Peace efforts meet skepticism over China's truce plan
In Nanking a peace conference drew a skeptical mix of Communist and Democratic League leaders who question Chiang Kai-shek's Friday truce order. They warn it could be a pretext for further military action while calling for an armistice and participation in the national assembly opening. Sun Fo was set to speak urging unity and pacific aims amid fronts from the Yangtze to Manchuria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NANKING
Democratic League
Chiang Kai-Shek
Lo Lung-Chi
league
Chiang
national assembly
China
Comrmaunists
Sun Fo
legislative Yuan (council
Yangtze river
Manchuria
Kalgan
Remembrance Day Inscription Set for Whitehall Cenotaph
The King will unveil a new inscription on the Whitehall Cenotaph to mark Remembrance Day 1939 1945. Princess Elizabeth will join in laying wreaths at the memorial as governments of the British Commonwealth place tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
Reuters
Whitehall
Elizabeth
British Commonwealth
Colorado in Storm Grip
Snow lingered over Colorado and Wyoming as planes grounded and highways iced over. Denver logged 16 inches by dawn, with drifts up to 40 feet in gullies and 11 deaths in the weeklong blizzard. Airplanes flew food to marooned ranchers and livestock while Army trucks moved patients and grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DENVER
Colorado
weather bureau
Wyoming
Retsons
Frank Tomasick
tig ranch
Canon City
Manuel Valdez
Army
Meat Moves North To Feed Alaskans
Alaska communities suffer shortages after maritime strikes cut supplies. Governor Gruening seeks federal aid as freight costs soar and deliveries by air and small craft struggle to meet acute needs across isolated towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JUNEAU
Alaska
Territorial
Ernest H. Gruening
Washington
State of siege declared in Colombia amid strikes
The government declares a state of siege in Cali and the Pacific railroad area due to a strike by truck drivers and rail workers. The move follows rising tensions and disruptions across the transportation sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BAGOTA
Colombia
Cal
Pacific railroad
Platypus Exhibit Attracts Awe In New York Doorstep
The New York Zoological Society houses three platypuses from Australia as curator David Fleay plans a New York lecture. The rare monotreme, native to Australia, lays eggs and stores food in cheek pouches, while resembling a mix of muskrat and bird beak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ATURE
Australa
Bronx Zoo
Sydney
New York Times
New York Zoological Society
Australia
David Fleay
New York
Gordon Addresses Cotton Prices and Subsidies Policy
Ottawa report of Donald Gordon, Prices Board chairman, arguing removal of subsidies and price controls on cotton would destabilize world markets and raise Canadian living costs. He notes Canada imports all cotton and faces price swings from foreign markets and postwar conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
eee
Donald Gordon
the
Prices board
CBC networks
Canada
Gordon
United States
Canadian envoy Hume Wrong presents credentials to Truman
Hume Wrong, the new Canadian ambassador to the United States, presented his credentials to President Truman. He said he looked forward to continuing the traditions and conduct of U S Canada relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Hume Wrong
United States
Truman
Wrong
Britain protests Albania over mining in Corfu Channel
Britain sent a note to Albania via Belgrade urging minesweeping in the Corfu Channel after two British destroyers hit mines on October 22, killing 38 and wounding 45. The move follows Albania’s UN protest against British naval actions and US recall of its Tirana political representative amid strained relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BRITAIN
ALBANIA
CORFU
LONDON
foreign office
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
United States
George Henderson
Tirania
Albanias
Henderson
Washington
UNRRA
offic
Tirana
Western Australia Strikes Cement Industries and Transit
Western Australia faces a railway strike that grips the region and halts industry and tram transit affecting about 90,000 workers. The dispute centers on six locomotive engineers who refuse to operate a specific engine type prompting union demands for withdrawal and reinstatement of the six suspended men. The state government and Labor party push to isolate the stoppage with broad union backing calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PERTH
Western Australia
Reuters
Western Australia Labor
Australia Labor party disputes’ committee
Truman to issue conciliatory wartime policy statement
President Truman plans a public statement early next week stressing the nation's welfare above personal or party interests. Officials say the tone will seek bipartisan support for United States foreign policy and underline continued nonpartisan cooperation after the recent general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Truman
congress
United States
Dewey Opens Door to Presidency With Wins in New York
New York November 9 Prospective President Dewey governor of New York and son of a Michigan weekly editor widens his hold on the presidency after a landslide re election in the state. He leads the Republican party despite losing Roosevelt's renomination bid in 1944 by 3 5 million votes. Many say party tradition may not block a second nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CLYDE BLACKBURN
Canadian Press Star
NEW YORK
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Harry Truman
New York City
Gov Dewey
Roosevelt
Gov
Dewey
Gandhi loses five pounds on fast start in Bengal
Doctor Sushila Nayar says Mohandas K. Gandhi has shed five pounds after ten days on a pemi starvation diet while traveling through East Bengal amid Hindu Muslim rioting. She notes his daily intake totals about 700 calories and lacks protein and fat, kept as a health measure and potential protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
CHAUMAHANI
East Bengal
India
Gi—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sushila Nayar
Gandhi
Bengal
Bihar
Mrs Roosevelt appeals aid for refugees at U.N. talk
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt told the United Nations committee that most European political refugees cannot or will not return home because their countries no longer belong to them. She cited Baltic refugees near Frankfurt and rejected Soviet claims they are fascists. The panel reviews an international refugee organization as Russia pushes for mandatory repatriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Russia
Europe
United Nations’ Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs committee
Roosevelt
Andrei ¥. Vishinsky
Frankfurt
Baltic states
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Soviet Union
Vishinsky
Jews To Attempt To Run Blockade
London reports an impending large scale attempt by Jewish refugees to breach the Palestine blockade. Britain seeks to move a displaced persons camp inland from the French coast and holds ships loaded near the camp. In Jerusalem three British policemen were killed and several Jewish civilians wounded when a booby trap exploded during a raid on an suspected arms dump linked to the Irgun Zvai Leum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
colonial office
Britain
Palestine
France
JERUSALEM
Irgun
Mexicans Go Home in Wenatchee Strike
About 500 Mexican nationals who had worked in the district’s apple orchards gathered at a Wenatchee station on November 9. They refused to board trains unless sent straight home to Mexico, rejecting transport to Idaho or Montana jobs for potatoes or beets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WENATCHEE
Mexico
Idaho
Montana
Charge Two Peg Men With Murder
Winnipeg police charged John Ferguson and Thomas Daniel with murder in the death of Davie Gentles a 47 year old department store clerk and war veteran. A coroner's jury found strangulation and the two brothers in law were held on coroner warrants as details emerged from statements to police. The case centers on Gentles and an alleged affair involving Mrs Daniel and the plan to confront Gentles and frighten him away from Mrs Daniel. He died after the car ride ended near suburban Tuxedo and the Assiniboine River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
John Ferguson
Thomas Daniel
Davie Gentles
Ferguson
Daniel
Gentles
Central police station
O. M. M. Kay
Perguson
Bunday
Whimper
Pergy- Son
Gentiles
Polish treasures missing spark confusion in Ottawa London
A Polish embassy official in London blames the exiled government for vanished 24 trunks of priceless art and relics from Ste Anne de Beaupre and Ottawa. In Ottawa Canada distances itself from responsibility while talks with Polish ministers in Canada proceed amid murky details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALFRED FIDERKIWICZ
Ottawa
St. Anne de Beaupre
Que
Alfred J. Fiderkiwicz
Canada
Victor Podoski
NORMAN CRIBBENS
LONDON
C.P
Tomasz Ardlaxewski
Arcikzawski
Arciszewski
Britain
GEORGE RONALD
Ste. Anne de Beaupre
Dominion
Poland
Lester B
Mike) Pearson
Alfred Fiderkiewicz
Pearson
famour
Fiderkiewicz
Montreal
legation
Fiderkiowies
lip
Canada forms new defence research department aims for unified science work
Ottawa reports the new Canadian defence research department faces organizational problems despite its plan. Dr Solandt leads the project as a central body coordinating wartime science for land sea and air forces with three services as partners. The United States already uses a central office, while Britain considers a similar move as Canada proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. DENT HUIGSON
OTTAWA
Nav
Canadian defence research department
Solandt
air force
United States
Canada
Great Britain
No Herald on Remembrance Day Holiday
Announcement that the Herald will not publish on Monday due to Remembrance Day statutory holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the
Herald
Traffic Signals Urgently Sought After Duarte Fatalities
In Duarte California two pedestrians were killed in separate incidents at the same widened thoroughfare intersection on Highland Avenue. Jones urged the county board of supervisors to install traffic signals, and he himself was later killed crossing the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DUARTE
Calif
Jones
Perry
Mets
Byerly
county board of supervisors
Highland Ave
French To Vote Sunday in Fourth Republic Election
Paris reports the fourth republic assembly election opens with 618 deputies to be chosen from about 3 000 candidates under a new constitution approved October 13. Communists, MRP led by Bidault, and Socialists vie for power as De Gaulle steers a noncandidate stance amid cabinet formation threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PARIS
France
De Gaulle
Republcan
Georges Bidault
MRP
Gen. De Gaulle
partirs
M. Bidault
Communists
Socialista
Interior ministry
M.R.P
Radical Socialists
PRL
Republican Party of Liberty
Canadian labor view on G.B. truce
Canadian labor welcomed the idea of a wage truce noting that workers would have protection similar to Britain and could see improved living standards if wage demands were deferred. C.H. Mullard of the CIO commented on a London report that British union officials privately agreed to a one year truce in response to Prime Minister Attlee’s push for higher production to lower prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TORONTO
Britain
C.H. Mullard
United Steelworkers of America
CI. O
London
tude
Attlee
London-bound envoy reports on Egypt union debate
Reuters says Sue dan's governor Sir Hubert Bud diexton departs for London to relay the latest developments on the proposed union with Egypt. Demonstrations and internal party clearances surround the issue as debates unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
CAIRO
Reuters
Suedan
Hubert Buddiexton
Friday
Egypt
Canada UK wheat deal criticized by grain exchange
Winnipeg Grain Exchange denounces the Canada United Kingdom wheat agreement as not in Canada’s best interests. Pree Stanley N Jones rebuts Agriculture Minister Gardliver’s statement. Moving to enforce shingle prices in Canada retail lumber markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
C.F
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Canada
Stanley N. Jones
Gardliver
OTTAWA
C.P
Prices Board
Timber Control
sai
Donald Gordon
Terrence FlaRiff
Vancouver
EDMONTON
IC.P
Famen Piyers
wee
Walter F. Wilner
Edmoonton
Wilken
Also Mentioned on This Page
Platypus
Papa
sargpa peRRABHIVE
FODOSKI CARDINAL VILLENEUVE
Cardinal Villeneuve
West Australia
MRS. ROOSEVELT
Spach
New
Molotov
Trieste
MAX HARRELSON
United Nations Assembly
Sweden
Iceland
Afghanistan
U.N
Soviet
United Nations
Moletey
ie. teigh
Kevin
Philin J. Noel- Baker
San Francisco
Westchester County
N.Y
U.S
Hartley Shawcross
Sol Bloom
Westsehester
Nev
Italy
Yugoslavia
Rome
Pie iro Nenni
Adriatic
Bevin
G.B. TRUCE
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!