Churchill Attacks Crisis Powers Bill as Totalitarian Threat
Britain's socialist led House backs the government's crisis powers measure. Churchill brands the bill a blank check for totalitarian rule, warning it would abrogate Parliament and freedoms. Attlee defends it as vital to meet the economic crisis and boost production and imports control. Morrison says the details will be decided later.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
House
Commons
Chuter Ede
Churchill
Hitler
Attlee
Labor
Herbert Morrison
Not Quite So Hot Today but Humidity Adds Discomfort
Weather notice records a cooler afternoon compared with yesterday's heat. At 12:30 p.m. the thermometer reached 101.1 after a 12 noon high, dropping to 90.9 as clouds moved in. Humidity stood at 42 percent, higher than yesterday, contributing to the feeling of heat in Monroe. The city’s all time peak remains 108 in July 1930 with prior highs of 112 on three July days that year.
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CAA
Municipal
Monroe
United Gas
City Hall
FAO warns on continued state control of food trade
The United Nations FAO urged another year of government controls on food exports and imports to avert a political and social blowup in Europe. It called for extended international collaboration to allocate scarce foods, warning that deficit nations risk further coal shortages and social crisis next year.
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Washington
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Europe
Geneva
FAO
Asia
New Monroe Telephone Directory Distributed
A new Monroe Louisiana telephone directory with 12 900 copies has been distributed. Lonnie Clark district manager for Southern Bell urges using the new book to avoid wrong numbers and save time. The grav cover aids identification and the yellow pages organize business and service listings.
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Monroe
Lonnie Clark
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Clark
Fires Controlled in Winnfield Area
In Louisiana, all Winnfield area forest fires were under control by this morning. Investigators pursue clues suggesting 18 blazes were deliberately set, possibly by two men on muleback starting from a central point and moving in opposite directions.
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Baton Rouge
Winnfield
James E. Mixon
Jackson Parish
State Forestry Commission
Mixon
Spending to Stay High as Budget Study Begins
President Truman tightened the budget battle stance by ordering a detailed study of federal outlays and income to reassess the year’s spending near the $37.5 billion target. Administration aides say cuts will be offset by new costs including Greece-Turkey aid and Britain’s loan usage, leaving total outlays only a few hundred million below the estimate.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Republican Congress
Congress
Britain
Post Office Department
National Labor Relations Board
Groundwork Laid for Love Letters in Murder Trial
In Santa Ana California an internal feud unfolds as 15 love letters between heiress Louise Overell and her lover George Gollum are presented as potential evidence in the murder case of Louise’s parents. The turnkey photographer and a diary excerpt by Emanuel Jungquist bolster the state’s claim of premeditation and guilt.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
George
Bud) Gollum
Tom McGaff
Eugene Williams
Louise
Emanuel Jungquist
Los Angeles Steel
Jungquist
Walter Overell
Newport Harbor
Overells
Gollum
Overell Mension
Flintridge
Washington Finance Co
State awards 1.6 million in road contracts
Highway department grants exceed 1 600 000 with a 971 129 award to T L James & Co for widening the scenic highway north of Baton Rouge to four lanes. Other contracts cover Union parish roadwork, East Baton Rouge gravel and surface work, and multiple parish projects across Ascension, St Helena, Tangipahoa, and Amite areas. Ouachita parish approves a 1 116 991.18 school budget, teachers receive raises, and a racial equality suit is dropped as salaries rise.
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Baton Rouge
State Highway Department
T. L. James & Co
Ruston
Union Parish
Monroe- Farmerville
Horton & Tomlinson
Bossier City
East Baton Rouge Parish
Pierson Construction Co
East Feliciana
St. Helena
Tangipahoa
Amite-Roseland
Fluker-Clinton
Roy M. Lilly
Ascension Parish
Union
Gonzales
Ouachita Parish
A. P. Tareed
New Orleans
Daughter in Law Kills Hot Springs Prosecutor Father
Hot Springs Arkansas, August 8 Prosecutor Sidney S McMath says his 26 year old wife Anne killed his father Hal P McMath 56 at their suburban home after years of drinking and violence He asked the court to convene a grand jury and appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case He and his wife are law partners and McMath described the incident as tragic and noted he was in Mt Ida in court when the incident occurred
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Louisiana
Twin Cities
A. F. of L
Lurline Wilson
Terminal Paper Bag Co
West Monroe
Central Trades and Labor Council
Terminal Legal
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Workers
Bernstein Park
Hazel Williams
Winnsboro
Terminal Local
New Orleans
Lem G. Harris
Hot Springs
Ark
Sidney S. McMath
Hal. P. McMath
Exservicemen
Brown
McMath
Pacific
Haggard
Wunshaven
Mt. Ida
Anne
Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Deputies
Odom Aims for World Solo Flight Record Leg to Karachi
Pilot William P. Odom, now living in Roslyn New York, started the Cairo to Karachi leg aboard his single engine plane. He left Cairo at 6 39 p m and had been 22 hours 46 minutes from Chicago, seeking to beat Wiley Post's 1933 186 hour globe record with an expected 90 hour target. He averaged about 350 miles per hour from Paris with tail winds promised to aid the India leg.
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Cairo
William P. Odom
S. T
Karachi
India
Odom
British Ferry Command
Roslyn
N. Y
Chicago
World
Wiley Post
Paris
Orly Field
Truman Signs Bill Ending Credit Curbs November First
President Truman signed legislation ending all installment credit controls on November 1, 1947. He criticized Congress for not providing ongoing peacetime authority to regulate consumer credit and warned inflation risks from rapid credit expansion. The measure ends curbs in three months despite his recommendation for continued regulation.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Council of Economic Advisers
Gulf Leases 2852 Acres Near Bosco for 28 520
Gulf Refining Company leased 2852 acres southeast of Bosco from Tremont Lumber Company for 28 520 dollars over four years. The land lies in township 15 range 4 east in Ouachita parish. The deal was filed Thursday at the clerk of court. Gulf maintains a Monroe district sales office and directs inquiries to Shreveport production.
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Gulf Refining Company
Bosco
Tremont Lumber Company
Ouachita Parish
Township 15
Gulf
Monroe
Shreveport
Unidentified Man Found Dead Near Ouachita Line
A man, identity not determined, was found dead in his automobile on highway 15 near the Ouachita Parish line in Union Parish shortly after noon Friday. Sheriff’s offices in Farmerville and Monroe were alerted while awaiting confirmation on the deceased’s identity and a missing barber, Frank Rockett of Farmerville, reportedly last seen yesterday.
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Highway 15
Ouachita Parish
Union Parish
Farmerville
Monroe
Frank Rockett
Rockett
Subpoena Issued in Hughes Meyer Scramble at Senate Hearing
Senate war hearings chief Senator Ferguson subpoenaed Hughes papers and Meyer as a heated exchange over Hughes publicity man Meyer unfolds. Noah Dietrich testified to an affidavit denying Jones was entertained while examining past hospitality records tied to Jesse Jones.
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Washington
Ferguson
Michigan
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Senate
John Meyer
Meyer
Army
Ferguson-Hughes Exchange
Jesse Jones
Jones
Noah Dietrich
Hughes’ Tool Company
Russell Birdwell
Hollywood
Reconstruction Finance Company
Birdwell
Dietrich
Dutch oppose arbitration over Indonesian dispute
The Netherlands government rejects any plan for compulsory arbitration of the Indonesian dispute while accepting good offices from the United States and a UN supervising commission for the truce. Jakarta seeks arbitration, and the UN Security Council prepares to consider a formal proposal. Gromyko showed interest in the issue as the council adjourned for the day.
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Lake Success
Netherlands
United States
Natons
U. N
Security Council
Jogjakarta
United
Faris el Khoury
el Khoury
Body of Nancy Perini recovered at Falmouth beach
The four year old Nancy Perini daughter of Lou Perini and relation to Boston Braves owner is found dead in the ocean off Megan Set Beach near the Perini summer estate. Police say drowning appears accidental though investigators pursued kidnapping theory earlier. Firefighters pulled the child ashore as her parents watched from the porch.
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Falmouth
Mass
Nancy Perini
Lou Perini
Boston Braves
Frank E. Smith
Perini
Charles
Braves
Lou
Meganset
Cotton crop forecast at 11.844 million bales this year
The Agriculture Department predicts 11.844 million bales of 500 pounds each for the current cotton crop based on August 1 conditions. Last year yielded 8.64 million bales, with a ten year average near 12.39 million. State results show varying yields per acre and total production across Mississippi Louisiana Texas Georgia and others.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tennessee
Texas
South Carolina
Georgia
Arkansas
Alabama
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U. 5
U.S
Nancy Perinin
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