City Hall awards honor Syracuse police and firemen
At City Hall ceremony Mayor Costello praised both departments while denouncing self serving groups. Francis Hendricks medals went to Lt Ernest Lee Hil Fire Department and Patrolman Thomas F Hurley Police. Arthur Jenkins and Syracuse Herald medals presented to Capt Edward D Gilmour Fire Department and Patrolman Anthony J Cizewski. About 50 policemen and firemen attended as 100 spectators watched the presentations.
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Frank J. .Costello
Syracuse “Police
Arthur, Jenkins
Francis Hendricks
Ernest Lee Hil
Thomas .F. Hurley
Costello
William ‘J. Connelly
Fire Depart
Ment
John “A. ‘Kinney
Arthur i Jenkins
Syracuse Herald
Edward D. Gilmour
Fire Department
iPatrolman
Anthony J. Cizewski
T A. O'Hara
Herald-Journal
Herald-American
Syrracuse
Police Department
Repair cost for Los Alamos 350 model houses tops six figures
Atom experts at Los Alamos New Mexico tallied the total cost of repairing the 350 model ranch houses at five hundred thirty thousand six hundred dollars. The houses did not all collapse and this figure appears in Frederick Co. Othman’s entertaining column on the editorial page.
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Atom
Los Alamos
N. M
Frederick Co. Othman
Senate to Vote Tuesday on Labor Inunctions Battle
Senate leaders foresee a tight vote among about a half dozen doubtful senators on amendments to the labor bill. The tally hinges on Holland's plan to retain Taft Hartley injunctions against strikes affecting national welfare and Lucas's 60 day government seizure proposal. The chamber remains split into two nearly even camps as it sidelines labor bill to address other business.
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Washington
Senate
Holiland
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Lucas
D-Il
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Holland
Big Four to Resume Austrian Talks in London
The State Department said the Big Four will resume efforts to complete an Austrian treaty this summer with talks in London starting June 36. Samuel Reber, deputy for Secretary Acheson, will head the American negotiating team while Acheson and the foreign ministers of Britain France and Russia had resolved many issues at the Paris meeting that ended last Monday.
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States Department
London
Samuel Reber
Acheson
Britain
France
Russia
Paris
Pearl King Mikimoto Reports Sea Bottom Theft
Kokichi Mikimoto complains to police about poachers off the southwest Tokyo coast who stole 24 000 pounds of cultured pearl producing oysters from his pearl beds marking a new low in theft in Japan.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kokichi Mikimoto
Senate opposition forms against recognizing China’s Communists
Twenty one senators from both parties signed a letter to President Truman opposing any move to recognize the Communist regime in China. The letter, released by Senator Knowland after a Senate Foreign Relations Committee debate, urges support for a free independent non Communist China and states no recognition is contemplated.
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United States
China
Truman Tate
K. Truman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cordon
Ore
Cain
Taft
Ohio
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Baldwin
Conny
Eknowland
Magnuson
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Calif
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Knowland
Senate
Europe
Middle East
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Spain
Israel
Connaily
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Father Held After Children Abandoned on Seneca River Island
Donald Frazier of Port Jervis was detained by sheriff deputies after Peggy 5 and her brother 3 were found on a desolate Seneca River island, famished and sunburned. They were rescued by Keith Wickes who found a dilapidated shack and foul odors. The two had eaten scraps since Thursday while awaiting aid. Frazier said he left the kids after an argument with his wife on June 17.
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Seneca River
Donald Frazier
Port Jervis
Peggy
Keith Wickes
Wickes
Tae
Willis
Frazier
New York Trial Opens for Lonely Hearts Slavers
The Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck case heads to Bronx Supreme Court with opening statements set for Monday. The fourth and final alternate juror was selected from the third panel to complete the jury.
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New York
Raymond Fernandez
Mirs
Martha Beck
Bronx Supreme Court
Talesmen
Razorback Hog Quip Sparks Southern vs Northern Pride
Carol Wentworth of Baton Rouge extols Southern ham as the best while likening Razorback hogs to miserable creatures. A Virginia anecdote follows with a North Lady reacting to a Razorback hawg and a Southern host explaining its trimmings.
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Carol Wentworth
Baton Rouge
Virginia
Rom
Swindler Engel Caught After 50 Year Widow Scam
Sigmund Z Engel known as a confidence man for five decades was trapped in a Chicago shop on Michigan Avenue by Mrs Genevieve Parro a 35 year old widow who suspected his claims after he posed as Paul Marshal an Evanston resident Police and Women’s unit set the trap as Engel arranged a pre marriage purchase of luggage for a supposed holiday trip police say his record spans many cities and countries and a Page 2 continuation notes further details
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Reseda Corrigan
Sigmund
Z. Engel
Sigmund Z. Engel
Lothario
Michigan Av
Genevieve Parro
Engel
Marian Hagen
Parton
Coast Guard frees fisherman after 165 mile yawn
A fishing boat voyage south of San Diego ended with a Coast Guard rescue. John George, 19, suffered a jaw dislocation after a long yawn that stretched 165 miles and six hours. A Coast Guard plane responded to a radio appeal and delivered the man to a local doctor who reset his jaws under anesthesia.
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Calif
U. S. Coast Guard
Algiers
Here
John George
Coast Guard
George
Tech students learn from vault break in Atlanta
In Atlanta Georgia Tech received a grim lesson in safe engineering as two burglars forced open a burglar proof vault and stole 3900 in cash checks and war bonds. The thieves re locked the vault and it took two locks and four hours in daylight yesterday to reopen it.
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Atlanta
Georgiz Tech
Canoga Woman Uses Music to Ward Off Birds
Mrs. Chris Larsen plays music to deter birds from an oxheart cherry tree. She rigs a device to produce sound from the top of the tree and begins early in the morning. Birds perch in nearby trees enraptured as the melody plays.
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Canoga CP
Chris Larsen
Jersey City Blast Injures 2 Workers
A thunderous explosion at the Tidewater Oil Co plant in Jersey City injures two workers and sets an oil storage tank on fire. The blast also awakens residents up to five miles away and triggers numerous calls to police headquarters. It marks the second industrial explosion in Jersey City in two days.
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Jersey City
N. J
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Tidewater Oil Co
Rain Not Easing Heat Across Region
Scattered showers or thunderstorms bring little relief from hot muggy conditions. The mercury hit 93 yesterday, beating the 1936 record of 91, with seven days this month tying or breaking the date record and six days at 96 or higher. Tonight’s low 70, tomorrow near 90 as heat continues into Monday.
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Mercury
Midwest
Rochester
Syracuse
Joe E Brown Recovering From Hernia Operation
Ills pile up in Long Beach as Joe E Brown undergoes a hernia operation during malaria treatment. The Navy reports he will remain in sick bay for several days.
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Long Beach
Caiif
Joe &E. Brown
Naval Hospital
Navy
Sigmund Engel’s dating tips for men in Chicago
In Chicago, Sigmund Engel offers advice to aspiring suitors on wooing women. He urges flattery, displays of wealth, psychology, and attentive conduct, emphasizing gentlemanly behavior, romantic gestures, and knowledge of women’s tastes in music and literature.
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Chicago
Sigmund Engel
Airlift Plane Burns During Landing in Berlin
An American C-34 airlift plane burst into flames while landing at Tempelhof Airdrome in Berlin. All three crew members escaped with minor injuries. The aircraft carrying 10 tons of coal was destroyed. crew were Lt. Thomas J. Sims, Lt. Clifton L. Boyd, and S/Sgt Robert Shell. Flights continue with other planes landing on schedule despite the incident.
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Hames
Femplehof
Thomas J. Sims
Shrevesport
Clifton L. Boyd
Norfolk
Robert Shell
Cincinnati
Ohio
U S Physicist Develops Potential Atom Source
In New York AP reports improved methods to extract thorium from sand as a potential source for atomic material. Dr Louis Gordon of Syracuse University and Syracuse student Big Vanselow with Prof H H Willard of Michigan outline how thorium can yield uranium 233 for possible fission.
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The
American Chemical Society
Louis Gordon
Syracuse University
Big Vanselow
Syracuse
H. H. Willard
University of Michigan
TYE
Jeneir
Truman Proposes 45 Million Aid Plan for Backward Nations
President Truman asks Congress to approve a new foreign aid program to aid backward countries in Africa, the Near and Far East, and parts of the Americas. It would commit 45 million dollars for engineering and free assistance, plus Export-Import Bank guarantees for American private investments. The plan envisions long term, partly UN cooperative development with cost sharing by host nations, including technical know how, medical and educational support, and development of roads, harbors, utilities, and mining.
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Truman
Mr. Truman
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Foreign Affairs
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Trumen
United States
Jong Tang
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