Bernadotte Is Murdered In Jerusalem
United Nations mediator Count Fecke Bernadotte and a French colonel were shot and killed in the Jewish sector of Jerusalem. Bernadotte, 53, had been shuttling between Arab and Jewish authorities to enforce truces in Palestine. The French officer was Colonel Serot of the UN staff.
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Trans-Jordan
United Nations
Fecke Bernadotte
Jerusalem
Count Bernadotte
Palestine
Seymour
Bernadotte
Red Cross
Estelle Manville
New York
Paris
Serot
Damascus
Syria
Bernadette
Holy City
United Nations General Assembly
Haifa
Aage Lundstroem
Warren Opens Drive for Unity in 1948 Campaign
Gov. Earl Warren, GOP vice presidential candidate, outlines a unity and moderation campaign touring Colorado toward Pueblo. He argues neither party holds a monopoly on progress, stresses bipartisanship, and calls for a two party system free of prejudice as America faces global fear. The swing includes stops at Glenwood Springs, Minturn, Malta, Salida, Reval Gorge, and Canon City with talks in Malta, Salida and Canon City.
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Earl Warren
Salt Lake City
South High School
Warren
America
Colorado
Pueblo
Glenwood Springs
Minturn
Malta
Salida
Reval Gorge
Canon City
Four Soldiers Die As Bombs Fall From B 29
Four Army infantrymen died from injuries after a stick of live bombs fell from a B 20 during maneuvers at Eglin Field Florida. Twenty nine others were injured including three in critical condition. The dead were a white captain and 32 Black enlisted men. Names withheld pending next of kin.
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Eglin Field
Fla
Eglin
Army hires stevedores despite pickets in San Francisco
Stevedores hired by the Army loaded two army transports as union pickets protested. Griffiths and Sprague of Seattle offered to handle all Army cargo from Seattle and was weighing San Francisco and Los Angeles work. The firm has a CIO longshoremen contract while WEA members boycott Army cargo over noncommunist affidavit issues under Taft-Hartley.
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San Francisco
Army
Pacific Coast
Griffiths and Sprague
Seattle
Los Angeles
Waterfront Employers Association
CIO
WEA
CIO Longshore Union
FBI Chief Hoover Ill With Bronchial Ailment
J Edgar Hoover head of the FBI has been ill for several days and an associate says his condition is not serious. He is suffering from a bronchial ailment.
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Washington (Ap
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Ohio AFL closes convention names hostile labor list
The Ohio Federation of Labor wrapped its annual convention after revealing eight senators and 113 congressional candidates deemed hostile to labor by the AFL. Joseph Keenan of Washington outlined plans to defeat those on the list.
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Columbus
Ohio Federation of Labor
AFL
Joseph Keenan
Washington
AFL League of Political Education
Truman Launches 16 day western campaign tour
President Truman begins a 16 day western campaign swing with more than 100 speeches across at least 18 states on a 9 500 mile trip to the Pacific Coast and back. He told running mate Alben Barkley he will fight hard and give them hell. Secretary Marshall and Secretary Sawyer joined him at the station along with Barkley. The Houston Chronicle endorsed Dewey Warren for president, urging Democrats in the south to switch tickets.
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Truman
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Union Station
White House
Pacific Coast
Barkley
Marshall
Sawyer
The
Houston
Tex
Dewey
Warren
New York
California
the Chronicle
Jones
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wal
Phone workers avert strike with wage settlement
About 5000 CIO American Communication Equipment Workers at Western Electric reach a settlement delaying a strike. The deal grants average pay raises of 4.40 weekly, with 9 to 15 cents hourly increases in big cities and 8 to 14 cents in smaller areas. Ernest Weaver says average is 11 cents hourly. Previous wages averaged 1.15 per hour.
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New York
CIO American Communication Equipment Workers
Western Electric Company
Western Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Ernest Weaver
Constitution Day Observances Across the United States
Thousands celebrate the signing of the U S Constitution with nationwide ceremonies. Chief Justice Vinson speaks in Lexington Virginia at Washington and Lee University as the nation marks 161 years since the document.
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Washington
Truman
Lexington
Vinson
Washington and Lee University
S. Desmead Kolb
Sons of the American Revolution
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Real Estate Association
Monticello
Mount Vernon
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Missouri
Vea
Lee University
James Madison
Daniels found guilty death sentence mandatory in kidnapping slayings
Robert Murl Daniels was found guilty as charged in the kidnap slayings of John Niebel and his wife Nolanda and daughter Phyllis, making death in the electric chair mandatory. The prosecution sought the death penalty while defense urged insanity and sparing of life.
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John Niebel
Mansfield Reformatory
Nolanda
Phyllis
Beam
Daniels
Robert Ross
Niebel
Ther
Ohio
Ross
Louis to Fight Next Challenger at Yankee Stadium
Champion Joe Louis announced he will defend his world heavyweight title at Yankee Stadium next June against the Madison Square Garden winner of the Baksi Charles 15 round bout set for November 12. Louis, in New York for an exhibition with Pat Comiskey, also plans to attend the Twentieth Century show where Ike Williams defends against Jesse Flores.
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New York
Joe Louis
Twentieth Century Sporting Club
Yankee Stadium
Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles
Madison Square Gamden
Baksi
Charles
Louis
Washington
Pat Comiskey
Ike Williams
Jesse Flores
U S Watching Reds in Asia Rise of Communist Power
The United States presses a sharp counter attack against a growing Communist drive in southeast Asia. State Department notes rapid increases in Communist activity among Indonesian, Indochina and Malayan colonial peoples and Burmese citizens, but details of forthcoming action were not disclosed.
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Washington
United States
Southeast Asia
Soviet Union
State Department
Indonesia
Indochina
Malaya
Burma
Department
Lausche Victory Hope Drives Ohio Democratic Plans
Ohio Democrats focus on former Gov. Frank Lausche as the path to victory in November. Mayor Thomas A. Burke of Cleveland used the party convention to praise Lausche and criticize Gov. Thomas J. Herbert, arguing about local tax aid figures and urging support for Lausche’s return to the governorship with a platform centered on farm prosperity and labor gains.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Thomas A. Burke
Cleveland
Corrigan
Burke
Hurke
Herbert
Ohio
H. H. Daugherty
Columbus, O
Democrats
Frank Lausche
Lausche
Truman
U. S. Senate
Robert A. Taft
Fire Blamed On Boys Burglary At Bottling Plant
A three alarm blaze at Brooks Bottling and Cemco Manufacturing in Columbus caused about 200000 dollars in damage. Police say three boys aged six seven and 15 burglarized the plant and started the fire with matches and cigarette. Investigators report as many as 18 boys took part in weekly raids, with five inside the plant when the fire began. One boy raised the alarm.
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Columbus
Brooks Bottling Company
Cemco Manufacturing Company
Samuel T. Sides
Cecil W. Stevenson
Juvenile Bureau
Train Beheads Man in Cincinnati Accident
An AP report states James Kinead, 55, a switchman, was struck by a freight train and beheaded in Cincinnati yesterday.
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Cincinnati
James Kinead
Nizam of Hyderbats Cease Fire Order Amid Border Clash
New Delhi reports the Nizam of Hyderabad issued a cease fire order after Indian troops crossed into his princely state, signaling a pause in hostilities four days after the advance began.
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Nizam of
New Delhi
Hyderabad
Hydereabad
Mir Osman Ali Khan
Karachi
Pakistan
Secunderabad
Madras
Nizam
India
Bidar
Allies Tighten Blockade of Russian Zone
Western Allies tightened their counter blockade to cut off goods from western Germany to the Soviet zone. Border patrols increased at interzonal crossings to stop eastbound freight while German Communist leaders denounced Bonn’s constitutional convention.
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Berlin
Germany
Bitonia
Socialist Unity Party
SED
Bonn
Stal Ruhr
Helmstedt
Injured Actress Rita Johnson Remains Critical
Hollywood AP reports actress Rita Johnson, after ten days, shows signs of coming out of a coma. Dr. Lee Siegel said she heard his words and tried to raise her hand when asked, but she cannot speak and remains in critical condition after severe brain injuries from a September 6 incident in her apartment involving a heavy hair dryer.
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Hollywood
Rita Johnson
Lee Siegel
Miss Johnson
Two Ships Sink At Sea Rescue Halts 79 Sailors Saved
In a hurricane swept North Atlantic episode the Coast Guard cutter Bible rescued 40 Portuguese sailors from the Gaspar while 39 men were saved from the British freighter Leicester by the Cecil N Bean and Tropero. Seven men from the stricken ships are missing. The Bible crew reported the night of tense high speed operations and noted some survivors kissed the deck in relief.
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New York
North Atlantic
Portugese
Coast Guard
Gasper
Leicester
Donald G Jacobs
The
Bible
Bibb
Navy
Bermuda
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Gaspar
Cecil N. Bean
Tropero
Massive Flood Kills and Displaces Japanese in Ichinoseki
Reports from Kyodo News and Allied HQ state 800 to 2,000 people killed injured or missing as Ichinoseki, 60 miles north of Sendai, is hit by a typhoon induced flood. Two feet of rain swollen the Iwai River floods 1,600 homes and 500 washed away.
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Tokyo
Ichinoseki
Sendai
Kyodo
Morioka
Iwate Prefecture
Iwai
Honshu
Agricultural Ministry
Plan Backfires as Tokyo Orphans Escape Island
Municipal authorities rounded up Tokyo street urchins taught them to swim and placed them on a waterfront island. Six escaped the island by swimming to freedom prompting a city official to say the teaching of swimming next summer will need reconsideration.
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TOYKO
Tokyo
Freeedom
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