Veto-Free Peace Plan Approved by United Nations Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly approved a veto-free system enabling rapid armed response to aggression. It authorizes emergency troops, sets up a 14 member peace observation commission, and urges member states to maintain ready forces. The Big Five are urged to meet to resolve disputes.
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New York
United Nations Assembly
Acheson
U. N
Assembly
Security Council
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
India
Argentina
Lebanon
General Assembly
Quick Organization
Widow of attempted Truman assassin jailed in New York
The 21 year old widow Carmen Torresola failed to post 50 000 bail and was jailed on a conspiracy charge tied to the Washington assassination plot. FBI captured her after she fled a Manhattan hotel with her baby. U S Attorney Saypol says no evidence she planned the attack though she expressed sympathy with the plan.
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New York
Griselio Torresola
Truman
Carmen Torresola
FBI
Manhattan
U. S
Irving Saypol
Mr. Truman
Torresola
Oscar Collazo
Washington
Blair House
Saypol
Collazo
Rosa
Eight-Power Proposal Condemns Aggression as Gravest Crime
U N political committee adopts an eight-power resolution stating aggression, open or via fifth column, is the gravest crime against world security. It backs prompt united action, elimination of mass destruction weapons, and aligns with the Stockholm appeal. Seven powers sponsor the measure, while Soviet amendments are defeated.
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General Assembly
Flushing Meadow
United Sates
Stockholm
Bioc
United States
Truman to Address Nation Tonight amid Shooting Fallout
President Truman will speak to the nation from St. Louis at 10 p.m. EST for the first time since the Blair House shooting. Harold Stassen will reply for the Republicans from New Haven with a focus on foreign policy as the race for a Democratic Congress intensifies.
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Associated Press
Truman
Blair House
St. Louis
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Mutual
Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Soviet Proposes Foreign Ministers Meeting on Reich Unity
Washington reports the Soviet Union proposing a tripartite talk among the United States Britain and France on Prague plans for a German council to unify Germany under a single government. Ambassadors from the three powers visited the Soviet foreign ministry late last night to discuss the move.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Prague
Germany
U. S
Alan G. Kirk
Andrei Gromyko
David Kelly
Business Leaders Endorse Gradual War Mobilization Plan
Sea Island Georgia November 3 business leaders approved a gradual mobilization policy to ramp up industry before full scale armament demands. Members of the Department of Commerce advisory council favored a middle path with production controls and warned against rigid ceilings that could hurt expansion. Notable attendees included Henry Ford Charles E Wilson Clarence Francis Eric Johnson Paul Hoffmann and others from Ford General Electric General Foods Motion Picture Association Studebaker.
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Sea Island
Business Advisory Council
Department of Commerce
Guaraeu
Wiree Uny
National Production Authority
Bernard Baruch
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Co
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric
Clarence Francis
General Foods Corporation
Eric Johnson
Motion Picture Association
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker
Marshall Plan
Killer Of 172 Sent To Prison
Circleville Ohio reports Robert Dale Segee 21 former circus roustabout admitted burning or killing 172 people over 12 years and was sentenced to four to 40 years. He pled guilty to two minor Circleville fires and claimed responsibility for the 1944 Ringling Bros Circus fire in Hartford Connecticut. He described a life of abuse and said he sometimes could not recall starting the fires.
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Circleville
Robert Dale Segee
Ringling Bros
Hartford
Segee
Radcliff
Ohio
Radcliy
Columbus
East St. Louis
Barbara Driscoll
Portsmouth
N. H
Portland
Cape Cottage
Japan
Gee
French Retreat Through Jungles In Indochina
A French column of 1 200 troops withdrew westward from Laokay in misty Tonkin jungle terrain. The Vietminh now control Laokay and a 300 mile wide border with Communist China as Francophone forces evacuate per a long standing plan.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Indochina
Laokay
Tonkin
China
Red River
1040 Graves to be moved for Buggs Island dam
The federal government asked to remove 1 040 bodies from 28 Mecklenburg county cemeteries to prevent inundation by the Buggs Island dam reservoir. Most graves are unmarked and believed to hold former enslaved people.
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Richmond
Mecklenburg County
Buggs Island Dam
McDowell Youth Admits Slaying McDowell
In Welch West Virginia on November 3, 19 year old Edward Everett McClanahan confessed to murdering 48 year old Hobart D. Murphy a retired Caretta miner. Murphy’s body was found on Estep Ridge near Bradshaw and Murphy was killed while in his car. McClanahan was arraigned on a murder charge and ordered held for January grand jury. Two others, Charles Claude Payne and Stewart Calhoun face automobile theft charges related to the case. Funeral services for Murphy were held in Haysi.
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Welch
W. Va
Hobart D. Murphy
Caretta
Stewart Calhoun
McDowell County
Edward Everett McClanahan
Bradshaw
Murphy
Estep Ridge
Charles Claude Payne
Jolo
Fairfax
McClanahan
Justice of the Peace
B. H. Silcox
T. P. Bazzie
Berwind
Fred Woolum
Haysi
Broken Promises Laid To Truman Rally In Princeton
J. S. Butts, Beckley lawyer and Republican leader, told an overflow crowd at the Masonic hall Princeton that the Truman administration broke promises to Negroes and that Democrats blocked the Fair Employment Practices act. Harold B. Eagle endorsed Sgt. Arnold G. Porterfield for Marine service and attacked state road waste alongside Mercer county House candidates Odell Huffman Robert L. Stewart and Herbert L. Graham. The Raleigh county Negro Republican leader scheduled another speech at 8 p.m. in the Appalachian auditorium.
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J. S. Butts
Beckley
Masonic Hall
Princeton
Negro Republican Club of
Senate
Harold B. Eagle
Hinton
Butts
Truman
Ingrid Bergman Wants Pia to Meet Italian Half Brother
Paris reports Ingrid Bergman hopes to bring her 12 year old daughter Pia Lindstrom to Europe to meet her half brother Roberto Rossellini Jr. The move accompanies a Paris court case over RKO editing of Stromboli. Bergman said Pia writes and calls often and she hopes to resume acting later, likely in Europe.
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Ingrid
Paris
Ingrid Bergman
Pia Lindstrom
Europe
Roberto Rossellini
Peter Tind
Strom
Pia
California
Miss Bergman
Rossellini
RKO Pictures
Stromboli
RKO
Ling
Roberto
Italy
A. ml
Russia's air force strength estimated at 14000 planes
Washington reports Navy officials say Russia's authorized operating strength is about 14000 combat aircraft not counting naval aviation transport or training units. The figure from Naval Aviation News notes only a conservative estimate and acknowledges uncertainty about how many planes are actually in use.
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Washington
Navy
Russia
Naval Aviation News
Bureau of Aeronautics
Soviet Union
Naval Aviation
U. S
Ship Movement Ban Imposed
The customs service restricts disclosure of ship arrivals departures destinations and cargoes to protect U S security. Officials say the move aims to limit information on shipment of weapons and strategic equipment to Western Europe under the Mutual Defense Assistance Pact.
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Washington
Customs Service
Customs Bureau
United States
Nature Comes To Aid Of Man Called By Navy
Steubenville, Ohio, November 3. Nature and Mrs. John E. Furno aided a navy recall by preventing husband from active duty. Furno of Toronto was set to report as a first class, but orders were cancelled after learning he has twins and three dependents. Under navy rules, three dependents were eligible for recall, four would exempt him.
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Steubenville, O
Nature
John E. Furno
Navy
Furno
Toronto
Naval Reserve Training Center
China Rally Backed by Mass Meetings for Korea War Action
Chinese broadcasts from Peiping described village meetings pushing for intervention in Korea. Speakers branded American troops as a "man-eating beast" to be shot, while no UN action or cross-border Red troop movements were confirmed.
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San Francisco
China
Peiping Radio
Korea
United Nations
Manchurian
North Korea
Court OKs Denial Of Writ To Doomed Men
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upholds Richmond hustings ruling denying writs of habeas corpus for seven Martinsville Negroes awaiting execution for the rape of a white woman. Justices met in special session to hear the petition for writ of error.
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Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Truman Visits Wounded Guards
President Truman, under heavy guard, walked from the White House to an emergency hospital to visit two policemen wounded in Wednesday’s gun battle. Five Secret Service men escorted him as he spoke briefly with Pfc. Joseph A. Downs and Pfc. Donald T. Birdzell, saying they are getting along fine.
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Washington
President Truman
White House
Secret Service
Truman
Joseph A. Downs
Donald T. Birdzell
U S Troops Escape Trap as Red Counter-Drive Halts
In Korea, at least half of the trapped U S First Cavalry regiment escaped north of Kunu while Red assaults paused. South Korean forces held Kum and Kunu defenses as Marine units faced encirclement threats near Changjin reservoir and Wonsan. In Washington, funeral services were set for Police Pvt Leslie Coffelt, fatally wounded at Blair House, while Griselio Torresola's body lay unclaimed in New York with his widow facing conspiracy charges.
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Seoul
U. S
Korea
Kum
Pyongyang
U. S. Eighth Army
U. S. First Cavalry
Kunu
Unsan
Seventh Division
Northeast Korea
Sudong
Changjin Reservoir
Majon
Wonsan
North Korea
Kojo
Truman
Leslie Coffelt
Blair House
Griselio Torresola
A. Magruder MacDonald
Torresola
New York
Carmen
Shoots Daughter and Ends Own Life in West Virginia
West Union WV November 3 Sixty year old Elbert Earl Rogers shot his five year old daughter Nancy to death then killed himself after leaving a note saying he knew the child would go to heaven. The bodies were found October 30 near Talkington Fork after they failed to return from a squirrel hunt. The note states he cannot live with Fern and could not leave Nancy.
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West Union
W. Va
Elbert Earl Rogers
Nancy
Talkington Fork
Fern
Tax Equalization Need Emphasized in West Virginia
Charleston, Nov 3. Tax Commissioner C. H. Koontz urged a crying need for uniform property assessments in West Virginia. A state survey found residential assessments average 49.38 percent of value, with county figures ranging from four percent to 75–100 percent. The 1947 legislature set a plan where counties could fund schools from local taxes if assessed at 50 percent, with state aid covering the rest.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
C. H. Koontz
This Coot Shows Great Deal Of Sense
In Nashville a drenched coot sought shelter in the State Game and Fish Commission offices. Tom Bingham, chief of law enforcement, named the bird Charlie and said it will remain until the weather improves before resuming its journey.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Game and Fish Commission
Commission
Tom Bingham
Charlie
Aid Arrives For Seoul As Civilians Brace For Winter
Seoul officials say 1,000,000 plus residents may face hunger and cold but relief is on the way. Free rations will be provided in the capital and funds raised for materials. blankets and warm clothing are prioritized as winter nears. Marcus W. Sherbacher, national welfare officer, notes transportation bottlenecks and slow grain unloading at Inchon. General MacArthur’s HQ has taken direct responsibility to accelerate relief with U.N. agencies now at work.
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Seoul
Korea
Marcus W. Sherbacher
Los Angeles
Korean Civil Assistance Command
Associated Press
Shherbacher
Inchon
Sherbacher
General MacArthur
U. N
World Health Organization
International Children’s Emergency Fund
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McDowell
Russ
Navy Aviation Publication
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