Polio cases rise in Guilford and statewide outbreak
North Carolina reports 408 polio cases for the year, 37 newly added today raising the total. Guilford County lists five cases amid a statewide mix with Buncombe and Moore at four each and Gaston Transylvania at three. The state weighs Camp Butner as a potential convalescent center as officials review facilities.
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North
Guilford
Buncombe
Moore
Gaston Transylvania
Tawba
Cleveland
Forsythingham
Union
Caldll
Columbus
Cumberland
Ieil
Lenoir
Mecklenburg
Camp Butner
Phillip S. Randolph
Butner
One Or Other Ought To Leave Says Crump
Memphis leader E H Crump challenged Edward Meerman editor of the Memphis Press Scimitar to settle their dispute with one leaving. Pleasants broadcast the challenge on a 30 minute radio program across 11 stations. Crump backs Judge John A Mitchell in the Senate race opposing Kefauver.
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Memphis
John A. Mitchell
Press-Scimitar
Estes Kefauver
Crump
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Kefauver
Meeman
Weather North Carolina forecast and scattered storms
The North Carolina outlook calls for cloudy conditions with a few scattered thundershowers. Thursday should be fair with modest temperatures and light winds.
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North Carolina
Freight rate on peaches remains unchanged by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission rejected a proposed 25 percent rise in basic railroad freight rates for peaches from six southern states to eastern markets. It found revenue needs do not justify higher charges and noted many growers incurred losses in 1947 and 1948, so increasing freight costs could harm marketing.
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Interstate
Frce Commission
ICC
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Ohio
Potomac
Chicago
Bodies to Arrive in New York on Friday
The army transport Oglethorpe Victory is due in New York Friday bearing the bodies of 4,300 American war dead from European battlefields.
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New York
Oglethorpe Victory
Sympathy Strike Expands Across Western Coal Fields
Sympathy strikes widen in western Pennsylvania soft coal mines as 51 more commercial miners join walkouts and about 40 000 idle miners protest without a contract. Nationwide nearly a quarter of 400 000 soft coal workers are idle amid stalled wage talks and a fight over union shop clauses.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Washington
Steel Company
Sthy
Steel
West Virginia
Indiana
Virginia
UMWA
Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association
UMW
Senate Faces At Least Eight New Members This Session
Washington July 7 The Senate will see at least eight new members in the next regular session as seven lawmakers decline re election and William Bradley Umstead of North Carolina loses his primary. Seats total 32 with five Republicans and three Democrats leaving.
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Senate
William Bradley Umstead
GOP
Wallace H. White, Jr
Maine
House
Carl Hatch
Ard H. Moore
Rokla
W. Lee O'Daniel
Dtex
Arthur Capper
Bkan
Harlan J. Bushfield
South Dakota
Albert W. Hawkes
New Jersey
Umstead
Josiah Bailey
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
Duke Power seeks rate rise on large industrial customers
Duke Power Company asked the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a fuel clause rate increase affecting about 1,230 large customers. Witnesses cited coal price rises from 3.93 to 8.51 per ton since 1938 and projected additional revenue of about 4.8 million across current and next year. The proposal mirrors a similar clause approved for Carolina Power and Light.
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Raleigh
Duke Power Company
State Utilities Commission
The
Utilities Commission
Duke
David Nabok
C. S. Reed
Reed
J. Moneghan
Forest City
Martel and Henrietta Mills
Willis Smith, Jr
North Carolina
Carolina Power and Light Company
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
High Point
Salisbury
Burlington
Hotel De Bastille Discovered Under New Orleans Precinct
Police raid uncovers a long built maze of tunnels under the first precinct housing a hob o camp described as Hotel De Bastille. A man living there named the haven and said it has hosted guests for months with electricity water and heat, accessed through the building walls a bizarre hidden world beneath the station.
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New Orleans
First Precinct
Hotel de Bastille
Arthur Marullo
Underworld
Truman Forces Elated Over Eisenhower Refusal on Nomination
Philadelphia July 7 A dropping balloon over the Democratic convention signals Truman’s team remains confident of a first ballot nomination. Eisenhower’s nonavailability fuels drafts and talks of Justice Douglas as a substitute while James Roosevelt and Frank Hague push for a national candidate.
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Eisenhower
Philadelphia
Washington
California
New Jersey
William O. Douglas
James Roosevelt
An.d Roosevelt
Frank Hague
Runoff Primary Set for Oklahoma Democrat Senate Nomination
Former Oklahoma governor Robert S. Kerr and ex congressman Gomer Smith meet July 27 in a runoff for the Democratic nomination to the U S Senate. Kerr led yesterday's Oklahoma primary with 111 751 votes to Smith 58 022. eight others trailed. Rizley, the Republican nominee, had no runoff after overwhelming five rivals.
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Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
Gomer Smith
Oklahoma
U. S
Kerr
Smith
Ross Rizley
Rizley
Iive
Battleship New York to be sunk by bat bombs test
At Pearl Harbor the 30,000 ton battleship New York is towed 50 miles south for a test of Task Force 38 using radar guided bat bombs. Rear Adm. Greer says the 1,000-pound guided bombs with glider wings will be released to strike the aging warship as crews conduct further air surface and underwater trials.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Bikini
Here
Adm
Marshall R. Greer
Nippon
Sault
Navy
Baltimore slaying prompts manhunt for 11 year old
Police mobilize all patrols in Baltimore's northern suburbs after 11 year old Marsha Brill is stabbed to death while bicycling near Pimlico. A 30 year old Negro laborer is held for investigation after being seen in a woods lineup with Barbara Lee Sapperstein and her brother Alan who witnessed the event. A second man is questioned as detectives pursue leads.
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Baltimore
Marsha Brill
Marsha
Pimlico
Barbara Lee Sapperstein
Alan
Barbara Lee
Democrats Edge Toward Harmony in Platform Debates
Philadelphia July 7 Democrats work to craft a unified platform on civil rights and labor ahead of the national convention. A resolutions committee led by Senator Francis J Myers previews a strong international policy and defense. Farm groups push for pro farmer programs while cooperatives seek tax assurances for co-ops amid conflicting tax views.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Francis J. Myers
Pennsylvania
Myers
Truman
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Dewey Aims to Cracker Solid South in North Carolina
New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey will attempt to win over the solid south with a major campaign speech in North Carolina, likely in a large city this autumn. He has also spoken with Senator Van denberg and Vice President Warren about campaign matters as Truman faces civil rights attacks from southern states.
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Pawling
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
North Carolina
Dewey
South
Mason-Dixon Line
Truman
Philadelphia
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Sacramento
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles Edison
New Jersey
Frank Daniels Named To Welfare Board Chairman
Frank A. Daniels of Raleigh is appointed chairman of the state board of public welfare by Governor Cherry. Daniels, general manager of the News and Observer, succeeds the late Col. William A. Blair of Winston-Salem. Irving E. Carlyle was named last week to fill Blair’s unexpired term.
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Raleigh
N. C
Frank A. Daniels
State Board of Public Welfare
Daniels
The
News and Observer
Cherry
William A. Blair
Winston-Salem
Irving E. Carlyle
Blair
Berlin Reds adopt two year plan to integrate economy
In Berlin the communist dominated SED outlined a two year plan to tie the city’s economy to the Soviet zone and warned residents away from reliance on the western airlift. The plan includes standardizing products and expanding economic links with the eastern zone while U.S. forces push coal to ease a growing fuel shortage.
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Berlin
Germany
Socialist Unity Party
SED
Yugoslavs Meet Kremlin Rebuffs Amid Tito Rift
Moscow and Tass reject Yugoslav invitation to a Belgrade congress saying Tito and followers stand outside the communist family. Albania backs Cominform and severs ties with Yugoslavia while Poland endorses the Cominform censure. The rift widens with Tito under fire for Marxist deviations and anti Russia policies.
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Marshal Tito
Tass
Moscow Radio
Belgrade
Tito
Stalin
Albania
Yugoslavia
Tirana
Albana
Greece
Cominform
Communist International Information Bureau
Warsaw
Russia
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