Lexington Theater Razed By Fire in North Carolina
Fire starting in the boiler room destroyed the Carolina theater building in Lexington. The blaze, with winds and sleet complicating efforts, caused about 200 000 dollars in damage to the downtown structure housing a 1200-seat theater, stores, a cafe, and eight apartments. No injuries among 25 residents. the J Hedrick estate owned the building.
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Lexington
Carolina Theater
J. Hedrick
North Carolina Theaters, Inc
Weed Prices Show Advance On All Marts
North Carolina and Virginia flue cured markets posted price gains as bidding remained heavy. Middle Belt centers showed increases of 1 to 2 dollars across several grades including leaf and cutters. Old Belt saw gains of 1 dollar for fine leaf and cutters while some red tobaccos fell 1 to 2 dollars. Overall season sales reached 149,135,765 pounds at 43.72 per cwt with Monday’s 863,892 pounds at 45.63.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Virinia
Middle Belt
Governor Cherry Heads to Southern Governors Conference
Raleigh December 5. Governor Cherry and his private secretary John Hardin departed for New Orleans to attend the southern governors conference meeting.
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New Orleans
Raleigh
Cherry
John Hardin
Southern Governors’ Conference
Navy To Release Enlisted Men And Women Of 38
The navy announced it would discharge reserve enlisted members who are 38 and have at least one dependent before August 15. Wives count as dependents. About 35,000 would be affected though many already qualified under the point system. Previously men 42 or older qualified regardless of points or dependency.
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Navy
Goering Threat to Level Prague Outlined in Trial
Prosecutors at the Nuremberg trial presented German records and diplomatic dispatches showing Hermann Goering warned that half of Prague would be in ruins within two hours if Czechoslovakia resisted. The case highlighted Goering's pressure on President Emil Hacha to admit German troops as Berlin advanced on 1939.
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Mernberg
Hermann Goering
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Prague
International Military Tribunal
Goering
Neville Chamberlain
Emil Mhacha
Berlin
Germany
Hacha
Troo
Ro— Coulondre
Truce Denied as British Forces Attack Indonesian Stronghold
In Batavia, British authorities rejected an Indonesian nationalist radio claim of a truce in Bondoung. They said British Indian troops with tanks and artillery attacked an Indonesian held building in Semarang while fighting raged in Ambarawa and Semarang. Indonesians reportedly tampered with water systems.
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Batavia
Java
Bandoeng
Ambarawa
Semrang
Semarang
Roosevelt Spurned Early War Plans Ahead of Pearl Harbor
Congressional records show President Roosevelt declined on June 7 1941 to approve a British American joint military operations plan should war come. The ABCD talks in Singapore and Washington outlined joint action but lacked formal approval. Rainbow No 5 warned of U S involvement with democracies against totalitarian powers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Senate-House
Pearl Harbor
E. M. Watson
War Department
U. S
William D. Mitchell
Leonard T. Gerow
Army
Gerow
Singapore
Mitchell
Henry L. Stimson
Frank Knox
Navy
Stimson
Knox
Army and Navy
United States Army
Money Voted For Strikers In Carolina
President Emil Rieve of the CIO United Textile Workers says the national executive board voted to create a 250000 fund to aid 8000 striking textile workers in North and South Carolina mills. Mills listed include Erwin in Durham Entwhistle Rockingham Hadley Peebles Gaffney Anson Rock Hill Athens Wadesboro and statewide Rhode Island unions. The board also urged passage of fair labor standards act amendments for a 65 cent hourly minimum wage. The group may act on Truman’s plan to handle national labor troubles.
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Boston
Emil Rieve
The
Textile Workers of America
CIO
North
South Carolina
Erwin Mills
Durham
Erwin and Cooleemee
N. C
Entwhistle Mill
Rockingham
Hadley-Peeles Co
Siler City
Gaffneyanufacturing Co
Hamrick Mills
Gaffney
S. C
Industrial Cotton Mills
Rock Hill
S&s. C
Athens Manufacturing Co
Athens
Anson
Wadesboro
New England
South County
Rhode Island
Rieve
Truman
Atlanta man reassigned as assistant to the collector
Howard A. Smith of Atlanta has been transferred from the Department of Internal Revenue as supervisor of accounts and collections to the district of North Carolina as assistant to the collector, announced by Collector Charles H. Roberson.
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Greensboro
Howard A. Smith
Atlanta
Department of Internal Revenue
District of North Carolina
Charles H. Robertson
Hurley Charges Diplomat Sought to Aid Chinese Communists
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that career diplomat George Atcheson Jr. at the Chungking embassy urged furnishing lend-lease arms to Chinese communists to topple the Nationalist government. He said Atcheson claimed embassy support and later noted Atcheson’s Tokyo duties under MacArthur. Hurley linked earlier charges about John S. Service and Vinegar Joe Stilwell to internal embassy tensions during World War II.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Chungking
George Atcheson, Jr
Hurley
China
Atcheson
Atcheson Wrote A Letter To the Secretary of State
State Department
Tokyo
Jas A. MacArthur
Joseph W. Stilwell
Chiang Kai Shek
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John S. Service
Stilwell
Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Vinegar Joe” Stilwell
Corporations Begin Buying Victory Bonds
The treasury reports corporations have purchased 2.843 billion dollars in the victory loan while individuals bought 3.946 billion, totaling 6.789 billion so far. E bond sales reach 1.069 billion against a 2 billion quota as the loan drive ends Saturday.
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Washington
Treasury
North Carolina Braces For Colder Weather After First Snow
The North Carolina area faced a cold snap with snow in Asheville and Mt. Mitchell seven inches, while Durham saw crowds of women buying nylon stockings in rain. Boone reported eight inches and Le Noir two inches as skies cleared later.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Asheville
Mt. Mitchell
Durham
Boone
N. C
Lenoir
Hickory
Verdict due in Yamashita trial Friday in Manila
In Manila a U S military commission recessed after final summations in the Yamashita case with the prosecution seeking death and the defense urging acquittal. A verdict was set for Friday as Maj. Kerr said death by hanging could be imposed if the verdict is guilty. Also reported in London former Archbishop Cosmo Lang, 81, died at the Royal Hospital after collapsing at a railway station.
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Manila
U. S
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Robert M. Kerr
Portland
Ore
Philippines
Kerr
Col
Harry Clarke
Yamashita
London
Cosmo G. Lord Lang
Canterbury
Lord Lang
Royal Hospital
Richmond
Chinese Plan for December 15 Move To Nanking
A cabinet spokesman said China's executive Yuan will meet in Nanking after December 15. Premier T V Soong may relocate there as government workers are stationed in Nanking within 10 days while Chungking remains capital until possibly March. Russian-Chinese talks on airborne troop movement into Manchuria to conclude soon.
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Chungking
China
Executive Yuan
Nanking
T.V. Soong
P. H. Chang
Liu Chieh
Mukden
Changchun
Manchuria
Liu
Sinmin
Peiping-Mukden
Great Wall
Britain moves on Indian independence with new labor boldness
London reports Britain's labor government endorses self government for India and pledges freedom to choose full independence if desired. A non partisan committee will assess and report on an Indian constitution next spring while opposing force to resolve constitutional issues. Nehru's warning of external action looms as Gandhi's successor weighs options.
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London
Britain
John Bull
India
Herbert Morrison
House of Summons
Ture
Morrison
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohandas Gandhi
Nehru
Injuries Fatal To Concord Girl Nine Years Old
Edith Geraldine Gray nine daughter of Mrs Ed Gray of West Concord died after a taxicab struck her. Roy Adams Simpson of Kannapolis driver for City Taxi Concord said she ran from behind a bus into the car. She died at Cabarrus hospital from a broken neck and right leg. Simpson held under $1000 bond awaiting coroner hearing Friday.
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Concord
Edith Geraldine Gray
Ed Gray
West Concord
Baxter Robins
Roy Adams Simpson
Kannapolis
Simpson
Cabarrus Hospital
N. John Mitchell
Hitler and Bormann In Death Pact At End of Berlin
Capt. Hanna Reitsch told U S counter intelligence investigators that Martin Bormann joined a death pact with Hitler hours before Berlin fell. She described Hitler berating traitors and directing a phantom rescue army as Russian shells pounded the Reich Chancellery.
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Oberursel
Germany
Hanna Reitsch
Berlin
U. S
Martin Ann
Hitler
Bormann
Nazi
S. A
Storm Troops
Volkssturm
International Military Tribunal
Nuernberg
Reitsch
Goering
Himmler
Goebbels
Eva Braun
France Secures $550 Million US Loan in Postwar Aid
Washington reports the United States grants a $550 million loan to France to bolster its rehabilitation program. France may later receive a much larger British-American loan as Anglo American negotiators press for terms. France agrees to repay over 30 years at 2 percent interest. Britain’s loan terms projected around 2 percent over 50 years with possible interest relief in low mood years.
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Washington
France
United States
Great Britain
Henri Bonnet
Britain
Plan Merger Action In Greensboro Three Firms
Final action on the statutory merger of Proximity Manufacturing of Greensboro Tarey Manufacturing of Haw River and Cone Export and Commission of New Jersey is expected to be taken by stockholders in a meeting scheduled for December in Poeta.
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Greensboro
Proximity Manufacturing Company of
Tarey Manufacturing Company
Haw River
Cone Export and Commission Company of
New Jersey
Poeta
Three Unions Unite Against Truman Plan
The CIO breaks with the administration and unites with the AFL and UMW in opposition to Truman's industrial strike fact finding program. Congressional leaders study the impact while drafting a bill to implement the plan, with CIO president Philip Murray delivering a sharp radio critique from Pittsburgh amid steel workers’ looming U.S. Steel walkout. AFL president William Green and John L. Lewis of the UMW join in the opposition stance.
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Washington
CIO
Imber
Truman
AFL
UMW
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corporation
William Green
John L
CIO Auto Workers and GM Postpone Picketing Talks
Detroit December 5 1946 Walter P Reuther CIO vice president announced postponement of negotiations between striking CIO Auto Workers and General Motors. The conference was delayed at his request as he was called out of the city and unavailable to participate.
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Detroit
CIO Auto Workers
General Motors
Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Reuber
Labor clashes and GM strike deadlock with wage talks ended
Tension rose as United Mine Workers criticized a 30 day strike truce plan while a labor panel studies options. House Labor chair Ramspeck indicated potential approval as Murray faced opposition. In Detroit a GM strike stalemate continued with Chrysler talks broken off after UAW CIO rejected a one year contract extension. Conder noted the rejection and company stance.
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Detroit
General Motors
C.O United Automobile Workers
Chrysler Corp
Robert W. Conder
Chrysler
Uaw-Cio
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Carolina
By Dewitt MacKenzie
James F. King
Chrysler-Cio
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Abor
Murray
Ramspeck
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
House
Ismay Dosmay
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