Typhoon Toll Tops 50 In Tokyo Area
Tokyo area battered by Japan’s worst typhoon in 11 years. At least 12 dead with reports of up to 50 or more. extensive damage to ships, fishing boats, and dikes. Flood threat grows as floods spread from Sagami Bay toward the capital. 100,000 troops deployed to strengthen defenses.
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Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo-Yokohama
Red Cross
Aioi
Japanese Welfare Ministry
Yokohama Harbor
Sagami Bay
Kanto
Tokyo Bay
Kumagaya
Kiryu
Harris County officials accused of heavy partying at state homes
Harris County Commissioner Jack Townsend charged that extensive partying replaces discipline at several probation department facilities. He cited the Bayland Home for Boys and urged an immediate investigation, saying inmates were allegedly used as cheap labor and that parties involved schoolteachers from Webster. Townsend planned to raise the issue at the next commissioners court.
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Houston
Harris County Probation Department
Jack Townsend
Townsend
Bayland
Mary Burnett School
Ethel Claxton
Harris County Home For
Webster
Bagland Home
Seabrook
Commissioners Court
Polio Scare No Bar to Braceros
Mexico City reports no ban on braceros migrating to Texas despite polio rumors. Dr. Gustavo Argil, undersecretary of health, says there has never been a plan to prohibit braceros and health talks continue to protect workers. Polio cases in Mexico dropped to 236 this year from 653 last year.
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Mexico City
Texas
Gustavo Argil
Department of Health
Foreign Office
Mexico
Argil
Sweetwater Plans Dam Reply In Creek Water Suit
Sweetwater city officials and attorneys confer on Oak Creek water impoundment suit filed in Ballinger District Court by downstream property owners. City proposes a dam on Oak Creek in Coke County. replies prepared by H. R. Bondies and Alvin J. Wirtz with counsel from the Upper Colorado River Authority and State Board of Water Engineers.
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Sweetwater
City Commission
Oak Creek
Ballinger District Court
Coke County
H. R. Bondies
Alvin J. Wirtz
Austin
Upper
Colorado River Authority
H. A. Beckwith
State Board of Water Engineers
LOOK NO BOAT two St Louis men float to Memphis
Two St Louisans began a river journey from St Louis to Memphis on August 31 using inflated inner tubes. Clarence H. Ellis and Franklin D Ramsey aim to cover 414 miles in about four days without a boat.
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ST. Louis
INS
St. Louisans
Mississippi River
Clarence H. Ellis
Franklin D. Ramsey
Memphis
Tennessee
Former State Solon Returns to Politics
Hop Halsey 35 former Texas House member in the early 1940s will run for lieutenant governor. Halsey previously campaigned for Congress in the 19th district and sought election against U S Representative George Mahon of Colorado City.
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Lubbock
INS
Hop Halsey
Texas
House of Representatives
Halsey
Congress
George Mahon
Colorado City
Truman to force trade law fight in Senate this fall
President Truman will push to settle the Reciprocal Trade Law battle in the Senate after Labor Day, delaying final adjournment indefinitely. The move sets a high-stakes debate during the Britain dollar crisis conference and keeps the act in force only via extension discussions and negotiations.
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Truman
Washington
Senate
Britain
Congress
White House
State Acheson
Lucas
George
Dga
Senate Finance Committee
Democratic Committee
Burglars Steal Beer From Santa Fe Box Car
A Sacramento area report states burglars broke into a refrigerated Santa Fe box car in a rail yard and stole 10 cases of cold beer. The incident occurred in the afternoon, prompting a police investigation.
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Fasauena
Calif
Department of
Businesses Close In Red Shanghai
Shanghai businesses reel as Communist takeover prompts mass closures. The Park and Palace hotels will shut next month and more than ten Hankow district hotels seek permission to close. Over 100 tea shops and about 100 bars and cafes have closed or retooled, with hundreds of theaters and many restaurants bankrupt or shuttering.
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Shanghai
Red Ports
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Solon
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United States
Red Shanghai
Red
Eugene H. Duke
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