Truman backs Baruch as UN atomic commission opens
President Truman endorses Bernard Baruch before the UN atomic energy commission in New York. The session debates rules and majority voting as the body begins work on a permanent atomic control agency. Soviet Russia objects to a straight majority rule and warns it may block measures.
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New York
Truman
Bernard Baruch
United States
United Nations Atomic Commission
Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet
Russia
Commission
Andrei A. Gromyko
Reading for Millions Goes Out Next Week
Chicago reports Sears Roebuck and Company will mail its fall and winter catalog next week. The 37 percent larger book will carry a price-increase clause and omit radios, shirts, watches, sheets, refrigerators, and sewing machines. Diamond rings may reach 4600 dollars. coats at 49 dollars. wool suits 24.50 dollars. Catalog prices claimed to align with OPA rules.
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Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears
OPA
Weather outlook for Carolinas and readings across the nation
The forecast calls for partly cloudy warm weather with afternoon thundershowers Likely Saturday June 29 1946 extended through Monday with slight warming and cooler Wednesday Highs run one to three degrees above normal Precipitation expected light with scattered storms A 36 hour temperature and rainfall table lists readings from cities including Los Angeles Memphis Meridian Miami Philadelphia and Raleigh with notable totals for Charleston Mobile and San Antonio
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Witely
Carolinas
Official
Weather Bureau
Los Angeles
Memphis
Os Meridian Se
Ham
Miami
Charleston
Mobile
Mt. Mitchell
New Orleans
New York
Coe
Raleigh
San Antonio
Evansville
San Franco
Galveston
Spartanburg
Tampa
Washington
Ee Wilmington
Two Veterans Hospitals For North Carolina
The Veterans Administration approved sites for five southern veterans hospitals. In North Carolina, Charlotte will receive a 500 bed general medical and surgical hospital on 82 acres near McClintock golf course, with a clubhouse to be removed. Durham site covers 17 acres near Duke University Medical Center for a 500 bed hospital.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Charlotte
N. C
McClintock
General Medical and Surgical Hospital
Durham
Foushee, Et al
Duke
University’s Medical School Hospital
Tumult at Japanese Diet as Woman Member Is Silenced
In Tokyo a rowdy Diet session sees a woman member shouted down with cries of shut up ye woman as liberal hecklers jeer Communist Sanzo Nozaka who denounces a proposed constitution as favoring capitalists landowners and bureaucrats. The liberals resume shouting but allow Nozaka to finish.
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Tokyo
Sanzo Nozaka
Liberal
T-Wing
Agreement on Italian Chief Is Reported
Ansa reported that Calano of Italy's three major parties agreed on 68 year old Enrico De Nicola of Naples as pro president of the new republic. The constituent assembly is expected to choose this afternoon.
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Ency Ansa
Calan Ae
Italy
Enrico de Nicola
Repob
Constituent Assembly
Ne Nicola Elected Interim President of Italian Republic
Enrico De Nicola, 64, elected provisional president by the constituent assembly in Rome. He won 396 of 504 votes after Christian democrats, socialists and communists backed him as a compromise. De Gasperi’s six party coalition is set to resign when he arrives in Rome tomorrow.
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Rome
Enrico de Nicola
de Nicola
Christian Democrats
Alcide de Gasperi
Nicola in line for two thirds if three parties unite
Ansa reports that Christian democrats socialists and communists reached a possible accord in Nicola this morning after a stalemate last night. The three parties hold 427 seats and would secure the two thirds majority. Nicola, a former journalist, served in Giolitti and Orlando cabinets and was named senator in 1932 but never attended sessions.
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Ansa
Christian Democrats
Nicola
Chamber of Deputies
Giolitti
Orlando
Vittorio Emanuele
Thieves flee after breaking into Danville chain store
In Danville Nosy thieves broke into a chain food store in the early hours and carried a heavy safe to the storefront. The safe dropped onto the sidewalk when the thieves fled as motorists and residents gathered, leaving the unopened safe in the street.
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Danville
International Situation To Govern Weed Market
President Lee L Gravely told the Tobacco Association of the United States that the tobacco export bust this year hinges on the international financial situation but we must regain foreign trade He noted improved export prospects now the war is over He urged using all means to export a large part of the coming crop to maintain reasonable prices and cited CCC holdings of 67000000 pounds from 1945 flue cured He said CCC will not participate in the 1946 auction and that foreign markets were lost during the war with lend lease serving them now.
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Raleigh
Lee L. Gravely
Tobacco Association of the
United States
Association
Gravely
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Lendease
Mass German Civilians Arrested After Hamburg Protest
British authorities arrested an unspecified number of German civilians in Hamburg after a mass demonstration against an evacuation order that would move 30 000 residents to accommodate British military families. About 4 000 residents joined the protest, the first large scale expression of Allied occupation resentment.
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Hamburg
Drowned escapee from Mecklenburg sentence found dead
Raleigh June 28 Lu ther Landrum 25 sentenced in Mecklenburg county December 3 1945 to three years on larceny was found drowned this morning in the Pee Dee river at Rockingham. He escaped Wednesday with Charlie Lanford from the Rich...
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Raleigh
Luther Landrum
Mecklenburg County
Pee Dee
Rockingham
Charlie Lanford
OPA Nervous Over Rent Outlook If Controls Expire
Washington June 28 nervous about rent futures as Congress weighs a new price control extension. OPA officials say rents could not stay at current levels if law expires. Landlords consider 15 percent increases in renewals. tenants may refuse to sign leases without such clauses.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
OPA
Ivan D. Carson
Carson
Paul Porter
Chester Bowles
House
Senate
Ministers Rally For Five Peace Treaties In Paris Session
Four foreign ministers convene in Paris to draft five peace pacts with Italy Bulgaria Romania Hungary and Finland ahead of a 21 nation conference. Talks address Danube navigation Balkan issues reparations colonial questions and naval surplus while a July 15 summit remains uncertain.
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Paris
Italy
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Finland
Trieste
Danube
Aegean Sea
Reece
Tenda
Briga
France
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Cotton Mills End Five Day Week Across Carolinas
Charlotte reports the Carolinas cotton textile industry ending the five day week for the Fourth of July holiday. Most spindles will be idle next week with operations mostly idle July 4 and likely limited on July 5. Industry groups estimate a drop of at least 100 bales in cotton consumption next week.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Long Strike In Copper Mines Ends After Five Months
Louis Cates president of Phelps Dodge Corp announced the CIO mine unions strike at Arizona copper mines and Hill Y and El Paso refineries ended. The agreement matches the national pattern with an 18 percent hourly wage increase. The five month strike crippled production and threatened electrical appliance and auto manufacturing.
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New York
Louis Cates
Phelps Dodge Corp
CIO
Arizona
Hill
el Paso
Texas
Anaconda
Cates
Phelps Dodge
Pier Collapses Tosses 12 Into Water In Philadelphia
A 150 foot Delaware River pier collapsed dumping about 12 people into 20 feet of water near Philadelphia. Six survived with injuries while at least five remained unaccounted for as rescue operations continued. William Turnbull described a crack in the flooring moments before the disaster and the pier sank rapidly with timber and debris.
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Philadelphia
Delaware A
William Turnbull
Stokes County Escapee To Be Tried In S C
Reatha Cummings 23 year old escapee from Stokes county prison camp likely will face robbery charges in Union county South Carolina. He was captured after a 48 hour manhunt following his May 1 escape while serving a four year portion of a 50 year highway robbery sentence. If convicted in South Carolina he will serve the sentence there before returning to North Carolina to finish terms.
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Raleigh
Reatha Cummings
Stokes County
Union County
North Carolina
Clyde O. Robinson
Cummings
Union
Robinson
South Carolina
Georgia Plans to Cancel 108-Year-Old Railroad Debt
Georgia prepares to erase a debt dating back 108 years tied to the Western and Atlantic railroad. Final bonds totaling 863,702 of a 5 million issue mature, wiping out about 25 million in interest costs though records are partly lost. The state railroad is valued at 27 million.
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Atlanta
Georgia
B. E. Thrasher, Jr
Two Men Die in North Carolina Gas Chamber Deaths
Fred Deaton of Gastonia and Fab Stewart of Raleigh were executed in the Central Prison gas chamber after being convicted of first degree murder. Deaton, 90, a father of five, died seven minutes after exposure. Stewart followed. Deaton had a prior criminal record and was linked to a 1945 Gaston county shooting.
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Raleigh
Fred Deaton
Gastonia
Fab Stewart
Central Prison
Deaton
Stewart
Gaston County
Walt A. Clark
Hathaway Cross
Denton
Russia eyes Germany fate shaping postwar order
The article weighs whether Russia will push for a unified Germany under Moscow influence or favor a federated Germany to ease control of Ruhr Rhineland and western German zones. It notes Soviet backed socialist unity party calls for a united indivisible republic and hints at a potential power tug of war among postwar allies.
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Russia
Germany
Berlin
Moscow
Iron Curtain
Ruhr
Rhineland
Europe
Federated States
Socialists Unity Party
Social Democrats
Socialist Unity Party
Compromise Is Only Hope Leaders Say
Democratic leaders urged President Truman to sign the compromise OPA bill as the price controls fight neared a vote. Senate leaders Barkley and McKel lar pressed for action while Truman weighed the choice, calling a White House conference with the key lawmakers.
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Pappy
OPA
W. Lee
Pappy” O'Daniel
Texas
Senate
Truman
Washington
Congress
Barkley
White House
Rayburn
McKellar
D-Tenn
House
McCormack
Mass
W. Lee O'Daniel
O'Daniel
Elmer Thomas
Okla
Regular Army Commissions For Tar Heels
President Truman nominates 16 North Carolinians for regular army commissions. The list shows each officer and his grade with temporary ranks in parentheses, noting many hold higher temporary commissions. Names include Erasmus Strickland Greensboro and Robert C. Gofer Greensboro among others with ranks from First Lieutenant to Major.
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Washington
Truman
Army
North Carolinians
Ancl
Erasmus Strickland
Greensboro
Robert C. Gofer
Claude E. Reitzel, Jr
High
Johnberg, Jr
William T. Cox
Durham
Kerners
Joseph G. M Brown
Summit
James R. Davidson, Jr
Gboro
Dona Currie, Jr
Orvil T. Smith
J F. Brannock
Lexington
Roland L. Greensboro
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Anil
Veterans Hospitals
Lee Richardson
Tennessee
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lorraine
S. C
The
D. M. Roberts
Tar Heels
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