Civilian War Victim Fund Prompts Senate Fight
Sharp Republican and Democratic opposition surfaced as the Senate debated a bill to provide monthly civilian war and blackout survivor benefits. The measure would pay disability death or capture claims and extend five years after the war, with administration support and objections over new liability for ordinary civilians in raids.
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Awashington
Budget Bureau
George
D-Ga
Sen
Ate Finance Committee
Education and Labor Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Defense Agency
Aote
United States
Thomas
Utah
Swedish Ship Sails With Cargo of Japs And Thai Nationals
The Swedish motorship Gripsholm left New York carrying 1 097 Japanese and Thai nationals to exchange for American officials and journalists interned in Asia. It will stop at Rio de Janeiro for 403 more Japanese from Brazil and Paraguay, then head to Laurenco Marques. The plan includes transferring American officials and newspaper men held in Japan and occupied China, delivering them home aboard the Asama Maru and Gripsholm.
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Gripsholm
New York
Asia
Rio
de Janeiro
Brazil
Paraguay
Laurenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Joseph C. Grew
United States
American Republics
Canada
Japan
China
Widow Beckers Poisoner Dies in Brussels Prison
Maria Petitjean known as the Widow Beckers of Liege died in a Brussels prison where she had been held since 1936 for poisoning 11 people and attempting to poison at least three others. She was legally dead since 1938 after conviction and execution sentence, though life imprisonment had replaced it. The case centered on poisoning with Becker tea used to sickened and kill boarders and her husband.
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Brussels
Vichy
France
Maria Petitjean
Beckers
Liege
Talmadge Illiteracy Blast Draws New York Jeer
New York Mayor LaGuardia dismissed Governor Eugene Talmadge's literacy claim as an expert remark. He noted that 30,000 Georgians were rejected by the Army for illiteracy and contrasted New York's 3.7 percent illiteracy with Georgia's 91 percent from 1930 census figures.
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New York
Georgia
U S Planes Raid Constanta and Ploesti Reported
A Bucharest resident says United States bombers raided Constanta and the oil center Ploesti last week. Four planes reportedly landed in Turkey after the raids. The witness, seen over Bucharest after an early 4 20 AM alert, spoke of limited numbers amid heavy anti air fire.
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U. S
Constanta
Bucharest
Istanbul
Turkey
United States
Rumania
Black Sea
Ploesti
Soldier's Death Ruled Accidental in Melbourne
Post mortem report declares Pvt Seth W Willingham 27 of Houston Texas killed accidentally on a railroad flatcar when a load of lumber toppled. Police had thought foul play possible when his body was found.
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Melbourne
Post
Seth W. Willingham
Houston
Tex
Former Fireman sentenced for Lackawanna tavern holdup
Patrick E. Fix, 44, a Buffalo city fireman for 17 years, was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in Attica Prison for the February 27 holdup of a Lackawanna tavern totaling $5,200. He pled guilty to first degree robbery. John McCarthy, 24, was indicted with Fix and Buckley but acquitted. Buckley, 30, serves 20 years to life for the March 2 fatal shooting of Michael J. Courtney.
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Patrick EB Fix
Attica
Lackawanna
John McCarthy
Fix
William J. Buckley
State Supreme Court
Buckley
Michael J. Courtney
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