Sailor on Midway Finds Miss Fair at West Virginia Fair
Carol Pilcher 19, a former Charleston High graduate and Morris Harvey College sophomore, was revealed as The Gazette’s Miss Fair after a shopper’s purse photo clue confirmed her identity at the West Virginia agricultural and industrial fair. News followed a day of crowded searches, with her fiancé Tom Barton and a sailor named Herbert Hill among participants. Hill won $40 in the contest.
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Herbert Hill
Naval Reserve
Gazette
Carol Pilcher
Rosaire Dr
the Gazette
Charleston High School
Morris Harvey College
Daisy Mae
Golly
Herbert HI
Hill
Hoe
Carol
Lee Bt
West Side
Charleston High
Harvey
Misa Fair
Albert
Skipper) Pilcher
Tom Barton
Hilliame
Lucille Halstead
D St
South Charleston
County Schools Enroll About 45 000 on Opening Day
County School Superintendent Virgil L. Flinn estimates 45 000 pupils registered on opening day for the 1948 49 term, about 1 200 more than last year, driven by war era birth rates and a record first grade enrollment. Half day sessions run today and tomorrow to complete the school census. regular schedules begin Monday. A county-wide teachers meeting is set at Charleston High School auditorium Saturday from 10 to noon.
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Virgil L. Flinn
Charleston High School
Flinna
Talmadge Leads Early Ga. Vote in Democratic Primary
Early returns show Herman Talmadge leading Gov. M. E. Thompson in Georgia's Democratic primary with 264 unit votes to 72 at 10:30 p.m. and popular votes of 99 950 to 82 371 from 128 of 189 counties. Reports accompany the race alleging intimidation of Black voters and Klan activity at several counties on the eve of the election.
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Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
M. E. Thompson
Georgia
Talmadge
Thompson
Pells
I T
Gov. Thompson
Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Griffin Daily News
Richmond County
Augusta Herald
Herald
Expert Dr Kamen summoned as HUAC probes Russian atomic links
Washington reportsHUAC reopens Sept 15 hearings on Soviet attempts to obtain secret atomic energy data. Dr Martin Kamen a St Louis scientist and former Manhattan Project worker said he was indiscreetly involved with Russians in 1944 in San Francisco and denies passing information. He was discharged mid 1944 for "indiscretion" amid Hiss Chambers testimony and related Washington intrigue.
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Stu. Louis
Washington
St. Louis
Martin Kamen
Washington University
House un-American Affairs Committee
Kamen
Steve Nelson
Communist
Pennsylvania
Komen
San Francisco
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
State Department
Carnegie
Chambers
Time Magazine
Communist Party
Dewey to Follow Truman to Iowa
Republican nominee Thomas E Dewey will launch his campaign with a Des Moines speech on Sept 20 and attend a farm policy address near Des Moines on Sept 18. His 14 car train will depart Albany Sept 19 for Iowa with the Des Moines rally broadcast nationally.
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Albany
Thomas E.dewey
Des Moines
Iowa
New York
Ifana
Truman
Dexter
Dewey
GOP
CBS
Mutual
Herbert Brownell
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Midwest
Russians Demand Veto on Money in Poland Clash
Warsaw dispatch reports the Communist campaign to spark a class war in Poland. Peasants in rural areas ripped fences dividing large farms and attacked tractors of rural capitalists as party leaders push collective market controls and farm nationalization. Hilary Mince warns rural capitalists must go while promising swift punishment for coercion to join cooperatives.
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U.S
Poland
Warsaw
Communist Party
Lublin
Somrtintit Action Committees
Hilary Mince
Reserve Raises Reserve Requirement to Curb Lending
The Federal Reserve Board boosted the reserve ratio for member banks to restrain inflation. Banks must hold an extra two percent of checking deposits and one and a half percent of time deposits, effective Sept 16 or Sept 24. The move could force about 2.9 billion dollars of deposits into reserves, potentially supporting 12 billion in new loan capacity, though banks are expected to meet the need by selling government bonds.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
Bank
Federal Reserve System
Congress
Three Men Held In Bank Robbery Case
INDEPENDENCE Va Sept 8 State police say they arrested two more suspects in the Farmers Bank job at Elk Creek Grayson county Tuesday. Lester Thacker in Williamson W Va and Hayes Charles in jail at Pikeville Ky. Loot recovered and extradition not yet decided. A third man Paul Isaacs Bristol arrested Tuesday night moved to Wytheville jail charged with bank robbery with about 2042 dollars on his person. Isaacs gave Rainesville Ky as home.
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Elk Creek
Grayson County
Lester Thacker
Williamson
W. Va
Hayes Charles
Pikesville
Wytheville
Virginia
Paul Isaacs
Bristol
Isaacs
Rainesville
Roy Edwards
Thacker
Lick Creek
Charles
Pond Creek
Ky Homie
West Virginia
S. A
Benes Funeral Guarded as Prague Fears Putsch
In Prague the Benes funeral proceeded under tight security with troops bayonets and factory guards. Premier Zapotocky praised Benes’s work while police and militiamen enclosed the cortege through Wenceslas Square as crowds pressed along condemned routes.
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Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Samius Beynarcu
Benes
Hradcany Castle
Pankrac
Antonin Zapotocky
Prague Museum
Klement Gottwald
Zapotocky
Fatherland
Republic
French crisis deepens as Queuille pressed to form cabinet
Paris reports turmoil as Edouard Herriot declines cabinet task and President Auriol asks Henri Queuille to try forming a government. Queuille, health concerns cited, may refuse. observers foresee possible dissolution and early elections amid De Gaulle and third-force maneuvering.
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Paris
France
Edouard Herriot
National Assembly
Vincent Avriol
NiWle
Henri Queuille
Queuille
Ree
Auriol
Herriot
Council of the Republic
Popular Republican Party
Charles de Gaulle
Paul Giacoibbi
de Gaulle
Jean-Paul Palewski
de Gaullis
National Union
DeGaullists
Third Force
Rene Pleven
Queutile
Socialist
Socialiste
Popular Republicans
Triangle Blamed In Double Death
Beckley coal operator David Blankenship 54 was shot six times in his car on State Rt. 10 near Giotto. Fifteen minutes later Ernest Reed 45 of Mullens killed himself near Matoaka. State police offered no motive yet for the double murder suicide.
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Princeton
Beckley
Mullena Auto Agency
Arate
David Alderson Blankenship
State Rt. 10
Giotto
Ernest R. Reed
Mullens
Matoaka
Blankenship
Wyoming Jeounty
Reed
Mullens Motor Co
E. D. Bazzie
E. Q. Burner
C. C. Lively
MacArthur accuses Soviets of mistreating Japanese prisoners
Tokyo dispatch reports Gen. MacArthur charging Russia with using Japanese war prisoners under slave labor like conditions. A sharp note to Lt General Derevyanko demanded repatriation and criticized lack of information on prisoners health and working conditions.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Russia
Kuzma Derevyanko
Japan
Derevyanko
14 Feared Dead In Ship Disaster
In Caribbean waters the 140 foot Honduras registered Euzkera sank after leaving Cuba August 28 with the Razzore circus bound for Cartagena. The Norwegian Caribe picked up 12 of 58 aboard, including three crewmen and nine passengers. Fate of remaining is unknown amid rough seas and darkness.
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Miami
Fla
Carbbean Sea
Caribe
Panama
Marat
Mariel
Cuba
Cartagena
Colombia
Navy
Berlin Crisis Escalates As Howley Blames Soviet Actions
Major General Frank Howley pronounced the dawn kidnapping of 19 western sector police a Russian tactic and blamed Moscow for pressuring Berlin’s elected city government. He reported to General Clay that the Soviet reply was only satisfactory for the time being as four power talks stall over veto power and a permanent Eastmark supervision plan.
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Marshall
Berlin
Truman
White House
Lucius D. Clay
U.S
Germany
Clay
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Frank Howley
U. S
Alexander Kotikov
Kotikov
Miaf
Roger Noiret
M. Dratvin
Nolet
Howley
Oktikov
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
London
Foreign Office
Moscow
C-47 Crew Bails Out Three Die as Chutes Fail
A U S Air Force crew of eight bailed from a stricken C-47 after engine trouble en route from Home, N. to Minneapolis. Five jumped but three were killed when parachutes failed. Pilot Lt Brook Dubell of Philadelphia and the co pilot plus engineer remained aboard as the plane crashed near Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Dubell suffered serious injuries and was hospitalized in Edmonton. The other injuries were not disclosed.
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Edmonton
Alta
U. S. Air Force
Home
Minneapolis
Wetaskiwin
Here
Royal Canadian Air Force
Brook Dubell
Philadelphia
Dubell
Lit
Edmonton Hospital
Lone Ranger Warning Sparks French Rule Speculation
Readers imagine a swift rise of de Gaulle in France as premiers stumble toward leadership. A cryptic item hints at a weak political landscape with little opposition, reflecting wartime era uncertainty and public anxiety about governance.
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Lone Ranger
de Gaulle
France
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