Crisis Near in Soft Coal Industry Murray Urges Wage Board Pact
Pittsburgh Sept 16 The CIO United Steelworkers urge industry to accept the presidential board recommendations to avert a strike by Sept 25 and authorize wage policy committee to meet Sept 18. Union seeks prompt bargaining while U S Steel resists precontract insurance and pension costs. Amounts and dates reflect ongoing 11 day extension through Sept 24.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Presidential Board
Philip Murray
Steerng
Truman
Steel Industry Board
United States Steel Corporation
U. S Steel
Eel
Southern Operators Fear Strike Call is Imminent
Washington reports a crisis in the soft coal industry as some operators refuse the 20 cent pension royalty. John L. Lewis heads back to the capital amid fears of a strike and a welfare fund trustees meeting, with questions over northern and western payments due September 20.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Lewis
Welfare Fund
Styles Bridges
R-Nh
Bridges
Ezra van Horn
United Mine Workers’ Union
UMW
South
Old Belt Leaf Prices Steady Across Flue-Cured Markets
Raleigh reports Fairly steady price averages on flue-cured Old Belt markets with gains and losses about even. Best Tuesday sales totaled 1,705,075 pounds at 47.02 per hundred. season totals near 1,133 pounds and averages around mid forties. Eastern belt averages held, prices up for some leaf grades and improved for nondescript and smoking leaves.
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Raleigh
Old Belt
Federal
Middle Belt
North Carolina
Trade pacts with ten more nations advance under Truman
Negotiations at Annecy France have produced recommendations for ten new reciprocal trade agreements with Denmark Finland Italy Greece Sweden the Dominican Republic Haiti Liberia Uruguay and Nicaragua. Presidential action is expected in October raising projected global trade under the program to about 75 to 80 percent. The Senate voted 62 to 19 to extend the trade agreement program through June 12 1951 after the House already approved the administration plan.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
U. S
Annecy
France
Denmark
Finland
Italy
Greece
Sweden
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Liberia
Uruguay
Nicaragua
State Department
U.S
Senate
Cordell Hall
House
Murder Trial Witness Killed in Long Island
Valley Stream New York. The body of Phil Cohen ex convict and key witness in the Murder Inc trial was found shot multiple times near the southern state parkway on Long Island. Cohen 43 turned state evidence in 1940 helping convict Lepke Buchalter and associates. Police investigate motive and identify suspects.
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Valley Stream
N. Y
Leaders of
Murder, Inc
Southern State Parkway
Long Island
Phil
Little Farrel) Cohen
Cohen
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Howard Heddink
Kidnapping Fears Surround Guilford Contractor Highfill
Greensboro dispatch reports Tom Highfill of Guilford College vanished after withdrawing 390 dollars at a Shelby bank last Wednesday. Local family fears foul play as wife and children moved back to Guilford College while Highfill remained to finish a house moving job.
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Greensboro
Tom Highfill
Guilford College
Shelby
Highfill
T. L. Harvey
Soldier Escapes Soviet Berlin Jail After 10 Months
U S soldier Private John J Sienkiewicz 26 of Baltimore escaped from a Soviet jail in East Berlin with three British companions using a blunt knife to bore through a wall and unlock their cell door They say they were beaten and tortured during captivity starting November 5 last year and were brought to the western sectors of Berlin after the escape He was in poor but not severely malnourished condition at an Army hospital and described harsh interrogation and mistreatment by Soviet officials In parallel British soldiers held since March 1948 report brutal treatment including immersion in cold water kicks and minimal rations
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Berlin
East Berlin
John J. Sienkiewicz
Baltimore
U. S
Sienkiewicz
Sienkit
Icz
Twenty Children Injured In Mooresville Bus Wreck
A school bus on the Shearer's chapel road four miles outside Mooresville left the road at 25 mph, sending twenty children to Lowrie Hospital. Seven children and a woman were admitted. several pupils suffered fractures. Driver was 16 year old Phifer Irvin Johnson. woman passenger Mrs. Sadie Hastings.
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Mooresville
B. C. Nisbet
Lowriice
Phifer Irvin Johnson
Sadie Hastings
Nisbet
Davidson High
Shirley Ann Eagle
Carolyn Eagle
Georgia Ann Wright
C. Johnson
Stock trading stalls amid mixed late-summer action
Confusion on the labor front blighted activity in the stock market as volume slipped to a walk after three sessions of heavy trading. White Sewing Machine led gains with a new yearly high while Republic Steel Goodyear Sears Roebuck North American TransAmerica Standard Gas Electric 4th preferred American Smelting Santa Fe and Johns Manville also rose.
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New York
Republic Steel
Goodyear
Sears Roebuck
North American Co
TransAmerica
Standard Gas & Electric
American Smeltin
Santa ‘Fe
Johns-Manville
Government Urges All Salt Shakers Iodized To Fight Goiter
U S scientists announce a new public health push to fill every salt shaker with iodized salt. Health officials say iodine from salt supports thyroid function, growth, and brain development while preventing simple goiter.
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Associated Press
Washington
Thomasville Chair Co and Union Set Vote on New Contract
Thomasville chair company workers local 256 CIO UFWA will vote tonight at 7 30 on company proposals after an 11 hour session. The plan includes a 75 cent per hour minimum age retroactive to September 12 and an employee insurance program to be worked out by December.
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Thomasville
Furniture Workers
Thomasville Chair Company
Cio-United Furniture Workers of America
C. H. Coburn
UFWA
Coburn
Main Street
Robbers Crack Mill Safe For Payroll Near Asheville
Robbers cracked the Martel Cottol Mill safe near Asheville and fled with about 7500 dollars in payroll. A nightwatchman was on rounds elsewhere as entry was gained through an unlocked window and the lock was knocked from the safe. Deputies initially quoted 8000 to 9000 dollars, but company officials disputed the higher figure.
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Asheville
Martel Cottol Mill
State peanut crop falls from 1948 peak in 1949 forecast
North Carolina's 1949 peanut production was estimated at 266 million pounds, down from 346.6 million last year. Yields averaged 1100 pounds per acre, below 1175 in 1948, with 242000 acres harvested, down 53000 from 1948. Other estimates include soybeans 3.752 million bushels and sweet potatoes 6.318 million bushels.
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Raleigh
Big Three Outline Cold War Plan At White House
Secretary of State Acheson briefed President Truman and the cabinet on new U S Britain and France measures to conter Russia in the cold war in a 45 minute White House meeting. The trio pushed support for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and reviewed Balkan Germany and Austria while delaying discussion of a common Far East anti communist strategy.
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Acheson
Truman
Russia
White House
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Bevin
Schuman
Balkan
Germany
Austria
Far East
65 Workers Return to Hart Cotton Mill Strike
Tarboro reports 65 Hart cotton mill workers returning to work amid a court order on mass picketing. Pickets from the CIO Textile Workers Union observed the order, prompting Sheriff Bardin to withdraw a request for State Patrol assistance. The plant had been shut since May 12 after failed talks on a new contract.
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Tarboro
Hart
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Acers
Tom Bardin
Break-up warning over tobacco warehouse associations in Wake court
Kemp Battle of Rocky Mount warned in Wake county court that dissolution threatens tobacco auction markets including Bright Leaf and Rocky Mount. Judge Paul Frizzle heard Bright Leaf Warehouse Association seeks injunction against Rocky Mount market for operating with insufficient buyers. Battle denied right to injunctive action but said expulsion of members could occur. a tentative legal strategy was announced to rely on law, with evidence showing a fifth sale run without full buyer staff and not in line with warehouse board resolutions.
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Kemp Battle
Rocky Mount
Wake
Paul Frizzelle
Bright Leaf Warehouse Association
Battle
Rocky Mount Warehousemen
Warehouse Association Board of
Gover
Slaying of James Shirley prompts two warrants
Two brothers Benjamin Ransom and Burton Ransom both of Rockingham are sought on murder charges in the slaying of James M. Shirley, a 37 year old New York man found stabbed and beaten in a water-filled gravel pit near Wadesboro. Shirley had been missing after leaving his Hollis New York home on a farm trip to Staunton Virginia. His car was found abandoned in a creek near Marion South Carolina, triggering the search.
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Wadesboro
New York
Here
Anson County
Ben Rivers
Benjamin Ransom
Burton Ransom
Rockingham
James M. Shirley
Hollis
Queens
N. Y
John Shirley
Honey Path
S. C
Staunton
Marion
U S Population Reaches 149 Million Estimate
The Census Bureau estimates the U S population at 149 452 000 as of August 1 up 287 000 from July. If current growth continues the total will exceed 150 million before year end and marks an 18 5 percent rise since April 1 1940 with 1 401 000 added in the first seven months of 1949.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Tar Heel dove season opens with split in 1949
Raleigh reports that at noon the Tar Heel dove season begins with the first split running from today through September 30. The second split will extend from December 31 to January 4 with hunting hours from sunrise to sunset.
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Raleigh
Tar Heel
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