Democratic National Committee Faces States' Rights Fight
The Democratic National Committee plans to elect a new chairman next week as the party weighs expelling southern members who deserted Truman in 1948. William M Boyle Jr is expected to win without contest, with debates over seating Southern delegates and a Texas contest sparked by Byron Skelton's credential presentation.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Island
William M. Boyle, Jr
Truman
McGrath
Southern Committee
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Thurmond
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Byron Skelton
Temple
Dwight Morrow
Houston
Skelton
Morrow
Brownsville
Immigration Bill Locked in Committee
Senator Graham indicated support to move a house approved displaced persons bill from the senate judiciary committee to action. The measure would admit 339000 people in three years, easing restrictions cited by President Truman as delaying action and bias against Jews and Catholics. The judiciary panel voted 5 to 2 against a sunrise move and Graham and Wiley did not vote.
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Washington
Graham
D-Nc
Senate Judiciary Committee
Truman
McCarran
D-Nev
Wiley
R-Wis
voteCarran
Ferguson
Reich
Senate
Wly
Kilgore
D-Va
Truman Returns Home Today From Week End Cruise
President Truman will return to Washington tomorrow after a weekend aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg. He will fly to Miami to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars golden jubilee. The White House says he slept in and relaxed this morning as Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison and a few friends sail with him. The yacht was to anchor off Blakiston Island tonight.
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Washington
Truman
Williamsburg
Miami
Fla
Veterans of Foreign Wars
White House
Robert L. Dennison
Blakiston Island
Finland Government Holds Line Against Red Strikers
The Finnish government kept army and police on alert as a nationwide communist strike wave waned. A government spokesman called the action a deliberate bid for power to establish a communist state in Finland. Independent and foreign observers weighed the implications on public opinion and press coverage.
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Finland
Social Democratic
Helsinki
Stockholm
Flying Discs Ruled Out By The Air Force
The U S Air Force said two Maryland found experimental craft have no connection to flying saucers. Earlier a spokesman said they might be prototypes, but investigators dismissed them as unrelated to the saucer phenomenon. The devices were linked to Jonathan Caldwell who vanished in 1940 after experiments on a Maryland farm.
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Washington
U. S
Maryland
Air Force
Glen Burnie
Goa
Mid-West
National Guard
Kentucky
Mars
Venus
Tar Heel Tobacco Opens With Record Volume and Lower Averages
Tar Heel farmers on opening day in the Eastern belt reported an official average of 46.42 per hundredweight as 14,003,756 pounds were sold across 17 markets. Total Wilson sales reached 2,151,803 pounds at 47.00 per hundred, with Goldsboro posting 641 pounds at 49.50, boosted by better quality and holiday crowds. Opening week marks a larger volume than last year though the overall average lagged 5.51 per hundred compared with 1948.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Wilson
Stabilization Corporation
Goldsboro
State Of Emergency Declared Across Chile
The government in Santiago decreed a state of emergency throughout Chile and sent troops and naval units to six mining provinces after Communist led strikes flared. One mine was seized by 6,000 strikers, others threatened resistance if troops entered. The cabinet under President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla called a modified martial law to confront the revolutionary action by the Communist party.
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Santiago
Chile
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Communist Party
Scott Promises Electricity For All Farm Homes
Governor W Kerr Scott pledged to bring power to all rural North Carolina farm homes during a Haywood county farmers federation picnic in Canton. He noted about 168000 homes may lack electricity after new rural housing adds 50000 units, urged farmers without power to report their needs for action.
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Canton
REA
W. Kerr Scott
Farmers Federation
Haywood County
Canton High School
North Carolina
Arms Bill Attacked By Rep Vorys In House Clash
Rep. Vorys of Ohio blasted the House vote against the administration arms program for Western Europe calling the move a lack of confidence in foreign policy. He noted rejection of weapon aid for non communist China and criticized excluding House input before the bill. The compromise trimmed funding to 1.16 billion and shortened the program to ten months as Senate committees study the measure supporting Atlantic pact members, Greece, and Turkey.
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Washington
Vorys
Ohio
House
Western
Europe
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Senate
China
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Connally
D-Tex
Greece
Tur
Food Firm Officials Charged With Misrepresentation
Madison Wisconsin August 20 two officials of the Mazo Food Products Co were named in warrants charging them with deceiving southern workers to take Wisconsin jobs. Joseph Racek and his brother Frank Racek face charges based on a strike by 40 Negro workers from Georgia and the Carolinas alleging false pay and living conditions. The warrants allege they unlawfully urged employment in this state by deception.
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Madison, Wiss
Wisconsin
Joseph Racek
Mazo Food Products Co
Mazomanie
Frank
Dane County
Herman Kerl
Georgia
Carolinas
Kerr
State Board of Health
Mazo Camp
Average Incomes Reach New High Across States
Individual incomes rose to a national average of $1 410 per person in 1948 up seven percent from 1947 as all income sources boosted consumer buying power. Total payments reached $206 billion, with central states leading in gains and farming income driving much of the increase.
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Commerce Department
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Ohio
Wisconsin
New England
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
California
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
Department
North Dakota
Kansas
Texas
Northwest
South Dakota
Nebraska
Arkansas
Cold air brings record lows across the Midwest and East
A Canadian air mass sent temperatures to record or near record lows from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic. Chicago tied a record 55, Indianapolis 53 the lowest since 1897, Philadelphia 57 the lowest August 20 since 1896, and New York 56 the all time low for the date. Only a narrow Gulf coast band stayed above normal with clear skies elsewhere.
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Mississippi River
Atlantic Seaboard
Midwest
East
Canada
Indianapolis
Philadelphia
New York
Kane
Land O’ Lakes
Wis
Cadillac
Mich
Hartford
Rockies
Pacific Coast
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
Navy Fighter Plane Crashes Near Creedmore
A Navy fighter plane crashed near Creedmore killing an unidentified pilot. Witnesses heard the pilot screaming as the engine sputtered before the craft burst into flames and crashed on a farm off the Granville Franklin county line near Pocomoke. A mother and her three children watched the incident.
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Credmoore
Here
Granville
Franklin County
Pocomoke
A. B. Brown
J. W. Wheeleus
Thousands Send Hope to Paralysis-Doomed Sammy Perry
Philadelphia readers flood the home of 12 year old Sammy Perry with letters gifts and aid as muscular distrophy confines him to bed or a wheelchair. Neighbors donate television sets and aramas while parents Marion and Roman Kwasiburski seek transport to a clinic and await a Hollywood offer to screen Concert Magic at Sammy's home.
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Theo Wilson
Philadelphia
Sammy Perry
Sammy
Aramas
Marion
Roman Kwasiburski
E. Thompson St
California
Titusville
Woodlynne
National Guard Review At Fort Jackson With Governors
Governors Kerr Scott of North Carolina Gordon Browning of Tennessee and J Strom Thurmond of South Carolina reviewed troops from the 30th National Guard division here today. Weather delayed the flight and parade while Beverly Ivester of Winston-Salem NC stood as beauty queen at the reviewing stand.
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Fort Jackson
S. C
Tennessee
North Carolina
30Th National Guard
Kerr Scott
Scott
Gordon Browning
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Chances For Agreement Are Small
An impending American British conference on Britain's economic crisis faces a guarded outlook. Officials predict few chances of a broad accord, with Cripps Bevin Cripps arguing over responsibility as Snyder and Acheson push American views. Canada joins as a key third party.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Britain
Truman Administration
John Tet
Stafford Cripps
Andoreign
Ernest Bevin
United States
Canada
Cripps
England
Forest Fires Parade U S And France Stopping Train
In Bordeaux firestorms halt a train carrying 200 American pilgrims en route to Lourdes. Smoke darkens the city as 1,500 troops and 250 firefighters combat the flames, while Bordeaux insurers say danger is not imminent. In Idaho Hell's Canyon fire spreads across 600 acres with 300 men battling steep terrain.
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Bordeaux
France
New Orleans
Shrine of Lourdes
Gazinet
Paris
Mccall
Idaho
Hell's Canyon
Snake River
Slim Vassar
Payette Natorial Forest
Vassar
Walt Hawkins
Mice Are Simply Poison To Violet
Enver reports Violet the cat, allergy-prone and named for a girl, sneezes and falls ill after mice encounters. Owner Perry Marshall describes Violet’s odd bark at times, a trait linked to his longtime setter Patsy.
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Enver
Violet
Perry Marshall
Perry
Patsy
Marshalls
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