Thurmond posts Texas rally as votes loom
Houston August coverage reports Strom Thurmond accepting the Southern ballot bid and outlining Texas campaign strategy for the 23 electoral votes. A 8 000 to 9 000 crowd filled Sam Houston Coliseum while observers predicted a margin over 100 electoral votes for Thurmond and Wright against Truman and Barkley in the 1948 era race.
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Max B. Skelton
Houston
Tex
Texas
J. Stromp Thurmond Vof
South Carolina
South
Sam Houston Coliseum
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Truman-Barkley
Thomas F. Dewey
and Henry
America
Ohio man linked to love note in Gillette death case
Verlin E. Adkins, 26, a former Ohio Boxboard Co. worker, arrived in Huntington after confessing intimacies with Mrs. Birdie Gillette and implicating himself by leaving a note that read I have killed Birdie and say goodbye. Police say he claimed he did not kill her.
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Prington
W. Va
Birdie Gillette
Ed Mills
Wayne County
Huntington
Verlin
E. J Adkins
Ohio Boxboard Co
H. Gartin
Adkins
Tobin Named Labor Secretary in Truman Administration
President Truman appointed Maurice J Tobin as secretary of labor replacing the late Lewis B Schwellenbach. Tobin, 47, left the Massachusetts governor’s race to join Washington, well regarded by unions and expected to play a lead role in the forthcoming Democratic drive to bolster labor support.
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Washington
Truman
Maurice J. Tobin
Tobin
Massachusetts
Lewis B Schwellenbach
New
Boston
Roosevelt
Galloway Place Has Beer License Suspended
CHARLESTON Aug 12 Two retail beer licenses were revoked and a third suspended after hearings today Beer Commissioner Burton Crow announced Revoked were Shirley Wallace Wallace s Place at Missouri Branch Wayne County and Lee Davies Travellers Inn Nolan Mingo County Both charged with making false statements on their license applications A 20 day suspension was ordered for James L Tanner operator of Dotties Place at Galloway Barbour County on a charge of permitting boisterous conduct in his establishment.
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Charleston
Burton Crow
Shirley Wallace
Wallace
Cumberland Celanese Gives 15 Cent Raise
Night shift workers of Local 1874 CIO Textile Workers Union joined day workers in ratifying a 15 cent hourly wage increase at Celanese Corporation of America in Cumberland Massachusetts. Playford Aldridge, president of the 8,000 member local, said the day shift vote was unanimous. The night shift result was not announced immediately.
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Cumberland
CIO Textile Workers Union
Celanese Corporation of America
Playford Aldridge
Dewey Sees Campaign Strategy Session After Salvos at Democrats and Progressives
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey held a planning confab with campaign manager Herbert Brownell after delivering warm-up jabs at the Democratic Party and Henry A. Wallace's Progressive group. Dewey, back in Albany from Pawling, spoke to the Young Republican National Federation about a hopeful November victory ending 16 years of GOP misfortune. He urged youth support and pledged a cooperative party stance.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert Brownell
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive
Brownell
Washington
Dewey
Pawling
Young Republican National Federation
Philip Willkie
Wendell J. Willkie
GOP
Young Willkie
Indiana
State Divorces Third Of Marriages
Moscow reports diplomats from the United States Britain and France held talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in the Kremlin during a roughly three hour meeting. West Virginia educators at a state conference noted the state marriage rate rose from 7.86 in 1943 to 12.06 in 1946 and fell to 3.12 divorces per 1000 in 1947, with war time marriages blamed for the 1946 peak.
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Thomas P. Whitney
Moscow
Uhi
United States
Britain
France
Molotov
Kremlin
Vyacheslav Molotov
U.S
Walter B Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Amsrican
Camp Caesar
W. Va
West Virginia
State Education Association
George Bryson
Welch
The
SEA
Association
Bryson
State Mines Department
Essee
Five Killed In Crash Of Air Force Plane Today
Five airmen died and two were injured when a four engine Air Force trainer crashed two miles southeast of Topeka Air Base during a routine training flight. Col Albert Kalberer said the cause was under investigation and seven of nine on the clearance list flew. Survivors were sent to the base hospital. victims’ names withheld pending kin notification.
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Topeka
East
Topeka Air Base
Albert F. Kalberer
Kalberer
Berlin City Fall Splits Berlin Government Split
Berlin faces a power split as a third city bureau teeters between Russian backed Communist control and anti Communist faction. The labor head refuses to honor a city order granting anti Communist Trade Union Federation rights to negotiate with employers.
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Edwin Shanke
Berlin
Trade Union Federation
Germany
Saxony
Mecklenberg
Auto Thieves Also Work In Fairmont Too
Auto thieves active in Fairmont last night cared little who they stole from. One vehicle stolen belonged to State Supreme Court Judge Frank C. Haymond whose car was left on a downtown lot while he attended a funeral. The second car belonged to Shirley Gibson, a beet parlor operator, with police continuing their search.
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Fairmont
State Supreme Court
Frank C. Haymond
Shirley Gibson
Early Arrivals For Legion Meet Hit Huntington
Huntington August 12 Early arrivals for the 30th annual American Legion convention faced a city bargain day as 7500 legionaries and auxiliaries were expected, with most arriving tomorrow. Committees met at 1 pm to smooth the four day program while credentials and rules panels convened.
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Huntington
State Department of the American Legion
Nonchalant Hoods Take $862000 in Havana Bank Job
Cuban police hunted a polished band that entered a midtown Havana Royal Bank of Canada and looted the vault and cashier’s cage after forcing 18 people into a rear room. Eight or ten men led by a uniformed leader carried away $562000 in US dollars and Cuban pesos. No shots were fired and insurance covered the loss.
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Ben F. Meyer
Havana
Cuba
Royal Bank of Canada
Eader
Esteban Juncadella
U.S
Enire
Ceres of Plane Crashes Break Out
Five men die in air crashes across the globe as two planes burn and three vanish. In Kansas a military plane from Topeka base crashes with five killed and two injured. A Trans Canada Airlines craft at Sydney, N. S. suffers fatal fire after landing. eleven passengers and six crew escape unharmed. A navy four engine privateer vanishes 410 miles west of Guam with nine crew and two aerologists missing. Authorities search for two planes missing in Canada's northland.
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Associated Press
Globe
Kansas
Air Force
Topeka
Trans Canada Airlines
Sydnney
N. 8
Navy
Guam
Canada
Northland
Edmonton
Alta
Bathurst Inlet
O'Brien Buried at Buckhannon Today
Funeral services for William B. O'Brien, 86, longtime secretary of state, were held in Buckhannon with Governor Meadows and state officials in attendance. O'Brien died Tuesday at the family home. state capitol offices were closed and flags flown at half mast.
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Buckhannon
William
O'Brien
Meadows
State Capitol
Charleston
Americans Turn Back Russians From Borders
Berlin reports that American and British military police repelled two Soviet forays into western sectors. Russian MPs and Soviet-controlled Germans attempted searches across the border. British and American forces, aided by German officers, blocked similar actions at Potsdamer Platz and Kreuzberg.
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Richard Kasischke
Berlin
Kreuzberg
Potsdamer Platz
Russia protests US court order over Soviet consul waning witness
Washington reports Russia protested a New York order demanding the Soviet consul in New York City produce a Russian school teacher for questioning in a Communist spy inquiry. The State Department sought to pause further action while awaiting guidance. In New York,Consul General Yakov Lomakin faced a Supreme Court writ to produce Mrs Oksana Stepanova Kusenkina for questioning. neither appeared by 10 20 a m. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy testified in connection with the writ.
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Washington
Russia
United States
New York
New York City
State Department
Thomas E. Dewey
Yakov M. Lomakin
Oksana Stepanova Kusen
Kina
Alexandra Tolstoy
The
Tolstoy Foundation
Voice Restored After Roller Coaster Scream
Emilio Franco, a 35 year old veteran from Fairmont West Virginia, who had been unable to speak since 1943 due to hysteriaophonia, spoke his first words after a frightening ride at Coney Island last Friday. He cried out I feel sick after the ride.
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New York
Emilio Franco
Franco
Fairmont
W. Va
Coney Island
Teacher brought in under heavy guard for testimony
Washington August 12 Under close guard a Russian school teacher was brought to Washington to be questioned by the House Un American Activities Committee behind closed doors. Soviet consul general Lomakin ignored a writ to produce Mrs Oksana Kosenkina in New York court. Both Samarin and Kosenkina were former teachers at a Soviet school for Russians in the United States related to the United Nations.
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Washington
New York
Rep
Thomas
R-Nj
Michael Ivanovitch Samarin
House
UN American Activities Committee
New York City
Yakov M. Lomakin
Supreme Court
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Charles Kramer
Abraham George Silverman
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Kramer
Silverman
No Hotel They Take Over for Legion Convention Trip
Taylor County Post No. 12 leaders Commander Joe Gamslager and colleagues depart at 1:00 PM in Gamslager’s truck for Huntington to attend the 1948 American Legion Convention. They plan to live in the truck in Vention City, embracing the event’s high jinks and business despite no hotel accommodations.
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American Legion
Taylor County
Joe Gamslager
Dick Kinney
Russell Kinney
Russell Hedrick
Gamslager
Huntington
Vention City
State Department Says Russians Jam Voice Of America Casts
State Department officials said Russians jam Voice of America broadcasts to Russia. Reports reaching Washington from radio monitors in Europe indicate interference is originating well outside Russia. The United States protested to Moscow months ago against the howls and squeals heard in American broadcasts.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Voice of America
Russia
State Department
Europe
United States
Moscow
State Dept
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