States Rights Democrats Challenge Truman on Southern Ballots
In the South, States Rights Democrats push to place Strom Thurmond on ballots while Truman faces ballot exclusion in Alabama Georgia and possibly other states. Alabama Mississippi and South Carolina already favor the states rights slate with Virginia North Carolina showing some Truman electors.
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Charles Barrett
Atlanta
President Truman
Dixie
Truman
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
Virginia
Mr. Truman
North Carolina
South
National Democratic Party
Thurmond
Strom Thurmond
Joseph Langan
Mobile
Tennessee
Purge Aims to Restore Unity in Poland's Communist Party
Polish Communist leaders move to purge nationalist and rightist elements from the party to restore loyalty to Moscow. Vice Premier Gomulka, ousted as party secretary general for nationalist leanings and Tito support, pledges alignment as Bierut outlines an eight point plan including party purification, cooperative farming, and stricter membership screening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Poland
Communist Workers’ Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Boleslaw Bierut
Gomulka
Bierut
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Western Territories
Communist Party
No Early Settlement Of Truck Shipping Strikes
The Associated Press reports no immediate settlement in three major national strikes. About 10,000 New York City truck drivers and 3,500 AFL truckmen in northern New Jersey walked out amid widespread disruption. West Coast CIO longshoremen idle since last Wednesday threaten 160 ships tied up from Puget Sound to San Diego. Oil refinery workers in California and four western states push for wage talks prompting possible gas rationing and milk shortages concerns in cities.
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Associated Press
New York City
Als Poate Ota
AFL
New Jersey
Metropolis
Conto
CIO
Padget Sound
San Diego
Ar East
California
Johnson Wins Thompson Air Race Trophy
Anson L. Johnson of Miami Springs Florida won the Thompson Trophy race at Cleveland earning a $16 500 prize. His average speed 383.767 mph for a 30 mile course marked a slower record than last year but the event featured a fast start with three leaders over 400 mph and seven of ten starters failing on mechanical grounds. Bruce E. Raymond and Wilson V. Newhall finishedlast with prizes of 8000 and 4500 respectively while Herman R. Salmon won the Goodyear trophy for midget planes at 169.6 mph with Steve Wittman second.
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Cleveland
Anson L. Johnson
Miami Springs
Fla
Johnson
National Airlines
Thompson
Bruce E. Raymond
Hammond
Ind
Morrison Urges Tax Cuts in North Carolina
Former governor Cameron Morrison spoke in Morganton calling for a reduction in state taxes and restraint on spending. The Labor Day event marked the opening of a new all weather highway link to Burke and Avery counties, with Governor-Nominee W Kerr Scott backing farm to market roads. Attendees included Hamilton Jones and Roy Harmon, Capus Waynick, and state senators A B Stoney and Lee Weathers.
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Morganton
Cameron Morrison
Morrison
Burke
Avery
W. Kerr Scott
U. S
Hamilton Jones
Charlotte
Roy Harmon
Newsland
Capus Waynick
Mittee
A .B. Stoney
Lee Weathers
CIO union sets Sept 17 strike to cripple national telephone service
Dan Harris the Portland vice president announced the CIO Association of communication equipment workers will strike on September 17. He said talks with Western Electric are deadlocked and the action could pull 25,000 members from 2,200 Bell locations in 45 states.
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Chicago
CIO Association of Communication Equipment Workers
Dan Harris
Portland
Ore
Western Electric Manufacturing Company
Harris
Bell Telephone Company
New York and New Jersey Strikes Push for Higher Wages
Outlying New York areas face scarce food items as AFL Local 807 Teamsters seek a 25 cent hourly wage increase. New Jersey strikers echo demand, while CIO oil workers press for a 21 cent rise. employers offer 12 1/2 percent less in contract talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters
New Jersey
CIO Oil
More Showers Forecast For Most Of Nation
Temperatures ran near normal across the nation as widespread rains moved in. Heavy downpours drenched the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley with Augusta Georgia logging 4.28 inches in 24 hours, Huron South Dakota 2.54 inches, and Louisville Kentucky and Indianapolis Indiana 1.08 inches. Farmers reported millions in crop and property damage across parts of Georgia.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Middle Atlantic
Augusta
Huron
S. D
Louisville
Kye
Indianapolis
Georgia
Construction In South Fell Last Month
Baltimore reports private building still leads. total construction contracts in 16 southern states reached 1.77 billion through August, a 49 percent rise year over year and third highest in history. August volume fell 23 percent from July to 169.4 million, with private building at 510.9 million and schools accounting for 226.4 million of public work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Reimann
First Division Maneuvering In Germany
About 20 000 American soldiers began a two week mock battle at Grafenwoehr Germany marking the largest exercise since campaigns in North Africa and Europe. The exercise uses an aggressor force and a defender from the 1st Infantry Division with blank ammo while Lt Gen Clarence R Huebner oversees. A British battalion of 1 000 paratroopers from Palestine joins the test.
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Grafenwoehr
Germany
U. S
Europe
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Clarence R. Huebner
Lucius D. Clay
Palestine
Groves to Assist in Spy Probe on Atomic Secrets
Washington Sept 7 Gen Leslie Groves former head of the atomic bomb project is to testify as investigators seek whether Russia obtained atomic secrets. Rep McDowell says a Russian born French citizen in Paris began buying surrounding land after uranium deposits were acquired. The hearings aim to uncover a third spy ring and assess Condon security charges while examining possible communist inroads among scientists and Negroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congressional
Leslie R. Groves
Russia
Rep
McDowell
R-Pa
House
American Activities Committee
Edward A. Condon
Condon
Federal Bureau of Standards
Commerce Department
Paris
United States
Colorado
Heavy Rain Damage Across Augusta Area Reported
Augusta and surrounding counties suffered millions in damage after a 4.85 inch rainfall in under four hours. Water 14 inches deep flooded a large furniture store basement while crops, especially cotton, were flattened for miles. A bridge on highway 1 near Wrens collapsed and many small spans were washed away.
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Augusta
Georgia
South Carolina
Highway 1
Wrens
Jefferson County
Labor Day Violent Death Toll Near 400 Mark
National toll from violent accidents over the Labor Day weekend rose toward 400 with traffic deaths at 271 from Friday 6 p m to Monday midnight. Drownings reached 58 and 52 deaths occurred in other accidents, with Canada total 35. District figures list state by state fatalities in traffic and other causes.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Canada
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Ilino
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virgnia
Washington
Virginia
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
Cornelius Vanderbilt Married In Greenwich
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr a 50 year old journalist and lecturer married Patricia Murphy Wallace 28 of Los Angeles at the Pickwick Arms hotel Greenwich Conn Justice of the Peace John J O Brien a World War I veteran officiated The ceremony occurred at 12 28 am and Vanderbilt listed Reno Nev as his address It was his fifth marriage for Mrs Vanderbilt it was her second marriage to Earl Wallace Hollywood photographer
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Greenwich
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Earl Wallace
Hollywood
Poland Faces Deep Split as Polish Reds Break with Moscow
AP analysis notes Poland's Communist Party split with as many as half its members in open revolt over Cominform lines and socialization of peasant production. Gomulka ousted as secretary general. Bierut replaces him amid calls for full liquidation of dissenters.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Moscow
Marshal Tito
Poland
Polish Communist Party
Cominform
Boleslaw Bierut
Polish National Council
Executive Committee
Gunmen Who Shot Officer Recaptured
Two armed gunmen sought for the slaying of Detective Nicholas Jacob and the abduction of New Orleans Assistant Chief John J. Jackson were captured at a Gonzales store after a night chase. Dale Simpson of Salt Lake City and H E Miller of Monticello Miss were identified. Miller had been arrested in Gulfport on a theft charge.
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New Orleans
Jeff Lockey
Gonzales
Here
Hobart
John J. Jackson
L. E. Wright
Burke
Dale Simpson
Salt Lake City
Utah
Nicholas Jacob
H. E. Miller
Monticello
Miss
Jacobs
Joseph Tardo
Miller
Simpson
Gulfport
Jackson
Former Goldsboro Man Killed In Fall From Window
William Donald Bennett a 35 year old Goldsboro native and local hotel man died from injuries after falling 35 feet from a third floor window at the Norva hotel in Norfolk. He had been in Norfolk three months and was moved to Goldsboro for funeral services and interment.
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Norfolk
William Donald Bennett
Goldsboro
N. C
Bennett
Norva
Stolen watch returns to Leominster man
Two months after Simon Caisse reported a $60 pocket watch stolen it was found yesterday inside his rear screen door. The watch now runs, restoring a working timepiece to the Tl man in Leominster Massachusetts.
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Leominster
Mass
Simon Caisse
Caisse
French Aide Threatened As Berlin Riots Rise
In Berlin the western zone police protecting 27 officers in city hall were threatened by a caller. Gen. Clay and allied leaders planned joint protests or direct talks with Marshal Sokolovsky as riots fueled a move toward a separate Red government in the Soviet sector. Euromilitary diplomacy hovered over a tense crisis as SED leaders boycott further meetings.
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Richard Kasischke
Berlin
America
Lucius D. Clay
Britain
Brian Robertson
France
Pierre Koenig
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Sokolovsky
London
Moscow
Russia
Western
Socialist Unity Party
SED
West Berlin
Taegli
State Reports 29 Additional Polio Cases
The state board of health reports 29 new polio cases today with 16 from August and 13 in September. No deaths were reported. Watauga county leads outbreaks with four cases while Buncombe Catawba Haywood Iredell and Chatham each report three. The epidemic reaches 1,921 official cases with 634 in August and 15 in September.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Watauga County
Buncombe
Catawba
Haywood
Iredell
Chatham
Cleveland
Duplin
Three Killed In Chicago Candy Plant Fire
A massive blaze caused by an explosion tore through the E. J. Brach and Sons four story candy factory on Chicago’s West Side. Three workers died and more than a dozen were injured, with several in critical condition. Fire officials put damage at over 1 million dollars as hundreds gathered outside.
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Chicago
West Side
E. J. Brach and Sons
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Audie Murphy
Murphy
NEA
Air Race
N.C
Gen. Groves
Atpen
Subcommittee
Meell
Dr. Condon
Labor Day
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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