Sophie Tucker 40th Year Show Dinner On Broadway
The Astor honored Sophie Tucker with a $15 a plate testimonial dinner on Broadway. George Jessel served as toastmaster, with Joe Laurie Jr. and luminaries including Mayor O Dwyer, Sir Cedric, Gene Buck, and Lucy Monroe praising her long career. Cantor recalled Tucker as kin, Berlin performed, and Tucker mused on immortality before returning to her Latin Quarter midnight show.
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Prisoners Stage Work and Hunger Strike at Danbury
Extra guards were on duty at the Federal correctional institution after a work and hunger strike by inmates. Acting Warden K. E. Theiman reported no violence. The report notes tension but no disturbance.
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Seven Schenectady Men Plead Not Guilty on Horse Room Charges
Seven Schenectady men pleaded not guilty to grand jury charges involving horse room and numbers racket activities. They were released on $500 cash bail each by Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Imrie. no trial date was set. Strike in Rochester and other brief regional incidents follow in this late night bulletin.
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Richardson Named House Information Coordinator
S Frederick Richardson, former Republican Congressional Committee writer, was named coordinator of information for the House of Representatives. Speaker Martin selected him for the $12,000 yearly post created last week by House resolution. The Federal Housing Administration cited a sharp rise in proposed rental housing projects in the first four months of the year.
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House
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Eire May Seek U S Loan Predicts Irish Paper
The Irish Independent forecast in today’s notes that Eire may seek an American loan as Dublin prepares for Tuesday’s budget presentation. Other items report on campus protests in China, a new German custodian law in the American zone, starvation claims in England, postwar vessel scrapping instructions, Morocco before the UN, and Bavarian refugee arrivals.
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Dr Baldwin Tuberculosis Expert Dies in Saranac Lake
Dr Edward Robinson Baldwin a renowned tuberculosis authority and former director at Trudeau Sanatorium died at 82 from pneumonia after six weeks illness in Saranac Lake. Born in Bethel Connecticut on September 8 1864 he studied at Yale before building a global career in TB research and service. He helped found the Trudeau Lab endowment and led national TB efforts including a presidency of the National Tuberculosis Society and editorship of the American Review of Tuberculosis. He and wife Mary Ives had a son Henry Ives Baldwin.
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Cheshire, Conn
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Hunt Slick Willie In $50,000 Robbery
New York police hunted 47 year old jewel thief Willie Sutton for a $50,000 Manhattan robbery. Sutton famed for disguises and stage policeman roles, with a blue uniform clue linking him to the heist. Authorities sought to question him about the crime and its daring style.
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Isador Wintre
Planes Crash in Indo China Kills Nine Crews
The French News Agency reports nine dead after a Dakota and a Mosquito bomber crash at Saigon Air Port in French Indo China. The dispatch did not specify the planes' nationalities.
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Saigong
Indo-China
25 Babies Die Of Diarrhea In Northeast Corridor
An outbreak of infantile diarrhea has claimed 25 lives in Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Temple University Hospital reported 13 infants in an isolated ward and said the disease is incurable. Cases originated in Allentown and Somerville with four, five fatalities respectively.
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Donegan Stated Suffragan Bishop
Two Episcopal groups in New York reached agreement on Rev. Dr. Horace W. B. Donegan as candidate for suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York. The agreement was made Monday night at separate meetings of the Anglo Catholic high church and liberal law church factions.
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St. James Church
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Homeless man leaps to death in South Boston loft
A 65-year-old homeless man with a $2,000 check in his pocket died after jumping from a third floor apartment in South Boston. Miss Valeria Mazur, 53, reported that William L. Elbrigge arrived from New York City seeking shelter, asking to stay overnight, and was allowed to sleep on a sofa.
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Valeria Mazur
William L. Elbrigge
New York City
Deaths of Frank McInerny Lady Cecilia Roberts Disraeli Masurov Sky
Death notices list Frank McInerny 63 veteran newspaperman and columnist for Minneapolis Daily Times and former Empire Theater manager in Chicago, Lady Cecilia Roberts 79 temperance worker and former Liberal Party leader in Boothby Brampton Cumberland England, Disraeli Masurov Sky 20 awarded artist in Sarasota Florida.
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One Mass Opinion by Walter Kiernan on 1948 politics
In this column Kiernan mocks postwar trade talk as a swap of peanuts for loin cloths and jokes about political tactics. He notes party operatives courting attention with soap operas and suggests the Democrats’ star is Henry Wallace, hinting at anticipations for 1948.
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Jessel
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Reds seize Showyang after government withdrawal
Report states Reds moved 30 miles east and occupied Showyang following a strategic withdrawal by government forces as fighting continues in the region.
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Soviet Build Advances on Crimea Astro-Physical Lab
The Soviet press announced construction has begun on the largest astro physical laboratory near Partizansky village in the Crimea.
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Partizanskoy
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