North Carolina Moves Toward April 4 Adjournment
Governor approves, leaders push final adjournment by April 4 with April 1 favored. Legislature speeds up as finance panel flags Penny liquor bill while Chaffin measure delays. Bills on vocational education at Butner for veterans, self fish commission, and deer tagging advance amid public hearings on the closed shop.
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Raleigh
Sen
Gray
Forsyth
Senate
Chaffin
Umstead
Orange
Butner
Rep. Meekins
Dare
Rep. Whitfield
Pender
Aires
State Board of Education
North Carolina
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Committee On Manufacturing, Labor and Commerce
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Dean M. T. van Hecke
University of North Carolina Law School
Sam Hall
Winston-Salem
Carolina
Communist Party
Hall
Wall Street
Miners Chief Appeals to Senate Over Strike Rights
John L. Lewis told the senate labor committee that the United Mine Workers could settle disputes with coal operators if the government stops using a blackjack to force submission. He argued limits on strikes threaten fundamental liberty and warned that restricting strikes could move toward a corporate or absolute state. Lewis noted most bituminous mines have been government controlled since May 22 and referenced Taft’s view that strikes are lawful and necessary.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Congress
United Mine Workers
Senate Labor Committee
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Supreme Court
Senate
UMW
William Howard Taft
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Indust
America
Weather in the Carolinas Outlook for March 8 1947
Cloudy and cold with sleet and freezing rain possible in extreme north. Forecast covers tonight through Wednesday with near normal temperatures returning by Saturday. Rain chances occur mainly Sunday and midweek with warmer days ahead.
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Worth
Carolina
Carolinas
New Attack Lies Ahead Of Attlee
London march 7 the conservative opposition presses a new attack as labor government faces a censure vote over India policy and economic woes. Churchill plans a motion of censure against Attlee next Wednesday while party discipline tightens for the crucial vote.
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London
Britain
India
Churchill
Attlee
Labor
House of Commons
British Forces Arrest 21 More Suspects Near Jerusalem
British troops detained 21 more suspects in searches of three Jewish towns near martial law zones. Unofficial reports identify some as members of Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern gang. Total detainees reach 46 since martial law began Sunday amid a large Jewish population area.
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Jerusalem
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Stern Gang
Marshall Departs For Berlin Parley
Secretary of State Marshall travels from Paris to Berlin for Moscow four power talks amid whirlwind consultations. He will receive occupation reports in Berlin before helping draft German and Austrian treaties at Moscow. Heavy snow returns to Moscow with temperatures near five degrees above zero.
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Marshall
Berlin
Allied Control Council
Germany
United States
Moscow
Georges Bidault
France
Secre
Bevin and U S Delegation in Moscow Flight Talks
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and U S officials traveled to Moscow by train and plane for high level talks. John Foster Dulles arrived in Berlin as Marshall visited Paris. Discussions covered a four power anti German treaty and Ruhr economic oversight with French leaders at the presidency.
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Paris
Marshall
Once
Berlin
Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
Army Air Transport Command
Tary
Ernest Bevin
Britain
U. S
Bevin
Warsaw
John Foster Dulles
Orly Field
Jefferson Caffery
Paul Ramadier
Vincent Auriol
Paul Henri Tetgen
Ramadier
Auriol
Hitler
Germany
James F. Byrnes
Ruhr
Greek Exhibit Links Stalin Quotations to Guerrilla Training
SOO chaka les Salonika in Greece presented a manual quoting Stalin on warfare used to train Greek leftist guerrillas in Yugoslavia. A second Greek printed manual on riflemen and officers was shown as evidence. Also shown was a Russian mortar range finder captured in combat on Mount Vermion.
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Soo” Chakales
Salonika
Greece
Mount
Vermion
George Backs 9 Year Plan
Senator George of Georgia endorses a Republican backed bill to cap any future president at nine years as the Senate prepares to resume debate on the constitutional amendment. Democratic leaders stress the issue is not political and lawmakers will vote their conscience.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate
Barkley
UN Security Council holds calm debate on Japan mandates trust
In Lake Success on March 7 the United States proposed trusteeship of Japanese mandates with U S as sole administrator. Russia surprised delegates by accepting terms with minor technical objections. Soviet envoy Andrei Gyromiko urged changes including independence option and removal of claim of US administration as integral.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Security Council
United States Pacific Island
Russia
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Poland accuses U S diplomat of anti Polish campaign
In Warsaw the Polish government charges U S Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with launching an anti Polish campaign harming Polish American relations. It notes Lane said he was allowed to interview only one of 100 prisoners claiming U S citizenship and cites his delay over a Polish American commission to examine nationality and rights of prisoners.
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Warsaw
U. S
Arthur Bliss Lane
Supreme Court Ruling Powers Coal Field Peace Outlook
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling impacting John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers, delaying any strike action through July while wage talks with operators resume. The decision centers on whether Lewis had the right to strike, with trials pending before Judge T Alan Goldsborough as hearings proceed.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
Goldsborough
T. Alan Goldsborough
High Court
Morgan Leaves 4 642 791 Net Estate
J P Morgan died March 13 1943 in Boca Grande Florida with an unofficial fortune once pegged at up to 50 million The estate left a net value of 4 642 791 after taxes debts and expenses The statement from J P Morgan and Co detailed a gross estate of 16 021 482 and deductions including 384 309 federal tax 2 064 414 New York tax and 1 929 968 for debts and expenses
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New York
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan and Co
Morgan
Boca Grande
Fla
GOP Budget Cut Accord Reached By Congressional Panel
Republican conference committee members reportedly reached a tentative compromise of 32.25 billion dollars in spending for the new fiscal year. The plan would pare the Truman request to that level, aligning with a middle ground between house and senate cuts. An unresolved point remains on applying surplus revenues to the national debt.
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GOP
Washington
Republican Conference Committee
Senate House
Truman
House
Senate
Tough Battle Lies Ahead Of John L. Lewis
John L. Lewis faces a difficult path to secure a contract with the soft coal operator as a June 30 deadline looms. A recent Supreme Court ruling clears a major hurdle but unions and operators must resolve wage pact issues before shutdowns. Government action may be needed to unite the parties. Secretary Krug has not indicated plans to summon a meeting.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Supreme Court
Ife
Lewis
J. A. Krug
Dutch seize American ship Martin Behrman at Batavia
Sixty Dutch marines sailors and civil police took possession of the American liberty ship Martin Behrman and its cargo in Batavia after Capt. Rudy Gray left the vessel. Gray said armed men wrested control, protested lack of a court order, and departed with the crew aboard. The ship was moved to a new dock to unload cargo loaded in republican Java in defiance of regulations.
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U.S.S
Martin Behrman
Batavia
Mar
Rudy Gray
Southport
N. C
United States
Gray
Java
State Department
The
Hague
Behrman
Alexander Theophanus
John Hammersing
Truman Calls Off Caribbean Cruise Indefinitely
The White House announced President Truman has postponed his Caribbean trip indefinitely due to developments. Presidential Secretary Charles Ross declined to specify the nature of the developments, saying only that the Caribbean journey has been indefinitely postponed because of developments.
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Truman
Caribbean
Washington
White House
Charles Ross
Ross
No Permission For Chakales Delayed Entry
An United Nations Balkan investigating commission team plans to travel to the Greek Albanian border but Albania refuses entry to AP correspondent L Chakales citing prior dispatches. Albanian press officer Nesti Kerenxhi says no reply from Tirana after nine days. other reporters are admitted. Mark Ehtridge backs Chakales' right to accompany the mission across Albania.
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Salonika
Greece
United Nations Balkan Investigating Commission
Chakales
Associated Press
Albania
Tirana
Nesti Kerenxhi
Mark Ehtridge
Commission
I al Dania
Four Per Cent Payments to Vets Exempt
Winston-Salem reports that four per cent gratuity payments to veteran borrowers under the G I bill are exempt from federal income tax. The VA notes all interest on guaranteed or insured loans may be listed as a deduction, even if part of the interest was paid with the gratuity. The ruling follows a request from VA central to the IRS commissioner.
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Winston-Salem
Veterans Administration
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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