Violent Deaths Mark Weekend Across Carolinas
.AP reports at least 11 killed in the Carolinas over the weekend by violence and accidents. In Greenville County S C Levi Masters 28 shot in bed. Ruby 31 wife held in slaying. Betty Jean Long 13 strangled and Emma Jean Dixon 2 fatally burned. Nearby Fallsston N C one killed in auto collision. Mrs Voyette Taylor ofters Mountain burned.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Washington
D. C
P. Ben Ward
Greenville
S. C
Levi Masters
R. H. Bearden
Ruby
Gilbert J. Whilden
Lower Greenville
Betty Jean Long
Emma Jean Dixon
Salisbury
Lewis Q. Foutz
Fallston
N. C
Voyette Taylor
Ers Mountain
Shelby Hospital
Medical men attack Truman health plan at state society meet
Chicago reports the first annual conference of state medical society presidents and officers backed voluntary non profit statewide health care systems. Delegates from 37 states urged immediate establishment of statewide plans with free choice of surveyors and a role for government to foster competing private health insurance.
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Chicago
Truman
Weatherman Explains Days Length Change Before Solstice
San Francisco reports the weatherman saying afternoons won’t shorten next week, and by the shortest day there will be five more minutes of evening daylight. The sun will set later each day while rising later in the morning until December 20, when the season’s shortest morning arrives.
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San Francisco
Lies Of Nazis Are Bared At Nuernberg Trial
The international military tribunal opens its third week as American prosecutors reveal high command orders showing plans to conquer Czechoslovakia in 1937. A top secret directive also shows Hitler stating no desire for additional territory on May 30, 1938.
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Nuernberg
Dec
Czechoslovakia
International Military Tribunal
Hitler
Thefuehrer
Munich
Germans Resent U S Occupation Methods
A U S intelligence survey in Frankfurt reports growing German resentment toward American occupation methods. Germans blame policy gaps for injustice and confusion, a view echoed by many clergy with pro allied sympathies. The 20,000 word report also notes widespread belief that Germans have suffered enough.
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Frankfurt
U. S
13 Spades Hand Sends Raleigh Player to Grand Slam
Raleigh December 3 James M Williams received a dream bridge hand of 13 spades and aimed for a grand slam. Though he did not bid it immediately, he reached the grand slam in spades as the hand concluded.
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Raleigh
Dec
James M. Williams
Williams
Charge GM Violating Trust Laws
Detroit reports attorney general Tom Clark to probe General Motors for possible anti-trust action over its control of fuel pump supply. R J Thomas of the UAW CIO argues this dominance harms public interest as GM workers strike for a 30 percent wage rise. The dispute involves C E Wilson’s re open offer and opposition from some locals.
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Detroit
Asttorney
Eral
Tom Clark
General Motors Corp
R. J. Thomas
Uawcio
Publc
General Motors Emplo
Byrnes to receive Balkan report in a few days
Secretary of State Byrnes will get a first hand Balkans report this week from Mark Ethridge on Bulgaria and Romania. The findings are not expected to alter the tense U S Soviet relations. Ethridge will return via Rome with a report supporting nonrecognition of Bucharest and Sofia.
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Washington
Byrnes
Balkan
Bulgaria
Romania
Mark Ethridge
Louisville
Balkans
Ethridge
Rome
State Department
Bucharest
Sofia
Iran
Russia
Moscow
United States
Britain
Middle Eastern
Pearl Harbor Probers Hear Miles Testify
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles testified before the Senate group investigating Pearl Harbor that Short s November 28 1941 reply to Washington was totally inadequate He named War Secretary Stimson General Marshall and Gen Butt as officers who saw the reply Miles said the message to Short implied but did not state that sabotage was possible and cited Marshalls warning as sufficient to alert Hawaii for action The session highlighted the analysis of wartime communications and the leaders involved Senator Lucas called the testimony one of the most important messages sent.
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Washington
Sherman A. Miles
Walter C. Short
Hawaii
Miles
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Eee
C. Marshall
Clark
D-Nc
Marshall
Short
Army
Secreta of War
Stimson
War Plans Division
Leonard T. Butt Clark
Navy
Lucas
Ill
Iranian Plea for Troops to Enter Azerbaijan Province
The Iranian government urgently petitioned Soviet Russia to allow transport of Iranian troops to Azerbaijan where armed demonstrators seized police and officials. Soviet authorities have barred reinforcements, arguing their entry would worsen fighting and bloodshed. Iran says troops are needed to restore order and will not be used aggressively.
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Tehran
Russia
Azerbaijan
Nationalist Forces Advancing Toward Mukden in Manchuria
Nationalist spearheads push toward Mukden in Manchuria as Chiang Kai-Shek's troops move northward with limited opposition. Reports say Ta-hushan is near, negotiations with the Soviet Union on Manchuria progress, and Chiang Chung-Kuo travels to Changchun. US air forces in China announce non operational status for two air force headquarters with personnel to return home.
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Chungking
Mukden
Manchuria
Chinese Central
Chiang Kai-Shek
Central News
Tahushan
Chiang Chung-Kuo
Changchun
Manchurian
China Times
Chang Hsueh-Shih
Shanghai
George Stratemeyer
United States Air Forces
China
10Th
14Th
Low Point
Jamestown and Stokesdale School Projects Approved
Architects plan a new 60,000 dollar school at Jamestown and a 37,500 dollar school structure at Stokesdale, approved by the Guilford County education board on December 3.
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Jamestown
Greensboro
Stokesdale
Guilford
Governor Cherry Reveals Capitol Work Since January 1945
In Raleigh a woman asks for capitol grounds information and learns the man directing her is R Gregg Cherry, governor of North Carolina, who says he has worked at the capitol since January 1945. The brief encounters place Cherry among staff near the capitol as he explains his long tenure.
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Cherry
Raleigh
Dec
Capitol
Capitol Grounds
R. Gregg Cherry
North Carolina
New War Crimes Widen Net in Japan Under MacArthur
General MacArthur issues a sweeping directive arresting 59 prominent Japanese as war crimes suspects. The rogues gallery spans an imperial prince, former premiers, cabinet ministers, Zaibatsu leaders, militarists, bankers, and editors. The list targets domestic totalitarian figures linked to Kempeitai and the imperial rule assistance era.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Privy Council
Zaibatsu
Japan
Kempeitai
Thought Police
Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Albania’s Hoxha Front Could Doom King Zog in Exile
Albania’s general election returns may signal the exit of King Zog, as Enver Hoxha’s Democratic Front gains strength. The report notes a Balkan monarchs’ decline since World War II, with Mihai of Romania the remaining king and Greece’s King George still in exile in England. Ahmed Zogu’s ascent and later exile frame the current royal question in Europe.
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Albania
Enver Hoxha
Democratic Front
Zog
England
Balkan
Greece
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Romania
Mihai
George
Ahmed Zogu
Fan
S. Noli
Zogu
Zog I
The
United
Balkans in flux as exiled monarchs seek refuge in England
Dewitt Mackenzie argues that 1940 shifts in Balkan thrones signal a retreat of feudalism. He notes Zog George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia living in an English hotel, suggesting renewed chances for democracy as serfdom declines and monarchies fade.
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Zog
George
Greece
Peter
Yugoslavia
England
Balkans
Europe
Nerese
Balkan
Yamashita Claims Army Had Power Over Prisoners
Manila December reports Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita testified at his war crimes trial that the 35th army group east of Manila held authority to appoint courts martial and try prisoners of war and internees, and that he could not revoke that power. He said he was helpless to intervene. The cross examination focused on discrepancies between English and Japanese wording and the tribunal ruled the chief interpreter’s decisions final.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
Yamashita
35Th Army
Army Group
Wreck Victim Not Identified
A unidentified woman killed in a highway crash near Lumberton last Thursday night remains unnamed. Sheriff Wade said she was visiting in the Butters community before the tragedy. she boarded a bus at a nearby sawmill town in Bladen county, with other survivors giving a description.
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Lumberton
Here
Butters
E. C. Wade
Robeson County
Bladen County
Truman asks Congress to form labor dispute fact finding board
President Truman proposed a national fact finding board to resolve labor disputes in major industries and to ban strikes or lockouts during federal review. He cited steel auto aviation mining oil utilities and communications and said the panel should handle the GM CIO United auto workers case while urging full cooperation and production.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Automobi Aviation
General Motors-Cio- United Automobile Workers
United State Steel Corporation
United Steel Workers
Aining
Inefficiency Charged to Capt McVay Over Indianapolis Loss
The navy formally accuses Captain Charles B. McVay III of negligence and culpable inefficiency in the loss of the 10 000 ton cruiser Indianapolis during the war as a general court martial convenes at the Washington navy yard. One hundred eighty eight dead or missing? 880 listed as casualties. The charges cite through negligence allowing a vessel to be hazarded and culpable inefficiency in duty.
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Washington
Navy
Charles B. McVay III
Indianapolis
Washington Navy Yard
Philippine Sea
Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
McVay
Numerical progression offered today headline
New York news notes a curious date progression with today 12/3/45 leading a straight numeric sequence. It recalls an earlier instance 1/23/45 and predicts the next occurrence on January 23, 2045.
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New York
Resignation of R B Babbington as South East Airlines President
Dec 3 report from Charlotte states R B Babbington of Gastonia quits as president of South East Airlines. W C Teague, Charlotte vice president and general manager, announced the resignation of the North Carolina intra state passenger and cargo air line head today.
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Charlotte
R. B. Babbington
Gastonia
South East Airlines
W. C. Teague
North Carolina
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