Winnipeg Flood Forces Mass Evacuation As Dikes Fail
Winnipeg fights the Red River as flood waters breach dikes forcing more than 4 000 residents to flee. Premier Morton orders troops to patrol southern suburbs while prison inmates are moved from the city jail to safer districts. Explosive carbide near St Boniface could detonate with flood contact.
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Winnipeg
Man
Red River
A. Ff. Taunton
Douglas L. Campbell
Manitoba
R. B. A. Morton
Canadian Army
Prairie Command
Morton
Amnti-Lput
Morris
St. Boniface
J. W. Sanger
J. Winnipeg
Sanger
Ontario
Niagara Falls
Brantford
Woodstock
North Bay
Kingston
New Tronto
Toronto
Board plans to restore full Saturday staffing for state offices
The Board of Public Works warned state departments to reopen with full staffs on Saturdays. It cited reports of closed offices and insufficient help and threatened stricter rules if departments do not ensure coverage from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. It notes wartime five day weeks and aims to balance access with staffing.
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Board of Public Works
Boarch
Sunday Specials Feature Rough Paste of Page Notes
A fragmented Sunday issue lists page teasers including card game tips by Goren and a Derby tribute to Bob Considine. Features mention Mary Chilton Chapman, a garden memories piece by HL L Snyder, and Jerry Braden’s youth patter with growing pains.
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Mr. and
Wils
HL L. Snyder
Jerry Braden
V. Page
Dixie Solons Battle Over FEPC Amid Senate Showdown
Southern senators vow to wage all-out war to defeat FEPC as Democratic leaders press for debate. Johnston signals no hearings until FEPC defeated, while Maybank shifts focus to rent controls and Post Office Committee actions. Washington politics intensify as nations weigh Cold War moves.
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Paris
U.S
State Acheson
Washington
London
France
North Atlantic Treaty Group
Germany
Russia
Lihe
FEPC
Alwys
Lucas
Devate
Johnston
Senate Post Office Committee
Maybank
Dsc
Senate Bar Committee
Banking
South Carolina
VA Budget Approved In House For Next Fiscal Year
The House tentatively approved a 5.801 billion dollar Veterans Administration budget for the next fiscal year as part of a 29 billion dollar one package bill. The panel compared the VA request to the president's 6.007 billion and current year 6.33 billion figures, rejecting a booster for hospital operating expenses.
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Washington
House
Veterans' Administration
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Alen
D-La
Atomic Energy Commission
Budget Bureau
Public Housing Administration
Meritime Commission
GOP Hurls New Charges At Truman on Eve of Trip
Republicans leveled ten broadside charges against the Truman Administration on May 6 as President Truman prepared to begin a 16 state campaign tour. National Chairman Guy George Garielson and campaign leaders accused him of resisting anti Communists and cited China losses. They labeled the trip a cross country junket and outlined nine major speeches on the itinerary.
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Washington
Truman
GOP
China
Guy George Garrielson
Qwen Brewster
Maine
Senate Campaign Committee
Hep
Leonard ‘W.hall
New York
House Campaign Committee
National Congressional Campaign
West Coast
Jack
A W Cox Store Pledges 25000 to Morris Harvey College Drive
A. W. Cox Department Store announced a 25000 pledge toward Morris Harvey College building fund reaching 174800 total so far. Harry Dougherty Son Inc plumbers added 6300 with several gifts between 60 and 500. Campaign workers plan reports and a Thursday meeting as fundraising drives toward a 750000 goal for the new campus building opposite the State Capitol.
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A. W
Cox
State Capitol
McCarthy claims dishonesty in releasing phony files
Senator McCarthy charged the Truman administration with deceit as he attacked the State Department loyalty files released to investigators. Senator Myers rebutted with new charges saying McCarthy offered no evidence. Myers defended government employees as cleared after four years of loyalty investigations.
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McCarthy
Sen. Myers
Wisconsin
Washington
Sen. McCarthy
Truman
Aqidus
Chicago
State Department
Wisconsin Republican
Pennsylvania
Senate
Honesdale
Myers
MitCarthy
FBI
Pennsylvania Democrat
Iis
Remington Defends Himself Amid Ex Reds’ Charge
William W. Remington disputed testimony by two former Communists who accused him of party membership in 1936 37. His attorney challenged the committee chair and alleged bias while Bentley testified behind closed doors in the same investigation.
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Washington
William W. Remington
Commerce Department
Remington
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr
Rauh
Kenneth McConnell
Howard Allen Bridgman
Raub
Wood
D[gay
un-American Activities Committee
Elizabeth Bentley
Miss. Bentley
Senate
Moscow
Royalty 1 Board
UCLA Provost Dr. Clarence Dykstra Dies Fighting Fire
Dr. Clarence Dykstra provost of UCLA died of a heart attack while battling a brush fire near his Laguna Beach summer home. The renowned educator and former head at the University of Wisconsin was treated with adrenaline and an inhalation team but did not respond.
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Laguna Beach
Cal
Clarence Dykstra
University of California At
Los Angeles
Dyksiva
University of Wisconsin
Coal Troubles Plotters in 1898 Attempted to Crush State Competition
Raymond R. Murphy reports on a 1898 conspiracy by Northern operators and UMWA officials to defeat West Virginia miners and operators. The piece describes pledges to organize soft coal fields, inducements, and a joint conference in Chicago leading to a Continent wide agreement. The article notes a 1809 date fragment and details a Pittsburgh conference from January 17 to 24, 1809, with the Central Competitive Field spanning Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
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Raymond R. Murphy
the Gazette
UMWA
West Virginia
Ohie
HL. Chapman
Uney
Chicago
Pitts Ly
Burgh
Tmllrois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Park Drive Group Forms To Spur Public Space Project
A two day push announces Operation Coonskin to create a public park within space in Park Drive. Paul R. Anderson, general chairman, names committees for Contractors Equipment Project Engineer Planning and more as civic groups back the Gazette sponsored effort.
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Coonskin
Paul R. Anderson
The
Gazette
Civic Grosps
Equiment Dealing
Anderson
Toliowiris
Holmes Shever
Ted Coleman
Ng—I
Lewis Bark
Harry G. Hollman
Fred C. Alley
Rocca J. Gorman
Paul Hall
E. BR. Smith
Cigaret Tax Boost Proposed by West Virginia Education Group
The State Education Association proposed a three cent increase on cigarets to raise about six million dollars annually. The plan was approved by a 20 member delegate assembly as part of the association’s program. H. Rodgers McVey was elected president and Mrs Margaret Leckie Wheat became vice president. New executive committee members include Nan T. Davis and 4. V. Upton.
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Clarksburg
May
West Virginia
State Education Assoc
Taxation and Finance Committee
H. Rodgers McVey
Alderson
Greenbrier County
Margaret Leckie Wheat
Morgantown
Nan T. Davis
Huntington
V. Upton
Harrison County
Reprieve Fails as Lie Detector Proves McClure Guilt
Theodore Roosevelt McClure, 23, condemned for a robber y murder, confessed after a lie detector test and faces electric chair on Wednesday. The Ohio “court of last resort” had reprieved him last March minutes before, then declined to intervene this time.
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Columbus. O
wFis
Theodore Roosevelt McClure
Court of Last Resort
McClure
Ohio
Cleve
Red Policy Coup Seen In Berlin
Berlin whispers of a potential Kremlin move to assert controls in occupied zones and align East Germany as a Cominform satellite. The talk includes reducing occupation forces and possibly a separate peace for East Germany as Germany awaits prisoner repatriations.
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Berlin
East Germany
Kremlin
Reds Shell Chushan Island in Formosa Battle
Nationalist dispatches say Chushan Island near Formosa was pounded by Red artillery all day Friday. Fire from Communist held Kintang Island to the west silenced at 10 am, with shells mostly falling into the sea. Massing Red junks were reported at Kintang and the mainland as the base for a possible invasion.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chushan Island
Kintarig Island
Iit
Kintang
Chushan
Shenghai
Suspended Cops Fired at Hearing
Two Charleston policemen were found guilty of misconduct and fired after a hearing before the two man police civil service commission. Sergeant Charles W. Ray ordered the suspensions, citing unlawful solicitation of funds for Horn and a fight incident for Ratliff.
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Charleston
Charles W. Ray
Hawe
Elton Horn
Ratlifé
Horn
A. Ratliff
Andrews
Ray
Civil Service
Sam Lepinsky
A. W. Cox
Commissian
C. Bernard Gates
Ratliff
Duke of Windsor Leads Male Fashion Revolt at Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs May 6 led by the Duke of Windsor male golfers and socialites stage a fashion revolution at the Greenbrier May Festival. Men wear tartan plaid dinner jackets bright slacks batik shirts and vivid sports coats as observers note the shift alongside the famed women’s style. The duke and duchess lined up for the buffet as Tex McCrary and Charles Hook Jr. spotlighted bold attire among prominent guests.
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Dorothy Roe
Tex McCrary
York
Charles R. Hook, Jr
Cleveland Railroad Tycoon
Hook
Herbert Pulitzer
Mr. l
Charlies Amory
New York
Grace Amory
Palm Beach
Jock McLean
Dallas
J Symphonies
R. Ireland
Old White Club
Acheson Heads to Europe for Urgent Cold War Talks
Secretary of State Dean Acheson leaves for Europe with a stark warning that the non Communist world faces crucial tests ahead. He aims to speed up moral and material mobilization and will confer with Bevin, Schuman, and the North Atlantic Council to forge a renewed sense of unity.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Europe
Bevin
Schumen
Paris
London
Me. S
North Atlantic
Congress
Acheson
Truman
Bon Voyser
State Department
Germany
U. S
John, J. McCiny
Two Lost Tots Reunited After Wide Search Across Nation
Across the United States two year old Anna Pearl Thorpe and three year old Tommy Jenkins were found unharmed after large search efforts. Anna Pearl disappeared in a shake infested woods near Dunbar Pennsylvania and was rescued three miles from home. Tommy Jenkins vanished on the Fort Lewis Washington reservation and was found unharmed after a day’s absence and returned to his family.
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Associated Press
Dunbar
Anna Pearl Thorpe
Tommy Jenkins
Bessie “Thorpe
Ft. Lewis
Tommy
Nicaraguan President Dies in U S Hospital
President Roman Reyes, elected Aug. 15 1947 by a constituent assembly, died at 2 am in a U S hospital after stomach cancer treatment. He had come to Hehe Mann Hospital, where he completed an internship about fifty years ago, for medical care following an ulcer surgery on April 3.
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Philadelphia
Waitai'ag Vigor Roman
Hahnemenn Hospital
Hewag Ti
Sae
Suile
Carcer
Roman
Hehemann Hospital
Ha Wes
Roman Y. Reyes
Weather map forecast and starry sky note for Charleston Sunday
A fragment from page 12 shows a sunrise sunset and a forecast map with coastal hints. It mentions prominent stars above constellations including Crater and Cassiopeia, with temperature cues and a northwestern view.
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Eunset
Taat
Sayrhwest
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Fitton Quisler's Inc
Bonks
Mary Chilton Chapman
Bob Considine
Dan
Charleston Gazette
the State Newspaper
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Middleground
Boland
King Ranch
Hill Prince
Mr. Trouble
Sunglow
Gazette Office
West
Indochina
Dixie
Beverly Hills
Hollywood
Elizabeth Taylor
Conrad
Nick
M-G-M
W. P. Hendry
Miss Taylor
Jane
Rose Golding
Leeds
Yorkshire
Elizabeth
Pride
Mothers of the
Pride and
Venom
Miss ‘M
Conrad Nicholson Hilton
Dr. Dykstra
Park Drive
Chushan Isle
Duke of Windsor
Greenbrier
Hage
West Mist
U.S. Hospital
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