The Story Behind the First Army’s 30th Birthday
New York profile of the American First Army founded in France by General Pershing. It traces its postwar status at Fort Jay and contrasts public recognition with Patton’s Third Army, noting the First Army’s historic campaigns and enduring lineage despite modern fame.
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New York
la Forte-Sous-Juarre
France
John J. Pershing
First Army
Fort Jay
Governors Island
New York Harbor
George Patton
Third Army
Georgie” Patton
America
Patton
Shanghai News Summary: City Population Surpasses Six Million
Shanghai's population exceeds six million per a police census, boosted by war refugees from the north. The city ranks in the world's top four after New York London and Paris.
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Shanghai
Police
New York
London
Paris
Weather review and temperatures across major U.S. cities
North Carolina forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with little temperature change and scattered thunderstorms on Thursday. Official records show highs around 80s to 90s and lows in 60s across cities including Charleston 84 75, Charlotte 87 66, Washington 67 68, and New York 81 4 with varied rainfall.
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Toni
Gioia
Hises
Otte
Aug
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
Miami
Mini-St
Mobile Sk
Mi.Mitchell
Orleans
New York
Aleigh
Antonio
Fresco
Svarta’burg
Tampa
Washgton
Wilm'stone
Polio Epidemic in N. C. May Reach 2000 This Year
Dr Harlan Riper told Durham chamber members that North Carolina’s polio outbreak could total 2000 cases by year end. StateHealth officials cautioned no comment on that projection as cases rise statewide with 69 deaths this year and 1,385 cases reported to date. Distribution shows Buncombe Alamance Onslow and others seeing new cases while central regions remain hardest hit.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Harlan Riper
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Durham
State Board of Health
Guilford County
Randolph
Buncombe County
Alamance
Onslow
Watauga
Cleveland
Gaston
Guilford
Johnston
Wake
Avery
Caldwell
Catawba
Craven
Hoke
Mecklenburg
More
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Erson
Rutherford
Wayne
C. P. Stevick
Plane wreck near Kanawha airport kills Taylorsville men
Private plane crashes after failing to land at Kanawha Airport in Charleston. Dr. R. J. Dabney and Jack Adams, both Taylorsville residents, die. wreckage found within 300 yards of the field after four days. Air traffic had 40 planes aiding search. reward offered by E A Adams for recovery.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha
R. J. Dabney
Jack Adams
Taylorsville
Kanawha Strip
Wheeling
North Carolina
E. A. Adams
H. C. Pendell
Condition of R. B. Gantt Remains Critical at Baptist
High Point real estate and business man R. B. Gantt is in critical condition at Baptist Hospital Winston-Salem after several days of heart illness. He received a blood transfusion today and is not allowed visitors.
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R. B. Gantt
High Point
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Tony
Gatt
Fugitives Held Over $4,000 Nightclub Robbery
Charlotte police hold two Ohio men on fugitive warrants connected to a $4,000 robbery and shooting of Illinois industrialist Avery L. Hack near Cincinnati. Hack, 44,of Alton Illinois, is in critical condition with bullet wounds. Two suspects, John Blake and Ervin Turvey, were arrested in Charlotte with about $1,500 each and are held for Newport authorities.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Avery L. Hack
Alton
Covington
Frank N. Littlejohn
Hack
Newport
Wesley Brown
Poner
Irvin Turvey
John Blake
Raymond White
Jim Sinclair
Middletown
Littlejohn
Ervin Turvey
Remembering Sarah Adams and a Greensboro Editor
London reports Rev. H. J. Garland urges singing Nearer My God to Thee on its 100th death anniversary highlighting Sarah Flower Adams's life and links to Browning. Greensboro names Calvin T. Leonard editor of the Greensboro Record after Abram D. Jones’s death.
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London
H. J. Garland
Sarah Flower Adams
Essex
Harlow
Garland
Edward VII
Robert Browning
Benjamin Flower
Greensboro
Calvin T. Leonard
Greensboro News- Record
Greensboro Record
Abram D. Jones
Take Your Choice Everyone Has a Theory About Origin of Polio
Raleigh August 11 Medical officials urge caution on polio cause while residents flood Dr Roy Norton with theories. Mail cites eggs watermelons cantaloupes dogs cats gnats dairy sanitation and pool temperatures as faulty factors. Norton notes North Carolina ranks 16th in poultry production and urges reliance on science.
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Roy Norton
North Carolina
Norton
N. C. State College
Republicans to keep red probe going through September
Republican leaders plan to extend the investigation of communists in government into September. Senator Pepper accuses the effort of being a smear campaign while Senator McClellan supports resuming hearings by September 13. The probe could influence the upcoming presidential race.
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Washington
Pepper
D-Fla
McClellan
D-Ark
Ferguson
R-Mich
Roosevelt
Truman
Arkansas
Elizabeth Bentley
Moscow
Ferguson Committee
Am W. Remington
Commerce Department
Miss Bentley
House
American Activities Committee
Senate
Maybank Captures South Carolina Senate Nomination
U S Senator Burnet Maybank led a solid SC Democratic primary showing with about 143,731 votes, about 10,000 ahead of Dorn, amid large Black turnout granted by a federal court order. James Richards won in the 5th District while John Riley trailed Sims in the 2nd and a runoff looms in the 3rd between Hare and Taylor.
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Columbia
S. C
U. S
Burnet R. Maybank
South Carolina
James P. Richards
John J. Riley
Sumter
Hugo Sims, Jr
Orangeburg
W. J. Bryan Dorn
Maybank
Senate
Dorn
Neville Bennett
Clio
Alan Johnston
Newberry
Marcus A. Stone
Dillon
Florence
Edgefield
Greenwood
Saluda
McCormick
Bennett
Marlboro
Johnstone
Richards
Roy Cobb
Gaffney
Rep
Riley
Sims
James B. Hare
Hare
John c. Taylor
Anderson
Eye on bumper farm crops to curb soaring prices
Washington reports farmers, aided by favorable weather, will harvest record crops including a 3.506 billion bushel corn crop, promising relief on food prices as grain output nears surplus and government programs may hold excess stock next year.
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Washington
Agricult Department
Gov
Rose Offers To Take Over Metropolitan Opera
Showman Billy Rose has offered to operate the Metropolitan Opera for one season and personally guarantee it against a deficit. He would streamline productions while preserving grand opera traditions as the Met faces a $220000 deficit and possible cancellation of the 1948 49 season. Sloan would consider the proposal at the board’s first opportunity as unions push to halt the shutdown.
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New York
Billy Rose
Metropolitan Opera
Met
Metropolitan
George A. Sloan
Rose
Metropolitan Opera House
Sloan
Opera Association
Unons
Federalization of Guard Meets Bitter Opposition
A Defense Department advisory committee urged annexing the national guard to the army, doubling strength to about 600,000 and creating a single federal reserve force for emergencies. The plan faced swift pushback from state and guard officials who vowed to fight it in Congress. The report argued for ready forces, while noting Washington’s militia tradition and Washington safety aims.
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Washington
National Guard
Special Defense Department
Arles H. Grahl
Grahl
Iowa
Cedar ‘Rapids
Congress
George Washington
Gala farewell to Gen Eichelberger in Manila Bay
Manila lights shine on the S B Buckner as it ferries Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger from Corregidor toward San Francisco. The retiring commander, who led the Eighth Army in Japan and helped liberate Manila, is feted during four days of ceremonies before his return to Washington.
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Manila Bay
S. B. Buckner
Corregidor
San Francisco
Philippines
Robert L. Eicchelberger
Japan
Washington, D. C
Look Out Below Navy Phantoms Primed For Assault on Beach
Norfolk Virginia August 11 Lieutenant Colonel Marion E Carl a marine with the world speed record will lead 12 navy Phantom interceptors in an amphibious assault on Virginia Beach August 20 part of Operation Camid III a 12 day exercise to teach West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen amphibious warfare. The 167 aircraft from navy marine and air force units will spearhead the landing. Phantom jets first to exceed 500 mph with jet propulsion and carrier capable design.
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Norfolk
Marion E. Carl
Virginia Beach
Carl
Hubbard
Ore
U. S. Marine
122Nd. Marine
Cherry Point
N. C
West Point
Annapolis
Marshall says Danube talks show need for real negotiation
Secretary of State Marshall at a press conference warned that in talks with the Russians the United States must not seek agreement for its own sake. He cited the Danube river conference at Belgrade as illustrating Europe’s postwar bargaining difficulties and urged persistence in negotiation without preassumed outcomes.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Danube
Moscow
Berlin
Owever
Europe
Diplomats Seek Break in Berlin Blockade in Moscow Talks
In Moscow diplomats from the Soviet Union the United States Britain and France push hard to end the Berlin blockade. British envoy Frank Roberts signaled a decision could come this week as Molotov meets with the four powers in their tenth day of talks. No firm news emerged and officials warned of uncertain outcome as Russia claimed Berlin has enough food.
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Moscow
Berlin
Russia
West
Frank Roberts
Molotov
U. S
Britain
France
Governor Cherry On Comic Books And Juvenile Delinquency
Raleigh August press conference yields a humorous exchange as Governor Cherry deflects questions on comic books. He jokes that he knows only common folks and claims he has no children to judge effects, while conceding he has not seen children who looked dangerous after reading a comic strip.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Border Belt tobacco prices hold steady on week
On August 11 in Raleigh the Carolinas Border Belt markets showed steady prices across leaf lugs and cutters. The U S and NC agriculture departments reported Monday’s average at 56.61 per hundred, a season high, with 7 277 896 pounds sold and season total 35 676 376 pounds at an average 54.88. Primings and low quality nondescripts rose a few dollars per hundred, though volumes were small.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Border Belt
U. S
N. C
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