Progressives Nominate Wallace for Peace at Philadelphia
At Convention Hall Philadelphia the Progressive party moved toward nominating Henry A Wallace with Glen Taylor as running mate Albert J Fitzgerald CIO leader chaired sessions urging real peace achieved through Congress and critiquing Taft-Hartley while vowing inflation cuts and a large military budget shift.
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Philadelphia
New
Progressive Party
Henry A. Wallace
Waltese
Stalin
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Lynn
Mass
Congress
Henry Wallace
Josef Stalin
United States
Wallace
Fitzgerald
CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
Glen Taylor
Idaho
Shibe Park
Truman
Harry
Thomas E. Dewey
People Hall
Charlies P. Howard
Iowa
Sen
Joseph Rainey
Race Battle Threat Ends Near Hazlehurst Mississippi
Near Hazlehurst Mississippi a night of tense confrontations between hundreds of white posse members and armed Negro residents ended at daylight. Sheriff Julius Harper was shot while arresting a Negro after a confrontation with a white storekeeper and his wife. Two white men hunting the suspects were wounded. Dentville, a 50-person community, lies 12 miles west of Hazlehurst and 30 miles south of Jackson.
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Hazlehurst
Miss
Julius Harper
Turkey Creek Woods
Dentville
Jackson
McDonald and Blaine Clinic
Dewey Ellis
Ie Te Tee
Bachelor farmer seeks wife with farm in Wisconsin
Austin Minnesota bulletin reports Phil lip Schierscher a 50 year old bachelor farmer has advertised for a wife with a farm. He receives about six letters daily and has narrowed the field to 10 prospects including two from northern Wisconsin each with around 40 acres. He plans to visit the two in about a month. Women from Massachusetts have written offering hands and lands in marriage.
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Austin, Minn
Phillip Schierscher
Waukesha
Wis
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Rennebohm declines nine day any deer season
Gov. Rennebohm today refused to sign an order creating a nine day any deer season and returned it to the state conservation commission for further study. He urged refuges be designated and asked for a plan to avoid overbrowsing before the order becomes effective.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
State Conservation Commission
State Conservation Congress
The
Conservation Department
Commission
Congress
Glib Young Killer Tells Part Of Six Ohio Murders
Robert Daniels 22 admits part in six killings over 14 days with partner John West. He describes Niebel family murders in Mansfield and other slayings from a car theft and corn field executions. West died in a shootout with police. Daniels awaits murder charges in Richland County.
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Ohio
John Dillinger
Roy Shaffer
van Wert County
Robert M. Daniels
Columbus
O. Daniels
John C. West
Parkersburg
W. Va
van Wert
Mansfield
Tiffin
Columbus, O
Celina
Robert Daniels
F. Ray Shaffer
Daniels
Set. L. D. Conn
John E. Niebel
Mansfield Reformatory
Noranda
Phyllis
West
Earl C. Ambrose
James Smith
Orville Taylor
Niles
Mich
Michigan
Frank Krech
Flat Rock
Krech
Richland County
Theodore Lutz
Clay Describes Proposal to Boost Berlin Supplies
General Lucius D. Clay announced a plan to double food and fuel shipments to Berlin amid the Soviet blockade. He stressed the goal of avoiding war, noted talks with Truman and Marshall, and said decisions to risk armed convoys lie with the government, not frontline commanders.
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Washington
Berlin
Russia
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
U. S
Truman
Stat Marshall
Clay
Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
London
Lewis Douglas
Bohlen
Douglas
Local Weather for La Crosse and Vicinity
Fair and warmer tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 60 degrees. High Sunday afternoon 88 degrees.
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la Crosse
A Political Baby Is Born In Philly
A crowded Philadelphia hall witnessed the birth of the Progressive party linked to Henry Wallace and Senator Glen Taylor. The event drew 10,000 attendees as speakers urged world peace and civil rights amid religious overtones and postwar discontent. Nonessential details of bystanders are omitted.
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America
Philadelphia
Wallace
Fred Stover
Farmers Union
Iowa
Henry Wallace
Katherine Depauly
Miami
Fla
Glen Taylor
Idaho
Hope
GM Raises Prices on All Passenger Cars
General Motors Corp. announced about an eight percent price increase on all passenger cars, effective Monday. President C. E. Wilson cited rising wages and material costs while noting an 11 cent per hour wage rise for CIO United Auto Workers, with another adjustment likely in September.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
C. E. Wilson
CIO
United Auto Workers
St Peter Answers The Telephone At Health Department
Washington reports a new telephone clerk in DC vital statistics. Joseph Frances St Peter, formerly an ambulance driver, now handles calls in the death certificate and birth registration sections with the line This is St Peter talking.
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St. Peter
Health Department
Washington
District of Columbia Health Department
Buck Rogers Like Wingless Plane Reported Over Alabama
Two Eastern Air Lines pilots Capt. C. S. Childs and Co Pilot J. B. Whitted sighted a wingless two deck craft southwest of Montgomery. They described red flames and a blue glow, a 100 foot fuselage, two window rows, speeds of 500 to 700 mph, and the craft disappearing into clouds heading toward New Orleans.
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Atlanta
Montgomery
Ala
New Orleans
C. S. Childs
J. B. Whitted
Houston
Boston
Duluth Ball Club Bus Crash Kills Five in St Paul Area
Five people die and eleven are injured after a Duluth Dukes baseball team bus collides head on with a heavy truck on highway 36 near St Paul. The bus carries 17 players from Eau Claire to St Cloud for a game.
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Duluth
ST. Paul
Northern Baseball League
Ancker Hospital
Highway 36
Western
Dale Avenues
Duluth Ball Club
The
Dukes
Eau Claire
Wis
St. Cloud
Minn
St.Cloud
Bernard F. Gerl
Joliet
Ill
Donald Vandermeer
Muskegon
Mich
UN bomber Surrenders in New Haven Bond set at 50000
Stephen J. Supina a 36 year old former Army flyer who bombed the United Nations headquarters surrendered in New Haven arraigned and granted a continuance for a mental examination He said his aim was world peace and unmet he would oppose extradition after telling reporters he planned to finish his fight for world peace in Lake Success
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New Haven
Conn
Stephen J. Supina
United Nations
New Haven Register
D. W. Celotto
Lupina
Look To Day When ERP Ends Marie Urges
Andre Marie, likely to form France’s next cabinet, urged the national assembly to plan for the end of the European recovery program and warned of unemployment and factory closures without a future for workers. Paul G Hoffman said ERP lasts four years regardless of U.S. elections and that we are out at the end of four years.
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Paris
Andre Marie
National Assembly
Marie
Paul G. Hoffman
European Cooperation
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