Chartered Craft Down In Wyoming
A chartered passenger plane bound from Oakland to Cheyenne crashed near Laramie in a heavy snowstorm. Ten passengers and three crew members died instantly or later, eight aboard were sailors, with two more dying later in hospital. Authorities identified the operator as National Air Transport and noted the wreckage lay on a flat field under over two inches of fresh snow.
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Laramie
Wyo
Oakland
Calif
Cheyenne
Civil Arranautics Authority
National Air Transport Service
Albany County
E. L. Knight
Knight
Byrnes Reports Near Progress From Paris Peace Talks
Secretary of State James Byrnes returned from the Paris peace conference and said the 21 nation talks had made progress toward organized peace in Europe and could not be called a failure. He planned a call to President Truman and a first reunion since Wallace’s ouster, while Vanderberg cited a balance of peace credits and mace debits. The return amid souring U.S. relations with the Russian bloc followed word that Washington halted deals to aid Czechoslovakia amid a tense dollar diplomacy dispute.
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Washington
Byrnes
Europe
National
Truman
Atlantic
State Department
Henry A. Wallace
Russia
Vanderberg
R-Mich
Paris
Goering and 10 Nazi war criminals cremated
Bulletin reports that Hermann Goering and ten other Nazi war criminals were cremated and their ashes dispersed secretly, with an official announcement made today in Merneburg.
Weather forecast highlights for Carolina region
Partly cloudy and mild with a dip tonight not as cool as previous. Friday will bring increasing cloudiness with little temperature change. Sunrise and sunset times for Friday October 18, 1946 are 6:20 and 6:41 respectively.
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Oath Carolina
Weet Falls
Temperature rainfall chart city readings October
Official weather bureau records show 24 hour readings ending 5 30 am with stations listed and values for maxima and minima across multiple cities including Charlotte Birmingham Charleston Atlanta Chicago Columbia Denver Evansville Little Rock and others.
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Charlotte
Official Weather Bureau
Truman to address UN opening session in New York
The White House said President Truman will speak at the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on October 23. The announcement followed a White House conference lauding Secretary Byrnes for his Paris peace conference work and noting Byrnes’ briefing of the president after his return. The mode of travel to New York will depend on the speech time.
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Washington
White House
Truman
United Nations Assembly
New York
James F. Bynes
Paris
Charles G. Ross
Byrnes
Intruder Steals Duchess of Windmere Jewels at Dudley Manor
Scotland Yard hunts for a burglar who slipped into the Georgian Dudley Manor and fled with a reportedly considerable portion of a priceless Duchess of Windmere jewelry collection valued in the thousands of pounds. The theft targets the Duke and Duchess during their stay at the Earl of Dudley’s London residence.
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London
Scotland Yard
Earl of Dudley
Duchess of Windmee
British Press Association
Dudley
Ednam Lodge
West End
Taft Attacks Truman on OPA Meat Policy Change
Decatur Illinois reports Taft Republican senator accuses President Truman of delaying meat de control last summer and credits Republicans with forcing a shift. He says the country now has meat but faces shortages in soap paint flooring baby clothes hides paper and other goods and calls for a Republican Congress to end shortages through free economy.
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Decatur, Ill
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Control to Stay On Rent Control Plans Tight Line
Government rent control officials said they will hold the line against any relaxation or lifting of controls. They cite studies showing landlords now enjoy higher profits than prewar and note 14 grounds for rent increases including hardship cases. President Truman ordered faster removal of controls but exempted rents.
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Washington
Truman
AFL Urges Housing Shift to More Apartments for Veterans
The AFL urged the Truman administration to revise housing goals to favor rental apartments over single family homes for sale. Delegates demanded Congress be recalled to pass the Wagner-Ellender-Taft housing bill, arguing faster veteran housing requires more apartment construction and improved industry output.
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Chicago
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Truman
Congress
Washington
Wilson Wyatt
Coffee price ceilings lifted as supply and demand balance
OPA removed price lids on coffee and approved a decontrol petition for green and roasted coffee at all distribution levels. The agency cited industry data showing supply and demand in balance and moved to lift meat controls as wage and food price ceilings were to be scrapped, while UNRRA Director La Guardia denounced the decision.
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Washington
OPA
White House
Coffee Industry Advisory Committee
UNRRA
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Next Move Up To Chinese Communists
Gen. Chen Cheng says the Nationals will strike Paoting only if the Communists attack government forces. The Reds tighten siege of Paoting after counter offensives on the Peiping-Hankow line. In Tientsin a Catholic paper accuses 900 Japanese POWs of aiding the siege.
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Peiping
Chen Cheng
Yenan
China
Cormunists
Peiping-Hankow
Paoting
Hopeh
Tientsin
Social Welfare
Livestock Flood Grows as Chicago Market Hits Peak
In Chicago on October 17, floods of livestock poured into stock chutes exceeding yesterday’s arrivals. Early reports say prices set in the prior two days may hold, as traders struggle to absorb all stock at extreme values. A total of 35,000 head were reported entering the market.
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Chicago
Goering Death Probe Seeks Answers in Nuernberg
Nuernberg sources say 12 German workers are under scrutiny by a three man army board probing Adolf Goering’s cyanide death. The inquiry aims to determine how and when the former marshal took poison, with no arrests yet contemplated. Rumors say the bodies may have been buried at sea.
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Nuernberg
Army Board
Hermann Goering
Goering
Adolf Hitler
Richard McConnell
Allied Control Council
Visit by Allied reporters may have spurred Goering to lethal cyanide
Kingsbury Smith reports from Nuernberg that eight allied correspondents touring the condemned block may have influenced Hermann Goering to swallow cyanide just as they observed him asleep on his cot. Guards watched as other inmates paced while Goering lay motionless.
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Kingsbury Smith
Nuernberg
Nuernburg
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Goering
G.I
Nazidom
Col. Selby Little
High Point Woman Director Elected in Garden Club
Mrs M E Block of Lexington was elected director for the South Piedmont district of the Garden clubs of North Carolina at a meeting attended by about 300 members. State officials spoke, including Mrs J S Mitchener Raleigh president Mrs Fred Bartlett High Point vice president and Mrs R M Simms Raleigh publicity director.
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Charcltf
M. E. Block
Lexington
South Piedmont
Garden Clubs of
North Carolina
State Club
J. S. Mitchener
Raleigh
Poient
Fred Bartlett
A Point
R. M. Simms
James Adderton
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Germany
John C. Woods
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