U S Striking Force Built As Germ War Fears Diminish
Norfolk June 26 The U S Army eyes a mobile striking force of 18 infantry and armored divisions by end 1949 to form a nucleus for 25 full divisions in a crisis. Royall asserts germ warfare won’t affect defense. six regular divisions abroad and six at home plus six National Guard units to reach full strength. Reserve officers will be recalled monthly to train a 2 million total armed forces.
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Norfolk
Kenneth C. Royall
Tony
Royall
Armed Services
Warre
Colge
U. S.rmy
National Guard
Massachusetts
Pennsylania
Alabama
Missisippi
Connecticut
Verona
Rhode Island
Alahoma
Exas
82Nd Airborne
Fort Bragg
Fort Lewis
Ash
Camp Hood
Fort Benning
Theighth
Camp Cembbell
Five Americans Released By Slavs Near Trieste
Five U S soldiers held after entering the Yugoslav zone near Capodistria were released in Albaro Vescova on the boundary between allied and Yugoslav zones. The State Department protested their detention. a Communist Trieste paper had alleged espionage. The men were T/4 George C. Wilson of Southern Pines North Carolina T/5 Jarvis L Boulnier of Manchester New Hampshire T/5 Au Santana of New York City Pfc Ordon J Foster of Falls Church Virginia Archie M Van Why of Stroudsburg Pennsylvania.
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Trieste
Capodistria
U. S
State Department
Belgrade
George C. Wilson
Southern Pines
N. C
Jarvis L. Boulnier
Manchester
N. H
Au— Santana
New York City
Pfc
Ordon J. Foster
Falls Church Va
Archie M. van Why
Stroudsburg
Tory
Albaro Vescova
Department
Crash Kills Girl Hurts Boy Near Stafford Springs
A side sweep on the old Voseburg Shubuta road left 15 year old Pat Dowd dead from a broken neck and Larry Beech with a leg amputation. Thelbert Grantham Frankie Shows and Robbie Bass escaped injury as 25 children riding in a Laurel truck survived the crash one mile west of State Highway 11 after a swimming outing.
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Pat Dowd
Kerrville
Tex
Larry Beech
Laurel
State Highway Patrol
Thelbert O. Grantham
Ovett
Miss
Frankie Shows
Robbie Faye Bass
James Howard Williams
Short St
Voseburg-Shubuta Road
Grass fire reported on Sterlington road
Firemen of company 5 were called at 2 55 p m yesterday to the 800 block of Sterlington road where they reported a grass fire.
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Sterlington Road
Elevator Starter Squanders Fortune In Wall Street Swindle
Gus Fusaro, 54, convicted in New York on five counts of grand larceny and bucket shop operations for siphoning about 118000 from 13 friends who trusted his patter of being a top Wall Street operator. Sentencing set for August 17 with possible 35 years in prison.
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New York
Gus Fusaro
Francis X. Clark
Fusaro
Wall Street
Lake Providence News Glimpses Of Weddings And Visitors
Lake Providence figures feature Helen Nelson fleeing Washington for her niece Helen Butler's funeral, with a Pensacola transfer noted. The Delhi WSCS speaker Mrs. J W Patrick Jr visits, while Mrs. Adams hosts a cordial Methodist coffee with many guests. Page also lists wedding plans, new births, camp visits, bridge club wins, and Wesleyan Service Guild activity with detailed names and locales.
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Helen Nelson
Washington, D. C
Helen “Tinker” Butler
Miss Nelson
Memphis
Tom Grisbly
Waller
Custer
Washington
Naval Base
Pensacola
Fla
J. W. Patrick, Jr
Methodist
WSCS
Delhi
Patrick
Blanche Patrick Maxwell
Wiliam Blanton Adams
Lake Providence
Methodist Parsonage
A. A. Collins
W. F. Trieschmann
Adams
F. A. Babb
William Muirhead
Grady Proctor
Jerry Smith
Roy Sullivan
William Shirey
F. M. Terrall
Bill Wyly
J. G. Wyly, Jr
Bride Returned After Abduction by Drunken Motorist
A kidnapped 18 year old Mississippi bride, Mrs Marie Alexander, was released unharmed by a medium build dark complexioned man after being forced to submit to sexual advances during a hitchhiking trip from Zion Illinois. Her husband Earlis 19 said the man offered work selling refrigerators and drove away with them before fleeing. Police hunted through northern Illinois as the couple prepared to be questioned further. The sheriff noted a similar incident allegedly involving three men near Tupelo Mississippi weeks earlier.
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Waukegan
Walter L. Atkinson
Marie Alexander
Tupelo
Miss
Alexander
Earlis
Zion
Illinois
Atkinson
Alexanders
Rio Grande Crest Nears Laredo City
Rio Grande flood crest nears Laredo Texas threatening the International bridge on the main highway to Mexico. Del Rio highway rail and wire service largely cut off as the river drops near Eagle Pass while bridges at Eagle Pass Piedras Negras and the Toll bridge sustain damage.
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Laredo
Tex
Rio Grande
International Bridge
Mexico City
del Rio
Eagle Pass
Highway Department
Austin
Abellene
San Antonio
Texarkana
Piedras Negras
Mexico
Southern Pacific Railroad
Marvin A. Melson
Deaths Albert Barnes and Hilton Ferguson Survive Families
Albert J. Barnes, formerly of Monroe, died in Helena Arkansas with services set at Davis Lawhead Funeral Home Chapel in Monroe and Masonic rites at the grave. Hilton Herman Ferguson, 33, arrived from the Southwest Pacific and funeral services were held in Bernice with interment at Bernice Cemetery. He is survived by his widowed mother, siblings, nephews, and a widow now Mrs. Knox Gill of Little Rock. Pallbearers named include Homer Tanner and Leonard Green among others.
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Albert J. Barnes
Monroe
Helena
Ark
Davis- Lawhead Funeral Home
Hilton Herman Ferguson
Bernice
Southwest Pacific
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
A. T. Mitchell
A. L. New
B. C. Smith
Bernice Cemetery
J. A. Ferguson
Doyle Ferguson
Airplanes Transform Farming Across United States
The civil aeronautics authority reports more than 9,000 airplanes used on farms and ranches with over 300 companies doing aerial dusting spraying sowing and fertilizing. California seeds nearly all rice by air. The Continental Divide is a drainage boundary between Atlantic and Pacific basins, not a mountain crest line.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
California
Delhi Man Hurt In Collision Near Bayou Mason
Carol Biggs, 21, of Delhi, was injured when his eastbound motorcycle collided with a turning automobile east of Bayou Mason yesterday afternoon. He was treated at Delhi Clinic for possible neck injury and transferred to Conway Memorial Hospital where doctors reported a possible spine fracture and multiple cuts. The automobile occupants were not identified.
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Delhi
Bayou Mason
Carol Biggs
Biggs
Delhi Clinic
Conway Memorial Hospital
Jackson Daily News Plant Dedication In Jackson Miss
The newly renovated Jackson Daily News building opens Monday night dedicated to founder Walter Giles Johnson Sr. Major Sullens and Walter Johnson Jr. invite the public to tour the plant, meet the staff, and view the new 50 000 papers per hour Hoe press. Governor Wright and Mayor Speed expected to attend.
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Jackson
Miss
Walter Giles Johnson
Jackson Daily News
Frederick Sullens
Walter G. Johnson
News
Johnson
Fielding L. Wright
Leland Speed
Associated Press
Daily News
New York Day By Day By CHARLES B. DRISCOLL Title Rer. U. & Patent Office
New York humor and anecdotes mix with a note on ball point pens and a remark on New York’s eight million within city limits. The writer jokes about pens, laundry mishaps, and wringers, then shifts to urban growth and transport strain, calling for spacious air in Texas or Minnesota. A historical note recalls Sir William Johnson’s baronetcy on American soil after the French and Indian War.
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New York
Charles B. Driscoll
U. & Patent Office
The
Electric Light Company
New York City
Texas
Kansas
Minnesota
William Johnson
George of
England
New York State
Italy Faces Strikes and Marshall Plan Debate
A nationwide food workers strike in Italy ended after talks with mediators, while protests over living costs and industrial policy continued. Communist leader Togliatti attacked the Marshall plan, denouncing US influence as Italian politics split factions and workers across Pisa, Modena, Trieste, and Milan. Green urged Truman to appoint Keen Johnson as labor secretary amid vacancies and shifting congressional power.
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Food Workers
General Confederation of Labor
Italy
Food Workers’ Federation
Pisa
Modena
Trieste
Milan
Togliatti
Warsaw
Communist Information Bureau
United States
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican Party of the
Italian Popular Front
Pietro Nenni
Giuseppe Saragat
Nenni
Prague
Communist Party
Czechoslovakia
Green
Truman
Keen Johnson
Kentucky
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Congress
Labor Department
Labor
Johnson
Department
Arrest Soviet Currency Clash in German Market Rates
Western Berlin faces 200 ton daily supply plans but 2000 to 2500 tons needed daily. US airlift already supports 10,000 Americans. Frankfurt authorities set a new 1:10 exchange for Deutsche mark to old reichsmarks, likely mirrored in Berlin sectors. Soviet commander Sokolovsky bans the Deutsche mark in the east while western zones circulate it freely. Eastern marks weaken in the west, shifting from five to as many as 25 per Deutsche mark.
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Berlin
U.S. Air Force
Frankfurt
Germany
Wassily Sokolovsky
AFL leaders seek union support as 1948 campaign opens
Democratic and Republican camps woo the 1,000,000 member AFL while union leaders caution against premature endorsements. Tobin, a Democratic delegate, says he is too busy to attend the convention and has not endorsed any candidate. Emil Rieve of the CIO attacks Dewey, saying Congress has done nothing on housing, health, education, wages, and civil rights, and warns the next administration must repudiate the current congress.
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Democratic National
Tobin
United Mine Workers
Emil Rieve
Dewey
Rieve
Maine
Dewey-Warren team appoints Scott campaign director
The national committee created the campaign director post for Brownell with Scott chosen to lead congressional efforts. The slate includes Ezra R. Whitla Idaho Werner W. Schroeder Illinois Mrs. Horace H. Sayre Oklahoma and Mrs. Katharine Kennedy Brown Ohio as vice presidents, James S. Kemper Chicago as treasurer, and Charles P. Howard Massachusetts as secretary. Dewey and Warren planned private retreats before the long campaign push, while Scott pledged to mobilize Republican senators and representatives to align with the Dewey-Warren drive.
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Pawling
N. Y
Warren
New York City
California
Dewey
Congress
Truman
Scott
Carroll Reece
House
Tennessee
Martin
New York
Pennsylvania
Mobsters in Quarry Hold Up Police Chase
A gang of three or four men believed to occupy a quarry area near Western Springs. Lt. Joseph Clegg, 57, had his right arm grazed when hijackers peppered a squad car and blew out a tire. Officer Peterson was shot twice in the abdomen as gunmen fired into the vehicle. No other injuries confirmed. pursuit details unclear.
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Joseph Clegg
la Grange
Western Springs
Peterson
Philadelphia Briefs Hear Dewey Plans and Nomination Moves
In Philadelphia amid convention bustle Senator Edward Martin abandoned a favorite son bid to back the New York governor at a pivotal pre convention moment. Scott, 47, a three term congressman and former naval officer, ran a six for six Philadelphia Republican slate in 1946. Dewey and Warren met for campaign talks as Knowland neared a birthday milestone and possible vice presidential duties. Traffic eased as delegates prepare for a summer nomination event while city signs and decorations mark the convention mood.
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Edward Martin
New York
Scott
Philadelphia
House
Tokyo
Dewey
Warren
National Committee
William Murphy
Washington
William F. Knowland
California
Knowland
Oakland
Chestnut Street
Police hunt escapes after mob battle at Des Plaines quarry
Springs alerted for roadblocks as a mob fled a horse race betting parlor, roping in state police and west suburban units. A car chase ended in a wooded quarry with about 100 officers surrounding the scene. Investigators found betting evidence but the proprietors had fled. no surrender reported hours after the chase.
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Des Plaines
One Girl Decides To Buck Church In West Virginia Pageant
In Wheeling on June 26, Mariruth Ford remains in the Miss West Virginia contest despite Bishop Swint's ban on Catholic entrants. She is one of the last Catholics still entered after others withdrew over the church’s ruling. Sponsors have asked Pope Pius XI for guidance as the contest proceeds Monday with the winner advancing to August finals.
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Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
John J. Swint
Mariruth Ford
Harold V. Ford
Pope Pius XI
Swint
Allstate
No Leap Intended man tells police I will not jump
New York June 26 police squads rushed to the Woolworth Building after a tip that a shirtless man threatened to leap from an upper floor. They found the porter on the 43rd floor sunning himself and cooling off during lunch hour. he insisted he would not jump and left the scene unharmed.
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New York
Woolworth
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Holy Name of Jesus
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W. B. Hawkins
Michael Douglas deMahy
Bernard deMahy
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D’anne Hair
J. N. Hill, Jr
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Twin Oaks
G. T. Hitler
K. Gore
J. C. Bass
Mark H. Brown
C. R. Evans
J. N. Hil, Jr
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J. N. King
Lillian King
Lake Providence High School
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Grady McDonald
MEEP
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Rio Grande Crest
Laredo City
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Pacific
NEW Jackson Paper
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