North China Riots Force U S Evacuations From Nanking
Emergency flights carried American dependents from Nanking as hunger and inflation spread while communists advanced. Dependents headed to Tsingtao naval base and the hospital ship Repose. about 1 000 women and children would be moved first. Fighting Near Suchow and desertions among regiments signaled rising upheaval in North China.
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Nanking
China
U. S
Air Force
Tsingtao
U. S. Far Eastern Naval Base
Navy Hos
Suchow
Manchuria
Great Wall
Peiping
Tientsin
North China
Fu Tso-Yi
Wages lag behind prices spurring new wage demands
Washington reports that a government wage survey shows wages rising slower than prices, fueling a fourth round of pay demands. The Labor Department notes actual weekly earnings rose 30 percent and hourly pay 33 percent since V J day, while living costs climbed 35 percent.
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Washington
AFL
National Foreman’s Institute
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Japan
Balkans Told To Stop Aid To Guerrillas
The United Nations political committee voted 48 to 6 to urge Albania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to cease aiding guerrillas fighting Greece and to settle differences with Greece. Other actions included a move to push negotiations in Palestine and a draft on freedom of thought in human rights.
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Paris
United Nations
Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Greece
China
France
Britain
Russia
Security Council
Palestine
Ralph d. Bunche
United Nations Social Committee
Juan A. Bramagna
Argentina
Berlin
Germans to regain control of coal and steel industries
In a Frankfurt dispatch the British and American military governments announce plans to return the Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries to German ownership in the near future while retaining some governance. Generals Clay and Robertson head the occupation with conditions to bar Nazi party supporters from ownership and prevent excessive concentration of power.
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Frankfurt
Biagonal
America
Lucius BD. Clay
Germany
Brian Robertson
Britain
Ruhr
New Car Buyers Hit With Trade-In and Gadget Costs
Washington reports a congressional panel estimates new car buyers faced a 200 million dollar hit on trade-ins and paid 250 million more for unwanted gadgets. Rep Macy cites unfair dealer practices with average 43 percent markups on trade-ins and under-valued vehicles costing metropolitan residents over 2 million dollars.
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Washington
Congressional
Rep
Macy
R-Ny
House
Forrestal Heads Overseas Tour For European Conferences
Secretary of Defense Forrestal was due in Europe to confer with American officials in Paris Frankfurt Berlin and London. He would discuss military aid and budgets with Gen Lucius D Clay and allied leaders as part of plans to support Western Europe amid ongoing budget considerations.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Forrestal
Paris
Frankfurt
Berlin
London
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Clay
Viscount Montgomery
Western European Alliance
Western
White House
Congress
Forrestals
Truman
James E. Webb
U. S. State Department
U. S
William C. Bullitt
France
Russia
China
Joint
Congressional Economic Cooperation Association
America
Orient
Far East
State Institutions Push For Permanent Improvements
The advisory budget commission heard requests from four state supported Negro colleges for funds for operations in the 1949 51 biennium. Winston Salem State Teachers College Elizabeth City State Teachers College Fayetteville State Teachers College and North Carolina College at Durham appeared before the commission in the morning. The state hospitals board of control was to appear in the afternoon and oversees Raleigh Morganton Goldsboro Caswell Training School Camp Butner Hospital and the North Carolina Hospital for Spastic Children. The board of corrections and five state colleges had proposed 23 277 015 in total, 17 239 134 for permanent improvements and 6 037 881 for operating expenses in the next two years. The corrections board proposed rebuilding Samarcand Training School for Girls with 1 192 000 for multiple new buildings and facilities. most main buildings on the property have been condemned by the state fire marshal.
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Raleigh
Navy
Advisory Budget Commission
Winston- Salem State Teachers College
Elizabeth City State Teachers College
Fayetteville State Teachers College
North Carolina College At
Durham
State Hospitals Board of Control
Morganton
Goldsboro
Caswell Training School
Camp Butner Hospital
N. C. Hospital
State Board of Corrections
Board of Corrections
Samarcand
Wallace Kept Out of Democratic Party Silence on Return
National Chairman J. Howard McGrath declared Henry Wallace has left the Democratic party and may stay out. He denied any gestures toward a fringe movement as Wallace weighs his future with the Progressive party amid Truman’s post election stance. Senator Glen Taylor said Progressives will wait to see Truman’s promised policies before deciding next steps. Barkley’s Florida visit sparked talk of major decisions ahead, though officials cited only weather as the official note.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
J. Howard McGrath
Wallace
McGrath
Henry Wallace
Democratic Committee
Truman
Glen Taylor
Idaho
Taylor
Harry Truman
Recovery Signs Posted Today On Stock Activity
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, Recovery signs appeared in a brisk stock market with buying support halting yesterday's slide. Demand for steels motors and rails lifted prices, while prominent gainers included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler Illinois Central General Motors Studebaker Goodyear Johns Manville Montgomery Ward and Standard Oil New Jersey. Some stocks like Skelly Oil Transcontinental Western Air and Westinghouse were lower at times.
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New York
WU. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Ilinois Central
General Motors
Studebaker
Goodyear
Johns- Manville
Moscow News Signals Truman Stalin Meeting Possibility
Moscow papers pick up a Washington Times Herald dispatch suggesting President Truman may meet Stalin in a personal talk. No definite decision reported. editors deem the prospect serious. U S envoy to Berlin departs. Korea unrest persists with American troops alleged by Moscow press.
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Moscow
Washington
Truman
Russia
Stalin
Dispatch
Washington Times- Herald
Times- Herald
Soviet Union
U.S
Walter Beder Smith
Berlin
South Korea
U. S. Army
Seoul
Middle Belt Flue-Cured Tobacco Prices Steady in Auctions
In Raleigh on November 10, Middle belt flue-cured tobacco prices held fairly steady in yesterday's auctions. Old belt saw $1 to $3 per hundred pounds fluctuations and quality declined to common and low. Henderson market set to end sales November 24 with season totals reaching 386,761,840 pounds at an average of $49.55.
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Raleigh
Old Belt
Henderson
North Carolina
China teeters under civil war as famine and inflation rise
AP reports from Shanghai that ten weeks of economic restriction and ten days of rampant inflation have left the city with closed shops, rice raids, and strikes. Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek struggle to hold Nanking while Communist control expands in Manchuria and the north.
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Pital
Shanghai
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Tsingtao
Yangtze
MacArthur
Tokyo
Manchuria
Peiping
Suchow
Chiang
Roy Essoyan
Two Killed In Car Plunging Onto Railway Near Eller Station
A 1948 four door sedan driven by Myrtle Dobbins Cohn 45 of Winston-Salem veered off a road near Eller station and plunged onto Winston-Salem southbound tracks. The car landed upside down and was dragged 65 yards by a 64 car Norfolk Southern train. Cohn was general manager of the Tourist Village.
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Winston-Salem
Navy
Eller Station
J. Fb. Presnell
Davidson County
W. G. Fritts
Myrtle Dobbins Cohn
Earl Astor Schooley
Fairmont Street
Atlantic City
Smith
Cohp
Anager
Schooley
iFlorida
Storm Near Cape Hatteras Triggers Coastal Warnings
Weather bureau issues hurricane advisory as a small hurricane center nears Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout. Winds up to 80 mph, center moving north north eastward, warnings extend to the Virginia Capes. Coastal towns brace for high tides and dangerous winds as storm tracks shift.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
Cape Lookout
Wilmington
N. C
Virginia Capes
Atlantic
Morehead City
Here
Diamond Lightship
U. S
Closed Shop Arguments Are Continued
In Washington the Supreme Court heard appeals by labor groups seeking to strike down state laws. Arizona Nebraska and North Carolina enacted such measures during the last two years with 15 other states having similar laws. AFL and CIO argue the closed shop is essential to unions and that workers should share costs of collective action. Donald R. Richberg led the defense, asserting the issue is for lawmakers, not the courts, and warning of a shift to monopoly in a labor dominated economy.
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Washington
Navy
Supreme Court
Arizona
Nebraska
North Carolina
AFL
CIO
Donald R. Richberg
NRA
Penney Co reports October sales rise to 90.76 million
J C Penney Co. reported October sales of 90,762,224 dollars, up 20.1 percent from 75,582,605 the year before. For the first ten months of 1948, sales totaled 668,289,153 dollars, up 14.7 percent from 582,378,403 in the same period of 1947.
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Penney Sales
New York
J. Co. Penney Co
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John W. Bricker
Ohio
Balkans
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Barkley
Key West
Gressives
Key West, Fla
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