United States Weighs Support for Palestine Partition Plan
A leading UN delegate reports Washington hinted US support for partition of Palestine with possible modifications. A US delegation spokesman says a policy draft is near completion and will be released soon. Poland urges immediate Jewish refugee immigration and focus on partition while Arab and Jewish groups oppose the bi national federal plan.
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Lake Success
Unit- Nations Assembly
Ate Department
United States
Washington
Palestine
U. S
Russe
Creaton
Special
United Nations Committee On Palestine
Unscop
Theewish Agency For Palestine
Poland
Holy Land
Oland
Josef Winiewicz
57. Nationalestine
Uruguay
Marketing s Problem For Housewives
The nation faces a bigger problem in marketing as housewives adapt menus to Truman food conservation efforts. Meatless Tuesday garners token support while restaurants struggle to remove poultry and eggs on Thursdays. A 60 day distiller shutdown seeks 10 million bushels saved. grain margins rise to 33 1 3 percent. Veterans in Illinois Wisconsin and Indiana mark meatless days with strict compliance noted.
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Truman
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Citizens food committee seeks 0 day grain shutdown
Washington October 4 The citizens food committee formally asks nation's distillers to close down for 0 days to save 10 million bushels of grain as part of President Truman's voluntary saving drive. Industry officials indicate a reluctant yes may follow after a late afternoon meeting with 125 liquor industry leaders.
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Washington
Citizens Food Committee
Truman
Europe
Charles Luckman
Liquor Industry
Joseph A. Englehard
Distilled Spirits Institute
Luckman
Pair Found Shot to Death in Goldsboro Apartment
Goldsboro officials report Oscar Pearce 43 and Alma Woodard 38 were found shot in Pearce’s apartment 90 A Johnson Homes. Sheriff Garrison ruled murder and suicide, noting a note in Woodard’s pocket and a rifle placed near him. Eugene Pearce, 11, cried out earlier, prompting a neighbor to investigate.
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Woodard
Iby
Weather Summary for North Carolina and Nearby Cities
Cloudy conditions with mild temperatures and light rain possible today and tonight. Regional readings show highs in the mid to upper 80s across several cities, with variable temperatures across the state and nearby metropolitan areas.
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Orth Carolina
CIO Chiefs Debate Anti-Red Pledge
CIO leaders weigh non communist affidavits as NLRB ruling eases status for 41 unions. Eleven unions already filed with officer signatures while others delay, with convention set to address organizing, prices and politics amid ongoing debate.
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CIO Chiefs
Ee Ee
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Philip Murray
Executive Board
Textile
Auto
Washington
Curran Pledges Resignation as NMU President
Joseph Curran, president of the national maritime union for a decade, said he would resign if a proposed program harmful to the union is adopted. His bid to have all national offices vacated pending new elections was tabled at the sixth biennial convention amid clashes with what he calls communist inspired disruptive forces.
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New York
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Curran
NMU
County Officials Seek Free Parking for Meeting Days
Catawba county commissioners in Newton voted to ask city officials to allow free parking for the county legislators on meeting days. They currently receive 85 a day for each meeting and must pay a nickel an hour to park near the courthouse square.
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Newton
Catawba County
Balkans Debate Near Clash At UN Session
The United Nations General Assembly political committee neared a showdown between the United States and Soviet Russia over Greece and its Balkan neighbors. After tumultuous debate, the body moved to consider two rival proposals: an American plan charging Albania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia with aggression and a border-watch. and a Soviet plan calling for foreign troop withdrawal from Greece and a UN commission.
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Balkan
Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Security Council
Russia
Greece
Cotton Crop Estimate Shows Decline in Yield Forecast
The Agriculture Department projects this year’s cotton crop at 11,508,000 bales, down 341,000 from a month earlier, with lint yield at 2613 pounds per acre. The crop’s October condition stands at 72 percent of normal, and the Census Bureau notes 3,989,767 bales ginned before Oct 1, up from prior years.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Emergency 10 Percent Freight Rate Boost Granted to Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a 10 percent emergency freight rate increase totaling about 700 million dollars annually for U S railroads with possible nationwide effect starting next Monday. Southern railroads may raise passenger and coach fares, while coal coke and iron ore shipments receive targeted exemptions.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
South
Mechanically Guided Plane Heads for Wilmington Ohio
A U S Army Skymaster named Robert E. Lee completed a transatlantic flight from Lyneham England to Stephenville Texas. The aircraft landed at Harmon Field after 14 hours 11 minutes to Wilmington Ohio mission details.
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Stephenville
Nild
Oct
U. S&s. Army
Robert E. Lee
Wilmington
Ohio
Atlantic
Lyneham
Eng
Charlottetown
FE. 1
Air Force
Gillespie
Treason Case To Be Tried By Best Himself
Robert Henry Best a former American foreign correspondent accused of Nazi radio treason told he may try his own case but the judge advised against it. Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford gave Best two weeks to decide and appointed a lawyer when Best could not afford counsel.
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Boston
Robert Henry Best
Francis J. W. Ford
Best
Sumter
S. C
Labor Law Bosses Face Quiz On Top Officials
Washington faced a congressional quiz as AFL and CIO leadership faced non Communist pledge exemptions under the Labor Law. Senate watchdog chair Ball and Ives pressed the NLRB and Denham for the ruling guidance while Ellender urged broader compliance under the new law.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
Ball
R-M.anh
National Labor Relations Board
Robert N. Denham
Senate-House
Committee
Ives
R-Ny
NLRB
Congress
Ellender
D-La
Denham
Attlee reshuffles Cabinet to steer Britain from bankruptcy
Britain’s Labor government reconfigured roughly 300 posts in a bid to win middle class backing for production and export drives. The reshuffle moved left figures like Emanuel Shinwell from cabinet rank, elevated Hugh Gaitskell as fuel minister, and aimed to avoid antagonizing miners while supporting Cripps as economic czar. Abe Moffat called Shinwell’s move a tragedy but signaled support for Gaitskell, hoping to maintain confidence in the economy.
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London
Britain
Attlee
Opin
Ion
Financial Times
Stafford Cripps
Emanuel Shinwell
Shinwell
Hugh Gaitskell
Abe Moffat
Scottish National Union of Mine Workers
Moffatt
Gaitskell
Farm Parity Price Plan Faces Early Opposition
Washington lawmakers clash with the administration over a proposed update to farm parity prices. Rep. Page denounces the plan as modernizing in reverse while Rep. Hill predicts a fierce battle with little overall change. The draft shifts parity for livestock and dairy up and grains and cotton down, while proposing a floor for consumption via food stamps if shortages recur.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Rep
Page
D-Ga
Agriculture Committee
Congress
William S. Hill
R-Cole
Agriculture Department
House
Senate Agriculture Committees
Department
Royall Heads to Buggs Island Inspection Flight
Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall flew from Washington to inspect the Buggs Island flood control project in Virginia before attending the Goldsboro North Carolina centennial observance. Col. A. Robert Ginsburg Lt. Col. James H. Batte and Col. Beverly C. Dunn joined the party. Royall will speak tomorrow as the principal speaker for “Kenneth C. Royall day.”
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Washington
Kenneth C. Royall
Buggs Island
Virginia
Goldsboro
N. C
A. Robert Ginsburg
James H. Batte
Beverly C. Dunn
Corps of Engineers
Blackstone
Royal
Gordeen Gray
Winston-Salem
Royall
State Baptists Raise Almost $2,000,000 for Wake Forest Move
Odus M. Mull, chair of the planning and building committee, reports nearly $2,000,000 raised in the state Baptist campaign to fund a $6,000,000 move of Wake Forest college to Winston-Salem. About $800,000 from churches and $1,126,000 from Wake Forest alumni and friends, with $500,000 reallocated to current Wake Forest building work. Remaining goal estimated at $4,500,000 by 1952 from churches, the Z. Smith Reynolds foundation, and sale of the Wake Forest plant.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina Baptists
Wake Forest College
Odus M. Mull
Shelby
Wake Forest
Mull
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
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