Minnesota Educator Named Head of University of Buffalo
Dr. Thomas Raymond McConnell a 49 year old University of Minnesota professor since 1936 was named chancellor of the University of Buffalo. He will succeed Samuel P Capen who retires June 30 after 28 years of service.
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University of Buffalo Buffalo
Thomas Raymond McConnell
University of Minnesota
University of Buffalo
McConnell
Samuel P. Capen
Woods urges one year extension of rent controls
Rent Director Tighe E. Woods urged a one year extension of federal rent controls to avoid an intolerable rise in rents after June 30. He warned that relief is not in sight for millions of low and middle income families and that postwar housing construction has largely targeted higher income needs.
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Woods
Washington
Tighe E. Woods
Israel to Enter Direct Peace Talks with Arab States
Geneva AP reports Israel will engage in direct negotiations with Arab nations as urged by the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission and will shift from conciliation to mediation as proposed.
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Geneva
United Nationsi Palestine Conciliation Commission
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Noted figures across science and public life die in 1980s era notices
Dr William J Honnold 84 mining engineer linked with Herbert Hoover and Belgian relief in Los Angeles. Prof Gilbert Wooding Robinson 61 soil chemistry expert in Bangor Wales. Jack Farmer 37 Grand Forks Chiefs manager and ex pro pitcher in Grand Forks North Dakota. Gavrille Dezich 79 patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade Yugoslavia. Mrs Emily Royster Howe Ell Kyser 86 mother of bandleader Kay Kyser in Rocky Mount North Carolina. James A Hamilton 74 former New York State secretary of state in New York City.
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Herbert Hoover
Belgium Relief Commission
Los Angeles
Gavrille Dezich
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Senate Opens New Battle Over FEPC
Washington reports the Senate begins a clash over the FEPC bill to create a Fair Employment Practice Commission banning job discrimination by color, race or creed. Senate leaders plan a week of debate as Southern opponents vow to challenge the measure and test the rule on limiting debate.
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FEPC
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Russell
D-Ga
Truman Visits Chicago in Offbeat Birthday Tour
President Truman greeted a throng estimated at 10 000 in Chicago yards at 5 12 AM as he walked a mile between tracks. Reporters and security followed while the crowd sang Happy Birthday and offered cakes. He said he was not running for office but welcomed issue discussions and viewed the trip as vacation not work.
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Chicago
Secret Service
Jacob Arvey
Commando Units Replacing Shock Police In Berlin Sector
Testimony to a U.S. High Commission court describes four East German commando units, each about 250 men, replacing regular shock police in the Soviet sector to bolster the Communist youth march. The units are trained in tanks, machine guns, and light artillery and moved from camps in the Soviet zone after Berlin shock police were said to be too friendly with locals. The informant, Werner Pellman, a 23 year old former paratrooper who recently deserted the East German people’s police, provided the account.
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Sabotage Blamed for India's Worst Train Wreck
Investigators say saboteurs caused a deadly crash on the Punjab mail in Bihar, India, with at least 82 dead after the train plunged 50 feet from a bridge. The Bihar CID chief reported missing isoplates that held rails together were removed.
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India
Punjab
Bihar
Congressional Probes and Aviation Bills Highlight Day
Senate debates on an FEC bill with House action on a $29 billion appropriation. Banking and foreign relations panels study government loans and communism charges. A Vermont National Guard pilot suffered a fractured leg after leaping from a disabled F-47 during a crash near Argyle.
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New York State Medical Society Opens 114th Meeting
The 114th annual NY State Medical Society session began at the Statler Hotel with about 5,000 doctors in attendance. Television broadcasts will show surgical operations Wednesday through Friday as featured events.
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New York State Medical Society
Statler Hotel
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Former Laborer Made Saint by Pope
Pope Pius raised Anthony Maria Claret, a textile worker who became Archbishop of Cuba, to sainthood before 55 000 faithful, 15 cardinals, and 94 bishops. He founded the Claretian Fathers, with 220 houses across continents. Donna Carmen Polo de Franco attended near the papal throne. Born December 1807 in Salent near Barcelona, Claret was ordained in 1839 and served the church for decades.
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Governor Gets Apology Over Drunkenness Charge
New Orleans Mayor de Lesseps Morrison apologized to Montana Governor John W. Bonner for a drunkenness charge reported by police last Thursday night in the French Quarter. Police Captain Joseph Guillot said Bonner was arrested on a simple drunk charge and jailed six hours. The governor later commented that the affair was foolishness and hinted at a mysterious element, while en route to Biloxi.
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Interstate Oil Compact Commission
New York Rainmaking Effort Boosts Ashokan Reservoir
City officials stopped short of claiming credit as rainmaking tests using silver iodide generators near Ashokan and Liberty produced rainfall for about half an hour. Reservoirs run about 85 percent full, with aims to reach 1.526 billion gallons daily by June 1 as demand rises.
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Edward J. Clark
Liberty
Fire Rips Through Town Driven By Wind
Fire from page one quarters treated many injured as city officials rushed to aid the homeless and unemployed. Army blankets tents and medical supplies arrived while witnesses spoke of the town turning red with flames. Jean Yves Marois said his family lost 25 000 in home and belongings as hundreds of firefighters protected Rimouski Cathedral. Homeless slept in tents and shelters. others found beds with friends whose homes survived.
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Rimouski Cathedral
Writer Held T in Slaying
Boston police say novelist Gordon Hillman aged 49 confessed to bludgeoning his 74 year old mother Carolyn Hillman in their Back Bay hotel suite after dinner. He gave a statement that financial troubles and concealment led to the attack, saying he struck her four or five times.
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Mystery witness skips HUAC session on Remington loyalty probe
A mystery witness did not appear for a closed door session of the House HUAC investigating William W. Remington a Commerce Department economist. Aids failed to serve a summons and no date was set for rescheduling with the witness name withheld.
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House ‘Un-American Activities Committee
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Remington
Commerce Department
Senator Flanders seeks halt to State Department hearings
Senator Flanders introduced a resolution to bar further public hearings on McCarthy’s charges of Communist infiltration while directing a Senate review of loyalty procedures. He argued continued proceedings harm morale and foreign relations. McCarthy pressed new charges including naming a U S envoy as a foreign agent.
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McCarthy
Wisconsin
U. S
Janesville
Wis
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Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Neighbor’s Murder Admitted by Man in Confluence
Twenty year old Harry Reckner admitted shooting and killing Charles Lytle 25 and wounding Thomas Warrick 67 after a hunting dispute. State police said Reckner would be charged with murder and given a mental examination. the shootings occurred near Confluence Hospital.
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Harry Robert Reckner
Charles Lytle
Confluence Hospital
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Howard Stephens
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Stephens
Justice Hughes Praised at Memorial Rites
Chief Justice Vinson praised the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a Supreme Court memorial service. Hughes died August 27 1948 at age 86 and had retired from the bench in 1941.
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Washington
Vinson
Charles Evans Hughes
U. S. Supreme Court
Hughes
Miss Smedley Dies Writer on China
Miss Agness Smedley aged 56 American writer known for China reporting died in a Oxford nursing home. The Army had once named her a Soviet spy in a wartime Japan ring report later retracted calling the charge a despicable lie and her attorney said she was grateful for the clearing of her name.
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England
Agnes Smedley
China
U. S
Japan
Miss Smedley
Dean of University of Iowa Dies in Iowa City Crash
Dr Walter Robert Goetsch 38 dean of students at the University of Iowa was killed when his car collided with a truck in Iowa City Iowa. Two of his three children who were passengers escaped with minor injuries.
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Iowa City
Walter ‘Robert Goetsch
University of Iowa
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