Georgia primary draws record turnout amid governor fight
Georgia voters flocked to the polls as the 1947 governor contest heated with Eugene Talmadge and Gov. M E Thompson battling for the post. The state supreme court ruled for Thompson, while Talmadge urged a comeback aided by white supremacist support. A record 1,195,183 voters registered, including 138,870 African Americans, with multiple House and Senate races statewide as Utah Arizona Nevada also held primaries.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
M. E. Thompson
Eugene Talmadge
Herman
Thompson
Young Talmadge
State Supreme Court
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Ku Klux Klan
Hoke O’kelley
Oe Willis
Joseph Rabin
Richard Russell
Senate
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W. M. Wheeler
James C. Davis
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Wyman C. Lowe
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Arizona
Nevada
Herbert R. Maw
John S. Royden
Mann
Bracken Lee
Rendell H. Mabey
Walker K. Granger
William A. Dawson
Granger
David J. Wilson
Mitchell Melich
Reva Beck Bosone
Salt Lake City
Ray H Leavitt
State Road Commission
Dan E. Garvey
Richard F. Harleas
Bruce Brockett
William Bourdon
Harold Pattern
John R. Murdock
John Udall
A. R. Buehman
Charles Russell
Reno
Walter Baring
Missing passengers feared as ship sinks in Caribbean
A small motorship carrying a circus sank Sept 1 in the Caribbean. Forty four aboard are missing, including 36 passengers. The Caribe rescued nine passengers and three crew. The vessel Euzkera, from Mariel Cuba to Cartagena, carried a circus. search by U S Navy and allied planes followed. The ship date and details connect to a former McKinley yacht with Havana agents reporting the cargo. The report notes Tito denouncing the West in Helsinki.
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McKinley
Havana
Razzore Circus
Cotton Crop Estimate Up Fifty Million Bales Forecast
The agriculture department projected a U S cotton crop of 15 219 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight for the year, up from 15 169 000 bales a month earlier. Acreage for harvest was set at 23 323 000 acres with 14 percent abandonment expected. The Sept 1 condition was 82 percent of normal and lint per acre 313.2 pounds. The census bureau reported 1 473 245 bales ginned to Sept 1, versus 682 109 last year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Middle Eastern Tobacco Prices Register Gains
Flue cured tobacco prices opened after Labor Day with steady to slightly higher bids. U S and N C departments report gains on middle belt markets with increases of 1 to 3 dollars per hundred. Some eastern North Carolina leaf grades rise 1 to 2 dollars while other grades fall. Border belt mostly steady or up slightly with 1 to 3 dollar gains.
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N. C
North Carolina
Border Belt
Death toll rises after Chicago candy factory blast
The death toll from yesterday's explosion and fire at the E. J. Brach and Sons Candy factory climbed to five. Milton Seidel, 57, died at Loretto hospital from injuries. Sixteen people remain in hospitals for burns or injuries.
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E. J. Brach and Sons
Milton Seidel
Loretto Hospital
Telephone Strike Threatens Nationwide Labor Turmoil
The CIO plans a September 17 walkout affecting 25 000 telephone workers at 2 300 Bell locations in 43 states amid wage disputes with Western Electric. Overall 64 000 workers idle in oil trucking and shipping strikes. sector-wide mediations continue as New York milk and garment deliveries suffer and 38 000 textile jobs risk layoffs. Longshoremen strike on the west coast persists with army cargo talks in San Francisco.
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10 Association of Communications Equipment Workers
Bell Telephone Company
Western Electric Manufacturing Company
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New Jersey
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
New York
CID
Army
San Francisco
Motive Sought In Slaying Of 16 Year Old In New Jersey
Police seek motive in the slaying of 16 year old Alberta Sharp whose body was found in an abandoned gravel pit near a Gloucester County farm. Autopsy showed one rifle bullet hit her neck and the head was bludgeoned. She disappeared after leaving a Jefferson ice cream shop where she worked.
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Glouchester County
J. Earl Wentzell
Camden County
E. Milton Hannold
Edward Ballinger
Ballinger
Moves Near in Berlin Blockade Debate
Berlin reports say Russian troops and Soviet sector police abducted 19 western police and a German photographer from a French convoy near Berlin city hall as discussions on the blockade shift. The incident prompted protests from United States and French authorities and raised the prospect of a multinational protest.
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Lustgarten
U.S
United States
Alexander Kotikov
Frank L. Howley
Thes
Cooler Midwest Returns as South Remains Hot
A cold front pushes temperatures down from northern Ohio to the Pacific coast with highs in the 40s and 50s in many areas, while Texas and much of the South stay hot with readings around 80. Rain showers scatter across Iowa Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Texas Panhandle and parts of Illinois Wisconsin and the Dakotas.
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Dakotas
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Tennessee
Robbins Given Suspended Sentence in Embezzlement Case
Raleigh September 8 William M. Robbins who fled after being indicted in 1942 for embezzling 744 dollars and 85 cents while in the revenue department received a two year suspended sentence. He was ordered to repay the bonding company that covered him during state employment. Judge W F Harris imposed the sentence after Robbins pled guilty in Wake Superior Court.
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Raleigh
William M. Robbins
Revenue Department
Robbins
W. FE. Harris
Wake Snperior
World upheaval noted as pendulum swings both ways
DeWitt Mackenzie discusses global social upheaval driven by left and right clashes as centrists try to prevent extremes. He cites Queen Juliana’s accession in the Netherlands and tensions in the East Indies, noting that a constitutional monarchy with parliament aligns with democracy while unrest persists.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Netherlands
Juliana
Wilhelmina
Holland
East Indies
Auriol Seeks De Gaullist Support To End French Crisis
Paris reports President Vincent Auriol called De Gaullists to form a national union government as France faces a political crisis after Schuman's cabinet fell over an 8.33 dollar cost of living bonus. Herriot, aged 76, health issues and calls for a caretaker government dominate talks. Fourteen radical socialist deputies split, and employer groups oppose the bonus amid looming strikes.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
Robert Schuman
Charles de Gaulle
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Radical Socialist Party
Edouard Herriot
Herriot
National Assembly
France
Assembly
Dewey Plans Opening Talk September 20
Gov Thomas E. Dewey will open his presidential campaign September 20 with a Des Moines speech at Drake Stadium from 9 to 9 30 p m Eastern Standard Time. The speech will be broadcast on CBS and Mutual networks. Dewey will depart Albany September 19 by train and may tour the west coast before returning east.
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Iowa
Herbert Brownell ,Jr
Drake Stadium
New York
CBS
Mutual
Dewey
West Coast
GOP
Harold E. Stassen
Detroit
Truman
Roadblocks Erected Here To Intercept Bank Robbers
Police and FBI units launched patrols and roadblocks around Greensboro and surrounding counties after a bank robbery in Elk Creek Virginia. Three men fled with about eight thousand dollars in a 1939 black Ford coupe with West Virginia plates. A Kentucky permit and a Twin Oaks witness helped trace the suspects toward West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Paul Isaacs
Bristol
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Isaacs
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N. C
Roy Edwards
Kentucky
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Edwards
Virginia
Creek
Grayson Coun
Raleigh
State Highway Patrol
Greensboro
Farmer’s Bank
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Highway Patrol
Burlington
Asheboro
Salisbury
High Point
Thomasville
Twin Oaks
German Torpedo Washes Ashore On Outer Banks
A German torpedo six to eight feet long and about 30 inches in diameter washed ashore near Frisco on Tuesday and was turned over to coast guard authorities for study. The aluminum torpedo bore swastikas and showed a blunt end like a struck bullet. it carried substantial machinery. Coast guardsmen from Rodanthe station retrieved the weapon for examination.
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Frisco
Coast Guard
Rodanthe
Japanese smokers to get ration increase in December
Tokyo reports Japanese smokers will receive an increase of one third of a cigarette daily starting in December, raising the ration to two cigarettes per day from the current one and two thirds.
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Tokyo
Germany to Begin US Immigration for Wartime Displaced
The United States plans to admit Germans from the Reich after mass registrations in the western occupation zones. About 25 957 Germans will be eligible annually with 205 000 displaced persons to be admitted over two years. Congress also restores the pre war German quota. Registration forms total two million, with consular word needed to start processing.
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United States
The
Reich
Germany
Austria
State Department
Switzerland
Congress
Clay Reports to President on Berlin Crisis Talks
Secretary of State Marshall received a detailed briefing from the Pentagon on German and Berlin conditions. President Truman convened a White House conference with foreign policy and defense advisers amid the Berlin crisis and security council deliberations. Gen. Clay’s progress report to Berlin tense East West relations and possible actions were under review.
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Germany
Berlin
National Security Council
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Lucius D. Clay
Truman
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Security Council
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Navy
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National Security Resources Board
Congress
Gen. Clay
Fifteen New Polio Cases Reported In State
One more polio death and fifteen new cases were reported to the State Board of Health. The death of an Alexander county resident raises the year’s toll to seven. Total cases reach 1936 with Wake, Cleveland, Alexander counties among those listing cases. August and September onsets add to monthly tallies.
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State Board of Health
Alexander County
Wake County
Cleveland County
Alexander
Catawba
Cumberland
Mecklenburg
Onslow
Rowan
Yadkin
Britain Ready To Open Talks On Italy's Colonies
Britain says it will open four power talks on Italy's pre war colonies before September 15 in response to a Russian request. The note proposes meeting in Paris at the United Nations assembly in or after September 21 to address the colony issue before UN decision.
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Georgi Za«rubin
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