OPS Lifts Controls on Wide Range of Consumer Goods
The Office of Price Stabilization discontinued price controls on radios, television sets, record players, carpets, beds, bedding, and china ware among items with low impact on living costs. Food prices rose nine tenths of a percent from July 28 to August 15, led by pork and chicken, signaling a high cost of living index.
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Washington
Congress
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Agriculture Department
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Lodge targets Stevenson doubletalk on filibusters
New York Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr denounces Adlai Stevenson for doubletalk on civil rights filibuster reform. Lodge, Ike campaign adviser, argues Democrats held Senate four years and did nothing. He vows to end filibusters and recall hearings to push rule changes within a month.
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New York
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Adlai E. Stevenson
Massachusetts
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Stevenson
Lodge
Eisenhower
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Sparkman
Mobile
Ala
Senate Rules Committee
Hendersonville Apple Festival kicks off with record crop
Hendersonville North Carolina hosts its sixth annual Apple Festival after a gala opening celebrating the largest Henderson County apple crop in history. A group of 25 Tar Heel lovelies from 12 towns will compete for the 1952 Festival Queen amid folk music dancing and a square dance contest.
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Hendersonville
North Carolina
Henderson County
Regional meeting advances training schools for Methodist Homes
Lake Junaluska hosts a second day as house parents and superintendents from Methodist Children's homes plan regional annual training schools. Fourteen states send 52 delegates to the General Board of Hospital and Homes sponsored gathering.
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Lake Junaluska
Methodist Children’s Homes
Methodist Church
General Board of Hospital and Homes
Southern forestry heads visit Duke for education discussion
Forestry school leaders from North Carolina State College and Southern schools arrived in Durham to observe Duke University's forestry program. The visit followed a Raleigh meeting and aims to strengthen forestry education and research in the Southern region.
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Durham
Southern Forestry
Duke University
School of Forestry
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Richard J. Preston
State College School of Forestry
Helicopter Attack Drill Demonstrates Battalion Transport
The Sixth Helicopter Company with the 82nd Airborne staged a helicopter warfare drill at Fort Bragg yesterday. The unit, the first of its kind in the Army, flew troops, guns, ammunition and supplies into a simulated combat zone.
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Sixth Helicopter Co
82Nd Airborne Division
Marine pilot killed in Corsair crash near Creswell
The Marine Corps reported that 2nd Lt. Jack B. Bonar of Columbus, Ohio was killed near Creswell during a practice bombing run. Bonar, with the Second Marine Air Wing based at Cherry Point, was coming out of a steep spiral when his Corsair failed to recover and crashed into the ground near the Edenton Auxiliary Field across Albemarle Sound.
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Creswell
Marine Corps
Columbus, O
G. J. Voros
Second
Marine Air Wing
Cherry Point
Jack B. Bonar
Columbus
Voros
Bonar
Edenton
Albemarle Sound
Enfield farmer killed by propeller in freak air crash
Lawrence H. Whitaker, 69, of Enfield, was struck and killed by a propeller blade after a crop dusting plane was hit by an automobile. The plane, parked beside a highway, was struck when Whitaker stood near it.
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Rocky Mount
Lawrence H. Whitaker
Whitaker
Governor McKeldin to Speak at Carolinas Kiwanis Convention
Governor Theodore McKeldin of Maryland will be the principal speaker at the Carolinas Kiwanis Clubs district convention in Charlotte October 5 to 7. He placed Gen Dwight D Eisenhower's name in nomination at the Republican National Convention. About 1,000 Kiwanians and wives from 101 clubs in North and South Carolina are expected to attend the three day event.
Storm Warned As First Atlantic Hurricane Aims Northward
Miami reports the Atlantic storm named Able strengthened to hurricane force with 75 mph winds. Warning orders span from Vero Beach to Wilmington and crews brace along the Georgia coast and South Carolina.
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Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Melbourne
Florida Peninsula
Vero Beach
Fla
Wilmington
N.C
Weather Bureau
Leeward Islands
Atlantic
North Florida
Jacksonville Beach
Jacksonville
Golden Isles
St. Simons
Sea Island
Glen Cove Naval Air Station
Brunswick
Charleston
Red Cross
Carolinas
Leonard Pardue
Hurri
Ike Begins Tour With Tough Talk Amid Campaign Feud
Ike plans three days on the stump to deliver major speeches during a Southern tour amid pressure from critics who say his campaign has been too soft. Stevenson pushes civil rights and an end to filibusters as Truman weighs a Labor Day appearance. Sparkman promotes Change as Virginia leaders back Stevenson.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Philadelphia
Fisenhower
Yalta
Poland
Senate
Stevenson
Ejisenhower
South
Truman
Yaukee
John Sparkman
Mendenhall
Miss
Parliament Court Held Invalid in Johannesburg
The Cape Province Supreme Court invalidated the South African high court of parliament which upheld a law to remove colored voters from the polling lists. The ruling keeps colored voters on Cape Province rolls temporarily and tests Malan government plans for appeal or refile.
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Johannesburg
United Party
High Court of Parliament
Malan
New Evidence Reframes Mountain Killing Case
In JACKSBORO Tennessee autopsy findings suggest Charles Johnson age 15 may have died from injuries other than a gunshot wound. Charles’ friend Robert Don Shelton 13 is charged with murder after a .22 rifle shot to the head during a disputed game. Doctors say Charles could have been dead before the shot or unconscious.
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Jacksboro
Tenn
R. C. Price
Charles Johnson
Robert Don Shelton
Robert
Charles
Bleak Walnut Mountain
Stevenson closes first invasion of the East in New York
New York Governor Adlai Stevenson ends his eastward campaign with strong civil rights rhetoric and calls for anti discrimation standards while criticizing Republicans over filibuster tactics and the McCarthy affair. He praises Southern progress and urges Eisenhower to state civil rights positions.
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Ill
Stevenson
East
Adlai Stevenson
Senate
Sen
Humphrey
Senate Labor Committee
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Ike
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
Wilkins
Eisenhower
South
John Sparkman
Alabama
North
Illinois
Tll
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
George C. Marshall
McCarthy
Marshall
Tragedies Bring Soldier Back Home
Tech. Sgt. Charles R. Buggy of Winnebago Nebraska returns to his family after a Coast Guard mercy flight from the ship Alexander Patch 500 miles at sea to reach his wife and gravely ill child amid a polio outbreak. The rescue plane collided with a lifeboat causing damage to the aircraft. Buggy’s 4 year old son Charles Jr died two days earlier. daughter Kathleen remains ill and his wife faces spine surgery.
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Salem
Mass
Nebraska
Coast Guard
Charles R. Buggy
Winnebago
Neb
Alexander Patch
Buggy
New York
Germany
Charles Jr
Sioux City
Kathleen
All Nations Aid in Heavy Pyongyang Air Assault
Allied planes from the United States Australia South Korea and South Africa joined 200 carrier aircraft in a massive strike on Pyongyang. The raid targeted airstrips factories and supply routes with bombs napalm and machine gun fire. Eleven MiG-15s clashed with Sabre jets and one was shot down.
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Seoul
Pyongyang
Sariwon - Pyongyang
Suh Air Force
Chongchong River
Charles A. Gabriel
Oxford
N. C
Pyongyan
Radio
U. N
Korea
Radio Seoul
United Nations
Sariwon Pyongyang
Boy Drowns in Creek Near Silver City
Thirteen month old Charles Lee Phillips drowned yesterday while playing in a creek near his home. His mother found him after he disappeared, and he was pronounced dead on arrival at Chatham Hospital.
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Silver City
Charles Lee Phillips
Chatham Hospital
Government releases five delinquent tax settlements revealed
The Internal Revenue Bureau opened its records on five back tax settlements totaling 1.636 million dollars, including cases involving John Guzik of the Capone mob and William Boyle of the Pendergast machine. The bureau will publicize all settlements since Aug. 20, with income and returns kept confidential.
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Capone
Pendergast
In— Revenue Bureau
Tony
Tax Bureau
John J. Williams
R-Del
Truman
John
Greasy Thumb) Guzik
William D. Boyle
Kansas City
Bureau
Guzik
Boyle
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