Crack-Down on Gouging Near Military Bases Urged
A Senate subcommittee report finds dozens of cases where service families paid high rent for substandard quarters near bases. It cites Marines and sailors at Camp Lejeune and 15 other installations paying meager rooms without electricity or clean water. The panel urges immediate government and local action and a permanent housing committee within the Defense Department.
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Senate
Jacksonville
Camp —_ Marine Base
United States
Defense Department
Weed Sales Expecting Top Prices Across Belt Markets
Markets opened a new trading week with expectations of higher averages on the Eastern Belt and Carolinas Border Belt following last week’s gains. The Federal State Market News Service tallies weekly figures by belt with Border Belt sales at 33,197,641 pounds averaging 50.63 dollars per hundred, while Eastern Belt led with 53,653,103 pounds at 52.94.
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N. C
Federal State Market News Service
Eastern Belt
Carolinas Border Belt
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Border Belt
Conway, Loris
Pamplico
Lamar
North Carolina
Chadbourn
Fair Bluff
Fayetteville
Tabor City
Middle Belt
Crackles Chicken-feed Prices Rise With Tips and Cocktails
A brief note highlights rising costs of poultry products as menus add tipping, cocktails, and cover charges. The piece points to inflationary pressure on small eateries and shopper concerns about true meal costs.
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M.lp
King George VI Faces Recovery After Lung Operation
Buckingham Palace reports the king rested after surgery to remove part of a lung. Five doctors and the royal family’s presence underline the fragile state. Crowds gather outside waiting for word as Prime Minister Attlee and party leaders offer prayers for a swift recovery.
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George VI
Buckingham Palace
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Elizabeth
George Cordiner
Isabel Morris
George V
Operaciana Palace
Clement R. Attlee
Iton
Winston Churchill
Clement Davies
Ian
De Gasperi Warns Nations Of Danger of World War
Italian Premier Alcide De Gasperi told Congress that a third world war is unavoidable unless the free world builds a stronger balance against communism. He urged more U S aid and called for revision of the Italian treaty while promising Italy will stand in the front for freedom if war comes. He spoke during a joint session alongside President Truman and top officials. The talks will cover arms limitations terms of the 1947 treaty and Italy’s UN bid as well as Trieste emigration and arms orders from the United States.
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Alcide de Gasperi
Congress
Italy
U. S
de Gasperi
Truman
House
Senate
United States
von de Gasperi
Russia
Europe
White House
Acheson
Trieste
United Nations
Uest
Britain
France
Ottawa
Alli
U.N
Paris
Chapel Hill man admits fatal shooting of wife at farm home
Police held Ira S. Sparrow, 67, without bond after he confessed to shooting his 60 year old wife to death at their farm near Chapel Hill. He reportedly said the motive involved a misstatement about aiming at another man. Deputies planned to reveal additional details later.
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Chapel Hill
Ira S. Sparrow
Here
Western North Carolina Methodist Conference Opens in Greensboro
Approximately 900 clergymen and lay members prepare to open the annual Western North Carolina conference in Greensboro with board and committee meetings tomorrow afternoon and a memorial service led by Bishop Costen J. Harrell of Charlotte tomorrow night.
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Greensboro
Western
Graham Holds Confederate Money Decision Pending
Raleigh reports Bob Graham said he is saving Confederate money until he decides what to do with it. He notes the notes are nearly worthless and not worth a penny.
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Raleigh
Bob Graham
Louise Davis Surrenders in New York for Death and Rest Homeward
Louise Davis a 37 year old convicted murderess and fugitive from North Carolina turned herself in to New York police saying she is dying of tuberculosis and wishes to return home to spend her remaining time behind bars in her native state. She noted New York’s cold weather and prefers warmer conditions in North Carolina.
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New York
North
Caro
Louise Davis
New York University Grants 20 Root-Tilden Scholarships
Herbert L. Hyde of Franklin North Carolina named as one of the first 20 Root-Tilden scholars at NYU School of Law. Scholarships financed by an anonymous donor, run for three years, valued at 2100 dollars each year.
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New York
Herbert L. Hyde
Franklin, N. C
New York University School of Law
Iran to Dust Oil Workers
Iran says British technicians at Abadan oil field will be expelled within a week or 10 days unless they sign individual contracts with the nationalized Iranian Oil Company. AH Shayegan of the Oil Board announced after a three hour meeting with Premier Mossadegh. No further overtures to Britain regarding the 200 technicians.
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Iran
Abadan
AH Shayegan
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Armistice Talks Hampered as U N Troops Lose Heartbreak Hill Peak
Four Americans reached the summit of Heartbreak hill near Yanggu after a 13 day fight but were forced to surrender the crest two hours later to a strong Communist regiment. U N forces sustained heavy fire as reinforcements arrived, and another crest west of Kum remained contested after an all day effort. The clash occurred amid intensified Reds activity on central and eastern fronts, with enemy reinforcements and shelling including shore batteries and self propelled guns. A Navy note reported modest losses around Kimpo airfield with a Marine night fighter downed and one Bedcheck Charlie aircraft shot down in three months.
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United Press Staff
8Th Army
H.Q
Korea
Yanggu
U.N
Aera
Kumin
U. S
Perkins
Boyle Case Probers Seek More Loan Information
Senate investigators demand income tax return checks for William Boyle and Max Siskind to uncover extra funds from 1949 onward. Probers review Boyle’s link to the American Lithoford firm and RFC loans amid broader committee inquiries into GOP and IRS ties.
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Warren Duffeeee
Senate
William M. Boyle Joycee
Cane ‘Boyle
Max Siskind
Washington
Senate Permanent Investigating Committee
American Lithoford Corp
St. Louis
Siskind
Lithoford
Wallace says 194 report might have saved Chiang Kai-shek
Wallace claims prompt use of his 1944 China report could have averted Chiang Kai-shek disasters and asserts the document opposed pro Communist influence. He says Roosevelt considered Wedemeyer for China command and denied a Communist Nationalist bias, noting reforms to prevent revolution.
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Henry A Wallace
China
Chian Kai-shek
Roosevelt
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
Wallace
Truman
White House
Senate Internal Security Committee
Louis Budenz
Owen Lattimore
John Carter Vincent
Alben W. Barkley
Chiang
Velit
Wedemeyer
Joseph
Chungking
Japan
Formosa
Violent Deaths Claim Six in North Carolina
A United Press survey reports at least six deaths in North Carolina over the weekend due to accidents or violence. incidents include a shotgun killing at a Chapel Hill farm, a party shooting near Zebulon, a child struck by a car at Winston-Salem, a fatal car wreck near Morganton, a self-inflicted shooting at Fayetteville city hall, and a gunshot death in Reidsville ruled as self-inflicted.
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United Press
Orange County
Rhoda Sparrow
Ira
Chapel Hill
John D. Harris
Zebulon
Oscar Wireless
Harris
Johnnie Sapp
Winston- Salem
Thomas R. Stellman
Dallas
Morganton
S. R. Hayes
Fayetteville
Joe Pinkston
Cadell Burchell
Reidsville
M. B. Cummings
Reds Balk Over UN Demands
The United Nations and Communist delegations argued over new conditions for progress toward an armistice. Allied aims include shifting conference the Kaesong proposal and possibly a joint UN Communist inspection body to deter violations in the conference zone. The Communists cited Kaesong as unsuitable and accused the Allies of repeated violations in the neutral area.
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Toyo.tu United Netene
Ridgway
U.N
Kaesong
Alre
Kim Tl Sung
Peng Teh-Huai
Korea
Pat
Revenue Building Worker Killed in Elevator Shaft Fall
In Raleigh a state employee died after falling into an elevator shaft at the Department of Revenue building. Sylvester Bridges and George Cherry report Bridges, custodian and janitorial chief, was last seen alive about 6 45 am during a routine elevator check.
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Department of Revenue
Sylvester Thomas Bridges
Eee
George
Cherry
Bride Bridges
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