Confusion at Nassau Trial Over Lifted Fingerprint Evidence
The Nassau trial of Alfred De Marigny for Sir Harry Oakes's murder faced a heated challenge to the Crown's fingerprint evidence. Defense counsel Godfrey Higgs argued that a lifted print from a rubber device is improper, insisting the best evidence is the bedscreen with the print. The judge awaited ruling as proceedings paused and the case moved toward Face Twelve.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Oscar Bedford Daly
Godfrey Higgs
Sir Harry
Higgs
Barker
DE Marigny
Photos Show Japs Embracing Escaped Nazis
Five Japanese women including one with a baby were detained in Trinidad California for questioning after photos showed Japanese women embracing German prisoners of war who had escaped from a nearby internment camp last week. FBI agent in charge Gordon Nicholson confirmed the women were in custody and the investigation is ongoing.
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Trinidad
Cal
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Amache
Denver
Gordon Nicholson
District F. B I
Maritime Union Opposes New Dimout Ruling
A Boston spokesman for the Maritime Union said about 7300 New England members would oppose the First Service Command’s dimout suspension set for midnight Sunday. He argued delaying dimout endanger ships and lives near shore and vowed to protest to authorities.
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Maritime Union
New England
First Service Command
Robert Mills
Boston
Union
United Nations
Milis
Danish Saboteurs Wreck Nazi Lines
Danish saboteurs set time bombs that damaged nine power stations along the German Danish border. The strikes disrupted Nazi communications and transport with Flensburg most affected after outside power feed was cut since last May 15.
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Stockholm
Flensburg
Lonergan Murder Takes Bizarre Turn
NYC cardinal details in a case where Wayne Lonergan, 26, and his wife Patricia Burton Lonergan were linked to a strangling in a trendy Manhattan apartment. Friends under DA questioning recount a weekend in New York and Toronto while Lonergan asserts his innocence amid no charges filed.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Lonergan
Royal Canadian Airforce
Toronto
New York City
Flyer
Jean Murphy Jaburg
John F. Harjes
Cadet Nurse Slain Near Vassar Brothers Hospital
Lucille Elizabeth Lawrence, 19, an Army nurse cadet from Lisbon New York, was found dead in a field near Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie. Police seek two unknown suspects. District Attorney John R. Schwartz confirms the disappearance followed a masquerade party. The medical examiner calls the death murder and notes robbery as a possible motive.
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Poughkeepsie
Vassar Brothers Hospital
Dutchess County
John R. Schwartz
Lucille Elizabeth Lawrence
Lisbon
St. Lawrence County
Howard P. Carpenter
Carpenter
Schwartz
Rabaul Targeted in Fifth MacArthur Raid This Month
Allied air forces conducted a fifth raid on Rabaul in a month as Liberators and Lightnings dropped 151 tons of bombs on the New Britain base. Ground losses included 21 aircraft destroyed, three shot down, with six or more waves of high flying bombers over ten minutes. Antiaircraft fire and fighters engaged the raids but failed to stop the attack.
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Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
MacArthur
Bible society rationing due to paper shortage
Dr. Robert Taylor of the Chicago Bible Society said calls for Bibles and Testaments are 40 percent ahead of last year while paper supplies have been cut ten percent. The shortage forces rationing and may require a drive for used Bibles to meet demand.
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Chicago
Robert T. Taylor
The
Chicago Bible Society
Smith Attacks Hanley Over Prohibition in New York Campaign
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith says if prohibition returns after the war Governor Dewey cannot expect much support from Senator Joe R. Hanley. Smith cites Hanley’s 1933 vote against creating a state machinery to ratify repeal and urges Haskell’s election to block another dry rally.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Dewey
Joe R. Hanley
Smith
William N. Haskell
American Labor Party
Prohibition
Senate
Uus
Gas Supply Improves Atlantic Seaboard
The Petroleum Administration for War reported a slight improvement in gasoline supplies along the Atlantic seaboard yesterday, signaling movement toward more stable fuel availability for the region.
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Washington
the Petroleum Administration For War
Atlantic Seaboard
Gable Press Conference Disrupted by Female Interest
Washington dispatch reports actor and war technician Captain Clark Gable attempting a press conference at the Pentagon. A soprano interrupted questions about war versus cinema, leaving Gable embarrassed as colonels and police watched. He calmly resisted inquiries on personal changes from war duty.
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Washington DP
Clark Gable
Clarks
Gable
Pentagon
Nazis Fail To Halt Reds Rommel Ends Withdrawal
Allied HQ in Algiers reports limited gains in Italy as German rear guards withdraw to a mountain line near Mondragone Vasto. Eighth Army advances to Civita Campomarano and Acquaviva Collecroce while Fifth Army secures high ground near Messico ridge and Mad Dogs Hill. Rommel ends withdrawal with a strong defense planned, snow may halt decisive action before the Apennines.
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Algiers
Italy
Mondragone-Vasto
Rome
Eighth Army
Civita Campomarano
Acquaviva Caullecroce
Trigno
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Messico Ridge
Francoise
Raviscanina
Hitler
Apennines
Naples
Germany
France
Rommel
Hanley Blasts Bureaucratic Government in State Speech
State Senator Joe R. Hanley, the Republican lieutenant governor candidate, attacks the New York administration for trapping the state in a bureaucratic maze. Speaking at a Oneida County Republican event, he says wartime national leadership is too large to manage from Washington and urges empowering home communities and grassroots initiatives.
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Ution
Joe R . Hanley
New York
Warimne
Washington
Oneida County
Republican Committee
America
Type Size Immaterial Court Tells Levy
New York candidate Matthew M. Levy failed to force the Board of Elections to print his name in larger type on voting machines. He sought three lines as independent and as a party candidate, but the court ruled the type size held no particular significance.
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New York CP
Matthew M. Lev
Supreme Court
Board of Elections
Levy
American Labor Party
Integrity and Justice Parties
Ins
Vatican Prepares For Rome Battle
Rome dispatches report Vatican officials tightening security as Allied forces near and German troops withdraw. Swiss guards control access at Saint Anna gate and Arch of the Bells gate, examining credentials and routing visitors to destinations with restricted entry.
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Madrid
Vatican City
Rome
Saint Anna
Vision of Future Buffalo Schedule Sparks Labor Debate
A Buffalo area forecast presented yesterday envisions a 30 hour work week and 560 weekly pay under a department commission plan. The proposal implies broad unemployment effects and invites scrutiny from labor groups and local officials.
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Buffalo
Thomas M Finn
Lewis Mum on WLB Pay Plan
The coal wage dispute intensifies as 46 000 plus wildcat strikers press the issue. John L. Lewis stays silent on the War Labor Board offer while calling the policy committee to a Monday meeting in Washington. The WLB warns of White House referral if strikers do not return by morning, possibly leading to government seizure of idle mines.
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Washington GP
Wildcat
John L. Lewis
War Labor Boards
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
WLB
White House
Illinois
Lewis’ Call
International Policy Committee
Washington
Moscow Conference Proceeds on Schedule
U S Secretary of State Cordell Hull British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov led talks on Allied present and lingering problems as staffs worked to document agreed points. Eden met with Premier Joseph Stalin with Archibald Clark Kerr Hastings Ismay and other aides present for the tripartite discussions.
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Moscow
U. S
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Viacheslav Molotov
London
Eden
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Archibald Clark Kerr Bitusa Ani Anor
Russia
Sur Hastings Ismay
Mussolini Plans Rebuild of Italian Fascist Army
London reported Mussolini presiding over a puppet cabinet meeting to revive Italian forces under the Fascist banner to resume fighting beside Germany. The Nazi broadcast via AP described a new army modeled on the old one with the Blackshirt militia as an integral party force, though the crowd showed little visible support.
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London
Berlin
Benito Musso
Yesterdas
Associated Press
Mussolin
Integra Party
Mussolini
Presenc
Four Ships Beached By New Jersey Storm
A severe Atlantic storm beached four merchant ships along New Jersey’s coast near Sandy Hook. The James Longstreet, 7,916 tons, was declared total loss. 29 armed guards evacuated, no injuries. Other ships including the F L Hukkenbach and Exilona were freed. winds reached 70 mph with heavy rains.
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Belmar
N. J. CP
Navy
New Jersey
Atlantic Seaboard
Sandy Hook
New York Harbor
Third Naval District
New York
Longstreet
Merchant Marine
Nol
FL J.uuckenbach
Coast Guards
Fort Douglas
Tmes
Seek to Reconcile Revised Draft Rules
Washingtons Senate and House move to reconcile draft rules aimed at prioritizing fathers for exemption limits. Conferees begin work to rare shape measures that draft more nonfathers into service and tighten industry and government deferments. A medical commission would review Army and Navy physical standards to keep noncombat duty men available.
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Washington
Senate
House
House Bil
Wheeler To Debate Peace Plan
Senator Wheeler of Montana warned that a postwar peace policy resolution could permit the administration to form foreign alliances without Senate consent. He will discuss the issue in a debate on Connallys postwar policy resolution and cited legal opinion that consent to a general treaty plan might be implied.
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Washington DP
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate
Buiton
R-O
Connally
Fighting Widens In Yugoslavia as Germans Attack
German offensive actions widen across Yugoslavia with heavy fighting reported on fronts near Slovenia, Dalmatia, the Sava River, and toward Belgrade. Tito and Mihailovic forces resist as Nazi forces mass against Partisan lines in multiple liberated territories.
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London
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Draja Mihailovic
Free Yugoslav Radio
Slovenia
Italy
Vrgorac
Dalmatia
Belgrade
Sava
Serbia
Guerrilas
Burma port raids step up against Japanese shipping
Allied air squadrons from New Delhi and Britain intensified attacks on Japanese shipping and facilities in Burma. Heavy raids targeted port cities including Akyab and Rangoon and inland targets, signaling a sharp rise in aggression in the theater.
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New Delhi
Amercan
Burma
Akyan
Rangoon
Dim-Out Ends as Submarine Threat Falls Washington Declares
Government agencies announce abolition of coastal dim-out rules beginning Monday after a successful anti submarine campaign. The joint order urges a voluntary brown-out if needed and warns that mandatory lighting curtailment could return during renewed submarine activity.
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Nats
War Production Board
Office of Civilian Defense
WEB
Petroleum Administration For War
Solid Fuels Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
OCD
Red Army Drives Deep Into Ukraine in Major Soviet Advance
Moscow said the Red Army pushed behind German lines from Goreloe to Krinichki along a 150 mile front. The offense killed about 3,000 Germans, captured 120 towns, 20 tanks and 120 field guns, and freed more than 10,000 civilians from Nazi labor camps as forces moved toward Novo-Alexandrovka and the lower Dnieper.
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London
Ukraine
Melitopol
Dnepropetrovsk
Moscow
Berlin
Goreloe
Sea of Azov
Krinichki
Dnepropetrov
Akimovka
Novo-Alexandrovka
Aurelio Denies Help From Costello In Judge Nomination
New York amid disbarment hearings Aurelio denies Democratic nomination for Supreme Court justice was sought or assured by Frank Costello the slot machine operator. He defends himself calling loyalty comments a cordial expression and notes mayor LaGuardia testified Aurelio asked for Capazolli appointment if nominated. LaGuardia said he would not appoint Capazoli if such a request stood.
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New York
Thomas A. Aurelio
Supreme Court
Frank Costello
Costello
Charles B. Sears
Capazoli
John Marshall
Holmes
Cardozo
Ina Ray Hutton Marries Musician in Arkansas Ceremony
Ina Ray Hutton and her partner, a Memphis musician, were married this morning in Marion Arkansas. They received a license earlier and plan to perform with Hutton’s band at a Memphis theater following the ceremony.
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Ina Ray Hutton
Memphis
Lous B
Parisuite
Eviay
Marion
Ark
Hutton
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