Congress Claims Victory in Race Against Germans
Washington reports Congress claims victory in the rush to complete four major postwar laws guiding wartime to peacetime transition. House action on a bill to convert wartime controls and restore free enterprise is seen as the final step before recess until after the November elections. The plan includes reconversion office, disposal of government property, termination of wartime provisions, and the GI bill of rights for veterans.
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Enaite Postwar Committee
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Roosevelt and Morgenthau Visit Emergency Refugee Shelter
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr visited an emergency refugee shelter in Oswego New York housing 982 Europeans for the remainder of the war.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Oritario Emergency
Allied air strikes in Aegean destroy vehicles on Crete
Carrier based planes from an Allied naval task force in the Aegean reported destroying 11 German motor vehicles and wrecking a JU-32 on Crete three days ago, with at least 25 more vehicles damaged the following day. The Aurora bombarded Melos on Sept 17 and targeted a German wireless station there with Terpsichore the next day.
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Aurora
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Two New Buses Are Obtained By Duke Power
Duke Power announces two new buses for High Point replacing older units. The upgrades improve service while keeping within the Office of Defense Transportation limit of 15 buses for the city. The buses were loaned from Greensboro with hope they remain locally.
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Office of Defense Transportation
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Davis
Allies Press Through German Border Front Near Aachen
The U S First Army fought along an 80 mile front from Aachen north to Trier as forces advanced east of Sittard and Amstenrade. Aachen street fighting occurred with pockets in Stolberg factory district. Duren and Prum were shelled, Dieuze Baccarat and Pont a Mousson area pushed, and Metz south of the fortress saw gains.
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Trier
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Prum
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Soviet Drive Forces German Lines in Latvia and Estonia
A massive 75 mile front pushed German troops back toward the Latvian cap ital with Kekava near Riga and Valga on the Estonia Latvia frontier falling to Soviet forces. The clash left thousands of casualties and damaged rail links as Maslennikov’s Third Baltic Army advanced across the region.
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Dvina
Estonia-Latvia
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Third Baltic Army
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Red Army
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Infant dies in Thomasville hospital
Thomasville report states Ronny Thomas Carpenter infant son of J. C. and Nancy Kimmer Carpenter died in a local hospital Tuesday night. Survived by parents two sisters Doris and Jimmy Anne of the home paternal grandfather C. C. Carpenter and maternal grandfather William Kimmer both of Thomasville. Funeral was conducted from Russell Funeral Home at 4 30 this afternoon with Rev. Walter L. Lanier officiating interment in City cemetery.
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C. C. Carpenter
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Russell Funeral Home
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Full Train Service Restored By 10 A M Thursday
Flooded lines in Danville Charlottesville and Lynchburg areas of Virginia disrupted Southern Railway service in North Carolina and Virginia. Normal service is expected by 10 a.m. tomorrow with delays for southbound trains up to nine hours and longer delays for northbound traffic beyond the Carolina Virginia boundary.
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Testimony Reveals 80 Hostages Ordered by Kesselring
In Rome on September 20 former Police Chief Pietro Caruso testified that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ordered 80 Italian hostages for execution in reprisal for bombing of an SS column. He said the order came via Kappler and related charges included handing over 50 hostages and letting others join labor battalions.
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Key Market Issues Maintain Advances
Buying interest on a modest scale in today's stock market enabled many key issues to extend Tuesday's rise by fractions. If the favored division near midday were Westinghouse Electric, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, U S Steel, Bethlehem, Republic Steel, Chrysler, J C Penney and Texas Co. The Spanish Coronado in 1540 brought the first cattle and sheep to what is now New Mexico.
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Republic Steel
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J. C. Penney and Texas Co
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North Carolina Weather Outlook Streak of Showers and Thunderstorms
Partly cloudy to cloudy with mild warmth and widely scattered showers and afternoon thunderstorms today and Thursday. Tonight gradual clearing with mild, mostly clear conditions.
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Postwar training debate shapes postwar policy stance
The Educational Policies Commission weighed a proposed year of army or navy training for American youths and urged caution, noting compulsory wartime training exists now and prompt peace planning requires input from servicemen. Gaylord warned that failure to act could let government seize the opportunity and confront creeping collectivism.
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Avon Merchant Saves Money And Bonds During Avon Storm
O G Gray of Avon North Carolina braved rising floodwaters to rescue cash and war bonds from his store as the hurricane raged. He wrapped the money and bonds, then clung to a tree until the flood eased. Funds are now secured in a safe place as Gray helps distribute Red Cross aid.
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Peace talks shift toward people powered diplomacy
The text argues that wars can be reduced as negotiations move from elites to the public. It suggests a friendlier ground for talks and contends lasting peace depends on informed whole peoples, not just diplomats, who must avoid ignorance driven revulsion.
County cases affirmed and remanded across counties
In Buncombe Edgecombe and Nash districts overlapped on rulings with Coker versus Coker and Bourne versus Railway each affirmed, Edney versus Peex Powers affirmed, Bank versus Lumber Co remanded for error, Keel versus Bailey affirmed, and State versus Sam Jones saw the appeal dismissed in Halifax.
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