Italy Ready to Lead Surrender of Sovereignty for European Union
Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza says Italy is prepared to curtail political sovereignty to achieve European union. He calls for ending archaic frontiers and duties if other nations also consent, noting unity as cure for postwar economic and political ills and a path to peace.
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Rome
Italy
European Union
Carlo Sforza
Union
Count Sforza
Senate
Europe
Head on Crash Kills Mrs. L A Martin on Kings Mountain Highway
Mrs L A Martin of Hendersonville was killed when her 1947 Buick convertible, driven by her husband, collided head on with a Dodge dump truck on U S 74 near Lincoln Academy. Mr Martin was critically injured and taken to Gaston Memorial Hospital.
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L. A. Martin
Hendersonville
Kings Mountain Highway
Kings Mountain
Lincoln Academy
Martin
Charles A. Spearman
U. S. 74
Gaston County
Gaston Memorial Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Birthday Portrait of a Princess
Elizabeth Bowes Lyon born August 4 1900 in Hertfordshire England the ninth of ten children of the Earl and Countess of Kinghorne. She spoke French as a child and enjoyed tennis and riding. In 1923 she married the Duke of York who became King George VI. Her concern for social problems earned her popular affection.
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Queen Elizabeth
Hertfordshire
England
Elizabeth Bowes- Lyon
Earl
Kinghorne
Duke of York
George VI
Nathan Corn Granted Bail in Murder Case
Nathan T. Corn a 34 year old former convict charged with murdering his employer was granted bail by State Supreme Court Justice Claude A. Taylor of Spartanburg. The order requires two sureties of 7500 dollars each and the bail was set in Rock Hill South Carolina on August 4.
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Rock Hill
S. C
Nathan T. Corn
State Supreme Court
Claude A. Taylor
Spartanburg
W. Gist Finley
Taylor
Corn
Silvermaster Declares No Spy Ties While Bentley Reiterates Claims
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster told the House Un American Activities Committee that he never spied for a foreign nation and faced questions about Communist ties. He said investigations cleared him and produced a letter from Secretary of War Patterson. Elizabeth Bentley repeated accusations, but Silvermaster called her claims false and labeled her a neurotic liar.
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Washington
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Naval
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Silvermaster
Elizabeth T. Bentley
U. S. Secret Service
Secretary of
War Patterson
Patterson
Lauchlin Currie
C. B. Beldwin
Naval Intelligence
Currie
Roosevelt
Miss Bentley
Baldwin
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
Robert E. Stripling
Democrats End Racial Segregation in Headquarters Staff
The Democratic National Committee bans race segregation in its Washington headquarters staff and distributes its Negro workers across units. National Chairman J Howard McGrath says the policy follows President Truman’s guidance and aims to attract Black voters for the upcoming election.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
McGrath
William L. Dawson
Illinois
Republican National Committee
Val Washington
Chicago
William Murphy
GOP
Dixie Democrats
South
Anti-Poll Tax bill abandoned in Senate session
Senate Republicans abandoned their drive to pass an anti-poll tax bill during the extra session. The move followed a GOP conference and marked a victory for Southern Democrats whose filibuster had stretched into its fifth day.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Former Richmond Editor Dies At 67
Benjamin Bell Jr., 67, former editor of The Richmond News Leader, died yesterday at his home in Wilmington. A native of Wilmington he had lived in Richmond until last year when ill health caused retirement. Funeral services were held today.
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Wilmington
Benjamin Bell Jr
Richmond News Leader
Richmond
Thurmond Gains 20 Electoral Votes In Two States
Mississippi delegation pledges nine electors for Thurmond Wright while Alabama already lists eleven Thurmond votes. The Mississippi convention approved electors to oppose Truman over civil rights proposals, with South Carolina urged to reconvene for a second convention to pledge eight electors.
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Thurmond
Mississippi
Columbia
J. Strom Thurmond
Fielding Wright
Alabama
Thurmond-Wright
Rivers
Executive Committee
W. P. Baskin
Democratic Party of
South Carolina
States Rights Petition Fails
Rain boosted local streams in Gaston county with 2.60 inches in a day and 4.57 inches in three days. North Carolina board of elections recognized the Progressive Party but refused to recognize the States Rights Democrats, pending potential court action and a Sept. 1 petition deadline.
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Gaston County
Gastonia
Raleigh
North Carolina
Olive
States’ Rights
States’ Rights Democrats
Dave Clark
Charlotte
Cochairman
States Rights Democrats
Harry McMullan
Clark
Guardsmen Keep. Qader ., Dayton Strikers Will Remain Out
In Dayton Ohio on August 4 the UniVIs Lens Co. labor dispute saw Local 768 of the United Electrical Workers CIO vote to continue the strike until a satisfactory agreement is reached. Guardsmen stood by as the stalemate persisted with no settlement in sight.
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Dayton, O
Univis Lons Co
United Electrical Workers (Cio
West Gastonia Page Enlarged by Gazette Series
The Gazette expands West Gastonia coverage led by correspondent Mrs. Hobson Jacobs with intensified reporting on local activities. The UEW strike remains active as guards guard non-strikers. a 4 p.m. rally and 8 p.m. membership meeting were planned today.
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West Gastonia
The
Gazette Today
Gazette
Hobson Jacobs
South Dalton Street
West
Demand Cheaper Meat Spurs Texas Housewives Boycott
Texas housewives extend a meat price boycott from Dallas to Beaumont Galveston Abilene and Hamlin with calls to action from Dallas Women’s Chamber volunteers. The Dallas Federation of Women’s Clubs aims 10 000 supporters and a butcher cites economic strain as shoppers seek lower prices. In Miami chain calls also urge a one week meat abstention beginning Friday.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Beaumont
Galveston
Abilene
Hamlin
Orange
Paris
Corpus Christi
Waco
R. D. Vaughn
Dallas Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Down
Dallas Federation of Women’s Club
Wallace Shanks
Miami
Fla
E. A. Daly
Biscayne Park
Moscow hopes for four power talks as envoys press Stalin
Western envoys led by US ambassador Smith French envoy Chataigneau and British secretary Roberts meet Stalin and Molotov amid secrecy. A new conference may be sought. Moscow hints at possible agreement on German questions but Berlin blockade blocks talks. In Belgrade Vishinsky presents Soviet Danube plan to expand Soviet control over the waterway.
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Moscow
Stalin
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Ernest Bevin
Washington
Paris
London
Russia
State Department
Berlin
Belgrade
Eastern Europe
Danube
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U. S
Britain
France
Europe
Vishinsky
Pastor Dr. E. McNeill Poteat Returns to Pullen Church
Dr. E McNeill Poteat, president of Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester New York, will return as pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church where he led from 1929 to 1937.
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E. McNeill Poteat
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Rochester
N. Y
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church
Rainy forecast and backyard bass tale
Aloysius reports a damp morning with a slicker and boots as he walked to work. He jokes about finding a school of bass in his yard but says cats ate the fish and a rain of cats and dogs last night brought in many dogs by the dogcatcher. He predicts more rain tonight and Thursday with continued cloudiness.
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Aloysius
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Eugene Dennis
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New York
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NEA Telephoto
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Lee Thurmond
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