American Guns and Aid to China Near Departure
Washington reports the first major shipment of American guns and ammunition to China since the Manchurian upheaval is nearly ready to depart. Washington notes over 112 million withdrawn from 125 million authorized for military aid as funds are spent on ammunition and equipment for Chiang Kai-shek's forces. In Nanking and Shanghai, martial law spreads, evacuations accelerate, and foreign nationals consider repatriation as the civil war expands toward the Yangtze River.
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Washington
China
Manchuria
State Department
Congress
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Defense Department
Truman
U. S
Yangtze
Suchow
Shanghai
East Coast Shipping Hit as Dock Workers Vote
East coast longshoremen join a broad walkout crippling New York Philadelphia and Boston port activity. Thousands idle amid wage dispute with AFL leaders while west coast CIO strikes continue and ships face delays. S.S. America carries passengers into New York as Mauretania Diverted to Halifax.
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New York
America
Philadelphia
Boston
AFL
Portland
Hampton Roads
Gulf Coast
CIO
Alaska
Mexico
S.S. America
U. S. Merchant Marine
Southampton
Halifax
Nova Scotia
U. S
AFL International Longshoremen's Association
ILA
Custom House
Armistice Day Celebrations Across North Carolina
Armistice Day observed with parades speeches and ceremonies in Raleigh Kinston Goldsboro New Bern Burlington Durham Greenville and China Grove. Notable speakers include Maj. Gen Earl Walter Barnes Rep C B Deane Rep Carl Durham General I M Miller and others with military bands and a battlefield salute.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
Fayetteville Street
Earl Walter Barnes
Command and Staff School
The
Air University
Maxwell Field
Ala
Joe Grier
Charlotte
American Legion
New Bern
Graham A. Barden
I. M. Miller
Cherry Point Marine Air Base
Grier
Burlington
Carl Durham
Herbert Mner
Hal Turnage
Farm Ville
Greenville
Hubert E. Olive
State Legion
Durham
China Grove
Fewer Federal Employees Reported in September
Senator Byrd announcing as head of the joint committee on reduction of non essential federal expenditures said September saw a first drop in federal payrolls since December. The 5,875 decline left 2,114,994 people employed in the executive branch.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Joint Committee On
President Will Not Go To Moscow Amid Berlin Airlift Standoff
U S and British planes continuing supply flights to Berlin despite Soviet threats to force down aircraft in the Soviet zone. General Gailey warns Moscow will bear full responsibility for any forced landings as air corridors remain contested.
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Berlin
N. Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Britain
C. K. Gailey
Clay
GS. Lukjantschenko
Gailey
Kitty Hawk Detoured to Halifax for Return to Smithsonian
The Wright brothers famed Kitty Hawk plane is diverted to Halifax Nova Scotia due to a New York longshoremen strike. It will be shipped to the Smithsonian in Washington after transfer by navy ship and truck, with exhibition planned by December 17 the 45th anniversary of Wrights first flight.
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New York
Right Brothers
Mauretania
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Wilbur
Orville Wright
America
Washington
National Air Museum
Smithsonian Institution
London
Science Museum
London Museum
Smithsonian
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk, N. C
Grange Leads Opposition to Parity Revision Plan
National Grange leaders at their 82nd annual convention forecast a fight in Congress over a proposed revision of farm price support laws. Albert Goss warned the GOP plan to kill improvements, while Herschel Newsome predicted opposition to Cooley's plan to move to flexible supports and propose continued controls.
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Ovida. Martin
Associated Press Farm
Portland
Congress
National Grange
Farm Organization
Grange
Truman
Agriculture Department
Washington
Rep
Cooley
D-Nc
House Agriculture Committee
American Farm Bureau Federation
Albert S. Goss
Goss
Herschel D. Newsome
Indiana State Grange
Convention
Committee On Agriculture
Court of Appeals Hears Bridge Damage Suit
A federal court cases the United States against South Carolina over damage to the John P. Grace Memorial bridge in Charleston. South Carolina and five insurers claim the Nicaragua Victory caused the 1946 ramming incident, while the government argues the event was due to an extraordinary storm and beyond anyone's control.
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Baltimore
United States
South Carolina
Charleston
Senate Democrats Plan To Lead Key Committees After Victory
Democratic leaders outline plans to chair major Senate committees with a 54 to 42 majority. They target the labor foreign relations banking finance and judiciary panels and back Taft Hartley foe Elbert Thomas as chair. Holdovers Murray Pepper Ellender and Hill back Truman’s veto, while Jenner and Ives would lose seats as Democrats cut GOP representation on the labor panel.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Elberts
Utah
Thomas
Murray
Montana
Pepper
Florida
Ellender
Louisiana
Hill
Alabama
Jenner
Indiana
Ives
New York
Taft
Truman Led Dewey by 200 000 in North Carolina
unofficial returns from 99 counties show President Truman leading Dewey by 200 056 votes in North Carolina. totals list Truman 456 992, Dewey 256 936, Wallace 3 910, Thurmond 69 380. senate Broughton 538 319, Wilkinson 218 786. governor Kerr Scott 568 475, Pritchard 204 680.
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Raleigh
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Raymond Maxwell
State Board of Elections
Polk
Dewey
Henry A. Wallace
Progressvve
J. Strom Thurmond
U.S
J. Melville Broughton
John A. Wilkinson
William T. Brown
Kerr Scott
George M. Pritchard
Mary Price
State Hospitals Seek More Funds in Budget Hearings
Representatives from 14 institutions urged the advisory budget commission to approve a two year plan totaling 30,383,725 for operations and improvements. The proposal adds about 4,000 staff annually to serve roughly 9,200 current patients and expand capacity to 11,850.
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Raleigh
Advisory Budget Commission
State School For the Deaf
State School For the Blind and Deaf
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital
Confederate Women's Home
Oxford Orphanage
Oxford Colored Orphanage
Junior Order
Pythian Orphanage
North Carolina
Lineberger
Morganton
Goldsboro
Caswell
Kinston
Camp Butner
David Young
Nation's granary bulging as 1948 crops rise sharply
Washington reports the agriculture department raises its 1948 production estimates led by a corn crop of 3.65 billion bushels, well above 1946 record and October forecast. Increases also shown for soybeans sorghum rice and other staples with pork supplies rising while cattle slaughter declines. A final general crop report will be issued in mid December detailing wheat oats barley and more.
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Washington, Navy
Agriculture Department
Ithe Department
Officer Dies Of Gastonia Fight Wounds
Gastonia police say Officer J E Red English died of a chest wound suffered while aiding in the Monday gunman assault. The suspect Ray Aldridge 21 is jailed in Charlotte on a murder warrant as another officer Ray Smith improves.
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Gastonia
J. E
Red) English
Ray Aldridge
R. W. Terrell
Aldridge
Mecklenburg County
Charlotte
English
H. R. McConnell
Ray Smith
Firestone Mill
Truman Keeps Focus On State Dept As World Tensions Rise
From Key West base President Truman follows Russian moves on Berlin via State Department reports while White House denies plans for a Truman Stalin meeting. He assigns Major General Vaughan to Armistice ceremonies as Mrs Truman and Margaret arrive to end his whisker experiment. Senator McGrath arrives soon.
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Key West
Fra
Truman
State Department
Berlin
129Th Field Artillery
Harry H. Vaughan
Key West American Legion
White House
Moscow
Stalin
Washington
Mr. Truman
van Dyke
Jeff Davis
Confederacy
Abraham Lincoln
Margaret
J. Howard McGrath
Hoover urges stronger Labor Department and post office reform
Former President Herbert Hoover chairs a bipartisan commission on executive organization. He calls for a strengthened Labor Department and removal of 20 000 postmasterships from politics. He backs a better paid career civil service and a reorganized post office to cut deficits up to 300 million dollars annually.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Labor Department
Hoover
Executive Branch
Congress
80Th Congress
Civ Service Commission
Post Office Department
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Jewish Congress
Palestine
Ward Road
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Lenoir County
Citi
Reds
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Kitty Hawk
National Zeitung
Court of Appeals
State Dept
Ernest B. Vaccaro
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