Westbrook Pegler on Cattle Strike and Price Rights
Westbrook Pegler argues that western cattle raisers resist forced selling at Gov Mike DiSalle backed prices, defending the right to sell at market value and likening it to labor conflicts. He cites CIO figures and UAW tactics while asserting independent rancher property rights and potential conflict with authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike DiSalle
Toldeo
CIO
United Auto Workers
di Salle
Toledo
Oatis Testifies in Prague Spy Trial
American AP chief William N. Oatis testifies in Prague against himself, saying espionage acts arose to check dispatches by Western reporters. He and three Czech colleagues confess. embassy protests regime pressure as insincere.
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Frankfurt
Germany
William N. Oatis
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Oatis
Associated Press
A. P. Prague
West
Pankrac
Washington
Guild
Deny rehearing on two colleges news item
The Louisiana supreme court refused to grant a rehearing on its April ruling that four year colleges at John McNeese Junior College and Northeast Center are constitutional. The 1950 statutes renamed McNeese to McNeese State School and Northeast Center to Northeast Louisiana State College. Carroll G. Jones of Lincoln parish filed suit against the state board of education and LSU board of supervisors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
John McNeese Junior College
Northeast Center
McNeese School
Lake Charles
McNeese State School
Northeast Louisiana State College
Supreme Court
Baton Rouge Parish
Carroll G. Jones
Lincoln Parish
State Board of Education
Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors
Two Babies Abandoned at New Orleans Bus Station
Grace Aymond Jamello, 22, of Bunkie Louisiana, booked on neglect charges after leaving her daughter Connie Ann Jemello 3 and son Rodney Paul 14 months at a New Orleans bus station. A Florida woman who watched the children alerted police after two hours with no return. The children were placed in St Vincent's infant asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Careful Driving on Fourth Urged by Monroe Police
Monroe Police urge motorists to drive carefully on July 4 to avoid accidents. The National Safety Council predicts a holiday spike in crashes and authorities say they will take extra precautions to keep city incidents low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
National Safety Council
Harriman Sees Kremlin Realizing Korea Blunder
W Averell Harriman told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Moscow now views the Korean attack as a major blunder. He warned inflation as a danger but said relaxation is worse amid an accelerated Allied rearmament effort and urged swift passage of the 1952 foreign aid program. Senator Sparkman said the 38th parallel must not become an international border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. Averell Harriman
Kremlin
Korea
United Nations
Harriman
Moscow
Truman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Sparkman
D.-Ala
38Th Parallel
Koreas
Warren Defies Senate Probers Over Subpoena
Florida Governor Fuller Warren refuses to appear before the U S Senate crime committee claiming the subpoenas intrude on state sovereignty. He sent a four and a half page letter to committee chair O Connor arguing the inquiry lacks constitutional authority. Warren says he will not testify in Washington or at any time while he remains governor.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Fuller Warren
U. S. Senate
Crime Committee
Florida
O'Conor
Warren
O’conor
Senate Committee
Washington
Senate
Laurel housewife vows defamation suit against Communist party
Miss Laurel wife Mrs Troy Hawkins says she will sue the Communist party in New York federal court for 1 million dollars for defamation. She accuses the party of aiding attacks on her after Willie McGee’s execution in a long legal battle with the Civil Rights Congress labeled Communist by the Justice Department. The suit follows his death on May 9 after decades of appeals and a July 1951 Jackson delegation seeking clemency.
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Jackson
Miss
Laurel
Communist Party
Troy Hawkins
New York
Caity Worker
Bella Abzug
Civil Rights Congress
McGee
U. S. Supreme Court
Justice Department
Congress
Fielding Wright
Wright
Japan Cabinet Reshuffle Under Yoshida Drives Coalition
Tokyo reports the Japanese cabinet resigned at Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's request as he moves to form a coalition for peace treaty talks. The reshuffle targets economic posts and may proceed quickly with new ministers named without adviser input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Yoshida
People's Democratic Party
People’s Democratic Party
EXPECT BIG BLAST IN VILLE PLATTE
Ville Platte Louisiana July 3 Politics will provide the firework at an Independence Day barbecue tomorrow Three governor candidates and three possible candidates will speak Lt Gov William Dodd of Oakdale Finance Commissioner Limnel G Ott of New Orleans and J M McLemore of Alexandria are scheduled The possible candidates are Judge Carlos G Spaht of Baton Rouge State Sen Dudley J Le Blanc of Lafayette and U S Rep Otto Passman of Monroe The speeches begin at 1 a m
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Rep
Otto Passman
Monroe
Louisiana's per capita government outlays rank high nationwide
Baton Rouge July 3 AP Louisiana spent 140.58 per person in 1950, the third highest rate in the United States, while average individual income was 1002 and ranked 39th. The state's spending to income ratio led all states, and Louisiana was 58 percent above the national per capita expenditure.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Public Affairs Research Council
Council
Bureau of Census
Robert W. French
Texas
New York
Ohio
California
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Alabama
Kentucky
Grace accuses Boggs of Truman dictated gubernatorial bid
New Orleans July 3 Lucille May Grace a Democratic gubernatorial hopeful charged that Rep Hale Boggs whose bid for governor she labeled dictated and pressed by the Truman administration She said in a radio speech on WNOE the administration was entering candidates for governor in Louisiana and other states
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New Orleans
Lucille May Grace
Hale Bogg
D.-La
Truman
Miss Grace
WNOE
Louisiana
W. Monroe Marine Wounded in Korea
Mr and Mrs L S Guidry of West Monroe were notified that their son Lawrence Guidry was wounded in Korea. He has been with the First Marine Division for three months, joined the Marines in November 1950, and the telegram said injuries were not serious enough for evacuation. A later letter notes a facial wound, with address unchanged.
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L. S. Guidry
West Monroe
Lawrence Guidry
Korea
Young Guidry
First Marine Division
Guidry
Hugh Casey Major League Pitcher Dies by Own Action
Atlanta reports former Brooklyn Dodgers star Hugh Casey died by suicide in a hotel room. He had been in poor health with a heart ailment and told friends of his intent. Police said he spoke with his wife by phone before the shooting and a bell boy recalled a recent hospitalization note.
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Atlanta
Hugh Casey
C. R. Fleming
Atlanta Police
Fleming
Casey
Brooklyn Dodgers
Mound Star
Gordon McNabb
McNabb
Marvin Thomas
Caseys
Thomas
Armistice Talks Move Forward in Korea War
Allied command considers a preliminary armistice meeting with Chinese and North Korean forces. Ridgway proposed July 10 talks and a Kaesong meeting location near the 38th parallel to speed cease-fire negotiations. Front reports note intense artillery duels and U N air strikes on Pyongyang while leaders debate terms.
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G. I
China
North Korea
Korea
United Nations
38Th Parallel
No-Man’s Land
Olen Clements
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Kaesong
U. N
Peiping
Syngmi Rhee
South Korea
Chorwong Kumhwa -Pyongyang Iron Triangle
Pyongyang
U. S. Eighth Army
A. P
Nete Polowetzky
Four Red Leaders Forfeited Bonds Seized in Court Absence
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan forfeited bonds totaling 80000 for four missing Communist leaders in New York. Henry Winston Robert Thompson Gilbert Green and Gus Hall failed to appear as seven other leaders began serving prison terms after convictions for plotting to overthrow the U S government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sylvester J. Ryan
Henry Winston
New York State
Robert Thompson
Illinois
Gilbert Green
Party
Gus Hall
United States
U. S. Supreme Court
Slow Early Balloting For $650,000 Fire Bond
Voting was light on the $650 000 fire bond as ten precincts reported only 59 votes by mid morning. Polls opened at 7 00 a m and were to close at 7 00 p m after approval by a citizen committee advised by Ford Bacon and Davis and Fire Chief H L Hales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford, Bacon and Davis
H. L. Hales
Hungary seeks recall of U S nationals in Budapest
Hungary asked the United States to recall three U S legation staff and to close the information service library and its movie theater in Budapest. The note accused U S officials of ties to Nazi elements and aiding a counter revolution, and claimed U S support for Hungarian fascists abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Hungary
United States
Legation
U. S. Information Service
U. S. Legation
Information Service
Joszef Groesz
Groesz
Mary Rich
U. S
Albert Sherer, Jr
Ruth Tryon
U. S.S
Germany
Voice of America Radio
Prominent Oil Operator Jerry C Hawkins Dies
Dallas mourns Jerry C Hawkins 58 a leading oilman and pioneer in petroleum development. He built interests from Mississippi to California starting in El Dorado Arkansas, then Texas and East Texas, later centering in Tyler. He held Mercantile National Bank stock and ran branches in Alice Houston Hobbs. Survived by wife Mary Hawkins and brothers W W Hawkins LaFayette and Dr M C Hawkins Bordelonville. Funeral plans incomplete.
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Dallas
Jerry C. Hawkins
Mississippi
California
el Dorado, Ark
Texas
Tyler
Tex
Mercantile National Bank of Dallas
Alice
Houston
Hobbs
N. M
Mary Hawkins
W. W. Hawkins
LaFayette, la
M. C. Hawkins
Bordelonville
Delta Gulf Drilling Co
Hawkins
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Flint
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Roosevelt
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Rockes
Georgio Scalise
Capone Syndicate
Quill
Scalise
George Kirksey
Deny
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Bunkie
N. O
M ‘Gee
Miss. Women
Capitol
Nation
Pennsylvania Avenue
Japan
Ville Platte
May Grace
Boggs
W. Monroe
U.S
State Department
Jerry Hawkins
el Dorado
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