Wells Hiccuping 17 Months After Four Surgeries
In Dayton William C. Wells has endured persistent hiccups for 17 months despite four operations. He has tried standing on his head, rapid ice cream gulps, blowing into bags, and drinking water in various ways. His wife and three children have exhausted ideas to frighten him, with hiccups often lasting for a week or two, interrupting sleep before relenting briefly then returning.
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Dayton
William C. Wells
Wells
Y M C A Fund Drive Planned At Monday Dinner
A $10 000 fund drive to expand Y M C A facilities and cover the first year’s operating budget will be organized at a Monday night dinner at the Belvedere club. Joseph G Genthner of the National Council camp aids campaign with H R Dunham the new local executive. The drive runs starting September for one month. See Y M C A page 3.
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Lake Geneva
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50 Killed In Clashes Between Police Bandits Near Volos
Athens reports say 40 members of Communist bands were killed and 50 wounded in two clashes with the gendarmerie near Volos. In Karyai a 200 strong band attacked a mechanized battalion. 21 died including the band leader and about 50 were wounded. At Aghia the fight lasted seven hours with mortars. 19 were killed and wounded number not specified.
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Aghia
Paris Peace Conference invites Austria on Italy treaty view
The Paris Peace conference voted to invite Austria to state its view on the treaty with Italy on the same terms as Albania Mexico Cuba and Egypt. Several delegations opposed citing concerns over South Tyrol and a follow up motion sought inviting Iran.
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William B. King
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Italy
Albania
Mexico
Cuba
Egypt
Russia
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Czechoslovakia
Ukraine
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Yugoslavia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
South Tyrol
Iran
Vishinsky
Calcutta Riots Bring 250 Dead and 1600 Injured
Casualties from two days of Hindu Muslim clashes in central Calcutta were estimated at 250 killed and 1600 wounded. British and Indian troops with armored cars fought to restore order as curfews and bans on gatherings were imposed.
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Reuters
Frederick Burrows
Bengal
India
Youngstown man held on suspicion of conspiracy
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Homicide Lieutenant Connors says a Youngstown man Frank E. Mohn is held after an anonymous tip that he was hired to kill Frank Valenti, an accessory before the fact in a May double slaying that killed Frank Evans of Cleveland and Fred Garrow of Uniontown. Valenti is free on 25000 dollars bond.
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Peter A. Connors
Youngstown
Frank Evans
Cleveland
Fred Garrow
Uniontown
Valenti
Truman Vacation Pauses White House Business
President Truman, aboard the Atlantic-bound yacht off Chesapeake Bay, shelved all but urgent matters for a vacation. A radio-telephone teletype and a White House plane kept him informed as he rested on his first official trip since taking office. The physician prescribed a strict diet and relaxation during the Narrows cruise.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Truman
Chesapeake Bay
White House
Col
Wallace Graham
The Grafton Sentinel Invites Mrs Mollie Posten to Strand
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Mollie Posten of 125 Grand Street to tonight's Dixie Theatre program featuring O.8.8. with Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald at the Strand Theatre and Buffalo Bill with Joel McCrea Mauryeen O'Hara plus The Devil's Mask starring Anita Louise as the big Dixie feature.
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Mollie Posten
Grand Street
Alan Ladd
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Strand Theatre
Buffalo Bill
Joel McCrea
Maureen O'Hara
Anita Louise
Investigation Branches Out in Surplus Goods Inquiry
A House committee probing government surplus disposal broadened to question army equipment destruction and gifts of land to newborn educational institutions. The surplus property panel paused its probe into war brokers after citing Benjamin Franklin Pields for contempt over missing records on a wire purchase. Public hearings begin Monday in Atlanta on the army's destruction of radio equipment.
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Pudgy
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Slaughter
D.-Mo
Atlanta
Authorize Increase In Price Of Bottle Beer In Charleston
Taverns and restaurants may raise beer prices by one cent per 12 ounce bottle and two cents per 32 ounce bottle. A one cent rise applies to draught beer served in glasses of eight ounces or more. Earlier, similar per bottle increases for off premises beer had been announced. Morgantown reports an intensified dusting program to protect the tomato crop as blight threatens yields.
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Charleston
District Office of Price Administration
Morgantown
Edward Woodyard
West Virginia Agricultural Extension Service
Sweeney reports $3939 campaign spending in Republican bid
Charleston reports Thomas Sweeney of Wheeling, seeking the Republican U S Senate nomination, spent $3939 in the campaign. He itemized more than $1000 for stenographic help, $3 for letterheads, $300 for postage, and $525 for newspaper advertising, with no contributions listed.
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Charleston
Thomas Sweeney
Wheeling
U. S
Secretary of State Today
Sweeney
Bloody death of Cardinals scout found in Dallas hotel
In Dallas a bloodied nude body was found on a fourth floor hotel room bed. Les Wilson, a St Louis Cardinals baseball scout, was identified by cards in his clothes. Police said a fight likely occurred, with Wilson knocked unconscious and later dying. Attendants noted he checked in at 6:05 am after flying from Tyler.
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Tyler
Tex
Union claims strike spreading among Great Lakes ships
Detroit August 17 An official of the CIO National Maritime Union said an increasing number of the nearly 400 American registry ships on the Great Lakes are being laid up in port by the three day old strike Joseph Stack NMU vice president and strike leader said the idle vessel count may be recalibrated later in the day He noted more port activity from picketing and ships tying up and hinted at possible investigation into strike breaking at Ash tabula Ohio
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CIO National Maritime Union
Great Lakes
Joseph Stack
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Ashtabula
Illness Cancels Sunday Sermon by Rev Richard Pacint
Due to the illness of Reverend Richard Pacint there will be no preaching service on Sunday. The church plans to resume next week with the cantor leading prayers and a sermon by visiting minister.
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Richard Pacint
Hart Charged In Grand Hotel Fire Case
Hart, a 35 year old former hotel bellhop, has been charged with fire setting in the Grand hotel fire that killed seven guests and injured nine last December. Fire Chief Archie W. Cook said Hart likely will be arraigned later today before Municipal Judge W. H. Carter after he signed a sworn complaint and admitted setting a trash barrel fire.
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Clarence Hulbert
Vandenberg Urges Equal Trade Tone for Russia
Senator Vandenberg addressing the American Legion in Grand Rapids urged a square deal for Russia, called for unity among nations, and warned that peace hinges on the United Nations. He contrasted eastern communism with western democracy while recalling Moscow Washington impasses resolved within liberal principles.
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Woman Loses Hand Attempting Freight Train Board
Mrs Vivian Hardy 36 of Prestonsburg Kentucky lost her left hand while trying to board a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train between Winifrede and Chelyan. Hospital attendants say she lay beside the tracks unnoticed for hours before rescue. She said she was traveling from Prestonsburg to Virginia when the accident happened.
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Kanawha Valley Hospital
Vivian Hardy
Prestonsburg
Winifrede
Chelyan
Publisher Carter Gas tigates Bilbo in Address on Mutual System
Hodding Carter, publisher of the Greenville Delta Democrat Times, urged in a radio Mutual broadcast that Senator Bilbo’s return to Washington is preferable to his Mississippi governorship. He warned against bigotry and fear in democracy, citing Bilbo’s two terms as governor as leaving the state bankrupt and universities in disrepute.
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Miss
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Iwo Jima battered by typhoon winds at 145 mph
Tokyo reports a powerful typhoon yesterday centered near Iwo Jima caused major damage to American installations. The 20th U S Air Force said eighty five percent of buildings failed to weather the blow and most power lines were down. No area reports of severe injuries noted.
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Iwo Jims
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Japanese admiral kills family then commits suicide
In Yokosuka Japan on August 17 Rear Admiral Shiro Sato once a wartime commander in New Guinea fatally shot his wife and two children as they slept before taking his own life with the same pistol A note found attributed a feeling of degradation by defeat and instructed disposing of the bodies like that of dogs
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Yokosuka
Japan
Shiro Sato
New Guinea
Postwar political clash on free love program debuts
Washington reports a Democratic and a Republican senator enter a heated battle over a postwar "trée and polygamy" program. Daniel Mannigan leads a contentious debate as coverage notes party lines and explosive rhetoric.
Flood Devastates Illinois Levees Forcing Mass Homelessness
Heavy rains flood Illinois communities as the Mississippi lowlands bear the brunt. Levees failed northwest of St Louis, inundating Pearl and nearby towns, leaving thousands displaced and four dead. Rescue efforts rush to higher ground as residents flee rising waters and seek shelter in St Louis and surrounding areas.
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