Latva Sons Appeal to Truman Over Deportation
Carl Latva and Paul Latva two war veterans from Wendell New Hampshire say they will telegram President Truman asking him to save their father Carl Latva from deportation to Finland. Latva signed a Communist party card in 1934 while a mill worker and faces deportation under the McCarran act. He plans to consult his attorney in Boston and appeals court options. Federal Judge Wyzganski ordered deportation. Senators and Governor Adams pledge to seek action in Washington.
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Carl Latva
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Boston
Frederick Frank Cohen
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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O’conor
Charles E. Wyzganski Jr
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Enra
Vetzid
Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
Carl A. Latva
Communist Party
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr
Wyzanski
Paul E. Latva
Carl W. Latva
McKellar Ousted For Senate Seat
Tennessee awaits results from a Democratic primary as 83 year old Senator Kenneth McKellar trails in his bid for a seventh term. Representative Albert Gore leads as Frank Clement defeats Gordon Browning in the governor race. Crump aides fear a split outcome while Tennessee politics face a pivotal party primary scene.
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Associated Press
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tennessee
Albert Gore
U. S. Senate
Frank Clement
FBI
Gordon Browning
Browning
Memphis
E. H. Crump
Estes Kefau
Iran Offers To Settle Oil Dispute With Britain
Tehran says it will settle the oil dispute with Britain either by direct negotiations or through Iranian courts. The offer was sent to the British embassy and made public. If rejected, the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. must accept the consequences.
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Iran
Britain
Mebc
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
Convicted Rapist Protests Innocence Before Execution
Major Preston, 34, from Walker County Alabama, protested his innocence before death in Huntsville Alabama’s electric chair at 12:08 a.m. He was convicted of raping a 45 year old white woman near the state prison. The condemned man, first from his county to die in the chair, entered at 12:02 and received the first jolt at 12:05.
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Huntsville
Maor Preston
Walker County No 0
Preston
Walker County
Land
Missouri Pacific
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Government Mind Control Claims Stir Texas Press Meeting
Tampa editor W M Newton Jr accused the U S government of trying to control the American mind during a Texas Daily Newspaper Association session. He charged vast tax money spent on government news handouts and cited Secretary overreach from New Deal to Fair Deal. Newton linked Reconstruction era Texan ties to a broader call for individual liberty against federal propaganda.
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Galveston
W. M
Red) Newton Jr
Tampa
Fla
Texas
Publishers Today
Newton
Tampa Tribune
Texas Daily Newspaper Association
Lee
Appomattox
North Carolina
Washington
Florida
Jefferson
Greeks Warn Bulgarians To Stay Off River Island Gamma
Greek forces warn Bulgarian troops massed across the Evros river to avoid renewed attempts to seize Gamma island. Greek troops drove off Bulgarian forces July 23 and reinforced with infantry artillery tanks and planes as villagers evacuate. The UN Peace Commission will decide Gamma’s ownership while Greece vows not to occupy the island before a decision.
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Greece
Evros
Gamma
Bulgaria
Dikaia
UN Peace Commission
Evres
Sophocles Venizelos
California Reds Sentenced to Five Years Under Smith Act
In Los Angeles 14 leading Communists including Frank Spector were sentenced to the maximum five years in prison and a $10 000 fine each for conspiracy against the United States under the Smith Act of 1940. Judge William C. Mathes upheld the verdict after a six month trial and the defendants, all pledging innocence, announced appeal. Spector, 57, claimed to be a founding member dating to September 1919 and faces possible deportation proceedings.
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California
Russia
United States
William C. Mathes
Frank Spector
U. S. Circuit Court
Communist Party
Spector
U. S
Los Angeles County
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Japan and Yugoslavia to establish diplomatic ties
Belgrade radio reported that Japan and Yugoslavia have decided to establish diplomatic relations, signaling a new stage in their bilateral ties.
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London
Japan
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Former mental patient commits park slaying and suicide
Bernard Richardson Jr., 35, killed 18-year-old Patricia Kahler and her escort Herbert Hoffman in Grant Park Chicago. He then shot himself. Police note no connection to victims. Richardson had recent hospital stays and a history of assaults and weapons charges. He had been on 90 day VA hospital leave from Gulfport Mississippi.
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Grant Park
Bernard Richardson Jr
Patricia Kahler
Herbert Hoffman
Hoffman
Richardson
Veterans Hospital
Gulfport
Miss
Wowen
State Hospital For the
Erie
Pennsylvania Institution
W. K. Freeman
Gulfport VA Hospital
Marrero
Bernard A. Richardson Sr
FBI
Lead fizzles in Stevens murder case
Oklahoma authorities report a promising lead in the Betty Jack Stevens torture slaying fizzled after an ex convict alibi centered on blood stains from a mechanic’s hand. Investigators traced a blood stained car to Pecos Texas and traced Stevens sightings to Odessa before her body was found near Yukon Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma City
O. K. Bivins
State Crime Bureau
Dallas
Bivins
Tulsa
Arkansas
Betty Jack Stevens
Yukon
Okla
Pecos
Tex
Fort Stockton
San Antonio
Texas
Miss Stevens
Odessa
Alvord
Oklahoma Crime Bureau
Oklahoma
Eager shoppers test jewelry store lines in Anadarko
In Anadarko Oklahoma on August 8 Ted Ledbetter told a group of youths buying a birthday gift for their mother that pierced ears would be a fine idea. Ledbetter asked if their mother’s ears already had holes and they asked how she hears revealing their playful confusion.
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Anadarko, Okla
Ted Ledbetter
Ledbetter
Austrian Post Office Offers Bedtime Tales by Phone
The Austrian Post Office will start on Sept. 1 providing bedtime fairy tales via telephone. Dial A-0-60 to hear daily tape recordings of Hans Christian Andersen or the Brothers Grimm. The Vienna system already offers dinner recipes, transit info, skiing conditions, football results, and a music tone.
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Vienna
Polio Epidemic Continues As Peak is Past
The Texas polio outbreak remains at a high level with no decline in incidence. The Public Health Service estimates the peak may be past as 276 new cases were reported last week, with deaths in Beaumont and Austin and new cases in Kyle and Copperas Cove.
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Texas
State Health Department
Health Service
Washington
Austin
Brackenridge Hospital
Pegg Jane Weaver
Clem Weaver
Kyle
San Marcos Air Force Base
James Whitman
Willie Whitman
Copperas Cove
Beaumont
Fort Worth
Public Health Service
Isaac E. Lilley
Lisbee
Beaumont Hospital
Arkansas
Kay Linda Lane
Linda McMurry
Route 2
Bangs
George W. Cox
VFW Condemns UNESCO Program
The 53rd VFW encampment approves a resolution condemning UNESCO in public schools as corrupting American minds. Delegates demand scrapping any program seen as infringing sovereignty and pushing universal military training. They call for stronger merchant marine, end of Czech trade, and Oatis release.
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Los Angeles
Veterans of Foreign Wars
U. N
James W. Cothran
Bishopville
Ll. C
Sander
Unesco
United Nations
Ersal
Czechoslovakia
William Oatis
Associated Press
Drought Stricken Areas Get Government Aid And Rain
Government moves to aid drought hit farmers as Congress designated Tennessee Kentucky and eight more states disaster areas with emergency funds and disaster loans. Weather brings rains in New England and Georgia milk prices rise to 27 cents a quart to cover drought costs.
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South
Agriculture Department
Midwest
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Farmers Home Administration
Louis A. Webster
Massachuetts Market
Boston
Georgia Milk Control Board
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Truman
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Kentucky
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Arkansas
North Carolina
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Mississippi
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Missouri
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Virginias
Gulf States
Great Plains
Rockies
Montana
Dakotas
Czech Spy Hvasta Reported Escaped From Czechoslovakia
Washington August 8 AP state department announced John Hvasta 25 Hillside New Jersey a former spy sentenced to ten years reportedly fled Leopol idov Prison near Bratislava January 2 Czech Foreign Office said they do not know his whereabouts Officials condemned Oatis and Hvasta charges as false and pressed for answers Hvasta born in Czechoslovakia came to the United States in 1939 became citizen later returned as student
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Washington
Czechoslovakia
State Department
John Hvasta
Hillside
N. J
Department
Hvasta
United States
Associated Press
William N. Oatis
Hrasta
Foreign Ministry
Michael McDermott
Czechoslovak Supreme Court
Hvastas
New Jersey
U. S
Twister Hits In Kansas As Heat Wave Continues
The heat wave tightens its grip across the Southwest with Odessa posting 101 degrees and Wink about 104. A tornado struck La Crosse Kansas causing heavy damage in the business district and two garages were destroyed. Texas reports multiple 100 degree readings and scattered showers are forecast for several states.
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Wink
la Crosse
Kans
Texas
Presidio
New Mexico
Carlsbad
Roswell
Hobbs
Rodeo
Columbus
Lamar
Colo
Douglas
Wyo
Gage
Ohio
Sooner State
Missouri
Joplin
Garden City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
Eagle
Albuquerque
N. M
Amarillo
Big Spring
Lubbock
Texas and Pacific Railway
el Paso
Texarkana
Waco
del Rio
Junction
Cotulla
Laredo
Salt Flat
Alice
Austin
Dallas
College Station
Mineral Wells
UN Asks Reds How They Mark POW Camps
At Panmunjom Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison pressed the North Koreans for more details on how they mark prisoner of war camps. He said U N reconnaissance planes cannot find camps marked. Harrison rejected a Red charge that a U N warplane violated the Panmunjom neutral zone on August 4.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
U. N. Command
Reds
U. N
William K. Harrison
Harrison
Panmunjom
Army Pays Muster Pay Tips To Veterans
The Army advised veterans to include the required information in their muster ing-out pay applications to avoid delays.
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Army
Washington
Storm toll rises with monsoon floods in Manila area
Twelve people were listed as dead or missing in Central Luzon after three days of heavy monsoon rains and high tides. Manila dispatch notes the casualty figure and ongoing search efforts.
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Manila
Luzon
Mystery Woman Still Unidentified in Bus Crash Recovery
In Waco on August 8 authorities pursued identification of a "mystery woman" among 28 victims from Monday's two Greyhound bus crash. Six bodies remain unidentified, including several men. one female has distinguishing features and may be of Spanish Mexican descent. Sgt Joan Papke and family awaited confirmation as Lt. Trask noted that the fire did not fully cremate remains, confirming 28 fatalities.
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Greyhound
Anyze
Aswoman
Belton
Louis Papke
Chicago
Joan Papke
Mirs
Marie Papke
Here
U.S
Hilario Zamoudia
Waco and
Fort Worth
Raul L. Escobedo
Fort Hood
Dallas
R. L. Trask
Air Force
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