Engel the confidence man roams cities with love and loot
Chicago police arrest Sigmund Engel a famed con man claiming he swindled millions over five decades. He boasted of mastery over women and money while facing charges tied to an $8,700 case from widow Reseda Corrigan. His trail spans Europe the Americas and the United States with victims in New York San Francisco Los Angeles and South Bend among others.
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Chicago
Sigmund Engel
Solomon
Engel
King Solomon
Timothy Lyne
Lyne
Reseda Corrigan
Corrigan
Europe
South America
United States
New York
Pauline Langton
San Francisco
Vivian Huebler
Annette Kubiak
South Bend
Ind
Los Angeles
Mae Bellem Hagen
Dan and
Bradstreet
Shanghai ends Boy Scout programs and classical study
The Shanghai government announced a broad educational reform banning Boy Scout organizations, military training, reactionary textbooks, and classical literature. Sun Yat Sen's Three Principles are removed and replaced by political knowledge, eliminating the public citizenry course in schools.
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Shanghai
China
Sun Yat Sen
Sun
One Man Graduation Held At Oregon State College
In Corvallis Oregon state college staged a one man graduation for Donald R Grufke of Portland. Fewer than 20 attended the special ceremony after a June 6 credit mixup kept him from his class. The state board ruled Grufke should receive his degree at a special service.
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Corvallis
Ore
Oregon State College
Donald R. Grufke
Portland
Grufke
State Board of Higher Education
Girls Vie For Queen Of Rodeo At Frontier Day
Twenty four Southeastern Idaho contestants vie for Miss Pocatello Miss Idaho and Miss Fort Hall at Bannock county fair grounds this afternoon with trick riding motorcycle stunts and horsemanship. Judges will also name preliminary winners of the whiskeroo contest as Frontier days events return to Pocatello.
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Pocatello
Bannock County Fairgrounds
Southeastern Idaho
Aging Whisky in Minutes Sparks Tokyo Claim
Japanese pharmaceutical tycoon Hajime Hoshi demonstrates an induction method to synthetically age Scotch in minutes. In a live test, a 6 minute aging cycle yields a 15 year profile, with successive shots labeled 3.5, 10, and 15 years as the process progresses. The claimed technique uses color, additives, and controlled electrical aging to mimic real whisky.
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Peter Kalischer
Tokyo
Hajime Hoshi
Hoshi
National Security Resources Board launches civilian defense planning
Washington reports the National Security Resources Board begins a government wide project to plan civilian defense for war and disasters. Acting Chairman John R Steelman assigns agencies to plan for sabotage and espionage countermeasures and for atomic chemical biological and conventional attacks. The AEC develops an atomic weapon effects handbook and planners must submit manpower materials facilities and service estimates.
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Washington
National Security Resources Board
John R Steelman
Truman
Steelman
Pres- Gill
America
Armed Services
Federal Works Agency
Federal Security’ Agency
Atomic Energy Commission
Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Treasury and Justice Departments
AEC
Flood toll rises to fifty two in Pachuca collapse
In Pachuca, Mexico, a 10 foot wall of water from a cloudburst killed 52 people Friday night. Rescue workers continued digging through three feet of mud as hospitals reported 52 dead, 40 missing, and 50 seriously injured. Most victims were local laborers in the Juarez market area. No Americans were killed.
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Pachuca
Mexico
Juarez
U. S. Marriages Decline After War Peak
Metropolitan Life reports fewer marriages in the current year, blaming a shortage of available men rather than women's actions. The firm estimates a 12 percent drop and predicts about 1.6 million marriages before 1950, roughly 215,000 fewer than the previous year.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Coplon Case Nears Jury
Judith Coplon's espionage trial moves toward a verdict with four more witnesses to come as the jury is poised to hear closing arguments by mid week. Judge Renee is expected to charge the jury in the final phase while Coplon defends herself in possible re exams.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
Albert L. Renee
Archibald Palmer
John M. Kelley
D Jr
Kelley
Tom C. Clark
FBI
Report Links U S Slavs to Communist Front
The House Un American Activities Committee released a 134 page report alleging the American Slavic congress is a Communist front to mobilize 10,000,000 Americans as a fifth column in wartime with Russia. It traces the group to 1941 and names a Russian general as its figurehead. The panel says Soviet embassies here aided the organization and cites the 1933 recognition accord as violated.
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Washington
House
Russia
House un-American Activities Committee
Congress
Moscow
Alexander Gondorov
United States
Oil Well Blaze In Huntington Beach Burns Unchecked
A gas-fed oil well fire in Huntington Beach California roared out of control on Saturday as 170 firefighters prepared to flood the well with salt water. The blaze began Friday morning and efforts to smother it with rotary mud were abandoned due to unavailable pumps.
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Huntington Beach
Cal
Subcommittee Backs Tight Limits on Atomic Spending
A Senate subcommittee proposed strict controls on atomic energy outlays for construction over 500000. The plan bars new construction or overruns without Budget Bureau approval and detailed congressional explanation. It cites Hanford plant overruns and faces full Appropriations Committee review.
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Washington
Senate
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Hanford
O'Mahoney
Hanford, Wash
Sen
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
David EB. Lilienthal
House-Senate Atomic Energy Commission
Hickenlooper
Atomic: ‘Commission
Commission
Bureau of the Budget
House
Senate Appropriations Committees
Budget Bureau
Full
Appropriations Committee
FBI Probes Vancouver Yard Fire That Halted Shipwork
The FBI continued its investigation into Friday night's warehouse fire at a Vancouver ship yard, a loss valued at about 500000 dollars. Officials offered no comment as agents pursued leads and secured the scene.
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Vancouver
Wash
FBI
Father Abandons Tots On Deserted Island
Donald Frazier was arrested after leaving his two young children, Peggy five and Donald three, on a brush covered island in the Seneca River west of Syracuse for two days. Rescuers Keith Wickes and his wife found the exhausted siblings in a dilapidated shack with minimal food. Authorities traced Frazier to Port Jervis and arrested him. he reportedly left after an argument over money.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Donald Frazier
Long
Island
Fairyland
Hansel and Gretel
Peggy
Donald
Keith Wickes
Wickes
John Bond
Arthur Willis
Frazier
Port Jervis
Binghamton
N. Y
Rita Kenworthy
Willis
Farmer Finds Bag of Bones on Idaho Farm
Edward P Say found a gunny sack containing human looking bones on a Bannock county farm near Po catello while irrigating wheat. Sheriff Alma Marley said the bones may belong to a girl or boy about 14 or 15, with the sack showing little decay suggesting several months exposure.
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Pocatello
Edward P. Say
Alma Marley
Bannock County
Marley
Scott Turns Other Cheek
Hugh D. Scott, national GOP chairman, faces younger Republicans' push for reform and lauds the National Federation of Young Republicans. John Tope defeats Lee Waters and Joe Bartlett for federation chair on the second ballot. The group calls for liberalizing attitudes toward labor and health while challenging the Old Guard in Washington. Scott vows the 1950 GOP will be judged by Congresses' record.
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Salt Lake City
Hugh D. Scott
GOP
National
Young Republicans
John Tope
Detroit
National Federation of Young Republicans
Lee Waters
California
Joe Bartlett
Clarksburg
W. Va
Washington, D. C
Scott
Grand Jury Indicts Southwest Sheriff
LAS CRUCES New Mexico grand jurors indicted Dona Ana County Sheriff A L Happy Apodaca on rape intoxication and gross incompetency charges after a 36 day probe. He posted 3000 bond and awaits a hearing toward removal from office. The panel also indicted Justice of the Peace Ramon Duran for embezzlement after an inquiry into an unsolved death of an 18 year old waitress.
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Las Cruces
N. M
A. L
Happy
Justice of the Peace
Ramon Duran
Duran
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