Crown Jewels Recovered After Berlin Heist
The Army identified two remaining suspects in the Kronberg castle jewel robbery. The bulk of the $1.5 million haul was found in a Chicago railroad station locker after Col. Durant and Capt. Nash Durant confessed, with additional jewels located in Hudson, Wisconsin. The couple were flown to Washington as investigations continue.
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Washington
Chicago
J. W. Durant
Kronberg
Frankfort
Germany
Ralph W. Pierce
Illinois Central Railroad
WAC Captain Durant Linked to $1.5 Million Theft Allegations
Veronica Kathleen Nash Durant, a Phoenix resident and former WAC captain, is accused by the U.S. Army of involvement in a $1.5 million crown jewel theft. The article traces her life from Wisconsin roots to military service and marriage to Col J W Durant, noting prior marriages, family links, and states she served at Ft Des Moines, Aberdeem proving grounds, Holabird, and Ft Huachuca. It also records the divergent age claims and family statements surrounding her case.
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House of Hesse
Sophie
Kaiser Wilhelm
WAC
Army
Hudson
Wis
Chicago
Nashes
Genevieve O'Day
Nash
Tucson
Old Pueblo Club
East Pierce Street
Phoenix
Richard Burke Nash
Durant
Col
J. W. Durant
Phoenix Vet Recalls Journey To Kronberg
Phoenix man Glenn Dowdy details a tour of Kronberg castle with WAC Captain Kathleen B Nash Durant during WWII. Dowdy, 25, recalls the captain’s gracious manner and a visit to the castle wine cellar where Hesse Darmstadt jewels were kept, while serving with Allied forces at Frankfurt last September.
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Phoenix
Glenn Dowdy
Germany
Kronberg Castle
WAC
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Dowdy
Capt
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Frankfurt
Captain Durant Born in Prescott in War Department Biography
Washington June 8 The War Department released a brief bio of Captain Kathleen Burke Nash Durant a WAC officer linked to the Kronberg jewel case She was born October 12 1912 in Prescott Ariz and later worked at Phoenix Country Club She joined the Army July 18 1942 and served at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland and Holabird Depot Baltimore Two nephews serve in Germany and her husband Captain Jack Wyant Durant listed Falls Church Va as home under call to active duty
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Phoenix
Ariz
June &R
Europe
U. S. Army
Veronica Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Kenneth Nash
Hudson
Wis
Burke
Tucson
Donald Wilcox
Phoenix Country Club
Washington
War Department
Kathleen Burke Nash Durant
WAC
Kronberg
Prescott
Immaculate Heart Academy
St. Catherine’s College
Pasadena
Army
WAC School For Personnel Administration
Purdue University
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Holabird Signal Depot
Baltimore
Germany
Nash
Gladys B. Madison
Hollywood
Calif
Jack Wyant Durant
Legal Department of the Interior Department
Army Air Forces
Falls Church
Baseball Scores by Associated Press National American Leagues
National league games included New York 5 Pittsburgh 3 Chicago 2 Brooklyn 0 Cincinnati 4 Boston 2 Philadelphia at St. Louis night. American league scores show Cleveland 2 New York 1 Boston 15 Detroit 4 Washington 7 Chicago 6 first Philadelphia 9 St. Louis 3.
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Associated Press National
New York
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Boston
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Terms of Chiang Given Red Leaders Terms of Chiang Given Red Leaders
Nanking June 8 A 15 day cease fire in Manchuria halted advances by government forces 30 miles south of Harbin while Mukden plans for occupation after the truce. Yenan communists discuss terms Chiang Kai shek requires before noon June 22 as affairs with Marshall are awaited.
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Nanking
Manchuria
Mukden
China
Yenan
Chiang Kai-shek
Tu Li-ming
Harbin
Peiping
Hsuangshun
Shwangchen
Changchun
Gen
Marshall
U. S
Cates To Head World Parley
Louis S. Cates president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers announces a world conference on mineral resources to be held in New York City September 16 to 18 for the institute’s 75th anniversary. Herbert Hoover will be honorary chairman. the three day conclave will cover iron steel coal petroleum and other industrial minerals.
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Wilkes-Barre
Louis S. Cates
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
New York City
Herbert Hoover
Institute
Cates
Phelps- Dodge Corporation
Empire Victory Parade Draws Millions Through London
London observed Victory Day with a nine mile parade of war veterans from Britain and 30 lands. Attlee and Churchill rode in open carriages as MacKenzie King and Smuts followed, while 300 RAF planes painted the sky. The event highlighted Allied manpower and weapons that defeated the Axis.
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Russell C. Landstrom
London
United Nations
Buckingham Palace
Axis
Attlee
Winston Churchill
W. L. MacKenzie King
Canada
Jan Christiaan Smuts
South Africa
Curb Senators on Telegrams Debates A $500 Monthly Limit
Senators learned that a colleague sent thousands of government funded telegrams in one day. The Appropriations Committee proposed a 500 telegram limit per senator per month in a bill for the next fiscal year. The measure also allows 2500 for expenses plus 10000 salary, in a bill totaling just under 54 million dollars.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Congress
House
Bread price hike planned by OPA to boost output
The OPA and agriculture department approved a one cent per loaf increase on most bread types excluding rye, with rolls rising one cent per dozen. Bowles signaled possible rationing of short bread and flour to millers and bakers, though consumer rationing would be voluntary.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Congress
Chester Bowles
Senate
Small Business Committee
Office of Economic Stabilization
Bowles
Two More Die In Hotel Fire
The La Salle hotel fire in Chicago raised the death toll to 60 with Mrs. Ann Paulakis of Waukegan among the latest victims. City officials faced questions on delays in calling the fire department and hotel staff testified they had no written fire instructions as hearings probed the disaster.
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Chicago
la Salle
Ann Paulakis
Waukegan
John J. Duffy
Blue Ribbon
Hotel
Employes
Fire Department
Hard Coal Settlement Brings Wage Increase for 75,000 Miners
Pennsylvania's 75,000 hard coal miners will return to the anthracite pits Monday under a new contract granting an 18 cent an hour wage increase and a 2.7 million dollar health and welfare fund. The week-long strike ended after five weeks of talks between anthracite operators and John L. Lewis's AFL United Mine Workers.
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New York
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
AFL
United Mine Workers
Noted Teacher at UA Expires
Dr. John D. Fitz-Gerald prominent philologist and former head of the Arizona Spanish department died at his Urbana Illinois home after observing his 73rd birthday. He left Tucson in April ending a 1929 university career noted for fostering Hispano American cultural ties and editing The Hispanic Series. Surviving are his wife son and two daughters.
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John D. Fitz-Gerald
University of Arizona
Urbana
Ill
Tucson
Fitz-Gerald
Columbia University
Columbia
University of Illinois
Arizona
South America
Central America
Spain
National Federation of Modern Language Teachers
Rio de Janeiro
World Federation of Edilcation Associations
Association
Oxford
England
Tokyo
Japan
American Association of Teachers of Spanish
National Federation of Language Teachers
Cuban Academy of History
Cuban Academy of Language
Dominican Academy of History
Columbia Academy
National Academy of Cuba
Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic
Hispanic Society of America
Europe
Berlin
Leipzig
Paris
Madrid
Federation of Modern Languages Teachers
Central
West
South
Gerald Fitz-Gerald
New York
Clark Root
Hood River
Forrest Stewart
Mt. Vernon
Senate committee backs 90.3 cent silver price hike
The senate appropriations committee recommended raising the treasury price for domestic manufacturing silver to 90.3 cents an ounce, up from 71.11 cents. The move targets supporting production costs and government stock policy.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
The
Treasury
Government conciliators seek paid shore leave to ease shipping dispute
Washington reports that negotiators proposed one day of paid shore leave for every 14 days at sea to break a deadlock over a 44 hour versus 56 hour work week. Unions demand time off at sea while operators resist, with a shipping strike slated for next Saturday.
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Washington
WUPR
John W. Gibson
CIO
Gibson
CIO Maritime
Latin American Confederation of Labor
U. S
West Coast
Atkinson to Visit Midwest and East Before Retirement
Dr. Alfred Atkinson president of the University of Arizona plans a June 19 departure for a tour of the Midwest and East. He will interview candidates for the presidency if the board wishes during this trip before retiring June 30, 1947.
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Alfred Atkinson
University of Arizona
Midwest
Keitel Rejects Hitler's Order to Kill Downed Allied Flyers
In Berlin shelter turmoil surfaced as Adolf Hitler allegedly ordered the execution of all Allied airmen who bailed out. Field Marshal Keitel disputed issuing such an order, as German officers testified at the international military tribunal. Maj. Herbert Buechs supported the account, with statements from Jodl’s counsel and other aides.
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Muernberg
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Wilhelm Keitel
International Military Tribunal
Hitler
Berlin
Fuehrer
Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Maj
Herbert Buechs
Lutwaffe
Streamlining Of Congress To Include Hiring Of Less Greedy Capitol Guides
Frederick C. Othman reports on the La Follette bill to reorganize Congress. It proposes merit-based Capitol guides, reduced patronage, higher pay for lawmakers, and a press of showmanship reforms. The piece satirically critiques page boy gambling and suggests public galleries, radios, and a master of ceremonies.
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Congress
Capitol
Frederick C. Othman
Washington
House of Representatives
la Follette
Robert M. la Follette, Jr
Wisconsin
United States
Glen H. Taylor
Pocatello
Idaho
Troubador
Sen. Taylor
America
Sen. la Follette
Four Forest Fires Quieted In Arizona Burn Areas Contained
Fire crews held reserves in readiness as four fires in Arizona were brought under control overnight. The Long Valley blaze near Flagstaff burned about 1,000 acres and others near San Carlos, El Capitan in the Pinal mountains, and the Mormon Lake area were guarded by hundreds of firefighters. The El Capitan fire neared the El Capitan schoolhouse but was kept from structures as winds shifted.
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Associated Press
Arizona
Long Valley
Coconino National Forest
Flagstaff
San Carlos Reservoir
Amd
el Capitan
Pinal Mountains
el Capitan Area
Coconino
Mormon Lake
West Rim
Missing Pilot Reported Dead
Second Lt. Reno D. Zambonini a B-25 navigator was reported dead after a May 10 1945 disappearance during a mission against Japanese ships in the Kuriles his last mission led to a crash near Shimushu island. The Phoenix native attended Tucson High School and the University of Arizona earning a chemical engineering degree.
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Phoenix
Reno D. Zambonini
Margaret B. Parente
Anton Zambonini
Tucson
Jim H. Keenan
Prescott
Zambonini
Ajo
11Th Air Force
Attu
Alaska
Kuriles
Shimushu Island
University of Arizona
Arizona-Nevada Construction bids on Friant Kern canal
The Arizona-Nevada Construction Co a six firm consortium bids 6 000 000 to excavate and line the first section of the central California irrigation Friant Kern canal Arizona participants Bow en McLoughlin Tanner Construction and L G Lynch of Phoenix and L M White Construction of Tucson
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Phoenix
Arizona-Nevada Construction Co
Arizona
Friant-Kern
Central California
Bowen & McLoughlin
Tanner Construction Co
L. G. Lynch
L. M. White Construction Co
Tucson
Monarchist unrest in Naples as royalist protests surge
Italian troops and police restored order in Naples after a night of royalist attacks on police HQ, a railroad terminal, and a radio station. Three dead, scores wounded, sixty arrested as demonstrations spread to Pisa Rome Palermo Bologna amid protest over Humbert II’s overthrow. Pope Pius XII received Humbert at the Vatican during the unrest.
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Rome
Naples
Pisa
Palermo
Bologna
Humbert II
Portugal
ANSA
Sicily
Pius XII
Humbert
Vatican
Observatore Romano
Quirinal Palace
Italy
Veto Deadline Draws Near on Case Strike Bill
The White House says President Truman has not yet decided to sign or veto the Case strike-control bill and will send Congress a special message outlining his decision. The action deadline is next Wednesday at midnight.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Potomac
News Photos To Be Scarce
Rep. Emanuel Celler warns of a grave shortage of silver nitrate for industrial use. He cites the silver bloc pressing for higher prices up to 90.5 cents and later 1.29 per ounce, risking newspapers lacking pictures.
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Washington
WUP
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Celler
Col Agee Receives Legion of Merit Award
The War Department announced the Legion of Merit award to Col. S. W. Agee of Tucson Arizona and Maj. George W. Ebey of Tempe Arizona. Agee earned it for meritorious conduct as chief of redeployment and demobilization duties in the theatres branch headquaters Army Air Forces from 1944 to 1945. Ebey was cited for plans for a postwar air force.
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Washington
Col
S. W. Agee
East First Street
Tucson
Ariz
Maj
George W. Ebey
East Sixth Street
Tempe
War Department
Army Air Force
Agee
Army Air Forces
Maj. Ebey
18 year old Delbert Sprouse marries 79 year old Mrs Lyons Large
In Louisa Kentucky County Judge J F Wellman marries Delbert Sprouse 18 and Mattie Lyons Large 79 at the Lawrence County courthouse this morning. The ceremony drew over 100 spectators from their isolated home in Glades 15 miles west.
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Louisa
Delbert (Shorty) Sprouse
Mattie Lyons Large
J. F. Wellman
Lawrence County Court House
Mercury Reaches 100 Degrees By 2:30 PM
The weather bureau reported the temperature at 100 degrees by 2 30 PM today indicating a heat surge. The report notes the high level of heat affecting the area and urges precautions for residents.
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Weather Bureau
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Pierce
Hudson, Wis
Durants
Alton
St. Paul
Minneapolis
la Salle Hotel
Col. Durant
State
Ft. Huachuca
Capt. Durant
Chiang
John Roderick
Empire
Boost
By Helene Monberg
Charles H. Herrold
Labor Department
Edgar L. Warren
U.S. Conciliation Service
Atkinson
Yankee
Pietro Badoglio
Umberto
Joe
J. Edward Murray
Col. Agee
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