State Plans 93 Million Highway Network Investment
North Carolina moves to spend 93 million dollars on safe and secondary highways with federal aid. full funding not in hand until July 1949. Officials say money buys little with rising costs and wartime constraints, with 30 percent of main highways and substantial portions of secondary roads needing improvement. County roads are the priority, weather delays persist, and a broader interregional 736 mile program is planned.
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Ralph L. Howland
Carolina
Hoey
Broughton
Cherry
Madrid's luxury masks Spain's broader economic strain
In Madrid, diners find abundant foods and luxury options, yet beef is scarce in the markets and overall life shows uneven recovery. The impression of abundance contrasts with persistent shortages and economic unevenness, highlighting postwar pressures beyond surface prosperity.
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Madrid
Spain
America
Two Month Old Child to Start On 8000 Mile Trip
An eight week old girl Cherylene Helen Robinson and her Australian mother prepare for an 8000 mile air journey to the United States for treatment after doctors warned the fontanelle at the crown may fail to close and prove fatal within 60 days without American specialists. The trip from Perth to San Francisco was authorized by Washington following notification from Rear Admiral Van Hook, commander of U S naval forces in Australia.
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Brisbane
Austrais
Cherylene Helen Robinson
Kansas
United States
Cherylene
Perth
San Francisco
Washington
Adm
CC. FE. van Hook
Australia
America
May Revamp Highway Commission
North Carolina observers warn that rivalries within the Highway Commission threaten unified state road policy. Bureaucratic divisions grant autonomy to ten division commissioners, risking uneven maintenance and planning despite overall harmony with Governor Cherry.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Highway Administration
North Carolina
Cherry
Highway Commission
New Clashes In Java Cost Three Lives
The British reported in Batavia that clashes between Indonesian nationalists and British forces in the Soerabaja sector on the east Java coast yesterday left three British dead and 21 wounded. Artillery and mortars were used. seven Indians were wounded when two vehicles struck.
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Batavia
Soerabaja
East Java
New Low Daily Averages Hit Tobacco Markets
New low daily averages were reported on both old and middle belt flue cured tobaccos as the selling season neared its close. Durham posted a season low of 34.25 for 132 544 pounds sold, while the season average at Durham totaled 43.63 for 155 827 037 pounds. Seven remaining markets in the old belt set a new low of 37.65. Most grades and non descript tobaccos eased 1 to 3.50, with fluctuations up to 5. orange cutters gained 1 and most lugs rose 1 to 4. Sales were light.
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Raleigh
Middle Belt
Durham
Old Belt
Smoki
Seven Slain In Political Strife In Greece
In Athens on January 17 seven people were killed in political strife across southern Greece and Astakos in the west. An armed band shot the head of a monarchist group, his six year old son, and two others after pulling them from a bus near Sparta. In Astakos three brothers and a communist executioner were reported killed by relatives of those executed in December civil strife.
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Athens
Astakos
Greece
Ministry of the Order
Sparta
Jap War Crimes Trials Start for Tokyo Raiders
Shanghai report states key Japanese accused of complicity in a mock court martial and execution of three Doolittle raid fliers have been captured for war crimes trials. Prosecution, led by Hendren and Dwyer, expected to begin before month end. others to be brought from Tokyo.
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Shanghai
James A. Doolittle
Tokyo
Tatsuta Satojiro
Shan
Robert T. Dwyer
Rochester
N. Y
Hendren
Dwyer
Doolittle
China
Dean E. Hallmark
Dallas
William G. Farrow
Darlington
S. C
Harold A. Spatz
Leopold
Snow and Ice Paralyze Carolinas Travel and Schedules
A wintry blanket covers the Carolinas as snow and ice disrupt bus and air services across both states. The Piedmont sees clearing skies while eastern areas report ongoing snow and sleet with subfreezing lows. Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia and Charleston report traces of snow at 7:30 am. Raleigh and Wilmington log four inches in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Piedmont
Carolinas
South Carolina
Greenville
Spartanburg
Columbia
Charleston
North Carolina
Raleigh
Wilmington
Mid-Pacific Commander Orders Court Martial for Demobilization Agitation
Honolulu January 17 Lt Gen Robert C Richard son Jr ordered court martial for any soldier or officer in his mid Pacific command who continues agitation on the demobilization program. Three enlisted men are confined awaiting investigation as Wilson Gaddis public relations officer said no charges have been placed yet. Two had actively demonstrated against demobilization slow down following General Eisenhower's explanation Tuesday.
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Honolulu
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
mid-Pacific
Inves Cor
Wilson Gaddis
Eisenhower
Milk Prices May Be Upped Three Cents
Government hearings will examine raising producer prices for fluid milk by two cents a quart in spring and summer and three cents in winter. Hearings start in New York, then Boston, with sessions planned in other large cities under federal milk marketing orders. The moves tie to ending a $525 million dairy subsidy program by June 30 and align with industry requests to offset losses from subsidy termination.
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Washington
Jen
New York
Boston
Agriculture Department
Anderson
John C. Collet
Congress Seeks Milion-Man Army Reduction Plan
A congressional push favors a postwar army of about 1,000,000 by July, opposed by General Eisenhower who warned against dropping below 1.5 million. The Senate demobilization panel presses for details, while naval committee reviews scrapped ships and possible substitutes. The labor panel debates extending federal control of the U S Employment Service into 1947 as Truman fights to veto state control.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Capitol
Senate Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
War Department
Congress
Army
Navy
House Naval Committee
W. Sterling Cole
House Labor Committee
Truman
U. S. Employment Service
High Point Workers Win Unemployment Benefits
More than 400 workers from 13 High Point hosiery mills will receive unemployment compensation averaging $15 a week after a boarder strike. The UCC ruled benefits apply to workers outside the boarding department, finding boarders alone caused the shutdown of dyeing and finishing. The boarders’ union is federally recognized as bargaining for boarders, while other departments remain inactive.
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Raleigh
High Point Hosiery
UCC
Boarders’ Union
Commission
Wages Of Crime
A Portland woman reported a man offered to hold her heavy shopping bag while she waited for a bus then fled with it. She was en route to a relative's farm to bury a dead dog she carried in the bag.
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Portland
Ore
Bevin Signals Turn Toward UN Trusteeships for Mandates
British Foreign Secretary Bevin said Britain has begun preliminary talks to convert Tanganyika Togoland and the Cameroons from mandates into United Nations trusteeships. Palestine and Trans Jordan were discussed with caveats. He urged UN action on global economic and social development as crucial to peace.
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London
Ernest Bevin
United Nations Today
Great Britain
United Nations
Bevin
General Assembly
Tanganyika
Togoland
Cameroons
Palestine
Trans- Jordan
United States
Pacific
Economic and Social Council
Assembly
Security Council
Homma Charged With Issuing Death Warrant
Lt Gen Masaharu Homma was charged with direct responsibility for the death of former Philippines chief justice Jose Abad Santos. Salvador Abad Santos testified a puppet president Jose Laurel informed him the warrant was signed and clemency was refused.
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Manila
Masaharu Homma
Jose Abad Santos
Philippines Supreme Court
Salvador Abad Santos
Homma
Jose P. Laurel
Philippines
France Demands Death for Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trials
France called for death sentences for the 22 Nazi leaders and for guilty verdicts against the terror organizations as the Nuremberg trials proceed. Chief French prosecutor Francois de Menthon urged swift, definitive justice to deter barbarism and aid Europe’s reassembly. England and the United States presented their cases, with Russian prosecutors to follow.
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Mernberg
France
Francois de Menthon
Hermann Goering
International Military Tribunal
de Menthon
Osciewin
Europe
Denmark
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxem
Rudolf Hess
Frank von Papen
Meat Workers Strike Shapes U.S. Food Supply Tension
President Truman gave CIO leader Philip Murray and U. S. Steel head William Leigh Maitland Fairless a final window to end the wage deadlock over the meat packing strike. Government mediators pressed unions and management as meat supplies dwindled and markets warned of shortages within days.
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AP Wice
Truman
Cio Dent Philip Murray
Min Fairless
U. S. Steelhead
Schwellen
Washington
CLO
Ers
Labor Department
AFL
CIO Uni
CIO
Earl W. Jimerson
UN seeks sites for temporary and permanent UN HQ
A seven man committee plans to select locations for temporary accommodations and a permanent international city for the United Nations. They favor Atlantic City and White Plains but have not decided. Two to four sites near Boston may be recommended. Bevin says the yearly UN cost to other countries will be less than UK wartime spending.
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Boston
Tempo
United Nations
E Stoyan Gravilovic
Slavia
Cotec
Atlantic City
N. J
White Plains
N. Y
Gravilovic
General Assembly
United States
Sucha
London
Ernest Bevin
UNO General Assembly
United Trans Organization
United Kingdom
Bevin
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