Marshall recalls a wild nine inning Yankees defeat in 1910s park
In a vivid reminiscence the author recalls a delayed departure from the Polo Grounds after a Tigers rally and a blown Yankees lead. He notes his attempt to file from the World building while a chaotic finish unfolded as Witt Meusel and Pipp rallied the Yankees.
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New York
Yankees
Polo Grounds
Park Row
Tigers
Baboon
Witt
Meusel
Pipp
Pegler
Bozeman Bulger
Port of Dairen Ordered Closed by China
China announces the Port of Dairen will be closed to all foreign shipping and Russian vessels. Government spokesman Hollington Tong says any vessel entering or leaving the port violates Chinese waters. Dairen, near Port Arthur, was a Sino Soviet joint free port since 1945 and under Chinese jurisdiction.
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Nanking
China
Dairen
Hollington Tong
Executive Yuan
Russia
Port Arthur
Japan
Tong
Hsin Min
Mass brain surgery for 13 mental patients at Tacoma hospital
Dr. W N Keller reports 13 patients at Western Washington State Hospital underwent a mass brain surgery using a superorbital technique led by Dr. Walter Freeman from Georgetown. The superintendent says 10 of 13 may show improvement, marking the first such procedure at the hospital and a shift from pre frontal lobotomies.
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Tacoma
Wash
Western Washington State Hospital
W. N. Keller
Walter Freeman
Georgetown University
Freeman
Keller
Indonesians See Full-Scale War Report
Indonesia warns of full scale war with the Dutch as cabinet plans to move the Republican capital to Sumatra if needed. Dutch forces reportedly attacked 160 Islamics at prayer in Waloejoredjo, with multiple casualties and displaced villagers. Destruction and injuries reported in Karangdoewoer and surrounding areas.
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Jogjakarta
Sumatra
Java
Waloejoredjo
Karanjanjar
Gombong
Ttanahan
Karan- Zanjar
Karangdoewoer
Petahahan
Malang
Modjokerto
Mohammed Hatta
Bukittinggi
Alaska Called Defense Line in Wartime Outlook
Rep Howell cites Alaska as America’s potential first line of defense and urges intense fortification and aviation development. He notes Alaska’s strategic position on the Russia-US route and backs pushing Arctic training and airport expansion for defense and economic growth. He says Russian airmen observed U S bases during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alaska
America
Howell
Territory
Russia
United States
Army
Congress
Federal Court of Claims
Two Slightly Hurt In Highway Crash Near Monroe
A rear end collision on the Sterlington highway near Monroe injured Willis Brown 28 and Frank Frost 25 as their cars struck a gravel truck. Brown suffered a bruised shoulder and neck while Frost had a bruised left wrist and back. The truck was driven by Hilton Trechel 26 and owned by Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. Frost was hospitalized. Brown treated at a clinic. Two other passengers escaped injury.
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Sterlington
Monroe
Willis Brown
St. John Street
Frank Frost
Route 2
West Monroe
Brown
Frost
Hilton Trechel
North Seventh Street
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co
W. W. Mathews
A. R. Flanders
Houston
Texas
Mulhearn
St. Francis Sanitarium
Vaughn-Wright-Bender
Attlee Predicted to Resign After Washington Talks
London reports say Prime Minister Attlee plans to resign after the British American loan revision talks in Washington due to deteriorating health and exhaustion. The Daily Mail cites usual circles naming Ernest Bevin as successor, with No 10 confirming no comment as Attlee rests in Wales and prepares to return in a week.
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London
Daily Mail
Attlee
Washington
Mail
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Labor Party
Wales
No. 10 Downing Street
Labor
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Bids Opened for Selig Furniture Factory Project
Chamber of Commerce opens bids for the Selig Furniture factory construction. Armco Drainage and Metal of Baton Rouge submits a $98,000 prefabricated building bid while Gilbert Brothers of Monroe bids $121,762 for interior work. Other bids range from $124,857 to $132,350. A committee reviews bids and will announce a decision in a few days.
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Selig Furniture
Chamber of Commerce
Armco Drainage and Metal Company
Baton Rouge
Gilbert Brothers
Monroe
W. C. Salley
Frank Masling and Son
J. A. Harper
Crowville
McBride and Son
Bastrop
Mr. Selig
King Stubbs
J. W. Smith
Travis Oliver
Fred Millsaps
Thomas Davenport
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
J. W. Keene
West Monroe Police Arrest Two Men for Drunken Driving
West Monroe officers arrested Dan Washington Brister, 23, of 210 Montgomery, after a pursuit across the city and into Monroe. Brister faced charges of operating under the influence, reckless driving, resisting arrest, and fleeing. Bond set at 450 dollars. Earlier, Clifford Charles Manion, 36, of South Bend, Ind., was detained on a drunken driving charge after stopping at Nachitoches and Commerce streets.
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Dan Washington Brister
Montgomery Street
West Monroe
W. E. Lawrence
Amos Standfield
New Traffic Bridge
Sixth
Washington Streets
Monroe
Brister
Jesse Heard
Clifford Charles Manion
South Bend
Ind
Nachitoches
Commerce Streets
New Producer in Ora Field Expands Union Parish Output
The Monroe district conservation office announced the completion of a fourth producer in Union parish Ora field. Sellars-Ewing Monzingo Rivers No. 2 flowed 174 barrels per day from 2 118 21 feet through a 14 inch choke, boosting six producers for the company with one dry hole. Shell and Marine Oil also active with new permits and abandonments, including Odom No. 1 dry at 2 178 feet, and wildcat tests planned by Osmond and Penrod Drilling in neighboring parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Parish
Ora
Monroe District Conservation Office
Sellars- Ewing Company
Discovery
P. J. Tucker
Sellars-Ewing
Shell Company
Frost Lumber Company
Shell
Marine Oil Company
Monzingo Rivers No
Conservation Department
Funsten and Smith's
Odom No
Tucker Lease
Charles H. Osmond
Fort Worth
Texas
Hogue Brothers No. 1
Tensas Parish
Mississippi River
Newellton
Dorris Ballew, Ltd
Natchez
Tuscaloosa
Catahoula Parish
Penrod Drilling Company
Dallas
P. L. Mitchell No
Murray Strike Ends 7000 UAW Reach Settlement at Murray
Detroit August 20 A contract ending a three day strike by 7000 C I O United Auto Workers at Murray Corporation of America awaits approval. The pact bars court action for breach of contract and limits strikes, with production to resume Thursday. Wages rise retroactive to May 1 and run to January 31, 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Auto Workers
Murray Corporation of America
International Union
Gamble becomes housing committee truce-maker in Senate panel
Rep. Gamble, New York Republican, is named chairman of the Senate House committee investigating housing shortages and costs. He won the post amid a feud between Tobey and McCarthy and moved to set up the $10,000 housing inquiry, scheduling a meeting for 10 a.m. EST. McCarthy and Tobey were absent, McCarthy to Las Vegas for a surplus property hearing and Tobey to care for his ill wife.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Gamble
New York
Senate House Committee
Tobey
New Hampshire
McCarthy
Wisconsin
The
New Yorker
Joint Committee
Harmony
Las Vegas
Nev
Nazi doctors condemned at Nuremberg trial death verdicts
Adolf Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt and six other Germans were sentenced to die by hanging for cruel medical experiments on prisoners at Ravensbruck and other camps. Five others received life or long prison terms while a woman inmate worker got 20 years.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Herta Oberhauser
Ravensbruck
Hitler
Karl Brandt
Reich
Walter Beals
Olympia
Wash
Oskar Schroeder
Luftwaffe
Karl Genzken
Waffen SS
Karl Gebhardt
German Red Cross
Heinrich Himmler
Rudolf Brandt
Himmler
SS Hygienic Institute
Joachim Murgowsky
Helmut Poppendick
Wolfram Sievers
Gray Haired Lawyers Clash During Hollywood Labor Hearing
In Los Angeles two gray haired lawyers clashed during a federal hearing on Hollywood film labor. Committee Counsel Irving McCann and AFL attorney Joseph Padway fought briefly as witness Donald Reagan was testifying, disrupting the session led by Rep. Carroll D. Kearns. Reagan and others separated them. Padway claimed McCann used brutal tactics.
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Los Angeles
American Federation of Labor
Hollywood
Carroll D. Kearns
R-Pa
House Committee On Education and Labor
Irving McCann
Joseph A. Padway
A. F. of
Padway
McCann
Donald Reagan
Kearns
Congress of the United
Two Young British Officers Killed in Amritsar Riots
An official report says two young British army officers were shot to death during communal rioting in Amritsar. Names withheld pending relatives' notification. The killings occurred just before a violent outbreak in a nearby Muslim village near Amritsar, a Sikh holy city, where 24 people were killed.
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Lahore
Pakistan
Amritsar
India
Marshall Urges Hemisphere Unity and European Recovery
Secretary of State Marshall urged 20 American nations to unite for a hemisphere defense treaty while stressing Europe's economic recovery as vital to the Americas. He warned against totalitarianism, defended free expression, and outlined plans to draft the defense treaty in Bogota after January talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quitandinha
Brazil
Marshall
Europe
Americas
United States
Asia
Mexico City
Bogota
Colombia
Torpedo plant blast kills hundreds in Cadiz ruin
In Cadiz Spain rescue workers search ruined sites after a torpedo plant explosion. Officials lowered death estimates to about 200 with 154 recovered and many injured. Fire, hospital, orphanage damage reported as planes bring aid and the city braces for official casualty figures.
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Cadiz
Spain
Francisco Sanchez Cossio
Antonio Fernandez Pernia
Spanish Morocco
Francisco Franco
Sevilla
Ouachita Parish First Bale Displayed At Bank
Ouachita parish's first bale of cotton for 1947 arrived at the Federal Compress Company's warehouse on Breard Street and was sent to public display in Central Savings Bank lobby. J B Johnston and H W McSherry of Monroe raised the 536-pound middling bale on the Pargoud plantation. The People’s Gin Company processed 1 580 pounds of seed cotton at 75 dollars per ton, with initial bids at 50 cents per pound as producers await higher offers. The first bale for Northeast Louisiana this year came to Winnsboro on August 9.
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Ouachita Parish
Federal Compress Company
Breard Street
Central Savings Bank & Trust Co
J. B. Johnston
H. W. McSherry
Monroe
J. M. & S. Planting Company
Loop Road
People's Gin Company
Louisiana
Winnsboro
No recession in business expected says labor official
Washington reports Ewan Clague director of the bureau of labor statistics voiced confidence that no recession is in sight amid a summer slump postponed indefinitely. He noted peak employment above 60 million in July and said domestic demand plus exports would need a drastic drop to reduce jobs.
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Washington
Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Clague
U S Boy Scouts Enter French City
Five truck loads of American jamboree Scouts descended on Rolleboise France to reenact the Seine crossing first done by U S troops Aug 20 1944. Arthur McKinney executive director led the contingent with Howard R Patton as communications director and a mix of Sea Bear and Explorer Scouts. Local residents welcomed the visitors with memories of the earlier bridgehead.
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Rolleboise
France
Seine River
Arthur McKinney
Rocke Ing Chair Road
White Plains
New York
George S. Patton, Jr
Howard R. Patton
Sanford Avenue
Flushing
N. Y
Madison
Wis
Sons of American
Germany
Ohio
Paul Taleux
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Ued
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John J. Swift
Massachusetts Superior Court
Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
Selig Factory
Irwin Yuen
Eft
Los Angeles Press Club
Coast Guard
Mark Clark
Anzio
Clark
Ora Field
Odom
Murray
Brandt
U. S
French City
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