Truman Signs Largest Peacetime Arms Measure
President Truman signs a sweeping peacetime defense bill with 615 million dollars impounded by the President. Senate figures, including Senator Byrd, praise the move as economical while McKellar questions funding authority. He warns future needs for air power, maintenance, and expanded forces across services.
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Truman
Cannon
McKellar
D-Tenn
Senate Appropriations Committee
Byrd
Moose Nomination Includes Local Man
H. W. Russell of High Point named by the Carolina Moose association nominating committee for election as vice president of the Piedmont district. The three day Charlotte convention ends with Jo ay L. E. Wooten of Greenville S C nominated for the presidency for 1949 50.
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H. W. Russell
High. Point
Carolina Moose Association
Russell
Piedmont
Charlotte Joay
L. E. Wooten
Greenville
S. C
Left Wing Unions Face Expulsion at CIO Convention
The article reports a plan to expel left wing unions from the CIO during a convention at the Hollenden hotel. FE and mine, mill and smelter workers had not paid per capita tax to be seated. A $10 check and $40,000 dues dispute are cited as pressures. The schedule calls for expulsions Wednesday and a broader ouster next Saturday by a 51‑member executive board.
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Grant Oakes
CIO
Hollenden
Circuit Judge And Two Others Die In WV Virginia Crash
A crash near Lynchburg around 11:30 a.m. ET killed a circuit judge and two others. Ambulances and fire units responded as a crowd gathered. Police found three game tickets for the Virginia vs West Virginia match in J. C. Curd’s wallet. the Welch Daily News noted the trio left Welch airport about 10 a.m. to attend the game.
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Lynchburg
J. C. Curd
Welch Daily News
Welch
Communists Seizure of American Consul General Sparks Debate
State Department scrutinizes the Mukden incident as part of a pattern of crackdowns on American diplomatic posts. Officials in Washington note possible aims by Chinese authorities to expel staff or set a basis to keep them longer. The Red radio cites a brutal act by an American worker and portrays Chinese injuries as police report true. 13 Americans remain at the Mukden consulate, including Mrs. Ward, with limited contact and no relocation.
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New York
State Department
Mukden
Manchuria
Tnese Comunists
Communist Radio
Red
Ward
Chi Yu-Heng
Chi
Ralph C. Rehberg
Rochester
N. Y
Shiro Tatsumi
Department
Peiping
O. Edmund Clubb
Clubb
U. S
Fist Fights Break Out In Tarboro Mills
Tarboro October 29 fist fights broke out today among strikers and non-strikers at the Hart cotton mills. The brawls spread through mill areas and other sections of Tarboro with small skirmishes every few minutes. A noon free-for-all drew about 250 people before police arrival. Disturbances followed the movement of four families into new company houses near the mill, prompting Texas Textile Workers Union official R. H. Harris to cite resentment. Twelve highway patrolmen assisted but left after the move.
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Tarboro
Hart Cotton Mills
R. H. Harris
Textile Workers Union of America
Fee
Dist
Austria 1948 vital stats show births exceed deaths
In 1948 Austria recorded 69 000 marriages and 119 000 births while 82 000 deaths occurred. Deaths were the only major statistic to fall since 1937 showing a decline in mortality. The note adds that American Indians used petroleum as a medicine.
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Austria
Ex Klansman Lollar Acquitted in Flogging Case
The jury acquitted Lollar after witnesses linked him to three flogging incidents. The defense countered that the state overreached by tying Lollar to other events. Testimony showed a threatening letter bearing Lollar’s post office box and statements from a Klavern witness.
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Rogers
Lollar
Robert J. Wheeler
Perry
Jack Alexander
Ben L. Allen
Adamsville Klavern King Lot
Adamsville
Stonewall Jackson Klavern
Coal and Steel Dispute Persists as Talks Move to Washington
The board could be recalled only if both the union and industry request it. Ching shifts operations from New York to Washington to meet officials from Republic Steel, Jones and Laughlin, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube on Tuesday. Senator Morse of Oregon blames big steel producers for not settling the dispute and urges pension and insurance concessions.
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Ching
New York
Washington
Republic Steel
Jones and Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Morse
Oregon
Carolina Coach to Make Another Trail
The Carolina Coach company’s request to end the Burlington to Virginia line service was dismissed by the Utilities commission after the firm said it would retry the route. Residents had protested the loss of service.
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Raleigh
Carolina Coach Company
Burlington
Virginia Line
The
Utilities Commission
Boy Shot to Death at Target Practice
Wilmington, Oct 29. Joseph McKinney a 15 year old youth was killed by a .22 caliber rifle while target practicing. The shooter was fellow 15 year old Jimmy Daniels who had been practicing with him. Police did not place Daniels under arrest and Dr. Fred Coleman assistant coroner called it accidental though the case remains under investigation.
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Wilmington
Joseph McKinney
Jimmy Daniels
Daniels
Fred Coleman
Bulgaria Faces Spy Purge and Church Crisis
The report details Bulgaria’s purge against church opposition during the church state clash, with priests under arrest and oaths demanded for loyalty. It also covers U S and French diplomatic expulsions from Czechoslovakia amid spy ring charges and Indonesia’s move toward independence with a provisional constitution and sovereignty transfer expected mid December.
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Klement Gottwald
U. S. State Department
Isaac Patch
U. S
John G. Heyn
Czechoslovakia
Samuel Meryn
United States
Indonesia
Hague
United States of Indonesia
Republic
New Guinea
The
Rites Arranged For Sgt Henry Ennis
Funeral plans set for Sgt Henry Ennis 24 of Nine Corps who died Friday. Service Sunday at four from Ton Tea Mortuary chapel with Rev Hilton Hadley of Springfield presiding. Sgt Ennis received full military honors from VFW Post 2756 and burial in Floral Garden Memorial Park.
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Ennis, Jr
Sfiareesa
Chapel of Ton Tea
Hilton Hadminister
Springfield
John S. Russell, Jr
High Point
Ennis
William C. Miller
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Thomasville
Curry Ragan
Floral Garden Memorial Park
Marine Corps
Henry and
Iva Mae Franklin Ennis
Rt. 5
Thether
Horton waives hearing in rape case in Mecklenburg
Leroy Horton a Black resident of Charlotte waived a preliminary hearing on a charge of raping a married white woman in a wooded area last Wednesday. The case will proceed to trial in Mecklenburg County Superior Court under the alternative name Leroy Hardin.
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Charlotte
Leroy Horton
Ecklenburg County
Leroy Hardin
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