French Soviet Row Disrupts Big Five Talks in London
A fresh dispute between Soviet and French representatives over communiqué wording disrupted ministerial talks of the five leading Allied nations in London. German peace discussions were postponed as the row cooled. Molotov demanded an official correction, while France resisted. John Foster Dulles canceled his European tour to refine U S policy. Byrnes and other officials prepared to return home as the conference neared its close.
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London
United States
Hungary
V. M. Molotov
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
U. S
Home
State Byrnes
Road Damage in NC Estimated at 1.5 Million
Raleigh report shows engineer Vance Baise told the state highway and public works commission that flood damage to North Carolina highways would total at least 1.5 million dollars. He cited conservative estimates and more soil loss, with the fifth sixth and seventh districts hardest hit.
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Raleigh
Vance Baise
State Highway and Public Works Commission
North Carolina
Baise
A. Graham
Friends of FEPC Plan New Drive
Congressional supporters of the FEPC adopt a plan to make the temporary agency permanent. Chairwoman Mary T. Norton says FEPC aims to push weekly action under Calendar Wednesday to move approved bills to the floor, despite competition for precedence from other committees.
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Washington
Congressional Friends of
FEPC
Mary T. Norton
D-Nj
House Labor Committee
Fepc Ap
Europe’s big five council maps postwar power zones
The foreign ministers meeting in London revealed rival spheres of influence in Europe. Moscow asserts the Balkans as its preserve while Britain and Stalin maneuver. Molotov rejected Western rights in the Balkans and Russia extends from Berlin toward Poland and Czechoslovakia with Austria and Hungary in its path.
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Council Oforeign
London
Europe
Council
Russia
Moscow
Britain
Marshal Stalin
Molotov
Balkans
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Austria
Hun
New York Struck as Garment Industry Stands Still
The Associated Press reports a major New York strike paralyzing the city. While national labor unrest idled 350000 workers, New York's garment industry shutdown halted much of the metropolis business and industry.
Postwar labor unrest paralyzes major cities and industry
An army of nearly 650,000 off the job as postwar disputes keep over 350,000 from work directly. In New York City an additional 250,000 to 300,000 idle, with the garment district near closure under a spectacular strike.
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Associated Press
New York City
AFL elevator strike halts business across 1600 buildings
A spreading strike by about 15,000 AFL elevator and building maintenance workers in roughly 1600 office and loft buildings paralyzed business and industry. The walkout began Monday and disrupted activity across multiple sectors, with estimates reaching into the millions in impact.
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AFL
North Carolina ABC reports new liquor sales increase
Gross liquor sales in North Carolina's 25 counties reached 24.026 million for the last fiscal year, per ABC board Chairman Carl L. Williamson. The rise adds 7.672 million from the prior year with counties receiving 3.404 million and the state 1.969 million in taxes.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Carl L. Williamson
ABC Board
Southern Conference Allows Ex-Servicemen to Play Elsewhere
Dr. Lee W. Milford announced the Southern Conference voted 11 to 5 to permit former service men to attend any college and participate in athletics. The rule applies to future discharges who may enroll immediately, while current students must remain at their institutions to finish football.
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Clemson
D. C
Lee W. Milford
Southern Conference
Milford
Clemson College
Tax Slashing Considered By Congress
Congress debates tax cuts with the House Ways and Means Committee meeting for the first time in 16 years. The plan aims to reduce individual income taxes and ration-related levies in 1946. Senate Foreign Relations Committee also backs study on atomic energy use.
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Washington
Congress
House Way and Means
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
House
Ways and Means Members Vote to Delay Excise Tax Cuts
The House Ways and Means Committee for the first time in 16 years votes to rule out excise tax reductions now. The panel plans peacetime bill aimed at cutting individual and corporate burdens and will skip public hearings to speed action. Existing wartime high levies on liquor tobacco fur coats and cigarettes stay in effect for months after the war before reverting to 1942 levels.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Mitchell Named Chief Counsel for Pearl Harbor Investigation
William D. Mitchell was unanimously chosen as chief counsel for a joint congressional committee probing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Earl Browder testified to the House committee that he knew of no American Communist contacts abroad during 1940 to 1945 and noted his own unemployment. Military matters dominated today. President Truman's possible plan to share the atomic bomb with other nations under conditions was floated in Washington. The Senate pressed to raise soldier pay to attract volunteers and curb the draft while an admiral told a House panel the Navy has no current plan to end its mobilization.
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William D. Mitchell
Hoover
Joint Congressional Committee
Pearl
Earl Browder
Communist Party
House Committee
United States
William Z. Foster
Browder
Conwee
Washsane
Truman
Congress
Senate
House
Ration Boards In 28 Towns To Be Closed
Charlotte area OPA plans centralization as 28 price and ration boards receive notices to close by Oct. 31. Group one boards must shut by Oct. 15 including Spencer Hayesville Robbinsville Winston-Salem Danbury Charlotte boards four and five Cherryville Old Fort Black Mountain Wilkesboro China Grove Pineville. Group two boards close by Oct. 31 including Madison Troy Mocksville Yadkinville Sparta Taylorsville New...
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Charlotte
OPA
Spencer
Hayesville
Robbinsville
Winston-Salem
Danbury
Cherryville
Old Fort
Black Mountain
Wilkesboro
China Grove
Pineville
Madison
Troy
Mocksville
Yadkinville
Sparta
Taylorsville
New
Truman Defends Japan Occupation Policy and MacArthur Role
President Truman stated the occupation policy for Japan and General Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander were agreeable to all allies with no objections. He dismissed reports of a Soviet push for an allied control commission and invited direct communication of any criticism.
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Washington
Truman
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Pf A
CIA
London
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
U. S
Oil Workers Authorized to Strike Nationwide
The Oil Workers International Union CIO announced a nationwide strike authorization involving about 250000 workers after instructing all districts to notify locals to strike.
Oil Workers Union authorizes strike if conciliation fails
Chicago report states the Oil Workers International Union CIO authorized a nationwide strike should government mediated conciliation fail. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach urged the conference not to fail while union officials clarified the authorization does not guarantee a strike unless the talks collapse.
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Chicago
Oil Workers International Union
CIO
Schwellenbach
Harvey O'Connor
Publc
O. A. Knight
Fort Worth, Tex
Union International
Oil Workers Strike Expands to Nationwide Walkout Risk
Harvey OConnor, public relations director for the international union, said a statement was read at a labor management conference aimed at settling the oil workers strike begun yesterday. About 35,000 oil workers are on strike across seven states, tying up refineries and gas and oil product plants. He estimated a nationwide walkout could involve 250,000 if the union acts.
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Harvey O'Connor
The
International Union
O'Connor
Milton Silver III in Serious Condition at Local Hospital
Milton Silver III president of the Silver Knit Hosiery mill remains in serious condition at High Point Memorial hospital after several days of treatment. He previously sought care at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and was returned to the local facility with his condition unchanged.
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Milton Silver
Silver Knit
High Point Memorial Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Allies strip Japan of all weapons and equip
Tokyo September 6. An Allied supreme command order strips the Japanese army and navy of all equipment and assigns their food and clothing to Japanese civilians. Weapons are controlled by Allied forces for occupancy, training, or memorial use. Civilian relief items go to the Home Ministry for distribution with strict accountability. Transportation facilities formerly used by the armed services are included.
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Tokyo
Allied Supreme Command
Japanese Home Ministry
Brutality Details Taped By Young Witness At Nazi Trials
Lena Stein a 21 year old Hungarian Jewess testified at the Belsen Oswiecim trial describing a SS guard Irma Grese flaying a prisoner through charged wire and leaving her chest bleeding. She identified nine defendants including Josef Kramer as involved in brutality witnessed at Belsen and Oswiecim camps.
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Lueneburg
Germany
Lena Stein
Belsen
Oswiecim
Irma Grese
Miss Stein
Grese
Josef Kramer
Oswigim
Kramer
More Meats To Be Unrationed
Washington reports the government will announce on the morrow that hamburger sausage and lunch meats from lower grade beef will have zero ration values starting September 30. Secretary Anderson said last week that canner cutter and utility grades would be zero valued for the October rationing period.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Southerner Opposed To Pay Boost
Senator Ellender of Louisiana argued against raising the minimum wage at a Senate labor committee hearing. He said it would be better to cut prices to preserve money value, while A F Hinrichs cited living costs for lower income families and projected outcomes of a 65 to 75 cent minimum wage over time.
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Washington
Ellender
D-La
Senate Labor Committee
A. F. Hinrichs
Commissioner of
Labor Statistics
Hinrichs
New Zealand
Tunnel
D-Del
South Carolina Man Executed By Japanese
The Japs executed Lt. William G. Farrow, 23, from Darling ton D C, once with James Doolittle's Tokyo raid crew. He was captured after a crash in Jap occupied China after Nagoya bombing. Ashes of Farrow and two other fliers, Lt. Dean E. Hallmark and Sgt. Harold A. Spatz, were sent home by the International Red Cross.
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Cleveland
William G. Farrow
James Doolittle
Tokyo
War Department
Robert C. Mays
Lakewood
China
Nagoya
Maus
Dean E. Hallmark
Dallas
Tex
Harold A. Spatz
Internationa Red Cross
Farrow
Darlington
D. C
Rioting in Saigon Triggers Mass Kidnappings and Fire
Rioters in Saigon kidnapped 41 Europeans and killed up to 10 as a massive market blaze raged through the city. British troops rescued 31 of the French captives, while Annamites attacked French areas and seized a slaughter house, cutting Saigon’s food supply amid widespread clashes.
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Saigon
Indochina
Annamites
Market Place
Meeting Reported Between Hirohito And MacArthur At Embassy
Tomorrow likely, sources say, Emperor Hirohito will meet General MacArthur at the U.S. embassy compound. An official PR note says reporters will receive instructions at 9 a.m. for covering an upcoming event. A Japanese peer warned Hirohito should withdraw from politics to curb a throne clique.
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Ual Hacaie
Em Hirohito
MacArthur
U. S
Japan
House of Peers
Hirohito
Marequis Yoshichika Tokugawa
Chungking
Foreign Office
Privy Council
Methodist leaders report big accessions in Western North Carolina
Bishop Clare Purcell and the conference cabinet said church membership will greatly rise next year aiming for one million new members, including 25 000 in the western North Carolina conference. World service fund payments near 90 percent. The cabinet, from districts including Gastonia Statesville Marion and Greensboro, wrapped two days of meetings ahead of the Greensboro session October 9 to 12.
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Charlotte
Clare Purcell
Western North Carolina
West Mareket Street Methodist Church
Greensboro
World Service Fund
E. M. Jones
Gastonia
J. S. Hiatt
Statesville
Charles S. Kirkpatrick
Marion
Walter B. West
Argentina Election Set With Possible October Start
Argentina faces growing restiveness under the military government as Foreign Minister Juan Cook says elections promised by President Edelmire Farrell could occur within weeks, with a vow to fulfill a year end promise. The government maintains control after yesterday's revolt led by Gen Arturo Rawson, maker of the 1943 coup.
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Buenos Aires
Juan Cook
Edelmire Farrell
Arturo Rawson
Pres Ramon Castillo
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