Telephone Workers May Move Toward Mass Demonstration
CIO and independent telephone unions map a common action amid wage talks with Bell System as strike polls and mass demonstrations loom. About 300,000 workers split between Beirne's CWA and CIO union groups bar new settlements and potential four hour stoppage plans.
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Washington
CIO
Bell System
Ce Aaaa
Communication Workers of America
Joseph A. Bierne
Telephone Workers Organizing Committee
Allan 5
Haywood
Michigan
Southwestern Bell Union
Beirne
CWA
Point Breeze
Baltimore
Western Electric Company
Bell Research Laboratories
Newark
N. J
Ships Menaced By Hurricane Near Bermuda
A powerful hurricane sped northeast off the U S coast with 75 mph winds. It passed 300 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras and 300 miles northwest of Bermuda as Florida reels from the storm with three deaths and $25 million in crop damage.
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Miami
Fila
Atlantic
Cuba
Florida
Miami Weather Bureau
U. S
Bermuda
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Bri Island
North Carolina
Virginia
United States
BLS Living Cost Index Sees Further Rise in August
Washington reports the cost of living index climbed in August to 174.5 percent of the 1935-39 average, a 0.5 point rise from July. Wages for factory workers averaged 53.86 dollars per week as retail food prices dipped 0.1 percent to 216.6 percent of the 1935-39 average.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Funeral for Jud Stanbury After Emergency Heart Surgery
Sylva mourns Jud Stanbury 45 who died after a Sunday heart operation following a stabbing. Homer Green 40 is jailed in Sylva charged with the slaying. Funeral services were held today in the North Carolina town.
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Sylva
Jud Stanbury
Stanbury
Asheville
Homer Green
Textron seeks Nashua aid to save mills and jobs
Textron President Royal Little asked for local and political support to keep Nashua textile mills open while about 2,000 workers may lose jobs by year end. He agreed to run one mill another year if a 10 percent profit is attainable, and floated converting a blanket mill to a sewing factory as a partial jobs option.
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Nashua
N. H
Textron
Royal Little
Little
Charles W. Ley
Tobey
Senate
Life
Lord Vansittart Denounces Moscow Radio Output
In a House of Lords debate on Sept 24 Lord Vansittart a former foreign secretary labeled the Moscow radio and Russian press output a Niagara of sewage critiquing its quality and tone.
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London
Lord Vansittart
Moscow
House of Lords
Soviets Resume Harassment Policy Over Air Corridor
Paris dispatch reports South Africa accuses great powers of breaking faith with small nations and warns of reconsidering UN membership if change does not occur. E H Louw voices concern as UN debates Indonesian and French Indo China freedom amid Berlin blockade and Berlin stalemate.
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Paris
South Africa
E. H. Louw
General Assembly
Organization of the United Nations
Freedom For
Indonesia
A. John
Southeast Asia
Louisiana Still Hosts Truman Ticket in Louisiana Battle
President Truman moves closer to a spot on the Louisiana November ballot but remains unrecognized as a Democratic candidate. A compromise bill would reserve a ballot line for 10 Truman electors nominated by petition with 100 voters signatures, due by Oct. 5 amid a state split between Truman supporters and the States Rights ticket.
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Baton Rouge
Truman
Louisiana
Louisiana State Central Democratic Committee
Secretary of State
Mr. Truman
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Rail Boost Would Hit Retailers
Chicago reports eight percent freight rate increase sought by the railroads, their sixth since the war. Approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission would raise the national freight bill by hundreds of millions and hit retailers, especially furniture makers facing higher material costs.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. H. Dana
Western Traffic Executive Committee
Railroad Brotherhoods
High Point Furniture
I.o.b
Middle Belt Tobacco Prices Jump Over Fifty Dollars
The Middle and Old Belt tobacco markets rose with lower quality leaf gaining 4 to 8 dollars above Wednesday, while other bids rose 1 to 3 dollars. Wednesday's sales totaled 2,328,444 pounds at an average 50.53 dollars per hundred, with old belt leaf up 1 to 3 and cutters and leaf steady. Eastern North Carolina belt prices leveled off, Wednesday sales 4,983,726 pounds at 49.68 per hundred, eight cents higher than Tuesday.
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Raleigh
U. S
N. C
Carolina
Man Hangs Self While Removing T Shirt in Closet
In Columbia Missouri on September 24 coroner W A Platt reported Charles T Traylor 23 accidentally hanged himself with his undershirt. The garment snagged on a clothes hook, the closet door closed trapping him and he was found an hour later.
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Columbia
8. C
W. A. Platt
Charles T. Traylor
Traylor
Platt
Republicans Admit Tough Battle Ahead to Retain Senate Majority
Senators Ives of New York and Lodge of Massachusetts warned the GOP faces a tight race to keep its slim Senate edge with 33 seats at stake. Ives urged voters not to stay home while Lodge cautioned against overconfidence and offered no crystal ball on outcomes.
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Senate
Washington
Ives
New York
Lodge
Massachusetts
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Only Six Polio Cases Reported Today in North Carolina
Polio cases totaled 2,144 for the year as of today with six new cases in North Carolina. Alamance county added a new death bringing the yearly toll to 119. Counties Cleveland Forsyth Pitt Polk Randolph and Sampson each reported one case.
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Raleigh
State Board of Health
Alamance
Cleveland
Forsyth
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Sampson
Atlanta
March of Dimes
Ralph McDonald
North Carolina
Truman challenges Dewey to championship fight in campaign
President Truman in Los Angeles urges Gov. Dewey to a championship fight and blasts running from issues. Wallace outlines wartime freight charge loss and subservience allegations as voters consider liberal and progressive choices. Dewey defends atomic weapons program and envisions peaceful civilian uses of atomic energy.
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Truman
Dewey
Associated Press
California
Thomas E. Dewey
Gilmore Stadium
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
America
Wallace
Toledo
Ohio
Appeasement Is Out in Berlin Crisis, Mackenzie Says
DEWITT MACKENZIE argues Western powers use shirt-sleeve diplomacy to signal Berlin stance. They demand a clear yes or no on a settlement while warning Moscow and the Reds about patience, blockades, and currency in Berlin. Military defenses are stepped up though not a threat of war. Moscow surveys Southeast Asia as Cold War continues.
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General Assembly
Moscow
Berlin
Security Council
Russia
Dewitt MacKenzie
America
Britain
France
Bevin
Marshall
U.N. General Assembly
Paris
Soviet Union
United States
England
Southeast Asia
Europe
Stolen Blank Payroll Checks Tied to Wachovia Project
Eighty four blank payroll checks signed by J. A. Jones Construction general superintendent J R Woods were reported stolen to High Point police. The Wachovia Bank Project checks were drawn on Wachovia Bank and Trust Co High Point, with serial numbers B-47446 through B-47530. Police continue investigation into the missing payroll checks and alert merchants to watch for checks bearing the Wachovia Bank Project signature.
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J. A. Jones Construction Company
Charlotte
Wachovia
C. C. Stoker
Police Department
High Point Merchants Association
J. R. Woods
Merchants Association
Wachovia Bank Project
Woods
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
High Point
Red Fighter Ships Harass U S Planes Over Berlin Corridor
U S officials accuse Soviet anti aircraft gunners of firing dangerously high in the air lift corridor to Berlin and threaten further air to ground practice as tensions rise. The US bans Soviet sponsored newspapers in the American zone in retaliation for Moscow actions. Capt W H Gookin reports a Russian notice to conduct seven hours of anti air craft firing near the Bueckeburg corridor and up to 10000 feet near Dolles airport 25 miles west of Berlin.
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Berlin
U. S
Germany
W. H. Gookin
Quincy
Mass
Bueckeburg
Dolle
Gookin
Paris
United Nations
Frankfurt
Moscow
George P. Hays
Hays
Alcoa Divestiture Sought By Justice Department
The Department of Justice asks the court to force Aluminum Company of America to dispose of plants and properties to restore competition in the aluminum industry. The move follows a 1937 anti trust suit and a 1945 appeals court ruling that acknowledged a monopoly but delayed action until after the war.
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New York
Department of Justice
Aluminum Company of America
Department
Alcoa
J. Francis Hayden
Anti-Trust Division
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Aluminum Combine
Tom C. Clark
Justice Department
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T. S
U.N. Assembly
United Nations General Assembly
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Foster Dulles
Warren R. Austin
George C. Marshall
Assembly
Old Belt
By Edwin B. Harkinson
Lodge and
Franklin Roosevelt
Phoenix
Ariz
U.S
Grant Aluminum Co
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