River disaster off Woosung claims hundreds lives
Chinese river steamer Chekiang, carrying about 1,000 passengers, collided with a lighter near Woosung on the Yangtze and sank. Estimates of the dead range up to 400 with 600 or more survivors restored to Shanghai while authorities quell postcrash unrest and call for redress. The accident underscores chronic overload on Yangtze vessels.
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Shanghai
Woosung
Chekiang
Nantung
Yangtze Estuary
Yangtze River
Yangtze
Britain Seeks UN Action Over Albanian Mine Threat
The British government says it will tell the United Nations security council that mines were placed a mile off Albania’s coast in the last eight months. Two British destroyers hit mines in the Corfu Channel on October 22, killing 44, and London seeks an apology and compensation. Royal Navy mine sweepers began clearing the channel weeks later.
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New York
United Nations Security Council
Albania
Corfu
London
E. R. D. Sworden
The
Admiralty
Channel
Litteral And Bell To Die In Gas Chamber
Ralph V. Litteral of Winston-Salem and Marvin C. Bell of Roaring River were convicted of raping a 15 year old Elkin girl and sentenced to die in the state gas chamber March 15. The jury deliberated 15 minutes. The defense argued Litteral lacked right from wrong. the state showed judgment but below normal intelligence. No testimony from the defendants. Prosecution said the assault occurred four times on a ride from Elkin to Bristol, Tennessee, on August 23.
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Oath
Wilkesboro
Jan
Ralph Vernon Litteral
Winston-Salem
Marvin Claude Bell
Roaring River
Elkin
Litteral
Bristol
Tenn
Weather report of temperature and rainfall in cotton areas
Washington reports a weather bulletin giving temperatures and rainfall ending 8 p.m. across principal cotton areas and other stations. Readings include highs and lows at Knoxville Los Angeles Miami Minn St Paul New Orleans New York Norfolk Philadelphia Phoenix Portland Richmond St Louis San Francisco and others with varying rainfall amounts and trace amounts.
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Washington
Knoxville
Angeles
Miami
Minn
St. P
New Orleans
New York
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland
M. Richmond
St. Louis
San Fran
GOP Seek Savings in Army Navy Merger Plan
Washington January 18 Republicans vow to trim the 1948 defense outlay as they push a thorough review of army and navy spending under the proposed unification. House Appropriations Chair Taber says items will be questioned and savings shown, while Truman prepares unification legislation with White House and War and Navy Department representatives ready for committees.
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Washington
Truman
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
Army
Navy
White House
House
Senate
War and Navy Departments
Soviet Scientists Cross Rye With Wheat For Hardy Grain
Moscow radio says Soviet agronomist Oseledets at a Ukrainian institute crossbred rye with wheat to create a hardy soft winter wheat. After a decade of work, the new grain reportedly yields more than standard wheat, with 22.3 bushels per acre in trials where other Russian varieties struggled in cold regions.
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London
Moscow Radio
Oseledets
Ukrainian Research Institute
Bread rationing begins in Life with weekly quota
Dublin reports a weekly bread ration of six pounds or four and a half pounds of flour per person. The same era measures in Britain and Northern Ireland show four pounds 15 ounces weekly.
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Dublin
Britain
Northern Ireland
Curtain Falls On Last USO Show In Europe
The army announced that 221 performers, the final European theater group, will arrive in New York aboard a steamer Tuesday. The 14 touring companies led USO shows in Europe peak year 1945 drew 53,353,000 soldiers. camp shows will continue in the Pacific and at U S hospitals.
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Washington
Europe
New York
Pacific
Japs Germans Fight French in Indo China Line
In Saigon a foreign legion captain described Viet Minh guerrillas aided by Japanese and Germans resisting French rule. He said French forces would need 500000 troops to subdue the elusive resistance spreading from northern Indochina since December.
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Indo-China
Saigon
Foreign Legion
Indochina
Marshall to Take Over Tomorrow
General Marshall plans to fly to Washington from Hawaii tonight and be sworn in as secretary of state Monday at the White House. He will meet President Truman and discuss foreign policy, German peace terms, and staff choices with Byrnes recently departing.
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Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
M. E. Thompson
Thompson
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
PH. D. Thompson
Senate
Senate Chamber
Talemadge
Honolulu
Marshall
Washington
Los Angeles
Secretary of State-Designate
White House
Fort de Russy
China
George C. Marshall
Truman
Byrnes
State Department
CIO Unions in North Carolina Back 40 Cent Minimum Wage Plan
Leaders from all CIO unions in North Carolina adopt a 1947 program urging a state law establishing a 40 cents per hour minimum wage. The plan also seeks big wage hikes for teachers, nurse pay boosts, health programs, nurse trainee inducements, unemployment relief, farm aid, home ownership encouragement, sales tax elimination, and low rent housing, with focus on coordinating with CIO organizing drives in the South. George Baldanzi, assistant di...
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Durham
CIO
North Carolina
George Baldanzi
Inventory Control Set to End as March 2 Deadline Looms
Officials expect President Truman to permit inventory control to lapse on March 2 removing the government tool to curb hoarding of scarce goods. White House advisers consider omitting this curb from a wartime powers extension plan to Congress. The proposal may seek continued regulation of rubber tin scarce foods and other materials.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Congress
Civilian Production Administration
Husband Held In Strangulation Death Of Wife
In Wildwood New Jersey a 28 year old mother of four was strangled in an automobile on King Numny trail. Her husband Ernest H Corson Jr 29 Wildwood Villas drove the body to an undertaker Kenneth Matlack Cape May courthouse before police questioned him. Coroners report and further details were not included.
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Wildwood
N. J
John Killeen
Killeen
Kenneth Matlack
Cape May
Ernest H. Corson, Jr
West Bate Ave
Wildwood Villas
Eisenhower’s Hardest WW2 Decision Cherbourg Air Drop
General Dwight D. Eisenhower described ordering two airborne divisions to Cherbourg as his toughest wartime choice. The plan faced high casualty risk, with estimates from 75 to 90 percent, unless causeways from Utah Beach could be secured for port access. The confession came in a Chicago Daily News copyright feature via the Keen Teen editors.
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Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cherbourg
Chicago Daily News
Eisenhower
Keen
The
Daily News
France
Utah Beach
Mopfe
Compromise Sought On Portal Pay Claims In Senate Hearing
CIO general counsel Lee Pressman told a Senate judiciary subcommittee that portal pay suits exceeding 4 billion dollars are highly exaggerated and urged legislation to allow compromises. Senator Capehart opposed, warning authorization would cede control to unions. Pressman argued for settlement through collective bargaining rather than a broad unconstitutional ban.
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Washington
Lee Pressman
CIO
Portal
Capehart
R-Ind
Pressman
Admiral Byrd Camp Found Beneath Icy Antarctic Snow
Aboard the Mount Olympus at Bay of Whales the discovery party uncovered Admiral Byrd’s old Little America camp buried under about 20 feet of snow. The site will serve as an emergency base for next spring’s expedition, with tunnels damaged but many interiors intact.
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Adm
Byrd
Alton L. Blakeslee
U.S.S
Mount Olympus
Bay OF Whales
Little America
Discovery Party
Admiral Byrd
Antarctica
20 Per Cent Bill Is Lost Says Morris
Charlotte dispatch reports Rep. Harvey Morris of Mecklenburg denounces a 20 percent teachers’ salary raise as insufficient and vows to stay in Raleigh through September to block a minimal appropriation. He cites administration pressure and says voters back real aid to schools.
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Morris
Charlotte
Cherry
Harvey Morris
Mecklenburg
Raleigh
Convict Seeks 187750 Claim for Prison Labor
Des Moines report says George H. Gibson of Thayer, inmate at Fort Madison since 1926, filed with the state appeals board a claim for 187,750 alleging labor at the prison and seeking more than 9,000 dollars annually. He is serving a life term for the murder of a Union County deputy sheriff and contends involuntary servitude and wrongful imprisonment.
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Des Moines
State Appeals Board
George H. Gibson
Thayer
Fort Madison
G_son
Union County
Princess Elizabeth marriage favored in readers poll
The Sunday Pictorial reports 64 percent of thousands of letters from British readers support a marriage for Princess Elizabeth in its royal romance poll.
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London
The
Sunday Pictorial
Princess Elizabeth
Pipes Putin Ae Fagony
Buyers To Get Break in '47 Experts Say
CHICAGO January 18 Authorities in the home furnishings field say 1947 may be remembered as a buyers market after a sellers market. The two week mid winter international market closed with strong buyer interest yet selective purchases. The American Furniture Mart and Merchandise Mart reported record attendance as dealers eyed goods before buying and ignored poorer war born merchandise. Dealers anticipate 1947 to be the most competitive year in retailing with sales leveling off immediately. Roscoe Rau National Retail Furniture association urged retailers to clean house now of all unmatched stock.
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Chicago
American Furniture Mart
Merchandise Mart
Roscoe R. Rau
National Retail Furniture Association
Reaiers
One Killed In Mine Accident In Kentucky
One man was killed and eight others injured in eastern Kentucky coal mine accidents. Ted Belcher, 45, of Praise, died at Methodist hospital from back injuries after a state fall at the Praise operation of the Maroino Coal Co.
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Pikeville
Kentucky
Ted Belcher
Praise
Methodist
Maroino Coal Co
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