Balkan Showdown Looms At United Nations Over Greece Crisis
In Lake Success New York delegates head for a UN Security Council showdown over the Balkans Greece Turkey and the Soviet satellites Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Albania. The United States warned it may use force to curb anti Greek actions while Russia weighs support for its satellite states in the two year Balkans proposal.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Russia
United Nationsty Council
Balkans
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Greece
United Nations
United States
Secur Council
Balkan
U. S
Warren R. Austin
CIO to Picket Taft Son Wedding in St Joseph
In St Joseph Michigan police warned of arrests but CIO Local 931 plans a 4 p m EST picket at the wedding of Lloyd Bowers Taft son of Senator Robert Taft to Virginia Stone daughter of a St Joseph couple. Stone is an Sodus native.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
CIO
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
Gordon Colwell
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
University of Michigan
Lloyd Bowers Taft
Virginia Stone
Egg Prope
Lrst Congregational Church
Stone
Sodus
Plane Wrecked And 6 Men Killed Near Mt Maklin
Manila dispatch reports a U. S. Army C-45 transport crashed near Mt Maklin 830 miles southeast of Manila. All six officers aboard were killed outright, per a search party. The two engine plane departed in bad weather and struck the peak during a landing approach at Nichols Field. Names of the dead, all captains or lieutenants, withheld pending notification.
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Manila
Mt. Maklin
Nichols Field
Weather Review for North Carolina and National Temps
Partly cloudy and hot with widely scattered thundershowers tonight and Sunday afternoon in the east. The 24 hour readings ending 8:30 am show varied temperatures across cities from 62 to 92 degrees and rainfall ranging from 0 to .19 inches.
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North Carolina
Boston
Charleston
Miami
Mini-St. Pfol
Au Mobile
Mit. Mitchell
New Orleans
New York Bo
Rabieh
Sen Anton
San Fran
Spartanburg
Tampa Washington
Two Killed In Auto Accident In Columbus County
Two Evergreen community residents died from an automobile crash in Columbus County. Richard Bartley, 28, died from burns suffered when a gasoline tank on a pickup exploded after the collision. Harry Lee Green, 24, died later at Lumberton hospital.
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Whiteville
Evergreen
Columbus County
Richard Bartley
Harry Lee Green
Bartley
Green
Lumberton
Negro Admits Being Mixed Up In Incident
James Dick Boone a 21 year old Rich Square Negro, sentenced to life for first degree burglary, admitted involvement in the rape of a white woman near Northampton County. Will Cherry, 24, also of Rich Square, has been sentenced to death as the principal in the rape. Boone said he opened a window screen and Cherry entered the home of Mrs. J. G. Tarrant.
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Raleigh
James
Dick) Boone
Northampton County Superior Court
Boone
Will Cherry
Rich Square
W. W. O’daniel
W. Dean
Central Prison
Cherry
J. G. Tarrant
Truman to Act Next Week on Rent Bill Extension
President Truman will decide next week, likely Monday, on extending rent controls through February 29. The measure would permit voluntary rent increases up to 15 percent where landlords and tenants agree on leases through that date. He has until midnight Wednesday to act, though current controls expire June 30, making a Monday announcement likely.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Wife ends life at Lake Waccamaw post office
Deputy Sheriff L. R. Wayne reports his wife Ka tie Wayne aged 40 fatally shot herself with a .38 pistol. Mrs Wayne had served as post mistress of Lake Waccamaw for four years. Daughter Sarah said she saw her mother take the pistol from a drawer and fire.
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Lake Waccamaw
L. R. Wayne
Katie
Wayne
Sarah
Red Position On New Plan Clearing Up
Paris June 28 The Russian stance on the Marshall Plan appears to be hardening as three power foreign ministers meet in Paris. Bevin Bidault and Molotov discuss the Harvard speech as the aim to clarify U S aid terms grows. Bidault suggests including all nations except Spain in the program.
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Paris
Threepower
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
V. M. Molotov
Tass
Harvard University
George C. Marshall
United States
Europe
le Parisien
Liberal News
Motolov
Vincent Auriol
U. S
Jefferson Caffery
Bidault
Spain
Fire devastates York plant. third blaze in four months
A York, Pennsylvania industrial block was gutted in a blaze at the York Shipley plant and an adjacent warehouse. Seven firefighters were injured, none seriously, as embers smoldered hours after the 500000 dollar fire began in shredded paper conveying chute. The site also housed H M Rehmeyer and Karl Ort businesses.
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York
York-Shipley, Inc
Mysterious Blight Threatens Greenville Cotton Crop
A mysterious blight named ascocyla, first identified by Clemson college scientists, is attacking almost all cotton fields in Greenville county and threatens a poor 1947 crop. County Agent W. R. Gray said the disease, previously seen in Arkansas in 1921, is widespread across the Piedmont region.
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Greenville
D. C
Greenville County
W. R. Gray
Clemson College Laboratory
Arkansas
Piedmont
Gray
Carnegie-Illinois Lays Off 10 000 Workers Amid Miner Vacation
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp says 10 000 district production workers will be furloughed by Monday as U S coal miners take a 10 day paid vacation. The move follows a 59 percent cutback in district operations and a shift of blast furnaces and open hearth units to conserve coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie - Illinois Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
Pittsburgh-Youngstown
United States
Carnegie-Illinois, Co
U. S. Steel Corp
U. S. Steel
Carnegie-Illinois
Youn - Pittsburgh
Peron Awarded Great Cross By Pope Pius
Pope Pius III awarded the Great Cross of the order to Argentine President Juan D. Peron. The badge arrived from the Vatican via the Argentine embassy. The award cites Argentina relief efforts in war. Mrs Peron laid a wreath at Italy’s unknown soldier tomb amid delayed ceremonies.
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Rome
Pius III
Pius
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Vatican
Holy See
Peron
Italy
Francisco Alsini
Fatal jail escape ends in Chesterfield incident
Silvis Illinois on June 28 authorities report a 63 year old man identified as Silkie Smith fatally injured after fleeing the city jail during a scuffle with four officers. Smith weighing about 200 pounds and 6 feet 3 inches allegedly seized a tear gas device and was struck as a crowd of 200 watched. Smith was being moved from Silvis to Rock Island County jail on vagrancy charges.
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Miami
Fla
Miami Herald
Sunset Island No. 1
Miami Beach
Virginia Hill
California
Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel
Paris
Silvis
Ill
William Koster
Rock Island County
Silkie Smith
Rock Island
Koster
Smith
Armed quartet rob five Allentown couples for $175000
Four men armed with pistols bound and gagged five Allentown couples at night and escaped with about $175,000 in cash and valuables after cutting phone wires. The victims included Louis Weiner and his wife and two other couples, with the escape vehicle a 1947 black Plymouth from New York plates.
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Allentown
Louis Weiner
Harry Neff
Irvin Salitsky
Weiner
Claire
Irwin Salitsky
Pfingster
New York
Labor Department Aims to Forge Coal Pact Before Strike
Washington officials say Secretary Schwellenbach will meet John L. Lewis and soft coal operators next week to avert a full scale national strike set for July 8. Crude coal storage stands at 48 million tons, a 32 day supply, as federal operation of mines nears its midnight Monday expiration.
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Washington
Labor Department
Schwellenbach
John L. Lewis
Secretary of the Interior
Krug
Lewis and Krug
Pennsylvania
Northwest
Truman
Communism On Run Says Miss Writer At Meeting
Asheville June 28 Communism and the new deal are on the run and an early return of normality is on the way a ban quet meeting of the Carolinas Virginia Purchasing Agents Association was told last night Clayton Rand Gulfport writer and lecturer advised the 100 convention delegates that President Truman is a good man and the nation is fortunate because he is a little weak which has placed congress again in the driver's seat Today's scheduled speakers include M Bayfield J W Lindau III Bennet Chapple Jr C F Williams of Durham N C is president of the association and J Knowlton of Duke Power Company is among others named
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Asheville
Carolinas- Virginia Purchasing Agents Association
Clayton Rand
Gulfport
Miss
Covention
Truman
Congress
M. Bayfield
American Wholesale Coal Association
Washington, D. C
J. W. Lindau, III
Southern Plastics Company
Columbia, S. C
Bennet Chapple, Jr
U. S. Steel Company
Pittsburgh
J. W. Knowlton
Duke Power Company
Charlotte
C. F. Williams
Durham
N. C
Association
New Officers Named By ABC Association
New officers of the North Carolina Association of Alcoholic Beverage Control boards named at the annual convention here yesterday are J Winder Bryan Raleigh president H S Gibbs Morehead City vice president and Roy Walston Rocky Mount secretary treasurer.
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Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Association of Alcoholic Beverage Control Boards
J. Winder Bryan
Raleigh
H. S. Gibbs
Morehead City
Roy Walston
Rocky Mount
Union County Farmer Fatally Wounds Daughter and Self
In Monroe on June 28 a Union County farmer William B. Walters aged 48 shot his daughter Mozelle, 16, with a shotgun then killed himself with a .22 rifle. Walters died later in Albemarle hospital. Sheriff Frank Niven said the shooting followed a failed family reconciliation as Mrs. Walters and children expected to leave. The children wrestled the shotgun but Walters fled inside and returned with the rifle.
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Monroe
Union County
Frank Niven
William B. Walters
Mozelle
Self
Walters
Albemarle
General Sees Airforce On The Way Out
Maj. Gen. James Hodges, commanding general of the flying training command, warned at Williams Field that the United States will be without an air force in five years unless more pilots are trained. He spoke after pinning wings on three American cadets in class 47 B, the smallest class at the field, and noted twelve Chinese pilots also graduated. He called the graduation a low point in U. S. air force history.
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Williams Field
Ariz
James Hodges
Flying Training Command
United States
U. S
Aid Promised Indonesians By America
The U S state department asked Indonesia to cooperate quickly in forming an interim federal government and promised financial aid once the government is set. Indications suggest the message to the republican government prevented Dutch military operations from starting Monday.
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Batavia
Java
U. S. State Department
Republic of Indonesia
State Department
Communists claim major losses as Szepingkai battle sways
In Manchuria fierce fighting around Szepingkai prompts government reports of 50 000 red troops killed or captured 60 000? not confirmed while communist claims 16 000 government soldiers killed or captured. Officials pledge no retreat and a shift to a more aggressive phase.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Szepingkai
Changchun
Yu Chin-Chung
Associated Press
Tu Li-Ming
Japs Becoming Arrogant
Tokyo reports General MacArthur warned supervision of Japan would last a generation as Japanese elites show swagger with reopening of foreign trade. Bureaucrats and businessmen press for rights and foreign loans, signaling less subservience to occupation and rising impatience over costs.
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Japan
CIO Plans Court Fight Over Taft Hartley Act
Washington June 28 CIO high command told member unions the Taft Hartley Act will be battled in courts and in the 1948 elections. They reject a general strike and vow to challenge constitutionality and seek unity with AFL and railroad unions to defeat supporters of the law.
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Washington
CIO High Command
CIO
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
Philip Murray
Murray
William Green
Alvanley Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotiveneers
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Arthur Lyon
Railroad Labor Executives Association
Railroad Brotherhoods
Mother Sees Daughter She Abandoned in Calabasas?
Mrs. Lucille Meddlin of Selma Oregon 22 visited her two year old daughter Mary Jane Meddlin at Siskiyou General Hospital where the child has been under care since June 16 after being found badly beaten at Weed California. Meddlin and Hugh Gilreath itinerant sawmill hand 25 are charged with assault with intent to commit murder. Gilreath admitted abandoning the girl to Oregon police and denied the beating.
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Yreka
Calif
Lucille Meddlin
Selma
Ore
Weed
Mary Jane Meddlin
Meddlin
Hugh Gilreath
Mary Jane
Gilreath
Oregon
Armed Men Kill Young Child of Army Captain
An unidentified band of armed men ambushed a U S army jeep 45 road miles northwest of Manila killing the four week old child of medical corps Captain Irvin Plough. Plough and his wife were wounded as the jeep marked U S Army was riddled with bullets near Mina lin Pampanga province.
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Manila
United States Army
Medical
Irvin Plough
Minalin
Pampanga
Plough
521St Quartermaster Supply Company
Philippine Scouts
U.S. Army
Heavy Rains Drench N Carolina and Eastern Tennessee
Weather report from Asheville notes heavy rains sweeping western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Hot Springs logged 1.40 inches in one hour, Erwin 2.55 inches in 24 hours, Elizabethton 2.58, Kingsport 2.07, with a noon shower in Asheville and more showers forecast into tonight and Sunday.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Tennessee
Toglay
Hot Springs
N. C
Erwin
Tenn
Elizabethton
Kingsport
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Gerhart Eisler
Congressional Committee
Long Beach
House of Representatives
Husky
ABC Association
America
Shek
Tokyo
MacArthur
N. Carolina
E. Tennessee
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