Russians Demand Kurile Possession in Yalta Pact Details
Washington and London publish the long secret Yalta pact revealing three wartime conditions for Russia to enter the Pacific war. The text states the Kurile islands would be handed over to the Soviet Union and outlines Mongolia status, restoration of 1904 rights, Sakhalin, Port Arthur, Dairen, and joint railway administration with Chinese oversight.
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Washington
Russia
Kurile Islands
Yalta
Germany
Hiroshima
Japan
Kuriles
Soviet Union
Roosevelt
Churchill
Sakhalan
Isles
Dairen
Port Arthur
China
Manchuria
War charges debate in UN as Indonesians, Dutch loom
The United Nations Security Council resumes discussion on Soviet charges that war is ongoing in Java. Vishinsky clashes with Bevin over a probe, while US doubts finish date as Indonesians await Dutch proposals for a commonwealth.
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London
Indones
United Nations Security Council
Java
Andrei Vishinsky
Ernest Bevin
Philadelphia Strike Halts Transit Across City Mass Volume
Philadelphia transportation halted as 9 655 CIO transport workers walkout disrupting street cars buses and subways serving 3 million daily. Union seeks 25 cent hourly raise plus benefits while company offers 12 cent increase. Navy bases mobilize 25 000 civilians to Philadelphia installations. Arbitration rejected as hollow. Suburban railroads increase service and emergency pools aid essential workers.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
CIO Transport Workers Union
Philadelphia Navy Base
CIO
New York
Ssociation
Changes In Top Leaders In Prospect
Washington reports changes are in prospect in top administration posts and a steel price and wage settlement may be announced soon. Press secretary Ross indicated a package could cover personnel changes a steel agreement and price policy with Bowles gaining broad pricing authority.
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Washington
White House
Charles G. Ross
Stabilization High Command
Ross
John C. Collet
OPA
Chester Bowes
Chester Bowles
U. S. Steel Corporation
CIO
Truman
United
Bowles
Double Funeral Planned for Tragedy Victims
Norfolk Virginia dispatch reports a double funeral for James Richard Myers and his wife Mrs ula Jones Myers who were killed in a shooting. Myers died at Norfolk General Hospital and his wife died earlier. The remains were moved from a Norfolk funeral home to Johnson funeral home in Jesville for services scheduled in Statesville, North Carolina, at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
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Norfolk
James Richard Myers
Ula Jones Myers
Statese
N. C
Myers
Norfolk General Pital
Johnson Funeral Home
Jesville
MacArthur asks Congress to free travel for service wives
In Tokyo Douglas MacArthur urged Congress to provide free transportation for wives of U S military personnel stationed in Japan. He said he will open occupied areas to wives around May 1 and hopes Congress will approve legislation extending transport to all ranks. He noted civilian living conditions differ from the continental area. No War Department comment was available from Tokyo on housing project sanctions or stalling.
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Washington
N. Douglas MacArthur
Gress
Japan
U. S
MacArthur
Tokyo
Congress
War Department
Belgium’s morale and toil drive postwar recovery
Brussels reports Belgium shows early signs of economic rebound due to high morale and hard work. Belgians focus on present needs, sweating to rebuild industry rather than chasing utopian promises.
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Brussels
Belgium
Europe
Six Births for Alma Mother In Nine Months
Alma Georgia report notes Mrs John T Lee age 26 has delivered six children in nine months. On May 17 1945 she welcomed quadruplets three girls and a boy who died soon after premature birth. Saturday the same doctor delivered twins to Mrs Lee. The family already has six other children.
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Alma
John T. Lee
Lee
Morehead Funds Plan for UNC Art Gallery and Planetarium
John Motley Morehead of Rye New York presents UNC Chapel Hill a 1 million dollar trust for an art gallery and planetarium. The project would create the souths only university owned planetarium and include a later transfer of the Morehead art collection valued around 250 000 dollars. Governor Cherry accepts the gift for the university trustees.
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Raleigh
John Motley Morehead
Rye
New York
Board of Trustees
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Morehead
Cherry
Four Children Die In Spokane House Fire
Four children of Mr. and Mrs. George Locher perished in an upstairs bedroom fire in a frame house in Spokane’s foothills eight miles away. Deputy sheriffs transported Mrs. Locher and another child, Donald, four, to a hospital with burns. Locher suffered minor injuries and was to be moved later. A 19 month old baby was rescued unharmed.
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Spokane
Wash
George Locher
Foothills
Jack Savage
Cecil Hare
Locher
Donald
Wives Of GI's Answer Greeting With A Song
In New York the Queen Mary, turned into a floating nursery for 668 children, docked after a historic overseas journey of 1666 British wives and 668 children. The first 500 wives, from within 200 miles of New York, left to reunite with their husbands at the seventh regiment armory. A former army m
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New York
Seventh Regiment Armory
Army
J. Santa Dinara
Bellport
N. Y
Lily
Santo, Jr
Trina
Senate Ends FEPC Filibuster After Southerner Efforts
The Senate ended its long FEPC filibuster but did not kill the measure. A 48 to 386 vote refused to invoke the gag rule, preventing a direct showdown on the bill. The chamber recessed and left the FEPC question on the calendar for potential future action.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
FEPC
House
Ter
Chamber
Sen. Chavez
Bribery Charged At Usury Trial In North Carolina Case
Wilson Boyles of Winston-Salem testifies he received a $5000 bribe offer to not testify against Roderick Davenport and co defendants in a Pitt County fraud case linked to an alleged big apple loan brokerage operation in 1944. The trial entered its second week at the special session.
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Greenville
Wilson Boyles
Winston-Salem
Roderick Davenport
Davenport
Boyles
Pitt County Superior Court
Big Apple
North Carolina
Rain Threatens Western North Carolina Roads
Heavy weekend rainfall and prior snow left western North Carolina highways and secondary roads dangerous with slides. Rural schools in Buncombe and Madison counties suspended for up to a week. A slide on the Asheville Marshall road and a railroad blockage on the Asheville Murphy line forced passenger switches near Almond.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Buncombe
Madison
W. M. Corkhill
State
Asheville-Marshall
Gap
Waynesville
Cherokee
Southern Railway
Almond
Eighteen Seek Ramspeck’s Post In Atlanta Race
Eighteen candidates run for the vacant Atlanta congressional seat vacated by Bob Ramspeck who left Congress claiming insufficient pay. Contenders include Thomas L. Camp longtime Ramspeck aide William D. Upshaw former district representative Helen Mankin an Atlanta lawyer and former state legislator. Ramspeck left to join the aviation industry after pushing federal employee civil service legislation.
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Atlanta
Bob Ramspeck
Congress
Thomas L. Camp
Ramspeck
William D. Upshaw
Helen Mankin
Admiral Blandy Questions Atomic Test Effectiveness
Vice Admiral W H P Blandy, set to direct Pacific atom bomb tests, warns tests raise questions about future naval power. He says the issue is how to replace or strengthen land, sea and air forces if fleet ships are destroyed and whether mass production can rebuild the navy quickly. He notes uncertainty if the 97-ship fleet will be devastated and whether a single bomb next May proves anything.
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Washington
W. H. P. Blandy
Pacific
U. S
Compromise In Housing Plan Likely
A backstage powwow on President Truman's veterans housing program signals a likely compromise. House Banking Committee members consider scrapping last week's emergency bill to draft a variant closer to the White House plan, aiming at a two year goal of 2,700,000 homes.
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Washington
Truman
Homes For Veterans
House Banking Committee
White House
Rivers Rising Prompt North Carolina Flood Warnings
Rising waters in the Cape Fear and Neuse basins will overflow into lowlands by midnight per the U S Weather Bureau. Additional increases likely on the Tar and Roanoke basins if rains continue, though flood stages are not expected yet unless rain persists.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Cape Fear
Neuse
U. S. Weather Bureau
Roanoke River
Cold Weather Hits Southeast After Floods and Snow
Cold clear air spreads from the southwest as heavy rains flood northwest Georgia and Alabama with levee threats in Mississippi. Snow blankets Virginia to Washington DC and the Great Lakes. river crests near 64 feet at the Warrior in Alabama and 35 feet at the Coosawattee? or Constantula in north Georgia, with Rome expecting 33 to 35 feet and 100 homeless in the city.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Virginia
North Carolina
Marland
Delaware
Washington, D. C
Great Lakes
Rockies
Warrior River
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Constantula
Rome
North
Red Cross
Maine
Plains
New York
Washington
Norfolk
Raleigh
Seven Elderly Men Die in Marquette Fire Disaster
Police and fire crews investigated a three story frame building after a blaze killed seven roomers, all but one of them lumberjacks, in Marquette Michigan. The fire damaged the top two floors above a ground level garage, marking the citys worst disaster.
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Marquette
Mich
American constabulary raids camps near Nuernberg and Munich
U S Army constabulary staged quick raids on displaced persons camps near Nuernberg and Munich to seize evidence and disrupt groups of Poles and Yugoslavs suspected of forming hostile factions against Warsaw and Belgrade government aims.
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Bad Toelz
Germany
Nuernberg
Munich
Warsaw
Belgrade
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