France Pouts Atop Flagpole In Coshocton Romance
Lonnie Cosmar remained atop the 176 foot flagpole at Coshocton Fairgrounds while her fiancé Marshall Jacobs climbed down after a dispute over the wedding plans. She pledged to stay until he returned for a coast to coast radio wedding broadcast, then planned a July 4 flagpole record.
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American-Soviet group faces contempt charges in New York
Corliss G. Lamont, head of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, said the council would take the contempt charges to the Supreme Court if needed after the House Committee on un American Activities ordered production of records Lamont refused to provide. Kent runs for Congress as American Labor Party candidate in Ausable Forks area. Richard Tears, 9, drowns in the Genesee River after slipping on a rock. State pension checks go out early to 10,000 retirees to ease first day cashing. Three fourths of infantile paralysis patients recover without serious after effects per Dr. Van Riper. A Saratoga Springs auto is stolen after being sold for delivery, thief enters by breaking a window and drives out a back door.
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Silver blocs clash over silver price in Treasury talks
Western producers and Eastern users square off as Senate House conferees prepare to decide Treasury purchase and sale price for silver set at 71.11 or 90.3 cents per ounce. Other items include British and French war brides returning home, a Philadelphia magician thwarting a robber, a Harrisburg murder case, and veterans facing fear and trauma after combat.
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Notable Clergy and Political Figure Die in Early 20th Century
Obituaries note the deaths of Bishop John TL Nuelsen aged 79 once a Methodist bishop in continental Europe with Zurich headquarters and former Omaha bishop, Senator Alexander Duncan McRae aged 71 of Vancouver a key Conservative organizer in Canada, and Bishop Alma White aged 84 founder of Pillar of Fire Church in Bound Brook New Jersey.
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Former Nazi Camp Commander Captured in Germany
Army authorities announced that Lt Col Max Koegel, a former Deaths Head unit officer at Flossenberg, who was serving as a farm hand, was captured in Dacha Germany. Lt Col Robert Shaw, chief prosecutor in the Flossenberg trial, reported the arrest as authorities on the case continue. A separate note details a U S S McKinney postmark on atom bomb day with the cancellation stamp reading Atom Bomb Test Bikini. Tokyo reports Japan appealed to Allied powers via Vatican and Red Cross more than a dozen times.
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Tokyo group seeks faster repatriation of Japanese in Russian areas
Tokuzo Yamanaka told a Diet committee that little progress has been made on speeding up repatriation from Russian controlled territory. Swiss upper house approved the Washington asset disposition pact, giving it legal force, after National Council clearance. Japan mission seeks return of church properties seized during the war, including churches and hospitals. Soviet backed SED attacked plans for a federated Germany, calling for a united German democratic republic.
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Clique Fights Chinese Reds
Reliable observers report an ultra-reactionary clique of nationalist generals and officials, aided by Nazi advisers, preparing for a final clash with the Chinese Communists with or without Chiang Kai-shek. The group centers on the Chen brothers, Chu Chia-hua, and Ho Ying-chin.
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Rand arrest highlighted by clothing shortage satire
The writer jests about Sally Rand being jailed for wearing too little and mocks the era’s clothing scarcity. A veteran’s fruitless search for a new suit is recounted and a deli slogan is playfully twisted into a line about a shift from a sandwich to an institution.
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Classroom work began today in the nation’s first political action school after students booed a Democratic party official’s defense of President Truman’s railroad strike action. The National Citizens Political Action Committee runs the 500 pupil program to mobilize voters for Progressive candidates with 60 representatives involved.
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Unions and PACs Register for Four Day Course
Trade unions and political action committees have signed up for a four day program. Oscar R. Ewing, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was the official greeted with boos last night.
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Oscar R. Ewing
Democratic National Committee
Mihailovic trial witnesses cite 20000 executions
Two Belgrade grave diggers testified at the Mihailovic trial that during two and a half years of German occupation they witnessed the execution and burial of nearly twenty thousand Yugoslav citizens.
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