Derailment blocks New York Central main line at Corfu
A westbound freight derailed two cars on the New York Central main line at Corfu due to a broken wheel. Two tracks remained blocked. no injuries reported. In New York Arline Judge plans to marry her sixth husband George Ross Jr next Wednesday with Judge Ferdinand Pecora performing. The Be Kind to Animals Week begins nationwide with educational programs. Rochester reports union wage talks at Pea cock Fruit and Vegetable Co and Eber Brothers Co resolved with no recent pay rise. Carl Lund of Albany dies after being struck near Cropseyville, near Route 96, in what investigators suspect an auto collision.
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New York Central Railroad
New York
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Arline Judge
George Ross, Jr
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Hollywood
Lana ‘Turner
Bob Topping
Weiner
ATIST
Rochester
Gale Truil
Canine Bo Teres
Stedkug Aag
Unstar Cacal
David Rosenberg
Eber Brothers Co., Inc
Peacock Fruit and Vegetable Co
Abe Cohen & Co
AUTO
Troy Vpi
Carl Lund
Albany
Cropseyville
Samaritan Hospital
Harold Harriman
Rensselaer County
Lund
Man to Speak at Own Funeral in Texas
A retired bookkeeper, George Stephens aged 73, will address his own funeral in Fort Worth via a phonograph record made four years earlier. The ceremony will be held at Harvey & Cole Funeral Home chapel.
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Texas
Fort Wortie Tex
George Stephens
Harvesdn & Cole Funeral
France and Spain Agree on Trade Pact
France and Spain announced a commercial pact to take effect May 15 covering about 2.0 billion pesetas ($180.9 million) in annual trade. Signing was expected within four to five days.
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France
Spain
Madrid
Foreign Office
Miss Kellems Invites Indictment Over Tax Test
Vivien Kellems a Connecticut manufacturer asked Secretary of the Treasury to indict her to test the withholding tax law. She had stopped deducting taxes from wages since February and sent receipts for January and part February to suggest legal action be taken.
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Miss Kellems
U. S
Saugatuck, Conn
Vivien Kellems
Kellems
Connecticut
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Miss Keems
Navy
One Party Czech State Forecast by Communist Leader
In Prague on May Day Rudolf Slansky secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party predicted that Czechoslovakia will become a one party state. He said the Communist regime plans to permit only one political party the Communist party.
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Prague
INS
Rudolf Slansky
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Czechoslovakia
Slansky
Taft urges 60 percent rise for U.S. employees
Senator Taft urged a 60 percent wage increase over prewar levels for federal workers, arguing salaries lag behind private industry and cost of living. He spoke in Cleveland and Akron, criticizing rival Harold Stassen and saying a Republican president should direct the anti totalitarian program. Taft also questioned David Lilienthal’s stance on Communism and opposed long atomic commission terms.
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Robert A. ‘Taft
Ohio
Wari
Tam
Tait
Taft
C.O.P
Stassen
Akron
David Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Lilienthal
House poised to act on stop gap draft bill
Chairman Andrews plans a separate stop gap draft bill for 18 to 30 year olds. The House measure sets manpower ceilings totaling 1,999,000 with Army 837,000 Navy 550,000 Marines 110,000 and Air Forces 502,000. Defense officials Forrestal and others will testify at a hearing tomorrow.
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R-N.y
House Armed Services Committee
Senate
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Forces
Defense
Forrestal
Radio station in Havana closed after suspension
The Ministry of Communications in Havana closed a Communist radio station after a day of fiery speeches against the government. The station was suspended for 10 days citing technical reasons.
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Havana
Cuba
Voice
The
Cuban Communist Party
Ministry of Communications
Red
Will leaves $75,000 to nine cats in care of caretaker
Mary I. Clay's will probated today bequeaths more than $75,000 to her nine cats. The elderly spinster provides a salaried caretaker to manage the pets and purchase food and supplies at cost, with death last April 19 recorded.
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Phriladel Peria
Jin
Mary I. Clay
Miss Clay
Dewey Attacks Defeatists in Oregon Campaign
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey urged Republicans to forge ahead and expand production in a Portland speech to the Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce. He warned against defeatist attitudes, criticized Communism and the Democratic administration, and outlined a ten day Oregon campaign ahead of the May 21 Republican primary.
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Ore
Thomas FE. Dewey
New York
America
Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce
Dewey
Oregon
Harold FE. Stassen
Stassen
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Enmuipaizar
The
New Yorker
Man Dies as Fire Destroys Son’s Home Near Ballston Spa
A Ballston Spa area fire killed John Snutter yesterday. A Malta town highway crew found the one and a half story frame house burning three miles east of Ballston Spa. They forced the front door and found the occupant unconscious as flames blocked rescue.
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Ballston Spa
John Snutter
Malta
Che Ian Loiig
Deaths of Dr Wellsame M Bradshaw Joseph E Wiggen and Alvan T Fuller
Death notices list Dr Wellsame M Bradshaw 64 longtime medical director of Mutual Life in New York City. Joseph E Wiggen 77 served as personal counsel for Massachusetts Crow and Alvan T Fuller during the Sacco Vanzetti years in Marsden Massachusetts.
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Wellsame M. Bradshaw
The
Mutual Life Insurance Co
New York City
Josephe Wiggen
Massachusetts
Crow
Alvan T. Fuller
Marsden
Mass
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