Ex-GIs seize Athens Tenn jail after six hour gun battle
In McMinn county Tennessee 18 people were wounded as former GIs backed by rifles attacked the county jail to overturn an election result. The six hour siege ended with veterans patrolling streets and control of law and order, while Sheriff Mansfield and deputies faced removal.
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Athens
Tenn
McMinn County
Pat Mansfield
G. I
The
Election Commission
G.L
Herbert Walker
Knox Henry
Mansfield
Srun
Dawn
Paul Cantrell
McKellar Clinches renomination in violent Tennessee primary
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar won renomination and a sixth term in Washington after a primary marked by bloodshed. Backed by Edward H. Crump’s Memphis machine, he led Carmack 165,836 to 94,314 with additional votes for Neal and Ross. Gubernatorial results show Browning ahead of McCord and Richardson among partial tallies.
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Nashville
Tenn
Kenneth D. McKellar
Washington
Edward H. Crump
Memphis
McKellar
Edward Ward Carmack
Carmack
John R. Neal
Herman H. Ross
Gordon Browning
Jim McCord
Leah Richardson
Bloodshed in Tennessee primary reported
An armed mob stormed the McMinn county jail to seize ballot boxes while in Monroe county a 60 year old farmer, Jake Tipton, was shot and killed at the Rural Vale voting booth near Tellico Plains. In Memphis CIO PAC threats accompanied Crump aligned candidates leading in renomination.
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Nashville
Tenn
Athens
McMinn County
Monroe County
Vale
Tellico Plains
Jake Tipton
Memphis
Cio-Pac
Ed Crump
Crump
McKellar
Gov. McCord
Harrisburg Woman Shoots Self In Germany
Mrs John T Burnite 31 of Harrisburg Pennsylvania shot herself in her Berlin home this morning becoming the first death by own action among American dependents in Germany. She arrived seven weeks ago with her two children Jack four and Beth two. The husband a civilian employee heard a shot and found her wounded. she died this afternoon at a military hospital.
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Berlin
INS
Germany
John T. Burnite
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Office of Political Affairs
Keen To Go
Harrisburg Aug 2 Mrs John Burnite who killed herself in Berlin was described as very keen to join her husband in Germany by her father in law Dr John T Burnite He said she was nervous but willing to stay on despite concerns over the servant question and noted her maiden name was Betty Haas before marrying seven years ago.
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Harrisburg
John Burnite
Berlin
Germany
John T. Burnite
Burnite
Betty Haas
Husband Dies Wife Hears Dies in Tragic Mourning
In Pittsburgh on August 2 Mrs. Catherine Goralski, 54, sobbed as her husband collapsed and died two hours earlier. Her daughters offered comfort until she fainted and died, leaving three grieving daughters. The incident follows the sudden loss that devastated a mourning family.
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Pittsburgh
Catherine Goralski
Army Support By J N Cascio Told To Somerset Rotary
Attorney J N Cascio spoke at the Somerset Rotary Club praising the army’s thorough system from solders to supplies. He recounted his own rise from private to captain, and cited a Mediterranean ship loss replacement to illustrate precision in wartime logistics.
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Joseph N. Cascio
Somerset Rotary Club
Ferner Hotel
Cascio
Thomas F. Lansberry
Mr. Cascio
AFL chief calls seven million to unseat reactionary Congress
President William Green of the AFL urges members to back candidates with vision and fight southern Democrats and northern reactionaries. He denounces CIO raids on an AFL plant in Meadville while noting AFL support for CIO-UAW during GM strike. Green says CIO would not buy AFL into their ranks.
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Columbus
INS
William Green
American Federation of Labor Today
Glass Bottle Blowers Association
United States
Canada
Congress
Green
CIO
Meadville
AFL
Cio-Uaw
General Motors
Constellation Modifications Approved For Return To Service
The civil aeronautics administration announced that modifications to the Lockheed Constellation will allow a return to regular airline service within three weeks. Changes include fire extinguisher protection, exhaust ring upgrades, redesigned electrical connectors, copper conductors, insulated circuit breakers, and other electrical hydraulic system updates. The Constellation’s flying certificates were suspended July 11 after a training crash near Reading, Pennsylvania killed five crew and injured one.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Constellation
Reading
Death Car Driver Is Absolved By Coroner Jury
A coroner's jury absolved Morris Markowitz of manslaughter in the death of Luda Jimison, a 55 year old Toledo truck driver, ruling the deceased's own negligence crossed the turnpike. The verdict urged investigations into crossing conditions on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and cited Governor James's 1941 speed law debates and turnpike authority to set safe speeds.
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Mary, Hause
Luda V. Jimison
Toledo
Ohio
Morris Markowitz
Bronx
New York
Jacob C. Poorbaugh
Glencoe
Blair Mulhollen
Somerset
Clyde Bowman
Harry L. Knupp
Harry J. Geisler
Charles Sechler
R. D
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Arthur H. James
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Turnpke Commission
Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission
Motor Police
Three Car Wreck Near Cupps Crossing Causes $200 Damages
A Friday morning crash on Route 54 near Cupps Crossing involved Carfield Clark 16 Hooversville Willis G. Frazier Somerset and Phillip A Stahl Somerset. Police estimate damages about 190 to the Stahl car and 75 to each of the other two vehicles.
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Cupp
Carfield Clark
Hooversville
Willis G. Frazier
Somerset
Clark
Frazier
Phillip A. Stahl
R. D
Stahl
Stork Delivers Baby During Taxi Race in Pittsburgh
A stork delivered a seven pound son during a taxi race last night as Mrs. Fred Kraus rushed her daughter Mrs. Daniel J Quinn to the hospital. The birth occurred three blocks from the hospital with the husband, a Pennsylvania Railroad fireman, met by the new mother and baby who were reported thriving at Pittsburgh hospital.
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Pittsburgh
Fred Kraus
Daniel J Quinn
Car overturns injures man and children on Pittsburgh trip
Mrs Ruth Martin 45 of New Florence was killed when the family car overturned on a wet highway near Johnstown. Husband Reigh and their seven year-old son Allen were hospitalized. three daughters and a neighbor’s child escaped injury as they traveled to Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh.
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Johnstown
Ruth Martin
New Florence
Reigh
Allen
Johnstown Hospital
Seal
Kenneywood Park
Pittsburgh
Coleman's Battery Fed Friers Ad at 364 W Fairview
Local notice promotes Coleman's battery fed friers with electric brooders and special feed. Chickens fry in about 20 minutes and are freshly dressed on short order. Somerset address 364 W Fairview St and phone 329-W.
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Coleman
Fairview St
Priest Tells Philippine Missionary Experience
The Rev. Albert A. Gartland reports a letter from Rev. Richard J. Grimme describing transfer of authority to the Philippine government, tensions in Manila, and danger from looting. He recalls a flag ceremony, gunfire near him, and widespread postwar unrest as he considers delaying his vacation plans.
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Albert A. Gartland
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Fisne
Richard J. Grimme
Philippine Islands
United States
Manila
Clarin
Misamis Occ
P. I
L A Lohr Dies in France in World War II Service
Sergeant Lester A Lohr died in France July 29 from injuries after a land mine explosion while serving with graves registration at Strausburg. He was 20, a Boswell high school graduate, class of 1944, inducted May 1945, trained at Camp Robinson, and went overseas November 1945. He is survived by parents, four siblings, two Penn State students, and a Somerset Pike grandfather. Funeral arrangements pending arrival of the body.
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Lester A. Lohr
France
War Department
Lester J. Lohr
Boswell
R. D
Set. Lohr
Strausburg
Germany
Boswell High School
Army
Joseph T. Robinson
Little Rock
Ark
Robert A
David A
William
Susan Lohr
Florence C., Lohr
Frances L. Lohr
Pennsylvania State College
Robert W. Lohr
Somerset Pike
Jennertown
Is Home
79th Congress Ends First Mid-Summer Adjournment
Harrisburg Aug 2 The Pennsylvania CIO PAC blames Republican congressmen for price rises opposing opa saying dollars buy 75 cents worth of goods They name 15 Pennsylvania Republicans as voting wrongly and urge wage earners to be patient while the CIO seeks wider voter registration and new representatives.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
C1io Political Action Committee
Opa
Cio-Pac
Harry Boyer
Fulton
Kunkel
Washington
Boyer
CIO
Congress
New York Banker Accuses May of Reneging On Garsson Loan
Elisha Walker a Wall Street banker charges Rep. Andrew May used influence to help Murray Garsson secure wartime contracts after Garsson and his brother allegedly leveraged a $5000 loan. Walker delivered correspondence to Sen. Mead outlining a prewar relationship and Meade committee scrutiny. Walker says Garsson pressed for a manganese mining venture before asking for the loan.
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New York
INS
New York Journal American
Elisha Walker
Wall Street
Andrew J. May
D-Ky
Murray W. Garsson
Garsson
Walker
Journal American
Henry
Doc
M. Garsson
Romance In Jap Prison Sparks Belgian Countess Frenchman's San Francisco Wedding
In San Francisco City Hall a 34 year old Belgian countess Marie de Brousse de Montpey roux and 35 year old Louis Bellon will marry after meeting in a Japanese prison camp in Saigon. They say their eyes sparked love during captivity as guards threatened prisoners. Both faced suspicion for aiding airmen in Indo China. The countess, daughter of a former professor, managed a rice plantation. Bellon ran a cigarette factory there.
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San Francisco
Marie de Brousse de Montpeyroux
Louis Bellon
Saigon
Indo-China
Bellon
Ethiopia Seeks Eritrea and Somaliland at Peace Conference
Ethiopia asks the peace conference to award Italy's East African colonies Eritrea and Somaliland as reparations for Italian aggression. Vice Foreign Minister Aklilu Abte Wolde presents the claim amid debate on a permanent conference chairman and other wartime grievances.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Paris
Ethiopia
Italy
Eritrea
Somaliland
Mussolini
Aklilou Abte Wolde
Dodecanese
Greece
Hitler
Czecho- Slovakia
Poland
Luxembourg Palace
Georges Bidault
France
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Rules Committee
Czechoslovakia
Hopeful reunion for Mrs Walker after New Hampshire disappearance
Mrs Barbara Walker, 23, reappeared in California after vanishing from a Conway New Hampshire picnic. She says a family quarrel and desire for a California life prompted the departure and that a kidnap tale was invented. She awaits her husband and son’s return, denying involvement with another man.
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Placerville
Cal
Barbara Walker
California
New Hampshire
Lake Tahoe
New England
Walker
Sacramento
Mather Army Air Field
Congress Ends Second Session at Summer Close
The 79th Congress adjourned its second session, ending Jan 14 start and noting work done despite unfinished business. Speaker Rayburn and Senate Leader Barkley praised the session as a vigorous but mixed effort with broad international cooperation and domestic disputes shaping the end.
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William R. Spear
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Barkley
Weekend Maryland and nearby regions weather outlook
The forecast calls for generally fair and mild conditions in Maryland on Saturday with improving warmth on Sunday and a risk of scattered thunderstorms late Sunday. Eastern Pennsylvania remains cloudy and cool Saturday then partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers late Sunday. western Pennsylvania and West Virginia show mild Saturday and a warm, thundery Sunday with showers into Monday.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
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