Untouchables gain birthright in new Indian constitution
India’s draft constitution bans untouchability and restores rights to about 60 million people long oppressed as pariahs. Leaders like Nehru and Gandhi are cited as driving forces behind this landmark humanitarian advance amid global crises.
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India
New Dominion
Constituent Assembly
United States
New India
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Gandhi
What To Do For A Cold
At the first sign of a cold follow three rules rest, fluids, and CALOTABS. Calotabs are a laxative antiseptic and diuretic that purportedly cleanse the body and aid recovery. Remember to rest drink liquids and use CALOTABS per label directions.
Farm and Home Week Resumes in 1949 at State College
North Carolina’s annual Farm and Home Week, canceled due to polio, will be resumed in 1949. Agricultural leaders and State college officials met to set August 8 to 11 as the program period, to be held on the college campus in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State College
Fraud Charges Put Against Church Chiefs
A chancery suit in Memphis charges seven Church of God In Christ leaders with conspiring to defraud members across 42 states. The filing seeks attachment of funds, appointment of a receiver, an audit, and barring named officers from disfellowshipping the suing pastors. The 41st annual convocation continues through December 14 with about 8,000 delegates from the U S Canada Africa and the West Indies.
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Memphis
Tenn
Church of God In Christ
Chancery
C. H. Mason
Board of Trustees
A. B. McEwen
Tennessee
Council of Elders
A. E. Miller
Ohio
A. M. Cohen
Florida
J. H. Boone
Indiana
C. G. Brown
Missouri
Home and Foreign Missions
C. E. Bennett
U. S
Canada
Africa
West Indies
Directors Of Chamber Call For More Private Housing
The United States Chamber of Commerce urges private competitive enterprise to meet housing needs. In a report led by George W. West it calls for sustained incomes and high construction productivity, with government cooperation that avoids subsidies or credit artificialities.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
George W. West
Atlanta
Indus
Play Money Contributed to Salvation Army by Child
A small boy dropped a bill and coins into Independence Square Salvation Army kettle. Major Purdue noted the eight dollars and twenty cents in play money, saying the gift, though playful, will aid a needy child this Christmas season.
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Charlotte
Salvation Army
Independence Square
William B. Purdue
Duke Professor Dies Authority On Vitamins At Duke
A Duke University nutrition professor and author on vitamins died after months of illness. Dr William John Dann 41 born Bath England native of Bath England had been at Duke 13 years his work included pellagra and other vitamin deficiency diseases and the use of nicotinic acid in treatment He introduced the term vitamins Survivors include his widow and four children John Morley Mary William Louis and Peter Cremated body.
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Durham
Duke University
William John Dann
University
School of Medicine
Bath
England
Dann
Duke
John Morley
Mary
William Louis
Peter
Man Dives 80 Feet From Bridge Shed Roof
A 29 year old man dived 80 feet from Jacques Cartier bridge yesterday and landed on a shed roof. He suffered slight cuts and was taken to hospital for observation by police.
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Montreal
Que
Jacques Cartier Bridge
Five Die Violently in North Carolina Weekend
At least five people died in North Carolina from violent incidents over the weekend. A fatal auto-bus crash in Charlotte killed a mother and her ailing son. 13 others injured in East Trade and Brevard streets crash. A woman died near Penrose in Transylvania county after her husband reportedly suffocated her with a quilt. Other deaths occurred in Gastonia and Fayetteville area including a truck overturn near Beatrice Murphy.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
East Trade
Brevard Streets
Independence Square
Howard M. Smith
Morris Field
Jerry Wayne Smith
Smith
Penrose
Transylvania County
Bert Freeman
J. Dover Hudson
Mary Hudson
Hudson
Nancy Carrie Gibble
Gastonia
Fayetteville
Virgil Phelps
Beatrice Murphy
Two Tobacco Markets In State Close
North Carolina tobacco markets in the old belt resumed sales while middle belt totals reached 156,633,229 pounds at $50.08 per hundred with the stabilization corp taking about 23 percent. Eastern belt sales were the lowest since 1944, totaling 392,614,141 pounds at $49.40 per hundred, up $6.39 from last year but below the 1946 peak. Sales and volume on the old belt continued to decline into the last week.
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Raleigh
Old Belt
North Carolina
Middle Belt
Child Saves Baby After Fire Jump by 14 Year Old
In Kannapolis a 14 year old, Coyd Owensby, leapt into a burning parked car and carried two year old Celia Ann Holshouser to safety. Fire officials say the blaze started from an undetermined cause and the boy’s quick action saved the child.
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Kannapolis
Celia Ann Holshouser
West Kannapolis
Coyd Owensby
Farmers Vote on Conservation Plan in 84 Counties
Farmers across 84 counties began voting this week for one member on a three man county committee to oversee soil conservation districts. Polls stay open daily including Saturday with a one year term for one member expiring each year.
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Raleigh
al Soil Conservation
Tobacco union seeks 75 cents minimum for 40 hours
A tobacco workers union demand calls for no job to be deemed suitable under unemployment compensation unless it pays 75 cents an hour for 40 hours. The joint conference of leafhouse workers from Local 10 and Local 22 warns of wage-standard gaps as unemployment rises and argues the law could create strikebreakers without a defined suitable wage.
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Wilson
Tobacco Workers’ Union
Food and Tobacco Workers Union Local 10
North Carolina
Winston- Salem
Bricker proposal for a federalism commission discussed
Sen John Bricker urged forming a commission to assess if the United States is sliding toward dictatorship. He warned about eroding state powers as a Hoover pattern panel would review division of powers and taxation with members from federal, state, and public from a Detroit general assembly session.
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Detroit
United States
John Bricker
Ohio
General Assembly of
Bricker
Hoover Group
High Point Boy Honored By Tau Epsilon Phi Frat
Tau Epsilon Phi at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill elected new officers Gene Heiman of Miami Florida as chancellor Ted Adler of Norfolk Virginia scribe Ellis Levinson of Gastonia bursar Harvey Colchambe of Brooklyn NY pledge master Irv Greenspon of Be News Virginia and 3rady New York City chaplain term. Two members at large were named to the executive committee Irv Silver of High Point and Sol Jaffa of Charlotte.
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Chapel Hill
Tau Epsilon Phi
Gene Heiman
Miami
Fla
Ted Adler
Norfolk
Ellis Levinson
Gastonia
Harvey Colchambe
Brooklyn
N. Y
Irv Greenspon
News
3Rady
New York City
Irv Silver
High Point
Sol Jaffa
Charlotte
Illinois Cop Is Playing No Favorites
Belvidere Illinois Patrolman Leroy Kaschub 27 enforces the law without bias. His arrest record includes Aldermen Irvin Eickstead Lester Cunningham his wife Winifred and his brother Carl all convicted of minor traffic violations. He filed speeding warrants against groom Clifford Pundt and best man Albred Rainwater after a wedding rehearsal at Emmanuel Lutheran church delaying their trial to allow the ceremony. Kaschub said relatives and friends of police should know better than to break laws.
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Belvidere
Ill
Stern
Leroy Kaschub
Kaschub
Force
Irvin Eicksteadt
Lester Cunningham
Winifred
Carl
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Lorna White
Waukesha
Wis
Clifford Pundt
Pundt
Albred Rainwater
Carl Suhr
Corn May Be Placed In N. C. Homes
North Carolina faces a surplus corn crunch as 76 million bushels flood markets and push prices to 90 cents. Agriculture Commissioner Coltrane convened bankers and warehousemen to devise routes to store and support growers, proposing warehouse storage and extended credit.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
D. S. Coltrane
Coltrane
Smog Victim Becomes Wrightsville Beach Resident
Samuel Salverinio, 45, from Donora Pennsylvania, arrived in Wrightsville Beach and announced plans to settle permanently and start a business. His wife and children would join once housing found. The Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington chambers underwrote the trip for the smog victims.
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Wrightsville Beach
Donora
Samuel Salverinio
W. R. Wiggs
Salverino
Chambers of Commerce
Wilmington
Prisoner Demands Move from Marion County Jail
Eddie Marche a 31 year old Chicago fed eral prisoner pleads guilty to interstate theft of a motor vehicle and asks to be sent to the Federal prison Terre Haute as soon as possible His plea is denied and he is ordered back to jail for pre sentence investigation claiming he will starve if retained at Marion county jail citing better food at Terre Haute pen.
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Indianapolis
Eddie Marche
Chicago
Marion County
Marche
Robert C. Baltzell
Terre Haute
Two Grants Pass Players Killed In Bus Crash
A Grants Pass high school football bus carrying 28 including 25 players and coaches overturned on highway 99 near Sexton mountain. Victims include star halfback Al Newman and lineman Sterling Heater. two bodies found inside the burning bus. Several others injured with varying serious injuries. principal and staff treated at hospital and sent home.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Portland
I.d
al Newman
Varsity
Sterling Heater
Josephine Hospital
Vernon Craft
Ray Alpeter
Russ Jacobson
Jim Peckham
Bob Graue
Frank Thomas
Sexton Mountain
Highway 99
Jess Loffer
Release Time For Religious Study Sparks Abolition Call
Mrs. Eugene Meyer of Washington urges prompt end to public schools release time program for religious instruction. Speaking at the United Parents Association luncheon in New York, she says the program makes schools a battleground for sectarian beliefs and undermines independence and discipline. She argues education should sever church and state in religious training.
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New York
Eugene Meyer
Washington, D. C
Meyer
President's Commission On Higher Education
United Parents Association of New York
Girl Triplets Die After Two Days at Mercy Hospital
Charlotte tale reports Velma Louise Vera Marie and Vivian Carroll Wilson, premature born to 19 year old Mrs. Lewis H. Wilson of Belmont, lived two days in incubators before dying Saturday. Weighing two pounds ten ounces, two pounds five ounces, and two pounds seven and a half ounces, their combined birth weight was seven pounds six and a half ounces. The Wilsons also have a 15 month old son.
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Charlotte
Belmont
Lewis H. Wilson
Mercy Hospital
Velma Louise Wilson
Vera Marie Wilson
Vivian Carroll Wilson
Wilsons
Incorporation Planned for Methodist College Foundation
Methodist leaders planned to incorporate the Methodist College Foundation of North Carolina to raise 10 million dollars for state colleges and universities. James A. Gray was named chairman and Gurney P. Hood treasurer, with Duke University High Point Greensboro Brevard and Louisburg colleges as participants. James G. Hanes named chairman of the foundation board with an executive council authorized to appoint a director.
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Winston-Salem
Methodist College Foundation of
North Carolina
James A. Gray
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Gurney P. Hood
Raleigh
Board of Trustees
Duke University
High Point
Greensboro
Brevard
Louisburg
James G. Hanes
Hanes Hosiery Mills
Methodist College Advance
Paris Place de Opera Warns of World’s Worst Traffic Jam
A claim asserts Place de Opera in Paris experiences unparalleled motor congestion, surpassing all other global street intersections. The remark points to heavy vehicle volume and crush of cars at the famed crossing.
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Place de Opera
Paris
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