Louisiana Democrats Move to Put Truman Ticket on Ballot
Louisiana leaders draft a compromise to allow the Truman ticket to appear on the ballot without using Democratic symbols or name. The plan, pending Legislature approval by Oct. 5, would require petition-nominated electors and bar using the party label. The states rights candidates remain official Louisiana Democrats.
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Baton Rouge
Truman
Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee
States’ Rights
Secretary of State
Mr. Truman
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Louisiana Democratic Party
Hoax About Wife's Death Confesses Truth
Clarence E. Marshal 34 admitted the death by own action story was a hoax after his wife Margaret 23 living in Portageville Mo. reported she was alive and wanted her sons. He said the claim came to mind and he had been jailed on a murder inquiry while deputies investigated the case.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Clarence E. Marshal
Margaret
Portageville
Marshall
Missouri
Girl Gains After Delicate Surgery
Pamela Lamphere a 22 month old in Chicago shows improvement after a Wednesday operation to relieve a rare bladder condition. Doctors said she appeared cheerful with a normal temperature as she plays with dolls. Two more operations are planned, the next in about three weeks.
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Chicago
Pamela Lamphere
Pamela
Fred
Irene
Barkley urges record voter turnout for 1948 election
Senator Alben W. Barkley pushes a 60 million vote target as essential for a Democratic win in November. He addresses Liberal Party and labor groups, stressing the world view of democracy and the stakes of turnout ahead of Atlantic City and Worcester rallies.
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New York
New England
Alben W. Barkley
Atlantic City
N. J
Barkley
Democratic National Committee
Liberal Party
David Dubinsky
A. F. L. International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Liberal
Worcester
Mass
Senate
Reds Say Marshall Talk Was Political
Moscow dispatches describe U S Secretary of State George C Marshall s UN address as a political maneuver tied to the American presidential campaign Tass claims the State Department seeks to paint foreign policy in rosy terms and run a broad conciliatory push while Moscow papers summarize the seven point program with cautious language and reservations potentially leading to actions contrary to its stated aims
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Moscow
Tass
Paris
U. S
George C. Marshall
United Nations General Assembly
State Department
Marshall
Rail Engineer Killed near Mango in 1925 Repeats Family Tragedy
L. E. Hicks, 30, of Tampa, died when the Havana Special collided with a standing freight near Mango Florida. His father John Hicks perished in a 1925 Mango crash at the same spot. Two others injured, none seriously, as nine passenger cars left the tracks after the freight backed into a siding and the switch was not turned.
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Basecodase
Fla
Atlantic Coast Line
Here
L. E. Hicks
Tampa
Havana
Mango
R. M. Beach
John Hicks
J. T. Prater
State Highway Patrol
D. Hinton
Jacksonville
Will McDonald
Plant City
A. C. McLendon
McLendon
Disabled Normandy veteran loses school bus job in Charleston
Howard E. Ice a Normandy glider pilot who lost a foot is dismissed from driving the Manongak School bus after state officials say he failed to meet two hand and two foot requirements. Paul Boggs, like Ice, notes his certificate was renewed last year by error amid wartime manpower shortages. The board will not reconsider the dismissal.
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Charleston
W. Va
Howard E. Ice
Paul Boggs
Ice
Manongak
Kindergarten teacher pleads to rejoin Baltimore schools
Regina Frankfeld, wife of Maryland and DC Communist party leader, testifies at a public hearing urging the Baltimore school board to repeal its June ban on Communist employment. Board chair Roszel Thomson says a final decision will come in two weeks after weighing the arguments.
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Baltimore
Xard
Regina Frankfeld
Philip Frankfeld
Communist Party
Maryland
District of Columbia
Roszel C. Thomson
Football Weather Touches Eastern Half of Nation
Weather reports describe cool but fair conditions across the eastern half of the country with some spots in Michigan Wisconsin and New England near freezing. Florida Oklahoma Texas to Arizona remain warmer with showers in the northwest Rockies central Kansas and eastern Nebraska.
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Chicago
Michigan
Wisconsin
New England
Florida
Oklahoma
Texas
Arizona
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Northwest
Kansas
Nebraska
Huks Battle Kills 83 in Nueva Ecija Clash
Eighty three people died after a ten hour encounter between constabulary forces and Red-led Hukbalahaps near Munoz in Nueva Ecija Province, about 75 miles north of Manila, the Manila Bulletin reported.
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Manila
Constabulary
Manila Bulletin
Munoz
Nueva Ecija
Peril to Jap Labor Claimed
Former labor official James S. Killen says MacArthur's occupation policies in Japan threaten to crush the Japanese labor movement. He contends anti communism is wrapped in anti trade unionism and that Communists pose as friends of Japanese labor. Killen resigned in protest over government worker strike bans.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
James S. Killen
Killen
MacArthur
Warren Pledges Shakeup After Republican Victory
Governor Earl Warren signals a major reorganization of the federal bureaucracy if Republicans win. In Detroit he outlines streamlining the executive branch and backs Thomas E. Dewey for leadership. He criticizes the Democratic party and vows two party unity while denouncing Communist infiltration.
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Warren
Detroit
Earl Warren
Ohio
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Kim Sigler
Homer Ferguson
California
Masonic Temple
Motor City
Columbus
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Congress
Democratic Party
Wallace Party
Party of
South
Big City
White House
Republican Party
Dewey
Tom Dewey
Californian Held as Malaya Smuggler
Singapore and Dutch police hold Albert W. Onstott of California the leader of a large smuggling ring between the Philippines Indonesia and Malaya revolutionaries. He faces trial with four others after a September 14 arms unloading raid.
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Singapore
Philippines
Albert W. Onstott
California
Davis rancher to sell 400 Hereford cattle in December
Davis Oklahoma September 24 W B Bill Likins announces a disposal sale on December 16 and 17 of 400 head of registered Hereford cattle from his Flying L Ranch a 8600 acre property southeast of Davis.
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Davis
Okla
W. B
Bill) Likins
Colorful Davis
Likins
Flying L Ranch
Wallace Strains Ohio Tour as Attacks Labor Leaders
Wallace arrives in Ohio after Toledo rally with many seats empty. He criticizes "so-called labor leaders" for keeping union members from Wallace meetings and warns of dangers to the labor movement echoing Germany under Ley. He does not name specific leaders.
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Henry A. Wallace
Ohio
Toledo
Progressive
Cleveland
Youngstown
Civic Auditorium
Germany
Robert) Ley
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