Republicans push anti inflation bill with credit controls
The GOP proposes a bill restoring installment buying controls through March 15 and tightening bank credits to curb inflation. It ignores Truman price wage controls and the excess profits tax. Senate Republicans discuss housing and civil rights, while O'Toole leads a letter urging action on cost of living and housing. Treasury Secretary Snyder warns the budget surplus is gone.
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Washington
House
Rep. Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
Truman
Socrats
Rep. O'Toole
Congress
Martin
Halleck
R-Ind
O'Toole
Treasury
Snyder
House Banking Group
Communist Party Secretary Eugene Dennis Addresses New York Convention
Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the American Communist Party, speaking at the 14th national convention in Madison Square Garden New York, urged supporters to resist forces blocking civil and democratic rights and called for overthrowing the U S government.
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Eugene Dennis
American Communist Party
United States
Madison Square Garden
New York
Dennis
Sweets May Be Cause Of Polio Spread
Asheville physician Dr. Benjamin Sandler argues low blood sugar from sugary diets raises polio susceptibility. He cites 17 years of animal studies at Willard Parker Hospital and notes North Carolina reports 1,139 cases 62 deaths as epidemic eases. He claims a sugar light diet could curb the outbreak within about two weeks with community cooperation.
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Asheville
Benjamin Sandler
New Yorker
Oteen Veterans Hospital
Willard Parker Hospital
New York
North Carolina
Sandler
Weather outlook for North Carolina August 5 1948
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers tonight and Thursday. Temperatures vary with readings around the 80s in coastal cities and lower 90s inland. Raleigh shows around 87, Charlotte about 85, High Point near 86, and other major cities listed with temperatures and rain chances.
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North Carolina
Bae
Boston
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia Os
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Ducksonville
Little Rock
Lew Angsies
Memphis
Meridian
Jami
Antonio
Prieiseo
Arta Burg
Washington
Building Activity In South Sets Peace Time Record
The Manufacturers Record reports southern construction for this year at 1.604 billion, second only to 1942 wartime levels. July contracts in 16 states reached 222.1 million, 10 percent below June but 33 percent above last July, with private building leading gains and residential work nearly doubling year over year. Public and heavy construction rose, while industrial contracts increased 13 percent. shortages in materials and equipment cited as causes for lag in industrial growth.
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Baltimore
High Prices Continue On Border Mart
Prices held firm across the Carolinas Border tobacco belt as the 1948 season enters its second day. Growers reported good quality tobacco and farmers appeared satisfied though rains threatened crop damage in some areas. Darlington opened with an unofficial average of 62. per hundred pounds and a top of 67. About 750000 pounds were on the floors there. Yesterday’s best averages ranged 1 to 15 dollars per hundred pounds over 1947 opening day, with most gains 4 to 8 dollars. The belt's 18 markets averaged about 57 on yesterday's sales.
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Carolinas
Darlington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
New England Textile Mills Shift to Four Day Weeks
Textile mills in Rhode Island and Massachusetts shift workers to a four day week due to weak orders. Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates reveals 5300 workers in six plants in Rhode Island and Massachusetts affected. Bourne Mills Tiverton and Slaterville Finishing also moved to four days. Factors include import controls, dollar rates, southern competition, and postwar market shifts.
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Providence
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, Inc
Rhodes Island
Bourne Mills
Tiverton
R. L
Slaterville
R. I
McGrath Bans Segregation In Committee
The Democratic National Committee bans racial segregation in its headquarters staff as part of a Truman era policy to open government jobs and armed forces. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath says the move is a step toward consistency and will abolish the Negro division while ensuring non discrimination in hiring.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
McGrath
William L. Dawson
Illinois
Republican National Committee
Val Washington
Chicago
Offi
Charlotte Rain Totals Near Six Inches In 24 Hours
The Associated Press reports widespread rainfall across the Carolinas with Charlotte Airport recording 5.93 inches in 24 hours, Spartanburg 1.78, and Greenville 1.34 as forecasts call for more rain. Lowland farmers advised to monitor rising rivers while other sites logged varied inches in six hours.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Weather Bureau
Charlotte-Spartanburg-Greenville
Charlotte
Spartanburg
Greenville
Greensboro
Raleigh
Charleston
Columbia
Cape Hatteras
Florence
Winston-Salem
Hickory
Asheville
Cherry Point
Rocky Mount Trace
Western Envoys Seek Possible Rapprochement With Stalin
A Moscow source says talks between western envoys Walter Bedell Smith Yves Chataigneau and Frank Roberts and Stalin and Molotov may yield a possible agreement. A second meeting could be requested soon as negotiations focus on four power talks on Germany and related issues.
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Moscow
Stalin
Molotov
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Ernest Bevin
Washington
Paris
London
Russia
State Department
Italians Ready To Help Form United Europe
Rome August 4 Italy ready to lead in surrendering sovereignty to forge a European union Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza said the move could cure postwar ills and restore peace He urged mutual curtailment of sovereignty with the condition that other nations do the same He said federation implies removing frontiers duties and economic barriers while preserving essential powers
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Rome
Italy
European Union
Carlo Sforza
Union
Count Forza
Senate
Europe
Clark Challenges State Elections Board Ruling
The North Carolina State Board of Elections recognized the pro Wallace Progressive Party and ordered its candidates listed on the general election ballot if petitions meet the required signatures by the deadline. The board also studied petitions from the States Rights Democratic Party led by Dave Clark, noting their claimed 18,000 names though county boards did not verify them.
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Raleigh
State Board of Elections
Power
Progressive Party of
Northarolina
Progressive Party
Fanin
Ouaiu UL Greenens Oy Sept i. Ee Ee
States’ Rights Democratic Party
Hubert E. Olive
Lexington
Clark Speaks
Dave Clark
Charlotte
Cochairman
States Rights Democrats
North Carolina
County Election Boards
State Elections Board
State Board
Clark
Dixiecrats
Thirty Three Polio Cases Reported In State Today
Thirty three new cases of infantile paralysis were reported to the State Board of Health, bringing the yearly total to 1 172. One additional death raised total polio deaths to 63. Buncombe Guilford Rutherford Dur ham Harnett New Hanover counties reported multiple cases and Cumberland Fayetteville Buncombe Asheville restrictions were imposed to curb spread.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Buncombe County
Guilford
Rutherford
Durham
Harnett
New Hanover
Carteret
Catawba
Chatham
Cleveland
Craven
Gaston
Lincoln
Macon
Montgomery
Moore
Onslow
Pitt
Randolph
Surry
Wilkes
Cumberland County
Fayetteville
Asheville
Danube Conference Mirrors Red Aggression Over Control
Belgrade hosts a Danube control talks mirror Soviet aims to keep the river under Communist dominance. Vishinsky demands compliance or exit as Britain’s Sir Charles Peake rejects being bullied in a clash over who governs the strategic waterway and its eight nations.
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Belgrade
Danube
Europe
Black Forest
Germany
Black Sea
Red
Paris
America
France
Russia
Ukraine
Bulgaria
Romania
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Charles Peake
United Kingdom
Peake
Rivers attacks federal judge Waring over SC voting rights
Rep. Rivers of South Dakota? No South Carolina. He demands removal of Judge Waring, warning there will be bloodshed. He accuses Waring of misinterpreting the law while stressing education as a voting qualifier and criticizing his conduct in orders affecting Negro voting in South Carolina primaries.
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Washington
Rep. Rivers
D-Sc
House
Waites Waring
South Carolina
Rep
Dorn
Congress
Waring
Rivers
Anyy
Awbright
South
Silvermaster Refuses to State Party Affiliation at Hearing
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster testified before the House Committee on American Activities denying any foreign nation affiliation while admitting naval intelligence once sought his removal. He invoked self incrimination when asked about communism, while Elizabeth Bentley reiterated she knew him as the wartime courier to the Russians.
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Whitaker Chambers
Time Magazine
House un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Red
Alger Hiss
State Department
Nathan Witt
National Labor Relations Board
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Naval
House On American Activities Committee
Silvermaster
Elizabeth T. Bentley
U. S
Secret Service
War Patterson
Patterson
Strike Against Meat Prices Spreads Across Texas
Texas butchers hear bells as volunteers promote a housewives war on high meat prices. The boycott spreads to Beaumont Galveston Abilene and Hamlin with Dallas leading efforts urged by Mrs R D Vaughn president of the Dallas Women's Chamber of Commerce.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Beaumont
Galveston
Abilene
Hamlin
Orange
Paris
Corpus Christi
Waco
R. D. Vaughn
Dallas Women's Chamber of Commerce
Dallas Federation ‘of Women’s Clubs
Wallace Shanks
Missing Air France Plane Reported Afloat
Paris Aug 4 Air France said it received a distress signal from its giant flying boat missing since Sunday with 52 aboard The only detail is a bare report from the French frigate Le Verrier that it heard an SOS The search is under way with ships and planes rushed toward the signal location The missing plane carried 40 passengers and crew members
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Paris
Air France
S.O.S
South Atlantic
Les Verrier
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