Government to Buy Flue-Cured Tobacco to Stabilize Prices
The agriculture department will enter flue-cured tobacco auction markets to stabilize grower prices after Britain warned it will halt purchases this year. Officials expect to buy about 25 million dollars of tobacco, with 50 to 60 million pounds involved, financed by the commodity credit corporation and sold at auction prices if possible.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Britain
Commodity Credit Corporation
United States
Food Committee 35 Percent Toward Truman Grain Goal
The citizens food committee reports 35 percent of President Truman's goal to save 100 million bushels of grain for Europe's winter relief. Industry pledges may provide 35 million bushels in 90 days. rest relies on public sacrifice and grain fed to livestock. A meeting with meat packers is planned to tap another source as Congress plans a November special session to fund overseas aid and inflation controls.
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Washington
Ciizens Food Committee
Ruman
Europe
Charles Luckman
White House
Congress
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Capitol
Boston
Weather Outlook for North and South Carolina
Showers mainly east tonight with cooler west portions. Mild through Wednesday then cooler by night into Saturday. Temperatures 2 to 4 degrees above normal with light precipitation less than one tenth inch and scattered Friday. October 29, 1947 forecast data included with regional temperature readings across major cities.
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RTH
Carolina
Congress panel urged to drop 40 hour workweek rule
Richard K. Lane of the United States Chamber of Commerce urged a House labor subcommittee to consider removing the 40 hour workweek from the wage hour act. He said the overtime provision might not spread work in downturn periods, while affirming the chamber does not seek repeal of overtime but questions its wisdom. The subcommittee investigates possible revisions to the act. Lane leads the chamber labor relations committee and chairs Oklahoma Public Service Co.
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Washington
Congress
Richard K. Lane
United States Chamber of Commerce
Lane
House
Il Am
Oklahoma Public Service Company
Chamber
Cabinet approves reply to halt sale to De Gaulle
Paris reports Premier Paul Ramadier's middle-of-the-road cabinet unanimously approved the defense of the Fourth Republic plan to address General de Gaulle's call for dissolution of parliament and new elections. Interior Minister Depreux said Ramadier outlined the speech to the cabinet. Two committees were named by deputies favoring de Gaulle to draft constitutional revision and recruit new members.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Charles de Gaulle
National Assett
Edouard Delpreux
Ramadier
Fourth Republic
de Gaulle
Depreux
Congress urged to halt oil tanker sales to ease shortages
The Senate Small Business Committee urged President Truman to stop selling a fleet of American oil tankers to foreign buyers. Witnesses testified that a tanker shortage could cause serious heating oil deficits on the East Coast this winter, prompting the push to act.
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Washington
Truman
Wherry
R-Neb
Senate
Small Business Committee
Grenville Mellen
Maritime Commission
Defense Forrestal
Forrestal
Navy Department
W. John Kennedy
Navy
Train Hits Trolley at Bloomfield Crossing Wounds Two
A freight train collision at Bloomfield Avenue crossing last night left two people in Mountainside hospital for observation and seven treated and released. The Erie railroad freight train’s last ten cars split and pinned the trolley against a tower.
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Bloomfield
N. J
Mountainside Hospital
Bloomfield Avenue
Erie
Film set designers join painters in studio work vote
Hollywood report shows film set designers union joining with the painters union to permit members to seek studio work again amid a 13 month film strike still ongoing.
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Hollywood
Oct
Painters’ Union
Deaf mute killed by train at Concord station
Cle tus Buston Overcash, 36, a Concord deaf mute, was killed by a northbound Southern Railway passenger train near the station in Concord last night.
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Concord
Cletus Buston
Southern Railway
Maine Guards Against More Forest Fires
grimly Maine guards against resurgence of forest fires that have dealt the state its worst economic blow. As fires edge toward containment, 20 000 firefighters stand vigil and a rehabilitation push gains momentum including 150 prefabricated houses arriving for Bar Harbor victims.
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Portland
Maine
Weather Bureau
Edward A. Whitney
Machias River
Bar Harbor
Syracuse
N. Y
Reds Demand Complete Troop Withdrawal From Korea
The Soviet Union urged the United Nations to order the withdrawal of all Russian and American troops from Korea by January 1. The move came in the UN General Assembly political committee as John Foster Dulles defended a U S plan for elections in Korea under UN supervision. Gromyko and Dulles clashed over negotiation pace and aims while the US proposed a UN temporary commission to oversee elections and advise on subsequent steps.
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Gromyko
United States
Dulles
Russia
U. S
Korea
UN Rego
Peace Agency
Marshall
Soviet Union
Yanks Killed In Trieste Says Bennett
Rep. Marion Bennett after a European tour said 63 incidents of communist aggression against U S forces in Trieste have caused American deaths and wounds behind a brass curtain of censorship. He warned a cold war could become global and urged disclosure, though the army had no comment.
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Washington
Marion T. Bennett
R-Mo
Trieste
Missouri
Europe
Near East
United States
Yugoslavia
Bennett
Springfield
Kremlin
Two Americans Die In Greek Air Crash
In LiopeXi Greece on Sunday night a Swedish airliner struck Mt Hymettos killing 44 passengers. Greek army stretcher bearers prepared to descend the mountain to recover bodies including Miss Gloria Marie Rusch 24 of Dallas Texas and Edwin Wanner 39 of Washington. The wreckage burned after the impact.
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Liopesi
Greece
Mt. Hymettos
Gloria Marie Rusch
Dallas
Texas
Edwin Waniner
Washington
Farmers Boost Their Living Conditions
Washington October 28 1945 government studies show U S farmers have converted wartime and postwar incomes into better living conditions For months reports have said that prosperous farmers buy cars refrigerators telephones and other comforts The agriculture department bureau of agricultural economics notes living standards rose 25 percent from 1940 to 1945 and officials believe the trend continued in 1946
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Washington
U. S
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Gold Star Mother Visits Belgium Grave of Son
New York reports Mrs. Margaret Takima, a Brooklyn gold star mother, will travel to Antwerp Belgium as a guest of the city to visit the graves of her son and a comrade killed during the V bomb siege in winter 1944 45. She represents all mothers of soldiers from the 13th major port U.S. Army unit who died there, invited by acting Bürgermeister W Eekelers.
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New York
Antwerp
Brooklyn
Belgium
U.S
Margaret Takima
W. Eekelers
New Weapons Could Wipe Life From Earth for 1000 Years
Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias in United Nations World warns of nonatomic weapons with biological and armatoological power. He says Russia studies cosmic rays and Britain advances guided missiles while the United States guards a secret biology weapon. The devices could enable intercontinental war and devastate all life.
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New York
Ellis M. Zacharias
U.S. N
United Nations World
Russia
Zacharias
Great Britain
United States
Foe of Reds Said to Be In Sweden
Polish opposition leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk reportedly may have reached Stockholm but this could not be confirmed. Officials in Stockholm and Copenhagen denied knowledge of his presence though reports have circulated. His wife and son have been in Britain for years while Mikolajczyk led the exiled Polish government in London during World War II.
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Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Warsaw
London
Francis J. Wilk
Stockholm
Sweden
Wilk
Copenhagen
Mikolajczyk
Britain
of National Unity
Greensboro Seeks Two New Mail Routes to Lumberton
The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce asks the post office department to establish two highway mail routes to Lumberton to improve service from Atlanta New York and North Carolina points. The plan follows a chamber meeting with Greensboro postmaster J Tracy Moore and district railway mail superintendent J B McGee. One route would run Greensboro Sanford Fayetteville the other Greensboro Hamlet Asheboro.
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Greensboro
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Post Office Department
Lumberton
Atlanta
New York
North Carolina
Traffic and Transportation Division
The
Commerce Chamber
J. Tracy Moore
J. B. McGee
District Railway
Sanford
Fayetteville
Hamlet
Asheboro
Townsend Named to State Board of Agriculture Vacancy
Raleigh October 28 Governor Cherry appointed David Townsend of Rowland to fill the state board of agriculture seat left by the death of C F Cates of Mebane Townsend is described as a farmer and president of the Bank of Rowland and his appointment was announced yesterday
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Raleigh
David Townsend
Rowland
State Board of Agriculture
C. F. Cates
Mebane
Cherry
Townsend
Bank ‘of
Second Film Writer Dalton Trumbo Refuses Communist Question
Dalton Trumbo and fellow screenwriter John Howard Lawson refused to answer whether they are communists before a House subcommittee. The panel voted to cite Trumbo for contempt, while spectators applauded as he left the stand.
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Lawson
John Howard Lawson
Hollywood
House UN- American Activities Committee
Washington
Dalton Trumbo
House
UN American Activities
Trumbo
Thomas
R-Nj
Congress
Montrose
Cole
Screen Writers Guild
Robert E. Stripling
Stripling
Communist Party
Cooley to Lecture on European Hunger at UNC
Rep Harold D Cooley a member of a congressional committee that toured Europe will deliver a public lecture on European hunger and the danger of communism at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill tomorrow.
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Chapel Hill
UPI
Harold D. Cooley
Europe
E ‘ University of North Carolina
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