Battle Victory in Virginia Democrat Primary
Quiet conservative John Battle won Virginia's four way Democratic gubernatorial primary with 23 000 votes to spare and swept seven of nine congressional districts. He defeated Francis Miller who led a reform challenge to the Byrd organization as Edwards and Arnold trailed. Miller conceded after late returns and Battle pledged to unify for the November race.
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Richmond
John Stewart Battle
Virginia
Harry Byrd
Charlottesville
Francis Pickens Miller
Miller
Horace H. Edwards
Democratic Party
Remmie L. Arnold
Peterburg
Associated Press
Battle
Yhee
Arnold
Edwards
General Fund Collections Show Seven Percent July Decline
Raleigh report shows July general fund net collections at 7,825,682 dollars, down 573,542 from July 1948. Highway fund rose by 250,385 to 4,386,863 with gasoline taxes at 3,942,351. Sales tax fell 27,703 and income tax dropped 558,797, though last year’s July had unusual spikes.
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Raleigh
General Fund
Eugene Shaw
Shaw
Highway Fund
Fr cm Cmfin
Senate probes five percenters in military uniforms case
Washington Aug 3 an official for uniforms maker testified behind closed doors on five percenters in government contracts. Stanley J Cummings of the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers Inc faced a House Armed Services panel as senators pursue the Hunt Feldman case and possible influence on public servants. The army continues with coats and trousers contracts while Feldman remains suspended. Republican senators Ferguson and Mundt draft measures to curb five percenter activities.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Stanley J. Cummings
National Association of Uniform Manufacturers Inc
House
Armed Services
Rep
Hebert
D-La
Cummings
James V. Hunt
Army Quartermaster Corps
Herman Feldman
Cummings’ Association
Senate
Senator Hoey
Hoey
Hunt
Tee
Feldman
Army
Ferguson Mich
Mundt
Ferguson
Professor Jailed For Beating Nurse
Russell B. Maxey, 45, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of South Carolina, was jailed after polic e say he beat nurse Ann Pierce at her suburban home. Pierce, 32, remained in serious condition with head injuries and a knocked-out tooth. Dunnaway said Maxey was arrested at the scene after a neighbor reported screams.
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Columbia
S. C
Russell B. Maxey
University of South Carolina
T. Alex Heise
Ann Pierce
J. D. Dunnaway
Miss Pierce
Dunnaway
Maxey
Japan's Big Trusts Broken Up, Says MacArthur Report
General MacArthur announced the deconcentration program in Japan was accomplished effectively. Eleven large corporations were targeted for divestment after a Washington based review board evaluated 325 firms out of about 1,200 affiliated with Zaibatsu holding groups.
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Japan
Tokyo
MacArthur
Washington
Zaibatsu
Price Changes Small On Stock Market
The New York stock market moved along a narrow price trail with faint downward tendencies after opening. Gains and losses were modest with General Motors and several large industrials posting higher prices while several major names slipped, including Republic Steel and Du Pont.
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New York
General Moors
Graham Paige
International Harvester
United Aircraft
Commonwealth Edison
Air Reduction
Westinghouse Electric
U. S. Gypsum
Pennsylvania A. R Southern Pacific
Pan American Airways
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet
Chrysler Montgomery Ward
Schenley
Columbia Gas
du Pont
Great Northern Preferred
Standard Oil (Nj
And
Richfield Oil
Forsyth Hospital Physician Accused of Drunkenness
Dr Samuel Wallace Fleming a Forsyth county hospital physician faces charges of being under the influence of alcohol while on duty four nurses and a patient alleged intoxication at the hospital He may issue a statement later and the Forsyth board will discuss the matter in a private 11 30 a m meeting with no witnesses called by commissioners
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Winston-Salem
Samuel Wallace Fleming
Forsyth County Hospital
T. F. Vestal
Fleming
Roy Craft
Forsyth
Big Parade Is Under Way Over Arms Aid Program
Washington reports the foreign aid push moves through Congress with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense George Marshall leading testimony. The arms-for-Europe program seeks 1.45 billion dollars, prompting hearings by House Foreign Affairs and a combined Senate committee.
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Mr. Truman
Congressional
House
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
House Foreign
Truman
House Committee
State Acheson
Defense Johnson
Omar N. Bradley
Army
W Averell Harriman
Europe
Lewis Douglas
Britain
Henry F. Grady
Greece
George C. Marshall
Forer
Acheson
Johnson
Chiefs Plan Unification Under Pact
American and British military leaders meet in London to discuss unifying Western Europe’s armed forces under the Atlantic pact. U S joint chiefs seek prompt, large scale defense integration with Britain and other pact partners amid Western Union reluctance.
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London
Europe
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Britain
U. S
Army
Omar N. Bradley
Air Forces
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Navy
Adm
Louis E. Denfeld
Germany
Paris
Denfeld
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Viscount Montgomery
Deane Aids Greek Applicant for U S Residency
Rep C B Deane of North Carolina has introduced a bill to grant permanent residency to Greek native Nicholas C Kaloutsakis who bought into the Pee Dee textile mills at Rockingham after reopening them post strike. Kaloutsakis came to the U S on a 1947 visitor permit and previously ran a textile business in Athens. Deane said Kaloutsakis helped settle labor disputes, modernize machinery, and restore payroll at the Pee Dee mills.
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Washington
Rep. C. B. Deane
North Carolina
Pee Dee
Rockingham
Nicholas C. Kaloutsakis
House
Senate
Third Wife Slayer in North Carolina Family Tragedy
STATESVILLE August 3. Jay Luther Waugh 41 killed his wife then himself at home about 4 30 p m He was the third brother to kill his wife in recent years Sheriff W M Morrison said Ralph Waugh killed his wife and himself on Mocksville road four or five miles from the city years ago Russell Waugh allegedly shot his wife and disappeared about eighteen months ago Sheriff said none of the brothers has been apprehended.
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Statesville
Jay Luther Waugh
Waugh
W. M. Morrison
Ralph Waugh
Mocksville
Russell Waugh
Morrison
Catawba Votes on ABC Liquor Stores Today
Citizens of Catawba county voted on opening ABC liquor stores. The measure previously failed in county elections 11 years earlier and last Saturday Rowan county approved similar stores. The move marks a first defeat for city forces in a county wide liquor store election since Mecklenburg opened them two years ago.
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Hickory
N. C
Catawba County
ABC
Rowan County
Mecklenburg
Britain Accuses USSR of Organized Slavery in Labor Camps
In Geneva the British delegate Corley Smith presented a copy of the corrective labor codex of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and pressed for a Soviet explanation on allowing an investigation. He claimed more than ten million victims and questioned the claim of workers’ paradise while noting mass emigration to the west.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Geneva
Switzerland
Great Britain
Soviet Union
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Ussr
Corley Smith
Council
Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
Moscow
Yoyes
Smith
Europe
Germany
Julius Katz- Suchy
Katz-Suchy
Russia
Tobacco Mart Still Unsettled on Carolinas Border Belt
Prices for flue cured tobacco in the Carolinas border belt were unsettled but showed a possible rise from yesterday’s opening around 50 dollars per hundred. Early sales at Timmonsville South Carolina averaged 53 with bids to 67 while Kingstree ranges reached 28 to 59. volume remains heavy and stabilization efforts by the stabilization corporation and British buyers help limit fluctuations. Farmers mostly accept bid prices with few rejected tags as the belt trails last year’s revenue.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Stabilization Corporation
Timmonsville
S. C
Kingstree
Tito predicts Bulgaria and Albania quit Moscow led Cominform
Belgrade Premier Tito, in Skopje before an audience of about 350000, forecast Bulgaria and Albania would leave the Moscow led Cominform and offered them aid to shake off Russian domination. He noted purges among Yugoslav allies and warned anti Tito forces in Macedonia.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Bulgaria
Albania
Cominform
Tito
Communist International Information Bureau
Moscow
Skopjje
Macedonia
Education Aid Bill Doomed
A House labor and education committee failed to unify an aid to education bill this session. Four bills were before the panel with options ranging from funding non public schools to restricting aid to public schools only. Rep. Barden’s bill faced opposition as anti Catholic by many Catholic members though Rep. Jacobs supported it.
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Washington
House
Lesinski
Dmich
Labor and Education Committee
Rep
Barden
D-Nc
Labor
Prinone
Jacobs
D-Ind
Veteran congressman Bulwinkle retires opening 1950 race
Major A L Bulwinkle of North Carolina announces he will not seek reelection to the eleventh district seat. The move promises a hard fight as candidates from Rutherford and Cleveland counties and others weigh runs. Rumors of contested races spread across Madison Polk Yancey and Gaston counties with several hopefuls named.
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A. L. Bulwinkle
Cleveland
Gaston
McDowell
Rutherford
Congress
Madison
Polk
Charlies Z. Flack
Bulwinkle
Peyton McSwain
McSwain
Cherry
Scott
John Marshall Contender for State News Bureau Position
John Marshall, Gov. Scott's pick and public relations director for the Farmers Cooperative Exchange, is expected to decide today whether to accept or decline the director post. Jack Riley, Sunday editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, withdrew, leaving Marshall as the remaining principal contender.
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Raleigh
John Marshall
State News Bureau
Marshall
Scott
Farmer's Cative Exchange
Arpa Aes
Sots Se
Jack Riley
Raleigh News and Observer
Riley
Board of Conservation and Development
Father's Efforts To Save Afflicted Son End In Tragedy
A Florida carpenter E. W. Landers drove west with his 12 year old son Wayne to reach California hoping to ease asthma. Wayne died at a Texas filling station while Landers performed artificial respiration. After the loss Landers had $70 left. Gulfport volunteers sent $100, Rotan Lions $58 and other gifts brought the fund to $140.
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Roby
Tex
E. W. Landers
Gulfport
Fla
California
Wayne
Landers
Defense Secretary Given More Power
The House completed action on a bill to grant Secretary of Defense Johnson greater control over the army navy and air force and sent the measure to the White House. It strengthens the secretary’s hand as requested by Truman and the Hoover Commission and creates an armed forces accounting system to save money and a permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Washington
House
Defense
Johnson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Truman
Hoover Commission
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Byrd Organiation
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Robert M. Lee
Broad River
Claude Bedenbaugh
Clyde Hurst
Young Lee
Savannah
Pope Field
United States
Forsyth Hospital
By James Marlow
UPI
Topeka
State Department
Capitol
U.S
Bradley
Vandenberg
Deane
Reds
Robert G. Davis
Covington
Ohio
Tobacco Mart
Capitol Square
By Lynn Nisbet
Yancey
Defense Secretary
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