Women's Christian Temperance Union cancels state encampment
The WCTU cancels the Youth Temperance Council State Encampment set for Round Lise Saratoga County July 7 to 14 due to a government travel curtailment request. Edward Quigley of Manchester, a Lehigh Valley Railroad crane operator, dies after being crushed between two freight cars at Niagara Falls. Authorities search for Margaret Fazelet 26 of North Tonawanda after a rowboat capsizes on Lake Ontario. four others survive.
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Tonawanda
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Geneva airman killed in Texas crash during training flight
First Lt. Victor H. Shipman, son of Mrs. Ethna Shipman of Geneva New York, was killed when his single engine plane crashed during a routine training flight from Moore Field in Edinburg Texas. Shipman held the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
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Allied Day Guests Parade With Bradley And Harris
General Omar Bradley acting Allied supreme commander and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris will luncheon with King Haakon and review Allied Day parade. Bradley plans a press conference at Quisling’s former Gimle residence.
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Charter pledge for peace and UN collaboration declared
A speech emphasizes resolute action to outlaw aggression and uphold a pledged purpose for universal peace. The speaker asserts that despite infirmities the plan offers promise for UN collaboration toward peaceful ends and warns against cheating peace.
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Charter voting narrows path for United Nations Pact
In Washington 67 Senators show support for ratifying the United Nations Charter with 62 on record and five leaning. Senator Vandenberg notes the charter’s pacific dispute settlement as its strength while President Truman plans to submit it Monday. Isolationists Lafollette and Brooks pledge support, halting a move to jump to floor debate before hearings. Brooks backs a mid August vote as a speedup option.
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Wild 90 Mile Race Saves Life of Child
A three year old boy in peril due to a peanut lodged in his lungs was rushed to Philadelphia for emergency surgery. Robert Swendel of York Pa borrowed a car to transport his son thirty miles initially, then after a tire blowout and overheating police cars and motorcycles completed the trip to the hospital.
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Colgate Names Two Officials to University Leadership
Dr Sidney J French becomes dean of faculty at Colgate University in Hamilton NY after joining the faculty in 1932. President Everett Case also names Dr Howard B Jefferson as director of the School of Philosophy and Religion.
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State official cites no sanitary code violations among large region
Chester Dumond, commissioner of agriculture and markets, said there are about 1,700 licensed slaughterers in the state and no known unsanitary conditions. He noted slaughterhouses have sprung up like mushrooms but conditions are not out of the ordinary for the number of facilities.
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Syracuse OPA reports 10 percent enforcement against meat dealers
F Alan Longley says in Central and Northern New York the Syracuse district has 100 indictments in Federal Court against slaughterers and meat dealers in 2.5 years, with a 10 percent batting average and most convictions. He cites staff shortages and lack of local cooperation on price controls to curb the black market in meat.
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Belgian King Leopold II Press Silence On Abdication Rumor
Belgian newspapers largely avoided the abdication topic as they speculated Leopold II would step down this weekend in favor of his 15 year old son Vince Baudouin. Two extremist papers challenged the deliberations with partisan editorials and questions about wartime actions.
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First incendiary strike hits Sasebo and nearby bases
War color reports Japan launches a large incendiary raid with nearly 500 Superforts striking Sasebo, Moji, Noreoka, Okayama while Tokyo cites targets at Kaneya and Simonoseki. Allied naval activity includes Makassar Strait operations after pre invasion bombardment. Philippines guerrillas fend off attacks as U S divisions push in Luzon.
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Mrs Stevens in Darien Shooting Case Linked to Affair
Coroner reports Mrs Stevens likely inflicted injuries on Mrs Milton in a sex scandal backdrop. Milton and Stevens drank heavily with Mrs Milton at a Darien tavern, then home where window and glass damage occurred before the shooting. Kovacs brothers arrived during the disturbance as Milton and Stevens reportedly argued over the affair. Stevens held on 350000 bond at jail awaiting Superior Court trial likely in September.
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London Poles Form New Unity Government In Poland
The Warsaw announced unity government led by Edward Osubka Morawski held its first cabinet meeting in War saw. It blends elements of the Lublin cabinet with London exile leaders and Polish underground figures. Stanislaw Mikolaiczyk becomes vice premier alongside Wladyslaw Gomolka. eight former ministers receive gold crosses of merit.
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Pacific Fronts From Page One Aims At Sasebo And Other Cities
World War II dispatches note Sasebo and other cities subjected to the first B 29 strikes. Navy claims 15 Japanese cities hit with only one bomber not returning. Fleet Air Wing One scored the day’s largest success sinking and damaging multiple ships between Korea and Japan. MacArthur acknowledges U S naval activity in Makassar Strait the first in years. Australian oil areas and Tarakan field repairs reactivated. Chinese forces gain ground near Liuchow Kweilin and Liuchow. Japanese on the eastern coast retreat toward Shanghai pursued near Ningpo. Kamikaze attacks renewed on Okinawa with limited effect while Mitscher notes ship losses and wartime repairs.
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Japs Await Northward Move After Pacific Action
The broadcast said a surface unit under Admiral Frank Fletcher is awaiting an opportunity in the north. Tokyo reported an American submarine base built on Hiska. Japanese attention shifted north after American cruisers and destroyers from Fletcher's fleet sank or damaged a five ship Japanese convoy in the Sea of Okhotsk near the Kuriles.
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