25 Feb 1949
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1949
Page
1
The text argues that Governor Dewey’s challenge to traditional Republicans on a platform rejecting social security reveals a critique of the idea of unemployment insurance. It condemns the concept as unconstitutional, impractical, and fostering a dole rather than work, citing concerns about reliance, labor, and political manipulation.
The 1949 Red Cross drive will open with a one day campaign on Tuesday March 1. More than one hundred volunteers will canvass by case to house with Mrs W Ross H Lawrence named residential chair and Mrs A V Miller serving as co chairwoman. The drive uses the same quota as last year. Volunteers from clubs and social organizations will solicit. All gifts should be left with household staff if no one is at home. Fifty seven percent of funds stay in the local area for welfare work including flood and fire disaster relief and the blood bank. Ouachita parish is cited in a report by the local American Red Cross chapter and medical society.
Bids will be opened March 24 for the Little Bayou Boeuf Louisiana Channel Improvement from Sta 0/00 to Sta 151/00 in Morehouse and Ouachita parishes. The project, about 16 miles south of Bastrop, involves removing 104000 cubic yards of material and snagging and clearing. It connects with existing work by International Paper Company and the Louisiana Department of Public Works to ease flooding south and southwest of Collinston. F N Geddes will supervise the project from St Joseph.
Vice-President Alben W. Barkley told about 2,500 California Democrats at a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner that stopping communism worldwide and a strong NATO policy are essential. He praised the European Recovery Program, warned against Moscow, and urged budgets to reflect peace. He did not declare a stance on automatic US wartime commitments under the pact.
Erie patrolmen William Podbielski and Harry Starzewski were charged with aggravated assault and battery and assault with intent to maim Otis Smith after a traffic stop. Smith, a 25 year old WWII veteran and pre law student at Gannon College, had his right eye removed in surgery. Bond set for a March 24 preliminary hearing.
President Truman announced he may tour the country to sell his legislative program. Republicans criticized the move as a push against labor unions and farm price supports. Senate voices questioned his majority and warned about his clash with Taft Hartley and party unity.
Edward Harper, 67, retired Monroe police officer, died at his home on Isabell Street shortly after 10 39 a m Friday after a one day illness. He served 20 years with the Monroe Police Department and also worked with the fire department. Survivors include his wife Mary Harper a son Henry D Harper a brother and four sisters. His body was taken to Hixson Brothers Funeral Home.
President Truman nominated Michael J. Galvin of Massachusetts as under secretary of labor, praising his war record as a tank lieutenant colonel with Gen. Patton. He also selected James Grover McDonald as the first U.S. ambassador to Israel, pending Senate approval.
In Jackson Mississippi Army Secretary Kenneth Royall urged Southerners who bolted the party to return to the fold. Speaking at a Jackson Jefferson Day dinner he framed unity as a goal for both leaders and rank and file and hinted the rift with States Rights Democrats would fade. Nashville leader Sam Rayburn echoed an invitation for all to come back into the fold and Mississippi figures urged conservatives to join the party.
Washington, Feb. 25 The Senate labor committee delayed further action on Truman's labor bill to next Friday to allow staff to print hearings. Taft rebutted Truman's claim that the Taft Hartley act is an insult to workers, saying he received hundreds of letters urging retention. Senator Ellender warned that adding civil rights provisions could trigger a filibuster.
Finland faces a cabinet crisis as opposition leaders demand resignation over Norway’s pro western stance. A Finnish source reports Russian troops moving near Norway’s 122 mile frontier from Murmansk, linked to Atlantic pact tensions. Premier Fagerholm’s minority government struggles to survive amid coalition pressures and party splits.
General Motors slashed prices by 10 to 40 dollars on passenger cars and Chevrolet trucks and reduced wages by two cents an hour for 273,000 production workers. Salaried staff received a 10 dollar quarterly living-allowance cut. GM cites cost-of-living declines and material costs, claiming savings will be passed to consumers. This marks GM’s first postwar price cut and follows a cost-of-living index drop of 0.3 percent from mid-December to mid-January.
Senator Bricker of Ohio said he will push an amendment to bar racial segregation in public housing as the bipartisan housing bill advances in the Senate. He denied charges that his amendments aim to kill the measure though he will vote against it, noting the bill is likely to pass with little opposition. The banking committee approved the bill 9 to 3, with introduction expected in the Senate. it envisions up to 810,000 federally subsidized low rent units in six years, a 1.5 billion slum clearance program, and a 265.5 million rural housing effort.
A 26 year old Richmond, Virginia carpenter identified as Edwin L. Morris was held for investigation in New Orleans in the slaying of 55 year old Virginia financier James A. Mahoney. Police said Morris is being questioned to establish an alibi with early reports noting he had recently worked as a dishwasher in the French Quarter. The nude body of Mahoney was found in a hotel room with a broken neck and cracked skull. Detectives were also questioning other men who resembled a drawing of a man seen with Mahoney hours before his death.
In Sofia on Feb 25 AP reports Nikola Naumov a Baptist minister and four other principal defendants confessed guilt to treason espionage and black market money dealing as trial of 15 Protestant churchmen began. Clergymen from Congregational Methodist Baptist and Pentecostdenominations faced charges tied to spying and anti state plots.
The United States outlined a bold new program for long term aid to underprivileged areas, presented by Willard L. Thorp before the UN's Economic and Social Council. He proposed a three point US plan to develop coordinated programs, explore financing expansion, and involve U N agencies in project recommendations.
Flood waters covered thousands of acres across Nebraska Iowa and Missouri as mild temperatures melted snow causing rising streams and potential Missouri river floods. Red Cross army and federal officials met planning for a possible emergency while snowfall and cold snaps persisted in other regions.
In San Francisco on February 25 a coast guard rescue attempt ends in the drowning and decapitation of three year old Martin Newell after he slipped from a fishing boat. His father Jack Newell leaped into the bay fully clothed to save him. both were pulled from the water. The coast guard vessel rescued the father.
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