U S Recalls Four Legation Staff From Bucharest
The United States recalls four members of its legation staff in Bucharest after Romania demanded their removal over alleged photography in a restricted zone. In a note delivered by Ambassador Rudolf E. Schoenfeld, Washington said Romanian claims do not reflect the facts and protested Romania’s detention of two men and two women clerks for 17 hours with no food or water. Named are Wayne Fisher, Paul Green, Ruth Virginia Garr, and Maggard.
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Romania
United States
Rudolf E. Schoenfeld
Foreign Ministry
State Department
Giurgiu
Legation
Schoenfeld
Wayne Fisher
Glidden
Iowa
Paul Green
Newark
Ohio
Ruth Virginia Garr
San Francisco
Maggard
Kanty
Typhoon Rages Across Honshu Japan Amid Destruction
Ten central Honshu prefectures faced a powerful typhoon with winds up to miles per hour east of Tokyo. At least two dead, three injured, and 23 missing as floods and landslides cut roads. Rivers surged north and west of Tokyo while residents fled and rice crops feared. The storm affected Misawa and Tokyo area traffic, with 250 Americans isolated by landslides and given eight days of rations.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Shimizu
Here
Bibbs
Texas City
Haneda
Misawa
Tone River
Public Information Office
First Cavalry Division
Miyanoshita
Gora
Car Inspection Act Challenged In Kannapolis
In Cabarrus county courts three men Spencer Lesler Clifford Brantley and William Calvin Wagoner appeal their convictions for failing to have vehicles inspected under North Carolina's motor vehicle inspection law. Their attorney Eugene T Best Jr may petition the supreme court to interpret whether the DMV can set inspection deadlines before December 31. State representative Bost opposed the bill. Twenty five motorists face court for alleged violations of the September 10 inspection deadline for certain models.
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Kannapolis
North Carolina
Cabarrus
Recorder’s Court
Superior Court
Spencer Lesler
Clifford Brantley
William Calvin Wagoner
Eugene T. Best, Jr
Supreme Court
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Bost
Rocky Mount Man New President of Nation's Dentists
Dr. Clyde E. Minges of Rocky Mount North Carolina will be installed as president of the American Dental Association in Chicago where the convention is underway. Dr. Phillip E. Adams of Boston was to be chosen president elect to succeed Minges next year by a unanimous House vote yesterday.
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Chicago
Clyde E. Minges
Rocky Mount
N. C
American Dental Association
Phillip E. Adams
Boston
Minges
House of Delegates
Adams
Young Democrats Open NC State Convention in Greensboro
Greensboro hosts three day North Carolina Young Democratic convention as GOP urges Democrats to switch sides. Main speaker at banquet is T Lamar Caudle with registration at 4 PM and sessions beginning at 2 PM tomorrow. Daniel Edwards of Durham County delivers opening keynote.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Sim A. de Lapp
James M. Bailey
GOP
U. S
T. Lamar Caudle
Wadesboro
Daniel K. Edwards
Durham County
Rankin Named New Piedmont and Northern President
Greenville South Carolina reports W I Rankin of Charlotte elected as the new president of the Piedmont and Northern Railway, succeeding the late Frank H Cothran. The announcement notes Rankin’s ascent follows Cothran's death with Rankin taking the helm in the broader regional rail leadership.
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Greenvile, S. C
W. I. Rankin
Charlotte
The
Piedmont and Northern Railway
Aeenen
Frank H.cothran
Communists Push Back Greek Army Near Vitsi Triangle
Greek forces pulled back up to five miles on the southern Vitsi triangle amid a strong Communist counterattack. The army regroups for a renewed assault as rebels strengthen to about 5,000 in the area with 1,600 to 1,800 fighters elsewhere in Epirus. United States Gen James Fleet and Senator Chan Gurney visited the front in Athens.
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Athens
Vitsi
Free Greece
S Pa
Markos Vafiades
Epirus
United States
James A. Fleet
Sen. Chan Gurney
R-Sd
Gurney
Senate Armed Forces Committee
Rescue of 38 as hurricane batters freighter Leicester
In the North Atlantic a mid Atlantic hurricane stranded the Leicester with 42 crew. Cecil N. Bean saved 20 crew. Argentine ship Tropezo rescued 18. four were lost. The ship left London Sept 4 for Newark. Captain H N Lawson led the Leicester.
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New York
North Atlantic
Coast Guard
Cecil N. Bean
Leicester
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Bermuda
London
Newark
Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd
H. N. Lawson
Liberty
France's shaky five day old government faces strike wave
Paris reports indicate Premier Queuille's cabinet battles emergency finances as strikes spread across aviation, automobile, and steel sectors. Police and workers clash with injuries, while coal pits and Renault plant see large work stoppages. Ce Soir cites a 40000 metal workers protest in Paris.
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Paris
France
Henri Queuille
Charles de Gaulle
Pas de Calais
Lorraine
Renault Automobile
General Confederation of Labor
Ce Soir
Lyon
Met
Schoolboy Killed Awaiting Bus Near Rocky Mount
A seven year old Nash County boy Everette Lee Long died after being struck on highway 95 about eight miles from Rocky Mount while awaiting a school bus. The driver Joseph Tyson Ward, a merchant near Elm City, remained under investigation as the Nash County coroner reviews the case. no charges yet.
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Rocky Mount
Nash County
J. E. Rawls
Everette Lee Long
Joseph Tyson Ward
Elm City
Nash
M. C. Gulley
Jap Battle Fleet Goes To Scrap Heap
Tokyo reports that the last of Japan's battle fleet will be scrapped by year end. U S navy spokesmen say former enemy ships from battleships to 20ton torpedo boats have already been scrapped and fifteen more will be cut up this year for industrial use by the Japanese government.
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Tokyo
U. S. Navy
Truman and Dewey Plan Cross Country Campaign Tours
President Truman and Governor Dewey finalize stop dates for a national campaign. Truman leaves for a 16 day transcontinental trip with stops in Texas Missouri Illinois Kentucky and West Virginia en route to the Pacific coast. Dewey gears to tour Montana Idaho Wyoming and then return to Albany with major speeches planned in Los Angeles amid cross party controversy. Warren heads east from California on a 30 state tour while Barkley camps in Utah.
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Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Mr. Truman
Texas
Pacific Coast
Washington
Missouri
Illinois
Kentucky
West Virginia
Dewey
Northwest
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Albany
N. Y
Los Angeles
E. George Luckey
Truman-Barkley
Gilmore Stadium
Tobacco Prices Rise in East Auctions in North Carolina
In eastern North Carolina, flue cured tobacco auctions showed gains of 1 to 3 dollars per hundred pounds, while prices fell on three Virginia Carolina belts where losses mostly ranged from 1 to 2 dollars, with some grades down 4 dollars. The latest overall average was 52.89 per hundred, the middle belt averaged 50.50 and the border belt near season end at 91.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Virginia-Carolinas
North Carolina as a border state in 1948 campaign
North Carolina is viewed as a pivotal border state by both major parties with tentative plans for Truman Barkley on the Democratic side and Dewey Warren for the Republicans. Wallace and Thurmond have already campaigned, with Barkley likely to appear September 27 in Asheville and Dewey/Warren dates still flexible.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Harry Truman
Alben Barkley
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
Henry Wallace
Strom Thurmond
Cherryville
Barkley
Asheville
Truman
Dewey
Warren
Carolina
Piedmont
Charlotte
Wallace
Chamberlains appeasement judged by Hitler designs
The second of four articles argues Chamberlain misread Hitler and pursued peace in 1938. It recalls Berchtesgaden talks and the Sudetenland demand, the September 19 Paris meeting with Daladier, and the September 21 Czech surrender to Anglo-French plans, leading to Chamberlain's September 22 trip to Göding.
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Chamberlain
Hitler
de Witt
MacKenzie
Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Fuehrer
Czechoslovakia
Erich Kordt
Foreign Office
University of Munich
England
Czechoslovakian
Sudetenland
Edouard Daladier
London
Godesberg
Rhine
New York Officers Arrive to Take Custody of Suspect
Salisbury dispatch reports New York officers arriving to extradite Maurice Holshauser 26 from Davie county where he was arrested. Deputy H R Eaton says Holshauser confessed to beating Lena Robinson 73 to death in Scio New York during a dispute over another woman. The suspect fled with jewelry and a car after painting at the Robinson estate.
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Salisbury
New York
Maurice Holshauser
J. H. Krider
H. R. Eaton
Davie County
Holshauser
Lena Robinson
Scio
N. Y
Robinson
Eaton
Upper Davie
Mediators Working On Settlement In Wage Talks
The Western Electric Company and CIO association of communication equipment workers near a settlement affecting 25,000 employees in 42 states and D C aim to avert a nationwide strike. A federal mediator voiced optimism as sessions resume and the union reduces wage demands from 13 to 11 to 16 cents an hour.
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New York
Western Electric Company
CIO Association of Communication Equipment Workers
States
District of Columbia
CIO
Thomas B. Steutel
Henry L. Mayer
Royall
Washington
India to assume control of Hyderabad as troops near city
New Delhi reports India will govern Hyderabad as Indian troops push toward the capital. Two Bombay officials are named joint civil administrators under Lt. Gen. Rajendrasinhji. A director of Hyderabad police and district administrators are appointed as regions fall under military control.
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New Delhi
P—ndia
Hyderabad
Zahirabad
Razakar
Bidar
D. 8
Bakhle
Bombay
D. R. Pradhan
Bombay Health and Land Department
V. P. Menon
Indian States Ministry
Maharaja Shri Rajendrasinhji
Menon
A. V. Patro
Madras
Hyderabada
Sauerkraut Day Feast Draws 35 000 at Forreston
Forreaston Illinois hosts the 29th Sauerkraut Day with two tons of sauerkraut and a ton of wieners as the main fare. The free meal is billed as the world’s largest. The event draws about 35 000 visitors from within a 50 mile radius. Forreston, population around 1 000, has a strong German heritage.
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Forreston
Ill
Illinois
Soviet Ambassador Demands End to MacArthur Ban
Soviet Russia's ambassador in Washington urged the eleven nation Far Eastern Commission to reverse General Douglas MacArthur's policy prohibiting government employee strikes in Japan. The protest was filed as tensions over postwar governance in Japan mounted.
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Washington
Russia
Far Eastern Commission
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
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