Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that Andrei Vishinsky charged before the U.N. General Assembly that the U.S. was violating the U.N. Charter in seeking revisions of the Italian peace treaty, and also asserted that the Korean question was not properly a subject for U.N. consideration. He further stated that the Russians had submitted two plans for resolving the Korean situation, both of which had been rejected by the U.S. Both issues had been approved for the General Assembly agenda by the 14-nation steering committee.

The State Department issued a statement denouncing the execution of Nikola Petkov by the Communist-supported Government of Bulgaria after he had been convicted of plotting against the Government. Britain was also planning to protest the execution. Both Governments had sought to avert imposition of the death sentence.

Representative Everett Dirksen of Illinois, touring Europe with a group of Congressmen, predicted that the 16-nation report from Paris on the nations' needs under the Marshall Plan would be approved in a special session of Congress. The State Department assured that the report would be examined carefully as to each request for aid. The first year of the four-year plan would require the most U.S. aid, that requested being 7.12 billion dollars of the total 19.33 billion.

U.S. Army headquarters demanded that Yugoslavia release an American officer and two enlisted men who had been taken while on patrol in the Trieste free zone the previous day and forced across the Yugoslav border at gunpoint.

Gordon Gray of Winston-Salem, president of the Piedmont Publishing Company, publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel, and head of WSJS radio station, as well as serving as a State Senator, was appointed by President Truman to be Assistant Secretary of the Army under Secretary Kenneth Royall, also of North Carolina.

Mr. Gray would become president of the University of North Carolina in 1949 after the appointment of Frank Porter Graham to the Senate seat of recently elected and deceased J. Melville Broughton. At the same time, Mr. Gray would serve as Secretary of the Army, and eventually, in 1958, become National Security Adviser to President Eisenhower.

Three tornadoes followed in the wake of the previous week's hurricane which had struck with 120 mph winds across South Florida. The tornadoes were centered in the area between St. Petersburg and Clearwater, with winds expected to reach 60 mph. Twenty-five small freighters and banana boats were missing, but six had been found, some wrecked.

Near Belle Glade, Fla., a three-mile long sandbag dike, no higher than a man's head, held back flood waters which could flood 30,000 acres of rich farmland should the dike fail.

In Leonardtown, Md., a defendant, a merchant seaman, said that after a poker party, he and another man's wife began carousing and she led him initially to think she was interested in intercourse but then said that her husband would not like it. She then slipped off the bed, he said, and as he tried to pick her up, he stumbled and fell and then ripped her clothes off. He got scared and left. He also admitted having struck her several times. She was dead. He said that he did not know she was dead when he left. The statement was read to a jury during his trial for first degree murder.

In Lumberton, the previously postponed trial of the woman who had allegedly hired a hired hand to shoot her husband while he slept, would begin Thursday. She had fainted outside the courthouse in August at the scheduled start date of the trial. The hired man had already pleaded guilty and would be sentenced on Thursday. The husband had recovered from his wound and had stated he held no grudges and had taken a trip with his wife just prior to the scheduled start of the trial in August, following her release from the State mental hospital in Morganton. He believed all would be well and they could get along. He also had no grudge against the hired hand.

A veteran of the Army Air Force was sitting on the dock at Lake Lure, N.C., when suddenly an amphibious plane crashed into the lake while trying to land. He jumped into a small boat and reached the plane fifteen minutes later, with the passengers still in the cabin as the plane was sinking. The veteran rescued all three, plus the family dog, just as the plane turned on its back. No one was injured.

In Charlotte, plans were unveiled for an 88-apartment complex to help relieve the housing shortage. The complex would be owned by Forest Apartments, Inc., and would be situated on a seven-acre site, purchased from News General Manager J. E. Dowd. It promised to be one of the most modern and streamlined apartment houses in the entire section of the Carolinas, with five and six-room units. The kitchens would have electric stoves, electric refrigerators, and garbage disposers. The apartments would be of steel and masonry, completely fireproof. Work was to begin in 90 days and take eight to ten months for completion.

Put your deposit down and sign a lease as quickly as you can. They will go like hotcakes.

On the editorial page, "Truman's Pants and Wall Street" takes with a grain of salt the various charges against the President made in the Russian Weekly Literary Gazette, the most exceptional being that he wore "his pants shorter by two inches than the accepted standards". The other things which the publication asserted, that he was a tool of Wall Street, an "unnotable" tool of the Pendergast machine out of Kansas City, and "straining for the laurels of the Corporal from Munich", were all secondary digs which could be easily dismissed. But the idea that he wore his pants too short ought provoke some reply from Washington.

"Mecklenburg Stages a Rally" cites the unity displayed in Raleigh by the Young Democrats of Mecklenburg at their state convention as an example of positive action which ought be emulated. Inability to unite in the city, county, or state units had left the government weak both in terms of its ability to get things done at the state level and nationally. The unit principle was a foundation for progress to meet the problems of an industrial society.

"It May Be Cheap at $19 Billion" comments on the 16-nation request for aid under the Marshall Plan over a four-year period, totaling 19.33 billion dollars, plus three billion through the World Bank, ten billion less than originally estimated.

Sumner Welles, former Undersecretary of State until August, 1944, finds sensitivity to the psychology of dealing with foreign peoples, as exhibited deftly by Great Britain through time, to be vanishing from the scene as Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin appeared to waste no opportunity in alienating the American people. The policy pursued in Palestine had shocked America, especially the recent incident involving the forced disembarcation of Jewish passengers from the "Exodus 1947" at Hamburg, by means of kicking, shoving, and beating some of the passengers. Then came his tactless suggestion that the U.S. redistribute its gold across the world.

Drew Pearson eulogizes Fiorello La Guardia, who had died the previous Saturday. He expresses trouble writing such a column because Mr. La Guardia's life had been so full. He had been flat broke in 1932 when defeated for re-election to Congress by the Roosevelt landslide. He rode on the subway and saved his nickels, passing up juicy legal fees from questionable clients. Aside from his salary as Mayor of New York, he remained broke most of his life.

Joseph Alsop, in Rome, tells of the Kremlin directing the Communist Party in Italy, under the leadership of Palmiro Togliatti, to take power in the country as soon as possible, a strategy being followed by the Communists throughout Western Europe. Presumably, the implication was to avoid any form of civil war or suppression of the party, and to work through the labor unions to achieve power. The Communist paramilitary units in Italy, utilized during the war, numbered about 20,000 and were ready to function. But they were regarded only as defensive and the foundation for a secret police force in the future.

Samuel Grafton tells of the U.N. General Assembly having become such a place of confrontation that it would have been better for there to have been no meeting at present, to avoid the conflict produced by the heated debate. The organization could be restored to its original function only by a treaty in the stalemated war between the U.S. and Russia. To do so would require a change of attitude. The U.S. would need recognize that Russia was Communist and not likely to change. Russia would need recognize that America was capitalist and not likely to change. The same sort of alliance which prevailed between the two nations during the war would have to be repeated in peacetime.

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