Accidental Stabbing Ends Sister Quarrel in Chicago
An inquest ruled the death of 18 year old Adeline Zawistowski accidental after her sister Irene, 16, said she threw scissors during a quarrel at their northwest Side home. A long blade pierced Adeline’s breast, collapsing a lung and causing fatal internal bleeding. Irene was held in custody pending further action.
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Shicago
Adeline Zawistawski
Daniel Healy
Irene Zawistowski
Adeline
Healy
Joseph Mooney
Irene
Margaret Zawistowski
Rose
John
Treng
West North Avenue
Aid and Price Action Seen by Holidays
Senate leaders Lucas and Taft urge swift emergency legislation on domestic high prices and foreign aid before Christmas. Lucas backs aiding stricken countries abroad first and hopes a relief bill can pass by Dec. 19 with Taft support. Citizens’ Food Committee says 35 percent of its goal to save 100 million bushels of grain for European relief.
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Washington
Sen
Lucas
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Truman
Citizens' Food Committee
Europe
Charles Ackman
Truman Works on Message for Special Session
President Truman began work on a message for the special session of Congress convening November 17. The message will cover curbs on rising prices and emergency aid for foreign countries in one address. It is not yet decided if he will deliver it in person.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Charles G. Ross
General Clay Seeks Retirement in 1948
Berlin reports Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S. military governor, has asked the War Department to retire in 1948. He told two news conferences that retirement is months away and he will remain as military governor for a substantial time, adding he wants to fish in Georgia after retirement.
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Berlin
Oct
Lucls D. Clay
U.S
War Department
Germany
Georgia
Pole Leader Said Hiding in Sweden
Francis J. Wik a Polish Peasant party leader said he heard reports Stanislaw Mikolajczyk had reached Stockholm Sweden but could not confirm. Stockholm and Copenhagen officials denied knowledge of his presence amid reports he fled Poland after disappearing last week.
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London
Francis J. Wik
Stanislaw Mikolajczyle
Stockholm
Sweden
Wilk
Warsaw
Copenhagen
Mikolajczyk
Denmark
Mikelajczyk
Poland
Pocketbook Thief Returns Part Of Wallet In Akron
A gunman snatched a pocketbook from Lois Williams, a nurses' instructor at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, and fled. He later returned $2 of the $5 she carried, reporting that was all the money he had.
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Akron
Ohio
Lois Williams
St. Thomas Hospital
Army Hides Trieste Toll Bennett Says
Rep. Marion T Bennett reports 63 incidents of armed aggression by Communists against US troops in Trieste behind military censorship. He cites casualties and says the army hides the seriousness of the situation while urging a strong US air force and navy with atom bombs. He warns about Europe’s hunger and urges aid without overextension.
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Washington
A.P
Marion T.’. Bennett
R-Mo
Trieste
Missouri
Europe
Near East
United States
Yugoslavia
Bennett
Jin
Springfield
Kremlin
Free State
House
Russia
Missourian
Vandegrift Seeks Retirement from Active Duty
General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the Marine Corps, announced he has asked to retire from active duty effective January 1, 1948. He stated Secretary Sullivan is expected to grant the request, noting he was appointed commandant on January 1, 1944 as the Marine Corps' first four star general.
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Washington
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Marine Corps
Secretary of the Navy
Sullivan
Hughes to Be Recalled by Probers
Senate investigators plan to recall Howard Hughes to testify again on his $40,000,000 government airplane contracts. Also to be questioned is John Meyer, the producer's press agent. The hearings paused on Aug. 11 and resume with secret sessions and new witnesses.
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Washington
Senate
Howard Hughes
Senate War Investigating Committee
Hughes
West Coast
Hughes Ls
John Meyer
Reds Repeat Plea for Withdrawal From Korea Zone
In Lake Success on October 28 1950 the Soviet Union urged a simultaneous U N and U S withdrawal from Korea and asked the General Assembly to invite Korean spokesmen to discuss the territory s future U S Delegate Dulles rejected the plan stating occupation forces cannot be pulled out until U N elections are overseen by a U N Korean commission Gromyko countered with a Jan 2 withdrawal proposal if U S forces depart first each side blaming the other for the stalemate in Korean talks
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Dulles
Assembly
S7 Nation
U. N. Korean
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Gromyko
Kore
U. N
George C. Marshall
General Assembly
Hunt Pushed for 18 in Alaska Hunt
In Ketchikan Alaska Oct 28 with clearing weather hopes rose for locating a Pan American DC-4 transport missing since Sunday. The craft carrying 18 people includes Army Navy and Coast Guard crew and pilots aided by private planes and three patrol aircraft. Coast Guard ships and hundreds of fishing boats joined sea searches near Annette Islands airport where veteran pilot Capt A N Monsen failed a landing due to strong winds.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Army
Navy
Coast Cuara
Coast Guard
A. N. Monsen
Annette Islands
Trumbo Refuses to Answer Communist Question at HUAC
Hollywood writers Albert Maltz and Dalton Trumbo refuse to say they are Communist before HUAC. The hearing cites contempt as action moves to House officials. Roy M. Brewer of IATSE testifies of a Communist plot to capture Hollywood unions.
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Washington
A.P
Dalton Trumbo
House un-American Activities Subcommittee
Trumbo
John Howard Lawson
Ne 3
Thomas
R.N. J
Lawson
House
Beuch
Roy M. Brewer
Los Angeles
Brewer
Hollywood
al Feytale
Jet Kibre
Herbert K. Sorrell
Fire in Woodward shrinks business district after blast
A woodward Oklahoma fire burned four stores and damaged at least one more, with several injured and no immediate fatalities. The blaze, halted by 12 40 p m, followed an April tornado that killed 106 people and wrecked much of the town. Two explosions suggested gas or chemicals in the Brown Drug Store.
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Woodward
Okla
Brown Drug Store
Ramadier assails De Gaulle as Caesarist in French assembly
Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier attacks Gen. Charles De Gaulle and the RPF in the National Assembly, calling them Caesarists and warning that failure to carry out the Marshall Plan could trigger economic ruin and civil war. He cites rising De Gaulle strength after municipal elections and faces countercharges from Communist Jacques Duclos.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Charles de’ Gaulle
National Assembly
Ramadier
de Gaulle
Rally of the French People
Jacques Duclos
de Gaulle Party
Communist Party
Washington
Duclos
Airedale Watchdog Stolen During Burglary
Mrs. Gladys Slan of 6847 Lewis Ave reported burglars entered her home and yard stealing lumber and her airedale watchdog valued at about 50 dollars. Police responded and noted possible inflation in the estimate.
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Gladys Slan
Lewis Ave
Marsh
Churchill Urges US Type Economy For Britain
In a House of Commons speech Churchill called for Britain to abandon socialism and return to free enterprise as in the United States. He criticized Labour nationalization and price controls, urged elections, and warned state planning stifles initiative, arguing Britain needs a free enterprise system to restore prosperity. Morrison denounced the speech as reactionary.
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Ondon
A.P
Winston Churchill
United States
Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Herbert Morrison
Labor
House of Lords
Attlee
Wheat Reaches $3 First Time Since Price-cut Appeal
Wheat rose to three dollars at the Chicago Board of Trade for the first time since President Truman urged Congress to act on inflation and aid Europe. December wheat opened strong and climbed, while hog prices fell further at major Midwest markets amid meatless driving and lighter pork values. Wholesale butter and egg prices moved in opposite directions with butter up and eggs steady. cotton futures rose in New York as rain shortages drive gains.
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Associated Press
Chicago Board of Trade
Truman
Congress
Europe
Midwest
Chicago
New York
Communist Piot in Japan Revealed Labor Plot
Tokyo October 28 1944 Labor Minister Mitsusuke Yonekubo charged that Japanese Communists planned a labor crisis to disrupt occupation policies and topple the Kaiyama cabinet. He said the Red dominated Japanese Congress of Industrial Unions was forcing a showdown to be met by mid November.
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Tokyo
Mitsusuke Yonekubo
Kaiyama
Yonekubo
Japanese Congress of Industrial Unions
Federal Purchase of Tobacco Planned
The Agriculture Department announced it will move into the tobacco market to buy tobacco and shield growers from unstable market conditions after the rush withdrawal from auctions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Gold Star Mother Loses Billfold Returns It
Gold Star Mother Mrs. Helen Dorak of Denver Colorado appeared to a purse snatcher to retrieve her bifold containing a picture of her son who died in the bombing of the U S S Franklin. She had traveled to Los Angeles for Navy Day memorial services.
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Los. Angeles
Helen Dorak
Denver
Calo
U. S. S. Franklin
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Gen. Clay
Red Probers
Charles C. Haslet
Gen. Vandegrift
Probers
Reds
Korea
Hunt
Albert Maltz
House un-American Activities Committees
Oklahoma
Ee Treate
Robert
Anny
Premier
Hits de Gaullists
Communist Piot
Japan
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