Federal anti lynching bill urged by president committee
The presidents committee on civil liberties urged a federal law to punish communities where lynchings occur, exempting union mob violence. Read of Berryton Georgia where Nellie Tucker 45 was killed by a mob. Chattanooga where a bus driver shot a passenger. and reports from Anderson South Carolina and Durham North Carolina noting strikes and clashes tied to union activity.
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New York
President's Committee On Civil Liberties
Berryton
Nellie Tucker
Chattanooga
Bus Company
Anderson Independent
Anderson
S. C
Co. 1. O
Danville
Durham
N. C
The
Conway Memorial to Award Sixteen Nursing Scholarships
The E A Conway Memorial Hospital in Monroe will award ten additional five hundred dollar nursing scholarships for the September 10 class. The program with Natchitoches allows RN certification in three years and BS degree with one extra year. Scholarships cover two semesters plus a summer session, with clinical work at the hospital in years two and three. Applications require high school diploma and tests. exams occur in late August at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
Monroe
C. P. Gray
Natchitoches
FE. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
Northwestern State
Unlawful Entry Into Intersections Cited In Ordinance
City ordinance 2788 Sec 19 A warns drivers not to enter street intersections until they can pass through without blocking the intersection. This legal reminder emphasizes safe driving and traffic flow restrictions.
Expose delay as McCarthy faces calendar hurdle
Senator McCarthy warned that routine senate business could push back his plan to reveal 29 State Department loyalty questions. He aimed to speak late in the day as the calendar was read. Senator Benton pressed for an investigation into McCarthy and urged his resignation, a move Gillette’s subcommittee took up.
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Edwin B. Hankinson
Washington
Senate
McCarthy
State Department
ST Bus
Wisconsin
Gillette
D.-la
Benton
D.-Conn
Maryland
John Marshall Butler
MacCarthy
Living costs may rise under new price controls
Washington reports that living costs could surge by ten to sixteen million dollars next year under the current price controls bill. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston is said to have stated this at a meeting of Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson's advisory board. The session focused on the new controls law and its implementation challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eric Johnston
ESA
Johnston
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Stein implicated in wartime spy ring claim
Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby testified that writer Guenther Stein was thoroughly implicated in a spy ring run by Russians in Japan before and during World War II. He called Stein an itinerant journalist who became a British citizen in Hong Kong in 1941. Willoughby appeared before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as the House Un American Activities Committee pursued subversive influences on U. S. eastern policy.
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Washington
Charles A. Willoughby
Guenther Stein
Japan
Stein
Hong Kong
Willoughby
Douglas MacArthur
Senate Internal Securiy
U. S
House
UN American Activities Committee
SUGGEST TRUMAN SET EXAMPLE OF SIMPLE LIVING
Washington legislators argue Truman should give up the presidential yacht and airplane to set a simple living example. Representative Auchinless notes the president could deny luxuries and Representative Scrivner points to about 500000 of the 56 billion defense bill earmarked for Williamsburg yacht operations.
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Washington
Truman
Auchinless
R.N. J
House
Scrivner
R.kas
Williamsburg
Strange Report Ends Big Cremation Mystery
St Petersburg Florida August 9 Police have recorded the cremation case of Mrs Mary Hardy Reeser as a death from a lighted cigaret and body burnt by its own fat Fire Chief J R Reichert and Detective Chief Cass Burgess issue a joint report after FBI tests found no aiding fluids or chemicals The room contained only a scorched chair fragments of skull backbone and foot with the chair burned to the springs The widow allegedly slept after taking sedatives and smoking the cigaret July 2 triggering the blaze
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St. Petersburg
Fla
J. R. Reichert
Cass Burgess
Mary Hardy Reeser
FBI
Reichert
Allies Deny Attack On Red Truce Truck
Tokyo reports say the Communist cease fire team accused Allied warplanes of hitting a Red supply truck between Kaesong and Pyongyang on Tuesday. U N. senior delegate Admiral Joy rejected the charge as invalid noting the attack location lies east of the main road. Reds failed to notify the Allies of route and timing per armistice safety assurances.
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Tokyo
U. N
Kaesong
Pyongyang
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Nam Il
U.N
Reds
White leads in Mississippi governor race runoff
Jackson Mississippi August 9 three candidates trailed for second in the Democratic primary with former governor Hugh White leading for a run off berth. As of early reporting with under 100 precincts uncounted White held 87 341 votes to 79 938 for the nearest rival.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Hugh White
White
Unreported precincts skew early returns in gubernatorial race
Paul Johnson Jr. shows 78 442 and Lieut Gov Sam Lumpkin 74 751, with 370 335 votes counted and about 15 000 still to tally. Ten of 88 unreported precincts are large boxes in Hinds county.
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Paul Johnson, Jr
Sam Lumpkin
Ross Barnett
Hinds County
Improvements at Angola Tells of Segregation Move
Shreveport reporter Dolph Franz quotes Segregation of sexual perverts and transfer of hospital services from the old camp to the new facility at Angola. Deputy warden Bazer cites these changes as part of 20 recommendations from a citizens’ investigation to Governor Earl K. Long.
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Shreveport
Angola
D. C
Bazer
State Penitentiary
Dolph Franz
Shreveport Journal
Citizens’ Investigation Committee
Earl K. Long
Six in One Family Struck by Polio in Los Angeles
Donald F. De Mars brick worker relocates his family from Water town South Carolina to Los Angeles. Six of his eight children ill with polio at Los Angeles General Hospital, Richard and Donald on respirators. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis offers full treatment costs.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles General Hospital
Richard
Donald
Davis
Shirley
Audrey
Patricia
National Foundation For
Minnesota
Reno
de Mars
Watertown
S. C
Robert
Carole
Train Hits Truck In Franklin Parish Fatality Injury
A 49 year old truck driver Ernest Newman of Wisner was killed instantly and 34 year old Louis Rayburn of Gilbert was critically injured when a Missouri Pacific freight train struck a northbound truck on highway 15 in Franklin Parish around 9 am. Newman suffered a fractured skull and thigh along with a crushed leg and internal injuries. Rayburn sustained a compound leg fracture an arm fracture and possible internal injuries. Both victims were treated at local facilities with Newman pronounced dead and Rayburn in very serious condition.
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Ernest Newman
Wisner
Louis Rayburn
Gilbert
Winnsboro
Franklin Parish
L. L. Robinson
Newman
First National Funeral Home
Rayburn
Missouri Pacific
Reconstruction in Korea Estimated Cost 250 Million
Washington reports state department estimate that Korea reconstruction will cost 250 million dollars after fighting ends. Senator Connally said the figure was shared with the senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees while hearings on the 8.5 billion foreign aid bill proceed. He added the UN should shoulder most costs, with the United States taking the lead.
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Washington
State Department
Korea
Connally
D.-Tex
Department
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
United Nations
U. S
Duff Would Hang Traitors Tied to Russia, Says Duff
Senator Duff of Pennsylvania told the American Legion convention that traitors who plot with Russia to destroy the United States should be hanged. He criticized Communist moves and warned against mobilization as a mistake, saying Americans have fallen for Communist propaganda since World War II.
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Pittsburgh
Duff
Russia
United States
American Legion
Pennsylvania
Korea
America
Young Gunman Billy Davis Shot to Death in Alabama
Billy Davis a 23 year old parolee from Columbia Tennessee was shot and killed by FBI agents and a Dekalb County deputy after awakening at a farm near Ider Alabama He refused to surrender and fired a .22 pistol before being shot multiple times in a confrontation that ended his four days of flight across Alabama Georgia and Tennessee
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Ider
Ala
Billy Davis
Desperado
FBI
Tennessee
Davis
G. H. Noles
Dekalb County
George D. King
Columbia, Tenn
Alabama
Georgia
King
McMinnville
Tenn
Dekalb
Gene Young
Red communists press for resumption of Korea talks
In Tokyo the Reds urged Gen. Ridgway to restart armistice talks and pledged strict neutrality at Kaesong. They claimed compliance while accusing the Allies of violating neutrality, as Ridgway's response awaited with no timetable for resuming negotiations.
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Olen Clements
Tokyo
Red
Korea
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Kaesong
Reds
William P. Nuckols
U. N
Red China
Louisiana weighs three way bridge and highway plan for New Orleans
Louisiana highway Director R B Richardson outlined a three way plan for a new Mississippi river bridge at New Orleans, a Harvey canal bridge, and Westwego Algiers highway upgrades. He met with New Orleans Association of Commerce leaders and will confer with Governor Earl Long next week. Local participation and federal approval are needed for urban project funding.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
R. B. Richardson
New Orleans
Westwego-Algiers
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Richardson
Earl Long
Joseph M. Rault
Long
Highway Department
Huey P. Long
Rich
Flood donors announced for Kansas relief drive
A list of local donors to the Red Cross flood relief fund was released by Monroe chapter executive secretary Mrs Taunton Veary. Contributions total $132 and names include Mrs L W Kessler R L Templeton Mr and Mrs S K Heninger W B Humble Rev and Mrs Edward F Hayward and others.
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Red Cross Fund For Relief of
Kansas
Taunton Veary
Monroe
The
Red Cross
L. W. Kessler
R. L. Templeton
C. T. Johnson
William A. Watson
Jimmie Walker
Taunton Veazey
J. M. Breard
A. H. Salisbury
Minnie J, Faulk
the Palace
Annie F. Sanders
C. H. McHenry
Baker- Lawdon & Ford, Inc
Conrad Cage, Jr
Drew Grocer Co
Graduation at Tech Tonight Highlights Reserved Seats
Graduation exercises at Louisiana Tech in Ruston begin at eight tonight with reserved seat tickets for seniors' families for the first time. About 700 tickets were requested at rehearsal. George F. Ivey will deliver the commencement address. A donor fund will add to a memorial for the college. An informal reception follows in Iva Adams Hall. A watermelon party accompanied the president’s lawn activities.
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George F. Ivey
Centenary College
Shreveport College
Ropp
Iva Adams Hall
South
Oglesbee Sentenced in Tax Violation Case
New Orleans, Aug 9. James Lowell Oglesbee former registrar of voters for Jackson parish received a year and a day. Judge Herbert W Christenberry pronounced the sentence after Oglesbee pleaded no contest to filing false income tax returns. He claimed improper deductions for taxpayers.
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New Orleans
Jackson Parish
James Lowell Oglesbee
U. S
Herbert W. Christenberry
Oglesbee
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N. Orleans
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Army
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Denton
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