Maine GOP victory adds to Truman worries
President Truman faced renewed political pressure as Republicans swept Maine and the States Rights party intensified bids against Democratic candidates. Truman rebutted attacks on scientists and defended investigations of atomic security led by the House committee. Margaret Chase Smith won a six year Senate term, the first woman to do so from Maine without prior appointment. States Rights threats pressed Democratic lawmakers to distance from Truman, signaling tense midterm dynamics.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Maine
States’ Rights Party
Congress
Truman
Edward A. Condon
Bureau of Standards
Condon
Margaret Chase Smith
Senate
GOP
House
States Rights Group
States Rights Party
Titanium Metal Announced by Du Pont Chemistry
Wilmington, Del. Sept. 14. Du Pont announces a new metal titanium element 22. Titanium is a light, silver white metal never produced as metal before. Process to extract from minerals enables production for experiments and potential aircraft use. Pilot plant targets 100 pounds daily. initial price $5 per pound.
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Wilmington
Del
Dupont Company
Duponts
English Farmers Pressed by Marshall Plan Fears Abroad
North Carolina tobacco farmer William Shackelford reports British farmers say U S aid under the Marshall plan will not be repaid. He and other 4 H members toured England and described farms, incomes, and attitudes toward government control, export needs, and modernization.
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Washington
North Carolina
United States
William Shackelford
Wayne County
N. C
U. S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service
Russell G. Mawby
Grand Rapids
Mich
Young Farmers Federation of England
Shackelford
Europe
England
Wealthy Iraqi Jew Faces Death Sentence for Zionist Aid
Shafiq Adel, a wealthy Iraqi Jew, was sentenced to death by hanging by a military court for aiding Zionists in Palestine and organizing Zionism in Iraq. He was fined 5 million dinars and accused of purchasing and shipping arms, plus bribing agents to provoke dissent against the government.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Shafiq Adel
Palestine
Ades
Security Council To Debate Hyderabad Issue Thursday
The UN Security Council will take up the Hyderabad question on Thursday while allies back a French plan to place Somaliland under Italian trusteeship. Britain France and the United States support study by experts on four power issues with little hope for a broad accord on Libia Eritrea and Somaliland.
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UN Security Council
Hyderabad
Paris
United States
Britain
Somaliland
Africa
Council of Foreign Ministers
Russia
Andrei Vishinsky
France
Libia
Eritrea
United Nations Assembly
Amercan
Bermuda hurricane spares Bermuda no deaths, limited damage
Bermuda, 600 miles from South Carolina, faced winds to 123 mph as a hurricane passed offshore. No fatalities were reported and property damage was modest. The storm, moving north northeast at 16 mph, prompted precautionary shipping advisories while Bermuda’s streets dealt with downed lines, flooded highways, and scattered debris.
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Miami
Fila
Bermuda
North Atlantic
Grady Norton
U. S
South Carolina
Southern May Issue Trust Certificates
The Southern Railway applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to issue 8.7 million dollars in equipment trust certificates. Proceeds fund the purchase of 11 diesel switching locomotives and 64 diesel freight locomotives costing 11.6 million dollars.
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Washington, Sept
Southern Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Unsettled U S Strike AmidOil Refinery Clash
In San Francisco hundreds of CID oil refinery strikers clashed with police for two hours to block non striking maintenance men from a plant. A policeman and four strikers were hospitalized. The army asked for Longshore workers, bypassing hiring halls, while CIO Longshoremen threaten to ignore the call. Gas deliveries to West Coast stations dropped 25 percent as strikes spread.
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San Francisco
CID
CIO
Harry Bridges
West Coast
AFL
Teamsters
New York
Army
Longshore
San Franisco
Army Employment Office
Army Oa
Orient
Mild September Weather Seen for Carolinas
The Associated Press reports a continued run of good September weather for the Carolinas. Partly cloudy today with temperatures mostly in the 70s and 80s, with a slight drop expected tomorrow as a Great Lakes high pressure system influences the region. Winston-Salem reached 91 degrees, Columbia 85, while Mt. Mitchell fell to 48 and Asheville to 55 overnight.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Great Lakes
Winston-Salem
Carolina
Columbia
South Carolina
Mt. Mitchell
Asheville
Lineman Killed In Duke Power Pole Erection
Burlington reports Frank A. Boyd a Duke Power lineman died after a fatal electric shock while helping to erect a single line pole on North Church street at 8 55 this morning.
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Burlington
Frank A. Boyd
Duke Power Company
North Church Street
War With Russia Over Berlin Incident Not Imminent
Gen. Lucius D. Clay told reporters in Berlin that war is not around the corner and that the United States would exhaust all other means before using force to break the Soviet blockade of western Berlin. He suggested the Russians may not press Berlin as the final issue in the German problem and hinted the US would not discuss broader German matters with the Russians until the blockade ends.
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Berlin
Lustgarten
Russia
Clay
Richard Kasischke
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
United States
U.S
Council of Foreign Ministers
Polio Cases Rise to New Yearly Toll in North Carolina
The North Carolina Board of Health reports 12 new polio cases and three deaths, all but one in September, bringing yearly totals to 2 037 cases and 109 deaths. Gaston county saw all today’s deaths, while Cleveland Lee Catawba Chatham Craven Forsyth Mecklenburg Person Robeson Wake counties reported cases. Dr C P Stevrek says the epidemic is on the down grade though the decline is irregular.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Gaston County
Cleveland and
Lee
Catawba
Chatham
Craven
Forsyth Mecklenburg
Person
Robeson
Wake
C. P. Stevrek
Jamestown Man Killed In Collision Near Mocksville
Two tractor-trailer drivers died in an early morning crash near the Cedar Creek bridge about eight miles east of Mocksville on U S Highway 158. Wayne Wesley Fowler, 32, of Jamestown, driving for Highland Container Co, was identified. The other driver, in a Texas-plate truck carrying canned peas, remained unidentified. Both occupants were burned beyond recognition.
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Winston-Salem
Cedar Creek Bridge
Mocksville
U.S. Highway 158
T. 4
Badgett
Wayne Wesley Fowler
Jamestown
Highland Container Company
Texas
Powler
Fowler
Old Belt Tobacco Prices Averaging Well Over $50
Raleigh reports the opening of 19 Old Belt flue-cured tobacco markets with prices above 50 per hundred, many selling from 52 to 66. Gains of 1 to 4 per hundred occurred on the Middle Belt, with Eastern North Carolina belts also rising, while overall quality improved from last year’s first day. Elsewhere Senator Cooper sought full details on a 7 million dollar ECA allocation for tobacco for bizonal Germany, urging disclosure of how funds are divided among tobacco types and purchases in other countries.
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Raleigh
Old Belt
North Carolina
Carolinas
Middle Belt
Washington
Cooper
Economic Cooperation Administration
Germany
ECA
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Europe
War in India Ties Politics and Religion in Turbulent Rise
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Dewitt Mackenzie analyzes how two major events shape India Pakistan relations and internal conflict. Pakistan’s founder Mahomed Ali Jinnah dies leaving Moslem leadership uncertain while India’s Hindu majority invades Hyderabad to restore order amid regional tensions.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Indian Subcontinent
Britain
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
Pakistan
Dominion of
India
Schoolboy Killed In Bike Collision With Car
Franklin reports a ten year old boy, Bobby Morrow, died after his bicycle ran from a drive into a street and struck the side of a car driven by Harding Angel. The impact crushed the skull and flung the body 25 feet. Deputy sheriff and witnesses described the fatal moment.
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Frank Cabe
Invasion Looms As Indian Push Threatens Hyderabad
UN Security Council to meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss the Indian invasion of Hyderabad as swift columns push toward the capital from the northwest east and south. Ra jasur Jalna Osmanabad and Suriapet fall as Nazim fights to keep state independent amid Hindu majority rule. Karachi witnesses protests as Pakistan calls for unity against India.
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Paris
United Nations
Security Council
Hyerabad
India
Britain
Alexander Cadogan
Palais de Chaillot
General Assembly
Japur
Rajasur
Sholapur
Yermana
Daulatabad
Jalna
Hyergbad
Osmanabad
Hyerabada
Suriapet
Kurnool
Mosiem Nizam
Hyderabad
Karachi
Pakistan
Hyderbad
The
Indian Union
Kamin Denies Giving Away Atom Secrets
Dr. Martin D. Kamen, nuclear physicist and Washington University professor, reiterated he never disclosed atomic secrets to unauthorized persons and would not answer House Un-American Activities Committee questions without clearance from the Atomic Energy Commission. He was dismissed from the wartime atomic project in 1944 and questioned in a closed session on alleged espionage, insisting he has nothing to conceal despite committee criticism.
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Washington
Martin D. Kamen
Atomic Energy Commission
Kamen
Washington University
St. Louis
Army
House Committee
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Bombay
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