Economic Upturn Overdue Say Government Reports
Washington reports show a spring boost in the economy is overdue with declines in non farm employment factory workers earnings and working hours and in business and farm receipts. Officials differ with Clague noting a delayed uptrend while Snyder cites higher year over year employment and strong liquid assets. Bean warns of reduced investment and a possible pressure on purchasing power remains. March non farm employment fell 150000 from February to 43848000, 750000 below a year ago.
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Washington
Ewan Clague
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Treasury Snyder
New York
Snyder
Louis H. Bean
Bean
Brannan
Clague
Senate Favors Bill to Legalize Near Beer
The North Carolina Senate approved the Rodman measure authorizing municipal and county elections and sale of 3.2 beer. An amendment by Senator McKinnon would allow elections permitting sale of non intoxicating beer unless earlier laws bar it. The bill, backed by Propositions and Grievances, passed without division alongside a related auto and narcotics bill.
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Gil Billings Raleigh
Rodman
Senate
Henry McKinnon
General Assembly
Julian Alisbrook
Congress
Supreme Court
John Rodman
W. F. Marshall
J. C. Eagles
House
Price of
Rockingham
North Carolina
State Board of Health
April liquor sales dip slightly across state stores
Raleigh reports March ABC liquor sales at 3,636,882 dollars, down from 85,743,655 dollars a year earlier. Mecklenburg County sold 866,077 dollars, Asheville 351,128 dollars, and Wake County 295,565 dollars.
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Raleigh
ABC
ABC Board
Mecklenburg County
Asheville
Wake County
Fleeing Convict Apparently Drowned in River Chase
The body of Davis Gore a 32 year old Blackwater inmate was found in the Waccamaw river by fishermen after escaping from Brunswick county prison camp a week earlier He was serving a 12 month term for assault with deadly weapon and faced a 25 year term for second degree murder due to parole revocation
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Raleigh
Waccamaw
Kyle Matthews
Davis Gore
Whiteville
Gore
Brunswick County
British Warships Retire To Shanghai After Yangtze Battle
Soviet style report from Nanking says Communist forces crossed the Yangtze at Tikang and Wuhu and pressed federal counterattacks. About 60,000 troops reportedly landed at Tikang with reinforcements crossing at night while four British warships engaged in the river action.
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Shanghai
Seymour Topping
Tikang
Nanking
Kiangpu
Apple Crop In Western North Carolina Damaged
Agricultural experts report heavy damage to western North Carolina fruit crops after Easter weekend frosts. Transylvania County cites up to 90 percent apple loss, Henderson up to 75 percent with some figures adjusted. Haywood and Buncombe also show damage with temperatures dropping to 22 degrees.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Julian A. Glazener
Transylvania County
Transylvania
D. W. Bennett
Henderson County
Bennett
Wayne Corpening
Haywood County
W. Riley Palmer
Buncombe County
Pennsylvania Sclon Is Killed In Crash
Rep. Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. of Pennsylvania dies in a jet fighter crash near Albuquerque New Mexico after a partial power failure. The 30-year-old congressman and wartime hero was refueling at Kirtland Air Force Base on a cross country training flight bound for Mareh Field California. Coffey held the rank of colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Robert Lewis Coffey
D-Pa
Coffey
Congress
Kirtland Air Force Base
Mareh Field
Calif
Johnstown
Pather
Air Force Reserve
Senate fights over housing bill amendments in April debate
Senator Myers predicts most amendments to the long housing bill will be rejected and notes the Bricker Cain anti segregation proposal faces opposition. The measure would let communities decide on public housing while backing construction of 810000 units over six years with federal support up to 308 million annually for 40 years.
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Washington
Myers
Senate
Banking Committee
Pennsylvania
Llawmaker
Bricker
Ohio
Cain
Wash
Bricker - Cain
Three Arrested in Theft of Tax Refund Vouchers
New York police report three suspects Lucyille O'Brien 19 Albert Allen 30 and David Smith 38 all of New York were arrested in a federal tax refund check theft ring. The trio allegedly stole more than 500 checks averaging 115 dollars each from mailboxes in seven southern states upper New York state and Connecticut and most recently affluent New York City neighborhoods.
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New York
Ptwo
Lucille O'Brien
Camden
Albert Allen
David Smith
Allen
Fort Bragg
N. C
Albert Ellis
New York State
Connecticut
New York City
Smith
Ireland Leaves Commonwealth and India Tensions Rise
AP analysis explains Ireland's declaration as an independent republic and the London dominion conference move. It notes India may seek republican status, Nehru's influence, and possible solutions to keep Commonwealth cohesion. It cites imperial preferences and defense unity as core reasons for remaining in the bloc.
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Reblic of Ireland
Irself
British Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth
England
London
Ireland
India
Asia
Jawaharlal Nehru
Manchester Guardian
Britain
Biennial appropriations deal reaches agreement in Raleigh
Senate House conferees report they have reached a compromise on the large biennial budget. The exact terms were not released and floor action was awaited, with a quick accord possibly speeding adjournment. The dispute centered on a contingent teacher pay provision amid governor Scott’s push for a $2,200 to 3,100 scale as minimum.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
Cem
Scott
H. P. Taylor
Appropriations
General Assembly
Page &A
Alabama plans multi million Negro university and law school
Montgomery April 21 Alabama proposes a multi million dollar program to provide equal college opportunities for Negro students. A special committee appointed by Gov Folsom urges a separate Negro state university a law school and large yearly increases for Negro college funding and building. It seeks to keep regional programs for medicine and dentistry.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
James Kk. Folsom
United States Supreme Court
Southern Governors Conference
Mill Employees Donate Day's Pay to Hospital Fund
Four hundred Carlton Yarn Mills workers in Cherryville will contribute their day’s pay next Thursday to Gaston county’s new 100 bed hospital project. At an estimated $7.50 per day, the donation could exceed $30,000, doubling the town’s $15,000 fund drive target.
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Cherryville
Carlton Yarn Mills
Gaston County
Provisional ABC Vote in Walnut Cove Authorized
The North Carolina Senate approved measures to permit liquor store elections in Walnut Cove Whiteville Tabor City Chadbourn Fair Bluff Dunn and Hertford with county wide ABC votes ending local contests if 60 days elapse after ratification. A Mooresville measure was tabled.
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ABC
Walnut Cove
Raleigh
Senate
Whiteville
Tabor City
Chadbourn
Fair Bluff
Dunn
Hertford
Mooresville
J. C. Pittman
Lee
Royall to Resign as Secretary of Army Today
The Goldsboro News Argus reports Secretary of Army Kenneth Royall will resign this afternoon. Royall, from Goldsboro, became secretary of war on July 24 1947 and is expected to return to legal practice.
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Goldsboro
News-Argus
Kenneth Royall
Royall
the News-Argus
Greek Newsman Sentenced In Polk's Slaying
Greek newspaperman Gregory Staktopoulos received life imprisonment for complicity in the 1954 murder of American correspondent George Polk in Salonika. His 68 year old mother Anna was acquitted. Co defendants Adam Mouzenides and Evangelos Vasvanas were sentenced to death in absentia.
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Salonika
Greece
Gregory Staktopoulos
George Polk
Columbia Broadcasting System
Staktopoulos
Anna
Polk
Adam Mouzenides
Evangelos Vasvanas
Mouzenides
Vasvanas
Capitol Square Tensions Over North Carolina Budget
Heartsick mood at the North Carolina Capitol as Governor Scott and legislative appropriations chairs clash over the perennial state budget. The dispute touches funding for all institutions and public schools and centers on teacher pay tied to revenue. A joint statement follows amid questions and public airing of disagreements.
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North Carolina
General Assembly
British ships hit on Yangtze as deaths rise to 42
The figure of known dead from Communist attacks on four British warships reached 42 as the London and Black Swan arrived in Shanghai with casualties. The Amethyst carried about 20 dead and 30 to 40 wounded, with 89 crew remaining aboard. Survivors described shelling that halted the Amethyst and forced withdrawal of the London and Black Swan.
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Shanghai
London
Yangtze River
Nanking
Black Swan
Bates Point
Beaver Island
Hong Kong
David Heath
Retail Meat Prices Begin Edging Down
New York reports midweek declines in retail pork lamb and veal prices with most vegetables lower and dairy steady. Easter demand proved disappointing in several cities leading to higher wholesale stocks and reduced purchasing while pork and lamb showed the largest price drops and spring lamb supplies increased. Hog prices in Chicago fell to their lowest since October 1946 as wholesale beet prices declined though retail counters mostly held.
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New York
Chicago
Agriculture Department
California
Arizona
North Carolina
New Jersey
Florida
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