Venezuela inaugurates BetanCourt government pledging democracy
AP analyst notes Romulo Betancourt leads a new Venezuelan government after upheaval. He vows a universal secret ballot, a new constitution, and an April National Assembly meeting to set an election date. He promises hemispheric unity and protection of foreign investment and discusses press censorship abolition amidst oil wealth.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Betancourt
National Assembly
Senor Betancourt
America
Russia
Building Of Democratic Nation Sought In Japan
Tokyo reports focus on shaping a democratic Japan with financial and political reform. Daibatsu liquidation is disputed as a restructuring, while a revised constitution and education reforms move forward under Allied supervision. Konoye says Emperor Hirohito pressed for a strong diet to guide policy and a constitutional revision draft proceeds.
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Tokyo
Japan
Daibatsu
Asahi Shimbun
Keizo Shibusawa
Fumimaro Konoye
Hirohito
Konoye
MacArthur
Allied
Supreme Headquarters
Mikado
France Votes For Regime Of De Gaulle
Paris electoral results show Gen. De Gaulle winning a sweeping vote to draft a new constitution and establish a provisional government for seven months while the assembly convenes. About half the ballots counted gave 96 percent for the new constitution and 65 percent for an interim government.
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Paris
France
de Gaulle
Ministry of the Interior
Interior Ministry
Popular Republican Movement
Seaka
House Committee Hops On OPA For "Rigid" Control
Washington Oct 22 Congress begins a new week with familiar issues including atomic energy the army navy merger the OPA and Pearl Harbor probe A House committee led by Rep Howard Smith backs relaxed price controls claiming rigid policy slows reconversion The debate also covers labor policy and civil rights questions with Rep Powell complaining about naval academy bias and Secretary Forrestal promising probe The scene features intra party moves on atomic matters and a proposed five five Senate committee to oversee policy
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Washington
Congress
Army-Navy
OPA
Pearl Harbor
National Science Foundation
A. N. Richards
Committee of Medical Research
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Francis G. Blake
Yale University School of Medicine
House
Howard Smith
D-Va
Powell
Newark
Navy
Naval Academy
Forrestal
Atomic Energy
Senate
Brian McMahon
Connecticut
McMahon
Anti-Nazi Sent Out In Search Of Fuehrer
Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, a German-born anti Nazi who came to the United States in 1939, is said to be hunting for Adolf Hitler on orders from the White House. The Philadelphia Record reports Kempner can identify Hitler by physical details and could recognize a cadaver or a Hitler in disguise. He left Philadelphia four weeks ago and was secretly flown to Nuremberg, Germany.
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Philadelphia
Robert M. W. Kempner
U.S
Adolf Hitler
Germany
White House
Philadelphia Record
Empner
Prussiai
Missingfuehrer
Gestapo
Hitler
Fuhrer
Kempner
Nuremburg
Flowers Tossed Into Pacific In Memory of Dead
Dozens of flowers were cast into the Pacific off California in a Sunday ceremony aboard the Frigate WU Brownsville ten miles off the Golden Gate. The navy organized the service to honor fallen personnel from five military branches. An anonymous donor contributed wreaths honoring the unknown casualties of soldiers sailors marines airmen and merchant mariners.
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San Francisco
Pacific
California
Brownsville
Golden Gate
Navy
Forrestal Opposes Merger Plan For Postwar Force
Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal condemned the proposed merger of the war and navy departments as revolutionary and unsound. He presented a navy counterproposal to the Senate Military Affairs Committee proposing continued separate war and navy departments and a national security council chaired by the president.
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Washington
Navy
James V. Forrestal
War and Navy Departments
War Department
Senate Military Affairs Committee
National Security Council
State, War, and Navy
National Security Resources Board
United States
Forrestal
Weekend deaths in Carolinas from accidents and gunshots
A weekend toll across the Carolinas lists seventeen deaths from highway and railway incidents and gunshots. In Sumter South Carolina four people died in fogs after a wreck near the city outskirts. Cur rituck County two Broad Creek Village residents and a local soldier perished in a collision. Columbia saw two soldiers die when a truck overturned on Highway 26. two men and a boy burned in a George town area pickup crash.
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Carolinas
Sumter
S. C
Woodrow Geddings
Arthur Geddings
Clarence Carraway
Paxville
Sumter County
Laura Johnson
G — Johnson
Currituck County
Broad Creek Village
Audrey Winfred Hampton
Vernon Edwin Potter
Edwin Carlton Overton
Columbia
30Th Division
Fort Jackson
Watereeyeste
Seaman Elmer Woodrow Moore
Pacific
Stacy Dwight Moore
Georgetown
Jersey Blaze Fatal To Trio and Five Injured
In New Brunswick two Rutgers sophomores and a woman guest died in a three alarm fire at the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house. Four Rutgers men and another guest were injured when they leaped from second story windows. The coroner ruled deaths by suffocation in the 25 000 dollar blaze that damaged the 35 year old frame house.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Rutgers University
Sigma Alpha Mu
Raymond Berger
Trenton
Rutgers
Joyce Patricia Katzman
Teaneck
New Jersey College For Women
New York University
Middlesex County
Robert H. Jamison
Raymond Schiff
Jamesburg
Katzman
Corrine R. Pommer
Ridgewood
Women's College
Cuse
Balinese life and art inspire Belgian painter Le Mayeur
Denpasar Bali scene recalls Adrian Jean Le Mayeur 66-year-old painter who settled in Bali with his Balinese wife. The article notes his decade of happiness, four years of hardship, and his belief the sun and sea keep him young. It highlights his love for Bali and his temple like home and studio.
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Denpasar
Bali
Adrian Jean le Mayeur
le Mayeur
Brussels
Pollok
Venezuela Cabinet Plans To Aid Democratic Ideals
Betancourt, 37, former columnist, assumes dual role as president and interior minister amid a coup backed by a revolutionary junta. He pledges free universal secret ballot and hemispheric unity while appointing a Democratic Action dominated cabinet with ministers for education sanitation labor and development.
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Venezuela
Ance
Oilrich
Romulo Betancourt
Democratic Action
Edmundo Fernandez
Betancourt
Carlos Morales
Raoul Leoni
Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso
In Church Time Of Crime Denies Killing at Belsen
Otto Kulessa a 53 year old Prussian guard testifies at the British military court denying shootings at Belsen claiming he was in Easter church services at Northausen during the April 2 incident. He says he arrived at Belsen with 5000 prisoners and that water for captives came from a boiling locomotive. Six weeks into the trial, 16 of 45 defendants have testified with possible quickening of proceedings.
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Lueneburg
Germany
Otto Kulessa
Belsen
Northausen
Kulessa
Justice Stacy to Preside at Labor-Management Conference
Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of North Carolina’s state supreme court accepted President Truman’s invitation to preside at the Labor-Management Conference in Washington. The meeting begins November 5 to seek a new understanding between management and labor. Eben Ayers, assistant White House press secretary, said the president was still in discussions.
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Walter P. Stacy
North Carolina Supreme Court
Washington
North Carolina State Supreme Court
President Truman
White House
Stacy
Eben Ayers
Truman
Russian Troops Train Along Bulgaria Turkish Frontier
Reports from Sofia describe Russian mechanized troops training in southern Bulgaria near the Turkish border after crossing the Danube from Romania. Estimates place about 200,000 Russians in Bulgaria with some detached from the occupation force while Bulgarian forces man frontier regions.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Turkey
Danube
Romania
Nationwide idle down as miners return boosting total
The return of 216,000 miners to soft coal pits drops the national jobless figure to 214,000 on strike or off the job. Glass industry strikes loom in ten cities as other sectors stabilize. totals include 230,400 workers on or off the job excluding coal miners, with steel and transport cuts noted.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Illinois
Missouri
Oklahoma
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
General Motors
Packard Electric
Warren
AFL
Los Angeles
General Electric X. ‘Ray Corporation
Chi
Ane
A and Brass Compan Company
Chicago
Michigan Utility
Seiberling Rubber Company
Republic Steel
Colorful Tale Of Revolution Is Revealed
Refugees from the Venezuelan revolt recount three days of terror in Caracas as gunfire and bombing caused looting, with Americans hiding in hotel rooms. Miss Mary Francis from Oklahoma City described looters, collapsed police, and brutal street fighting near the Avila hotel.
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Miami
Fia
Caracas
Arerive
Mary Francis
Oklahoma City
Avila Hotel
Francis
Maracay
Madge Davis
S. C
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