President Truman hails arms pact for Near East security
President Truman praised the London three power agreement allowing arms deliveries to Arab states and Israel for defense only. He said the move should boost confidence in future security in the Near East and aid peace amid the Palestine conflict.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Middle East
Truman
Vaist
London
Israel
Palestine
Aral
Near East
Commission Boosts State Freight Rates
The State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission ordered a ten percent increase in intrastate freight rates effective June 1. The move raises most rates to interstate levels, with officials unable to estimate total impact. The order also boosts Southern Telephone and Telegraph Company rates and exempts petroleum products and certain items from the increase. Agricultural limestone and slag are included. alfalfa meal rates set at 18 percent of the first loss rate, with no rise for phosphate rock.
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Nashville
State Railroad and Public
Wtiti-ties Commission
Soeom
Commission
Aso
Geantett Southern Telephone and Telegraph Company
Tittle Over & Vent
West Tennessee
G. B Avery
St. of Alamo
Middle Tennessee
John ©. Hammer
McMinnville
East Tennessee
Hammond Fowler
Rockwood
Poll Tax Deadline Set for June 5 in 1949 Laws
Sullivan County trustee Clyde Groseclose announced the June 5 deadline for paying the 1949 poll tax as officially set in Nashville. He noted a previous newspaper error and reminded voters the poll tax is not included with property taxes. Exemptions apply to women veterans and non military men, with veterans needing a free certificate.
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Clyde Groseclose
Sullivan County
Trustee
Kingsport Times- News
Groseclose
Nashville
Morristown Violence Flares as Patrol Rushes In
Workers reporting for duty at the American Enka plant near Morristown were stoned by about 200 pickets. six injured, receiving first aid at the site. State officials, including Sam K Neal and Sam Wallace, were ordered to investigate state protection needs as violence continued along Highway 32 near the plant.
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Morristown
Tenn
Anmerican Enka Corp
Planv
Sat
Carl Gilbert
State Highway Patrol
Gilbert
Knoxville Gay
Gordon Browning
Hamblen County
Sharif Robert Medlin Nec
J. T. Davis
Kingsport
Lash
Milburn Eine
Enkalant
Heckler Disrupts Clay Speech at Berlin Rally
Gen Lucius D Clay faced disruption as a heckler interrupted his anti-Communist rally in Berlin. Police cleared the audience after about 1,000 pickets outside protested and 100 followed the heckler from the hall. Clay urged Berliners to remain patient as freedom rises and warned Russians amid the commotion.
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Lucius D. Cley
Berlin
Germany
Town
Hall
Clay
Buchenwald
Reds Post Guards On Berlin Boundary
Red police posted guards along the Russian sector boundary to keep about 100,000 free German youth marchers from straying west toward Berlin. Soviet controlled papers warned Anglo American powers may jail peace fighters for wearing blue emblems as West German police report arresting 15 FDG members for riding trucks with Communist propaganda. East German trains and trucks continue to move supporters into East Berlin as officials hope to contain the crowd.
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Berlin
PBJ
East Berlin
Weat
FDD
Red
Hortottow
Germany
Local Hospital Gets 15000 To Complete Project
Federal aid granting 15000 completes funding for Holston Valley Community Hospital project approved two years ago. State Hospital Advisory Committee in Nashville approved the allocation while the State Health Department notes the final 25000 was unavailable until new funds emerged. Oilers in the upstate Tennessee region include Bristol 130002.53 and Union County General Hospital 128980 with a reserve of 125.
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Holston Valley Community Hospital
State Hospital Advisory Committee
Nashville
State Health Department
Tennessee
Unicoi County General Hospital
Wink
Binaggio Henchmen Indicted For Taxes
A federal grand jury indicted three more henchmen of the late Charles Binaggio on income tax evasion charges. The named defendants are Walter L. Rainey Samuel Golde berg and John Menglaracina. The panel also charged Samuel F Hayden and Tany Locoeu with related offenses in an interim report.
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Mansas City
Charles Binaggio
Walter L. Rainey
Samuel Goldeberg
John Menglaracina
Samuel
F Hayden
Jackson County
Tany Locoeu
Kansas City
Hayden
Coume
Officials Doubt End to Cold War Prospects
Washington officials express cautious skepticism about Trygve Lie's push to end the Cold War through negotiations. President Truman says he has no statement until talking with Secretary of State Acheson. Lie returns to New York after Europe and will visit Washington soon. State Department remains undecided amid ongoing Western coalition talks. Congressional reaction comes from Rep. Eaton.
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Washington
Trojan
Trygve Lie
Truman
United States
East
France
Russia
United Nations
Lie
New York
Europe
Statin
Acheson
Hoga
State Department
Im Coreleas
Congress
Rev. Eaton
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Republicans Press To Defeat Point Four Foreign Aid Plan
Republican senators push to strip the Point Four provisions from the conference report on the foreign aid bill as the Senate debates the European Recovery Program. Leader Millikin and colleagues argue the fourth point should not be merged with aid measures ending in 1952.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Senate House
Comnatly
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Tait
Ohio
Millikin
FBI Found Gold After Long Hunt
FBI trapped Philadelphia chemist Harry Gold after narrowing a list of 1208 suspects. Gold, 39, was arrested and charged with receiving U S atomic development secrets from Klaus Fuchs and passing them to the Russians.
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McMahon
Coma
FBI
Philadelphia
Harry Gold
Klaus Fuchs
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gold
Fuchs
Puchs
Soviet Union
PRI
New York-Philadelphia
England
Government Shakeup Elevates Commerce Dept Leadership
Washington reports a government shakeup that boosts the Department of Commerce's standing. Secretary Charles Sawyer is to oversee Maritime Affairs and, if Congress approves, will direct the Heean-Instruction Finance Corporation lending operation in July. He is a Cincinnati lawyer who helped build a large federal collection of bureaus two years ago.
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Washington
Fruman
Department of Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Heean-Intruction Finance Corporation
Airliner Crashes Into Galeras Volcano Killing 25
Bogota reports Langa Airways DC-3 crashes into the side of Galeras volcano near Pasto. Twenty-two passengers and three crew die. a ten-year-old survivor is the only known living passenger. Most victims are Colombian. one German-born resident aboard identified. Flight from Poyalan to Tpales near the Colombia Ecuador border.
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Bogota
Colombia
Langa Airways
E*espectacor
Galeras
Pasto
Popyan
Poyalan
Tpales
Goombia-Ecuador
Primary Board Members Named in Sullivan County
A list of Sullivan County Democratic Primary Board members was announced by the State Democratic Executive Committee in Nashville. The release names Woodrow Booker Arthur Harkleroad J W Adams B O Johnson and Mack Ray with no addresses provided.
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Sullivan County
Woodrow Booker
Arthur Harkleroad
J. W. Adams
B. 0. Johnson
Mack Ray
Siatuo
Democratic Executive Committee
Nashkville
Associated Press
Agams
Ane Rey
Bingsport
Market Reports New York Fails to Definite Trend
Market activity showed a cautious session with a defensive tone in New York stocks. Losses were small and scattered as General Motors drifted into negative territory while closing prices remained below the day’s high after news of a two year contract with the auto workers union each term.
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New York
General Motors
Chitec Auto
Scout Camporal Opens Friday In Eight Countr ies Region
Sequoyah Council Cam poral for Scouts spanning eight counties in Upper East Tennessee and two Southwest Virginia counties opens Friday at Camp Golden Bagte near Kingsport. About 700 scouts and leaders check in Friday afternoon for a three day event with patrol cooking, judging, special activities Saturday and a public campfire. Religious services Sunday are conducted by a Kingsport ministerial representative with medical and first aid facilities on site.
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Sequoyah
Upper East Tennessee
Virginia
Golden Bagte
Bay's Mountain
Kingsport
Cloudland
Kingsport Ministerial Association
Whyte
Sullivan County Population Figures and Growth Notes
County totals show 94 978 with cities included and Kingsport rise 35.5 percent since 1940. County growth overall stands at 37.6 percent since 1940. city editor notes figures by Bill Maples.
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Bill Maples
Kingsport
Sullivan County
McGhee Guilty and Faces Two Years in Penitentiary
Kingsport resident George McGhee was found guilty on a voluntary manslaughter charge for the Easter Sunday death of George Goins and received a two year sentence. Judge Shelburne Ferguson ordered the murder trial of Landon Carrier to proceed after pretrial delays. Carrier testified he shot George Stump in self defense during a February Bristol cab stand confrontation.
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Blountville
George McGhee
Carrier
George Stump
Club 61
Setis Jeter
McGhee
Ferguson
Staceyyé Grayson
Lyle Burrow
East Stete Street
Stump
Roy Smith
Withrow Jones
Court
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini wed by proxy in Juarez
In a proxy ceremony in Juarez Mexico Judge Raul Orozco presided at noon BST Rossellini and Bergman married across borders after months of legal delays in the United States Sweden and Italy Witnesses included Marcello Girosi and William A Cocke The couple announced the marriage from Rome insisting it is not bigamy now Mrs Rossellini.
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Rome
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman
Juarez
Mexico
United States
Sweden
Italy
Miss Bergman
Raul Orozco
Juatez
Rio Grande
el Paso
Javier Alvarez
Rossellini
Arturo Gomez Trevino
Miss Bergmint
Marcello Girosi
New York
William A. Cocke
Miss Bergmar
Brooks Enters Race for First District Senate Seat
Brooks announced today his bid for the First District senatorial seat held by Don J. M. Lewis of Bligasethiton. He seeks the Republican nomination in the August 3 primary. Lewis has announced for renomination and Brooks is allied with former Congressman B Carroll Reece who opposed incumbent Rep. David E. Phillips.
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Johnson City
Hubert
Brooks
Don J. M. Lewis
Bligasethiton
Lewis
B. Carroll Reece
David E. Phillips
Two Youths Charged In Burglary Attempt
Two youths were charged with attempted burglary after a Monday night break in at Oakwood Market on West Sullivan Street. A night watchman fired a shotgun blast, injuring one suspect with pellet wounds. John Edgar Hearns, 20, and Thomas Bruce Horton, 13, were bound to the Sullivan County Grand Jury with $2,500 bonds. both waived preliminary hearing.
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Oakwood Market
West Sullivan Street
S. G. Gilbreath
John Edgar Hearms
Thomas Bruce Horton
Old Kingstert
Sullivan County
Marke
Bill Jaynes
Jaynes
Horton
Big Stone Gap
Hawkins
Tennessee
Hugh Kyle Jaynes
Hal Noe
John D. Parker
Cecil Prarham
Kearns
Gate City
Parker
J. B
Monty) Spehureh
Sobtoer Pertoda Fishing Tables and Schedule
Fragmentary notice presents fishing tables and a time schedule titled The Major Periods and The Minor Periods. It lists day lines and times including Wednesday AO 12 14, Thursday 12 40 to 1 05, Friday 2 30, and Saturday 2 20 with durations, indicating a local event or game times and durations.
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Jatin Alden Bhight
Tyne
Sunde
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Marshal Presvat
Joe Pylant
Dirk Taylor
Sequoyah Council
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White Fen
Daniel Boone
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Unaka
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Watauga
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George W. Swaney
D. W Menlton
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Robert P. Zimmerman
Bluff City
Bristol
Bristol Chamber of Commerce
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Washington Couny
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