Acheson Tells Senate He Is No Appeaser
Dean Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee there is little basis for claims that he would appease Russia and said he and Alger Hiss are friends. He pledged to keep subversives from the State Department and asserted Truman’s choice was wise. Edward Stettinius lauded Acheson’s appointment as the panel examined Hiss’s perjury indictment connected to Whittaker Chambers. Donald Hiss, his former aide and brother of Alger, supported Acheson during his earlier tenure.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Russia
Acheson
Vandenberg
R-Mich
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Edward D. Stettinius
Truman
Stettinius
Roosevelt
Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Whittaker Chambers
Ache
Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler on Berle and Harvard influence
Pegler criticizes Adolf A Berle and Harvard elites in a scorning vignette about institutional evasiveness at the state department and a 1920s peace conference. He recalls a rough incident with a sergeant at Harrison Street and a glib expert dismissed as overeducated. The piece critiques intellectual pretension and political testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Felix Frankfurter
Adolf A. Berle
State Department
Harrison Street
Chicago
Berle
Mr. Berle
Pay raise plan for president and leaders moves fast
Washington January 13 Republican leaders agreed to swift passage of a bill boosting the president by 25000 dollars with a 50000 dollar expense allowance and smaller raises for the vice president and speaker. Taft said objections in the Senate would not be blocked if the bill is trimmed to core offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Taft
Ohio
G. O
Truman
Senate Civil Service Committee
Lucas
Illinois
Orleans Man Held in Tax Swindle
New Orleans authorities charged Sam Anguzza, 38, with counterfeiting cigarette tax impressions in a case described as a large tax swindle. Investigators say 110 cartons of cigar etts bearing counterfeit stamps and 12 dies were seized at his home, including five and eight cent types tied to Louisiana tax changes.
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New Orleans
Frank W. Manning
Sam Anguzza
Anguzza
Manning
Louisiana
Explosive blast in Cairo injures many. one dies
A bomb in a Cairo square killed one person and wounded at least 16, with a cigarette seller among the dead. Police identified a suspect linked to prior arms discoveries, while officials investigate the national court building blast tied to ongoing unrest over Palestine.
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Cairo
Egypt
Easr el Aini
National Court of Appeal
Shafik Ibrahim Anass
Ministry of Agriculture
National Court
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Court of Assizes
Palestine
Special Criminal Court Set for February 14
District Attorney Fred Fudickar Jr announced a special criminal term of court for February 14 to try cases continued from the fall session and update records. District Judges David I. Garrett and Edward L. Gladney Jr signed the order this morning.
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Fred Fudickar, Jr
Criminal Court
Fudickar
David I. Garrett
Edward L. Gladney, Jr
Hoover urges broad power for Truman reorg of government
Herbert Hoover asked Congress to grant President Truman wide authority to overhaul the government stating current disorder costs the nation greatly. He urged fewer exemptions and a stronger president to prepare and transmit reorganization plans, while Congress keeps veto power to disapprove. The commission warned the United States pays heavily for lack of order and clear executive authority.
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Ashington
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Truman
Roosevelt
Hoover
Senate
House
United States
Four Killed in Oil Truck Crash Near Campti Louisiana
Four people died and a fifth was seriously injured in a crash between an oil truck and an automobile five miles north of Campti. Victims include Sgt. Daniel Eugene Wrinkle, Wallace McElwee, Mrs. McElwee, and Sara Anne Wilkie, with Wrinkle’s wife injured. Occupants were en route to visit relatives in Alexandria.
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Natchitoches
Campti
Earl Morris
Natchitoches Parish
Daniel Eugene Wrinkle
Shreveport
Wallace McElwee
McElwee
Forrest Hill
Sara Anne Wilkie
Spencer Moosa Thwarted By Censors In Peiping Siege
AP correspondent Spencer Moosa reported from Peiping on the siege with censored language, noting restraint by a censor as shells and fighting continue. He hinted at shelling near an office where two Americans worked and appealed to readers for acknowledgement of reporters’ dangers, while other shelling reportedly ceased and a Communist attack was repelled.
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Shanghai
Spencer Moosa
Peiping
North
China
Moosa
James D. van Patten
Carlinville
Ill
Richard McCarthy
Webster City
Iowa
John Butler
Longview
Wash
Ralph Johnson
Wilmette
Party friction feared as rules change loom
Southern senators warned that Democratic leaders pushing five Senate rules amendments to curb filibusters risk tearing the party and jeopardizing President Truman's civil rights program. Georgia's George Alabama's Sparkman Florida's Holland Mississippi's Stennis criticized the move as ill advised and likely to provoke a battle royal that could derail broader legislation.
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Washington
Truman
Senate Rules Committee
George
Georgia
Sparkman
Alabama
Holland
Florida
Stennis
Mississippi
Rules Committee
Three Negro airmen held in Ruth Farnsworth death
Guam January 13 three Negro U S air force men were charged with raping Ruth Farnsworth former WAC and leaving her to die in the jungle. The suspects Pvt Calvin Dennis 26 Pvt Herman Dennis 20 and Staff Sgt Robert W Burns 32 were identified by Guam governor after a lie detector found Herman connected to the crime. The brothers admit involvement. Farnsworth died December 13 after being abducted December 11 while shopping for a trousseau.
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Guam
U. S. Air Force
Ruth Farnsworth
WAC
Calvin Dennis
All Saints Street
Frederick
Herman Dennis
Blake Street
Indianapolis
Dennis
Belton
Tex
Robert W. Burns
North Lacey Street
Spokane
Wash
Calvin
Herman
Farnsworth
San Francisco
Hackett
Miss Farnsworth
Chicago
Navy
al Riedel
Berkeley
Calif
Odom Sets Off To Seek 5260 Mile Small-Plane Record
William P. Odom launches the Waikiki Beach from Honolulu at 6:32 p.m. aboard a 185 horsepower Beechcraft Bonanza aiming to exceed the 2061 mile nonstop small-plane record. He plans a 275 mile longer-than-direct route via the north to New York’s Teterboro, with expected Seattle leg in 18 hours 8 minutes, aided by favorable tailwinds.
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Honolulu
William P
Bill) Odom
Waikiki Beach
Diamond Head
Teterboro Airport
New York
Odom
Seattle
Pacific
United States
Teterboro
L. B. Loring
Department of Agriculture
Dollar Day Sale Planned by Monroe Merchants
The Dollar Day Sale on January 14 and 15 marks the last activity under the 1948 Merchants' Division program. Items include household goods, women's apparel, jewelry, and men's clothing offered at substantial savings. Herbert Fink chairs the event, aiming at post Christmas merchandise and wide city participation with window displays and press advertisements to follow.
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Merchants’ Division
Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Fink
Fink
Monroe
Roy Youngblood Dies in Lafayette at 33
Roy Youngblood 33 was found dead in his bed Thursday in Lafayette from a heart attack. He worked six months for Stone and Webster Construction Co. His home was 1300 South Third Street Monroe. Funeral arrangements are pending at Hixson Bros. Funeral Home with interment at River View Burial Park. He is survived by father John Y. Youngblood of Monroe, son John P. Youngblood of Bremerton Washington, three brothers John Youngblood Rex G. Youngblood and Kermit Youngblood, and sister Miss Helen Youngblood.
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Roy Youngblood
Lafayette
Stone and Webster Construction Company
South Third Street
Monroe
Hixson Bros
Riverview Burial Park
Mr. Youngblood
John Y. Youngblood
John P. Youngblood
Bremerton
Wash
John Youngblood
Shreveport
Kermit Youngblood
Louisiana Training Institute
Rex G. Youngblood
Helen Youngblood
British envoy presents views to Truman on Middle East crisis
British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks met with President Truman for 30 minutes at the White House to discuss the Jewish Arab crisis. He claimed to have submitted his government’s views and indicated U.S. pressure on Israel to negotiate with Arab neighbors. Bevin reportedly wants stronger Anglo American policy coordination to avert disaster and push peace.
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John M. Hightower
Edward E. Bomar
Washington
Oliver Franks
Truman
White House
United States
Israel
Franks
Lovett
State Department
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Middle East
England
Britain
U.N. Security Council
United Nations
Rhodes
London
Cairo
Tel Aviv
Truman's Secret Flight To See Marshall Stirs Talk
President Truman flew unannounced to Pinehurst North Carolina to visit General George C. Marshall. He left Washington at 1 13 p.m. EST by air force Constellation and returned later night. The trip was described as personal with no new foreign policy, and reporters learned of it only after the fact.
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Washington
Truman
North Carolina
George C. Marshall
Air Force
Eben Ayers
Pinehurst
N. C
Marshall
Mr. Truman
Missouri
Martha E. Truman
Capitol
White House
Charles G. Ross
Marshall Cottage
Army Enlistments May Be Rejected
Washington report says the army may reject some voluntary enlistments to stay within budget limits while recruiting remains at 35,000 a month. Maj. Gen. Dahlquist noted the force ceiling of 677,000 for the year beginning July 1 has been reached, and no draftees will be taken in February and March unless strength needs shift.
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Washington
Army
John E. Dahlquist
Dahlquist
Truman
Congress
Ouachita Bank Awards Air Conditioning System Contract
Ouachita National Bank awarded contracts Thursday for a 300‑ton year round air conditioning system totaling over 210000 dollars for Monroe and West Monroe branches. Main building cooling awarded to American Heating and Plumbing Co. for 146730 dollars. Lillie Hoffmann Cooling Towers Inc. won the cooling tower contract for 9900 dollars. McElroy Electric and Supply Co. received 18477.29 dollars for electrical work. Structural changes estimated at 10000 dollars and an engineering fee of 18400 dollars bring the total to about 203000 dollars plus 7813 dollars for West Monroe installation. The bank will install 1130 safe deposit boxes in Monroe and 100 in West Monroe.
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Ouachita National Bank
Monroe
West Monroe
F. F
St. Louis
McElroy Electric and Supply Co
Ouachita Bank
Millsaps
Four Louisianians Die in Separate Accidents
Four people died in three separate traffic crashes in southeast Louisiana. Pop Melancon of Baton Rouge died when his car overturned between New Roads and Morganza. Curry Wilson of Bunkie and Willie Lacalle of St. Landry were killed when their car collided with a train on the Big Cane LeBeau highway in St. Landry parish. Robert John Herbert, a taxi driver, died in a collision with a truck on a highway across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
A. “Pop” Melancon
New Roads
Morganza
Curry Wilson
Bunkie
Willie Lacalle
St. Landry
Cane-LeBeau
St. Landry Parish
Robert John Herbert
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General Marshall
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