Campbell Dies After Stroke Amid Forgery Scandal
Freeport resident Bertram M. Campbell aged 60, once jailed for two forgery crimes later admitted as wrongful, died of a stroke nine days after a car trip. His wrongful conviction cost him liberty and dignity, prompting a $113,142.90 pardon and compensation under New York legislation. His family sought relief after a harrowing four-year ordeal and a home purchase in Freeport last May.
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Bertram M. Campbell
Wall Street
Campbell
Alexander D. O. Thiel
New York
Yanks Protest U S Bombing of Truce Team
In Peiping informed sources say U S officials will lodge a strong protest to Chiang Kai-shek over the bombing of a truce team near Chengteh and the reported wounding of three Americans. The tripartite headquarters oversees U S Chinese and Communist parties.
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Weather forecast for Eastern New York cooler and sunny Sunday
Showers or thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight with continued warmth today. Cooler late tonight and Sunday with partly cloudy skies. Friday high 81, low 56. Sunset 8 39 PM, sunrise 6 03 AM. Record high 91 in 1945, record low 41 in 1940. Humidity 64 at 8:30 PM and 74 at 6:30 AM.
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Warm Today Cool Sunday Forecast For Syracuse Area
Warm today gives way to cool Sunday with showers and thundershowers but little rain expected this afternoon or tonight. Temperatures in Montana and Minnesota near 40s while Canada sees 90s. A cold front moves east about 600 miles daily and cool conditions persist through Monday. The thermometer rose to 81 Friday afternoon and should be in the low 80s again this afternoon. At 3 AM the reading was 68.
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Syracuse
Montana
Minnesota
Mercury
Canada
Coal Welfare Fund Surpasses 2.5 Million in Output
Collections of the United Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund on soft coal produced between June and July 16 have exceeded 2.5 million dollars. The fund, created under the government wage agreement signed May 29, is financed by the operators' payment of five cents on each ton of coal produced.
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United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
Maureen O'Sullivan Welcomes Third Hollywood Son
The Joan Farrows, Maureen O'Sullivan and her director husband, welcomed their third son yesterday. He is their fourth child, joining siblings in the Hollywood family.
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Hollywood
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Meat price rise boosts household meat bills by 600 million
Washington reports a 60 million dollar jump in annual meat bills for American households as ceilings return to butcher shops. OPA officials say most increases fall on those who can afford it. Deputy administrator predicts meat may be scarce after ceilings take effect. Major packers pledged cooperation to enforce price controls.
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Geoffrey Baker
Baker
Paul Porter
Chicago
Government moves perishables from idled ships amid shipping strike
Washington reports the Government is removing vast perishable goods from idle merchant ships as a nationwide shipping strike drags on. The Maritime Commission won union agreement to unload meat and vegetables aboard 28 Baltimore ships, with plans to sell some produce and store the rest. Unions elsewhere allowed continued food barge unloading. tugboat crews in New York were to join but agreed to keep operating food boats. The strike immobilized about 705 ships on the East Coast and nearly 200 on the West Coast, with 2534 ships tied up claimed by a union. Railroads reported 415,000 to 20,000 freight cars affected. Government hopes rest on talks between Labor Dept officials and Sailors Union leaders.
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Harry Lancers
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Lewis B. Schwellenbach
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Byrnes cites battle for democracy in Germany
Paris AP report notes Secretary Byrnes described Germany as the front in a larger struggle for democracy. An American official framed Byrnes speech as a stark warning that the West is in a fight with the East over German policy, with a 30 to 50 percent chance of averting a full breach if diplomacy fails. Moscow radio echoed cautious interpretations of Berlin developments.
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James F. Byrnes
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Imany
Bevin Backing Russia Delays Likely for General Assembly
Paris report notes British Foreign Secretary Bevin may back the Soviet push for postponing the UN General Assembly. Talks aim to secure Austrian and German questions at once after the Assembly meets. Lie expects the session to start Sept 23 in New York. Bidault signals vote for delay to aid the Peace Conference. Bevin departs for London to confer with Attlee on allied positions.
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Soviet Delegate Says Postpone AEC Report Action
A Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko told a New York source that Cornell requested delaying final action on an Atomic Energy Commission scientific report and postponing the council draft report to the General Assembly. He said he had not yet studied the council's digest from a late Friday secret council session.
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Atomic Energy Commission
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Liberty ship George A. Custer returns with Japanese crew
The George A. Custer, a Liberty ship manned by 47 Japanese crew members and flying the American flag, is in port. It marks the first of 135 ships returning to the United States after being used to repatriate Japanese soldiers to no homeland.
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George A. Custer
Rioting End Appears Near End in Bombay After Week of Bloodshed
In Bombay the week of Hind Mu slum rioting seems near end as revised casualty lists show 220 dead and 639 injured since the disturbances began last Sunday. A government communique states only six stabbing or arming cases were reported by 11 AM today and that mills and factories were operating normally. Trams and buses run on nearly all main roads.
Aggie Mack Joins Merald Journal Comics Lineup
Inside the Merald Journal a new humorous comic character joins the page on Monday. The teen age tyke Aggie Mack brings bright mischief and ready to win readers hearts as part of the paper's on going comic feature.
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Merald-Journal
Aggie Mack
Postponed Atomic Test By Truman In Bikini
President Truman indefinitely postponed the proposed third atomic bomb test at Bikini. A White House statement said test C should not be conducted soon in view of the successful completion of the first two tests and the substantial information already gained.
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Truman
Bikini
Captain Cleared In Cruelty Trial in Germany
Captain Joseph A. Robertson of Toledo Ohio was acquitted by a military court in Germany today of charges that he authorized cruelty to American Army prisoners at the U S Army guardhouse in Lichfield England. The court found insufficient evidence to convict and discharged him.
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Joseph A. Robertson
Toledo
Lichfield
England
Damaged troopship taken under tow off German coast
A damaged troopship was reported afloat under tow in the North Sea last night after a mysterious explosion two miles off the German coast. A radio message indicated no personnel casualties aboard, though the ship’s power plant was out of commission.
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Edmund B. Alexander
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Mnet Coast Guard
Mother Demands Higher Pension For Two Infants
Nineteen year old Joyce E Cawley presented her ex GI husband’s 11 50 monthly pension to a Veterans Administration office in Philadelphia saying she cannot feed her two babies on that amount. She left her three month old Barbara Joan and 14 month old Betty Ann on the VA desk and fled, later surrendering the idea of ordering the children to the VA. Police placed the infants in a shelter of the Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty.
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Veterans Administration
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Nazi leader arrest shocks Rhine bridge case in Germany
In Herford Germany British headquarters announced the arrest of J Joseph Grohe former Reich commissioner for Northern France and Belgium identified as the principal figure in the bombing of five Rhine bridges. Legal action follows with international security implications and ongoing pursuit.
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Greece imposes martial law nationwide during crisis
Athens declares full country under martial law after a plane over Yugoslavia was shot down. Government suspends normal law provisions, citing extraordinary measures. London confirms Tsaldaris consulted, while Athens reports imply nationwide effect. Pilot Lt Georgios Tanganalds rescued Marshal Tito during the war and later received the Yugoslav Military Cross.
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Greece lifts drastic law nine days before referendum
Military rule was briefly imposed enabling arrests to maintain order. Police could detain anyone deemed dangerous to public order, with immediate trial by military courts and exile as punishment. The measure, used to calm fears at home and abroad, was removed just days before the vote.
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GIs Freed By Yugoslavs In Belgrade Case
Three American soldiers sheltered under U S Embassy protection in Belgrade were told by Marshal Tito’s government they would receive exit visas after being linked to the Feb 7 slaying of Soviet underofficer Ivan Vasiljenko. The GIs denied involvement and restated innocence as U S spokesmen disclosed that Sgt Charles E Nicolosi admitted possible implication.
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Bare Knee Battle Inane. CPA Reaches For Hemline Ease
Washington reports the Civilian Production Administration will keep winter access to current hemlines while considering staged relaxations. Clothing Chief Theodore Maynard says plans to lengthen house dresses and street frocks by one inch, end evening dress bans, and ease style curbs. Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.
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