New Pay Increases For Servicemen Gain Favor
Senate support grows for higher military pay to boost volunteer numbers as draft extension and peacetime forces loom. Gurney says raises up to 30 percent for enlisted may cost 474 million, aiming to bridge House 50 percent plan and Senate 275 million proposal. First week after draft age changes saw 10,398 volunteers.
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Senate
Gurney
R-Sd
House
Senate Military Committee
War Department
Congress
Army
Paynt
United Nations Subcommittee Calls for Break With Franco Regime
The UN subcommittee on Spain urges a worldwide diplomatic break with Franco unless the Falangist government is ousted by September. It proposes transferring the case to the General Assembly meeting September 3 and endorsing the March 4 Franco declaration by the US Britain and France for peaceful regime change.
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New York
United Nations
Spain
Security Council
General Assembly
Assembly
United States
Great Britain
France
Francisco Franco
Poland
Brazil
Oscar Lange
Pedro Leno Velloso
Franco
Wing Goes On Trial In First Degree Case
Fayetteville June 1 Wall C Ewing longtime businessman and former legislator faces Cumberland County Superior Court on Tuesday charged with first degree murder in the strangling of his wife Mrs Douglass Suthland Ewing He has been jailed since March 27 after a coroner jury found the death due to blows from his 250 pound frame The couple had been married about years and had children Both were from prominent Carolina families An autopsy by Duke University pathologist Dr Richard H Follis attributed death to a clot of blood under the brain caused by a blow outside force
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Wall C. Ewing
Ewing
Dillon
D. C
Cumberland Unty Democratic
Nhildren
Carolina
Richard H. Follis
Dukeiversity
Weather outlook for Carolinas with cooler temps and rain
Weather report predicts cooler air over North and South Carolina with occasional rain and thunderstorms Sunday and Monday. Temperatures vary by city with highs in the 60s to 80s and scattered precipitation across stations from Louisville to New Orleans and beyond.
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South Carolina
Los
Louisville
Memphis
Minn
St. P
New Orleans
New York
Norsevik
Vortland
Raleigh
More Japs To Face War Trials
Tokyo reports twenty six leaders of Japan are set to stand trial before allied powers in a dramatic six to nine month proceeding. The cases cover actions since 1928 across Korea Manchuria China the Philippines the East Indies New Guinea Burma Malaya and Pacific islands. Lead defendant Hideki Tojo survived a self inflicted attempt on his life to face this courtroom spectacle.
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Japan
Korea
Manchuria
China
Philippines
East Indies
New Guinea
Burma
Malaya
Pacific
Thomasville Boy Dies After Uptown Accident
Roy Frank Koontz Jr. 11, son of Frank and Ruth Koontz, died in a local hospital after an auto struck him in uptown Thomasville at 8 pm. Driver Raymond Parker is held on manslaughter charges. Survived by parents, two brothers, and four grandparents. body at Greene funeral home pending arrangements.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Roy Frank Koontz, Jr
Frank
Ruth Poole Koontz
Raymond Parker
Koontz
Fairgrove School
Clifton
Jerry Dean Koontz
C. B. Koontz
Route One
O. G. Poole
Ville
Greene Funeral Home
Scarborough backs Rives in Sixth District race
Scarborough, wielding key influence in the sixth district Democratic primary, endorsed E Earle Rives after last Saturday's vote where Rives led in the first count with 13 060 to 17 160 for incumbent Durham and Scarborough’s own tally at 8 176. He expects his supporters to rally behind Rives for a change in Congress.
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Greensboro
PD. E. Scarborough
E. Earle Rives
Rives
Amy Carl T. Durham
Chapel Hi
Scarborough
Congress
Durham
Southern Restores Trains No. 111 112
The Southern Railway system announced the restoration of several passenger trains halted by the coal strike. Trains No 7 and 14 Richmond Danville leave June 3, No 12 and 15 Charlotte Statesville leave June 3, and No 111 112 Greensboro Goldsboro leave June 3.
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Southern Railway System
Office of Defense Transportation
Richmond- Danville
Richmond
Danville
Charlotte-Statesville
N. C
Charlotte
Statesville
Greensboro- Goldsboro
OPA Control Faces Tuesday Test on Price Extensions
Washington June 1 Chairman Wagner calls for a final Tuesday decision on price control extension. He seeks to void a prior panel action removing ceilings on meat poultry and dairy July 1. OPA warns prices would rise without ceilings as talks continue with House and Senate members.
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Washington
Wagner
D-Ny
Carter Glass
Virginia
OPA
Senate Committee
Senate
House
Opposition Grows in Congress Against U S War Loan for Britain
The drive led by Jesse Jones seeks to block the 3.75 billion dollar British loan. Jones argues the plan is unbusinesslike and proposes collateral-backed funding instead. Hamilton Fish to testify as lawmakers prepare to vote on the bill and move it toward a House floor showdown. Senate approval already exists.
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U.S
Britain
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Commerce
Jones
Houston
Tex
Senate Passes Bill for Government Control of Atomic Energy
The Senate approved a bipartisan bill to create a government monopoly on production and use of fissionable materials like U 235 and plutonium for bombs. An amendment by Senator O Mahoney bars wartime insiders from filing public land claims, aiming to curb inside information advantages. Senator Vandenberg urged international UN backed agreement to supplement domestic controls.
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Senate
House
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Vandenberg
R-Mich
United Nations
Michigan
Antonescu Executed in Romania With Three Aides
Marshal Ion Antonescu and three puppet government members were executed by firing squad at Jilava prison near Bucharest. Mihai Antonescu Gen Vasiliu and George Alexianu also died. Pantazi Christescu and Radu Lecca were spared by royal commutations.
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Ion Antonescu
Romania
Jilava
Mihai Antonescu
Vasiliu
George Alexianu
Transistria
Antonescues
Petru Groza
Antonescu
Constantine Pantazi
Secret Service
Christescu
Radu Lecca
Seminole maid sent to death for love in white youth
Miami dispatch reports a 1% year old Seminole maid condemned for bearing a child with a white youth. Elders order self destruction during the green corn dance rites, the maid to walk west into the swamps as the chief pronounces go.
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Miami
Fla
Everglades
Army Reserve Program To Be Streamlined
Gen. Jacob L. Devers outlines a plan to integrate the organized reserve corps as a component of the army. Three classes of reserve units will be activated with varying officer and enlisted complements and civilian affiliations. Training includes two hour home drills and a 15 day annual field period.
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Army Reserve
Chicago
Organized Reserve
Jacob L. Devers
Army Ground Forces
War Department
Organized Reserve Corps
Army
Reserve Officers Association
Devers
Cubans Vote Quietly In Major National Election
In Havana more than two million Cubans cast ballots on election day, described by the superior electoral board as exceptionally quiet. Results for 66 representatives, one senator, 126 mayors, and over two thousand municipal council members may not be known until tomorrow.
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Havana
Cuba
Ramon Grau San Martin
House of Representatives
CIO Backed Vet Faces Ellis In Alabama Governor Run
In Montgomery a six foot eight dis charged GI and veteran legislator join Lt Gov Handy Ellis in a Democratic runoff for Alabama governor. They diverge on CIO PAC as a campaign issue with Ellis insisting it is the main issue and Folsom saying it is an issue at all. Folsom notes CIO PAC endorsement was unsolicited.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
CIO Political Action Committee
James F
Big Jim) Folsom
Handy Ellis
Chauncey Sparks
Elis
Cio-Pac
Folsom
Magnetic Finger War Secret Disclosed
Columbia University reveals a magnetic finger device attached to aircraft to locate submarines beneath water. The sensor detects magnetic disturbances from steel ships and guides depth bombs, allegedly bottling up U boats near Gibraltar after D day.
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Blakslee
Associated Press
New York
Gibraltar
Columbia University
Columbia
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