French Miners And Police Clash Again
In southern France near Ales, a striker was killed and two policemen seriously wounded as government forces moved to clear coal mines and a power plant after a road block. About 100 strikers were captured amid gunfire and explosions as clashes spread from earlier northern operations.
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Paris
France
Interior Ministry
Ales
Marseille
Rochebelle
Saint Martin de Valgagnes
St. Etienne
Train Wreck Crashes Lincolnton Power Substation
A Carolina and Northwestern train crushed a Lincolnton area power substation yesterday, cutting electric service to thousands of textile mills and rural homes. No injuries were reported as service was restored by early this morning. The wreck impacted the south Lincolnton area and nearby lines. the train was en route from Chester, South Carolina, to Lenoir.
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Lincolnton
Carolina and Northwestern Railroad
M. R. Kimbrell
Duke Power Com
Charlotte
Roger Crawford
Ralston
South Lincolnton
Crouse High Shoals
Edward Schrum
Duke Power Company
Chester
S. C
Lenoir
Biesel
Bracing October Weather Continues in the Carolinas
The Associated Press says cool nights and pleasant afternoons persist through today and tomorrow across the Carolinas. Lows near 27 at Asheville and 35 at Columbia mark a week of below normal temperatures with fair skies in sight. Other readings include Raleigh 42, Greensboro 34, Charlotte 40, Charleston 43, Cape Hatteras 53, Mount Mitchell 35, Myrtle Beach 38, Wilmington 43, and Florence 42.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Tomorow
Asheville
Columbia
Raleigh
Greensboro
Charlotte
Spartanburg
Charleston
Cape Hatteras
Mount Mitchell
Myrtle Beach
Wilmington
New_ Bern
Cherry Point
Rocky Mount
Elizabeth City
Anderson
Greenville, S. C
Hickory
Winston-Salem and
Lamberton
Florence
Landing Vessel In Distress off Delaware Coast
A 159 foot landing vessel LCIL-1093 with 63 men aboard fought toward the Delaware coast under the cruiser Macon. Pumps kept water from her engine room while she drifted 89 miles east of Cape May at 8 am EST. High seas, 45 knot winds, and 380 foot waves hampered progress as she moved north at 2.5 knots.
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Norfolk
Delaware
Macon
Cape May
N. J
State Grange Opens Meeting In Wilson
The North Carolina State Grange opens its annual convention in Wilson with officers and committee meetings. Reps. Graham A. Barden and Harold D. Cooley will speak at tonight’s banquet after their Europe trip. General sessions run tomorrow and Thursday with State Grange master Harry B. Caldwell and National Grange Master Albert S. Goss scheduled to speak.
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State Grange
Wilson Wilson
North Carolina State Grange
Graham A. Barden
Harold D. Cooley
Europe
Harry BR. Caldwell
Greensboro
Albert S. Goss
Washington
National Grange
John M Geary Dies at 72 Former Asheville Contractor
John M Geary of Greensboro aged 72 died at his home at 661 Chestnut Street at 4 40 PM He was formerly a prominent contractor in Asheville and once president of the Asheville chamber of commerce.
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John M. Geary
Greensboro
Chestnut Street
Asheville
Chamber of Commerces
Advertising Pays 100 to 1 Says Sharpe
Salisbury reports a state ad campaign returning 100 dollars for every 1 invested over 11 years. Director Bill Sharpe cites over 100 million in gains from new industries agriculture and travel. Tourism ranks as NC's third largest industry with 192 million in tourist spending in 1947.
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Salisbury
Bill Sharpe
Salisbury Rotary Club
State Board of Conservation and Development
Sharpe
North Carolina
Commonwealth
Minesweepers Arrive in Wilmington Harbor Navy Day Observance
Minesweepers USS Ellyson and USS Hamberton arrive in Wilmington from Charleston to participate in Navy Day events. The ships will be open for inspection, and Rear Admiral Frank G. Fahrian will speak at a Cape Fear Club banquet tomorrow night.
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Wilmington
Tokyo Bay
Ellyson
Hamberton
Charleston
S. C
Frank G. Fahrian
North Carolina
Naval Gun Factory
Washington
Cape Fear Club
Middle And Eastern Leaf Prices Gain On Flue Cured Tobaccos
Raleigh reports a price rebound as most flue cured tobaccos rose on the Eastern North Carolina and Middle Belts from the prior week. Eastern belt smoking leaf lugs and nondescript jumped 2 to 4 per hundred, while middle belt leaf led gains. Old belt smoking leaf fell 1 to 0 per hundred as offerings weakened.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Middle Belts
Old Belt
Leaf
Middle Belt
Smoking Leaf
Berlin Leaders Warn of Harsh Winter and Veto Fallout
Western Berlin leaders warned residents to brace for a hard winter under a Soviet blockade and urged heightened airlift. They condemned the UN veto and urged defiance, while wage increases in the Soviet sector aimed to win over workers.
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Berlin
Socialist Party
Ferdinand Friedensburg
Vishinsky
Yugoslavia seeks UN action to strip Trieste ERP status
Yugoslavia demands the United Nations Security Council annul Trieste's participation in the European Recovery Program accusing AMG of violations of the Italian peace treaty. It cites threats to Trieste's territorial integrity and calls for canceling the Italy Anglo-American financial accord tied to Trieste.
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Paris
Yugoslavia
United Nations Security Council
Trieste
Council
Warren R. Austin
United States
Foreign Ministry
Allied Military Government
AMG
Free Territory
Free Port of
Security Council
Italy
United Nations Council adjourns Palestine debate amid bias charges
The United States representative Warren Austin, president of the Security Council, abruptly adjourned the emergency session on Palestine after Egyptian envoy Mahmoud Bey Fawzi pressed for immediate action. Fawzi accused Israel of violating the Negev cease fire as Syria's Faris El Khouri lamented council indifference to truces. An outside source noted international action for peace remains a key concern.
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Paris
United Nations Security Council
Palestine
Warren Austin
U. S
Mahmoud Bey Fawzi
Egypt
Israel
Anzi
Security Council
Negev
Faris el Khouri
Syria
Council
Austin
United Nations
One Killed Three Arrested in Asheville Robbery Case
Garland G. Rice 40 of Hillsboro was killed at 3 30 am as Clyde Bennett was robbed. Kenneth Mathis 26 of Newport Virginia Sis Webb 19 of Tiernan street and Ann Tipton about 8 of Knoxville were captured by Asheville and Cocke County officers. Mathis implicates Rice. Webb and Mathis held locally while Tipton remains with Cocke County officers.
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Y Asheville
Garland G. Rice
Hillsboro
Kenneth Mathis
Newport
Virginia
Sis” Webb
Tiernan Street
Ann Tipton
Knoxville
Asheville
Cocke County
Tenn
Clyde Bennett
Crestmont Avenue
Rice
Lena Clevinger
Fred Jones
Mathis
Webb
E. C. Moore
J. R. Pinner
Frank Hooper
Tipton
Jones
Bennett
Paraguayan Revolt Suppressed After Cadet Leader Surrenders
The government announced that the Paraguayan revolt was crushed. Col. Carlos Montanaro, alleged leader, surrendered with his cadets within 20 hours, and calm was restored across the republic.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Carlos Montanaro
Montanaro
Unpredictable Labor Vote Could Swing Pennsylvania
Philadelphia reports labor votes may decide Pennsylvania's election with 80 percent of 4,758,058 eligible voters involved. CIO AFL and mine workers form a large bloc. leaders clash over Taft Hartley while predicting outcomes in key industrial cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
FDR
Isuse
CIO
AFL
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
GOP
Hugh D. Scott
U. S. House of Representatives
Philip Mathews
Dewey
J. W. Gitt
Henry Wallace
J. Strom Thurmond
Senate committee seeks full Textron empire details in probe
Boston October 26 A Senate subcommittee asked Textron for full information and a graph listing all companies in the Textron empire as it reopened its investigation. Textron President Royal Little said material would be supplied, as CIO union claims of financial manipulation were raised and Nashua Mills job cuts eyed.
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Boston
Senate
Textron Empire
Textron
Royal Little
Charles W. Tobey
Sen. Tobey
R-Nh
Little
Textron, Incorporated
Textron, Inc
Nashua
Robert M. Thrubber
Wellesley
Oliver May
New York
Textron Southern
Emil Rieve
CIO Textile Workers Union
Tobey
Four Prisoners Paroled Today By Governor Cherry
Governor Cherry today paroled four prisoners in Raleigh. One inmate, Robert Lee Creasy, received 30 years for second degree murder in Cumberland County for the death of Norman Quick, a Black man, in August 1940. Other paroles include James Connelly Brown from Mecklenburg, Paul Lippard from Catawba, and Carl Crofton Croom from Pasquotank with sentences ranging from two to four years for larceny forgery or related offenses.
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Raleigh
Cherry
Robert Lee Creasy
Cumberland County
Norman Quick
James Connelly Brown
Mecklenburg
Paul Lippard
Catawba
Carl Crofton Croom
Pasquotank
Republicans eye 1928 echo in North Carolina hoped for repeat
As the general election nears, North Carolina Republicans expect a repeat of 1928 when Dem split led to Hoover win and two GOP congressmen. GOP leaders predict a strong showing on the state ticket while Democrats launch a heavy rally schedule and eye large turnout for the Democratic slate led by Capus Waynick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
North Carolina
al Smith
Herbert Hoover
GOP
Sim Avelapp
Lexington
Delapp
Furnifold M. Simmons
Truman
Capus Waynick
German nationalism revival sparks east west clash in Berlin
AP analyst George Bria notes a growing German nationalism in postwar zones, highlighted by a September Berlin demonstration against the Soviet memorial. The piece examines independence pressures in British and American zones, reactions by French and Russians, and questions of rearmament and a possible German army.
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George Bria
Berlin
Germany
Stalingrad
Brandenburger
Joseph Cardinal Frings
Cologne
Franz Neumann
Brian Robertson
Bus and Trolley Workers In New York Strike
CIO drivers and mechanics for seven bus and trolley systems walked out at 9 a.m. causing 3.5 million New Yorkers to lose normal transportation. About 8,000 members struck over retroactive wage raises affecting privately operated services and city lines. City subway and elevated trains continued to run. extra city-owned buses operated to relieve congestion. The strike targets the State Public Service Commission and seeks permanent fare increases to fund about 5 million dollars in retroactive wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
CIO
New
Manhattan
Queens
State Public Service Commission
Song Service Set For Next Sunday
Pleasant Garden high school auditorium will host a public singing next Sunday at 1 30 directed by R P Smith of Liberty Former pupils taught by A M Fentriss are especially urged to attend and join the program.
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Pleasant Garden
Pleasant Garden High School
R. P. Smith
Liberty
A. M. Fentriss
Dewey Aide Sees World Communist Drive and Greek Crisis
John Foster Dulles told the U N political committee that Soviet expansion aims to spread communism by force and terrorism. He linked Greece and Berlin to a broader plan and urged UNSCOB to resume Greek civil war investigations while Berlin talks persisted after Vishinsky veto.
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Louis Nevin
Paris
John Foster Dulles
U.N
World Peace Agency
Security Council
Berlin
Russia
Dewey
Dulles
Thomas E. Dewey
General Assembly
U. N. Special Commission On the
Balkans
Unscob
Greece
Britain
China
France
United States
Balkan
Markos Vafiades
Soviet Union
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Council
Juan A. Bramuglia
Bramugli
Vishinsky
Mercy Colony Incorporated Receives State Certificate
Raleigh Oct. 26 The story of state today issued a certificate of incorporation to Colony of Mercy Inc of Cord a non stock corporation for rehabilitation of alcohols Named as incorporators are Jam Claffee former assistant superintendent Keswick Cole of Mercy at Keswick Grove N C Manley Llewellyn Concord a torney and John Luther Ca cord business man The new colony modeled after Keswick but with no official connection to Keswick Cole 51 years after founder William Raws The corporation may acquire land construct buildings and receive funds for its program It will be non denominational and based on the Christian gospel as set forth in the New Testament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Story of State Today
Colony of Mercy, Inc
Cord
Jam Claffee
Keswick Cole of Mercy
Keswick Grove
N. C
Manley Llewellyn
Concord
Keswick Cole i
William Raws
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Delaware Coast
Wilmington Harbor
Jacob Kaiser
Christian Democrats
Moscow
U.S
Miner
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
Keystone
George H. Earle
James J. Malone, Jr
Steel City
Bernard M. McGinnis
James Finnegan
William Meade
Owen Brewster
Maine
John A. Wilkinson
U. S. Senate
George M. Pritchard
Kerr Scott
Wilson
J. M. Broughton
Runnir
F. Ertel Carlyle
War Office
Foreign Office
N. Y
Gov. Dewey
Mercy Colony Incorporated
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