Bomb threats target more embassies in Jerusalem
An Arab informant linked yesterday's U S consulate bombing to a Naj Amin El Husseini led striking force. He said France and Czechoslovakia consulates are next, following earlier blasts on the Polish and Swedish missions amid Palestine partition tensions.
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Jerusalem
U. S
Mufti
France
Czechoslovakia
Palestine
MGM Group
Naj Amin el Husseini
Beirut
Lebanon
Arab League
United States Urges Palestine Plan Drafting at UN
The United States and Sweden press the UN Palestine committee to draft a plan for future government of the Holy Land based on partition into Arab and Jewish states. A second U.S. resolution asks for a subcommittee to develop details and report by November 3, using UNSCOP’s partition recommendations.
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The
Holy Land
Special Committee On
Palestine
Unscop
North and South Carolina Weather Outlook October 15 1947
Fair west portion and cloudy east with rain and squalls from Tuesday through Saturday. Warmer highs in the east, cooler in the west, temperatures 2 to 4 degrees above normal in South Carolina through Friday and near normal in North Carolina. Light rains in eastern Carolinas tonight and Wednesday, with further light showers Friday. Temperature readings show Charlotte 77 60, Columbia 82 63, Raleigh 77 68, Spartanburg 79 71, Wilmington 69 61.
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North Carolina
Fair West
North
South Carolina
Carolinas
Charlotte
Wea Wureau
Boston
Charleston
Chicago
Columbia
Los Angeles
Memphis
Meridian
St. PT
Mobile
New Origans
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
Francisen
Spartanburg
Washington
Wilmington
Thieves Stage Gas Robbery Aboard Bucharest Night Train
A band of thieves used gas to render passengers asleep on the Bucharest to Iasi night train. They robbed the carriage while travelers slept and escaped before dawn. Passengers awoke at the final station to missing luggage and valuables.
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Bucharest
Romania
Lasi
Natimnea
CIO Drafts Foreign Policy
The CIO issued a declaration urging war ban, self-restraint, and respect for national independence. It endorses American foreign policy while allowing discussion of U S actions and calls for economic aid to other nations. A potential CIO AFL merger remains opposed by AFL leadership.
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Boston
CIO
America
U.S
Russia
Marshall
AFL
Philip Murray
San Francisco
William Green
Son of Dead Man Registers Point In Court
Judge Paul Frizzelle ruled witnesses may testify about Millard Stanley West and his father's actions before death as the will challenge proceeds. The trial heard that West drank to excess, with five experts expected to be called by caveaters to draw conclusions from that evidence.
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New Bern
Paul Frizzelle
Millard Stanley West
James M. West
Seashore Transportation Company
West
North Carolina
B. Ehringhaus
Millard West
Plane With 69 Down In Heavy Sea
A Boeing flying boat on a charter from England to the United States forced a sea landing with 69 aboard. Most passengers were Britons. the American pilot Capt Charles M Martin 33. Winds and heavy seas hindered rescue as a weather ship and coast guards coordinated transfer efforts. The flight had stopping points at Shannon Gander and New York en route to Baltimore.
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London
Boeing
England
United States
British Press Association
Shannon
Live
New York
Coast Guard
Charles M. Martin
Prestwick
Scotland
Poole
Gander
Baltimore
Increase Noted In Cottonseed Crushed
The census bureau reports cottonseed crushed from Aug 1 to Sept 30 totaled 447,489 tons, up from 323,317 tons a year earlier. Cottonseed on hand at mills as of Sept 30 stood at 594,275 tons, vs 365,270 tons a year ago.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Consignment Selling Is Ruled Out In War Hunger Drive
Washington reports chairman Charles Luckman pledges the bakery industry to save 3.5 million bushels of wheat monthly for Europe and to halt consignment selling. He cites a 60 day whiskey distiller shutdown and broad industry support for meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as part of a 100 million bushel winter savings plan.
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Washington
Charles Luckman
Citizens Food Committee
Europe
Baking Company
Luckman
France
U. S
Truman
Frank Graham In Session With Truman
Dr. Frank P. Graham, head of the University of North Carolina, met with President Truman yesterday before plans to depart for Indonesia. He is part of a three man UN committee to offer good offices in the Dutch Indonesian dispute and will be joined by Belgian and Australian colleagues in Sydney on the way to their destination.
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Washington
Frank P. Graham
Indonesia
Truman
University of North Caroline
United Nations
Graham
Sydney
Outer Banks Suffer Loss By Water
Weather report from Hatteras notes gales and high tides as a tropical hurricane passes 130 miles east of the Outer Banks. Winds 40 to 50 mph, no major fear for residents. Flood damage reported in Florida. coast guard monitors a north by northeast path toward Virginia. First damage seen near Marshallberg as high tides lift a 46 foot party boat into a beach cottage.
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Hatteras
North Carolina
Coast Guard
Florida
Virginia
Ocean
Pecas Lakes
Gulf of Mexco
Carolina
Marshallberg
Cape Lookout
Inspections of State Mental and Tuberculosis Hospitals
The period October 27 to November 1 will see inspections of the three State Mental hospitals and the three State Tuberculosis hospitals. Dr. John A. Ferrell, executive secretary of the North Carolina Medical Care commission, announced the plan. The inspecting party includes federal-state hospital administrators architects engineers and representatives from the institutions.
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Raleigh
John A. Ferrell
North Carolina Medical Care Commission
Scientists Study Tropical Storm Dry Ice Data
A marine storm research mission collected data and numerous pictures during a flight 500 miles off the Florida coast. Scientists will assess the dry ice experiment, noting no visible effect on the clouded area and that results require lengthy evaluation.
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Tampa
Fila
Tropics
Florida
Year Around Plan for UN Debates Urges Public Confidence
U S Delegate John Foster Dulles opened debate on Secretary Marshall's year-round UN plan at Lake Success. He criticized UN progress and urged steps to regain public confidence and prestige for the organization's survival amid Russia's vetoes in the Security Council. He spoke in the 57-nation political committee, noting widespread disillusionment with UN progress.
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Lake Success
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Deba
State Marshall
United Nations
Russia
Security Council
Dulles
Regular Assembly
Marshall
Senate Republicans balk at any trade plan
Senate Republicans voiced caution on Truman's offer to avoid a December special session if Europe aid is assured soon after January. They urged thorough review of a $580 million Western Europe program and stressed no pledge of rapid action in January. Senators Wherry Ferguson Brewster warned against rushed decisions and favored waiting for full facts.
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Washington
Oct
Truman
Congress
Senate
Europe
Capitol Hill
Wherry
R-Neb
Ferguson
Brewster
R-Me
Aid Expands as Southeast Florida Floods Worsen
Relief agencies boost staff and funding as Red Cross adds disaster workers for Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties. An extra 1.25 million dollars is approved for relief. Coast guard plans aerial surveys. Florida National Guard sent to Hialeah and Miami Springs. A naval plane reports rising waters and a deadly toll includes Claude Lucas 12 drowning and two marines killed in a Red Cross evacuation crash.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Red Cross
Dade
Broward
Palm Beach
W. W. Jefferson
Coast Guard
Fort Lauderdale
Homestead
Florida National Guard
Hialeah
Miami Springs
Millard F. Caldwell
Lake Okeechobee
Claude
Lucas
Kendall
Teamsters End Strike With 4000 Return to Work
About 4,000 AFL teamsters returned to their jobs ending a 26 day strike against Railway Express. They agreed to submit differences to an emergency mediation board to be named by President Truman. The action restores work in New York and nearby terminals in Jersey City Hoboken and Weehawken. Nearly 500,000 shipments had stalled during the stoppage and normal service would take days to resume.
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New York
AFL
Railway Express Agency
Truman
AFL Brotherhood of Teamsters
Jersey City
Hoboken
Weehawken
N. J
25 State Men Ordered To Thomasville
An emergency squad of 25 state highway patrolmen was deployed to the Amazon cotton mill in Thomasville as police and Davidson county deputies scale a widening dynamite blast investigation. Arrests rose to 14 for rock throwing and threats against mill property while unions clash with non union workers.
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Thomasville
Amazon
Davidson County
Uest
W. G. Fritts
N. C. English
Fritts
Cherry
Pers Manent
Paul M. Shore
Fred Kaney
J. H
Pete” Alford
Venus Miller
George Carrick
Dora Gerald
Albert Sebastian
Phillip O. Hargett
Claude Callicott
Theodore Howington
Robert A. Parker
Textile Workers’ Union of America, Cio
Dave Barber
Glenn Richardson
Raymond T. Weisner
Louis M. Payne
Maynard Payne
John A
Father shoots two daughters then takes poison in Newton home
In Newton Massachusetts Fiore D Antonio 42 shot his two daughters Nina 15 and Mary 18 then apparently ingested poison. Nina died Mary was critically wounded. A son Gino 16 found the siblings and called for help as police and fire crews arrived. The father was found unconscious in the cellar and later hospital reports listed him in critical condition.
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Newton
Mass
John H. Sheridan
Sheridan
Fiore D’antonio
Nina
Mary
D’antonio
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Gino
Newton Fire Department
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