Yugoslav Tito Defies Soviets as Mutual Charges Escalate
London reports intensifying exchange as Tito supporters accuse Russia of using Yugoslav citizens as spies while Moscow labels Yugoslavia an enemy. Borba blasts Russian note as vile and threatening. The feud traces to 1948 split from cominform and economic boycott, with Tito seeking Western aid amid Western imperialist framing.
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London
Yugoslavia
Russia
Marshal Tito
Borba
Tito
Soviet Union
Secret Letter Links Freezers to Five Percenter Inquiry
Senator Mundt says a secret letter beginningDear Pop reveals links between perfume oil and home freezers in a five percenter investigation. The letter from a former serviceman to his father ties to gifts of home freezers to Washington notables in 1945, including Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughn, with payments by Albert Verley Co. The youth may testify at hearings or be questioned privately.
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Washington
UPI
Pop
Mundt
R-Sd
The
Armed Services
South Dakota
Senate
Verley
Paris
Maragon
Europe
Army
Air Transport Command
Theormer
ATC
Air Corps
Hoey Targets Influence Men With Public Disclosure Plan
Senator Hoey plans a bill to regulate influence men or management counselors. The measure would require five percenter style advisers to publicly disclose payment from business clients. Hoey leads a Senate subcommittee probing government transactions amid other testimony about Verley company gifts and a 1945 Paris trip by Maragon and associates.
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Shelby
Hoey
Senate
Subcommittee
Millionaire Provides Job and Treatment for Cancer Vet
Detroit businessman helps navy veteran Ernest Gillumby, 34, ill with cancer seeking any job. The anonymous millionaire promises a good position and arranges cancer treatments with a renowned doctor in Europe or the U.S., then Gillumby plans a permanent job rather than a temporary one.
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Detroit
Ernest Gillumby
Gillum
Sales Begin On Eastern Weed Belt
RALEIGH August 22 The world’s largest flue cured tobacco belt in North Carolina opened its first full sale week. On markets across the belt buyers paid mostly 30 to 60 dollars per hundred pounds with lugs primings and nondescripts showing varied gains. Gross sales reached 14 003 756 pounds at an average of 46 42 while 51 339 750 pounds were sold in border markets at an average of 48 89 per hundred.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
North
South Carolina
New York Leads Nation In Number Polio Cases
New York tops the nation with the highest polio caseload for August, pushing the year’s total to about 15,500 and the month’s to over 8,000. North Dakota reports an epidemic stage while Pennsylvania Illinois and Wisconsin expect peaks next month. California and Michigan near 1,000 cases.
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New York
Nation
Associated Press
National Office of Vital Statistics
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Maine
Minnesota
Arizona
Nevada
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Illinois
Texas
California
Michigan
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
American Medical Association
Firefighters Battle West Forest Blazes Across Six States
Hundreds of firefighters battled major fires across six Western states in national forest and Yellowstone areas. At least six fires remained out of control, with 7000 acre Hell’s Canyon blaze in Payette National Forest and 3200 acre fire near Riggins Idaho. Three injured in Idaho and one in California. 300 lightning fires scorched about 33000 acres of timber and grasslands amid drought. Weather seen as key to control as humidity rose and winds subsided.
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Associated Press
Payette National Forest
Idaho
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
California
James Hockaday
Forest Service
Ogden
Utah
Hell's Canyon
Payette Forest
Jim Knudsen
Gem
Kas
Riggins
Yellowstone Park
Mammoth
Forest Fire Kills 78 in Southwest France
In Bordeaux region on August 22 a massive forest fire swept 20 by 30 miles, wiping out villages and killing at least 78 people. Troops fought the blaze, which military sources said was under control yet embers still smoldered as water was poured on hot sites.
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Bordeaux
France
Third Device For Thinking Is Displayed
Philadelphia August 22 The article describes the invention of the Binac a huge electrical brain capable of handling any mathematical exercise and memorizing over 500 numbers It is built by J Presper Eckert Jr and John W Mauchly and was shown in a test run performing 500 000 additions and 200 operations More details are continued on page two
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Philadelphia
J. Presper Eckert, Jr
John W. Mauchly
University of Pennsylvania
Eckert and Maughly
Record Death Toll in North Carolina Reaches New Peak
At least 18 people died in violence across North Carolina over the weekend. The report lists multiple incidents including an auto plunge through a drawbridge near Beaufort drowning seven people in the car, a naval reserve pilot dying in a Creedmoor plane crash, and several other fatal accidents and a stabbing inside a Charlotte home. Names ages and locations are provided for many victims. An investigation into some deaths is ongoing.
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North Carolina
Gore Creek
Beaufort
James FE. Carter
Linwood Fulcher
Ike Williams
Alfred Wilson
William C. Fulcher
Connie
Elnora Sampson
Guy Phillip Harris
Candor
Creedmoor
Norfolk, Va
Naval Air Station
Allen C. Bell
Birmingham, Ala
Swannanoa Gap
South Carolina
Asheville
Belle Pace
Georgia Pace
Pacelot Mills
Nancy Whalen
Columia
Prize Money Comes In At Right Time
Dorothey Pappenfort, 29, mother of two from Columbia, won 26000 on Stop the Music with help from her Kansas City guest Randall Pappenfort. She identified the mystery melody Butterdf Peas by phone while Randall retrieved the Kansas City Star to confirm the tune. Her husband Carson and their son Robert William, two, face a brain operation soon.
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Columbia
Dorothey Pappenfort
Missouri Highway Department
American Broadcasting Company
Randall Pappenfort
Kansas City
Accused Rape Slayer's Statement Locked Up in Safe
In Pikeville Kentucky Blaine Edgar Jones 22 or 32 year old alleged rape slayer from Richlands Virginia was found dead hanging in his cell. Police report his statement found by a deputy sheriff was secured in a safe awaiting Sheriff Moore's return. The slaying victim Lola Collins bride of six months was murdered in Mrs Lane Pike home in March.
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Pikeville
Blaine Edgar Jones
Guthrie Crowe
Frankfort
Jones
D. C. Moore
Richlands
Lola Collins
Lane Pike
Ad m
John M. Justice
WCTU Leader Urges Ban on Blood Looting for Liquor
Mrs D Leigh Colvin head of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union urged charity blood banks to stop accepting unfit blood sold by vagrants seeking drink money. She cited a Collier’s article and said banks pay donors as little as 3 to 8 dollars a pint while hospitals pay 25 to 50 dollars. The call followed statements by H Cecil Heath on wartime drinking dangers and a Pearl Harbor/Normandy invasion anecdote.
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Philadelphia
Women's Christian Temperance Union Today
D. Leigh Colvin
CTU
William J. Slocum
Collier's Magazine
WCTU
Temperance
Chicago
H. Cecil Heath
London
United Kingdom (Temperance) Alliance
Europe
Normandy
Heath
Hurricane Near Florida Coast Heads Toward Miami
A small Atlantic hurricane the season’s first roars toward Florida with winds near 90 mph. Centered about 440 miles east of Nassau at 5 a.m. it moves west northwest at 20 mph, expanding slightly and threatening the Bahamas and Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Nassau
Weather Bureau
Grady Norton
Norton
Bahamas
Puerto Rico
Government Seeks Hawaiian Settlement
Washington urges opposing sides in the Hawaiian dock strike to seek a new settlement through mediation talks in Washington or New York. Jus S. Ching, director of the U S Conciliation Service, cable to Honolulu requesting renewed efforts to resolve the 114 day dispute.
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Washington
New York
Jus S. Ching
U.S. Conciliation Service
Honolulu
Editor Harvey Ingham Dies in Des Moines
Harvey Ingham editor emeritus of the Des Moines Register and Tribune died yesterday in a Des Moines hospital where he had been a patient since February. He was a longtime columnist and influential figure in Iowa journalism.
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Des Moines
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Des Moines Hospital
Banned Race Movie Set for TV Appearance
Newington New Hampshire August 22 Lost Boundaries a film about racial tolerance plans a TV showing in two southern cities. Louis de Rochemont said he and associates will buy the film this week and pursue a court test of bans in Memphis and Atlanta. Atlanta censor Christine Smith says the film is unfit for public showing but asks whether it is within jurisdiction on television. Local officials cite police power to prohibit harmful exhibitions.
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Washington
N. C
Pamlico
Will Joseph Smith
Robert Sinclair
Willie Steele
Charlotte
Louise
Robert Lewis Ballad
Kannapolis
Laurel Springs
West Jefferson
Russell Bain Sheets
Irene Sexteon
Newington
N. H
Louis de Rochemont
de Ehemont
Southern
Teas
Louisiana
New York
Christine Smith
Atlanta
Atlanta Film Appeal Board
Milton Farris
Farris
Truman pleads for fast approval of arms aid plan
President Truman urged rapid congressional approval of a 1.45 billion dollar arms aid program calling it part of the price of peace. He argued regional defense pacts are needed, defended Ukraine and warned that unchecked aggression by Soviet powers threatens world security and economic recovery.
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Miami
Fla
Truman
Congress
Russia
China
State Department
Philippines
Korea
Far East
Greece
Turkey
Mr. Truman
Iran
Kerr Scott compared to Roosevelts effect on party in NC politics
The author argues Kerr Scott mirrors Franklin Roosevelt in expanding the Democratic party beyond its core iffy view. Historical NC trends show Democratic strength fluctuating with national dynamics, with Republicans holding some counties by nature and others as margins. The piece weighs Scott’s current strength against past support and regional shifts.
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Kerr Scott
North Carolina
Franklin Roosevelt
United States
National Democratic Party
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Truman
Cleveland
Wilson
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