Jewish Agency Clashes Over Palestine in UN Debate
The Jewish agency for Palestine sparred with Soviet, Polish, and Arab voices today in the UN General Assembly political committee. Moshe Shertok urged against a Soviet plan for immediate independence as harmful to Jews, while Faris El Khoury pushed Arab opposition to large Jewish immigration. The Arab higher committee prepared to testify, insisting Arabs will resist any wedge into their homeland.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Iitussia
Poland
Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem
United Nations
Holy Land
General Assembly
Palestine
Moshe Shertok
Faris el Rege
Syria
el Khoury
Southern Opposition Grows Over Labor Bill in Senate
Senator George of Georgia led southern opposition to a mild labor bill as Republicans predicted Senate action this week on outlawing the closed shop and limiting union activities. Murray's substitute is called a watered down version of no conscience by opponents. Ball and Taft expect a decisive Senate vote, possibly tonight.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate
Murray
Mont
Ball
R-Minn
Taft
Ohio
Labor Committee
Truman
House
Soviet Backed Revolt Beaten
United States seeks UN Security Council action to halt a Russia backed Slav revolt and maintain international watch on Balkans. Greece accuses outside interference as Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria refuse to cooperate with the Balkan subcommission inquiry.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations Security Council
Balkan
Russia
Greece
Andrei A. Gromyko
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Council
Draft Board Offices Here Dismantled in High Point
Draft boards 4 and 5 in High Point shut down as Selective Service was dissolved. Local offices cleared by May 15 with movers carting furnishings away for shipment to other government agencies.
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High Point
Weather notes from North Carolina and national readings
The excerpt reports fair conditions in North Carolina with warmer temperatures and variable cloudiness. It lists daily readings for multiple cities including Charleston 67 53, Charlotte 76 45, Columbia 74 41, and Raleigh 46, with Melbourne and other stations showing a range of highs around the mid 70s and lows in the 40s to 50s. The data covers 24 hours ending at 3:30 with rainfall figures and temperature alongside national readings from cities such as New York and Los Angeles.
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Ther Bureau
Wea
Charleston
Charlotte
Chira
Columbia
Denvers
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
Mob Slaying Case Opens in Greenville Court
In Greenville South Carolina on May 12 the mob slaying case of Willie Earle a 24 year old Black man was called in circuit court. Twenty eight taxi drivers and three other men face charges as the trial begins with a packed courtroom and jurors being questioned.
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Greenville
S. C
Willie Earle
J. Robert Martin, Jr
Body of Raped Woman Found in Long Beach
The unidentified 38 year old woman, reportedly raped, was found in a Long Beach residential district. Police noted head injuries, torn underclothing, and tire tracks suggesting the body was moved. Lt. J L Urquat said she was strangled with a piece of flower print gingham and was five feet four inches tall.
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Long Beach
Calif
J. L. Urquart
Designer of Type Dies in 83rd Year
Frederick W. Goudy, 82, famed designer of American typefaces, died of heart disease. He created about 100 typefaces and influenced printing worldwide with simple legible letters, moving away from 19th century fancier styles.
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Marlboro
N. Y
Frederick W. Goudy
Fear Labor Strikes Hit Four Industries Warned
Washington reports four labor fronts may flare this year coal maritime railroads and construction. Coal talks stall with July 1 contract reset in view while southern operators resist industry wide bargaining. Maritime unions face June 15 expirations with no talks started and possible date shifts. Rail unions push for 20 cent rise though no crisis before fall. Construction sees scattered wage disputes as contracts expire seasonally.
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Washington
CIO
America
John L. Lewis
Congress
Lewis
Maritime
CLO
Joe Curran
National Maritime Union
Starry Bridges
AFL
Baptists Call Boycott On Films That Do Not Meet Standards
The Southern Baptists voted to urge churches to cooperate with other denominational groups in setting cinema standards and advising communities on films that conform to them. They condemned the industry for glamorizing loose morals by exploiting baser human tendencies. M A Huggins of Raleigh NY noted the resolution aims to join with groups like the Legion of Decency.
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ST. Louis
The
Southern Baptists
Southern Baptist Convention
M. A. Huggins
Raleigh, N. Y
Resolutions Committee
Catholic Church
Legion of Decency
Schacht Promises Recovery Plan Without Allied Aid
Stuttgart May 12 Hjalmar Schacht former German economics minister and reichsbank president said he has a plan for German recovery without further aid from allied taxpayers. He will reveal it only to Mr Truman Mr Churchill or Mr Bevin and cites Caprivi on exporting goods or money as a clue.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Truman
Churchill
Bevin
Caprivi
Bismarck
10 Are Killed By Violence On Week-end
Associated Press reports ten people died in North Carolina over the weekend due to violence. Truett Brevard Burris, 19, a Wadesboro High senior, was killed when the plane he piloted crashed near his home. Burton A. Boyd, 40, of Mt. Airy, died after being found unconscious beside the Fancy Gap Highway near the Virginia border. Guy Jackson Gwyn, 41, of Mount Airy, fell from a wagon when a mule team toppled him. James White, 40, a Black man, died Saturday in Raleigh after being injured at the welding plant where he worked. Police Chief R. R. Hargrove and Coroner I. M. Cheek noted ongoing investigations.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Truett Brevard Burris
Wadesboro High School
Burton A. Boyd
Mt. Airy
Fancy Gap
Virginia
Mt Airy
Guy Jackson Gwyn
Mount Airy
James White
Raleigh
R. R. Hargrove
I. M. Cheek
Winnie Ruth Judd Escapes From State Hospital Third Time
Winnie Ruth Judd, the so called trunk murderess who killed two women in 1931, escaped from the Arizona state hospital for the insane and was recaptured about twelve hours later. The escape followed a second floor cell room breach and was detected by an attendant around 12:30 am after she was last seen at 9 pm.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Los Angeles
State Hospital For the Insane
John A. Larson
Mad
Taft urges early action on budget cuts and tax bill
Senator Taft of Ohio called for an early Senate House budget trimming decision ahead of next weeks action on a four billion dollar tax cut. He seeks a bipartisan compromise on the economy pledge before Republicans face party disagreements over the size of the cuts.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
House
Truman
May Garsson case tied to $1000 check in wartime favors
New York witness Julius G Raynes testified in the May Garsson war fraud trial that he gave Murray Garsson a $1000 check in 1942 to obtain an army commission he did not receive. Prosecutors say May took $55,000 in bribes and used the check to secure an option on the Cumberland Lumber Company in Prestonsburg Kentucky tied to wartime favors.
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Washington
Julius G. Raynes
New York
Raynes
May
Garsson
Murray
Henry
New
Freeman Garsson
Ribes
Cumberland Lumber ‘Company
Prestonsburg
Garssons
Prof Appointee To Duke Dies
Dr Paul Adelvert Root 44 of Dallas Texas husband of Greensboro native Miss Margaret Alfred died of a heart attack at Methodist Hospital in Dallas He was slated to become dean of the Duke University school of religion Durham in the summer He was a Duke PhD graduate 1935 and taught 12 years at Southern Methodist University in Dallas His wife has been visiting Greensboro parents during his transfer process
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Greensboro
Paul Adelvert Root
Dallas
Tex
Margaret Alfred
Methodist Hospital
Root
Duke University
Durham
Seattle
Wash
Milo A. Root
State Supreme Court
Husband Held In Murder Case
The husband of Dorothy Montgomery 36 was held in jail in Los Angeles on suspicion of murdering her. Thomas F. Montgomery 39 a truck driver was seized after detectives traced clues and questioned him following the nude strangled body found May 3 under a pepper tree in a vacant lot.
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Los Angeles
Dorothy Montgomery
Norris Stensland
Thomas F. Montgomery
Montgomery
185000 Telephone Workers Are Out
New York reports the coast to coast telestrike nears six weeks with about 185000 NFTW affiliated workers on strike. San Francisco CIO ACA says NFTW strike broken and 12000 Northern California and Nevada members will return to work.
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New York
National Federation of Telephone Workers
San Francisco
CIO American Communications Association
NFTW
California
Nevada
St. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Ind
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Manhattan
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
Western Electric
American Union of Telephone Workers
Duke Carolina In Atomic Plans
Rep. Carl T. Durham announces Duke and the University of North Carolina will join Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Physics in the U S Atomic Energy program. Research labs will be established at two North Carolina universities and 12 other southern schools.
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Washington
Duke
University of North Carolina
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Institute of Nuclear Physics
U. S. Atomic Energy Development Program
Carl. T. Durham
DNC
Chapel Hill
Joint Congressional Committee of Atomic Energy
North Carolina
Roanoke River Reopened to Tens of Millions of Fish
Mil lions of rock fish, the striped bass, returned to the Roanoke River the only known spawning bed for the species in the world. John A. Asbell of the federal fish hatchery bureau said 500,000 of the title fish released in the Tar River at Rocky Mount and several million more ready for distribution, signaling a major restocking effort.
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Weldon
Roanoke River
John A. Asbell
Federal Fish Hatchery Bureau
Edenton
Tar
Rocky Mount
Phone Walkout Impacts Four North Carolina Cities
Winston-Salem Charlotte Gastonia and Salisbury remain hit by a regional telephone strike. E H Wasson Carolinas manager for Southern Bell said today that several hundred more workers are expected to join the stoppage.
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Associated Press
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Gastonia
Salisbury
North Carolina
E. H. Wasson
Carolinas
Southern Bell
Salisbury Telephone System Resumes After Strike
Salisbury's manual telephone system operated full time as Southern Bell workers returned to duties. Workers began crossing the Western Electric picket line today and resumed normal operations in the exchange.
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Salisbury
Southern Bell
Western Electric
SFTW Members Return to Work After Nationwide Settlement
Southern Federation of Telephone Workers reversed the strike in nine states with a Saturday morning settlement. Some in Charlotte Winston-Salem Gastonia and Salisbury refused to cross AWEC picket lines at Western Electric. Other members returned in Greensboro and Durham over the weekend.
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Southern Federation of Telephone Workers
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Gastonia
Salisbury
SFTW
Association of Communication Equipment Workers
Western Electric Co
Greensboro
Durham
Wasson
Dean Acheson Quits Post as Undersecretary of State
President Truman accepts Dean Acheson resignation and names Robert A. Lovett to succeed him as undersecretary of state. Lovett, a New York banker and former assistant secretary of war, will take over July 1 while briefing with Acheson beforehand.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Truman
Robert A. Lovett
Lovett
New York
White House
Acheson
Charles G. Ross
Senate
Court Upholds 10 Percent Reduction in Rail Freight Rates
The Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision upheld ICC orders that raised northern and eastern freight rates by 10 percent while lowering southern and western rates by 10 percent. The ruling, written in Justice Douglas's absence, faced dissents from Justices Black and Frankfurter as states and railroads opposed the changes as arbitrary and unfair to the South.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
North
South
Rockies
Douglas
Burton
Black
Frankfurter
ICC
New England
New York
Laware
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
New Jersey
Ohio
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Ellis Arnall
Lloyd K. Garrison
UNC Football Player Dies In Highway Crash
A University of North Carolina football player Bill Cotton Sutherland 23 died from injuries after a car overturned on the Pittsboro highway near Chapel Hill. Five others were seriously injured including Duke and Presbyterian College students and UNC students Wade Dunbar Eugene Turner Thomas Buchanan and Marth Mathews.
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Wade Dunbar
Laurinburg
University of North Carolina
Eugene Turner
Carolina
Marshall Sends Reds New Note To Open Soviet Talks
Secretary of State Marshall sent a new note to Russia proposing direct Soviet American negotiations to reopen on May 20 a provisional government for Korea. A State Department statement suggested talks could be delayed awaiting Molotov’s reply.
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Washington
Marshall
Russia
Korea
State Department
Molotov
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