Marshall Puts Final Touches On Relief Plan
Secretary Marshall returns to his state department desk to shape final recommendations for a four year European recovery program possibly costing up to 20 billion dollars. The plan aims to save Europe from economic disaster and curb Soviet expansion, with Congress to see the proposals at the 17th session. The outline calls for about 6 billion in relief and recovery supplies next year, with free food and loans for machinery, while future funding would be decided annually based on revised estimates.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Marshall
State Department
Congress
Europe
New York
United Nations Assembly
London
United Nations
United States
Taft Rejects Cooperation on Special Session Remedies
Sen Taft says no chance for bipartisan cooperation in remedies for high prices and inflation during the coming special session. He criticizes administration economic policies as unsound and declines agreement with McGrath’s politics-free session idea.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
R-O
Congress
Republican Policy Committee
McGrath
D-Ri
Ohio
17 Investment Firms Accused in Antitrust Suit
Atty Gen Clark filed a civil antitrust suit in federal court for Southern New York naming 17 major New York investment banks. The suit seeks dissolution of the Investment Bankers Association of America and accuses firms of conspiring to monopolize securities issues, affecting billions in stocks notes and bonds. Defendants include Morgan Stanley Kuhn Loeb Goldman Sachs Lehman Brothers First Boston and others.
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Washington
P— Atty
Clark
New York
Investment Bankers Association of America
Chicago
Federal District Court
Morgan Stanley & Co
Kuhn Loeb & Co
Eastman, Dillon & Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Goldman, Sachs & Co
Lehman Brothers
Smith, Barney & Co
Glore, Forgan & Co
White, Weld & Co
Drexel
Col
A. M. Pope
First Boston Corp
Harold Stanley
Morgan Stanley & Co. Partner
U S Embassy Notes Douglas Family Invited to Princess Elizabeth Wedding
A U S embassy source says Ambassador and Mrs. Douglas and their daughter Sharman were invited to the Westminster Abbey ceremony on November 20 for Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. Buckingham Palace declines public guest lists. speculation centers on famous American figures who might attend.
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London
U. S
Lewis W. Douglas
Sharman
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Truman
Trumans
Margaret
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Marshall
John G. Winant
Britain
Douglas
Westminster Abbey
Philip Mountbatten
New York
Atom Secrets Sought By Reds
Former FBI agent Louis J. Russell testified before the house subcommittee that Soviet agents attempted to obtain vital information from J Robert Oppenheimer while he worked at the University of California Berkeley. Russell named George Eltenton of Shell Development and Haakon Chevalier as intermediaries in seeking details on a highly destructive weapon.
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Washington
FBI
House
American Activities Subcommittee
Robert Oppenheimer
Louis J. Russell
Oppenheimer
Radiation Laboratory
University of California At Berkeley
Calif
Russell
Thomas
R-Nj
Pioneer Arizona Mine Owner Dies
Mrs. Mary Patricia O'Brien, 75, pioneer mine and ranch owner in the Wickenburg district, died in Phoenix after moving to Arizona from Nevada in the early 1880s. She and F. X. O'Brien married in 1907. after his death she ran the Bar F-X and Remuda properties. Surviving children include Lawrence X. O'Brien and Adelaide M. Tweed of Tucson.
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Phoenix
Mary Patricia O’brien
Pioneer
Wickenburg
O’brien
Arizona
Nevada
F. X. O’brien
Bar F-X
Remuda
UN Seen Taking Water but Crew Fears for Ship
AP analysis notes growing fear for the United Nations amid US Soviet clashes. The piece highlights a UN vote condemning wartime propaganda and the organization’s difficulty uniting democracies. The mood remains wary as diplomats wrangle after a strong, historic push for peace.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
United Nations
McGrath Heads Democratic Convention Plans For 1948
D H Oliver reporting from Washington notes the Democratic national committee selected Philadelphia for the 1948 convention and elected Sen J Howard McGrath Rhode Island as national chairman. The panel urged nonpartisan action on emergency legislation ahead of the November 17 special session. Mentions possible No 2 candidate names including Forrestal Douglas Wallgren Lane and Dempsey.
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
Democratic Party
Philadelphia
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Island
San Francisco
Edward Heller
McGrath
Kills
Resolutions Committee
Congress
Resolutions Group
Robert E. Hannegan
Truman
James V. Forrestal
New Yorker
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Washington State
Connecticut
Mon C. Wallgren
Washington
William Preston Lane, Jr
Maryland
John J. Dempsey
New Mexico
Forrestal
Welfare study report due after Phoenix meeting
The interim legislative social security investigating committee will meet in Phoenix November 10-11 to review the Public Administration Service survey of Arizona’s social security and welfare department. If accepted as final, no further funds will be spent. to date under $10,000 of the appropriated $7,200 contract has been used.
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Dick Smith
Phoenix
U.P
Legislative Social Security Investigating Committee
Public Administration Service
Chicago
State Social Security and Welfare Department
House
E. I. Jameson
United Press
Jameson
Herbert A. Olsen
San Francisco
Olsen
Chicago Company
Sidney P. Osborn
James
Orig
Attlee Wins By 30 Votes In Narrow Commons Finish
In London on October 30 Britain's Labor government survived two tight House of Commons votes by margins of 184 to 160 and 187 to 160. The motions related to ending debate on ending the basic gasoline ration for motorists and nullifying the government order on the ration. Labour abstentions and late hours affected attendance. The government, with 394 seats, faced opposition from 190 Conservatives and Winston Churchill's continuing effort to force a no confidence vote.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Eee
House
Labor
Labor Party
Conservatives
Winston Churchill
Rancher admits 1941 murder in Colorado case
Junia Wesley Van dervoort 61 year old rancher confessed to killing his wife in 1941, Sheriff Ray Slocum reported in Colorado Springs. In California Howard Hughes aims to taxi test his Hercules flight liner while facing a senatorial probe into war contracting resumes. Prescott civic leader William G. Greenwood 72 died of a heart attack after 53 years in the town, born in Halifax and arriving in 1894.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Junia Wesley Vandervoort
Ray Slocum
San Pedro
Calif
U.P
Howard Hughes
Prescott
William G. Greenwood
Greenwood
Halifax
Yorkshire
Eng
Samuel Hill
Vanished Leader Mikolajczyk Cited By Several Sources
London reports reference Stanislaw Mikolajczyk as a vanished leader with guarded hints from multiple responsible sources. Bulletin page 15 provides continuing coverage.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Krug Collapses Ill During Talk at Reclamation Meeting
Secretary of the Interior Krug fainted while addressing the National Reclamation Association in Phoenix. He was attended by two doctors and remained in his hotel room. a planned trip to St Louis was canceled as he recovers from exhaustion after presenting a seven year 2 148 billion dollar reclamation program.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Interior
Krug
National Reclamation Association
Carlton Skinner
Interior Department
Westward Ho
Skinner
F. T. Fahlen
Washington
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association
St. Louis
Robert W. Sawyer
William E.warne
Sawyer
Truman Backs River Plans For Western Basin Development
President Truman urged a long range appropriation program to finance reclamation and river basin development in the West. In a message to the National Reclamation association, he said agencies need predictable funding to execute plans efficiently and hoped for coordinated Western river basins projects.
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Phoenix
Truman
National Reclamation Association
17 Men Lift Woman 700 Pounds to Car
In Joliet Illinois on October 30 a crew of 17 people including 19 police officers moved 70 year old Mrs Elizabeth Ebner who weighed 700 pounds from her home to a hospital. Unable to fit her into a police ambulance workers used a coffin cart and a hearse to transport her. Hospital staff then helped shift her from the cart to two bolstered beds.
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Joliet
Elizabeth Ebner
Mrs. Ebner
Farm Markets Are Expanding and Abundant
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told the National Reclamation association convention that American agriculture faces a revolutionary expansion in production with strong foreign and domestic demand likely for years. He urged conserving resources to build a permanent productive agriculture and balance abundance with effective demand. Page 15.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Anderson
National Reclamation Association
Ex-Guards Describe Convict Camp Mass Killing in Georgia
Former Glynn county convict camp guards testified in federal court about the killing of eight prisoners at the Glynn County camp. The government rested its case against Warden H. G. Worthy and four guards, with witnesses challenging prior alcohol allegations. Wounded prisoner Willie Bell testified Worthy had been drinking before the mass slayings.
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Brunswick
Georgia
H. G. Worthy
Glynn County
S. P. McDaniel
Worthy
Willie Bell
Ramadier Survives Confidence Vote in France
Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier’s cabinet won a 300 to 280 confidence vote in the national assembly after two days of clashes with Communists and De Gaulle allies. Ramadier warned France faces a choice between a French national course or alignment with the United States or the Soviet Union.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
National Assembly
Ramadier
Charles de Gaulle
France
DeGaulle
de Gaulle
U S Orders Indian Aid to End Denial in Two States
Washington reports the Social Security Administration warns New Mexico and Arizona must provide aid to needy Indians or lose up to 5 million dollars annually in federal grants for impoverished whites. Jane Hoey notes 101,000 Indians in the two states are denied benefits and rights, including voting.
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Washington
Social Security Administration
New Mexico
Arizona
Jane Hoey
Bureau of Public Assistance
Miss Hoey
Oregon Gov Earl Snell Dies In Plane Crash
The wreckage of a plane carrying Gov Earl Snell and three other top Oregon officials was found with no survivors. Four bodies were recovered near the Bly highway as searchers scoured the timbered area 70 miles east of Klamath Falls. John H Hall, Portland attorney and House speaker, becomes governor and will appoint a new secretary of state.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
Earl Snell
Oregon
Fremont Forest
Merle Lowden
Lowden
Jack Smith
Mark Sullivan
Klamath-Lakeview
Bly
Here
Snell
Senate
Marshall Cornett
Robert S. Farrell, Jr
Cliff Hogue
Lake County
Warner Valley
Oregon-California
Forest Rangers
Army Air Rescue Unit
Coast
Doglake Forest
Hall
John H. Hall
Portland
Secretary of State
Oregon Con
Hall Becomes New Governor in Oregon Line of Succession
Salem Oct 30 The deaths of Gov Earl Snell Secretary of State Robert S Farrell Jr and State Senate President Marshall Cornett in a plane crash create a vacancy. John H Hall speaker of the house succeeds to the governorship and will name a new secretary of state. Hall will be acting governor until a successor is elected next November. Snell Farrell and Hall were born in Oregon Cornett came from Kentucky.
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Salem
Ore
Earl Snell
Robert S. Farrell Jr
State Senate
Marshall Cornett
Oregon
Leslie Scott
State Board of Control
Snell
U. S. Senate
Farrell
Cornett
John H. Hall
Portland
House of Representatives
Hall
Senate
House
Secretary of State
Kentucky
Congress Contempt Cases May Reach Supreme Court
A group of Hollywood writers charged with contempt of Congress could face trial in federal court. If the full House and a federal grand jury agree, the case may go to trial, with potential moves toward the Supreme Court. Contempt carries up to a $1,000 fine and one year in jail.
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Congress
Max Hall
Washington
Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
Robert E. Stripling
Ord
House UN American Activities Committee
John Howard Lawson
Samuel Ornitz
House of Representatives
Federal Grand Jury
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