UN Push North as Reds Mass Amid Korean Front Tensions
United Nations spearheads advanced nearly two miles in Korea as Communist forces mass for a potential new offensive. U S F-86 Sabrejets downed five MiG-15s and damaged two more in air battles near the Manchurian frontier boosting two day totals to six destroyed and eight damaged.
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Jacksonville
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Taft Branded Security Risk by AFL Leaders
An AFL Labor League editorial labeled Senator Robert A. Taft as the nation’s top security risk and questioned his military stance amid debate over General MacArthur’s dismissal. The piece cites Taft’s potential presidential bid event in Rockland Maine on August 22 and notes Me Maine Senator Owen Brewster’s telegram implying Taft could launch his campaign there.
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Robert A. Taft
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Douglas MacArthur
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Ralph C. Masterman
Bar Harbor
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R-Me
German Soldier Given Chance to Recover in Poland
A 32-year-old German soldier, reportedly buried alive for six years in a Nazi supply depot, was granted a good chance to recover his health and eyesight by Gdynia Hospital authorities. He and five companions were trapped in an underground warehouse when retreating Nazis dynamited the entrance in 1945.
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Poland
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Troo
Kefauver Ends Bid for Democratic Nomination
Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee says he will not run for the Democratic presidential nomination. He states he has no intention of running and is not pursuing the campaign.
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Washington
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Trustees weigh leave for UNC president Gordon Gray
Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina meet to discuss granting president Gordon Gray a leave of absence. President Truman seeks Gray to head a psychological strategy board under the National Security Council with at least two days a week in Washington.
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Consolidated University of North Carolina
Gordon Gray
Truman
Gray
National Security Council
Washington
Duke Medical Course Opens for Southern Doctors
Duke Medical School starts a four day post graduate course in Durham for Southeastern physicians. Visiting general practitioners seek updated medical data and new techniques from Duke specialists.
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DUKE
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Duke Medical School
Boys State Opens Session at Chapel Hill
About 300 North Carolina high school boys formed a temporary state in Chapel Hill and began a week of government training with state and local officials guiding exercises and functions.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Small Business Squeezed by Undefined Policy
Congress notes small firms suffer from production curtailment and scarce defense contracts as they lose labor to larger defense builders. It urges agencies to address small business needs and train women for critical defense jobs, citing 38 million women not in the labor force as a vast potential workforce.
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Women’s Bureau
The
Labor Department
Court Citations Sought Against Royal Mill Strikers
About 50 Royal mill workers at Wake Forest face court citations after mill management sought action during a weeks long strike. The company contends protesters violated a court order prohibiting mass picketing.
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Royal Mills
Wake Forest
Ralegh Paroles Commissioner Set to Hear Brown Appeal
Commissioner T C Johnson will hold a hearing today on Clyde Brown Forsyth County inmate facing execution in the Central Prison gas chamber. Supreme Court review sought as Brown appeals his sentence amid ongoing legal proceedings.
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T. C. Johnson
Clyde Brown
Forsyth County
Jane
Chiton
Brown
Central Prison
RFC Official Faces Charge
A former Reconstruction Finance Corporation official, Allen E. Freeze of Dallas, is accused of working for an RFC borrower while earning a salary of 10,750 dollars. RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington said he referred the case to the Justice Department for possible prosecution and ordered a civil suit to recover 4,000 to 6,000 dollars paid while listed as employed by the Texas Petroleum Company of Dallas.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
W. Stuart Symington
Allen E. Freeze
Dallas
Symington
Justice Department
Texmass Petroleum Company of
Right Wing Gains in French Assembly Debut
In France the right wing de Gaulle party leads in early returns from the 627 seat National Assembly race. The government coalition remains ahead in seats but results show de Gaulle’s bloc potentially dominating the next Parliament, amid Communist and socialist standings.
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National Assembly
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Eee Seston
France
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Britain
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Eight Die In North Carolina Weekend Accidents
A United Press survey shows at least eight deaths from accidents and violence across North Carolina over the weekend. Incidents include a pedestrian struck in Hamlet, a car overturn near Sheroe, a fatal crash near Elizabethtown, drownings in Badin, a fatality at Fort Bragg, and a stabbing in Greensboro.
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United Press
North Carolina
Pennsel
Charlie Williams
Hamlet
Dorothy Williams
Sheroe
Edna Grace Potts
Greensboro
Badin
Denton
Junior Strickland
East Fayetteville
Elizabethtown
Fort Bragg
Pvt
John Wc
Tampa Hills
Walter Bein
Retha Chatman Bonham
Walter Mack
Henry E. Vogel
Clemson
S. C
Asheville
Market stocks show irregular noon session in New York
Market irregularity noted in New York trading with higher tendencies earlier. Trading activity remained moderate as most main list stocks held their previous closes and oil shares, which led the rise, shed most gains.
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New York
Trad
House Expected to Okay New Tax Bill This Week
The House should approve a broad excise tax bill with higher levies on cigarets bourbon beer gasoline and auto parts. It also raises individual and corporate income taxes and expands appliance and camera taxes while cutting some rates on telegraphs and film.
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Rex Ag
ANEY
United Press
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Two Guards Slain In U S Embassy Havana
In Havana downtown the United States Embassy reported two guards shot to death inside the office. Initial details were scarce as officials declined comment. Early reports named a Cuban civilian guard and a U S Marine. Secret Service assisted the investigation.
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Sullins Alumnae To Meet In Reidsville
Sullins College Bristol alumnae hold a Reidsville gathering at the Belvedere Hotel on Thursday at 1 p.m. Luncheon reservations may be made by writing Mrs Richard Saunders Jr Box 904 Reidsville.
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Sullins College
Bristol
Belvedere
Richard Saunders, Jr
Clockwork mishap nips worker’s nose at Rushford church
A workman repairing the Rushford church clock poked into the mechanism and a sweep of the minute hand nipped the tip of his nose, causing minor injury in the village.
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Rushford
Eng
Fate of Controls Uncertain As Deadline Near
Washington reports continuing doubt over extending the Defense Production Act. President Truman urges quick action to avert inflation as Congress has only about 12 working days left. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson rejects a four month extension and outlines mobilization steps including a wartime style aircraft board and a 50 000 airplane per year capacity by 1953.
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Washington
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Charles E. Wilson
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NBC
Meet the Press
Defense Production Administration
United States
Early End To Inquiry Aims For Swift Conclusion
The Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees plan to hear four more witnesses and close the MacArthur dismissal inquiry at the earliest date. Gen Dages MacArthur may testify again if he chooses, while Harriman Russell said no word from MacArthur and Harriman’s testimony will cover already explored ground. The panel, meeting in private, approved winding up soon with a possible end by mid next week and no fixed date yet for the remaining four witnesses.
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Russell
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
White House
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Jobbers and McMullan Talk Price War Probe
Oil jobbers met with Attorney General Harry McMullan to discuss a gasoline price probe in North Carolina. McMullan said he hopes to begin the probe after hearing from jobbers who say they are being squeezed as a price war unfolds in the Piedmont region.
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Harry McMullan
McMullan
Piedmont
Liner sailings halted as ship strike talks open in New York
The Elmira Victory was canceled marking the first Port of New York halt in a nationwide maritime labor dispute. Exbrook and Exermont face doubt about sailing while Europa proceeds on schedule with foreign crew. Federal mediators push for settlement as 80,000 CIO maritime workers strike across 23 Atlantic ports. NMU and ARA CIO unions join in.
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Europa
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Clyde Mills
U. S. Mediation and Conciliation Service
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Joseph Curran
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NMU
American Radio Association
Marine Engineers Benevolent Association
Atlantic
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Great Lakes
Grady to Meet Iran Ailing Leader in Oil Crisis Talks
United States Ambassador Henry F. Grady planned to confer with Iranian premier Mossadegh amid the Anglo Iranian oil dispute. Britain suggested possible early concessions while Iran demands payment of 75 percent of profits to resume talks. Foreign workers and families were evacuated from refinery areas as tensions remain high.
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Iran
United States
Henry F. Grady
Mossadegh
Herbert Morson
Anglo- Iranian Oil Company
Grady
Mohammed Ali Varasteh
Bus Contract To Be Signed Late Today
Duke Power Company bus strike negotiators prepared to sign contracts in Charlotte and other cities after a week-long stoppage. Federal mediator D Yates Heafner reported unions ready to sign with Duke officials and bus workers, signaling an end to threats of renewed strikes.
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Duke
D. Yates -Heafner
Winston-Salemigh Point
Salisbury
North Carolina
Greenville
Spartanburg
South Carolina
Heafner
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
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Plagues Kill Reds in Korea Frontline Report
Brig. Gen. Crawford F. Sams said vast Red forces and North Koreans have suffered heavy casualties from typhus smallpox and typhoid fever after a mission behind enemy lines to verify bubonic plague reports. The tally described runs into thousands and emphasizes disease as a major factor in frontline losses.
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Washington
Crawford F. Sams
Flow of Beef Slows Again
CHICAGO amid price controls the cattle flow remains tight as 66 000 head move through 12 big markets with rollbacks reducing supplies. About 900 workers face layoffs while Armour and Co. reports a $5 000 February loss and producers say current rules make livestock production unprofitable. Loren E Bamert, head of the American National Livestock Association, warns controls will cut beef supplies.
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Armour and Co
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Denver
Loren E. Bamert
American National Livestock Association
Prague Party orders schools to stress Russian language
The Communist Party ordered schools to place more emphasis on the study of Communist policy and the Russian language to reinforce ideological education.
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Prague
Communist Party
Weather notes show chill with rising highs
The forecast records a low of 6 degrees tonight and a high of 72 tomorrow. Today’s high reached 72 with a low around 61 overnight.
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