Air Racing Champs Fall Short in Fatal Thompson Event
Cleveland reports a tragic Thompson Trophy Classic at Municipal Airport with four planes crashing. One pilot died, two injured, one recovered. Cook Cleland set a 1 miles per hour single lap record and led a $16,000 first prize race.
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Cleveland
Municipal Airport
Deach
Cook Cleland
Thompson
Professional Racing Pilots Association
Arthur Chester
Los Angeles
Cleland
Richard Becker
Surburban
Jack Hardwick
Arcadia
Calif
E Field
Hardwick
Janazo
Woody Emondson
Lynchburg
Berra
William Brennand
Oshkosh
Wis
Robert L. Petit
Ventura
Doris Duke to Maintain Control of Fortune in Marriage Contract
A Dominican friend says Doris Duke will retain control and administration of her vast fortune under the marriage contract with Porfirio Rubirosa. The couple, reported honeymooning at a Mediterranean resort, left by plane this morning. Duke inherited about 50 million from her father and controls the Duke Foundation of about 200 million, with Rubirosa described as quietly wealthy.
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Paris
Duke Enowment Foundation
Rubirosa
Iss Duke
Arbitration raises rail wages for non operating workers
A six member arbitration board headed by Dr William Leiserson awards a 15 cent per hour raise to nearly 1,000,000 non operating railroad workers. The increase takes effect yesterday and follows two earlier boosts in the past year and a half.
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Chicago
William Leiserson
National Labor Relations Board
Bush Identifies Man In Northampton Jail Lynching Case
Jackson Sept 2 UP Godwin Bush identified one of seven white men as a mob member that whisked him from Northampton county jail in spring. He testified at a Governor Cherry ordered anti lynching hearing and said another accused man visited the jail with a police officer shortly before his removal.
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Jackson
Godwin
Buddy) Bush
Northampton County
R. Gregg Cherry
Bush
Textile unionists meet in Charlotte plan wage parity
CIO textile workers from eight southern states conferred in Charlotte to push wage increases in southern mills, seeking parity with northern mills. George Baldanzi, executive vice president, said the plan targets a five cent per hour raise recently granted in the north where TWUA holds contracts. The union claims contracts with 160 southern mills and over 125000 workers.
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Charlotte
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
George Baldanzi
TWUA
Baldanzi
Gandhi Fast Sparks Calcutta Unrest Amid Hope for Peace
In Calcutta Mohandas K Gandhi began a new fast to press for sanity in the city as communal clashes between Muslims and Hindus intensified. Crowds from non curfew areas marched toward Gandhi's residence shouting support and calling for lasting peace, while a spokesman said the demonstrations served as atonement for Sunday night violence and a plea for his withdrawal of the fast.
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Calcutta
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Driver denies guilt in fatal hit and run case
Alvin Jones, 29, of 729 North Cherry Street, charged with manslaughter and related offenses in the death of nine year old Julian Lee Mathley, says a cousin drove the car. Jones is jailed without bond as arraignment date is not yet set. The incident marks one of two Labor Day weekend fatalities in Winston-Salem, along with a drowning of six year old Jimmy Luper in the Yadkin River.
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Winston-Salem
Alvin Jones
North Cherry Street
Julian Lee Mathley
FE. G. Shore
Jones
Mathley Child
Jimmy Luper
Yadkin River
Southeast Construction Wins Roanoke Office Contract
The Appalachian Electric Power Company awarded the $1,500,000 general office building contract in Roanoke to Southeastern Construction Company of Charlotte, N. C. M. C. Funk announced the award. Construction to begin this week with occupancy hoped in about one year. Excavation for the foundations nears completion.
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Oanoke
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Roanoke
Southeastern Construction Company
Charlotte
N. Co
M. C. Funk
AEPC
Appalachian
Revolt expands in Ecuador as Guayaquil garrison joins
The Guayaquil garrison declares it no longer recognizes Col. Mancheno as head of government and Capt. Antonio Rivas Hidalgo takes command of the city forces. Other reports say insurgents clash with government troops near Ambato and Ibarra as anti-Mancheno forces gain ground.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Carlos Manchena
Antonio Rivas Hidalgo
Quito
Menchenco
Amboto Radio
Ambato
Ibarra
Socabon
Amboto
Raleigh Vets Rush to Cash Terminal Leave Bonds
World War II veterans in Raleigh rushed to banks to cash terminal leave bonds issued last year to reimburse unused furlough time. Four local banks reported long lines at opening, with an estimated $100,000 paid out by mid morning, as veterans sought access to funds.
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Raleigh
Relatives Plan Trip as Fuller Is Reported Alive
In Louisburg a Fuller family member prepared to travel to San Diego after Billy Owen Fuller, a 23 year old court reporter missing since August 9, was reported alive. Travelers Aid in San Diego notified the family that he asked for funds to return to Georgia. A letter from New Orleans warned of possible self harm.
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Louisburg
Billy Owen Fuller
San Diego
Calif
Fuller
Camp McPherson
Travelers Aid Society
Georgia
New Orleans
Labor Day Fights Over Taft Hartley Act and Economic Policy
CIO President Philip Murray and AFL leader William Green rally labor on Labor Day pledging to strike Taft Hartley from state law and push a five point program for 1948. They urge lower living costs, full year employment at decent wages, mass housing, higher minimum wage, and expanded social security.
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Organized Labor
CIO
Philip Murray
AFL
William Green
Murray
Kansas City
Green
Chicago
Soldier Field
Electrician Dies in Rockingham Mill Accident
James C. Pope, 24, was electrocuted today while at work in a mill in Rockingham during Sept. 2 4. He was the son of Mrs. J M Pope of route 4 Monroe.
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Rockingham
James C. Pope
J. Im, Pope
Monroe
Five Thousand Wilmington Vets Cash Bonds
Police mobilized to maintain order as 5000 veterans queued at four banks and loan associations to cash their war bonds in Wilmington. Estimates place local bonds around 1 million dollars with average holdings about 216 dollars per veteran, potentially 108000 paid out to the first 5000 cashed.
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Wilmington
United States Department of Commerce
Violent Labor Day toll tops 421 deaths in U S
Nation marks end of summer holiday with at least 421 fatalities. Traffic crashes claim 266 lives, drownings total 80, and 75 deaths from other accidents including 21 in plane crashes. Prewar years show lower totals, with California and Texas leading state counts.
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National Safety Council
California
Texas
New York
North Carolina
South Carolina
Winston Man Honored as VP in Photographers Group
Ray Goodrich of Winston Salem was elected vice president and named to the board of directors of the American Society of Photographers at its annual Chicago convention.
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Winston-Salem
Ray Goodrich
Winston- Salem
American Society of Photographers
Chicago
Train wreck near Dugald kills 35 and injures many
A collision at Dugald station five miles east of Winnipeg between a vacationers special and a standing express killed at least 35 people and wounded 15. Rescue crews recovered about 170 bodies from the charred wreckage as flames spread to nearby tanks and grain storage.
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Dugald, Man
Dugald Station
Winnipeg
Gaye Lewis
Transcona
Man
Canadian National Railways
Labor Day
the Woods
Albert Simpson
St. Boniface
Vancouver
Toronto
Dugald
Transconal
4 Fire Companies Fail to Save Farmer's Hay
Stewartsville report says Henry Mecsey's barn and 10 tons of hay burned to complete loss. Fire crews from Phillipsburg faced holiday traffic delays. one arrived near the scene but broke down, tractor-assisted firefighting efforts arrived too late.
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Stewartsville
Henry Mecsey
Phillipsburg
Mecsey
Mersey
Aining
Three NC Schools Strike Across State Amid Boycotts
North Carolina faces three ongoing school strikes in Iredell Polk and Lenoir counties. In Iredell, 150 students were kept from a consolidated Sharon area school after a district consolidation ordered earlier. Polk County Sunny View patrons reject Mill Spring and seek local or Rutherford options. In Lenoir, Wheat Swamp enrollments fell from 419 to 124 as patrons demand resignations from four district committee members and threaten further action at the state board meeting in Raleigh.
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Statesville
North Carolina
Iredell County
Iredeh
T. Ward Guy
Sharon
State Board of Education
Celeste Henkel
Scotts
Bredell County
Polk County
Mill Spring
Sunny View
W. A. Melton
Tryon
Rutherford County
Wheat Swamp
Lenoir County
Raleigh
Georgia Frost Barnes
Red Protest On Germany Rejected
The United States rejected Russia's protest over Britain and the United States raising industrial output in their occupied zones of Germany. The note to the Soviet embassy in Washington said the move aligned with Potsdam aims and ignored claims Germany should be treated as a single economic unit. The U.S. statement stressed Germany's coal role and accused the Soviet government of failing to honor Potsdam.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Germany
U. S
Britain
Europe
Ruhr
State Department
Palestine Danger Mounts Over UN Partition Plan
Smile Ghoury of the Palestine Arab higher committee warned in Jerusalem that rejection of UN proposals to divide Palestine and admit Jewish immigrants would lead to violence. He said Arabs would use all means to oppose the plan and oppose any British bid to force partition. The UN General Assembly opens in New York September 16.
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Lake Success
United Nations
Holy Land
Palestine
Arab East
UN General Assembly
New York
Smile Ghoury
Palestine Arab Higher Committee
Jerusalem
UN Special Committee
La Guardia Not Yet Ready to Resume Radio Broadcasts
Former Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, recuperating from an operation, is described by his physician as not doing very well and not yet fit to resume radio broadcasts. Dr. George Baehr provided the update from New York.
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New York
Fiorello H. la Guardia
George Baehr
la Guardia
Truman Signals US Resolve At Inter American Defense Conference
President Truman outlined a four point policy to keep peace without provoking war. He emphasized strengthening military power, supporting the Marshall plan, upholding UN Charter obligations, and pursuing hemisphere stability with faith and vigor. He spoke in Quitandinha during the closing session as 19 nations prepared to sign an Americas defense treaty at Itamaraty palace in Rio de Janeiro.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
Truman
United States
Inter-American Defense Conference
United Nations
Europe
Asia
America
Western Hemisphere
Mr. Truman
Budget chief cites Truman plan for 1948 49 surplus
James Webb, director of the United States Budget Bureau and Oxford native, says executive departments will submit 1948-49 budget estimates this month following President Truman's directive to plan a surplus and retire further debt.
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Shelby
James Webb
Oxford
United States Budget Bureau
Truman
Weather North Carolina Forecast for Early September
Partly cloudy and hot today and tonight with scattered showers in coastal areas. Wednesday remains fair with temperatures easing slightly. Sunrise 5 58 am, sunset 6 15 pm.
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North Carolina
Cal
Temperature Rainfall Be Report From Weather Bureau
Temperature and rainfall records cover the 24 hours ending 6 30 4 m with readings from multiple cities including Charleston Chicago Columbia Evansville Galveston Memphis Meridian Miami New York Atlanta Tampa and others. Highs range from the 90s to near 30s in some locales with varied precipitation noted.
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Offier Bureau
Charleston
Chicago
Columbia
Evansville
Galveston
High Point
Jacksonville
Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
San Miam
Minn-St
Mobile
Mt. Mitchell
Srleans
New York
A & Arean 10Tation . Lonin Asheville i Fe
Freneisen
Atlanta
Spartanburg
Augusta
Tampa
Burnpham
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