Truman Drops Southern Tour Amid Dixie Civil Rights Revolt
President Truman cancels plans for a lengthy Southern campaign tour citing mounting Dixie opposition to his civil rights program. He will make select appearances, while Gov. Dewey unveils an eight stop transcontinental run. States' Rights backers push third party ballot fights in Louisiana and other states.
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Special Session Convenes Monday in 18th Legislature
The lame duck eighth special session opens Monday at 10 a m to tackle social security welfare gubernatorial succession irrigation bonds and flood control in Pima county Acting Gov Dan E Garvey who was nominated for governor will address the legislature but has not specified topics The session may consider a constitutional amendment on succession and include a separate ballot in the November general election Welfare requests total 156 600 while the overall state welfare program runs about 7 000 000 annually including funds for child welfare old age assistance and aid to the disabled The paper notes a plan to drop direct relief in favor of aid to the disabled and a possible special election for succession coverage
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Beauty Winner To Be Chosen At Miss America Pageant
Atlantic City N J September 11 55 contestants from 43 states Hawaii Puerto Rico Canada vie for Miss America crown. Finalists to be cut to 15 after Saturdays judging with preliminary rounds completed Friday night. Patti Anne Luer Montana won talent with Carmen song and dance while Miss Long from Atlanta took bathing suit honors.
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Baby Likes His Cigars
Springfield story notes 18 month old Lawrence Phillips Jr. as a cigar smoker. His mother says others in the family smoke cigarettes, but the child prefers cigars and began switching from nipples to cigars about a year ago after a lighted cigarette was given to him.
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Birds Rain Down on Empire State Building After Flight Collapses
A mass of migratory birds, mostly warblers and thrushes, fell near Manhattan as they allegedly struck the Empire State Building. Police say the birds were stunned and revived. the shower lasted four hours with many birds landing on autos and windshields. Similar incidents occurred in Philadelphia. Ornithologists cite migratory confusion and weather as causes.
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Mrs. Gammage Dies at 64 in California
Mrs Grady Gammage 64 wife of Arizona State College Tempe president died Saturday in National City California after heart and liver illness treated in Paradise Valley Sanitarium since August 14 Born Dixie O Dile Dees in Oklahoma she lived in Tempe since 1933 and was former Tempe Woman's Club president a Tempe Methodist member She is survived by her husband four sisters a brother and several nieces and nephews arrangements are pending
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Britain Proposes Mail Train Direct to Berlin
Britain orders a mail train from Hanover to Berlin crossing the zonal border, the first direct railway to Berlin since the blockade began. The move follows a Soviet run from Berlin to the British zone, amid uncertain signals on blockade easing and rumors from post conference diplomacy. Soviet retribution and security measures in eastern Germany also spur reports of unrest and police deployments near Berlin.
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Tucsonan Heads Arizona Labor Federation Convention
A V Humphrys, head of the Tucson central labor council, was elected president of the Arizona State Federation of Labor at its 37th annual convention in Phoenix. Elmer F Vickers Jr was elected to a third term as secretary treasurer, unanimously.
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Most Refugee Natives Safe As Evacuation Surges On
Manila reports say about 20 000 Filipinos remain on Camiguin as Mt Hibok Hibok erupts with dangerous gases. US Army transports Gen Morton and Gen Weigel race to evacuate while Dehydrated rations and gas masks are flown in. Refugees are moved to Mindanao and reception centers.
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Baseball Scores Across Leagues on Afternoon Card
In the American League Cleveland toppled St Louis 4 to 1 and Boston beat Philadelphia 9 to 1 in the afternoon. New York defeated Washington 6 to 3. Detroit won 4 to 1 over Chicago in the first game. In the National League Boston won 3 to 1 against Philadelphia in the first afternoon game. New York edged Brooklyn 2 to 1 in 13 innings. Pittsburgh faced Chicago with score pending, while Cincinnati met St Louis at night.
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Many Truckers End Strike As Agreements Reach 807 Pact
Nearly 2,000 of about 9,400 idle truckers in New York City returned to work after new deals with 120 trucking firms based on a reduced wage demand of 17 1/2 cents an hour. The CIO Oil Refiners clash in California persisted with rationing and imports from Oklahoma.
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Bridges Dodges
Girl 3 Year Old Is 13th Polio Fatality
Phoenix reports the death of 3-year-old Mary Lee Mills at St. Monica's hospital after admission for infantile paralysis. She is the 13th polio victim in Arizona this year.
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Mitchell head of West Penn Power dies at 65
Harry Luzerne Mitchell, 65, president of West Penn Power Co. and Affiliated West Penn Railways Co., died in Pittsburgh on Friday after a long career with the utilities.
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Young Phoenix boy found dead in shed near home
A 15-year-old Phoenix boy was found hanging from a shed rafter Friday by a brother. Sheriff deputies said it appeared a suicide. Coroner Wesley Bolin said no inquest is planned.
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Tropical storm nears hurricane intensity far out at sea
A tropical storm roughly 1700 miles east of Miami intensified toward hurricane strength as it tracked across the Atlantic. No land threat was immediate, but forecasters monitored its development closely.
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Garvey appoints Howard Gunnels Arizona petroleum coordinator
Acting Gov. Dan E. Garvey names Howard Gunnels of Phoenix a Standard Oil executive as petroleum coordinator for Arizona amid a gasoline shortage.
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Queuille Forms New Cabinet To Stabilize France
Premier Henri Queuille created a new third force cabinet to avert economic collapse. He plans to present the lineup to President Vincent Auriol after daylong talks, aiming to include Socialist to moderate right members. Queuille may take finance minister role while Robert Schuman remains foreign minister.
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Bodies retrieved from Mt Darwin after 1942 air crash
Four airmen killed when a training plane crashed on Mt Darwin in 1942 were recovered by a U S Army mountain unit led by Capt. Rey F. Sulzbacher. They were flown to San Francisco for positive ID along with the search party after perilous climbs through avalanches and blizzards at 13 800 feet.
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Stranger Greets Police With Shots
John Derman of the Phoenix police patrol exchanged shots with one of two men at the O. S. Stapley truck division at 317 South Ninth Avenue. Derman fired five times after the suspect opened fire. the shots were ineffective and the area was searched without success.
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Western powers seek UN path over Berlin crisis
Western envoys plan one more effort to reach a settlement with Russia before a United Nations step. The Berlin crisis could go to the security council or general assembly with a 58 nation assembly possible to avoid a veto. The Soviet press warned of serious consequences from recent street fighting as Communist demands to oust the anti-Communist Berlin government intensified. Telegraf reported thousands of Russian indoctrinated Free German troops to be armed as police battalions in the Soviet zone led by Paulus and Seydlitz with 5,000 due to arrive at Fuerstenwalde to bolster Moscow ends.
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World Union Seeks Global Peace in Luxembourg Declaration
The Congress of World Government Federalist Movements adopted a Luxembourg Declaration urging a world government to avert catastrophe and achieve peace. It calls for a world constitution, open federation, regional integration only as a step, and a world peoples assembly in fall 1950.
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Greenwood Ex Irish Cabinet Chief Dies at 78
London dispatch reports Sir Hamar Greenwood former cabinet chief secretary for Ireland died here Friday at age 78. He served during the anti-British disorders of the early 1920s and was a key figure in Irish affairs.
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