Russians Attack U S in Slur Campaign Over Truman
WESTBROOK PEG LER NEW YORK Oct 10 The Russian government launched a campaign of personal slurs against President Truman to provoke a response. The writer notes the back and forth of insults and ribbing, warns against letting the provocation affect U S policy, and comments on the impact on American families with sons aged 12 to 15 in the armed forces.
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New York
Truman
Hitler
Mussolini
United States
Russia
Eleanor the Great
Shell A-24 Well Is Union's Best
The Shell Frost Lumber A-24 in Union parish Ora field flowed 561 barrels per day on test, marking the highest production in the field. The well, northmost of 19 producers, flowed from 2123 to 21237 feet through a 12/64 inch choke with gravity 36.4.
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Union Parish
Ora
District Conservation Office
Shell Company
Frost Lumber Industries
Shell Group
Hunt Company
Shell
Lion Oil Company
Ballard
Richland Parish
Stanolind Oil & Gas Company
F. R. Williams
Big Creek
Pickets Try to Bar Air Express at La Guardia
More than 4,000 striker drivers disrupt Railway Express at LaGuardia by patrolling the air division office. Six abreast pickets urge non striking drivers to halt air bound express shipments as traffic appears to rise. Drivers seek a 40 hour week and wage boosts from 58.10 to higher pay with helpers at 49.36.
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New York
Air Express
la Guardia Field
Railway Express Agency
A. F. of L. Teamsters Union
Air Division
Express Company
Railway Express
Lip Carlton Recaptured After Jail Breakan Escape
Lip Carlton, 43, released December after a 12 month term for aiding an escape, slipped from the city jail Thursday night but was recaptured three hours later. Fellow escapee still sought by police. Carlton had just begun a 15 day sentence for habitual drunkenness and was found drunk at Harrison and Sixth streets.
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L. H
Lip) Carlton
Parish
L. G. Parker
Carlton
Harrison and
Sixth Streets
Parker
Iwo Jima Americans Safe After Typhoon Ravages Island
Wind driven typhoon battered Iwo Jima for 36 hours halting civilian contact and tearing through quonset huts. No casualties reported among 24 dependent families or service members. damage to communications and runways required rapid repair, with an estimate of months to restore full operations. Maj. Svend W. Nielson notes the setback, while Col. Raleigh Macklin oversees recovery efforts.
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Two
Jima
Japan
Mt. Suribachi
U. S
Svend W. Nielson
Knoxville
Tenn
Raleigh Macklin
Ottawa
Kan
Iwo Jima
Macklin
Marianas-Bonin
A. F. L. Chiefs Demote Lewis Veteran miners on the withdrawal threat
In San Francisco on October 10 the A F L council stripped John L. Lewis and 12 vice presidents of their offices, leaving only President William Green and George Meany as officers. The move reduces the federation to a 15 member council with Lewis and others as mere council members after the constitutional change requires a two thirds vote. Lewis had led the miners back to the federation in 1946 after a split.
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San Francisco
John L. Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Lewis
Federation
The
Chicago Blaze Kills Ten in Near Northwest Side Fire
Ten persons, including six children and four women, died and more than a dozen were injured in a four story apartment fire at 940 West Ohio Street. Police and Fire officials suspect incendiary origin as a charred kerosene odor clue was found. About 100 residents were in the building when the blaze started and spread rapidly through the stairs and roof.
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Chicago
West Ohio Street
Michael J. Corrigan
United Nations presses ahead with Balkans watchdog plan
The United Nations moves to establish a watchdog commission for the Balkans despite a Soviet boycott threat. Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky announces noncooperation, while Bech Spaak and Johnson urge continuing debate on commission membership.
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Joseph Bech
Luxembourg
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgium
U. S
Herschel V. Johnson
Moscow
Camp Livingston to auction 4490 war housing buildings
The War Assets Administration announces a public sale of 4 490 camp buildings at Camp Livingston on Oct 21 22 and 23. Structures range from 9 by 9 hutments to large shops and include admin offices banks post offices and classrooms. Removal and sale includes installed equipment and fixtures with spot bid over the counter options.
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Alexandria
C. Y
Camp Livingston
War Assets Administration
Livingston
C. Jack Cowart
WAA Southwest Zone Real Property Office
Morgenthau Blames End of Lend-Lease on Truman
Henry Morgenthau Jr says end of lend-lease to Europe in mid-1945 scuttled Roosevelt hopes for a peace foundation. He argues a late plan in Quebec would have provided Britain with about 5.5 billion dollars in phase II aid after V E day to spark recovery.
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Washington
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Europe
Roosevelt
Treasury
Truman
Collier's Magazine
Morgenthau
Winston Churchill
Quebec
Britain
Scenes Filmed in Louisiana For Lou isiana Picture
Exterior scenes for Lou isiana were shot in Louisiana over four weeks in Shreveport Baton Rouge New Orleans and along the Mississippi River. The Monogram film stars Governor Jimmie Davis and Margaret Lindsay and features You Are My Sunshine. Dottye Brown from Shreveport makes her screen debut.
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Louisiana
Monogram
Jimmie Davis
Margaret Lindsay
Ralph Freete
Shreveport
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Paramount Theater
Davis
Miss Lindsay
Dottye Brown
Shreveport, la
Heiress Louise Overell Returns Ring to Ex-Fiance
Louise Overell mails back her engagement ring to George Bud Gollum, sending a navy dog tag and cross with the package. The ex-fiance was in the mountains after a 19 week trial, in which he and Louise were acquitted of murdering her parents.
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Los Angeles
Louise Overell
George
Bud) Gollum
Gollum
Louise
Cardinal Spellman to visit Shreveport for St Anne’s Maternity Home dedication
Francis Cardinal Spellman will attend the Saturday dedication at 4 30 in the afternoon. It marks the first time a cardinal visits this diocese. He will fly from New York with Auxiliary Bishop Donahue of New York and will speak in New Orleans at the Charity convention before touring the new maternity hospital operated by the Hospital Sisters of St Francis.
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Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
St. Anne's Maternity Home
Shreveport
J. C. Marsh
St. Matthew’s Church
Msgr. Marsh
Charles P. Greco
Alexandria
New Orleans
National Catholic Charities Assn
Sisters of St. Francis
Sr. Joseph's Home For
Monroe
Hospital Plan Gets Chamber Backing At Thursday Meeting
The Chamber of Commerce unanimously endorsed a St. Francis Sanitarium hospital project pending doctors’ final staff approval. The plan envisions a 159 to 200 bed facility on St. Francis grounds with about 200000 funded by citizens and the rest by the institution. Msgr. Marsh outlined the hospital’s history and patient load, noting 1941 3398 hospitalizations and monthly operating costs around 25000.
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St. Francis Sanitarium
Chamber of Commerce
St. Francis
Msgr
J.C. Marsh
Charles P. Greco
W. J. Riley
Msgr. Marsh
L. Enant
Marsh
Arab armies mobilize to defend Palestine against Zionism
Five Arab nations move on October 10 following Arab League orders to defend Palestine. Lebanon and Syria report midnight troop movements near the border while Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion begins massing along the Jordan River in multiple camps.
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Carter L. Davidson
Beirut
Lebanon
Arab League
Palestine
War Office
Syria
Abdullah
Arab Legion
Trans-Jordan
Middle East
Jordan
Sinai Desert
Holy Land
Magid Arslan
War Ministry
Arab League Council
Ahmed Sharabati
Damascus
Sharabati
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha
The
League Council
Amman
Salih Jabar
League
Egypt
Government Eyeing Crops Amid War Tensions
The report notes a potential 100 million bushel rise in the corn forecast as the Agriculture Department releases October crop estimates. President Truman urges continued meatless and eggless days to ease European hunger while nations gauge border tensions around Palestine with Arab League actions and troop movements.
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Washington
Midwest
Truman
Europe
Charles Luckman
Citzens’ Food Committee
Agriculture Department
Louisiana Dead Soldiers Named as Arriving Today
The Army announced 45 Louisiana World War II dead whose remains aboard the Honda Knot arrived in the United States. Next of kin addresses in parentheses accompany each name including Abadie, Berry, Bethancourt, Briggs, Creel, Delery, Fomby, Foss, Jones, Lemoine, Maxent, McCorkle, Phillips, Saragusa, Scott and others. bodies to be sent to Memphis Depot No. 6 for processing.
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Washington
Department of the Army
Louisiana Army and Navy
Memphis General Depot
Memphis
Tenn
John A. Abadie
USMC
Abbadie
Chartres St
New Orleans
Talmadge R. Berry
USNR
Ens
Susie Gill
Hickory St
Bogalusa
Charles F. Bethancourt
USMCR
Pfc
Wilfred P. Bethanecourt
Tulane Ave
Henry N. Briggs
USN
Addie M. Acereto
Maurepas St
Gunman Seizes Minister in Church Held Shot by Patrolman
Leonard Johnson of Detroit, a near sighted gunman, held Rector Rev. John Evans Knox hostage at Trinity Church in Findlay Ohio. State Patrolman R C Vanderveen wounded him with a high powered rifle after Johnson pressed a pistol to the rector's head. Knox suffered a lacerated hand and a black eye during the struggle. Authorities planned further questioning of Johnson as he recovered.
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State Highway Patrol
T. A. Brindle
Johnson
Michigan
James van Lande
Carl Seii
Detroit
Erie
John Evans Knox
Knox
Vanderveen
Findlay
Navy
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