Lynching Case Sparks NAACP Push for Names of Mob
The NAACP says a 17 year old Maryland boy supplied investigators with the names of five alleged lynchers in a case near Minden Louisiana. The boy said a mob killed John C Tone two weeks earlier after abducting him near the Louisiana Texas border. The FBI has joined the search for the boy who reportedly provided names including a woman. The NAACP reports a Minden mob also hunted for Harris and Somes after their arrest for an attempted break in to a white woman’s home. The woman identified the men but did not press charges. The body of Jones, a 28 year old former Army sergeant, was found.
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John C. Tonce
Minden
Pemas-Louisiana
D Ggents
The
National Association, For
Seledré
Pesple
Albert Morris
NAACP
Harris
Association
Somes
Harris Wey
Jones
Kellogg's All-Bran Brings Gentle Relief for Constipation
An old letter from A. T. Holm of Los Angeles credits Kellogg's All-Bran with relieving 25 years of constipation. The note urges daily one ounce servings and ample water, promising satisfaction or double money back. Kellogg's touts All-Bran as a nutritious bulk-forming cereal, not a laxative, and suggests using it daily or in muffins.
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Tway
A. T. Holm
Maripoes Ave
Loa Angeles
Cal
Kellogg's
Kellogg Company
Battle Creek
Michigan
Caribbean quake rattles region near Dominican Republic
Navy microseismologist Lt W EB Hubert reports a new quake in the Caribbean area described as heavy to severe. A single amplitude recorder showed activity just before 9, with no precise epicenter yet, following a light tremor off the Dominican Republic amid repeated quakes.
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Miami
Fla
W. EB. Hubert
Navy
Caribbean
Dominican Republic
British To Take Over Steel Plants
London AP reports the British government will appoint a board to oversee the iron and steel industry. The board includes members from privately owned steel concerns and signals possible public ownership of mills. The body answers to Minister of Supply John Wilmot, who announced enhanced control in April, amid Labour party nationalization goals.
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London
Iron and Steel
Steeel
John Wilmot
House of Commons
Labor Party
Romanian Seaside Visitors Taxed for Party Fund
In Carshen Sylva visitors faced a two day tax to fund government parties Democratic Bloc. A 40 percent charge was added to prices at hotels, restaurants, and drugstores. Night spots along the cliff road also levied the tax as visitors contributed about $50,000 to election funds amid opposition criticism.
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Bucharest
Romania
Carshen Sylva
Democratic Bloc
White And Negro Sailors Clash In New Orleans
In New Orleans at the Algiers naval repair yard a fight involving 15 white and Negro sailors broke out on Sunday and lasted about 30 minutes. Marines were called in as clubs and knives were used. one man was struck on the head but injuries were not serious. The Navy described it as an exasperation rather than a riot and said no one was jailed due to absence of leaders.
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NW Orleans
Alpiers Naval Repair Bast
Navy
Burned and shot man found after brutal attack
The father of a young child was located near Minden last week. The association report states he was burned on the face and body with a torch after an alleged assault by a man. He was also shot in the shoulder and left for dead.
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Jake New Minden
Association
Harris
Germans in British Zone to vote under new election plan
In Hereford Germany, about 22 million in the British Zone will face disqualification of fewer than 750,000 for Nazi ties, with more barred from standing as candidates. Local elections will mark the first unfettered ballot in 12 years, conducted largely by Germans under British oversight. The aim is a secret ballot, with Germans proposing an alternative to British numbering on ballots. Officials see the vote as a gauge of German political mood and party discipline.
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James Devlin
Hereford
Germany
Auggert
Howaver
United Kingdom
Tennessee Vets Form Organization to Restore Ballot
Veterans from nine Tennessee counties formed a statewide group to restore a fair ballot system. Big Jim Buttram was named temporary chairman with a nine man committee to represent counties. The assembly urged action to curb political machines and preserve the Tennessee ballot amid McMinn County’s prior clash. Shelby County did not attend.
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Alamo, Tenn
Tennessee
Big Jim Buttram
McMinn County
Nashville
Buttram
Husky
Veterans
E. H. Crump
Shelby County
Tennesnne
Ed Crump
McMinn
Buttrarm
Episode of Gunfire as Deputies Engage Croft and Cooper Clans
A clash described as number six of huckehot left deputies and a swarm of armed men from the Cyrafis and Conn er families contending near Mateo. Reinforcements arrived, including TL. T. Webbard and state troopers. Hubbard, Croft, and several Cooper members were captured or wounded as authorities closed in. Lieutenant Fielding J. Wright arrived to survey the aftermath.
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Huckehot
Cyrafis
TL. T. Webbard
Conner
Spry
Hubbard
Croft
Cooper Famiy
Cov
Fielding J. Wright
Washington
New York
Mateo
Fiesenech
City Board Plans Site for Regional Coliseum
Bech Montgomery and Birmingham are considered for the proposed regional livestock coliseum site. The board is to announce its site recommendation next week and has set $200,000 for regional facilities, with up to $50,000 from state funds per structure to cover over two thirds of costs. Chairman W W Garrett of Uriah has convened meetings in Montgomery Tuesday and Birmingham Wednesday to decide allocations.
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Tthe
W W. Garrett
Uriah
Center Board
Montgomery
Birmingham
Bridal satin pajama set with matching coat in white
A shimmering white satin bridal ensemble features long pajamas with a soft-shirt top, mid-thigh shorts with a brief bra, and a fingertip-length lone sleeved coat that can double as a top. The full set is sold together but may exceed strict budgets.
General Morgan Fired From UNRRA Post
Lt Gen Sir Frederick Morgan, UNRRA displaced persons chief in Germany, is released from the post and returns to England. The action follows pressure over his remark about a supposed world Jewish conspiratorial movement behind eastern European Jewish exodus. La Guardia, UNRRA director general, had suggested the reorganization and Morgan’s withdrawal amid a changing situation as Allied officials discuss the matter in Berlin and Frankfurt.
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War Office
F. H. LaGuardia
UNRRA
Germany
la Guardia
Wunsdorf
Berlin
Soviet Russia
Morgan
Farm Hand Confesses Slaying of Girl Lois Nelson
Danville Illinois AP Sheriff William Wayland said Robert Beatty a 21 year old farm hand confessed to the apparently motiveless slaying of his 19 year old girlfriend Lois Nelson. Beatty later gave a substitute statement claiming he stabbed and killed her when she refused to submit to his desires. He said she begged for her life and promised to tell no one what happened if he took her home.
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Danville
William Wayland
Robert Beatty
Lois Nelson
Wayland
Beatty
President Truman Alters Vacation Route in Atlantic
President Truman abandoned plans to sail toward Eastport Maine due to weather and redirected the Williams burg towards a southerly, unspecified course aboard the destroyer escort Weiss. Charles G. Rose relayed to reporters that there is no fixed destination and the trip is a flexible vacation a glide around the Atlantic.
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Truman
New England
Williamsburg
Maine
Charles G. Rose
Weiss
Eastport
Ross
Atlantic
Welfare Officers Of Region To Meet In Dothan
A meeting of directors and disbursing officers for Department GE Public Welfare in Geneva, Coffee and Houston Counties will be held in Dothan Friday. Houston County director Mrs C L Collins announced today with Miss Carolyn Cunningham of the State Department of Public Welfare in Montgomery assisting county officers on plans for the new year starting October.
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Department GE Public Welfare
Geneva
Coffee
Houston
Dothan
C. L. Collins
Houston County
Carolyn Cunningham
State Department of Public Welfare
Montgomery
Dry Grocery Price Lists Issued by Price Control Board
A community price list on dry groceries has been distributed to grocery stores in Houston and Geneva Counties by the clerical staff of the Area Price Control Board in Dothan. The list provides ceiling prices on dry groceries.
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Houston
Geneva
Clerica
Area Price Control Board
Dothan
Discharged Navy Seaman James Loyd Thomas
Thomas son of Mr and Mrs P L Thomas of Dothan route four is discharged from the Navy after fifteen and a half months service The Memphis Tennessee Naval Separation Center reports he served eleven and a half months at sea in the Pacific area
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James Loyd Thomas
P. L. Thomas
Dothan
Navy
Memphis, Tenn
Naval
Pacific
Navy discharge announced for Reuben S. Shelley Jr
Reuben S. Shelley Jr of Neadland has been discharged from the Navy at Jacksonville Florida, it was announced today.
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Reuben S. Shelley, Jr
Sie
Neadland
Navy
Jacksonville
Fla
Cook On Vacation Ends. FC A Agriculturist Returns
William Y. Cook county farm service agriculturalist finishes a week long vacation in Columbus Mississippi and will resume duties Monday morning.
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William Y. Cook
County
Columbus
Miss
Justifiable Homicide in South Carolina Shooting
Coroner rules the killing of James Walker by white farmer William Craig justifiable homicide. Walker, visiting relatives near Elko, was shot after allegedly threatening Craig. Craig freed on $2,500 bond. grand jury session slated for September amid witness accounts of threats.
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Elko
D. C
James’ ‘Walker
South Carolina
Walker
Wilam Craig
Columbia
Jeff Black
Craig
Bilbo Welcomes Probe of Election
Senator Bilbo of Mississippi says he would welcome an inquiry into his renomination campaign and the outside money backing it. He notes a past request from opponent Rep. Ross Collins and cites a lack of renewed action by Senate committees. A committee member resignations and funding concerns in Montana and the Wheeler inquiry are also mentioned.
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Washington
Theodore G. Bilbo
Miss
Senate
Bilbo
Mississippi
Ross Collins
Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
Colo
Special
Senate Campaign
Johnson
Burton K. Wheeler
D., Mont
Collins
Wall Doxey
James O Eastland
CIO
PAC
New York
Negro Gets Death Penalty In Assault
In Anniston Alabama AP Leroy Scott a 19 year old Negro was convicted of raping a 19 year old white girl and sentenced to death in the electric chair. The victim Miss Willy Bob Allen of Louisville Mississippi identified Scott in court. She testified she and her escort Walter Ledlow were overpowered by three Negroes in a parked car. Lee Curtis Williams another 19 year old Negro went on trial in the same court charged with the same crime and pleaded innocent.
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Anniston Ala
Leroy Scott
Willy Bob Allen
Louisville
Scott
Walter Ledlow
Anniston
Lee Curtis Willams
Navy Discharges Highlight Three Servicemen from New Orleans Center
The Navy released John Vinson Bean of 304 N. College St Dothan Roy Kent Spivey born in Headland and Edgar Bart Bostick a mailman third class from News ville route one at the U S Naval Personnel Separation Center in New Orleans Louisiana.
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Navy
Naval Personnel Separation Center
New Orleans
John Vinson Bean
N. College St
Dothan
Roy Kent Spivey
Src. Headland
Edgar Bart Bostick
Newsville
Attacks on U S transports near Yugoslavia raise tensions
Witnesses described two Yugoslav fighter attacks southwest of Klagenfurt Austria on a Vienna to Udine run C 47. The plane spiraled down in smoke, two parachutes reported. State Department accused Yugoslav forces of illegal forays. British protests followed. One prior C 47 was hit August 9, another missing.
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Vienna
Udine
Italy
European Air Transport Service
Bled
Marshal Tito
Tito
Klangenfurt
Austria
Yugoslavia
Washington
U. S. State Department
Trieste
London
U. S
Klagenfurt
Venezia Giulia
Vienna-Udine
Isonzo
Yugoslav Air Incidents Spark Trieste Diplomatic Tensions
A Yugoslav spokesman said fighter planes shot down an unarmed American transport and forced another to land, while clashes near Trieste drew sharp exchanges with Washington and London. U S notes accused Yugoslav troops of illegal forays into the occupation zone and ambushes. Britain protested invasions of the western Allied zone as tensions rise.
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Yugoslavia
Acheson
Washington
Trieste
London
Belgrade
Julian Alps
Klagenfurt
Austria
U. S
Gorizia
United States
Sir William Morgan
Mediterranean
British War Office
Diamond Cutting Trials With Potatoes In Two Year Test
Diamond cutters undergo a two year trial period before handling valuable gems and currently practice their craft on potatoes to prove skill and precision in a controlled, low risk setting.
Two In ACL Freight Crew Are Killed
In Stedman North Carolina a brake man and an engineer on an Atlantic Coast Line freight train en route from Wilmington to Fayetteville were killed when the moving freight ploughed into a second standing train on a siding. Engineer George L. Jones, 55, and L. L. Winburn, both of Wilmington, died. Fireman Henry Gillespie, 52, Wilmington, was injured after jumping from the engine. Officials said a switch failure left one train on the siding and led to the collision.
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Stedman
Wilmington N.C
Fayetteville
Wilmington
ACL
George L. Jones
L. L. Winburn
Henry Gillespie
Wilminton
Dutch Waistline Widens In Peacetime
Amsterdam reports a broader waistline trend with no official stats yet. Circus seating shows 3,400 spectators on unnumbered wooden benches, while current capacity barely reaches 3,130, reflecting shifting crowd sizes.
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Amsterdam
Bobbysoxers Jam Employment Offices in Pittsburgh
A Social Security office in Pittsburgh reports a summer surge of youth job seekers, many discussing future plans and world affairs. Teens and even a six year old girl are pursuing work in drugstores, hot-dog stands, bowling alleys, department stores, and amusement parks.
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Pittsburgh(u
Social Security
Georgia Klan in Georgia faces legal challenge over charter
After a Monroe County lynching and amid CIO campaigns, Gov. Ellis Arnall moves to revoke the Klan charter. Fulton County Superior Court will hear the suit, with Dan Duke leading the state's case. The Klan denies links to the old order while the government accuses it of plans to seize power through violence and police infiltration.
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Monroe
Green
Georgia
CIO
South
Ellis Arnall
State Legal Department
Fulton County
Atlanta
Association of Georgia Klans
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Dan Duke
Dr. Green
Klan
Arnall
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