Deaf Mute Talks His Way Into Jail
William Henry Jackson a deaf mute 29 from Buckeye Arizona serves a year on a Virginia road gang after talking his way into trouble in February. He claimed wartime voice injury and bad hearing wrote notes at an inn and performed a beggar act. He drove a truck with another man sleeping and sang My Wild Irish Rose alerting night shift. Police questioned him and he chatted as usual.
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William Henry Jackson
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Buckeye
Ariz
Norfolk County
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J. J. Kelly
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Talmadge Thompson Clash Deepens Georgia Campaign
Georgia gubernatorial race heats up as Herman Talmadge accuses M E Thompson of dodging civil rights while Thompson labels Talmadge a deception, with both sides citing records and past votes. Rabin adds graft concerns amid factional feud and liquor interests.
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Herman Talmadge
Gov
M. E. Thompson
Talmadge
Thompson
Americus
Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Herman
Eugene
National Democratic
Georgia
Baxley
Tallahassee
Washington
Congress
Joe Rabin
Tifton
Jet Fighter Group On Way To Germany
Seventy F 80 jet fighters and 378 US Airmen arrived in Glasgow aboard the carrier Sicily on the River Clyde. Crowds cheered as the Sicily moved to its anchorage and a police pipe band welcomed the unit, the 36th fighter wing, formerly in the Panama Canal Zone. They will fly to Fuerstenfeldbruck near Munich once 33 dismantled planes are reassembled.
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Germany
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Clyde
Panama Canal Zone
Fuerstenfeldbruck
Munich
Dixiecrat Movement Boosts Sales of Confederate Flags
In Dallas a store owner reports a dramatic surge in Confederate flag orders tied to the Dixiecrat movement against President Truman. J. Hugh Campbell notes calls rising from about 25 or 30 yearly to several daily as buyers press for flags and shipments rush to meet demand.
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Dallas
J. Hugh Campbell
Truman
Campbell
Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Strikes Visitor As Land Of Contradictions
Tora Bonniere writes from San Francisco about Australia noting paradoxes in a land of abundant resources and high wages yet frequent miners strikes and limited coal supply. She observes social contrasts including labor unrest, strict Sunday restrictions, and a mixed view of democracy and happiness.
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Australia
Tora Bonnier
San Francisco
Australian
Hungary Heeds Kremlin Line Yet Nation Remains Uncommunized
Budapest correspondent Rosette Hargrove reports Hungary follows Moscow’s line with no mass terror or drastic moves. Communization is limited, but党 members are urged to join. visas and travels ease behind the Iron Curtain. Nationalization of schools sparks Catholic protests as 230 to 63 vote, with rockets signaling authorities in Pest.
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Kremlin
Russia
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Gove Nt Sas
Soaralte
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Pest
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Inter-Regional Civic Conference Delayed In Montgomery
The Blue-Gray Association postponed the inter regional civic conference planned to promote North South understanding until August 25. Four of eight invited civic groups could attend on short notice and seven Southerners accepted invitations to participate in the roundtable.
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Ontgomery
Hudson
Alabama
Chauncey Sparks
W. Y. Smith
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H. Council Trenholm
Montgomery State Teachers College
Thomas E. Martin
Montgomery
Wilbur Hutsell
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
James J. Durr
Clarence M. Donnelly
Bell introduces rasping dial tone for invalid exchanges
Detroit telephones report Michigan Bell unveils a mechanical raspberry device that emits a high warning sound when callers dial letters not matching a real exchange. A Bell spokesman calls it a wailing tone resembling alarm at rising food prices.
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Detroit
Michigan Bell Telephone Co
Bell
Wrights' Kitty Hawk plane offered for $1 to museum
Executors of Orville Wrights estate asked a probate court to allow sale of the Kitty Hawk, the original Wright brothers airplane, to the United States National Museum in Washington for $1. The plane was valued at $1 in the estate inventory appraised by Harold S. Miller and Harold W. Steeper.
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Dayton, O
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers
United States National Museum
Washington
Harold S. Miller
Harold W. Steeper
Communists Expand Education and Indoctrination Efforts
The report condemns Mindszenty for aggression while noting Hungary has created over 103 People's Colleges to educate about 6000 peasant and worker youths. Students reconstruct buildings after classes, live collectively, and are indoctrinated with Communist ideals as 2.5 million copies of 56 new texts replace wartime texts.
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Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Mississippi Congressmen Back Thurmond for President
Mississippi's seven U S representatives pledged to support Strom Thurmond for President in a House election scenario. The statement, signed by Abernethy Colmer Rakin Whitten Whittington Willars and Winstead, follows Mississippi state convention instructions amid opposition to Truman.
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Washington
Mississippi
Thurmond
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Wright
Birmingham
Truman
Thomond
Raikin
Whitten
Whittington
Willars and Winstead
Farm electrification advances with over half served
Fifty three percent of the United States farm acreage has electric service now, marking progress in rural electrification efforts. The figure reflects expansion of power lines and utility investments reaching farmsteads across multiple states.
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