Russia Attacks Dulles In UN Debate Over Peace Plan
At Lake Success on October 14 the Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky opened a sharp clash with John Foster Dulles during a UN General Assembly session. Vishinsky accused the United States of promoting war propaganda and warned the plan would weaken the UN and aid warmongers amid a broader debate on year round deliberations. Dulles urged steps to restore public confidence and prestige in the UN.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Hauck Lake
Russia
United Nations
State Marshall
U.N
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
General Assembly
U. S
Vishinsky
U. N
Vis
Truman criticized for national tone after Padway death
Westbrook Pegler critiques President Truman over calling for voluntary limits on consumption while commenting on the death of Joseph Padway, chief counsel of the American Federation of Labor, labeling Padway a hypocritical shyster who served corrupt union interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Truman
San Francisco
Joseph Padway
American Federation of Labor
Padway
William Green
A. F. of L
Harry Truman
Kansas City
United States
McCarthy probes gray market in building supplies
Senate housing subcommittee vice chairman Senator McCarthy says subpoenas will target gray market operators trading scarce building materials. He claims price gouging has pushed home costs up to twenty percent and outlines plans for hearings across the country starting in Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
House-Senate Housing Committee
Wisconsin
Pittsburgh
New York
San Francisco
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Volunteers of America Solicitation in Monroe Sparks Debate
A Monroe notice reports the Volunteers of America soliciting city donations with tambourines in uniform, distinct from Salvation Army. Charles Stratford of the Salvation Army questions Monroe's timing amid the Community Chest drive and notes VOAs use up to half of funds, urging support for local agency members only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Salvation Army
The
Volunteers of America
New Orleans
Acts
Charles Stratford
Community Chest
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Thief in White Coat Frees Woman From Stockholm Sanitarium
A man in a doctor's coat broke into a Stockholm sanitarium and abducted a scantily clad inmate. They fled by light two seater plane to Norway where authorities held them for extradition. The pair were identified as Lt. Thorsten Akrell and Mrs. Louise Forsell Kaage.
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Stockholm
Norway
Kongsberg
Sweden
Thorsten Akrell
Louise Forsell Kaage
Jacob Forsell
John Forsell
Stockholm Royal Opera Company
Kaage
Stockholm Zoo
Akrell
Stockholm Tidningen
America
The
Tidningen
Three American Seamen Rescued After 19 Days Adrift
Three U S seamen Hopkins Crosby Meets rescued after 19 days adrift in a powerless mine sweeper in the mid Pacific. They messaged their wives they expect to be home for Christmas and said they would stay with the rescue vessel until the tug Mamo reaches them near Palmyra Atoll. Hopkins led distress signals and described feeding on shark steak and rain water during the longest stretch of rough seas. They remained with naval patrol craft 881 despite drift and sinking of two sister sweepers.
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Pearl Harbor
Mid- Pacific
W. B. Hopkins
Eleventh Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
H. W. Crosby
Fifty
Downers Grove
Ill
L. E
Johns Island
S. C
Manila
Honolulu
Palmyra Atoll
Charleston
Palmyra
Hopkins
Navy
Monroe Treasurer Becomes Grandpa
City Treasurer P. A. Poag becomes a grandfather for the first time with the birth of a son christened P. A. Poag III. The baby was born October 9 at Riverside Sanitarium to Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Poag Jr. and marks the third Pinkney Alexander Poag in the family.
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P. A. Poag
P. A. Poag, Jr
Rochelle Avenue
Riverside Sanitarium
P. A. Poag, III
P. A
Pinkney Alexander
Bakers Pledge Global Grain Savings Drive
Chairman Charles Luckman leads a national effort to save 100 million bushels of grain this winter with a 3.5 million bushels monthly wheat savings target from bakeries. The plan includes a 60 day whisky distiller shutdown and a restaurant industry pledge for meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays, plus a 17 point internal savings program. Luckman says bakeries will finalize terms on curtailment and stop consignment selling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Charles Luckman
Citizens Food Committee
Europe
E.S.T
Baking Company
Luckman
Murder Trial Opens In Richland Court
The trial of Ben I. Andrews 50 year old Rayville justice of the peace and taxicab driver charged with the murder of Clarence Humphries opens slowly with two jurors accepted and full deliberations set for tonight or tomorrow as 100 talesmen are ordered summoned. Prospective jurors face questions on death penalty scruples and pre existing bias as the crowded courtroom hears opening statements.
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Rayville
Ben I. Andrews
Clarence Humphries
Carey Ellis
Joe Williams
Mangham
Shelby Dark
Start
J. Vernon Simms
Simms
Andrews
Monroe Woman's Assailant Receives 2 Year U S Term
James Wesley Huggins, convicted attacker of Mrs Edna Connelly in Monroe, pled guilty to a Dyer Act violation in federal court. Judge Gaston B Porterie sentenced him to two years to run concurrently with his existing five year Louisiana prison term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Wesley Huggins
Madison Parish
Edna Connelly
Monroe
Gaston B. Porterie
Mounds
California
Tallulah
Huggins
Milton
Fla
Flexible Aid Plan Proposed in Louisiana Welfare Report
Commissioner W. S. Terry urged a flexible funding system for welfare to cushion recipients from sudden price shifts and unforeseen needs. He noted chronic underfinancing, despite rising relief caseloads and a 75 percent pay-scale increase for staff, with administrative costs down slightly since 1940.
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Baton Rouge
Public Welfare
W. S. Terry
State Department
State Board of Public Welfare
Terry
Louisiana
Winnsboro Fair Opens Wednesday for Four Day Run
The Franklin Parish War Memorial Fair kicks off Wednesday with livestock entry, exhibition placement, and a four day schedule. J C Michaels Big City Grandstand Circus and a firework display by Ralph Roades are planned. Friday is school day with free admission for parish students and Winnsboro B team vs Wisner Bulldogs slated for Friday afternoon.
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Winnsboro
Franklin Parish
J. C. Michaels
Big City Grandstand
Sweet Land of Liberty
Ralph Roades
Michaels
Roades
Monroe
Wisner Bulldogs
Hope to Avert Special Session on Europe Aid
Senate Republicans welcomed any move by President Truman to skip a December special session but balked at promising rapid action in January on $580 million for Western Europe. Nebraska's Wherry said no rush and careful review is needed, while Michigan's Ferguson echoed caution about delaying Marshall Plan debates.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
Europe
Capitol Hill
Senate Appropriations Group
Wherry
Nebraska
Ferguson
Michigan
Individual can seek NLRB help despite union refusals
Washington October 14 The Taft Hartley act allows individual union members to file unfair labor practice charges even if their union leaders refuse to sign non Communist affidavits The National Labor Relations Board reported that in the first six weeks of the law 90 percent of employer charges were filed by individuals NLRB counsel Denham noted that the law does not prohibit an individual from bringing the charge though union officers must sign affidavits for the union to file complaints
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Denham
NLRB
Auto Dealer in Federal Court Trial in Louisiana
Terry Kincaid of West Monroe faced U S district court in New Orleans on charges he sold cars at above ceiling prices during CPA regulation. Witnesses named customers who allegedly bought autos from the defendant as the trial before Judge Gaston B Porterie proceeded.
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Terry Kincaid
West Monroe
Louisville Avenue
Gaston B. Porterie
U. S. District Court
CPA
Bermuda Queen Forced Landing in Atlantic Storm
The Bermuda Queen with 69 aboard made a forced mid Atlantic landing and rode rough seas toward a U S coast guard cutter three miles away Rescue attempts were hampered by gale force winds and 35 foot swells with lifeboat transfers proving impossible The scene lay roughly 500 miles east of Newfoundland and 1400 miles west of Eire Most passengers and crew were Britons and Americans with no injuries reported.
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Jack Smith
London
Bermuda
Coast Guard
Duane
British Press Association
Shannon
Eire
New York
Baltimore
Gander
Newfoundland
Argentina
Harmon Field
Azores
trans-Canada Airlines
Taft Stassen Hint at Unity at 1948 GOP Nomination
Mutual respect between Taft and Stassen fuels talk of a tacit Taft Stassen accord at the 1948 Republican convention. They deny a formal deal while privately calculating delegates to block Dewey, with past praise over the Taft Hartley bill shaping their discussions in Columbus and Des Moines.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Stassen
Minnesota
Taft-Stassen
Des Moines
Columbus
Stassenbackers
New Yorker
Congress
Truman
Dewey
Flower pot falls eight floors nearly hitting woman on Second Street
A flower pot dropped from a Bernhardt building window ledge on Second Street striking sidewalk nearby a woman who escaped injury but was dirtied and frightened. A morning cleanup was underway in a Christian Science reading room when a Negro man, for unknown reasons, knocked the pot from the ledge.
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Second Street
Bernhardt Building
Christian Science Reading Room
U S Urges Specific Plan For Governing Holy Land
The United States and Sweden push the United Nations Palestine committee to draft a plan for future Holy Land government based on partition. A second resolution calls for a subcommittee to detail the plan and report by November 3, using UNSCOP’s partition recommendations. The measures were sent to Secretary General Lie for distribution ahead of today’s committee meeting.
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Palestine
The
Holy Land
U.N. Special Committee On Palestine
Unscop
U. S
Sweden
U. N
Trygve Lie
Palestine Committee
Lewis to challenge Taft Hartley stance at A F L convention
John L. Lewis faces a push to abolish the A F L president and treasurer roles by amending the 66 year old constitution. The plan to strip Lewis and 12 others of officer titles was approved 12 to 1 by the executive council with Lewis the lone negative vote. The convention's 700 delegates must ratify the change by a two thirds vote.
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San Francisco
John L. Lewis
A. F. of L
Lewis
David Dubinsky
International Ladies Garment Workers
Committee On Laws
William Green
George Meany
Labor Organization
A. F. of
Oil Field Blast Kills World War II Veteran
Lafayette oil field tragedy claims 31 year old WW II veteran Woodley J. Credeur working on an oil derrick near Carencro. He belonged to S W Richardson Oil Co and lived near Dyson. Funeral at 3:00 PM in Duson with interment in Scott. survivors include widow Hilda Boudreaux and four children.
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Lafayette
Lafayette Patish
Carencro
Woodley J. Credeur
S. W. Richardson Oil Company
Dyson
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Orleans Group
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HOPE
Taft, Stassen
Lewis May
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