Eisenhower Urges Unity In Vicksburg Address July 4
In Vicksburg Mississippi General Eisenhower urged world cooperation, citing the Civil War siege and the surrender of Vicksburg as lessons in unity. He dismissed political aspirations, saying he has none, while stressing that past divisions can fuel a future world union for peace.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South
United States
Eisenhower
A.S. Grant
Warren County
Grant
Gibraltar
Federacy
Europe
Lad Spontaneously Dashes To President
Three year old Hodgman Smith dashed from his father’s arm to President Truman on the University of Virginia campus during an Independence Day crowd. The president lifted the child in his arms as the crowd cheered, creating a memorable moment on The Lawns between the rotunda and the Colonade club.
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Charlottesville
Hodgman Smith
President Truman
University of Virginia
Truman
Hodgman
William Smith
University Hospital
President
Mr. Truman
President Leads Bay's Observance On Independence Day
The article notes President Truman marking the 171st Independence Day with a Jefferson home porch speech in Charlottesville while warning against Marshall Plan propaganda. It reports a damaging tornado across southern Canada, Minnesota, and North Dakota, storm warnings for Atlantic shipping, and fires destroying homes and facilities in multiple states including California and Ohio. It also mentions Eisenhower speaking at Vicksburg as the city commemorates Grant's 1863 surrender.
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Associated Press
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Charlottesville
Thomas Jefferson
Canada
Minnesota
North Dakota
Atlantic
San Francisco
Coast Guard
State Forest Service
California
Chatsworth Lake Manor
San Fernando Valley
Garden City
Kas
Columbus
Ohio
Peoria
Grand Tower
Ill
Vicksburg
Miss
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Grant
York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Des Moines
U. S
Former Local Man Among Seven Killed in Florida Wreck
James Clyde White 49 of Bluefield and his relatives perished in a fiery collision near Tallahassee with a gasoline truck. Also killed were White’s wife and daughter, his brother Conley White and his wife, and Bristol Virginia’s Joan Plaskie. A three year old child burned unidentifiable. three others injured. The truck driver W C Dawkins unharmed. Surviving relatives numbered in the dozens across Pulaski Charleston Welch and other towns. Funeral arrangements pending.
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The
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Bluefield
Bristol, Va
Tallahassee
Fla
W. C. Dawkins
Montez
Conley White
Joan Plaskie
University of Florida
Joe C. Plaskie
Bristol
Virginia Davis
Davis
Fort Walton
Pulaski
King Printing Company
Charleston
Welch Publishing Company
Delta Va
Ausonia
Conley Glen White
James
Keystone
Pensacola
Highway Patrol
Conley
David
Alice Langston
Marianna
J. C. White
J. Fred White
W. R. White
P. B. White
Ernest F. White
Everett E. White
Stanley White
B. D. Fitzgerald
Welch
L. Edgar Wheeling
Frank Hawkins
Lelia Mae White
Ralph
Fred Gibson
Charles
Florida
Clyde White
Billy
U.S. Army
Beaver High School
R. H. Moore
Gary
Union Supply Company
Fitzgerald
Fred White
Woman Speed Flyer Killed in Decorah Airshow
Decorah Iowa July 4 Marge Hurlburt world champion wom en speed flier was killed when an AT-6 crashed after a loop at the Decorah airport before several thousand spectators. She recently set a 337 mph world record in Florida and had joined the Flying Tigers aerial circus touring Iowa.
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Decorah
Marge Hurlburt
Miss Hurlburt
Florida
Hurlburt
Flying Tigers Aerial Circus
Iowa
West Virginians Observe Fourth of July Quietly
West Virginians celebrated Independence Day with picnics and motor trips as state offices and banks closed for the holiday. In Moundsville beauty queen plans moved ahead while Clarksburg hosted a model airplane convention and Bluefield saw quiet observances with limited decorations and no major celebrations in Charleston.
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Charleston
W. Va
West
Governor Meadows
Bluefield
Jap Surrenders At Clark Field
Japanese surrender announced at Clark Field during Independence Day observances. Pvt. Sinachi Arukuchi, 31, a remnant of the Imperial Japanese Fourth Army, walked onto the field with a white flag and surrendered to American troops yesterday.
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Sinachi Arukuchi
Fourth Army
Clark Field
Nations Accept Bid To Aid Paris Marshall Plan
Twenty two European nations were asked by Britain and France to decide within six days whether to join in drafting the continental reconstruction program under the Marshall proposal. Denmark Greece the Netherlands Portugal and Italy accepted invitations while comments in Fife Switzerland Turkey and Belgium indicated their representatives would attend. A conference in Paris July 12 would form an international economic recovery body with a first meeting July 15. UK Foreign Secretary Bevin warned Russia against provocations as smaller nations faced pressure to join the plan.
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France
Denmark
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Portugal
Italy
Fife
Switzerland
Turkey
Belgium
International Organization For Economic Recovery
Marshall
Associated Press
U.S
George C. Marshall
Truman
Charlottesville
Marshall Aid
Russia
July Fourth Death Toll Rises to 164 Across Nation
The Associated Press reports 164 deaths during the three day July Fourth weekend as 30 million motorists crowded highways. Fireworks killed three, two in Maryland and one in Maine, with 61 traffic deaths and 64 drownings. Florida led traffic deaths with seven. New York tops drownings with seven. New Jersey leads in miscellaneous deaths with five. The first fireworks fatalities came from a skyrockets explosion at a family reunion in Elkton Maryland killing Ann Cameron eight and Ruth Anne Holmes two.
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Maryland
Maine
Florida
Illinois
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
New York
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
New Jersey
Delaware
Elkton
Ann Cameron
Ruth Anne Holmes
Four Killed In State Accidents
Holiday mishaps across West Virginia left at least four dead. William Mason Long, 30, was struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio train near Meadow Creek in Greenbrier county. Two men drowned in the Charleston area and a 14 year old girl died in a Raleigh county truck crash. Drownings included Cyrus Bailey near Elk River and Morris Stanley in the Kanawha river. Five others were injured in a Route 16 crash near Sophia that killed Nancy Taylor.
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W. Va
West
Raleigh
Cyrus Bailey
Elk River
Charleston Water Works
Donald Miller
Rupert Spencer
Max Goldman
Morris Stanley
Dublin
Patrick Street
Stanley
South Charleston
Goldman
R. L. Tabscott
Nancy Taylor
Sophia
Otis Kellam
West Virginia Workmen's Compensation Examined by Chamber
Charleston Chamber of Commerce analyzes West Virginia workmen’s compensation in Kanawha Commerce. It notes the fund’s liberal benefits at low cost to employers, with $8.5 million paid in last year and 90 percent from coal and manufacturing. It highlights widow benefits and life annuity equivalents from major insurers.
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West Virginia
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Kanawha Commerce
House of Delegates
Southern Mine Operators Map Contract Action
The southern coal industry weighed a one year contract offer to John L. Lewis vs a possible coal strike next Tuesday. AFL UMW officials and northern producers pressed terms including 35 cent hourly raise and welfare fund levy while western and captive mines signaled likely acceptance.
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Southern Coal Industry
John L. Lewis
Northern
Southern Coal Producers Association
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Miners’ Welfare Fund
AFL United Mine Workers
UMW
Illinois
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Iowa
Southern Association
Southern
Northrn Group
Marine Mystery Baffles Searchers
A coast guard and allied search failed to locate any trace of a tanker said to have burned and sunk about 10 miles off the northern California coast. Reports from Forest Ranger Earl Holle described a midship fire and sinking after about 10 minutes, with no debris or survivors found after 24 hours of air and sea search.
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California
Coast Guard
Point Reyes
Point Arena
Earl Holle
Oak Ridge
Ft. Ross
Sonoma County
Holle
Army Search and Rescue
Hamilton Field
Sullivan Charged With Drunken Driving
Sullivan Gael Sullivan 42 executive director of the Democratic national committee pleaded innocent to drunken driving at a second district court session in Wakefield R I He was released on personal recognizance for trial July 14 in South Kingstown Police said his car collided with a Foster Center Rhode Island man’s vehicle on Post road last night
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Flying Saucers Sighted Over Portland on July Fourth
Portland police reported two patrol cars sighting a large formation of flying disks over a residential area. The objects were described as high, saucer shaped and glistening in sunlight with an undulating motion. The police asked the National Guard aerial squadron to investigate as B-29 bombers and P-80 fighters conducted a holiday demonstration over the city.
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National Guard
Grandstand Collapse Hurts Dozens at Wildwood Fireworks
At Wildwood New Jersey on July 4 a grandstand collapsed before a fireworks display. At least 40 people were injured with two serious cases. Rescue squads searched debris and two seriously hurt were taken to Atlantic City Hospital after initial treatment.
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Convention Hall
Atlantic City Hospital
Shooting Star Jet Crashes Near Fort Meade
A P-80 Shooting Star crashed ten miles east of Fort Meade near Odenton Maryland during a training flight. The pilot parachuted to safety and was later identified as Lt. Frederick L. Webster Jr. of the 4th Fighter Group based at Andrews Field.
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Baltimore Municipal
Ernest Hudgins
Waterloo Barracks
Maryland
Odenton
Fort Meade
Hudgins
Malcolm Panski
Shooting Star
4Th Fighter Group
Andrews Field
Washington
Herschel Green
Frederick L. Webster
Two Killed Two Hurt In Fireworks Blast
Two young girls died at Union hospital in Elkton Maryland after a fireworks explosion at a family reunion. Father William Cameron 33 and Cecilia Holmes 11 were critically injured. sister Ruth Ann Holmes 2 died earlier. Mrs Cameron and Irwin Holmes suffered minor burns and were released.
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Union Hospital
Ourns
Cecil County
C. L. Dodson
Dodson
Ann Cameron
Ruth Ann Holmes
William Cameron
Ann
Cecilia Holmes
Ruth Anne
Cameron
Irwin Holmes
Carrie Holmes
Truman Calls for Barriers Down in Independence Day Address
President Truman urged a free flow of knowledge and ideas and called on nations to break artificial barriers after two World Wars. He criticized fallacious arguments against Marshall Plan aid and warned that organized mistrust threatens world peace and cooperation. He spoke from Monticello on the Independence Day anniversary.
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Truman
Russia
Marshall
Europe
Soviet Union
U. S
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Trueman
Tornado Plays Series Of Tricks
A Dearborn resident recalls a tornado episode from North Dakota and Minnesota. John Stoltman says his brother Victor Stoltman reported sheltering his family as the house hovered then was hurled about 100 feet. Their car, barn, and sheds vanished, and a wagon wheel narrowly missed the basement.
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Detroit
Dearborn
North Dakota
Minnesota
John Stoltman
Victor Stoltman
Oslo
Minn
Tornado Toll Rises Across North Dakota and Minnesota
A July Fourth tornado system killed eleven people and injured about thirty as it carved an eighty mile path from Manitoba into North Dakota and Minnesota. Victims include Mikolasik near Oslo Minnesota, the Andere sons at Oslo farm, and Rogalla near Warsaw North Dakota. Survivors report multiple funnels around the main shaft and sparking power lines igniting fires.
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Red River
North Dakota
Minnesota
Windy Gates
Manitoba
Oslo
Minn
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Mikolasik
Auburn
N. C
San Antonio
Texas
Grafton
Martin C. Andereson
Norman Burns
Rural Electrification Administration
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