Eastern Forest Fires Rage On Nine Dead In Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Maine and six other communities were nearly wiped out by wildfires driven by strong winds. The death toll reached nine with property losses around 26 million dollars. Refugees fled to Ellsworth as Maine Massachusetts and New Hampshire faced expanding blazes. The town of Bar Harbor was evacuated while Mt Desert Island was cut off for hours. fears persisted the fire could return with wind.
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Bar Harbor
Maine
New England
Bor
Seth Libby
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rochester
White Mountains
Mt. Desert
Ellsworth
Bott
Truman announces special session for economic emergency
President Truman drafted a report outlining reasons for calling a November 17 special session of Congress to tackle a billion dollar European economic emergency and domestic inflation. He will broadcast the analysis nationwide at 9 p m Central Time after meeting with leaders and cabinet officials.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Europe
Session Call Followed by Drop in Grain and Cotton
Heavy selling hit grain and cotton markets after President Truman called for a special session to combat wheat, corn, and oats. December wheat traded around 3.02 dollars as futures fell, while cotton futures opened down sharply and remained under pressure amid talk of higher down payments and tighter controls on speculation.
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Truman
Chicago Board of Trade
New York
Congress
Turkey Audits Russian Propaganda at U.N.
Turkey formally complained to the United Nations that Russia is conducting aggressive propaganda to turn the Turkish people and other allied governments against their own leaders. Turkish Delegate Selim Sarpar countered Andrei Vishinsky’s charges of warmongering by accusing Moscow of spreading rumors that the United States aimed to seize Turkish bases under Truman aid.
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Lake Success
Turkey
United Nations
Russia
Selim Sarpar
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United States
Greece
Soviet Union
Sarpar
Hick Enter Central America on Information Program Trip
Senator Hickenlooper of Iowa left for a one man study tour of the United States information program visiting four Central American countries. He will travel from New Orleans by boat to Cristobal Panama and cover Panama Costa Rica Honduras and Guatemala before returning to Washington on November 9.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
United States
New Orleans
Cristobal
Panama
Costa Rica
Honduras
Guatemala
Taft Enters 1948 Presidential Race Candidacy Made Official
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio formally announced his candidacy for the 1948 Republican nomination in a letter to Ohio Republican chairman Fred H. Johnson. He called the race wide open, outlined campaign plans mostly in Ohio, and cited a favorable fundraising goal of 750000 dollars with a 500 dollar personal cap. Taft designated Rep. Clarence J. Brown as pre-convention campaign manager and noted limited state primaries beyond Ohio. Harold E. Stassen had previously announced in December as another potential candidate.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Fred H. Johnson
Ohio Republican State Committee
Committee
Johnson
Senate
White House
Cincinnati
Commonwealth Club
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
California
Northwest
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio State Committee
Philadelphia
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Cedar Rapids Home for Aged Women helps widow
Case Twelve shows a 69 year old widow left lonely after her husband dies. With no close relatives, she enters the Home for Aged Women where she finds companionship. She spends her last 17 years there, not happy but far less lonely than expected after the funeral, a Cedar Rapids Community Chest moment.
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Cedar Rapids
Nagging as Divorce Grounds Confirmed by Nebraska Court
Lincoln. The Nebraska supreme court upheld a district court ruling granting Albert E. DeWaal a divorce from his wife after he alleged twenty years of nagging. He said she objected to his listening to women singers, speaking to female coworkers, and seeing girls in shorts. even prayers and threats failed to curb her behavior.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Supreme Court
Albert E. DeWaal
Omaha
Storm Bears Down on North Pacific Coast
The northern Pacific coast braced Friday as howling gales bore down from the Queen Charlotte islands of British Columbia. The Canadian weather bureau at Vancouver warned of the most violent storm in years.
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Portland
INS
Pacific Coast
Queen Charlotte Islands
British Columbia
Vancouver
Teachers Get History Quiz And Flunk In Denver
Colorado teachers subjected to a Denver Education Association quiz averaged a failing 67 in American history. Questions spanned Revolution Tory support, Lincoln assassination, and the first 10 amendments. About 100 teachers from 6,000 were tested, with many errors and a few humorous misstatements revealed by reporters.
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Denver
Colorado
Lincoln
Colorado Education Association
George Washington
Robert E. Lee
Aaron Burr
Pocahontas
John Smith
United States
Western States
Spain
Rocky Mountain News
Commoners Views on Reich Urged by Commons Panel
A special House of Commons committee urged forming a representative German government and a firm British stand on occupation length. The bipartisan panel said Germans should soon take full responsibility for balancing their economy, but noted Germany cannot yet supply food and mater ials.
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London
House of Commons
House
Germany
Community Chest Campaign Figure Now is $84,000
Cedar Rapids report shows Friday totals of 84000 toward a 178900 quota to fund 12 Chest agencies next year. End date is next Tuesday. Merit certificates were awarded for meeting or exceeding quotas to Fruehaus Trailer, Phillips Petroleum, Cedar Rapids Rendering, Van Meter, Travelers, Pacific Mutual Life, Cedar Rapids Building and Loan, Dr. Pepper Bottling, and others.
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Community Chest
Cedar Rapids News
Phillips Petroleum Company
Cedar Rapids Rendering Company
van Meter Company
Travelers Insurance
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Cedar Rapids Building and Loan
Dr. Pepper
United Air Lines Plane Crashes Near Bryce Canyon Utah
A four engine United Air Lines craft carrying 46 passengers and four crew crashed and burned a mile from Bryce Canyon airport in southern Utah. Captain E L MacMillan piloted, co pilot George Griesbach and stewardesses H Morrissey and S Hickey aboard. Fire in the tail forced a forced landing as the plane on the Los Angeles to New York route with Chicago as the only stop.
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Salt Lake City
United Air Lines
Bryce Canyon
Utah
Chicago
E. L. MacMillan
George Griesbach
H. Morrissey
S. Hickey
Sam Kellogg
MacMillan
Los Angeles
New York
Enroute
Disney Claims Reds Took Over His Studio During Strike
Walt Disney testified before a House committee that Communists once seized operations at his studio during a strike and that he believes Herbert Sorrell and the AFL unionists used the labor board to suit their aims. He said his studio is now 100 percent American and described smear campaigns by Communist groups including the League of Women Voters. Oliver Carlson testified about Communist influence in Los Angeles public schools, noting a 24,543 vote share for a Communist candidate in a recent school board election. Carlson claimed leaders have worked to extend Communist influence in Hollywood and cited Eli Jacobson as a key organizer sent from New York in 1938 to educate film workers. He said he left the party years ago and now works as a writer and teacher.
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Washington
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
House
American Activities Committee
Herbert K. Sorrell
AFL Conference of
Disney
Sorrell
Commie
Labor Board
League of Women Voters
Oliver Carlson
Los Angeles
American Federation of Teachers
Carlson
Hollywood
Eli Jacobson
New York
Jacobson
Communist Party In America
Reds Make Hostages of Brazilians
London dispatch says Moscow radio reports Russia has taken hostage the Brazilian ambassador Mario Pimentel Brandao and staff in Rio to secure safe departure of Soviet personnel. It cites attacks on Soviet diplomats, stones thrown at the embassy, and injuries including the charge d affaires son. Brazil cut diplomatic ties with Russia after a hostile Soviet press remark about President Dutra.
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London
Moscow Radio
Russia
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Moscow
Mario Pimentel Brandao
Montevideo
Uruguay
Grigori Sokolov
Soviet envoy Novikov removed as ambassador to Washington
Moscow radio announced Nikolai V. Novikov is replaced by Alexander S. Panyushkin as Soviet ambassador to the United States. No reason given. Novikov had urged Soviet American friendship during a June 19 address and left the U.S. July 27 after signaling uncertainty about his stay.
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London
Nikolai V. Novikov
Washington
Moscow
Friay
Alexander S. Panyushkin
China
Novikov
Chicago Council of
United States
Stockholm
Rain Drifts Across Iowa Cities Mild Temperatures Forecast
The report notes overcast skies and light rain across Iowa with Cedar Rapids at 2:30 pm recording 55 degrees and a .21 inch rainfall. Winterset and Ames saw the heaviest totals up to 1.12 and 1.08 inches, while the five day outlook calls for near normal temperatures and rain chances Sunday or Monday. Highs reached 65 in Cedar Rapids between 1 and 2:30 pm with a 52 degree low overnight.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Winterset
Ames
Bureau
Chambers
Freight Car Diversion For Coal Not Planned
Washington officials stated no plans exist to divert railroad cars to move coal to shortages. Director J Monroe Johnson opposed reallocating open top cars from housing and roadbuilding material shipments, fearing backlash in the construction industry.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
J. Monroe Johnson
Johnson
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Lee Winterberg
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James Yuill
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