CIO split over Henry Wallace third party bid
The CIO executive board voted 33 to 11 to reject Henry Wallace entry into the 1948 campaign while dissidents representing about 1,250,000 members showed support for Wallace. Leaders Bridges Bryson and Fitzgerald said their unions would not be bound by the board’s vote. Murray noted the decision is not binding on the CIO unions.
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Washington
CIO
Henry Alsace
The
Labor Organization
Roosevelt
Wallace
Eve
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen’s Union
Truman
Bridges
Hugh Bryson
National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards
Albert Fitzgerald
Big
Electrical Workers Union
Fitzgerald
Electrical Workers
Philip Murray
Walter Reuther
Murray
City Of Florence Tied Up By Strike
Rome report says Florence is tied up by a general strike called by the communist led chamber of labor. The strike is said to spread through Florence province an area with about 885000 inhabitants.
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Florence
Rome
General Confederation of Labor
Chamber of Labor
Appeal in Thomasville mill strike case before state supreme court
Bulletin from Raleigh reports a Textile Workers Union of America CIO officers appeal an order by Judge Wilson Warlick denying transfer to federal court of a case over restraining picketing at the Amazon Cotton mills in Thomasville. The supreme court likely will hear the case May 4 or 5.
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Amazon
Thomasville
State Supreme Court
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Wilson Warlick
Supreme Court
Weather North Carolina Turned Colder With Mixed Precipitation
Considerable cloudiness brings colder conditions across North Carolina with light snow in the west and north and light rain in the southeast today. Tonight a cold wave lowers temperatures with 8 to 12 in the extreme west and near 20 along the coast. Saturday remains cold with increasing cloudiness and a brief warm spell by Sunday into Monday.
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North Carolina
Temperature rainfall figures across multiple cities
Official weather bureau records show 24 hour temperatures and rainfall at 8:30 am for cities including Charlotte 52, Chicago 6, Denver 18, Jacksonville 64, Los Angeles 69, New York 35, Raleigh 51, Wilmington 57, and others with varying highs and lows. The data lists numerous readings from Atlantic to Western locales indicating regional temperature spread and precipitation patterns.
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Geationtan
Charlotte
Chicago
Cold Wave Sweeps Nation Creating Subzero Lows
A severe cold wave spreads from the Rockies to the Atlantic as northern Midwest states log subzero readings. Temperatures plunge to 40 below in some areas with fuel shortages reported. forecasts predict continued below freezing in the south with light snow across several southern states.
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Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Seaboard
Gulf Coast
Carolinas
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraska
Missouri
Illinois
Red River Valley
Minnesota-North Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Columbia
Rockford
Chicago
Albanian Forces Reported Concentrating Across Greek Border
News dispatches said regular Albanian forces were assembling across the border from Konitsa in northwestern Greece and moving south from Leskovic. The reports were unconfirmed officially. Guerrilla bands were looting villages and recruiting inhabitants by force nearby, with Greek troops said to be active against insurgents to the north and east of Konitsa.
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Konitsa
Greece
Leskovic
Albania
Markos Vafiades
Martin Will Visit Guilford
Guilford College will host Representative Joseph W. Martin on May 16 to unveil a marker honoring J. G. Cannon former North Carolinian and House speaker. Cannon’s father taught at the old New Garden school on the present Guilford College site.
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Guilford College
Joseph W. Martin
Mass
J. G
Uncle Joe) Cannon
Cannon
Old New Garden School
Cold Weather Snaps Carolinas With Deep Freeze
A Canadian cold wave brings the second deep freeze of the week to the Carolinas. Temperatures dip to near ten degrees in places like Soco Gap and Nashville reports show snow and single digits, with 12 to 15 degrees in the Piedmont and around 22 at the coast as rain may freeze on highways.
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Carolinas
Weather Bureau
Canada
Carolinas Mountains
Soco Gap
North Carolina
Smoky Mountains National Park
Bavaria Grinds To A Mass Strike Chaos Grips Region
Mass general strike paralyzes Bavaria with up to 1.9 million workers protesting food shortages. Railways run on emergency schedules as 26 cities report idle communications and industry. Cardinal Frings calls it a spontaneous protest while U S officials promise large food imports to western zones.
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Germany
Bavaria
Nuernberg
Wuerzburg
Augsburg
Passau
Coburg
Hof
Adolph Hitler
U. S
Ruhr
Joseph Cardinal Frings
Cologne
Lawrence Wilkerson
Ginnings For State Are Up This Season
The census bureau reports 11,373,497 running bales of the 1947 cotton crop ginned before Jan 16 this year. This compares with 8,165,034 to the same date last year and 8,027,449 the year before. Regional totals include North Carolina 432,087 and 429,488, and South Carolina 635,400 and 682,831 for the two preceding seasons.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Ginningsby
North Carolina
South Carolina
Cotton Council lays 1948 research and promotion plan
The National Cotton Council of America completed its tenth annual meeting in Atlanta on January 23 proposing a broad 1948 research and sales program and selecting a new president to replace Oscar Johnston. The group endorsed the European Recovery Plan in principle, with George C. Marshall outlining the plan and warning it could avert the collapse of world trade and social order.
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National Cotton Council of America
Oscar Johnston
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Europe
Taft Vandenberg Near European Recovery Plan Deal
Senators Taft and Vandenberg edge toward a scheme to run the European recovery program outside the state department with the president as ultimate arbiter. A separate administrator would sit with a cabinet committee on policy, a plan opposed by some industry and labor groups who call for early ERP action with safeguards.
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Vandenberg
Taft
State Department
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Senate Foreign Relations
State
Treasury
Commerce, Agriculture and Defense
Congress
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Curtis E. Calder
National Association of Manufacturers
Truman
Foreign Relations Committee
NAM
Italian Socialists Vote On Red Tie Up
In Rome on January 23 the Italian Socialist party votes at its national convention on whether to maintain the year old alliance with the Communists. The Communists claim about 2,250,000 members and seek Socialist support to oppose Premier Alcide De Gasperi's Christian Democrats and their allies in the April parliamentary elections.
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Rome
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Alcide de Gasperi
Christian Democrats
Widow claims maps to 76 million in pirate gold
Mrs. Bula Edmundson Croker widow of Richard C. Croker says she has two maps locating 76 million dollars in pirate treasure buried 40 miles from Pensacola between 1781 and 1783. She seeks a contractor to recover the wealth and may require a cofferdam to reach it.
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Fia
Tammany Hall
Bula Edmundson Croker
Richard C. Croker
Pensacola
J. P. Conway
Green Cove Springs
Eisenhower Not Available For Office
General Dwight D. Eisenhower announced he could not accept a presidential nomination. He noted his refusal to enter the New Hampshire primary and cited duty to country and concerns about appearing presumptuous. He planned terminal leave around February and would become Columbia University president in June.
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Washington
Dwight.d. Eisenhower
Army Chief of Staff
New Hampshire
Ike
Leonard V. Finder
Manchester Union Leader
Eisenhower
Stassen Accuses Pauley of Grain Trading Profit
Harold E. Stassen testified before a senate appropriations subcommittee that Edwin W. Pauley earned 40175 from two grain transactions after a speech by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson. Stassen said Anderson’s off the cuff remarks caused grain price drops and challenged Pauley to face him on the accusations.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Edwin W. Pauley
Anderson
Stassen
Senate Appropriations
Pauley
Needs of Smoky Mountain Park Are Pointed Out
Washington reports that North Carolina and Tennessee lobby for federal aid as congressional subcommittees hear the Smoky Mountain National Park case. Governors McCord and Cherry, senators McKellar and Hoey, plus Francis Heazel urged a reasonable effort to complete the 720 square mile park between Knoxville and Asheville.
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Smoky Mountain Park
Washington
North Carolina
Tennessee
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Jim Nance McCord
R. Gregg Cherry
McKellar
Asheville, C
McCord
Churchill urges quick unification to curb Moscow threat
Winston Churchill told the House of Commons western Europe must unite rapidly to pressure Moscow and head off Soviet atomic advances within a year or so. He backed unifying Western Europe as a shield against communism and urged opponents to rise above party for broader security. He praised Bevin's push for closer Franco Benelux ties and a united Europe beyond party politics.
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Winston Churchill
Europe
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Churchill
House of Commons
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Western
Foster
Bevin
Soviet Union
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Benelux
Belgium
Netherlands
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Switzerland
Italy
Hichill
United States
Fulton
Russians Reject UN Commission Courtesy Call on Korea
An anonymous source says Russia refused the United Nations commission on Korea permission to visit the Soviet commander in occupied northern Korea. The commission may depart, as it aims to prepare for a national election to restore independence and end foreign troop presence in Korea.
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Russia
United Nations Commission On Korea
Korea
North Korea
UN Assembly
Grand Jury To Probe Death Of Sheriff
In Southport on January 23 Judge Q K Nimocks ordered a grand jury hearing into Brunswick County Sheriff John White's death, postponed to the May term after the key witness Deputy Sheriff Daught Tripp of Shallotte was ill. Edward I Conway, Brunswick reserve fleet captain, is charged with murder in the sheriff's death.
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Superior Court
Q. K. Nimocks
Fayetteville
Brunswick County
John White
Edward I. Conway
Brunswick Reserve Fleet
Brunsvick County
Daught Tripp
Shallotte
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