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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
3
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright chairs the National Veterans Committee for MacArthur for President and says a nation wide house to house drive will form a basic structure with a national committee, state committees in every state, plus county and sub committees in all communities to boost the bid.
New York officials reached a tentative agreement with a C I O union and five private transit firms to head off a 3 a.m. walkout. Third Avenue Transit Corp halted the threat after offering its 3800 employees a 25 cent hourly raise retroactive to May 1, dependent on a fare increase approval.
President Truman plans a campaign swing avoiding the deep south where civil rights tensions rose after Tuesday's primaries. He will speak in Chicago, the Midwest and Pacific Coast, with a Chicago stop seen as ideal for civil rights outreach among a sizable Black electorate. The route includes Omaha and Berkeley, while primaries in Florida and Alabama unfold.
Camp Campbell Kentucky May 6 1940 troops linger as the Army opens Exercise Assembly the largest peacetime training operation since World War I under Third Army and Ninth Air Force command led by Lt Gen Al van C Gillem Jr More than 30000 troops participate in the siege style exercise described as an invader from the Caribbean area continuing through its planned completion.
The passage notes Alabama's 111 electoral votes and hints at run-off elections for delegate and elector candidates. It suggests Tru man faces Democratic electors pledged to withhold the state's vote from any President candidate who ran on a civil rights platform, with 11 electors expected to oppose such a ticket.
Tornadoes lashed Oklahoma towns with moderate damage in Blocker uprooting houses and a church while Okemah suffered greater loss to merchants and warehouses. Across a north south arc from Kansas to Texas line squalls brought hail rain and high winds with no deaths and only minor injuries. Mayor D P Dick cited 2.64 inches of rain and hail in 75 minutes near Okemah as power and phone lines failed temporarily.
In Baltimore a 28 year old expectant mother Rita Zegzdryn told magistrate how her husband William Zegzdryn fatally stabbed himself during a dispute over her children. An autopsy found a single stab wound piercing the heart. She was ordered held without bail for grand jury action on a charge of killing her husband.
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