Lifeline Choked as Drivers Quit in New York City
The White House said Truman studies the New York truck strike and West Coast maritime walkout. AFL Route Teamsters walkout halts city freight. embargo aims to prevent rail yard pileups as talks stall. City officials fear spread echoing 1946 paralysis.
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Washington
White House
Truman
New York
AFL
William O'Dwyer
Teamsters
New Jersey
Westchester County
N. Y
Lec
New York Teamsters
Stassen Charges Food Prices Held High by Brannan
Harold E. Stassen accused Secretary Charles F. Brannan of a deliberate effort to halt a drop in food prices. He cited a department statement, said to be approved by Brannan, that would raise prices, and tied it to broader GOP campaign remarks after meeting with Thomas E. Dewey. He urged careful consumer purchases to curb profiteering and false scarcities.
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Brannan
Albany
N. Y
Harold E. Stassen
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Minnesota
Thomas E. Dewey
Agriculture Department
Dewey
Detroit
Truman
Stessen
Department
Stussen
Pauley
Edward W. Pauley
the Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Senate
First Draft Calls 10,000 Men for Army Service
Washington plans to call 10,000 young men for Army duty with registration centers open for the class of 24. The Armed Services consider measures to keep Communists and subversives out of uniforms as the Personnel Board forwards recommendations to Army Navy Air Force and Coast Guard chiefs. The first draftees may wear olive drab by November with state quotas announced.
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Selective Service Headquarters
Armed Services Personnel Board
Army
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
Russian Policy Is Expected To Stay Unchanged
Moscow AP dispatch reports experts believe Soviet policy will remain unchanged after the death of Andrei Zhdanov. They say policy will continue along lines set by Stalin era leaders Molotov and Zhdanov, maintaining internal and foreign policy courses.
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Andrei A. Zhdanov
Stalin
V. M. Molotov
7Ndanov
Berlin Officials Seek Voice in Four Power Talks
Berlin's anti Communist city government pressed to join four power talks on the German crisis, facing a likely Russian veto as the four military governors enter a third day of deliberations. The appeal requests a unified city administration under the elected government and guarantees for travel and protection of the City Assembly amid Communist demonstrations.
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Berlin
Manila Flood Waters Recede After Typhoon Deluge
Flood waters receded in Manila but left 1.5 million people anxious about food supply. Typhoon rainfall disrupted fresh food flow, hoarding began, and road floods halted normal deliveries. Engineers estimated highway damage at 750000 dollars.
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Manila
Manuel de la Fuente
Elpidio Quirno
Airplane Missing Over Belgian Congo Flight Strands Search
Sabena reports a DC-3 on the Coster Manville Elisabethville run is missing in the Belgian Congo. Ten passengers and three crew were aboard. the craft was due to land at noon August. A three-plane search has failed to locate it.
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Belgium
Elisabethville
Belgian Congo
Sabena
Three Midget Planes Qualify For Thompson Trophy Trials
Three midget entries qualified for the Goodyear race with speeds around 148 to 160 mph as Thunderjets and other planes arrive at Municipal Airport. Charles E. Brown set a new closed course speed record at 418.3 mph in a Bell F-39 Airacobra, topping Cook Cleland’s earlier mark by nine-tenths of a mile. The ten fastest qualifiers advance to Monday’s Thompson Trophy race, with last year’s best at 401 mph.
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William Vs. Lefevers
Reesville
N. C
David E. Long
Lockhaven
Piper Aireart
Quigley
Gainesville
Fla
Municipal
Dow Air Base
Maine
Charles E. Brown
Indianapolis
Brown
Thompson
Clos
GOP Claims Substantial Labor Support for Dewey Warren Ticket
AP report says Republicans claim broad labor backing for the Dewey Warren ticket and announce Barak T. Mattingly of Missouri will direct GOP labor campaigns. Mattingly, a St. Louis attorney and RNC general counsel, says he will weld pledges from labor leaders nationwide into campaign activity and cites New York and California as examples of cooperative labor relations.
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Dewey-Warren
Barak T. Mattingly
Truman
Missouri
Mattingly
St. Louis
Republican National Committee
AFL
CIO
GOP
Herbert Brownell
American Labor Movement
Benes Near Death in Prague After Illness
Doctors said former President Eduard Benes, 65, sank deeper into unconsciousness and was virtually paralyzed. He has been unconscious since Tuesday morning with no sign of recovery, though lung action remains normal. Benes resigned last June amid Communist takeover. officials consider possible state funeral arrangements in Prague.
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Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Benes
Explosion in Canton Garage Burns 2 Year Old
In Canton Ohio a match dropped near a can of anti freeze in a father's garage triggered an explosion that left 2 year old Richard Alspaugh with critical burns yesterday.
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Canton
Richard Alspaugh
Bicycle Sold
Journal want ads report a quick sale of a bicycle with no further details about buyer or price.
Studios Rally to Defense of Accused Film Star
Hollywood AP reports studios RKO and Selznick will defend 31 year old film star Robert Mitchum with lawyer Jerry Giesler arguing there are unexplained facts around a marijuana raid. Mitchum Robin Ford 31 Lila Leeds 20 dancer Vickie Evans 25 freed on $1000 bail each. habeas corpus hearing set Sept 8 as detectives promise broader Hollywood crackdown.
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Hollywood
Robert Mitchum Pictures
RKO
Selznick Studios
Jerry Giesler
Mitchum
Robin Ford
Lila Leeds
Vickie Evans
Giesler
Charlie Chaplin
Errol Flynn
Eggs and peaches thrown at Taylor in Idaho campaign
Senator Glen Taylor and Progressive Party nominee John Derr faced attacks as eggs and peaches rained down during a Rexburg street meeting. The Idaho Falls stop followed addresses in Rexburg and Idaho Falls as part of the final Idaho campaign events.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Glen Taylor
Progressive Party
Rexburg
Taylor
John Derr
Clark Fork
U. S. Senate
Pirates fined for bonus rule violation by baseball commissioner
Cincinnati AP. The Pittsburgh Club of the National League was fined 2000 by Commissioner A B Chandler for bonus rule breach. Raymond Kennedy, Pirates farm director, fined 500. L M Lynch, father of the player, received 600 of a 1200 annual contract as a scout, contract nullified. Lynch's own 6000 yearly contract kept as free agent. Pittsburgh barred from signing him for three years. Chandler also notes unconfirmed reports of Detroit farm system potential changes.
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Pittsburgh
A. B. Chandler
Raymond Kennedy
Pirates
L. M. Lynch
Chandler
Lynch
Waco
Young Lynch
Southern Methodist University
Detroit
Storm Appears to Die Out After Caribbean Travel
A tropical storm that drifted through the Caribbean has apparently blown itself out, ending three Florida hurricane jitters. The Weather Bureau in San Juan said the storm crossed the Lesser Antilles and diminished to an easterly wave with winds under 53 mph in the center. No further advisories are expected unless it reactivates.
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Miami
Fla
Caribbean
Florida
U.S
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Lesser Antilles
Bureau
Atlantic hurricane to sweep back to sea after NS hit
The first Atlantic hurricane of the season is expected to roar back out to sea today after sideswiping Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
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Halifax
N. S
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Fall in straw shed fatally injures Isaac Forrer at 70
In Oarville Ohio an elderly man Isaac Forrer aged 70 sustained fatal injuries after a fall in his straw shed Saturday night. Authorities reported the incident and extended condolences.
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Oarville, O
Isaac Forrer
Russians Seized U S Planes and B 29 Downed
US Air Force records show at least 10 American bombers were seized by Soviet forces during the war with Japan, including a B 29 shot down while delivering relief to prisoners in Korea. The aircraft and crew were interned, while the B 29 was recovered by Red fighters near the Korean prison camp.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Air Force
Korea
Russia
Moscow
Tokyo
USAF
Saipan
Kanko
Virden Resigns From Commerce Post in 1948
John C. Virden an 11 year old Cleveland electrical fixtures maker left his high Commerce Department post with Secretary Sawyer accepting his resignation effective September 1 1948 Virden a Republican earlier sought to quit after inquiry into his daughter Euphemia Virden attended society debut then joined a Russian agency Earl W Clark will serve as acting director of his division.
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John C. Virden
Cleveland
Commerce Department
Sawyer
Virden
Crawford
R-Mich
Euphemia
Mickey) Virden
Earl W. Clark
Illinois
OPA
Dwision
Sawver
Spain to Hold Municipal Elections in November
Spain ordered municipal elections for November for the first time in 12 years. The call, issued by Generalissimo Franco's cabinet, signals a move toward greater popular participation and marks a potential liberalization step in the Franco regime.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Francisco Franco
French Cabinet Forming Without Socialists
Paris AP reports Premier Robert Schuman plans to form a new French cabinet without the Socialists if needed. The Socialists previously voted against joining a coalition and have participated in every cabinet since liberation. Marie resigned last Saturday and Schuman was confirmed Tuesday night.
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Paris
Robert Schuman
Schuman
Andre Marie
Marie
Assembly
Chicago Man In Line For Cincinnati Post
Peter J. Swanish of Chicago emerged as a leading candidate for the Cincinnati City Manager assistant post. City Manager W. R. Kellogg said Swanish is lined up for a job paying 7500 to 10000 dollars annually. Swanish currently serves as assistant director of Vocational Rehabilitation and Education for the Veterans Administration in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Peter J. Swanish
Chicago
W. R. Kellogg
Swanish
Veterans’ Administration
Illlinois
Indiana
Ohio
Correspondent George Polk Murder Declared Solved
Athens newspaper Embros reports Polk murder solved and attributes the killing to Communists. Polk, CBS correspondent, disappeared May 9 from his Salonika hotel. his body found a week later in Salonika Bay.
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Athens
Embros
George Polk
Salonika
Polk
Columbia Broadcasting System
Salon
Long Claiming Louisiana Win
Rus sell Long Jr claimed victory in the Louisiana Democratic primary as U S senator candidate with 47 precincts incomplete. He led Judge Robert F Kennon 257 953 to 249 737 as returns were still unofficial and being watched closely.
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NEW Oreans
Russell Long
Huey P. Long
U. S
Louisiana
Tueseay
Robert F. Kennon
Long
Veto of Bus Fare Hike Rejected by Newark City Council
Newark officials override mayor Edwin Haynes veto on transit fare rise. City Council approves raising Rapid Transit City bus rates from four tickets for 25 cents to three for 30 cents, and single fare from seven to 10 cents.
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Newark, O
Edwin Haynes
Dayton man faces slaying charge in Canadian case
Inspector Richard Harvey of the British Columbia Criminal Investigation Bureau said Gustave A. Wiegner, 24, of Dayton, Ohio, will be flown to Canada to face murder charges in the slaying of John McComas, 32, also of Dayton. McComas was found shot dead 106 miles north of Dawson Creek. Wiegner and 13 year old Louise McComas were captured in Nebraska and returned to Canada after waivers. The pair arrived at Patricia Bay airport amid Canadian officials and await preliminary hearing evidence before travel north on a first available plane.
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Victoria
B. C
Richard Harvey
British Columbia Criminal Investigation Bureau
Gustave A. Wiegner
Dayton
Canadian
John McComas
Dawson Creek
Wiegner
McComas
Alaska
Canada
McCama
Louise
Wegner
Patricia Bay
Kimball County Attoreney
Kenneth Fritzler
Carl Ledoux
British Columbia
Tragic House Fire Claim 3-Year-Old Pritchard Life
In Zanesville Ohio Larry Pritchard age 3 died after setting a wastebasket on fire in his home and falling into the flames. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Pritchard.
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Zanesville, O
Larry Pitchard
Neil Pritchard
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