Earthquake Felt Near Timor Sea Sparks Empire State Reports
Fordham University seismographs recorded a fairly strong quake about 10 000 miles away near the Timor Sea between Australia and the Netherlands Portuguese Timor Islands. City notes Glen Cove tax sale of the Matinecock mansion once owned by financier J P Morgan valued over 1 000 000 dollars.
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Fordham University
Timor Sea
Australia
Fimer
Elys Morgan
Glen Cove
Siroom
J. PB. “Morgan
Hooded Night Riders Targeted as Law Moves Forward
National and state action accelerates to curb masked vigilantes in Birmingham and Alabama. Attorney General orders FBI probe into hooded acts around steel and coal center as legislature advances an anti masking measure.
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Ala. G
Washington
U. S
Tom Clark
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Steel
Alabama
Italy seizes enough weapons for army amid arms roundup
Carabinieri report to Italy's Senate that hidden weapons and ammunition sufficient to equip an army were seized in nationwide raids over 17 months. Many arms found in Communist hideouts. Interior Minister Mario Scelba warned more illegal arms remain. In other items, Hemingway’s son John wed Byra Whitlock in Paris with Paul Scott Mowrer hosting. WHO approves long range mental health program with about 900000 dollars planned over two years. Paris conference notes, Berlin incident cops seize a Russian major in attempted kidnapping of a Polish civilian. Prague says UN clerk Rudroch to be questioned after UN center asylum. Hawaii crisis: direct talks between longshoremen and managers collapse without progress. resumption planned in May.
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Italy
Rome
Carabinieri
Mario Scelba
Condon Calls for FBI Caution in Espionage Fallout
Idaho Springs Colorado broadcast reports Dr. Edward Condon, head of the U S Bureau of Standards, urging慎 caution in FBI procedures amid an espionage controversy involving his wife. He demanded an apology from J Edgar Hoover for his name appearing in an FBI report and said he is willing to testify before the House Un American Activities Committee if invited or subpoenaed.
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Colo. GI
Edward A. Condon
FBI
J. Edgard Hoover
Condon
Hoover
Bureau of Standards
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Union Racket Charge Reported in Paterson UAW Local
The New York Times reports charges of gambling and racketeering in Paterson New Jersey UAW Local 668. The 1947 committee finding was allegedly suppressed by the international board and raised again by Walter P. Reuther at the Milwaukee convention. The local employs 5 000 to 5 500 at Wright Aeronautical.
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U A. J S International
Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
International Union
the Times
Paterson
Reuther
U.A
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Judith Coplon Trial Update Shapes Verdict This Week
The Judith Coplon espionage trial resumes Monday with defense saying she will not testify again. Coplon, 28, faces charges of stealing government secrets to pass to Russia. co-defendant Valentine Gubitchev's case also reopens as courts consider multiple subversive activity trials in New York.
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Ww2s
Archibald Palmer
Oold
Justice Department
Russia
FBE
Valentine A. Gubitchev
New York
Gubitchev
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Communist Party
U. S
Hiss
Chambers
Chinatown
Boris Bykov
George Crosley
Hisses
Gilbert ‘Green
Chicazgoo
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
Stalin
Coplon
John M. Kelley, Jr
Kelley
Raymond P. Whearty
H.P. Shapiro
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Washington
Kelly
Shapiro
Gubitchet
Guild Wins AP Bargaining Vote Nationwide
The American Newspaper Guild won a nationwide election to represent editorial and business office staff at the Associated Press and its American subsidiaries. The NLRB tally was 156 for the Guild and 212 against, with 1,501 eligible voters and nine void ballots. The Guild now represents about 1,500 AP employees across 100 domestic bureaus, shifting negotiations from national to bureau level.
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New York
American Newspaper Guild
C.10
Associated Press
National Labor Rheletions Board
Canada Chooses Regime Monday
Ottawa reports Canadians head to the polls to elect 262 Members of Parliament for the 21st Parliament after a seven week campaign. A field of 848 candidates spans every political stripe though turnout data and final results are not yet confirmed.
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Canada
House of Commons
Dominion
Swindler feigns romance as police trap omits details
Detective confronts Engel a tall tale of aliases and con schemes. Women from Chicago to Seattle report losses from 8 000 to 3 500 plus. Engel admits long running confidence game across five countries and ten marriages. Police say he fleeced more than 50 women and has a million dollar hoard. state attorney Gilbert notes five decades of similar schemes and vaudeville past as The Rennes.
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Corrigan
Bond
King Solomon
Daniel Gilbert
Httle
iHe
Canada
England
France
Belgium
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Chicago
Engellin
San Francisco
Vivian ‘Huebler
Angel
Annette Kubiak
South Bend
Ind
Ther
New York
Los Angeles
Seattle
Ior
Rennes
Parro
Eng
Syracuse Officials Laud Police and Fire Departments at Awards
Mayor praised the Syracuse Police and Fire Departments as top in the country. Citations honored Lt Ernest Lee BL, Patrolman Thomas Hurley, Captain Edward D. Gilmour, and Patrolman Anthony Cizenski for rescuing, stopping gun violence, and apprehending burglars in 1948.
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Ernest ‘Lee
Truck Company
No. 1
Pal
No. 4
John Edwards
Renwick Av
Edwards
Hill
Edward
Thomas F. Hurley
Willie Gul
Cedar St
Hurley
Gill
Henrietta Smith
Willie Smith
O'Hara
Arthur Jenkins
Edward D. Gilmour
Labor Temple
S. Franklin St
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Gilmour
Philip Burgen
Arthur Finnie
Burgen
Onondaga General Hospital
John
Collins
Herald
Anthony
Cizenski
Robert H. Duby
Bellevue
Lefievue Au
Belgium Faces Monarchy Referendum in Election Vote
Belgium voters head to the polls amid a royal question over King Leopold III. The Social Christians push a referendum while others call for abdication. women vote for the first time as parties seek Chamber and Senate majorities. Major parties held seats in 1946.
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Belgium
Leopold VI
Baating
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Social Christian
Leopold
Social Christians
Chamber
Auguste de Schrover
Leopole
Germany
Prince Charles
Charles
Mead Willing To Run Again For Governor
Former U S Senator Jamies M Mead says he would not dismiss the thought of running for governor. He expects Governor Dewey to run again in 1950 and notes the state Democratic committee plans accordingly. Mead spoke in Elmira at the State Association of Postal Supervisors convention and said he will state his position after this November election.
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Elmira
U.S
Jamies M. Mead
the Buffalo
Mead
Dewey
State Democratic Committee
State Association of Postal, Supervisors
New Thorium Separation Method Moves Toward Industrial Use
Dr Gordon and colleagues report a breakthrough in isolating thorium from monazite sand. Old procedures yielded jelly like compounds clogging filters and trapping impurities. The new methods produce a grainy salt like material enabling easier large scale separation and purer thorium.
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Gordon
Senate probes fees in government contracting influence
A Senate investigations subcommittee expands a probe from one deal to all government purchasing practices. Chairman Hoer says focus will be on large contingent commissions and fees not tied to work performed. William P. Rogers cites tips as the panel weighs requiring contract partners to disclose who assisted them and payments received. Hunt, former War Assets official, is questioned as the inquiry continues.
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Senate
Hoer
D-N.c
Senate Investigations
Washington
William P. Rogers
James W. Hunt
Rogers
Hoy
Harry
Ferguson
R-Mich
Feecast
Hunt
West German Rail Workers Threaten Counter Blockade
West German railwaymen threatened a counter-blockade against the Soviet zone in retaliation for the eastern railway administration restricting trains between Western Germany and Berlin. Berlin strikers demand payment in western marks and guarantees against reprisals before resuming work on Berlin's elevated line. Hans Jahn, head of the Western German railway union, vows action if Berlin workers deem it necessary, with a final decision after Monday consultation.
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Germany
Soviethossel Eastern Railway Administration
Eastern Zone
Wester Berlin
West Berlin
Western Germany
Hans Jahn
Western German Railway Union
Bizonial
Wartime Partisans Attack Archbishop Beran in Prague
The Union of Fighters for Freedom, wartime partisans and concentration camp survivors, condemns Archbishop Josef Beran Jr as outside the nation and expels him from their ranks. Beran, a Nazi camp survivor, resists the communist bid to subjugate the Roman Catholic Church and aligns with Vatican authority.
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Prague
Uion
Beran
Josef
Vati
U S Planes Test Defense of RAF Over Britain
U S Air Force and allied aircraft including B-29 Superforts and Shooting Star jets confront the RAF in Britain. The mission tests RAF guards of island bases with U S and allied planes acting as the opposing force.
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London
United States Air Force
R. Aaf
Britain
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Oval ‘Air Force
Oe Air
R.A. Fi
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