High Point prepares for new city administration amid policing and planning questions
The upcoming High Point leadership faces pressures from police morale and office politics after eight-city government veterans hand over to newcomers. Calls for a postwar reconversion plan and city planning push the agenda, while the outgoing administration is praised for financial improvements despite internal strife.
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High Point
Lowdermilk
Friddle
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Europe
Knox
Kennedy Gagging Sparked Debate Over German Surrender
Editorial argues Kennedy may have broken a pledge but cites greater fault in SHAEF for withholding the surrender from the public. It defends press duty to tell the truth and questions censorship as harmful to the people and the war effort.
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Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
SHAEF
Germany
Kennedy
England
United States
Mr. Kennedy
Capitol Square Minerals Push for U S Bureau of Mines Lab
North Carolina moves ahead with bids for the first unit of a Bureau of Mines laboratory at State College campus. A regional office for the bureau is planned to serve six southeastern states with TVA and other agencies participating in a federal state cooperative project to test recovery methods for iron magnesium chromite tungsten and other metals. A branch office in Asheville is already established and contracts awarded. The Raleigh conference gathers several groups to discuss coal development.
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North Carolina
U. S. Bureau of Mines Laboratory
State College
Bureau of Mines
Asheville
TVA
Mining prospects emerge for Deep River coal and tungsten finds
By Lynn Nisbet a report notes ongoing conferences on expanding coal mining in Lee and Chatham counties and revival of tungsten dot discoveries in Granville and Vance counties. Oil drilling tests in eastern North Carolina gain fresh interest as coastal counties attract attention from major oil firms.
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Chatham Counties
Granville
Vance Counties
America
North Carolina
Newsmen Face Access Limits in Russia’s Occupied Lands
The author argues American reporters are barred from permanent work in Russia’s occupied or former territory, noting limited access via two correspondents per agency in parts of Asia, and restricted entry in Bulgaria Hungary Yugoslavia Poland Austria. He contrasts with easier access for foreign and neutral reporters.
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Rumania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Jugoslavia
Poland
Austria
Germany
United Nations
Freedom of the press versus government propaganda
By George Sokolsky argues against acceptance of government produced news and censorship. He contends true reporting comes from many observers, warns against government outlets like OWI and Tass, and calls for free American access to truth including admitting American reporters in Soviet territories and reconsidering lend-lease.
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OWI
Tass
Soviet Russia
Russia
Europe
United Nations
Restoring World War I Dead Cemeteries Debate
Wartime America reviews the call to repatriate US World War I dead buried in foreign cemeteries from France Belgium England and Pacific theaters. Congress authority and plans for future national and military cemeteries are debated while Gold Star families seek access to graves and current policy remains unsettled.
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Noth
France
Belgium
England
Arlington Cemetery
Memorial Bridge
Virginia
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Wake
Guam
Philippines
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Iwo Jima
Pacific
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Gold Coast
Cairo
Mediterranean
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Italy
Normandy
Rhine
War cemetery plan would cover states and territories
By Jack Stinnett ter E Merrow the piece ties past efforts to a proposal to empower the secretary of war to establish military cemeteries in every state territory or possession with populations over 500000. It would allow land acquisition by base condemnation or gift with the U S commission of fine arts to approve plans. Cemeteries would return to the quartermaster general for upkeep as work abroad continues and records are kept of every grave.
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Ter E. Merrow
R.N.H
Secretary of War
U. S. Commission of Fine Arts
Quartermaster General
U. S. Army
Navy
Army
Four nations draft into a broad world program at Bretton
The document outlines a global plan stressing cultural race language religion and sex freedoms with an economic and social council to promote human rights. It proposes commissions on economic social culture and human rights, expanding the UN style framework beyond prior limits. The piece casts doubt on how far such a permanent body would go.
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San Francisco
Four Nations
Dumbarton Oaks
Yalta
Nelson Rockefeller
Latin America
India
China
World Organization I
Assembly of Nations
Economic and Social Council
Inussia
League
New rights and conflicts echo Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta
Paul Mallon notes the assembly will fund investigations while big nations veto budgets. He cites tensions between freedom for all and self determination, warning Russia’s past elections and predicting promoted freedoms in culture language and sex alongside established religious and racial rights.
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Dumbarton Oaks
Yalta
Assembly
World Commission
Russia
Dumbarton
Winchell Portrait of a Man and Press Sniping in San Francisco
A critical magazine review debates media accuracy during the San Francisco conference and cites bellboys at the Mark Hopkins Hotel defending tipping as a kecil example of hospitality. It lists radio program ratings and media figures, then recounts anecdotes about Goebbels, Eisenhower, and press sniping toward Winchell amid conference coverage.
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Weekly Magazine
San Francisco
Mark Hopkins
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Mark Hop
Mark H
U. S
Francisco
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