Georgia County Unit Vote System Upheld in Georgia
A three judge federal court today upheld Georgia’s county unit vote system for Democratic primaries and refused to invalidate Eugene Talmadge’s nomination for governor. The suit by Emory professor Cullen Gossnell and Atlanta activist Mrs. Robert Truman claimed violation of equal protection. the judges said the injunction was denied and noted unit votes can resemble presidential electoral college dynamics.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Govmor
Emory University
Talmadge
James V. Carmichael
Ellis Arnall
Cullen B. Gosnell
Emory
Robert Ye Truman
Atlanta League of Women Voters
Fulton
Schedule Hearing On Ukraine Charge At UN
The United Nations Security Council set an early hearing on the Ukraine charge that the Greek government threatens Balkan peace. Dr. Oscar Lange and the UN secretariat moved the case onto Wednesday’s agenda after nine nations’ admission applications, with Greek case likely heard later in the week at Lake Success.
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Francis W. Carpenter
New York
United Nations Security Council
Ukraine
Balkans
United Nations Secretariat
Oscar Lange
Poland
Security Council
Council
United Nations
New Lake Success
U. N
Dmitri Manuilsky
Ukraiian Soviet Socialist Republic
Paris
Theatre Ticket Present This Clipping for An Mission
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Hallie Smith to attend tonight's Strand Theatre double feature Adventure with Greer Garson and Clark Gable and The Walls Came Tumbling Down with Marguerite Chapman and Lee Bowman at the Dixie Theatre also showing Ambush Trail starring Bob Steele.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Hallie Smith
West Main Street
Greer Garson
Clark Gable
Strand Theatre
Marguerite Chapman
Lee Bowman
Bob Steele
Dixie Theatre
Rule Allows Surplus Property Gifts to Nonprofits
Washington August 26 The Justice Department in an opinion approved gifting surplus property by the War Assets Administration to non profit educational institutions Acting Attorney General J Howard McGrath prepared the ruling following a request by War Assets Administrator Robert M Littlejohn The opinion also says newly formed nonprofit institutions are eligible to receive gifts under the surplus property act
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Washington
Justice Department
War Assets Administration
J. Howard McGrath
Robert M. Littlejohn
War Assets Administrator
McGrath
Drive plans announced for local YMCA fund campaign
R Virgil Rohrbaugh president of the Community YMCA board announced a drive to raise 10000 to modernize expand and reopen the Y Mason E Tucker longtime Bartlett Funeral Homes figure and Kiwanian will chair the drive Rev Earl W Slayton pastor and Taylor County Ministerial Association president was named associate general chairman and will guide drive teams A board meeting is set to finalize plans and reveal dates for opening and closing the campaign amid broad organizational support
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YMCA
R. Virgil Rohrbaugh
New Community Ymca
Mason E. Tucker
Bartlett Funeral Homes
Kiwanian
Earl W. Slayton
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Taylor County Ministerial Association
Grafton
OPA Drops Ten More Items From Price Scale
The OPA removed ten additional items from price ceilings asserting they are not essential to living costs. The list includes Patricia, cinnamon, meat and fish sauces, canned clam broth, sauerkraut with pork, chutney, plum pudding, malted milk tablets, fortune tea cakes, and dehydrated sugarcane fiber, in line with the price control act due by year end.
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Washington
OPA
Olivia De Havilland Marries Marcus Goodrich in Conn
Screen star Olivia De Havilland wed Marcus Goodrich in Wilton Connecticut at Lawrence Langner’s county home. Matron of honor was Phyllis Laughton and best man George Seaton. The couple will also mark the vow with the word obey in the ceremony.
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Wilton
Conn
Olivia de Havilland
Marcus Aurelius Goodrich
Lawrence Langner
New York Theatre Guild
Phyllis Laughton
Hollywood
George Seaton
New York
Marcus Goodrich
Westport
Peace Conference Makes Some Headway
The peace talks show limited progress as E Ronald Walker of Australia urges Russia be required to justify reparations and calls for on the spot assessment of debts. Molotov counters that Soviet damage is less than Russia’s demand against Romania, noting extended payment terms. See Peace page 3.
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Robert Eunson
Paris
Russia
E. Ronald Walker
Economic Commission For
Balkans
V. M. Molotov
Australia
Romania
Molotov
Draft Machinery Begins To Chug All Over Again
Washington shows the draft system restarting after a two month halt. Reception centers will begin forming lines next week as Selective Service aims to meet a 25 000 man quota for ages nineteen to twenty nine by September. In June only 6 400 were inducted with no teenagers among them. Congress exempted 18 year olds but kept 19 year olds in the pool.
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Washington
Selective Service
Army
Congress
War Department
Lewis
Lrg
British troops raid Jewish village in Haifa harbor search
Two hundred residents of a small Jewish fishing village were rounded up early this morning by British troops and Palestine police. Mine detection equipment and dogs were used as officers searched homes for those tied to the blast that damaged the immigrant transport Empire Rival. Brigadier R. H. Anderson said the operation targeted individuals connected to the explosion, not arms or illegal immigrants. Villagers reported a prior raid on June 30 and described a quiet, orderly roundup.
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Palestine Police
Haifa
Germany
R. H .Anderson
Anderson
Patsy Ruth Miller to Divorce Screen Writer
Former screen actress Patsy Ruth Miller will file suit for divorce from Lee Nahin, screenwriter, after nine years of marriage. They separated last February and have an adopted four year old son, Michael.
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Patsy Ruth Miller
Hollywood
Lee Nahin
Harry Sokolov
Michael
Fire at Morgantown Ordance Works destroys building
Fire caused by grease on machinery at Morgantown Ordance Works destroyed one building and caused about 100,800 dollars in damage. Capt. T. H. Blount, the commanding officer, reported the loss yesterday.
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Morgantown
Truman Studies Atomic Control Board Appointments at Bermuda
President Truman, during a Bermuda vacation stop, reviews potential members of the atomic energy control commission. Press secretary Ross says the five man board likely won’t be named until Truman returns.
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Truman
Bermuda
Hamilton
Aomic Energy Contol Commission
Charles G. Ross
Tomorow
R) Fenderson
U. S
James Hi
Norma Shearer Returns to Film With Enterprise Pact
Norma Shearer signs a long term contract with Enterprise Productions ending a four year screen retirement. Announcement made by Charles Einfeld, president of the company, states the deal marks her return to movies in New York on August 26.
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New York
Norma Shearer
Enterprise Productions
Charles Einfeld
Baltimore bus driver killed in hit-and-run near Elkton
A Baltimore motor tours bus driver Norman Clay Rhodes, 24, was struck by a speeding hit-and-run car on Route 40 between Perryville and Northeast while police pursued a fleeing vehicle. Rhodes died instantly after being thrown 75 feet. James Graves of Leonardtown was arrested. Rhodes is survived by a widow, a three-year-old daughter, his parents in Mount Crawford, West Virginia, and three brothers.
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Elkton
Baltimore
R. C. Dodson
Cecil County
W. E. Kully
Norman Clay Rhodes
Baltimore Motor Tours
Coney Island
Kulley
Rhodes
Principia Hill
Perryville
Dodson
James Graves
Leonardtown
Graves
Mount Crawford
W. Va
Local Candidates List Campaign Expenses
Charleston report shows Rep. Matthew M. Neely of Fairmont listing campaign costs of 150.54 with no contributions. W Merle Watkins of Grafton, GOP nominee for 19th circuit judge, reports spending 149.78 with no contributions recorded.
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Charleston
Matthew M. Neely
Fairmont
W. Merle Watkins
Grafton
All Cabell Ballots To Be Impounded For Probe
Huntington Aug 26 Prosecutor Edward H Greene said he will ask Judge H Clay Worth to order all ballots from the August 6 Cabell county primary impounded for an investigation of possible irregularities. Fred F Rotroff who trailed Andrew R Winters by 37 votes in the Democratic nomination race for state senate from the fifth district sought additional recounts. The county court announced that all ballots in Republican and Democratic precincts were impounded due to wide discrepancies.
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Huntington
Edward H. Greene
Common Pleas
H. Clay Worth
Cabell County
Fred F. Rotroff
Andrew R. Winters
State Senate
Artie Holley
Blueville men face circuit court over beating of attorney
Robert D. Rogers aged 46 and William Loris Shaffer aged 22 were arrested on a felony warrant for conspiring to injure attorney J. Guy Allender after allegedly beating him on Main street near Idoni's shoe shop August 12. They posted $500 bond and waived preliminary hearing, awaiting the September grand jury. A third man unnamed aided the pair. Allender’s injuries and further evidence are to be disclosed in circuit court. Deputy Sheriff Canfield made the arrests. Rogers works in Tunnelton, Pa., and travels for weekends.
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Robert D. Rogers
Wiliam Loris Shaffer
Blueville
J. Guy Allender
Mag. Ona C. Jefferys
Rogers
Shaffer
Allender
Main Street
Idoni
W. H. Canfield
Tunnelton
Simpson Man Shot In Left Leg Near Dogtown
Charles Dillon of Simpson was admitted to St Marys hospital in Clarksburg at 10 10 p m for treatment of a gunshot wound in his left leg. His condition was reported as pretty good. Dillon was shot with buckshot about 9 15 p m in Dogtown by a Dogtown man, according to sheriff deputies. No charges had yet been filed.
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Charles Dillon
Simpson
St. Mary's Hospital
Clarksburg
Dillon
Buck
Dogtown
List Two More Accident Deaths Over Weekend
Charleston dispatch reports the weekend toll includes Robert Bryant, 19, struck on U S Route 19 21 in Bluefield, and Gentsel Berlies, 27, a passenger, on Mill Creek road in Fayette County. The bureau lists one additional weekend death.
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Charleston
Robert Bryant
Bluefield
Gentsel Berlies
Mill Creek
Fayette County
Slate fall claims life at Koppers Coal mine
Isaac Meadows aged 47 of Livingston died in a Montgomery hospital from injuries after a slate fall at the Koppers Coal division mine in Elkridge on Friday.
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Montgomery
Isaac
Meadows
Livingston
Koppers Coal Division
Elkridge
Bodies brought from Julian Alps by honor guards
The bodies of four American airmen killed Aug 19 when a U.S. transport was shot down were brought from the Julian Alps to Ljubljana under an honor guard of the Yugoslav Fourth Army. Coffins draped with flags were placed aboard US weapons as remains were re examined at Koprivnik, where mass burial had occurred. Lt Col Stratton said it is almost certain the four were exhumed from Holy Cross church cemetery.
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George Palmer
Belgrade
Fie
United States
Julian Alps
Ljubljana
Koprivnik
Holy Cross Church
Chester M. Stratton
U. 8
Stratton
Fourth Army
Navy flier dive bomb private yacht in Lake Erie incident
In Detroit on August 26 a Navy inquiry was ordered into three reserve planes that dive bombed a private yacht named The Albatross during a weekend training mission. Seven fishermen escaped serious injury after the cruiser caught fire from a practice bomb and owner Albert Reilsig of Toledo suffered minor burns and shock.
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Detroit
Navy
Lake Erie
Naval Air Station
Albert Relsig
Toledo
Fray
Grafton Sentinel Promotes Harold Weekley’s Double Bill
The Grafton Sentinel invites Harold J Weekley to attend a big double feature at the Ton Theatre with Henry Addrich's Little Secret starring Jimmy Lydon and Masquerade in Mexico starring Arturo de Cordova and Dorothy Lamour on 507 West Washington Street.
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The
Grafton ‘Sentinel
Harold J. Weekley
West Washington Street
Henry Addrich
Jimmy Lydon
Mexico
Arturo de Cordova
Dorothy Lamour
Ton Theatre
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