Long-Term Prisoner Shot Down by Jackson Sheriff
Raleigh October 2 A long term prisoner described as one of the most dangerous men was killed when Sheriff C G Middleton of Jackson county tried to recapture him Ralph Davis of Clemmons serving 60 years on multiple charges including second degree murder was shot near Riva after driving away with two other escapees The coroner’s jury exonerated the sheriff and Davis had been hiding near the county home at Sylva prior to the shooting Davis had posed as robbed and attempted to steal two cars before being shot by Middleton
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Raleigh
Kyle Matthews
Ed. Matthews
Ralph Davis
Clemmons
Riva
C. G. Middleton
Jackson County
Taute
Matthews
Middleton
Davis
Sylva
Rowan County
Murray Aids CIO Unions in Affidavit Disputes
President Murray moves to help three CIO unions facing non Communist affidavit disputes. He protested an atomic commission blacklist of United Electrical Workers and United Public Workers and urged the Maritime Commission to resume negotiations with Bridges longshoremen amid Taft Hartley affidavit requirements.
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Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
Surray
National Labor Relations Board
Murray
Atomic Encommission
United Electrical Workers
United Public Workers
General Electric
University of Chicago
Maritime Commission
Pacific Waterfront Peer
Harry Bridges
Bridges
NLRB
Steelworkers
David E. Lilienthal
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Lilienthal
Nine Believed Drowned In Ship Collision
Nine men are believed drowned after a tugboat Anne Marie Tracy collided with the Liberty ship Eliza J. Nicholson off Manhattan's 25th Street. Six survivors were rescued, while the freighter veered into two barges. Names of missing and surviving crew are listed by police.
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New York
Hudson River
Eliza J. Nicholson
25Th Street Manhattan
Nicholson
Russell Kimmel
Lawrence Gillian
Severiano Perrin
Auralio Montoro
Joseph Soares
Christopher Bicksnes
Frank Gryzick
Tenrick Gustavson
Serriera
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Richard Davis
Roslyn
N. Y
George Worth
Brooklyn
Leif Hege
Lake Telemark
Rockaway
N. J
Charles Sweeney
Winifred Park
George Olliziesse
New Bedford
Mass
Knute Hamson
Manhattan
Marriage ideals blamed on fairy tales and comics
The Rev. Daniel A. Lord of St. Louis, speaking in Ottawa, blamed fairy tales and comic books for modern marriage failures. He urged that marriage be seen as a partnership between adults enriching human life, not a sudden bolt from the blue.
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Ottawa
Ont
Daniel A. Lord
New Drug Aims To Save Terminal Leukemia Patient
A six year old Kentucky boy named Douglas Perry with six weeks to live was flown to Birmingham Alabama for treatment at Jefferson Hillman Hospital. Doctors plan to use a new drug aminopterin to try to extend his life after a June illness in Georgetown Kentucky diagnosed as leukemia.
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Birmingham
Ala
Kentucky
Douglas Perry
Kentucky National Guard
Jefferson-Hillman Hospital
Young Perry
Georgetown
Soviets Call For Ban On A Bomb With International Control Board
The article reports Soviet proposals for a ban on the A bomb and the creation of an International Control Board. It notes uranium use by the Atomic Energy Commission in Chicago and ongoing world searches for more ore, with tensions over Congo supplies and international controls. Scientists announce sengierite as a new uranium rich mineral.
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Associated Press
America
Chicago
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Washington
Russia
Belgian Congo
New York
Los Angeles
Camey
David E. Lillienthal
Executives Club
United States
Ece
Columbia University
Robert A. Millikin
Institute of Radio Engineers
Money Belt Loot Found On Aged Patient
NY police report an 85 year old woman Mrs Antoinette Lindsey removed to Bellvue hospital after a money belt containing 128525 dollars was found on her. The belt held 55 one thousand dollar bills 66 five hundreds 300 hundreds 63 fifties and other smaller notes. It was discovered by a hospital nurse. The patient was under observation for senile psychosis and feared someone wanted her wealth.
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New York
Bellvue Hospital
Antoinette Lindsey
Lindsey
George Conover
De Gaulle warns of action if French voting denied
Paris October 2 Gen Charles De Gaulle warned the French people must be allowed to vote him into power or he would seek other means to save France. He criticized the coalition government as sterile and illegitimate and said elections in three years might not occur. He said his party had about 1.5 million members and denounced the Western alliance and the Berlin crisis, calling the U.N. route and plans for a western German government lamentable.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
French Peoples Party
de Gaulle
Western European Alliance
Berlin
U.N. Security Council
Three Clemson Students Die In Auto Crash
Three Clemson College students died in a head on collision on highway near Easley South Carolina last night around seven o'clock. Bruce Palmer Barber Jr of Columbia Fred D Shook of Spartanburg and Thomas Anderson Jr of Columbia were killed while Alexander Lofton of McClellanville was hospitalized in poor condition. Barber and Anderson rode in the Barber car with Lofton. Shook was alone in his vehicle.
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Greenville
S. C
Clemson College
Easley
Bruce Palmer Barber, Jr
Columbia
Greenville General Hospital
Fred D. Shook
Arkwright Mill
Spartanburg
Thomas Anderson, Jr
Alexander Lofton
McClellanville
Clemson
Barber
Anderson
Lofton
Shook
Davidson County Negro Paroled
A Davidson county Negro convicted in August 1946 of second degree murder was released on parole along with three other prisoners. Claude Watkins, also convicted in the death of Bobby Davis, was the paroled slayer and received a five to seven year sentence. Others paroled include H M Pinkston Jr J E McCrary and Douglas Ware with terms ranging from one to eight years.
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Raleigh
Davidson County
Roles Commission
Claude Watkins
Bobby Davis
Watkins
H. M. Pinkston, Jr
Cumberland
J. E. McCrary
Iredell
Douglas Ware
Gaston
Truman Returns to Washington for New Campaign Tour
President Truman arrived in Washington after a 19 state swing through the west. He told a Union Station crowd he has begun to fight, 140 speeches, 8,300 miles, seeing up to 3 million people, and eyes a new tour into Pennsylvania New Jersey and upstate New York. He was joined by Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret as cabinet members and Senator McGrath greeted him.
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Washington
Truman
Union Station
Mr. Truman
McGrath
D-Ri
Democratic National Committee
Loomy International
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Youths Use Sheriff's Cabin For Rendezvous
DES MOINES Oct 2 Five youths were jailed after a 10 day spree of wild parties held by over 30 teenagers at a sheriff’s country cabin. Sheriff Howard C Reppert found the cabin in disarray and called on parents to monitor late night curfews.
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Des Moines
Howard C. Reppert
Police Protect Newspapers From Seizure by Russians
In Berlin western powers deploy German police to guard Western licensed newspapers after Communist railway police confiscations. The move aims to protect sale of western papers in three western sectors as editors plead for protection.
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Berlin
Germany
U. S
Western Berlin
UN Fate Parallels League of Nations in 1930s Collapse
Dewitt Mackenzie argues the League failed to curb Japanese aggression in Manchuria, paving the way for Mussolini and Hitler, with parallels to today. He notes Japan’s 1931 invasion, Manchukuo, and the 1935 Ethiopian invasion, leading to the League’s paralysis and eventual demise, warning of a new peace organization facing similar tests.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
League of Nations
League of Nations Commission
Britain
Lord Lytton
Manchuria
China
Mussolini
Japan
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Europe
Il Duce
Albania
Hitler
Germany
Police arrest 12 in Raleigh club raids near state capitol
Raleigh police, Wake County sheriff and SBI agents raided six places, arresting 12 men at The Admiral Club Inc adjoining the state capitol. Operator Jack Banks, 43, posted 2500 bond. The club rooms featured a teletype and gaming tables amid gambling activity suspicions.
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Raleigh
N. C
Justice
Admiral Club, Inc
State Capitol
Leigh
Wake County
State Bureau of Investigation
Bob Goodwin
Goodwin
Admiral Club
Jack Banks
SBI
James W. Powell
Secretary of State
Powell
Railroads Seek Eight Percent Freight Rate Boost
The nation’s railroads petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for an additional eight per cent freight rate increase, arguing operating costs have risen about 75 percent in eight years and that current returns are far below prewar levels. If approved, the move would add about 672.5 million dollars to annual freight costs.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Tomato Salad Joke Sparks Laughter in Los Angeles
Henry Wallace told a dinner gathering in Los Angeles last night that upon arriving he expected to find tomatoes in the salad. The quip drew laughter as the host noted there were no tomatoes in the dish.
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Los Angeles
Henry Wallace
Concession Viewed With Suspicion at UN on Atomic Control
Paris dispatch reports Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky proposed that the U N atomic energy commission and the Security Council draft two conventions banning atomic weapons and creating an energy control body to be signed and enacted simultaneously. US delegate Warren Austin questioned sincerity, while Canadian Gen. McNaughton called the move a surrender to logic.
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Paris
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U. N. Atomic Energy Commission
Security Council
Warren R. Austin
United States
Helene
A. G. L. McNaughton
General Assembly
Atomic Energy Commission
O Energy Control
Dewey Plans Conference With Dulles
Fresh evidence of Republican backing for bipartisan foreign policy may emerge next week as Gov. Thomas E Dewey meets John Foster Dulles in Albany. Dulles will report on the Berlin blockade and other world issues ahead of the Paris UN meeting. Senator Arthur Vandenberg may deliver a nationwide radio address outlining the party line the next night. Dewey’s campaign has stressed unity as a core theme during a cross country tour.
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Dewey
Thomas E. Dew
Albany
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Berlin
Paris
United Nations
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Vandenberg
Kansas
Missouri
Cheyenne
Wyo
America
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Dmitri Z. Manuilsky
Ukraiian
Jackson
International Control Board
Matthew Henry
Matthew George Henry
Trinity Church
Asheville
Episcopal Church
Western North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Durham
Winston-Salem
Walnut Cove
Mayodan
Germanton
Stoneville
Tarboro
Charlotte
Robert E. Gribbin
Capital
Sheriff's Cabin
Lytton
Manchukuo
Henry Pu Yi
Nippon
Pu Yi
Tokyo
Lake Geneva
League
Geneva
East
Austin
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