Berliners demand firm stand against Moscow settlement
Berliners in the U S sector rally 5000 Germans urging no compromise with the Soviet capital. CDU leader Jacob Kaiser says Berlin is an island in a Red sea that will not surrender and Western powers must stay firm in Moscow talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kasischke
Berlin
CDU
Jacob Kaiser
Red Sea
Russia
Kaiser
London
Kremlin
Moscow
Yalta
Ferdinand Friendensburg
Christian Democratic
Rescuers Are Rescued By U S Navy Sub
A stricken crewman of the submarine Torsk and the nine crew members of a Coast Guard plane crash were rescued at sea and landed at Charleston naval base. Milton Schwier of Huntington New York was aboard the rescued crewman, reported by the sixth naval district spokesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
Torsk
Coast Guard
Charlesare Naval Base
Sixth Naval District
Milton Schwier
Carley Avenue
Huntington
N. Y
Weather Summary From August 12 1948 Readings
Official weather bureau records list daily temperatures and rainfall ending at 8 40 a m across multiple cities in the United States. Notable highs include Miami 80 and Raleigh 87 with varying rainfall amounts. New York 81 48 recorded 0 60 inches, while Meridian shows 71 58 with 0 75. The report covers locations from Little Rock to Washington with assorted measurements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Official Weather Bureau
the Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian Oe
Miami
Mini-St. Pas
Mobile
Mt.Mitchell
Orleans
New York
Raleigh
Tole Antonio
Cisco
Rta
Tampa
Washington
Havana Bank Robbery by Masked Bandits Net $562000
Cuban police hunted a gunmen group that robed a midtown Havana Royal Bank of Canada branch just after 3 p.m. The eight to ten men in a police uniform disguise ordered 18 people into a rear room and looted the vault and cashier’s cage of 562000 in U S dollars and Cuban pesos. No shots were fired and the entire loss was insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
Royal Bank of Canada
Esteban Juncadella
U. S
Tragic Drowning Of Two Mecklenburg Girls Near Amity Road
Two young Mecklenburg County girls Martha Jean Lowry eleven and Joy Dean Maynor eleven drowned while wading in a private pond off Amity road near Charlotte. They vanished with four playmates and were recovered after going down about eighty feet from the bank where the water was six feet deep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Amity Road
Martha Jean Lowry
Joy Dean Maynor
Western Envoys Meet Molotov in Moscow Amid Berlin Crisis
Western ambassadors led by the United States, Britain, and France visited Vyacheslav Molotov at the Kremlin for talks on Berlin blockade and East‑West tensions. An informant said Stalin may be asked to intervene if talks fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Kremlin
Vyacheslav Molotov
U. S
Walter B. Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Molotov
Berlin
Europe
London
Stalin
Smith
Water Main To Jerusalem Is Wrecked
Two explosions damaged the Latrun pumping station between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, disrupting a United Nations plan to deliver water to Jewish Jerusalem by tomorrow. The station, held by Arabs and later placed in no man’s land by UN agreement, is one of several booster points on the coast to Jerusalem. Technicians planned minor repairs and to start operations today while other stations remained in working order under Jewish control. Count Folke Bernadotte ordered Arabs and Jews to cease belligerent actions. More on page 2-A.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Latrun
Jersulene
United Nations
No Man’'S-Land
Folke Bernadotte
Rhodes
Palestine
Tobin Named Secretary of Labor in Truman Administration
President Truman appointed Maurice J. Tobin as labor secretary, a recess appointment to fill Schwellenbach’s vacancy. Tobin, former Massachusetts governor, is viewed as a labor ally who may help mobilize union support and push repeal of the Taft Hartley Act amid robust party debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Democratic Party
Maurice J. Tobin
Tobin
Massachusetts
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
New
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Houston
Thurmond
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Dixiecrats Set For Ballot In North Carolina Race
Raleigh reports that the States Rights party may place its candidates on the NC presidential ballot. Judge Harris to hear a petition to overturn the board ruling. Attorney General McMillan backs ballot inclusion. Clark cites 10 000 registered voters needed from petitions amid county checks.
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Raleigh
States Rights Party
North Carolina
Dave Clark
Charlotte
States Rights Group
W. H. (Buck) Harris
Wake County Superior Court
State Election Board
Hubert Olive
Lexington
State Elections Board
Harris
Harry McMullan
Clark
Draft Notice Precludes Volunteering
Washington reports the war restraint rules after peacetime draft steps announced by Secretary Forrestal. They set timing for calls after pre induction exams, allow branch preferences if feasible, and maintain voluntary enlistments except for those given notice to report for pre induction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Army
Armed Forces
Maharajah Pratapsinha Gaekwar Faces Baroda Abduction Demand
Indian ruler Maharajah Pratapsinha Gaekwar is accused by Baroda's legislature of siphoning nearly ten million dollars from state funds during a six week spree while parts of the principality faced hunger. He abdication is urged as he returns from the United States with jewels and a vast British racing stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
India
England
Baroda
Maharajah
Pratapsinha Gaekwar
Britain
Cool Headed Stewardess Saves Lives
A Trans-Canada Air Lines jet from Montreal to Prestwick caught fire after landing at Reserve Airport. Stewardess Rita Meyers guided passengers to the emergency exit as crew member Jack Triggs aided descent. six crew and 11 passengers evacuated unharmed. The $800,000 craft may be a total loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
N. S
Montreal
Doug Holland
Horace Bosworth
Gertrude Bosworth
Helen Cameron
William Dennison
Howard Johnson
David Thompson
Britain
Mary Harding
Toronto
Fred Edmunds
Mabel Edmunds
Saskatoon
Alta
John Waterhouse
Ellen, Waterhouse
North Carolina Board Likely to Delay School Openings
The North Carolina Board of Education may delay the start of schools due to the polio epidemic. A session between August 20 and 25 is being targeted to discuss the issue, though not as a special meeting. In 1944 the opening was postponed two weeks amid a prior peak.
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N. C. Education Board
Raleigh
State Board of Education
L. Y. Ballentine
Guilford County to get new prison camp under state plan
North Carolina will replace cage camps with brick cell blocks. A $600,000 allocation funds six new camps, four replacing cages in Bladen Wick, Lincoln Washington counties and three more sites. Guilford County gains a 125 inmate camp on state arenas land replacing a rented facility.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Cherry
A. H. Graham
Bladen
Brunswick
Lincoln
Washington
Graham
Shawboro
Currituck County
Guilford County
Guilford Camp
City Increases Duke Power Franchise Tax to Ten Thousand
City council session, held at 12 45, unanimously voted to levy a 10000 dollar privilege tax on Duke Power for gas electricity and transportation franchise within High Point for the 1948 49 fiscal period. The tax follows a recent state Supreme Court decision allowing municipalities to raise franchise taxes on utilities. Duke Power vice president N A Cocke indicated no anticipated protest or action by the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke Power Company
High Point
Duke Power
N. A. Cocke
Supreme Court
North Carolina
United States Offers to Withdraw From Danube Commission
The United States proposed trading its seat on the Danubian control commission for representation for Austria and Germany. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon said the U S would not seek a permanent seat and would quit once Germany and Austria joined the commission with non riparian representation. The plan countered a Soviet proposal to limit membership to Danubian states as the conference debated control of the 1800 mile Danube trade artery. The U S amendment urged an all member commission granting Germany full and equal membership upon a peace treaty or earlier if feasible, drawing sharp communist opposition and foreshadowing defeat.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Austria
Germany
U. S
Cavendish Cannon
Danubian
Eastern Europe
Refuses To Hand Over Key Witness In New York
A New York state supreme court justice reserved decision on a habeas corpus writ to free Russian teacher Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, held in the Soviet consulate after being secluded amid congressional probes into alleged spy activity. Consul General Jakov Lomakin ignored a court order to produce her at 9:30 a.m. EST, as Russia protested and the State Department sought to pause further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
State
Supreme Court
Christopher Emmet
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Washington
Russia
United States
New York City
State Department
Thomas E. Dewey
Yakov M. Lomakin
Polio Toll Rises with Twin Ten Year Olds in North Carolina
Twin ten year olds Kermit and Keith Kiser died within a week from polio. They were sons of Mr and Mrs A L Kiser of Newton Conover. Haywood named to state board of agriculture in place of Lybrook who resigned for health reasons. Four engine Air Force plane crash near Topeka killed five and seriously injured two. Perseid meteor shower predicted to light up skies over New York and vicinity with up to 50 shooting stars per hour under clear conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gastonia
Kermit Kiser
Keith Kiser
Keith
Charlotte
Kermit
A. L. Kiser
Newton-Conover
Topeka
Kas
Air Force
Topeka Air Base
New York
Robert Rk. Coles
Hayden Planetarium
Checa’s Open Letter Restores City Phone Service
Emilio Checa, manager of an undershirt factory, bought a quarter-page in the papers to tell Telefonos de Mexico the service was restored after reporting a telephone outage 35 days ago. The phone now works.
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Mexico City
Emilio Checa
Telefonos de Mexico
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Samarin
WA. S
New York Times
Michael I. Samarin
House Un-American Activities Committee
U.S. Navy
Carolina
Eut
Trade Union Federation
East Marks
Jerusalem
Dixiecrats
Mackenzie
Nizam of Hyderabad
N. C
Avery L. Hack
Alton
Ill
Cincinnati
Hack
Raymond White
Jim Sinclair
Irvin Turvey
John Blake
State Board of Health
Harlan Riper
National Foundation For
Greensboro
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Camp Sutton
U.S
Danube
Dewey
State Supreme Court
Samuel Dickstein
Haywood
T. Holt Haywood
Winston-Salem
D. J. Lybrook
Advance
State Board of Agriculture
Lybrook
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