Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the President was at work on a message to Congress to be delivered on Friday regarding the Taft-Hartley bill, regardless of whether he vetoed or signed it. The assistant press secretary, Eben Ayers, stated that the record volume of mail received at the White House on the bill favored veto by a large majority. Both Democratic and Republican leaders predicted an override of the veto in the House should the President exercise it, but they were uncertain about the Senate.

Democrats again asserted that Republican efforts to cut the budget had failed. Representative Albert Gore of Tennessee was chosen by the Democrats to be their unofficial bookkeeper of the Republican cuts to date. He stated that Republican cuts had amounted to no more than 1.875 billion dollars. Republicans claimed twice that amount, approaching four billion. Mr. Gore said that only five billion dollars of the budget remained to be considered and thus it was not possible for the Republicans to meet their four billon dollar cuts of the President's 37.5 billion dollar budget. The Republicans had originally set a goal of six billion in cuts from the budget, but had relented in favor of the lower goal.

In Budapest, Lt. General V. P. Sviridov of Russia told the Allied Control Commission that the Soviets had nothing to to do with the change in the Government, which wound up in the forced resignation of Ferenc Nagy and his replacement by a Communist-dominated Government. General Sviridov refused to provide to the British and Americans the depositions taken from Bela Kovacs, the former secretary general of the Small Holders Party, which supposedly implicated President Nagy and former Speaker of the House Bela Varga in a plot against the Republic.

Raleigh Times Editor John A. Park provides his observations gleaned from a tour of Europe as a guest of the War Department. He reported a grim picture of tug of war between Americans trying to teach democracy in Germany and Russians trying to convert the Germans to socialism. He predicted that it would be a long time before a solution would be reached—indeed, 42 years. Money had to be continually funneled to Germany and Austria, he said, to effectuate a solution. If America were to leave Europe, the vacuum left behind would be filled by Russia, even to France and the British Isles, then extending to the Western Hemisphere. He viewed the Russians as bent on world conquest—implicitly using the Nazi geopolitical model for guidance.

He found coal and food to be the primary problems in Europe. The coal of the Ruhr was being mined by undernourished miners, despite more food being provided them. During the Nazi regime, miners who did not perform were shot, causing the output to have been higher than under present conditions. The resulting lack of coal in Europe had caused a great amount of suffering the previous winter.

Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas wrote an open letter to Henry Wallace, asking him to explain his views on Communism and Communist aggression in Korea, Manchuria, the Balkans, Hungary, Austria, and Germany, and to distinguish between Communist and Fascist forms of totalitarianism. He agreed with Mr. Wallace that an alternative to the Truman Doctrine had to be found to secure peace, but could not support Mr. Wallace if his plans included Communism.

The Greek Government, in a public note, stated that the American mission, headed by former Governor Dwight Griswold, would be placed in charge of the economic life of Greece in administering the 300 million dollars in aid to the country.

In Ankara, Turkey, Maj. General Lunsford Oliver, American military mission chief, informed newsmen the previous night that Turkey's military forces were possessed of strong manpower but weak equipment, and the 100 million dollars in aid money from America would start the Army toward modernization.

Assistant Secretary of Labor John Gibson announced that considerable progress had been made toward resolving the work stoppage on ships resulting from a strike by NMU on both the East and West Coast. The Cooks and Stewards on the West Coast had tentatively reached an agreement with shipowners.

Railroads and 17 unions of non-operating personnel opened wage negotiations regarding a demanded 20-cents per hour raise.

In Miami, a 59-year old father, cafe operator from Greece, admitted in sobs to the police that he had murdered his son and daughter, ages 6 and 11, by beating them to death, and then shot his next door neighbors, a couple, because he could not abide seeing his children placed in a foster home. The couple were still alive, the man having been shot twice, once through the throat and once through the left hand, and the woman, also shot twice, through the left shoulder and left side. The man had also fired point blank at a store proprietor, another neighbor, but missed. He blamed the neighbors for the problems associated with removal of the children from the home, as the couple had brought the charges for which he was due to appear in Juvenile Court to determine whether he mistreated them. As police arrived to take him into custody, he pointed the revolver to his head and pulled the trigger on an empty shell in the chamber.

Bang, bang. Obviously, he was a loving father and wonderful neighbor. At least, he was not a cab driver.

In Washington, a nine-year old girl, who fell through an eighth floor skylight into a stairwell, was able to grab a sixth floor stair rail after hitting a seventh floor rail, breaking her fall, emerging with only a broken arm and pelvis.

She avoided becoming scrambled eggs. It is not wise to fall through skylights.

Burke Davis reports on implementation of ABC control of liquor in Mecklenburg County and the reaction of State ABC officials, following passage of the referendum on same the previous Saturday. It was predicted by State officials that sales would be seven million dollars per year. An official favored salaries of the three-man ABC Board to be less than the $10,000 proposed.

On page 2-A, Victor Riesel, in his "Inside Labor" column, writes that "amateur liberals" had hurt the cause of labor more than they had helped.

He might have started, perhaps, with the example of one of the defense attorneys in Greenville in the May lynching trial of the cab drivers who admitted lynching Willie Earle on February 17. The particularly repugnant defense attorney, who had called Willie Earle a "mad dog" who ought to have been killed, implicitly referring to the alleged murder charge against him in the stabbing of cab driver T. W. Brown the night before the lynching, was said by Rebecca West, in her recently published New Yorker article, to be considered a leading "liberal" in Greenville for his active support and representation of CIO labor matters.

On the editorial page, "Politics and the Sustained Veto" tells of a relatively large number of Democrats who, having voted for the tax-cut, refused to vote to override the President's veto of it, leading the House to sustain the veto by a spare margin of two votes. Seven of North Carolina's delegation had voted for the bill, but only two had voted to override the veto.

"Another Round before CAB" tells of Charlotte filing another formal complaint against Eastern Airlines with the Civil Aeronautics Board to try to get a stop in Charlotte on a proposed trunk line route between Boston and New Orleans.

"Robeson Honors a Prophet" tells of a testimonial dinner at the Lorraine Hotel in Lumberton in honor of J. A. Sharpe, Editor of The Robesonian, for forty years of service. Many prominent citizens of the state attended, along with a hundred citizens of Robeson County. The editorial congratulates Mr. Sharpe on his editorial tenure, developing gradually the little weekly newspaper of 1907 into a daily.

But the real honor, it notes, had come from the citizens of the county who had recognized him as a prophet in his own land.

But since the book was published in 1967, the coincidence of the Lorraine Hotel would not have led Professor Morrison in that direction. We posit, however, that it might have led others in a different and opposite direction, as we have before suggested.

Isn't that right, Horace? You better start hoping, as your time is coming, that there is no such thing as Hell. You want to make a bet? We saw you plain as day that night in 1958. You were right all along, you dirty little, low-down lyncher. It just took us awhile to remember you, Horace. You made a mistake, son, a bad one.

A piece from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, titled "Goodbye to All That", tells of a certain old railroad coach having been retired from service to become a church in Frankfort, Ill. The piece is sure that it was the coach which the editors had ridden during the war, and dated from the early part of the industrial revolution. It conveys the many discomforts of the old coach and hopes that it would find retirement in peace in favor of its replacement streamliners.

Drew Pearson tells of leaders of the Chicago real estate industry advising landlords to disregard the law and raise rents, as tenants were the main source of rent control enforcement. To that end, they were urging Congress to hold down appropriations for rent control enforcement.

Marquis Childs tells of the concerted isolationist effort in the House to defeat the bill to resurrect appropriation for the Voice of America and cultural exchange program. Representative Karl Mundt of South Dakota had led the fight for the bill to restore the appropriation. Most of the opposition to the Mundt bill on the Foreign Relations Committee came from Republicans, indicating a split in the party ranks. Support for it had come from the South and the East.

Joseph & Stewart Alsop suggest that the President might ask Congress to act on an emergency basis in the European crisis before the end of the session. The Administration leaders were aware that Russia had made serious inroads in Europe and serious action was necessary to enable Western Europe to ward off the expansionist policy. If the current political and economic deterioration continued, then Communist governments might be installed in France and Italy.

The page provides an editorial roundup of newspaper reaction around the state to the vote in Mecklenburg County the previous Saturday to end prohibition for the first time in 43 years and establish ABC stores for controlled sale of liquor.

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