Observers in Paris Hopeful of Peace Conference
Paris observers forecast a 21 nation peace conference within weeks as foreign ministers near agreement on the Italian peace treaty. The main issue is Trieste administration under a French plan for internationalization, with Byrnes aiming to convoke a general conference by month’s end. Molotov said near resolution, a concrete proposal pending for a peace conference. The latest talks leave the US and Britain pushing for a conference.
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Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
Trieste
Yesternas
States
Great Britain
United
Philippines Celebrate Independence Under U S Stewardship
Manila marks independence as the Philippines become a republic after a 10 year interim commonwealth. Douglas MacArthur guests and Manuel Roxas to be sworn in as first president. U S aid and Bell bill trade promises shape early economic ties and rehabilitation funding.
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Manila
Philos Islands
United States
Ral
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
U. S
Millard Tydings
Maryland
Paul V. McNutt
Manuel Roxas
Nisa
Islands
Weather outlook for North Carolina with showers and cooler temperatures
Cloudy weather continues across North Carolina with scattered showers and possible thunder storms today and Thursday. Cooler tonight and in western and central portions today. temperatures expected to change little Thursday. July 4, 1946 calendar note and 8:39 am official weather records list multiple U.S. stations and rainfall/temperature figures.
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Horth Carolina
Tharedey
Charlotte
Hitler's Former Chauffeur Testifies on Fuehrer's Death
Erich Kempka testified he found Adolf Hitler dead in the Reich Chancellery on April 30 1945 and helped carry Eva Braun's body for cremation. He described Martin Bormann's death by a bazooka blast and referred to Braun as Hitler's wife.
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Germany
Hitler
Erich Kempka
Reichschancellery
Eva Braun
Kempka
International Military Tribunal
Martin Bormann
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Jewish youths spared by British official commutation
Gen Sir Alan Cunningham commuted two Jewish youths death sentences to life imprisonment for killing British soldiers. The cases followed the kidnapping of five officers by Irgun Zvai Leumi, with three captives still in custody. Elsewhere, Mesheg Yagur village was cordoned as troops hunted contraband ammunition.
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Jerusalem
Alan Gordon Cunningham
Palestine
Iing
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Mesheg Yagur
Evelyn Barker
Yousef Simkhon
Itzahak Abel
Tel Aviv
North Carolina Man Dies of Self Inflicted Wounds
Maryland state police investigated the death of Joe Brazemore a 44 year old North Carolina Negro who stabbed himself during a fight at a labor camp near Berlin. Walter Steele, 28, received cuts to his hand and shoulder and was treated and discharged.
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Berlin
Maryland
Joe Brazemore
North Carolina
Here
William C. Dykes
Brazemore
Walter Steele
Steele
Peninsula General Hospital
Salisbury
Auto Workers Threaten To Break Contracts Over Price Rise
Walter P. Reuther leader of the United Auto Workers CIO warned at a rally that the union will reopen wage contracts if prices rise and the OPA law is not re enacted. Delegates pledged to buy only urgent necessities and urged extended buyers strikes.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Walter P. Reuther
Uawcio
OPA
Congress
Chicago Youth Held On Four Charges In Degnan Case
William G. Heirens 17 was held for the grand jury on four assault and 21 burglary counts. Bond set at 270000 with 10000 per burglary and 15000 per assault. Heirens denied further Degnan case questioning and plans to plead innocent.
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Chicago
William G. Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Matthew D. Martigan
University of Chicago
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Degnan
Heirens
William T. Tuohy
North Side
Detective Bureau
Markets To Be Closed Tomorrow
All principal financial and commodity markets in the United States will be closed Thursday. Canadian stock markets and the Winnipeg grain exchange will also close, while the London stock market remains open as usual.
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New York
United States
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
London
Yank Soldier And Pole Held In Murder Case
Frankurt Germany July 3 The army reports the arrest of American Pfc Daniel P Walczak Detroit and Polish displacement person Bodgan Wasiak in the slaying of German Marlies Herxheimer whose body was found March 8 in the Nedda river Investigations say Walczak confessed and implicated Wasiak The killing followed an argument after Walczak turned the girl out of a house where he had been living with her after finding another woman
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Frankfurt
Germany
Redmond J. Connolly
Pfc
Daniel P. Walczak
Sparling St
Detroit
Bodgan Wisiak
Pole
Waleczak
Marlies Her
Cattle Prices Hit New High Amid Post OPA Era Shifts
The article notes rising prices for cattle and other staples as post OPA controls ease. North Carolina rent director Frank McInnis reports rents and evictions now fall under state law with a requirement for notice before raises or evictions. Complaints spread nationwide of high rents and few tenants received notice, while some states imposed ceilings.
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Chicago
Raleigh
Frank Mclonis
OPA
North Carolina
McInnis
Senate
Warm July Fourth Forecast From Weather Bureau
The nation will enjoy a comfortably warm sunny Fourth of July day with picnics swimming and sailing possible. Some sections may see brief scattered thunderstorms though most areas stay pleasant and dry.
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Associated Press
U. S
Gulf Coast
South Atlantic
Great Plains
Middle
Plains
Dakotas
Milk Directors Vote 2 Cent Per Quart Price Rise
North Carolina milk producers directors in Raleigh held a special session and unanimously raised milk to 95 cents per hundredweight effective July 1, about two cents per quart. The move compensates farmers for a government feed subsidy withdrawn June 30, a subsidy set by the agricultural adjustment administration in 1943.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Milk Producers
J. W. Staker
Greensboro
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Whitaker
Butter Prices Seen Jump to Seventy Eight Cents Per Pound
New York reports the wholesale butter market rose 13 cents today after price controls ended. Dealers say producers will absorb the two cent gap to the 15 cent subsidy, with retail butter likely around 78 cents per pound.
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New York
P.A
O.P.A
Bilbo Maintains Lead in Mississippi Primary Vote Tally
In Mississippi many precincts remain unreported as Theodore Bilbo holds an 1 319 vote lead, 87 303 to 85 984, over four opponents with Tom Ellis in second place at 54 030. Rankin secures renomination as Winstead leads Hollis in the fifth district. No violence reported amid Negro voting. Rankin clashed with AP photographer Allen Snipes.
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Rankin
Allen W. Snipes
Associated Press
Memphis
Jackson
Miss
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Bilbo
Supreme Court
Tom Q. Ellis
Ross A. Collins
Nelson T. Levings
Frank Harper
John E. Rankin
Tupelo
Arthur Winstead
J. C. Hollis
Winstead
Hollis
Snipes
Miss‘me
Sheriff's Office
Steak Prices Jump in Wilmington Retail Market
Prime cuts of steak reappear in Wilmington with prices from 65 cents a pound for hamburger to 1 dollar for T bone and porterhouse. Both buyers and sellers call the level "awful" as markets reopen.
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Wilmington
Atomic Bomb Damages 59 of 73 Vessels
On July 3 aboard the USS Appalachia the navy reported fifty nine of Bikin's seventy three target warships were damaged by the blast. Six remained dangerously radio active and five ships including a modern cruiser were sunk. Heavily damaged were nine ships including two battleships two cruisers and a carrier. Army observer Maj Anthony McAuliff said the weapon could force any nation to quit a war though it would be more effective against cities.
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Bikin
Navy
Army
N. Anthony McAuliff
United States
GI Bridegroom Awed by Trip Back From War Bride Ship
PFC George L. Silver, 22, of Appalachia Virginia, arrived in New York aboard the Bridgeport with 399 war brides and children. His English bride Joyce Hardy is aboard the Zebulon Vance, and he plans to wait at Camp Kilmer New Jersey until she lands. He refused to go home until his wife comes ashore safely.
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New York
Bridgeport
P.F.C
George L. Silver
Appalachia
Joyce Gladys Susan Hardy
Ipswich
England
Zebulon Vance
Silver
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Vance
Senate Banking Panel Considers Pair Of OPA Extension Bills
The Senate banking committee takes up two identical OPA extension bills after Senator O'Daniel abandoned delaying tactics. The measures seek a temporary life extension to July 20 as Congress mulls permanent price controls amid shifting Democratic support and Republican resistance.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
O'Daniel
Dtex
Committee On Pensions
OPA
Barkley
Maybank
D-Sc
Rkley
House
Senate
Banking Committee
Wagner
D-Ny
Congress
Murdock
Utah
Rep. Roe
Maryland
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Moore
Okla
Chester Bowles
Plane Service Halted As Northwest Strikes Hit Coast to Coast
A strike by the Independent International Association of Machinists stopped Northwest Airlines operations across the coast-to-coast line at 6 a.m. local time. About 800 to 1,000 mechanics, service and maintenance workers walked out seeking wage increases. Flights in the air were told to terminate at their first stops after 6 a.m., and Northwest normally runs 54 Seattle to New York flights daily with 27 planes.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Independent
International Association of Machinists
Northwest Airlines
W. Fiske Marshall
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