Repairmen Work to Clear Rail Station For Inaugural Travel Rush
Repair crews at Union Station continued efforts to clear wreckage from Thursday's collision as they rushed to ready the station for next week's inauguration travel rush. About 60 passengers were injured when a runaway Pennsylvania Railroad express plowed through the station.
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Washington
Union Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Senate Commerce Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Federal Express
Truman predicts eventual collapse of aggression
President Truman in a fare well address warned that Soviet aggression would collapse under the weight of free world defenses, foreseeing a new era of world authority and peace. He urged public support for his successor Eisenhower and defended open news conferences as essential to democracy.
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Truman
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Russia
Free World
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oval Office
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Texas
Louisiana
California
Budget allocations sent to North Carolina legislature
Allocation of funds for state institutions for the next two years is outlined by the Advisory Budget Commission. The figures show first-year and second-year appropriations alongside last fiscal year spending for UNC system campuses, state hospitals, teachers colleges, sanatoriums, and related institutions across North Carolina.
Wilmington Woman Faces Murder or Manslaughter Charge
The jury resumes deliberations in the murder case of Bertha Stevens 34 mother of two. Prosecutors seek a verdict of second degree murder or manslaughter after she claimed self defense against an insanely jealous lover and a married man was shot in her apartment. The Superior Court jury was unable to agree after about ninety minutes and retired for the night.
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Wilmington
Bertha Stevens
Superior Court
Textile executive Marshall Dill ing dies at 71
Gastonia resident Marshall Dill ing, 71, longtime fabric mill executive and former city councilman, died after a heart attack. His 50-year textile career began in 1893 with Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Co and later he served as superintendent at multiple mills. At retirement he was superintendent, director and secretary of A. M. Smyre Manufacturing Co. He entered hospital after a heart attack Tuesday.
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Marshall Dilling
Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Co
A. M. Smyre Manufacturing Co
Insurance salesman faces life term for wife murder in trailer
Zan der T. Duncan, 37, of Spring Lake, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his pregnant wife at their trailer home on August 14. Judge Leo Carr rejected a guilty plea to second degree murder amid defense claims of no premeditation and ruled Dun can's original plea remains. He had pleaded no contest to accessory before the fact of first degree murder.
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Llp
Zander T. Duncan
Spring Lake
Leo Carr
Carr
Duncan
Forest Fires in North Carolina Reach 63 Incidents
State Forester Fred H. Claridge reports December saw 63 forest and woodland fires across North Carolina. Losses totaled $7,835.92, burning 3,444 acres. Incendiary fires numbered 18. campers and hunters caused 16. brush burners 11. careless smokers 13.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Fred H. Claridge
Claridge
Hunter
1953 North Carolina license plates sales lag 1952
Raleigh report shows state tag sales through January 12 total 505,892, below 535,699 recorded last year. Deadline to use old plates is midnight January 31.
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Raleigh
State Motor Vehicles Department
Fisher Jr. Elected Head of Twelfth Judicial Bar
Louis J. Fisher Jr. of High Point was chosen president of the Twelfth Judicial District Bar Association during the Greensboro annual meeting. Wake Forest College’s Dr. Carroll Weathers spoke, with vice presidents J W Morgan Russell Van Landingham Beamon Barnes and J Settle Graham named. Judge Ed Stanley of Greensboro was secretary for the Guilford and Davidson County district.
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High Point
Twelfth Judicial District Bar Association
Greensboro
Carroll Weathers
Wake Forest College
Bliss
J. W. Morgan
Russell van Landingham
Thomasville
Beamon Barnes
Lexington
J. Settle Graham
Ed Stanley
Guilford
Davidson
Two decorated U S war vets jailed on espionage charges
Otto Werber and Kurt Pronger, both decorated former Army officers, were jailed in Washington on espionage charges for allegedly conspiring to deliver U S defense secrets to Russia via a Soviet embassy courier. They arrived from Vienna under heavy guard for arraignment. bonds were set at 50 000 each.
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Russia
Washington
Otto Verber
Kurt L. Pronger
Vienna
Thursay
Austria
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Werber
Europe
Pronger
New Yorker
Cyril S. Lawrence
District Court
Oran Waterman
Yuri V. Novikov
United States
Novikov
Red Army
Eighth Plotter Sought in West German Nazi Plot
In Bonn British security officials hunted a eighth follower of Adolf Hitler amid arrests of seven plotters linked to a plan to form a Nazi Reich with Communist aid. Dr Karl Bornemann, owner of an independent news service, evaded raids and his Duesseldorf office was searched. his wife said he left for an unknown destination.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
West Germany
Ivone Kirkpatrick
Reich
Karl Friedrich Bornemann
Bornemann
Duesseldorf
Delvescovo Faces Hurdles in Push for Veteran Bonus
Andrew Delvescovo of Amvets tours Capitol Hill seeking a sponsor for a state veteran bonus bill. He reports Sen. Ralph Scott will introduce it with revenue provisions. Speaker Bost quips about past opposition. Legislation faces a rough path amid county disputes and a Raleigh Legion stance against the measure. A separate measure retools the State Paroles Commission to a three-member board per Gov Umstead’s recommendation.
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Delvescove
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Alamance
W. Kerr Scott
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Ple
Clyde Shreve
Guilford
Shreve
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W. B. Rodman
Beaufort
House
State Paroles Commission
Rodman
Umstead
State Advisory Paroles Board
North Carolina budget requests 638 million for two years
The Advisory Budget Commission asked the General Assembly for a two year appropriation totaling 637 898 757 including 592 766 163 for operating state agencies schools and institutions and 45 132 594 for this fiscal year A 10 percent pay increase retroactive to July 1 for state employees and teachers is proposed along with several capital improvements and spending plans from highway and agriculture funds The report prepared under former Gov W Kerr Scott notes funds on hand will not cover essential needs and urges consideration of sales tax exemptions removal and bond issues for school and mental health facilities
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Medical Care Commission
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W. Kerr Scott
Umstead
U N Troops Repel Large Red Attack On Korean Front
United Nations defenders beat back a massive Communist assault on the central front near the Pukhan River. Allied artillery helped drive off a Chinese platoon on Capitol Hill and a Finger Ridge probe. Sabre jets and fighter-bombers hit railways bridges roads and gun positions as B 29s pounded a large Communist HQ and barracks near Huichon.
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Korea
Pukhan River
Capitol Hill
Finger Ridge
Sinanju
U.N
Pyongyang
Chansang
Huichon
Four-Year-Old Struck In Hit and Run Driver Identified
A four year old Negro boy was knocked 40 feet by a hit and run motorist on East Lee Street. Henry R. Williamson, 57, of 201 Harrison Street, was later charged with hit and run and reckless driving after a bus driver and officers identified him and he reportedly admitted driving. The child's injuries were being evaluated by doctors at 2 p.m.
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Harrison Street
Williamson
East Lee Street
Wilson Moore, Jr
Wilson Moore
East Lee
L. G. Myers
East Washington Street
Myers
Stocks Hover In Narrow Range On Quiet New York Trading
Stocks moved within a very narrow range in slow early trading in New York. A few cents moved the averages, with 300 000 shares exchanging hands in the first hour, while the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate rise and Truman offshore oil lands order had little market impact. Reliance Manufacturing stood out while Amerada Petroleum weakened and steel equities showed mixed moves. Bethlehem Steel gained slightly as U S Steel eased.
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Federal Reserve
Truman
Wall Street
Reliance Manufacturing
Amerada Petroleum
Bethlehem Steel
U.S. Steel
Weather outlook with mild temperatures and solar times
The forecast calls for a low of 40 tonight and a high of 45 tomorrow. Today's high reached 67 with a low of 45 last night. Sunset is 5 30 p m today and sunrise is 7 30 a m tomorrow.
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