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May 8, 1946

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Headlines from May 8, 1946

UMW POLICY GROUP BACKSLEWIS' STAND IN FACE OF CRISIS; Committee Calls Operator, Proposal for Joint Welfare Fund 'Tinhorn Benevolence' COAL DELIVERIES CURBED CPA Sets Up Office to Take All Possible Measures to Prevent Breakdown in Utilities Emergency Office Is Set Up Text of UMW's Statement UMW POLICY GROUP BACKSLEWIS' STAND

By Josepf. A. Loftus Special To the New York Times

LABOR: rept on progress of Mex workers employment, West and Midwest

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BIG 4 QUICKLY CEDE ALL TRANSYLVANIA TO THE RUMANIANS; Decision, in Effect, Confirms Stalin's Award of Territory Contested by Hungary DANUBE ARGUMENT SHARP No Accord on River Region's Freedom--Molotov Opposes Red Army Withdrawal Envoy Had Been Encouraged Byrnes Presents His Plan ALL TRANSYLVANIA GIVEN TO RUMANIA Troop Evacuation Discussed More Interested in Trieste Byrnes Asks for Commissions

By C. L. Sulzberger By Cable To the New York Times

Big 4 Foreign Mins Council awards all of Transylvania to Rumania; Hungary's memo suggesting plebiscite in area ignored; map

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Connecticut House Bars U.N. Welcome

By the Associated Press

Conn House of Reprs bars UN welcome; Repubs in majority oppose UN with Dems favoring organization

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KING OUT SHORTLY, ROME OFFICIAL SAYS; Victor Emmanuel's Abdication Is Believed Decided On, Date Awaiting Premier's Return Gave Up Rule Year Ago KING OUT SHORTLY, ROME OFFICIAL SAYS Prince, Too, Invited to Egypt

By Sam Pope Brewer By Wireless To the New York Times

Will succeed father to throne; offered asylum in Egypt if referendum goes against monarchy

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Gromyko Lauds 'Soviet Stamina'; Says No Nation Can Rule World; GROMYKO PRAISES RUSSIA'S STAMINA Principle of Equality Stressed Message From Stalin

By Frank S. Adams

dinner; 1st annual award conferred posthumously on F D Roosevelt; Amb Gromyko and others s

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1946Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.^[†]

Aili Jõgi was an Estonian schoolgirl who on the night of 8 May 1946, together with her school friend Ageeda Paavel, blew up a Soviet War reburial monument : the preceding monument to the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. She was born in Tallinn.

Headlines from May 8, 1946

Connecticut House Bars U.N. Welcome

KING OUT SHORTLY, ROME OFFICIAL SAYS; Victor Emmanuel's Abdication Is Believed Decided On, Date Awaiting Premier's Return Gave Up Rule Year Ago KING OUT SHORTLY, ROME OFFICIAL SAYS Prince, Too, Invited to Egypt

Gromyko Lauds 'Soviet Stamina'; Says No Nation Can Rule World; GROMYKO PRAISES RUSSIA'S STAMINA Principle of Equality Stressed Message From Stalin

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