Plane Crashes Spark Overnight Death Toll Tops Nine
A wave of air crashes left nine dead and two missing after a B-25 crash near Jasper Arkansas and a destroyed P-80 near Champaign Illinois. An Eastern Airlines Constellation suffered a fatal fuselage fragment incident near Florida with one death onboard Folz.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Air Force
Jasper
Ark
Eastern Airlines
Bunnell
Fla
Gilbert P. Folz
Florida
Champaign
Ill
Chanute Field
Farm plan would let prices fall with surpluses
A senate agriculture subcommittee proposes a long-range program to let consumer food prices drop as surpluses grow, while ensuring farmers a fair share of national income. It calls for flexible price supports, consumption subsidies, and incentives for soil conservation, with emphasis on family farms and rural development.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Aiken
R-Vi
Senate
Alabama Senators Tangle With Gov Folsom Over Delegate Bid
The Montgomery Advertiser reports Senators Hill and Sparkman plan to challenge Gov James E. Folsom for the Democratic National Convention delegate nomination. The paper cites reliable sources stating both Alabama lawmakers seek the candidacy against Folsom. The note is from Montgomery dated February 7.
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Montgomery Advertiser
Hill and Sparkman
D-Ala
Alaama
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Montgomery
Ala
Army C-47 Crashes Near Saluda With Nine Aboard
A C-47 cargo plane with nine men aboard crashed and burned on a mountain near Saluda North Carolina. Five injured were rushed to Hendersonville hospital. four were unaccounted for. The Greenville South Carolina based aircraft was on a mission from Greenville base.
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Saluda
Hendersonville
Asheville
North Carolina
South Carolina
Greenville
S. C. Army Air Base
Daniels Reorganize Newspaper After Daniels Death
The News and Observer in Raleigh announces a corporate reorganization following editor Josephus Daniels's death. Josephus Daniels Jr becomes corporation president. Worth Daniels, Mary Horton, Jonathan Daniels, and Frank Daniels assume key roles. Jonathan Daniels will head editorial departments. Frank Daniels remains general manager.
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Raleigh
News and Observer
Today
Josephus Daniels
Corporation
Josephus Daniels, Jr
Worth B. Daniels
Mary H. Horton
Jonathan Daniels
Frank Daniels
The
Four Daniels
Miss Horton
Folger Resignation Reshapes North Carolina District Races
North Carolina politics swirled after Rep. John H. Folger announced he will not seek reelection in the fifth district, opening a new seat while Rep. J Bayard Clark leaves the seventh district. Gov hopefuls Warner Kerr Scott and others move campaigns as Folger returns to Mt Airy to practice law with his son.
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North Carolina
Democratic
John H. Folger
Washington
Folger
J. Bayard Clark
Clark
Fayetteville
S. Bunn Frink
Southport
State Ports Authority
Capitol Hill
W. Kerr Scott
John T. Armstrong
State Utilities Commission
Thad Bure
Scott
Graham
Charles J. Parker
Raleigh
Charles M. Johnson
R. Mayne Albright
Oscar Barker
Durham
Olla Ray Boyd
Pinetown
Mt. Airy
Fred Folger
Felix Alley Retires From North Carolina Superior Court Bench
Judge Felix E. Alley of Waynesville retires from the North Carolina Superior Court bench to become an emergency judge. Dan K. Moore of Sylva will fill the solicitorial post and Baxter C. Jones of Bryson City will take that appointment. Oaths of office set for Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the governor's office.
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Raleigh
Felix E. Alley
Waynesville
North Carolina
W. P. Stacy
Judge Alley
Jackson County
John H. Alley
Cullowhee High School
Western Carolina Teachers College
University of North Carolina
General Assembly
Superior Court
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
Walter E. Moore
DuPont Develops Anti Fog Solution
DuPont scientists soaked soft absorbent cotton cloth in a chemical solution to prevent fogging on the inside of car windows and eyeglasses. One wiping will keep surfaces clear when moving from outdoors to indoors.
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Wilmington
Del
DuPont Company
Price slump seen as healthy omen for groceries
Chicago reports grain prices slipping over four days and lifting retail groceries. Bread flour lard and some pork cuts could be cheaper Monday in chain stores as hog prices fall and wholesale supplies back up. Wheat swings on the Board. oats ease but corn falls. Market outlook remains downbeat for nine months per experts.
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Chicago
Pittsburgh
Chicago Board of Trade
New York
A. W. Zelemek
International Statistical Bureau
Mark Pickell
Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association
Senators Protest Against Ending Of Rent Controls
Washington February 7 senators Fulbright and Maybank protested ending rent controls on boarding houses. They oppose the no limit leases and automatic decontrol provisions in a Senate bill extending controls to April 30 1949. The Banking Committee plans a February 16 vote.
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Washington
Fulbright
D-Ark
Mayband
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Maybank
Fullbright
Tobey
R-Nh
Full Banking Committee
House
Banking Committee
Cain
R-Wash
Bricker
Ohio
Buck
R-Del
McCarthy
R-Wis
Federal
Census Bureau
Ace
Two North Carolina Officers Are Dismissed
Two state officers lose their jobs in Raleigh over separate incidents. R A Eaton, a highway patrolman from Rocky Mount area, was dismissed after his Greensboro drunken driving arrest. Roland W Myrick, a Charlotte drivers license examiner, was fired amid an embezzlement probe. Eaton faces Greensboro municipal county court on February 17.
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North Carolina
State
State Motor Vehicles Department
Raleigh
R. A. Eaton
Highway Patrol
Rocky Mount
Whitakers
Greensboro
F. C. Bell
Troop C
Eaton
Roland W. Myrick
Charlotte
S. L. Gaynor
Highway Safety Division
Sgt
S. D. Moore
State Highway Patrol
Gaynor
Myrick
Greensboro-High Point
Kannapolis
Pauley Resigns as Army Special Assistant
Edwin W. Pauley, twice targeted by Republican senatorial probes, resigns as special assistant to the secretary of the army and as special consultant on industrial mobilization and procurement. Secretary Royall calls his work outstanding and efficient. Pauley, a California oilman and former Democratic national treasurer, had faced senate scrutiny over commodity trading profits.
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Washington
Edwin W. Pauley
Secretary of the Army
Kenneth C. Royall
Royall
Pauley
Department of the Army
California
Senate Appropriations Committee
Couple marks 77th anniversary with candid quip
NO FIT. IN HUMBOLDT MO. MR. AND MRS. T D CUTSINGER CELEBRATE THEIR 77TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MONDAY. AT 92 SHE REMEMBERS THEY ARGUED BUT NEVER FIT. HER WRY REPLY: MAYBE THAT'S THE ANSWER.
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Humphreys
T. D. Cutsinger
Six Fliers Held For Bomb Plot
Six American fliers were arrested in a thwarted plot to bomb Caracas as part of a Latin American revolution. Four nabbed in New Orleans from Nicaragua, one at Miami, one in military custody. Hoovers FBI cited neutrality act violations with plans to bomb Caracas using two surplus navy planes.
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Caracas
Federal Bureau of Ivestigation
Nicaragua
Miami
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Thy
Bushfield
Georgia
Puerto Cabezas
Hoover
Olin D. Mason
Oliver General Hospital
Augusta
Harry A. Snow
Amarillo
Texas
Charles B. Patlicek
New York
Kenneth J. Newcomer
Henry D. Baker
Edward Browder, Jr
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Snow
Pavicek
Mason
Newcomer
Somulo Betancourt
United States
Romulo Gallegos
Hoovers
Crissman Announces For House Reelection Run
High Point attorney Walter Crissman, who has served Guilford county in the North Carolina House for two terms, announced his bid for renomination in the May Democratic primary. Fellow Democrat O Arthur Kirkman also declared a run for one of the county four seats.
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Walter Crissman
High Point
Guilford County
Crissman
O. Arthur Kirkman
Kirkman
General Assembly of
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Guilford
Clyde Shreve
Stokesdale
Frank Hutton
Greensboro
Robert Moseley
Young Democrats Favor Going Along With Party
The North Carolina Young Democrats executive committee urges continued support for the national party amid debate over civil rights reform. At a Sedgefield Inn rally, Sen. John Sparkman and Gov. candidate J. Melville Broughton defended party unity and urged youth leadership for 1948 victory.
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Young Democrats of
North Carolina
Sedgefield Inn
National Party
Truman
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Executive Committee
South
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
YDC
Guilford County
J. J. Shields
Greensboro
J. Melville Broughton
Southern Governors Plan 40 Day Meeting On White Supremacy
The Southern governors conference, under Gov. Strom Thurmond, set 40 days to reconvene to review civil rights developments and rejected a March meeting for a southern Democrat bolt. The group also spurned support for “favorite son” candidates upholding white supremacy. A special committee will designate the next meeting time and place.
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Wakulla Spring
Fra
Conference of
Democratic National Administration
South
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
Eee
James Folsom
Alabama
Southern Governors’ Conference
Southern governors condemn Truman civil rights push at Blaine meeting
The Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Arkansas and Alabama governors joined Thurmond in denouncing Truman’s civil rights program. They resist anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws and favor a permanent employment discrimination commission only if opposed within the Democratic framework. Laney warned of betrayal and backed Republican routes. Folsom and McCord pressed for party revival of the two thirds rule.
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Wright
Mississippi
McCord
Tennessee
Jester
Texas
Caldwell
Florida
Laney
Arkansas
Folsom
Alabama
Thurmond
Truman
Gov
Democratic Party
Blaine Caldwell
Trio schemes to beat horse races at Las Vegas club
Las Vegas police investigate three men who won 11000 at a local club after allegedly receiving race results via a cut wire. Chief Malmburg says the trio wagered on Atomic City at New Orleans Fair Grounds, then departed with the payout as two more men were questioned.
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Las Vegas
Robert Malmburg
Fair Grounds Track
New Orleans
Atomic City
Malmburg
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