Ott Resigns Durocher Takes Giants Manager Post
New York Giants president Horace Stoneham announced Mel Ott has resigned as Giants manager and Leo Durocher will manage the Giants. Burt Shotton, former Dodgers manager, is named Dodgers boss again. The shakeup comes amid Giants pitching injuries and a weak batting showing after a strong home run season last year.
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Mel Ott
New York Giants
Leo Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
Burt Shotton
Dodger
Horace Stoneham
Brooklyn
Air Force test plane completes third long automatic flight
The four engined C-54 transport completed its third long automatic flight landing here after a 2109 mile hop from Wilmington Delaware. The 10 man crew read played chess and slept during the 12 hour trip. The aircraft previously flew the Atlantic both ways without hands on the controls.
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Los Angeles
Air Force
Wilmington
Atlantic
Sokol Officials Seek Purge After July Parade Used Politically
Prague officials of the Sokol organization apologized for July 6 parade being used as a political demonstration. They promised a purge as some members cheered former president Eduard Benes while marching in silence for his Communist successor Klement Gottwald.
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Czechoslovakia
Sokol
Eduard Benes
Klement Gottwald
Truman urged special session amid civil rights debate
The column notes President Truman was urged by advisers to call a special session of Congress to gain a ready made sounding board for his campaign, but warns that a filibuster over civil rights legislation is a risk. Marquis Childs analyzes this on the editorial pages. Other features are listed on pages 20 and 21, with cartoons, crosswords, horoscopes and regular sections including sports and editorials.
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Marquis Childs
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Jews Bomb Egypt Twice in Palestine War Air Raids
Israeli high command announced strikes on Tell El Jarish airfield near the Palestine border, dropping seven tons of bombs in the second attack. An Egyptian air raid on Tel Aviv followed, while a Cairo mob protested outside Al Azhar street, clashing with police.
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Tel Aviv
Egypt
Tell el Jarish
Palestine
Cairo
Al-Azhar
Eight Die in Knife Fight Near Dresden
Berlin morning edition reports eight people killed in a knife clash between Russian Mongolian troops and German villagers near Dresden. The incident prompted authorities to launch investigations while residents reel from the violence.
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Berlin
Social Democrat
Dressden
Riots End In Italy After Communist Strike Collapse
Fresh disorders erupted as a Communist led general strike sputtered out after Premier De Gasperi vowed to use force. In the Chamber of Deputies Christians and Communists clashed while police fired on strikers from the Chamber of Labor offices. At least 18 killed and over 2000 injured as fighting rocked Milan, Palermo, Genoa, and Bologna where a get tough policy was carried out. Togliatti’s condition reported low with broncho-pneumonia symptoms following an attempted assassination two days earlier.
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Italy
Thestrike
Alcide de Gasberi
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General Confederation of Labor
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Bologna
Chamber of Labor
Milan
Palermo
Genoa
Mario Scelba
de Casperi
Palmiro Togliatti
Togliatti
Messages 20 to 1 In Lauding Truman
The White House said telegrams in reply to President Truman s nomination speech and Congress call run about 20 to 1 in his favor. Charles G Ross noted a couple of hundred telegrams and a few letters at the White House regarding the Philadelphia speech.
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Truman
Congress
White House
Charles G. Ross
Philadelphia
Canadian-born man takes oath after hidden citizenship find
In Deland Florida Sam Mcc Nelly aged 75 native of Canada revealed he was not a citizen until recent discovery. He immigrated as a child and had voted in every election since age 21 showing his belief in civic duty before confirming his status.
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Deland, Fla
Sam MccNelly
Canada
McNelly
Two Bomb Groups Assigned to Britain in Training Move
The U.S. Embassy announced sixty B 29 Superfortresses will fly to England for temporary duty to bolster European air forces under Lt General Curtis LeMay. The two groups, the 28th from Rapid City and the 307th from MacDill, will station at Scampton and Marham with R A F bases near Lincoln. About 1500 American crewmen will be involved in the operation. The planes are due about 10 A M Saturday and will remain two to four weeks before returning to continental bases.
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Lincoln
Curtis LeMay
U. S. Air Forces
Europe
Stanley Wray
Muncie
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Germany
United States
Air Ministry
Syracuse
Hot Sticky Weather Ahead With Rain Tomorrow
The Weather Bureau warns of 90 degree heat by midafternoon and morning showers or storms. A cold front will bring a cooler, fair day Sunday with temperatures in the high 70s. A broad band of rain extending from Arkansas to Wisconsin moves east, arriving tomorrow morning.
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Arkansas
Wisconsin
G O P Fights Truman Call for Special Congressional Session
Washington reports Republicans sharpened attacks on President Truman's July 26 call for a special session arguing it serves as campaign ammunition. They hint possible investigations into the Democratic administration while opposing reopening Congress before the November elections.
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Repubblicans
Truman
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House
U S Steel Plans 13 Cent Pay Hike For 176,900 Workers
U S Steel and the United Steelworkers reached a third round wage increase averaging 13 cents an hour for 176,900 hourly paid employees. The raise, pending union ratification, ranges from 9 to 24 cents an hour depending on job type, following weeks of negotiations after the company abandoned a prior anti wage raise policy.
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Pittsburgh
WU. S&s. Steel Corp
C.so. United Steelworkers
Bessemer
U. S. Steel
Big Steel
Drunken Driver Distracts Patrols in Training Convoy
William Hendley of Stockton California pleaded guilty to drunken driving and paid a 250 dollar fine after he said he saw 46 highway patrolmen bearing down on him. He had unknowingly driven into a convoy of rookie state patrolmen on a training cruise in Jackson California.
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Jackson
Calif
William Hendley
Stockton
Stop Paying High Prices Is Plea
Chicago reports a plea to housewives to stop buying high priced foods as a path to reduce costs. The National Association of Retail Grocers urges curbing luxury purchases, while union groups push campaigns to lower meat prices. Milk prices also hit record highs across 24 cities, averaging 20.8 cents a quart.
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New York City
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Charles H. Bromann, Jr
Associated Food Dealers, Inc
Washington
Agriculture Department
Dixie Dixie Rebels See 127 Electoral Votes For South
Angry Southern Democrats plan a separate ticket in November while some optimists claim a solid southern bloc of 127 electoral votes behind a Dixie candidate. Mississippi Governor Fielding Wright calls the move the start of an electoral fight to save the South. W W Wright questions southern prospects. Concluded on Page 5.
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Ala
Dixie
Conference of ‘States
Truman-Barkley
Woman Wins $15,000 on Radio Quiz and Faints
Mrs. Trembgribbens, 31, of Bergenfield New Jersey, identified Trilby and Little Billy as the lovers on the Meet Your Lucky Partner program and won 15000 in prizes. The awards included a Bermuda vacation a $1000 diamond and ruby watch a diamond ring and various household items such as a television set and a spinet piano.
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Tene Gribbens
Baltimore Patrolman Responds To Odd Disorderly Case
Patrolman Anthony Cullota answered an emergency in West Baltimore last night. An 18 year old woman was found walking a busy street in only a pair of men’s trousers. After brief exposure she was escorted to the station house and booked for disorderly conduct.
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Baltimore
Nine Year Fast a Fake Revealed by Agency
Central News Agency exposed Yang Mei 20 as a pantry raider who feigned nine years of hunger at Chungking hospital. Nurses observed her slipping into the pantry at midnight and feasting while under observation for weeks.
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Nanking
Yang Mei
Central
Chungking
Rebels, Tito pact alleged by Greek sources
Istanbul dispatch reports Markos Vallades, Greek Communist guerrilla chief, promised Marshal Tito three Greek regions in exchange for Yugoslav aid. Informants say the pact was signed five weeks ago before Tito’s denunciation by the Comintern. The claim ties to Bulgaria’s bid to resume ties with Greece and Moscow’s worries over Greek Macedonia joining Yugoslavia.
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Turkey
Markos Vallades
Tito
Yugoslavia
Cominform
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Creece
Russia
Macedonia
Ford Workers Ready for Nationwide Strike After Rejected Offer
DETROIT The CIO United Auto Workers prepared to set a strike date after crushing rejection of Ford Motor Co wage offer. The Ford National Contract representing 116000 workers in 46 plants unanimously rejected the offer and authorized a strike.
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Cio-United Auto Workers
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Ford National
Guatemala Shaken By Earth Tremors
Strong earth tremors were felt at 3 30 this morning in Guatemala City waking residents. No damage reported in the city. Tremors also shook San Salvador early today as the region experiences seismic disturbances.
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Guatemala
San Salvador
Vast Pershing funeral procession planned in Washington
A vast military funeral procession is planned for General John J. Pershing with thousands of infantry and armored cavalry, navy ships, marines, air force personnel, and an aerial salute over his grave. President Truman and the cabinet are to attend graveside ceremonies at Arlington, with top military leaders present. Pershing will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda before burial, the largest tribute since the Unknown Soldier.
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Third Mechanized Cavalry
Fort Meade
Fort Worth
Tex
Carswell Air Force Base
Pershing
Charley Wrycofft
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Abraham Lincoln
Less Meat Carlo Modena Visited Los Angeles
Tinian tenor Less Meat Carlo Modena said in Los Angeles that eating less meat helps his singing. He noted poorer-class Italians eat a vegetarian style, with macaroni, tomatoes, bread, and cheese and meat only weekly. He claimed many great singers hailed from the poorer class and quipped that vegetarian birds sing while carnivorous birds croak.
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Carlo Modena
Los Angeles
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