Home Run King Ruth Improves, Still Critical
Babe Ruth’s condition was reported improved yet still critical at Memorial Hospital. A daily bulletin from Dr. Hayes Martin at 9:31 a.m. notes ongoing seriousness of his health issue.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Memorial Hospital
Hayes Martin
Memorial Hospital Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Babe
Paul Carey
Babe Ruth Foundation
Ruth
Carey
Tobin Accepts Cabinet Post
Washington reports Maurice J. Tobin, longtime labor ally and former Massachusetts governor, accepted President Truman's offer to become secretary of labor. Tobin, 47, rose from Boston mayoral battles to governorship, promising to help rally labor votes in November after Schwellenbach's death.
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Washington
Truman
Maurice J. Tobin
Tobin
Massachusetts
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
New
Boston
Bay State
Roosevelt
No Compromise Demands From Berlin Rally in US Sector
About 5,000 Berliners in the U S sector urged Western Powers to reject any Moscow settlement that would cede control to the Communists. CDU leader Jacob Kaiser called Berlin an island in a Red sea that will not surrender. Ferdinand Freundensburg vowed no compromise with the Communist minority.
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Berlin
U. S
Christian Democratic Union
CDU
Jacob Kaiser
Red Sea
Russia
Kaiser
London
Kremlin
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
V. M. Molotov
Yalta
Ferdinand Friendensburg
Christian Democratic
Local Temperature Readings and Rainfall Totals
Weather notes record a low of 70 degrees at noon and an 89 degree daytime high. Rainfall for August 4 totals 7.17 inches with a quota of 5.04 inches, yielding an excess of 2.13 inches.
Mary Roberts Rinehart Born in Pittsburgh on August 12 1876
Mary Roberts Rinehart born in Pittsburgh August 12 1876, daughter of an inventor. She left a nursing career after marriage in 1896, began writing at 27, and rose to fame with The Circular Staircase in 1908. She later served as a World War I war correspondent.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Pittsburgh
Tered Nurses’ Training School
Stanley Rinehart
Montreal Air Lines Fire Rescue Keeps Passengers Safe
A Trans- Canada Air Lines plane from Montreal to Prestwick burst into flames after landing at Reserve Airport. Stewardess Rita Meyers led passengers to the emergency exit while Purser-Steward Jack Triggs aided them down the ladder. The crash rot damaged the right wheel and fuel spilled, likely totaling the $800,000 craft.
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Sydney
N. S
Montreal
Doug Holland
All Markets Watch Inflation Trend Amid Slumping Farm Prices
New York reports indicate farm prices have fallen below February lows with crops seen as unlikely to rise soon. Livestock remains the price exception with meat costs staying high for months. Business leaders and economists monitor whether raw materials and living costs follow farm price trends, signaling broader inflation paths.
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New York
Wall Street
Polio Toll Deepens In Gaston County Twin Kisers Die
Polio cases rise in Gaston County with eight new infections in the week and 66-year to date. The death of 10-year-old Kermit Kiser, son of A L Kiser, linked to Kisers who previously lived in Gastonia, is reported alongside the earlier death of Keith Kiser, his twin brother, at Charlotte Memorial Hospital after polio contracted in Myrtle Beach. Other cases include a 25-year-old Duke Power worker paralyzed, a Vermont native, and several hospitalizations or home quarantines as state health officials monitor the outbreak.
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Gaston County
Kermit Kiser
A. L. Kiser
Gastonia
Conover
North Carolina
Orthopaedic Hospital
Catawba
Lincoln County
Ronnie Short
Crouse
Lincoln
Duke Power Co
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
W. M. Roberts
George Pikkarainen
Vermont
Pikkarainen
Wilkinson Boulevard
Modena Street
Phillip Lynn Duncan
Helen Duncan
North Highland Street
Marion Hinson
Claude S. Hinson
Gaston Avenue
Belmont
Alma Mathis
Nellie Mathis
Woman Seeks Ordinance Against Nude Mannequins
Mrs. Mary Wanley told Detroit City Council she wants a law banning nude manikins in shop windows. She said they embarrass women and invite sex criminals, urging municipal action to curb the display.
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Detroit
Mary Wanley
Havana Bank Robbery Nets $562,000 In Cash
Cuban police hunted a masked gang that entered a midtown Havana branch of the Royal Bank of Canada after 3 p m. and looted the vault and cashier’s cage. The eight to ten men used a police uniform facade, took $562,000 in U S dollars and Cuban pesos, and left no shots fired. Insurance covered the loss.
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Havana
Cuba
Royal Bank of Canada
Esteban Juncadella
U. S
Americans Set New Record In Smoking
Washington figures show Americans smoked 345000000000 cigarettes in the year ended June 30, a new record. The 121 packs per person estimate assumes equal use by all, but actual smokers average more. Last year’s total was 327000000000, with an expectation of another record in the current year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Thurmond Campaign Strategy Focuses on Texas Electors
Maps campaign plan by States Rights Democrats led by J. Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright. Thurmond asserts a strong vote projection and targets Texas's 23 electoral votes with a mass rally in Houston drawing 8 000 to 9 000 supporters at Sam Houston Coliseum as part of a broader effort to surpass Truman.
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Tex
Texas
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
South
Thurmond
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
States Rights
Truman
Sam Houston Coliseum
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Truman-Barkley
Thomas E. Dewey
Henry A. Wallace
Lee Thurmond
Maybank Holds Safe Majority in Democratic Primary
U S Senator Burnet R. Maybank led the Democratic field in the South Carolina primary with 161,608 votes from 1,503 of 1,559 precincts, building a 9,198 vote margin over four opponents. U S Rep William Jennings Bryan Dorn followed with 76,749 votes, then Neville Bennett, Alan Johnstone, and Marcus A Stone. Maybank anticipated the nomination as effectively securing the seat he has held since 1941.
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Columbia
D. C
Burnet R. Maybank
Maybank
U. S
William Jennings Bryan Dorn
Greenwood
Neville Bennett
Clio
Alan Johnstone
Newberry
Marcus A. Stone
Dillon
Florence
John P. Richards
Lancaster
Coast Guard plane crashes during rescue at sea
Ten rescued from death after a Coast Guard plane crash while attempting to land near the U S submarine Torsk 400 miles offshore. Milton Schwier of Huntington New York was hospitalized in good condition. The air crew included Ed ward Sapp Nathan Brady J E Smeltzer Hubert La Vine William McCullen and C S Ethridge with a Public Health Service doctor aboard.
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Charleston
8. C
U. S
Torsk
Coast Guard
Charleston Naval Base
Sixth Naval District
Milton Schwier
Carley Avenue
Huntington
N. Y
Naval Hospital
A. G. Cupples
Uscg
Navy
Edward B. Sapp
Nathan C. Brady
Buxton
N. C
J. E. Smeltzer
Cape May
N. J
Hubert la Vine
Kalamazoo
Mich
William J. McCullen
Boston
Mass
C. 8. Ethridge
Wanchese
Wash
Public Health Service
Allen F. Thomett
Elizabeth City
J. W. Forbes
Schwier
Lies on Stand to Be Probed by Committee
The House Un American Activities Committee said preliminary steps have been taken to prosecute spying witnesses for perjury. Chairman Thomas announced Michael Ivanovitch Samarin and his wife will be questioned in Washington instead of New York. United States attorney George Morris Fay has obtained a transcript.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Thomas
Soviet Consul Defies Court in Spy Investigation
Soviet Consul General Yakov Lomakin refused to surrender Russian teacher Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina to a supreme court writ. Court had ordered both to appear by 9:30 a.m. EST. neither showed by 10:20 a.m. in New York.
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New York
Yakov M. Lomakin
Supreme Court
Oksana Stepanovvna Kosenkina
Witnesses in House Spy Probe Face Perjury Scrutiny
The House committee seeks perjury charges as testimony on the alleged espionage ring grows conflicting. Samarins expected for executive session questioning, with Mundt’s subcommittee set to probe in New York. Elizabeth Bentley, a key witness, is discussed amid moves to question her loyalty and possible entrapment.
Met Opera Takeover Dream Sparks Humorous Plan
Aloysius proposes a comic takeover of the financially strained Metropolitan Opera in New York. He suggests a Carmen theme song titled Carmen Around the Mountain and Merchant of Venice with mermaids in the canals, followed by a finale Mighty Lake Rose. The forecast predicts partly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms, mainly in the northwest.
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Billy Rose
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Met
Lake Rose
N. C
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Alton
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Raymond White
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