Fire Sweeps Buffalo Feed Mill in Three-Alarm Blaze
In Buffalo a three alarm fire damaged the old Spencer Kellogg Company feed mill, four stories tall, with damage estimated around fifty thousand dollars. Firefighters arrived early to battle the blaze as flames engulfed the building. Also reported a missing child after a chartered amphibian airplane crash near Jamestown Lake. Five people escaped the crash with the pilot and a child missing. A separate plane crash near Olco's lake left two men dead near Lake Ontario.
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Buffalo Feed Mill
Buffalo
Spencer Kellogg Company
Jamestown
Margaret Brinck
Chautauqua Lake
Harold Brinck
Nira Kay
Anthony Mangine
Olco's
Lake Ontario
Edward’ ,Hogle
Melvin Brewer
Lockport
Four Allentown couples robbed of 175000 in cash and valuables
Four men robbed four Allentown couples Friday night, binding victims and cutting telephone wires before fleeing with about 175000 in cash and valuables. They took 150000 in non negotiable securities and about 23000 in jewelry from one home.
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Allentown
Notable Deaths of Press, Business Leaders Across Cities
Maurice S. Sherman 74 editor and publisher of the Hartford Courant began his career in 1894 in Hartford Connecticut. Carroll Afwood Wilson 61 vice president of American Smelling and Refining Company and noted bibliophile in New York City. Jodwin A. Olson 79 chairman of Mutual Trust Life Insurance Company and former U S district attorney 1923 to 1927 in Chicago. Clarence Bricker 55 Follywood motion picture executive with 30 years in the film industry in San Francisco.
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Maurice.s. Sherman
Hartford Courant
Hartford
Conn
Carroll Afwood Wilson
American Smelling and Refining Company
New York City
Jodwin. A. Olson
Mutual Trust Life Insurance Company
U. S
Chicago
Clarence Bricker
Follywood Motion Picture
San Francisco
Jeep Ambush Kills Army Captain's Four-Week-Old Child
An unidentified armed group ambushed a U.S. Army jeep about 45 road miles northwest of Manila near Minalin Pampanga, killing the four-week-old child of Medical Corps Captain Irvin Plough. The attack occurred on a heavily traveled road as the jeep moved through the region.
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Manila
United States Army
Irvin Plough
Minalin
Pampanga Province
Motorist jailed after theft claim and license lapse
Ray mond M. Barnes, 39, of Winsted Connecticut, sat in Rensselaer County jail after admitting he rode in a supposedly stolen car with a hitchhiker. Police traced him to the vehicle. he had permission to use it but no operator’s license. He was jailed awaiting Connecticut funds to pay a $50 fine.
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Troy
Raymond M. Barnes
Winsted
Conn
Rensselaer County
Barnes
Columbia County
Connecticut
Siegel Romance Probed in Slain Leader Case
District attorneys studied Siegel’s romance with Virginia Hill after her brother Charles Hu, present at the mansion when Siegel was shot, claimed Siegel wished to marry her. Hill, in Paris, disputed the money claim, while Esther Siegel said he was a good husband and father and knew nothing of underworld ties.
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Beverly Wills
Benjamin “Bugsy
Siegel
Virginia Hall
Alabama
Miss Hill
Charles Hu
Virginia
Ernest Roll
Hill
Roll
Paris
Hin
Millicent
Barbara
Vancouver
Esther Siegel
Las Vegas
Tin
William E
Simpson
Underworld
European aid plan discussed for Marshall era credits
European leaders and Bevin backed Bidault's plan to involve technical committees on coal iron and steel food and transport with the United States as member or observer. Moscow proposed the Paris conference query Washington on American aid terms and credits to clarify what Europe can expect. A Tass dispatch argued the conference should press Washington to define credit amounts and approval likelihood to avoid delaying the Paris talks and ensure practical plans rather than loose promises.
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United States
Bevin
Bidault
Paris
Molotov
United Nations European Economic Council
Washington
Tass
Marshall
Congress
Senate Hearing on 1948 War Dept Funds
In recess today the appropriations subcommittee heard General Dwight D. Eisenhower discuss War Department funds for 1948. The House adjourned until noon Monday as the expenditures committee heard testimony from American Legion officials on Army Navy unification.
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Appropriations
Dwight BD. Eisenhower
War Department
HOUSE
American Legion
Grand jury to probe western gasoline price hikes
LOS ANGELES announces a special grand jury was authorized to investigate gasoline price increases across the western United States. William C. Dixon, head of the Federal Anti Trust Bureau, says concern stems from rising costs after price controls ended last year.
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Los Angeles
United States
William C. Dixon
Federal Anti- Trust Bureau
Contempt of Congress trials sweep several defendants
A federal jury found DENNIS and MARZANI guilty of contempt of the House Un-American Activities Committee. MARZANI, a former State Department employee, was sentenced to one to three years for denying his Communist activities. DENNIS faces further sentencing after challenging subpoenas and alias use in passport matter. The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee members also convicted. writers and producers named among defendants.
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Dennis
House Un-American Activities Committee
Marzani
State Department
Friday
Joint
Refuge Committee
House
Un-American Activities Committee
Supreme Court
Hitler
Refugee Committee
Eisler
Alexander Holtzoff
United States
Moscow
Mexico
Hisler
David A. Pine
Howard Fast
Herman Shumlin
House Committee
Strategic Services
Tony Whales
Communist Party
New York City
Death Nullifies 12000 Bequest in Double Homicide
Educator Emily Griffith left her estate of about 12000 to her sister Florence who was killed with her in a Pinecliffe Colorado cabin shooting on June 18. Probate filed in Boulder County. Contingent heir named is Ethel Gartner of Pinecliffe. Sheriff continues search of Pinecliffe area streams for slain suspect Fred Lundy.
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Boulder Colo, Llp
Emily Griffith
Pinecliffe
Boulder
Justice of the Peace Court
20 Year Paving Still Good Declared by Rago
Eugene J. Rago newly named executive in charge of street repairs says pavings laid 20 years ago by his former firm Rago Brothers Inc remain intact. He notes other streets from the same period were repaved and cites a $98,000 deduction by the Common Council in 1928 for various contracts.
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Stinaraday
Rago Brothers, Inc
Eugene J.rago
Francis Woolever
Eugene J. Rago
Department of Public Works
Rago
Frank
J. Costelloto
Frm
Common Council
Counci
Rago Brothers
WPA
Rage
Stinardav
Potter W. Kelly
Stinard Av
Rage Brothers, Inc
Climber Taken It Trip Called Off on Mount McKinley
Three University of Alaska mountaineers aborted their Mount McKinley ascent at 17,000 feet due to altitude sickness. Morton Wood, 23, of Boston, suffered the illness and his companions George Schumann, 22, and Gordon Herreid, both from Santa Maria, Calif, chose to turn back 3,000 feet short of the 30,270-foot peak.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Mount McKinley
University of Alaska
Mount McKinley National Park
Frank T. Been
Morton Wood
Boston
George Schumann
Santa Maria
Calif
Gordon Herreid
Flood Loss Mounts Across Missouri Nebraska and Iowa
Flood waters along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers threaten more damage as states report extensive farm and road impacts. Red Cross says 33,657 people homeless across Iowa Nebraska Missouri and Illinois. Breached dykes rise to 231 of 301 along the Missouri's western section. Agricultural losses exceed 50 million dollars in Missouri. Missouri highways blocked exceed 50 in the north. Near Chester Illinois 40,000 acres flooded as 1600 soldiers join guards and volunteers at levees south of Degognia Fountain Bluff.
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Kansas
City
Missouri
St. Louis
Red Cross
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Col
W. EB. Potter
Jefferson City
Tom Douglas
Missouri Agriculture Commissioner
State Highway Department
Mississippi
Chester
Til
Scott Field
Fort Sheridan
Degognia Fountain Bluff
Police Chief Threatened In Overell Case
Santa Ana reports continued threats in the Overell murder inquiry. Newport Beach Police Chief R. R. Hodgkinson said his wife received a call from a man vowing to kill him, calling it the work of a crackpot. Hodgkinson has been active in the early investigation into the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Overell, as their daughter Louise, 18, and her fiancé George Gollum, 21, face trial.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Overell
R. R. Hodgkinson
Newport Beach
Hodgkinson
Walter B. Overell
Louise
George Gollum
Brewster calls for full inquiry into oil imports
Senator Brewster charges the Navy imports millions of barrels of oil from Arabia while U.S. tankers haul petroleum from the west coast by Russian routes. House panel chief Weichel proposes mandatory oil export curbs in shortages, with current rules left to presidential discretion. Undersecretary Sullivan says 500,000 barrels monthly must be imported from the Persian Gulf for six months to meet security obligations.
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Washington
Brewster
Arabia
Weichel
Ohio
House Merchant Marine Committee
Senate Commerce Committee
John L. Sullivan
Navy
Senate War Investigating Committee
Persian Gulf
Miners Slash Production to Conserve Coal Supplies
Miners slash to conserve meager coal stocks by banking 10 blast furnaces, raising total banked to 1 of 25. Open hearth cuts from 130 to 50 units, with 80 fewer. length of furloughs unknown. Government holiday eases tension from a two thirds miners walkout against Taft Hartley act. July 7 deadline looms for return to duty as 2,500 mines seized May 1946 prepare to resume. Labor talks, potential nationwide stoppage loom without a deal within 10 days.
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Youngstown-Pittsburgh
A.F.L.- United Mine Workers
A.f.l.-United Mine Workers
Senate
Truman
Alabama
Pennsylvania
U.M.W
Inlinois
Progressive Mine Workers
Ind
Kentucky
Washington
Labor Department
Schwellenbach
John L. Lewis
Secretary of the Interior Krug
Northwest
Lewis
John O'Leary
Leutenant
Security Council weighs Balkan report on Greece crisis
The UN Security Council debates the Balkan commission findings accusing Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria of backing guerrilla actions against Greece. Albania Bulgaria deny the charges Yugoslavia to reply next week while Albania accuses Greece of provocation and seeks peace. The council also considers a plan for an international police force with a military staff estimate due Monday.
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Security Council
Austin
United Nations
Balkan Commission
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Greece
Will
Nesti
Kerenxhi
Nissim Nevorar
City Councilman Quill threatens subway slowdown protest
Michael J. Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union, vows another subway slowdown to protest the dismissal of two subway employees and the suspension of two others tied to a recent stoppage. He spoke before about 2,000 TWU workers outside the board of transportation.
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NEW Tube
New York
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers Union
C.I.0
Subway
Quill
T.W.A
Board of Transportation
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Boots” Mallory
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