Balkans Tensions Rise as Soviet Forces Mov e Toward Dardanelles
A World Today analysis notes freshly arrived Russian troops and tanks maneuvering near the Turkish border in the Balkans. It cites Moscow Ankara disputes over the Dardanelles and Turkish Armenia as driving factors and highlights Potsdam talks and Montreux revision as central to the crisis.
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Balkans
Balka
Reble
Moscow
Turkey
Dardanelles
Armenia
Russia
Leander
Black Sea
Aegean
Mediterranean
Tur
Bulgaria
France
Britain
Greece
Japan
Romania
Potsdam
Truman
Ankara
Soviet Union
Kars
Ardahan
Artvin
Georgia
U S Steel Refuses CIO United Steelworkers Wage Increase
Pittsburgh October 23 United States Steel Corp declined CIO United Steelworkers demand for a general wage boost of two dollars a day. President Benjamin F Fairless said the union with over 800000 members has been informed of price ceilings and wage stabilization policy prevents any increase now. Philip Murray lodged the company’s reply at a hotel meeting, and the union planned an immediate policy committee review to authorize action as needed.
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Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
CIIO
United Steel Workers of America
Benjamin F. Fairless
Corporation
Philip Murray
CIO
Steelworkers Union
Murray
Former U S Army Sergeant Named Venezuelan Interior Minister
Luis Valmoreez a 45 year old former U S Army sergeant was sworn in as interior minister second in command of Venezuela's revolutionary government. He will oversee relations with foreign investors and oil firms while pledging respect for investor rights. The Betancourt regime seeks foreign recognition and outlines a path to universal presidential voting.
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Philip Clarke
Caracas
Luis Valmoreez
United States Army
Isaias Medina Angarita
Valmore
Romulo Betancourt
U.S
E] Pais
Democratic Action Party
U. S
Carlos Morales
Morales
North Carolina Farms Expand Across Five Years
Washington reports North Carolina has 12,902 more farms and 124,289 more acres of farmland than 1940. The gains translate to 4.6 percent more farms and under one percent more acres. Nash County adds 1,000 farms, with Robeson 816, McDowell 907, Granville 394. Surry loses 727 farms and over 14,000 acres.
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Washington
North Carolina
Bureau of Census
Bureau
Nash County
Robeson
McDowell
Granville
Surry County
Senator Seeks Atomic Energy Free as Air Policy
Washington reports Senator Edwin C. Johnson proposes peacetime atomic energy to be as free as air and says a new Senate committee will rewrite the administration bill on domestic controls. Johnson, acting chair of the Senate Military Committee, is expected to join the six Democrats on the panel. Senate Republicans nominate five for the group in a closed session signaling party balance.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Johnson
Special
Senate Committee On Atomic Energy
Senate
Alican
White
R-Me
McMahon
D-Conn
Hoey
Russell
Green
Downey
Calif
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Austin
Millikin
Cole
Hicksenlooper
Iowa
Showdown Near in G M U A W Dispute
The CIO UAW and General Motors in Detroit near a strike vote involving over 300,000 workers on wage hour issues. Detroit faces a dark labor picture as UAW rejects GM’s 45 hour week and alleges a sit down strike against wage policy.
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CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
Detroit
CIO Uaw
Congress
UAW
Three B-29 Crewmembers Burned by Japanese
American intelligence recounts torture and execution of three B-29 crewmen in Hankow China. A fourth survivor from the crash near Hankow was severely injured and hospitalized, later believed freed in Shanghai. Rumors tied the atrocity to a brutal military instructor and reprisal raids.
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Associated Press
Hankow
China
Haakow
Shanghai
Truman Has Hands Full At Present Time
The White House said President Truman may cancel a planned Nov. trip to North Carolina and Georgia due to a heavy schedule in Washington. He planned brief visits to Charlotte Statesville Raleigh and Atlanta plus lunch with Warm Springs leaders. See wage policy debates and possible pay boosts tied to the Labor-Management Conference starting Nov. 5.
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Washington
White House
Truman
North Carolina
Georgia
Eben Ayers
White -House
Washingon
Charlotte
Statesville
Raleigh
Atlanta
Warm Springs
Ttems
Warm Spring Foundation
Ayers
Hoey
D-Nc
George
D-Ga
South
Labor Management Conference
Edward C. Moran
Labor
Flue-Cured Prices Rise as Bright Belts Open Week
Raleigh signal on October 23 reports eastern belt markets seeing notable gains in leaf tobacco prices with many grades up about one dollar from Friday. Old belt also shows increases while middle belt prices stay largely steady in the first Monday sales since opening.
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Raleigh
Old Belt
Middle Belt
Walters Named Guilford Sheriff to Succeed Story
John E. Walters, a former sheriff candidate, was appointed Guilford county sheriff to replace the late John C. Story. The unanimous board vote followed a presentation by Ray Tyson and C. Luping, with Ballinger backed by deputies. Walters was sworn in and hinted at a possible run in next year’s Democratic primary.
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Robert L. Thompson
Greensboro
John E. Walters
Guilford County
John C. Story
Board of County Commissioners
Lloyd C. Amos
Charles J. Hunt
Earl Ballinger
Guilford College
Otis Apple
Alters
Ray Tyson
C. Luping
Ballinger
John Deer
Walters
Joseph P. Shore
Flier Killed In Crash Near Danbury
Unidentified Army flier killed when a P-38 crashed three miles west of Danbury. Plane was reported to have been in Memphis Tennessee with the fourth ferrying group of the air transport command. Parachute attempt noted as eschute found near the wreck.
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Danbury
Here
Office of Flying Safety
Memphis
Bali’s Last Paradise Seen Through Eur opean Eyes
Roland Strasser Austrian artist and traveler warns that Bali’s paradise is vanishing under Western tourism He notes changes since 1919 saying Balinese art shifts to catering to visitors and religious practices drift from Hindu offerings to Christian beliefs The couple lives at Kintamani with views of Mount Batur and Lake Batur and Strasser frets education has unsettled Bali’s traditional life.
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Kintamani
Bali
Roland Strasser
globe _ trotter
Strasser
Tibet
Batoer
Mohammed
European Wife Reflects on Bali and Vienna Loss
Hal Boyle notes a European wife, living in Bali, longs for Vienna’s society and modern life. She calls Bali beautiful yet lonely, recalls gray hair and youth fading, while they admire Mount Batoer on a terraced overlook.
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Tion
Europe
Vienna
Bali
Society of European Friends
Mount Batoer
Henrika Strasser
Royall Named To Succeed Patterson As War Undersecretary
President Truman nominates Brig. Gen. Kenneth C. Royall of Goldsboro North Carolina to be undersecretary of war to replace Robert P. Patterson who becomes secretary after Henry L. Stimson's resignation. Royall has legal practice in North Carolina and held WWI field artillery service.
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Washington
Wpi
Truman
Kenneth C. Royall
Goldsboro
N. C
Royall
Robert P. Patterson
Henry L.stimson
Raleigh
Field Artillery
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
North Carolina University
Harvard Law School
North Carolinaenate
North Carolina Bar Association
White House
Richmond B. Keech
Six Held In Death Of Roadhouse Owner
Darlington South Carolina October 23 Six Florence residents Frank Sibs W B Langston Mr and Mrs Tom Calcutt and Mr and Mrs Joe Case were arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Wilburn Fagan 31 Darlington roadhouse operator.
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Darlington
8. C
Florence
Wilburn Fagan
Wiley Grantham
Frank Sibs
W. B. Langston
Tom Calcutt
Joe Case
Truman urges universal year of military training
President Truman asks Congress for a universal training program of one year to build a reserve of manpower for future peace. He says trained reserves would be rushed into service in emergencies and that education and civilian skills would be enhanced during the program. He proposes a postwar structure with a smaller regular force, stronger guards and organized reserves, and a general reserve of all trained male citizens.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Army
Navy
Marine
Marine Corps
United States
Navy commander King opposes merger of war and navy
Admiral Ernest King told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that consolidating the war and navy departments would regress military thinking and hinder naval operations. He outlined a plan preserving a separate navy, a dual department with civilian heads, joint chiefs control, continued civilian wartime agencies, and cabinet level liaison, while noting division over an independent air force remains to Congress.
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Fleet
Ernest J. King
War
Navy Departments
Navy
Admiral King
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Truman
Congress
King
War Production Board
War Manpower Board
War Department
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