Eduard Benes Dies Founder of Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes, founder of Czechoslovakia and twice its president, died at his Sezimovo home at 6 10 p.m. He had long suffered from strokes and heart weakness after a life shaped by wartime exile and the 1948 coup. The cabinet prepared funeral plans and Zapotocky announced a nationwide broadcast.
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Prague
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
The
Easants
Sezimovo
Benes
United States
Britain
Russia
Soviet Union
Antonin Zapotocky
Three Children Die In Blaze As Parents Jump To Safety
In Cleveland early today a brick dwelling fire killed Arnalda Leaks seven Adrena five and Charles Jr three after they were trapped. Parents Anice Leaks 39 and Charles J Leaks 40 survived with critical injuries from a window leap to a concrete driveway carrying a nine month old baby Anice. Eight others were rescued and damage is estimated at 5000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Anice Leaks
Anice
Charles J. Leaks
Arnalda Leaks
Adrena
Charles, Jr
St. Luke Hospital
John Cummings
Ferdinand Beehmer
Dayton Soldier Dies of Injuries in Route 301 Crash
Private Clyde W. Phillips of Dayton Ohio died at Camp Lee Post Hospital after a car pileup on Route 301 near Hanover. He and three Fort Bragg soldiers were injured when their car hit a trailer truck jackknifed across the highway. Phillips suffered a skull fracture and other injuries. his death was the second from the three-vehicle crash that also injured seven others.
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Camp Lee, Va
Clyde W. Phillips
Dayton
Camp Lee Post Hospital
Hanover
Phillips
Fort Bragg
Camp Lee
Four Teens Die In Highway Collision Near Hammond
A collision on a highway near Hammond injured none while killing four people. Victims are Sophie Giannakos 19 Bessie Giannakos 17 Filla Sassens 19 and Alice Copeland 19 of Miami Beach Fla. Driver William Pratt 31 of Indianapolis faces investigations with a $5000 bond. Pratt and Ted Schabel 29 are in the case after picking up 5000 gallons of gasoline in East Chicago and traveling toward Wabash Ind.
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Hammond, Int
Chicago
Florida
Sophie Giannakos
Bessie
Filla Sassens
Alice Jane Copeland
Miami Beach
Fla
John Mahoney
William Pratt
Indianapolis
Indiana Farm Bureau
Pratt
Ted Schabel
Wabash
Ind
East Chicago
Missing Man Found by MP at Griffiss Air Base
In Rome New York AP one service member was missing as more than \u00a0000 personnel prepared to depart Griffiss Air Base for Europe. Military police traced a tip and opened a car trunk as it left the depot discovering the husband of a woman driver who had not been identified. He rejoined his unit and the trip overseas proceeded.
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Munich
Rome
N. Y
Griffiss Air Base
Europe
Pilots Fight For Final Qualifying Chance At National Air Races
Racing pilots seek last chance to qualify at Municipal Airport amid military activity. Only 31 of 70 possible speeds qualified over three days, with Goodyear and Thompson races drawing entrants. Maj. Richard L. Johnson to conduct practice runs at Wright Patterson. no record attempt today.
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James J. Strebig
Cleveland
Municipal
Maj
Richard L. Johnson
Air Material Command
Wright- Patterson Airbase
Dayton
Johnson
Truman Plunges Into Political Battle With Republicans
The AP reports a major labor dispute intensifying as 10,000 New York City truckers and helpers idle amid a three day walkout. Prices may rise as retailers face supply disruptions and talks stall until next Tuesday after AFL Teamsters Local 807 proposed a 25 cent hourly wage increase.
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NEW York
AFL Teamsters Union Local 807
Teamsters
President Backs Policy Clash With Republicans
President Truman enters a sharp political exchange with Republicans over Communists high prices health insurance and the St. Lawrence Seaway project. The confrontation highlights ongoing debates as the White House presses its agenda in Washington.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Truman
Peters Admits Being Member of Communists
J Peters the 54 year old Hungarian alias Alexander Stevens faces deportation and contempt of Congress charges after a four day hearing. He admitted active Communist membership in this country and denied claims of Soviet underground leadership. He said he wrote The Communist Party Manual On Procedure in 1935 and lived in Queens with an American citizen wife. The admission comes as political tensions rise around Un American activities and government security concerns.
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NEW York
J. Peters
United States
Peters
Alexander Stevens
Communist Party
Carol King
Immigration Service
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Red
118Th Street
Kew Gardens
Queens
Un-American Committee
Probe By Jury Requested In Narcotic Case
Los Angeles district attorney seeks a county grand jury investigation into a marijuana case involving film hero Robert Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds. The jury committee chair will recommend a full-panel inquiry Tuesday. Mitchum Leeds and two others were arrested after a narcotics raid and are free on $1,000 bonds.
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Los Angeles
Robert Mitchem
Lila Leeds
William E. Simpson
Simpson
Mitchum
Miss Leeds
Vickie Evans
Robin Ford
Taft Proposes Revision To World Council Report
Charles P Taft of Cincinnati urged a revision of the World Council of Churches report condemning both Capitalism and Communism He suggested that churches should reject those ideologies while avoiding extremes and focus on guiding people away from false choices The council representing about 150 churches in over 40 nations also considered reports opposing anti Semitism and addressing Palestine and Jewish Arab relations.
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Amsterdam
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
World Council of Churches
Taft
Sen
Robert Taft
Senate
World Council
Palestine
Holy Land
World Council For Action Today
NLRB seeks appellate backing to enforce hiring hall ban
The National Labor Relations Board asked the New York circuit court of appeals to enforce its order against use of the hiring hall by the CIO National Maritime Union. This marks the first instance of the board seeking court support under Taft Hartley, as the NLRB lacks direct enforcement power.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Circuit Court of Appeals
New York City
CIO National Maritime Union
NLRB
President says no powers to end strike through force
In Washington President Truman said the government was powerless to act beyond negotiation as a 80 day cooling off injunction expired and a strike began. Railroads halted most export freight to the coast and some manufacturers cut production across the nation as unions prepared four to six months of picketing.
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Washington
Truman
Hurricane warnings issued along Louisiana coast
The hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico strengthens as warnings extend from the Mississippi River to Vermilion Bay and Mobile to New Orleans. The center was about 350 miles east of Brownsville moving north at 8 to 10 mph, with dangerous winds and tides forecast for Saturday morning.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Vermilion Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Ala
Galveston
Brownsville
Texas
Two Children Rescued as Cincinnati Fire Rages
Firemen carried two children down a smoke filled stairway to safety as twenty families fled a third floor apartment blaze in Cincinnati. Fire Marshal Ed Corsmeyer cited a $1500 loss and attributed the fire to a careless smoker.
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Cincinnati
Ed Corsmeyer
Coal Mine Accident Kills Miner Near New Lexington
A coal mine accident one mile north of New Lexington yesterday killed John Roberts, 30, of New Straitsville.
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New Lexington, O
Here
John Roberts
New Straitsville
Schuman quits bid to form French government after four days
Premier designate Robert Schuman abandons efforts to assemble a cabinet in Paris as De Gaulle supporters hope for elections. He failed to win key party backing, with Socialists opposing his wage policy and price controls, threatening political instability.
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Robert Schuman
Paris
Fourth Republic
NEA Telephoto
Charles de Gaulle
Democrats Set D. Pleas Judge Candidate After Palmer Death
Defiance Ohio AP report says with GOP failing to nominate in the primary the Democrats are assured November victory for the common pleas bench. Prosecutor Erwin L. Clemens notes Democrats will soon name a candidate to replace the late Judge Charles W. Palmer on the ballot.
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Defiance
Common Pleas Bench
Erwin L. Clemens
Charles W. Palmer
National Health Plan Urged by President
President Truman urges adoption of a 10 year health plan based on compulsory insurance and large outlays to expand care. Oscar R Ewing drafted the proposal, aiming to raise federal outlays to about 2.31 billion by 1960 and boost state local funding, drawing mixed political reaction from Frances Bolton and others.
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Washinggton
Truman
Oscar R. Ewing
John M. Pratt
National Physicians Committee
Chicago
Ewing
United States
Fwing
FSA
Meat Taken For Families Court Told
In Columbus two Swift and Company workers Theodore Cooper and Paul Thacker admitted stealing meat from the plant to feed their families. Both pleaded guilty to grand larceny before Judge Myron B. Gessman. sentence deferred. Also innocent pleas from two Lancaster residents and two other Columbus workers were entered. The case followed reports of meat sold at unusually low prices after an anonymous letter to investigators.
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Columbus
Swift and Company
Theodore Cooper
Paul Thacker
Myron B. Gessman
Lancaster
Herell Jeffreys
Harry Jennings
David Halderman
Joseph Burke
Swift
Ralph J. Bartlett
Group grieves over West African delegate incident in Grand Rapids
The Steering Committee of the Christian Youth Conference of North America issued a resolution regretting the denial of service to a West African delegate in downtown barber shops. The report notes the delegate searched for hours before finding a shop for a haircut.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Christian Youth Conference of North America
John J. Akar
Otterbein College O
Ohio Evangelical Brethren Mission
Manslaughter Charge Filed In Ice-Pick Slaying Near Canton
Buck Allen Jester age 33 was charged with first degree manslaughter in municipal court for the killing of Hubbard Reese 35 on a country road near Canton Ohio. Jester is hospitalized with stab wounds.
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Canton
Buck Allen Jester
Hubbard
Reese
Here
Jester
Fordham Seismologist Reports Very Severe Quake
A Fordham University seismologist said a very severe earthquake was recorded at 6 55 45 and 6 56 33 p m EST last night about 7900 miles from New York in an undetermined direction.
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New York
Fordham University
Pastor Found Dead in Bedroom in Jackson
The Rev. Edward F. Sullivan, 41, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom yesterday. Friends said he apparently suffered a heart attack.
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Jackson
Edward F. Sullivan
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
GOP Chairman Seeks Truman Reply on Communist Endorsement
GOP Chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr demanded President Truman state whether he accepted the Communist Party endorsement in 1944 for vice president. He accused Truman of impeding investigations by cries of red herring and questioned a possible working agreement with the Communists in 1944 and when it ended.
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Washington
GOP
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Truman
Communist Party
Scott
Mr. Truman
Truman defends red herring claim on Communists in government
President Truman says he will prove his charge about Communist influence before the campaign ends. He refutes Dewey on flushing Communists and mocks the idea of Democrats being eliminated. He criticizes Stassen's charge on price policies and notes New York Governor Dewey’s day proclamation tying labor troubles to Moscow.
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Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
Arold E. Stassen
U. S
Russia
Dewey
New York
Moscow
Washington
United States
Committee Delays Red Spy Hearings to September Fifteenth
The House Un American Activities Committee postponed its resumption of Red spy hearings until September 15 to finish prep work. Chief Investigator Robert E. Stripling said the panel will pursue Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers testimony and then tackle a new alleged spy ring involving government employees. Chairman J Parnell Thomas intends to conclude the Hiss Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley hearings first. A House Labor subcommittee continues separate probes into Communist influence in labor unions.
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Washington
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Robert E. Stripling
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Stripling
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
Hiss
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Thomas
Middletown Journal Labor Day Press Schedule Notice
The Middletown Journal informs readers deadlines for Labor Day Monday issue. Paper will press at noon. Local news for Monday should be submitted by Saturday and no later than 10 a.m. Monday. Display ads due Saturday noon. Classified ads deadline is listed as £ and mi.
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Middletown Journal
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