Hot Words Fly In Presidential Drive In Michigan
The Michigan skirmish between Republicans and Democrats forecasts a heated presidential campaign. Truman and Stassen trade tough talk in Detroit with Stassen attacking Dewey and Truman defending himself as critics hammer GOP spokesmen as reactionary figures.
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Stasion
Detroit
Truman
Dewey
Jack Bell
Michigan
Harold i. Stassen
GOP
America
Thomas E. Dewey
Stassen
Albany
Minnesota
Ito
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Labor strikes renew and threaten national disruption
The labor outlook worsens as three major strikes continue and a CIO led delay looms over 25 000 telephone workers set to strike September 17. About 64 000 workers in oil trucking and shipping remain idle while negotiations continue on wage demands.
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CIO
CIO Association of Communications Equipment Workers
Bell Telephone Company
Western Electric Manufacturing Company
New York City
New Jersey
AFL
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
New York
San Francisco
Berlin Police Kidnapped as Talks Turbulent
Soviet troops and police abducted 19 Western sector police and a German photographer near Berlin City Hall amid studio clashes. Secretary Marshall said Communist actions aim to derail Big Four talks on Berlin. he urged firm resistance, noting no military measures discussed. Col. Howley protested to Maj. Kotikov, calling Russian tactics a shabby international move as the city hall siege continued.
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Berlin
Lustgarten
Soeviel
Washington
Marshall
Pentagon
Germany
National Security Council
Marshell
Frank Howley
Alexander Kotikov
Howeley
Kotikov
Howley
Mareshall Vassily Sokolovsky
Hewley
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Soe
Dewey to Open Presidential Campaign September 20
Gov Thomas E Dewey will launch his presidential bid with a 9 to 9 30 p m speech at Drake Stadium Des Moines Iowa on September 20 The event will be broadcast on CBS and Mutual networks and marks his first campaign address leaving Albany September 19 by train en route to the west coast with further major talks expected.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas FE
Dewey
Des Moines
Iowa
Herbert Brownell Jr
Drake Stadium
New York
CBS
Mutual
Mrs. Truman
Dexter
James C. Hagerty
West Coast
Georgia Governor Primary Battle Draws Voters and Tensions
Georgia voters turn out in a tight Democratic governor primary pitting Herman Talmadge backed by the Ku Klux Klan against incumbent M. B. Thompson. The race follows the 1947 saga after Eugene Talmadge’s death with court ruling in Thompson’s favor and a high turnout that included a large Black electorate.
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Herman Talmadge
M. B. Thompson
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Herman
Thompson
Young Talmadge
State Supreme Court
Talmadge
Ku Klux Klan
Utah
Herbert B. Maw
John SS. Boyden
Maw
J. Bracken Lee
GOP Candidates Hit With Fruit at Rally in Kingsport
In Kingsport Tennessee at a partisan rally Roy Acuff and B Carroll Reece faced a barrage of eggs fruit and vegetables. Acuff was struck by a grapefruit while Reece was hit by an unidentified missile as missiles showered near the speakers platform. Police described a careful targeting by hoodlums.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Roy Acuff
B. Carroll Reece
Acuff
Reece
United States Senate
Charles Still
Pravda Blames Tito as Imperialist Ally
Pravda in a half page editorial accuses Premier Tito of joining the imperialists. It says Tito’s faction in the Yugoslav Communist party is a minority using state power to crush the internationalist majority and to repress with mass arrests and murders. The piece hints Cominform may shift against Tito after Zhdanov’s death.
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Moscow
Pravda
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Tito
Pourtma
U.S.S.R
Stened ‘Tseka
Central Committee
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Yugoslav Communist Party
Majorit T
Edi
Torial
Andrei A. Zhdanov
Zhdanov
Comintorm
le Comintorm
Stalin
Huge Quake Reported Near Fiji Islands
Honolulu reports a major earthquake likely in the Fiji Islands area with the first shock at 5:17:30 a.m. Honolulu time and aftershocks continuing two hours later. Seismograph operator Laurie Burgess called it the biggest quake seen locally, estimating 3,000 miles from Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Fiji Islands
Laurie Burgess
Pasadena
Cal
California Institute of Technology
Southwest Pacific
Earthquake Felt Near Cleveland Linked to Japan Region
Rev. Henry K F Birkenhauer reports a strong quake detected on the John Carroll University seismograph. The first wave arrived at 11 23 a m EDT and the temblor lasted over thirty minutes, with the center likely between Japan and the Mariana Islands, about 7 500 miles west of Cleveland.
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Cleveland
John Carrol University
Henry KF. Birkenhauer
Birkenhauer
Japan
Marianna Islands
Edith Roosevelt Weds Russian Army General in Northport
Faith Kermit Roosevelt, 20, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, married Alexander Barmine, 49, a former Russian Army general, in a quiet Northport ceremony performed by Surrogate Richard Hawkins. The couple then visited a Long Island Sound home owned by Barmine. Archibald Roosevelt had said the marriage would be postponed.
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Northport
N. Y
Faith Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Alexander Barmine
Richard Hawkins
Suffolk County
Barmine
Long Island Sound
Hawkins
New York
Archibald R. Roosevelt
Mutual Hates Mark Arabs, Jews Although They Battle Each Other
Israelis and Arabs exchange vitriolic charges against Britain and the United States while blaming each other for regional failures. The piece notes mutual vilification of Britain, the U S State Department, and Count Folke Bernadotte as instruments of western interests, with Russia generally portrayed as a distant ally.
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American State Department
President Truman
Count Folke Bernadotte
United Nations Palestine Mediator
Mid East
Israel
United Nations
Irgun Zvai Leumt
Stern Gang
Russia
Britain
Palestine
Truman
State Department
United States
Bernadette
Dayton salesman to stand trial in Alcan death
Gustav Wiegner, 24, from Dayton, Colorado, is bound for trial on murder charges in the slaying of John C. McComas, 52, along the Alaska highway. A 13-year-old girl testified that Wiegner acted rough after the shooting but did not molest her, while Wiegner claimed the death was accidental during a squirrel hunt.
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Pouce Coupe
B. C
Dayton
Gustav Wiegner
Martin S. Morrell
Wiegner
John C. McComas
Louise
Alaska
Kimball
Neb
McComas
Okalla
Morrell
Wiester
Britain Offers Four Power Talks on Italian Colonies
London reports Britain has informed Russia it is ready for four power talks on Italy's prewar colonies before September 15. The plan, proposed to meet a UN deadline, invites France and the United States to join in Paris when the UN assembly opens September 2. Disagreement persists over Eritrea Libya and Somaliland as Dewey proposes UN trusteeship for Italian possessions.
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London
Britain
Russia
Italy
Foreign Office
Georgi Zarubin
United Nations
Paris
United Nations Assembly
France
United States
Washington
Eritrea
Libya
Somaliland
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Germans Eligible to Enter U S After War
Washington reports the United States plans to reopen immigration to Germans in the western occupation zones. About 25,957 Germans will be eligible annually with mass registration likely to start this month. Two million forms are printed. Congress approves admitting 205,000 displaced persons over two years and restoring the prewar German quota.
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Washington
United States
Reich
Germany
Austria
State Department
Switzerland
Congress
Eight year old Willie Dunn fatally hit by truck
Cleveland report states Willie D Dunn eight was fatally injured yesterday when struck by a truck in an on street incident. Regrettably the accident adds to local road danger with no further details released.
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Cleveland
Willie D. Dunn
Circus ship sinks with 44 missing in Caribbean
A small motorship carrying a circus sank in the Caribbean on September 1. Coast Guard reports 44 missing including 36 passengers. a life boat with nine passengers and three crewmen was found 770 miles south of Miami by the Norwegian vessel Elearbe. The Eurkera, Honduran registry and formerly a yacht used by President McKinley, left Mariel for Cartagena with a circus aboard.
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Miami
Fla
Caribbean Sea
Coast Guard
Elearibe
Curacao Netherland West Indies
Euzkera
Mariel
Cuba
Cartagena
Colombia
Eurkera
U. S
McKinley
Eight Die In Chicago Candy Factory Disaster
Four more workers perished today from burns and injuries, raising the death toll to eight from yesterday’s explosion at the E. J. Brach and Sons Candy Factory in Chicago. Names of the deceased include Milton Seidel 57 Anthony Leon 39 Pasquale Columbo 35 and George Van Winkle 29. Thirteen others remain hospitalized.
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Chicago
E. J. Brach and Sons
Mileton Seidel
Anthony Leon
Pasquale Columbo
George van Winkle
Peasant Uprising Splits Eastern Europe Reds
In Poland 15 million peasants resist Moscow line with Bierut vowing a tough anti anti peasant program. In Yugoslavia Tito's regime raids rich peasants to seize pigs for state farms and cooperatives. Belgrade papers say peasants seethe as meat rations falter. Peasants hoard plums for slivovitz exports, complicating export targets.
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Europe
Poland
Boleslaw Bierut
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Belgrade
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Daniel DE Luce
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Os Ey
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