Truman challenges Dewey in a public fight over policy
President Truman travels east from California to accuse Dewey of ducking issues and to rally liberals to unite for peace and reform. Wallace counters Truman with charges of wartime freight fraud and government subservience to vested interests. Dewey defends atomic weapon development as a path to peace as he calls for continued military uses until world peace is secure.
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Associated Press
Truman
California
Thomas E. Dewey
Los Angeles
Henry A. Falace
Progressive Party
America
Wallace
Trupan
Toledo
Ohio
Franklin Roosevelt
Dewey
Phoenix
Ariz
New York
Mose Smith Arrested for Third Lottery Charge
Mose Smith a Dothan Negro was arrested by city police for the third time in recent weeks on operating a lottery charges. Officers traced him from woods near East Burdeshaw street to a patch with bolita books and tickets found in a box nearby. He has previous convictions and two hundred dollar fines with six months hard labor appealed.
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Mose Smith
Dothan
Eddie D. Kelley
Kelley
Smith
East Burdeshaw Street
Recorder's Court
Engineer Killed In Train Wreck At Mango Florida
A Atlantic Coast Line engineer was killed in a wreck near Mango Florida near Tampa. The incident occurred at the same spot where his father died 23 years earlier. Passengers including D Hinton and Will MacDonald sustained injuries as the Havana Special struck a stationary freight train after a switch was not set.
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Tampa
Fla
Coast Line
Here
LE. Hicks
Mango
K. Mid
John Hicks
Wea
D. Hinton
Jacksonville
Will MacDonald
Plant City
A. C. McLendon
Mclendon
Havana
Story of Negro tied to Ormond Beach killings examined
Albany AP Georgia officials continued checking Clarence Alberty’s claim of participation in the slaying of Mary Hueks and Grover Blount at Ormond Beach on August 14. Alberty re enacted the crime before a Florida district attorney as Georgia prison records placed him at Seminole work camp two days after the killings.
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Albany, Ga
Georgia
Ormond Beach
W. McCulley Harris
Mitchell County
Clarence Alburty
Daytona Beach
Florida
Alburty
Seminole
Harris
Alberty
Gordon Spooner
Seminole County
Spooner
Trusty
Maton Poston
Alcurve
Poston
Alowsio
Alpurty
Camilla
Mary Hueks
Fast Point
Gieters Blount
Gardner's Condition Reported Unchanged
Montgomery hospital attendants said Chief Justice Luscen D. Gardner of the Alabama Supreme Court remained in the same condition after a recent incident. The report noted no change in his health as officials provided details from the medical staff.
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Montgomery
Phiustice Luscen D. Gardner
Alabama Supreme Coan
EAS
Mer
Bern
Argentine Police Detain 15 Over Peron Death Plot
Police in Buenos Aires arrested 15 people amid an alleged assassination plan targeting President Juan D. Peron and Eva Peron. Officials tied the scheme to John F. Griffiths, a former U.S. embassy attache, with arrests including labor leader Cipriano Reyes and two naval chaplains. The plot prompted a nationwide strike and a security sweep leading to the national penitentiary.
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William F. Horsey
Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
John F. Griffiths
United States
Plaza Mayo
Peron
Viva Peron
Eva Peron
Griffiths
U. S
Montevideo
Uruguay
Senora
Eva Dorate Peron
Argentina
Cipriano Reyes
National Assembly
Avenida Quintana
Reyes
Senora Spanzenberg de Garcia Velloso
Luis Garcia Velloro
Horacio Moeno
Carlos Grande
Victor Farias
Ernesto Vila
Hector Ernesto Gomez
Avila Leon
Emilio Frank
Simon Walter
Manuel Allende
Hector Reyes
Cultural Eustache
Spruille Braden
Griffith
Federal Police
Arturo Bertollo
Columbus Day
Bertello
Colon Columbus Theater
la Plata
Ais Sally Pleads Innocent Of Treason
Mildred J Gillars known as Axis Sally pleads not guilty to a 10 count treason indictment in federal court. The 47 year old Maine native faces trial November 15 as treason is a non bail able offense.
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Mildred JF. Gilars
Miss Gillars
Maine
Federal Court of Justice
Matthew F. McGuire
United States
Haircut 15 Cents Shave 10 In Ohio Town
In Marietta Ohio near Lowell William Ray runs the towns sole barber shop charging 15 cent haircuts and 10 cent shaves. He keeps old fashion chair and works daily except Sunday from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 clipping about two heads per week.
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Ohio
Marietta
Unite States
Lowell
William Ray
Ray
Phone Workers Talk Of Strikes
The Associated Press reports waves of strike votes and mass demonstrations by thousands of telephone workers nationwide. CIO and independent unions plan talks with AT&T and prep for possible actions tied to wage negotiations and a future mass demonstration.
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Associated Press
CRO
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Denmnication Workers
Anseriei
Wireh Elinis
CIO
Oryorm2ingt
Tine Sons
Southwestern Bell Union
CWA
Ti Detroit
Motor City
Brigugs Manufactusing
Capew
Judde
O. Ct Peel Corp
Poeward Meter Co. Co
Seta
Odritas
Ve 4
States Right Parley Postponed to October 1
Jackson Mississippi AP reports the States Rights conference set for October 1 has been postponed. No new date announced as organizers cite planning delays and uncertain turnout for the event.
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Jackson
Mise
Bootht
Sillers
U S Zone Bars All Soviet Publications
Maj. Gen. George Hays ordered all Soviet publications banned in the American sector of Germany as retaliation for Soviet moves to halt Western news. In Berlin’s Russian zone 150000 copies of Western newspapers were seized and 32 distributors shut down. Five German youths’ anti Communist sentences were commuted by a Soviet commission, with penalties reduced to probation or shorter hard labor.
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George Hays
Germany
Russan
Berlin
Orginal
Tdossas
Bertin
Oauthorsties
Charenopmada
Ferdinand Mriedensieord
Asser
Atomic Power Plant To Be Constructed On New York Site
The U S Atomic Energy Commission announced plans to build a pilot atomic power plant this fall on a 4.50 acre site near Schenectady New York about 18 miles north of the city and 10 miles west of Saratoga Springs The plant operated by General Electric will not produce commercial power but will generate data for future reactors Engineers will begin preliminaries to acquire land and relocate about 30 area families The project aims to apply five years of atomic research to a nuclear reactor design intended to convert heat from uranium into electricity with safeguards against a bombLike explosion and will take roughly 18 months to complete"}
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U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Veluch
Schenectady
Saratoga Springs
General Electric Co
Ard
Carategis County
Woman seeks police action via remote call from Detroit
In Spokane a woman urged a police officer to intervene with Detroit authorities over a dispute, claiming Detroit police would not respond unless the Spokane officer called them. The officer noted the issue was outside his jurisdiction.
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Spokane
Wash
Detroit
Mich
Washington
Russia Rejects Marshall Call to End UN Minority
At the UN General Assembly in Paris, Russia blocked debate on five items, including Greek and Korean admission and a Western critique of human rights. Jacob Malik pressed to delete those topics while Marshall urged cooperation. Bevin and Marshall reviewed Berlin options amid Moscow’s hostile stance.
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U.S
United Stats
Sesson
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Foster Dulles
Warren R. Austin
George C. Marshall
Marshall
U. S
Russia
B. R. H. Shackford
United Nations
General Assembly
Jacob Malik
Malik
Greece
Korea
U. N
Balkan Commission
Interim Assembly
Andrei Vishinsky
West
Mah
U.N
League of Nations
League
Ernest Bevon
Great Britain
Berlin
Bevin
Jefferson Caffers
Hurricane bypasses Bermuda in flight
The hurricane that hit Cuba and Florida moved northeastward, bypassing Bermuda and threatening shipping. The center was 400 miles north of Bermuda and 330 southeast of Nantucket, moving 38 mph and likely to speed up. Gusts over 75 mph possible near the center with 30 mph winds along the cone.
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Washington
Cuba
Florida
Bermuda
Weather Bureau
Nantucket
New England
Mt Aurdae
Justice Department Sues Alcoa to Force Size Cut
The Justice Department files suit to compel reduction in Alcoa's operations. Court filings describe a plan to downsize the corporation without naming specific individuals or properties. The action targets antitrust or regulatory compliance, with potential impact on fed tal en rt.
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Justice Department
Alcoa
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