Electoral College to Name Truman Today in Calm Vote
The 531 electors across 48 capitals are set to confirm Truman as president. One Tennessee elector, Preston Parks, vows to vote for Thurmond, potentially reducing Truman’s total to 303 votes and altering the expected 38 vote gain for Thurmond. Dewey remains assured of 189 votes.
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New York
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Odd Safety Council List Reveals Bizarre Accidents
Chicago report details strange incidents from the year including a potato exploding in a housewife’s face, a lighted cigarette firing a bullet into a man’s arm, a bathtub falling from a truck and striking a driver, and a man trapped by a steam shovel bucket.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Paul Jones
Council
Jones
Alfred Swanger
Ravenna
Ohio
James Drager
Beloit
Wis
Drager
Andrew Anderson
Oakland
Cal
Gilroy
Anderson
Ed Taylor
Matewan
W. Va
Trade program rift between US and Argentina criticized
Foreign Policy Association criticized US Argentina trade ties as strained and urged a more liberal approach to imports. It warned Argentina to fix finances and pursue freer trade or risk autarchy and regional spillovers. Observers fear broader Latin American risks from continued economic conflict.
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Foreign Policy Association
United States
Argentina
ECA
Economic Cooperation Administration
Peron
Latin America
Miss Holmes
Obituary for Mrs Katie K Easton of Austin
Mrs. Katie K. Easton 64 of 1206 West 33rd Street died Sunday at 7 45 p m in a local hospital. She widow of James D Easton lifelong Austin resident and First Methodist Church member. Survived by daughter Mrs Fred L White Houston and three sons Sgt Thomas A Easton Randolph Field C B Easton Austin and James E Easton Colorado. Body at Weed-Corley Funeral Home pending arrival of out of town relatives.
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West 33Rd Street
James D. Easton
Austin
First Methodist Church
Violet Lodge No
Herman
Easton
Fred L. White
Houston
Thomas A. Easton
Randolph Field
C. B. Easton
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Colorado
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Obituary notices for multiple Texas residents published
Funeral services and burials announced for Richard F Adloff Weldon Cook Ike Guthrie Green Berry Hammack Jr James M Middleton with survivors listed. Deaths reported from Corpus Christi Burnet Round Rock Taylor and Thrall. Dates Dec 12 and burial locations Capitol Memorial Park Palm Springs Cemetery City Cemetery.
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Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Joseph Harte
Capitol Memorial Park
Round Rock
Green Berry Hammack Jr
Brown and Root Company
Condra
Palm Springs
Hammack
Jessie Mae Williamson
Kyle
Granville Alvin Hammack
William Gordon Hammack
Crawford
D. Edward Hammack
Liberty Hill
Missing American girl hunted by multiple forces on Guam
Ruth Farnsworth 27 of San Francisco, a Navy civil service employee, vanished from the Oriental goods shop on Guam two nights earlier. Over two Marines soldiers and island police scour jungles to locate her as police note doors were found ajar and generator wiring torn with $700 intact inside the shop safe.
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Ruth Farnsworth
San Francisco
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Navy Civil Service
John W. Arnold
Arnold
Missing Hawaii girl Farnsworth located in Pearl Harbor area
A girl missing after a Saturday night incident was traced after items including a pocketbook and ban dana were found near a shop. A sandal and tire tracks were also recovered. About 200 Marines and Army personnel joined 75 Guamanian police in the search for Miss Farnsworth. Pearl Harbor said she was engaged to Sergeant Sterling McGinnis of the Guam Marine guard. his home address was not given.
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Pearl Harbor
Sterling McGinnis
Uam Marine Guard
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