Greeks End Grammos Campaign Ends in Three-Week Greek Drive
Gen. Stelios Kitrilakis announced 5,000 guerrillas in Grammos mountains were dispersed and the Grammos campaign concluded. He said fighting with Markos Vafiades remains, with borders to Albania and Yugoslavia still to seal and further campaigns planned to clear remaining bands.
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Athens
Stelios Kitrilakis
Kozanetot
Grammos Mountains
Almia
Grammos
Markos Vafiades
Setae
Kozane
Kitrilakis
Vafiades
Ginon
Aliakmon
Greece
ORD Hospital Admits 6 New Polio Cases
Polio struck Greensboro and other central North Carolina towns with six new cases sent to the ORD isolation ward. Among patients admitted are Greensboro youths Raymond Huckabee 25 Evelina Roberson 18 months Caroline Ann Walker 19 months and others John Lee Thomas 9 Wade Idol 19 months from Troy Colfax Walnut Cove.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Polio
ORD
Raymond Huckabee
Evelina Roberson
Apparel Industry Slump Warns CIO Leader in New Hampshire
Joseph A. Salerno national vice president of the CIO affiliated Amalgamated Clothing Workers warned that a textile and apparel slump signals a coming major economic bust. He cited high inventories and reduced production with three to four day weeks, and noted large cuts in shoe and radio output.
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Manchester
N. H
Joseph A. Salerno
Amalgamated Othing Workers, Cio
New Hampshire
ACW
Salerno
Creech Sentenced to Die For Wife Murder
James R. Creech, a wealthy tobacco man, was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for the July 28 murder of his wife. The judge set October 1 for execution at Raleigh’s Deep River prison, while the defense noted an appeal to the state supreme court.
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Creech
Smithfield
James R
Jimmy) Creech
Clawson L
Williams
den- Prison
Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Mattie Woodall Creech
Johnny Grimes
Grimes
Ava Gardner
D. L. Creech
Lester Hales
Elderly Doctor Found Unharmed Near Linville
Dr. Edward Pershing aged 84 from New Hope Pennsylvania was found unharmed after an overnight hike in western North Carolina. He was lost for 18 hours until three boy campers located him in a laurel thicket near Linville. He suffered only dehydration, and Mrs. Rooney helped return him to the Henley Inn.
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Linville
Edward Pershing
New Hope
Laurel
North Carolina
Gordon Hartshorn
Betsy
Pershing
Lindbergh warns science may become antichrist in spiritual revival call
Charles A. Lindbergh urges a national spiritual revival to curb science he says could destroy civilization. In his book Of Flight and Life he argues the United States must moralize science to prevent it from becoming the antichrist, with atom bomb security as a key peacetime goal.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
America
Lone Eagle
United States
Lindbergh
Russians Offended By Fancied Insult At Tel Aviv Concert
In Tel Aviv the Soviet diplomatic mission walked out of a Hambima theater performance after the American national anthem was played but not the Soviet anthem. James MacDonald, U.S. envoy to Israel, attended. the Soviet ambassador did not. Theater officials said anthems are played only for ambassadors or heads of missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tel Aviv
Israel
United States
James MacDonald
U. S
Berlin Unsettled as Clash Flares in Sector Fight
In Berlin today Soviet troops beat and stabbed German police in the American sector as American authorities warn of possible further clashes. U S discussions with Russia seek a truce between rival German police in Soviet and western sectors amid continued detentions and kidnappings.
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Berlin
Annhalter
ADN
Joseph Voelkel
Guenther Richter
Potsdamer Platz
Voelkel
Richter
Gale and Rain Sweep Over South England Coast
Gales and heavy rain lash the south coasts of England and Eire with several shipping incidents. A steam launch struck Kew bridge injuring five, a racing yacht lost its mast, and a 60-foot motor yacht Kekionga overdue near Rosslare. The Mauretania halted off Cobh. seas blocked a tender to the Prime Minister Costello. Scalloway faces water shortages while Shetland enjoys a month without rain.
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London
England
Eire
Kew Bridge
Thames
Rosslare
Kekionga
Swansea
Wales
Mauretania
United States
Cobh
John A. Costello
English Channel
Hastings
Britain
Shetlands Islands
Scalloway
World Council of Churches Opens First International Assembly
Amsterdam hosts the opening of the World Council of Churches assembly with 150 Protestant and Orthodox churches from 42 nations. Dr. Henry S. Leiper calls it a step toward world community while Archbishop Fisher and John R. Mott speak at the opening service. The meeting seeks to draft a constitution, policy program, and a five year full assembly plan.
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Amsterdam
International Assembly
World Council of Churches
Nieuwekerk
New Church
Netherlands
Henry S. Leiper
New York
Council
World Council
Dr. Leiper
Bible Universal
Archbishop of Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
John R. Mott
United States
International Y.M.C.A
Churches of the World
Republicans May Promise Reduction of Excise Taxes
Senator Millikin predicts wholesale revision of revenue laws with focus on trimming excise taxes. House and Senate leaders warn limited income tax cuts next year due to debt payments. Republicans say a surplus may exist and campaign on reducing taxes such as cigarettes, gasoline, theater tickets, telegrams, and travel charges.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Millikin
Cole
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Truman
Rep. Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
Treasury
Colorado
Western Union
Kasenkina Case Highlights Soviet Police Tactics
Washington reports say the Kasenkina case illustrates the Soviet police state and Moscow’s rigid control over citizens. Lomakin faced American pressure as he tried to return the teachers to Russia, with implications for Cold War propaganda and Kremlin dynamics.
Truman Yacht Discharges Seaman During Campaign Cruise
The yacht Williamsburg carrying President Truman anchored off Patuxent to discharge a sick seaman diagnosed with acute appendicitis. Engine man William W. Janssen of Fresno had emergency surgery aboard the Lenore and was operated on by Cmdr. Ash Emerson with Brig. Gen. Graham and others aiding. Janssen’s condition improved and he was to be moved to Patuxent hospital for convalescence.
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Washington
Williamsburg
President Truman
Patuxent
Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis
William W. Janssen
Fresno
Cal
Lenore
Charles G. Ross
White House
Janssen
Lenare
Ash_ Emerson
Ross
Emerson
Graham
Wallace H. Graham
Preston C Taylor
Donald E. Bauermeister
Fire races through South Dakota badlands
Rapid City reports a fire sweeping a rich grazing area in the badlands. About 250 air force base personnel raced to battle the flames. Captain Thomas Siegler said pilots reported a front of eight to ten miles and the blaze had advanced several miles by 7 p.m. MST.
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Rapid City
S. D
Air Force Base
Here
Thomas Siegler
Soviet Consul General Faces Deportation Over Case
Washington officials said Lomakin, the Soviet consul general, will be deported if he attempts to refuse to leave the United States amid the Russian refugee teacher case. The State Department pressed for his expulsion and noted the decision rests with authorities, not Lomakin.
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Washington
Jacob Lomakin
United States
State Department
Lomakin
U. S. State Department
Lomakin Leaves New York as Refugee Teacher Improves
Soviet Consul General Lomakin's Europe passage is booked after expulsion over the refugee teacher case. His aide hinted he may stay, while the teacher Mrs Oksana Kasenkina shows steady improvement after leaving Roosevelt Hospital. A Russian Orthodox priest visited her, and a Swedish line spokesman noted travel bookings may be longstanding.
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Jacob Lomakin
Russia
Kremlin
Kasenkina
Mihail Samari
Stockholm
Lomakin
Europe
Oksana Kasenkina
Roosevelt Hospital
Basil Mussinoushkin
Sea Cliff
N. J
Kasen
Polio Cases by Counties in North Carolina Year to Date
A Raleigh list shows infantile paralysis cases by county in North Carolina year to date. Totals include large counts in Buncombe 109 Guilford 189 Mecklenburg 104 and Wake 29 with many counties reporting single digits or zero cases.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Alamance
Alexander
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick
Buncombe
Burke
Cabarrus
Caldwell
Camdeon
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham
Cherokee
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland
Columbus
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck
Dave
Davidson
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood
Henderson
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln
McDowell
Macon
Madison
Martin
Mecklenburg
Mitchell
Montgomery
Moore
Nash
New Hanover
Northampton
Onslow
Grange
Pamlico
Pasquotank
Pender
Perquimans
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham
Rowas
Rutherford
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Lurry
Swain
Translyvania
Tyrrell
Union
Vance
Wake
Warren
Washington
Watauga
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yamjoey
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CIO
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New Orleans
Cage
Norfolk
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Phoenix
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St Louis
San Francisco
Harold D. Cooley
Graham Barden
Brig
Charles K. Gailey, Jr
Tempelhof
Germany
Cooley
Congressional Foreign Aid Committee
Barden
House
Senate Committee On
Lucius D. Clay
By Edwin Shanke
Gaza
South England
NEA Radiotelephoto
al Cocking
First International Assembly
Moscow
Karl Barth
John Foster Dulles
Martin Niemoeller
Reinhold Niebuhr
Union Theological Seminary
New York City
Oksana S. Kasenkina
New York Police
New York Press
Courts
Department of State
Inder Lomakin
John Winant
U .S. State Department
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