Chinese Forces Launch 11000-Man Drive Near Seoul Frontier
In Seoul the Chinese Communists push a large assault on the northern approaches to Seoul marking the Korean War's fourth year. Reports say 9000 to 11000 troops struck across the Western and East Central Fronts amid heavy artillery. Allied air forces claim massive destruction of North Korean war matériel while Communist fronts announce continued fighting ahead of ceasefire talks.
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Seoul
Yonchon
East Central
Nori-Kelly Hill
Far East Air Forces
O. P. Weyland
North Korea
Panmunmn
South Korea
Panmunjom
Eighth Army
Capitol Hill
Weyland
Korea
Manchuria
Russia
Tokyo
Church Sold For 25200 In Downtown Main Street Move
The First Evangelical and Reformed Church at 400 South Main Street sold for 25200 to J W Coltrane and Eva Coltrane and D E Neill and Jeanette Neill. Mendenhall and Moore handled the sale with Clark Albertson Auction Company conducting it. The church will transfer September 1 and the group plans to leave its Main Street site along with Wesley Memorial and Central Friends Meeting.
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Main Street
Ed Mendenhall
Mendenhall and Moore
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
South Main Street
J. W. Coltrane
Eva
D. 8. Neill
Jeanette M. Neill
Wesley Memorial Church
Central Friends Meeting
First Evangelical and
English Street
NC Savings and Loan League marks 50th convention close
In Blowing Rock North Carolina Calvin K Snyder outlines the National Association of Real Estate Boards three point program for home financing and construction during the closing sessions of the leagues 50th annual convention.
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Blowing Rock
N. Co
Calvin K. Snyder
North Carolina Savings and Loan League
Snyder
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Washington
Republicans form regional group in eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina Republicans met in Goldsboro to form an organization with headquarters in Raleigh. A six man committee was named to meet in Wilson Saturday to name an executive committee and set details for reactivating the Raleigh GOP office. About 150 Republicans from 22 counties attended the meeting and a follow up gathering was planned for Tarboro on July 29.
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Goldsboro
N. C
North Carolina
Raleigh
Wilson
Tarboro
North Carolina Bus Association Concludes Convention
The NC Bus Association closed its annual convention in Charlotte adopting resolutions urging reduction or elimination of certain taxes on the trade. President Louis M. Wade of Durham noted several companies faced losses due to a maze of multiple taxes and three or four firms folded last year from low income.
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Charlotte
North Carolina Bus Association
Louis M. Wade
Durham
Scholarship Created by Union Carbide at NCS Textile School
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp established a scholarship at North Carolina State College School of Textiles. Dean Malcolm E. Campbell announced the award, providing full tuition and a 290 dollar annual stipend for a senior textile technology or textile chemistry and dyeing student.
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Raleigh
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp
North Carolina State College School of Textiles
Malcolm E. Campbell
Utilities Commission OKs $500,000 bonds for Norfolk and Carolina
Raleigh The Utilities Commission approved Norfolk and Carolina Telephone Co to issue five hundred thousand dollars in first mortgage bonds to fund expansion. The Elizabeth City based firm serves Currituck Camden Pasquotank Chowan and parts of Dare Gates and Bertie counties. Bonds bearing 3 percent interest mature July 1 1978 if not redeemed earlier.
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Raleigh
the Utilities Commission
Norfolk and Carolina Telephone Co
Elizabeth City
Currituck
Camden
Pasquotank
Chowan
Dare, Gates
Bertie Counties
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co
Flue-Cured Tobacco Co operative to Elect Directors
The seventh annual stockholders meeting of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Co operative Stabilization Corp will elect three directors and hear reports. General manager L T Weeks urged wide grower turnout from all flue-cured counties. President Carl T Hicks will deliver the annual report and Weeks will present operations data.
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Raleigh UP
Fisk University President to Speak at South-Wide Church Mission School
Dr. Charles S. Johnson of Fisk University Nashville will headline the South-Wide School of Missions at the Lake Junaluska Methodist Church speaking tonight on Global Implications of the Teachings of Jesus. He will also speak tomorrow as delegates from nine states attend the event which ends July 2.
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Lake Junaluska
N. C
Charles S. Johnson
Fisk University
Nashville
General Hodge Reviews 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg Parade
General John R. Hodge, retiring next Tuesday as chief of Army Field Forces, reviewed the 82nd Airborne Division on the parade field at Fort Bragg. Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey stood with him on the reviewing stand. Hodge will relocate from Monroe Virginia to Fort Bragg to make his home and is a former Fort Bragg commander.
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FT. Bragg
John R. Hodge
Army Field Forces
82Nd Airborne Division
Thomas J. Hickey
Hodge
Monroe
Christie Gets Death Sentence
John R. Christie, a self confessed strangler of seven women, was convicted of murder at Old Bailey and sentenced to die. The 55 year old wartime policeman admitted strangling six other younger women over ten years while denying mad insanity.
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London
John R. Christie
Old Bailey
Christie
Ethel
Donald Finnemore
Summerfield seeks postal rate hikes to reduce deficit
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield urged Congress to approve rate increases totaling 240.6 million dollars annually. He proposed a four cent stamp for non local first class mail and a seven cent airmail rate, with no change to local first class or postcards. He argued higher rates are needed to make the Post Office self sustaining and reduce a large annual deficit.
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Washington
Arthur E. Summerfield
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
Summerfield
Post Office
Parcel Post
Interstate Commerce Commission
Department
Senator Willis Smith Improves Slightly in Hospital
Senator Willis Smith of North Carolina, age 65, remained in grave but improving condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital after a heart ailment. Doctors noted slight overnight gains with a stronger pulse and reduced shock, though he remained critically ill and his staff urged continued care.
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Washington
Willis Smith
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Raleigh
Umstead
North Carolina
Smith
Willis
Tion
Jesse Helms
Senate
Frank Graham
Harry Truman
American Bar Association
U. S
United Nations Educational, ‘Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Unesco
Helms
Truman order linked to massive infiltration claims
Former State Department official J Anthony Panuch testified that a 1945 Truman merger of wartime intelligence into the department fostered a massive Communist infiltration of the government. He cited a 1946 memo alleging Svengali like influence by Alger Hiss over Edward R Stettinius Jr and warned of Hiss extending control at the United Nations. Hiss was later convicted in 1950 of perjury and passed a prison sentence.
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Washington
State Department
Truman
J. Anthony Panuch
United Nations Secretariat
Department of State
Panuch
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Alger Hiss
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
New York City
Donald Russell
Russell
Hiss
Svengali
Stettinius
U. S
United Nations
George du Maurier
Trilby
Rhee Calls for Showdown with Communists in Korea
In Seoul President Syngman Rhee demands a showdown with the Communists as he nears a clash with the United States. U S envoy Walter Robertson plans critical talks with Rhee to push for a quick armistice on Allied terms.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
United States
Rhee
South Korea
Eisenhower
U. S. State Department
Far East
Walter S. Robertson
Korea
Robertson
Key High Point Lotter Operator Named In Court
George Blanton Jr admitted knowledge and work for former lottery king George Smith and identified key lottery figures in Greensboro High Point and Reidsville. He testified in a large conspiracy case while serving two years at Sandy Ridge Prison Camp, with other defendants facing various conspiracy counts and court transfers.
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Grant Nsboro
George Blanton Jr
George Smith
Greensboro
High Point
Reidsville
Blanton
Sandy Ridge
Alphonso Gill
C. W. Brown
Orward
Guilford Superior Court
Ernest McCorkle
Frank
Superior Court
Thomas Jones
John Pettress
Joseph Cherry
Milton Bowden
Smith
McCorkle
High Pint
Winston-Salem
Textile Workers Begin Summer Vacations Across Carolinas
About 400000 textile workers in North and South Carolina start summer vacations with plants closing after the day shift and many firms granting two week holidays. Burling ton Mills alone plans roughly 1.76 million dollars in vacation pay while pay scales vary by length of service.
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Associated Press
Carolina
Capet
Burlington Mills
North Carolina
Gastonia
Tobacco sale dates to be set at Monday meeting
Raleigh officials announce that opening dates for the flue-cured tobacco crop will be determined at a Monday meeting in the Sir Walter Hotel. A new 15 member joint industry committee will hear input before the Bright Belt Warehouse Association fixes sales start dates for five smoking belts.
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Raleigh
Fred Royster
Henderson
Bright Belt Warehouse Association
Royster
Sir Walter Hotel
North Carolina Belt
North Carolina Middle Belt
Virginia-North Carolina
S. A
South Carolina Warehouse Association
South Carolina
Mullins
Border Belt Association
Bright Belt Board of Governors
Train hits and kills 75 year old man near Arlington Mill
In Gastonia North Carolina a Southern passenger train struck and killed J. M. Decker age 75 while he walked along the track near the Arlington Mill community last night. Coroner W. G. McLean announced an inquest will be held.
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Gastonia
N. C
Southern
J. M. Decker
Arlington Mill
Decker
W. G. McLean
Lyon Case Embarrasses Eisenhower
President Eisenhower faces embarrassment over the nomination of Lyon as director of the Bureau of Mines. The White House moves to withdraw the nomination after Lyon disclosed a $5,000 pension from Anaconda Copper and opposition to the federal mine safety law. Interior officials say Lyon’s pension and views were unknown to them, prompting calls for accountability. Assistant Secretary Wormser notes Lyon was sponsored by Senator Watkins of Utah.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Tom Lyon
Lyon
Bureau of Mines
White House
Secretary of the Interior
McKay
Senate
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Administer
Mines Bureau
Interior Department
Watkins
Felix E. Wormser
Sen
Utah
Rules Group To Consider Tax Measure
The Rules Committee meets in a bid to push President Eisenhower’s excess profits tax to the floor bypassing Ways and Means. Chairman Allen expects Majority Leader Halleck to present the plea. Reed will oppose. Seven of eight Republicans must back the move for success, Democrats largely oppose. Speaker Martin says he has no doubt the committee will back administration action.
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Washington
House, Rules Committee
House
Eisenhower
GOP
Rules Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Allen
R-N
Halleck
R-Ind
Ways and Means
Reed
R-Ny
Open Rules Committee
Martin
R-Mass
Textile Makers See Bright 1953 Prospects In Fabrics
New York reports optimistic 1953 outlook across wool cotton rayon and synthetics. Wool producers from Australia New Zealand and South Africa join U S growers to defend wool. Cotton textile merchants New York foresee strong orders and lean inventories while rayon and acetate shipments rise.
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New York
Wool Bureau, Inc
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
U. S
Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
Rayon Information Center
Dacron
Orlon
Dynel
Vicara
Acrilan
Saran
Rayon Boys
New Rally Called In Red Berlin Amid Tense East Zone
East Berlin's Communist leadership urged a mass demonstration in the three eastern boroughs to back regime plans while warning ringleaders of uprisings will be punished. The Soviet commander approved the rally as arrests rose with 400 in Dresden and 115 in Freital.
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Mark Clark
U. N
Tokyo
38Th Parallel
Clark
Korea
Mitte
Friedrichshain
Kopenick
P. T. Dibrova
Red Army
East Zone
Weather figures for tonight and tomorrow
Tonight's low is 67 and tomorrow's high reaches 90. Today's high was 88 with a 66 low last night. Sun sets at 7 41 p m and rises tomorrow at 5 05 a m.
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Charlotte
Official
Weather Bureau
Asheville
Atlanta
Boston
Columbia
Detroit
High Point
Little Rock
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
San Francisco
Washington
Wilmington
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kVorengen Howe Tresseee
Sen. Smith
Nels
Key High Point Lotter
Tobacco Mart
AEC
Lewis D. Strauss
U. S. Naval Reserve
Atomic Energy Commission
Lyon Case
Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of
Red
Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
Kurt Unbehauen
Gera
Dresden
Freital
Tharandt
Cottbus
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