Fire causes roundabout rescue of China relief cargo
A tractor trailer carrying yarn nylon rayon and asbestos bound for China caught fire on the Greensboro highway near High Point. Two Charlotte drivers and local deputies improvised multiple boosts to bring in fire equipment from Hawthorne flying school and Five Points, and Greensboro fire units finally extinguished the blaze allowing the cargo to continue toward New York.
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Mahomet
High Point
China
New York
Charlotte
Greensboro
Gorm Wise
Lewis Odom
Mmen
JP. Pierce
City Lake
Greensboro High Point
Hawthorne Flying School
Pierce
Darkness to Light Skin Cream Ad Claims Quick Pimples Help
An advertisement promotes a bleaching cream for sun-darkened skin and pimples. It claims to dry excess oil externally and lighten complexion. Caution urged to use as directed with a few days trial and a 25 cent price at toiletry counters.
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Ervers
Palmer
Blaze Damages College Street Repair Shop
Firefighters responded early yesterday to a blaze at the College Street Service station repair shop. The fire started from an undetermined source and caused heavy damage to the rear repair room. Earlier, a small rear blaze at By rum's machine shop on South Main street was reported with slight damage.
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College Street
Byrum
South Main Street
George C Jones Promoted To Technician Fourth Grade
George C Jones of 416 Grayson Street was promoted to technician fourth grade at Camp Campbell Kentucky. Inducted in May 1943 he served overseas with the 259th Infantry Regiment of the 65th Infantry Division, later joining the 9th Infantry Division at Camp Croft South Carolina. Sergeant Jones is the son of Mrs Duby D Jones.
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George C. Jones
Grayson Street
Camp Campbell
Jones
259Th Infantry
65Th Infantry Division
United States
9Th Infantry Division
Camp Croft
South Carolina
Sergeant Jones
Duby D. Jones
United States notes Hungary plot. Hungary uses communist police organs
The United States refused consent to intervention by the American government and accused communist dominated police organs of conducting the Hungary plot investigation. It notes Parliament’s majority by small holders and references regional political tensions. It also mentions there are at least 13 rattlesnake species in the United States.
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Horthy
Hungary
United States
Greece policy and UN role discussed in congressional hearings
Congressional inquiry intensifies into U S policy on Greece with Porter Mac Veagh and Wilson likely to testify. Senate and House committees examine a 350 million dollar European relief bill and possible Greece Turkey aid, while urging UN involvement to preserve world peace.
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Porter
Athens
Greece
MacVeagh
Wilson
Mediterranean
Smith
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eaton
R-Nj
Front ends of severed stern section weaken as search narrows
The El Dorado reports the fractured stern front end weakened raising fears it could fail. If the missing Fort Dearborn lifeboat seen last Wednesday drifted as quickly as the bow and stern, it may now be out of reach of land based search planes. Navy patrols and the tanker Taluga assist ongoing visual and radar searches with surface shipping diverted to aid.
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el Dorado
Fort Dearborne
Navy
Taluga
Guggenheim Buys 1600 Acre Poco Sabo Plantation
Col. M. Robert Guggenheim of Washington purchases the 1600 acre Poco Sabo plantation on the Ashepoo river Colleton county from S Griswald Glagg of Philadelphia. Purchase price reported as 65000 dollars. Government predicts 1947 auto tires will contain 30 to 50 percent more natural rubber than 1946.
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Charleston
S. C
Unity Spreads In GOP Ranks
Washington March 17 Freshmen Republican senators voiced veiled threats of uprising and predict a shared work program will unite the party on future legislation Senator Thye former Minnesota governor and one of 144 first termers said the group is already working closer with leaders and expects dividends in unity.
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Washington
Thye
Minnesota
Look magazine pictures Winston Easter sunrise service
Look magazine spotlights the Winston Salem Easter Moravian sunrise service with three pages on the historic 174 year old rite. Photos show the band waking sleepers, cemetery stone scrubbing, Love Feasts preparations, early services at 3 am, and the procession to church. Thousands visit from across the country each Easter morning.
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Look Magazine
Winston- Salem
God's Acre
S Acre
MacArthur on Japan postwar path and trade control
General MacArthur argued a final settlement hinges on a peace treaty and private trade. He said Japan must be allowed to trade with the world, warned against harsh reparations, and emphasized gradual democratization and balancing burdens with Allied support.
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Japan
MacArthur
United States
Multiple Fatal and Serious Accidents Reported Across North Carolina
The bulletin lists victims of a private plane crash near Fayetteville, a man possibly Seb Crisp near Bryson City, and George Finch killed in an Oxford area car crash. Also dead are Archie Gray Wilson in Fort Barnwell, and several others from carbon monoxide incidents on inland waterway and in Charlotte. Additional fatalities include Superior Court Judge Everett Thompson shot then killed himself nearby Elizabeth City, Elizabethtown teacher Mary Lois Jones wounded fatally, Roy Towe killed at a gas station near Mount Airy, and Robert L. Jessup jailed for murder with a prior conviction. Earle S. Merrell dies after machinery accident at a grist mill. a note on carbon atoms ends the piece.
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Fayetteville
Seb Crisp
Bryson City
George Finch
Person County
Oxford
Archie Gray Wilson
Vanceboro
New Bern
Fort Barnwell
South Carolina Line
Banks H. Funderburk
Johnson A. Kessler
Charlotte
Caer
Oscar T. Seawell
Wrightsville
Elizabeth City
Walter Spence
Superior Court
Everett Thompson
George Pritchard
Elizabethtown
Mary Lois Jones
Roy Towe
Cana
Asheville
Earle S. Merrell
Fairview
Ates
Guild chief says communists are a small minority
Milton Murray president of the CIO American Newspaper Guild told the House labor committee that communists represent only a minute fraction of the union's total membership. Murray was among several witnesses as the committee pressed hearings on proposed labor legislation that had lasted nearly six weeks.
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GUILD
Milton Murray
CIO American Newspaper
House Labor Committee
Murray
Funeral Rites Held for C. C. McKoin in McKoin Thomasville
Funeral services for C. C. McKoin who died in a Winston-Salem hospital were conducted at Mills Home Baptist church. Dr. I. G. Greer Rev. John Arch McMillian and Rev. W. C. Reed led the rites with Mills Home choir. Interment followed at New Gardens Friends Meeting House cemetery Guilford College with graveside services by Rev. Joseph Peele.
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Hattie Edwards
Sarah E. Elmore
Mills Home
Paul Edinger
H. G. Early
A. C. Louga
M. W. Nue
Roy Lopp
van Richerson
Clyde Jones
J. W. King
Avery Kay
John Swing
Brantley Wall
New Gardens Friends Meeting House
Funeral for Mrs Ora Mae Bumgardner
Funeral services for Mrs Ora Mae Johnson Bumgardner were held at Hughes Grove Baptist church with Rev. R L Kizer Rev David Oldham and Ernest Byerly officiating. A quartet sang three selections and flowers were carried by friends. Pallbearers included Austin Creckman Ernest Byerly M L Bumgardner Rufus Hiatt Oliver Robertson and Boyd Kindley. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
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Bumgardner
Thomasville
Ora Mae Johnson Bumgardner
Hughes Grove Baptist Church
R. L. Kizer
Reid Street Baptist Church
David Oldham
Oak Hill
Scarlet fever case reported in High Point girl Iris Cecil
A second scarlet fever case this month is recorded for Iris Cecil sixteen daughter of Mr and Mrs C W Cecil of 323 Pickett street. Health officials report seven scarlet fever cases this year and note High Point has three diphtheria cases instead of four. Immunization of children against diphtheria is urged by the health department.
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Iris Cecil
C. W. Cecil
Pickett Street
Health Department
High Point
Jhealth Department
Department
Plan to seize Pacific bases prompts global debate
Plan defenses of Tinian Truk Eniwetok Kwajalein and Majuro raise U.N. concerns as Gromyko may comment on Greece policy and Soviet aims. The U.N. council likely to reconvene to study Britain mine charges against Albania. The AEC under Gromyko to resume talks on international control of the bomb.
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Tinian
Truk
Eniwetok
Kwajalein
Majuro
Gromyko
Greece
U.N
Great Britain
Albania
Atomic Energy Commission
Housing limits curb Creedon program extensions
Staff data on scarce materials show 825000 to 1 million new permanent homes may be built this year only with full federal aid and controls. If the program ends, about 75000 new dwellings including shelters and trailers could start. Call for keeping financial aids, continuing curb on nonresidential building through September, and directing scarce materials to housing.
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Creedon
White House
Father of High Point Woman Dies in South Carolina
George S. Livingston 76 of Saluda South Carolina died at home Saturday wife Beulah Chewning Livingston survives him. Daughters include Mrs Paul Pilcher Mrs K N Huggins Mrs Kenneth Simmons and others with several grandchildren. Funeral held Monday at Butler Methodist Church near Saluda.
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George S. Livingston
Saluda
S. C
Paul Pilcher
Clara Cox
Beulah Chewning Livingston
Pilcher
K. N. Huggins
Hemingway
Paul Livingston
David Livingston
Edith Hightower
Kenneth Simmons
Abbeyville
Kitty Shumpert
Armena Wise
Maude Livingston
Bertha Tidwell
Greenwood
S. Co
Butler Methodist Church
Moscow Talks Hint at New U S Moves on Greece Turkey
Marshall regards prospects for agreement as uncertain with a possible deadlock. Stalin invites foreign ministers to discuss Geneva style prompts while Bevin and Molotov plan replies on China and the Three Power Moscow Accord. Debates over Albania in small-nations group slow work on postwar Germany. In Sweden, lengthy luncheons and dinners prevail.
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Moscow
Stalin
Marshall
U. S
Greece
Turkey
Bevin
Molotov
China
Ig Three
Oied
Austria
Albana
Germany
Russia
Albania
Britain
Market Roundup Reflects Oversold Belief and Mixed Activity
In New York trading March 17, investors bought as a belief stocks were oversold though vigor remained thin. Lead gainers included Bethlehem Steel Chrysler General Motors U S Steel and Conoco with bonds steady. May cotton rose sharply on open and noon price gains while dry goods noted quiet demand for lighter prints and sheetings and a slow woolen stretch.
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New York
March
Cent Motors
Penney Jc
Con Oil
Penn-Dix
Adams
Curt Wright
Penn RR
Davison Chem
Pepsi Cola
Sma del Lack & W
Alaska
Phillips Pet
Alleghany
Doug Aire
Pitt Scr & B
al Chem & Dye
Dupont
Allis
Gen Foods
Reynolds
Sears
At&t
Gillette
Socony
Goodrich
Goodyear
S Arm Ti
Graham Paige
Sperry
AT & SF
Ind
Atlas
Aviat Corp
Int Harvest
Stewart War
Baldwin
Nick Can
Studebaker
Beo
Tel & Tel
Swift
Barnsdal
Kennecott
Tex Co
Bendix Aviat
Kroger
Grace Tex Gulf Prod
Beth
Libby O
Timken Det Ax
Boeing Airp
Lockheed
Transamerica
Loews
Trans & West Air
Borg Warner
Lorillard
Union Carbide
Briges Mfg
Mack Truck
United Airs
United Aire
Burl Mills
Mont Ward
Ches & O
Prosenter
Youngstown Sheet
Bethlehem
Steel
Chrysler
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
American Telephone
Anaconda
American Can
du Pont
Allied Chemical
U. S. Gypsum
Texas Co
Standard Oil
Norfolk and Western
Santa Fe
Northern Pacific
Chicago
DRY Goods
Truman Likely to Remain Abroad Until Wednesday
David Wallace Truman remains abroad with no urgent developments requiring his return to Washington. He has received two confidential messages from Secretary of State George C. Marshall about the early stages of the foreign ministers conference in Moscow.
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David Wallace
Washington
Truman
George C. Marshall
Moscow
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