Opinion Poll On Gaston Beer Wine Election
Five residents from Gaston County share views on Saturday's beer and wine vote. Thelma Robinson backs prohibition citing church influence. Elzy Ledford predicts change and tax loss if wet. Firestone’s James Stallworth, not voting, supports ending legal sale statewide. C B Todd says drys win to curb drunkenness. J C Propst calls race close with mixed outcomes.
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Gaston County
Main
South Streets
Thelma Robinson
North Weldon Street
Dallas
Elzy Ledford
East Gastonia
James F. Stallworth
Firestone
Franklin Avenue
B. Todd
R-3
Gastonia
Gaston Electric Company
J. C. Propst
Progressive Candidate Wallace to Campaign in Gastonia
Wallace the Progressive Party presidential candidate arrives in North Carolina for a three day campaign tour. Miss Mary Price states Gastonia events on Aug 31 with stops in Charlotte Hickory and Asheville and a prior plan for speeches in Durham Chapel Hill Burlington Greensboro and High Point.
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Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
New Deal
Gastonia
Miss Price
Walter Lippmann
Wallace
F. P. Weber
Charlottesville
North Carolina
State Elections Board
Durham Armory
Chapel Hill
Burlington
Greensboro
High Point
Bentley to Reveal More Wartime Spy Facts in Hearings
Congressional investigators said Elizabeth Bentley will describe how a Soviet spy ring sought wartime industrial secrets. Public hearings will examine espionage in industry, with Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss also set for testimony. The inquiry aims to expose a possible additional espionage network and its operations.
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Washington
Congressional
Elizabeth T. Bentley
America
House
American Activities Committee
Miss Bentley
United States
Moscow
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Chambers
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
War Department
Army
Miracle awakens eight-year-old after yearlong sleep
In Chicopee Massachusetts Diane Parent awoke from a 12 month sleep attributed by her mother to a miracle of prayer. Doctors called the illness cephalitis or sleeping sickness and described her recovery as rare in this disorder. The family and Diane’s schoolmates prayed for her release from slumber.
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Chicopee
Mass
Diane
Top military chiefs discuss future weapons at Newport hidden amid secrecy
Washington reports say the nations top military commanders met in Newport Rhode Island for a two day secret session at the Naval War College. Air Force chief Gen Carl Spaatz urged development of a guided missile able to carry an atom bomb over 5000 miles at supersonic speed. The final report and progress details remained undisclosed as Defense Secretary Forrestal and aides kept quiet.
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Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Key West
Fla
Defense Forrestal
Newport
R. I
Naval War College
Forrestal
Air Force
Carl Spaatz
Hoyt Vandenberg
Spaatz
United States
McKellar to Back Truman Despite Tennessee Split
Senator McKellar announced he will support President Truman in the November election despite reports that two of Tennessee’s 12 Democratic electors favor the States’ Rights ticket led by Gov. J. Strom Thurmond. He said he was born and bred a Democrat and will continue to back the Democratic ticket.
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Washington
McKellar
D-Tenn
Truman
Tennessee
States’ Rights
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Memphis
Democratic
Ed Crump
Mr. Truman
Crump
South
Senator Pepper
Dsee McKellar
Atrocities Alleged Bodies Of Jewish Prisoners Reported Mutilated
The Jews charge two wounded Israeli soldiers were killed and their bodies mutilated while prisoners of Arabs in Jerusalem’s International Red Cross zone. A third Israeli prisoner reportedly died or was killed. Moshe Shertok protested to Count Folke Bernadotte, noting the six hour cease fire on August 20. Bodies removed from Government House were found beheaded.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Jerusalem
International Red Cross
Moshe Shertok
Folke Bernadotte
Shertok
Bernadotte
United Nations
Palestine
Government House
Red Cross
Berlin currency deadlock in Kremlin talks persists
Whitehall sources say Moscow insists on sole East Mark control in Berlin, opposing a joint plan by the Big Four. A settlement could unlock Berlin blockade endgames and lead to new talks on Germany with the United States Britain and France aiming to meet Stalin or Molotov. Attlee weighs plans to slow demobilization as envoys confer in Moscow channels.
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London
Whitehall
Kremlin
Berlin
Russia
Germany
Europe
U.S
Britain
France
Stalin
Molotov
Attlee
William Strang
Moscow
U. S
Lewis Douglas
Rene Massigli
Babe Ruth Will Names Kids Fund In Estate Plan
Ruth's will provides for his wife and two adopted daughters and dedicates 10 percent of the residue to "The Babe Ruth Foundation, Inc." for the kids of America after the widow's death. The document dated Aug 9 was filed in surrogate's court as Ruth died of cancer at Memorial Hospital.
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New York
Babe Ruth
America
King
Ruth
Melvyn G. Lowenstein
Memorial Hospital
Clara Mae Ruth
Julia Ruthlanders
North Conway
N. H
Dorothy Ruth Sullivan
New York City
Tension Mounts as Russians Free U.S. Officials in Berlin Blockade
In Berlin Aug 23 Russians release three U S military government officials seized in blockaded Berlin and southern Germany. British free Franz Erdmann head of Eastern Berlin police criminal division after arrest at a boxing match. A German photographer was seized in American sector, with further cross zone arrests reported.
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Berlin
U. S
Germany
Franz Erdmann
Thomas P. Headen
Potsdamer Platz
Sherman Turner
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Roland Myers
Brooklyn
Mellrichstadt
Frankfurt
Turner and Myers
Mount Airy Youth’s Remarkable Tale About a Head Wound
Aloysius complained of a kitchen roof leak. Al doubted a Mount Airy youth who claimed to shoot himself in the head and remove the bullet. The forecast said partly cloudy with continued warmth and scattered thundershowers tonight and tomorrow.
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Aloysius
Mount Airy
Local Temperature and Rainfall Summary Activity
Yesterday's high temperature and last night's low are not specified. Noon today shows August rainfall to date 1.63 inches with a quota of 5.04 inches and an excess of 2.59 inches. Further details on conditions or sources are not provided.
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Progressive
Un-American Activities Committee
J. Peters
Red Underground
No-Man’s-Land
NEA
Jack Chitham
Chitham
Will
Babe
U. 8 S
Koethener Street
Stumm
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