U N Moves Atomic Issue to Big Five and Canada
The United Nations political committee voted to refer the atomic energy dispute to the five permanent members and Canada, rejecting the Soviet bid to outlaw the bomb and an Indian bid to restart negotiations. The roll call favored sending the issue to a broader assembly for basic principles.
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Paris
United Nations
Big Five
Canada
Atomic Energy Control Organization
U. N. Atomic Commission
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
General Assembly
United States
Britain
France
China
Security Council
Berlin
Germany
India
U. N. Atomic Energy Commission
Westbrook Pegler Attacks Bentley Witness in Spy Case
Westbrook Pegler attacks Elizabeth Bentley as neurotic after her espionage testimony in Washington. He questions her mental balance and ridicules Eleanor the Great while acknowledging Bentley’s irrefutable treachery charges against the United States.
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New York
Elizabeth Bentley
Washington
Russia
Eleanor the Great
Miss Bentley
Gab
United States
Wright saysstates rights ticket barred in multiple states
Selma, Oct 20. National leaders of the Democratic party barred states rights candidates from ballots in several states. Gov Fielding L Wright of Mississippi cited Oklahoma Maryland and Indiana as examples. He argued Alabama voters are being denied Truman in November. Four Alabama electoral candidates refused to back Truman, pledging Thurmond Wright. Gov James E Folsom threatened court action to compel allegiance to the national party nominee.
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Selma
Ala
Democratic Party
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Farm Bureau
Oklahoma
Maryland
Indiana
Truman
Alabama
President Truman
Thurmond-Wright
James E. Folsom
National Democratic Party
Folsom
Walter
Surviving Crewman Tells Of Four Drowned In Gulf Barge
G A Skarbo 42 of Seattle, the sole survivor, described a storm sinking a 105 foot Gulf of Alaska barge that carried five crew. He avoided the abandoned dory and raft, watched the others perish, and was rescued by a bush pilot near Cordova after the vessel grounded on a shore on Sunday morning.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Cory
G. A. Skarbo
Seattle
Cordova
Milton Odom
Anchorage Cold Storage Company
Dory
Odom
Skarbo
Coast Guard
Luncheon to Honor Admiral Goodwin on Navy Day
The Exchange Club will attend a noon luncheon October 27 on the Hotel Virginia roof to honor Rear Admiral Hugh H. Goodwin. Monroe native Goodwin, a submariner and aviator, is chief of staff to the commander in chief Atlantic and U S Navy Fleet. He will be joined by Commander Beverly Carter, a former Monroe resident and Naval Academy classmate.
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Exchange Club
James H. Trousdale, Jr
Hugh H. Goodwin
Trousdale
Virginia
Admiral Goodwin
Monroe
Navy Department
Navy
Monroe City
Naval Academy
Secretary of the Navy
United States Naval Base
Norfolk, Va
Atlantic
U. S. Atlantic Fleet
Beverly Carter
Widow Margreta Heydrich Sentenced to Life in Absentia
Margreta Heydrich 37 widow of Reinhard Heydrich was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in Prague. The Soviet agency reports she lived in the British zone of Germany and was charged with torturing Jewish slave laborers connected to Heydrich after his 1942 assassination.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Margreta Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich
Hitler
Bohemia and
Moravia
Germany
Heydrich
Bank Accused of Monopoly by Federal Reserve Board
The Federal Reserve Board moves to use the 1914 Clayton act against Trans-America Corporation led by A P Giannini. The case centers on alleged credit monopoly through stock ownership in about 600 banks across five Western states with deposits totaling 6.64 billion dollars and the Bank of America as its key affiliate. The hearing was postponed as courts decide whether the board may amend its complaint and whether the case proceeds before a full hearing.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
A. P. Giannini
Trans-America Corporation of
San Francisco
Reserve Board
Federal District Court
James W. Morris
Trans-America
Supreme Court
Trans- America
California
Oregon
Nevada
Arizona
Bank of America
General School Committee Meets in Ouachita Parish
Ouachita Parish General School Committee met in Hotel Virginia with 2 p m session led by H Flood Madison Jr. The group received and filed the spring parish school survey report and thanked the workers. A resolution urged tax relief for Monroe homeowners on city school levies.
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Ouachita Parish
H. Flood Madison, Jr
Virginia
Madison
Thomas Davenport
Central Committee
City of Monroe
Rhee Offers U S Big Hotel Free
President Syngman Rhee visiting General MacArthur offered the Banto hotel in downtown Seoul to the United States for use as the U S embassy. The gesture accompanies a signed contract indicating the United States government would pay several million dollars for the property. The offer frames a commitment to a world based on Democratic principles and international peace and stability.
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Tokyo
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
General MacArthur
United States
Korea
Banto
Seoul
U. S
Strike snarls French traffic in Riviera shutdown
Paris authorities report a 24 hour railway strike along the Riviera in sympathy with a 17 day coal strike. Communists press for a 15000 franc monthly minimum wage while anti communist papers warn of a Paris subway walkout. The coal stoppage, in its third week, has sparked talks of wider disruption and blamed the government for social agitation.
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Paris
Riviera
France
de Gaullist
Gaston Palewski
Palewski
Coast strike boosts airlift cuts coastwise shipping
The Pacific coast maritime strike, now in its 49th day, has halted nearly all dry cargo sailing and shifted operations to airlift. Pan American Airways reports perishable food shipments to Alaska up about 100 percent and to Hawaii up 55 percent.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Pan American Airways
Alaska
Hawaii
West Coast American Steamship Companies
Seattle
San Diego
Mobile
New York
California-Hawaii Sugar Company
Eldorado Oil Company
Wife of Angola guard captain found slain
Mrs. John H. Spillman, 48, wife of an Angola state penitentiary guard captain, was slain. A suspect, Negro trusty James Bruce of New Orleans, is being sought after his disappearance. dress and gloves were found near the Mississippi river, suggesting a disguise. A coroner reported death by unknown person or persons.
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Angola
John H. Spillman
Angola State Penitentiary
R. H. Lawrence
Lawrence
Spillman
Mississippi River
Here
Turnbull Island
Deer Park
Mississippi
James Bruce
New Orleans
Bruce
Truman Plans Big Onslaught In Campaign Swing
President Truman prepares a major late campaign swing starting in Pittsburgh with a series of addresses to workers in industrial centers. He promises to challenge Republicans and rally Southern voters while staying near the White House for routine duties and speeches before Election Day.
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Washington
Truman
Big City
Dixie Territory
White House
Pittsburgh
George Harrison
American Federation of Labor
Democratic National Committee
Harrison
Raleigh
N. C
South
North
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Cleveland
Boston
Kidnapped Baby Found Alive Near Baltimore
Ten week-old Jo Ann Mezanotte was found alive in suburban Baltimore County twenty hours after being snatched from her carriage. Police reported clues including clothing found in a cemetery and witnesses seeing a woman with a bundle. Her parents, grieving and seeking contact through their church, urged the abductor to come forward.
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Baltimore
Jo Ann Mezanotte
Baltimore County
Waters Edge
Jo Ann
Michael Mezanotte
Blasts rupture gas line injure four near Cotton Valley
In Shreveport Louisiana on October 20 two detonations of a 12 inch natural gas pipeline injured four people Arthur Allen 69 Mrs Dodson McCrary Geraldine McCrary 5 and Nancy Carroll McCrary 2 all with burns Fire following the blasts scorched the McCrary residence and killed yard chickens United Gas Company shut valves to stop the fire which followed the explosions.
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Shreveport
Cotton Valley
R. M. Riddle
Arthur Allen
Dodson McCrary
Geraldine McCrary
Nancy Carroll McCrary
McCrary
United Gas Company
Southern Portion Declares Martial Law in Korea
In the extreme south of Korea a rebel band killed or captured about 100 policemen at two towns and triggered martial law in the American zone. Home Minister T. Y. Yoon announced the measure after President Syngman Rhee returned from Japan. The uprising began at Yasu on the coast and spread to Suchon, 12 miles away, with rebels led by Communist soldiers.
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Seoul
Korea
South Korea
T. Y. Yoon
Syngman Rhee
Japan
Yasu
Suchon
Yoon
Yosu
Korean Coast Guard
Kwangju
Cholla
Orlando Ward
U. S
Pusan
Associated Press
Moscow Radio
Rhee
Tokyo
MacArthur
U. S. State Department
V. M. Molotov
United States
General Assembly of
United Nations
Moscow
Dewey holds line on West Virginia senate race timing
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey travels from Albany to New York for a Herald-Tribune forum with no stated subject, keeping his stance on aiding West Virginia's senatorial contest between Sen. Chapman Revercomb and former Sen. Matthew Neely. Dewey weighs schedule against possible campaign help as GOP tightens control strategies.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Herald-Tribune Forum
West Virginia
Chapman Revercomb
Matthew Neeley
Dewey
Senate
Revercomb
Congress
Alfred E. Smith
Medal of Honor winner given home mortgage paid off
Henry E. Irwin, a Bessemer native and Medal of Honor recipient for heroism on a 1945 bombing mission, had his mortgage paid off by an anonymous benefactor after a VA pay setback and a gift of relief from a local bank. The act follows years of hardship, including a job as a VA clerk and funding drives by residents.
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Bessemer
Ala
Henry E
Red) Irwin
Japan
Red
Veterans Administration
Irwin
Saturday Evening Post
Army
Lee Moody
First National Bank of Bessemer
Midwest
Jury Expected to Try Carl Bolton
Detroit news report of Carl Bolton bound over for trial on charges tied to an April 20 shooting at Walter P. Reuther head of the U A W. Defense argues to dismiss assault with intent to murder while bolstering the weak state case. Witnesses John Miller Pantella testified Bolton offered 15000 to kill Reuther and named Kenneth Bannon as a target.
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Detroit
Carl Bolton
Walter P. Reuther
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Joseph W. Louisell
Bolton
Reuther
Recorder
Christopher E. Stein
John Miller
John Pantella
Kenneth Bannon
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Wright
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Earl Warren
Miami
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The
James F. O'Neil
Legion
Virginia Warren
O'Neil
Harry L. Foster
E. L. Shaw
State Penitentiary
Perintendent
Captain Spillman
P. A. Neibergall
West Feliciana Parish
Jo Ann Mezzanotte
AL Smith
Suchan
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