Bombings target Birmingham Negro ministers homes
Two dynamite blasts rocked houses of Rev. Milton De Yampert and Rev. Curry in a white zone of Birmingham, injuring none but shattering windows. Horace Moore, 32, was arrested for resisting arrest after police responded as witnesses said a white possebomb-throwing car operated by white men fled the scene.
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Birmingham
Ala
Horace Moore
Harry C. Frye
Birmingham Age Herald
Milton . B. de Yampert
Curry
de Vampert
de Yampert
Irish Partition Debate Ruled Out By Council
In Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Assembly overwhelmingly rejected Ireland's bid to debate partition. British delegates resisted the plan to take up Ireland's push for northern Ireland's unification with the republic. The ministers backed a three-point agenda on economic matters social security and cultural cooperation with added items on unity human rights and a common European nationality.
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Strasbourg
France
Council of Europe
Ireland
Assembly
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
Wales
Committee of Ministers
Britain
Winston Churchill
First Assembly
Council
Europe
Quake Damage Reaches 87.5 Million in Ecuador
Galo Plaza Lasso reports latest August 5 quake data for Ecuador show property damage estimated at 87.5 million dollars and death toll exceeding 6,000, per AP dispatch from Quito.
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Quito
Eusoor
Galo Plaza Lasso
Ecuador
Seven thousand four hundred found in shorts in Chicago jail
Sigmund Engel, 73, jailed on confidence game charges, had $7,400 torn from his underwear during a strip search. Jail officials say cash has appeared repeatedly. Engel claims the money has been with him since arrest for swindling two widows out of about $20,000. He faces two indictments.
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Chicago
Sigmund Engel
Cook County
Lothario
John Donnelly
Engel
Donnelly
Miss Mitchell
Recorder’s Court
Gravitt
Zoo Yak Dies After Sunstroke At Little Rock Zoo
The Little Rock zoo reports its lone Yak died from sunstroke after a temperature reached 108. The Tibetan native habitat animal was kept for the zoo's cold weather climate.
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Zoo
Little Rock, Ark
Little Rock Zoo
Tibet
Drought Sparks Typhoid Fever Outbreak in France
Paris reports an outbreak of typhoid fever linked to drought conditions. The health ministry notes rising cases across the country with authorities advising precautionary measures and public vigilance.
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Paris
France
Paday
Al Shean Dies Noted Comedian of Gallagher and Shean
Al Shean 81 classic vaudeville star and half of the Gallagher and Shean duo died yesterday in New York. The pair popularized novelty verses and transfixed audiences with repeated punch lines. After Gallagher’s 1929 death he continued performing, later gaining notice as a Catholic priest in Father Malachy’s Miracle on Broadway in 1937.
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New York
al Shean
Gallagher and Shean
Shean
Edward Gallagher
Gallagher
Dornam
Germany
Senators Seek Motive In Deep Freezer Mystery
Washington AP a new episode in the home freezer mystery opens with a motive search as five percenters probe five freezers. Invoices list shipments to Mrs Harry S Truman Maj Gen Harry H Vaughan Chief Justice Fred Vinson Federal Reserve Gov James K Vardaman and Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly. Albert J Gross said Hoffman referred him to a broker for steel and that Albert Verley Co paid for the freezers.
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Wny
Skea
Special Investigations Subcommittee
Harry S&s. Truman
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Federal Reserve
James K. Vardaman
Matt Connelly
William P. Rogers
Harry Hoffman
Milwaukee
Hoffman
Albert J. Gross
Gross
Albert Verley Company
Chicago
Capitol Hill
Senate
Department of Welfare
Federal Security Agency
Labor Department
Senate Expenditures Committee
Congress
Barkley
House
Lucas
Illinois
Canada
Johnson
MacArthur Meets Chiang Ally Aide in Tokyo Conference
Gen Douglas MacArthur held a two hour Tokyo meeting with a Chiang Kai Shek envoy Wu Teh Chen who said the visit was unofficial The talks reportedly covered the Pacific anti Communist pact and other strategic matters. China and the United States debated aid and policy as Communist forces press attacks in southern China and Western allies react to changing strategy.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Wu Wu Teh- Chen
Chiang
Formosa Island
Elpidio Quirino
Philippines
U. S. Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
MacArthur
Washington
Kanghsien
Canton
Nanking
Shanghai
U.S. State Department
Europe
Greece
Albania
Russia
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Moscow
Pravda
Tito
Ohio Farm Bureau Coop expands grain elevator capacity
The Columbus area grain elevator operated by the Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative Association will grow by 1 200 000 bushels. The facility, four years old, currently handles 800 000 bushels and will gain space to increase output.
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Columbus, C
Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative Association
Controversy Over Federal School Aid Spurred by Spellman Roosevelt
Pope Pius XII said the clash between Cardinal Spellman and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt over federal aid to Catholic schools has been resolved satisfactorily. He noted the letters between Spellman and Mrs. Roosevelt and stated the matter remains delicate and unresolved in Congress as the Barden bill seeks 300 million dollars in aid.
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Pius XII
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
Rome
Congress
Barden
D-Nc
Cain Calls for Woods Resignation Over Housing Lobbying
Senator Cain charged Housing Expediter Tighe Woods with violating federal law by lobbying Congress for direct government loans for low cost veteran housing. Cain read Woods's letter criticizing private financing and urging FHA and VA support, urging Woods to choose either government service or private building work.
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Washington
Tighe Woods
Cain
Woods
Congress
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
Spence
Man Aims to Dive 6000 Feet Into Ocean Depths
Otis Barton, 48, Boston born Harvard trained explorer, prepares a historic dive near Smugglers Cove Santa Cruz Island to test human endurance at 6000 feet. The goal is to push scientific knowledge on deep sea life resources undersea terrain and potential military applications.
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Santa Barbara
Barton
Wage dispute over steelworkers demands sparks debate
New York AP report notes economist Jules Backman criticizing tying wages to steel profits. He warns it would create unstable wages, reduce savings, and hurt jobs. CIO United Steelworkers seek a 30 cent hourly package with 12 cent wage boost plus social security and pension gains. Fact finders to report to President Truman by August 30, with nonbinding recommendations.
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New York
Jules Backman
CIO United Steelworkers
Truman
Collins Named Army Chief of Staff for U S Army
Washington AP Gen Joseph L Collins chosen to succeed Gen Omar N Bradley as Army Chief of Staff. President Truman announced the appointment yesterday.
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Washington
Joseph Lawton Collins
7Th Corps
Europe
Omar N. Bradley
Army
Truman
Young to Start Ohio Stumping Tour Against Taft
Representative Young of Ohio announced an August 18 stump tour of the state to oppose incumbent Republican Senator Taft’s reelection bid. The action signals a coordinated campaign effort by Young to shift the contest ahead of the fall election.
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Young
Washington
Ohio
Taft
Gambling raid nets slot machines and arrests at Jungle Inn
State agents seized about 100 slot machines valued at $35,000 at Jungle Inn in Youngstown in a planned raid. Five top officers and 15 other employees were jailed in Warren after 12 hours detention. No liquor found. hearing set before Judge Lynn Griffith to address contraband.
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Youngstown
Warren
Oscar Fleckner
Anthony J. Rutkowski
Common Pleas
Lynn Griffith
Myron Elias
Niles
Claude M. H
Garfield Heights
John Arahn
Cleveland
Steve Butch
Eddie Tobin
Girard
Frank J. Lausche
Mounds Club
Painesville
Lausche
Fleckner
Rutkowski
Liquor Department
Lynn B. Griffith
Trumbull
Bomb Explodes Outside Chicago Journal of Commerce
A small bomb exploded against a boiler room door at the Chicago Journal of Commerce last night causing minor damage estimated at $100. Fifteen staffers were in the building but no injuries occurred as the newspaper continued to publish amid a wave of strikes linked to the Chicago Typographical Union since late November 1947.
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Chicago
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Journal
Chicago Typographical Union
Margaret Mitchell Fights For Life After Auto Crash
Atlanta novelist Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind, remained semi conscious but showed improvement after being struck by a speeding car on Peachtree Street. Her husband, John R. Marsh, said she is better though not fully awake. doctors fear possible basal skull fracture and internal injuries, with transfusions given as her condition stabilizes.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O’hara
John R. Marsh
Marsh
Peachtree St
Hugh Gravitt
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Maine
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