Record Turnout Predicted for Gaston County
Gaston county voters turnout heavy on a warm August day to decide the beer and wine sale issue. Polls opened 6:30 am and close 6:30 pm with 34 precincts reporting brisk early totals and a likely record count. Noon tallies show substantial Negro voter presence at Pire House No 2 and higher than normal at Gastonia City Hall. Official canvass set for next Monday or Tuesday with results streamed to Election Chairman James Mullen. Other totals at noon include Myrtle School 613 Central School 340 Bryant Electric 300 East School 335 Victory 440 Ridge Mill 118.
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Gaston County
Court House
James Mullen
Pire House No. 2
Gastonia
City Hall
Gazette
WGNC
the Gazette
Myrtle School
Central School
Bryant Electric Co
East School
Victory
Ridge Mill
Caroline Mars Breaks Navy Distance Record
The Caroline Mars, a large four engined flying boat, set a Navy distance record by flying non stop from Honolulu to Chicago via Ann Arbor at 10 31 a m EST. She turned back to Detroit after 35 miles, planning to end a 4748 mile, 24 hour 17 minute trip. The reason for turning back was not disclosed.
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Detroit
Ann Arbor
Mich
Naval Air Station
Grosse Isle
Chicago
International talks launched on Antarctic administration
The United States opened informal talks with seven nations Argentina Australia Chile France New Zealand Norway and the United Kingdom seeking some form of internationalization to resolve overlapping Antarctic claims. Britain reportedly agrees in principle while Argentina and Chile object. no conference or U S claims are authorized at this stage. American explorers have long pursued science and planted flags in the region.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Antarctic
Argentina
Australia
Chile
France
New Zealand
Norway
United Kingdom
London Dispatches
Britain
U. S
Tropical storm gains speed off Florida coast
A small but vicious tropical hurricane moved 670 miles east of Florida and gained speed toward the mainland as Weather Bureau officials monitored a potential strike. Packing winds of 100 to 115 mph, the storm was 670 miles east of Melbourne, Florida at 5:15 a.m. EST and forecast to move northwest.
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Florida
Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Atlantic Seaboard
Melbourne
Russians Open Fire in Berlin U S Sector
Four armed Russians including a red beard lieutenant colonel fled across the American sector in Berlin. An American MP was shot at after pursuing the amphibious jeep seven miles through busy streets. The chase crossed into the Soviet zone near Potsdamer Platz before the Russians escaped. The incident prompted a protest from the Soviet commandant who accused jurisdictional violation and assault.
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Berlin
U.S
Potsdamer Platz
Kommandatura
Nine NC counties vote on beer and wine ban
Voters in nine North Carolina counties cast ballots on whether to end the legal sale of beer and wine with four more referenda scheduled next week amid court actions. Some counties delay or challenge petitions while others already vote. The drive aims at a statewide 1949 prohibition referendum if dry forces gain momentum.
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North Carolina
Alexander
Avery
Columbus
Duplin
Gaston
Hoke
Macon
Madison
Montgomery
Cherokee
Cumberland
McDowell
Northampton County
Cumberland County
Fayetteville
Cherokee County
Drys
Bladen
Graham
Pender
Robeson
Swain
Mitchell
Yancey
Clay
Ashe
ABC
Beer Flood Dumps 124000 Gallons From Red Bluff Plant
In Red Bluff California a massive spill dumps 124000 gallons of beer from the United States Brewing Corporation plant. A federal judge orders the beer poured out to aid reorganization. Brewmaster Charles Frizzell laments the loss as spectators watch the flow toward the Sacramento River.
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Red Bluff
Calif
United States Brewing Corporation
Charles Frizzell
Sacramento River
Frizzell
Four Central Headquarters Gaston County Draft Board Fixes Registration
The Gaston County Draft Board designates four registration headquarters in Gastonia Belmont Mt Holly and Cherryville to enroll all 18 to 25 year olds. Registration runs two and a half weeks starting Monday at 8 am with volunteers recording data and deferments planned for married men students and key workers.
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Gaston County Draft Board
Memorial Hall
Gastonia
Belmont
River Valley Chevrolet Co
Mt. Holly
Prue Textile Co
Cherryville
J. Y. Todd Sr
Gaston Board
Selective Service
Dtaft
Former Justice Hughes Dead After Illness
Osterville Mass August 28 Charles Evans Hughes retired chief justice of the United States and twice NY governor dies at 86 shortly after being reported in critical condition from a heart ailment. He had come to Convalesce at the Wianna Club after months in Washington.
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Osterville
Mass
Charles Evans Hughes
United States
Hughes
Harding
Coolidge
New York
U. S. Supreme Court
Wianna Club
Mystery of Asbury Park financier solved death by own hand
Henry M. Brooks a financier was found dead in a hotel bathroom and left letters that prosecutors say confess the murder of his former partner Joseph R. Watkins. Ballistics will take days to confirm if the same pistol killed both men. Brooks left letters to his wife and a Newark car rental agency and spoke of a Princeton incident.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Henry M. Brooks
Mercer County Prosecutor's Office
Brooks
Joseph R. Watkins
Mercer County
Mario Volpe
Watkins
Princeton Inn
Volpe
Monmouth County
Princeton
Charles Frankel
Ruth
Newark
Manana
Albion Hotel
Maine
Soviet Consul Lomakin Boards Stockholm to Return to Russia
Jacob M. Lomakin, stripped of credentials as Soviet consul general, boarded the Stockholm at 10:10 a.m. to sail for Goteborg with his two children Lora 11 and Alexis 6. He declined to elaborate, saying everything was stated in the note, and the Lomakin family planned to go to Moscow via Finland.
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New York
Jacob M. Lomakin
Stockholm
Russia
Goteborg
Sweden
Lomakin
Lora
Alexis
United States
Lomakins
Moscow
Finland
Black man confesses in Florida attacks on two white women
In Clearwater Florida a Black man named Felix Combs 24 a former carnival worker signed a statement admitting he harmed two socially prominent white women. He led officers to both victims homes and described confronting them the first assault on a bride to be August 5. The second woman faced confrontation when her husband returned from vigilante duty.
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Clearwater
Fla
Todd Tucker
Tucker
Felix Combs
Continued Hot Al Rushes to Church for Election Bell
Aloysius wakes at six, scurries to his church in time for bells rung for election. He finds only the sexton and notes the bells announce the vote. He predicts hotter weather tonight and tomorrow.
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Sexton
Temperature and Rainfall Snapshot From August
Incomplete weather data shows high yesterday and low last night with noon today readings. August rainfall totals indicate a quota of 5.04 inches and an excess of 2.59 inches. details missing and date unclear.
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Lincoln County
J. Carr Elliott
R. F. Shelby
Dixie Rebels
Wilkinson
Sumter
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Horace C. Wilkinson
Birmingham
Ala
Charles L. Cuttino
States’ Rights Campaign Fund
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