U S Russia Clash In UN Over Portugal Membership
At the United Nations security council the United States charged Russia with violating the Potsdam agreement by opposing Portugal's UN membership. Gromyko defended Moscow's stance citing lack of normal diplomatic relations with Portugal. Debates also touched on Transjordan and Albania with Yugoslavia Greece differing over the Albanian bid.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations Security Council
Russia
United Nations
Portugal
Hershel V. Johnson
U. S. de
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet
Council
Johnson
Security Council
Spain
Gromyko
Transjordan
Albania
Mongolia
Britain
Alexander Cadogan
Pavie Lukin
Yugoslavia
Greece
Balkan
Europe
City Moves to Reclaim Hangar No 1 at Airfield
Tucson nears regaining control of municipal airfield No 2 as Hangar No 1 is to be turned back to the city. War Assets Corp says Washington issued orders. City Manager predicts occupancy permits will be required and other hangars will follow.
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Tucson
E. J. Husted
War Assets Corporation
Arizona
Washington
Mgr
Phil J. Martin, Jr
WAA
Army Officer Kilian Guilty of Cruelty at Lichfield Depot
Col James A Kilian once commander of the U S Army replacement depot at Lichfield England was convicted by a seven officer court martial of permitting cruel and unusual punishment of American soldiers. He was fined 500 dollars and reprimanded after a 10 week trial. He was acquitted of aiding and abetting cruelties and other charges. Kilian testified he knew nothing of mistreatment. The court found he ordered punishments including punching, kicking and forcing prisoners into strained positions.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
James A. Kilian
Highland Park
Ill
U. S. Army
Lichfield
England
Kilian
United States to Seek Trusteeship of Japanese Islands
Senator Warren Magnuson announced the United States would seek sole trusteeship of the Japanese mandated islands at the United Nations assembly, including the Gilberts Marshalls Carolines Guam Truk Manus Kwajalein. State Department cautioned no final decision and noted any request would require UN jurisdiction agreement.
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Washington
Warren Magnuson Oe Anid
United States
United Nations
State Department
General Assembly
Magnuson
UN Assembly
Magnuson Saki
Gilberts
Marshalls
Carolines
Guam
Truk
Manus
Australia
Pacific
Arizona to convene third special session Sept 9
Governor Osborn announced a few days before the September 9 start, with plans to raise old age pensions from 40 to 50 and to join the federal school lunch program. The call may include social security measures and other controversial items, with no further details provided.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Sidney P. Osborn
Congress
Tombstone
Chiang Kai-Shek forms coalition move in China
Chiang Kai-Shek approves a five member committee led by American ambassador John Leighton Stuart to create a coalition government. The plan aims to unite the Kuomintang and minor parties into a 40 man interim state council ahead of the November 12 national assembly.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
John Leighton Stuart
Stuart
Kuomintang
Iis
National League Scores From Baseball Game Results
St. Louis beat New York 4 to 0 while Chicago lost 3 to 2 at Brooklyn. Philadelphia defeated Pittsburgh 5 to 2 and Boston won 4 to 1 against Cincinnati.
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St. Louis
New York
Chicago
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
Officer Flags Risk Of Russian Pressure In the Balkans
Dan Hughes warns Lions Club that friction between American and Soviet forces in the Balkans could erupt into a very serious matter unless the U S state department hardens its stance toward the Soviet government. Hughes, a reserve intelligence officer now a federal probation officer in Tucson, cites his Berlin experience.
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Balkans
United States State Department
Dan Hughes
Army Air Corps
Hughes
Tucson
Lions’ Club
Air Transport Command
Balkan
Berlin
Bartender Viviano Fined In Liquor To Minors Case
Pete Viviano a 31 year old Turf club bartender was fined 200 in superior court after pleading guilty to two counts of selling liquor to minors. He admitted selling whisky and ginger ale to an 18 year old and rum and coca cola to a 17 year old in Detroit.
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Pete Viviano
Turf Club
East Pennington Street
Viviano
East Adams Street
Harold C. Wheeler
John D. Lyons, Jr
Dodd
Cdlin Dodd
Samuel Sofferin, Jr
Detroit
Phillip Moody
Lyons
John A. Duncan
Tucson
Rincon Grace Ranch
Peter Licavoli
Fifteen Germans Held as Spies in Stuttgart Ring
U S headquarters says counterintelligence agents in Stuttgart arrested fifteen Germans tied to a Soviet spy ring led by Walther Kazmarek. Nine months of detection work uncovered a plan to contact Russian agents and send a courier into the Russian zone within the Freies Deutschland group. Kazmarek confessed to receiving 5000 marks from Russian repatriation officers for reporting on American troop movements in the Frankfurt area.
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Frankfurt
U. S
Stuttgart
Walther Kazmarek
Freies Deutschland
Kazmarek
Eastern Europe's Voting Promises Long Friction
Eastern Europe faces a wave of elections amid Western Soviet tensions. Bulgaria's Sept. plebiscite and Oct. constituent vote collide with U S warnings. Romania delays free elections until grain imports arrive. German zone polls test Communist influence while Greece debates a royal restoration. Poland faces a delayed November national election as Warsaw haggles over laws and timing.
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Europe
Yalta
Potsdam
Bulgaria
Simeon
Byrnes
Paris
United States
Romania
Moscow
Waffaires
Red Army
Greece
George I
Britain
America
Russia
Athens
Poland
Warsaw
Washington
London
Mos
Veterans recall drive targets Tucson housing authority
United Veterans organization plans recall petitions against Mayor H O Janstad after claims of inhumane and illegal management by Tucson housing authority officials. They demand removal of housing commissioners and a new authority composition including a doctor, a businessman or clergyman, a woman, and two war veterans.
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Tucson Housing Authority
M. L. Tophey
P. M. Elias
E. H. Sisterson
Neal B. Waugh
H. O. Janstad
United Veterans Organization
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
Am Vets
American Veterans Committee
Military Order of Purple Heart
Jerry A. Gump
UVO
Tucson
Tophey
Elias
Jaastad
Janstad
Langdon W. Post
Federal Public Housing Administration
J. O. Niemann
Post
Tophoy
W. T. Pyott
THA
Pyott
Ft. Lewis
Wash
New York Daily News President Dies In Car Crash
Fairfield Conn August 29 Roy C Holliss 56 acting president of the News Syndicate Company Inc publishers of the New York Daily News was killed when his automobile crashed into a tree on the shore road The car was driven by Frederick H Bedford Jr 55 president of Atlas Supply Company New York and a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey
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Fairfield, Conn
Roy C. Holliss
News Syndicate Company, Inc
New York Daily News
Shore’ Road
Morris Kessler
Fairfield Police Department
Frederick H. Bedford, Jr
Atlas Supply Company
New York
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Behn Responds to Counterclaim in Haworth Homestead Suit
Behn and Williams answer Mrs. Haworth counterclaim over the 906 North First Avenue homestead. Behn cites the statute of frauds and denies any contract to sell an interest in real property. He admits threatening eviction and says eviction will follow a court order.
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Harry L. Behn
Robert B. Williams
Mary B. Haworth
First Avenue
Behn
Wayne. Clampitt
Williams
WAC Captain Freed on One Count in Kronberg Jewel Case
Capt. Kathleen Nash Durant, a WAC officer, is acquitted on one conspiracy count in the Kronberg jewel case. She faces trial on larceny, embezzlement, and AWOL charges. An 18 day continuance was granted to admit defense witnesses. The tribunal reconvenes Sept. 16 with Lt. Col. Dwinell and Capt. Brumbaugh to present the defense.
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Frankfurt
WAC
Kathleen Nash Durant
United States
Los Angeles
Big Four Bucks Peace Efforts
Paris August 29 UP the Big Four foreign ministers met to revive the faltering peace conference and decide whether to adjourn for the UN assembly on September 23. Molotov urged postponing the UN session. no decision was reached. Deputies will review 200 amendments to treaty drafts and choose common positions. Bevin Byrnes Molotov Bidault will reconvene as needed.
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Paris
United Nations Assembly
United States
Great Britain
Russia
France
UN Assembly
V. M. Molotov
Council of Foreign Ministers
Molotov
Georges Bidault
Josef Winiewicz
Poland
Australia
Winiewicz
Pole
Col
W. R. Hodgson
Italy
Ernest Bevin
James F. Byrnes
Georges
Britain
U. S. Income To Set a Record This Year
Washington reports government estimates place national personal income around 165 billion dollars for the current fiscal year, about 5 billion higher than 1945 and potentially rising before June 30. Tax revenues and budget projections reflect a rebound from wartime levels and possible budget balance if strikes stay limited.
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Washington
Congress
Budget Bureau
Truman
Palestine bombing 18 Stern gang members jailed for life
The British colonial office in London announced that the death sentences against 18 Stern gang members convicted of bombing the Haifa railroad yards in Palestine were commuted to life imprisonment. Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker approved the commutations after final review. Reprisals threats had spread in Palestine as the decision circulated.
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London
Ecolonial Office
Stern Gang
Haifa
Palestine
Evelyn Barker
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