Oil Strike Settlement Believed Near
A Raleigh report says a 45-year-old company employee was killed when a three ton roll of lead telephone cable fell through a loading dock floor crushing his skull. Terminal manager Clark Webb of Overnite Transportation Co. said the cable roll broke through the dock, hitting his head with fatal force.
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Raleigh
Clark Webb
Overnite Transportation Co
Richmond
Charles G Truelove
Trueno
State Senator to Broadcast on 12 Stations for Umstead Bid
Raleigh W- state senator will hold a statewide radio talk Tuesday night for William B. Umstead. The 15 minute address will be carried across 12 stations. Her body was found in a car near the fishing pier yesterday.
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Raleigh
Vey E. —E
Textile mill tensions spark walkout at Gambrill factory
A disruption at the Gambrill and M textile mill in Bessemer City led to forty weavers leaving their posts and blocking entry as talks or delays affected morning shifts.
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Bessemer City
Gambrill and M
Koje Report Turned Over To Clark
U S Army board findings on the Koje Island POW revolt were sent to Gen Mark W Clark's headquarters as the careers of Brig Gen Francis T Dodd and Brig Gen Charles F Colson faced inquiry. Brig Gen Haydon L Boatner, the new camp commander, vowed stern action while planning tighter control at Camp 76 as 3 000 paratroopers arrived to bolster security.
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Tokyo
U. S. Army
Koje Island
Mark W. Clark
Army
Francis T. Dodd
Charles F. Colson
Grant
Haydon L. Boatner
Dodd
Colson
Rose
Boatner
Clark
Seoul
Kote
United Press War
Wendell Merick
187Th Airborne
Joy Relieved of Truce Duties and Calls Communists Liars
Vice Admiral C Turner Joy, in his final week heading the U N truce delegation at Panmunjom, labeled Communist negotiators out and out liars over prisoner screening. He urged relief as Gen Matthew Ridgway and Gen Mark Clark announced transitions, while Joy nominated Maj Gen William Harrison as successor.
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Joy
Panmunjom
Korea
Adm. C. Turner Joy
United Nations
U. N
Mark W. Clark
Tokyo
Navy Department
Naval Forces
Far East
U. S. Naval
Annapolis
William K. Harrison Jr
Robert Briscoe
U. S. 7Th Fleet
Matthew B. Rdgway
Eeve Clark
Ridgway
Naval Academy
Harrison
Ellis
8Th Army
Reds
Nam 1
Red
U S Official Seized by Bandits in Brazilian Jungle Rescue Underway
Brazilian army parachutists flew into Central Brazil to rescue U S government official Scott Magness and Brazilian Major Miranda Correa held by armed thrill-seekers at a Pan-America crash site 930 miles north of Rio. Officials fear two other Americans may also be hostage.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
U. S
Soldiers of Fortune
Rio
Scott Magness
American Civil Aeronautics Administration
Miranda Correa
Charles Collar
U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board
Collar
Bate
Pes
Robert Wisenbaker
Pratt & Whitney Co
Stanley Brooks
Mesnass
Pis
Cras
Magness
Correa
Brailian Foreign and Air Force
Pan
Mattos Et Oe
Parking Meter Case Heads to State Supreme Court
Raleigh residents William Scoggin and others await a State Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of parking meters. The two test cases challenge the meter law after prior convictions in lower courts. The high court is expected to hand down a decision Wednesday.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
William Scoggin
Ier
Wake Superior Court
Extortion plot leads to federal hearing for two suspects
William Murphy of the Charlotte FBI said Bobby ordained a fake newspaper package to threaten Floyd Baker’s children. Oscar Shanks, 19, of Cramerton is charged with extortion. both men faced a U. S. Commissioner and were ordered held for the next federal term in Charlotte.
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Booh
Bobby
Floyd Baker
Baker
Robi Lake
William Murphy
Charlotte
FBI
Oscar Shanks
U. S
Murphy
Shanks
Merchants Convene Raleigh Golden Anniversary Convention
The North Carolina Merchants Association opened its golden anniversary convention in Raleigh. Rowland W. Jones, president of the American Retail Federation, was among the principal speakers at the first general session.
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North Carolina Merchants Association
Rowland W. Jones
American Retail Federation
Union rebels claim 40000 quit CIO for AFL in textile split
In Greensboro leaders claim more than 40,000 workers across states will move from the CIO Textile Workers Union to the AFL United Textile Workers. Lewis Conn cites 42,700 confirmed defections with 17,000 from North Carolina and 9,000 from New Jersey. George Baldanzi plans talks in Virginia and North Carolina as rift widens after last month’s convention showdown. Some locals in Alabama Virginia and North Carolina resist the revolt.
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Greensboro
CIO Textile Workers Union
AFL
Lewis Conn
North Carolina
TWUA
United Textile Workers
New Jarkey
George Baldanzi
Virginia
North Carolna
Baldanzi
Alabama
CIO
South Carolina
Aceae Ciaries
Baldena
Mountaineers Air Grievance at Ramp-Eaters Convention
Hundreds of mountaineers gathered in Panacea Canton to accuse an unspecified group of wrongs, claiming an mp kept there a wm et sick ity ain never live. The Ramp-Eaters Association addressed the convention with a disputed stance.
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Panacea
Canton
N.C
Lestern Na
Cops Clash Over Brinks Robbery Witness Case
Rhode Island authorities criticized Massachusetts police for not pursuing a key witness Alfred Gagnon who claims to have helped plan the Brink's robbery worth 1 219 million dollars. Links surface between ex convicts O'Brien McGuiness and the Brink's case as investigators probe potential ties to a nightclub operator's murder.
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West Warwick
R. I
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Alfred Gagnon
Boston
Grand
Powers
McGuiness
Gagnon
O'Brien
Piste Eel Akeea
Brink
O’brien
Dlaw
Tobaccomen Meet Pinehurst Opens Bright Belt Convention
Warehousemen from five Southern states gather in Pinehurst for the eighth Bright Belt Warehouse Association meeting. Fred S. Royster of Henderson, head since the start, will preside as the convention opens and continues Wednesday.
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Pinehurst
Bright Belt Warehouse Associa
Fred S. Royster
Henderson
Nationwide oil workers settlement edges closer
Reports show 1700 workers signing contracts with three firms and 460 more tentatively agreeing. CIO and AFL locals trace delays to renegotiation limits and Wage Stabilization Board ceilings. Strikes averted at Lima Ohio refinery as votes on 15 cent raises proceed, while other negotiations continue nationwide.
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Socony- Vacuum
Augusta
Kan
Pure Oil
Cabin Creek
W. Va
Texas Co
Lockport
T. E. B. Watson
CIO
Topeka
Pone City
Nebraska and
O of Ohio
Lima
AFL
Minister Uses Sermon Stolen From Truman
President Truman stayed with Mrs. Truman as Rev. Dr. Charles W. Lowry preached at St. John's Episcopal Church. The exchange included a quip about a sermon being stolen for a counter offensive against communism.
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Washington
Truman
North-South Democratic split widens at ADA clash
Washington reports a deepening rift as Southern Democrats vow to block a liberal bid at the national convention led by Americans for Democratic Action. The ADA opposed any compromise on civil rights and urged a non-endorsement while pressing for anti corruption commitments and a probe into William O Dwyer s fitness as ambassador to Mexico amid labor liberal coalition fears.
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Washington
Americans For Democratic Action
Frank E. McKinney
Truman
ADA
Beral
Illinois
Suers
Stevenson
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Fitness
New York
William O'Dwyer
U. S
Mexico
O'Dwyer
Seaver
Senate Crime Committee
New York City
Russell
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Twenty Five Killed On Weekend Violent Deaths Surveyed
United Press reports at least 25 deaths over the weekend including 16 in North Carolina from highway wrecks and violence. Fatal crashes occurred in Jackson County near Sylva and near Old Fort, Gastonia, and Kannapolis with multiple youths and adults slain or drowned.
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United Press
North Carolina
Jackson County
Sylv
Olive Payne
Tuckaseigee
David Lee Williams
Raymond Davis Williams
Grace Madeline Williams
Cullowhee
U. S
Old Fort
Hunter Warne
Asheville
North Wilkesboroth
Lee Purdue
Tourt Hill
Gastonia
Virgus Collins
Norfolk
Percy Sylvester Lassiter
Raleigh Negro
Franklinton
Lucille H. Wilson
Ianacelden Negro
Aviilians & Jary
Kannaplolis
Tarboro
N. C
I County
Mon- George Leewg
Lexington
High Rock Lake
Tom Hatcher
Leaksville
J. O. Griffith
Griffith
Charles Truelove
Raleigh
William Ernest Woodlief Jr
Wilton
Oxford
Nancy Clvile
Charles Augus Augustus Thomp- Rill
Carolina Beach
Weldon
James Hicks
Percy Garner
James Edward Witherspoon
Winston Salem
Wade Griffin
Leavy Highsmith McMillan
Housewife Accused of Stabbing Hubby
New York AP report says 42 year old Mrs Philip Vetter Sr was held without bail after she allegedly stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife during a Saturday night quarrel. He lies in critical condition. The magistrate set arraignment for Wednesday.
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New York
Philip Vetter Sr
Vernon C. Riddick
Vetter
Mecklenburg Killer Gets Life Term
Reinhart, a Wilmington defendant, was found guilty of murder in the first degree with a mercy recommendation, leading to a mandatory life sentence for the pistol slaying of Emmett H. Bellamy and his partner in Charlotte. The verdict followed a trial that highlighted motive, insanity defenses, and Reinhart's troubled family history.
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Charlotte Mond Reinhart
Jenner
Skyearad Myre
Wilmington
Emmett H. Bellamy
Bellamy
Elkins Jr
Reinhart
Dan K. Shove
Moore
Basil Whitener
PP Pace
Myrtle Beach
Henry Fisher
Whitener
Fisher
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Carlton M. O'Brien
Denver
O. A. Knight
CIO Oil Workers Union
Lees Bolt
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