Truman reviews economic plan with cabinet in preview
President Truman met with his cabinet for a detailed discussion of legislative plans after releasing the fourteenth annual report by the Council of Economic Advisers. The report urges free government and free enterprise cooperation, recommends rent controls through June, expand old age security, and seek policy stability to boost steady business growth. Senators O Mahoney and Russell weighed in on its alignment with past administrations and the maximum employment act of 1946.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House
White House
Congress
Council of Economic Advisers
Leon Keyserling
John D. Clark
O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
Senate-House Economic Committee
Roosevelt
Joint Congressional Committee
Russell
D-Ga
Lessertain
December sales may top records on after Christmas bargains
December sales may set a record for the 12th year in a row as after Christmas bargains pull department store turnover above the 1948 peak by 11 percent in the final week. Extra shopping day and varied demand boosted overall retail activity, while tax lines on furs and jewelry lagged, cosmetics rose, and tax receipts tracked sales.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Internal Revenue Bureau
Julius Adams Book Examines Negro Leadership and Civic Failure
Westbrook Pegler reviews Julius Adams's book The Challenge noting the journalist’s critique of Negro leadership and self fault in civic and economic neglect. Pegler recalls Adams’ Republican stance and describes the work as courageous, honest, and provocative.
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New York
Julius Adams
Tom Dewey
Adams
Wendell, Maillet
Harlem
Three Day Week Not an Emergency
Washington Dec 30 The government says a three day work week for coal miners has not created a transportation emergency. The Interstate Commerce Commission warns it may curtail rail passenger service next week if coal stocks fall. An advisory committee reports a 30 day coal supply above ground. J Monroe Johnson notes a coal survey will be held Tuesday to decide on passenger restrictions. John L Lewis leads 400000 soft coal and 80000 hard coal miners in a three day week since Dec 5. Negotiations for a 1949 contract drag on with no talks since October for major soft coal operations.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. Monroe Johnson
National Coal Association
Association of American Railroads
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Woman Kills Husband Over Suspected Affair in Mississippi
In Columbus Mississippi Mrs Vergie Holliday 36 a mother of a married daughter confessed to police she killed her husband Eddie E Holliday 42 a grocer after discovering him in the arms of another woman Estelle Moore 35 an estranged wife was detained in jail Holliday said she hid in the family car armed with a nickel plated revolver and fired when Holliday and Moore kissed near a secluded spot at town business location The shooting left Holliday dead on arrival at a hospital authorities report Holliday claimed she had suspected infidelity for several months.
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Columbus
Miss
Vergie Holliday
Eddie E. Holliday
Holliday
Estelle Moore
Raymond Moore
Olliday
Betty Lou to Write Letter From Hospital Visit
Memphis story about Betty Lou Marbury a Brownsville Tenn farm girl who after an operation plans to write a thank you letter to the New Yorker that funded her Boston medical trip. She awaits a visit from Phyllis Detwiler a Willoughby Ohio girl who lost her right hand two years ago seeking reassurance Betty will recover and return to school.
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Memphis
Tenn
Bety Lou Marbury
Brownsville
New Yorker
Boston
Ohio
Phyllis Detwiler
Willughby
Betty
J Jst
Phyllis
The
Lake County News-Herald
Fish Tale Wins Liars Award in Burlington
In Burlington Wisconsin a Colorado trout tale earned Honest John Goerlich of Toledo the world’s champion liar title from the Burlington Liar’s Club. His tall story described landing a trout so large the pole supported him while he climbed it to kill the fish with a knife. Honorable mentions went to Ed Elverman of Louisville and C E Berry of Maumee Ohio.
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Burlington
Wis
Colorado
Ed Elverman
Louisville
C. E. Berry
Maumee
Ohio
Bidault Wins Confidence Vote In France Assembly
Premier Georges Bidault secured a confidence vote in the national assembly with an unofficial tally of 302 to 299. The measure supported by the cabinet would raise the industrial production tax from 12.5 to 13.5 percent, with Communists and Gaullist followers voting against it.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Tallulah Bankhead to star in Coward production here
Tallulah Bankhead will perform in Noel Coward's Private Lives at Neville High Savel auditorium January 12 with Donald Cook. The Broadway production, brought to Monroe by KNOE Happiness Exchange, will aid the milk fund via the Junior Charity League. Ticket sales start immediately through KNOE and mail orders to Robert Dumm.
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Tallula Bankhead
America Stage
Neville High Savel Auditorium
Privae Lives
Donald Cook
Private Lives
Noel Coward
New York
Monroe
Knoe Happiness Exchange
Junior Charity League
Miss Banhead
Miss Bankhead
Will Bankhead
Alabama
Cook
Chicago
Hollywood
Robert Dumm
Knoe
Sharp look at pensions seen in Washington
Three lawmakers said Congress will sharply study pensions in 1950 to craft a national policy. Senators Sparkman O Mahoney and Millikin urged action, citing Baruch warnings and potential strikes if no policy is set. They expect hearings linked to social security expansions and steel price issues.
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Washington
Congress
Sparkman
D.-Ala
O’mahoney
D.wyo
Millikin
R.cole
Cyrus Ching
Federal Mediation Service
Bernard M. Baruch
The
Elder Statesman
Scripps-Howard
Alliance
Senate Finance Committee
Taft
Ohio
O'Mahoney
Senate-House Economic Committee
United States Steel Corporation
United Steelworkers Union
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel
Joint Economic Committee
Bob Hope Tops Film Box Office in 1949
Hollywood notes Bob Hope leads the 1949 motion picture box office survey, dethroning Bing Crosby who had ruled for five years. Crosby places second amid a top tier that includes Hope and their regular gag writers.
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Hollywood
Bing
Crosby
Bob Hope
Hope
Motion Picture Herald
Winnsboro Boy Killed by Truck in Highway 15 Incident
Winnsboro Louisiana December 30 Funeral services are set for Keth Meredith six at 3 p.m. Friday at Winnsboro First Methodist Church. He died after a truck struck him in front of his home on Highway 15. Coroner L F Robinson ruled the death due to a fractured skull and multiple lacerations. The driver S B Loton of Monroe transported him to Winnsboro hospital where he died shortly after admission. The coroner called the incident unavoidable. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Meredith two sisters Peggy Ann Delores and three brothers James Sidney and Donnie.
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Winnsboro
Keth Meredith
Winnsboro First Methodist Church
Highway 15
Here
W. H. Bengston
New
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Peggy Ann
Delores
James
Sidney
Donnie
Navy Promotions Sweep Pentagon Policy Debated
Washington December 30. Navy orders and promotions shifted Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan to a shore post while elevating Arleigh A. Burke and many other officers, amid a debate on unification policies. The moves followed testimony by admirals at a House committee hearing critiquing defense policy and morale within the Navy.
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Washington
Pentagon
Gerald F. Bogan
House Committee
Pacific
Arleigh A. Burke
Navy
Congress
Senate
Bogan
Matthews
Naval Operations
Adm
Louis Denfeld
John G. Crommelin
Crommelin
House Armed Services Committee
Army
Air Force
Denfeld
Viet Nam Gains Domestic Sovereignty Under French Pact
In Saigon 50,000 witnessed France sign a deal granting Viet Nam greater control over local courts police education and administration Bao Dai heads a French backed government opposed by Ho Chi Minh officials will advise the administration and the French president will name a new university head.
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Saigon
France
Viet Nam
Leon Pignon
Bao Dai
Ho Chi Minh
Vincent Auriol
Tonkin
Annam
Cochin China
Haiphong
French Republic
Southern Bus Lines aviation aid opposed by justice department
The justice department opposed authorizing Southern Bus Lines Inc of Louisiana to operate a southern feeder airline route. Examiner Moran recommended grant on Nov 25 after hearings. DOJ filed exceptions, noting earlier anti monopoly stance and arguing surface and air carrier control in one area harms public policy. The board will study the exceptions with Moran's report.
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Washington
Justice Department
Southern Bus Lines, Inc
Louisiana
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ferdinand Moran
Moran
Department
Mississippi Valley
Department of Justice
Southern Bus
Congress
Millikin pushes excise tax cuts in Congress
Washington December 30 Senator Millikin Republican leader and tax committee member says no tax increase likely next year but a strong chance Congress will approve cuts in excise taxes on items like telephone bills bulbs fur jewelry and transport tickets. He notes the 1942 level for many excises and mentions a rider proposed with oleomargarine tax repeal efforts.
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Washington
Truman
Millikin
Rcolo
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Colorado
House
Delhi business man C T Hall dies at 10:30 a m
C T Hall owner of Hall Hotel and other Delhi enterprises died in a clinic at 10:30 a m after a heart attack last Friday. Funeral arrangements incomplete. He leaves wife three sons Charles P Tommie L and Ira John Hall of Delhi and three grandchildren.
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Delhi
C. T. Hall
Hall Hotel
Charles P
Tommie L
Ira John Hall
UN chief urges step by step East West settlement
Trygve Lie calls for resuming real negotiations between East and West to settle the basic conflict hampering the United Nations. He cites the 1948 Mexican resolution and hopes 1950 will extend political understanding as the UN records progress in 1949.
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Francis W. Carpenter
Trygve Lie
United Nations
United Nations Bulletin
United Nations Department of Public Information
Lie
Paris
General Assembly
Gas Pioneer Carroll Miller Dies in Washington
Carroll Miller, 74, first president and "daddy" of Thermatomic Carbon Company in Sterlington, dies in Washington after months of illness. A chief gas industry mover, he frequently visited Monroe and was known across the national gas fraternity. Miller served on the Interstate Commerce Commission and was brother-in-law of former U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey.
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C. C. Boardman
Thermatomic Carbon Company
Sterlington
Carroll Miller
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Joseph F. Guffey
Bank robber held in Orleans near Lake Charles
Frank Robert Stuckey, a Georgia bank robbery suspect, was arrested near Lake Charles, Louisiana, by FBI agents, state police, and Calcasieu parish sheriff. He admitted identity, faced $25,000 bond, and awaited removal to Macon after a Dec 6 Finleyson, Georgia, bank robbery netted about $1,600. Sheriff Henry Reid and Capt. J W Jones assisted.
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New Orleans
Georgia
Calcasieu Parish
Lake Charles
J. M. Lopez
Frank Robert Stuckey
Finleyson
Lopez
Stuckey
Middle District
Macon
U. S
Parish
Henry Reid
J. W. Jones
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Fish Tale
Liars’ Award
Honest John’ Goerlich
Toledo
Burlington Prize
Tallulah Bankhead
Coward
Tallulah Bakhead
Bing Crosby
Marvin Miles
Los Angeles Times
Edwards Air Force Base
Muroc Dry Lake
Southern
U.N
East
Orleans
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