Tanker caught running booze in Madison raid
An oil tanker loaded with more than 300 cases of whiskey was seized by county and state officers. The driver Grady Thomas Cable of Greensboro was jailed on illegal possession and transportation charges. The illicit cargo valued at 8 000 to 9 000 dollars originated in Baltimore and was found after a tip and pursuit from Mayodan to near Madison.
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Madison
C. W. Moricle
Rockingham County
John W. Carter
R. A. Allen
State Bureau of Investigation
Reidsville
Eddie Weston
Mayodan
Grady Thomas Cable
Greensboro
Wentworth
Munsey Hodges
Morile
Madan
Baltimore
Temperature Report and Rainfall Summary
Yesterday high reached 85 degrees. Noon today 7 new rainfall inches 0.03. May rainfall to date 5.34 inches, May quota 3.57 inches, excess 1.77 inches.
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Satan Sabibindans Tinie
Stalin's peace proposals labeled encouraging by U S officials
The State Department called Stalin's latest peace statement encouraging while rejecting direct U S Soviet talks on other nations' issues. It blamed the Soviet Union for UN deadlocks including atomic energy control and noted possible avenues for issue resolution through world agencies.
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Washington
United States
Stalin
State Department
Russia
United Nations
Soviet Union
Soviet Ukraine
U. N. Atomic Commission
White House
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Six convicts flee in stolen car from road gang
Western North Carolina authorities hunt six escapees after they knocked out a guard with a rock, seized his shotgun and pistol, hijacked a passing motorist’s car near Burnsville in Yancey County. Fugitives include Perlie Miller, Blake Styles, George Brown, Bennie Reynolds, Reuben Thomas, and Douglas Henson. a seventh member did not attempt to escape. Miller has previously escaped from the governor’s mansion assignment.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Clyde O. Robinson
Burnsville
Yancey County
Robinson
Perlie Miller
New Hamp
Shire
Blake Styles
Cleo
N. C
George Brown
North Wilkesboro
Bennie Reynolds
Macon
Reuben Thomas
Union County
Douglas F. Henson
Lenoir
Road Gang
Miller
Creedmoor
Acre Falls After 72 Hour Battle With Jewish Army
Haganah reports about 4,000 Arabs captured in Acre after a three day bombardment near Haifa. Jewish forces claim control of the highway linking Acre to northern settlements. Reports also claim a flood killed about 500 Arabs near the Sea of Galilee.
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Acre
Haganah
Haifa
Palestine
Sea of Galilee
Rehovot
Tel Aviv
Deganya
Jordan Valley
Bryant Electric worker killed by 2300-volt line
Earl Scism 35, a Cherryville resident and Bryant Electric Co. employee in Gastonia, died after his head brushed a live 2300-volt line in Lincolnton while swinging prior to funeral home. He died despite immediate artificial respiration and hospital care. He is survived by wife Neva Howe. Funeral Wednesday at First Baptist Cherryville with burial in the church cemetery.
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Earl Scism
Cherryville
Lincolnton
Drum
Bryant Electric Company
Gastonia
Scism
First Baptist Church
Neva Howe
North Brook
Demand Action in Palestine by United Nations
Belgium and the Soviet Ukraine joined the United States and Russia in urging firm UN action to stop the war in Palestine. France's Alexandre Parodi as council president said the Security Council would discuss a US proposal to order Jews and Arabs to halt fighting within 36 hours of adoption.
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Lake Success
Belgium
Ukraine
United States
Russia
United Nations
Palestine
Security Council
Alexandre Parodi
France
Wassily A. Tarasenko
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gastonia Event Calendar for Banquet and VFW Meeting
Activity calendar shows 7 30 p m Gastonia Chamber of Commerce banquet at Armington Hotel and a 7 30 p m Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering at Memorial Hall.
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Gastonia
Teller-Awaits Sentence For Embezzlement
Leon Groome a 30 year old teller at Security National Bank awaits sentence after pleading guilty to embezzling more than 13000 dollars from bank funds over five years He testified he used the money to fund a higher living standard and altered deposit slips to cover shortages He was apprehended March 15 released on 2500 bond and could have faced June term trial in Greensboro.
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Leon Groome
Security National Bank
Johnson J. Hayes
Middle District of
North Carolina
Groome
Wilkesboro
Groomer
Federal Bureau of Investigation
L. Herbin
United States
Greensboro
More Liquor Being Sold in North Carolina Stores
Raleigh reports North Carolina ABC store liquor sales for last month rose to 3,583,029.23 dollars from 2,840,937.55 dollars in April 1947. Two newcomers led with Mecklenburg County at 805,586.15 dollars and Asheville at 357,224.80 dollars as new stores opened last fall and last December respectively.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
ABC
State Board of Alcoholic Control
Mecklenburg County
Asheville
Judge weighs end of anti strike injunction in UMW case
In Washington on May 18 the government moved to drop the anti strike injunction against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers after a civil contempt dismissal. Judge T Alan Goldsborough did not rule immediately, noting lingering concerns about a possible coal strike. Meanwhile contract talks with soft coal operators began as pension disputes loom in the negotiations.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
Union
Goldsborough
Tom Clark
Clark
UMW
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Moody
Dewey and Stassen clash on Oregon primary issue
In a radio debate focused on Communist outlawing and the Mundt Nixon bill, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen held firm to contrasting positions. Stassen urged laws against Communism and supported Mundt Nixon. Dewey defended existing federal laws and rejected outlawing people for ideas. See DEWEY P-7.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
United States
America
Stassen
Dewey
Congress
Banking chief cites slow impact of relief on economy
Robert Fleming president of Riggs National Bank told North Carolina bankers that relief and tax cuts may not affect the economy before fall. He warned against large reserves to finance war and said loans should support productive activity, with local banks assessing loan purpose.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Robert V. Fleming
Riggs National Bank of Washington
North Carolina Bankers Association
Fleming
Congress
Bertrand Russell a Philosopher and Scholar of Note
Bertrand Russell born May 18 1872 renowned as a philosopher and mathematician and holder of a British earldom His writings on mathematics place him among the 100 most important books of all time He taught at six schools before World War II and later sat in the House of Lords His grandfather was a prime minister.
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Bertrand Russell
U. 58
England
House of Lords
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