Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that a subcommittee of 14 nations at the Pan-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro had approved a proposal by the U.S. that the 20 nations form a compact to defend the Western Hemisphere from the Arctic to Antarctica with military forces of all the agreeing nations. The "security zone" included Alaska and Greenland. Under the agreement, an armed attack against any American nation would be considered an armed attack on all American nations and would invoke Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, allowing for self-defense mutually until such time as the Security Council could undertake action to insure the peace.

The Security Council voted 10 to 0, with Britain abstaining, to demand a second time that the Dutch and Indonesians obey a cease fire. The first directive of August 1 had been accepted by both sides on August 4, but subsequent reports stated that fighting continued in areas despite the agreement. Belgium and France, both colonial powers, had abstained on the first vote, but voted this time to approve the directive. Indonesia had accepted the Council's good offices in seeking to resolve the dispute but the Netherlands Government was still considering the proposal.

In response to a Denver Post article which told of deep caverns being dug in the mountains near Albuquerque, N.M., the Army and Navy issued a statement that the operations at the base, Sandia, were top secret pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. A statement from the branches in July said that the base was devoted to development of atomic weapons of all types and to development of radiological safety measures. The project at Sandia was commanded by Maj. General Leslie Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb during the war. The Post described the project near Albuquerque as a "super-defense measure".

In Athens, Greece, American efforts to mediate the deadlock in forming a new Government came to naught after 86-year old Liberal Party leader Themistokles Sophoulis insisted that he become premier, rejecting the proposal of Royalist Party leader Constantin Tsaldaris that a neutral politician be made premier. After the failure to form therefore a coalition Cabinet, Mr. Tsaldaris stated that he would proceed to form the Cabinet on his own. But it was unclear whether he could achieve a vote of confidence in the Greek Parliament. A new parliamentary leader, Spiro Markezinis, had, according to a reliable source, formed a coalition between the National Unionists, the Social Democrats, and the Venizelos Liberals to form a larger minority than that controlled by the Liberal Party of Mr. Sophoulis.

Former Nebraska Governor Dwight Griswold, in charge of administering U.S. aid to Greece, visited Mr. Sophoulis at his home the previous evening and stated that, while no pressure was exerted on Mr. Sophoulis to cooperate, Mr. Griswold sought to impress upon him the need for political unity in Greece to enable the American aid program to work.

Representative Charles Eaton of New Jersey, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stated his belief that Greece was the "powder keg" which could explode into World War III, that Russia could not be allowed to dominate Greece, as such it would quickly lead to Turkey and other countries bordering the Mediterranean, and eventually the whole world.

In Leaksville, N.C., Rockingham County authorities were seeking the killer of an 82-year old man, killed the previous night at 1:30 a.m. at his home, having been bludgeoned and beaten to death during a burglary. The man's wife was asleep upstairs when she heard the commotion and saw a man jump into the shadows and depart the house.

In Roanoke Rapids, N.C., three Highway Patrolmen resigned after signing a statement in which they admitted having "manhandled" an escaped inmate from a prison camp after catching him the previous Thursday near Littleton. The inmate claimed that he was handcuffed to a tree and the officers beat him with saplings and a cartridge belt. The three denied that they had handcuffed the man to a tree and claimed that he was not seriously injured. One of the three said that he manhandled the man after he made disparaging remarks about the Highway Patrol and displayed a belligerent attitude. The three were charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The doctor who had examined the inmate said that he had bruises on his back but no internal injuries. He had served 13 months of a six to seven year sentence for breaking and entering.

The daughter of the Cherryville Police Chief who had been slain in Kings Mountain the previous week by a Highway Patrolman after a traffic stop for weaving, following which the Chief had allegedly charged the Patrolman with a knife, cut his arm, and then was shot by the Patrolman five times, swore out a warrant for the arrest of the Patrolman for murder. The Patrolman had been adjudged the previous week by a coroner's jury to have acted in self-defense. The daughter claimed to have new evidence which she would reveal in Recorder's Court on September 5 at the probable cause hearing to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to proceed to the Grand Jury to seek an indictment.

The daughter had retained Morganton attorneys Sam J. Ervin and Frank C. Patton to represent her in the matter. Mr. Patton stated that they were investigating the case and he believed that the Patrolman would be indicted, that he had used excessive force in effecting the arrest and should be convicted either of second-degree murder or manslaughter. He also hinted that there was evidence of a pre-existing grudge held by the Patrolman for the Police Chief, but did not expand on the matter.

Ford announced a price increase in Lincolns and Mercurys, from $86 to $226 on the Mercury, depending on trim, accessories, and model, and from $148 to $200 on the Lincoln, with the Ford luxury models going up $199 to $229. The company said that increases in manufacturing and materials costs had caused the increased prices.

Better rush on down there and get yourself a closeout model before those new prices go into effect.

The first liquor shipment, 3,000 cases, had arrived in Charlotte in anticipation of the ABC system beginning in September. Fifty thousand cases had been ordered.

Better get down there in line before they get it all.

In Tecumseh, Okla., seven girls, clad only in panties and bras, broke out of the "meditation" cell of Girls Town and fled into the rugged country. They had broken a lock and managed to get through the bars somehow. They were not wearing shoes.

Better get on down there and form a posse and go out into the canyons and find those teenage girls clad only in panties and bras. It's work, but someone has to do it.

New coats for women were figuring prominently in the new styles, as featured in the Women's Section on pages 9-A through 13-A, inclusive.

In Boston, Jack Benny and 45 other passengers aboard an American Airlines plane, probably a DC-3 or DC-4, averted disaster after the pilot reported inability to deploy the landing gear. After circling Logan Airport for 15 minutes, with crash crews standing at the ready, the plane was able to land without problem. Mr. Benny was planning to depart by car for Laconia, N.H., to visit his sister.

It was said that Mr. Benny had saved the day by climbing down into the landing gear mechanism and retrieving the jammed dime he had dropped inadvertently down the lavatory drain.

On the editorial page, "Seeking the Brotherhood of Man" tells of American Brotherhood Week being celebrated in North Carolina with the meeting at Little Switzerland of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, an annual gathering. It was held at the "Wildacres" estate of I. D. Blumenthal of Charlotte.

"A Boston Editor Looks at Piedmont" tells of an editorial in the Boston Herald having looked at the special edition of The News on the industrial resources of the Piedmont Carolinas and come away smug over the aspiration of the South to New England's industrial prowess, but also warning fellow New Englanders not to become complaisant at its lead in industrial growth, that creativity still needed to abound for progress to continue.

"More Isolationism in August" cites Ohio Representative George Bender's isolationist statement, that the Administration's foreign policy was costing too much money and could be trimmed by ten billion dollars, as an example of the new isolationism which threatened the foreign policy at a time of international crisis in Britain, Greece, China, and South America. The U.S. needed to increase its foreign aid commitments to hold the line "against chaos and Communism."

A piece from the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, titled "Short Tempers and Long Skirts", remarks on The Little Below the Knee Club formed by several hundred women of Dallas, Texas, protesting the Paris and New York styles which called for hemlines four or five inches below the knee. Most women of the country had followed the fashion, albeit with distaste.

Robert S. Allen discusses Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach having been chiefly responsible for the President's veto of Taft-Hartley. He had taken on as his Assistant Secretary an AFL leader and placed AFL representatives on the International Labor Organization. It still, however, remained to be seen whether he would be invited to speak at the AFL convention in San Francisco, having been omitted from the guest list the previous year.

Paul W. Ward, in the 20th article in the series from the Baltimore Sun, collectively titled "Life in the Soviet Union", discusses the plight of the worker in the Soviet Union, needing to labor 4.75 to 14 hours to buy the same goods, in his example, a pack of cigarettes and a beer, as an American worker could purchase from 16 minutes of work, based on the differential in prices and wages. Russian censors kept these facts out of the hands of each country's workers.

Joseph & Stewart Alsop tell of Britain warning the U.S. Treasury Department the previous week that without immediate aid, it would have to withdraw its occupation forces from Germany. If such were to occur, the U.S. would have to double its occupation forces or surrender the Western section, and therefore control of Europe, to Russia.

A letter writer offers a suggestion to speed the buses along their routes in Charlotte and save Duke Power money in operation, by stopping every other block rather than every block. He also counsels drawing a line across the floor beyond which passengers could not surpass while the bus was moving, to enable the driver to see more easily the right side at intersections.

A letter writer says that the Bible teaches that both the notions of eternal damnation and immortality of the soul were false. The sinner's soul died at death, and so could not be eternally damned further by burning in hell fire. To bring back all the burned souls for further determination of judgment, he thinks, would make no sense.

A letter writer responds to the letter which suggested that it was okay to smoke on the buses and that whoever had turned in a smoker to the police for violating the new anti-smoking ordinance should be condemned if a non-smoker, heeded if a smoker. Only smokers could complain about smokers.

This writer thinks it drivel as the new law was a health and safety measure. Buses were overcrowded to the point of suffocation. Smoking posed both a health issue and a fire hazard.

She suggests to the smoker who could not resist a cigarette during the bus ride that they walk home in the fresh air.

She adds that the previous writer ought, as punishment, be pinned up in a crowded bus while a "cigarette fiend" puffed smoke in his face for twenty blocks.

That's mean. The man was just expressing his opinion, madam, no matter how stupid it was. And we agree with you that it was repulsive and stupid. But we need not take retaliatory action just because he gave his opinion.

That sort of thing leads inexorably and lends tacit approbation to the Highway Patrolmen taking the escaped inmate to the woods and "manhandling" him for being uppity and speaking out of turn about the Highway Patrol—even if beyond reproach, being super-human.

She states that she rode the buses and also smoked, but not on the buses.

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