Hawkin county plane crash ends two lives in foul power dive
A stunt exhibition ends tragically as a borrowed two seater plane crashes near Church Hill killing James Hurd and Henry Lee Pyne. Witnesses say the craft went into a power dive from about 2500 feet before wrecking on Bay's Mountain. Local search parties recovered the bodies about an hour later.
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Here
Linwreck
Solitudes
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Church All
Henry Lee Pyne
Rogersville
Walter L. Miner
Pyne
Kingsport
Robert
Boots) Cooper
Hurd
Cooper
Dempsey Farm
Jack Morelock
Robert Cooper
W. T. Cunningham
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Holston River
Bays Mountain
Ellis Binkley
Truman Resists Southerner in Cabinet and TN Governor Bid
President Truman reportedly rejected plans to name a Southern cabinet member, with hints he may appoint a Midwesterner to succeed Anderson as Agriculture Secretary. Southern governors warned against backing any anti-civil rights nominee, while Murray announced the Republican bid for Tennessee governor, calling for poll tax abolition and constitutional government.
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Texas
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Georgia
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Virginia
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Meat Packers Refuse Arbitration in Wage Dispute
Two of three major meat packers Swift & Company and Cudahy Packing Company rejected arbitration over wage increases with the CIO United Packinghouse Workers who have called a nationwide strike for 12 am tomorrow. The union originally sought 29 cents an hour raise for about 100,000 members, and would halt the strike if a 20 cent gap could be resolved. Armour & Company had not replied. the union offered to arbitrate with Armour if it agreed.
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CIO United Packinghouse
Swift & Company
Cudahy Packing Company
Armour & Company
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Armour
Hearing Begins General Meyers Gets Five-Year Sentence
The March term of court opened at 8 40 a.m. with General Bennett E. Meyers sentenced to 20 months to five years for subornation to commit perjury. A federal jury convicted him of inducing a former associate to lie to a Senate committee about wartime business dealings.
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Moyers
Senate
Alexander Holtzoff
Meyers
Holtzoff
Bennett E. Meyers
United States
Air Forces
Holthoff
Aef
Holtroff
Robert T. Bushnell
Bushnell
Benedict Arnold
Bleriot Tlamarre
of & Plane Parts Company
Tuaiminrre
Alaska Airlines DC-4 Disaster Kills 40 On Mount Sanford
The four engine Northwest Airlines DC-4 crashed on Mount Sanford in Alaska killing 40 aboard. High winds and forecast bad weather hinder rescue efforts as cloud cover and avalanche danger delay ground parties. Captain James Van Clerf led the Minneapolis crew on the Shanghai to New York charter.
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Alaska
Orient Airlines
Mix
Shanghia
New York
Sunaet
Overseas Tankship Corp
Seirline
FareKast
Taft denounces hysteria in U S Maine swing
Sen Robert A Taft campaigns in Maine denouncing war hysteria and calling for restraint. He asks Truman and Marshall to disclose any evidence Russia will move militarily beyond its Yalta sphere. Taft warns against fear and argues war should come only from direct aggression by others.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Maine
Russia
Yalta
Truman
Marshall
Congress
Taft
Pine Tree
Frafi
Street Scenes of Broad Street Fashion and Skating
Ardent sports fans discuss Fritz Kreisler and a football coach misidentified by coworkers while two youths tour Broad Street disapproving of women’s fashion displays. A skater glides past showgirls, craving better views as they sit near a shop window during a casual afternoon.
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Kreisler
Jobin
Broad Street
City Court mulls speeding fine rise in Kingsport
After docket review Judge Howard Poston heard speeding violations and considered raising the fine from 15 to 25 dollars. Several motorists faced forfeitures, with three cases at 15 dollars and others fined for public drunkenness, driving drunk, and license issues. Additional penalties included for stop light violations and parking infractions.
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Poston
Parsons
Clarence Lawson
Venice Roberts Harmon
Lawson
Kin Delveer
Heange
Tve
Roberts
Poavoasing
Whlalcyy
European Unity Meeting Opens as 18 Nations Confer
The European Unity conference begins today with 18 nations, fourteen foreign ministers, and speakers including British Foreign Secretary Bevin and French Foreign Minister Bidault. The clock-room talks start at 3 pm local time in Paris Quai D Orsay with goals of a 1 year political economic and military union among Britain France Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg and others.
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Elst
Quai D'Orsay
Seine River
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
Rent Control Debate Rises Amid GOP Bill Clash
Six Democratic members predict rent increases up to 60 percent if the House Republican rent control bill passes. Opponents claim stripping federal authority to local boards would lift controls in many areas. CIO housing chair Walter Reuther condemns the measure as unconstitutional and inflationary. Senate already passed a temporary extension to May 1, 1949.
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Banking Committee
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Kentucky
Senior Banking Committee
Monroney
Oklahoma
Boges
Louisiana
ERP Must Face House Challenges ERP Must Face House Challenges
Senate approval opens the European Recovery Program as the Foreign Affairs Committee races to speed action before Italy’s election. The plan seeks 8.3 billion dollars in the first year with 1 billion from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to launch immediate operations. House leaders anticipate debates over scope and method, while Greeks, Turks, and Chinese aid additions loom as hot issues before the April 1 start date.
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Foreign Affairs Committee
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Marshall
Douglas Mace Arthur
Albert C. Wedemeyer
William C. Bullitt
France
Russia
Bullitt
Bridges
Senate Appropriations Committee
Nine Die In Week Of Auto Crashes In Tennessee
Nine persons died last week in Tennessee automobile accidents with four in the Memphis Shelby County area. Memphis fatalities raised the city toll to 12 for 1948, Nashville Knoxville Montgomery Madison and Lawrence counties each reported a death. The Big Four toll stood at 40, up from 35 at this time in 1947.
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Irene
Tennessee
Memphis
Shelby County
Nashville
Knoxville
Montgomery
Madison
Lawrence
No Agreement Seen on Partition Plan
Big powers held final meeting in New York with no consensus on a joint program for Palestine. United States Russia France and China met at 10:30 am at Alexandre Parodi's office to advise the UN Security Council, which had given them until today to propose action on the 1947 partition recommendation. Britain refused to participate, citing objections to implementing partition.
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Palestine
United States
Russia
France
China
New York
Alexandre Parodi
Peters
United Nations Security Council
Mystery Cloaks Conference On War Weapons Use
Washington waited for a Defense Department briefing as Forrestal and the chiefs of Army Navy and Air Force gathered at Key West to resolve long standing service roles in war. The meeting, described as part of unifying the services, produced no immediate military plan and ended with guarded statements.
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Secretary of
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