Indians in Cleveland Get Royal Welcome Home From Boston
Clevelanders jam Euclid Avenue for a 10 mile homecoming parade for the world champion Indians. Mayor Burke and team officials ride in open cars as 100000 onlookers cheer. confetti, roses, and gifts shower the players. Public schools take the day off, and celebrations include Ken Keltner and Satchel Paige rejoining the team.
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Larry Smith
Cleveland
Boston
Euclid Ave
Public Square
University Circle
John R. Sammon
Thomas A. Burke
Tribe
Lou Boudreau
Della
Bill Veeck
Veeck
Milwaukee
Boudreau
Lou
Gene) Bearden
Boudreaus
Bearden
Ken Keltner
Pitcher Satchell Paige
Paige
Satch
Euclid Avenue
Jews and Arabs Plan Holy Observances Tonight
In Jerusalem, Jews and Moslems will observe their sacred festivals with guns in hand. Jews mark Yom Kippur ending the ten days of repentance in the year 5709. Muslims observe Id El Adha, ending the pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca.
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Jerusalem
Kaaba
Mecca
Mohammed
Ohio Deputy Wounded As Convicts Escape
IRONTON Ohio three fugitives fled Lawrence County jail after a deputy was wounded and three other prisoners were captured. Deputy Homer Secrist 42 was beaten and shot in the back during the breakout last night as guards patrolled roads and millyards. Edgar Blumfield 19 one of the escapees remained at large. Kenneth Simmons 25 and Harold Gray 18 were recaptured. A distraught sheriff’s wife recounted the drama noting Blumfield threatened her.
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Ironton, O
Lawrence County
Milton Rucker
Homer Secrist
Ironton Hospital
Secrist
Edgar Blumfield
Kenneth Simmons
Harold Gray
Jimmy Austin
Pittsburgh
Harrison Boles
Albert
Austin
Ironton
Byumfield
E. W. Bennett
Ruckers
Blumfield
100000 at Lancaster Fair Opens in Ohio
Fairfield County's 98th annual Fair opens in Lancaster Ohio drawing over 100000 people for a week of exhibits and events. The fair features 3000 exhibits with 22000 dollars in premiums and 8400 dollars in harness racing prizes. The Ohio Hereford Show returns with 200 head from 40 breeders.
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Lancaster, O
Fairfield County
Ohio
Hocking Valley
Fairfield County Agricultural Society
Lancaster
Russell W. Alt
Baltimore
Farmers Harvesting Largest Crop In History
The Agriculture Department projects this year’s total crop production will exceed 1946 by eight percent as favorable weather in September solidifies top 1948 output. Corn tops forecasts at 3.57 billion bushels, about 10 percent above 1946, with silage and feed lifting overall grain harvests. Prices may fall by late 1949 if peace prospects improve, while demand for meats and dairy benefits from higher output.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
O. C. Stine
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Agricultural College
Dewey Charges Truman Bungled Foreign Policy in Tour
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey accused the Truman administration of bungling U.S. foreign policy as he campaigned en route to Louisville Kentucky. He said bipartisan policy has functioned only when the administration allowed it and criticized the administration for missteps abroad.
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Dewey
Truman
Louisville
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Fred M. Vinson
Moscow
Stalin
America
San Francisco
Western powers push to speed UN action on Berlin
United States Britain and France coordinate to push a UN Security Council resolution to lift the Berlin blockade. Marshall returns to Paris as Western officials warn of Soviet veto risk and press for a mediated or Western-led initiative. Dewey attacks current policy, blasts administration handling and Taft-Hartley Act during stops in Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
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Paris
United States
Britain
France
Security Council
Berlin
Marshall
Washington
Truman
Little Six
United Nations Security Council
UN Assembly
U. S
Warren R. Austin
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Juan Atilio Bramuglia
Argentina
Council
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
Dewey
Vinson
State Marshall
United Nations
Hunt Armory
Pittsburgh
Kentucky
Louisville
GOP
John Cooper
Dayton Rubber Company workers strike after wage offer rejection
About 1,400 idle workers in Dayton mark the first strike in 43 years at Dayton Rubber Company Local 178 CIO. The walkout followed a rejected offer of a wage increase of 6 12 cents an hour. Union demands were not announced.
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Dayton, D
Dayton Rubber Company
United Rubber Workers (Cio
Woman Undergoes Tenth Caesarian
TOLEDO AP. Mrs. William Shriver aged 37 gave birth to her 10th child by Caesarian operation in Toledo on Saturday, a world medical record says her physician. The baby weighed four pounds ten ounces. Her other children, aged 17 to two, are all living. the previous nine Caesarian record was set in Boston in 1933.
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Toledo
William Shriver
Boston
Allen Attacks Giveaways Over Advance Call Claims
New York AP report says radio comedian Fred Allen and ABC give away shows clash as Allen contends prize programs telegraph ahead of air. ABC and Stop The Music deny advance notice, explaining calls are made after eight and only completed calls reach the line.
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New York
Fred Allen
American Broadcasting Company
Allen
Portland
Hoffa
ABC
NBC
Charles C. Barry
Mark Goodson
Youth's Fear of Florida's Jails Studied
Ohio investigates a 21 year old war veteran Fred M Fox who fled a Florida prison camp last June and says he would kill himself if forced to return. Gov. Herbert ordered an Ohio inquiry as Fox testified of shackling and beatings while in a Live Oak camp.
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Columbus
Ohio
Florida
Thomas J. Herbert
Hugh S. Jenkins
Fred M. Fox
Herbert
Robert Ratchford
Fox
Cleveland
Mary Smith
Sumter Leitner
Ratchford
Leitner
Hugh Lewis
Dewey Becomes Target Of Jobs From President
President Truman campaigning in Indiana charged Gov. Thomas E. Dewey would destroy the New Deal. He asserted Dewey approved a Congress that risks the nation's prosperity as he sought to rally midwestern industrial voters aboard the campaign train.
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Dewey
Richmond
Ind
Truman
Indiana
Thomas E. Dewey
Illinois
Truman Campaign Tour Shifts to Indiana Illinois
President Truman road traveled across Ohio and Indiana to press a New Deal platform. In Akron crowds exceeded 12 000 heard a major speech linking Dewey to destroying the New Deal. CIO-PAC head Jack Kroll blasted Republicans while Truman touted an eight point program including repealing the Taft Hartley Act and boosted social security benefits.
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H. H. Daugherty
AKRON
Ohio
Truman
Cincinnati
National Guard
Clarence Motz
Summit County
Willard
Motz
Frank J. Lausche
Jack Kroll
Cio-Pac
Lausche
Kroll
Garrett
Dewey
United States
Armory
Springfield
Lincoln
CIO- Political Action Committee
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Richmond
Ind
Henry F. Schricker
Schricker
Greenfield
Cranefordsville
Washington
Taft
On The Scene Photograph Wins Motorist Pardon From Charge
Photographic evidence helped Jack Lloyd of 1300 Fairmount St win a pardon for a traffic ticket after presenting two photos and the ticket to Police Chief Thomas Carmody. Lloyd argued his car was pushed and photos showed the front end into the street. A separate incident had Motorcycle Officer James Combs nearly overwhelmed when a driver thanked him for a speeding ticket on Yankee Rd for going 50 mph.
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Jack Lloyd
Fairmount St
Thomas Carmody
Lloyd
James Combs
Combs
Yankee Rd
Dove Of Peace For Labor Flies From United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers urged unity across American labor calling for cooperation. He urged leaders to set aside grievances, recalled past unity efforts, and warned division weakens labor's influence while signaling UMW's readiness to unite or operate independently if needed.
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Dove of Peace For Labor
United Mine Workers Camp
Cincinnati
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Lewis
UMW
CIO
AFL
United Mine Workers
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Lady In Waiting
Elizabeth
London
Balmoral Castle
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Dayton
Supreme Court
WAC
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Federal Reformatory For Women
Alderson
W. Va
New Deal
Thomas Kennedy
Kennedy
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