Farmers Sent To Lions Is Charge Of Democrats
Rep. Cannon calls the 1948 agriculture appropriation bill the worst ever sent to the House floor as he leads a Democratic fight against 32 percent budget cuts. Rep. Gore warns Democrats will push the issue into 1948 elections if GOP insists, while the House drives toward a multi billion dollar reduction from Truman’s budget and defers wartime subsidy losses.
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Washington
Rep
Cannon
D-Mo
House
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
Gore
D-Tenn
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Treasury
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hopkins Students Battle Maryland Grads Over Hidden Terrapin
Hopkins students faced 250 Maryland attackers on the College Park campus in a bruising fracas with police present. Eleven attackers were jailed for disorderly conduct after a hearing. the 400 pound bronze terrapin remains hidden on Hopkins property amid ongoing hostilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
University of Maryland
Reuben Caplan
College Park
Hopkins
Maryland
Condition Of Injured Rated Satisfactory
Memorial hospital reported the three Marshville women and a Morven man in satisfactory condition after a automobile collision that killed Ernest Staton of Morven. X rays planned for Mrs. Raymond Peele, her daughter Jeannette Peele, Miss Marjorie Smith and Robert Bryant 17.
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Charlotte
Memorial Hospital
Marshville
Ernest Staton
Morven
Raymond Peele
Jeanette Peele
Marjorie Smith
Robert Bryant
Weather Summary for North Carolina May 2 1947
Partly cloudy today tonight and Sunday with scattered thundershowers expected Sunday afternoon and in the mountains this afternoon and evening. Official temperature readings show Greensboro 87 Charlotte 85 Raleigh 68 Wilmington 83 Charleston 85.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
Weath
Bureau
Boston
Charleston
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Tomlinson Rejects Bids At Auction Sale
Tomlinson of High Point will reject all bids submitted yesterday for three parcels of land and buildings on Hamilton street. The auction by Joseph P Day Inc and Mendenhall Thompson drew $117000, far below expectations. High bidders included Coy and J Willliard, J W Ferrell, and Everett Marsh. Fees and future negotiations aim to resell, possibly by parcel or whole, as one bidder shows willingness to pay more.
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Tomlinson
High Point
Hamilton Street
Hamilton, Commerce and
Green Streets
Joseph P. Day, Inc
New York
Mendenhall and Thompson
Coy
J. Williard
Carolina Upholstery Company
Commerce Street
J. W. Ferrell
Ferrell Bros
Winston-Salem
Marsh
Everett Marsh
Marsh Furniture Company
Green
South
Hamilton
No. 1
No. 2
Stephen A. McDonald
Joseph P. Day Company
North Carolina
Tomlinson Company
West High Street
Hydrophobia Blamed For Death Of Boy
The state board of hygiene confirms hydrophobia caused the death of 13 year old Ernest Norton of Hope Mills. He died in a Fayetteville hospital after a puppy bite last month and illness began last Sunday with hospitalization on Thursday night.
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Fayetteville
State Board of Hygiene
Ernest Norton
Hope Mills
Tenn. Senator McKellar Taken To Bethesda Naval Hospital
Senator McKellar of Tennessee was moved from the senate office building to Bethesda Naval Hospital after a fainting spell. Aides said the illness resembled a light attack and did not indicate serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McKellar
D-Tenn
Senate
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Incomes of White Vets Higher Than Negro Vets in South
White veterans' average weekly income in 25 southern communities and Washington ranged 30 to 78 percent above that of Black veterans. Data from AFL research, housing survey by Census Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a note to the president's civil rights committee detail Birmingham and Jackson area differentials.
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Washington
Elmer W. Henderson
National Council For A Permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission
American Federation of Labor
Research and Information Department
Census Bureau of Labor Statistics
Birmingham
Ala
Jackson
Miss
Truman’s Return Delayed by Mother's Illness
President Truman’s physician says he would not be advised to return to Washington given his mother’s critical condition. Press secretary Ross notes General Graham’s view that returning now would be unwarranted. Truman reports his mother had a fairly good night and continues at her bedside with wife and daughter present. He signs dollar bills for eight VFW poppy fundraisers, seeking rehabilitation funds.
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Grandview
Truman
Washington
Charles G. Ross
Wallace H. Cran
Graham
White House
Ross
General Graham
Kansas
Mart E. Truman
Margaret
Self Defense Ruling In Death Of Negro Sheriff In SC
A coroner's jury ruled that newly appointed Calhoun County Sheriff E Whetstone shot Hercules Joyner a Black man in self defense while on duty. The finding follows Sheriff Tilley’s death and precedes possible grand jury action as Sessions Court opens. Also mentioned is the trial of Willie Gidron in connection with Tilley’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Matthews
S. C
Calhoun County
E. Whetstone
Hercules Joyner
Julian S. Wolfe
Orangeburg
Whetstone
Thurmond
George D. Tilley
Willie Gidron
Tilley
Government to sell rice and textiles to public
Manila May 24 President Roxas authorizes government agencies to sell rice and textiles directly to the public to push prices down. Textiles come from a recent Japan shipment totaling 1 800 000 yards of cotton and 700 000 yards of rayon.
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Manila
Roxas
Japan
Communists Cut Peiping to Manchuria Rail Line Near Changshan
Communist forces cut the Peiping Mukden railroad at several points south of the Great Wall. They retook Kangchuling and reported gains around Changshan. Peitaiho and Nantatzu rail stations were captured, with fighting near Kangchuling and encirclement of Changchun.
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Nanking
Peiping-Mukden
Great Wall
Manchuria
Changshan
Kangchuling
Manchurian
Peitaiho
Nantatzu
Chinwangtao
Changchun
Peiping
Brazilian Reds Appeal to Supreme Court Over Illegality Ruling
The Brazilian Communist party filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging the May 7 decision by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal declaring the party illegal. It argued the tribunal's ruling violated 1946 constitutional guarantees allowing political parties unless they oppose democracy. The party denied links to Russia, asserting it is Brazilian and fights for democracy and progress.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazilian Communist Party Today
Supreme Court
Supreme Electoral Tribunal
Brazil
Brazilian Communist Party
Russia
Communist Party
Acheson Denies British Kickback in Greek Turkish Aid
The State Department says Britain will receive dollars from the 400 million Greek Turkish aid program only through the sale of British equipment to Greece. Undersecretary Dean Acheson denied any kickback to cover British expenses since March 31. He noted Britain could gain several millions in dollar exchange by supplying munitions Greece needs, and Italy France and others might also provide needed items in return.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
Dean Acheson
Greece
Wool tariff clash jeopardizes Geneva trade talks
Washington reports a House vote to extend wool price supports and raise tariffs threatens to veto the 18 nation Geneva trade conference. Rep Cooley says President Truman may veto unless the measure is revised in a House Senate conference. The clause would push tariffs higher if wool imports undercut domestic supports, potentially blocking new international tariff agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cnts
Geneva
Rep
Cooley
D-Nc
Truman
House-Senate
Senate
Commodity Credit Corporation
House
Tariff Commission
Argentina declares Nazi expulsions meet hemisphere duties
Buenos Aires reports eight more Nazi agents deported two days ago, bringing total expelled to 60 as Argentina asserts it has satisfied continental obligations. The U S State Department has pressed Argentina to cleanse Nazi influences to fulfill Chapaultepec pledges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
United States
Argentina
State Department
Washington
Juan Dramuglia
U. S. State Department
Bramuglia
Two Dixie Lynchings Of International Interest
Atlanta May 24 reports highlight two notorious lynchings in ten months, the July 25 1946 Monroe Georgia slayings of four Negroes and the Willie Earle case in Greenville South Carolina. Also noted are Northampton County North Carolina missing suspect Godwin Bush and the Arkansas murder case involving Willie Lee Duke, with a Georgia rape conviction and death sentence for James Brown.
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Atlanta
South
Monroe
Willie Earle
Greenville
S. C
Duke
Boyd
Arkansas
Walton County
Georgia
James Brown
Soviet scientists study anesthesia against brain ailments
Scientists in Moscow report that anesthesia may influence brain diseases such as epilepsy. Dr. L. Friendland cites experiments by V. Galkin on cats showing potent poisons like potassium cyanide were less effective under anesthesia. Historical work by Roux and Bezredka on disease prevention is noted.
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Moscow
L. Friendland
V. Galkin
Leningrad Naval Academy
Roux
Bezredka
Friendland
Galkin
Gasperi Asked to Form New Italian Government
Alcide de Gasperi, fresh from resignation as Italy's premier eleven days earlier, said he has been asked to form a new government. He will confer with party leaders to decide on accepting the post again while reiterating his program to unite all in solving economic problems for the country's salvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Italy
Anrico de Nicolai
Christian Democratic Party
de Gasperi
Abduction Probe Under Way In Lynch Case
Jackson May 24. Solicitor FE Tyler said Godwin Bush was not lynched and urged quick proof. The state bureau of investigation Sheriff J C Stephenson and Police Chief Flintland vowed full effort to ferret out facts. Stephenson anticipated a witness who would testify Bush was not lynched.
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Jackson
FE. R. Tyler
Godwin Bush
Associated Press
State Bureau of Investigation
J. C. Stephenson
Frank Tland
Stephenson
Bush
Woman recites sighting of man fleeing scene near jail
Rosa Harvell told officers she saw a man run across the street from several cars in front of the jail early yesterday morning. She heard a pistol shot and observed footprints in the yard, supporting her account of a fleeing suspect, race unspecified.
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Jackson
Rosa Harvell
North Carolina governor probes Northampton jail incident with lynching rumors
In Northampton County the removal of 24 year old Bush by a masked white group sparked a state probe after officials voiced doubt of a lynching. Governor Cherry ordered an all out investigation while highway patrols controlled crowds and officials weighed whether Bush escaped or was shot.
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Tyler
SBI
R. A. Allen
Cherry
Raleigh
Bush
North Carolina
Landon C. Rosser
Motor Vehicles Department
Northampton
Northampton County
State Bureau of Investigation
North Carolina Democrats Name Horton and Blythe Chair and Member
Party leaders in Raleigh follow Governor Cherry’s recommendations. Wilkins P. Horton of Pittsboro is elected chairman and Joe Blythe of Charlotte becomes national committee member, both by unanimous vote as U. S. Senator William B. Umstead presided until Horton’s election.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Cherry
Pittsboro
Joe Blythe
Charlotte
U. S
William B. Umstead
Tierton
Horton
Blythe
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Tuskegee Institute
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