Anti-Red Part Of New Labor Law Upheld In Texas
Federal Judge T. Witfield Davidson ruled the anti-Communist provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act are legal. The decision came during a hearing with the OU Workers International Union CIO seeking to certify a bargaining unit of deep oil workers in Wichita Falls. Local 38 Baltimore urged the CIO to file anti-Communist affidavits to protect its contract with Martin Aircraft Co.
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Fort Worth
Tex
T. Witfield Davidson
Davidson
OU Workers International Union
CIO
Edwin A. Elliott
NLRB
Wichita Falls
OWIU
Martin
International Association of Machinists
Ind
UAW
TAM
Arabs Oppose Palestine Partition Urges Arab Sovereign State
The Arab Higher Committee for Palestine warns the UN against partition plans, calling them absurd and unjust. It insists on declaring Palestine an Arab democratic sovereign state and rejects Jewish migration, signaling potential regional bloodshed.
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Lake Success
Arab Higher Committee For Palestine
United Nations
Palestine
U. N. Special Committee On
Holy Land
Britain
Jewish Agency For Palestine
U. N
Bazooka rocket blast injures five in farm home tragedy
The bazooka rocket exploded near Fort Riley injuring five Schmidt children. Beast Schaudt, 11, was killed instantly. Caroline 7 and Paul David 9 were en route to hospital in critical condition. Donald 15 Lorene 5 were not expected to live. two other siblings were seriously injured. Another note covers a September 8 strike by Local 453 Teamsters in Winchester, Virginia, affecting freight transport as drivers seek 20 to 25 percent raises from six firms amid a two year contract, with six companies listed.
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Newton
Zooka
Fort Riley
Arnold Schmidt
Chidren
Beast Schaudt
Caroline
Paul David
Donald
Lorene
Schmidt
Robert Marvin
Arnold
Carmberlan
Teamsters and Chauffeurs
Winchester
Cumberland
C. E
Novick Transfer Company
Elliott Motor Lines
Allegany Transportation Lines
Smith ‘Transfer
Mason-Dixon Lines
Former Saxony mine manager testifies in Berlin trial
Hans Grassman, four months manager of Saxony mines where Russians seek uranium, testifies in a U.S. military court about 10,000 workers, no uranium found, and alleged orders to seize him. He fled to the American zone and describes harsh conditions and limited voluntary labor near the Czechoslovak border.
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Berlin
Hans Grassman
Saxony
Grassman
U.S
Rural Carrier Brandenburg Dies of Heart Attack at Home
Leslie C. Brandenburg a prominent cattle breeder and rural mail carrier for 29 years out of Middletown, died suddenly Monday evening at his home after a week of illness. He was born January 2, 1894, and survived by a widow and three children. Funeral details: Thursday at 2 p.m. at his late home, with Rev. Warren A. Breisch officiating. interment in Zion Lutheran Cemetery.
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Leslie C. Brandenburg
Middletown
Samuel C
Clara Alexander Brandenburg
Harmony
Harmony Band
Myersville
Frederick County
Bruce Brandenburg
Emma Mae Morgan
Greenbelt
Clarence Waters
John Brandenburg
Charles Brandenburg
Mary Burkholder
Russell Brandenburg
Hagerstown
Leo Brandenburg
Braddock Heights
Glen Brandenburg
Texas
Emmett Atkins
New Midway
Iate
Warren A. Breisch
Zion Lutheran Cemetery
Paul F. Bittle
Jailed On Charge Of False Pretenses In Hagerstown
John Adamic of Newark New Jersey was jailed on false pretenses charges after selling stamped 14K gold rings for 2 to 10 dollars each. Detectives said the rings were worth about 50 cents and he planned to operate at fairs in York County Pennsylvania and Hagerstown next week before being remanded in $2,000 bail awaiting grand jury action.
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Hagerstown
John Adamic
Newark
N. J
Wayne A. Sellman
Sellman
Adamic
York County
Retail Sales Tax Fight Referred to Court in Maryland
Annapolis officials report a mandamus petition to force a November 1948 referendum on the two percent Maryland sales tax. Sheriff Alten served the Secretary of State with a show cause order, due by October 4, after four protesters filed in county court led by Carroll H. Albaugh. The Maryland Economic Council backs the challenge, with Robert I. Black and others among petitioners.
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Annapolis
Mary~land
Anne Arundel County
Joseph Alten
Bertram L. Boone
Carroll H. Albaugh
Robert I. Black
Norbeck
Maryland Economic Council
Secretary of State
Alfred T. Truitt
Herman L. Mills
Henry J. Starr
Albaugh
Samuel J. Fisher
Baltimore
Skunk Attack Blinds Boy in West Fifth Alley
A 16 year old boy was sprayed by a skunk in the rear alley of the 300 block of West Fifth street about 10 30 p m Monday night as he prepared to park his bicycle. The animal sprayed at close quarters causing eye and mouth irritation and the boy was taken to an eye physician.
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West Fifth Street
Cumberland Airport Profit Reported For 1945
Cumberland Airways reported gross business of 50131 at the airport in 1945 with after tax profit of 306. City Auditor Arthur B. Gibson told the Mayor and Council the company leases the airport from the city and is seeking to adjust three expenditure items to raise profit toward 2606 for the first two years of operation, with the period ending December 31, 1947.
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Cumberland
Arthur B. Gibson
Cumberland Airways
Gibson
William Graham
Pittsburgh
Veteran bonds cashing tops first five days totals
Treasury reports veterans cashed more than one fifth of terminal leave bonds in five days ending Sept 3, paying out 437.36 million dollars in principal and interest. Some 8.9 million veterans held about 1.8 billion in bonds, with bank delivery delays affecting final tallies. The report lists principal payments by Federal Reserve Banks including Cleveland and Richmond districts. In San Francisco, police investigated a gang-linked homicide after finding the body of a well-dressed man with slashed throat believed linked to recent West Coast gang activity, registered under the alias J Brown.
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Washington
Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Richmond
Baltimore
Charlotte
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
West Coast
Bugsy Siegel
Los Angeles
Nick de John
J. Brown
New Jersey
U S Soviet Talks Deadlocked Over Korea Report
The U S Soviet Commission on unifying Korea remains stalled with no joint report due September 5, as American delegate Maj Gen Albert E Brown accuses the Soviet side of editing out U S criticisms. The board approved Yellow Cab’s experimental helicopter service between downtown Cleveland and Cleveland Hopkins Airport.
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U. S
Seoul
Korea
Albert E. Brown
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Yellow Cab Company of
Cleveland, Inc
Dovtown
Cleveland
Navy fires V Z rocket from carrier Midway off coast
The U S Navy announced it fired a V Z German rocket from the aircraft carrier Midway during a sea test off the coast last Saturday. The rocket traveled about six miles and exploded, marking the first time a V 2 was launched from a ship.
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Washington
Sept
Navy
Midway
White Sands
N. Mex
D. W. Gallery
Naval Operations
Army
New Mexico
Norfolk
Trout To Confer With License Holders Sept. 11
Holders of off sale alcoholic beverage licenses in Frederick County meet with License Commissioner G Cleveland Trout on Thursday to discuss an Attorney General ruling that transfers of licenses will be prohibited in the future due to a license cap. Organizers aim to unite dealers to protect interests after the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Cleveland Trout
Frederick County
Tortured Confessions Used in War Crimes Trial
War crimes prosecutors say Japanese torture produced false statements from eight American fliers. The admissions were introduced but not read in court as evidence, amid preparations to prove coercion. The aviators included pilots Hallmark and Harrow and gunner Spaatz from the Doolittle raid on Tokyo.
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Tokyo
International Tribunal
China
Dave Edward Hallmark
William D
Harrow
Harold Spaatz
Gen Sugiyama
James H. Doolittle
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Campbell Soup Company
W. L. Parvin
Parvin
UXSON
Maryland Federation of Telephone Workers
Lyric Theater
CIQ
AFL
Communications Workers of America
Robert Slemmer
Fideraon
Interna of Electrical Woters
IAFL
Babre Sun
Association of the Defenders of
Frederick
St. Pere
Union Bridge War Memorial
Hammaker Brothers
Elmer Wolfe
Union Bridge
Hanover
Skunk
Elbertas, Shippers
Brackett
Catoon Muntan Orchard
Thurmont
South Market ST
W. Patrick St
Delphey’s
Allen
W. Guaranty
WW. Guaranty
South Market
Ralph W. Boyer
AAA
Frederick, Md
Uadversal
Patric Knowles
Herbert Marshall
Richard Ney
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Luche Watson Rosalind Ivan
Sara Allgood
Mre Dtr
Rae Opera House
Randolph Scott
Robert Young
Western Union
Piai
Pia Stevens
Watt
C.F. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Ty Ake
Argentina
Juan Peron
Jeff
Emilio Martos
Buenos Aires
R. Emmett Flymo
Berland
B. Frank Gaffney
Oscar A. Eyerman
John J. Treiber
United States
George Hamilton
General Acceptance Corporation
Xland Telephone
Chatham
Cuarnan
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