World To Observe UN Anniversary
Worldwide observance marks the fifth year of the United Nations with activities leading to UN Day on October 24. President Truman will address the UN Assembly while Security Council debates a Israel Arab League flare up and a seven nation proposal to empower emergency sessions peacekeeper roles.
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Security Council
Israel
UN Trusteeship
Ralph J. Bunche
Assembly
General Assembly
Libia
North Africa
Flushing Meadow
Russia
Trygve Lie
Lie
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Mindszenty
Bucharest
Nasrollah Entezam
Kashmir
India
Pakistan
Flying Saucers Heat Up British Sunday Papers
London papers race to debate the flying saucer craze with four weeklies sharing front page space. The Express and Dispatch warn of alien spying while Reynolds News and Chronicle debunk the myth, citing Mantell's 1948 Fort Knox incident and experts.
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London
Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
Sunday Express
The
Sunday Dispatch
Reynolds News
Sunday Chronicle
Express and Dispatch
Thomas Mantell
Fort Knox
Harold Spencer Jones
Brighton and Hove Natural History Society
New Braunfels Teachers Attend Austin Regional Meet
Six members of Alpha Theta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, women teachers from Comal and Guadalupe Counties, attended the Southwest regional meeting of Women Teachers in Austin. Attendees included Esther Rice president Louise Dietz secretary Hallie Martin and several others from New Braunfels and nearby districts.
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New Braunfels
ANS
Alpha Theta Chapter
Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority
Austin
Esther Rice
Louise Dietz
Hallie Martin
Melvin Leissner
R. R. Kraft
Mildred Deaton
San Marcos
Comal
Guadalupe Counties
Rice
Britain Tightens Export Controls on Defense Materials
Britain announced new export licensing for defense related materials including molybdenum nickel spent oxide sulfur and certain sulphur mixtures. The controls apply to shipments from Britain and aim to strengthen national defense.
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London
Britain
Celler Warns Newsprint Rise Could Trigger Prosecution
Representative Emanuel Celler says US newspapers could face anti-trust prosecutions if American firms follow a Canadian price hike by Powell River Paper. He cites a 10 percent rise to 110 per ton, urges defense production act use and criminal civil action, and vows to reopen hearings. He is in Los Angeles on a fundraising trip.
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OS Angeles
Emanuel Celler
DNY
House
Powell River Paper Company
Vancouver
Canada
United States
Celler
Truman
McGrath
House Judiciary Committee
Los Angeles
Israel
Russia Menacing Turkey Report Stirs Istanbul
Unconfirmed reports from Kars Turkey claim Russia massed troops on the border with Turkey and Iran. Six divisions from Leninakan in Soviet Armenia were said to be east of Kars with four guerrilla trained divisions and artillery at Yerivan near the three borders. Reports also allege Russia fostered Kurdish revolts in Iran and sent equipment to equip two Iranian divisions.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Russia
Iran
Kars
Leninakan
Armenia
Yerivan
CIO United Steelworkers Meet In Wage Talks
In Pittsburgh on October 15 CIO President Philip Murray leads a wage negotiation with United States Steel and its bargaining teams. Murray aims for a very healthy substantial increase as United States Steel sets the pattern for industry wage talks.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
Philip Murray
Mammoth United Steel Corporation
United Steelworkers
Murray
United States Steel
Former Actress Colleen Townsend to Wed Minister's Son
Colleen Townsend former actress who left films to serve in religious work will marry Louis H. Evans Jr son of the Hollywood First Presbyterian pastor Dr Louis H. Evans The wedding is planned for Christmas The couple met at Hollywood High School and have dated three years Evans Jr attends San Francisco Theological Seminary in his first year
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Hollywood
Colleen Townsend
Louis H. Evans
Hollywood First Presbyterian Church
Miss Townsend
Louis H. Evans Jr
Hollywood High School
Young Evans
San Francisco Theological Seminary
General Gay Receives Second Service Cross
Major General Hobart R. Gay of the First Cavalry was awarded a second Distinguished Service Cross. The decoration was pinned on Gay by Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker at a ceremony at Gay’s headquarters in Korea.
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First Cavalry Division
Korea
Hobart R. Gay
First Calvary
Gay
Walton H. Walker
Eighth Army
Greek King and Queen Visit Queen’s Ill Father in Austria
King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece arrived in Wels Austria to visit the queen’s father Duke of Brunswick and Cumberland seriously ill with pneumonia in a local hospital. They were met at a US Army airport near the city by American officers.
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Wels
Austria
Greece
Paul
Frederika
Here
Duke
Brunswick and
Cumberland
Italian parachutist dies in Rome exhibition fall
A 32 year old Italian parachutist Silvano Paiani died during an exhibition at Rome Urbe Airport after delaying his rip cord pull from 10 000 feet. About 15 000 spectators witnessed the fatal plunge.
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Rome
Silvano Paiani
Rome Urbe
Korean coal reserves estimated over one and a half billion tons
Korean coal reserves are estimated at more than 1.5 billion tons. This assessment highlights substantial energy resources for the country.
British scientist reports corrected speed of light
Dr Louis Essen of the National Physical Laboratory says United States and Swedish experts confirm his finding that the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second, 11 miles per 186,000. Independent tests by Carl Aslakson and Erik Gergstrand support the result, with radar, mapping and astronomical implications noted.
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London
United States
Louis Essen
National Physical Laboratory
Essen
Carl Aslakson
US Coast and Geodetic Survey
Erik Gergstrand
Four Men Caught Forcing Peace Palace Safe
Four men were caught Sunday trying to force open a safe at the Peace Palace in The Hague seat of the international court of justice. J Garnier-Coignet deputy registrar said the burglars would have recovered about 1000 guilders if successful, the cash needed for weekly wages of lower bracket staff.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
Peace Palace
International Court of Justice
J. Garnier-Coignet
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