Three College Students Die In Collision In High Point
Wreckage of a car and a truck at the North Main street and Lexington avenue intersection killed three occupants instantly. Elizabeth Peyton Voorhees, 19, Reid W. Abbott, 22, and John B. Floyd, 23, all High Point College students from nearby towns. Truck drivers William D. Smith and Bernard Green survived after hospital treatment. The car and truck collision occurred as the truck traveled west on Lexington avenue and the car approached from North Main Street.
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North Main Street
Lexington Avenue
Elizabeth Peyton Voorhees
Forest Hill Drive
Reid W. Abbott
Rt. 1
John B. Floyd
Walnut Cove
High Point College
William D. Smith
Kannapolis
Bernard Green
Linville
Franco faces halt in Spain as civil war doubts loom
The World Today reports that Generalissimo Francisco Franco may seek a face-saving exit from his dictatorship rather than concede to demands for democracy. Military power favors him, with an army of about 700,000 and infrastructure ready for rapid mobilization, while Europe fears a renewed 1936-39 conflict as Madrid awaits a possible royalist compromise amid tense quiet discussions.
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Paris
Francisco Franco
Spain
Franco
Europe
France
Madrid
Portugual
Don
Charlotte Woman Among Crash Victims
A Charlotte woman named as victim in a fatal American Airlines crash near a fog covered mountain 60 miles east of San Diego. Rescue teams faced hail snow and difficult terrain as they recovered 23 adults and two infants identified so far, with 27 bodies believed in the wreckage and a dawn search planned.
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San Diego
Calif
Thing Mountain
American Airlines
New York
Los Angeles
el Centro
Manzanita
Navy
Coast Guard
Dallas
Tex
S. L. Stoner
Laguna Mountains
Russian Sentry Kills American Lieutenant
In Berlin a Russian sentry fatally shot American Lt. James Wilson age 21 after he failed to halt near a guarded building. Wilson, an ordnance officer from Bryan Texas, rode in a car with another officer bound for a German woman’s home. The guard fired two warning shots then at the back of the car after a mistaken route in the dark. The incident follows a separate midnight killing of Pvt. Vernon Stotler age 20 from Carlisle Pennsylvania during a row over alcohol. Col Bushey said a confession from Pvt Melvin Stewart age 29 Hyden Kentucky was obtained. both men reportedly intoxicated.
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Berlin
United States
James Wilson
Bryan
Texas
Wilson
Pvt
Vernon Stotler
Carlisle
W. G. Bushey
Army
Criminal Investigation Department
Pfe
Melvin Stewart
Hyden
Bushey
Slaying Confession Ties Two Bloomington Victims
Indiana State Police report 29 year old Joseph L Woolridge confessed to killing Russell Koontz and Phyllis Coleman at an abandoned Bloomington mill. He described finding them in an embrace, Koontz warning him he would not live to tell, and Woolridge using a sash weight then choking Coleman for five to ten minutes before discarding the bodies.
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Indianapolis
Robert A. O'Neal
Indiana State Police
Joseph L. Woolridge
Russell Koontz
Phyllis Coleman
Bloomington
Ind
O'Neal
Woolridge
Koontz
Coleman
Congress urged to curb U.S. spending balance
A Senate House committee on organization of congress urged lawmakers to cap appropriations after warning there is no coordination between revenue and spending. The 12 member panel led by Senator La Follette proposed a ceiling on appropriations while debate arose over policy committees and pay raises.
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Washington
Congress
Senate-House Committee On Organization of Congress
la Follette
Rep
Monroney
D-Okla
Cox
D-Ga
Lane
R-Mass
Iran Situation Brings Forth Protest
London reports Britain demands Russia explain refusal to withdraw troops from Iran under the British Russian Iranian treaty. A note was sent to Moscow via Frank Roberts and to Washington, with Bevin returning from a country rest less than 16 hours earlier.
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London
Great Britain
Russia
Iran
Foreign Office
Frank Roberts
Moscow
State Department
Washington
Ernest Bevin
Roberts
United States
United States Department
Raleigh Women Hurt in Collision on Glenwood Avenue
Raleigh dispatch reports two prominent residents, Mrs. Trent Ragland and Mrs. Oliver Smith, critically injured when their car collided with a Carolina Coach bus on Glenwood avenue. Mrs. Smith was found unconscious under the car wheel as both women were rushed to Rex Hospital. Bus driver T. H. Chestnutt of Greensboro was taken into custody by Raleigh police.
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Raleigh
Trent Ragland
Oliver Smith
Carolina Coach Company
Glenwood Avenue
Reds Wanted Secret Data Is Charge
Ottawa reports a 3000 word Canadian statement accusing the Soviet military attache and other Soviet agents of seeking atomic bomb, radar, and American shell data from Canada and Britain, with several civil servants named in the Royal Investigating Commission findings. The probe cited direct Moscow instructions and access to secret documents in UK high commission offices.
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Ottawa
Moscow
W. L. MacKenzie King
Canada
King
United Nations Security Council
Royal Investigating Commission
Kathleen Mary Willsher
Malcolm MacDonald
United Kingdom
Four Children Die In School Bus Crash At Perry's Pond
In Louisb urg a bus with 30 Negro children and an inexperienced driver plunged through a bridge railing into Perry's Pond. Four youths aged 13 and 17 died, 14 injured. Driver William Young, 15, was hurt. certified driver aboard. Bus bound for Gethsemane school. Meanwhile in Hickory a blaze killed a two year old, with two others and an adult badly burned in a dwelling fire.
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Louisburg
Perry's Pond
de Otho Cruddup
Lorrine Kearney
James Randall
Farley Davis
Rocky Mount
John P. Moore
William Young
Young
Gethsemane School
Hickory
Longview
Here
Patricia Jane Stamey
I. W. Goans
Catawba
Marie
Selinda Ann Stamey
Sisey
Patricia Jane
Lawrence Stamey
J. R. Stamey
Nylon shower to rain on Cleveland in publicity stunt
Springfield industrialist Albert Edward Payne, seeking the Ohio governorship, promised a nylon hose shower for Cleveland within days. He dropped 150 wallet bundles containing dollar bills and notes urging return to prove honesty, reporting about 80 percent recovered and promising an aerial shower as a token of appreciation.
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Springfield
I/P
Cleveland
Albert Edward Payne
Ohio
Payne
Three Pacific Stars and Stripes editors seek transfers
TOKYO March 4. Three more editorial staff members of Pacific Stars and Stripes filed for transfer, raising the total seeking new assignments to seven after two colleagues were ousted.
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Tokyo
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Hannegan Pleads For Truman Housing Bill In Urgent Drive
Democratic national chairman Robert Hannegan leads an eleventh hour push to salvage President Truman’s veterans housing program. Bowles denounces price control setbacks as Republicans call for his resignation. Top economic chiefs press Congress with warnings that blocking the housing and wage-price measures imperils the goal of 2.7 million homes for veterans in two years.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Capitol Hill
Robert Hanegan
Truman
Veterans
Democratic Party
Administration
Economic Front
Congress
Bowles
Gougers
House Appropriations Committee
Wage Stabilization Board
Senate
OPA
Civilian Production Administration
Wilson W. Wyatt
Wyatt
Rep. Wolcott
R-Mich
Truman Heads to Missouri for Churchill Visit
President Truman leaves Washington for Missouri to present Winston Churchill as the principal speaker at Westminster College in Fulton. Churchill will address foreign policy while Truman introduces him, as Westminster prepares for an expected 4,000 visitors and full college celebrations.
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Washington
Mar
Truman
Missouri
Winston ‘Churchill
Westminster College
Fulton
Winston Churchill
Westminster
Frane MecCluer
Callaway County
Asium
Attorneys Deny Railroads Violated Anti Trust Laws
Lincoln Neb March 4 The 47 western railroads defendants in a major anti trust suit denied charges in a federal court answer and asked dismissal They denied any conspiracy to monopolize trade and asserted compliance with anti trust laws The government suit filed August 1944 charged railroads trade associations investment houses and executives with conspiring to restrain and monopolize western freight and passenger transportation
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Lincoln
Neb
Western
Justice Department
West
Conference Of Morning Called Off
DETROIT, March 4. Negotiations between General Corp and the striking CIO workers were postponed this morning until 2 p.m., special agent James F. Dewey announced. GM president Harry W. Anderson said when talks resume the company would be willing to discuss anything the union proposed, including a secret vote among strikers.
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Detroit
General Corp
CIO
James F. Dewey
Harry W. Anderson
Anderson
Telephone workers to strike over long-distance wage dispute
New York March 4 Telephone employes handling long distance calls will strike as scheduled Thursday along with 16 other groups in the federation of telephone workers Ind. The federation which claims 19000 members announced the action after a 2 30 am EST breakdown in wage talks with the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
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New York
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Ind
John J. Moran
Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Morning session at 10 30 a.m. with GM negotiators
The article notes a morning session at 10 30 a.m. where GM negotiators appeared and a union request for a delay was telephoned 15 minutes later, with the UAW representative appearing for the session.
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UAW
Pearing
Labor disputes stall as auto unions launch new strike
The CIO united auto workers prepared to intensify their old strike against General Motors while the nation endures a continuing telephone tieup. UAW CIO leaders offered a GM proposal for a secret ballot among 179,000 idle workers to decide on prolonging the walkout, but GM rejected arbitration and pressed for a poll on the union’s terms, accusing the plan of unwarranted interference.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto
General M Corp
Uaw-Cio
Gmterday
UA Docon
GM_ did
Tar Heels Die Violently Over Weekend
A weekend death toll across North Carolina rises to at least 11 from various accidents and violence. High Point sees three auto truck crash deaths including Elizabeth Peyton Wheel, 20, and Abbott and James B. Floyd, 22. Others die in Fayetteville, Wilson, Thomasville, Laurinburg, Morganton, and Rocky Mount amid crashes, a beating, and a shooting.
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Associated Press
High Point
Elizabeth Peyton Wheel
Abbott
James B. Floyd
High Point College
Fayetteville
David L. Jongs
Wyman Hawley
Laurinburg-Fayetteville
Morganton
Oscar Olmore
Elmore
Richard Green, Jr
Granville County
Casa
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