Biographical Oddities and Biophilosophy Gossip in 1930s New York
Westbrook Pegler reviews a chaotic tale linking Frederick Kettner and his biosophy movement to Nicholas Roerich, Henry Wallace, and political intrigue. He notes Roerich’s controversial roles, tax issues, and a 25 story Riverside Drive lawsuit, framing the episode as sensational politics and psychic influence.
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New York
Frederick Kettner
Kettner
Austria
Lou
Spinoza
Roerich
China
Inner Mongolia
Henry
Cable
India
Sol
Louis L. Horch
Riverside Drive
Horch
Department of Agriculture
Wallace
Ford Foremen End 47-Day Strike Return To Work
About 3 000 Ford foremen returned to their jobs after voting to end a 47 day strike that had halted bargaining rights. The walkout began May 21 at Detroit area plants over exclusive foreman bargaining rights, with 800 returning to posts in recent weeks. The Taft Hartley law and Ford’s withdrawal of recognition influenced the decision, amid union mediation efforts and refusals to cross picket lines.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Foreman's Association of America
Ind
Ford
Rouge
Lincoln
Highland Park
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Robert H. Keys
Pat Mullin
Fire razes four stores and theater in Jonesboro
A Sunday morning blaze in Jonesboro caused an estimated loss of over 100000. Four business establishments and a theater were destroyed after starting around 3 am. Firefighters from Ruston Hodge and Winnfield aided the local department. no injuries reported. The destroyed block was a year old addition to the business district.
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Jonesboro
Stubb
Ruston
Hodge
Winnfield
Week End Deaths Rise Over Five Hundred
The Associated Press reports more than 500 people died during the three day Independence Day observance. From Thursday 6 p m to Sunday midnight there were 516 deaths including 248 in automobile crashes 160 drownings five fireworks blasts and 105 from other causes. California led with 38 fatalities followed by New York and Pennsylvania each with 36.
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Associated Press
California
New York
Pennsylvania
National Safety Council
Alabama
Arizona
Arkan
Petrillo hints at radio ban and new union policy
James C. Petrillo told a House labor subcommittee the American Federation of Musicians may seek to ban radio network broadcasts when contracts expire December 31. He voiced a plan to let music recording deals end that year and even to issue records through the union. He warned job losses as recordings and networks reduce employment, and noted many stations currently use no musicians. He defended members against royalty terms and suggested a future union-run recording program.
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Washington
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Petrillo
House Labor
Harry James
Toscanini
New York
Whiteman
Phil Harris
Jack Benny
Rep
Kearns
Republican
Pennsylvania
Walkout in Soft Coal Standoff Nears Deadline
In Washington on July 7 representatives of northern mine operators and steel companies failed to seal a New York contract with John L. Lewis to avert a national soft coal strike. Talks resume at 12:15 p.m. CST after a short recess as negotiators push toward completing terms for about 40 percent of the nation’s 400 000 miners while legal obstacles loom under Taft Hartley.
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Washington
Northern
John L. Lewis
New York
Charles O'Neill
Harry M. Moses
Lewis
Lewis’ United Mine Workers
Grady Hudson Shot In Head In West Monroe Home
Grady Hudson 27 son of Mr and Mrs Harvey L Hudson of West Monroe died at St Francis Sanitarium after being found with a gaping wound in his temple Sunday night An ambulance took him to hospital with a German make pistol nearby Police aided the transport and investigation Hudson WW II veteran and a Bastrop boilermaker left behind a wife and nine year old son Ray continues on second page.
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Grady Hudson
Harvey L. Hudson
Natchitoches Street
West Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mulhearn
Hudson
Bastrop
Raymond Knowles
Ray
Geraldine Massengill
Knoxville
Tenn
Joe Kimsey
W. M. Massengill
Kimsey
Massengill
H. B. Webster
Rahman accuses Ben-Gurion of evading UN Palestine questions
Sir Abdur Rahman of India sharply accuses David Ben-Gurion before the U.N. special committee on Palestine of evasive answers. Ben-Gurion defends that Jews in Palestine face external pressure from international forces, while Hagana relations and land-law legality prompt further exchanges.
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Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
Sir Abdur Rahman
India
David Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency
United Nations Special Committee On Palestine
Ben-Gurion
Palestine
U. N
United Nations
Rahman
Emil Sandstroem
Commission
Hagana
Agency
Jewish People of
Jorg Garcia Granados
Guatemala
Holy Land
Ben- Gurion
Interna
Farm Problems Aired At Meet In Louisiana
At the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation convention in the Virginia Hotel over 150 representatives heard reports on floods and marketing issues harming agriculture. Ray P. Breaux warned sweet potato growers face near ruin from marketing difficulties, urging immediate farm financing for crop disposal. Melchior Campell and Mrs. P. A. Shadow argued flood and water control flaws limit output, while Edward Schexnayder cited sugar cane growers in southern Louisiana facing ongoing challenges.
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Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Virginia Hotel
Louisiana
Ray P. Breaux
Lafayette Parish
P. A. Shadow
Rapides
Edward J. Schexnayder
Bayou Goula
Butchie Bowers Found Safe After 58 Hour Desert Search
Three year old Wayne "Butchie" Bowers was found exhausted and sunburned after a 58 hour search by about 30 men in Big Bear California. He snacked on two bananas and drank water from a pink cup before being taken to Bear Valley Emergency Hospital for care.
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Big Bear
California
Wayne
Butchie) Bowers
Little Butch
Claude W. Bowers
Salvador Hernandez
San Francisco
Butchie
Sheriff's Deputies
Bear Valley Emergency Hospital
Michael Werlinich
Barstow
Calif
James W. Stocker
Alleged Slave Dora Jones to Testify on Threats in Trial
In San Diego on July 7 Dora Jones a 58 year old African American housemaid resumes testimony in a federal case against Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wesley Ingalls. She described fear of jail and hell used to control her as a slave. Government attorneys anticipate finishing their case today while the defense may rest later in the week.
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San Diego
Calif
Dora Jones
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
Clifford Fitzgerald
Lupescu Survives Acute Illness Amid Legal Marriage Plans
Elena Lupescu, linked to former King Carol of Romania, reportedly passed a grave crisis after four blood transfusions and shows signs of improvement. Mrs. Ernesto Andreanu said the illness is serious anemia, not leukemia, while efforts to legalize a lifelong relationship with the ex-monarch continue amid hopes for recovery.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Mme
Ernesto Andreanu
Carol of
Romania
Elena Lupescu
Helldiver Crash Kills Pilot In Quincy Homes
An investigation began after a Navy SB2C Helldiver bomber crashed into three homes in Wollaston Beach area. Pilot Ensign George C. Curley died, enlisted passenger Hugh F. Ahern was injured, and civilian Mary Batt elder suffered burns. Damage valued at $50,000 with plane listed at $75,000. Navy board to probe engine failure noted.
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Quincy
Mass
George C. Curley
Boston
Hugh F. Ahern
Wollaston Beach
Mary Batchelder
Thomas Gorman
Otho P. Smott
Navy
Squantum
Flying Saucers Sightings Spread Across States
Reports of disc like flying objects whirling through the sky continued to grow with sightings in Massachusetts and other states. Harvard observers said no plate images showed the phenomena while experts speculated on man made or military origins.
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Associated Press
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Canada
Cambridge
Mass
Kingsport
Tenn
Oak Ridge
Lester Barlow
Stamford
Peninsula
Newport News
San Francisco
Washington
G. O. P. Sees Tax Cut Bill Pass Tuesday
The House rules committee keeps the income tax reduction bill on schedule with two hours of debate ahead. The measure cuts taxes 10.5 to 30 percent starting January 1 and mirrors a vetoed 1947 bill except for timing. Knutson says the plan aims to spur revenue while reducing debt. Senate action anticipated. Republicans aim to override the veto.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Truman
Rules Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Knutson
Minnesota
Rules
Monroe Residents Report Square Saucers Over River City
Three Monroe witnesses Clyde Greer, his wife, and nephew Herbert Pylant saw at 11 15 p m a square glowing object over the river near Grand Street that split into four squares and vanished. The sighting joins others on the growing flying saucer circuit.
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Monroe
Clyde Greer
Moore Avenue
Herbert Ray Pylant
Downsville
Greer
South Grand Street
Dog Survives 43 Days in Kanawha Sewer
In Dunbar West Virginia a small dog named Pat saved by a fox terrier’s frantic bark after 43 days in a sewer. The nearly starved pet weighed 10 pounds at rescue and is recovering on raw liver under 13 year old Jimmy Moss. His mother Mrs. Guy Moss notes Pat fell into a sewer break near a rock grilled exit.
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Kanawha
Jimmy
Guy Moss
Pat
Czechoslovakia to Attend Paris Economic Conference
Prague circles say Czechoslovakia will accept the Paris Marshall plan conference invitation despite Soviet opposition. Poland weighs attendance as six nations officially join, with unofficial acceptances from several on the eve of the meeting. Italy agrees conditionally, while Britain signals intent to participate with a coordinated economic plan.
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Joseph Dynan
Paris
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Klement Gottwald
Jan Masaryk
Poland
Foreign Ministry
Warsaw
Europe
Byron Peasley Dies in Tyler Texas Civic Leader and Politician
Byron J. Peasley 75 a Tyler civic business and political figure died suddenly in Tyler Texas He was former superintendent of motive power for the St Louis Southwestern railway and a past president of the Tyler Chamber of Commerce He ran for Texas governor as a Republican four years ago He is survived by his widow daughter Nell Grigsby Monroe and a grandson Byron Peasley Grigsby Monroe The funeral is planned for Tuesday at an undetermined time
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Byron J. Peasley
Nell Grigsby
Monroe
Tyler
Tex
Peasley
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
Tyler Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Grigsby
KMLB
Byron Peasley Grigsby
Grig
Arkansas toll rises to thirteen in holiday deaths
In Arkansas over the holiday weekend the death toll reached 13 after Bernita Joyce Brown four is killed when struck by a car in north Little Rock and Roy Brown fifty six the Hot Springs auctioneer drowns in Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs. A J Brown father of the girl said she ran from the car as he crossed the street. Leonard C Duncan Brown employee and others rode in a boat that overturned. Brown was found beneath the surface and not recovered.
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Little Rock
Ark
Bernita Joyce Brown
North Little Rock
Roy Brown
Hot Springs
Lake Hamilton
A. J. Brown
Bernita Joyce
Brown
Leonard C. Duncan
Roger Simpson
J. G. Brown
Simpson
House Passes Bill On Terminal Pay
Washington July 7 The House passed legislation permitting about 9 million ex G L s to cash their terminal pay bonds after September 1. The measure now goes to the Senate for action.
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Washington
G. L’s
House
Senate
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