Miners Walkout Looms as No Day Week Rules Cut Jobs
John L. Lewis leads 480000 United Mine Workers on a no day work week amid a renewed coal strike. He rejects a two year extension and says wage talks stall due to steel industry disputes. Talks pause until September 29 as pension and welfare suspensions fuel the dispute.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
North and West
Stonewall Inon
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Welfare Fund
Old Belt Leaf Prices Vary Across North Carolina Belts
Raleigh reports irregular old belt flue cured tobacco prices with changes mainly 1 to 3 dollars per hundred pounds. Wednesday sales totaled multiple million pounds with average prices ranging in the mid to high forties, season totals near 250 million pounds. Prices fluctuated by belt region with eastern, Carolina border, and middle belt shows small shifts while some grades held steady.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Carolinas
George Smith Receives Suspended Sentence in Lottery Case
Francis Duval Smith pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate lottery laws and was sentenced by Judge E Earl Rives in Greensboro to two years in prison, suspended on payment of a $10,000 fine and court costs.
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Greensboro
N. C
Francis Duval
George) Smith
E. Earl Rives
Smith
Barkleys Medal Worth Less Gold Than It Costs
A Sept 23 hearing disclosed Vice President Barkleys $2500 gold medal will hold about 13 ounces of gold and cost $540 to make. The rest of the $2500 goes to the designer and the case costs $10, with $1500 earmarked for the designer.
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Washington
Barkley
Congress
Senate Appropriations
Leland Howard
The
Mint
George C. Marshall
J. Pershing
Farmer Gets Less of U. S. Food Dollar
Washington reports the farmer's share of the retail food dollar has fallen 13 percent in 20 months prompting a Senate agriculture subcommittee to investigate the spread between farm and consumer prices. The farmer's portion has varied over years from 40 cents in the 1930s to a wartime peak around 55 cents, now about 48 cents, varying by commodity.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Jury acquits Vaughn Cannon in Asheville assault case
A Superior court jury in Asheville acquitted Vaughan Cannon on an assault charge against Solicitor Will C. Hampton in a roadhouse fight last August 14. The defendant denied throwing the first punch and described receiving the initial blow as the fracas unfolded.
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Asheville
Vaughan Cannon
Will C. Hampton
Cannon
Hampton
Administration Wins Senate Vote on Overseas Arms Program
The Senate approved an overseas arms program 55 to 24, defeating two attempts to cut 200 million from the 1.314 billion package. Connally and Vandenberg led the support, with 19 Republicans and 36 Democrats for passage and 10 Democrats and 14 Republicans opposed. Taft warned of arming nations against Russia, while Vandenberg stressed stopping aggression.
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Washington
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Vandenberg
R-eich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hoey urges peace as Methodist conference meets
Senator Clyde R. Hoey visited the Western North Carolina Methodist conference in Winston-Salem and urged lawmakers to preserve peace, saying the nation is farther from war. Bishop Charles C. Selecman delivered a second sermon as the 11th annual meeting continued with a five day program.
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Winston-Salem
Clyde R. Hoey
North Carolina Methodist Conference
Hoey
Western North Carolina Methodist Conference
Charles C. Selecman
Dallas
Texas
Explosion Debate On Atomic Bombs Gathers Pace
Chicago the atomic scientists bulletin editor said an atomic explosion abroad would require a bomb scale size. President Truman asserted Russia had recently seen an atomic explosion. Bernard Baruch endorsed international control and supported the president’s stance on atomic energy supervision.
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Chicago
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Truman
Washington
Eugene Rabinowitch
Bulletin
U. S
Japan
New York
Bernard Baruch
Russia
Baruch
U.S
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Spinal Degeneration Cured by Vitamin B12
Three Mayo Clinic doctors report that early vitamin B12 treatment cured spinal degeneration in pernicious anemia patients. In a JAMA report, 12 cases showed excellent results alongside daily coordination exercises.
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Chicago
Mayo Clinic
Journal of the American Medical Association
Byron E. Hall
Frank H. Krusen
Henry W. Woltman
Rochester
U S May Take Step Toward One World Government
Washington reports that Congress may soon consider a resolution backing the United Nations and its development into a world federation with defined powers. Senators Judd and Mansfield foresee a possible international conference and a stronger international police force and court to deter aggression and promote peace.
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U.S
One World
Washington
Congress
United States
United Nations
House
Oriven
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep
Mansfield
Dmont
Senate
Walter Judd
R-Minn
Foreign Affairs Committee
Russia
Judd
Helen Hayes Daughter Mary MacArthur Dies at 19
Mary MacArthur, actress and the long noted “act of God baby” of Helen Hayes, died at Lenoir Hill hospital at 19 after a virus infection. Her death comes as she prepared to co star with her mother in a Broadway premiere. Her father Carlos MacArthur was at her bedside. The death follows illness during tryouts in Westport and a summer tour of Good Housekeeping with Hayes.
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New York
Mary MacArthur
Helen Hayes
Lenoa Hill Hospital
Carlos MacArthur
Miss Hayes
Miss MacArthur
Westport
Conn
William McCleery
President To Visit Ft. Bragg On October 4
President Truman will fly to Fort Bragg North Carolina on October 4 to review troops and witness parachute maneuvers by the 82nd Airborne Division. He will depart Washington about 8 45 a m EST and return the same evening with Gray and Gen J Lawton Collins aboard. Parachute drops will include artillery heavy equipment and an infantry battalion for a tactical exercise. If weather cancels the trip it will be moved to the next day.
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Washington
Truman
Forth Bragg
N. C
82Nd Airborne Division
Charles G. Ross
Independence
Ft. Bragg
Ross
Gray
J. Lawton Collins
Army Chief of Staff
White House
Pope
Stock Market Leveling Off After Two Day Rise
New York traders saw supply and demand balanced after a rapid two day advance. Most changes were small, with roughly equal gains and losses. Higher prices were paid for Studebaker U S Rubber North American Consolidated Natural Gas Phelps Dodge Copper Air Reduction American Tobacco Santa Fe Chesapeake & Ohio and U S Gypsum. Lower were Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Montgomery Ward International Harvester Douglas Aircraft Philco United Gas Eastman Kodak Westinghouse Southern Railway Standard Oil NJ and Celotex.
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New York
Studebaker
U. S. Rubber
North American Co
Consolidated Natural Gas
Phelps Dodge
Air Reduction
American Tobacco
Santa Fe
Chesapeake & Ohio
U. S. Gypsum
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
Montgomery Ward
International Harvester
Douglas Aircraft
Philco
United Gas Corp
Eastman Kodak
Westinghouse Electric
Southern Railway
Standard Oil (Nj
Celotex
Military Agencies Hold Grim Silence
President Truman announced evidence of a recent atomic explosion in Russia and called for effective international control of atomic energy. The British government confirmed similar evidence as officials declined to discuss specifics, while McMahon pressed for a closed-door Senate committee meeting.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Truman
United Nations
White House
London
Congress
Pentagon
Atomic Energy Commission
Johnson
Capitol
McMahon
D-Conn
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Committee
Senate
Charges Unclear After Driver License Examiner Case
A Raleigh conference on legal action against state driver license examiner Joseph H. Holmes is planned for Monday. Assistant Attorney General Peyton Abbott said charges will be decided by District Solicitor William Y. Bickett after Holmes admitted selling licenses for 20 dollars each. The highway safety division suggests more than 40 licenses were sold, mostly in Franklin County, with some from Vance and other counties. Holmes, a Roxboro Yanceyville examiner, has been relieved of duty and lives in Louisburg. Patrolman M C Byrum has retrieved about 15 of the illicit licenses.
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Raleigh
Peyton Abbott
William Y. Bickett
Abbott
Bickett
Joseph H. Holmes
Roxboro
Yanceyville
Highway Safety Division
Holmes
M. C. Byrum
Henderson
Reversed and Sustained Rulings By State Supreme Court
The fall term opens with 22 opinions in which lower court rulings were sustained in 13 and reversed in 9. Per curiam opinions predominate, signaling swift consensus. Procedures outline district-based appeal hearings, briefing timelines, and open court arguments.
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State Supreme Court
Murray And Stephens To Meet Today
In Pittsburgh on September 23 the United Steelworkers and Big Steel agreed to resume contract talks today under a presidential strike truce. Philip Murray and John A. Stephens scheduled a 1:30 p m EST hotel conference to discuss pension and insurance while some 2400 union workers at Pittsburgh area mills walked out.
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Pittsburgh
Big Steel
CIO
United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corporation
Murray
Pittsburgh District
Universal Cyclops Steel Co
Bridgeville
Superior Steel Co
Carnegie
United States Steel
Crucible Steel Company
Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation
Sharon Steel Corporation
Shenango-Penn Mould
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora
Unwed Mother Arrested in Abandoned Baby Case
Miss Lucie Lee Toms, 21, of Wentworth, identified as the mother of a baby found abandoned in a Winston-Salem doorway. She was arrested in Greensboro on a charge of abandonment after admitting the child was born Sept 10 at Saint Leo's hospital. She said she left the infant at a West Fourth Street doorway after losing nerve. The alleged father was not named.
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Winston-Salem
Twin City
Lucie Lee Toms
Wentworth
Greensboro
Twin City Police
Saint Leo's Hospital
Register of Deeds Office
Winston- Salem
West Fourth Street
Storm Threat Looms Along Louisiana Coast
A squall area in the western Gulf of Mexico posed high tide risks to the Louisiana coast with winds up to 50 mph. The Weather Bureau urged continued caution as the disturbance moved north at about five miles per hour, about 220 miles east of Corpus Christi, while a tropical hurricane dissipated in the Dominican Republic.
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Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Corpus Christi
Dominican Republic
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