May Retaliatory Travel Curbs Stir Diplomatic Tensions
Washington reports the State Department weighs retaliatory measures after Soviet travel restrictions on American diplomats in Moscow. Officials consider confining Soviet diplomats to Moscow and restricting the UN delegation to New York area, signaling a hardening stance amid rising wartime tensions.
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Washington
Theate Department
Russia
Moscow
Newak
State Department
Rus
U. S
Emlin
Blacksmith O C Rich Repairs 70 000 Timepieces
Oshua Texas report notes O C Rich, once a blacksmith, has shifted to watch repair. He has repaired roughly 70,000 timepieces, setting a record in his neighborhood and continuing a long career in skilled craft.
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Oshua
Tex
O. C. Rich
Truman Resumes Campaign Swing Against Republicans
President Truman launches a four day tour through Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey and upstate New York to rebut the party of privilege He will discuss atomic energy in Philadelphia and respond to Deweys Phoenix proposal He then heads to the Midwest for a six day trip covering Ohio Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and West Virginia Ickes Whitney both pledge support by meeting the President and planning future campaigns
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Washington
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Dewey
Phoenix
Ariz
Midwest
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
West Virginia
J. Howard McGrath
McGrath
White House
Harold L. Ickes
A. F. Whitney
Ickes
Whitney
Truman-Barkley
Burping Lake Erie Stumps Engineers
City engineers in Cleveland report Lake Erie will burp instead of settling a plan to erect a bulkhead after drillers bored 90 feet off shore. Gas bubbles appeared then subsided and returned in periodic bursts lifting water and clay, delaying their project.
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Cleveland
Lake Erie
Water well in Seminole catches fire due to short
Firemen were called to a Seminole Oklahoma water well where a motor shorted and caught fire. The blaze burned electrical lines in two locations as crews worked to extinguish the flames.
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Seminole
Okla
One Final Reunion For All Civil War Veterans Proposed
A proposed single concluding reunion for Union and Confederate veterans emerged at the 58th annual meeting. Wilbur F. Hathaway urged a joint gathering in next year, sending the idea to John R. T. Rives who will present it to the Confederate Veterans. Several allied groups join the talks as living veterans shrink to about 28 Union and 56 Confederate survivors. James W. Moore, 97, of Selma will preside this year, replacing William Mercer Buck who will not attend. Other expected attendees include W. W. Alexander, William Freeman, Stephen Dupre, and Arnold Murray.
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Montgomery
Wilbur F. Hathaway
Des Moines
Iowa
Sons of Union Veterans
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Hathaway
John R. T. Rives
Birmingham
Rives
United Confederate Veterans
Confederated Southern Memorial Association
The
Order of Stars and Bars
Rives’ Group
Confederacy
James W. Moore
Selma
William Mercer Buck
Muscogee
Okla
W. W. Alexander
Rock Hill
S. C
William Freeman
Wetumka
Stephen Dupre
Brownsville
Tex
Arnold Murray
Orangeburg
Ss. C
Montgomernian Gives 200000 To Baptists
J A Field of Montgomery, owner of a laundry and dry cleaning plant, donated 200000 in business properties to support Baptist colleges and denominational work. The gift funds a trust to Howard College, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Judson College, and other Baptist activities with income allocations.
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Montgomery
J. A. Field
Alabama Baptist Foundation
A. H. Reid
State Baptist Executive Board
Fields
Highland Avenue
Hamp Draper Dies Of Heart Attack At 70 In Alabama
Hamp Draper 70, longtime Alabama Pardon and Parole Board member and former State Prison official, died of a heart attack in Wetumpka. He came to Alabama from Georgia in 1882, served as warden at Speigner from 1919 to 1923, later led the State Convict Department, and was named to the Pardon and Tree Beard Fief. Survived by his sons Crete, Mavenhier, ProT Wideman, Wetumoka, and others.
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Wetumpra
Ala
Hamp Draper
Alabama Pardon and Parole Board
Draper
Speigner
Alabama
Georgia
Oxford
Sprigner
Weiumpsa
State Board of Adminion
State
Ronviet
Ringsear
Cacdery
Crete
Mavenhier
Wideman
Wetumoka
Herviter Draper
Nogales
Singing Fisticuffer To Open Concert Series Here Monday
Elwood Gary, American-born tenor and Metropolitan Auditions winner, will open the 1948-49 Dothan concert season next Monday evening. A Bridgeton New Jersey native, Gary has a pop vocal background and boxing roots, studied with Romano Romani, and after touring and radio work he served in the Army before returning to performance engagements.
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Elwood Gary
Dothan
Gary
Bridgeton
N. J
New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Eugene Martine
Baltimore Civic Opera Company
Cavalleria Rusticana
Baltimore
John Charles Thomas
Florida
Palm Beach
Metropolitan Opera
Die Rosenkavalier
Washington
Romano Romani
Rosa Ponselle
The
Columbia Operatic Trio
London Cyclist Club Offers Tours for the Blind
The London Cyclist Club runs tours for blind riders, with members using tandem bicycles to guide visually impaired cyclists on country rides.
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London
London Cyclist Club
Body of Houston convict found after prison escape
The body of Grover Eldridge Faulk, 24, of Houston County, a short term inmate who escaped from No. 4 prison while on a bean-picking squad, was recovered near Montgomery along the Tallapoosa River. Guards heard a splash and calls for help. Faulk had fled after leaving the end of a row and was found about a mile and a half downstream.
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Montgomery
No. 4
Tallapoosa
Frank Boswell
Grover Eldridge Faulk
Houston County
Boswell
Faulk
W. H. Spivey
A. D. Gray
Flower counter theft ties to Lulu Belle blaze of sex
A Brooklyn department store case hinges on a purple poppy misdeed tied to the Lulu Belle controversy. A shoplifter signed a full ten-digit confession under a manager’s promise not to prosecute if future thefts occur. The incident connects to press coverage and a prominent anti obscenity campaign led by Mrs. B Sidney Walton.
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David Belasco
Charles MacArthur
Edward Sheldon
Lenore Ulric
Pace Proboscis
Yahoo I Will
Sidney Walton
Lulu
Brooklyn
B. Sidney Walton
MacArthur Sheldon
Klepto
Charlie Samuels
Vallaire Flower
Playwrights Discuss Lulu Belle Lead Paragraph
A fragmented overheard exchange shows Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur discussing a New York piece about kleptomaniacs and a supposed shoplifting confession involving a wife, with MacArthur proposing to rate the lead paragraph and Watton reconsidering the play's educational qualities.
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Hecht
Charlie
MacArthur
B. Sidney
The
New Yorker
Sapphire Schnezzle
Charles MacArthur
Pusweight
Watton
Billy Rose
Walking Cane Used To Land Big Fish
Neburg justice of the peace John Stacer claims a 70 pound catfish was landed in the Ohio River with his walking cane after a treacherous hook broke. He hooked the fish on a travine and used the cane to pull it into his boat with a partner confirming the tale.
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Neburg, Ind
John Stacer
Neburg
Justice of the Peace
Stacer
Ohioiver
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