Disturbance Drops Toward Atlantic Coast After Carolina Rainfall
A tropical storm weakened near northeastern North Carolina and moved northeast toward the Virginia capes. Warnings extended from Eastport to the Virginia line as rainfall spiked across the Carolinas, with Greensboro reporting a record six inches and flooding closing streets and stressing dams at Brandt Lake.
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Raleigh
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
Carolina
Weather Bureau
Middle Atlantic
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Eastport
Chesapeake Bay
Hatteras
Greensboro
Charleston
S. C
Charlotte
N. C
Danville
Virginia
Brandt Lake
Winston-Salem
Salem Lake
Floods Displace 1.1 Million in Japanese Disaster
Tokyo reports official figures show over 1,100,000 people homeless after northern Honshu floods. Many set up temporary villages on levees and high ground. reports note flood pirates looting inundated homes. Deaths 1,984 missing and 1,616 injured. 415,211 homes destroyed or inundated.
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Tokyo
Home Ministry
Honshu
North Carolina Weather Report Mixed Clouds and Warmer Temperatures
Considerable cloudiness and warmer conditions expected across North Carolina with light rain possible in the northeast this morning. Skies mostly fair and cooler tonight with a Friday forecast Sunday calendar showing sunrise at 6 11 and sunset at 6 12. Patchy rainfall data and city readings across the region note varied amounts from Charlotte to Spartanburg and Wilmington with several locales reporting measurable totals.
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North Carolina
Poland Pushes UN Entry for Five Former Enemies
Lake Success September 25 Poland formally asked the Security Council to grant blanket UN membership to Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland. The ex enemies would join through peace treaties with Britain and the United States signaling early support from Poland and opposition from some Western powers. The session followed a 57 member plenary expansion as Pakistan and Yemen were approved and Argentina proposed Ireland admission.
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Lake Success
Poland
Security Council
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
United Nations
Zygmunt Modzelewski
Herschel W. Johnson
Sir Alexander
Cadogan
Britain
U. S
General Assembly
Pakistan
Yemen
xMussia
Andrei A. Gromkyo
Argentina
Ireland
Australian Delegate Accuses Russia of Blackmail Over UN Membership
Australian Delegate W R Hodgson charged Russia with blackmail to urge the Security Council to admit Soviet satellites as UN members. He cited Andrei Gromyko’s pledge to vote for Italy’s admission only if Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland were admitted as well. Gromyko ruled the five states would be considered separately.
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Lake Success
W. R. Hodgson
Russia
Security Council
United Nations
Hodgson
Andrei A. Gromyko
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Gromyko
Evatt elected chairman of Palestine committee at UN Assembly
Australia’s external affairs minister Dr Herbert V Evatt was chosen chairman of the UN Assembly’s extraordinary Palestine committee. He proposed inviting the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee to join discussions on the same terms as in last spring's special Palestine sessions, a plan adopted without opposition.
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Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Unitd Nations Assembly
Palestine
Evatt
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Arab Higher Committee For Palestine
National Defense Board Names Bush Leader and Air Officials
President Truman completed the new defense leadership naming Dr. Vannevar Bush as chairman of the research and development board. He filled air department posts with Arthur S. Barrows as undersecretary and Eugene M. Zuckert and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as assistant secretaries for air under Secretary W Stuart Symington.
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Washington
Truman
National Defense Organization
Vannevar Bush
Research and Development Board
Department of Air
Arthur S. Barrows
Chicago
Department
W. Stuart Symington
Eugene M. Zuckert
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Air
Politicians Targeted by Telephone Class Demonstration
Princeton professor Kenneth Hechler with 55 political science students launched a new telephone hunt to eavesdrop on national leaders. Carroll Reece and James Farley joined a three way call as part of the first classroom discussion, prompting interest in the public address system linked to long distance lines.
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Princeton
N. J
Kenneth Hechler
H__hler
Carroll Reece
Republican National Committee
James Farley
Five Convicts Escape Sparta Prison Camp
Five white convicts escaped last night from the Sparta prison camp and were tracked into a wooded area by bloodhounds and a posse. Prison inspector Kyle Matthews in Raleigh identified the fugitives as Ray Hegler Harold Carlton Ed Casey Oscar Shauskey and Garland Woodlief with sentences ranging from 4 to 25 years for crimes including assault with intent to rob and breaking and entering.
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Sparta
Kyle Matthews
Raleigh
Ray Hegler
Mecklenburg
Harold Carlton
Caldwell
Ed Casey
Wilkes
Oscar Shauskey
Garland Woodlief
Durham
More Democracy In Army Says Royall
Secretary of the Army Kenneth C Royall tells the 27th annual convention of the Military Order of the World Wars that democracy is increasing in the U S army but essential discipline will not be relaxed He contrasts U S policy with the Soviet model where authority over enlisted men was almost entirely removed and warns the Russian system lost stability
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Atlantic City
N. J
Kenneth C. Royall
U. S
Soviet Union
Royall
Lancaster News sold to Lancaster Broadcasting Co
J W and J M Barton owners of the Lancaster News for 18 years sell the weekly to the Lancaster Broadcasting company. The News has twice won a silver cup from the South Carolina Press association for best weekly in the state.
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Lancaster
S. C
J. W
J. M. Barton
Lancaster News
Lancaster Broadcasting Company
South Carolina Press Association
CIO TO OPEN COOPERATIVE STORES IN NORTH CAROLINA
The CIO plans cooperative stores for union members starting in Elizabeth City and Laurinburg to combat high living costs. Stores will offer groceries hardware and furniture at cost plus a small markup with funds from the woodworking union. Other CIO unions in the state may follow.
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Charlotte
CIO
North Carolina
Elizabeth City
Laurinburg
William Smith
Frank Evans
Woodworkers Union
Smith
Evans
Woodworking Union
Reserve Board Head Favors Aid to Europe
Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, urged reducing military spending to bolster democracy and peace abroad. He warned of inflationary pressures and a looming economic storm while noting the United States spent over 25 billion dollars on defense in the first two postwar years versus about 16.5 billion on foreign aid.
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Washington
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Eccles
U. S
Pressure Sought On Eisler Case At HUAC Hearing
Washington September 25 HUAC pursued fresh evidence of pressure behind Hanns Eisler’s stay in the United States. Top witness George S Messer smith former ambassador to Argentina and ex assistant secretary of state for visas testified as investigators continued the inquiry into Eisler who had entered in 1940 and later sought citizenship.
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Washington
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Hanns Eisler
United States
George S. Messersmith
Argentina
Eisler
Hollywood
Robert E. Stripling
State official admits urging Eisler visa in 1948 Havana case
Washington notes reveal George S. Messersmith then assistant secretary of state acknowledged writing the Havana consul general in 1989 urging prompt consideration of Hanns Eisler's U.S. visa. He testified before the House committee on Un-American Activities that he sent a copy of Sumner Welles's letter to Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Washington
Georges
Messersmith
Havana
Hanns Eisler
United States
House Committee On unAmerican
Sumner Welles
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eisler
Eisler Admission Questioned by Congressional Panel
The hearing will reveal alleged state department and immigration laxity enabling Eisler to stay in the United States. Chairman J Parnell Thomas said the committee will expose the lapses as Eisler, a 54 year old self styled freelance artist, gained residence from Mexico in 1940 after earlier entries. Stripling testified Eisler was admitted despite a labor department finding of communism and a special board recommendation against admission which was overruled by a Washington board, with a deportation warrant later canceled.
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Eisler
United States
J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
State Department
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Mexico
Stripling
Labor Department
Board of Appeals
Washington
Granddaughter of Ex Governor Dies in 81st Year
Louise Swain Clayton 80 granddaughter of former North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain and president of the University of North Carolina died after being struck by a car in Asheville. Funeral services are set for tomorrow in Asheville following a Tuesday night accident.
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N. C
Asheville
Louise. Swain Clayton
North Carolina
University of North Carolina
David Lowry Swain
Buncombe County
Government to Open New Field In Atomic Energy
The Atomic Energy Commission announced plans for a new atomic pile at Oak Ridge several times more powerful than the current Tennessee plant. The Clinton laboratory will be run by the University of Chicago under a four year contract with Monsanto having operated it since 1945. Fourteen southern universities will cooperate in research, including Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, LSU, Tulane, UNC, Tennessee, Virginia, and Vanderbilt, among others. The project aims to expand peaceful and military uses of atomic energy. There is also a note that Cape Fear flood waters may rise due to a recent storm, with Neuse river waters also possibly rising but unlikely to flood.
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Washington
Oak Ridge
Tennessee
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Clinton Atomic Laboratories
University of Chicago
Monsanto Chemical Co
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
Clinton Laboratories
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Catholic University
Washington, D. C
Duke
Emory University
Atlanta, Ga
Georgia Tech
Louisiana State
Tulane
Universities of
Alabama
Kentucky
North Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Yanks to Raise Case With Yugoslavia at Once
The state department will take up the seizure of three American soldiers with Yugoslavia immediately. The men were forced across the border at gunpoint along the Trieste frontier. Identified as Lt. William Van Atten, Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick Jr., and Pfc. Glen A. Myers, the incident follows warnings to stop coercive frontier tactics. The case comes amid Allied forces’ tensions at Trieste and British American leadership.
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Washington
State Department
Trieste
Michael McDermott
T. S. Airey
Free Territory
William van Atten
East Orange
N. J
Earl G. Hendrick, Jr
Arlington
Neuse River Cut-Off Project Underway Near Goldsboro
Work has started on a 6400 foot cut-off on the Neuse River near Goldsboro. Nelle Teer, a Durham contractor, leads the project under U S Engineers in Wilmington. Congress appropriated 85200 for several months of construction to relieve flood damage near highway 117 bridge three miles south of here.
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Goldsboro
Neuse
Here
Nelle Teer
Durham
U. S. Engineers
Wilmington
Congress
Highway 117
Aluminum Owls To Chase Starlings
Greensboro announces plans to deploy twenty metal owls at four public buildings to deter nuisance starlings. Devices of past years failed. owls painted with lifelike fur will be used as natural enemies of the birds.
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Greensboro
Butter Prices Decline as Grains Rally Amid Food Push
President Truman urged conservation to aid Europe’s hungry and formed a citizens food committee. New York top butter grades fell 2 percent to 7 1/7 cents a pound, while wholesale egg prices held steady and cotton futures rose 25 to 40 cents a bale. Grain prices rallied after the cabinet committee announced about 470 million bushels of grains available for export in 1947-48. The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index slipped 2.9 percent for the week to September 23, down from a high of 7.12 on September 16.
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Associated Press
Truman
Europe
Citizens Food Committee
New York
Cabinet Food Committee
Dun and Bradstreet
Large turtle caught off Brittany coast
In Nantes on September 25 a turtle weighing 1,324 pounds was captured off the Brittany coast. Authorities stated it is the largest turtle recorded in France since September 4, 1729.
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Nantes
France
Britanny
President Truman Opens Door to Extra Session on Europe Aid
President Truman said a special congressional session for emergency Europe aid could be avoided, with an open mind on the issue after talks with party leaders. He outlined cautious long term Marshall plan steps, named citizen food committees led by Charles Luckman, and urged Americans to conserve to ease foreign hunger and curb domestic prices.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
Paris
J. Truman
Anderson
Marshall
Commerce Harriman
Cabinet
Special Citizens Food Committees
Charles Luckman
Lever Brothers
Cambridge
Mac
America
Vincent J OConnell Named Catholic South Chairman
The Rev. Vincent J. O Connell of New Orleans was nominated for re election as chairman of the Catholic committee of the south at the seventh annual convention in Charlotte. Officers Edward MacClements A J Cummings and John Eck were named for re election as vice chairman secretary and treasurer respectively. Dr Guy B Johnson UNC spoke of a new south influenced by economic political and racial changes and noted conflicts over social justice and race relations.
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Charlotte
Vincent J. O'Connell
New Orleans
Catholic Committee of the
South
Leo M. Byrnes
Mobile
Ala
Edward MacClements
Chapan
A. J. Cummings
John Eck
Gastonia
Dr. Johnson
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