Hungary Reparations Plea Rejected At Peace Conference
The Paris peace conference rejected a US plea for a 100 million dollar cut in Hungarian reparations to Russia, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. It approved freeing the Danube for navigation and set terms for a Danube congress, with Canada siding with the US on the financial portion. Willard Thorp urged reductions to prevent economic disintegration as voting neared on the Hungarian treaty.
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Russia
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
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Germany
Danube
Georges Bidault
France
Finland
Canada
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Greece
Norway
New Zealand
Netherlands
Foreign Ministers Council
Willard Thorp
U. S. State Department
Hungary
OPA Launches Nationwide Housing Enforcement Drive
The OPA announced a nationwide crackdown on builders and others violating ceiling price and veterans' preference rules in housing. A force of agents will begin field work Monday with 80 local rent offices to pursue voluntary compliance and pursue criminal prosecutions where needed.
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Wiley
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Porter
Attorney General
National Housing Agency
Ivan D. Carson
Carson
General Stilwell Dies at 63 in San Francisco
General Joseph W. Stilwell known as Vinegar Joe died in his sleep at Letterman General Hospital at 12:48 p.m. PST after a liver cancer linked to jungle service. He asked for cremation and ashes to be spread from a plane over the Pacific near Carmel, California.
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Jacob L. Devers
American School Bells Ring In Reich
American school bells will ring Monday as 2 000 to 2 500 children of U S soldiers and civilians begin schooling in 40 American zone communities. High schools will open in Berlin Bremen Frankfurt Erlangen Munich and Heidelberg though delays due to ship strikes and textbook shortages may push back start dates.
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United States
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Heidelberg
Atlantic
America
Mechanization Seen Driving Southern Population Shift
The Southern Regional Council urged a governors conference to study mechanized cotton farming seen as risking millions of displaced workers in the next decade. Guy S. Johnson warned that the cotton picker and flame thrower could trigger a serious labor disruption even as the region industrializes. A letter to 13 southern governors called for preparation for social and economic changes expected to emerge soon.
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Southern Regional Council Today
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Weather roundup for major cities with temperatures and rainfall
Morning weather report lists maximum and minimum temperatures for cities including Los Angeles Miami St Paul New Orleans New York Norfolk Philadelphia Portland Richmond BostonWashington Wilmington and others. Rainfall amounts shown for several locations, with generally cooler north and warmer south conditions.
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Democrats Hear Senator Name Officers
Basil Whitener of Gastonia was unanimously elected president of the Young Democratic clubs of North Carolina at the Asheville convention. Officers elected include Miss Elizabeth Pierce New Bern vice president Ralph Monger Sanford secretary and Bruce Elmore Bryson City treasurer. Tom Broughton Lenoir named national committeeman and Miss Marion Frink Southport national committeewoman. Senator Clyde R Hoey Shelby delivered the closing address praising the party's progress and service while noting 14 years in government.
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New Bern
Ralph Monger
Sanford
Bruce Elmore
Bryson City
Tom Broughton
Lenoir
Marion Frink
Southport
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Democratic Party
Party of Progress
Hanging Plans Tardy For 11 Top Germans
Nuernberg Germany October 12 1946 11 Nazi leaders including Hermann Goering were due to be hanged four days later but no preparations were made at the jail by U S Army guards no scaffold materials or hangman named and no clemency actions known to allies while authorities await orders to proceed at dawn Wednesday in the guarded prison yard Albert Pierrepont famed British executioner and U S Master Sgt John C Woods were mentioned as involved in the process.
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Herann Goering
Hitler
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Allied Control Council
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Goering
Albert Pierrepont
Britain
U. S
John C. Woods
Washington Vote On Right To Vote
Washington voters will participate in an unofficial plebiscite on election day to decide whether residents of the city should have voting rights. The measure aims to influence Congress for Washingtonians to gain presidential and congressional voting privileges. In 1938 a plebiscite produced about 95 000 ballots with only 6 800 opposing letting people vote.
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Vote Today On France's Constitution
Paris reports Interior ministry projects about 20 million voters to back the new constitution with a 55 percent yes majority in tomorrow's referendum. De Gaulle opposes the charter urging rejection as risky for France, while Bidault's MRP leans yes amid cautious party leadership and lingering discontent over issues like election law and rationing scandals.
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National Constituent Assembly
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Wallace Named Editor of The New Republic
Henry A. Wallace, ousted from Truman administration, accepts editor role at The New Republic effective December. He plans to continue a Democratic campaign tour and urges action against the arms race. Bruce Bliven and others confirm policy continuity and Wallace’s title as editor.
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Stark Young
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U.S. Seeks Negotiations With Russia on Lend Lease Settlement
Washington dispatch reports the United States asked Moscow to begin talks to settle the Soviet wartime lend lease account totaling about 11.0 billion dollars. The note requests a Soviet financial mission come to Washington to discuss possible payment, separate from a proposed 1 billion dollar loan. Negotiations stall over agenda and Soviet replies.
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Monument Of FDR In Every State Proposed
The Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial foundation proposes a monument in each state capital and a Washington building to honor Roosevelt. Glen S. Wilson of Austin, Texas, said the plan aims to limit contributions to one dollar per person and notes the Texas building would likely use Vermont marble on the state capitol grounds.
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Washington, D. C
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Race for housing not half run
Cleveland report on the two year housing race shows progress toward 2,700,000 homes under construction in 1946 47. National Housing Expert Wilson Wyatt says one third of the effort is complete amid rising demand with 708 000 started and 350 000 finished in the first eight months.
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National Housing
Wilson Wyatt
National Association of Housing Officials
Veterans Emergency Housing
Wyatt
Airliner crash reported near New Castle
Trans-world Airlines says a Constellation on a ferry flight from LaGuardia overshot New Castle airbase and burned. All crew aboard uninjured. Charles A. Sylvester of Wilmington treated for shock and cuts after his car was hit by debris on the highway near the crash.
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Delaware Hospital
Wilmington
Charles A. Sylvester
Sylvester
AFL Backing Farm Workers Drive May Reshape Politics
CHICAGO October 12 The American Federation of Labor backs a campaign to organize U S farm workers to gain bargaining rights and a 40 hour work week. The AFL plans support for the National Farm Labor Union while contemplating a third party idea that may fail to gain convention backing.
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American Federation of Labor
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AFL Executive Council
National Farm Labor Union
H. L. Mitchell
Congress
Mitchell
Five Strikes Still Causing Civil Strife
A spreading strike choked off service in Washingtons major hotels leaving dignitaries and visitors to fend for themselves as dining rooms and bars stayed dark. AFL workers walked out cutting heat hot water and air conditioning while shipowners eyed a meeting to ease the 12 day nationwide shipping tieup. No settlement in major disputes including Pittsburgh power and Columbus streetcar.
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Supreme Court
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Hollywood Movie
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Ohio
New OPA Rent Controls Expand Across Southeast States
Fourteen new areas in the southeast will fall under rent control on November 1, covering about 66 000 rental units. Kenneth A Campbell, regional rent executive, cites housing shortages from veterans college enrollment and industrial-worker influx as causes. Regions include Griffin Georgia and Spalding county with January 1 1946 effective date. Brookhaven Mississippi and Lincoln county with July 1 1945. Columbia Mississippi and Marion county with July 1 1945.
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