Britain Votes in Tight Clash Between Attlee and Churchill
Britain nears a 1945 style test with voters choosing between the Conservative Winston Churchill and Labour leader Clement Attlee amid concerns over postwar socialist policy and economic hardship. The Liberal faction seeks a third force, while observers anticipate a Conservative win as high prices and taxes pinch households and a pro Communist stance shapes the global outlook.
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London
Britain
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Vic
Churchill
Aeryy
Cal Sophistica
Ed wards key figure at state municipalities convention
Assistant Secretary of Defense Dan K. Edwards, former Durham mayor, led the opening day of the North of Municipalities annual convention in Winston-Salem. About 500 city officials from 300 North Carolina municipalities attended the three day session with a morning pre conference meeting. The report notes that unincorporated towns will receive no special favors from the State Highway Commission.
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Winston-Salem
Dan K. Edwards
Durham
North of Municipalities
North Carolina
Raleigh
State Highway Commission
State Utilities Commission sets Dec 6 hearing on Tar-railroads fare hike
The State Utilities Commission schedules a Dec 6 hearing on Tar-railroads petition for a general 10 percent passenger fare increase inside North Carolina. The move mirrors an interstate rise approved Oct 10 by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Bids for East Carolina College library building will open Oct 30 in Greenville and dredging bids for the Cape Fear River port terminal will open Nov 6 in Wilmington.
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State Utilities Commission
Tar
North Carolina
Interstate Commerce Commission
Raleigh
Greenville
East Carolina College
Et Bureau
Wilmington
Cape Fear
Dr Rozzelle Re elected President in Raleigh Meeting
Dr C Excelle Rozzelle of Winston-Salem was reelected president of Health Publications Institute Inc at the annual meeting in Raleigh. Executive Director Felix A Grisette said the institute supplied six million health education publications to health workers in 48 states and 24 foreign countries during the past fiscal year.
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Rozzelle
Raleigh
C. Excelle Rozzelle
Winston-Salem
Health Publications Institute, Inc
Felix A. Grisette
Five Burned in Stateville House Fire
A young Negro mother Frances Murray, 28, and her four children died in a frame house fire in Stateville. The husband was away at the time. The tragedy was discovered after the blaze swept through the home.
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Statesville
Frances Murray
Stock Market Gains Extend Rally Amid Mixed Volume
New York traders saw modest gains as steel, oil, auto and specialty issues led an early advance, extending yesterday’s recovery. Volume lagged usual levels with 370000 shares traded in the first hour, as Crippled by intraday fluctuations, Chrysler surged but ended lower, while Am erada Petroleum and Skelly Oil posted notable upticks.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Sonassey Socony-Vacuum
Petroleum Group
Amerada Petroleum
Skelly Oil
Bethlehem Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
U.S. Steel
Crucible Steel
Chrysler
General Motors
Bettors Favor Conservative Victory in London Elections
Odds quoted by betting houses today favor a Conservative victory in the general elections. Newspaper polls show Winston Churchill's Conservatives winning at least half the votes, with beaverbrook's Daily Express citing 51 percent for Conservatives, 34 percent for Labor, and 15 percent undecided. Daily Graphic polling projects 50 percent Conservative, 7 percent other, and remaining for Labor.
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London
Panera
Winston Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Labor
Daily Graphic
Vete Rvative
Fire sweeps Dallas hospital as 260 patients evacuated
A five alarm fire at St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas forced 260 patients to be led to safety by nuns and nurses. The blaze started on the fifth floor around 12:57 am, burned for 1 hour 26 minutes, causing about 125000 dollars in damage.
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Dallas
Tex
St. Paul's Hospital
Sister Alberta
Order of Daughters of Charity
Aoe
Albert
C.N. Penn
Atlanta Whiskey Deaths Total 31
A closed hear ing into a poison liquor orgy that killed 31 people who drank a lethal mix of racing fuel and water began in Atlanta. More than 100 others, many blinded or in severe pain, were treated at Grady Hospital. Police warned against drinking untaxed liquor sold cheaply and linked the deaths to a 50 cent pint sold after mixing.
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Atlanta
Grady Hospital
Paul Webb
Peoplestown
State Capitol
Grady
L.T. Bullard
Veep's Secretary Named In RFC Influence Probe
Washington reports RFC records show Charles E. Shaver and Flo Bratten made numerous contacts with RFC officials over years. Bratten says no fees were taken and notes the ban on war contract calls, while Barkley learned of the calls and aims of the inquiry.
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Veep
RFC
Washington
al W. Barkley
Charles E. Shaver
Senate
Flo Bratten
Barkley
Shaver
Bratten
United Press
Clyde R. Hoey
D-Nc
Iman John J. Sparkman
Small Business Committee
Oe Een
Shaver and Mieck
Fleisher Engineering and Construction Co
Minneapolis
Mercury Record Co
Chicago
Mrs. Bratten
Stevedores Vote to End Army Cargoes at New York Port
Five hundred longshoremen voting in Staten Island Local 920 end army cargoes while most piers stay idle during a 10 day wildcat strike at the nation s largest port. Pickets roam the waterfront shouting down return to work pleas as federal mediators arrive to urge talks.
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New York
Staten Island
International Longshoremen’s Association
AFL
Stapleton Army Piers
Joseph Ryan
Brooklyn
Anthony Anastasia
Clyde Mills
Cyrus Ching
Washington
Army
Truman
World Federalists Leader Warns of World War If Law Fails
Robert Lee Humber of the United World Federalists spoke at North Carolina State College during United Nations Week. He warned peace depends on world law and predicted a third world war if enforceable international law does not become a reality.
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Raleigh
Robert Lee Humber
United World Federalists
Humber
United Nations
N. C. State College
Yester
Talks reopen Panmunjom as U N troops prep tents
U S troops set up a tent city at Panmunjom for the resumed truce talks to begin at 11 a m. local time. A 22 vehicle convoy arrived as commanders debated guard placement and the cease fire line within a 1000 yard neutral zone around the conference tent.
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Panmunjon
Korea
U. S
Ph Pany
Renainees Sa
Sewar Ans
Norman Bards
Diamond
W. Va
Lee Pyong Il
U.N
U.N. Rs
Fourth straight day of air battles as U.S. forces clash with Chinese and Soviet
The Fifth Air Force reports heavy air combat across North Korea with 70 to 150 MiGs involved and multiple jets shot down. U.S. Sabres and B-29s attack targets including a northwest track bridge near Northwest Korea. Allied forces also push into Kumsong area with tanks and infantry at the front.
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U. S. Eighth Army
Korea
Kumsong
North Korea
Fifth Air Force
Jean Peninsula
Wonsan
Namsi
U. N
Soviet Offer Reopens Talks With United States
United Times editorializes that Vyshinsky stated the USSR is ready to re examine unsettled international issues with the United States and improve relations. Moscow also announces a full expert delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris.
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United Press
Moscow
I New Times
Andrei Vyshinsky
Soviet Union
United States
Vyshinsky
U.S
Alan G. Kirk
Kirk
Russia
Nounced
United Nations General Assembly
Paris
U.N
New Times
Izvestia
United
Dry spell grips Carolinas as power and crops suffer
The Associated Press reports a deep drought across the Carolinas with little rain in the past month. Raleigh Asheville and Burlington face water shortages prompting conservation. Santee-Cooper plants cut output, Duke Power expands coal plants, and reservoirs run low while some rains bring minor relief.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Oaes
North Carolina
Raleigh
Asheville
Burlington
Charleston
S. C
State Public Service Authority
Santee-Cooper
Duke Power Co
Hicks Behind Bars Charlotte
Sterling L. Hicks a former Charlotte radio engineer surrendered to prison officials and began a two year term for conspiracy to dynamite a radio station tower. He was charged with hiring Chad Lovell a Columbia handyman to plant dynamite under one of WBT Towers where Hicks once worked.
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Charlotte
Sterling L. Hicks
Hicks
Chad Lovell
Columbia
WBT
Grange unit seeks national honor after inspection tour
Greensboro Rockingham County unit of the National Grange is up for national recognition in the Grange community service contest for the third straight year. Judges have begun a coast to coast inspection tour of 11 Granges named top winners for the $15 000 prize.
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Greensboro
Rockingham County
National Grange
Weather Update: Mild Temperatures Ahead Tonight
The low tonight is expected to be in the upper 50s with tomorrow’s high near 66. Today’s high reached 75 degrees and last night’s low was 58 as conditions ease.
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SEF
Brooklyn, N. Y., Army Base
Louise
Kentucky
Ag Rfc
Sam Fleischer
Boston
Carol Ann Fowler
Amesbury
Mass
Marjorie Robinson
Center Grove
Clarence Daéneau
Daniel R. Trafford
Kidna Carol Ann
Daneaus
Las Vegas
Nev
Trafford
Miss Robinson
Iowa
Daneau
Carol Ann
Panmunjom
Press
By Henry Shapiro
NEA Service, Inc
Piedmont Carolinas
Scott
W. Kerr Scott
North Carolina Power Companies
E. N. Pope
Carolina Power and Light Company
H. H. Gause
Nantahala Power Company
Tennessee Authority
Tennessee
Albert S. Fray
South Carolina
Columbia Weather Bureau
Lake Murray
Lake Greenwood
Buzzards Roost
Carolina
Weather Bureau
Atlante
New Orleans
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