Marines Smash Toward Seoul In Korean Front Drive
U S forces captured Waegwan and pressed toward Seoul as Marines on the Inchon Seoul front drive through the Waegwan area. American units crossed the Naktong and advanced toward Kumchon while engineers moved crossing gear toward the Han River. In Inchon Seoul operations, airborne and naval airlift reinforced a western liberation assault as Marines pushed into Yongdongpo suburb and near approaches to the Korean capital.
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Waegwan
U.S
Inchon
Han river
Seoul
Yongdongpo
POHANG
Missouri
ELS 1st Cavalry
Kumchon
Kunchon
Taegu
Masan
NAKTONG
24th
eres
Inchon Seoul
Kimpo airfield
Korea
Churchill Move Is Turned Down In 306 300 Vote
Warren R. Austin urged a nationwide minute of peace prayer for world peace to be observed today at 3 p.m. EDT as the United Nations 59 nation general assembly opens with a minute of silence for prayer or meditation.
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Churchill
LAKE SUCCESS
N. Y
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
general assembly
West Germany gains economic and political roles after war end
Britain the United States and France warned Russia to keep hands off western Germany while ending their state of war with Berlin. They outlined steps to strengthen Germany industrially and defensively, including a possible foreign ministry and mobile police formations, with no call to recreate a national army, and ruled out rebuilding a German army outside a common European defense framework.
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FRANKFURT
Germany
Britain
United States
France
Russia
Berlin
Acheson
Bevin
Schuman
New York
west Germany
ministry of foreign affairs
Europe
Norwegian climbers return from Tirich Mir ascent
Norwegian expedition led by Philosophy Professor Arne Naess returns to Oslo after scaling Tirich Mir, 25,263 feet high in Pakistan. At about 22,500 feet they sight a panther and frogs as large as suitcases in mountain lakes. The top was reached July 22 and the following day the climb was photographed. The party also noted an unmapped peak similar in height to Tirich Mir.
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Arne Naess
Oslo
Pakistan
Tirich Mir
Labour government survives censure vote over steel plan
In London the Labour government won a 306 to 300 confidence vote in the House of Commons, defeating Churchill's censure motion on nationalization of the steel industry. Churchill accused the plan of fueling political strife while Morrison defended it as constitutional. Attlee’s cabinet framed the result as a confidence vote.
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ONDON
Labor
house of commons
Winston Churchill
Britain
Attlee
Churchill
Herbert Morrison
Two Killed In Vancouver Plane Crash
Vancouver dispatch reports a chartered plane crashed in fog near Bowen Island while attempting an emergency landing. Pilot Allan N. Beach aged 22 and passenger N. J. Lebans about 53% perished. Survivor Gerald A. Brennan 37 and Edward Sonne 21 were shaken but unhurt.
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VANCOUVER
CPy
Allan N. Beach
N. J. Lebans
Bowen Island
B.C. Airlines
Ocean Falls
B.C
Gerald A. Brennan
Edward Sonne
Brennan
Box Car Shortage Curtails Working Days Pass Mines
A severe railway car shortage halves the working days of 2,043 coal miners in the Alberta sector of the Crow's Nest Pass. Five Alberta mines averaged two to three days per week, with rotation caused by the shortage amid broader rail delays. Officials dispute a Calgary report of mass closures and note the situation will be drastic for two months as rail backlog and fall grain demand bite. Read more on the weekly schedule across Hillcrest Mohawk Greenhill Bellevue International Coal and Coke McGillvray Creek mines.
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BLAIRMORE
CNP Bureau
Alberta
Crow’s Nest Pass
Calgary
Crow's Nest Pass
F. J. Lote
Bilairmore
Unemployment Insurance Commission
The
Herald
Pass
British Columbia
Natal-Michel
Fernie
D.C
U.S
Colleries
Hillcrest-Mohawk
Greenhill
West Canadian
Bellevue
International Coal and Coke Company
Coleman
McGillvray Creek
Mr. Lote
Woman Found Drowned Near Waterton Docks
Mrs Anne Jane Moss lived in Waterton Park and Foremost. she was found drowned in Waterton Lake near the docks between 4 and 8 15 p m Monday. Dr J J Dobry pronounced death and Coroner J J McLeod ruled no inquest. Interment planned for a Calgary cemetery.
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WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK
HNL
Anne’ Jane Moss
Waterton Lake
J. J. Dobry
Cardston
J. J. McLeod
Pincher’ Creek
Moss
England
Canada
Florence Haaglund
Waterton Park
W. Moss
Foremost
Calgary
Physical Proof of Soviet Arms Delivery Seen at UN
U S delegates display a captured 7.62 mm sub machine gun with 1950 Soviet markings at the U N Security Council session in New York. Gen MacArthur calls it proof of Soviet munitions to North Korea in 1949 1950, while Russia refuses to inspect. The weapon, a Thomp son variant, bears heavy wear and was taken from North Korean forces near Taegu before July 21.
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N.Y
U.N. security council
U.S
Warren Austin
MacArthur
security council
Austin
council
Gladwyn Jebb
Russia
Jakob A. Malik
Malik
Bredon Stabell
A. A. Soldatov
Col
John T. Cole
U.S. military staff committee
Col. Cole
Taegu
Trans-Canada Highway Contracts Worth 17.9 Million Approved
Winnipeg report notes the federal government has approved contracts totaling 17,873,000 for Trans-Canada Highway work. Federal Resources Minister Winters sent greetings to Errick F. Willis, CGRA president, as the association’s 31st convention opens. Eight provinces have signed the agreement and begun construction on roughly 4100 miles, aiming for completion by December 1956.
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WINNIPEG
Winters
Errick F. Willis
Canadian Good Roads Association
CGRA
CBC Takes No Action Over Fake Stalin Death Bulletin
In Montreal on September 19, the CBC will take no action regarding a Sunday night CHLP radio broadcast that circulated a fictitious bulletin claiming the death of Prime Minister Stalin of Russia, drawing local comment.
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NGO
ATTIGNEX
Ted
MONTREAL
CBC
CHLP
Stalin
Russia
Catholic labor group to ban picketing in strikes
The Canadian Catholic Confederation of Labor adopted a resolution by 400 delegates representing about 90,000 workers that would ban picketing and close struck companies’ plants for the duration of a strike. The decision was announced in Sherbrooke Quebec on September 19.
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CATHOLIC LABOR GROUP
SHERBROOKE, Que
Catholic Confederation of Labor
Quebec province
Big U N Parley Opens at United Nations General Assembly
New York opens the United Nations fifth general assembly as 500 delegates from 59 nations gather for a three month session. Big Three ministers Bevin Schumann and Acheson head talks while Russia pushes to seat Communist China over Nationalist China. An Indian move put the Chinese representation on the provisional agenda as Romulo’s gavel signals the session.
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Flushing Meadow
New York
India
Romulo
Vishinsky
China
India Moves To Seat Communist China At UN
The general assembly opened with India requesting China be given the Chinese seats in the United Nations, beating the Soviet Union to the punch on the key representation issue. Western defence ministers were summoned to New York to organize a quick central Western army, likely flying in this week. Canada hinted it may vote for admission of Communist China, with discussions to push a small committee study. Alberta’s Macleod School Division authorized to borrow 60000 for a four room school, while Grande Prairie and Two Hills divisions receive 200000 and 60008 for new schools. Philippine troops arrived in Korea to join UN forces. The first Turkish units, about 4500, left Iskenderun for Korea.
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INDIA
RUSSIA
NEW YORK
general assembly
China
United Nations
Soviet Union
LONDON
Paris
United States
PEARSON
CANADA
L. B. Pearson
U.N. general assembly
assembly
MACLEOD
EDMONTON
Alberta Board of Public Utility Commissioners
Grande Prairie
Two Hills
KOREA
STH
Philippines
ISTANBUL
Turkey ising
Iskenderon
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Associated Press
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Morrison
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Jeffrey Brock
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R.C.N
Cmdr. Lee
W. Kim
Waterton Docks
SHELL SAMCHOK
Norfolk
Samchok
Cape Hatteras
Panama
Korean
Sea of Japan
International
U.N
Okay
Big U.N. Parley
United Nations fifth general assembly
Carlos P. Romula
BIG UN
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