Fire fight controls blaze near dynamite store
Sanford firefighters battled a three hour blaze that threatened dynamite in a gin building. Police evacuated nearby families and closed off the area as crews worked to prevent an explosion. Asheville is host to the 121st State Baptist Convention November 13 to 15 with about 2000 ministers and laymen expected and Billy Graham set to preach. Also Wake Forest College plans an expansion banquet for the North Carolina Student Council Congress with 300 delegates from 75 high schools attending its 25th annual meeting.
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Asheville
State Baptist Convention
Billy Graham
Ohhe
Wake Forest College
North Carolina Student Council Congress
North Carolina
Ex football player to seek Supreme Court review of injury case
Raleigh based former football player Malcolm B Grandy plans to push his injury dispute to the State Supreme Court this week seeking a ruling on his case.
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Raleigh
Malcolm B. Grandy
State Supreme Court
Gun Battle Leaves Teen Wounded in Robeson County
Highway patrolman L C Smith in a stetustery condition after a gun battle near Locklear with a 16 year old Indian boy wounded in the chest and admitted to the same hospital.
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L. C. Smith
Yesvray
Locklear
Ame
Harris Woman to Stand Trial in November Court
Oxford report says Jewel Harris a housewife will stand trial in superior court in November. Harris waived a preliminary hearing before the state court. Details indicate she faced charges in connection with a car incident.
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Oxford
Jewel Harris
Will O
Harris
Utilities Panel to Consider Telegraph Rate Hikes
The North Carolina Utilities Commission will hold a meeting tomorrow to consider raising telegraph rates. Western Union seeks state approval to lift rates to levels already used by interstate wires under FCC rules. Newspapers would face the heaviest impact, with day rates rising from one third to full and night rates from one sixth to one fourth.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Western U
Federal Communications Commission
Crosby band leader welcomes fifth child in New Orleans
Bob Crosby awarded cigars to celebrate the birth of a girl weighing five pounds fourteen ounces at St Vincent's hospital. The event adds to the Crosby family which already includes four other children. June Crosby is the mother and the family includes one daughter and three sons.
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Bob Crosby
June
St. Vincent's Hospital
Crosbys
Taft Calls UN An Utter Failure After Debate
Cincinnati report says Senator Robert A Taft winner of the Republican nomination bid declared on NBC Forum of the Air that the Korean War proved the United Nations is an utter failure as a means of preventing aggression. He spoke during a debate with Senator Brian McMahon of Connecticut.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
United Nations
NBC
Brian McMa
Conn
Construction Strike Halts Major U-235 Plant at Oak Ridge
At Oak Ridge Tennessee AFL carpenters and plumbers walk off sites amid a jurisdictional dispute delaying the K-31 plant. Officials warn the stoppage could halt all research production projects by midweek if no settlement is reached.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
AFL
AEC
Keith
Atom test signals new battlefield bomb
The second Nevada desert atomic blast suggests scientists developed an aerial battlefield bomb able to be dropped from 30 000 feet. The test produced a medium size yield, smaller than Bikini Atoll devices yet larger than the baby bomb, with troops not involved in the detonation.
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Robert Bennyhoff
United Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada Desert
The
Atomic Energy Commission
An's
Proving Ground Yestereey
Bikini Atoll
South Pacific
AEC
Max Miller
Las Vegas Review Journal
New England Gets Its First Snow Storm Hits Maine and Vermont
New England's first snowstorm of the year dumped more than five inches in Rangeley and Mayfield Maine. Two to three inches were reported in other Maine sections and in Montpelier Vermont.
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Boston
New England
Rangeley
Mayfield
Maine
Montpelier
British Heat Shakeup Near London
Britain's ambassador to Iran Sir Francis Shepherd is recalled by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden for consultation and is not expected to return to Tehran. Reports also indicate Britain may replace ambassador to the United States Sir Oliver Franks.
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Britain
Iran
Francis Shepherd
Anthony Eden
Shepherd
Tehran
United States
Oliver Franks
Socialite Faces Bigamy Charges in Detroit
A 24 year old socialite and mother of three filed a bigamy complaint after learning her husband had wed Ma Jane Barrows in a lavish October ceremony. Wayne County Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien said he would seek a warrant for Robert Rousseau once the complaint is filed.
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Wayne County
Gerald K. O'Brien
Robert Rousseau
Virginia Rousseau
Jane Barrows
St. Pauls Catholic Lane
Bookmakers Fight 10 Percent Betting Tax Across Nation
Bookmakers nationwide decry a new 10 percent federal tax on professional bets and a $50 annual license for bettors, warning it could shutter operations. Operators from New York to Los Angeles predict tax absorption or price hikes as the industry considers closing as of November 1.
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Ime
New York
Boston
Nevada
Woman Killed and Man Wounded in Suez Canal Incident
A British military spokesman reported an Egyptian woman was killed and her male companion wounded when their car approached a British roadblock in the Suez Canal Zone. An Egyptian officer protested the shooting.
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Cairo
Egypt
Suez Canal Zone
Canal Zone
Sewnans
Five Newsmen to Be Arraigned in Defamation Case
Five defendants including Thomas Sherman publisher Sherman Sherman Jr and Kenneth Dixon manager editor Jane Norton city editor and Carter George police reporter face arraignment in Lake Charles. They are charged with defaming sixteen public officials and three gamblers in stories in the Lake Charles American Press. The paper’s staff previously posted bond after indictments returned August 27 by a grand jury convened to probe gaming conditions. The cases involve alleged defamation of District Attorney Griffin Hawkins assistant DA Melvin Wetherill Sheriff Henry Reid and the Parish Policy Jury governing body.
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Gamb
Thomas Sheraman
Oo Lake Charles American Press
Sherman
Kenneth Dixon
Janes Norton
Carter George
American Press
Louisiana
Sie
Griffin Hawkins
Melvin Wetherill
Henry Reid
Two More Taken In Liquor Case
Atlanta police report C. S. Cherry and Walter Williams, both in their thirties, were jailed on manslaughter charges tied to selling poison liquor that killed 36 people in the city last week. Earlier, Johnn Fat Hardie and Roger Smallwood, white, were charged with murder for manufacturing the deadly drink. Ten alleged retailers also face voluntary manslaughter charges.
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C. S. Cherry
Walter Williams
Johnn
Fat) Hardie
Roger Smallwood
Freak Wreck Kills Seven Injures 21 in Bay Bridge Bus Crash
A Greyhound bus plunged 40 feet from a ramp on the Oakland Bay Bridge, killing seven and injuring twenty one. Seventeen others were hospitalized, with twelve listed in critical condition as a concrete chunk toppled onto the roadway after a passenger car struck the barrier. Air Force Lt. Seles Raber survived with minor injuries.
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Air Force
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Camp Stoneman
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No Progress Reported in Session on Korea Ceasefire
United Nations truce negotiators rejected a Communist proposal to exchange two western peninsulas for eastern mountains. The U.N. offered a 21 to 22 mile wide buffer and a swap of about 200 square miles of land, while the Communists demanded a U.N. withdrawal up to 15 miles along the central and eastern front. General Hodes called the proposal militarily unrealistic.
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Korea
United Nations
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William Nichols
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Seoul
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Loyal AFL Dock Workers Ordered to End Strike
New York. Loyal AFL dock hands were ordered to end the 15 day wildcat strike that shut down the nation s largest port. Rebels warned of forceful clashes as they challenged picket lines and demanded renegotiated terms with Atlantic Limited.
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AFL
New York
International Longshorement Association
Spanish ambassador hopes time and common sense ease Spain's NATO entry
Jose Feliz de Lequerica, Spain's ambassador to the United States, said time and common sense will solve Spain's political difficulties delaying NATO membership. He stated Spain is ready to participate to stop the threat of communism and spoke at a Raleigh civic club.
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Jose Feliz de Lequerica
United States
Spain
de Uerica
Congress debates Universal Military Training plan amid cold war fear
Lawmakers forecast a heated Congress debate next year over a National Security Training Commission call for Universal Military Training for 800000 youths at an estimated first year cost up to 4 billion dollars. Supporters urge immediate action to prepare for possible Soviet aggression, while skeptics doubt public appetite while drafts continue.
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Congress
National Security Training Commission
Violence Claims 12 In State
A United Press survey shows weekend violence fatalities totaling at least 12. Among the dead were Robert Reid Stikefather 26 and Charles Lester Gibson killed when their car hit a tree near Statesville. Kathleen Barkley Hutto 19 died later in a hospital. Ted Phillips White 20 of Aberdeen fatally injured in a separate crash. Lucius G. Strother 80, farmer from Oxford, died at Albermarle Hospital. David S. Homsey 80 of Charlotte died after being struck by a car. Police noted other violence cases including a man walking into a car.
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Robert Reid Stikefather
Charles Lester Gibson
Statesville
Kathleen Barkley Hutto
Ted Phillips White
Aberdeen
Southern Pines
Lucius G. Strother
Oxford
Albermarle Hospital
Elizabeth City
David S. Homsey
Charlot
James Daniel Shaw
Protestants Protest Vatican Appointment Across Nation
The National Association of Evangelicals sent notices to about 8000 churches urging mass protests against President Truman’s plan to send Gen Mark W Clark as ambassador to the Vatican. The National Association of Evangelicals reports 500000 dollars in air time for radio protests and the St Louis Metropolia n Church Federation prepared 10000 postcards to President Truman. Protestant ministers including Rev Dr Robert J McCracken of Riverside Church in New York condemned what they call an open bid by Roman Catholicism for power. In Los Angeles 85 American Baptist Convent churches and 65 Negro Western Baptist churches protested, with petitions signed after services.
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NAE
Pams
St Louis Metropolitan Church Federation
Truman
Federation
Robert J. McCracken
Riverside
New York
America
Los Angeles
Soca
Allies Repel Major Korean Front Attacks
United Nations forces slowed a Communist push on the central and eastern Korean front. In the west, U.N. units gained 800 to 1,200 yards while repelling three assaults on a strategic hill mass southeast of Rubbleum Song. Air action destroyed hundreds of enemy trucks and 20 rail cars burned.
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Jack James
United Press
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Korea
United Nations
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Hig
Yonchon
Punchbowl Valley
Kumsong
Weather report for Charlotte 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m.
The Weather Bureau records show a high around 68 degrees for tomorrow with a low not stated. Last night’s low was 42 and today’s high reached 65.
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Weather Bureau
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