Klan leader jailed as sheriff probes mob killing
ONWAY S C Sept 1 AP the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina Thomas L Hamilton was jailed on conspiracy to stir up mob violence following a probe by Sheriff C E Sasser into the death of Police Chief James D Johnston of Conway during a Klan parade clash in Myrtle Beach area Witnesses said a Negro nightclub patron Charlie Mingerald remained jailed unseen Sasser reported the Klan parade through a Negro section sparked threats shootings and beatings as Johnston Fitzgerald and others were harmed in the ensuing chaos The investigation continues with anticipated further arrests
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Onway
S. C
Grand Dragon
Ku Klux Klan
South Carolina
Thomas L. Hamilton
C. E. Sasser
Horry County
Prins Fag
Perle SA
Sasser
James D. Johnston
Comway
Shoriff
Charlie Mingerald
Johnston
Susser
Hamilton Paradad
Myrtle Ligh
Negyro
Gra
Fitzgerald
Baxter
Angie
Negro
Cac Ees
Conway
Rain and heat clash across the nation with record Blythe reading
Rain drenched much of the eastern half while heat shattered records in the west. Blythe California logged 119 degrees, while Phoenix hit 115 the hottest for the date. Indiana and Ohio saw a gulf storm push heavy rains northeastward.
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Associated Presse
Indiana
Ohio
New York
California-Arizona
Blythe
Calif
Yuma
Ariz
Phoenix
Long Beach Lifeguards Publish Local Weather Statistics
Coast survey data note tide levels and water temperature for the day. Sunrise and sunset times, moon phases, and wave conditions are listed with high and low tides and seas calm.
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U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Long Beach
Swursday's
Truman Seeks 6 Million More for FBI and Education
President Truman asks Congress for an additional 6 million dollars for the FBI amid security needs after the Korean War. The White House cites a changed international situation and proposes 347 dollars for education administration. Also seeks funds for Park Service seven costs and Capitol rotunda frieze completion.
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FSI
Stepep
Beestse Ana Iy
FBI
Revere
Truman
Office of Education
White House
National Parke Service
National Park Police Force
Ashen
Costa
Commission of Fine Arts
Balks at Religious Spying and Flees Reds
Berlin dispatch reports an 18 year old East German woman who resisted police pressure over religious sect matters, claiming objections to training with tools and carbines. She says she fled after confrontation with authorities.
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Berlin
UPA
Ruiniet
Jehovah's
Wheel Off Truck Kills Child at Play in Starkeville
A road accident in Starkeville where a wheel detached from a truck struck a Black child playing nearby, causing fatal injuries. Police and rescue teams responded. investigators seek the cause of the wheel detachment and identify the deceased.
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Joe Pauid Heer
Posse Starkeville
Pickets Dump Food in Ship Fight at Lynn G E Plant
Pickets aboard a food cargo boat at the Lynn Massachusetts river entrance seized and buried cargo in the Saugus River during a two day wage strike by nearly 30,000 electrical workers against General Electric. The clash followed a wider labor wave as unions pressed for higher pay with strikes across the United States including Deere tractor plants and Ford and Chrysler factories. In Syracuse and Tell City other plants faced walkouts as U A W and related unions push for wage gains.
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Sangoing
General Electric Co
Lynn
Mass
Saugus River
G. E
Everett
Syracuse
N.Y
Y. Henderson
Nahant
U.S
C. I
Deere & Co
Illinois
Towa
Tell City
Ind
Uni
U. A
W-C. LO
Ford Motor
Chrysler and
Hudson
Air Force Split Over Hunt Plane Hit Manchuria
Washington and FEAF clash over whether an American F 51 Mustang crossed the Manchurian border. FEAF says no planes crossed and no such overflight information is known, while Warren Austin suggested a possible accidental incursion five miles inside Manchuria.
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Air Force
Manchuria
Washington
U. S
Far East ‘Air Force
Far East Air Force
Tokyo
Manchupen
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
FEAF
Sch A Department ‘1
Austin
Truman Plan to Withdraw Fleet From Formosa Debate
President Truman faced questions on ending Seventh Fleet protection off Formosa after Korea ends. He said peace with Japan should guide any Formosa settlement in a postwar treaty, while critics urged immediate steps toward a Japanese peace treaty and Pacific defense arrangements with non Communist nations. Senators Magnuson Chapman and Knowland weighed implications for China and Nationalist forces.
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Truman
Formosa
Korea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
United States
Tempe
Japan
Magnunon
D.wash
Chapman
D.ky
Gurney
Senate Armed Services Committee
Magnuson
Russia
Pacific
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
RM. J
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Knowland
Rcallf
Cat in Tree Rescue Ends with Man Injured and Cat Safe
In Pittsburgh a man attempting to rescue a cat from a tree was injured by a hook. Schwartz tried to assist but was bitten or struck, needing several stitches. The cat watched the operation and then climbed down on its own.
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Pittsburgh
Schwartz
How to Use Fleet After Korean War Poses Big Problem
A detailed view of U S naval posture after Korea notes President Truman may shift forces from Formosa as the Pacific fleet expands to a record size. It highlights 150 ships in the Far East, ongoing mothball activations, and anticipated redeployments from Atlantic to Pacific theaters.
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Pacific
Far East War
U. S. West Coast
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Forrest P. Sherman
United Nations
South Korea
Ameron
Paris
Rus‘nia
Far East
North Korea
North Fores
Russia
Red Navy
Kamchatka Peninsula
Siberian
United States West
Chemist Refuses to Talk on Red Link, Goes to Jail
In Los Angeles on September 1 a Shells Development Co chemist received a six month sentence for contempt after he refused to disclose whether he belonged to the Communist party between 1937 and 1938. The reluctant witness, Dr Eugene Brunner, was called by the government in the trial of Dr Sidney Weinbaum, former Caltech physicist, who denies government employment links to communism. Brunner’s refusal to answer prompted his attorney Ben Margolis to seek a mistrial and judge Ben Harrison warned Brunner before discharging the jury.
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Los Angeles
U. A
Shells Development Co
U. S
Ben Harrison
Eugene Brunner
Sidney, Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Weinbaum
Industrial Employment Review Board
Brunner
Ben Margolis
Harrison
Brun
MacArthur Emphasizes UN Lead for World Peace
In Tokyo Gen. MacArthur said the United Nations is morally and physically able to meet the world peace challenge as he spoke on the eve of Japan's surrender anniversary. He warned imperialistic militarism leaves human and spiritual wounds and urged UN security against military attack as the sole unsolved problem in Japan.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Gen. MacArthur
Toda
Japan
Kore
MacArthur
Marcel
Family of Free Nations
Asia
Americans Halt 965 U.S. Trucks Heading to Hungary
At Fort in Germany, U S officials stopped 965 former Army trucks bound for Hungary amid wider action by Allied authorities to close export loopholes. Three days earlier 30 rail carloads of machinery and tools to East Germany and other eastern Europe were seized. The move targets shipments that would bolster Soviet bloc war potential as West Germany reassesses rearmament.
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West Germany
Schirnding
Iron Curtain Front
Vote on Arizona Project Delayed
Washington dates show the House public lands committee delaying action on the Central Arizona Project again as time ran out. Representative Peterson plans another meeting on September 15 to decide the $596 million project, amid opposition concerns of a looming deadline threat from Rep. Engle and opponents.
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Washington
Ariona
House Public Lands
Peterson
D.fin
Rep
Engle
Damocles
Radar issue in Ship Crash
A government expert testifying for Coast Guard probes said the freighter Mary Luckenbach was not required to have radar during thick fog when it rammed and sank hospital ship Benevolence. The Mary Luckenbach was seized in a $24 million casualty case as 18 dead and five missing were reported with 500 rescued.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Mary Luckenbach
Rade
Iain F. W. Sloan
Fedne Communications Commission
Luckenbach 8 Steamship Co
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