Convention Enlivened By Threat at AFL Gathering
San Francisco dispatch reports the AFL’s 66th convention opened under tension as John L. Lewis and William L. Hutcheson clash with fellow leaders over Taft Hartley affidavits and union loyalties. Delegates number about 750 with 7.6 million AFL members. The Hollywood jurisdiction dispute delays full floor action for two weeks.
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San Francisco
AFL
John L. Lewis
William L. Hutchenson
William Green
Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Executive Council
Taft-Hartley
United Mine Workers
Hutcheson
Hollywood
Communists Rally Against U S Imperialism in New International
Leaders of a nine-nation Communist international rally followers for a no compromise fight against United States imperialism. The Warsaw meeting announced a mutual information bureau at Belgrade to coordinate parties and oppose the Marshall plan and Truman doctrine.
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Moscow
United States
Comintern
Soviet Union
U. S
Pravda
Communist
Warsaw
Russia
France
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Omania
Bulgari
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Belgrade
Andrey Zhdanov
Georgei M. Malenkov
Politbur
All-Union
Communist Party
Truman Calls Self Denial Drive To Cut Hunger
President Truman urged weekly meat free Tuesdays and bread saving daily while eggs and poultry are skipped on Thursdays. He pressed grain traders to raise down payment to one third or risk government limits, and sought broad public buy in with Luckman mobilizing a wartime scale conservation campaign.
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Washington
Europe
Truman
BLIB
White House
Citizens’ Food Committee
Charles Luckman
Luckman
Rep
Hope
R-Kan
House Agriculture Committee
Duke Hospital Vandal Known, Says Paper
The Durham Herald reported authorities know the person behind 11 minor fires at Duke Hospital last spring. Detective Capt. EB Leary said the investigation continues and the case remains not fully solved. No link to the wounding of nurse Sue Taylor or the Robbery of her companion Williams is established.
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Durham
Durham Herald
Duke Hospital
W. H. Murdock
EB. R. Leary
Leary
Herald
Sue Taylor
Four Injured Six Wounded In Clashes In Colombia
Political clashes left four dead and six injured in Colombia. Municipal elections were postponed in three cities and several towns halted voting as unrest spread. Fatalities occurred in Tenoi near Pasto, with other deaths reported in Gauca, Santander.
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Bogota
Colombia
Tenoi
Pasto
Gauca
Santander
North Carolina Weather Outlook for Tuesday
Mostly fair conditions with light variable temperatures today and tonight in North Carolina. Partly cloudy skies and scattered light showers favored along coastal areas on Tuesday October 7 1947 with sunrise around 20 minutes after 5 and sunset near 5 56.
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North Carolina
Conflicting Statements Over Amazon Cotton Mill Return to Work
About 250 workers at the Amazon Cotton Mill in Thomasville were to return to work at 8 am as announced by vice-president David A. Long Jr. conflicting figures from union officials cite only about sixty workers ready to resume. The dispute centered on union dues check off, pay scales, and contract terms.
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Thomasville
Amazon
David A. Long, Jr
Citizens Mediation Committee
I. G. Greer
The
Baptist Orphanage of
North Carolina
Citizens Committee
Long
Robert Parker
Textile Workers Union of America
Parker
Dr. Greer
Citizens Meditation Committee
Polio Epidemic Tops Berlin with 34 New Cases
Berlin health authorities report 34 new infantile paralysis cases in the last 24 hours, raising the city’s total to 1,572 in its worst epidemic. No new deaths were recorded, keeping fatalities unchanged.
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Berlin
Avian
Plan of Reds Concerns IN LAKE SUCCESS
Dr Fadhil Jamaili Iraq foreign minister declared the nine nation communist conference manifesto in Poland an ideological war. The comment was the first official national source remark at United Nations headquarters. News of renewed international communist collaboration drew mixed reactions as delegates studied its significance.
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Lake Success
Fadhil Jamaili
Iraq
Nine Nation Communist Conference
Poland
United Nations
Small Craft Warnings for East Coast and Florida Flood Refugees
Small craft warnings extended from Wilmington North Carolina to the Florida Keys with winds 45 to 55 mph. The Weather Bureau warned mariners to avoid the open Atlantic as squally conditions drift northward. Floods in southeast Florida forced many families from homes with temporary shelters near Miami housing 250 people and capacity for 1 000 refugees, while Camp Kendall south of Miami housed 124.
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Miami
Fla
Atlanti
Wilmington
N. C
Florida Keys
Weather Bureau
Bahamas Islands
Atlantic
State to Help Out In Campaign
RALEIGH Oct. 6 Governor Cherry said the state would cooperate fully with President Truman's request for conservation of food to feed hungry European countries. He noted the prison department raises its own meats to buy flour and planned to confer with all heads of institutions to promote conservation.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Truman
Pather Takes Baby London Flight Missing Child Case
Scotland Yard reported that a 10 month old baby missing from his Leeds home was taken aboard a New York bound plane last night by his father Curtis Elmer Vincent of Greensboro North Carolina. He is listed as the father and is under investigation for the disappearance and abduction.
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London
Scotland Yard
Leeds
Curtis Elmer Vincent
Aycock Street
Greensboro
Slaying Enquiry Ends in Suicide After Lovers Lane Killing
In Chester South Carolina on October 6 a Black farmhand named Dave Dunham questioned in the Lovers Lane killing of a white man, Clarence Wallis, shot himself with a shotgun as officers closed in. Wallis died after aiding Betsy Ross to escape a assailant on a secluded road. Ross survived.
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Chester
S. C
Lovers Lane
William H. Peden
Peden
Dave Dunham
Clarence Wallis
Wallis
Betsy Ross
Miss Ross
South Carolina
M. Cecil Chandler
John Latimore
Dunham
Chandler
Lewis Miller
Policeman Held Up and Car Stolen in Detroit
Off duty Patrolman Harold Linfoot and his companion Cecile Booker were robbed by three masked men as they parked behind a girlfriend’s apartment. The thieves took 80 dollars and a purse, then placed the pair in the trunk. The car vanished after they fled.
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Detroit
Harold Linfoot
Linfoot
Cecile Booker
Miss Booker
Charges Stand Up Asserts Columnist Ruark Says All Charges Endure
Washington dispatch reports columnist Robert C. Ruark declares his charges about extravagant living of officers and shabby treatment of enlisted men in the Italian theater have stood up despite an inspector general’s act. Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wyche found minor discrepancies and said the Ruark stories gave a wholly erroneous picture. Eisenhower released the Wyche report noting errors but no evil intent and promising corrections.
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Washington
Robert C. Ruark
Scripps-Howard
Ira T. Wyche
Ruark
Eisenhower
Wyche
John C. H.lee
Catholics End Controversy Over Mixed Schools in St Louis
A St Louis Catholic Parents Association disbands after Archbishop Ritter warns against legal action and the apostolic delegate Cicognani cannot intervene. Members debate opposing Negro children in white parochial schools, with the chair resigning to avoid risking his faith.
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ST. Louis
Apostolic
United States
Grow
Atholic Parents Association of
St. Louis County
Joseph E. Ritter
Apostolic Delegate
Amileto G. Cicognani
Washington, D. C
Ritter
Culd
Association
John P. Barrett
Lawrence Connors
Zionists Eye US Endorsement of UN Palestine Report
Zionist circles expect the United States to back an 11 nation Palestine partition report at the UN Palestine inquiry, while Arabs oppose immediate independence. Officials kept silence on Secretary Marshall's policy speech as Vishinsky and Molotov remain in flux and Marshall travels to Montreal for a degree.
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Palestine
Marshall
U. S
Assembly
Long Island
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Vishinsky
Montreal
iMcGill University
Stabbing And Fistfight Mark Bus Strike Violence
In New Orleans a stabbing a free-for-all fight and a stone attack capped a violent weekend amid a 140 day bus drivers strike. Seven arrests were made in Jackson Tennessee after clashes between strikers and non union replacements. Charles Jones, 26, was stabbed in the back in New Orleans but not believed seriously hurt. A rock shattered a Hattiesburg Mississippi bus station window with similar unrest in Coushatta Louisiana where shots were fired at a loader bus.
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New Orleans
Southern
Jackson
Tenn
Robert Mainard
Charles Jones
Jones
Hattiesburg
Miss
Coushatta
Louisiana
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