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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1948
Page
3
London reports show a nation stunned yet calm as rearmament plans unfold. Officials urge rapid manpower buildup with 20 000 RAF volunteers and eight new reserve centers by October while unemployment and job vacancies shape the nation’s wartime shift.
Charles L Chappel 101, Los Angeles Civil War veteran and commander of Phil Stanton Post G A R travels by Standard Air Lines from Municipal Airport with Maj. Bob Kimbrough escort to attend the national G A R encampment in Grand Rapids Michigan. He plans Chicago flight connections and return September 30.
Gov Earl Warren appeals for national unity to bolster democracy against totalitarianism. He urges a big plane of Americanism without hatred and says the election will influence aid to democracies. Audience at Kleinhans Hall heard his 13 state, 5000 mile campaign with plans to move into New England next week.
Ermino Gatti of Rock Springs Wyoming and Emile Agostonelli of 175 Quincy Ave renewed a 37 year old friendship started in the Italian army. Gatti and his wife visited the Frazzini home at 157 St. Joseph Ave where the surprise reconnection occurred. Both men realized they had been long time comrades in the same unit.
Wallace, candidate for President, attacked President Truman on civil rights in Kiel Auditorium Missouri. He accused Truman of not ending discrimination and mocked anti-lynching rhetoric, accusing southern white supremacists of being emboldened by his words. Wallace planned further stops in Texas and said he would stay in private homes to avoid segregation.
Boston dispatch reports Republican national chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. accuses President Truman of dividing the nation by rhetoric as he campaigns in the east and west. Scott questions Truman's repudiation of a 1944 Communist endorsement reported in the Daily Worker and cites Eugene Dennis as party secretary.
Sen. Alben W. Barkley labeled Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's atomic energy proposals sinister and callous during a Massachusetts Democratic convention. He warned the plan would hand Oak Ridge and Hanford facilities to private industry, urging government control for national defense and progress.
Senate election guards requested copies of grand jury indictments from Albuquerque. The probe targets the June 8 primary and Aug 7 indictments as irregularities including double marking ballots erasures bribery and miscounts. Twenty people await trial on 24 counts.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. Dewey help celebrate adviser Elliott York's birthday aboard the San Francisco bound train in Oregon. They join others at a diner to watch Bell cut the cake as York turns 46, the same age as Dewey.
UVALDE Texas September 25 Four or five high school bands three thousand goats and most of the town of thirteen thousand people prepared for President Truman to arrive at dawn tomorrow He will breakfast with former Vice President Garner and his wife and daughter Margaret Garner arranged the speech The breakfast prompted a rush to finish paving in north Uvalde asphalt was poured today on streets to ensure a smooth ride to Garner's home for the president.
Secretary of Agriculture Charles R. Brannan urged continuation of current price supports to maintain the nation’s economy. He spoke at Cumberland County’s 200th anniversary celebration in Bridgeton New Jersey where about 80 000 people gathered.
J. Strom Thurmond, governor of South Carolina and presidential nominee of the states' rights Democrats, warned in Madisonville Kentucky that other parties seek to steer the nation toward totalitarianism during a campaign address.
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