Taft Stop Gap Bill Debated In Senate Pace Quickens
Republicans rush to pass Taft stop gap anti inflation bill in the Senate by nightfall with debate set for today. The plan includes voluntary industry wide price controls and continued export and transportation controls as the House faced a setback. Taft pressed for quick action, signaling possible House action this week if the Senate approves.
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Washington
Senate
House
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Ohioan
Truman
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
Martin O'-Mass
Senate Banking Committee
White
R-Me
Temperature and Rainfall Report Summary
Yesterday's low 55 and last night warm. Today 38 as cold front moves in. December rainfall totals 1.47 inches, with a quota of 3.86 inches and a remaining deficit of 2.39 inches.
Local Post Office Adds Workers To Handle Record Yule Business
In Philadelphia and Gastonia, postal offices brace for peak Christmas mail. Gastonia post office plans 15 to 20 hires as receipts top prior years. Christmas Day closure with limited deliveries. Soldiers’ overseas mail surges and Santa letters flood the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. Western Union telegraph strike potential looms as 50,000 workers mull a nationwide walkout next Tuesday after a stalemate in wage talks.
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Gastonia
Gazette
Harold Broome
James Denton
Charles Williams
Coley Campbell
W. G. Jenkins
Ennis Atkins
Philadelphia
Western Union Telegraph Company
Commercial Telegraphers Union
AFL
H. Ross Colwell
U. S. Conciliation Service
Adolph Brunges
Western Union
Union
Colwell
C. W. Boshassier
Santa Claus
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club Meeting at Arming ton Hotel
Activity calendar notes a Thursday luncheon for the Rotary Club at the Arming ton Hotel scheduled for 12 30 p m. The item confirms a civic group gathering in a hotel venue with no additional details.
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Rotary Club
Armington Hotel
Alleged Traitor Defends Self In Boston Court
Robert H. Best, former American news man now defending himself against treason charges for wartime Nazi broadcasts, asks for a new judge. He filed an affidavit alleging prejudice by Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who presided over pre trial motions and previously sentenced Douglas Chandler to life. Best seeks law experts and to reaffirm freedom of the press in motions.
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Boston
Pec
Robert H. Best
Best
Francis J. W. Ford
Ford
Douglas Chandler
Paul Revere
Shelby minister offered post as head of two orphanages
Greensboro December 13 The board of trustees of the State Baptist Orphanage offered Dr Zeno Wall pastor of First Baptist Shelby the general superintendent post of Mills Home at Thomasville and Kennedy Home near LaGrange The decision will be announced Monday The move aims to replace Dr J G Greer who resigns January 1 to join the Business Foundation at Chapel Hill
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Greensboro
State Baptist Orphanage
Zeno Wall
First Baptist Church
Shelby
Thomasville
Goldsboro
Wall
Mills
Kennedy
LaGrange
J. G. Greer
The
Business Foundation At
Chapel Hill
Cut 30 Percent House Passage for European Program Seen
Washington December 17 Congress moves toward floor vote on a 1 118 165 000 bill funding emergency foreign aid and army occupation with over 30 percent cuts from the president's request. The appropriations committee trims 88 million from aid and 260 million from occupation funds while reserving 222 thousand for lawmakers mileage. Senate approval remains required.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Truman
Taber
R-Ny
Senate
Europe
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep. Herter
R-Mass
Rep
Francis Case
R-Sd
France
Italy
Austria
Germany
Japan
Korea
Congress
Prosecution Witness Says Fritz Did Not Teach At Hudson School
A witness testified that Mrs. R. L. Fritz Jr. did not teach during a seven week period while her husband was Hudson principal and promoted NCEA reforms. She worked in the school office Jan 7 to Feb 21 assisting in activities tied to her husband’s NCEA president bid and the South Piedmont resolution.
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Lencir
R. L. Fritz Jr
Hudson
North Carolina Education Association
Bruce Smith
Fritz
NCEA
Asheville
Smith
Twelve Die As B-29 Crashes At Davis-Monthan Field
Twelve of the Jamaica bound B-29 crews die in the desert crash shortly after takeoff from Davis-Monthan Field Tucson. An army inquiry begins while two planes from the 49th Squadron of the 2nd Bomb Group pursue a non stop flight to Vernam Field Jamaica. Local highway patrol reports eight men left the wreck area uninjured with one burn casualty treated at the scene.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis- Monthan Field
D. D. Burke
Army Board
Davis-Monthan
Vernam Field
Jamaica
Arizona Highway
Disappeared Officer Surrenders Over Embezzled Paychecks
Lt. Edward P. Kelly, 40, who vanished two weeks ago from Camp Lee with 37 officers pay, is in Valley Forge General Hospital for observation after surrendering to military police in New York. He had received a terminal leave promotion to captain before the missing-payroll discovery and faces FBI embezzlement charges. most checks are said to have been mailed back.
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Phoeniaville
Edward P. Kelly
Camp Lee
Virginia
Army
Valley Forge General Hospital
New York
Cliffside Trials
Denville
N. J
Fort Jay
Governor's Island
Kelly
FBI
Bevin Reports on Failure of Big Four Talks
A high placed British source said the cabinet will likely reconsider foreign policy after the Big Four foreign ministers failed to agree on Germany. Bevin was to report the breakdown, as Britain seeks unity with the United States on merging France’s occupation zone with the British American zones to accelerate Europe’s recovery.
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Bevin
London
Germany
Ernest Bevin
Britain
United States
France
Europe
Georges Bidault
George C. Marshall
Bidault
Marshall
King George
Buckingham Palace
Washington
Amer-Lee
Billy Lee Honored in The Gazette's Little Merchants
The Gazette profiles Billy Lee of Jenkins Heights son of Mr. and Mrs. W D Lee who delivers The Gazette at Myrtle and Arlington mills. He began August 13 1945 has a good delivery record and pays his account weekly. His hobbies include reading and fishing and he is a member of Scout TH Gastonia. Billy says delivering papers helps him buy clothes and earn spending money and he enjoys making friends on his route.
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Gazettes
Billy Lee
W. D. Lee
Jenkins Heights
Myrtle
Arlington Mills
Billy
Gazette
Scout
Gastonia
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Lucy Powell
Lee Fritz
Ida —Lupine
Collier Young
Hollywood
Louis Hayward
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Bridges
R-Nh
Murray Isinclair
Lt. Kelly
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