Crisis Brews Over Georgia Pay Increase Politics
In Atlanta and Raleigh reporters describe a clash over a proposed raise for teachers and state workers. The Georgia Senate rejected a house amendment raising salaries 25 to 30 percent, while Gov.-elects Arnall and Talmadge vie for control of state offices with rival military departments and guard adjutants in a tense capitol scene.
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Georgia
Capital Committee
Senate
L. Y. Ballentine
Wade Barber
Chatham
Senate Appropriations Committee
Wade E. Brown
Watauga
Brown
Ballentine
Willie Lee Lumpkin
Franklin
Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Herman Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge
Talmadge
Arnall
Collins
Patterson
State Guard
National Guard
Griffith
Griffin
Benton Odom
United States
Richard B. Russell
Washington
Capitol
GOP Favors Continuing Wartime Excises on Liquor and Jewelry
Republican tax managers moved to extend indefinitely the wartime excise rates on liquor furs and jewelry to avoid a 1.5 billion dollar rollback set for July 1. They aim to keep high revenues and push a 20 percent cut in individual income taxes, arguing it could reduce debt and ease budgets.
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Washington
Truman
Knutson
R-Minn
House
Ways and Means Committee
Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
Truman To Host Bi partisan Big Six Talks At White House
President Truman will hold a bipartisan conference with the new congressional big six at the White House. Four Republican leaders join Democratic leaders Barkley and Rayburn for a 10 a m ET meeting to discuss cooperation on Capitol Hill and move beyond the former big four format.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Barkley
Rep
Rayburn
Tex
Senator Vandenberg
Senate
White
Martin
Mass
House
Halleck
Ind
Capitol Hill
Weather summary for the Carolinas with showers and mild temperatures
Cloudy in the Carolinas with light rain or drizzle, slightly warmer in the west under showers. North and South Carolina record mild highs with showers tonight. Charlotte notes official weather records with 24 hour temperature and rainfall ending at 8 am January 15.
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North
South Carolina
Charlotte
Weath
Two Men Arrested in War Assets Textile Fraud Case
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of George A Gormley and Louis V Dionne on fraud charges connected to a textiles scheme at a War Assets Administration sale in Alexandria Virginia. Hoover said $144000 worth of textiles were recovered.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
War Assets Administration
Hoover
George A. Gormley
Louis V. Dionne
WAA
Alexandria
State Capitol May Undergo Alterations
North Carolina lawmakers debate remodeling the ancient capitol as the Blalock committee keeps plans secret. An internal sketch circulated by a Raleigh paper sparked protests over potential wings and changes to the century old building.
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Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
North Carolina
Blalock Committee
America
Union Organizers Chased Out of Tennessee Town
In Bruceton Tennessee deputies are to guard the area after residents opposed a CIO drive to organize Henry I Siegel shirt factory. Women workers entered the plant under escort as two organizers from Birmingham and Knoxville were asked to leave town and went to Huntingdon for a meeting with union reps.
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Tennessee
Bruceton
Tenn
Hill Taylor
West Tennessee
CIO Union
Henry I. Siegel
Carroll County
L. D
Lewis
Ralph Page
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Eula McGill
Birmingham
Mary Morgan
Knoxville
Huntingdon
Girl Faces Defendants In Rape Case
Fifteen year old Pegsy Shore will testify as the state’s star witness in the Wilkes superior court trial of Ralph Vernon Litteral and Marvin Claude Bell who face life terms on rape charges. Jury selection from Caldwell county residents took the entire day with 94 summoned and an emergency 13th juror added. More than twenty witnesses including two FBI agents will be called. the state contends Shore was kidnapped from Elkin and assaulted on a trip ending in Tennessee.
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North Wilkesboro
Pegsy Shore
Ralph Vernon Litteral
Marvin Claude Bell
Wilkes Superior Court
Miss Shore
Caldwell County
FBI
Littoral
Bell
Avalon E. Hall
Surry County
Elkin
Tennessee
Many Salisbury landlords fail to register rental units
In Salisbury area counties Davidson Iredell and Rowan many landlords have not registered rental units though the deadline passed. Rent director Charles D. Davis says delinquent registrants may avoid criminal action and that the Arcade building office offers registration help. Any first time rentals since November 1 1946 must register within 30 days. Overcharges since July 1 1945 may lead to treble damages or at least 50 dollars. tenants may sue or the government may act for treasury recovery.
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Salisbury
Davidson
Iredell
Rowan
Charles D. Davis
Salisbury Area
Davis
United States
Poland Says It Will Run Sunday Elections Its Own Way
Warsaw reports the communist led provisional government told the United States it will conduct Sunday's parliamentary elections independently despite Western criticism. The note rejects charges of coercion and declares polling a matter for the Polish people, with opposition claims of terror and biased conduct.
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Poland
Warsaw
United States
Britain
America
U. S
Arthur Bliss Lane
Foreign Ministry
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Polish Peasant Party
Potsdam
Yalta
Rnment
Jons
Dam
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
London
Mikolajczyk
Boleslaw Bierut
Portal Pay Suits Endanger Tax Cuts, Capehart Warns
Senator Capehart told a Senate judiciary subcommittee that portal-to-portal pay suits threaten federal revenues and raise costs, delaying tax cuts until a remedy is found. He cited more than 4 billion dollars in claims and urged immediate congressional action to curb current and future suits.
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Washington
Capehart
R-Ind
Treasury
Indiana
Senate Judiciary
Senator Wiley
Rwis
Congress
Search Resumed For Plane Lost In Mountains
Greenville, Jan 15. Air and ground searchers resumed efforts to locate an army plane missing for three years in the mountains of western North Carolina. Two L-5 aircraft and a 32 man ground party based at Sylva, N C, will scour the area where wreckage fragments were found by hunters last year.
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Greenville
S. C
North Carolina
Greenville Army Air Base
Sylva
N. C
Negro Attacks Grandmother in North Carolina
Alfred Smith, 20, jailed in Harnett County on a charge of assaulting his 101 year old grandmother. Officers quote the woman saying the attack followed her refusal to prepare supper for him.
Ten Easy Lessons For Freshman Lawmakers From Thad Eure
Raleigh January 15 Thad Eure secretary of state launched a series of lessons for new members of the 1947 general assembly to help them handle bill preparation introduction floor presentation committee routing and amendments Eure based the idea on his own rough first year in Hertford County in 1929 saying he learned the process only after time.
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Raleigh
N. C
General Assembly
Thad Eure
Eure
Hertford County
Italians Weigh Scuttling Fleet Over Surrender
Italian naval veterans debate scuttling ships instead of surrender to the victors under a peace treaty. Allied plans reportedly anticipate France and Soviet Union among beneficiaries, with Italy facing heavy losses of capital ships and submarines while crews push for scrapping under secrecy.
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Italy
Frank O'Brien
Associated Press
Rome
France
Soviet
Russia
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
Ernesto Giulianti
New York
O’brien
Gover
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Clemire Norris
Iron Heads
England
J. E. Evans
The
Daily Herald
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Labor
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