U S Charges Violations Of Principles In Balkans
In Lake Success on June 27 the United States charged Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria with violating fundamental UN charter principles by aiding Greek guerrillas. Warren R. Austin cited evidence blaming Soviet satellite states for Balkan disorder and said Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria aided Greek fighters, attacking Greece's independence.
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Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
United Nations
Austin
Greece
Three Negroes Die In State Gas Chamber
RALEIGH June 27 Three Negroes two convicted of murder and one of raping a white woman died today in the gas chamber in the second triple execution of Governor Cherry's administration. Moses Artis 42 of Duplin county Roy Kirksey 25 of Columbus county and Woodrow Brown 26 of Wake county were executed. Artis and Kirksey died together while Brown died alone. Each had confessed and Cherry said he would not intervene.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Moses Artis
Duplin County
George House
Roy Kirksey
Columbus County
Eloise Kirksey
Woodrow Brown
Wake
Stella Edwards
Wake County
Irksey
Kirksey
Artis
Brown
Eisler Gets Full Penalty For Contempt Of Congress
Eisler receives maximum federal sentence of one year in prison and a $1000 fine for contempt of Congress. Judge Alexander Holtzoff denied a new trial and mercy plea after Eisler refused to take an oath for testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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Washington
P'Gerhart Eisler
Congress
Federal District Court
Alexander Holtzoff
Isler
Eisler
House Committee On UN
Calvary Presbyterian Pastor Convicted in Fire Damage
Dr John Lewis, on leave from Calvary Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee, was found guilty by a jury of ten men and two women of starting a fire on January 25 that caused 150000 dollars in damage to his church.
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Milwaukee
John Lewis
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Weather notes from Charlotte and regional highs and lows
North Carolina forecast partly cloudy with scattered thunder this afternoon evening and Saturday. Temperatures show warmer today and hot conditions likely Saturday. measured readings across cities include Charlotte 86 Raleigh 92 Charleston 89 Jacksonville 86 New Orleans 91, with rainfall amounts noted in several locales.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
Weather Bureau
Boston
Charleston
Charlotte ST
Columby
Denver
Ville
Galveston
Jacksonville
Los Ligle Rock
Memphis
Meridian
Roberts in training plea to Congress calls for universal military draft
Former Supreme Court Justice J. Roberts urged Congress to pass universal military training before adjournment. He warned military weakness risks a crisis and an all out world war and criticized delaying action as dangerous. Roberts spoke to the House Armed Services Committee as head of a Citizens Emergency Committee.
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Washington
Supreme Court
J. Roberts
United States
Congress
Roberts
United Nations
House Armed ‘Services Committee
Man Sentenced In Red Case
Carl A. Marzani 35 an Italian born former State Department sub official was sentenced to one to three years in prison on four counts for hiding communist party affiliations in a federal loyalty test. He was refused bond pending appeal and convicted May on all 11 counts.
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Washington
Carl A. Marzani
State Department
Federal District Court
Richmond B. Keech
Marzani
Arlington
State and Justice Department
Ten Are Fired For Disloyalty
Washington reports the state department announced at least ten employees were fired recently for suspected disloyalty to the United States government. Press Officer Lincoln White called it a very recent action and said no further details were available though dismissals were believed to be under 1947 appropriations authority.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Lincoln White
Peron Sees Pope in Vatican During State Visit
Mrs. Juan D. Peron met Pope Pius III for a 20 minute audience in Vatican City and toured the Apostolic Palace and St. Peter's today as part of a state visit.
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Vatican City
Juan D. Peron
Pius III
Apostolic Palace
St. Peter's Church
Leaders of Six Million CIO Workers Gather in Capital
In Washington six million CIO members convened as President Truman urged strict compliance with the new Taft-Hartley act. CIO President Philip Murray led a 51 member executive board to review the statute with the union's legal staff while AFL plans a July 9 meeting to map policy.
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CIO
Washington
Truman
Philip Murray
Lee Pressman
AFL
William Green
Ford and UAW Reach 7 Cent Wage Rise and Pension Plan
Detroit June 27 1949 Ford Motor Co and the CIO United Automobile Workers union announce a wage increase of seven cents an hour plus a pension plan replacing paid holidays for about 110 000 production workers. Richard T Leonard head of the UAW Ford division says the plan is the industrys first old age retirement program. The combined impact boosts pay by over 15 cents an hour.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Richard T. Leonard
Uaw-Cso
Ford
Leonard
Truman urges patience as Taft Hartley impact grows
President Truman appeals to labor and management to comply with the Taft Hartley act amid a nationwide coal strike. With two thirds of miners idle and fuel shortages, unrest spreads as the government prepares to exit soft coal operations and workers take 10 days of paid vacation.
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Truman
Pittsburgh
U. S
Naval Coal Mines Administration
Congress
Afl-United Mine Workers
Strikers File Wage Claims
Roland Perry of Wilmington conducted a hearing in Goldsboro on unemployment compensation claims from Wayne Agricultural Works workers who walked out February 19. The plant reopened May 1 and 25 claims are on file. results will take several days to be announced.
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Goldsboro
Roland Perry
Wilmington
Employment Security Council
Wayne Agricultural Works, Inc
N. C
Foreign Ministers Open Economic Meet In Paris
In Paris on June 27 the foreign ministers of Russia Great Britain and France began discussing an European recovery plan tied to American aid. They debated whether the program should operate outside the UN framework while a French official proposed a UN linked European commission as planning and execution bodies. The talks among Molotov Bevin and Bidault faced questions about future Russia Western alliance and aims, held privately in the Salon Des Perroquets Hall of Parrots.
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Paris
Russia
Great Britain
France
U. S
Marshall
London
United States
Britain
United Nations
Foreign Office
Alexander Bogomolov
Molotov
Salon Des Perroquets- Hall of
Foreign Ministry
Quai D’orsay
Arab higher executive rejects King Abdullah call to end boycott
A high Arab source said June 27 that the Arab higher executive would reject King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan's appeal to suspend the boycott of the United Nations Palestine inquiry commission.
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Jerusalem
Abdullah
trans-Jordan
United Nations Palestine Inquiry Commission
Goldsboro Hit By Heavy Rain
Goldsboro was drenched by about 3.52 inches of rain yesterday afternoon with the storm likely affecting much of Wayne and nearby counties. Wayne Agricultural Conservation Association secretary Seth D. Westbrook noted crops generally needed rain and tobacco was blooming in the Seven Springs area.
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Goldsboro
Wayne
Seth D. Westbrook
Wayne Agricultural Conservation Association
Seven Springs
Slavery Case Defendants May Be Jailed
San Diego June 27. Mr and Mrs Alfred Wesley Ingalls face possible jail after prosecutors accuse them of intimidating witnesses in a federal trial charging them with enslaving Dora Jones a 57 year old Negro maid. Judge Weinberger may decide to revoke bail and detain the couple who have been free on 2500 dollars each after a night in county jail earlier this year. The government contends an old affair between Mrs Ingalls former husband Walter Harmon and the maid was used to keep her in servitude.
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San Diego
Calif
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
Dora Jones
Jacob Weinberger
New England
U. S
Eugene A. Tolin
Ingalls
Liberty
Coronado
Second Negro Case Reaches Jackson Jury
A Northampton county jury of ten farmers and two textile workers began hearing the case of James Boone 21 charged with first degree burglary in the April 25 rape of a Rich Square woman. Will Cherry 24 testified for the state admitting the assault and Boone denied being with him the night of the crime. seven defense witnesses testified Boone was not with Cherry.
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Jackson
Northampton County
James
Dick) Boone
Boone
Will Cherry
J. G. Tarrant
Cherry
J W. H. S. Burgwyn
Dia
Tarrant
Yadkin River Project Funding Narrowly Carried by Committee
The House Appropriations Committee recommends more than four million dollars for North Carolina and Virginia river works next year. Buggs Island dam on the Roanoke River gets 3.8 million to continue a 57.73 million project, while no new funding is proposed for Yadkin River flood control in North Carolina. Governor Cherry supported funding but Truman advised restraint on unfunded projects.
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Washington
North Carolina
Virginia
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Buggs Island
Roanoke River
Kerr
D-Nc
Union
Staunton
Smith Rivers
Truman
R. Gregg Cherry
Brothers Released on $25,000 Bonds in Robertson Slaying
Burlington report states Paul and Robert McLeod were released on bonds of $25,000 each after a preliminary murder hearing for the June 20 killing of Frank Robertson. The hearing was continued at the request of the prosecuting attorney.
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Burlington
Paul
Robert McLeod
Frank Robertson
Ex-GIs Sleep Overnight Inside Buckingham Palace Grounds
Two former soldiers from Oregon and Yale graduate student Jensen and McCall crawled over an eight and a half foot wall into St James Park near Buckingham Palace. They slept on arctic bags and woke at 8 a.m. to gardeners, workmen, police, and a detective. Scotland Yard confirmed the incident but offered few details.
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London
Buckingham Palace
John L. Jensen
North Bend
Ore
Wallace McCall
Portland
Jensen
University of Oregon
St. James’ Park
McCall
Yale
Scotland Yard
England
Europe
McCal
China Receives U S Munitions for Chiang Kai-Shek Forces
Washington reports the United States will turn over 130 million pounds of surplus rifle ammunition to Chiang Kai-Shek's troops. Officials noted possible broader arms sales from private manufacturers and loans for specific projects though aid funds may expire.
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Washington
United States
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
State Department
Manchuria
North
Nanking
Truman
Marshall
S. C. Wang
Russia
Indonesian Premier Quits Amid Crisis Threat
Premier Sutan Sjahrir resigned amid opposition to his moderate policies in Jakarta. Officials said only a miracle could avert renewed armed conflict with the Dutch. A Batavia Dutch spokesman anticipated Soekarno might seek arbitration by a third power or the United Nations through an emergency cabinet move.
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Jogjakarta
Java
Sutan Sjahrir
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Soekarno
United Nations
Nei
H. J. van Mook
Lawyers To Hear Talks At North Carolina Bar Convention
Delegates at the 49th annual North Carolina Bar Association convention in Blowing Rock heard reports and addresses from prominent lawyers. Charles R. Jonas of Lincoln, associate president, said state courts run on a "horse and buggy" basis and noted confusion and delay over procedural matters that could be cut with pre trial conferences between judges and lawyers.
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina Bar Association
Charles R. Jonas
Lincinton
Finance Body Proposes Big Cuts in War Dept Civil Funds
The House Appropriations Committee recommends a 114 percent cut totaling 43,540,231 to civil functions of the War Department for the fiscal year starting July 1. It calls for 339,186 for activities and outlines major reductions in rivers and harbors and flood control, with key allocations for cemeteries, quartermaster, Alaska signals, and the Panama Canal, aiming to trim the president's 1948 budget.
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Washington
War Department
House
Panama Canal
Mississippi River
Arm Quartermaster Corps
Alaska Communications System
Army Signa Corps
Pact to Modernize Turkish Army Nears Signing
The United States is expected to sign within days a 100 million dollar agreement with Turkey to modernize the Turkish army. Negotiations in Ankara between American Ambassador Edwin C. Wilson and Turkish officials aim to reassure Turkey that the U.S. aid carries no imperial aims amid Soviet propaganda in the region. Moscow seeks control of the Dardanelles and the Turkish provinces of A and Ardahan as part of its pressure campaign.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
Greece
Ankara
Edwin C. Wilson
Middle East
Dardanelles
A and
Ardahan
Uion
MacArthur Urges Jap Supervision With Air Power
General MacArthur told American newspaper executives in Tokyo Japan should be supervised for a generation perhaps with American bomber and fighter planes. He mentioned UN supervision but suggested a great air power sweep from Okinawa bases could protect or supervise Japan. He also hinted US retention of Okinawa and the Ryukyus.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Allied Supreme Commandos
United Nations
Okinawa
United States
Ryukyus
Outing Planned For Press Meet In Morehead City
North Carolina Press Association members held sessions in Morehead City with a boat trip and banquet featuring Representative Graham Barden. W Randall Harris led the daily paper group from Asheville Citizen Times while Tom Lassiter headed the weekly group from the Smithfield Herald. Plans were also made to entertain the national editorial association at its May Pinehurst meeting on a statewide tour.
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Morehead City
Graham Barden
North Carolina Press Association
W. Randall ‘Harris
Asheville
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Des Moines
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Stabor
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James Boone
Yadkin River
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Robert C. McClanahan
State Bank
Napoleon, Ind
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