Train Collision in Bayonne Kills One, Injures Fifty
A Central of New Jersey passenger train rammed the rear of another near Eighth Street station Bayonne. One fireman died instantly and about 50 people were injured, many scalded when the second train's boiler exploded. Emergency stations treated dozens as firefighters battled wreckage and crowds watched.
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Bayonne
N. J
U.P
Central of New Jersey
Eighth Street
Robert Hendershot
Wilkes-Barre
William O’neil
Monmouth
Jersey City
Freehold
Joseph A. Gowiazdowski
William F. Garrity
No 2 Terrorist in Stern Gang Jailed by Police
In Tel Aviv a British dragnet ended with the arrest of Itznak Yesternitsky described as the No 2 man in the Stern gang. Anna Stern was detained for questioning. Police and troops searched every residence uncovering arms caches in a synagogue and a boys school as hundreds were detained.
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Jerusalem
Itznak Yesternitsky
Stern
Tel Aviv
Yesternitsky
Anna Stern
Abraham Stern
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Palestine
Nathan Friedman-Yells
Atron
Atomic Materials for Peacetime Use Are Released
Atomic energy facilities at Oak Ridge begin shipping peacetime products to science. Five pea sized units of radioactive carbon or carbon fourteen were delivered as first peacetime uses aimed at cancer, diabetes and other life riddles. The material comes from uranium ovens that also helped build the atomic bomb.
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Oakridge
Tenn
Hiroshima
Oak Ridge
Austin Quits Senate for New Duties
Senator Austin of Vermont resigns from the Senate to serve as American representative on the World Security Council. He had been appointed as personal ambassador for the President, with the resignation effective Friday in Washington.
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Washington
Austin
Friday
Senate
World Security Council
Ethiopia asks conference to award Eritrea and Somaliland
In Luxembourg, Ethiopia urged the peace conference to grant her Italy's East African colonies Eritrea and Somaliland, claiming they were taken by Italian aggression. Abte Wolde argued for annexation while reparations from Italy were also sought as parliament debated leadership of the talks.
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Ethiopia
Eritrea
Somaliland
Paris
Peace Conference
Italy
Mussolini
Abte Wolde
Foreign Ministers Council
Dodecanese
Greece
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Luxembourg Palace
Georges Bidault
France
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Rules Committee
Jan Masaryk
Budget Returned to Supervisors for Elementary School
Trustees of School District No 1 again return the elementary budget to the budget supervisors with no changes to fund a 75 cent per day wage increase for teachers. The board says Section 1019.13 gives it authority to set the budget at 578 036 49 and notes teachers already received a 270 annual raise. A third deadlock preceded a daytime budget session and a recessed meeting to be held after union representatives report.
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Board of School Budget Supervisors
Montana
Maybelle Hogan
Disloyalty Cases to Be Exposed by Senate War Panel
The Senate war investigating committee will seek out and expose instances of disloyalty and dishonesty by public officials. It plans public hearings after Sept. 1 on defective 4.2 inch mortar shells, Alaska highway field studies, and war procurement in key industries, with focus also on tax laws, amortization, renegotiation, and cost of public funds.
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Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Congress
Elisha Walker
May ‘Dky
House Military Committee
Murray Garsson
Alaskan
Mead
D-N. Y
Negro Chauffeur Confesses Slaying New York Woman
A 23 year old Negro chauffeur Ward Beecher Caraway confessed to murdering socialite Mrs Majory Church Logan in Mineola Nassau County and wounding her daughter Majory nine days earlier. Police Capt Stuyvesant Pinnell said arraignment will follow after the written statement. Miss Logan is hospitalized recovering from facial and neck injuries.
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Mineola
N. Y
Stuyvesant Pinnell
Majory Church Logan
Majory
Pinnell
Nassau County
Ward Beecher Caraway
Caraway
Nassau Hospital
Athens Revolt Ends as Reform Ticket Wins Tennessee County
In Athens Tennessee an armed riot left 23 wounded during a battle at the county jail as reform G I veterans toppled the entrenched M7 Minn county Democratic machine. Officials pledged election certificates as Washington opened a civil rights investigation into the violence.
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Athens
Tenn
U.P
Minn County
Reform
Paul Centrell
Pay Mansfield
Albania Membership Opposed by Greece
Greece objects to Albania joining the United Nations calling it not a peace loving state. Ambassador Vassili Dendramis says Albania may lack guarantees to uphold UN undertakings and cites aggression against Greece. The membership committee, meeting Monday, also reviews Outer Mongolia Afghanistan and Transjordan applications.
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New York
Vassili Dendramis
Greece
United Nations
Albania
Security Council
Yugoslavia
Russia
Outer Mongolia
Afghanistan
Transjordan
At Least 44 Injured In Potomac Bridge Bus Crash
A crowded commuter bus veered from a Potomac River bridge into a driveway 30 feet below after colliding with a car. Forty four people including the auto driver were treated in hospitals. Police and the Washington-Virginia-Maryland Coach Co. refined earlier estimates that listed up to sixty injured.
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Washington
Potomac River
Washington-Virginia-Maryland Coach Company
Two Die in Chile Quake Rips Copiapo City
A strong earthquake in Copiapo 400 miles north of Santiago killed two people and wounded several others. Extensive damage disrupted the Chilean city on Friday and disaster crews rushed to the scene.
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Santiago
Chile
Copiapo
Senate and House Adjourn to End 79th Congress
The 79th Congress closed with cooperative international moves but heavy domestic clashes. Truman faced repeated vetoes on OPA tidelands labor and other issues, with some overrides but none reaching two thirds. The Pauley Navy post was withdrawn as confirmation failed.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Edwin W. Pauley
OPA
Tidelands
Pauley
Senate
United States
Roosevelt
House
Soviet Magazine Blasts American British bloc
Moscow dispatch notes New Times charging an American British bloc seeks world dominance and harms peace efforts. Pravda attacks Allied four power council head on labor reform and cultural controls in Japan. The piece says the bloc’s influence shows in Japan, China, the Mediterranean, India and Greece. In Hungary, a mob of 10 000 lynched police official Arthur Frenkel in Miskolc after freeing 16 detainees connected to the lynching of two Jewish black market operators.
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Moscow
News Times
Friends of Peace
United States
Communist Party
Pravda
George Atcheson, Jr
Council For
Japan
New Times
Council of Foreign Ministers
China
Mediterranean
India
Greece
Budapest
Hungary
Arthur Frenkel
Miskolc
Butte Weather Forecast Maps Clear to Partly Cloudy
Forecast for Butte region calls for clear to partly cloudy skies Saturday night with continued warm temperatures. Highs around 75 to 85 expected east of Divide and near 75 to 80 west of Divide. At School of Mines and airport highs near 85 and 81 respectively with lows around 45 to 50.
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School of Mines and
School of Mines
Divide
Associated Press
Billings
Belgrade
Broadus Custer
OPA Lifts Bread Prices and Buoys Ceilings After Rises
The OPA authorized immediate but temporary price increases of one cent on regular bread loaves and nearly one cent per pound on flour. Bread rolls rise by one cent a dozen, and ceilings climb 15 percent on biscuits crackers and cookies. Additional 2 cent retail bump on eight ounce macaroni and 1 cent on smaller noodle packages, with cereals up 1 to 3 cents per package.
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OPA
Washington
Communists Claim Yenan Bombed as Mediation Sides Struggle
The Communist radio says Chinese government planes bombed Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism, while peace talks continue in Nanking and Kuling. U.S. Marines in north China brace for possible clashes as Gen. Marshall and Ambassador Stuart press mediation efforts amid ambushes on the Peiping-Tientsin road.
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Nanking
Communist Radio
Yenan
Kuling
Gen. Marshall
John Leighton Stuart
Americas
China
United States
Peiping-Tientsin
Peiping
Senate approves world court resolution with limit on domestic matters
The Senate approved a measure by 60 to 2 to accept world court decisions on treaties and reparations, while an amendment by Connally leaves domestic matters like the Panama Canal to U.S. discretion. The treaty form requires no House action, with Langer and Shipstead voting no on both this and the Nations charter.
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Washington
Senate
White House
United States
World Court
International Tribunal
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Panama Canal
House
Langer
R-N. D
Shipstead
R-Minn
Congress Ends Second Session Amid Mixed Triumphs
The 79th Congress adjourned Friday night ending its second session begun January 14. Speaker Rayburn and Senate Leader Barkley praised the work while noting unfinished items. The Senate approved a world court pledge under the UN with two dissenters and a social security tax freeze faced House opposition before a conference compromise.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Rayburn
de Texas
Barkley
World Court
United Nations
Shipstead
R-Minn
Langer
R-N.d
Social Security Tax Freeze Ends 1947 Tax Rise Debate
Congress approved a compromise to freeze the old age and survivors insurance tax at one percent for another year, preventing a jump to 2.5 percent. The plan adds about 150 million dollars annually for 2 million aged, 75,000 blind, and 772,000 dependent children, averaging roughly five dollars per month for the aged and blind and three dollars per child.
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Washington
Congress
President's Veto of Tidelands Oil Measure Upheld
The House voted 139 to override President Truman with 95 against, failing to attain a two thirds margin. The veto of the tide lands oil bill preserves the conflict over whether coastal areas belong to states or the nation and leaves Supreme Court resolution in question.
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Washington
House
Truman
Supreme Court
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Therman Wolfe
Walton
Ralph Perron
Dayton
Donald B. Smith
Bloomington
Ill
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Smiths
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Theodora Smith
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