Florida braced as tropical storm spurs tornadoes
Three tornadoes struck Florida as a tropical storm moved slowly northward near St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Gusts of 60 to 70 mph hit Egmont Key with warnings from Apalachicola to Palm Beach. No injuries reported.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
St. Petersburg
Clearwater
Florida West Coast
Gulf Coast
Tampa
Egmont Key
Tampa Bay
Coast Guard
Weather Bureau
Atlantic States
Tallahassee
Apalachicola
Palm Beach
Charleston
S. C
Drafts and political theater in the Dies committee tale
Westbrook Pegler recounts Robert Stripling’s controversial draft to the army amid 1944 political maneuvering. He links Stripling to Eleanor Roosevelt and the Dies committee, portraying a charged, conspiratorial atmosphere with references to Hoover, Churchill, and UI narratives.
Bar Association Debates Labor Law at Cleveland Convention
The American Bar Association held a full-dress debate on Taft Hartley as a law at its 70th convention in Cleveland. Labor leaders and counsel clashed over non Communist affidavits and union protections under the act. Harold Stassen appeared for a joint ABA and junior bar conference on international affairs.
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Cleveland
Themerican Bar Association
Associaon
Hor
Muncipal Auditorium
BE. S. T
Joseph A. Padway
Lee Pressan
Robert N. Denham
Theational Labor Relations Board
B. A
Section of
Labor Relations Hw
NLRB
Harold E. Stassen
Minsota
Lundin
International Law Section
A. B
United Nations
Louise Overell Case Under Fire In Dynamite yacht blast
The Santa Ana murder case centers on Louise Overell and Bud Gollum who admit buying 50 pounds of blasting powder but claim it was at Walter E Overell’s request. Prosecutor Williams read testimony about locating dynamite in the Overell mansion garage and the defense argues the blast may have been accidental or caused by Overell.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
Bud Gollum
Newport Harbor
Walter E. Overell
Los Angeles
Overell
Eugene Williams
Louise
Fred Jungquist
Jungquist
Mary Pritchett
Flintridge
Pasadena
Mojave
Mary E
European nations seek 19.3 billion aid from U S
A British courier flew to the United States to deliver a 20 000 word report from 16 western European nations requesting 19 300 000 000 in American aid for four years. The abstract warned of possible catastrophe and revolution as Europe’s recovery blueprint is prepared.
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Paris
United States
Marshall
Europe
Relief in food prices sought amid market swings
Associated Press reports Truman weighing voluntary rationing and export curbs as grain markets opened higher then slid. Wheat spiked in Chicago before easing, corn held gains, cattle and hogs trimmed, butter and eggs mixed. A grand jury probe in Chicago targets meat industry anti trust concerns.
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Associated Press
Truman
Chicago
New York
Washington
White House
Prand
Department of Justice
John F. Sennett
U. S
Grand Jury
Uncle Confesses He Killed Girl in Maryland and Philadelphia
Police say George A. Neill 22 a war veteran has confessed to strangling his 11 year old niece Isabella Mallon near Philadelphia about two weeks earlier. He was arrested at a Maryland dairy farm after leaving for Philadelphia where a murder warrant was issued. He admitted taking Isabella for a walk the day she vanished and said he sent her home alone after drinking.
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New York
Robert Stripling
Thomas
Army
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
France
Stripling
Washington
Navy
Eleanor the Great
Herbert Hoover
White House
Eleanor
Rosevelt
S. S
Hitler
Dies Committee
Joe Lash
Jerry Voorhis
California
New Deal
Ndt
Lincoln
Voorhis
Joe Cadden
Abbot Simon
Rockville
James A. Kelly
George A. Neill
Isabella Mallon
Philadelphia
Kelly
Neill
Olney
Sgt
James
Isabella
Anderson
Pacific Theater
Petkov Hanged For Leading Opposition To Communist Regime
Nikola Petkov, peasant leader and opposition figure in Bulgaria, was hanged at 12:15 a.m. in Sofia central prison on charges of plotting against the communist controlled government. The United States and Britain denounced the trial as a miscarriage of justice and urged international review, but Russia declined and Bulgaria rejected protests.
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Petkov
Sofia
State Department
Fatherland Front
Bulgaria
Nikola Petkov
Communist Party
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Supreme Court
Agrarian Party
Hungary
Allied Control Commission
U. S
Russia
Moscow
President Orders Hurricane Inquiry to Inspect Storm Damage
President Truman ordered Maj. Gen. Philip Fleming to personally inspect storm damage in the southern states. Fleming, in Wyoming, is to visit Florida Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi to coordinate relief with state and local governments and report back as soon as possible.
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Washington
Truman
Philip Fleming
Federal Works
Fleming
Wyoming
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
White House
Bids Called for Rochester Pump Stations and Police Equipment
Monroe county commissioners authorize bids for drainage project contracts including three new brick pump station buildings at Rochester Hall and Allen Street along South Grand Street. October 28 opening date set for pump station bids and police uniforms and two motorcycles.
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Monroe
Commission Council
Rochester, Hall and
Allen Street
South Grand Street
Police
C. R. Tidwell
Parks and Streets
Barnhart & Burk
North Tenth
Willow Streets
Calypso Street
Tidwell
Grand
Mechanical Brain Flying May Bring Finer Accuracy
The air force C 54 known as The Big Push crossed 2400 miles from Stephenville Newfoundland to Brize Norton England with no hands on the controls after the start button was touched. Nine crew members rode along and five passengers observed as part of all weather flight tests at Clinton County Airport Wilmington Ohio. The project aims to develop a system where the pilot acts as monitor in bad weather, removing human error from cockpit operations.
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James J. Strebig
Associated Press
Washington
North Atlantic
Stephenville
N. F
Brize Norton
England
Air Force
Clinton County
Wilmington
Ohio
Rightists Lead in Italian Vote at Caserta Local Election
In Caserta a rightist coalition led by Qualunquists monarchists and liberals won 7 492 votes to 3 984 for Gasperi's Christian Democrats and 649 for the left block. A separate Liberal monarchist ticket added 1 909 votes as no confidence moves against De Gasperi loom. The Communist backed strike by 30 000 farmers in Rome province accompanied political tension.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Caserta
Interior Ministry
Gasperis Christian Democrat Party
Peoples
Constituent Assembly
de Gasperi
de Gasper
General Labor Confederation
Giuseppe di Vittorio
Three New Producing Wells Raise Ora Field Total
The Ora oil field in Union parish gains three new producers, lifting total successful wells to 34. Shell Oil’s Frost Lumber Co. A-17 in section 23-22-1W yields 114 barrels daily from 2,104-20 feet. Sellars-Ewing’s Tucker No.5 and No.6 report 115 BPD from 2,114-18 and 165 BPD from 2,083-90 feet, both through a 1/4 inch choke.
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Union Parish
Ora
Monroe District Conservation Office
Sellars-Ewing
Shell Oil Company
Shell
Frost Lumber Co
P. J. Tucker
Lie Makes Effort To Halt Quarrel
In New York on September 23, Secretary General Trygve Lie urged the big powers to bury their differences for peace in the United Nations. Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky accused U S policy on Korea and Italy, while Warren Austin defended U N principles. The assembly began debate as the Arab bloc saw a setback over a special committee on Palestine.
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United Nations
Vishinsky
New Tirade
Max Harrelson
New York
Russia
United States
Trygve Lie
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Marshall
Korea
U. N
U.N
General Assembly
Italy
Warren R. Austin
U. S
Austin
Lie
Gurney predicts Vandenberg as dark horse GOP nominee
Senator Gurney of South Dakota says Michigan's Vandenberg could emerge as a spontaneous draft for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination if a convention deadlock forces a first ballot. He notes Vandenberg's foreign and domestic expertise and expects Michigan to back him as a favorite son.
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Gurney
Dark Horse Gop
Washington
South Dakota
Vandenberg
Michigan
Middle West
Guiney
Senate
Woman killed by good luck wish on coastal highway
Mrs. John E. Curtis was shot to death on a South Carolina coastal highway by Dennis J. Counihan a 27 year old Chatham County Georgia homicide officer posing as a well wisher on the couple s wedding trip. Captain Curtis testified Counihan forced the car door ripped the orchid from the bride s suit and fired seven times before killing himself. their two year old son Buddy survived.
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Ridgeland
John E. Curtis
Buddy
Dennis J. Counihan
Chatham County
Georgia
Curtis
Counihan
Conathan
Menomonie
Wis
Milwaukee
Reuther Faces Internal UAW Rebuke From Trio Aides
Detroit dispatch reports three top United Auto Workers officials R. Thomas, Richard T. Leonard, and George F. Addes asked the international executive board to rebuke President Walter P. Reuther. They charged he issued statements betraying the trust of his office in talks for publication in the unions newspaper. The 22 member board debated the resolution with a vote delayed.
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Detroit
U P
United Auto Workers Internatonal Executive Board
Walter P. Reuther
R. Thomas
Richard T. Leonard
George F. Addes
Reuther
United Auto Worker
Addes-Thomas
Methodists Open Ecumenical Conference in Springfield
Springfield Mass hosts 400 delegates from two hemispheres for a nine day ecumenical Methodist conference, first in 16 years. Attendees include Norman Makin ambassador from Australia and delegates from Canada Mexico Central and South America Great Britain Europe China India Africa and more. Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St Louis will preside at the opening session.
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Springfield
Mass
Oxford
England
United States
Methodist
Canada
Mexico
Central and South America
Great Britain
Europe
China
India
Africa
Philippine Islands
Australia
New Zealand
Methodist Church of Australia
Norman Makin
Ivan Lee Holt
St. Louis
Church Council
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Fowler
Dies
BAR Association
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Tris
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Red Cross
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Mitchell Field
L. L
D. C.) National Airport
Andrew's Field
Long Beach
Social Democrats
Executive Board of Auto Workers
Methodists
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