Canton as 1949 Seat Sparks Southeast China Battle
Canton may become the Chungking of 1949 as the Chinese government weighs moving from Nanking. Red advances threaten evacuation, with observers noting Canton’s geographic and political risks, while Soong strengthens Kwangtung’s defenses and economy to prepare for a possible capital shift.
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Hays Defends Regional University Plan For Negro Education
Rep. Hays of Arkansas says the NAACP does not speak for all southern Negroes in opposing a 14 state regional university plan. He urges support, arguing the system raises higher education for Black students to white levels and offers a voice for Negro educators alongside white students.
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Christmas Safety Goes To College
A nationwide campaign targets college students with safe driving messages during Christmas vacations. Editors of 776 college newspapers will spread safety tips, backed by Lombard Mutual and the National Safety Council, to reduce holiday traffic fatalities. Cardinal Stan Musial endured his longest 1948 slump in July with 13 straight no hits.
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Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company
National Safety Council
H. L. Kemper
Stan Musial
St. Louis Cardinal Star
Indictments To Buncombe Jury Today
Buncombe county grand jury to receive indictments against 25 men tied to gambling operations. One key figure, Vaughn J. Cannon, faces charges of operating and conspiring to operate gambling houses with illegal device possession, bonded at 15 000 dollars. Tax liens total 1 454 972 dollars in Greensboro and 175 000 dollars in Spartanburg. Three others named in warrants are not in the today’s bills.
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W. K. McLean
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Vaughn J. Cannon
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Florence
S. C
Nettles
Cannon
Greensboro
Spartanburg
Nettles Bench
Norway's fauna shifts with rising bears and wolves
Oslo reports say Norway has seen wildlife changes with bears and wolves increasing, wolves attacking livestock in mountains, and a northern Finmark stock sustaining a permanent wolf presence. Elk, wild reindeer, lynx, and marten are also more common. University of Arizona basketball cag ers will play 27 games in 1948 49.
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O. Olstad
Finmark
Olstad
University of Arizona Cagers
Veteran posing as Negro jailed for miscegenation
Davis Knight a 23 year old Navy veteran who previously married a white woman was convicted of miscegenation in Ellisville Mississippi and sentenced to five years in prison. The case reportedly marks the first conviction under the state law prohibiting white persons from marrying or cohabiting with someone of mixed race.
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Davis Knight
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Mississippi
Rockingham Mill Problem Before Union
Huntsville Alabama reported that CIO Textile Workers Union of America official W T Adcock said the union seeks to fix conditions at the Lowenstein Areo Mill in Rockingham North Carolina where 108 workers were eliminated. The report notes the union gathering was held over two days.
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Huntsville
Ala
Lowenstein Areo
Rockingham
N. C
W. T. Adcock
Huntsville Joint Board
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
Syracuse
Columbia
How Doctors Treat Clicking in the Jaw Joint
Readers learn causes of jaw joint clicking from cartilage disc derangement. Treatment includes bite correction, splinting for recent injury, heat therapy, and surgery if the disc is too large or loose. When only clicking occurs, operation is usually unnecessary.
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N. C
Wec
King
Textile Workers Union meeting on workload policies
Delegates from Rockingham and Rock Hill attended a policy committee meeting of the Textile Workers' Union. They represented workers in mills owned by Leon Lowenstein and Son of New York. Adcock said the gathering discussed workload increase policies of manufacturers.
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Rockingham
Rock Hill
S. C
Leon Lowenstein and Son
New York
Adcock
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