U N Assembly Faces Decisive Battle Over Lie
Allied troops uncover 80 bodies of North Korean civilians at Pakchon near Pyongyang in the aftermath of retreating Red forces. In New York the UN General Assembly debates whether to extend Trygve Lie’s term as secretary general with US backing and Soviet opposition shaping a high stakes session. India shifts toward the majority view as debate over a three year extension intensifies. Malik and Vishinsky prepare sharp arguments against Lie.
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YORK
N.Y
Trygve Lie
United Nations
general assembly
United States
Lie
Russia
Canada
Jakob A. Malik
Malik
Andrei Y ¥. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
security council
assembly
INDIA
U N Army 100000 Men Strive To End Conflict Before Winter
Allied forces, a United Nations army of 100000, push across the North Korean peninsula to end the war before winter. Chinese Reds reportedly aid North Korea while U S armored units gain on Sinuiju and approach the Yalu River.
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Associated Press
EOUL
United Nations
northeast Korea
Tokyo
Gen. MacArthur
North Korea
Pyongyane
Meanchurien
Formosa
Red
Lin Piao
fourth army
Korea
commonwealth
Chongju
Sonchon
LONCHON
Sinuiju
Yalu river
Oregon Valleys Flooded in Western Oregon Flooding
Muddy flood crests swept western Oregon valleys after five deaths and widespread damage. Headwater streams forced 2,000 from homes. Some rural areas remain isolated behind damaged roads and bridges. A Coquille Valley family evacuation ended with Leo Landive and his son Dan drowning when a rowboat capsized. Other victims had perished earlier in the Rogue Umpqua and Coquille valleys. Roads undermined by flash floods from week of storms. Heroism stories emerge from towns like Myrtle Creek as residents recount perilous moments.
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PORTLAND
Ore
Oregon
Coquille Valley
Leo A Landive
Dan
Landive
Oregon coastal range
R. H. Baldock
Rogue
Umpqua
Coquille valleys
Pacific
Myrtle Creek
C. L. Lindquist
Smuggling Ring Charged Over Refrigerators in Montreal
Eight men including three Montreal merchants faced criminal court charges for conspiring to smuggle 212 electric refrigerators worth 53000 into Canada from the United States. Special prosecutor Jean Tellier said the scheme began last January and ran to mid April when RCMP seized over 200 units for unpaid duties, with the items later sold on the regular market to unaware buyers.
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MONTREAL
Canada
United States
Jean Tellier
RCMP
The Left Hand Corner Venerable Pine-Fabulous Character Press
The fragment hints at a column or feature titled The Left Hand Corner noting a venerable pine fabulous character and press agents. Readable details are minimal but suggest a period newspaper teaser about a notable local figure and publicity team.
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Pine
Oldest Woman in Wromney Reaches 103 Birthday
Eli Bersvendsdatter Vatten of Wromney celebrates 103 with coffee from dawn to dusk and a piece of cake. She remains active sweeping stairs beating rugs indoors, knitting stockings, or reading newspapers. Five of her children survive. News brief from Out Lands Dept. on Pine stands in Petawawa forest with back page note.
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Wromney
Eli
Out Lands Dept. News
Petawawa, Forest
This Year It Is Horrible Rubber Mask
A Canadian Press survey notes this Halloween may bring many wearing rubber green masks and a rise in candy prices. Police in Winnipeg Ottawa and Toronto plan extra precautions with special constables and evening shifts. Saint John Ottawa and Edmonton communities prepare for festive mischief and welfare concerns amid cost concerns.
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Winnipeg
Ottawa
Toronto
Saint John
Edmo
Labour government vows successful rearmament to avert war
London Oct 31 The King opened a new parliamentary session with pageantry as the throne speech pledged the Labor government to strive by all means to ensure successful rearmament to avoid war. Attlee may face a possible general election as the session begins. The speech outlined plans to nationalize beet sugar, grant permanent price and production controls, reform leasehold laws, bolster civil defense, and expand home food production amid a disturbed international situation. The measures aim to give the government power to regulate the economy by decree, drawing Tory opposition who call such steps a move toward a police state.
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LONDON
Attlee
94 Year Old Playwright Shaw Sinking Fast
George Bernard Shaw, 94, was described as sinking fast by doctors in England. Lady Astor spent an hour with him, saying he was very tired and weaker than ten days earlier while he slept. Earlier a spokesman said his condition remained generally weak after a garden fall, surgery for a broken bone and a kidney complication.
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UA WINCE
England
Gedree Bernard Shaw
Lady Astor
Shaw
Nancy
Alberta sends 100 grain exhibits to Royal Winter Fair
Edmonton officials report more than 100 grain exhibits and 10 cattle cars will depart for Toronto on Saturday. About 24 grain exhibitors enter from one to 11 items each plus six netted gem potato entries. Leading growers include St Allsop Red Deer Tom Corlett Clairmont and Emmett Mohler Camrose.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
Toronto
department of agriculture
St. Allsop
Red Deer
Tom Corlett
Clairmont
T A. Elink
Harry Hill
Emmett Mohler
Camrose
Myr. Eliunk
Thomas E Brown
Cassils
Brooks
Brown
Calgary
Saskatoon
McIntyre ranch
Lethbridge
the
Royal
Gear Canada's Civil Aviation Industry To Needs Of War
Seigniory Club Que Oct 31 Pi Transport. Minister Chevrier said plans exist to gear Canada's 40 million dollar a year civil aviation industry to wartime needs. He outlined a basis for consultation with the military and noted that some personnel and aircraft would be reassigned, with civilian pilots joining wartime airlift if required and a priority system for travel under air transport board control. Income from domestic air services rose from under 17 million to about 40 million dollars.
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Canada
SEIGNIORY CLUB
Que
Pi—Transport
Chevrier
Air force
RCAF
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Pacific
air transport board
Mr. Chevriersleg
Seoul Enigma Amid War Ruins Calm Despite Destruction
Seoul today is an enigma says dispatch from the capital. Despite nightly shelling and widespread ruin, residents appear content amid a decimated economy as Communists abduct skilled workers and a vast majority of businesses remain gutted by fires.
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C. P
KING
SEOUL
Korea
China opens peace talks offer on Tibet dispute
India reports Peiping says Tibet is an integral part of China and no foreign interference. China agrees to receive official Tibetan delegation and seek a peaceful settlement, citing pre judicial foreign activity as justification for troop movement. India plans policy based on Beijing reply.
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India
China
Peiping
Tibet
K. M. Panikkar
Editor Anxious To Get Home In Lucknow
Special contributor I Norman Smith reports Blair Fraser and George Ferguson departing Lucknow for Agra to visit the Taj Mahal. They travel at night, bring four bottles of beer as pillows, and face a chaotic sendoff with servants and crowds as a taxi search unfolds, then a boss hires and unloads the baggage.
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I. NORMAN SMITH
The Herald
LUCKNOW
India
Blair Fraser
George Ferguson
Agra
Taj Mahal
Fraser
Ferguson
Fergueson
Hamburg
New York
Boettiger Death Shocks Roosevelt Family in New York
John Boettiger fifty former son in law of Franklin D Roosevelt leaped from a seventh floor Manhattan hotel window police said he had been despondent for days and was under care of a male nurse Boettiger a lifelong newspaperman was Anna Roosevelt Dall's ex husband and father to Sissie and Buzzie Dall His death follows a period of deep melancholy with a window opened before the fall
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NEW YORK
John Boettiger
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manhattan
Boettiger
Anna Roosevelt Dall
Sissie
Buzzie Dall
Anna
Denies Feed Grain Subsidy To Be Lifted
Mount Brydges Ont Oct 31 Robert McCubbin parliamentary assistant to Agriculture Minister Gardiner denied reports the government plans to lift the feed grain subsidy moved from western Canada to the east The official said there is no truth in the reports and expressed hope the subsidy will remain to help defray shipping costs to other parts of Canada
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MOUNT BRYDGES
Ont
Robert McCubbin
Gardiner
Canada
South Middlesex Liberal Association
Colonial Corporation Opens Vast Bechuanaland Ranch
In London on October 31 Britain's Colonial Corporation announced a huge cattle ranch in Northam Bechuanaland Africa spanning 16 000 square miles. It will eventually stock a very large herd with an annual offdraw of over 50 000 head according to the company.
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LONDON
Britain
Colonial Corporation
Northam Bechuanaland
Africa
eae
Rebels Driven From H. Q. in Puerto Rico Struggle
National Guard forces drove insurgent Nationalists from Jayuya in a combined air and ground assault. About 60 to 70 rebels held out near Utuado as government troops pressed a mopping up operation. Casualties were reported around 30 dead and 25 wounded on both sides, with fighting spreading across the island as the revolt, linked to independence aims, intensified.
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SAN JUAN
Puerto Rico
National Guard
st Jayuya
Jayuya
Sind
Utuade
United States
insular
Etuade
Juan Antonio Corretjer
Pedro Albizu Camnco
Utuado
Airliner crash at London in dense fog kills feared
London reports an airliner arriving from Paris veered off the runway in fog at London airport. Early word says 21 feared dead, with initial accounts noting the craft landed then struck a heavy barrier. Other items note US columns cross North Korean lines and Canadian exports to the US hit a new peak.
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LONDON
Paris
Northolt
U.S
SEOUL
Bureau of Statistics
FRIARS POINT
Misa
VANCOUVER
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Far East
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