Fair Enough Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler argues that Gerard C. Reilly has retired from the National Labor Relations Board after five years and proposes four restrictive amendments to the Wagner Act. He portrays the board as partisan, cites past NLRB members linked to Communist movements, and accuses the system of persecuting employers and favoring unions through a biased process.
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New York
Gerard C. Reilly
Ntional Labor Relations Board
United States
Reilly
Robert F. Wagner
Senate
Kangaroo Court
Supreme Court
Edwin S. Smith
Dies Committee
Nathan Witt
Minect
Congress
Smith Committee
Whoard
American Federation of Labor
Labor Relations Board
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mississippi Valley Leaders Set New Orleans Flood Conference
Leaders from seven valley states will meet in New Orleans on September 20 to press for full scale flood control work on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The gathering, led by Senator John Overton, will align with the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association amid President Truman’s cutbacks on flood control spending and with Reconversion Director Steelman’s directives.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River Valley
New Orleans
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tennessee
Ata
Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association
Truman
John R. Steelman
McKellar
Senate Apropriations Committee
Earthquake Shakes Manila Regatta Area Again
A moderate quake struck Regatta in Manila at 4 59 p m for 20 seconds sending tremors through downtown. No injuries or property damage were reported more than an hour later.
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Manila
Pranila
Meat price ceilings return planned for September 3
OPA officials say meat price ceilings will be reimposed at retail about September 3 after Agriculture Department approval, delaying the earlier plan by 12 days. Milk butter cheese and all other dairy products remain free of controls. The restoration schedule calls for reestablishing controls on live animals first, with packet and wholesale ceilings following days later.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Decontrol Board
OPA
Agriculture Department
U.N. Approves Three Nations and Debates Others
Sweden Iceland and Afghanistan won approval for UN membership in a Security Council screening report. The panel flagged six additional applicants Albania Outer Mongolia Siam Portugal Ireland and Trans Jordan for further wrangling amid rival sponsorships and regional tensions discussed by Polish chaired members and a British Palestine linkage controversy.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Sweden
Iceland
Afghanistan
United Nations
Security Council
Outer Mongolia
Russia
China
Siam
France
Portugal
Ireland
Trans-Jordan
Irzy Michalowski
Poland
Palestine
Britain
Iraq
Iran
Recluse Survives on Fort Lewis Firing Range
John Parsons, a 15 year old recluse, reportedly hid in a ramshackle log cabin within Fort Lewis artillery range for three years. An army officer found the home amid shell holes and deer hideouts. the government had bought the land for $700. Parsons vanished with the horses when an army truck arrived to move him.
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Fort Lewis
Wash
John Parsons
Parsons
Howard Frederick
Albanian Leader Demands Equal Seat at Peace Conference
Prime Minister Enver Hoxha of Albania insisted at Paris that Albania attend peace talks as an equal and would not accept border changes. He attacked Greece and its leader Constantine Tsaldaris, claimed Italian occupation war criminals fled to Rome, and criticized Italian imperialism and Soviet comments, noting Albania’s stance against aggression and calls for friendly relations with the Greek people.
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Paris
Albania
Enver Hoxha
Balkan
Greece
Constantine Tsaldaris
Russia
Tsaldaris
Quisling
Rome
France
Hitler
Italy
Mussolini
Hoxha
Intetinsi Pests
Labor Day City Parade Planned by Local Unions
Monroe West Monroe Central Trades and Labor Council announced a Labor Day parade on September 2 with over a thousand members from 42 A F L locals. The Queen of Labor from Terminal Bag Local 446 will lead a float and a ball follows at Three Mile Inn.
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A. F. of L
Monroe-West Monroe
Leon Johnston
Barbers Union
Sixth
DeSiard Streets
Noe Arraignment Schedules in Federal Court Today
New Orleans on August 21 former Governor James A Noe and three others were set to be arraigned in federal district court this afternoon on charges of jury tampering. Defendants include Lake Charles oil man William T Burton former State Senator Joe T Cawthorn and Marcel LaBranche. Judge Wayne G Borah to hear Cawthorn motion for separate trial. Charges tied to alleged conspiracy to influence the jury in Burton’s second income tax trial. LaBranche was a trial juror. Indictment returned January 2 by a federal grand jury.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
William T. Burton
Lake Charles
Joe T. Cawthorn
Marcel LaBranche
Wayne G. Borah
Cawthorn
G O P Shows New York Strength in Primaries
The Associated Press reports a GOP surge in New York City with organization-backed candidates defeating rivals like Vito Marcantonio, Clayton Powell, and American Labor and Democratic contenders for Congress. Marcantonio and Powell won Democratic nominations as AL candidates. Baldwin lost renomination. In Delaware, Tunnell and Traynor were renominated. Utah held a Senate run-off, signaling Arthur C. Watkins as GOP choice.
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Associated Press
New York City
Vito Marcantonio
Clayton Powell
Congress
Democratic
Joseph Clark Baldwin
Delaware
James M. Tunnell
Senate
Philip A. Traynor
House
Utah
Arthur C. Watkins
Orem
Abe Murdock
Watking
William L. Baker
Provo
New York
Marcantonio
Powell
Tammany
Patrick J. Hannigan
Frederick V. P. Bryan
Marcan
Counsel for Nazis Seek More Time
In Nuremberg August 21 the International Military Tribunal heard that seven indicted Nazi organizations seek more time for defense work. President Sir Geoffrey Lawrence noted a letter from defense lawyers asking for extra days to prepare summations. Only Dr. Robert Servatius could begin this week. others would be ready by Monday. Lawrence said the counsel were wasting the tribunal's time by lengthy comments on affidavits already discussed.
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Inernberg
International Military Tribunal
Geoffrey Lawrence
Robert Servatius
Geoffrey
Rushed to Clinic Death Claims 10 Year Old Patterson
Lloyd Patterson ten rushed by Hall Funeral Home ambulance to Bendel Wright clinic shortly after noon Wednesday. He died soon after admission with cause undisclosed. He leaves parents Arnold and Mrs Patterson a brother Curtis and sister Myrna and grandparents Mr and Mrs L W Albritton and Mrs J R Patterson of Farmerville. Funeral arrangements not yet complete.
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Lloyd Patterson
Arnold G. Patterson
Texas Avenue
Hall Funeral Home
Bendel-Wright Clinic
Curtis Patterson
Myrna Patterson
Power outage brief to test new city plant equipment
The city will suspend light and power service for about 90 minutes starting at 2 a.m. to test the new switch gear and synchronize a 6000 kW generator with older units. Bakeries dairies hospitals and hotels were notified. alarms refrigerators and fans will be affected but damage risk is low. The outage occurs in the cool morning to minimize disruption.
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Monroe
Commissioner of Utilities
W. D. H. .Rodriguez
Gradu
Three Farmers Charged With Drowning Widow In Mo
In Macon Missouri on August 21 three farmers were charged with first degree murder in the 1941 drowning of Dora Bachstein a 73 year old blind widow who had deeded a 58 acre farm to Stanley Brown in exchange for care. Mark Hunolt confessed that he and Stanley Brown entered her Clarence home November 17 1941 and forced her into a well. Stanley Brown and his father Sam Brown were charged as well with murder.
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Macon
State Highway Patrol
H. A Hansen
Mark Edward Hunolt
Stanley Brown
Dora Bachstein
Clarence
Stanley
Sam Brown
Hansen
Hunolt
Hundlfs
Bachstein
Fifteenth Negro Held in Mississippi Near MaGee
Jackson, Miss August 21 arrest of Willie Jones Negro at MaGee brings to 15 the number held after Sunday armed clashes between a Negro band and peace officers near MaGee. Sheriff Hawkins says Johnny Craft named Jones as a leader in the shooting. Craft and Jones reportedly fired from a wood truck at a white youth who yelled. Other Negroes deny Jones fired and say he ran into the woods as Craft opened fire. Investigation continues and charges await completion.
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Jones
Craft
Hawkins
Ex-GI Prewitt Hangs Self in Parish Jail Cell
Billy Dean Prewitt 24 confined overnight for drunk and disorderly charges in Tallulah Louisiana hanged himself with a improvised noose in a jail cell Monday night. He recently returned from overseas duty and struggled to adjust to civilian life. Funeral planned at Baptist Church Tallulah Thursday at 4 p.m. with Rev. Clarence Crow and Rev. Lewis L. Prewitt officiating. Pallbearers named. interment by Glenwood Funeral Home in local cemetery. He is survived by parents Mr and Mrs Ben H Prewitt two brothers Ben H Prewitt Jr and James Herman Prewitt two sisters Gloria Mae and Patsy Jean Prewitt and other relatives.
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Tallulah
Billy Dean Prewitt
Prewitt
Baptist
Clarence Crow
Lewis L. Prewitt
Ed Erwin
Don Cannon
Thurston Atwood
David Miller
Liz Rabb
Paul Priest
Curtis Miller
Gordy van Zelden
Glenwood
Ben H. Prewitt
Ben H. Prewitt, Jr
James Herman Prewitt
Gloria Mae Prewitt
Patsy Jean Prewitt
United States Rejects Soviet Demands on Dardanelles
The United States publicly rejects Soviet demands over the Dardanelles in a carefully prepared policy move aimed at countering Russia’s push into the Middle East and Asia. President Truman and top security chiefs sign off on a firm stance opposing military control or bases, warning that forceful action could trigger grave global trouble.
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Dardanelles
Soviet Union
Middle Eastern
Truman
Byrnes
Acheson
Patterson
Navy
Forrestal
United States
Russia
India
China
Turkey
McNarney Denies La Guardia On UNRRA Aims In Europe
General Joseph T. McNarney in Berlin denounces Fiorello La Guardia’s allegations that American occupation forces oppose UNRRA. He accuses the UNRRA director general of making baseless charges and reveals a Russian agent reportedly operated under UNRRA. adds he seeks to clarify recent Geneva council reports.
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Berlin
Joseph T. McNarney
UNRRA
Fiorello la
United States
Europe
la Guardia
McNarney
Germany
Mrs Narney
NKVD
Geneva
United States Army
Changes to curb impulses in Thompson broadcast
Washington report on August twenty first details last hour edits to Roy L Thompson's speech by the price decontrol board. Officials removed phrases likely to provoke Congress labor and industry and replaced them with guarded lines urging restraint and fair profits.
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Washington
Congress
Thompson
Dewey Bilbo Standoff Over Ideologies Amid Sworn Pledges
In Rochester, Gov. Dewey pledged no Bilboism in New York while Mississippi Senator Bilbo vowed no Deweyism in his state. Bilbo blasted Deweyism as FEPC and racial equality, while Dewey denied Klan ties and denied threats to his Senate seat amid noisy political rhetoric.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Bilbo
Mississippi
Dewey
F. of L
Rochester
Senate
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Gilbert Klecan
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John Klecan
Derby Downs
Akron
Ohio
N.Y
James Tunnell
U. S
Edward Kardelj
Hotel Meurice
Federal Control Commission of Yugoslavia
Kardelj
Hotel
Meurice
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Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Munich
John M. Hightower
Middle East
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