Truman Pledges U S To Strive For Peace At UN Opening
New York reports United Nations assembly welcomed with a subdued parade through Manhattan. Molotov led a 96-car escort from Waldorf to city hall as 25 000 spectators watched. Warren Austin pledged U S support in peace efforts and wartime allies.
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New York
United Nations Assembly of 51
Manhattan
City Hall
Truman
Molotov
Waldorf-Astoria
State Byrnes
Washington
Sen
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
United States
Thomas Corcoran
Broadway
Big City
Assembly
Paul Henri Spaak
Paul
Lewis Steps Up Tempo Of Drive
Carlsbad New Mexico October 23 Secretary of Interior Krug spent over an hour on a long distance call before leaving for Boulder City Nevada and again declined to comment on John L Lewis threat to call 400 000 soft coal miners out on strike unless Krug meets him in Washington November 1.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Secretary of Interior
Krug
Boulder City
Nev
John L. Lewis
Washington
Lewis
Krug-Lewis
Navy
N. H. Collisson
Southwest
Tule Lake
Calif
UMW
Lewis escalates bid for wage talks with Krug
John L. Lewis sharpens demand for fresh wage concessions from the federally run soft coal industry. He sets a Nov 1 Washington meeting with Interior Secretary Krug or threatens a 400000 miner walkout 20 days before the prior deadline. He urges reopening the entire Krug Lewis agreement covering wages hours and related terms.
Krug Arrives to Visit Dam on Arizona Tour
Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug stops in Phoenix on a state wide reclamation tour and declines to comment on the soft coal strike. He hails from Carlsbad New Mexico and heads to Boulder City Nevada for the Boulder Dam anniversary celebration.
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Krug
Dam
Methodists Plan World Sessions
Methodism's first full world conference in 15 years is set for 24 30 next year. It will be held at a city in the Eastern United States to be chosen later, announced after a Western section meeting of the ecumenical Methodist council.
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Cincinnati
United States
Ecumenial Methodist Council
Price Decontrol Means Higher Food Prices Near
OPA ends wartime price controls on most foods and beverages effective midnight Wednesday. Decontrol covers flour bread canned goods breakfast cereals and many others while sugar corn syrup and rough milled rice retain controls due to shortages. Restaurants and retailers must adjust as wholesale beefs move to 43 45 cents a pound while other meats fall to 43 47 cents.
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OPA
Chicago
Washington
Poveen
CPA
State Aviation Future Secure
C. R. Smith of Washington DC, chair of American Airlines, spoke to a joint Rotary Kiwanis meeting in Tucson. He praised Arizona climate, pledged 90 million dollars in new aircraft, and forecast faster service and growth for aviation in the state.
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Arizona
C. R.smith
Washington, D. C
American Airlines
Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs
Pioneer Hotel
Army Air Transport Command
Smith
Atar
Tindoo
Sahara Desert
Monte Mansfield
Tucson Chamber of Commerce Aviation Commission
Robert Morrow
Rotary Club
Kiwanis
Rotary
Hotel Engineers Threaten Strike in Washington Hotels
About 600 operating engineers in Washington's 18 major hotels voted to join a 13 day old strike by service employees. Jesse West said members approved seeking permission for a sympathy walkout from the AFL International Operating Engineers local. The engineers' contract runs until December.
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Washington
Tric
Jesse West
AFL International Operating Engineers
International Union
Baby Born In Auto Just Before Crash
New York reports a baby delivered by Dr. Arthur Bobroff aboard an ambulance on Williamsburg Bridge. Minutes after birth the ambulance overturned after a collision with a car, but mother Mrs. Mary Andrigo 30 and child survived with the physician, driver Angelo Settineri 37, sustaining only minor injuries. The trio reached Kings County Hospital in a passing car.
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New York
Williamsburg Bridge
Mary Andrigo
Kings ‘County Hospital
Arthur Bobroff
East River
Brooklyn
Angelo Settineri
Threatened Telegraph Strike Delayed to Oct 30
Joseph P. Selly, president of the American Communications association CIO, said the threatened telegram strike has been postponed one week until Oct. 30. No immediate actions were announced and talks continue.
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New York
Joseph P. Selly
American Communications Association
CIO
Attlee Churchill Clash Over UN Veto Use
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill united in criticizing UN veto abuse by major powers. Attlee urged a review to restore the veto’s original purpose while Churchill faulted Soviet policies and warned of a Communized Balkan bloc. Both warned against politics of the Security Council as propaganda.
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London
Winston Churchill
Balkan
Soviet Union
Attlee
United Nations Security Council
Council
House of Commons
House
Security ‘Council
Daluege Hangs After Failed Suicide Attempt
Kurt Daluege the SS officer who ordered Lidice’s destruction was hanged at Pankrac prison after slashing his wrists with a shard from a soup bowl in a bid to die by his own action. He died eight hours before his scheduled execution and rejected clemency saying he would die a hero like other Germans.
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Prague
U.P
Kurt Daluege
Lidice
Pankrac
Daluege
Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Seton Founder Ernest Seton Dies at 86
Ernest Thompson Seton world renowned naturalist author and early leader of the Boy Scouts died at his home near Santa Fe at age 86. A prolific writer his works included Wild Animals I Have Known and he helped found the Woodcraft League and the Boy Scouts of America.
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Ernest Thompson Seton
United States
New Mexico
Santa FE
N. M
Seton Village
Seton
Rudyard Kipling
Theodore Roosevelt
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts of America
The
Woodcraft League
Wood
Soviet Shuns Japs Parley Delays Reparations Talks
Washington October 23 UPI Official quarters say the Soviet Union may boycott the proposed international conference on Japanese reparations. The Far Eastern commission is expected to set a date at its next meeting despite Soviet action. A Soviet boycott could delay Allied agreement on peace terms for Japan and hinder General Douglas MacArthur's program to rebuild Japan. Moscow insists Manchurian industrial equipment seized by the Red Army is war booty and not deductible from reparations.
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John L. Steele
Washington
UPR
Russia
Far Eastern Commission
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Manchuria
Red Army
Chinese Forces Open Twin Offensive Against Chefoo Port
Peiping dispatches report Nationalist troops striking Chefoo in Shantung with land and sea actions. Infantry 50 miles southwest of Chefoo. ships involved in amphibious operations. Chefoo serves as a major Communist port for reinforcements to Manchuria and supplies to Antung and Dairen.
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Peiping
U.P
Chefoo
Shantung Province
Tientsin
Ta Kung Pao
Tsingtao
Shanghai
Manchuria
Tu Li-Ming
Antung
Harbin
Nations To Show Now If They Mean To Save Peace
J. M. Roberts Jr analyzes post Stuttgart diplomacy as Bevin Byrnes and Franklin D Roosevelt era aims unfold. He notes Britain’s empire defense stance, the US push for democracy, and Russian posture while small nations seek fair treatment beyond military might. The piece weighs credibility of peace will vs. power.
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J. M. Roberts, JR
Ernest Bevin
British Empire
Byrnes
Stuttgart
Russia
Bevin
Britain
Tru mans UN speech outlines war fears peace aims and reforms
President Truman speaking to the UN general assembly calls for no new war and urges allied peace treaties and shared security. He says the US will pursue atom controls and a world police force while supporting refugee aid reconstruction and freedom of expression.
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New York
Truman
UN General Assembly
United States of America
United Nations
U S Protest Over Bulgaria Alleged Suppression
The United States charged Russia with suppressing an American protest on Balkan elections as the UN General Assembly opened in New York. Lincoln White released Maynard Barnes's report that Soviet Colonel Sergei Biryusov gave oral instructions to stifle protests without British or American input, with Bulgaria's foreign ministry and information ministry coordinating a press blackout.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Balkans
United Nations General Assembly
New York
Lincoln White
State Department
Maynard B. Barnes
Sofia
Bulgaria
Barnes
iGen. Biryusov Sergei
Tri-Power
Bulgarian Control Commission
Sergei
Control Commission
Bulgarian Ministry On Foreign Affairs
Bulgarian Ministry of Information
Fire kills mother and nine children in Connecticut home
A Lake Pocotopaug house fire in East Hampton, Conn., on October 23 killed a mother identified as Mrs Edward Nelson and eight of her children plus her infant granddaughter Jacquelina Yeltema. Only Edward Clark, 19, escaped with minor injuries after leaping from a window. The blaze started in a room heated by an oil burner.
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East Hampton
Conn
Lake Pocotopaug
Edward Nelson
Betty Yeltema
Mary Kelvin Hall
Rita Clark
Edith Nelson
Christina Nelson
Chapin Nelson
Charles Nelson
John Nelson
Jacquelina Yeltema
Edward Clark
Fourth Soviet Demobilization Ordered After War End
Moscow reports Russia ordered a fourth demobilization since the war ended. A decree targets older ages of soldiers and noncommissioned officers in land troops, with implementation planned between November 1 and January 1. The exact number of men affected was not announced.
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Moscow
Russia
Landlords' Strike Spreads Across Cities Over OPA Rules
SEATTLE Oct 23 UP landlords strikes against OPA regulations grow as Denver Louisville Ky Portland and other cities join Seattle in refusing to re rent apartments when vacated threatening housing supply and policy compliance.
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Seattle
OPA
Denver
Louisville
Portland
Truman vows full power to avert world disaster at UN
President Truman pledges full U S resources to prevent a clash of divergent political systems. He warns against letting wartime fears derail world recovery and calls for unity among Allies to settle peace. He stresses atomic energy controls and mass weapons oversight as UN duties.
New Airline Dispute Heard
Washington reports a fresh aviation wage dispute as 1,400 TWA pilots strike enters its third day. AA two-engine pilots seek a 30 percent raise to about 13,845 annually with faster DC-240s in service next year. Mediation continues as government agencies weigh steps to resolve the standstill.
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TWA
American Airlines, Inc
National Mediation Board
AFL Air Line Pilots’ Association
Trans World Airlines
Transcontinental & Western Air
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