Suit challenges use of road bond funds by highway commission
Nelle L. Teer of Durham files suit in Wake Superior Court to test legality of utilizing five million dollars of the first fifty million road bond issue for purchasing machinery and for stabilization work rather than paving secondary roads. Judge Henry W. Grady signs order to show cause October 14 for a temporary restraining order. case cites alleged unallocated use of bonds and questioned authority prior to bond sale.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Wake Superior Court
Nelle L. Teer
Durham
Henry W. Grady
Teer
Commission
Highway Commission
Budget Bureau
Arms Aid To Be Hastened To U S Allies
Congress approved a 1.314 billion foreign arms bill to ship surplus American equipment to allied nations as part of Cold War efforts. The measure provides 125 million dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and aims to process about 450 million dollars of gear for U S allies, despite some critics calling it wasteful.
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Washington
America
Congress
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
United States
Russia
House
Senate
Cold Wave Spreads From Midwest Into the South
The cool fall air spread from the Dakotas into Northern Indiana and Missouri and was expected to move eastward and southward. Temperatures dipped below freezing in Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Indiana and Minnesota with 20 to 28 degree readings at several towns. Skies mostly clear in the cool belt while the east coast saw rain from Miami to New England and Florida towns Tampa and Jacksonville recorded 1.25 inches of rain. The Far West reported fair weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Midwest
Dakotas
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Minnesota
Land O'Lakes
Wis
Atlantic
Green Bay
Rockford
Lil
Miami
Fla
New England
Tampa
Jacksonville
Rockies
Far West
Industrial Editors In Session Today in Greensboro
The South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors opens its fall meeting in Greensboro with speakers including Charles D. Orth of Burlington Mills UNC professor Richard P. Calhoon and High Point Enterprise editor Robert L. Thompson. Officers to be elected today, meeting ends tomorrow.
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Greensboro
South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors
Charles D. Orth
Burlington Mills
Richard P. Calhoon
School of Commerce
University of North Carolina
Robert L. Thompson
High Point Enterprise
Mother and Son Face Gallows in Delaware Murder Trial
A farm woman Inez Brennan and her son Robert Brennan were found guilty of first degree murder in the Wade N. Wooldridge killing. A mercy recommendation was given for Robert but not for his mother, with potential life terms or death by hanging depending on court action.
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Dover
Del
Delaware
Robert Brennan
Wade N. Wooldridge
Stone Mountain
Inez Brennan
Robert
Mrs. Brennan
Benjamin D. Dondlow
Pressure Renewed For Steel Strike Settlement
Ford Motor Company agrees to finance pensions for aged CIO United Auto workers, increasing pressure on steel negotiators as talks continue toward a Friday midnight strike deadline. U S Steel and other producers oppose employer cost sharing while union plans to flash a strike signal to about 500000 steel workers.
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Pittsburgh
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto
United States Steel Corporation
United Steelworkers
Ford
Steel Industry
U. S. Steel
Philip Murray
Flue-Cured Leaf Prices Show Erratic Movement
Tobacco prices across the Carolinas and Virginia fluctuated as the old belt posted declines of 1 to 2 per hundred while some rises of 1 emerged. Tuesday sales reached 2,438,084 pounds at 45.85 per hundred, with the eastern North Carolina belt at 5,340,952 pounds averaging 53.58. Middle best gains ranged 1 to 5, lugs fell 1 to 7, Tuesday saw 1,896,158 pounds at 46.96.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Virginia
Old Belt
North Carolina
Clearing Way For Morehead Port Lease
The North Carolina Council of State backs a levy adjustment to aid Morehead City port improvements by allowing Atlantic and North Carolina Railroads to receive 13 800 as full payment on a 138 000 debt tied to the port commission bonds. Action hinges on Reconstruction Finance Corp approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Counil of
State
Morehead City
State Ports Authority
Atlantic and North Carolina
Council of State
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
Union Official and 52 Hart Mill Pickets Fined
In Tarboro, Sept 29 a union official and 52 workers were fined for violating a court order against mass picketing at the Hart Cotton mill. Judge Leo S. Carr fined R C Ted Thomas of Charlotte 250 dollars. Thomas, CIO Textile Workers United official, labeled as the leader directing pickets, received a suspended 30 day jail term on good behavior. Workers were fined 50 dollars each. cases of three minors continued.
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Tarboro
Hart
Superior
Leo S. Carr
R. C
Ted) Thomas
Charlotte
Thomas
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
Loyalty Checking Program in Government Two Years Old
James Marlow reports on the Truman loyalty program started October 1 1947. The plan checks loyalty of current and prospective federal workers with records reviewed and FBI investigations if suspicious information arises. The initiative followed the Hatch Act and multiple executive actions to guard against disloyalty.
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James Marlow Washington
Truman
Ruie
Civil Service Mission
Congress
House Civil Service Committee
Commis
Sion
FBI
Jones
Pay Raises Urged For Top Leaders
Washington officials report Senate action on a cabinet pay raise bill after trimming House boosts. The compromise would raise cabinet pay to 22 500 and set top officials at 15 000 with limited exceptions, costing about 700 000 annually, while civil service raises still pass totaling 95 062 000 yearly for 85 000 workers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Lucas
Illinois
Truman
National Security Resources Board
Federal Security Administrator
Veterans Administrator
White House
Truman Leads Democratic Invasion of Missouri Campaign
President Truman heads to Missouri for the 1950 campaign kickoff with a keynote speech in Kansas City for William Boyle. He joins Masons in a secret lodge ceremony in St Louis before a major Democratic rally led by cabinet members and party leaders. Vice President Barkley to attend as the fight to unseat Senator Donnell intensifies.
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ST. Louis
Truman
Missouri
Missouri Grand Lodge
Kansas City
William M
Bill) Boyle
Washington
Boyle
Barkley
Senate
House
Donnell
R-Mo
Mr. Truman
Lambert Field
German mark devalued by West German government
Bonn today announced a devaluation of the deutschemark changing the exchange rate from 30 cents to 23.8905 cents in U S currency. The move marks a sharper decline in the value of the German currency against the dollar as government policy.
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Deutschemark
Bonn
Germany
Ford and Auto Workers Strike Pact Ends 35 Hour Haggling
Ford Motor Co and the CIO United Auto Workers reached a historic pension plan agreement to be financed by the company. The pact provides Ford workers over 65 with 100 dollars monthly plus social security, ending a potential 115000 worker walkout after 35 hours of marathon negotiations.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
PAW
Walter P. Seuther
Sanford Man Hurt In Oil Explosion
An explosion at an oil distributing plant in Sanford last night destroyed four tanks of gasoline and fuel oil and injured one man severely. Kenneth Martindale, 35, of Lee-Moore Oil Company, suffered burns over his body except his feet and a waist section. Doctors reported he had a good chance to survive.
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Sanford
Kenneth Martindale
Lee-Moore Oil Company
Church Moves to Abolish Jim Crow in Episcopalian Policy
At the 56th general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America in San Francisco a resolution by Dr. Clifford P. Morehouse urged equal rights for all communicants and prohibiting exclusion from worship or sacraments due to race color or nationality. No action date set. A special committee recommended liberal interpretation of marriage laws and proposed a three bishop three presbyter three lay commission to study canon amendments over three years.
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San Francisco
Protestant Episcopal Church In America
Clifford P. Morehouse
New York
House of Deputies
House of Bishops
State moves to buy rural road bonds in largest deal yet
In a morning session at the state treasurer’s office Governor Kerr Scott, banking officials and newspaper men witnessed the approval of bids to purchase fifty million dollars of rural road bonds. The bid spread showed high and low bids within about two tenths of a percent, with the purchasing syndicate led by Charles M. winning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerr Scott
Council of State
Secupities
State Treasurer
Brandon Hodges
Hodges
Charles M
Lewis And Operators Talk Again Amid Coalfield Violence
A dynamite blast hit Junedale Coal at Grass Flat Pennsylvania as United Mine Workers press for talks with major coal operators amid clashes. A gunfire incident in Jasper Alabama reportedly killed one miner, another seriously wounded, while Virginia declares a state of emergency and Kanawha County schools pull buses. The 11th day of a 480000-member walkout continues with dwindling coal stocks and spontaneous union demonstrations.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Junedale Coal Company
Grass Flat
Jasper
Ala
William M. Tuck
Virginia
Kanawha County
West Virginia
Lewis
Russia Abolishes Yugoslavia Friendship Pact
London dispatch reports Soviet Union ends the 1945 friendship treaty with Yugoslavia. Moscow cites Tito regime alignment with foreign imperialist circles. Budapest trial of Laszlo Rajk cited. Tito denounces as propaganda. Moscow led split recalls 1948 expulsions and economic boycott. Speculation rises on other satellites severing ties.
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London
Russia
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Budapest
Laszlo Rajk
Soviet Union
Rajk
Hungary
Cominform
Communist International Information Bureau
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Romania
Long Range Jet Flight Planned by Marine Jet Expert
Lt. Col. Marion E. Carl, aviation's jet speed ace, plans a 770 mile cross country flight from Glenview Illinois to Cherry Point North Carolina aiming to exceed 500 mph. He previously set a 650.8 mph world record in 1947 and is currently at a Portland Oregon aviation exposition piloting the Grumman Panther.
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Cherry Point
Marion E. Carl
Marine Corps Aviation
Naval Air Station
Glenview
Chicago
Marine Air Bass
Sioux Falls
S. C
Carl
Muroc
Calif
Col
Portland
Oregon
Grumman Aircraft Corporation
Marine Fighter Squadron 115
Edenton, Marine Air Base
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Ivan Toguri D'Aquino
Roche
Paul Sommers
John S. Hodgson
Montgomery
Sommers
Hodgson
U.S
Industrial Editors
Thomas F. Riddle
Wichita Falls
Tex
Little Rock
Ark
Morehead
Ford and
Auto Workers
Capitol Square
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