Indians Clinch World Series In Sixth Game Victory
The Cleveland Indians edged the Boston Braves 4 3 to win the World Series in six games. Gene Bearden threw crucial relief in the closing minutes as Libby Sisti’s bunt led to a game ending double play. Joe Gordon hit a sixth inning homer and Bearden navigated a bases loaded jam to seal the title.
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Gene Bearden
Cleveland Indians
Boston Braves
Tribe
Bearden
Eddie Stanky
Connie Ryan
Libby Sisti
Warren Spahn
Ryan
Jim Hegan
Joe Gordon
Braves
Ken Keltner
Spahn
Thurman Tucker
Walt Judnich
Big Top Prepares Two Shows In Town Today
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus arrives on four trains with a world famous menagerie. Performances are at 2 15 and 8 15 p.m. on Tuesday at East First Street, with presale reserved seats at Walgreen's 721 Congress Avenue and general admission at the grounds. After the show, trains head to San Antonio.
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Barnum & Bailey Circus
Mk&t
East First Street
Gargantua the Great
Toto
Boston
Bobby
Europe
John Ringling North
Francis Brunn
Unus
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Italy
Rose Gould
Alzanas
England
Duran
Walgreen's
Congress Avenue
San Antonio
Austin
Barnum and Bailey
Long Appointed Rental Adviser For Austin Tenants
Stuart Long, Austin radio news commentator, was named to the Austin Rent Advisory Board by National Housing Expeditor Tighe Woods to represent tenants. The board now includes a tenants’ voice, balancing landlords and the public interest per the Housing and Rent Act. The appointment follows prior criticism that tenants had no spokesman on the panel.
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Spl
Stuart Long
Austin
Austin Rent Advisory Board
National Housing
Tighe Woods
Austin Board
Housing and Rent Act
John W. Johnson
Area
Berlin City Treasury Faces Catastrophic Budget Crisis
Berlin officials said the city is broke with the cash balance wiped out. Frederick Haas, the budget administrator, called the situation catastrophic and announced a 10 day emergency budget for each department while measures are sought to raise funds.
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Berlin
Frederick Haas
Court Lets Esquire Keep Its Varga Girls
Washington October 11 The court refused to review a lower court ruling upholding a ten year contract to provide Alberto Vargas Varga Girls for Esquire magazine. The decision preserves the long running illustration arrangement.
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Esquire
Washington
Alberto Vargas
Varga
Truman Hails New Deal and Attacks Dewey in Akron
President Truman openly embraced the New Deal and accused opponent Dewey of threatening it. He outlined an eight point program including repeal of Taft Hartley, raising the federal minimum wage, extending Social Security, boosting benefits, expanding health facilities, and federal aid to education, while framing the speech as a labor address.
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Akron
Ohio
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Rubber Capital
Statewide petition seeks Texas voting probe by US Senate
San Antonio leaders announce a statewide petition drive asking the US Senate to investigate the Texas election and to refuse to seat Lyndon nominee until inquiry is complete. The plan calls for 1,000,000 signatures with Campbell directing state headquarters and noting no support for either candidate.
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Texas
United States Senate
Lyndon
Saves Mistress With Help From Puppy Stranger
In Sarasota Florida Mrs Maude Brand was shocked while using a backyard washing machine when a four month old St Bernard pup pulled the plug, stopping the current and saving her. She is recovering.
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Sarasota .Fla
St. Bernard
Corsicana’s Tyson and Austin’s Long Named Possible SDEC Replacements
Tom Tyson Corsicana attorney and Stuart Long KVET news editor emerged Monday as rising contenders to replace Vann M Kennedy as secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee. Kennedy resigned citing time demands. Calhoun Corsicana committee chairman said an early appointment is needed.
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Tom Tyson
Corsicana
Stuart Long
Austin
Vann M. Kennedy
Democratic Executive Committee
Kennedy
Tyson
Long
KVET
John C. Calhoun
Supreme Court lets merit raises bargaining case stand
The court upheld a lower court ruling that employers must bargain with a union before granting merit raises to individual workers, while agreeing to review a textile mill case on general wage increases without union notice. It also rejected appeals and declined rehearing on several other labor and public issues, and set Oct 18 as the start date for enforcing the overtime premium rule.
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US Supreme Court
High Court
Supreme Court
Kathleen Nash Durant
WAC
Refugee Committee
Labor Department
Cincinnati Circuit Court
National Labor Relations Act
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
Justice Department
Allison Company
NLRB
Western Powers Demand Berlin Blockade End Lift
Paris dispatch reports Western powers insist the Berlin blockade be lifted before any four power foreign ministers meeting. Bramuglia privately negotiates with Vishinsky as UN council prepares to meet, while debates over arms disarmament Palestine and atomic controls continue with mixed support from member nations.
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United Nations Security Council
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Juan A. Bramuglia
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
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Moscow
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Security Council
Soviet Union
Philip C. Jessup
Alexander Cadogan
Alexandre Parodi
Vishinsky
Bramuglia
Palestine
Assembly
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Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
el Salvador
Canada
China
Hector David Castro
UN Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Commission
Holy Land
Folke Bernadotte
Jerusalem
Atomic Energy Commission
Big Five
OU Plans Segregated Admission For Negro Graduate
Oklahoma City October 11 The University of Oklahoma board of regents ordered the admission of Negro graduate student G W McLaurin retired professor to pursue a Doctor of Education degree under a segregated policy. President George L Cross was directed to carry out the admission in a segregated manner.
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Oklahoma City
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma Board of Regents
G. W. McLaurin
Regents
George L. Cross
Fatal crash near Coxsville leaves two dead and four injured
Two men died and four others injured in a nighttime accident on the Dallas highway near Coxsville. Joe Waldschmidt 29 died at Brackenridge Hospital after a Plymouth overturned and burned. Joe Pittsford died en route. Injured include Mrs Eva Waldschmidt and Paul Waldschmidt with severe head and arm injuries, Johnnie Bird Jr. and Cantrell Giles. The Model A carried Pittsford Bird and Giles, while the Waldschmidt party occupied the Plymouth.
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Coxsville
Dallas
Joe Waldschmidt
Brackenridge Hospital
Joe Pittsford
Eva Waldschmidt
Paul Waldschmidt
Johnnie Bird Jr
Cantrell Giles
Schmidt
Bird
Route Five
Giles
Waldschmidt
Georgetown
Austin
Kansas
Wilkie Funeral Home
Ford
Plymouth
Pittsford
Lewis Declares Holiday To Vote
John L. Lewis ordered 400000 miners to take election day off November 2 so they may vote against Taft Hartley supporters. The United Mine Workers convention approved production stoppage and raised dues and initiation fees to record levels. Salaries for officers also increased amid heated debate.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Oklahoma
Missouri
Lewis
Houston Press Attacks Vinson Moscow Plan
The Houston press editorially attacks President Truman's proposal to send Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson to Moscow. The piece, published Monday, assails the plan and questions its strategy amid Cold War tensions.
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Houston Press
Houston
Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Moscow
Ickes Backs Truman In 1948 Election Row
Harold L. Ickes former Interior Secretary and self described old curmudgeon endorsed President Truman in November criticizing Thomas Dewey in sneakers and opposing Wallace and Norman Thomas. He said Truman and Dewey share similar international programs but favors Truman for domestic candor and sincerity.
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Harold L. Ickes
Truman
Ickes
Thomas
Dewey
Wallace
Norman Thomas
Gov
Marshall Says World Shows US United on Policy
Secretary of State Marshall said the world now sees that U S foreign policy is completely united after bipartisan statements on Truman’s peace mission idea. He spoke as he boarded the Independence for the Paris United Nations meeting, stressing brinkmanship avoided by not sending Vinson to Moscow.
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Marshall
United Nations
Paris
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Washington National
Truman
Fred M. M. Wingon
Moscow
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Independence
Sea of
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Tuesaday
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