United States rejects big four only peace treaty draft
Washington notes that the United States rejects Soviet demand to leave Japan peace treaty drafting to the four powers. The note delivered to Russian chargé d affaires Semen Tsarapkin states the treaty should be drafted by an eleven nation conference.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Britain
China
Russia
State Department
Semen K. Tsarapkin
Charles F. Bohlen
Eisler Case Referred to Jury in Passport Fraud Trial
Federal court jurors retired to deliberate the Eisler case after a five week trial. Gerhart Eisler accused of fraudulent concealment of his communist affiliations and aliases when applying in September 1945 for a permit to return to Germany.
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Washington
James W. Morris
Gerhart Eisler
United States
Eisler
Germany
Woman Charged in Husband’s Shooting Plot Expected to Be Moved
Mrs. David Miller, 24, of Rowland, accused of hiring a Black man to shoot her husband and stage it as suicide, was to be moved from a Lumberton hospital to a neuro psychiatric facility. Dr John Knox cited her father Allen Currin Sr. arranging the transfer as the collapse at Robeson courthouse preceded trial.
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Lumberton
David Miller
Rowland
John Knox
Truman proclaims National Guard Day for Sept 16
President Truman declared that national security requires a fully manned equipped and trained national guard ready to field in time of national danger. He designated September 16 as national guard day to bolster a recruiting drive and strengthen the guard.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Romanian regime accused of extorting confessions from opposition
American officials in Romania report to the State Department that the regime in Bucharest is attempting to force confessions from arrested opposition leaders by third degree methods. Roy M. Melbourne, U.S. political representative, sent the report after two protests alleging civil liberty suppression in violation of the peace treaty.
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Washington
Romania
State Department
Roy M. Melbourne
U.S
Bucharest
Weather forecast and temperatures across North Carolina region
Partly cloudy with little temperature change today and Saturday scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening. August 15 weather readings list Charlotte High 88 Low 68. Charleston 85 76. Raleigh 92 49. Spartanburg 86. High Point 90. rain totals include Boston 0.00 and New York 0.90 inches.
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North Carolina
Sun
Charlotte
Weather Bureau
Boston
Charleston
Chica
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Evansville Os
Galveston
High Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian Hi
Raleigh
San Antonio
Francisco
Spartanburg
India Gains Independence Amid Violence and Transition
New Delhi reports India and Pakistan's formation as Mountbatten hands power to India. Nehru pledges peaceful resolution to communal clashes as Punjab violence persists with high death and injury tolls. Mountbatten calls the moment historic while leaders face mobs in Delhi Calcutta and Lahore.
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Dominion of
India
Pakistan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Punjab
Lord Mountbatten
Lahore
Delhi
the Statesman
Armistar
Mountbatten
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Rajendra Prasad
Constituent Assembly
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Calcutta
State Supreme Court Suspends Interference in Myrtle Beach Race
Associate Justice G Dewey Oxner of the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered the operation of a circuit court in junction to be suspended. The move prevents law officers from interfering with Equal Mutual Guessing at the Myrtle Beach horse and dog race.
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Columbia
S. C
Myrtle Beach
G. Dewey /Oxner
State Supreme Cou
Connecticut Heat Wave Hot Spots Listed
New Haven reports temperatures in the high 90s across notable spots. Satan's Den shows 98 degrees while Devil's Den hits 97 and nearby Promised Land 97 with Lord's Corner at 96 as the heat wave continues.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Promised Land
Lord's Corner
Lurid Love Letters Enter Evidence in Overell Yacht murder Case
In Santa Ana California the lurid love letters of George Gollum and Louise Overell are read to a jury as evidence in the murder trial of Mr and Mrs Walter E Overell. The jury of six men and six women heard the letters in jail and are to reconvene Monday to continue reading before possibly visiting the Mary F yacht wreck site.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Walter E. Overell
George
Bud) Gollum
Louise Overell
Bud
Louise
Kenneth Morrison
Overell
Williams
Soviet Plan Beaten By UN Atomic Commission Vote
The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission political committee rejected the Soviet Union plan for an international control commission by ten votes saying it is not adequate as it stands. The decision leaves room for further talks.
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Lake Success
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet Union
International Control Commission
Palestine Executions Admitted by Hagana Amid Violence
TEL AVIV August 15 Hagana the Jewish underground defense organization announced it had executed seven Arabs for brigandage tied to recent attacks on Jewish settlements. A gun fight near an orange grove shanty left possibly a dozen dead and several bodies under debris.
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Tel Aviv
Palestine
Hagana
Jewish Underground Defense Organization
Orange Grove
Jaffa
Plains of Sharon
Fan Hawaii
Yarkon River
Unique
Hatikva
Saba
Three Men Killed Two Injured In Illinois Mine Blast
In West Frankfort Illinois a magnetic blast at the New Orient mine of the Chicago Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co killed three men and left two others slightly injured. About 2 000 spectators gathered as a gas explosion was suspected and the shaft area was searched for missing workers. The mine employs over 1 100 workers and mines about 10 000 tons daily. This disaster follows two other Illinois mining explosions in southern Illinois within five months.
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West Frankfort
Illinois
Harold L. Walker
Mines and Minerals
New Orient
Chicago
Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co
Southern Illinois
Centralia
Bank to Help Marshall Plan Succeed
Washington reports the $8.8 billion fund and the $9.1 billion international bank are set to back the Marshall Plan. Camille Gutt will go to Paris with plans to advise the 16 nations on joint recovery efforts. McCloy has pledged bank cooperation to finance reconstruction. Officials hope loans from these institutions will lessen US outlays.
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Washington
World Fund
Europe
Camille Gutt
Monetary Fund
Paris
Gutt
John J. McCloy
International Bank
United States
State Marshall
Kentucky Road Man Visits State in North Carolina Tour
Chairman J Stephen Watkins of the Kentucky highway commission inspects North Carolina highways with Chairman A H Graham and Chief Engineer Vance Baise. They tour sections east of Raleigh and plan to continue westward ending the trip in Asheville.
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Raleigh
J. Stephen Watkins
Kentucky Highway Commission
North Carolina
A. H. Graham
State Highway and Public Roads Commission
Vance Baise
Asheville
Ministers Assemble For Parley In Brazil For Mutual Defense
Foreign ministers from 20 American nations meet in Petropolis Brazil to draft a mutual defense treaty. A preparatory commission will select a president and five committees for credentials aggression inter American security force and miscellaneous matters ahead of a Bogota conference in January.
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Petropolis
Brazil
Raul Fernandes
League of Nations
Bogota
Colombia
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexico
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Gaspar Dutra
America
Fritz Receives Teachers Support in Hendersonville
North Carolina Education Association officials at the summer conference backed restoring R. L. Fritz’s teaching certificate after the state board of education revoked it amid payroll irregularities at Hudson school. The action seeks to reinstate the certificate.
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Hendersonville
North Carolina Education Association
Department of
NCEA
R. L. Fritz
State Board of Education
Hudson
Rio Conference At Opportune Time For Hemisphere Peace
AP analyst Dewitt Mackenzie argues the Rio de Janeiro meeting on hemispheric defense arrives late but timely to back the united nations efforts. The piece links Chapultepec 1945 to the San Francisco conference and notes shifting power dynamics among the big powers and the UN veto challenges.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Rio de Janeiro
United Nations
Chapultepec
Two Americas
Mexico City
Tom Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
United States Senate
America
Britain
Russia
Americas
UN Awaiting Announcement From Dutch on Indonesian Crisis
LAKE SUCCESS Aug 15 delegates to the United Nations security council awaited an "important announcement" from the Netherlands as they pursued a solution to the Indonesian conflict. Dr Eeloco N Vank Kleffens was to speak first while Egypt and the Balkans debates continued. Gromyko attacked a U S resolution on the Balkans and aid to Greece.
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Lake Success
Netherlands
United Nations Security Council
Eeloco N. Vank Kleffens
UN Commission On
Indonesia
Egypt
Balkans
Armaments
Council
Commission
van Kleffens
Sutan Sjahrir
Netherlands East Indies
United States
Irregular 1939 Buying Power Across 13 Cities
An Associated Press survey shows 1939 dollar value differs widely today in 13 cities. Meat, bread, butter, eggs, milk and housing costs rose unevenly with some cities like Denver and San Francisco showing large gains since 1939.
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United States
Minneapolis
Chicago
San Francisco
Denver
Columbus
Department of Justice
Boston
Dallas
Atlanta
Philadelphia
Kansas City
West Coast
St. Louis
New York
Seattle
Sea
Dormitories Planned At State Hospital For Negro In Raleigh
North Carolina hospitals board of control will present to the advisory budget commission in Raleigh on Monday recommendations to build two new dormitories at the state hospital for the Negro insane in Goldsboro. Each building is estimated to cost about 200000.
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Goldsboro
North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control
Advisory Budget Commission
Raleigh
T the State Hospital For
Costello Completes Birth Of Daughter Hollywoood
Five pound six ounce girl born by Cesarean to Mrs Anne Costello wife of comedian Lou Costello. Mother and baby reported doing fine. The Costellos have two other daughters.
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Hollywood
Ceasarean
Anne Costello
Lou Costello
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