Witness Links Outside Pressure To Hughes Flying Boat Contract
Washington November 5 Charlies E Wilson testified that outside pressure from Henry Kaiser helped push the War Production Board to continue Howard Hughes contract for the world’s largest flying boat in 1943. Wilson, WPB head, said Kaiser pressed to keep the project alive despite no flyable planes produced in wartime.
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Washington
Charlies E. Wilson
War Production Board
Howard Hughes
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
Warmnth
Wilson
Henry J. Kaiser
Aircraft Production Board
Hughes
Tom Slack
Hollywood
Meyer
Slack
John W. Meyer
Army
Roosevelt
General Electric
Grover Loening
WPB
Kaiser
European Aid With Strings Causes Stir
A House Foreign Aid subcommittee debates whether Europe help should come with political strings. Rep Herter leads a 19 member panel after returning from Europe as they prepare a tentative report to guide Marshall Plan deliberations and potential substitutes against communism in Europe.
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Washington
Congress
Europe
Rep. Herter
R- Mass
Doughton Predicts Veto Of Plan To Cut Income Taxes
Rep. Doughton of North Carolina predicts Republicans will face another presidential veto on a renewed plan to cut income taxes. He says the party must show it can meet domestic needs and foreign relief commitments before any override. The tax debate follows earlier failed veto overrides and a proposed two-stage tax cut. Knutson supports immediate relief as a tax study group backs broad cuts, while AFL member Woll dissents noting the burden shift to the less able.
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Washington
Rep
Doughton
D-Nc
North Carolina House
Congress
Europe
House
Senate
Coughton
Knutgon
R-Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
Tenman Citizens
Athen Woll
AFL
Labor
Soviets Lose Korean Issue Vote 20 to 6
In Lake Success on November 5 the United Nations Assembly political committee rejected a Soviet demand for withdrawal of American and Russian troops from Korea by January 1. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced Russia would not participate in voting on Secretary of State Mar.
Scots Hand Laborites Setback in Scottish Local Elections
British Labour suffers a setback as Scottish locals finish tallies showing a net loss of 65 seats with five councils switched to opponents. Glasgow remains precarious with a two vote Labour majority in 114 council seats. Muselburgh and Selkirk shift toward Labour gains in two small cities.
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London
Britain
Glasgow
Muselburgh
Selkirk
Scotland
Peter Melddrum
Glasgow Laborites
Glasgow Herald
England
Fayetteville Girl Killed by Automobile
A two year old girl, Wanda Fay Lockamy, was struck and killed yesterday in Fayetteville while in a driveway. The accident, described as unavoidable by Police Chief L F Worrels, was allegedly caused by her grandfather W Lockamy. Funeral services for Wanda Fay Lockamy, daughter of Mr and Mrs James H Lockamy, will be held Friday.
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Fayetteville
Wanda Fay Lockamy
Cme
L. F. Worrels
W . Lockamy
Worrels
James H. Lockamy
North Carolina Cloudy With Showers And Thunderstorms
Weather report shows cloudy conditions with showers and thunderstorms mainly in the west today, spreading east this afternoon or tonight. Clearing in the west and central portions by tonight, continued showers in the extreme east, and cooler temperatures in the west and central areas. Temperatures will rise slightly and then moderate on Thursday.
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North Carolina
Temperature Rainfall Readings Across Cities
Official weather records show 24 hour temperatures and rainfall ending 8:30 a. m. with readings from Charleston to Washington. Cities logged varied highs and rainfall amounts including Miami 80 with 0.00, San Antonio 87 with 0.00, New Orleans 81 with 1.64, and Raleigh 76 with 0.00 inches.
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Lotte
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Jacksonville
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
Miami
Mini-St. P
Mobile
Mi.Mitchell
New Orleans
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
Francisco
Spartanburg
Fam
Washington
Withington
Wilmington Mill Raises Workers Pay
President J Holmes Davis announced 430 unorganized workers at Spofford Cotton Mills will receive a cost of living wage increase effective Monday. The move raises the annual payroll by about $85,000 to over $1,000,000 with increases varying by job class. The announcement followed a nine percent raise for 11,000 employees at Dan River Mills in Virginia affiliated with the CIO Textile Workers Union of America.
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Wilmington
J. Holmes Davis
Spofford
Davis
Dan River
Virginia
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
Government forecasts big wheat savings by livestock farmers
Washington reports government grain experts predict livestock farmers will save at least 75,000,000 bushels of wheat, about three quarters of the 100,000,000 bushel conservation target. Brewers distillers bakers and restaurants pledge cuts to meet the administration's export goal.
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Washington
Citizens Food Committee
Agriculture Department
Burlington Dentist District Elects Officers
Dr. F. E. Gilliam of Burlington is elected president of the third district dental society at the annual meeting in Southern Pines. Also named were Dr. C. H. Teague president-elect from Greensboro, Dr. T. W. Atwood vice president of Durham, Dr. Norman F. Ross secretary treasurer of Durham, and Dr. J. N. Caudle editor of Greensboro.
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Southern Pines
F. E. Gilliam
Burlington
Third District Dental Society
C. H. Teague
Greensboro
T. W. Atwood
Durham
Norman F. Ross
J. N. Caudle
Brewster Calls Navy Probe into Arabian Oil Price
Senator Brewster asks the Navy to investigate alleged overpricing of oil by Aramco after conflicting testimonies from two former navy officers. MacKrille admits discussing a 1945 memo claiming Aramco paid 42 cents royalty to Ibn Saud, while the royalty was actually 21 cents.
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Washington
Brewster
R-Me
Navy
Senate War Investigating Committee
Maine
A. A. Mac Krille
Aramco
MacKrille
New York
King Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Residential Valuations In Dixie Are Up
Baltimore reports that private residential building values below the Mason Dixon line rose sharply in October, with Southern Construction totaling 227,471,000, up 57 percent from September and 33 percent from October 1946. Roads and bridges strong, public building at 29,61,000, private residential leading growth, lifting ten month southern valuations to 1.5598 billion compared with 1.5121 billion a year earlier.
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Baltimore
Septaber
Southern
Cone Mill Officials In Meeting With Union Heads
Greensboro workers face a 15 cent per hour wage demand as Cone Mills officials meet with the Textile Workers Union of America CIO. Talks follow settlements at Dan River and ongoing nationwide conference with similar mills. Union leaders press for new contracts and a wage boost as six Cone Mills vote to strike Thursday. Contracts at Proximity Cotton, Edna Mill, and other plants expire between October and December.
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Greensboro
Cone Mill Group
Textile Union of America, Cio
Bruno Rantane
Greensboro-Burlington
TWUA
Dan River Mills
Danville
Dan River
Ranzane
Cone
Rantane
Cone Mills
Haw River
Gibsonville
Reidsville
Proximity Cotton
Edna
Print Works
Minneola Manufacturing Company
Tabardrey
Granite
Durham
Erwin Mills
Rankin Trails In Mississippi In Senate Race Battle
John A. Stennis, 46, moves ahead in the Mississippi Democratic Senate contest to succeed the late Theodore Bilbo as Rankin lags in a five-man field. Other races across Indiana Ohio New York show party gains and veteran bonus votes in a broad midterm snapshot.
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Associated Press
John A. Stennis
U. S
Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
John E. Rankin
Bilbo Bilbo
Mississippi Senate
Kentucky
Ralph Harvey
Frank A. Hanley
Indiana
William M. McCulloch
Joseph B. Quatman
Ohio
Abraham J. Multer
Victor Rabinowitz
Jacob P. Lefkowitz
New York
Jap Judge Dies Of Starvation
Tokyo district judge Yoshitada Yamaguchi valued high principles and refused black market patronage. He died from tuberculosis and malnutrition while supporting his family on legal pay and rations. His diary reveals a struggle between integrity and hunger.
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Tokyo
Yoshitada Yamaguchi
Czechs Hold Cabinet Meeting Amid Coalition Rift
Czechoslovakia's coalition government met in a special session to mend a widening split between right and left. The crisis arose from Communist demands to expand their influence and seats within laborer and peasant allied groups. President Benes may address the cabinet to urge compromise. More details on page 8.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Edouard Benes
Slovakia
Czech
National Front
Soviets boycott UN Korea elections commission
The Soviet bloc announced it would boycott a United Nations commission to supervise general elections in Korea next spring under Marshal's plan. Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, White Russia, the Soviet Ukraine and Egypt backed the Soviet resolution. seven abstained. Gromyko argued Koreans should be heard before voting, but the committee proceeded without them.
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Lake Success
United Nations Commission
Korea
Marshal
Russia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Ukraine
Egypt
Szechoslovak
Gromyko
Gold shipment plan to Europe tied to Marshall recovery
Washington officials weigh sending part of America's gold hoard to Europe under the Marshall plan. A proposed stabilization fund of about 3 billion dollars would be administered by the Treasury to back or finance gold and dollar shipments to Marshall plan countries once the program is underway, potentially late next year. The move, if approved, would accompany gifts and loans totaling 6 to 7.1 billion dollars to revive European production.
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Washington
America
Europe
White House
Congress
Marshall
State, Treasury and Commerce Department
Truman
Treasury
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Walter Byers
Justice of the Peace
Newport
David Jenkins
John Jenkins
Special House Committee On Foreign Aid
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Herter
Eaton
R-Nj
Alma Lang
Chicago Criminal Court
Howard
Lonnie Fellick
Lonnie
Jack Guinn
Budapest
Hungary
Wilmington Mill
Naval
Dixie
Cone Mill
Rankin Trails
N. Y
Frankfort
U.S
Earle C. Clements
Eldon S. Dummit
Louisville
Board of Aldermen
Simeon
Willis
Brooklyn
Bernard Samuel
Philadelphia
Thomas A. Burke
Cleveland
Edward J. Jeffries
Eugene I. van Antwerp
Jeffries
CIO
United Auto Workers
Jasper McLevy
Bridgeport
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