De Gaulle Quietly Reemerges in French Political Rift
France faces a left right clash as General Charles De Gaulle reappears after six months. He warns against dictatorship and calls for clear balanced powers while favoring a strong executive and two chamber legislature. His return appears timed with the new president and the drafting of a revised constitution awaiting approval.
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France
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Constituent Assembly
Atomic energy funds boosted as army budget sails through
The House floor considered a $7.091 billion army budget with an extra $175 million for atomic energy development. The Appropriations Committee trimmed relief and government activities abroad by $150 million, while approving full funding for the Air Corps at $1.1995 billion. Generals Eisenhower and Groves urged keeping the A bomb secret.
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Aera
Army
War Department
Chan Oa
Reseseatan
AIR Corps
Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
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Atomic Service Fund
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Leslie R. Groves
Commit
Accord Reached On Evacuation Of Soldiers In Europe
Paris report says ministers council agreed that British American and Russian troops in Italy Bulgaria be evacuated within 90 days after the peace treaty with those countries takes effect. A Soviet counter proposal called for an allied ambassadors commission in Rome to oversee the treaty terms. Russia had opposed such a commission as infringing sovereignty. The talks touched on Trieste reparations and the frontier with France while Byrnes and Molotov set conditions for withdrawal and cross zone communications.
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Ministers Council
Italy
Bulgaria
Britain
United States
Rome
Sion
Trieste
Pri
Molotov
U. S
Balkans
France
Adriatic
Carolinas May Get Relief From Heat
Heat lingered in the Carolinas as thundershowers brought relief forecasts of cooler weather. Rain disrupted Raleigh power and sparked minor fires, with Rex hospital switching to emergency generators. Injuries were limited to two minor cases. temperatures reached 100 in Columbia and near 97 in Charlotte and other cities.
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Carolinas
Raleigh
Rex Hospital
Columbia
Mount Mitchell
Asheville
Charleston
Greensboro
Ral
Spertanvare
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Weather notes show cloudiness and showers Friday
Fragmentary forecast mentions cloudiness and mild conditions with scattered showers. It notes sunrise at 5 08 and sunset at 7 40 for Friday June 1.
Herriot Offered Cabinet Post In New French Government
Paris reports former premier Edouard Herriot said President Bidault offered him a cabinet post. Herriot will consult his Radical Socialist party before deciding. Bidault aims for an inclusive cabinet with at least one moderate but likely retains foreign minister. Domestic strife shadows Bidault as opposition weighs a citywide strike amid protests near Communist HQ.
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Edouard Herriot
Radical-Socialist Party
Georges Bidault
Herriot
Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
Housing Chief Seeks 6 Month No-Strike Pledge
Washington reports Housing Expeditor Wilson Wyatt is seeking a six month no strike pledge from AFL and CIO unions to push the veterans housing program forward. He aims to reduce construction bottlenecks by expanding a multi million dollar subsidy plan for soft wood plywood and related building materials to speed up completions. Aides say the pledge would cover labor in construction and materials sectors through December, aiding thousands of partly finished homes and new starts.
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Wilson Wyatt
AFL
CIO
Homes For Veterans
National Housing Agency
Congress
NHA
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Rreler
Chester Bowles
William Green
Philip Murray
Two Veterans Seek North Carolina State Commander Post
Two candidates vie for the state commander role in the North Carolina department of the Disabled American Veterans as the annual convention prepares to convene June 23 to 26 in Charlotte. Henry T. Ireland of the Charlotte chapter and J. M. Kennedy Jr. of the Raleigh chapter challenge the position held by R. K. Shotwell of Asheville. National officers expected include Don V. Walker and Vivian Davis Corby of Cincinnati, Rev. John F. Rowell of Asheville, and William F. Tate of Washington.
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North Carolina Department of Disabled American Veterans
R. K. Shotwell
Asheville
Henry T. Ireland
J. M. Kennedy, Jr
Raleigh
Don V. Walker
Vivian Davis Corby
Cincinnati
John F. Rowell
Wiliam F. Tate
Washington
Soviet Plan Proposes World Atomic Ban and US Destruction
At the United Nations atomic energy commission in New York on June 20, Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko outlined a Russian plan for a world convention to outlaw atomic weapons. It would require signatories to destroy weapons within three months and create international controls with sanctions for violations. The proposal contrasts with Bernard Baruch's US plan to share know-how and pool control under guard of the UN Security Council.
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United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
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United Sates
U. S
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Baruchoff
Gromyko
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Andrei A. Gromyko
Baruch
Security Council
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United Nations
Erwin Workers Return To Jobs After Walkout
About 60 Erwin cotton mill workers who struck yesterday are back at work in Durham. The walkout arose from a dispute over four week old work assignments in the No 4 spinning room. W R Murray, CIO textile workers union business manager, called the stoppage a misunderstanding and declined to elaborate.
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Durham
Erwin
W. R. Murray
Textile Workers Union of America, Cio
Bowles Attacks Price Control Bills as Inflationary Traps
Stabilization chief Chester Bowles denounces both house and senate price control bills as inflationary booby traps and warns he would resign if the final conference measure weakens the government’s fight against inflation. He spoke after appeals from four top officials urging effective price control.
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Chester Bowles
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Senate
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Acheson
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Commerce Wallace
Labor
Schwellenbach
Congress
Lang Begins Social Hygiene Field Work in North Carolina
Maj. John M. Lang of Carthage takes duties as field representative and assistant director for the state social hygiene society. The group, formed to combat venereal disease under Capus Waynick, is financed by the Reynolds Foundation but will lose support at fiscal year end. Lang is a former state NYA director.
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Raleigh
John M. Lang
Carthage
State Social Hygiene Society
Capus Waynick
Reynolds Foundation
Land
NYA
Hirohito Urges Diet to Strip Power From Throne
Tokyo June 20 4 Em peror Hirohito asked the diet to adopt a revised constitution reducing imperial power. In a first written message he urged action in the name of the supreme will of the people and called for renouncing war. Five communist diet members boycotted opening. document labeled a message not a rescript.
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Hirohito
Diet
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Mikado
State of Georgia seeks to dissolve Ku Klux Klan charter
Georgia state attorneys filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court led by Attorney General Eugene Cook to dissolve the Ku Klux Klan charter. The suit charges the organization seeks to enforce its principles by force and to organize police officers and others in key government roles to seize parts of state government.
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Charter
Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta
Fulton County
Eugene Cook
Klan
Georgia
Independence Plan For India Strikes Snag
New Delhi June 20 a powerful congress party delayed indefinitely a decision on Britain's independence plan for an interim Indian government because its president designate Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested in Kashmir. Maulana Azad said the working committee adjourned sine die. return depends on Nehru's release. Nehru was wounded slightly and arrested at Domel while attempting to enter Kashmir with Dewan Chaman Lal.
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Congress Party
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kashmir
Maulana Azad
Pandit Nehru
India
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Nehru
Domel
Srinagar
Dewan
Chamanlal
Greensboro Man Named Director In Coop Club
Atlantic City June 20 Emil J. Thomas of Tulsa Oklahoma was installed as president of the Cooperative Club International at its 26th annual meeting. The women's affiliate elected Mrs Thomas Mason of Kansas City as president. Hugh Keeling of Greensboro North Carolina was named a director.
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N. J
Cooperative Club International
Emil J. Thomas
Tulsa
Okla
Thomas Mason
Kansas City
Hugh Keeling
Greensboro
N.C
Palestine unrest claims Jewish and British dead in Tel Aviv
In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv the week long revolt of Jewish illegal groups continues with 22 Jews and three Britons killed over three days. British troops guard rail junctions and streets as curfews, roadblocks, and barbed wire barricades tighten across Palestine.
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Tel Aviv
Palestine
Haj Amin al Husseini
Middle East
Two Candidates Stay In Race For Speakership
Raleigh news reports two candidates remain in the 1947 North Carolina House speakership race. Rep. William T. Hatch of Wake County has withdrawn and backs Rep. F. E. Wallace of Lenoir County, while Rep. Thomas J. Pearsall of Nash County continues his bid. Hatch cited Ballentine’s Wake County origin as a reason to avoid dual presiding officers from the same county.
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Raleigh
William T. Hatch
Wake County
F. E. Wallace
Lenoir County
Thomas J. Pearsall
Nash County
Hatch
L. ¥. Ballentine
Senate
Baptists Schedule Greensboro Meeting Over Wake Forest Offer
North Carolina Baptists will meet in Greensboro July 30 to decide on a $10,500,000 gift from the Z. Smith Reynolds foundation to Wake Forest College on condition it move to Winston-Salem. The special session, called by the convention's general board, will begin at 11 a.m. at Greensboro First Baptist Church, with 2,700 churches entitled to delegates.
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Z. Smith Reynal Foundation
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Star Baptist Convention
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Rockingham
Jary
M. Huggins
Raleigh
Tion
Huggins
Delgates
First Baptist Church
Asheville
Vention
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