Mosque prayers at the U N cause a rug hunt
A New York Post item notes two Moslem delegates at the United Nations knelt for prayer in Owen’s office after urgently needing a rug. They hurried through the UN corridors to find one, then bowed and prayed, a quirky anecdote amid a string of Broadway and media bits.
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Owen
U. N
U.N
Albert Schweitzer
Norman Thomas
Eugene Debs
Schweitzer
Kitty Kallen
Versailles
Mary Martin
South Pacific
Miss Martin
Stark
New York Post Corp
Red Probe Ousts 6 Postal Workers
Six Cleveland postal clerks reported they were suspended for alleged Communist sympathies. The suspension brings to eight the number of suspended postal workers in Cleveland under President Truman's loyalty program. Bertram A. Washington, president of the local alliance chapter, said four of the six are Black and one is Jewish. Appeals were given 15 days.
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Cleveland
President Truman
Bertram A. Washington
National Alliance of Postal Emolies
Washington
Needle Pattern AVE introduces transfer of picture
Needle painting is fun with this transfer pattern 638. The Canton Repository offers a 15 by 19 inch transfer of a picture for 20 cents. Send coins to The Canton Repository Needlecraft Dept New York address with pattern number name address and zone printed plainly.
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Canton Repository
Needlecraft Dept
P. O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N. Y
Critics Assail Trygve Lie in UN Smear Probes
The United Nations staff committee at Lake Success protests against alleged smear tactics tied to congressional probes. It backs Secretary-General Trygve Lie and rejects unsubstantiated charges. Byron Price calls the witness history fantastically untrue. Mrs. Mary Jane Keeney denies she acted as a Communist courier while employed by the U.N. and the U.S. government.
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United Nations Secretariat
World Organization
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Senate
U. N
Lie
Byron Price
House UN American Activities Committee
Mary Jane Keeney
Communist Party
U. S
Keeney
U. N. Secretariat
Ohio honey producers report 5 percent fewer bee colonies
Ohio honey producers have 5 percent fewer bee colonies this year than last. The Federal State Crop Reporting Service said today that the number of colonies in state apiaries is 305000.
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Federal
State Crop Reporting Service
Ohio's Fight for Street Named for Washington
Washington quotes fuel Ohio bid to name a street in the capital after the state. At a DC hearing Stan ton Kolb for Georgetown Citizens Association argues Ohioans shouldn’t oppose Washington. Rep Jenkins retorts Kolb as interloper as Ohio seeks a Washington street. District Commissioner Mason notes few object to Ohio yet residents resist the change.
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Washington
George Washington
Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
District of Columbia
Stanton Kolb
Georgietown
Kolb
Buckeye
Guy Mason
Perhaps You Know By A C Gordon
A set of trivia questions and answers covering gas consumption, smallest states by area, highest waterfall, antipodes, and the state once nicknamed Franklin. Answers include 50 to 60 gallons monthly, Rhode Island Delaware and Connecticut, Kukenaam falls in British Guiana, antipodes as opposite globe points, and Tennessee as Franklin state.
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Antipodes
Franklin
Rhode Island
Delaware
Connecticut
Kukenaam
British Guiana
Tennessee
West Reich and Greece Sign Trade Agreement
A $58,000,000 trade pact between Western Germany and Greece was signed in Frankfurt. The agreement runs July 1, 1949 to June 30, 1950. West German imports include agricultural products chemicals tobacco and sponges hides and skins. Greece will buy chemicals textiles coal scrap rolling mill products iron and steel machinery.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Greece
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