Senators say Truman balks investigation over records
Senate investigators halt public hearings citing a refusal by President Truman and Attorney General Tom Clark to provide FBI records on William W. Remington. House committee conducts secret talks with a mystery witness as part of its anti espionage inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
Subcommittee
Tom Clark
FBI
William W. Remington
House On American Activities Committee
Clark
Remington
Congress
Commerce Department
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Miss Bentley
New York
Ring
House
Anti inflation bill altered by Senate Banking Committee
The Senate Banking Committee approved two changes to the House anti inflation bill. It struck a provision for higher Federal Reserve gold reserves and raised bank reserve requirements from 1 and 3 percent to 2 and 5 percent. Installment buying restrictions remain, with the effective date moved from March 15 to June 30. The committee split on price controls, and Tobey's standby powers were rejected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
House
Federal Reserve Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve System
Senate
Truman
Capehart
R-Ind
Tobey
R-Nh
Shelby Beauty Names Prize Photographers
Shelby Beauty Names Prize Photographers reports Miller of The Greensboro Daily News won first prize of 100 dollars for a photograph of Patty Osborne of Shelby North Carolina. John Hemmer of the State News Bureau took second with fifty dollars. Charlie Cooper of the Durham Herald Sun and Bill Futrelle of The Goldsboro News Argus tied for third and split twenty five dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Malcolma
Tex) Miller
Greensboro Daily News
Patty Osborne
Shelby
North Carolina
John Hemmer
State News Bureau
Charlie Cooper
Durham Herald-Sun
Bill Futrelle
The
Goldsboro News-Argus
Weather update shows rainfall excess for date
Yesterday high reached 83 degrees with a low around the same night. Rainfall to date totals 7.17 inches, exceeding the quota of 5.04 inches by 2.13 inches.
Birthday of Sir Alexander Fleming Highlighted in Obituary Style
The article marks the birthday of Sir Alexander Fleming born August 6 1881 at Lochfield near Darvel Scotland. It notes his discovery of penicillin with Sir Howard Florey and calls penicillin the most valuable disease fighting chemical. Fleming won many medical honors including the Nobel Prize and first noticed penicillin in 1928, with development taking 11 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Alexander Fleming
Lochfield
Darvel
Scotland
Sir Howard Florey
Academy
Dr. Fleming
Girl 17 Faces Bigamy Charge in Lowell Case
County officers investigate a bigamy case involving Eunice Jenkins Padgett Rutledge a 17 year old of Lowell. Harry Padgett charges she married another Lowell man William Rutledge after his wife prior marriage. Rutledge is held for possible prohibition charges and police report two prior marriages. The case set for Saturday in Magistrate Beaty Price court with bond placed at 1000 dollars.
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Lowell
Harry D. Padgett
Eunice Jenkins
William Carl Rutledge
Eunice Jenkins Padgett Rutledge
Carl Rutledge
Rutledge
Harry Padgett
Mecklenburg County
D Beaty Price
Allied Envoys See Molotov in Moscow on Berlin Blockade
U S ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and British envoy Frank Roberts with French ambassador Yves Chataigneau visited Foreign Minister Molotov in Moscow as they push for a basis to end the Berlin blockade. The trio met Stalin Monday night and awaited a possible four power communique and fresh talks of the Foreign Ministers Council.
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U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Kremlin
Frank Roberts
Yves Chataigneau
Stalin
Berlin
London
National Zeitung
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Cost Of Meat Scheduled To Decline Soon
James Elliott of Minneapolis, speaking at the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers convention in Chicago, forecasts a sharp break in retail meat prices within 10 days to two weeks as heavy cattle receipts and the fall run hit the market, led by beef and spreading to other meats.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
James Elliott
Minneapolis
Dal Wooten Sr. Former Kinston Mayor and Sheriff Dies
Funeral services were held today for Dal Floyd Wooten Sr. 82, a former mayor of Kinston and longtime sheriff of Lenoir County.
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Kinston
Dal Floyd Wooten Sr
Lenoir County
Thousands Idle in New England Textile Plants
In an Aug. report Boston explains four day weeks hit thousands of workers in fine cotton mills across Rhode Island Massachusetts and Maine. experts say slowdown is temporary due to reduced orders from high grade cotton goods makers and expect five day weeks to resume by summer end with Heywood Narrow Fabric Co Fall River the sole brief shutdown.
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Boston
New England
Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates
Rhode Island
Fall River
Mass
Slaterville, R
Consolidated Textile Divisions Shift To Four Day Week
Shelby North Carolina and Lynchburg divisions of Consolidated Textile Corp will revert to a four day week starting Monday. Vice President J L Langley announced the temporary change without stating reasons. The move follows a recent five to six day shift at Dan River Mills as a return to normalcy.
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Lynchburg
Shelby
N. C
Consolidated Textile Corporation
J. L. Langley
Dan River Mills
Danville
Consolidated
Textile industry spokesman on market sparring over cotton
A textile industry spokesman says the current market is not a break but a standoff between stubborn buyers and sellers. He notes retailers hope for lower cotton prices as a big crop potential looms, risking downward pressure on the market.
Spruce Pine Hotel Destroyed By Fire
The 40 room Topliff Hotel a landmark since 1906 in Spruce Pine was virtually destroyed by a fire that started early today Most guests and employees escaped without serious injury with only minor smoke exposure reported for some occupants and staff
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Topliff
Navy Probes Tragedy in Plane Crash Near Miami
Navy board studies the charred wreckage of an R4D transport plane that killed ten people near Miami. The trainer crew parachuted to safety after a collision with the Navy craft en route from Norfolk to Cuba. crews and passengers include several from Norfolk, Mobile, Detroit, and New York.
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Miami
Fla
Navy Board of Inquiry
Navy
Stearman
Here
Thomas M. Poe Jr
John Hackett
Poe
Army Air Force
Hackett
Navy Today
Walter Bascom Shrout
Norfolk
Comadr
P. F. Peters Jr
Mobile
Ala
W. J. Robb
J. C. Hodges
W. Hernandez
Brooklyn
Naval Air Station
Opa-Locka
Hephzibah Church Meeting Postponed to August 14
The auxiliary meeting of Hephzibah Presbyterian Church scheduled for Saturday night is postponed to Saturday August 14 at 8 o’clock. The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Marshall Allen.
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Hephzibah Presbyterian Church
Marshall Allen
Spy Hunter Witness Secrecy Guts Un American Affairs Hearing
Washington August 6 to 7 the House Un American Activities Subcommittee held a secret rendezvous with a mystery witness whose identity and location were kept under wartime style secrecy. Rep Mundt said the testimony would reveal a Communist spy ring reaching high into government during the war and that more hearings will follow next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Un-American Activities Subcommittee
Rep
Mundt
R-Sd
Bulldog Provokes Bank Robber to Shoot Self
In Berkeley a bank robber identified as Isaac G. Fox fled with $7,000 to $8,000. He fled into a backyard where a 12 year old bulldog named Buggs attacked him. Fox grabbed an FBI gun during a struggle and killed himself after failing to fire twice.
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Berkeley
Calif
Isaac G. Fox
Tennessee
FBI
Levonne Ames
Bank of America
Fox
Buggs
Frank J. Goldfuss
North Oakland
Communists Refuse Browder Reinstatement at Convention
The Communist party's 14th annual convention in New York unanimously denied Earl Browder's appeal for reinstatement. Browder, 57, wartime party leader and former symbol of American communism, was deposed as general secretary in 1945 and expelled in 1946 for alleged cooperation with capitalism. The presiding committee had urged denial.
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New York
Communist Party
Earl Browder
Browder
America
Disorders Escalate as Polk County Election Violence Spreads
Governor McCord ordered a National Guard unit to Polk County, Tennessee, after unrest following yesterday's election left one man dead and another found shot, with five wounded. Troops stand ready to move into Cleveland, Polk County seat Benton, amid reports of guns being distributed and ongoing clashes between political factions.
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Nashville
Tenn
Jim McCord
National Guard
Tennessee
Polk County
Hilton Butler
Cleveland
Polk
Benton
Butler
Dwight McReynolds
Nash Ville
McMinn County
Athens
McMinn
E. H. Crump
Shelby County
GGL
Copperhill
Ducktown
So Cow Hand Aims for Seminole Softball Victory Song
Aloysius noted a cold morning in Gas ton county as he wore a muffler and prepared for work. He fueled his car with anti freeze and added quilts to the bed while anticipating a warmer weather forecast for tonight and Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aloysius
Gaston County
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U. S.S
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Admiral Wilkes
Roscoe E. Schuirmann
Pn Eee
Shelby Beauty Names Prize
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Jacqueline Wiser
Cyril
Veronica Elliott
Cecil
Elliott
Molotov
Spruce Pine
Herbert Girard
Piedmont Mill
Gastonia
Girard
Ennis Atkins
Bulldog
Bandit
Crump
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