Civil defense plan eyed by NLRB office officials
Officials from NLRB civil defense consider a national scale program with a full time director and deputies. Mayor Lawrence of Pittsburgh notes emergency meetings with 60,000,000 people in 150 cities to secure federal aid for medical supplies fire fighting and equipment. The plan envisions wardens training rescue squads and home shelters along with manuals and a broad range of coordinating specialists.
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NLRB
Civil Defense Office
Hamed
Larsen
Defense
David L. Lawrence Ofittsburgh
U. S. Conference of Mayors
W. Stuart Symington
Lawrence
Civil Air Patrol
Spy Bill Completed Aimed at Spies and Immigrants
The final version of the spy bill tightens laws against spies and saboteurs and tightens immigration barriers for subversive aliens. Conferees send it to the house then the senate with a hoped Wednesday vote. Truman’s stance is uncertain but a veto is viewed as potentially overrideable.
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House
Senate
Truman
Lucas Says Korea Efforts May Have Staved Off Big War
Senator Scott W. Lucas says U N action in Korea may have prevented a larger war. He campaigns in Peoria urging support as he notes Americas atomic arsenal and steps by the 81st Congress to curb war and stop Communist domination.
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Peoria
Ill
United Nations
Korea
Scott W. Lucas
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U.N
Kremlin
Peoria Advertising Club
United States
81St Congress
Solons May Finish Work on 75C Hour Pay and Defense Steps
The second session of the 81st Congress ends with actions including raising the minimum wage to 75 cents for cross state employers, expanded social security, price and wage controls, broader defense powers, larger armed forces, continuation of the Marshall Plan, and tax increases. Both houses approved an anti subversive bill to curb Communism, pending final fate at the White House with possible veto override.
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Truman
House
Senate
White House
Congress
Death of waitress rocks Lincolnton grill scene
Lincolnton near Moonlight Grill investigates the fatal shooting of 33 year old Ruby Mathias Colbert. SBI agent R W Turkelson aids the case as Blair Hovis is held in jail with no charges yet filed. Sheriff Rudisill notes Colbert died from a single .38 caliber gunshot wound. hypothesis includes self defense and unclear motive.
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Lincon Oston
State Bureau of Investigation
Ruby Mathias Colbert
George E. Rudisill
SBI
R. W. Turkelson
Hickory
Blair Hovis
Moonlight Grill
Hovis
Amzit Lynn
Grill
Rudisill
Japan Peace Options After Pacific Treaty
The piece discusses a potential separate treaty with Japan involving non Soviet powers, possible soft peace aims in Washington, and MacArthur’s view that occupation achieved goals. It outlines terms: no reparations, gradual rearmament, UN integration, kept American forces with consent, and loss of Formosa and Okinawa. It notes the political tension with Russia and the prospect of Japan escaping harsher settlements.
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Pacific
America
Britain
Russia
China
Washington
Soviet Union
Japan
MacArthur
Nippon
United Nations
Formosa
Okinawa
Young Democrats Club Hosts Raleigh Legislative Breakfast in Asheville
At the Asheville state convention the Young Democratic Clubs hosted a breakfast drawing about one third of the next legislature. Thad Eure Lieutenant Governor H P Taylor Governor Scott and others spoke as new members planned ahead for Raleigh.
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Raleigh
Thad Eure
of Tate
H.P Taylor
Scott
General Assembly
Eure
Fred Royster
YDC
North Carolina
Mayne Albright
Terry Sanford
Dee Umstead
William Umstead
Durham
Mr. Big
Tar Heel Democracy
Willis Smith
Smith
Kerr Scott
National
Jonathan Daniels
Daniels
Duke Announces 33 Faculty Promotions for 1949 50
Duke University announces promotions for 33 faculty members across divisions. New posts include professors in English, History, Economics, Physics, Zoology, Aesthetics Art and Music, Romance Languages, and Medicine, with several instructors advancing to assistant or associate professorships.
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Duke University
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Hollis Edens
Divinity School
William H. Brownlee
David G. Bradley
Lewis Leary
Philip Williams
E. Willard Berry
John H. Hallowell
Sidney J. Goffard
Woman's College
Frances Holton
Martha G. Swasey
Alan K. Manchester
Edward C. Simmons
Thomas G. Wiener
Harold W. Lewis
Mychyle W. Johnson
Karl M. Wilbur
Eugenia C. Saville
Loren R. Withers
J. J. Demorest
Woman’s College
Ellen Huckabee
School of Medicine
John B. Pfeiffer, Jr
Allen D. Puppel
James D. Moody
William W. Shingleton
Leland D. Stoddard
R. A. Ross
John W. Everett
Charlies H. Sawyer
Kenneth L. Duke
Jerome S. Harris
Irving Pine
Kenneth L. Pickrell
Haywood M. Taylor
Mary L. Cc. Bernheim
Susan C. Dees
Cotton textile market shows strength in New York
The cotton textile market was strong on Monday with buyers more active than usual. Mills granted higher wages, shifting costs and broadening selling opportunities this week as some mills resumed quoting second quarter prices and prices rose on print cloths and sheetings.
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New York
Brunswick Youth Held In Beating Incident
SOUTHPORT Sept 18 The arrest of 17 year old Culbert Simmons of Ashe county in a week end hatchet beating and robbery of his father Corbett Simmons 35 and brother 5 was announced by Sheriff Walter M Stanaland. Simmons is held without bail pending outcome of the father’s wounds and the child’s condition. Hospital reports say the father has a slim chance of recovery and the boy is in satisfactory condition. The youth confessed and led officers to the weapon. Hearing date not yet set.
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Southport
Brunswick County Farm
Walter M. Stanaland
Stanaland
Culbert Simmons
Ashe
Corbett Simmons
Duke Hospital
Durham
Simmons
Columbus County Hosital
Whiteville
Lanaland
Former Rep Andrew J May Released From Ashland Prison
Andrew J May, former House military affairs chair, was released from Ashland Federal Correctional Institution after nine months and thirteen days for wartime conspiracy and bribery. He left under darkness at 12:15 a.m. and did not speak to reporters, with family nearby at Prestonsburg, Ky.
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Andrew J. May
Ashland Federal Correctional Institution
R. O. Culver
House Military Affairs Committee
May
Prestonsburg
Garsson Brothers
Federal Parole Board
George G. Killinger
Robert V. May
Prestonshiro
Youth held on larceny and arson charges in New Jersey
Fred Carlton 21 a Gettysburg College junior will be arraigned for stealing his aunt's savings and starting a fire to hide the theft Detectives say he admitted taking 7400 and scattering burning bags to destroy evidence The money was found under a car seat during a routine search at his home where relatives live Carlton faced larceny and arson counts
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North Bergen
N. J
Fred Carlton
Pat Sullivan
Carlton
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Sullivan
Elsie Gruin
Louise Carlton
Minnie Gruin
Nine Victims Die Violently in North Carolina Weekend
The Associated Press reports at least nine people died in violent incidents across North Carolina over the weekend. Victims include Arthur A. Alexander near Charlotte struck by a car driven by Wade Walker former Oklahoma All America lineman and NC State assistant coach who posted bond for an inquest. Other deaths involve a farmer in Angier a Winston Salem businessman a Salisbury youth a Holly Ridge soldier a Montclair soldier a Charlotte man struck by a freight train and a Durham passenger in an overturning car plus a Terrell farmer shot and a Newton service station worker charged with murder.
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Associated Press
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Charlotte
Wade Walker
University of Oklahoma
Arthur A. Alexander
Walker
Gastonia
North Carolina State College
Nassar M. Langdon
Angier
Harnett County
William B. Elliott
Winston- Salem
Elizabethtown
Tokyo
Salisbury
G. T. Beaver
L. M. Weisiger, Jr
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Corp
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Holly Ridge
Army
Fort Belvoir
Roanoke River Bridge
Weldon
Joseph Serico, Jr
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N. J
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Raleigh
Joseph O'Dell Adams
Durham
James T. Wilkins
Route 1
Rougemont
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Donald Richard Farrer
Terrell
Catawba County
Junior Reinhardt
Newton
Dean Slack Pleads Guilty To Spying For Russia
Alfred Dean Slack 44 of Syracuse New York pleaded guilty in federal court to wartime spying for Russia. Assistant U S Attorney James M Meek recommended a 10 year prison term after Slack admitted passing secrets on the manufacture of RDX high explosive to Russian agents. The government supported the sentence citing Slack’s initial resistance to aiding Russia.
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Greeneville, Tenn
Alfred Dean Slack
Russia
U. S. Atty
James M. Meek
Syracuse, N. Y
Meek
Slack
Robert L. Taylor
U. S. Atorney
Howard McGrath
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FASTEETH improves denture fit and odor control
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Korean Offensive Clear Example of Coordination
Washington reports three years after unification military leaders praise Korea cooperation as landmark. Gen. Lawton Collins Gen. Douglas MacArthur Maj. Gen. Edward Almond laud interservice coordination, while debates over unified command and weapons development persist among the Joint Chiefs and Admiral Denfeld.
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Max Boyd Washington
Army
Navy Air Force
Korea
Air Force
J. Lawton Collins
Douglas MacArthur
Washington
Navy
Marine Corps
James Forrestal
Defense
Gen. MacArthur
Far East
Pacific
Australia
MacArthur
MacAreathur
New Zealand
South Pacific
William F. Halsey
Hollandia
MaccAr
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Fancy Dans
Denfeld
Joint Chiefs
Secretary of Defense
Chiefs of Staff
Beverly Hanson Wins Women's National Amateur Golf Title
Beverly Hanson, 22, former Fargo newspaper woman now based in Pasadena California, won the women’s national amateur golf championship with a 6 4 final victory over Mae Murray. Hanson boasted seven victories in nine tournaments to date.
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Atlanta
Beverly Hanson
Fargo
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Pasadena
Calif
Mae Murray
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