President May Act Later In Coal Dispute
The White House indicated President Truman may delay action to head off a new coal strike. Two plans are under consideration: a special fact finding board and or invoking Taft Hartley provisions, with a decision possible after a news conference. Cyrus Ching says mediation seems futile.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
John L. Lewis
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation Service
Lewis
Ching
North Carolina Baptists push end to segregation
Raleigh reports the 119th Baptist State convention unanimously adopted a committee recommendation to address race and minority relations openly. Led by Rev. E McNeill Poteat, the resolution asserts all Christians are brothers, rejects racial superiority, and calls for equal rights and joint white and Negro ministerial unions.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Reds converge on Chungking as Sichuan falls to Communists
Chinese Reds press toward Chungking from Hupeh and Sichuan while Chiang Kai Shek meets Nationalist leaders to halt the advance. Sichuan loss admitted. fighting along highways to Chungking and a Hong Kong area landing reported. Chungking and Chengtu commerce stall as evacuations and packing spread, with few foreigners affected.
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Chungking
Sichuan
Hupeh Province
Chiang Kai- Shek
Nationalist
Defense Ministry
Hupeh
Chiehchiang
Santsao
Macao
Kweiyang
Kweichow
Chingchen
Chengtu
Szechwan
Canton
Shah Frankly Bids for More American Aid
The Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi opens a month long U S goodwill tour with a state dinner and direct appeal to President Truman for closer cooperation and intensified American aid. Iran, allied with the United States against Soviet influence, already receives American assistance and advisers as part of the broad arms aid program.
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Washington
Iran
United States
Truman
Tehran
M. Truman
Plano
Tran
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi
Soviet Russia
U. S
America
Russia
Seven Year Old Girl Missing In Idaho Search Grows
Seven year old Glenda Joyce Brisbaugh longtime daughter of a transport driver vanished yesterday after entering a strange car at 5 30 pm. A 200 strong posse canvassed Burley and searched alleys parks canal banks and hiding places as road blocks line southern Idaho. Police from city county and state participate in the hunt.
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Burley
Idaho
Glenda Joyce Brisbaugh
Bill Williams
Saul H. Clark
Consolidation of North Carolina Education Facilities Across State
The article traces half a century of school district consolidation in North Carolina from 1910s reforms to the 1931 Greater University move and revived talks. It notes Arkansas contrasts and mentions extended ideas including uniting Durham North Carolina College and A T Greensboro into the state university system and consolidating six teacher training colleges under one board. Further discussion references mental patient hospitals.
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North Carolina
Arkansas
Sugges
North Carolina College
Durham
A&t
Greensboro
Governor Grants Temporary Reprieve in Lee Heller Case
Governor Scott halts the planned execution of Lee Heller of Catawba county for wife murder. The reprieve allows time for a State Supreme Court appeal after a new trial motion based on newly discovered evidence, though the lower court denied the motion.
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Raleigh
Scott
Lee Heller
Catawba County
State Supreme Court
Heller
Catawba Superior Court
J. C. Rudisill
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Three Killed As Train Hits Auto At Dunn Crossing
At Dunn North Carolina a Florida bound luxury train struck an automobile in the business district early today killing three Fort Bragg soldiers from the 82nd Airborne. Private Harland Lewis Ray 19 David L Ralph 20 and Richard McCormick 18 were identified.
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Dunn
Fort Bragg
Harland Lewis Ray
Santa Barbara
Calif
David L. Ralph
Richard McCormick
Ralph
McCormick
82Nd Airborne Division
J. D. Brogden
Atlantic Coast Line No. 91
North Carolina
R. J. Johnson
Fayetteville
Hilda Wright
Ray
Big Meteor Lights Skies
A bright meteor flashed across the southern skies before midnight and was seen from Kentucky to Florida. Observers reported colors from white to blue to green or yellow and differing altitudes. Piedmont Airlines pilot H F Robbings noted ground visibility improved to 1,500 feet as he took off from Charlotte.
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Greenville
S. C
Columbia
Kentucky
Florida
H. F. Robbings
Piedmont Airlines
Charlotte
Public Relations Director Named for North Carolina Medical Association
Leroy H. Cox, previously director of public relations and alumni affairs at Wofford College, will become director of public relations for the North Carolina Medical Association. He starts November 28 with headquarters in Raleigh.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Leroy H. Cox
North Carolina Medical Association
Wofford College
Raleigh
Tobacco prices hold firm on flue-cured belt markets
Raleigh November 17 Tobacco prices on the flue-cured old and middle belt markets remained firm with few changes noted in both belts. Gains and losses on the two belts largely offset each other according to the federal state departments of agriculture.
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Raleigh
Departments of Agriculture
Wilmington Wins Lease for Major Port Facilities
North Carolina's three year push to develop Wilmington as a port for ocean going ships moved forward as the U S Maritime Commission signed a 50 year lease for the north section of the wartime shipyard. The $1 a year lease covers 50 acres and railroad connected property. The authority aims to start terminal construction by March including a 1550 foot dock two transit sheds and warehouses using $4 5 million of bond money at Wilmington and $3 2 million at Morehead City.
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Wilmington
North Carolina
U. S. Maritime Commission
George W. Gillette
Gillette
Princess Margaret Attends Zither Player Anton Karas
In London on November 17 Princess Margaret and Sharman Douglas arrived early for Anton Karas Vienna born musician famed for The Third Man. Karas performed the Harry Lime theme six times at the Empress nightclub as the princess listened.
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London
Margaret
Anton Karas
Vienna
Empress
Sharman Douglas
United States
Lewis W. Douglas
Karas
Harry Lime
Foodstuffs Plentiful and Cheaper This Thanksgiving Time
The harvest is abundant with bumper supplies of turkeys cranberries celery chestnuts and other foods for the Thanksgiving feast. Turkeys are up 19 percent this year with a total near 41 million birds and prices 59 to 63 cents per pound for family-size birds. Cranberries are about one fifth more plentiful and selling 19 to 23 cents per pound, about six cents below last year. Eggs and red meats show easing prices amid slower trading as markets clear for the holiday.
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California
Winter Snow Melts as Buffalo Sees Record November Fall
Snow from the Great Lakes region melted under daytime above freezing temperatures. Buffalo recorded 19.1 inches in 28 hours, surpassing the 1920 November record. flurries appeared in Buffalo Rochester and other states, with no further depth increases. Elsewhere temperatures varied from near normal to freezing in the Southeast. In Oil City a soot snow shower coated the downtown for fifteen minutes before clearing.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Great Lakes
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Rochester
Plains States
New England States
Asheville
N. C
Raleigh
High Point
Oil City
Uwpi
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
FBI Joins In Search For Fred Stroble
FBI joins international hunt for Fred Stroble after a federal fugitive warrant is issued. Stroble is sought in the murder and molestation case involving Linda Joyce Glacoft and a 10-year-old girl in Highland Park. Police in the United States and Mexico question numerous suspects as the slayer remains at large.
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United States
Mexico
Fred Stroble
Baker
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Los Angeles
Stroble
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Highland Park
Two N. C. State Boys Arrested
Raleigh November 17 police have arrested two North Carolina State College students for larceny and receiving. Buddy Edwards 20 of Asheville and Rufus H Shelton Jr 21 of Roxboro face trial tomorrow in city court. Edwards and Shelton allegedly stole radios and a typewriter and adding machine found in Shelton’s room.
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Raleigh
N.C State College
A. O. Coates
E. E. Newton
Buddy Edwards
Asheville
Rufus H. Shelton, Jr
Roxboro
Coates
W. G. Maddrey
Shelton
State Highway Commission
Maddrey
Stock Prices On Upward Trend
The New York stock market recovered from a two week decline with overall gains limited to fractions. Volume remained near level with prior days as automobile issues led the upward movement and General Motors blocks changed hands at modest gains after a dividend-related move.
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New York
General Motors
Air Force B-29 crash muds Stockton rescue effort
Two air force B 29s collided at midnight above Stockton Calif one crashed in mud with four survivors and seven dead eleven missing. Survivors named include Lt Warren F Sharrock Pvt Keith R Burns T Sgt Frank D Schmidt Sgt Robert S Kluge. Separate Bermuda search for a lost B 29 bomber with twenty airmen aboard mobilizes almost 100 planes seeking sight of wreckage or liferafts.
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Stockton
Calif
Airforce
Lodi
Navy
Warren F. Sharrock
Sierra Foothills
Keith R. Burns
Boise
Ida
Frank D. Schmidt
Negley
Ohio
Robert S. Kluge
Spokane
Sheriff's Office
Hamilton
Bermuda
U. S
Air Force
Coast Guard
Atlantic Seaboard
Typhoon Pounds Guam As Winds Top 145 MPH
Reports from the ai force weather bureau show a powerful typhoon battering Guam with winds near 145 miles per hour. Buildings have fallen and thousands seek shelter as the storm moves west northwest toward the Micronesian area.
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Tokyo
Ai Force Weather Bureau
Islan
America
Pacific
Guam
Associated Press Breau
San Francisco
Cir
Sto
Island
Truman Eyes Move To Halt Coal Strike By Dec 1
James Marlow reports President Truman may delay but not forbid a coal strike set for December 1. With no legal power to ban a strike, he could seek a fact finding board or invoke Taft-Hartley to gain an 80 or 40 day delay, allowing winter supply of coal.
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James Marlow
Washington
Truman
John L. Lewis
Maine
Lewis
Mr. Truman
Thoug Lewis
T-H Board
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