Tragic Bobsled Crash Kills 10 Youths Near Ohio Town
At 11 30 p m a New York Central Chicagoan train struck a tractor drawn bobsled carrying children from three neighboring farms. Ten youths died and several others were injured. the sled was scattered for a mile east of Archbold Ohio. Coroner H M Warne identified the victims and stated the train traveled about 80 mph.
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Archboiw, O
Jesse Wyse
New York Central
Wyse
John
Ohio
Chicago
Shirley
Wauseon
D. O. Scherer
Toledo
R. L. Snook
Elkhart
Ind
Janice Wyse
Janice
Weather Report North Carolina Cold and Windy With Warm Patches
Continued cool conditions prevail across North Carolina with partly windy skies. Tonight should be fair and warmer. The report includes official temperature and rainfall figures for January 5, listing highs and lows across multiple cities such as Charlotte Memphis New York Atlanta and more.
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Carolina
New Look In Furniture Appears At Chicago Show
Wholesale buyers from across the country inspect the 1948 furniture and appliances line at Chicago as the home furnishings market opens a 13 day display. Despite shortages and price rises, officials project a record 1.6 billion dollar order volume at manufacturer prices.
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Chicago
Merchandise Mart
American Furniture Mart
Lawrence H. Whiting
Roscoe R. Rau
National Retailrniture Association
Wallace O. Ollman
Smart
Death of UNC teacher found near Hamlet tracks
Sheriff investigation continues into the death of Curtis L. Butler Jr. 23 of Kelford a UNC French instructor who died from brain concussion after being found between Seaboard Air Line tracks at Hamlet station. Tickets from Atlanta to Raleigh and Raleigh to Chapel Hill were in his possession. Butler likely returning to Chapel Hill after visiting Atlanta. He was a UNC graduate last June and survived by his parents and two brothers.
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Hamlet
Jan
Carl H. Holland
University of North Carolina
Seaboard Airline Railroad
Curtis L. Butler, Jr
Kelford
W. D. James, Jr
Holland
Atlanta
Raleigh
iChapel Hill
Richmond County
Butler
University At
Chapel Hill
Curtis L Butler
North Carolina
Kenneth
Julian
UN Interim Committee Begins Task
Delegates to the United Nations interim committee gather to begin year round sittings as a peace keeping body amid warnings of grave consequences from Russia. US hopes Soviet bloc may join. several nations boycott and council sessions on India Pakistan Kashmir and Indonesia loom. The Little Assembly formed after Russia vetoes in the Security Council, with nine members and no veto.
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Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Russia
Ukraine
U. S
Warren R. Austin
Soviet Bloc
Marshall
Little Assembly
The
General Assembly
Security Council
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
Trieste
Italy
Free Territory
Securi Council
Argentina
Canada
Council
Brazil
Australia
U.N. Palestine Commission
Denmark
Panama
Bolivia
Philipines
U.N
Trusteeship Council
Special Balkan Committee
Korea
Tojo Insists U S Threat Felt, Japan Fought in Self Defense
Hideki Tojo told the war crimes court that Vichy France and the occupying government were legitimate governments of France and Japan respectively. He asserted the United States pressurized Japan with large fleet concentrations in Hawaii and argued peace might have been possible if the U S had truly sought reciprocal approaches in 1941.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
France
International Court Today
Vichy
Joseph B. Keenan
French Indochina
Keenan
Tojo
Hitler
United States
Hawaii
Pacific
Nippon
Meat ration plan sparks Senate clash over price controls
In Washington on January 5 senators attacked meat rationing plans. Senator Wherry warned rationing without price ceilings would stifle production, while Senator O'Daniel labeled rationing communistic. Senator Flanders plans a bill to authorize preps under Agriculture, with a later shift to actual rationing if enacted.
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Washington
Senator Wherry
Ine iVeurasahan
Flanders
R-Vt
Agriculture Department
Congress
Anderson
Charles F. Brennan
Wherry
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
O’daniel
D-Tex
Graham Claims He Lost His Socks In Grain Deal
Senate records show Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham personal physician to President Truman faced a subpoena over grain trading. The subcommittee reviewed Graham and Edwin W. Pauley books, with FBI inquiries disclosed and Graham claiming he lost his socks amid explains of his broker’s investment decisions.
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Graham
Washington
Senate
Wallace H. Graham
Truman
Edward F. McGinnis
Sarah B. Herschel
Bache and Company
New York
McGinnis
Senate Appropriations
Kimball Sanborn
Earl W. Cooper
Capitol
Knowland
Calif
Ferguson
R-Mich
Edwin W. Pauley
Agriculture Department
Gra‘ham
FBI
Bacher and Company
Justice Department
Pauley
August H. Andresen
R-Minn
House
Andresen
Price Slash On Fuel Oil Its Sought
Senator Flanders urges a meaningful cut in fuel oil prices as the Senate small business subcommittee opens a twofold inquiry into American oil exports to Canada amid shortages and oil needs of foreign aid programs. Witnesses include Lovett Bruce Vogel Wilson Ball and other officials.
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Washington
Flanders
R-Vt
Senate
Canada
Robert A. Lovett
David E. K. Bruce
Secetary of Commerce
Col
G. N. Vogel
Ralph E. Wilson
Army-Navy Petroleum Board
Max Ball
Dairies Seek Expansion at North Carolina Convention
Raleigh January 5 North Carolina Dairy Products Association plans its 14th annual convention January 15 16 under the theme healthy wealthy and wise NC dairy industry growth from 68 million to 200 million. Governor Cherry will open. panel features editors Ram sey Resch Gold Dinkins Hilton and others with Dr Clyde Elwin and A J Claxton among speakers.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
North Carolina Dairy Products Association
L. L. Ray
Association
Clarence Poe
Edtor
The
Progressive Farmer
D. Hiden Ramsey
Asheville
J. M. Broughton
A.J. Claxton
Pittsburgh, Penn
Meadow Gold Dairies
Connally backs Marshall plan under State control
Sen. Connally warns that removing execution of the Marshall plan from the secretary of state would provoke Moscow to claim victory and mobilize propaganda. He notes Republican calls for a separate agency and cites Eaton doubts on constitutionality while seeking a congressional compromise on plan control.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Congress
Marshall
Moscow
Truman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Russia
Texas
Soviet Union
Secretary of State
Rep. Herter
R-Mass
House
Eaton
RN. J
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Herter
New Jersey
Mr. Truman
Guerrillas May Renew Greek Fight Near Konitsa
Reports from Athens say Greek guerrillas may launch a new offensive in northwestern Greece. Reconnaissance planes spotted troop movements near Philiates, about 38 miles southwest of Konitsa, close to the Albanian frontier. A guerrilla artillery battery near the frontier harassed engineers rebuilding the Bourozana bridge after destruction in retreat. Queen Frederika arrives at Ioannina to extend King Paul and soldiers good wishes.
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Athens
Greece
Philiates
Konitsa
Bourozana
Frederika
Ioannina
Paul
Marines Sail From Morehead City for Mediterranean Duty
An undetermined number of United States Marines from the Second Marine Division boarded two ships at Morehead City to clear the port by 2 p m for duty in the Mediterranean. The units from Camp Lejeune previously fought in Guadacanal Tarawa and the Marianas and will serve on the Midway and three cruisers Portsmouth Providence and Little Rock with about 250 Marines aboard.
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Bernhard Bieri
Morehead City
Midway
Naples
Italy
United States
Mediterranean
Second Marine Division
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Marianas
Navy
Portsmouth
Genoa
Leghorn
Little Rock
Piraeus
Greece
80th Congress Opens Final Session in Washington
The 80th Congress meets in its final session facing issues on Europe and Asia aid, inflation, rent control, housing, military readiness, and health insurance amid expected political maneuvering. Republicans seek early tax cuts while President Truman plans a state of the union message and budget mention.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Europe
Asia
White House
Franklin Roosevelt
Thiiers
Senate Republican Police Committee
House Republican Steering Committee
Truman
Senate
House
Martin
New United Labor Political Committee Faces Challenge
Greensboro January report notes United Labor Political Committee formed in Salisbury to back labor friendly candidates. Donald Sherrill, candidate for North Carolina commissioner of labor, challenges the bloc citing support for anti closed shop and Taft Hartley era legislation. He cites 1947 assembly and federal law as basis for his opposition.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
New
United Labor Political Committee
Salisbury
Friends of Labor
Donald ~. Sherrill
Madison Avenue
Sherrill
Go Eally
Raleigh
Coming Russian Terror Excerpt Warns of Swift European Conquest
Editor's Note from Stanislaw Mikolajczyk portrays Europe conquered in hours with England paralyzed by push button war and the United States isolated. He cites rockets, Soviet mastery, and a plan to hold the continent while America debates peace and rebuilds forces. More on Page Three.
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Europe
England
United States
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
France
Italy
Red Army
Continent
Russia
Warsaw
Germany
America
Ireland
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Indianapolis
Mildred Stevenson
Lattle Beach
Los Angeles
Memphis
Aliguota
Charketon
Boston
AFL
Dairies
Sen. Connally
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