Truman Drops Southern Campaign Tour Plans
Advisers say President Truman will abandon a lengthy Southern swing opting for brief or added appearances on other schedules as Dewey maps eight major talks on a transcontinental tour. Wallace campaigning in New York vows to uphold civil rights and accuse Fascism’s rise. Louisiana rebels denounce Truman and place Thurmond Wright on state ballot as the real Democrats.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Truman
Dixie
R. Truman
South
Thomas E. Dewey
Mr. Truman
Dewey
Des Moines
Iowa
San Francisco
Los Angels
Oregon
Demicatce
Vandenberg
Michigan
New York
John Foster Dulles
America
Wallace
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Arkansas
C. G. Hall
New York State
Yankee Stadium
Missouri
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee
National Democratic Party
States’ Rights
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Thurmond
Texas
San Angelo
Gov. Wright
Wright
Merritt Gibson
National States’ Rights Campaign
Air Mass Passes Over Piedmont Area
Associated Press notes a cold air mass moving through the Carolinas bringing frosty morning lows in western cities and rising daytime warmth in the piedmont. It shows morning lows from Asheville 50 to Greenville 64 with coastal warming later, and forecasts partly cloudy skies and warmer weather for the Carolinas tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Asheville
Greenville
S. C
Piedmont
Raleigh
Greensboro
Charlotte
Columbia
Florence
Lumberton
Winston - Salem
Hickory
Gteenville
Anderson
France names Queuille as premier with budget reform plan
Premier Henri Queuille outlined a program of budget reductions and higher taxes to restore France’s finances. He led a centrist government with a 351 to 196 Assembly vote, echoing policies of predecessors André Marie and Robert Schuman. De Gaulle supporters demanded elections, abstaining on the vote, while De Gaulle campaigned across the southeast and Corsica urging timely elections.
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Harvey Hudson
Paris
Henri Queuille
France
National Assembly
Queuille
Andre Marie
Robert Schuman
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaullists
Queille
de Gaulle
Corsica
Former Caldwell Man Charged With Larceny Of Cash
Lenoir North Carolina September 11 officers say six thousand three hundred twenty dollars in cash was dug up from a cornfield and returned to Mrs Sadie Bohannon of Charlotte a nurse and companion Mrs Ruby Staley has filed a warrant charging Allie D Atkins with larceny Atkins a Caldwell County native living in Charlotte says he buried the money in a fruit jar in the field for safekeeping and will answer to the charge in court September 21 Sheriff George D Greer notes the money was taken from Mrs Bohannon at a Washington DC trip incident and the two women later joined a taxi back to Charlotte
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Lenoir
Charlotte
Allie D. Atkins
George D. Greer
Adkins
Here
Sadie S. Bohannon
Ruby Staley
Bohannon
Caldwell County
Mrs. Staley
Washington, D.D. C
Staleys
Public Voice Questioned in Nation’s Ballot Moment
A fragment from a political article highlights the public’s potential to shape policy when given a chance to vote. The quote underscores the importance of citizen participation in democratic expression and national decision making.
Three Killed In Plane Crash Near Whiteville
North Carolina building contractor FE W Grannis aged 50 and his Fayetteville guest Miss Mary Fields Jones 22 plus James Kenneth Culberson of Simpsonville South Carolina died when their light plane exploded and burned in fog near Whiteville at about 615 p m. The Grannis party had been returning from Tennessee. Grannis helped build Camp Davis and Seymour Johnson field during the war and directed Santee Cooper reservoir work in South Carolina.
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Whiteville
North Carolina
South Carolina
FE. W. Grannis
Mary Fields Jones
Fayetteville
James Kenneth Culberson
Simpsonville
S. C
Grannis
Tennessee
Santee - Cooper Reservoir
Camp Davis
Seymour Johnson Airfield
Carolina
Camp Pickett
Virginia
New Storm Moving In Atlantic Today
Weather observers tracked a tropical storm in the Atlantic with 40 to 45 mph winds near the center. The system was about 325 miles ENE of Antigua and moving west at 14 mph, roughly 1,900 miles ENE of the Florida mainland.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Atlantic
Antigua
British West Indies
Florida
Stalin Showdown Hinted Over Berlin Crisis Invasion Risk
Tele graf reports thousands of Russian indoctrinated Free German army members to be armed and stationed in the Soviet zone of Germany. Repatriated leaders from Stalingrad era command a Bolshevist trained force to support the Communist regime and act as police battalions across the zone, with allied intelligence noting potential impact if true.
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Berlin
Far
Telegraf
Germany
Friedrich Honedagen
Ene Voneydlitz
Stalingrad
Moscow
Heinrich von Einsiedel
Bismarck
von Paulus
Soviet Zone
Birds Crashing Into Empire State Building Kill Hundreds
New York reports hundreds of birds killed after crashing into the Empire State Building. SPCA and police collect carcasses on Fifth Avenue as experts suggest migratory warblers and songbirds may have been drawn to bright lights. Bronz Zoo curator Lee Crandall notes autumn migration and night flock behavior as possible causes.
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New York
Empire State Building
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Fifth Avenue
SPCA
Lee S. Crandall
Bronz Zoo
Crandall
Jealousy Bears Head In Europe
Article discusses the Marshall Plan allocation of about 5 billion dollars to Western Europe, with nations negotiating shares since April amid jealousy over who gets more. Western Germany’s role is key to stopping communism and aiding broader European recovery, per General Lucius D. Clay and U.S. policy aims.
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Germany
United States
Britain
Western
Europe
Western Germany
France
Lucius D. Clay
Evacuation Under Way On Camiguin Island Volcano
U S Army transports evacuate up to 20 000 residents from Camiguin as Mount Hibok Hibok erupts with dangerous gases. Gen Morton and Gen Wiegel ships rush to aid, with 16 000 counted in seven reception centers and full clearance hoped by Tuesday.
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Manila
Con
Camiguin
Mount Hibokhibok
Morton
William Weigel
Binoni
Sagay
Mindano
Walter Williams
Wiegel
Arturo Alcaraz
Mahinog
1400 New York Truckers Accept Wage Adjustment
1 400 New York truckers return to work as AFL Teamsters reach wage deals with 120 trucking firms cutting hourly pay demands to 17 percent. Nationwide, CIO oil refinery strike in California continues into a second week with rationing and imports from Oklahoma. Boeing strike in Seattle stalls as jurisdictional issues surface.
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New York
Associated Press
Tuckers
New York City
AFL International Bathement Teamsters
CIO
California
Oklahoma
Harry Bridges
Army
Royall
Bridges
Boeing Se Yg Company
AFL Teamsters Union
Bloodshed fears shadow India Hyderabad crisis
DEWITT MACKENZIE analyzes rising tensions between India and the Nizam of Hyderabad amid fears of communal bloodshed. Nehru pledges Indian troops to Secunderabad, while Kashmir tensions and Pakistan's stance deepen the peril of open conflict. The US embassy warns of aerial evacuations as foreign nationals prepare to depart.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
India
Nizam of Hyderabad
Britain
Pakistan
England
Nizam
Hyderabad
Nehru
Secunderabad
Dominion of
Parkistan
Mohammed Zaffarullah
Subcontinent
Indian
United States
New Delhi
Legionnaires Open North Carolina Convention in Asheville
Tens of thousands of American Legion and Allied women begin the 30th annual North Carolina department convention in Asheville. National and state leaders speak as candidates for state commander are named and the resolutions committee considers anti Communism and Berlin issues.
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Asheville
American Legion
North Carolina Department
Resolutions Committee
Roy. McMillan
Raleigh
North Carolina Legionnaires
Women's Auxiliary
Berlin
Kenneth C. Royall
North Carolina
Charlotte
Joe Grier
J. P. Bush
Lenoir
Frank Swan
Andrews
James F. O’neil
Lee Hutton
Gregg Cherry
National Guard
Price Averages Tighten on North Carolina Tobacco Belts
Flue cured tobacco prices declined across the eastern belt with many grades down a dollar. Thursday’s sales totaled 10,740,852 pounds at $45.41 per hundred, while the border belt moved 7,815,809 pounds at $44.32 and the middle belt 4,265,433 pounds at $50.90. Season totals show eastern at 121,116,276 pounds $46.67, border at 220,941,375 pounds $51.33, and middle at 18,112,086 pounds $51.80.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Carolinas
Border Belt
Middle Belt
Eastern Belt
British Envoy Franks Talks Berlin Crisis With Bohlen
Sir Oliver Franks and Charles E. Bohlen discussed the Berlin stalemate after a 45 minute meeting. Officials denied unconfirmed reports of a showdown with Stalin and noted continued silence on progress since the July 30 Kremlin talks.
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Washington
Oliver Franks
Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
Russia
Berlin
Bohlen
Marshall
Franks
Berlin talks move to seek immediate Stalin meeting
A reliable source says the American British and French envoys are exchanging messages with their capitals on the next step in the four power Berlin crisis talks. Western sources report they have been instructed to seek an immediate meeting with Prime Minister Stalin to push a settlement and ask the United Nations to back the effort.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
London
Stalin
United Nations
Eight New Polio Cases Reported in North Carolina
North Carolina's polio epidemic totals 2,004 with eight new cases reported by the state board of health. Buncomb and Guilford counties each had two cases. Durham Gaston Lee and Robeson reported one each. No deaths were listed and totals reflect September figures and weekly comparisons.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Board of Health
Buncomb
Guilford
Durham
Gaston, Lee
Robeson
Barfoot Spends Hour in Atlanta Jail
James A Barfoot progressive party candidate for Georgia governor spent an hour in the Atlanta jail after failing to post 17 bond Capt J F Brown charged him with creating a disturbance and violating the city's noise ordinance He operated a loud sound track in the Negro district Barfoot 34 a former University of Georgia education professor was released on bond to appear in recorder s court next week
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Atlanta
Progressive Party
Georgia
James A. Barfoot
J. F. Brown
Brown
Barefoot
Barfoot
Universiy of Georgia
Recorder’s Court
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Piedmont Area
Caldwell
Whiteville Area
Orten Quanin
John A. Quinn
Jersey City
Senate
Albert A. Saan
Quinn
James
Congress
Boeing
Kashmir
United Nations Commission
Legionnaires
U. S. Unity
Michael J. McDermott
Kremlin
McDermott
R-Mich
Dulles
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