Filibuster by Washington's Cain Draws Silence and Boredom
Washington senator Harry Cain delivered a six hour and forty five minute one man filibuster over Governor Mon Wallgren. The Senate halted to listen as spectators wandered in and out, while Cain read from a 264 page 79 000 word address and gestured dramatically.
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Harry Cain
State of Washington
Cain
Mon C. Wallgren
of Washington
Senate
Wallgren
Truman appoints Wallgren to security board amid Cain opposition
The former Washington governor Wallgren is named by President Truman to chair the National Security Resources Board with a $14,000 annual pay to help convert American industry to war production if needed. Senator Cain blocks progress, challenging Wallgren’s fitness while the Armed Services Committee and the full Senate prepare hearings and votes.
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Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Cain
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Armed Services Committee
iCain
GOP Leaders Divided Over 1950 Congressional Drive
Washington writes that House and Senate Republicans are splitting on 1950 campaign strategy with demands for larger publicity funding. House leaders seek 200000 for a major effort while Senate committees ask 75000, both to be funded from a 750000 budget.
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Republican National Committee
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Maine
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
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Truman
Congress
Maryland Professor Seeks Change in Ring Rules
George D. Quigley of the University of Maryland calls for a rule change in NCAA boxing to allow former servicemen who fought civilians to compete for colleges. He has sent a query to I F Toomey of California Agricultural College for clarification. The issue stems from a rule barring veterans over 18 who boxed civilians during service from intercollegiate competition.
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George D. Quigley
Southern Conference Boxing Committee
University of Maryland
F. Toomey
California Agricultural College
Ncaa Boxing Rules Committee
Leaf Marketing Quota Unchanged For Coming Year
The agriculture department will keep the 1949 marketing quota for flue-cured tobacco at the August level. The total planting allotment remains 960,623 acres, a five percent rise over 1948. A new supply and demand outlook led officials to conclude that current prospects will meet demand.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Audie Lee Brown Sentenced to Death for Farmer Murder
In Randolph County a jury found Audie Lee Brown 27 guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Melvin Cain a white farmer of the Erect area. Judge Charles Coggin sentenced Brown to death with execution set for April 8 but an appeal was filed delaying the sentence.
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Audie Lee Brown
Randolph County
Brown
Melvin Cain
Erect
Charles Coggin
Salisbury
Lenoir County Man Held For Robbery
A man walked into a rural filling station and demanded shot gun shells then robbed the proprietor Leslie J. Tyndall. Johnnie Cunningham 28 of Lenoir County was arrested within an hour on a highway robbery charge.
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Leslie J. Tyndall
State Highay
R. H. Nutt
Johnnie Cunningham
Lenoir County
Cunningham
Tobacco Workers Union Plans Meet in Winston-Salem
The AFL Southern Allied Shop Committee of the Tobacco Workers International Union will hold its semi annual meeting in Winston Salem on Saturday with over 200 union shop committee members from five southeastern states expected. John O'Hare of Washington will speak and R G Powell of Reidsville, former international president, will preside.
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
AFL Southern Allied Shop Committee
Tobacco Workers International Union
John O'Hare
Washington
TWIU
R. G. Powell
Reidsville
Rockingham
Prisoner walks off farm over fear of disease
William Audrey Weet escaped the county prison farm to avoid unsanitary conditions he feared would spread disease. Acting Judge George L. Peschau allowed him to serve the 60 day sentence on the roads instead.
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William Audrey Weet
George L. Peschau
Weet
Cotton Council Names North Carolina Virginia Chairman
B C Lineberger of Lincolnton is named North Carolina Virginia chairman of the National Cotton Council at its west coast session in Los Angeles. L M Upchurch of Raeford is elected vice chairman and Fred P Johnson of Raleigh becomes secretary.
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Los Angeles
B. C. Lineberger
Lincolnton
N. C
North Carolina-Virginia
L. M. Upchurch
Raeford
Fred P Johnson
Raleigh
Defense Offers Testimony In Murder Trial
Henderson March 9 42 The defense continues presenting its case in the 1st degree murder trial of John Ervin Jarrell a 40 year old textile worker charged with the pistol slaying of Margaret Harris Williams 32 in Henderson A son James Lee Williams 16 testified he saw Jarrell draw a pistol and shoot his mother in the Williams apartment Sheriff E A Cottrell and Detective Wesley Hughes said Jarrell admitted killing Williams because she refused to see him The article notes two full moons occurred in March 1934.
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John Ervin Jarrell
Margaret Harris Weliams
Henderson Vorcee
Vance Superior
James Lee Williams
Jarrell
Willliams
E. A. Cottrell
Wesley Hughes
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