Kansas City Witnesses Tie Racing News to Gambling Network
Two Kansas City witnesses testified before a Senate Commerce Subcommittee about a racing news wire tied to bookmakers. They reported a $40 000 yearly business from a $7 500 investment while denying details of a $34 500 000 gambling racket. They said answering could incriminate them.
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Washington
Kansas City
Tano Lococo
Eddie “Spitz
Osadchey
Standard News Service
Charles Gargotta
Senate Commerce
Senate
Yesteray
Racing Service
McFarland
D-Ariz
Gargotta
Charles Binaggio
Binaggio
UN Calls for Peace Drive Across UN Agencies
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie chaired a unanimously approved appeal by the administrative committee for a great and sustained new effort by governments to end large scale war. The call cites divisions among powers and conflicts of policy harming world peace prospects.
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Paris
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Baby Left on Lawn Found by Bus Driver in New York
A newborn female infant, naked and crying, was found by a bus driver on a dew-covered lawn in New York. Doctors at Jamaica Hospital said the infant was only a few hours old and abandoned.
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New York
Jamaica Hospital
Editorial on Communist focus in 1952 elections
Marquis Childs analyzes how opponents press Communism as the central issue in the fall race and the 1952 election. The piece notes Pepper vs Smathers as evidence that anti-Communist framing helps win votes.
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George Smathers
Florida
Claude Pepper
Marquis Childs
Tropic Isle Daydreams Shattered By Realities
A Tahiti romance is debunked as costly. publisher Bertrand Juanez says a couple in Tahiti needs about $100 weekly to live, challenging island dream narratives. In St Albans, Rotarians offer an overnight jail visit to raise $8,000 for a hospital operating table, and in San Francisco a police clerk coordinates with a doctor as a baby is born during a frantic home delivery.
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New York
South Sea
Bertrand Juanez
Tapeete
Tahiti
Juanez
ST. Albans
Cale
San Francisco
John Gerald Kenney
William B. Clark
Kenney
East German paper corrects Stalin misquote
Neues Deutschland admits an unforgivable misquotation of Stalin’s twelve preconditions for a new type of communist party. The paper corrects to read revolutionary proletariat instead of reactionary, clarifying its leaders must come from the best elements of progressive fighters.
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Berlin
Neues Deutschland
Joseph “Stalin
Stalin
Foster named acting director of New York State Fair
Albany NY C Chester DuMond announces Earl C Foster as acting director of the New York State Fair and assistant commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Markets. Simultaneously Bligh A Dodds resigns as director to become executive secretary of the National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission. Dodds had led the fair since 1943.
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Albany
C. Chester DuMond
Earl.c. Foster
Foster
Department of Agriculture and Markets
du Mond
Bligh A. Dodds
Fair Dodds
National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission
New York
Dodds
Shrine Ceremonial Inductions At Utica Rites Draw Large Crowd
Some 4 000 Shrines descended on Utica for the semi annual Shrine ceremonial honoring Harold Lloyd. A Syracuse delegation led by 100 attendees and Utica's VARA Temple hosted 199 candidates. Parade through Utica drew about 5 000 as 142 candidates were inducted into the order.
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Utica
Syrajeuse
Upstate
Harold Lloyd
Syracuse
Tigris
VARA
Upstate New York
Warm spell to continue across Central New York
The Mercury forecasts high 70s with no rain for Central New York while showers affect Northern New York and Northern New England. Tonight low about 55, tomorrow near 78 as warm air from the Midwest moves in. Central New York, including Syracuse and Binghamton, saw 73 yesterday and 55 overnight with cooler air approaching from the west. A Colorado storm brings snow and low temps, but its effects are minimal for 24 hours as the Great Lakes circulate cooler air into the state early next week. Central New York will see fair skies and warmer temps from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys with record highs in some areas like Toledo 77, Kansas City 86, Wichita 96 yesterday.
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Mercury
Alex Sadowski
New York
New England
Midwest
Jyracuse
Binghamton
Utiea
Angle
Triangle
Colorado
Wisconsin
Canada
Great Lakes
Sadowski
Ohio
Tennessee
Toledo
Kansas City
Wichita
Five U.S. boats fined and release after shrimp trawling
Five American fishing boats were impounded for 10 days in Tampico Mexico after trawling for shrimp within the nine mile territorial limit. The captains paid 580 dollars in fines and sail for their home ports today after surrendering their nets.
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Tampico
Mexico
FEPC Faces Filibuster as Dixie Bloc Plans Strategy
Southern senators met in Washington to plot a filibuster against the Fair Employment Practices Bill. Senate Democratic leader Scott Lucas predicts a late move after foreign aid passage to take up FEPC, with a filibuster likely starting Monday and lasting until cloture or surrender.
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Washington
Dixie ‘Bloc
Truman
FEPC
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Ilinois
Russians Seized Ship Said By Farm And Firm
The British government opened a probe into reports that Russians seized the 373 ton fishing trawler Etruria in northern waters near the Scandinavian peninsula. The Standard Steam Fishing Company said the vessel and its 24 crew were boarded in the White Sea and taken to Murmansk, while a Russian embassy spokesman denied knowledge of the incident.
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London
Etruria
Standard Steam, Fishing Company
White Sea
Murmansk
Liberals Resign in Protest Over Lords Cooperation
Two more members of the House of Lords quit the Liberal Party in London protesting the party leaders handling of cooperation with the Conservatives. The resignations mark continued Liberal rebellion within the upper house.
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London
LLP
House of Lords
Liberal Party
Truman optimistic on postwar world and defense budget
President Truman said the international scene is better now than in 1946 and the cold war has not turned to shooting. He dismissed Hoover’s UN reorganization without Russia and defended Marshall Plan funding as cheaper than war, noting defense spending will be smaller in 1951 52 and taxes are the issue.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
Tydings
D.-Mda
United States
Hoover
United Nations
Defense
Johnson
Congress
Bus Drivers Strike Hits Southeastern Greyhound
Southeastern Greyhound bus drivers walked off the job in Atlanta in an unannounced strike stretching from Jacksonville Florida to Cincinnati Ohio. Dispatchers said no Southeastern Greyhound runs started after midnight, though earlier buses continued to their destinations.
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Atlanta
Southeastern Greyhound
Jacksonville
Fla
Cincinnati
House Committee Votes 31 0 to Extend Draft Two Years
The House Armed Services Committee approved a two year extension of the draft, voting 31 to 0. The measure would pause inductions until Congress signals a national emergency and curb presidential control over war essential industries. All men 18 to 26 would need to register unless already done. It would also tighten medical fitness exams under the existing act expiring June 24.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Vinson
D-Ga
House
United States
Horses Not Sociable Women Say in San Anselmo
Two San Anselmo housewives told the City Council that horses tethered near their homes violate a 20 foot setback. Mrs. Alice M. Woolfolk and neighbor Lacey Schilling asked that the 1918 law be amended to allow stricter tethering limits as horses graze just beyond their patios, disturbing use of outdoor spaces.
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San, Anselmo
Calif
Alice M. Woolfolk
Lacey ‘Schilling
Congress Hears Moslem Leader Liaquat Ali Khan
Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan told Congress that his new nation is founded on democracy and will stay true to its principles. He said no threat or material peril can deflect Pakistan from the path it has chosen during his U.S. tour.
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Washington
Liaquat Ali Kahn
Pakistan
Congress Today
U.S
Driver in Death Car Sentenced for 1 1/2 to 3 Years
Elwin Eugene Hall, 30, of Saranac Lake pleaded guilty to criminal negligence after his car struck a parked vehicle on the Cold Spring Baldwinsville road Oct 1. He received 1 1/2 to 3 years at Attica State Prison. The crash killed Mrs. Charlotte Frawley and her grandson William Doss Jr.
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Elwin Eugene Wall
Saranac Lake
R. D
Cold Spring
Baldwins*ville
Attica State
Hall
Leo W. Breed
William Doss
Fulton
Charlotte Frawley
Baldwinsville
William Doss, Jr
Beer Liquor Taxes Stay As House Committee Votes No Cut
The House Ways and Means Committee voted against reducing federal taxes on whiskey and beer. Proposals to cut the liquor tax from $9 to $7.50 per gallon and to cut the beer tax by 50 cents per barrel were rejected, saving about $200 million and $40 million respectively. No wine tax changes were proposed.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Death of Hiram Staunton Brown Ends Life in Maryland
Cal Hiram Staunton Brown a former New York investment banker and theater figure killed himself with a World War I era .45 pistol at Godlington Manor in Chestertown Maryland. The 67 year old financier had been treated for a nervous condition and was found in the pantry of his retirement home.
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Chestertown
Hiram .Staunton Brown
New York
Herald
Godlington Manor
Show Place
Maryland
Trieste Free Territory borders tighten with slow blockade
Marshal Tito's police execute a sudden slow down blockade between the Yugoslav and Anglo American zones in the Trieste Free Territory. Yugoslav guards begin screening each person crossing the frontier without explanation.
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Trieste
Marshal Tito
Trieste Free Territory
Bomb blasts kill at least fourteen near Catania Sicily
A deposit of heavy caliber aerial bombs exploded near Catania, killing at least fourteen people and causing extensive damage in the area. Emergency crews rushed to the scene as residents reported a powerful blast and smoke rising over the city.
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Catanta
Sicily
Catania
Pension Trust Established at Chrysler UAW Pact
Detroit workers near 65 with 25 years service gain $100 monthly pensions plus Social Security in a Chrysler UAW contract signed at 8:25 AM amid a billion dollar strike settlement. Wages rise in some plants and medical, hospital, and insurance benefits for employees are boosted.
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Detroit
Chrysler
the. C.I.0
United Auto Workers Land Chrysler Corp
Chrysler Strike Ends as UAW Reports Restored Benefits
Chrysler unionists prepare to return to work as 50 000 idle supplier workers also recall. UAW officials say the contract adds pensions hospital medical insurance and higher wage rates including three to thirteen cents more per hour in certain plants. The strike has left workers about 200 a year poorer on average after five years with gains to be phased in by July 1952.
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Detroit
Chrysler
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter Reuther
Kokomo
New Castle
Evansville
Ind
Syracuse Wins $633000 Slum Clearance Grant
Washington grants Syracuse New York 633000 to fund slum clearance including purchase, clearance and resale. City Planning Commission official Sergei Grimm says funds also support playgrounds parking lots business blocks and related projects in the slum program.
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Washington (P
Syracuse
N.Y
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Sergei Grimm
Secre ‘Tary
City Planning Commission
A Fish Story Told At Washington Luncheon
Frank T Slade of the Fish eriea Bureau recounts a tale of a mother fish and her offspring during a Washington luncheon. A young fish named Mike swallows a worm and shoots up, prompting questions about health. The mother reassures that fishing leads to substantial weight gains, often doubling or tripling.
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Frank T. Slade
Fisheriea Bureau
Washington
Mike
Zip
Brother Mike
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Winchell
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