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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1947
Page
1
President Truman called for enlightened labor and management to cooperate for public welfare and better labor relations. He said good relations cannot be achieved by legislation and must be built by workers and employers within minimal regulatory law. He stressed the right to join a union and the bargaining table as essential to peaceful progress.
The House committee on un American activities branded the Civil Rights Congress a Communist front engaged in vilification of the U S government. It released a list of supposed sponsors including several Democratic lawmakers and notable figures from arts and professions. The report traces the group to a Detroit conference in April 1946 and the merger of the International Labor Defense and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. It names sponsors such as Senator G H Taylor and Representatives Powell Delacy Patterson Rowan and Savage among others and cites unveiling papers from the 1946 congress meeting.
Charley Schmidt, once Heinrich Himmler's enforcer in North China and Mongolia, was pulled from a dirt pit in Peiping after a two year manhunt. He claimed illness and weakness after hiding, said he fled to Tokyo then China, and denied cooperation with Japanese authorities. He was to be flown to Shanghai for custody.
In a Paris suburb a theater fire caused by a short circuit in wiring led to the balcony collapse. Firemen battled flames as witnesses described a panicked crowd and a chaotic rush to escape. Authorities reported 34 bodies recovered with more feared trapped in the wreckage.
United States Senator Walter F. George says austerity cannot replace production and Britain must dig coal if it seeks aid. Speaking at the University of Georgia summer commencement, he argues America will help within capacity but European nations must share the burden for Marshall Plan success.
Soviet commander Marshal Sokolovsky accused the United States and Britain of dismembering Germany with a Western production push. General Clay defended unifying Germany economically while Soviet and press outlets warned the Ruhr could fall under western capitalists.
Merida Yucatan residents urged to refuse payment to Merida Electric Company after about 25 deaths by electric shock in the past month. A committee asked the governor to demand proper insulation of power lines as Mexico City papers described Merida as a giant electric chair.
Sheriff Milton Coverdale announced he will not seek re election in the January primary and will retire after about 32 years in the Ouachita Parish sheriff s office including 24 years as sheriff He began as a deputy in June 1916 and was elected sheriff in 1924 He noted his two sons and a son in law volunteered for the air corps during World War I era compliance with wartime service.
Budapest reports expected victory for the Communists who lead the left-wing coalition after the June coup. Russian ratification of the peace treaty dampens anti‑Communist rumors and prompts U S and British missions to plan wind‑down. An opposition charge of irregularities prompts calls for an urgent election inquiry.
Two American students Miss Ann Blumenfeld and Robert Storch and British artist Gordon Lawson arrived in Helsinki after more than three weeks detained in the Porkkala area by Soviet authorities. They said a heavy storm drove them toward the coast and that Russians made them land and warned of a minefield.
Roy Evans of Shreveport long served as Byrd High School assistant principal and as Claiborne parish supervisor. He previously led Oil City Lisbon and Central high schools and earned degrees from Louisiana College LSU and Peabody College. Evans will lead LSU elementary education initiatives.
A United States Interior Department ruling could yield between five and ten million dollars to landholders in North Louisiana. Harvey G. Fields, Farmerville attorney and former U S district attorney, said the decision protects mineral reservations in lands sold to the government and affects more than a million acres of proven gas and oil reserves, boosting drilling. The ruling extends mineral rights beyond the ten year Louisiana limit, covering tracts bought between 1936 and 1940 for federal projects. Continued on fourteenth pages.
Anthony Eden former foreign minister attacked the Attlee government over Britain's economic crisis. He urged the regime to quit if cannot do better, calling the policy a dribbling sequence of cuts and sermons. The speech came as coal miners faced a wildcat strike affecting production.
Athens August 3 The new rightist cabinet under Premier Constantin Tsaldaris decided at its first meeting to issue a decree banning publication of reports on troop movements military operations and military activities in general. The government aims to restore order in northern Greece where leftist guerrillas have fought Greek army troops for months.
At Quitandinha Brazil on August 30 the Inter-American Conference approved by Standing vote a mutual defense treaty. The pact unites 19 American republics to block aggression against any American state with article by article unanimous support. Nicaragua and Ecuador abstained. Canada may join. The treaty was completed in two weeks of talks.
Louis E. Fenley, first vice president and business manager of Bus Local No. 1127 in Shreveport, issued a statement outlining the drivers and other employees’ stance in the three month old strike with Southern Bus Lines over pay cuts and unfair working conditions. The union notes the contract effective May 16 and that the cost of living has risen about 20 percent since then.
Pro government dispatches said Chinese forces made a new landing on the Shantung coast near Tashanchi 50 miles northeast of Tsingtao after a naval barrage that destroyed Communist shore defenses. No further details were provided.
The Twin Cities and Northeast Louisiana prepare for a large Labor Day observance with a 6000 pound barbecue in Bernstein Park organized by the Monroe Fire Department. Dewey Mobley leads the barbecue effort while the Central Trades and Labor Council outlines parade details and invites public attendance. The parade starts 10 am from Crosley School West Monroe, with grand marshal Percy Wallace and color-bearers from the army recruiting station.
Washington reports Moscow moved to ratify peace treaties with Hungary Bulgaria Romania Finland and Italy raising fears of Soviet grip on eastern Europe. Officials expected Hungary first but Moscow acted early, as purges erased anti communist opposition in the region. The timing drew subdued U S reaction.
Paul Mantz of Hollywood won the Bendix trophy race at Cleveland finishing 2,050 miles in 4 hours 26 minutes 57 seconds at an average speed of 460.423 mph. Joe DeBona followed in 4:28:15 at 458.2 mph. Bruce A. Gimbel likely took third in a Jacqueline Cochran entered P 51 averaging 404 mph.
In Pittsburgh on August 30 a seven year old girl named Catherine helped pull her mother, Lucille Zurenski, from a burning slag pit after neighbors feared the thin crust would give way. Mrs Zurenski, mother of five, sank waist deep in the burning mass and sustained third degree burns to her feet and abrasions.
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