Seizure of U S Consulate in Shanghai Signals New Crisis
In Shanghai a mob claiming Navy ties seized the U S consulate to press disputed back pay. After an all day siege Consul General John M Cabot and staff remained inside as Communist police did not intervene. The episode tightens U S China tensions amid warnings for Americans to evacuate.
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Washington
Shanghai
United States
U. S. Navy
Conulate
State Department
John M. Cabot
Aliens Affairs Bureau
Communist Military Control Commission
Acheson
China
Ing
North China
Yangtze Valley
Nanking
Peiping
Hun
Ex-Employe and Two Others Held In Pembroke Bank Case
FBI reports three youths arrested in the Pembroke NC bank robbery case. Ex employe J E Blackwell 19 claims two brothers Pasquel Rice 21 and Clifton Rice 17 held him at pistol point. Police say Blackwell’s story was false and the missing $20 667 remains unrecovered.
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Pembroke
Little Bank
North Carolina
Sandhill
FBI
J. E. Blackwell
Charles W. Brown
Charlotte
Blackwell
Pasquel Rice
Clifton Rice
Rice Brothers
Lumberton
Brown
J. H. Hood
Fairmont
Here
Robeson County
Georgia Leaf Market Still Unsettled
Valdosta Georgia July 30 sales pattern shows longer demand for leaf tobacco and weaker demand for lugs in the Georgia Florida flue cured belt. Lugs mostly fell in price while many reaf grades held or rose. Three day totals reach about 31.95 million pounds averaging 44.65 dollars per hundred with Douglas leading in volume and price at 2.92 million pounds for 1.322 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valdosta
Department of Agriculture
Douglas
Editorial Guild Wins Election At News-Record
The CIo American Newspaper Guild won the right to represent Greensboro News and Record editorial employees in collective bargaining. NLRB officials reported a 32 to 8 vote in Greensboro, with certification expected within five days if no objections arise. It marks the first NC papers election the guild has taken part in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Cio-American Newspaper Guild
National Labor Relations Board
Winston-Salem
Albert Yanak
NLRB
North Carolina
Durham
Raleigh
Stewart To Build New Library At Megro College
Raleigh reports North Carolina College at Durham will construct a new library with low bids totaling 550,438.32 from R. K. Stewart & Sons of High Point. The project, budgeted at 800,000, saves 249,561.68 for the state under a permanent improvements law with costs about 71 cents per cubic foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina College
Durham
D. S. Coltrane
Coltrane
R. K. Stewart & Sons
High Point
Astronomers Detect Extremely Fast Moving Sky Object
Astronomers at Lick Observatory in Berkeley report discovery of an extremely fast moving object. The University of California says it may be a minor planet, estimated at 14th magnitude and invisible to the naked eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
Lick Observatory
University of California
Death Toll From Heat Mounts But Midwest Is Given Relief
The article reports U S military leaders testifying to a House committee on a 1.45 billion arms program for allied nations. Secretary Acheson Defense Johnson and General Bradley defend the plan while lawmakers press for scale and cost details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
Washington
UPI
Congressional
Truman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Army
Navy
Air Force
House
United States
Acheson
Johnson
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
Hoyt Vandenberg
Adm
Louis E. Denfeld
China
Spain
Roosevelt to wed second time in New York
Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. announces engagement to Suzanne Perrin, a 28 year old New York socialite and WWII Marine Corps Women’s Reserve veteran. Roosevelt, 34, has two children from his first marriage and was elected to Congress last year. Perrin’s father, the late Lee J. Perrin, led Summit based Ciba pharmaceutical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
D-Ny
Suzanne Perrin
Roosevelt
Miss Perrin
Westover School
Middlebury
Conn
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D., III
Christopher
Ethel DuPont
Harvard University
University of Virginia Law School
Lee J. Perrin
Ciba Pharmaceutical Products Corporation
Summit, N. J
Bertie Peanut Plant Destroyed By Blaze
A large Bertie County peanut plant, built in 1917 and owned by a local stock company led by Ira Ainsley of Ahoskie, burned down after a midnight blaze. Efforts from nearby towns, including Ahoskie, could not save the building and insurance is said to partly cover the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxabel
Bertie Peanut Company
Ahoskie
Ira Ainsley
Regulations on Handcuffing of Prisoners Revised
Raleigh reports the state department revised its rules on handcuffing prisoners reducing the allowed duration. Judge Susie Sharp criticized the highway commission's guidelines after Ned Carpenter received nine months on the roads with conditions and a $200 fine for handcuffing a prisoner.
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Raleigh
State Union Department
Richmond County
Rockingham
Susie Sharp
Ned Carpenter
Richmond Superior Court
Theigbway Commission
Sharp
Carpen
Carpenter
Larence Lett
Lett
Highway Commission
State Supreme Court
J. B. Moore
Henry W. Jordan
Highway, Commission
Moore
Jordan
R. Brooks Peters
Uranium Abundant in Colorado Plateau Says Senators
Senator Millikin of Colorado and Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado assert that the state’s uranium deposits can supply the nation’s atomic energy program. They speak as the US begins exploratory talks with Great Britain and Canada on long term raw materials collaboration, stressing domestic supplies from the plateau and price incentives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Colorado
Millikin
R-Colo
Edwin C. Johnson
Dcolo
Colorado Plateau
Senate
House Atomic Energy Emittee
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Woman Rescued as Husband Missing After Fishing Boat Crash
Coast guard says 53 year old woman clung to a rock pinnacle off San Clemente Island for 18 hours amid heavy swells before rescue. Her husband Theodore Homer, 56, disappeared after their 28 foot boat Majorie Mae struck rocks 60 miles southwest of Los Angeles last Thursday. She survived semi conscious with torn clothes and missing shoes as waves knocked her from the pinnacle. The couple from Los Angeles had been fishing for three weeks.
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Los Angeles
Coast Guard
San Clemente Island
Theodore Homer
Majorie Mae
Here
Mae Homer
R. G. Schwind
Strike Called At Halifax Paper Company
ROANOKE RAPIDS July 30 A strike at the Halifax Paper Company is called for Monday at 7 am Steward Harrell president of Local 697 United Paper Workers of America CIO announced the move after the company said it would implement a wage cut of four cents per hour and end overtime pay for Sunday work K F Adams resident general manager announced the plan at the plant
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke Rapids
Halifax Paper Company
Stewart Harrell
United Paper Workers of America
CIO
K. F. Adams
Cool air eases heat in central states as eastern toll climbs
Cooling breezes spread from the central plains to the eastern states, bringing relief from a two week heat wave. Deaths and prostrations mount in the east as temperatures hit the 90s and businesses close. President Truman seeks relief from the heat in Washington.
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Midwest
Central States
Federal Weather Bureau
Chicago
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Mercury
Truman
Washington
Mary
Italy Joins Atlantic Pact Amid Senate Vote
Italy becomes the first axis country to surrender and aligns with Western powers by approving ratification of the Atlantic pact 175 to 81 in the senate with 87 absentees. Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando and Francesco Saverio Nitti opposed the pact.
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Rome
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Great Britain
Canada
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Denmark
Iceland
Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando
Francesco Saverio Nitti
Attlee Accuses Churchill of Irresponsibility and Spite
London July 30 Prime Minister Attlee accused Winston Churchill of giving Britain a black eye abroad out of irresponsibility and party spite. He rebutted Churchill's Wolverhampton policy speech and defended Labour nationalization while criticizing Tory cost-cutting promises as lacking practical details.
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London
Attlee
Winston Churchill
Britain
Churchill
Conservative
Wolverhampton
Labor
Ple
Senate Rejects Change in Foreign Aid Bill Riders
Washington July 30 The Senate appropriations committee clung to amendments delaying a foreign aid bill and authorizing about 1.8 billion dollars in buyings by ECA and the army while earmarking 50 million for surplus farm loans to Spain. The panel rewrote riders to skirt rules and considered proposing the measure again without the amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Refu
ECA
Spain
Barkley
McClellan
D-Ark
Army
Geneess
State Agencies Seek Equitable Housing and Perquisites
The highway and public works commission joins the state board of hospital control, the agriculture department, and many educational institutions in addressing living quarters and related perquisites for state employees. The issue varies by agency and job, with essential on site presence required for certain staff while others argue for more equitable arrangements across departments.
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Highway and Public Works Commission
State Board of Hospital Control
State Department of Agriculture
Record Falls As AAU Swim Meet Opens
The Carolinas AAU Open Swim Meet opened with swimmers from the eastern seaboard competing in more than 40 events. Washington DC Ambassadors Club set a record in the 200-meter relay for junior women, clocking 2 23.7 to beat Watchung Lake. Gail Peters of Brighton Swim Club Atlantic City led the women's 800 meter freestyle, supporting her bid for top honors.
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Carolinas
Seaboard
Washington, D. C
Ambassador Club
Wilson
Orme
Sealing
Ballentine
Watchung Lake
Gail Peters
Brighton Swim Club
Atlantic City
New London
Conn
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Center
U. S
Dred
Bank of
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Stewart
Megro College
U.S
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John Maragon
Harry H. Vaughan
Maragon
Bertie
The
Associated Press
England
Broadstairs
North Sea
Capitol Square
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