Press and political Libel in Washington Scrutiny
The piece criticizes how Communists use libel suits and alleges press manipulation by politicians. It discusses Sen. Paul Douglas facing accusations and contrasts his stance with Joe McCarthy’s boldness, noting a controversial Truman letter and the push to expose media distortions.
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Washington
Paul Douglas
Illinois
Senator Douglas
Jim Forrestal
Sen
Joe McCarthy
Drew Pearson
Douglas
McCarthy
Congress
Truman
Sinclair Lewis Dies in Rome at 65 After Illness
Rome Jan 10 Sinclair Lewis renowned American novelist Nobel laureate dies at Villa Electra Clinic in Rome bron chial pneumonia and heart inflammation cited by hospital staff. Born Feb 7 1885 in Sauk Center Minnesota he would have turned 66 next month. Lewis authored 21 books including Main Street Arrowsmith Elmer Gantry Dodsworth It Cant Happen Here and Kingsblood Royal. He declined the Pulitzer Prize in 1930 and planned a new novel Courage before his death. He spent years abroad and had hoped to die in Italy where he wrote Babbitt and met his second wife Dorothy Thompson.
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Rome
Sinclair Lewis
Villa Electra Clinic
George Babbitt
Lewis
Arrowsmith
Elmer Gantry
Dodsworth
Babbitt
Joseph Pulitzers
Italy
Dorothy Thompson
United States
Florence
Alexander Manson
Sauk Center
Minn
Yale
Influenza Epidemic Hits Western Europe and Beyond
London reports a sweeping influenza outbreak with nearly 200 deaths including 150 in Britain over two weeks. Factory workers in the midlands face high illness rates while Greenland records 17 deaths in Frederikshaab. North German coast doctors call it the worst in 15 years with 23 regional deaths and 780 hospitalizations. Swedish authorities also report rising cases.
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London
Europe
Britain
Greenland
Frederickshaab
East
West Berlin
Atlantic Union urged by Massachusetts leaders
A group of civic leaders in Massachusetts urged President Truman to lead the formation of an Atlantic union linking the United States Britain France and Canada. The signers include former Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams Karl Comp ton Wilbur Jordan and Margaret Clapp. The letter argues federation offers a dramatic answer to the crisis and stresses unity at home and abroad against a hostile coalition.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Truman
United States
Britain
France
Canada
Navy
Charles Francis Adams
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wilbur K. Jordan
Radcliffe College
Margaret Clapp
Wellesley College
Unnamed Girl to Receive Boy’s Eyes in Transplant
In Philadelphia a teenage girl is set to receive corneal transplants from seven year old Stephen Kollgaard who died after a bicycle accident. Dr Harold G Scheie of the University of Pennsylvania will perform the operation likely today with consent from the Kollgaards. The donor’s identity is being kept confidential.
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Philadelphia
Stephen Kollgaard
Revner
Norma Kollgaard
Stephen
Harold G. Scheie
University of Pennsylvania
Scheie
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Burma
Kollgaards
Truman to ask Congress for tax rise to balance budget
Secretary Snyder said President Truman will urge a tax increase to balance the budget with a pay as you go policy. Figures were not disclosed though estimates cited a possible 20 billion dollar plus hike. Specific recommendations are promised before February 1 to affect fiscal 1952 starting July 1.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Truman
Congress
Treasury
Capitol Hill
House Tax Committee
Anderson
Byrd
D.-Va
Jury Approves 40-Foot Flagpole Plan in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita parish police jury authorized Woodmen of the World to erect a 40 foot flagpole on the courthouse square and to form a site-selection committee. Tom Hicks presided as vice-president and urged attendance at a January 18 civil defense meeting in West Monroe. The jury also moved to buy additional gravel land and to advertise for a photostatic machine.
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Ouachita Parish
Woodmen of the World
Tom Hicks
A. E. Montgomery
Hicks
West Monroe
Bill
New Orleans School Board Ousts Superintendent Bourgeois
Orleans parish school board moves to remove Lionel J. Bourgeois as superintendent amid charges of inefficiency and unworthiness. Perry Walker High School principal Perry Walker would become acting superintendent as a postponed hearing weighs board authority amid illness of president Jacqueline Leonhard.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Lionel J. Bourgeois
Perry Walker
Francis T. Nicholls
Jacqueline Leonhard
Bourgeois
Aiken Opposes Immediate Food Price Controls
Senator Aiken argued that price controls on meat and other foods would cause shortages and be a bad mistake. He noted current prices aren’t at a level warranting controls and warned that administration hints of price control may trigger price rises. Ranchers and meat industry groups prepared to press officials at a closed agriculture department conference.
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Washington
Aiken
Vermont
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Defense chiefs urge universal 27 month service plan
Secretary Marshall and Mrs. Rosenberg urged immediate enactment of universal military service for all physically fit 18 year olds. The plan would draft 450000 18 year olds for 27 months and keep options open to extend to married men if needed. They testified before a Senate subcommittee outlining a long term program and interim steps to call 18 year olds and near 19th birthdays.
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Washington
Defense Department
Defense Marshall
Anna M. Rosenberg
Senate Armed Services
Marshall
Army
Senate Democrats Back Plan To Arm West Europe
Secretary of State Acheson said he would discuss foreign policy with Senator Taft and other minority party members. He warned UN failure over Korea could dent its prestige but said it would not wreck the organization. Taft criticized the admin’s policy and described NATO as requiring a large international army with U S leadership in Europe.
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Washington
Acheson
Taft
United Nations
U. N
Senate
R.-Ohio
National Press Club
Europe
Lewis Opposes Wage Freeze and Seeks Taft Hartley Repeal
John L. Lewis told the wage stabilization board that miners oppose any wage freeze and favor stabilization through normal collective bargaining. He urged repeal of the Taft Hartley Act to free workers and said production could rise 25 percent without government fiat. Lewis claimed coal output could reach 100 to 200 million tons annually if needed, noting 1950 production at about 500 million tons.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Wage Stabilization Board
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Wage Board
Cyrus S. Ching
National Association of Manufacturers
Ouachita Bank Names Officers and Board Members
At the annual meeting of Ouachita National Bank the board elected three new directors C B Sherrouse Vogie H Rivers and R L Vanderpool. Officers were reelected including F F Millsaps president and Murray Hudson vice president. A north branch at Arkansas and Fourth streets will cost over 50000 with construction starting soon and two additional sites purchased for future branches.
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Ouachita National Bank
C. B. Sherrouse
Vogie H. Rivers
R. L. Vanderpool
F. F. Millsaps
Murray Hudson
Ben R. Downing
T. C. Standifer
Robert Cowden
Delma Carter
J. W. Mitchell
West Monroe
T. ©. Bancroft
Henry Bernstein, Jr
Henry Biedenhamn, Jr
Robert M. Breard, Jr
W. C. Faulk
Fred Fudickar
Albert Marx
Jack Masur
Quachita Bank
Sewerage District B bids received by Monroe council
Bids for Monroe city's sewerage district contract five were $5,721.21 from Sullivan Long and Haggerty and $4,821.50 from Pohlman and Wilbanks. For contract one the bids were $20,761.50 from Sullivan Long and Haggerty and $19,199.40 from Pohlman and Wilbanks. For contract three Sullivan Long and Haggerty bid $18,652 and Pohlman and Wilbanks $16,858.75.
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Monroe
John Coon
Sullivan
Long
Haggerty
Pohlman
Wilbanks
Wonju Desolated as Allies Retake Key Korea Town
Tokyo dispatch reports a small tank led Allied force penetrated Wonju to find the town deserted. Intelligence estimates massed Reds with 200 tanks and 500 Chinese planes poised for a major push into southern Korea as a 280000 strong force prepares for a fresh offensive.
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Reds
Father North
South Korea
Tokyo
Wonju
U. S
U. N
United States outlines four point plan on Korea aggression
Lake Success Jan 10 The United States unveils a four point plan aimed at United Nations action against Communist China for Korea aggression. Warren R Austin says plan seeks condemnation of Peiping and united action without direct war. The proposal calls for finding Chinese Reds violated UN authority, reaffirming UN aims, urging member support, and using the collective measures committee to counter aggression. The timing and submission to UN remain open.
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U. N
Austin
Korea
United Nations
China
United States
Peiping
U. S
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Benegal N. Rau
Nehru
Robert Kelly Dies at 44 in Gilbert
Robert Kelly 44 a prominent Gilbert resident died suddenly of a heart attack Wednesday morning Funeral arrangements will be announced by Mulhearn Funeral Home Winnsboro He is survived by his mother Mrs Alice Kelly and sister Miss Marguerite Kelly both of Winnsboro Kelly was associated with W J Sherrouse in a general merchandise store owned by the Sherrouse family
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Robert Kelly
Gilbert
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Winnsboro
Kelly
Alice Kelly
Marguerite Kelly
W. J. Sherrouse
Sherrouse
Red Station Off Air Amid Suspected Air Attacks
Monitors say the Communist radio station in Pyongyang has been off the air since yesterday morning. Aerial attacks by B 29s and light bombers may be responsible.
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Tokyo
Pyongyang
MacArthur Denies Advising Withdrawal From Korea
General MacArthur's spokesman denied any plan to withdraw United Nations forces from Korea amid a Chicago Daily News report by Keyes Beech that MacArthur advised withdrawal. Col. Marion P. Echols stated there has been no official or unofficial talk of evacuation.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
United States
United Nations
Korea
Keyes Beech
Chicago Daily News
Washington
Tank-Supported Units Sweep Korean Town After Red Attacks
A tank-supported company of the second division moved 45 miles south of the border into a central Korean town from the southeast after repelling fierce Red counter blows. A second column approached from the south and, brushing off six battalions, occupied the southern hills that overlook the scorched town.
Quadruplets Born to Pontiac Couple in Michigan
In Pontiac Michigan on January 10 quadruplets were born to Anne Rosebush 34 wife of stonemason Kenneth Rosebush 36 at St Josephs Mercy Hospital. Two boys and two girls weighed four pounds three ounces three pounds eight ounces three pounds nine ounces and four pounds eight ounces. Doctor Ed Christie led three surgeons with Rosebush family doctor Harold Stahl present. The family lives in Oakwood and plans for the extra diapers and longer clothes lines amid a higher milk bill and crowded eight room house. The father expressed calm about the process and humor about the coming adjustments.
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Pontiac
Mich
Anne Rosebush
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
Ed Christie
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