Stars Do Circus Acts Benefit in Hollywood
Hollywood hosts a benefit show uniting 209 film performers with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey for St John’s Hospital. Stars Danny Kaye Gary Cooper Edgar Bergen and others performed free before 30,000 fans raising between 200000 and 250000 dollars for a new 100 bed wing while Keenan Wynn and Ed Wynn joined acts.
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Hollywood
Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Bing Crosby
Movieland
Greer Garson
Tt United
Danny Kaye
Gary Cooper
Robinson Crusoe
Edgar Bergen
St. John’s Hospital
Santa Monica
Barry Fitzgerald
Keenan Wynn
Barker
Gargantua the Gorilla
Keenan
Ed Wynn
Ronald Colman
Frank ‘Sinatra
Bing’ Crosby
Jack Carson
Dennis O'Keefe
Buster Keaton
van Johnson
Betty Grable
Virginia Bruce
Elizabeth Taylor
Dianna Lynn
Audrey Totter
Lizabeth Scott
June Havoc
Ann Blyth
Two Americans Missing After Berlin Blockade Attempt
The U S Provost Marshal says two Americans Frank Yrdoes of New York and E R Sutton of Pint Mich are missing after trying to run the Soviet barrier on the Berlin superhighway. They left Berlin yesterday with a German driver and worked for the Anglo American Travel Board. A Soviet lieutenant colonel seen loitering near a factory in the French sector was arrested and handed to French authorities.
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Berlin
INS
U. S
Frank Yrdoes
New York
E.R. Sutton
Pint, Mich
Anglo-American Travel Board
Bad Rotenfelde
Fegel
National Security Board drafts wartime power laws
The board drafts legislation to authorize standby rationing price and wage controls and presidential allocation powers plus a second set to place the nation on a wartime footing as needed. The editorial page notes this amid a contents guide listing comics editorials and other features on pages 18 and 38 39 with pictures on page 16.
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National Security Resources Board
R. M. Boeckel
Mosquitoes blamed in fall incident on Baltimore man
Adam Collins 43 fell from a second floor window after claiming a mosquito attack while he stepped outside about 2 30 to install a screen. Police found him on the sidewalk with a broken leg and possible internal injuries. Jamestown area brief notes cattle rustling and a suspect held for grand jury.
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Baltimore
Adam Collins
Calling
Jamestown
Ehvaouen County
Frank Lindstrom
Sugar Grove
Students Hear Lectures From Magnetized Wire Recordings
University of Chicago students prefer listening to recording wire of past lectures to live talks. Associate Professor Bert Haselitz notes the recordings sometimes go haywire producing double talk instead of clear narration.
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Chicago
INS
University of Chicago
Bert Hoselitz
Haselitz
Priest Executed After Armed Rebellion Conviction
A priest condemned for armed rebellion with the Communists against Greece was executed in Athens. He had been wounded and captured on the island of Kjos.
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Athens
Greece
Kjos
Truman Opens Labor Day Campaign In Grand Rapids Speech
President Truman formally began his campaign by blaming the Republican majority for high prices and shortages. He addressed about 20,000 in Grand Rapids Michigan stating Congress had failed to act in the people’s interest as part of six Labor Day speeches planned.
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Truman
80Th Congress
Mr. Truman
Grand Rapids
Mich
Congress
Truman hits Vandenberg in Grand Rapids campaign stop
President Truman praised Senator Vandenberg in his hometown remarks while campaigning for a new term. He defended his record on price controls and housing, accused GOP leaders of blocking the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill, and criticized the real estate lobby. Across the nation the Democrats pressed the Taft-Hartley Act while Republicans prepared their counterattack with Harold Stassen named to deliver the official response.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Truman
Senate
Senator Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Vandenberg
80Th Congress
G.O.P
Tat Gro
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Toledo
Robert A. Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Siamese child healer injured in jeep crash
In Bangkok a 12 year old novice Buddhist monk named Samanen Noi Ratanakosin, famed as a miracle healer, was hospitalized after attempting to drive a jeep during an intuitive impulse and colliding with a bus. Crowds had gathered to seek cures from his touch.
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Bangkok
Siam
Samanen Noi Ratanakosin
Mionk
Nat Bunsue
Samanen
Drowning Toll in Syracuse Area Reaches One Dead
The Labor Day weekend accident toll in the Syracuse area rose to one dead and 19 injured. Donald Martin of 609 Niagara Street drowned while attempting to swim the Seneca River channel of the Barge Canal near Mud Lock picnic area. Leonard White, who accompanied him, swam back to shore. Martin was a piano mover by trade.
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Syracuse
Donald Martin
Niagara Sk
Seneca River
Mud Lock
Long Branch Rd. Bridge
George Moran
Jeg
Syracuse Memorial Hospital
Ife
Morgan Rd
E Euclid
Martin
Leonard White
White
Liverpool Fire Department
Air Force aims for world air speed record
In Cleveland the Air Force attempted a new world speed record as Maj. Richard L. Johnson flew six passes over a 1.86 mile course at an average near 670 miles per hour. The unofficial time exceeded the current record but the mark will not count until another attempt succeeds and weather cooperates.
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Cleveland
Air Force
Richard L. Johnson
Johnson
Associated Press
R. L. Johnson
Bulgaria frames US diplomat as spy says State Dept
The United States calls Bulgaria’s charge against Donald F. Ewing a plain frame up and a transparently fabricated maneuver. Ewing, vice consul at Sofia, was recalled after Bulgarian claims he collected espionage material from two Bulgarians. The U.S. notes similar Moscow claims against Lt. Robert Dreher were likewise staged as a plant.
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Washington
United States
Bulgaria
State Department
Europe
Donald F. Ewing
Sofia
Ewing
Moscow
Robert Dreher
Department
Legation
Dreher
Parleys Resumed on Four-Power Talks in Moscow
Four-power talks on Germany may be resumed in Moscow this week, according to authoritative informants. In Berlin, the talks among the four military governors have not broken down but are not running as smoothly as could be hoped.
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Moscow
Germany
Berlin
Spy Reports on Congo Uranium Site Attract U S Probe
Rep McDowell says un American Activities Committee is examining a report that scientists aim to build an international observatory in the Belgian Congo uranium fields. He notes uranium deposits rival the world’s largest and seeks details on the 9 million dollar funding and international backing. Hearings resume September 15.
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Washington
Gcbp
Divrektig
Chae Aay International
Belgian Congo
McDowell R-Pad
International Astronomical Laboratory
Russia
McDowell
Belgium
Netherlands
France
Congo
Rain Expected Tonight With Scattered Labor Day Showers
Scattered showers are forecast tonight and tomorrow ending a weather perfect Labor Day weekend. Showers tonight should be light with early evening arrival. Tomorrow will reach about 85 degrees in the afternoon with clouds and more scattered showers. Yesterday’s high rose 10.87 degrees, three below the 1941 record for the date.
Chaperone Flies Miss Oklahoma to Miss America in Private Plane
Donna Briggs known as Miss Oklahoma traveled to Atlantic City for the Miss America pageant. She flew with her chaperone Mrs. R C Banfield a 54 year old grandmother piloting the private plane.
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Washington
INS
Donna
Briggs
Atlantic City
R. C. Banfield
Poison gas risk warned as Camiguin eruption continues
Rescue efforts on Camiguin Island accelerate as lava from Mt Hibakhibok surges for the sixth day. About 35,000 to 45,000 residents flee by sea while five villages are buried or threatened. Five people reportedly buried alive. a sixth suffered severe burns. Doctors warn of potential lethal chlorine gas as the volcano reawakens.
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Manila
Camiguin
Philippines
Ittbokhibok
Philippine Constabulary
H. Otley Beyer
University of the Philippines
Beyer
Lake Taal
Hibakhibok
Hospital Lacks Funds Crisis Warned by Yale Doctor
Dr. Albert W. Snake of Yale University warned on a radio address that the American voluntary hospital system may go bankrupt unless municipal, county, and state governments take full financial responsibility for indigent care. He said hospital care is a vital commodity like food and shelter.
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New Haven, Conn
CINS
Albert W. Snake
Yale University
American Voluntary Hospital
Snake
Russian Consul General Lomakin Arrives in Gothenburg
Russia's expelled consul general to New York M. Lomakin arrived in Goeteborg Sweden this morning prompting local excitement similar to Greta Garbo's home visits. He appeared friendly and smiling yet unusually uncommunicative.
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Rokteberg
Sweden
Jatoh M. Lomakin
Russia
New York
Goeteborg
Greta’ Garbo
Lomakin
Rioters Overpower Guards at Berlin City Hall
Communist led demonstrators smashed into Berlin City Hall using battering rams and broke windows. Two American correspondents were injured in fist fights inside the building and a third photographer had his camera smashed. The riot, part of a sequence in 10 days, aimed to force the anti Communist government from power as Soviet controlled police did not intervene.
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Berlin
Action Committee
Ferdinand Friedenshburg
Associated Press
Henry Burroughs
Ernest Leiser
Overseas News Agency
Richard Kasiscuke
Leiser
Burroughs
Joseph Evans
Wall Street Journal
Evans
Death Toll Rises to 227 in Labor Day Weekend
The Associated Press reports 227 deaths nationwide over Labor Day weekend with 171 traffic fatalities, 30 drownings, and 26 from miscellaneous causes. California had 20 traffic deaths and one drowning, North Carolina 17 total, and Pennsylvania 13 with one miscellaneous. New York State logged seven deaths.
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Associated Press
California
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
New York State
What A Bigot Is Tyrone Power At Dinner
Tyrone Power, born in Cincinnati, defined a bigot as a man absolutely certain of something he knows nothing about when asked what a bigot is by a woman at a Cincinnati dinner. The remark frames the actor in a defiant light amid discussions of prejudice.
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Tyrone Power
Cincinnatic
Mr. Power
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