Suit Names Mrs Edith N Rogers Wife of Naval Captain
A divorce suit filed in Washington names Rep Edith Nourse Rogers as the cause of a marriage breakdown. Eilene Latta Lawrence accuses Capt Harold Alexander Latta-Lawrence of close ties with Rogers and seeks separate maintenance and potential alimony. The suit notes Rogers attended the April 1948 wedding in New York and gave presents.
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Edith Nourse Rogers
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Eilene
Diana Latta-Lawrence
Harold Alexander Latta-Lawrence
Congress
Reds Named By Budenz
Louis F. Budenz, former Daily Worker editor turned professor, testified as the government’s first witness in the Communist conspiracy trial. He identified three defendants as former Communist party associates: Jacob Stachel, Irving Potash, and Carl Winter, detailing his own shift in party duties and Stalin’s role in the international movement.
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INS
Louis F. Budenz
Budenz
Communist Daily Worker
Fordham University
Daily Worker
Stalin
Jacob Stachel
Communist Party
Irving Potash
Communist National Board
Carl Winter
Michigan
Johnson Confirmed as Defense Secretary by Senate
The Senate confirmed Louis A. Johnson to be Secretary of National Defense, succeeding James Forrestal. Johnson is slated to lead the department as the nation navigates postwar security policies.
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Washington
Senate Today
Louis A. Johnson
National Defense
James Forrestal
Doubts on Federal health insurance plan costs and reach
The column questions the new proposed Federal health insurance system citing high setup costs for a governing bureau and potential strain on medical facilities across the country. Marquis Childs notes the doubts appear on editorial pages and related features listed for the day.
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Marquis Childs
Canada to Cut Taxes and Remove Price Controls
Ottawa outlines a sharp tax cut with a 32 percent reduction in income taxes plus exemption removals affecting 750000 taxpayers. It proposes lower taxes for small businesses, repealing various levies, lifting price controls on many goods, and relaxing imports while rent and some primary industrial controls stay. Finance Minister Abbott forecasts continued prosperity and notes wartime price ceilings end on many foods.
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Douglas C. Abbott
Canada
Abbott
General Clay Arrives in London for German Talks
General Lucius D. Clay, military governor of the U S zone in Germany, arrived in London to confer with U S Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas on German problems. He planned to fly back to Germany that night.
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London
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Britain
Lewis W. Douglas
Clay
Students Grade Press Five Flunk Most Get Bs
University of Michigan report on a student evaluation of teaching shows 410 literary college professors and instructors, only 43 rated superior and five flunked. Students averaged a B, 3.0, on teaching ability while faculty committees echoed the findings. Dean Woodburne notes long range use for appointments and pay decisions.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
University of Michigan
Literary College
Lts
Lloyd 3. Woodburne
the Literary College
Partment
Woodburne
Senate Rent Bill Faces Fresh Amendments Fight
Senate leaders faced new amendments after a 45 to 33 vote to let states end federal rent controls with governor approval. Fulbright's measure would allow cities to scrap controls, with governor consent. absent consent, action blocked. Other proposals seek longer extensions and tenant protections.
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Washington
Senate
Fulbright
Fair Cold Air Moves Across Syracuse Tomorrow
A cold front moved through Syracuse around eight this morning driving temperatures sharply downward. Overnight the 8 AM reading was 5 and by 1 PM it had slipped to 47. Light rain is expected tonight with possible snow flurries near morning. Tomorrow remains fair and moderately cold with a warming trend by Friday. Yesterday the temperature peaked at 67 and stayed above 51 overnight, with 13 inches of rain recorded.
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Syracuse
Mercury
Rain Halts Search For Lost Plane Near Malone
Rain halted the U S Air Force search for two missing businessmen, Harry G. Barenbrugge of Elmira and Stuart N. Johnson of Mansfield, as Capt. Walter Monnenmacher at Malone Dufort airport awaited orders from Westover Field Massachusetts. Four planes could not take off due to weather.
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U. S. Air Force
Fiers
Walter Monnenmacher
Malone-Dufort
Air Force
Westover ‘Field
Mass
Harry G.barenbrugge
Elmira
Stuart N. Johnson
Mansfield
Lonely Hearts Pair Granted Delay In Murder Case
The arraignment of Raymond M. Fernandez and Martha Beck on first degree murder charges in the hammer strangulation death of Albany widow Mrs Jan Fay was postponed until tomorrow. Judge Colling in Mineola Nassau County granted the delay at the request of the defendants' attorney.
Tax woes hit Syracuse vendors in quarterly rush
Sales Tax Bureau Director Fred L. Dolbear reports an epidemic of late returns in Syracuse as vendors and merchants struggle with ill bookkeepers and a flood of notices near the quarterly deadline.
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Greem
Sales Tax Bureau
Fred L. Dolbear Sz
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Creek job proposed as part of flood control plan
The House Appropriations Committee recommended a $670,000 project to widen and realign Onondaga Creek between Ballantyne and Darwin avenues with low levees and an upper end retention reservoir. The panel also cut Army Engineers funding, sending a $586,762,000 civil functions bill to the floor for debate.
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House Appropriations Committee
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Darwin Av
Army Engineers
Army
Truman
China Peace Talks Will Begin Soon
An adviser to the president said peace negotiations with the Communists would begin shortly after the government names its peace delegates. The selection of delegates is the first order of business before the cabinet tomorrow. Kan Chieh-hox, called the "Harry Hopkins" of China, is the first reliable source to indicate the Communists have agreed to talk peace.
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Nankeng CP
Kan Chieh-hox
Harry Hopkins
China
Teething at 61 Mil. CGP Elvis Ramsey
Elvis Ramsey, age 61, is cutting a tooth and had to remove his lower plate to make way for the tooth.
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Mil
Cgp
Elvis Ramsey
House Reverses to Back World War I Pension Bill
Lawmakers pushed for quick passage of a veteran pension bill offering 90 a month to World War I and American veterans aged 65. The Rankin measure faced drastic amendments and likely shifting to a World War I only need based plan by Huber, with added eligibility tied to honorable discharge and possible disability increases. the House endured a fierce political scramble, last seen in 1924, before concluding debates on page 8.
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House
Rankin
Representative Huber
Ohio
Huber
Kearney
Hinshaw
Rcalif
Educator Frank P. Graham Named to U S Senate Seat
Governor appoints Dr. Frank P. Graham educator and confidant to presidents as North Carolina's junior senator after the death of J Melville Broughton on March 6. Graham, 62, is president of the Greater University of Worth Carolina and was named at a Chapel Hill dinner.
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N.C. G
Frank P. Graham
North Carolina
U. S
W. Kerr Scott
University of
Lawyer-baker tries suit over faulty stove
St Paul lawyer baked a cake to prove his client’s claim that a furniture store’s range would not bake. Mrs Finck sues for 198 dollars claiming the stove ruined cakes. The judge and attorney Mosio attended a home baking clinic to test the stove. The judge warned of indigestion and said a verdict would come later.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Oo. K
Charles. Finck
Skeleton Mystery at Ada Kent Cottage in Essex
Police broke into Ada Kent's seaside Essex cottage and found a well dressed skeleton laid out near a supper tray. A bottle labeled poison lay nearby and a Shakespeare volume opened to Romeo and Juliet. The 110 year old disappearance of the actress Miss Kent echoes through repeated searches since 1939.
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Eng
Ada Kent
Miss Kent
Essex
Lost Boy Allen Misenko Tracked By Police After Four Hour Wander
Three year old Allen Misenko wandered from his Liberty street home to Richmond avenue Geddes street underpass and the New York Central Rail road before being found by Patrolman Carroll. After four hours of pleading and police questioning his distraught father retrieved him from headquarters.
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Joseph Misenko
Liberty St
Little Shaver
Richmond Av
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Geddes St
New York Central Railroad
Marcellus
Alien
Allen
Store Clerk’s German Note Tied to Jewelry Theft Case
Mrs Gertrude Boehne a 38 year old store clerk who faced charges for a jewelry theft ring was found dead in a police cell from self strangulation. A penciled note signed Goodbye Joopie was found in her purse addressed to her husband in Amsterdam.
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Gertrude.s. Boehne
Toopie
Amsterdam
Holland
J. Howard Ferguson
William =. Metzger
Johanns Boehne
Foopie
Joopie
Twoman
Grant
Fred G. Arnold
Rules Recited From Gold Rush Hotel Rules
George L Hay of the Amer can Hotel Association read an old placard from a California hotel of 1849. It lists rules such as board payable in advance with beans 42, without beans 12, salt free, Sunday potatoes, beds on warroom floor reserved for regulars. It bans pocketing and fighting at the table with a threat of being shot for violations.
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Amercan Hotel Association
Canton
California
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