Big Four Reach Berlin Access Accord At Paris Talks
The Big Four agreed on two temporary working arrangements for run ning Germany and a plan for an Austrian treaty by fall. A secret Council of Foreign Ministers session produced a communique granting free access to Berlin, with Western powers ready to key a final plenary session. Western delegates praised the accord as solid and better than expected amid fears of a renewed blockade.
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Council of Foreign Ministers
Vichinsky
Russia
Rose Marble Palace
Berlin
Dean Acheson
Washington
Truman
Ernest Bevin
London
Andrei’ Vishinsky
West Germany
Junder Austrian Daw
Austria
Man Lost On Lake Near Waterport In Ontario Outlet
A Baldwinsville man, 46, vanished after falling overboard while fueling an outboard motor on a creek near the Ontario Lake outlet about 11 miles from Waterport. Ralph E. Fatchett, an employee of William Hawks of Waterport, was located by Onondaga County Deputy Sheriff Fred Armstrong. Relatives identified include sister Mrs. Grover Johnson of Baldwinsville and brother George Fatchett of Syracuse.
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Waterport
Lake
Ontario
Baldwinsville
Orleans County
William ‘Hawks
Onondaga County
Fred. Armstrong
Grover Johnson
George Fatchett
Syracuse
Free inquiry at risk as billions flow to colleges
Federal treasury funds college programs prompting concerns among educators about potential curbs on academic freedom. Marquis Childs analyzes on the editorial page noting widespread spending and debate. Pages 26 and 27 cover related features and panels.
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Federal Treasury
U. S
Marquis Childs
Rain swept city as storms raked airport and neighborhoods
Weather officials warned of more rain as a storm drenched Cloudburst and Gale areas. A half inch or more of water flooded streets. Downtown and North Side felt the heaviest rain with the Tipperary Hill and Bellevue sectors soaking through. The downpour lasted about an hour in some districts and varied in others. Concludes on Page 11, Columb UD.
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Bellevue
Syra Jeuse
Columb UD
Merchants Adopt Summer Hours in Syracuse
The Syracuse Chamber of Commerce announced summer hours for stores. Retail Merchants Division says shops will close all day Saturdays from July 2 through August 20, open Friday nights before Saturdays until 5 30 PM, with July 1 opening at 10 AM. Regular Monday schedule noon to 6:30 PM remains in summer. July 4 and Labor Day Mondays shift to Tuesday hours on July 5 and September 5.
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Syracuse Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants Division
Phone Rate Case Resumes in New York
The Public Service Commission resumes hearings on New York Telephone Company’s request for a permanent 15 percent rate increase. The firm recently secured temporary boosts of 8 percent on local service and 10 percent on intrastate tolls, with the permanent hike projected to add about 45 million dollars annually.
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Albany
Public Service Commission
New York
Ae Pone
Wall of flood wrecks Tokat city in Anatolia
Istanbul dispatches report a wall of water surging down the rain swollen Yeshikiamk River wrecked Tokat, a 150000 population city in north central Anatolia. No casualties listed yet but officials fear many deaths.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Tokat
Anatolia
Hamilton Fish seeks Senate nomination in Wagner race
Former Republican congressman Hamilton Fish announces his bid for the Senate seat held by Democrat Robert Wagner. Wagner, said to retire due to ill health, opens the contest for the GOP.
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Garrison
Hamilton Fish
Senate
Robert Wagner
D-N
No Surrender Defies Czech Reds Archbishop Beran
Archbishop Joseph Beran issued a defiant no surrender call to Czechoslovakia's 9,000,000 Catholics as the communist government weighs its response. The primate read the pastoral letter in churches despite police warnings and was later silenced by church security and secret police at St. Vitus Cathedral.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Joseph Beran
Beran
Trica
St. Wittis’ Catthedral
Dividend set for National Service Life policies
Veterans Administrator Carl R. Gray Jr announced a next year special dividend of 2.8 billion dollars on National Service Life Insurance policies. About 16 million World War II veterans will receive an average around 175 dollars per veteran, with payments likely starting in January 1950 and completed in mid year.
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Washington
Carl R. ‘Gray, Jr
National Service
Gray
Geiga@e
Hungary Arrests Her Former Envoy
Budapest reports former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk once a leading Communist was arrested on espionage charges. The Szabad Nép newspaper named Rajk and 19 alleged accomplices as agents for a foreign power. The paper claimed the US hired spies after losing its prior agents and infiltrating the Hungarian Communist Party.
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Budapest
Hungary
Laszlo Rajkonce
Jead-j ‘Ing
Szabad Nep
Rajk
United States
Communist’ Party
Wartime peak echoed in 1949 tax bill figures
A U S News and World Report survey says the 1949 cost of government will average about 363 for every person, with federal, state, and local spending rising. Per person, federal costs reach 270, state and local 83, while wartime peak was 380. Major burdens fall on California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
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Washington
U.S. News and World Report
United States
Pitts Orders Water Saving Measures Citywide
City Engineer Nelson F Pitts announced precautionary steps to conserve drinking water amid a dry spell. He urged reducing Skaneateles Lake outlet flow, asked the public to limit hose and sprinkler use, and called on the Parks Commissioner to stop ornamental fountains and possibly delay opening city pools next Monday. The April high water mark at Skaneateles has fallen about four inches. safe ice may be up to 10 inches thick. The Engineering Department opened all city conduits, with 32 million gallons daily flowing into Syracuse.
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Nelson
F Pitts
State Water and Power Control
Skaneaseles Lake
Parks Com
William A. Barry
Pitts
Skaneateles
Syracuse
Ford Wage Freeze Proposal Weighed
Ford Motor Co proposed a wage freeze for 18 months and urged CIO UAW to consider raising pay only if the cost of living rises. The plan targets 106,000 production workers over the next year and a half, tying any increase to living-cost levels.
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Detro Ford
Ford Motor Co
CIO. United
One Dies in Fire in Three Story San Francisco Hotel
An unidentified man died and 46 others escaped last night when fire swept a three story hotel in San Francisco. The victim was found in his room and believed to have suffocated. Authorities investigate the blaze.
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San Francisco
Bad Day for Drivers Fined 861 in Court Arraignments
Police Traffic Court set a record busy day with 78 arraignments. Twenty five faced speeding charges and 19 obstructing traffic. Judge Truman Preston noted a rise in obstruction cases since the 4 30 to 6 PM Warren Street parking ban. Two court record books were used, with fines totaling 160 paid in court and 161 received by mail.
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Truman
HH. Preston
S. Warren Sii
Henry Hipkins
Martha Gaianis
Hawaii Waterfront Strike And Fire Probe
Investigators from three agencies examine a fire at the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union headquarters as Hawaii marks 51 days of waterfront labor action. The ILWU local's 2000 stevedores began a strike May 1 demanding a 32 cent raise to 1.72 an hour.
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Honolulgy
Hawaii
CO. International Longshore— Men's and Warehousemen’s Union
Ex Hiss Aid Takes Stand in Perjury Trial
A former associate of Alger Hiss testifies in the Hiss perjury trial that few trade agreements division file cabinets were locked in the late 1930s. Charles Darlington, assistant chief of the division in 1937, and Hawkins, chief 1936–43, defend Hiss’s integrity and deny prior Communist associations.
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New
YORK
Alger
Hiss
State ‘Department
Whittaker
Charles Darlington
Mi Kisco
Francis B Sayre
C. Hawkins
Arlington
Mass
Tufts College
Darlington
Hawkins
British Wife Apologizes For Clothing Letter
Surrey housewife Dorothy Rockcliffe says her claim of owning one set of underwear was a joking exaggeration aimed at Marshall Plan official Paul Hoffman. She admits she caused an international stir and angered British women and her husband, insisting she has never worn less than four sets and will not write again.
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London
Dorothy Rockciife
Surrey
Lonion Dalk Mail
Rockcliffe
Marshall Plant
Paul Hoffman
Washington
Intern
Amerjcz
Truman seeks new Welfare Dept and roads under commerce
President Truman asks Congress to create a Department of Welfare and to place the Commerce Department in charge of public roads. The reform package, drafted by Hoover Commission, includes seven plans to reorganize agencies for economy and efficiency with a 60 day window for congressional approval.
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Truman
Congress
Department of Welfare
Commerce Department
Capitol Hill
Billi
Congressional
Federal
Federal Security Agency
Commission On Government
Herbert Hoover
Bureau ‘of ‘Employment ‘Security
Commission
Senate
DHS
White House
Hoover
House
Shortny
Federal Security Admin
Oscar Ewing
Ewing
Welfare
Federal Security Administrator
Sve
Bureau of Employments Security
FSSA
Department of Labor
The German Prisoner and the English Slacker Joke
In 1915, Fran chot Tone recalls an English slacker passing a German internment camp. A German behind the barbed wire humorously tells the slacker that “Kitchener wants you,” prompting the quip that “he’s got you.”
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Franchot
Kitchener
Slacker
Itchener
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