Buttonhole Decline Gimps Facing Crisis In New York
New York reports a looming shortage of skilled buttonhole makers called gimps as aging artisans like 42 year old Bappert edge toward retirement. The trade faces dwindling young interest, though Bappert defends handwork for its neat appearance and vows to train successors amid a shift to machine-made buttonholes.
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New York
America
Bappert
Hungary
Suarts
Rappert
Europe
Trial of Japs Stops Suddenly
In Tokyo on May 31 eight Japanese accused of attacking American soldiers at a Communist rally had their trial recessed just before midnight. The court paused plans to stay in session through the night and will resume at 8 am tomorrow. Prosecutors asked for time to review motion pictures of the Imperial Plaza assault where five U.S. soldiers were beaten. About 200 university students and workers urged immediate release of the accused outside the courtroom.
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Tokyo
Imperial Plaza
U. S
Weather Outlook for North Carolina
Considerable cloudiness and mild tonight with scattered showers in the east portion. Thursday will be partly cloudy and mild.
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Carolin &A
Plans To Stop Russia Mapped
Secretary Acheson told Congress that Western nations must form balanced collective forces to meet Russian power. He urged approval of a $1.225 billion second year arms aid program for NATO allies and others at risk, stressing a joint defense and economy in the free world.
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Washington
Acheson
Congress
Russia
Truman
Johnson
London
Library of Congress
House
Senate
United States
Free World
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
State Department
Budget Bureau
Kremlin
Uless
Eugene Moore Wins John W Thomas Award in Gastonia
Eugene Moore 17, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest F Moore, won the John W Thomas award amid 56 Scouts in Gastonia. The honor earns him a two week trip to the National Jamboree at Valley Forge Pa and a silver engraved medallion. The banquet drew about 100 people including Scoutmasters and local officials. Moore belongs to Robinson School Troop No 1 with 24 merit badges toward Life rank, one step from Eagle.
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Eugene Moore
Ernest F. Moore
Gastoni
John W. Thomas
Firestone
Moore
Valley Forge
Gastonis
Piedmont Council
Boy Scout Gamp
Lake Lanier
Thomas
Robinson School Troup No. 1
8 Creek
Gastonia
Embrey Robinson
Olney Presbyterian Church
Jim Falls
Bill Pails
Charles Iokins
Mason Robinson Jr
Joe Baker Huffstetler
Raymond Pritchett
Andrew Warren
Scott Moore
Lee Carter
Gene Ratchford
Dan Dison
Dan Huffstetler
George Anderson
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Garland Atkins
Karl Parrish
Bill Hollowes
Phil Carson
Bobby Fuller
Bill McCollum
Eddie Ramsey
Billy Austin
Garnett Henson
James A. Melvin
Price Robinson
Johnny Long
Jimmy Mangum
R. B. Wilson
First A. R. P Church
Paul Thomas
Bobby Stapleton
Pat Reid
Harry Rosenberg
James White
Carl Whitesides
Holiday Death Toll Surges to 547 in Memorial Day Fatalities
National Safety Council figures show 547 violent deaths over a four day Memorial Day weekend. Traffic crashes claimed 330 lives, drownings 92, and 125 in other violent accidents including plane crashes and fires. Saf Ned H Dearborn condemned extreme driving and mass indifference as the nation observes the holiday. Last year’s four day total was 413 violent deaths with 253 traffic fatalities.
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Saf
Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Dan Pressley Rising Star Of Gastonia Music Scene
Gastonia embarks on backing Dan Pressley a 19 year old baritone seen as Gastonia’s future star with a voice described as a born gift and compared to Grace Moore and Lansing Hatfield Norman Gordon. Community fund seeks to launch his career with support from local clubs.
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Lyle Edwards
Gazette City
Tellica Plains
Tenn
Grace Moore
Miss Moore
Metropolitan
Gastonia
Tellico Plains
Lansing Hatfield
Norman Cordon
Dan Pressley
Pressley
Pets Have Their Fun Across Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a pair of rhesus monkeys named Amos and Mandy escaped their cage and trapped keeper Joseph La Valle in a doorway, while Mrs. William Ferguson’s parakeet Butch roamed the neighborhood for six days before returning home, delivering a surprising two point landing on her head.
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Los Angeles
Joseph la Valle
Amos
Mandy
la Valle
William Perguson
Butch
Britain withholds consent as six nations pool coal and steel
Paris reports Belgium Luxembourg Italy Netherlands West Germany and France set up an international authority to manage coal and steel production with a plan to meet next month. Britain delays commitment awaiting clarity on binding terms and potential effects on its industries. British officials push for talks without preapproval.
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Paris
Britain
Robert Schuman
Belgium
Luxembourg
Italy
Netherlands
West Germany
France
London
Schuman
Foreign group studies roads in North Carolina
A party of 44 foreign highway engineers toured the Nelle L. Teer Construction Company plant in Durham on May 31. They arrived Monday night and were welcomed to study roads and road-building methods in the state. Henry W. Jordan praised the North Carolina commission as oldest and best. The group observed rural road bend projects near Rocky Mount, Greenville and Goldsboro as they compare terrain to home conditions.
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Raleigh
Durham
Nelle L. Teer Construction Company
Henry W. Jordan
North Carolina
B. P. McWhorter
Atlanta
Tngineer
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
North Carolina Commission
Rocky Mount
Greenville
Goldsboro
Violence Along Border German Youth March Ends
Frankfurt dispatch reports violence avoided at Berlin Whitsuntide rally while West German border guards pressed medical examinations on 1,000 FDJ youths at Luebeck. About 2,000 others from Berlin were beaten and stripped near Helmstedt, and 2,000 more waited near the Russian border awaiting transport. Police kept order as youths chanted and sought to cross without examination.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
West Germany
Luebeck
Free German Youth
FDJ
Helmstedt
Wester Germany
East Berlin
No Man's Land
Schleswig-Holstein
State Ministry of Interior
Second Senate Primary Hinted In North Carolina Race
Norfolk dispatch reports Willis Smith led Frank Graham in North Carolina primary voting but made no runoff request yet. Publicist Hoover Adams says Smith headquarters optimistic about a second primary and notes over 240,000 voters for Smith and 58,781 opposing the socialist trend.
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Norfolk
Willis Seatth
Frank Graham
Hatorday
North Carolina
Ledger-Dispatch
Hoover Adams
Smith
Adams
Wnhs
Willis Smith
Two Years Work Ends in Destruction of Frame House
Danville California May 31 1 It took George Helebrandts two years of hard labor to remodel their six room frame house They finished it yesterday in the heat of the day As they rested they heard crackling in the house Rushing inside they found the house aflame It burned to the ground.
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Danville
Calif
George Helebrandts
Czechs Claim America Involved in Spy Plot Trial
Prague radio reports top defendant Dr Milada Horakova admitted guilt at the opening session of a trial accusing 13 people of plotting with Westerners to undermine the Czechoslovak government. She testified that National Socialist Party leaders took directives from American British and French diplomats. The indictment cites 28 000 crowns stolen from the party funds and links to former ambassadors and Western correspondents who allegedly aided the illegal activities.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Milada Horakova
National Socialist Party
Horakova
National &Cialist Party
Dr. Horakova
Cuchoslovakiashire
Munist
Flegal
Hubert Ripka
Laurence Steinhardt
U. S
Maurice Dejean
Stir
Peter
Soriaist
United States
Dejean
Crecthotoyaria
Memorial Day Parade Extends Honor In Gastada
Gastada observed Memorial Day with a large parade along Main avenue led by the 225th Airborne Infantry Regiment band from Fort Nugy, followed by two companies of veterans and the 82nd Airborne Division. About 1,560 people gathered near the courthouse lawn for a 15 minute program, with prayers, a recitation of In Flanders Fields, and a memorial address by Dr T. H. McDull of First ARP Church.
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Gastada
Main Avenue
Oakland
Gastetla
225Th Airborne Infantry Regiment
Fort Nugy
325Th le
82D Aireborne
Norland
Normandy
Miami
Fla
Courthorce
Souai Street
Paul Monroe
CIA Fon Legion Post
Tn Flanders Field
P. OH. Cunningham
T. H. McDuil
First Arp Church
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Firestone Textiles, Inc
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Associated Press
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Dan Pressly
Mason McArver
Pvt
Harry Lindsay McArver
Andrea Rose Torrence
John R. Torrence
Dutch New Guinea
Jackay Stowe
Pfc
Jasper Stowe
Wilson McDonald
Alfred Wilson McDonald
Luzon
Memerica
Nerdoim
Chance Weiler
Stramser
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