Vacation at Home with Cows and Canals and Simple Joys
A Washington columnist describes a domestic vacation at a Maryland farm with Mrs. P surrendering to rural life. They avoid crowds by staying home, fill a silo with a Holland forage crop harvester, visit Long Island races, meet notable figures, and canoe the historic Chesapeake and Ohio canal while Korea war news lingers in the background.
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Senator McCarthy
Harry Truman
Senator McKellar
Baltimore
Tennessee
Mrs. P
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Washington
Ohio River
Mississippi
Seneca
Potomac
Korea
Maryland
Johnny Rebs
Virginia
Pegler challenges Supreme Court on Japanese internment ruling
The piece critiques the court’s upholding of mass detention of Japanese Americans during wartime. It contrasts dissenting Justice Jackson and General De Witt with the majority, warns against persecution by birth or ancestry, and calls the decision genocidal in principle.
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New Bedford
Mass
New Bedford-Fall River
Supreme Court
New Bedford Fall River
United States
John L. de Witt
Western Command
Sacaton
Ariz
Felix Frankfurter
Japan
Pegler
Roosevelt
Hitler
Hugo Black
General de Witt
X xx
Secretary of War
Russia
Emperor Hirohito’s Studious Everyday in Postwar Tokyo
Five years after losing power Emperor Hirohito remains a devoted student of biology. He rises at 7 AM to an American style breakfast with tea, reads several Tokyo newspapers, and works with biologists in his bunko study. He lunches with Empress and children, teaches English only to others, and spends weeknights reading biology books, while his family life centers on quiet study and reflection.
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Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Tokyo
INS
Hirohito
Yasumasa Matsudaira
Son of Heaven
Bunko
Edrom
National Academy
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Gray Vining
Akihito
Sea of Japan
Chichibu
Takamatsu
Mikasa
Emperor Hiro
Boiled vs Roasted Peanuts Debate Sparks Letter
The Alabama Journal and Dothan Eagle trade light quips on boiled and roasted peanuts. Readers favor roasted if not overcooked, while others defend boiled peanuts, noting salted boiling water as a key boost.
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Alabama Journal
Cash
Joe Wheeler Electric Cooperative Annual Meet At Coliseum
Thousands of Morgan and Lawrence county farm residents gather for the Joe Wheeler Electric Cooperative session at the Coliseum in Decatur. Officials praise year’s record growth and anticipate electricity reaching every farm home to boost farm life and local economy.
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Joe Wheeler
Joe Wheeler Electric Cooperative
Morgan
Lawrence
Coliseum
Decatur
Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corporation
Morgan County
Morgan and
Lawrence Counties
Pledge for Safer Holidays by Bates in Alabama
Pillar of Public Safety Bates urges a Labor Day push for safer driving in Alabama. He lists key rules to reduce highway accidents including sober driving 55 mph speed cue tire and brake checks not traveling on the wrong side of the road and dimmed lights. He cautions about water dangers and urges caution while swimming.
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Bates
Alabama
Highway Patrol
Vacation Quandary With Two Deadlines A Day
Mrs. P. and the narrator debate vacation deadlines. He jokes cows do not talk politics while dairy cows get milked twice daily. He notes politicians like Senator Byrd and Congressman Jacobs. in the end they settle for two deadlines a day as Mrs. P. yields.
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Byrd
Virginia
Jacobs
Indiana
Taft
Marriage as duel or harmony in American life
An essay argues marriage alternates between cooperation and conflict, with most couples generally harmonious. It cites postwar divorce trends from 1944 onward, noting over 400,000 divorces annually and a peak of 610,000 in 1946, followed by a decline.
Chinese Ready To Aid In Korea
Nationalist China's defense ministry said 270000 Chinese communist troops are concentrating on the Manchurian border and in North Korea ready to aid the Korean Reds. The force includes eight armies two cavalry divisions and one artillery division. Lin Piao heads the command.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Defense Ministry
North Korea
Lin Piao
Yalu River
Yalu
Manchuria
Peiping
Kremlin
Fourth Field Army
Derailed Seminole Train Injures Five Near Vincent Alabama
Ten cars of the Central of Georgia speed train The Seminole derailed in a yard near Vincent Alabama. About 80 passengers were aboard and five people were injured. Carrie Keelan of Chicago was hospitalized with serious injuries while others treated include Katherine Moody Clara Colquitt Mrs W M George and E E Gaylor. The accident occurred as the train headed toward Chicago with witnesses noting the car stayed upright despite the derailment.
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Katherine Moody
Clara Colquitt
W. M. George
E. E. Gaylor
Birmingham
W. L. Kyle
Palmetto
Fla
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Warren D. Hill, Jr
Millbrook Men's Club
Kenneth Roberts
Fourth
Hill
Shux
Pearson
Maine
Truman
Drew Pearson
By Westbrook Pegler
International News Service
Hito
10Th Ave
Eapolis
Minn
Battle Creek
Mich
Tou
James L. Rankin
State National Tank
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