Endorsement Seals Reuther Re-Election Bid at UAW Meet
CIO President Philip Murray publicly backs Walter Reuther for UAW president at the UAW C L O convention news conference. He dodges further endorsements for George Addes and R J Thomas while praising Reuther and criticizing opponents. Murray supports non Communist affidavits under Taft Hartley, a point of contention with Addes Thomas faction.
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Atlantic City
CIO
Philip Murray
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
U.A.W
Dick Leonard
Murray
Reuther
Big Cio
Red-Head
Big
R. J. Thomas
R. J
George Addes
Reuter
UAW
Reuthers
Addes- Thomas
North Carolina Weather Forecast and Temperatures
Mostly cloudy with little temperature change through Tuesday and a warm spell tonight. Scattered showers possible Tuesday afternoon with sunrise at 6 52 and sunset at 8 16. Official records list temperature and rainfall across multiple cities including Boston Charleston Charlotte Chicago and New York.
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North Carolina
Boston
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Galveston
Mt. Mitchell
New Orleans
New York
Raleid
San Antonio
Francisco
Spartanburg
Tames
Washington
Tenn. Man 105 Dies at Home
William Asheville Hulan aged 105, Davidson county's oldest resident, died at his Scottsboro home after a brief illness. Born in Asheville North Carolina on September 28 1842 he moved to Tennessee as an infant. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War after capture piloting a Cumberland River steamer. Hulan recalled meeting Thomas A Edison and President William McKinley in his youth.
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Nashville
Tenn
William Asheville
Hulan
Davidson County
Scottsboro
Asheville
N. C
John Tyler
Tennessee
Charles T. Hulan
Wartrace
Thomas A. Edison
William McKinley
Violent Deaths Grow in North Carolina Week End
Associated Press reports at least 11 people died violently across North Carolina over the weekend. Incidents include a Conover man shot in a field, a car crash killing three brothers, a spectator fatality near High Point, a Fayetteville chair repairer shot, a Charleston man in a bridge collision, a trailer home fire killer, a railroad foreman struck by a car, and a carnival fall in Gastonia.
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North Carolina
Winfred Terry Hunsucker
Connover
Shelby
J. C. Jennings
Edward Jennings
William Jennings
Harold S. Thompson
High Point
John Robertson
Colfax
Hester McNeill
Fayetteville
Nick Schmidt
Charleston
S.C
Rockingham
Joseph D. Hoell
Greenville
Worth Cribb
ACL
Fair Bluff
Esau Chambers
Gastonia
Meyers Attempted Loan of 200000 Tapping Hughes Testimony
Howard Hughes testified before the Senate war investigating committee that Maj. Gen. Bennett F. Meyers tried to borrow 200000 during wartime as Meyers negotiated a multi million dollar plane contract. Hughes said he refused and friendship between the two cooled for years. Meyers denied earlier that he sought 50000 from Hughes.
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Washington
Howard Hughes
Bennett F. Meyers
Meyers
Hughes
Senate War Investigating Committee
Benny Meyers
Air Force
Cotton Crop Estimate Declines From Last Month
The agriculture department places this year's cotton crop at 11,505,000 bales, down 3,000 from last month’s forecast. Lint yield per acre is 261.2 pounds, up from 235.3 last year. State figures show North Carolina at 440,000 bales and 341 pounds per acre, South Carolina 640,000 bales and 294 pounds per acre.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
North Carolina
South Carolina
Propaganda Drive Opened By Turks
Radio Ankara, the Turkish official station, launched a propaganda counteroffensive against Russia. The broadcast, transmitted in Balkan languages to the Soviet dominated region, claimed the Russian people are suffering in misery and hunger.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Radio
Ankara
Voice of
Russia
Balkans
Tragedy at Tri-City Speedway Leaves Two Dead
A motorcycle crashed into spectators two miles north of here injuring seven, including a 12 year old and a 28 year old. The rider Allen Clark from Miami lost control while avoiding two bikes, crushed Harold Thompson whose leg was severed, and caused John Robinson to die from a brain concussion.
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Harold Thompson
C. B. Thompson
Fisher Street
Tri-City
Here
John Robinson
Rt. 1
Colfax
C. D
Wilson
Durham
Allen Clark
Miami
Florida
Clark
Winston-Salem
Tri-City Speedway
Memorial Hospital
Young Thompson
Johnson Street School
Robinson
Reds Open to Concessions in Palestine Partition Talks
Soviet Delegate Semen K. Tsarapkin said Russia is ready to concede to reach a U N plan for partitioning Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. An official source said Russia formally proposed a new settlement at a closed meeting of a working party from the U N partition committee. Tsarapkin spoke as he entered the secret session and indicated compliance with most Pearson proposals.
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Lake Success
Semen K. Tsarapkin
Russia
United States
Palestine
United Nations Assembly
Tsarapkin
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Siam to Be Ruled by Council
Luang Aphaiwonse was named premier of Siam and a five member privy council was established to head the government after a bloodless coup directed by wartime dictator Phul Songgram. Aphaiwongse previously served as premier in 1944 45. The new council replaces the regency for King Phumiphon who reaches majority next month. The monarch is in Switzerland and is expected to return to Siam next month.
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Bangkok
Luang Aphaiwon
Siam
Privy Council
Phul Songgram
Aphiawongse
Phumiphon
Switzerland
Cone Workers to Get 1.5 Million Pay Increase Across Mills
Greensboro nine percent raise boosts annual payroll by about 1.5 million for 6 418 Cone mill workers. Weekly gains total 25 009 to 30 000 across six union and two non union plants in Greensboro Reidsville Haw River and Gibsonville as a strike threat linked to Textile Workers Union tensions is averted. Union plants include Proximity Cotton Mills Edna Mill Granite Tabardrey Minneola. non union White Oak Revolution.
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Greensboro
Cone Mill
Cone Interests
Reidsville
Haw River
Gibsonville
Textile Workers Union of America, Cso
Big Dan River Mills
Danville
Cone Mills
Cone
Proximity Cotton Mills
Edna
Granite and Tabardrey
Minneola Manufacturing Company
White Oak
Revolution
Deputies Deadlocked On Issues In London Talks
The main four deputy foreign ministers conference in London enters its second week still deadlocked on all major issues to be sent to the foreign ministers on November 25 for the German peace treaty. An American delegation spokesman outlined a working economic arrangement with Germany if the foreign ministers talks fail. General Lucius D. Clay reported in Berlin that Germany remains far behind in its recovery.
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London
Big
United States
Germany
Britain
Lucius D. Clay
U.S
Berlin
Reich
Sheriff Plans to Quit Arrests in Cherokee County
Foreman T J Grey told the Cherokee county grand jury to meet this afternoon to consider Sheriff Roland T Clary s announcement that he would stop making arrests Wednesday The sheriff said the county had failed to pay him the bills due under the law Grey invited county commissioners to the meeting.
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Gaffney
S. C
T. J. Grey
Cherokee County Grand Jury
Roland T. Clary
Furniture Men Seek NLRB Rule
Washington dispatch reports CIO Furniture Workers hinting at a legal challenge to the NLRB after missing the October 31 affidavit deadline under Taft Hartley. The union’s two election petitions were dismissed as noncompliant, affecting about 459 workers at Augusta Manufacturing in North Carolina and Kay Manufacturing in California.
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Washington
CIO Furniture Workers’ Union
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Furniture Workers Union
Furniture Workers
AFL
Morris Piver
New York
Furniture
New England
Pennsylvania
South
Midwest
Pizer
Max Perlow
Anaugusta “Manufacturing Company
Hazelwood
N. C
Kay Manufacturing Company
Emeryville
Calif
King Paul Reported In Good Condition Amid Typhoid Fever
An official bulletin from Athens states King Paul remains in good condition as typhoid fever unfolds. Over the past 24 hours his temperature varied from normal to 101 degrees, with no serious complications reported.
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Athens
Paul
Secretary Urges Immediate Help for Europe Aid Plan
Secretary of State Marshall pressed Congress to provide 597 million dollars in emergency aid to France Italy and Austria and warned long range costs could reach 16 to 20 billion. He noted risks yet optimism for preserving free societies and cited Soviet opposition in shaping postwar Europe.
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Washington
Secretary
Con
France
Italy
Austria
Senate
House Foreign Affairs
Marshall
Urope
Western
Europe
Russia
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
Chinese and Reds Engage in Unprecedented Large Scale Fighting
News from Peiping reports massive clashes near Shihki achwang 170 miles southwest of Peiping with 100000 Communist forces. Government lines used in strong attack ordered by Chiang Kai-Shek, with initial casualties around 10000. Separate Manchuria reports claim 7000 killed and 1000 captured near Changwu, near Mukden, with alternative tallies lower.
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Peiping
Szepingkai
Shihkiachwang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Manchuria
Changwu
Mukden
Phillips Sworn In As Judge Of Court
F Donald Phillips of Rockingham is sworn in by Governor Cherry as a superior court judge. He had recently served as a special judge on German war crimes tribunals and left the bench last November to join the trials. He was first elected to the superior court bench in January 1925.
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Raleigh
F. Donald Phillips
Rockingham
Germany
Cherry
Phillips
University of North Carolina
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Ill
Vernon Anderson
Katherine
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Murray Reuther
Weabureau
Maz Minerie
N. Carolina
Associated Press
John W. Meyer
Army
Wright Field
Army Aeronautical Center
Dayton
Ohio
Meyer
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