Arab held Zion Gate broken in heavy fighting in Jerusalem
Arab-ruled Jeru salem amid clashes as Jews claim breach at Zion Gate linked with defenders. Reports from the old city note Arab Legion ring around the city and Arab control claimed from Cairo. Jewish forces report Sarafand camp seizure and new attacks near Ramle and Kefar Sava with multiple battles and casualties.
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Weather Update Shows Rain Excess Across City
Weather report notes yesterday's high and last night's low with noon reading today. May rainfall totals 5.34 inches, exceeding the 3.57 inch quota by 1.77 inches, signaling a surplus for the period.
Mecklenburg Pageant Shout Freedom premiere set in Charlotte
The Mecklenburg historical pageant Shout Freedom debuts Thursday at 8 pm May 20 at the Southern States fairgrounds. A 250-strong cast, music by Lamar Stringfield, script by LeGette Blythe, narrating by Norman Corden, and a Tryon Street parade lead by the American Legion Color Guard mark the event.
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Recluse Charley Corte Dies. Niece Inherits $80000 Estate
Springfield reports Charley Corte, once a concert violinist, died Wednesday in Dayton State Hospital at about 75. His niece Miss Del Reano was named administratrix as the estate, valued at over $80,000 in bonds and cash, is revealed amid a ramshackle house and piles of trash.
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Racial Issue Splits GOP Over Draft Compromise
Senate race issue tests party unity as Senator Russell and Southern Democrats oppose mixed race service. GOP leaders push to let military secretaries decide unit racial status to avert a future heated dispute when the draft bill passes the Senate next week.
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Lewis declines to seat Moody in wage talks with miners
Washington May 19. Negotiations between John L. Lewis and coal operators collapsed over seating Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers Association, in the conference. Operators opposed Moody and Lewis’s United Mine Workers voted against him. The union later favored continuing with conferences on the remaining industry issues. The union seeks a renewal of a wage agreement due June 30 and contemplates a possible new injunction if a strike resumes. Moody leads the SCPA and did not attend. Lewis had pressed for individual bargaining by the SCPA groups and opposed Moody’s participation.
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Housing Chief Rejects 10 Percent Rent Hike in North Carolina
Washington reports Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods has rejected a recommendation for a 10 per cent rent increase in Edgecombe and Nash counties North Carolina including Rocky Mount. The move blocks higher rents for tenants amid ongoing housing policy actions.
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Belmont delegates to Gastonia district conference at Sharon Church
Ministers and delegates from Belmont will attend the Gastonia district Methodist conference at Sharon Methodist Church in Cleveland County on Thursday.
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Move To Defeat Truman Alabama Likely To Place in Nomination
Washington May 19 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower's name may be the first placed in nomination for the presidency at the Democratic national convention. When nominating time comes the roll of states is called alphabetically. If plans pan out the Alabama delegation may use its top listing to start an Eisenhower boom before President Truman's name is put up. Alabama electors already had.
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South Carolina Democrats Gather To Beat Truman
South Carolina Democrats opened their biennial convention in Columbia as opposition to President Truman and his civil rights program shaped debate. A resolutions committee urged nominating electors opposed to Truman and any candidate sympathetic to civil rights, signaling a possible walkout if Truman is nominated. The Eisenhower angle provides a rallying point for anti Truman forces, while party unity may hinge on new chair selections.
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Beal Seeks Citizenship Reinstatement in Gastonia
Fred Erwin Beal, noted labor leader tied to 1929 anti-Communist era, returned to Gastonia to seek restoration of U S citizenship. Judge Wilson Warlick granted the petition after Beal, once linked to the Gastonia police chief slaying, renounced Communism and proclaimed loyalty to America in court.
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Raleigh
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Russians hail Henry Wallace as peace champ
Moscow readers view Henry A. Wallace as a champion of peace and popular U.S. figure. The Moscow Bolshevik notes a third party on the ballot and praises Wallace for defending democratic freedom, peace, and Roosevelt policy.
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Tom M. Girdler and Republic Steel Pioneer
Tom M. Girdler born May 19 1877 led Republic Steel as a founder in 1929. He later oversaw Vultee Aircraft wartime production. Son of a cement maker he went to England as a youth selling goods, then entered steel after a U.S. firm offered 83 1 3 dollars per month.
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