Theater And Warehouse Destroyed In Henderson Fire
Fire destroyed the Vance theater and a High Price tobacco warehouse in Henderson early today, forcing 125 guests from the Vance hotel with light damage to the building. An explosion followed a investigation of sputtering wires, engulfing parts of the 50 000 square foot warehouse and igniting rear hotel windows. No one was hurt. damage estimated at about 300 dollars.
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Vance Theater
High Price
Vance Hotel
C. J. Flemin
C. J. Brady
Cooper Ellis
Blackburn Dress Shop
Henderson Daily Dispatch
Ives Proposes Joint Committee On Labor Legislation
Sen Ives of New York urged a joint house senate committee to hold separate private conferences with union and management leaders before labor bills move forward. He said such a panel could bridge gaps between factions and help craft workable policy, drawing on his experience as former dean of Cornell New York College of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Senate
Congress
New York
Senate Labor Committee
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Labor Committee
Taft
Ohio
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
Willaim Green
GOP
Repubenea Tn
Cornell University
New York College of Industrial and Labor Relations
New York State Assembly
Breeze Is Questioned In Hillsboro Robbery Case
Sheriff S T Latta said he was questioning John Henry Breeze, a 30 year old Negro mill worker from near Hillsboro, in connection with the beating and robbery of a 75 year old white woman found unconscious by neighbor Miss Lettie McDade who extinguished a fire and alerted authorities.
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S. T. Latta
John Henry Breeze
Lettie McDade
Russians to Evacuate Dairen by March 12
Report from Peiping says Russia plans complete evacuation of Dairen before March 12. Foreign Minister Wang Shih Chieh to Mukden for talks with Russians on takeover. Hsin Min Po notes Soviet materials moving from Dairen to Port Arthur and Vladivostok. Soviet troops withdrawn from Lisuhutun northeast of Dairen.
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Wang Shih- Chieh
Mukden
Hsin Min Po
Port Arthur
Vladivostok
Lisuhutun
Weather summary for North Carolina and major cities
Official weather records show temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 30 a m. Feb 22 with readings across cities including Charlotte 44 and 23 inches. Other stations report varied temperatures and rainfall amounts such as New Orleans 55 35 .09 and Detroit 23 13 .00.
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Weather Bureau
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Detroit
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Jacksonville
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Miami
Mobile
Mt Mitchell
New York
Gen Ketonto
Freezing Winds and Snowstorm Kill 45 Across East Coast
A severe blizzard battered the eastern seaboard with record 27 inch drifts in Virginia and widespread travel disruptions. The storm claimed at least 45 lives across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, with New York and Philadelphia noting emergency conditions.
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Mass
Edward Lamier
12 Are Hurt In Explosion In Utica
Utica New York February 22 A blast destroyed a two story knitting machinery plant and two nearby buildings injuring at least 12 people. One man is listed missing Fire Chief Leo R Barry suspects a gas line break under the plant caused the explosion.
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Oove
Leo R. Barry
Three Mt Suribachi Heroes Scattered Across Nation
Three survivors of the Mount Suribachi flag raising are widely scattered across the United States. John Bradley, 29, is a licensed embalmer in Milwaukee Wisconsin Ira H Hayes 24, a Pima Indian, works on his parents farm on Bardale Arizona Rene Gagnon works in a Manchester New Hampshire cotton mill. Three others who appeared in the famous Rosenthal photograph later died in action.
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Mount Suribachi
Iwo Jima
Joe Rosenthal
Associated Press
John Bradley
Nilwaukee
Wis
Ira H. Hayes
Dian
Bardale
Ariz
Rene Gagnon
Manchester
N. H
Rosenthal
San Francisco Chronical
Lilienthal Backers Confident Amid Taft Attack
Supporters of David E. Lilienthal for the atomic energy commission chairman expressed confidence he will win despite Senator Taft labeling him a power hungry bureaucrat and soft on communism. Democratic Senators Taylor and Chavez backed Lilienthal, with Einstein also supporting him.
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David E. Lilienthal
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Lilienthal
Soviet Russia
McMahon
D-Conn
TVA
Republican Policy Committee
Taylor
Idaho
Chavez
New Mexico
McKellar
D-Tenn
Albert Einstein
Nce
America Cuts Off Narcotics To Cubans
Cuban secret police seek leads on Charles Lucky Luciano amid U S narcotics cutoff to Cuba. Interior Minister Alfredo Reque no orders to locate how the deported V Ice boss entered Cuba and his activities at Havana race tracks. Anslinger in Washington ordered the ban on narcotics shipments to Cuba.
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Charles “Lucky” Luciano
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United States
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Benito Herrera
U. S
Italy
Washington
Harry J. Anslinger
Three Die In Auto Pileup On San Francisco Bay Bridge
Six cars crashed in a Bay Bridge pileup early today in San Francisco killing three people and injuring five. A sixth person was hurt when a following car rammed the vehicle ahead, causing a fire and additional injuries.
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Pacific Plea To Be Aired Wednesday
United Nations Security Council to consider America’s request for a UN strategic trusteeship over Japan’s mandated Pacific islands including the Marshalls Carolines and Marianas. The United States would administer and fortify the archipelagoes, citing strategic security.
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United Nations Security Council
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Pacific
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Carolines
Marianas
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Security Council
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Russia
France
Trieste
Henri Guisan
Switzerland
Leif Egeland
Netherlands
Eeeit Ok Colealde Aa Onser
Iombia
Gengt Gustafsson Nordenskjold
Alfred Emil Frederick Sandstrom
Sweden
Sugar Ration Increase Sets Per Capita At Ninety Pounds
United States accepts 1947 division of world sugar supply raising per capita refined sugar to about 90 pounds this year. Allocation totals 6 800 000 short tons linked to 14 986 000 tons world export supply. Consumption higher than prewar levels, with ration stamps and various products delivering most of the increase.
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United States
International Emergency Food Control
Taft Compromise Faces Senate Opposition in Debt Debate
Washington February 22 Advocates for applying 3 billion dollars of savings to the federal debt clashed with Taft who backs a 2 billion debt retirement pledge in any Senate resolution on trimming Truman's 37.5 billion dollar spending. Knowland stays noncommittal as Green seeks to divert surplus to debt with tax cut fights looming.
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Pate Ledge
Vicar Critiques Hollywood Portrayals in Anglian Church
The Rev. Brian Hessian, a Church of England vicar from Ayles, condemned Hollywood depictions of Anglican leaders as buffoonish and urged establishing a liaison office akin to Roman Catholics. He warned such mass portrayals harm the church’s image.
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Ayles
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Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
New Camera Delivers Finished Picture In One Minute
Edwin H. Land of Boston unveils a portable camera that outputs a fully finished print in a minute after exposure. Demonstrations show a dry print with no processing tanks, enabling instant retakes and on-site comparison.
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Optical Society of America
Edwin H. Land
Boston
Land
Optical Society
Raphy
Piedmont Plan To Be Revived In Raleigh Meeting
R L Fritz Jr of Hudson leads renewed push for the South Piedmont plan to raise teacher pay after a legislative bill was killed by the appropriations committee. A Thursday Raleigh meeting will include the statewide steering committee and classroom teachers.
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R. L. Fritz, Jr
Hudson
Charlotte News Today
Raleigh
Joint Appropriations Committee
Fritz
State Solons Come Through Busy Week
Raleigh report: the legislature made progress this week as committees and public hearings ran long. The House approved by a strong majority a measure to separate the department of game and land fisheries from the department of conservation and development and sent it to the Senate.
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Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Department of Conservation and Development
Senate
North Carolina lawmakers hold short session with large cooperative hearing
Raleigh February 22 The senate passed two local bills and the house seven today in a brief Saturday session with 14 legislators present. About 3 000 farmers cooperative members and retail merchants filled Memorial auditorium for a major hearing on a bill to tax cooperatives. Finance committee members will act next week. A stormy debate occurred over a closed shop mill measure banning contracts that require union membership.
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Senate
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Memorial Auditorium
North Carolina
Finance Committee
Six Die in Mo. House Fire. Father Critical
Mrs. Betty Graham and five children perished in a blaze at their Nevada Missouri home early today. Charles Graham, the husband, was severely burned and listed in critical condition as firefighters reported the six victims burned beyond recognition.
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Navada
Betty Graham
Charles Graham
Ickes Proposes Price Rationing of Newspaper Ads
Former cabinet member Harold L. Ickes urged rationing by price to curb newsprint shortages. He spoke at the Georgia Press Institute urging lower display ad rates and trimming comic strips to save space while stressing readers must still get the news.
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Ickes
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