Dewey Westward Stop Sparks 1948 Nomination Talk
Westward travel by Governor Dewey triggers speculation on a 1948 GOP nomination. Albany reports cite Dewey plans to bring family and hometown speeches on a reform tour. Other contenders like Taft Stassen and MacArthur eye southern delegates, while Michigan and Wisconsin show shifting loyalties.
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Dewey
New York
Albany
Takis
Salt City
New Yorker
Philadelphia
Ots
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
South
Taft
Stassen
Texas
Wisconsin
Willkie
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Milwaukee
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Amvet Post Hosts First City Lake Outing
Amvet Post No. 6 held its inaugural outdoor festival at City Lake Tuesday afternoon starting with a charity softball game. Larry Austin led activities including potato races and toe-sack contests with prizes from High Point merchants. Post commander Julian Lyttle said events will boost member enrollment and promote local civic projects. Canada is larger than the continental United States by about 600,000 square miles.
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Lloyd Whitley
Julian Lyttle
High Point Chapter
Amvets
Canada
United States
U S Open Aired On WMFR Tomorrow
The U S Open golf championship will be broadcast tomorrow afternoon on Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports. Harry Wismer and Harry Nash report live from St Louis Country Club over ABC and WMFR at six o'clock.
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Cavalcade of Sports
Harry Wismer
Harry Nash
St. Louis Country Club
ABC
WMFR
Dial 1230
Racial Discrimination Debate Tangles Taft Hartley Bill
Senator Ellender declares no provision in the Taft Hartley labor bill prohibits race discrimination. Critics from southern groups claim sections bar unions and employers from discrimination, while Ellender argues the bill allows it. Also an administrator’s notice in North Carolina invites estate claims by April 23, 1948.
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Washington
Ellender
D-La
Senate Labor Committee
House-Senate
Truman
Committee For the Preservation of
Elliender
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Lyndon Floyd Wilson, JR
L. F. Wilson
East Farris Avenue
High Point
North Carolina
Roberson, Haworth & Reese
Attys
Doctor's Swamp Root claims kidney relief remedy
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a tonic to flush kidneys and bladder, relieve backache headaches and burning on urination, and reduce urine acidity. It cites a blend of herbs and non habit forming properties, offering a free trial and a full bottle at drugstores.
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Wwe
Kilmer & Co., Inc
Stamford
Sonn
Tobacco Workers Walk Out Plants
Havana reports workers who occupied seven tobacco factories yesterday marched out peacefully after the government pledged to seek measures to bolster exports and prevent large layoffs. Employers agreed to suspend 1,600 anticipated dismissals due to weak export demand.
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Havana
Emergency Fund Bill With Flood Control Funds Passed
The House approved a $70,856,257 deficiency bill by voice vote and sent it to the Senate. It adds $12,000,000 for emergency flood control in the Midwest and West and allows federal agencies to incur legal obligations after June 30 if regular 1948 supply bills are not enacted by year end.
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Washington
House
Senate
Midwest
Cox Resigns as Associate at North Main Baptist Church
Rev Floy W Cox Jr educational director at North Main Street Baptist resigns to accept pastorate at Guilford Baptist Church Guilford College. He will begin July 20. He has served one year directing music and education and assisting Rev Neil J Armstrong. The church will consider hiring an educational director to replace him.
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Floy W. Cox, Jr
North Main Street Baptist Church
Cuilford Baptist Church
Guilford College
Cox
North Main Church
Neil J. Armstrong
Infant Ronald Pilson Dies in Local Hospital
Funeral services were held for Ronald Eugene Pilson three weeks old, son of P. D. and Christelle Copley Pilson of 244 Boulevard. Rev. H. Miller officiated at area Funeral chapel with burial in a local cemetery. Surviving are the parents, a brother P. D. Pilson Jr., the maternal relatives Mr and Mrs W Copley of High Point, and the paternal grandmother Mrs M G Pilson of Cameron.
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Ronald Eugene Pilson
P. D
Christelle Copley Pilson
Boulevard
Area
H. Miller
Hilliard Memorial Baptist Church
P. D. Pilson
Mecklenburg Votes On Booze Tomorrow
Mecklenburg county in North Carolina will hold a referendum to decide if alcohol beverage control stores should be legalized. Leaders on both sides expect a close vote with about 25 000 ballots cast.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
First Methodist Bible School Closes Tonight
Tonight at 7 30 the First Methodist Vacation Church School closes with a program in the downstairs auditorium. The two weeks work by Nursery Kindergarten Primary Junior and Intermediate aims will be shown and crafts viewed. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Vacation Church School
Convicts Escape Handcuffed To Pole
Three convicts handcuffed the guard transporting them to state prison to a telephone pole in Kakima Washington and fled into the Rocky Brush country 75 miles southeast of here. Sheriff’s deputies captured John Frantz, 43, six hours later in a rock cliff hideout.
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Kakima
Wash
State Prison
Here
John Frantz
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