Georgia braces for governor election clash after historic death
Unprecedented death of governor elect Eugene Talmadge triggers legal battle as Georgia awaits Jan. 13 legislative showdown. Debate centers on succession with Herman Talmadge or James V. Carmichael and possible interim Gov. Ellis Arnall. Ballots sealed. outcome hinges on court ruling.
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Atlanta
Georgia
General Assembly
Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge
James V. Carmichael
Talmadge
Carmichael
Ellis Arnall
Eugene Talmadge Laid To Rest In Georgia
Eugene Talmadge lies in Oak Grove cemetery near his McRae home after death in Atlanta at 7 a.m. Saturday. The funeral at First Baptist Church drew thousands as state leaders and former governors attended. Floral tributes came from diverse groups including the Ku Klux Klan and the Women’s Republican Club of Georgia.
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Talmadge
Romney Wheeler McRae
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Oak Grove
First Baptist Church
Atlanta
Forsyth
Macon
McRae
Women’s Republican Club of Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
Ellis Arnall
Police hunt rapist slayer in Seattle case
Police widened their search for the unknown rapist who killed 49 year old Edna Vaughan and raped and beat her 73 year old mother, while rounding up known sex crime offenders. The mother Marie Windt, in hospital, is questioned as detectives pursue a large black sedan sighting.
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Seattle
Edna Vaughan
Marie Windt
King County Hospital
Ina McDonald
Vaughan
Mrs. Windt
Poli Metingos
Plea Voiced in Bilbo Case by Edwin Harkinson
Senator McClellan urged Republicans to set partisanship aside as the Bilbo case heads to the Senate floor. He said he has not decided his own vote but supports innocence until proven guilty beyond doubt. Bilbo defends himself while Senate hearings may resume next week.
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Edwin Harkinson
Washington
Senator McClellan
D-Ark
Bilbo
D-Miss
McClellan
Senate
Sienateis
Ted
Mississippi
Poplarville
Miss
Senate War Investigating Committee
Campaign
Rural Electrification Plans Fast Action for Joe Wheeler Co-op
Rural Electrification Administration is expected to move quickly on financing for the Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corporation. After a Decatur meeting where members unanimously extended borrowing power, Morgan and Lawrence counties would get more miles of rural lines to serve about 5,000 farm families. The Joe Wheeler board reconvenes in January to discuss broadening service objectives.
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Rural Electrification Administration
Joe Wheeler Electric
Decatur
Morgan
Lawrence
John H. Peach
William C. Wise
Washington, D. C
TVA
Morgan and
Joe Wheeler Coion
Chamber plans drive to curb portal-to-portal pay claims
The U S Chamber of Commerce will ask its 2000 members to back amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 to limit retroactive back pay for portal-to-portal time and set standards for coverage in interstate commerce. Unions claim damages amid mounting suits with potential billions in claims and settlements already reached, including Dow Chemical’s $4.056 million deal with AFL United Mine Workers.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Chamber
Supreme Court
CIO United Pottery
Mt. Clemens
Mich
John L. Lewis
Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Dow Chemical Company
Midland
Lewis’ District 50
Afl-United Mine Workers
Motorist stops robber as he points spike at him
In Birmingham on December 23 officer C. D. Milwee, driving to work, halted a robber who forced his way into the car with a railroad spike. Milwee tackled the suspect and jailed him on a robbery attempt charge.
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Birmingham
Ala
C. D. Milwee
Milwee
Relief Speeded To Jap Quake Areas
Tokyo dispatch reports a massive earthquake toll in Japan with 1,026 dead officially and up to 1,125 counted by Kyodo. 2,700 combined dead missing and injured per agency tallies. Thousands homeless, relief crews air dropping food and medical supplies as American units aid evacuations and access remains limited in Wakayama and Shikoku.
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Tom Lambert
Tokyo
Home Ministry
Shikoku Island
Wakayama Peninsula
Kyodo
Japan
Manchurian
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S. Eighth Army
Shikoku
Kochi
Honshu
Associated Press
Wyama
Mayor and wife receive death threats in McKeesport
McKeesport Pennsylvania December 23. Death threats arrived with Christmas greetings for Mayor Charles A Kinkaid and his wife. The mayor said the notes would not stop his anti vice campaign and that the city would remain under a cleanup effort.
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Mckeesport
Charles A. Kenkaid
Higher Cotton Price Levels Seen For 47
The Southern cotton industry shows a rebound from October’s price drop and expects 1947 markets to rise steadily. Brokers report strong supply signals and a leading brokerage notes that higher prices are in store as the season progresses. The middling spot price fell from 38.93 to 29.20. Farm Credit Administration reports loan payments down since October, with some decline due to market losses.
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Kris Kreeger
New Orleans
Clinton P. Anderson
Avery
Lewis Files New Appeal Over Coal Strike Ruling
John L. Lewis and the United Workers filed with the Supreme Court a new appeal challenging the validity of the preliminary injunction during the soft coal strike. They previously questioned Judge T. Goldsborough authority to issue temporary restraining orders. They were held in contempt and fined 3500000 for violation of the orders. The court had directed mine operation pending a ruling. the Supreme Court set January 14 for arguments.
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Washington
Dee
John L. Lewis
United Workers Today
Supreme Court
Lewis
U. S
T. Goldsborough
No Christmas Snow Expected Across Nation
The Chicago weather bureau reports little snow for Christmas nationwide with current ice and snow confined to North Dakota Montana parts of several states. No additional snowfall is expected by Christmas morning and lingering snow in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia should melt by tomorrow morning.
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Associated Press
Chicago Weather Bureau
Santa Claus
Santa
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New England
Weather Bureau
Youth held for killing of couple in Rochester home
John T. Luce, 18, jailed for first degree murder in the slaying of Vincenzo Leonardi, 60, and Mary Leonardi, 46, at their Rochester residence. Detective Edward Collins said Luce admitted resenting his mother’s marriage to the couple, who were wed six years after Luce’s father’s death.
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Rochester
N. Y
John T. Luce
Edward Collins
Vincenzo Leonardi
Mary Leonardi
Collins
Luce
Leonardi
Loce
Train collision injures a dozen in Quebec sleet storm
A Montreal to Boston CP express and a freight train collided head on a mile south of Cowansville Quebec during a heavy sleet storm injuring twelve people, one seriously. Both trains were moving slowly with no derailment and the express was delayed about five hours.
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Cowansville, Que
Canadian Pacific
Montreal
Quads Born To British War Bride In Baltimore
In Baltimore on December 23 a British war bride gave birth to quadruplets three boys and a girl in St Agnes hospital. The parents Mr Carles Henn Jr and Dorothy Geast Henn already have a 15 month old son Johnny. Doctors say the quads survival chances are very good though each baby weighs about four pounds. The family plans names after X rays last November warned they were coming.
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Baltimore
Carles Henn, Jr
Thomas J. Bowyer
St. Agnes Hospital
Johnny
England
Henn
84Th
Dorothy Geast
ATS
Acs
William H. Sawyers
Walter Benavent
Eighteen Nazi Officials Face Execution in Belgrade
In Belgrade twenty Nazi officials await execution after a two week trial. A military court sentenced nine ex Gestapo chiefs to hang and nine former elite guard officers to be shot for atrocities against Serbs and Jews during the occupation. The deaths of 150000 Serbs and 35000 Jews were attributed to them.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Bowden Found Guilty in Pandora Box Bomb Case
James W. Bowden, 49, was found guilty of first degree murder in Portland Oregon for the July 27 basement death of his wife after she opened a trunk with a dynamite bomb. The jury recommended life imprisonment with a possible parole after time served. Bowden admitted making the bomb but said it was intended for a rival, while denying intent to harm his wife.
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Portland
Ore
Life Imcuit
James W. Bowden
Bowden
Mrs. den
Alaska
Navy Graft Told 10 Pull Out of Darien
A US Navy ship withdrew from Darien after a verbal ultimatum from Soviet officials threatening consequences. Russian troops occupy Darien, despite a 1945 treaty designating a free port under Chinese administration. The incident follows refusals to allow an American businessman and two newsmen ashore.
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NAVY
Darien
William H. Newton
Combined World Press
Manchuria
United States Navy
U. S
Combined
World Press
Washington
State Department
Navy Department
U S
Tsingtao
China
Department
Charles M. Cook
Seventh Fleet
Cooke
Darien Dee
Anchorage
H. Merrill Benninghoff
Jesse L. Poole
Atlanta
Standard Vacuum Oil Co
Benninghoff
V. V. Korzhanoff
Korzhan
Aee Anninghofst
S. N
Navy On Page Two Uncle Bud
Navy coverage continues on page two with feature notes by Bill Baldwin detailing shipboard routines and a profile of the crew. The piece highlights daily life at sea and the command structure aboard the vessel.
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Decatur 2
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Lee
Phil Orr
Hartselle
Oscar Lee Thomas, Hartseller
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Falkville
John Steve Skelton Jr
Baugh's Infirmary
Cecil Murphy
Hillsboro
Herbert E. Eady
Hillsboro 1
Belva Annita
S. B. Jacobs
Decatur 1
Betty Kelly
Athens
Peat
Baugh’s
First Presbyterian Church
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
O. S. Gamble
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Board of Stewards
Salvation Army
John McCord
Huntsville
Decatur General Hospital
W. T. Lemmond
Somerville
A. L. Echols
Decature
Peophe
D. F. Whitlow
Trinity 1
C. E. Maples
Estelle
June
Amity, Ga
Ruby Maples
E. O. Humphries
Barbara Ellen Nickers
James Gurley
Alabama Highway Patrol
Paul K. Russell, Decature
By Ken Reynolds
Cas Lee Theae Seals
Bette
Bette Goudy
Uncle Bud
By Bill Baldwin
Doc Lem Quiggle
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