Berlin Crisis Debate Opens at United Nations Today
Washington reports the Berlin crisis debate begins at the UN with focus on postwar German governance. The piece traces economic and political clashes among the four occupying powers Russia United States Britain and France as they clash over Berlin and Germanys future.
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James Marlow
Washington
Berlin
United Nations
Germany
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Phelps Furniture Company Dissolution Certificate Issued 1948
North Carolina Secretary of State certifies the voluntary dissolution of Phelps Furniture Company a High Point Guilford County corporation. Stockholders unanimously consented on September 24 1948 and filed the required proceedings with the secretary of state. The certificate is dated September 24 1948 and seal affixed in Raleigh.
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North Carolina
Guilford County
Kathryn P. Marley
Joseph P. Marley
High Street
Burlington
North
Caroline
State OF North Carolina
Department OF State
Phelps Furniture Company
Rawley Road
High Point
Guilford
S. D. Phelps
Thad Bure
Raleigh
Bailey Elected Commander of State AMVETS
James H. Pou Bailey of Raleigh becomes the new commander of North Carolina AMVETS succeeding J. B. Yelverton of Durham. Other officers elected include Tom Heinze Winston-Salem Tom Saw urice EY Rith ock Joe Powell Neah Salem C M Ward Pennington WeC. Winstead Jr Wilson Henry Jackson Charlotte Margaret Fisler Raleigh Gene Phil Sie Winston-Salem Paul Hester Durham J Carl Fulghum Wilson named historian. 1949 convention city selection deferred. Wilfred Courtney Barber of Chicago reported casualty in Ethiopian war, malaria death.
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Raleigh
James H. Pou Bailey
North Carolina
Lily Pons Sings At Duke In October Concert
Lily Pons appears at Page Auditorium Duke University October 5 as the season opener in a tour that will visit 20 cities, Hawaii, and Europe. Frank LaForge and Frank Versaci join her on stage with a new piece The Window Pane and other Mozart and Rossini works.
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Durham
Duke University
Lily Pons
Page Auditorium
Miss Pons
Ging
Hawaii
Europe
Duke
Frank LaForge
Frank Versaci
Philadelphia
LaForge
Mozart
Rossini
Alabieff
Orchestra National
Charles Muench
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
J. Foster Barnes
Budapest String Quartet
Leonard Warren
First Piano Quartet
Pittsgurbh Symphony Orchestra
Some Mills To Remain In New England
Gilbert Verney, president of the Verney textile group, writes that New England mills are unlikely to shut down or move. He cites fierce competition, lower southern wages, and the need for higher output to keep New England workers employed. Mills operate in Manchester and Peterborough New Hampshire Brunswick Maine Greenwich Rhode Island Granby Quebec and East Taunton Massachusetts.
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New England
Boston
Gilbert Verney
Verney
South
Verney Corporation
Manchester
Peterborough
N. H
Brunswick
Greenwhich
R. I
Granby
P. Q
Canada
East
Taunton
Mass
Fourteen Men Face Trials On Gambling Charges This Thursday
Raleigh authorities plan trials Thursday for fourteen men arrested in a citywide gambling crackdown. Ed Parker, 41, a Goldsboro lawyer, was freed on 1500 bond after admitting involvement in a football lottery. The Admiral Club, Inc. was padlocked during the raid by police sheriff and state investigators.
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Raleigh
Ed Parker
Bob Goodwin
Goldsboro
Parker
Goodwin
Wake County
State Bureau of Investigation
Admiral Club, Inc
Sheriff's Office
Cranberries Built A Small Railroad Empire In Carver
In Carver Massachusetts Ellis Atwood operates Edaville a private two foot gauge railroad. The line carries 125000 passengers a year and moves 10000 to 12000 barrels of cranberries from bog to factory. Cranberries now dominate Massachusetts exports with 63 percent of world supply grown within 14 miles of the village.
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Carver
Mass
Cranberries
Ellis D. Atwood
Atwood
Edaville Railroad
Maine
Massachusetts
Atwoods
At Wie
Uth
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Washington
Oregon
Sue
The Canadian bogs flood for berry harvests and Cape Verde pickers
Winter floods protect bogs for rose berry harvest on Atwood plantation. Immigrant workers from Cape Verde scoop berries by hand earning about forty cents per bushel, averaging up to forty bushels daily. A power boat agitates flooded bogs to lift berries, which are sorted by bounce and run along a conveyor to packing.
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Cape Verde Islands
Africa
Atwood
Thousands See Textile Show In Greenville Exposition Opens
Thousands visit the Southern Textile Exposition in Greenville as 300 exhibits showcase textile machinery and mill supplies. Gov. J Strom Thurmond calls the event a post war milestone and a new industrial era for South Carolina.
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Greenville
S. C
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Nation's stands miss market as they fail to bounce
A brief, lighthearted note contrasts fruit and vegetable stands that fail to rebound with missing seasonal sales. It playfully alludes to the idea that those that do not bounce are not ready for the market or pairing with the Thanksgiving turkey.
Senator Maybank Injured in Auto Accident
Senator Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina was injured in an automobile collision near Holly Hill and treated at Roper Hospital in Charleston. His condition was not serious, with a fractured kneecap and other injuries described as painful. Maybank and G. Richardson of Columbia were traveling toward Charleston when the crash occurred. The physician expected a short hospitalization of two to three days, possibly longer.
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Charleston
D. C
Burnet R
Roper Hospital
Holly Hill
Maybank
G. Richardson
Columbia
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Amvets
Wilfred Courtney Barber
Chicago
Center Building
Upper Darby
U. S
Hal Boyle
Crystal Palace
London
Senator Maybank
Central Ice Delivery Company
West Broad Street
KR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
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