U S Weapons Sold Abroad
The United States has sold Canada and Latin America nearly 65 million dollars of surplus munitions and weapons of war since the end of the war, for a little over 3 million dollars. The survey coincides with Secretary of State Marshall urging Congress to approve The Inter-American Military Cooperation Act to help coordinate military systems with the region.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Latin America
United Press
George C. Marshall
Congress
Woman Jumped From Saturnia With Hidden Fortune
Capt Arrigo G Gladulich said Philadelphia native Eliana Pezzini Turilazza, 32, leaped 40 feet from the Saturnia deck on a New York to Europe voyage, clutching a handbag containing jewelry, $50,000 in currency, $100,000 in traveler's checks and inheritance papers. Passengers tossed life preservers and she was taken to a lifeboat 15 minutes later.
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New York
Aid or Leave Editorial Presses US China Aid
Shanghai newspaper Shun Pao calls for unrestricted US aid to China or full withdrawal. The piece coincides with China’s appeal to the United States for substantial loans to stave off civil war defeat and potential economic collapse.
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Shanghai
Shun Pao
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
China
Ringling Brothers Circus Drops New England Tour This Year
President A Haley of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows announced the 1941 season changes. The circus will not tour New England this year and will add Denver Colorado to its route for the first time since 1941.
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York
A. Haley
Ringling Brothers and
Barnum & Bailey
New England
Ringling
Denver
Colo
Britain abandons bid to beat air speed mark
Britain officially gave up today on any attempt to beat the U S Air Force speed mark of 623.8 miles an hour until she develops a newer faster plane than the twin jet Gloster Meteor.
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London
Britain
Missing Woman Blanchard Sought in Potsdam Woods
State police with volunteers combed a wooded area south of Hannawa Falls for Miss Margaret Blanchard a 28 year old Natural Bridge schoolteacher missing since Monday. A boat she used with some personal belongings was found by searchers near the Raquette River to aid the investigation.
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Potsdam
Hannawa Falls
Margaret Blanchard
Natural Bridge
Kentuckian Held In Parents Slaying
A 25 year old Kentuckian from a prominent South Kentucky family, Robert Bates, is jailed in MPHKINSVILLE charged with murder in his parents Dr J C Bates and Mrs Bates chiropractors in Monroe County. Sheriff Ford found the bodies after Bates earlier arrested in Nashville for drunkenness. Police report the slayings occurred about 7 PM Sunday.
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Mphkinsville
Monroe County
A. P. Carter
Robert Bates
Bates
J.C. Bates
Felin. Ford
Nashville
Tenn
Ford
Austria Readmitted to ILO Unanimously, Says Lambro
Carl Lambro, president of the International Labor Organization, announced at the ILO conference in Geneva that Austria has been unanimously readmitted to the organization, marking a notable postwar reentry. The decision reflects broader European political realignments and ILO’s ongoing efforts to restore member states.
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Geneva
Carl Llambro
International Labor Organization
Austria
ILO
Evanston Police Hold Deaf Impostor Suspect
Evanston police hold 19 year old David Tresenrider in jail after arrest for collecting contributions while posing as a deaf mute. When asked his hometown he said Columbus Ohio. Police report the man used a misleading disguise to solicit funds.
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Evanston
David ‘Tresénrider
Robert Labbe
Tresenrider
Columbus
Ohio
Floods Threaten Nebraska Missouri River Regions
Flood warnings and evacuations spread across Nebraska Iowa and Missouri as the Elkhorn Missouri and Grand River systems flood. Breaches threaten hundreds of levees and 100000 acres, with Agency Missouri evacuated and Ottumwa and Hamburg bracing for rises and new evacuations.
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Weather Bureau
Norfolk
Neb
Nebraska
Elkhorn River
Ewing
Meadow Grove
Kansas City
Col. William, FE. Potter
Missouri
Rule
St. Louis
Potter
St. Joseph
Napoleon
Missouri Crest
Kansas’ City
Republican
Agency
Northwest
Platte
Pattonsburg
Grand River
Towa
Ottumwa
Herman Schaeffer
Des Moines
Schaeffer
Iowa
Hamburg
Nishnabotna
Red Oak
Nineteen Japanese Deny Killing Prisoners
Nineteen Japanese pleaded innocent today to charges accusing them of ordering lethal acts against prisoners including the use of bacteria dynamite strangulation bayonets and bamboo spears as part of wartime offenses on Guam and surrounding areas.
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Guam
Unidentified American POWs Tested in Truk Experiments
A report describes the lives of 10 unidentified American prisoners of war subjected to fiendish experiments on Truk in the Caroline Islands during wartime. The account notes harsh conditions and the cruel treatment endured by the captives.
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Truk
Caroline Islands
Trolley Collision Injures 17 in Upper Manhattan
New York reports about 17 persons injured when two trolley cars collided in upper Manhattan, authorities said. Fire and medical teams responded to the scene for rescue and treatment.
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New York
INS
Upper Manhattan
Ford plans Sicily plant for European car production
Rome's Giornale Della Sera reports Ford Motor Co plans to build a car plant in Sicily to assemble vehicles for Europe the Near East and Mediterranean markets, though the report is not attributed to any source.
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London
Rome
Giornale Della Sera
Ford Motor Company
Sicily
Europe
Near East
Mediterranean
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