Hughes Inquiry Reopens Tomorrow in Washington Without Fanfare
Senate war investigating subcommittee resumes hearings on Howard Hughes war time plane contracts. Hughes will not be called tomorrow. he argues the 200 ton plywood flying boat will fly, supporting an $18 million government stake and up to $7 million of his funds. The other contract covered is for a photo reconnaissance plane with $22 million spent.
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Washington
Senate
Howard Hughes
Ferguson
R-Mich
Hughes
Capitol Hill
Sarasota, Fla
Pepper
D-Fla
Hoto
United States Submits Revised Korea Draft to UN
The United States presents a revised Korea draft to the UN for a 90 day troop withdrawal after establishing a Korean government. It calls for national security forces and dissolution of northern military formations, with elections by March 31 and UN oversight.
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Korea
United Nations Assembly
U. S. de Te
John Foster Dulles
U. S
Marshall
United States
Russia
Czechoslovakia
World bread cereal stocks fall 10 million tons short
Sir John Boyd Orr, head of FAO, warned that global supplies of bread and cereals are 10 million tons below what is needed to maintain present rations. He cited crop failures in 1947, drought in Europe, and continued rationing into 1949, with no quick fix beyond increased world food production.
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Nashington
John Boyd Orr
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
John
Europe
FAO
Sir John
Tax study panel favors broad income tax cuts
A nine to one majority of a citizens advisory committee on taxation urged lower individual income tax rates for all, balancing relief with living costs for lower income groups. AFL official Matthew Woll issued a minority report arguing the plan would cut revenues, harm European aid, and shift the tax burden downward. The panel, led by Roswell Magill, prepared to aid Ways and Means as Congress plans tax legislation for the November session.
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Washington
Citizens Advisory Committee On Taxation
Matthew Woll
AFL
Labor
Woll
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roswell Magill
Knutsen
Earnings of Workers Rise to New August High
New York November 4 The National Industrial Conference Board reports that average hourly earnings of production workers in 25 manufacturing industries reached 1 365 dollars in August a new peak for the eighth straight month The figure is 22 9 per cent above the wartime June 1945 peak and 12 2 per cent higher than August 1946 Weekly earnings rose 13 5 per cent since V J day despite hours dropping 8 5 per cent The August work week averaged 39 7 hours Employment rose 0 6 per cent from July payrolls up 1 6 per cent but still 11 per cent below the June postwar high.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
North Carolina Weather Forecast and Sun Calendar
Partly cloudy today and tonight with warmer conditions on Wednesday. Westation area may see cooler temperatures tonight and across the state. Sun calendar notes Wednesday November 5 1947 with sunrise at 6 46 and sunset at 5 21.
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North Carolina
Temperature Rainfall Across Cities Reported
Official weather data lists 24 hour readings ending at 4 30 a m with temperatures and rainfall for multiple cities including Charleston Charlotte Chicago Columbia Detroit Denver Evansville Galveston High Point Jacksonville Little Rock Los Angeles Memphis Meridian Mobile New Orleans New York San Antonio San Francisco Savannah Washington Wilmington and others. Rain totals vary from .00 to .90 inches while temperatures range broadly from 39 to 89 degrees.
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Charlotte
Weter Bureau
Charleston
Chicago
Columbia
Detroit
S& SL
Denver
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Os Angeles
Meridian
Diam
Ainn-St. P
Fobile
It. Mitchell
Orleans
New York
Saleigh
San Antonio
I Francisco
Spartamburg
Ampa Ao Ef
Ft Washington
Wilmington
Tax take rises in North Carolina October totals
Uncle Sam increased tax collections in North Carolina for October, marking the fourth straight monthly rise since July. The state mailed 104 171 905 18 to the U S treasury, up 8 459 992 07 from October 1946, with four month totals 407 438 443 46 vs 70 485 145 18 year prior.
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Greensboro
Sam
North Carolina
Charles R. Robertson
Internal Revenue
District of North Carolina
United States Treasury
Ex-Diplomat John Winant Ends His Life
John G. Winant 58 a former ambassador to the Court of St James's shot himself in a Concord New Hampshire bedroom last night The private secretary J Bernard Teulon said the Belgian pistol was one of two found in the room The other a German Luger was discarded as ammunition ran out Winant had not been in good health since the summer but was reportedly working on his memoirs He died at 8 20 p m with Dr James W Jacson attending His wife Mrs Winant arrived from New York in a chartered plane and was described as distraught The medical referee ruled death by own action saying he acted alone in the bedroom
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Concord
N. H
John G. Winant
Teulon
Winant
James W. Jacson
New York
Clarence E. Butterfield
Belgium
Bishops Open Four Day Meeting in Winston Salem
The U S house of bishops opened a four day gathering in Winston Salem with Holy Communion. Speakers included Rt Rev Henry Knox Sherrill and Very Rev E W Fosbroke. James F Byrnes will address a banquet and Bishop Norman H Binstead discussed Philippine church union.
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Winston-Salem
House of Bishops
Protestant Episcopal Church
U.S.A
Henry Knox Sherrill
New York
E. W. Fosbroke
General Theological Seminary
Samuel McCrea
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Garland receives Bronze Star for 1945 Germany fighting
Lt. Col. Peter W. Garland Jr. of Gastonia North Carolina was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Germany during the 1945 fighting. Brig. Gen. Patrick H. Tansey presented the honor, with Garland serving as policy advisor to Tansey the allied supreme command civilian property custodian.
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Tokyo
Germany
Peter W. Garland, Jr
Gastonia
N. C
Patrick H. Tansey
Allied Supreme Command
Garland
Tansey
State to seek murder indictment against youth
Chicago authorities plan to present 12 year old Howard Lang to the Cook County grand jury for a murder indictment in the knife slaying of seven year old Lonnie Fellick. Lang aided police in a forest preserve reconstruction after confessing to the Oct 18 killing.
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Chicago
William J. Tuohy
Cook County Grand Jury
Howard Lang
Lang
Lonnie Fellick
Lonnie
Limitation May Be Put On Marshall Plan
Senator Vandenberg calls for a total bill of world wide aid proposals as GOP leaders demand limits on Marshall Plan aid. Taft cites a $4.5 billion cap for next year while White predicts more ideas from party members when the special session opens November 17. Vandenberg briefs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after returning from Ann Arbor with a demand for a comprehensive balance sheet of aid including China.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Congress
Europe
Taft
Ohio
Senator White
Maine
GOP
Truman
White
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ann Arbor, Mich
China
Wedemeyer Favors Defense Against Reds
Singapore dispatch reports Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer urged in a secret report that the United States develop south and west China as a defense outpost against Soviet Russia. He also supposedly urged Formosa be developed as a Chinese American base for shipping American arms into China.
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Singapore
China Democratic League
Albert C. Wedemeyer
United States
China
Russia
Wedemeyer
Washington
Formosa
Conservative Party Looks To Scotland
London reports 69 Scottish cities and towns held municipal elections seen as a barometer of public reaction to Prime Minister Attlee's labor government. Conservatives gained across England and Wales with 621 net city council seats. Labour lost 652. The government defended its policy pushing unemployed into undermanned industries despite Conservative opposition.
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London
Scotand
Attlee
Scotland
Glasgow
England
Wales
House of Commons
Labor
Labor Ministry
Peace blocked by Russians as US cites postwar aims
The State Department accuses Russia of hindering postwar peace efforts in a policy statement titled aspects of current American foreign policy. It asserts the USSR is to blame for UN delays, failed demilitarization of Germany, and seeking maximum reparations to install a Soviet friendly German regime. About fifty thousand copies were prepared for public distribution.
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Washington
United States
Russia
State Department
United Nations
Germany
Ussr
Correspondent Missing in Berlin After Fake Call
Der Abend special correspondent Guenth Friede has been missing since Sunday after going to the Russian sector of Berlin following an apparently faked telephone call, according to associates at the newspaper.
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Berlin
Brentwood School Boy Dies of Infantile Paralysis
Lawrence Harrison Tedder an 11 year old Brentwood School student and student body president died at Children's Hospital in Gastonia after rapid paralysis from polio. Six other local cases include Paul Conrad Bobby Sizemore Marie Medlin Bobby Worley Brenda Ferguson and Bobby Jones with gradual improvements reported.
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High Point
Lawrence Harrison Tedder
Brentwood School
Children’s Hospital
Gastonia
Young Tedder
Jack Tedder
Woodbury Street
Hallowe'en
High Point Memorial Hospital
Gastonia Hospital
Jimmy Dale Tedder
A. H. Ibert
Pennsylvania
Green Street Baptist Church
Julian S. Hopkins
Guilford Memorial Park Cemetery
Green Street Church
Paul Conrad
F. L. Conrad
Conrad
Winston-Salem Hospital
Bobby Sizemore
Jamestown School
Marie Medlin
Bobby Worley
Clara Cox
Brenda Ferguson
Asheboro Street
Bobby Jones
Archdale
Baptist Hospital
Winston-Salem
Collections In State Are Up
Raleigh reports October state collections totaled 10,300,359 across general highway and license funds, up from 8,843,469 in October 1946. Fiscal year through October 31 stands at 45,817,79, vs 38,972,688 last year. General fund 6,489,56. highway 3,774,925. license 35,868. Sales tax 6,489,566. highway 8,774,925. license 385,868. Gasoline tax 3,459,408, up from 3,177,837 in 1946.
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Raleigh
Typhoon Warning Issued For Philippines As Yap Hit
Navy weather officials at Guam warn of a westward moving typhoon with 115 mph winds. The storm, traveling at 16 mph, is expected to approach Samar Island in the central Philippines tomorrow morning after causing damage to U S naval installations on Yap.
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Manila
Philippines
U. S
Yap
Navy
Guam
Samar Island
Ex Enterprise Editor to Travel to Atlanta for Accreditation Visit
A W Huckle former Southern Newspaper Publishers Association president and publisher of the Concord Tribune departs Rock Hill for Atlanta to join a visiting committee inspecting Emory University journalism school for ACEJ accreditation. Holt McPherson former High Point Enterprise editor and Marcus Wilkerson LSU join the panel.
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Rock Hill
S. C
A. W. Huckle
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Ublisher
Concord
N.C
Ibune
Atlanta
Southeast
Emory University
American Council On Education For Journalism
Huckle
Holt McPherson
Shelby
N. C
The
High Point Enterprise
Journalism Schools
Marcus Wilkerson
Louisiana State University
Warden and Four Ex-Guards Are Acquitted
H G Worthy former warden and four former guards at Glynn county convict camp were acquitted on federal civil rights charges in the slaying of eight Negro convicts on July 11. Earlier inquiries by a coroner jury Glynn county grand jury and a Georgia legislature investigation committee had cleared them.
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Brunswick
H. G. Worthy
Glynn County
Worthy
Georgia
Polish Opposition Leader Plans Visit to America
Polish opposition leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who fled Communist Poland, said he would soon visit the United States to see friends. He may join the international peasant party in Washington and warned that Poland may fall further under Communist control as pressure mounts after the coming of the Communists. He cited a Belgrade based nine nation Communist information bureau and described ongoing terror and economic intimidation driving Poland toward communization.
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London
Staniislaw Mikolajczyk
United States
International Peasant Party Organization
Washington
Poland
Comintern
Yalta
Communist Bloc
Mikolajczyk
Belgrade
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Wiggins
Chon
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Jas. F. Byrnes
Norman H. Binstead
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