United States Rallys With Russia on UN Moves
United States and Russia staged a joint stance to block immediate debate on a United Nations trusteeship council report. Russia boycotted meetings as a minority push for Greece Korea and a veto-free security agency gained strong support. Diplomatic officials say the votes signal influence for the rest of the session.
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Lake Success
United States
Russia
Britain
United Nations Trusteeship Council
U. N
Trygve Lie
Francis B. Sayre
Trusteeship Council
John M. Hightower
United Nations Assembly
Greece
Korea
France
Eleanor the Great and the 1945 Book Plug Confusion
A 1945 Eleanor the Great column plugged Martha Dodd and Howard Fast amid accusations of Communist ties. Ed Flynn recalls the episode and critiques desk editors for letting the erroneous travel through copy. The memoir excerpt notes the correction that followed, framing a broader media accountability issue.
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New York
Eleanor the Great
Ed Flynn
Flynn
Communist Party
Eleanor
Martha Dodd
Howard Fast
Tito
Fast
Joint
Yugoslavia
President Dodd
Princeton
Berlin
Bullets Fired Into Jackson Bus Stop Prompt Probe
Gov. Fielding L. Wright announced an investigation into violence at the Southern Bus Company terminal in Jackson Mississippi after unidentified attackers fired nine bullets into the bus stop last night. Four bullets hit a sleeping room window where four drivers rested and a lavatory window. others struck the front of the station and a cafe bay window. Police quoted driver Paul Goza describing a black sedan seen near the station as shots rang out. No injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Fielding L. Wright
Southern Bus Company, Inc
Paul Goza
Japanese Flood Devastation Leaves Over a Million Homeless
Tokyo reports 1.1 million people homeless as northern Honshu floods submerge towns. Authorities rush temporary riverbank villages while black markets flourish and refugees barter for water and rice. Death toll 999, missing 984, injured 116. earlier figures showed over 1.15 million homeless and 415,211 homes destroyed.
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Tokyo
Home Ministry
Honshu
Inflation in Full Swing Warned by Delano at Banks Meeting
Comptroller of the Currency Preston Delano told a National Association of Supervisors of State Banks convention that postwar inflation is severe and dangerous and urged 9,500 banks to curb dangerous credit practices. Arkansas Banking Commissioner Thomas Leggett added that strict appraisals and tighter credit will weed out wild speculators as supply and demand approach equilibrium.
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Washington
Preston Delano
Delano
National Association of Supervisors of State Banks
Thomas W. Leggett
Leggett
Banking Commissioner
Arkansas
Radio DJ Married Bride After Funeral in Sacramento
Sacramento reports say radio personality Frank Nicholson known as Rodeo Roy wed his heiress bride Ann Cooper Hewitt soon after his third wife Gertrude died. The swift ceremony followed a Reno divorce for Ann last Wednesday, and the funeral for Gertrude occurred Friday evening.
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Sacramento
Calif
Frank Nicholson
Ann Cooper Hewitt
Nicholson
Rodeo
Roy
Ann
Gertrude
Reno
John Whitaker
Nevada
Killer Is Glad Of Confession In Niece Slaying
Stocky George Neill, 22, told police he killed his 11 year old niece Isabella Mallon and left her body in a weed grown empty lot. He signed a three page confession claiming to have blacked out during the strangling and expressed relief that the case is over.
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Philadelphia
George Neill
Isabella Mallon
Marine Corps
George F. Richardson
Neill
William H. Simon
Richardson
Isabella
Allied Gold Loot Restoration Planned by Big Three
Washington reports an Allied Big Three commission will distribute part of a 330 million dollar Nazi looted gold reserve to European nations in need. Only about half can be released immediately with a target date of October 15, to aid Western Europe while continuing emergency aid programs.
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Washington
Robert Lovett
United States
Britain
France
Lovett
Europe
Paris
Commission
Tragic Farm Accident Claims Oak Grove Child
Rebecca Rose Kovac five-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Kovac of Oak Grove was fatally injured when a tractor ran over her on Tuesday at 11 30 am She was taken to a clinic in Oak Grove and died at 8 30 pm The funeral is set for Green's chapel Thursday at 2 30 pm Interment will be in Oak Grove cemetery Pallbearers named W L Don Martin Orville Trichel Montez Miller and Clarence Biglow Survivors include parents and eight siblings with relatives in Ruston Baton Rouge and Oak Grove
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Oak Grove
Rebecca Rose Kovac
George Kovac
Green's Chapel
Walter and
Dalrymple
Dorothy Kovac
Ruston
Georgia
Jean Kovac
Mamie Lou Kovac
Gretchen Kovac
Connie Kovac
Johnnie Kovac
Baton Rouge
Arrie Franks
W. L
Don) Martin
Orville Trichel
Montez Miller
Clarence Biglow
State rests in Overell trial in Santa Ana
Medical witnesses were summoned as Louise Overell and George Gollum opened their sur-rebuttal to the state’s claim they killed her parents and dynamited the Overell yacht. Prosecutor Williams rested the state’s rebuttal. defense plans three or four witnesses to close by today.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
George Gollum
Eugene Williams
Walter E. Overell
Ora field adds 3 completions in Union parish
Monroe district conservation department reports three more successful wells in Ora field bringing total producers to 37 in four months. Lion Oil Company’s Ballard No. 1 and No. 3 flow, No. 4 is 111 bpd, No. 2 was dry. Ballard No. 4 plans offset. Guy Mabee Drilling Co. S. L. Smith No. 2 yields 130 bpd.
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Monroe
Lion
Guy Mabee Drilling Company
S. L. Smith
Denham attacks no contract policy of I T U and unions
Robert N. Denham, head of the national labor relations board, challenged the no contract policy of the A F L Typographical Union as an unfair labor practice under Taft Hartley. A complaint against the International Union and Baltimore local 12 will be heard in Baltimore on October 6. The policy, aimed at avoiding closed shops, requires work only with I T U members without signing a contract.
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Washington
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Denham
International Union
Baltimore
Jacob L. Edelman
Graphic Arts League
Freed after 20 years in New Jersey asylum
Raymond Reid a 60 year old described as striving to embody Christ as both genders was released from a state mental hospital after 20 years. A chancery court judge said the confinement reflected intolerance not illness and Reid praised liberty while denouncing persecution for his beliefs. He had written letters to officials during his confinement.
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Trenton
N. J
Raymond Reid
Chancery Court
Cour
Reid
Abe Lincoln
Alfred H. Jayne
Chancery
Storm crosses Carolinas as tropical system weakens
A tropical storm moving northeast from Florida crossed the Carolinas and weakened from severe status. Winds 35 to 45 mph with higher gusts were reported as the center neared Charleston, and warnings extended from Texas to North Carolina with heavy rains flooding Savannah and Brunswick streets.
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Charleston
S. C
Caribbean Sea
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
Weather Bureau
Miami
North Carolina-Virginia Cape
Savannah
Hatteras
Manasquan
Brunswick
Bradenton
Sarasota
Here
Newcastle Street
Civil Aeronautics Communication Center
Monroe Bastrop rental advisory board announced
National Housing Expeditor Frank R. Creedon appointed a Monroe Bastrop area rent advisory board. Robert M. McGehee announced the members who will serve without compensation under the 1947 housing and rent act. Members include Mrs. Lela King Breard J. Frey J. F. Killian A C McMeans Armand F Rabin. The board will be assisted by McGehee’s office.
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National Housing
Frank R. Creedon
Monroe-Bastrop
Robert M. McGehee
Jimmie Davis
Lela King Breard
Park Ave
Monroe
J. J. Frey
c/o
Northeast Jr. College
Northeast Junior College
J. F. Killian
St. John St
Painters Union
A. C. McMeans
Bastrop
Armand F. Rabin
Farmerville
Mrs. Roosevelt to Join UN Debate on Propaganda War
Secretary of State Marshall and White House consent assign Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to answer Andrei Vishinsky on war mongering charges. She joins Warren Austin in discussing Russia's proposed measures against propaganda and potential new war, assisting Ambassador Austin in the United Nations assembly debate.
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SAKF
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marshall
White House
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United States
United Nations Assembly
Truman
U. S
Warren R. Austin
Russia
Roosevelt
Ambassador Austin
Truman summons cabinet to discuss food crisis
President Truman convenes a special cabinet session and invites congressional leaders to the White House to review the general food situation at home and abroad. Officials outline European relief, cost of living impacts, and plans under the Marshall plan amid projected aid needs and resource assessments.
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Washington
Truman
White House
United States
Taft
Seattle
Robert Lovett
U. S
Lovett
Secretary of
State Marshall
Europe
Myron Taylor
Vatican
New York
Mr. Truman
William L. Clayton
Lewis W. Douglas
Great Britain
Anderson
Krug
Commerce Hartiman
Edwin G. Nourse
Economic Advisory Council
Rep. O'Toole
D-N. Y
Costs Said to Speculation
A congressional subcommittee probing high living costs blamed speculation for pushing food prices higher and urged President Truman to use all means to curb it. The group pressed for higher margin requirements on grain exchanges and study of government food purchases, as grain futures fell and inflation concerns prompted Delano to urge bankers to curb credit expansion. Truman planned a cabinet meeting to discuss the food situation, while O'Toole pressed for a decisive approach to rising costs.
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Associated Press
Truman
New York
Chicago
Preston Delano
Delano
Washington
Congress
Rep. O'Toole
Democrat
O'Toole
Mr. Truman
Brazil
Yugoslavs Urged to Stop Ultimatums in Trieste Dispute
The United States urged Yugoslavia to end the practice of issuing ultimatums to British and American troops in the Trieste area calling it dangerous and likely to provoke incidents. Undersecretary Lovett cited a Belgrade protest delivered by Ambassador Cavendish Cannon and noted Yugoslav actions demanding changes to the provisional boundary between the British US zone and Yugoslavia.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Robert Lovett
Cavendish Cannon
Belgrade
Marshall Tito
Free Territory of
Postmasters Gather for Fifth District Meeting
Postmasters from many Fifth district towns attend a Wednesday meeting of the Fifth District National League of District Postmasters. A civil service room school of instruction runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mrs Thelma M Humble of Calhoun, vice president, played a prominent role in the well attended gathering.
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Fifth District
National League of District
Civil Service Room
Monroe
Thelma M. Humble
Calhoun
Catholics urged to unite against communism at Buffalo event
Cardinal Griffin called on Catholics to unite against communism and materialism during the Buffalo Centennial Eucharistic Congress. He urged solidarity with persecuted believers in Yugoslavia and other countries, stressing the mass as a unifying force amid global pressure on the Catholic faith.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bernard Cardinal Griffin
Westminister
London
Buffalo
Cardinal Griffin
Yugoslavia
St. Joseph's New Cathedral
Jesus Christ
Rancis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Civic Stadium
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Ohio
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Overell
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Storm
Local Rental Board
Monroe-Bastrop Area
Vishinsky
Western
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