Hotel men urged to back North Carolina publicity push
The North Carolina Hotel Association will meet at the Sedgefield Inn while urging broad support for the state advertising and publicity program. Bill Sharpe leads the effort, facing a possible $50,000 budget increase. The piece endorses stronger funding and notes Rep W. O. Burgin’s retirement opens a race in the eighth district, featuring Bill Horner as a possible candidate.
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North Carolina Hotel Association
Sedgefield Inn
North Carolina
Aces
Bill Sharpe
Sharpe
Cherry
Council of State
W. O. Burgin
Lexington
Congress
Eighth
W. E. Horner
Sanford
Legisla
Royall undersecretary of war criticized as governor candidate
The piece questions Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royall as a future North Carolina governor. It notes his speeches defend the army caste and court martial systems, calling his campaign methods peculiar and implying they harm his political prospects.
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Kenneth Royall
Royall
North Carolina
Postwar Washington mice crisis prompts odd disposal plan
The article lampoons the Chemical Warfare Service postwar surplus of 150,000 white mice. It notes Congress laws governed disposal of surplus property and mocks wartime science ethics, describing a frantic effort to separate mice by age and ship teens to the South Pacific for experiments, all amid bureaucratic red tape.
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Washington
Chemical Warfare Service
CWS
Army and Navy Bulletin
Congress
South Pacific
Waterspout Could Make Depth Bombs, Says Atomic Leader
Dr W A Higginbotham chairman of the Federation of Atomic Scientists and colleagues warn underwater atomic tests dubbed Operations Waterspout may produce a waterspout stronger than any prior weapon It could act like a depth bomb multiplied many times threatening to render navies obsolete if confirmed by further study
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CWS
W. A. Higginbotham
Federation of Atomic Scientists
Jersey cattle talk and local politics mix at Gastonia meeting
At the North Carolina Jersey Breeders winter meeting in Gastonia, dairymen discuss milk production and Jersey versus Guernsey competition while political notes loom. Peyton McSwain’s plans shift to 1948, with party strategy in the Eleventh District as Gaston and Shelby residents watch state leaders like Cherry and Gardner.
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North Carolina Jersey Breeders Association
Gastonia
Helby
North Carolina
Jersey
Guernsey
Gastonia-Shelby
Peyton McSwain
Bulwinkle
Congress
Gaston
Gregg Cherry
Cleveland
Max Gardner
Gardner
Shelby
the Treasury
Local political calm with few contests in the region
Lynn Nisbet notes scant opposition in Gaston and Cleveland races with Grady Rankin set for state senate and Lee Weathers facing no serious challenge. There is desire to avoid intra party battles, while county offices show similar quiet, with underground talk of future big moves. Solicitor positions spark interest across districts Gaston Mecklenburg and Cleveland Lincoln Catawba Burke as leaders discuss possible changes.
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Grady Rankin
State Senate
Gaston
Lee Weathers
Cleveland
Sheriff Down
Superior Court
Gaston-Mecklenburg
Basil Whitener
Cleveland-Lincoln-Catawba-Burke
Folger Townsend
M. T. Leatherman
Lincoln
Morality and espionage in the atomic age debate
The piece condemns rationalizing theft and espionage for national gain. It cites Joseph Davies in Havana arguing Russia has a right to seek atomic secrets, contrasting with a view that theft is always wrong. It links such views to Capone era criminal ethics and stresses that theft breaches moral law regardless of scale.
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Joseph FE. Davies
Moscow
Stalin
Havana
Russia
Capone
Dillinger
Schultz
Davies
Morality in War and Russian Actions Questioned
The author condemns wartime moral compromises and condemns theft and espionage by Russia. Privileges of civilized conduct, the value of human dignity, and the rejection of subhuman treatment are stressed. The piece argues against defending theft as state policy and calls for principled resistance to totalitarianism.
Florida's postwar spending spree at Miami winter playland
BEHIND THE NEWS MIAMI notes a surge of wartime savings and black market cash fueling lavish spending in Florida. At Hialeah Race Track bettors average nearly 1.4 million dollars daily as crowds of 20 000 to 30 000 flood the area. Downtown hotel rooms cost high rates while trailers and jalopies fill the highways as tensions rise over inflation and the future postwar economy.
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Miami
Hialeah
Florida
France
United States
Steel
General Motors
Facing a 1929-like outlook amid today’s cash spending
Paul Mallon compares current buying frenzy to 1929, noting cash purchases instead of debt. He questions whether wage gains and strike-driven production delays will sustain any coming boom and if higher prices will curb the postwar spending surge. He wonders if people have enough money for essential needs.
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W Cts
Washington
Regulation W Debate Follows Truman Leadership Strain
The text outlines a heated national dispute over permanent Regulation W restricting consumer credit, pitting federal reserve supporters against retail, labor, and veterans groups. It details down payment and amortization rules, potential impacts on veterans and housing, and proposed cabinet reshuffles involving Wallace Snyder and Justice Douglas as possible solutions.
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LID
Federal Reserve System
Truman
Harold L. Ickes
White House
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce Department
Interior
John W. Snyder
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Douglas
Wallace
Murray-Hillman Cloers
Snyder
Mr. Wallace
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