Chinese Reds 3-Way Drive Threatens Suchow
Suchow is menaced by three Communist columns coming from the north west and east while guerrillas sever a 100 mile rail link to Nanking. Reports say six government regiments may have defected as Chen Yi’s forces aim to isolate Suchow and knock it out, with Tangshan Han chuang and Tancheng fallen along key rail lines.
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Nanking
Suchow Teway
Suchow
Manchuria
Chen Yi
China
Naning
North China
Lunghai
Hanchuang
Tancheng
Japan Guilty of Aggressive War Admits Pearl Harbor Plot
The Far East Military Tribunal found Japan guilty of conspiring to wage aggressive wars against the United States. It ruled the Pearl Harbor attack was planned as a secret, surprise move with training by the Japanese Navy beginning in May 1941.
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Tokyo
Far East
Japan
United States
Pearl Harbor
Child Loses Fight Against Leukemia
Little Brenda Joyce Perkins four years old died after a leukemia battle. An Army mercy flight from San Antonio brought the child to a hospital, daughter of Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Austin R. Perkins of Biggs Field El Paso Texas.
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Waltham, Mass
Brenda Joyce Perkins
San Antonio
Texas
Austin R. Perkins
Biggs Field
el Paso
Jury Deliberations Questioned In Westchester Case
A Westchester County woman asked if a verdict had come in at the Supreme Court. Jury Commissioner Ralph Mumford said no jury was deliberating at the time. She complained her husband was jailed on a deadlocked jury reference.
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White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County
Supreme Court
Ralph Mumford
Near Freezing Predicted For Austin As Cold Front Moves In
A US Weather Bureau forecast shows near freezing temperatures for Austin with a seasonal low around 32 to 34 degrees on Wednesday. Forecasters expect quieter rainless conditions but note temperatures depend on cloud cover and wind as a Pacific Northwest cold front moves into Texas.
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Austin
US Weather Bureau
Pacific Northwest
Texas
Associated Press
mid-Gulf States
West Texas
East Texas
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
Galveston
UN Curtails Red Filibuster In Greek Case Debate
American Delegate John Foster Dulles accused the Lovell bloc of filibustering to block UN action on Greece as the 58 nation committee imposed a 10 minute limit on speeches by a 42 to 1 vote. Yugoslav Ales Debler opposed as the lone dissenter.
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Paris
John Foster Dulles
United Nations Assembly
Ales Debler
New Hurricane Nears Florida
A surprise November hurricane with 75 mph winds formed in the Atlantic off Florida and was centered about 450 miles east of Melbourne. It moves west-northwest at about 16 mph toward the North Florida and Georgia coast, with possible deviation due to a rising high pressure system.
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Fila
Atlantic
Florida
Melbourne
Fla
Truman
Key West
Grady Norton
Navy
Georgia
Mississippi River
Norton
Beautiful New Comet Attracts Southern US Viewers
A bright new comet, described as the most beautiful since Halley’s 1910 visit, moves across the sky just before dawn. Sightings span South Africa to Argentina, Mexico, and Australia with unsure northern direction and early-morning visibility for southern watchers.
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Mass
Halley
Arizona
United States
Chicago
New York
Boston
Dinsmore Alter
Griffith Observatory
Los Angeles
Charlies Federer
Sky and Telescope
Argentina
Mexico
Australia
Luis Enrique Erro
National
Astro- Physical Observatory
Tonanzintla
Venus
Out-of-Court Concord Ends Nussbaum Suit
Mendell Nussbaum sued Texas Public Service Company for 94000 damages after his West Sixth Street Barbecue and Market exploded on January 29. A compromise was reached and the case was removed from the jury with a recess until November 20 to finalize terms.
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Concord
Nussbaum
Mendell Nussbaum
Texas Public Service Company
Charles O. Betts
Ong
West Sixth Street
Russians Release 54 Captured German River Craft
American and British officials said the Russians released 54 German river and canal craft seized en route to Berlin. 38 vessels remain held. 22 from the Soviet Zone are in Bizonal territory. The freed boats were sent to Hamburg and no return date is set.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
Hamburg
Moderate Quake Believed in Mexico Detected Near UC Seismograph
A quake likely of moderate intensity was recorded Tuesday on the University of California seismograph. Seismologist Perry Byerly said the event began around 1 p.m. CST and occurred about 400 miles from the campus.
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Mexico
University of California
Perry Byerly
Shivers Pushes for December Texas Special Session
Lt. Gov. Allan Shivers urged Gov. Beauford Jester to call a special Texas Legislature session as early in December as possible. He said the Gilmer Aiken Committee report on educational needs should be reviewed promptly to prevent logjam during the January regular session. Shivers emphasized pay raises for teachers and broad educational improvements as the core issues.
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Allan Shivers
Beauford Jester
Gilmer-Aiken
Texas
Shivers
Jester
State
Senate
Gilmer-Aiken Committee
Demo Committee To Meet Nov 18 In Dallas
John C Calhoun, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, said the committee will meet in Dallas Nov 18 at 10 am in joint session with the State Association of Democratic Chair men. It will be their first organizational meeting since September in Fort Worth. Subcommittees will be named for the next two years. He noted a Fort Worth court suit likely postpones a loyalty pledge issue.
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Corsicana
John C Calhoun
Democratic Executive Committee
Dallas
State Association of Democratic
Fort Worth
Calhoun
Tom Tyson
Rest in Peace Fists Settle Grave Issue
In Rome two undertakers Emile Camilloni and Pietro Rossi from rival firms fought over a pauper’s burial. Police arrived and separated them after both were injured and rushed to a hospital.
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Rome
Emile Camilloni
Pietro Rossi
Officers Doubt Phantom Notes
Texarkana officials said H. B. Tennison was ill and despondent when he left a death by own action note implicating himself as the phantom killer. He had not been a suspect in the slayings, fingerprints and gun evidence reportedly do not link him, and a girlfriend note reportedly rules out other connections as Fayetteville investigators pursue the origin of the final messages.
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Texarkana
Ark
H. B
Doodie
Universitty of Arkansas
Fayetteville
Tenison
Tennison
James Freeman
Virgil Starks
Democrats split over Dixiecrats future leadership
National Democratic Chairman J Howard McGrath signaled that a few States Rights leaders will not be welcomed back into the party while stopping short of a purge. He said House and Senate Democrats will decide how Dixiecrats are treated in Congress and noted the party will not deal with top revolt leaders.
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National Democratic
J. Howard McGrath
States Rights Movement
House
Senate
Congress
McGrath
National Committee
Rhode Island
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Thurmond
OHE seeks extended wartime rent powers over housing
The Office of Housing Expediter proposes extending wartime rent controls at least one year beyond March 31 and adds powers to sue landlords for triple damages for overcharges. It seeks criminal penalties and re control authority to restore ceilings in areas of reopened defense activity as needed.
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Washington
Congress
Woods
Office of Housing Expediter
OHE
Army
Navy
Airorce
South Koreans Probe Reports of Massacre in North Korea
South Korea investigated reports of a large-scale massacre in North Korea amid a rebellion against the Soviet backed government. Officials discounted the figures of 4,000 to 5,000 dead and noted unverified claims could be attempts to sway public support for the Seoul government.
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Seoul
Korea
North Korea
South Korea
Buda Resident Annie Jordan Dies After Fire
Annie N. Jordan 48 of Buda died at 7:30 p m in Brackenridge Hospital from third degree burns after her home burned Monday. George Haber pulled her from the second floor seconds before the second story collapsed. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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Annie N. Jordan
Buda
Brackenridge Hospital
Doctors May Face Draft Boards Soon
Charleston West Virginia November 9 Major General Lewis B Hershey said the selective service may need to draft doctors to fill medical corps vacancies in the armed services due to an insistent demand for rapid filling. He noted the system must plan a method for obtaining doctors by some form of compulsion.
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Charleston
W. Va
Armed Services
Lewis B. Hershey
Arkansas Expert Truman Barnyard Poll Showed Victory
Leslie Biffle, Arkansas born staff director of the Democratic Senate policy committee, conducted a cross country poll in disguise as a chicken buyer. He found farmers and workers across several states leaning toward Truman, contradicting experts who favored Dewey, and reported to the President his conviction Truman would win.
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Washington
Leslie Biffle
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Biffle
Democratic Senate Policy Committee
Mr. Truman
Democratic To
Philadelphia
Dewey
Key West
Fla
Is Conveyance
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ilinois
Indiana
Ohio
John L. Lewis
Minsota
Idaho
Montana
Highway Crash Injures Three Near Austin
Three people injured in a two car collision two miles south of Austin on the San Antonio highway. Bernie Martin Moore 36 suffered second degree facial and hand burns. Marie King 35 sustained leg burns. Collmar Graef 33 of Creedmoor was treated for a scalp laceration and released. State Patrol investigated the crash.
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Austin
San Antonio
Bernie Martin Moore
Marie King
East 35Th
Brackenridge Hospital
Moore
Miss King
Collmar Graef
Creedmoor
Graef
E. B. Underwood
T. O. Dillard
Princess Elizabeth Baby To Have Royal Title At Birth
King George VI issued a decree making Princess Elizabeth's coming child a prince or princess from birth. The royal baby is expected after next month with the child’s title confirmed on birth. The decree ensures the child will bear royal status immediately.
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London
George VI
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