Democrats In Texas Clean House
Texas Democrats oust leaders and members unsupportive of straight-ticket voting at a 12 hour state convention. Johnson for U S Senate certified by mail to Austin officials amid moves to purge states rights sympathizers and empower loyalty pledges across party committees.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Democratic Party of Texas
B. Johnson
Johnson
Austin
Coke Stevenson
Morris
Dallas
Tarrant
Harrison
National Committee
Wright Morrow
Houston
Texas
Byron Skelton
Temple
Morrow
R. A. Thompson
Goliad
State Executive Committee
Claude Hudspeth
San Antonio
Democratic Ecutive Committee
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas State Democratic Executive Committee
U.S. Senate
Coke R. Stevenson
Faithful Dog Guards Slain Master in 30 Hour Vigil
WADESBORO Sept 15 A loyal hound kept a 30 hour vigil over the body of Tyler Bennett Boggan 68 Anson county plantation owner guiding searchers to the scene after he was shot with a shotgun Sheriff Ben M Rivers and the State Bureau of Investigation pursued moonshining suspects as the motive Boggan reportedly wandered woods seeking stills and the dog’s distress led rescuers to the body.
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Wadesboro
Tyler Benett Boggan
Anson County
Ben M. Rivers
State Bureau of Investigaion
Rivers
Boggan
Livers
Belt Prices Continue To Gain as Demand Strengthens
Raleigh reports demand for most grades of tobacco growing as auctions enter the third day on the old belt. Most leaf rose $3 to $7 per hundred pounds in yesterday's sales while smoking leaf advanced $2 to $4. The belt covers markets in North Carolina and Virginia with declines noted on fiddle and Eastern North Carolina belts after Monday gains. Season average on the Carolina border belt stood at 1.01 dollars as it winds down.
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Raleigh
Yesteray
North Carolina
Virginia
UN to Get Colony Case at United Nations Assembly
Paris dispatch reports Italy's prewar African colonies Eritrea Libia and Somaliland sent to the UN for decision after lengthy talks by the big four powers. U S Russia Britain and France failed to agree on trusteeship or future status with Libya's Cyrenaica proposed for British trusteeship. Also noted is a Atlantic hurricane centered 300 miles south southwest of Cape Race not expected to hit North America.
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Italy
Africa
United Nations
Russia
United States
Tain
France
United Nations Assembly
Eritrea
Somaliland
Washington
State Department
Cirenaica
Libia
Britain
U.N
Trygve Lie
Foreign Ministers Council
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
New York
Cape Race
Newfoundland
North American
GOP Looks To Senate Contests
The Republican high command pushes senatorial campaigning amid AFL attacks and reports Democrats threaten four GOP seats. Senator Capehart to join Gov. Dewey on a western tour to aid nominees in Iowa Colorado and New Mexico. Dewey victory feared to help GOP retain a slim Senate margin. AFL blacklist targets eight Republican senators and several candidates over Taft Hartley stance.
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Washington
Republican High Command
AFL
Capehart
Indiana
Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
Senate
Iowa
Colorado
New Mexico
New York
Dewey
House
Alexander Is Charged With Misconduct
Robert C. Alexander assistant chief of the Visa division faces charges of misconduct and neglect of duty by the State Department. The action stems from his Senate testimony with two colleagues claiming a national security threat from aliens from communist controlled countries seeking UN employment. Secretary Marshall backs an inquiry, while a three citizen committee found their testimony irresponsible and lacking factual support.
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Washington
Robert C. Alexander
Marshall
United Nations
State Department
O Alexander
Alexander
Visa Division
Senate Judiciary Committee
U. S
Department
Berlin Talks Transferred to Paris After Kremlin Meeting
Western diplomats say Berlin crisis talks will move from Moscow to Paris after a Kremlin meeting with Molotov. If a direct east west settlement seems possible, the big four may handle it informally. else the issue goes to the United Nations. Molotov is seen delaying to push the Paris phase.
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Berlin
Moscow
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Kremlin
Stalin
Council of Foreign Ministers
United Nations
Molotov
United Nations Assembly
Priest Disguised Swindles Boston Car Dealer
A man dressed as a priest duped Jackson Square Motors in Roxbury by purchasing an auto he had rented from Columbia Motor Mileage. He claimed to be sending in a priest who was reassigned and wanted to sell his car before a parish move. The deal netted $1,900 before the ruse was found.
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Boston
Jackson Square Motors, Inc
Columbia Motor Mileage Corp
Roxbury
Jackson Square
Peace In Our Time Ten Anniversary Of Berchtesgaden
AP columnist recalls Neville Chamberlains Berchtesgaden visit ten years earlier, his bid for peace with Hitler, and the looming threat of war as Anthony Eden resigns and Britain seeks a Prague mediation amid Czech Sudeten crisis tensions.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
London
Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Anthony Eden
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Britain
Prague
Truman Accuses Taft of Pressuring Labor Board in ITU Case
President Truman charges Senator Taft with trying to heat up the Taft Hartley dispute as the ITU fight over the closed shop continues. He cites renewed NLRB pressure and a letter exchange with NLRB associate counsel Findling amid ongoing court injunctions blocking ITU contracts with publishers.
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Washington
Truman
Taft
Ohio
National
Cincinnati
White House
Id P. Findling
NLRB
ITU
Milwaukee
Findling
Hyderabad's 2nd Largest City Captured
New Delhi reports Aurangabad fell to Indian troops without firing a shot as Daulatabad and Jalna were occupied. The move gives control of much of Hyderabad's northwest while authorities claim no civil resistance. Nawab Nawaz Jung travels to back protests in Paris.
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New Delhi
Aurangabad
Hyderabad
Indian Defense Ministry
Daulatabad
Jalna
United Nations Security Council
Nawab Moin Nawaz Jung
London
Paris
Greek Guerrillas Claim Victory In Grammos Sector
A Greek guerrilla radio report claims a five day counter offensive north of Grammos shattered most of the government 5th division with 3,233 casualties including 565 killed. It says communist forces now hold heights near Mount Gavros near the Albanian frontier, but Athens has not confirmed the claims.
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Greece
United Nations
Grammos
Markos Vatfiades
Mount Gavros
Athens
Train wreck kills soldiers in Korea injures many
In Korea a fast Mokpo to Seoul passenger train collided with a halted troop train near a tunnel killing 35 American soldiers and injuring about 120, including 80 U S troops. Rescue workers dug through wreckage as doctors treated the injured and some continued on. A witness said the Mokpo train engineer did not see the other train until 50 yards away.
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Seoul
Fusan
Mokpo
Charles McCafferty
Chicago
Eleven New Polio Cases Reported in State
Eleven polio cases were reported to the State Board of Health, raising the yearly total to 2,048. Lee and Madison counties each reported three cases, while Burke, Cleveland, Columbus, Johnston, and Union counties reported one each. All cases began in September and the month’s total reached 108.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Lee
Madison
Burke
Cleveland
Columbus
Johnston
Union
Jet Fighter Explodes Over Bavaria Killing Pilot
An American jet fighter exploded over Bavaria today killing the pilot whose name was not released. It marks the fourth U.S. jet craft lost this month.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Bavaria
U.S
North Carolina Man Held In Murder of Rich Widow
Maurice Holshouser, once a carnival worker, was arrested in Yadkinville North Carolina for the slaying of Lena Robinson a 73 year old oil producer widow. He signed a statement admitting the murder and said he killed her with his fists taking a ring two watches oil company checks and her car. He fled toward North Carolina with two checks cashed en route and abandoned the car in Greene County near Rudkernville. Virginia authorities sent fingerprints from Mrs Robinsons car to New York. State police planned extradition.
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Wellsville
N. Y
North Carolina
Maurice Holshouser
Lena Robinson
Harold L. Kemp
Holshouser
Yadkinville
N. C
Kemp
H. J. Jackson
E. M. Logan
Carnival
Batavia
Salisbury
Virginia
Hermit Sculptor in Kasama Markets Time With Gong
In Kasama village 60 miles north of Tokyo a hermit sculptor, Toyoni Miura, has rung a gong hourly for 40 years after missing a train. He has slept little, refuses visitors, and proclaims the gong a living timekeeper supported by the town at 20 yen a month.
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Tokyo
Kasama
Toyoni Miura
Orient
Miura
U. S
Government seeks to break up big four meat packers
The U S government filed a federal anti trust suit in Chicago to split Swift Armour Cudahy and Wilson into 14 separate and competing companies. It alleges they control livestock purchases set uniform prices and ship at loaded rather than delivered rates to suppress competition. The action aims to end monopolistic restraints in meat production and sales.
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Washington
Chicago
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
Cudahy Packing Company
Wilson and Company, Inc
Armour and Swift
Cudahy and Wilson
Clark
Swift and
Armour
Department of Justice
Comsplaint
U. S. Sends 40 More C-54 Planes to Germany
The air force will dispatch about 40 additional C-54 cargo planes to reinforce the 105 already flying the Berlin airlift. Aircraft will use expanded European facilities and crews will be drawn from various areas, including the Far East, passing through the United States en route to Europe.
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Washington
Air Force
Germany
Lucius Clay
U. S
Far East
United States
Europe
Britain blames Russian provocation for Berlin riot at Brandenburg Gate
Britain charged that Russian troops provoked German anti communists into last Thursday’s street fighting near the Brandenburg gate. A British military government spokesman rejected Maj. Gen. Kotikov’s claim that British MPs encouraged fascist provocateurs. The exchange follows three days of sharp replies amid fourth power talks on Berlin and the expected resumption of talks in Moscow.
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Berlin
Britain
Brandenburg Gate
Alexander Kotikov
Provocateurs
Kotikov
Kremlin
Moscow
Diphtheria Outbreak In Greenville South Carolina
Health officials in Greenville county urge immunization as diphtheria cases rise with three new infections. Special clinics have administered over 1,500 inoculations in the past ten days, bringing total cases to 24 since August 26.
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Greenville
S .C
Greenville County
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