Soviet Bloc Holds Firm On Danube
Belgrade Aug 13 Soviet bloc delegates blocked western plans to seat Austria and Germany on a new Danube control commission by a seven to three vote. The Danubian states would dominate the body, maintaining communist control over the 1800 mile waterway. UK and France proposals failed. Anna Pauker of Romania left the conference abruptly without explanation.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Danube Control Commission
Europe
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Ukraine
Austria
Germany
U. S
America
Commission
Charlies Peake
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Stanoje Simic
Anna Pauker
Bucharest
North Carolina Delegation Views Berlin From Air
Two NC representatives Graham Barden and Harold Cooley with their spouses flew over Berlin in a C 47 while a lost C 54 Skymaster landed at Gatow. They planned to meet Gen. Lucius Clay and had earlier visited Oslo Stockholm and Copenhagen amid weather delays.
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Berlin
Congress
British
Gatow
Graham Barden
Harold Cooley
North Carolina
William H. Tunner
Cooley
Barden
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Oslo
Tockholm
Copenhagen
Fate of 12 Men In Navy Plane Undetermined
Burned wreckage of a four engine U S navy reconnaissance plane that failed to return from a weather mission was found on a 1500 foot cliff on Rota Island Guam. Islanders sent distress signals as rescue planes moved in with doctors corpsmen and rescue crews. No word on the fate of the 12 men aboard.
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Guam
Rota Island
Here
Rota
North Carolina Weather Dull Forecast Improves Weekend
Partly cloudy and warm conditions expected in North Carolina tonight and Saturday. The forecast references unclear terms and measurements but indicates a mild, dry weekend with rising daytime temperatures and no precipitation expected.
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North Carolina
New Chemical Shows Promise Against Leukemia in Children
A new folic acid derivative aminopterin, a B vitamin relative, has yielded preliminary cures in children with leukemia at several hospitals. Dr. Coy W. Waller of Lederle Labs reported 10 of 16 Boston patients improved. toxicity remains a concern and broader success will take years to confirm.
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San Francisco
American Pharmaceutical Association
Coy W. Waller
Lederle Laboratories
Pearl River
N. Y
Waller
Sidney Farber
Children's Medical Clinic
Boston
Parents Warn Against Bible Rules Fueling Aggressive Youth
Dr. D. R. MacCalman of the University of Aberdeen told a London audience that the adage spare the rod and spoil the child fosters aggressors. He warned that misused biblical commands crush proper respect and that both excessive discipline and lax parenting can create grave personality issues, with war-time delinquency noted.
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London
D. R. MacCalman
University of Aberdeen
International Congress On Mental Health
MacCalman
Real Estate Board Convention Postponed to October
The North Carolina association of real estate boards postponed its annual convention in Greensboro, moving dates from September 16 through 18 to October 21 through 23. Hoyt Weed, president, announced the change.
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Greensboro
North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards
Hoyt Weet
Organizion
Canada Lifts Beef Export Ban to United States
Ottawa reports Agriculture Minister J G Gardiner announces the end of the Canadian beef and veal export ban effective next May. The move reopens the US cattle market, raises Canadian retail beef prices, and ends export surcharges on oats and barley.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
United States
Canada
U. S
Gardiner
Southern executive named to cement freight council
S Clay Williams of R J Reynolds Co in Winston Salem becomes the only Southern member named to a Senate committee freight impact council. The body will study effects of the supreme court cement decision prohibiting producers from absorbing freight to meet nearby competition and report findings to the committee chaired by Senator Capehart.
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Washington
S. Clay Williams
R. J. Reynolds Comittee
Williams
Winston-Salem
N. C
Senate Committee
Supreme Court
Capehart
Indiana
Melvin T. Copeland
Harvard School of Business Administration
Senate
Georgia Klan Endorses Herman Talmadge for Governor
In Milledgeville Georgia the Ku Klux Klan of Georgia endorsed Herman Talmadge for governor at a meeting before hundreds of masked Klansmen. Grand Dragon Samuel Green announced the endorsement, highlighting Talmadge’s white supremacy platform as he campaigns as Eugene Talmadge's son.
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Milledgeville
Ku Klux Klan of
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
Samuel Green
Baldwin County
Ku Klux Klan
Green
Talmadge
Gov
Eugene Talmadge
New York Population Tops Eight Million
New York City's population rose to an estimated 8,067,000 as of July 1, up from 7,454,995 in the 1940 census. The health department announced the eight point two percent gain reflects a jump of over 600,000 people.
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New York
New York City
Department of Health
U. S
Waynick Seen Named State Democratic Chairman
Raleigh and High Point candidate Capus Waynick is slated to become chairman of the state Democratic executive committee at tonight’s session. Kerr Scott backs Waynick and will have Wilkins P. Horton introduce the nomination, with Rivers D. Johnson backing an opposing view on the vice chair post. Scott also recommends Mrs. D A McCormick of Robeson to succeed Mrs. B B Everett of Palmyra.
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Raleigh
Capus Waynick
High Point
Democratic Executive Committee
Kerr Scott
Waynick
Party Harmony
Wilkins P. Horton
Pittsboro
Rivers D. Johnson
Warsaw
Scott
D. A. McCormick
Robeson County
B. B. Everett
Palmyra
Housing starts top 550000 in first seven months of 1948
U S Bureau of Labor Statistics reports over 550000 housing units begun in the first seven months of 1948, up 120000 units or 28 percent from the 1947 period. July built 94000. June and May each 96000, with Los Angeles leading in permits and New York City second. Houston Dallas and San Antonio among top 10 in both 1947 and 1948.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Los Angeles
New York City
Texas
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Dewey Speech Hint Targeted For Charlotte Visit
Thomas F. Dewey campaign manager in North Carolina says the Republican nominee will be urged to deliver his major speech in Charlotte. GOP organizer Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton plans to push for a Charlotte venue during talks with campaign leaders in Washington next week.
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Charlotte
Thomas F. Dewey
North Carolina
Charles R. Jonas
Lincolnton
Carolinas
Washington
Spy Witness Who Jumped From Soviet Consulate Was Like a Bird in Cage
Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, seriously injured after leaping from a Soviet consulate window, rejected a hospital transfer proposal by Vice-Consul Chepurnykh. Detectives report she identified the consul as present during questioning and the incident drew intense media attention in East 61st Street.
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Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
New York
Roosevelt Hospital
Zot I. Chepurnykh
William Dyczko
Ing
East 61St Street
Fifth Avenue
Kosenkina
Doomed Jap Embraces Christian Gospel
Manila reports a Japanese army captain known as the Butcher of Manila Bay converted to Christianity before execution for war crimes. Captain Chusiro Kudo was hanged at New Bilibid prison with Philippine Army Chaplain A Dipano administering prayers and preparing him for burial in a war crimes plot marked by a cross.
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Manila
Manila Bay
Chusiro Kudo
New Bilibid
A Dipano
Kudo
Dipano
Dudo
Polio peak reached in North Carolina says Norton
Dr Roy Norton state health officer says the infantile paralysis outbreak likely peaked in the week ending July 23 with 210 new cases that week and a total state figure of 1449 for the year. He notes delays in reporting and urges tabulation by onset date for accuracy.
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Raleigh
Roy Norton
Orton
State Board of Health
Norton
Board of Health
Libya’s fate debated by world powers in London talks
In London, deputy foreign ministers discuss Libya as a key Mediterranean base with strategic value for Crete and Tobruk. The dispute centers on trusteeship and potential partition into Cirenaica, Tripolitania, and the Fezzan, amid Western and Soviet rivalries.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Italy
Libya
Eritrea
Italian Somaliland
London
Mussolini
Cirenacia
Lieve
Crete
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Tobruk
Russia
United Nations
Cirenaica
Tripolitania
Fezzan
Two Waterside Choir Members Killed in Car Crash
Two Lost Colony choir members died and four were injured in a three car crash on NC 348 near Waterside theatre. Millard Shea of Englewood New Jersey died instantly and Warren Sloan of West Grove Pennsylvania died at Albemarle hospital.
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Manteo
Lost Colony
N. C
Waterside Theatre
Millard Shea
Prospect Street
Englewood
N. J
Warren Sloan
West Grove
Albemarle Hospital
Elizabeth City
Joan Berthe
River Edge
Highwa
Midgett
Shea O
U S Denies Aiding Soviet Teachers in New York
Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith told Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov that the United States is not involved in illegal action regarding the Soviet school teachers in New York. He promised a full public investigation if the teachers wish to stay in the United States, and noted the case adds friction to Soviet Western talks on Berlin.
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Washington
State Department
Walter Bedel Smith
Molotov
Moscow
United States
New York
Smith
Michael Ivanovitch Lamarine
Russia
Walter Bedell Smith
Foreign Office
O Smith
Oksana S. Kosenkina
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Robert A. Lovett
Soviet Union
Berlin
Samarine
Teacher Scale Would Cost Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand
Raleigh report states a $2,400 minimum salary for teachers could add about $30,000,000 to public school funding, raising annual salaries from $2,400 to $3,600 with $100 yearly steps. Kerr Scott endorses with revenue limits.
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Raleigh
Cherry
North Carolina Education Association
Kerr Scott
NCEA
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Ental
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Seers Burg
Clay Williams
Klan
Dewey
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Guilford
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Catawba
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Iredell
Lee
New Hanover
Alexander
Runswick
Burke
Columbus
Pender
Pitt
Randolph
Rowanno
Wilkes
Cleopatra
Derna
Waterside Choir
Samarin
Mrs. Kosenkina
Marshall
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