N. C
Adams
Malone Fire Chief's Tie Catches Fire at State Convention
Fire Chief Ray Hayes detected smoke during the 42d annual state association of fire chiefs convention in Buffalo. A search found the chief's tie afire, reported by Capt. William Hardy who attended Hayes.
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Malone
Ray Hayes
State Association of Fire Chiefs
Buffalo
William Hardy
Three British Planters Slain in Malayan Violence
Malayan dispatches report Chinese gunmen killed three British planters today in renewed Communist terrorism along the Malay Peninsula. The killings heighten tensions as anti colonial hostilities escalate across the region.
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Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Stassen May Back Vandenberg Draft If Drive Fails
Reports from the Stassen camp say if he fails to win the Republican nomination he may lead a convention move to draft Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. Supporters note his rising standing after the Oregon and Nebraska results and say a Stassen victory on the ninth ballot is possible.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
Oregon
Philadelphia
Nebraska
Vandenberg
Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Vanderberg
Oklahoma City Superintendent Accepts Minneapolis Post
Dr. H. B. Brunner, Oklahoma City schools superintendent, will lead Minneapolis schools starting July 15 at an annual salary of 18 500. The Minneapolis Board of Education announced the selection from three finalists after interviews. The other finalists were David H. Patton of Syracuse and W I White of Dallas.
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Minneapolis
Minn
H.B. Brunner
Oklahoma City
Minneapolis Board of Education
David H. Patton
Syracuse
W.I. White
Dallas
Tex
Two on a Match Trouble for Hubby
Los Angeles report states Pearl Spiegel accuses her husband Eugene Spiegel of abandoning their Cleveland home for a pack of cigarettes and resurfacing a year later in Hollywood married to another woman. The district attorney’s office filed a bigamy complaint against Spiegel, 50.
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Los Angeles
Cleveland
Hollywood
District Attorney's
Eugene Spiegel
Pearl LL. Spiegel
Nothing to Mend In Hilarious Exchange Says Fonda
Henry Fonda mockingly questions Soviet requests for disarmament calling it ignorance or stupidity. A joking aside compares Russians to a black marketer's wife and a college student narrator notes a mendicant at the door, quipping there is nothing to mend.
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Henry Fonda
Farm Lobby Charge Made
A federal grand jury indicted Texas and Georgia agricultural commissioners, two farm groups, and two others for conspiring to lobby for higher commodity prices without registering with Congress. Indicted are Texas Commissioner J E B McDonald, Georgia Commissioner Tom Linder, Ralph W. Moore of Granger Texas, and Robert M. Harris of Harris and Vose NYC, with the National Farm Committee and Farm Commissioners' Council named.
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Washington
Agricultural Commissioners of
Texas
Georgia
Clark
Congress
J. E B. McDonald
Tom Linder
Ralph W. Moore
Granger
Tex
National Farm Committee
Robert M. Harris
Harris and Vose
New York City
Linder
Farm Commissioners’ Council
One Killed in Fire at Heidelberg University
A fire swept a new Heidelberg University building in Germany, killing one person during a period of student protests over food rations in the city. The blaze broke about an hour after marches through Heidelberg.
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Heidelberg U
Heidelberg
Germany
Heidelberg University
Wheel chair wheels and axle stolen in Grand Rapids
Police sought a thief who took the wheels and axle from a wheel chair owned by Richard Cass a cripple in Grand Rapids Michigan. The incident prompted an investigation by local authorities.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Richard Cass
Taber Fights Senate Aid Bill Boost in Washington
Representative Taber criticizes the Senate foreign aid bill as excessive while the chamber approves a $6.125 billion package by a 60 to 9 vote. The Senate also authorizes a Navy appropriation and a government corporations bill including TVA funding, shifting actions back to the House for final decision ahead of adjournment.
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Washington
Rep. Taber
R-N.y
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
Taber
Truman
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Czechoslovak Refugees Arrive by Plane in Kent
Twenty one Czechoslovak refugees including women and children arrived by air at a Royal Air Force station in Kent today as announced by the Air Minis.
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London
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Kent
House Debates Peacetime Draft Delays and Aliens Enlistment
Washington report on a House plan to delay registration until January 31 and push major recruiting incentives. Shafer and Short back proposals to extend enlistment terms and allow up to 100000 aliens for three years, with Senate parity discussed.
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Washington
Shafer
R-Mich
Short
R-Mo
HOUSE
Andrews
Rn.y
House Armed Service Committee
Gavin
R-Pa
Armed Services
Congress
Joint
Congressional Committee
Cool Clear Day Ahead in Syracuse Weather Forecast
The forecast calls for a cool clear day in Syracuse with a low around 46 tonight and another chilly June day ahead. Last night’s low was 48, three degrees above the 1932 record low. high pressure dominates the north and skies are clear east of the Rockies.
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Syracuse
Rocky Mountains
Syracuse Reward Tickets For Careful Drivers
Syracuse police start a campaign issuing movie tickets as rewards for courteous driving. Officers will note drivers names or license numbers when observing acts of care, with the Herald-Journal forwarding the list to invite honored drivers to three downtown theaters for two admissions.
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Syracuse
John A. Kinney
Herald-Journal
Loew's State
Keith's
Paramount
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