Italy Signs Peace Treaty Reducing Nation to Shadow
In Paris on February 10, Italy signed a peace treaty that sharply curtails its status, loses colonies, and limits its armed forces. Yugoslavia gained Venezia Giulia but not Trieste. Tito’s government expressed regret over the accord.
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Six Violent Deaths Reported Across North Carolina Weekend
At least six North Carolinians died violently over the weekend. Robert R. Smith, 78, of McLeansville near Greensboro, hanged himself Sunday in a barn. An infant girl died in a Belhaven fire that injured four others. James Carl Hill, 32, of Benson, was killed when struck by a car near Meadow. E W Shepherd, 46, of Kannapolis, died after falling from a scaffold in a textile plant. Charles Cleo Vandford, 2, of Cherry Point, fatally struck by a truck driven by his grandfather. Winfred Norton, 32, shot while hunting in Madison County. coroner calls it accidental.
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North Carolina Weather Ahead Hotter Tue with a.m. Rain
Fair in North Carolina with rising temperatures today and Tuesday. Tonight will be cool with lows in the teens to low twenties in western and northern parts and upper teens to mid twenties in the south. Observed temperatures include Charlotte 15, Chicago 4, New York 26, Detroit 25 with scattered rainfall none at many stations.
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Snow And Sleet In Florida As Cold Snap Continues
The severest cold wave in years spreads from Florida to the Midwest as Jacksonville records 27 and Orlando 32 degrees. Sleet hits Orlando and Daytona Beach while Miami stays milder due to clouds. Florida schools in Dade County close for heating failures amid unseasonable winter weather.
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Scant relief promised from cold in North Carolina
The AP reports a weather forecast of fair but cool conditions with slowly rising temperatures in North Carolina tonight and Tuesday. Lows are expected between 15 and 22 degrees in western to northeastern sections, with higher readings elsewhere, as a high pressure front exits the region.
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Man and wife found frozen to death in West Virginia
Sheriff Roy Arnold reports Amos Lamp and his wife Ethel of Charleston were found frozen to death in separate barn stalls near Grantsville after their snowbound taxi ride from Charleston to Hur in Calhoun County. The couple died in near zero weather with ice encasing their legs.
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Guild counters strike claim on Philadelphia Record shutdown
The American Newspaper Guild told the House labor committee that J. David Stern suspended the Philadelphia Record for financial gain not due to a guild strike. Stern will speak tomorrow after previously blaming the CIO for suspending the Record and Camden Post and Courier. The guild argues the assets sale was long planned and the strike a deliberate pretext. management allegedly refused wage offers matching other publishers. The hearing shifts to this high profile case amid wage dispute debates.
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81 Bodies Taken From Berlin Ruins
Berlin reports 81 bodies recovered from the Karlslust Dance hall fire at a Saturday costume ball. 39 people hospitalized. seven soldiers missing. four British soldiers burned. German authorities identify only three of the victims. Witnesses describe a chaotic crush at exits.
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Brazil’s Vast Size Encompasses U.S. Shapes
A readable note asserts Brazil, the western hemisphere’s largest nation, could hold all 48 U.S. states with room to spare and even adds a playful extra Texas to the mix.
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Portal Pay Row Heads To Congress And Supreme Court
Detroit February 10 with Judge Picard’s ruling portal pay disputes head back to Congress and the Supreme Court for final settlement. Labor lawyers say the Mt Clemens Pottery case is not binding on other portal suits while industry backs the decision and urges wage hour act revisions. The UAW has suits totaling about 1 billion dollars in portal claims.
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Royster Sees Weed Prices Holding Up in 1947 Outlook
Henderson report quotes Fred S. Royster president of the Bright Belt Warehouse association on the 1947 outlook. He cites expected record cigarette consumption and a $4 billion Britain loan aiding export trade as positive factors for growers and argues AFL efforts to unionize growers pose no serious threat to the auction system.
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Greece Urges Immediate U N Probe into Balkan Disturbances
Greek ambassador Vassili Dendramis sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council requesting immediate on site investigation of border disturbances. He warned postponement could erase key facts and hinder elucidation of the causes. The Balkans mission follows protests over death sentences for 11 alleged Greek guerrillas.
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Court Upholds Clean Politics Division and Dissentes
The Supreme Court upholds Hatch Act ban on federal employees taking part in campaigns. Justices split. Reed writes the majority. Dissent by Rutledge Black Douglas Frankfurter concurred. Murphy and Jackson not participating. CIO and public workers group challenged constitutional rights in the case.
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GOP Go Slow Urged on Tax Cuts and Defense funding
Service Committee Chairman Andrews urged the budget committee to delay any sharp cuts to defense until Gen Dwight Eisenhower testifies. The move comes amid GOP plans to trim Truman’s defense budget and pursue broad 20 percent tax cuts, with Taft opposing cuts before July 1.
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Costly Blaze Hits Belhaven
Belhaven suffered a major fire at low tide that burned for over half an hour before water could be obtained. Three businesses and three Negro dwellings were damaged, and an infant girl died. Damage exceeded $20,000. One man and his wife suffered broken legs. two others had minor injuries.
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George Pou to be laid to rest in Smithfield
Funeral services set for tomorrow at 3 p m in Smithfield for George Ross Pou 52 state auditor who died in his sleep yesterday in Rock Hill South Carolina Pou had joined a weekend visit after attending the funeral of Ambassador O Max Gardner in Shelby Ihrie said Pou retired after midnight Saturday and was found dead later that morning by Dr W R Blackmon
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House Banker Indicted for Federal Fraud Charges
Former house sergeants at arms Kenneth Romney indicted by a federal grand jury over alleged falsified figures in accounts totaling about 124000. The charges accuse knowingly willful misrepresentation to cheat the government with potential penalties up to ten years per count.
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Britain Faces Severe Coal Shortage Halts Industry
London reports a coal supply crisis shuts many sectors as four million workers return to the dole. Attlee plans to address Commons while Churchill demands minister Shinwell resigns. Power usage drops sharply amid government rationing and voluntary shutoffs across 38 counties.
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Jews Prepare Answer To British Plea
The Jewish agency read a reply to a British plea for help against underground violence as Haifa deported about 650 Jews trying to enter Palestine without permits. Agency leaders may urge authorities that Jews will not turn informers and the council already declined the request. Unauthorized Jewish immigrants were moved from the schooner Meriea to the British transport Heywood at Haifa amid a scuffle injuring several and a leg wound to one.
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