Montgomery says communists exist in Screen Actors Guild
Actor Robert Montgomery told House investigators that communists are present in the Screen Actors Guild but have not dominated the actors. He described a militant, small minority within the guild that has been well organized and disciplined. He was the first of four actors to testify at the House committee on un American activities hearings in Washington.
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Washington
Robert Montgomery
House
Hollywood Reds
Screen Actors Guild
Montgomery
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Truman And His Cabinet In Session
President Truman chaired a two hour 35 minute cabinet meeting on the European economic crisis. Officials discussed emergency aid for dollar short Western European nations and possible congressional action including a December special session or immediate use of Commodity Credit Corporation funds.
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Washington
Truman
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
Mr. Truman
Congress
White House
France
Italy
OCC
State
Agriculture and
Treasu
Commodity Credit Corporation
Europe
Commodity Credit Ration
State Marshall
New York Herald Tribune Forum
Forum
Citizens Food Committee Faces Two Major Decisions
Washington today saw the Citizens Food Committee weighing a 60 day shutdown of the distilling industry and a poultry abstinence appeal. AFL distillery workers seek to block the shutdown while poultrymen call the poultry cut unnecessary. Chairman Charles Luckman urged broad public support to save grain for Europe and appealed for local conservation committees as Western Europe faces hunger this winter.
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Washington
Citizens Food Committee
AFL
Charles Luckman
Luckman
Western Europe
Western
Europe
Viobilization Laws Favored By Brewster
Senate debate centers on war mobilization laws to prepare for a new conflict. Senator Brewster urges peacetime measures, while Senator Pepper opposes creating war production capacity amid efforts to preserve peace. Hearings on industrial might include Louis Johnson, Donald Nelson, and Charles Wilson before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
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Washington
Congress
Senaor Brewster
R-Me
Pepper
D-Fila
Senate
Eady
America
Roosevelt
Louis C. Johnon
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Charles E. Wilson
WPB
Weather Summary for Carolina October 24 1947
Clear to partly cloudy conditions with little temperature change. Friday sunrise and sunset times noted as 5:83, with no significant weather events expected for the day and night in the Carolina area.
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Carolina
Tax Cuts Clash With Marshall Plan Funding
Rep Knutson argues there is not enough federal money to fund both a Marshall plan and a 4 billion dollar tax cut. He expects congress to cap aid to Europe under the plan at 1 billion next year and plans to push a third tax-cut bill similar to two vetoed measures.
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Washington
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Tax Writing House
Ways and Means
Congress
Truman
Forest Fires Roar Through Maine as Winds Drive Flames
Winds whip huge fires at Waterboro and Mount Desert Island. Firefighters battle to save North Waterboro village as Waterboro and South Waterboro seem to gain the edge. Bar Harbor calls for help for the Mount Desert blaze moving toward Hulls Cove.
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Portland
Watersboro
Mount Desert Island
North Waterboro
New England
Richard Carr
Waterboro
South Waterboro
Bar Harbor
Mount Desert
Hull's Cove
Fashionable Bar Harbor
Faithfulness Pays Dividend To Negro
MACON, Ga. Oct 23 A Negro's loyalty to his blind boss at a liquor still earned a lenient sentence. Federal Judge T Hoyt Davis gave Willie Dent three years probation after agents testified he could have escaped during a raid but chose not to desert his blind boss.
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Macon
T. Hoyt Davis
Willie Dent
Britain restricts U S tobacco and food imports
London reports Britain bans tobacco imports from the United States and imposes new cuts in food imports as the government warns that economic collapse could end British democracy.
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London
Britain
United States
Military Law Extended in Chile to Nitrate and Copper Provinces
Chile extended military law to parts of Tarapaca Antofagasta Atacama and O Higgins regions amid a government crackdown on communists. The decree mobilizes extraordinary powers after Russia and Czechoslovakia severed relations. Police report 200 communist leaders seized and 300 warrants issued for alleged coal miner rebellion.
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Santiago
Chile
Congress
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Tarapaca
Antofagasta
Atacama
O'Higgins
Business Manager of WSJS Dies
Norris Lawrence O Neill 55 of Rural Hall died at a Winston-Salem hospital after a heart attack Sunday night following a heart attack on August 6 He moved to Winston-Salem in 1921 from Paterson New Jersey and worked at Gilmer s Inc Twin City Sentinel Journal and Sentinel merger credit manager and WSJS business manager since 1930 The funeral is scheduled for 10 a m Saturday
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Winston-Salem
Norris Lawrence O'Neill
Rural Hall
WSJS
Paterson
N. J
Gilmer’s Inc
Twin City
Journal and Sentinel
O'Neill
Hollywood actors testify on communists in film industry
Washington reports three stars tell Congress that communists are active in Hollywood but mostly fail to dominate. Robert Montgomery calls them a small minority who cause disturbances. George Murphy and Ronald Reagan echo similar views noting minimal membership yet constant irritation and attempted disruption. Reagan heads the Screen Actors Guild.
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Washington
Hollywood
Congress
Robert Montgomery
George Murphy
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Screen Actors Guild
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Hollywood writers hush up communism claims at hearing
Actor Robert Taylor faced a packed room as writers Fred Niblo Jr and Richard Macaulay testified to suspected communistic influence in Hollywood. Committee chair Thomas of New Jersey expanded police protection amid a stampede of women hoping to glimpse stars Gary Cooper Ronald Reagan George Murphy and Montgomery. Niblo labeled The Screen Writer magazine a supplement to the Daily Worker and accused editor Gordon Kahn of communist ties.
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Guild
Robert E. Stripling
Montgomery
Fred Niblo, Jr
Richard Macaulay
Hollywood
Gary Cooper
Ronald Reagan
George Murphy
Ce. Thomas
R-Nj
Capital Police
Robert Taylor
William J. Broderick
Niblo
Screen Writers Guild
Finger At Kahn
Gordon Kahn
Screenwriters’ Guild
Custer
Screen
Daily Worker
Ex Secretaries Blocked War Plan Says Witness
Former assistant secretary of war Louis C. Johnson testified before the Senate War Investigating Committee that he and President Roosevelt knew by 1938 that war was coming and the United States could not stay out. He said two former cabinet members Perkins and Woodring and Gen Somervell blocked prewar mobilization plans and that Forrestal misrepresented shelving reasons. Johnson warned that Somervell planned to remove General Marshall, then army chief of staff.
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Washington
Louis C. Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson
Senate War Investigating Committee
Brewster
Maine
Labor
Perkins
Woodring
General Marshall
George Marshall
Army
Forrestal
America
Plan No Answer To Waggoner Charge of Reds
United States will not answer in kind to Andrei Vishinsky’s fire for free speech but will appeal to the United Nations to reject Soviet demands. Warren R. Austin will deliver a prepared half hour policy speech in the 57 nation political committee, with slight revisions expected.
White mob sets fire to house in white area
In Atlanta a group of white men reportedly fired a house occupied by a Negro family that had just moved in. Officers Bibb and Bates evacuated four residents after doors were broken open. A special police detail was assigned and no arrests were reported.
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Atlanta
R. B. Bibb
Bibb
H. W. Bates
Cotton Market To Be Smaller This Year
The agriculture department forecast a smaller cotton market for the 1947 crop year with domestic consumption near 8.75 million bales and exports around 2.5 million. It projects a 1947 cotton crop may again reach about 2 billion dollars, the first since 1919, while prices and acreage next year face pressure from lower cotton prices and better feed and livestock profits.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
United States
French Chiefs To Consult Parliament Over Republic Danger
Premier Paul Ramadier announced a streamlined cabinet will consult parliament on danger to the republic from communist and De Gaulle aligned ideologies. He said labor movements threaten French authority and production while opposing agitation seeks to overthrow political foundations. Parliament session begins soon as tensions rise.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Ramadier
France
Charles de Gaulle
Byrnes Calls Peace Conference Now to Bar Russia
Former Secretary of State Byrnes told the South Carolina Masonic Grand Lodge in Columbia that the United States Britain and France should act now to call a full dress German peace conference regardless of Soviet attitude He warned Molotov may block progress without Western allies demanding aid and Ruhr control. He opposed war talk against Russia.
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Columbia
8. C
Russia
United States
France
Great Britain
Byrnes
Molotov
Britain
Europe
South Carolina
London
England
Germany
United Nations Security Council
Warmorger
Gates
United Nations
Ruhr
Investigating Party to Visit Plane Wreck
An official investigating party from Greenville Army Air Base was due in Marion Virginia to identify the bodies in the Cessna C-78 wreck atop Mt. Rogers. In New York, pilot Christopher A. Sulzbach, 29, of Richmond Hill, was identified by papers and wallet found with the wreckage.
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Greenville
S. C
Sulzbach
New York
Central Airport Flying Service
Camden
N. J
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