Dewey and Taft Move Into New Territory in Race
Two potential Republican nominees moved to test support for 1948. Gov Thomas B Dewey visited Springfield Mass to open New England efforts while Senator Robert A Taft headed for Los Angeles. Other Republicans warn the race remains wide open with no first ballot winner in sight.
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Dewey
New England
Taft
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Thomas B. Dewey
New ‘York
West
Robert A. Parl
Ohio
Springfield
Mass
Benboard Staley
Cayper
Kansas
United States
Amy Jeans
Dwight D
Eisenhawer
Spasta Community Parade Draws Large Crowds and Entries
A large crowd from Corry Erie Titusville Warren Meadville Cambridge Sholnes and surrounding communities attended the 20th annual Spasta Community event featuring an ox roast pride parade and street dance. Entries included Mrs G A Algard Eric Mervyn M Nast Cliford Patterson. music by the Titusville Bikadettes Bugle and Drum Corps Union City Coles Band. boosters awarded to Mrs Orville Jackson Edna Tilus and Mrs Suste Sy Drahdt.
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Corry
Erie
Titusville
Warren
Meadville
Cambridge Sholnes
Spasta
G. A. Algard
Eric
Mervyn M. Nast
Cliford Patterson
Bikadettes
Clty Coleman
Rank With the West
Test of New King-Size Bomb to Be Fired Later
Reports from Army experts describe a planned test of a 42,000 pound bomb dropped from a large airplane to study its fall and potential impact. They emphasize uncertainty about the explosion outcome and discuss implications for future military use and blast comparisons with standard TNT.
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Washington
Sept
Toni
Bert
Avery al’ Dower
Argiy Ord Paneer Expers
Schoolboy Held for Slaying of His Companion
FBI says youth admitted garroting victim with a leather belt in an abandoned warehouse near Harrison. Fred Walter Smigelski, 14, reportedly killed John Preston Jr., 14, after a struggle with grappling and threats using broken glass. Smigelski, held at the Bayonne parental home, confessed after his father aided by police located a ransom note and the missing boy.
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Asnantatell Press
Newark
N. 7
Pacarhiid Schuel
MBI
WBE
Fred Walter Smigelsio
Stuigelski
Bayonne
John Preston, Jr
Kearny
Harrison
Smuelski
Preston
PBS
Walter Smigelski
Smigelski
Shift Times For Air Mail From Day Schedules Revised
Air mail routes through Carry revised to let a plane reach Pittsburgh before dark. Northbound trips move 30 minutes earlier and southbound runs up to 1 hour 25 minutes earlier. Times now 10 am to 1 2840 ny, 4 9 36 am, and 4 27 pm Eastern Standard.
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Pittsburgh
Tim the Simall
Ina Tollows
Teipsy
Teis
Pittshird
All American Aviation, Inc
Plot in Slovakia Aimed at Killing Benes Revealed
Prague reports Slovak authorities uncovered an armed plot to assassinate President Eduard Benes. No ring leaders were arrested yet, and officials say suspects include government employees and former Vlasov brigade members tied to pro Nazi remnants. The inquiry links the plot to last week’s bomb attempts on Jan Masaryk, Peter Zerka, and Prokop Drtina.
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Associated Press
Prague
Slovakia
Teilay
Eduard Benes
Interior Ministry
WEY
Jan Masaryk
Peter Zerkl
Prokop Drtina
Bulletins from Trieste and world news brief
Trieste reports two men injured by hand grenade blasts in downtown. An unidentified Yugoslav man was killed earlier in the same district. A British official blamed a band of Italian youths. Iran's parliament to discuss Premier Qavam's eight point plan before a confidence vote. Greece sentences 53 members of an extremist Communist group to death for aiding a plot. Dominican Republic withdraws Madrid envoy as UN debate nears on recalling diplomats from Franco regime. Argentina remains the sole holdout.
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Associated Press
Trieste
Tehran
Iran
Ahmed Qavam
Russia
Dominican Republic
Madrid
United Nations Assembly
Spain
New York
Argentina
U. N
Ajax Engines Power World Deepest Well Record
A Wald Ot hauional magazine report lauds Ajax engines for powering a record-breaking deep oil well in Caddo County Ola. Three Ajax engines aided an 19,000-HP rig while a donor auxiliary draw-work provided reliability. The drill extended over three miles from a Liil-Lians derrick, with transport by rail and upgraded equipment stressing machinery like never before.
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Feaunes & Story
Corry
Dognust
Deep Weil
Ajax
Equine Wight
Balin
Reui
Residents Seek Noise Restraint in Third Ward Petition
Third Ward residents circulated a petition along West Smith Wat Wayne Franklin Essex and West Washington streets calling for muffling of a noisy exhaust valve at the Davisno-Poght Tamber Go. They pledged to boycott nearby ro dnets until silencing is achieved. The issue stems from a prior City Council discussion where a temporary fix was noted but no action followed. Also reported a notable Mexican bull rider fatally gored in Portugal scene.
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Third Ward
Davisno-Poght
Sottwell
Flanigan
Iast Teguise Council
Council
France and Allies Ratify Italian Peace Treaty
Britain France Russia and the United States deposited instruments of ratification for the Italian peace treaty with the French government. Midnight marked the official start of the six powers peace, with Russia and the United States confirming their ratifications. The ceremony included ambassadors from the United States and Britain, and French officials noted the treaty’s broad provisions and postwar arrangements.
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L' Associater Prowse
Paris
Britain
France
Russia
United States
Troy
Zeatien Willy
Phyland
Amerie Jammbumsdors
Georges
Dasnador Alekasier
Bogornuloy
Jay Glirke
Beltain
Alted
Cooper
Coreniary
Diatets
Alps
Jan Ireaigs
Yue Vlavie
Miley
Yugoslavia
Tmly
Romania
Hungary
Corry Cyclist Hurt By Auto
An eight year old Corry child riding a bicycle into the side of a moving car on West Pleasant street was treated at Corry Hospital for a concussion of the brain and released. The driver remained at the scene, police said.
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CORRY
Yulomo
Thomas Weicht
Arthur Wasbileh
Lalit City
West Pleasant Street
Truman Faces Call for Special Senate Session This Week
Washington dispatch reports the administration weighing a Sunday or Monday emergency session to decide on a U.S. response to Europe. Key advisers including Marshall and Lovett weigh urgency, with Harriman and the commerce committee hinting at continental needs and potential for a broader aid plan before a Marshall plan vote.
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Washington
Diolniteakion
Prin
Europe
Clef
Ferreluny
Glale Marshall
New York
United Na
State Department
Hagvinial
M Eosin Lior
Hirriman
Third Polio Case Found In City
A fragmentary report notes a polio case in the city with mention of a patient named Corey and a period of illness in a past year. The text is garbled but references medical diagnosis, paralysis concerns, and prior cases with mixed names and places, lacking full coherent details.
No land area in path of storm indicates wide Atlantic alert
MIAMI Sept 16 a violent tropical hurricane churns across the south Atlantic moving slowly northwest near Nassau. The Weather Bureau reports winds 125 to 143 mph with a possible northward recurve but no land area currently threatened. Elsewhere a Baston lumber fire destroys 90,000 feet of timber, damage estimated at 76,000 dollars.
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Associated Press
MIAME
Weather Bureau
Taem
Atlantic Seaboard
Vero Beach
Fish
Cape Hatters
South Atlantic
Nassau
Miami
Grady Norton
North Atlante
Hilan
Ousward
Norton
Baston
William B
CUT IN EXPORTS URGED TO COMBAT RISE IN PRICES
Lawmakers push export cuts and price controls as food costs surge. Rep Sabath proposes direct aid and probes into dairy produce exchanges and fertilizer trusts. A congressional subcommittee plans hearings on national food prices with a Providence, Rhode Island session noted. An Associated Press survey finds bacon and butter up several cents, eggs and bread higher, tomatoes rising in several key cities.
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Tatt
Associated Pi
Sabai
D-Iit
Shah
Taft
Stead Sabal
Innist
Allornny General Glark
Devi al
Board of Trade
Sabath
Washington
Providence
R. 1
Associated Press
Dover
Sinking of Ocean: Twenty Dead Feared in Clyde Disaster
In Glasgow a passenger excursion boat named Ocean foundered in heavy seas off the Firth of Clyde. Twenty persons, mostly women and children, are dead or missing. Only three of 23 aboard were known to survive. Five family members were among the lost. The search resumed this morning over the two mile wide stretch where she went down after a southerly gale.
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Associated Preas
Glasgow
Scotland
Ocean
Firth of Clyde
Firth
United States challenges UN allies over Russia veto power
Secretary of State George Marshall urged world leaders to find ways to overcome obstruction by the Soviet Union and its Balkan satellites in the United Nations. He warned that any nation defying a universal judgment risks penalties, urging the Assembly to act promptly to protect Greek independence.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Russia
United Nations
Gouijell
George Marshall
United Honse
Tarrytows
Jobe Poster Sulles
del Stalion
United Nations Assembly
Brent Flowers
Marshall
American Association For
Soviet Union
Punxsutawney Woman Held in Husband Slaying
In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania Seph 15 Mrs Dul Bell 34 of Sarby Walter Hat was charged with murder in the stabbing death of her husband 38 during a quarrel in their home Friday night. State Police placed Bell in Clarion County jail pending affidavit before Justice Homer D Snail. The slaying was first reported in Jefferson County. Floods sweep Japan as hundreds evacuated from coastal towns and Tokyo area. a typhoon advances from the Pacific threatening Ishikawa and surrounding districts.
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Iresa Punnsutawney
Sherif Jovend Shafer
Cigy
Dul Bell
Sarby “Walier
Hennisbannd
Shaffer
Japan
Tokyo
Boteshu Island
Baetific
First Cavalry Divilan
Oty
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