Balkans commission backs UN action on armed bands
The 11 nation Balkans commission signed a report for the UN Security Council calling support of armed bands violating frontiers a world threat. Nine nations favored the conclusion with Russia and Poland opposing. Yugoslavia blamed for guerrilla support in Northern Greece.
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Balkans Investigation Commission
United Nations Security Council
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Russia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
Bulgaria
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Security Council
Council
United Nations
Negro Man Seized From Northampton County Jail
Murfreesboro reports three armed masked men abducted a Black prisoner named Bush from the Northampton county jail in Jackson at 2 AM. He had been arrested in Rich Square for alleged attempted assault on a white woman. a driver and local youths aided the victim and identified the suspect later.
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Murfreesboro
Bush
Rich Square
Frank Outland
Herald-News
Outland
Northampton County
Edwards
Democrats Set To Deny Funds In 1948 Budget Cuts
Washington May 23 Senator Bridges said Republicans plan to cancel about 1 billion dollars in prior appropriations in a drive to trim 1948 federal spending by roughly 4.5 billion below President Truman’s estimate. The House panel also proposed heavy cuts to the Agriculture budget while tallying more than 2 billion in reductions so far and a 642 million bookkeeping cut.
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Bridges
Truman
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
Senate
New Hampshire
Treasury
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
House
Trunn
Hay
Acquittal At Lynch Trial Regarded As Shocking
Associated Press surveys U S newspaper reactions to the Greenville South Carolina mass lynching case verdict. Editorials condemn or defend the outcome with law and race tensions shaping judgment while noting potential precedent for future prosecutions.
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Greenville
D. C
New Orleans Times-Picayune
South
Times Picayune
Willie Earle
New York Times
Chicago Sun
Washington Post
Kentucky
Louisville-Courier-Journal
United States
Minneapolis Times
S. C
Kansas City
Star
Atlanta Journal
Charlotte, N. C
South Carolina
GOP Leaders Confident of Beating Tax Cut Delay Plan
Republican senate leaders say they have the votes to block a Democratic motion to delay action on a 4 billion dollar income tax cut bill. The roll call is set for Monday under a unanimous consent agreement from Finance Chairman Millikin. Democrats support Senator George of Ga in favor of postponement. With 51 Republicans and 44 Democrats present, possible absences may affect the outcome. Millikin and Taft expressed certainty their side will defeat the delay motion.
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Senate
Millikin
R-Cole
Finance Committee
George
Overton
D-La
McCarran
Dnev
Lander
Taft
Ohio
Weather Summary for North and South Carolina May 24 1947
Partly cloudy and slightly warmer today with scattered thundershowers in the east this afternoon. The Carolinas extend a forecast of near to slightly below average temperatures with a cooler trend Tuesday, warmer Wednesday, and showers and thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday in eastern sections. Total rainfall expected three quarters to two inches. extends to detailed city readings including Charlotte Raleigh Boston and more with varying totals.
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Carolinas
Carolinas Deplore Jury Action In Lynch Case
Newspapers across North and South Carolina condemn the verdict in the lynching case. The Piedmont calls the result just legally yet warns such cases may recur. National papers urge federal anti lynching law while Southern presses decry justice seen as flawed.
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Piedmont
Atlanta Constitution
Baltimore Evening Sun
Richmond
Times-Dispatch
South
Winston-Salem Journal
Asheville
South Carolina
Greensboro Daily News
High Point Enterprise
Washington
Hickory Record
Tobacco Interests Set to Gain 1948 Fund Total
The House Appropriations Committee recommended an 1948 agriculture bill delivering 4,072,000 for tobacco. The package raises 782,000 for administering tobacco acts and quotas and allocates 2,520,000 for marketing quotas and 1,552,000 for tobacco acts. Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina legislators said the program is self supporting via tobacco taxes and penalties.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
House Appropriations Committee
House
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
New Foreign Policy Emerges From Truman Bill
President Truman signed the Greco Turkish aid measure creating a new American foreign policy to aid weak nations against Communist aggression. He calls it an instrument of peace pledging support to the United Nations and willingness to act for its sake. Moscow counters that it exposes imperialist aims. Time will reveal whether Soviet Russia seeks to spread communism or not.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Truman
United States
United Nations
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Army and Navy hunt for flying fortress missing over Caribbean
An extensive search spanning Central America the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean began for a flying fortress with 15 aboard en route from the Canal Zone to Kelly Field Texas. Wreckage was later located in Nicaragua the Army announced confirming the missing aircraft left Howard Field and last reported near the Nicaraguan coast.
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Caribbean
Nicaraguyan
Condition of President's Mother Remains Unchanged
Grandview Missouri May 23. President Truman's mother Mrs Martha E Truman continues in the same condition with no improvement after a week of anxious vigil. Doctor Graham said her status was unchanged and the White House remains active from her home and the Muehlebach hotel in Kansas City as the president weighs urgent duties in Washington.
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Kansas City
White House
Grandview
Martha E. Truman
Wallace H. Graham
Washington
Graham
Mrs. Truman
Muehlebach
Truman Asks Extension of Control
President Truman asked Congress to extend for a year beyond June 30 his authority to control domestic use and export of a few materials to prevent harm to the economy and support foreign policy. He urged continued domestic control by priority and allocation over tin cordage antimony cinchona bark and quinine and sought import controls on fats oils rice nitrogen fertilizer and export priorities on key industrial products for foreign reconstruction.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
Greek Turkey Aid May Be Delayed
President Truman faces a delay in launching the Greek Turkish aid program as a top administrator is not yet appointed. The plan includes a $400 million package with a $100 million RFC loan for Turkey and broader Greek economic rehabilitation and military assistance under Ambassador Edwin C. Wilson in Ankara.
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Greece
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Turkey
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Edwin C. Wilson
Ankara
Sheriff hunts for body after jail lynching in Jackson
Sheriff A. C. Stephenson said deputies search the Roanoke river area for the body of a Negro known as Bush, allegedly taken by armed masked men from Northampton county jail in Jackson last night. He feared a lynching may have occurred.
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A. C. Stephenson
Roanoke River
Northampton County
Romney Given Prison Term
Kenneth Romney former house sergeant at arms was sentenced to one to three years in federal prison for concealing a 143868 shortage in his office accounts. Judge Alexander Holtzoff cited long-ago timing and noted two others may be involved but beyond the law. He referenced former Rep. John H. Smithwick whose checks Romney cashed but who cannot be charged due to statute limits.
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Kenneth Romney
House
Federal District Court
Alexander Holtzoff
Holtzoff
John H. Smithwick
Ford Company Goes Alone Despite Strike
Ford Motor Co claims two days of full production despite a walkout by 3, unionized foremen, and continues operations with a strike reduced supervisors staff in Detroit.
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Ford Company
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
California Judge Condemns Greenville Lynch Trial Acquittal
San Francisco May 23 Superior Judge Sylvania J Lazarus denounced the acquittal of lynching defendants in Greenville DC as an atrocity and injustice. He urged Americans to oppose the mob action and the South’s discriminatory climate, noting the victim was unconvicted and tortured by white assailants.
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Sylvania J. Lazarus
Greenville
D. C
South
Congress
South Carolina
Negro Held After Woman's Death Near Forrest City
In Forrest City Arkansas Willie Lee Duke was captured after an eight hour manhunt in Rose Lake woods and jailed on first degree murder charges in the knife slaying of Ethel Ellis Boyd a 35 year old taxi owner and driver. A coroner s jury recommended the charge. The body of Mrs Boyd was found in a rural roadside ditch five miles west of Forrest City.
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Ark
Arkansas
Ethel Ellis Boyd
R. W. West
Willie Lee Duke
Duke
Rose Lake
Here
Boyd
Jamestown Woman Elected DAR Director General
Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne of Brookfield Indiana was elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, defeating Mrs. Stanley Thorpe Manlove of Newburgh New York by 1186 to 1131. The three year term began with her succession of Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Athens Georgia.
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Roscoe C. O'Byrne
Brookfield
Ind
Daughters of the American Revolution
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Athens
Obyrne
Stanley Thorpe Manlove
Newburgh
N. Y
O’byrne
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Clemson
S. C
James Patton
Columbus
Ohio
Charles C. Haig
Washington, D. C
George Sartell
Jamestown
N. C
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