White House To Be Scene Of Railroad Strike Talks
President Truman invites wage dispute negotiators to the White House for 2:30 p.m. conferences as a nationwide rail strike looms. Talks include A F Whitney and Swanley Johnston for trainmen and engineers, C J Goff for firemen, and railroad officials, amid stalled wage offers from 1.44 to around 2.00 daily.
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Washington
Truman
White House
T'S
A. F. Whitney
Swanley Johnston
C. J. Goff
T. C. Cashen
Swifthmen
W. V. Fraser
Con
Mr. Truman
John J. Pelley
Association of
Iican Railroads
D. P. Loomis
W. T. Farley
R. A. Enochs
J. P. Parrish
New Union
Cherry Addresses Wake Forest Students
Governor Cherry spoke to a Wake Forest college student assembly urging information as opportunity and condemning ignorance. He urged Americans and North Carolinians to pursue progress, enterprise, and personal advancement through education, work, and growth for all in the state.
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Cherry
Wake Forest
Wake Forest College
North Carolina
Weather outlook North Carolina with showers and warm trend
Cloudy conditions with scattered showers and thunderstorms today and Saturday across the Carolinas. Temperatures near normal with cooler trends in western areas and mountains. Notes of a warming trend Sunday and generally fair conditions by Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperature and rainfall readings listed for multiple stations include Raleigh and Wilmington.
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North Carolina
Tain Mountains
Carolinas
Uetley
Bull Pup Caring For Fox Cubs Surprises Durham Household
Willie Fletcher and family in Durham Route 3 care for three baby foxes found in a hollow tree. The bull pup acts as their mother after the foxes were orphaned when two pope died shortly after.
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Raleigh
Willie Fletcher
Fletchers
Route 3
Durham
Pope
Baptists Urge U S Recall Vatican Staff
Southern Baptist convention delegates led by Dr. Louie D. Newton demand the United States recall its representative to the Vatican. The 101st annual meeting in Miami elected new officers and chose St. Louis as next year’s site.
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Miami
Fla
Louie D. Newton
Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
United States
Vatican
Druid Hills Baptist Church
Miami, Fla
St. Louis
W. A. Criswell
First Baptist Church
Dallas
Tex
Bayfront Park
Newton
Pat M. Neff
Waco
Texas
R. C. Campbell
Columbia
S. C
C. Angell
Porter Routh
Nashville
Joe F. Burtoh
Myron C. Taylor
Three Legged Duck Born On Dudley Farm
A duck hatched on Eldridge Swinson’s Dudley route farm has three legs and four feet. The bird walks on two legs and drags the third, with the extra limb ending in two feet.
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Goldsboro
Eldridge Swinson
Dudley
British Cabinet Mission Says India Will Seek Independence
In New Delhi on May 17 the British cabinet mission stated to newspaper correspondents that Britain intends to leave India. The congress working committee debated cooperating with the mission’s plan for an independent federal union and an Indian interim government. Mohamed Ali Jinnah of the Moslem League was to express views tomorrow as talks on a constitutional framework continued. The government announced a new Ceylon constitution granting self government. Lord Wavell was to broadcast about forming an interim central government and a constitutional convention of 385 delegates to shape a federation.
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India
Congress Party
Federal Union of India
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
Moslem League
Ceylon
Lord Wavell
Cabinet Mission
Mohamed Ali Jinnah
Greensboro Man Put On Committee By Bill Umstead
In Raleigh on May 17 state Democratic Chairman W. B. Umstead announced a five member committee to study the democratic plan of organization and suggest changes. The appointees are Jeff D. Johnson Jr. of Clinton former superior court judge Mrs P P McCain of Sanitorium E C Greene of Asheville Mrs B B Everett of Palmyra and Charles A Hines of Greensboro. The committee was authorized at the March meeting and Umstead urged Democrats with ideas to send them to Johnson.
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Raleigh
W. B. Umstead
Democratic Executive Committee
Jeff D. Johnson, Jr
Clinton
Superior Court
P. P. McCain
E. C. Greene
Asheville
B. B. Everett
Palmyra
Charles A. Hines
Greensboro
Umstead
Johnson
Sailors Give Buddy a Loud Wedding Sendoff at Sea
In Seattle on May 17 James H. Sim from San Francisco, boatswain aboard the liberty ship Allen Balch, wed Josephine Chappe of Portland at a justice of the peace. The crew arrived first, built a wedding arch with chipping hammers and martin spikes, showered the couple with rice, and pledged to join the honeymoon voyage aboard.
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Seattle
James H. Sim
San Francisco
Allen
Balch
Josephine Chappe
Portland
Martin Spikes
Virginia Air Tragedy May Go To FBI
Henrico authorities work to identify 18 of 27 passengers killed when a Viking airliner crashed in swampy pines. CAA inspector says FBI may be called in to investigate aspects not accounted for, citing pistols and other items found amid wreckage. FBI chief says no request yet and cites possible engine trouble or bad weather.
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Richmond
Henrico County
CAA
FBI
H. G. Myers
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harry M. Kimball
Waynick Resigns to Lead Statewide Health Group
Raleigh May 17 Waynick resigns as director of the venereal disease education institute to organize a statewide anti social disease body. The institute will wind down with a $68 000 balance and nearly 50 000 in inventory. He plans to open offices in Raleigh June 1 and seek public contributions.
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Raleigh
Capus Waynick
Education Institute
Waynick
Carl V. Reynolds
T. C. Johnson
Johnson
U. S. Public Health Service
Reynolds Foundation
Reynolds
Wayhick
North Carolina
New Plant Planned at China Grove Mills
China Grove Cotton Mills Company secretary-treasurer Carl Beaver announced plans to start a new No.3 plant adding 15,000 spindles and increasing employment by 250 to 275 workers.
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China Grove
Carl Beaver
China Grove Cotton Mills Company
Cooperation Is Called For By Frenchman
Alexander Parodi, a French delegate, told the United Nations security council that cooperation must be maintained and developed as it assumes the council presidency. He noted the meeting was chaired in French and warned the task ahead would be difficult amid ongoing debates over admitting new members and the process for handling applications.
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York
Alexander Parodi
United Nations Security Council
Council
Parodi
Paul Hasluck
Anaes Er
Organization of the United Nations
Security Council
Hasluck
U. S
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Assembly
North Carolina Candidate Emerges For Young Rep Chairman
John Wilkerson of North Carolina is named among three contenders for the chairmanship of the national young Republican league at its first postwar convention in Charleston West Virginia held Saturday.
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Tar Heel
Charleston
W. Va
John Wilkerson
North Carolina
National Young Republican League
Atomic Energy Plants Seen In Next Two Years
Dr. Leonard J. Katzin, a California plutonium project chemist, says large commercial atomic energy plants could be practical within two years. He argues industrial use would reduce reliance on other power, boost undeveloped mineral regions like Canada, and improve efficiency and living conditions as development advances.
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Washington
Leonard J. Katzin
University of California
Dre Katzin
Army Ordnance Magazine
Canada
Mr. Katzin
Conference of Ministers ends in deadlock at Paris meeting
Secretary of State James Byrnes and 15 others depart Orly for Washington after a deadlocked foreign ministers conference adjourned until June 15. Byrnes voices optimism that Russia Western powers differences will be settled next meeting amid progress on Italian reparations colonies and Balkan frontiers.
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Paris
James F. Byrnes
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Orlyfield
Washington
Byrnes
Russia
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Britain
V. M. Molotov
le Bourget Field
Berlin
James Dunn
Two German Officers Claim Franco Backed Nazis in War
Izvestia publishes a 10,000 word statement by two former German military attaches now prisoners in the Soviet Union. They accuse the Franco regime of active Nazi aid from 1940 onward, detailing plans like Isabella Felix for Gibraltar and Spanish‑German military collaboration under Keitel and Jodl, with Canaris and Vigon involvement.
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Izvestia
Germany
Soviet Union
Gunther Krappe
Madrid
Hans Remner
Tangier
Wilhelm Keitel
Gustav d Jodl
Nuernberg
Keitel
Jodi
Sup
Isabella Felix
Gilbraltar
Africa
Francco
Remer
Berlin
Wilhelm Canaris
Canaris
Spain
Gibraltar
Juan Vigon
Hitler
England
Attace
London
Nothing New From White House on Coal Talks
The White House reported no progress in the deadlocked soft coal contract talks. President Truman resisted arbitration and focused on a looming nationwide rail strike threatening coal movement, while John L. Lewis and Charles ONeill rejected arbitration terms. The United Mine Workers and operators rejected the arbitration request.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
John L. Lewis
Charles O'Neill
United Mine Workers
Ross
Missouri
Schwellenbach
Steelworkers push for removal of J D Small
The CIO steelworkers at a convention in Atlantic City demand President Truman resign Civilian Production Administrator John D Small over his six month strike ban proposal. They condemn him as partisan and serving anti social interests while urging accountability for reconversion.
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N. J
CIO
Truman
John D. Small
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