Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler reads like a tirade
Pegler disputes the witch-hunt framing around Senator Kefauver's inquiry into gamblers and racketeers. He rails at traitors in government while recounting Las Vegas mob history, including Allen Smiley and Buggsy Siegel, and cites Ruditsky’s 1947 deposition on Flamingo Hotel funds and debt collection links to organized crime.
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Truman
State Department
Eleanor the Great
Kefauver
Tennessee
Florida
West Coast
Hollywood
Allen Smiley
George Raft
Buggsy Siegel
Aaron Smickoff
Smeekoff
Jawa
Canada
Windsor
Ont
Department of Justice
McGrath
Barney Ruditsky
New York
Barney
Jeeter Lesters
Park Avenue
Siegel
Las Vegas
New
Beverly Hills
Smiley
Smickoff
Ruditsky
John Barnes
H. L. Stanley
Bureau of Investigation
Associated Security Council
Flamingo
Haven Hall Blaze Destroys UM Records in Fire
June 7 Arson at Haven Hall in Ann Arbor Michigan destroys priceless research records and the library. The 87 year old building cost an estimated 3.5 million to replace with 400 students evacuated during final exams and five firefighters overcome by smoke. Police reported 15000 spectators watched the blaze as cause remained undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Haven Hall
Univerty
Stitution’s Bureau of
O. Eaven
Probe of plane crash is begun
Miami June 7 A searching investigation began today into the crash of a C 46 plane in which 28 Puerto Ricans apparently lost their lives. Civil Aeronautics Board and Puerto Rican officials flew to San Juan and Charleston to open inquiries. The destroyer USS Saufley headed to Charleston with 37 survivors. Eight were known dead and 20 others remained missing. The plane went down in the Atlantic about 275 miles east northeast of Miami Monday night. Search by cutter Aurora three Coast Guard planes and one air force craft continued with little hope of more survivors. The pilot, co pilot and steward were rescued. The plane was en route from San Juan to Wilmington with 62 Puerto Rican migrant workers aboard. Fernando Sierra, Puerto Rican labor commissioner, flew to Charleston to meet the survivors. He was accompanied by Howard Davidson, assistant to the director of the employment and immigration bureau of the Puerto Rico Department of Labor. A representative of Westair
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Civil Aeronautics Board
San Juan
Charleston
S. C
U. S. S. Saufley
Atlantic
Aurora
Coast Guard
Wilmington
N. C
Fernando Sierra
Senate Passes Farm Aid Bill To Boost Price Support
The Senate approved a bill to add 2 billion dollars to the government’s farm price support, expanding the Commodity Credit Corporation capacity to up to 6.75 billion dollars. The measure now returns to the House for action on a Senate amendment about imports of foreign farm products. The vote was 46 to 5 in the final tally after a long session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Congress
Williams
R.-Del
Cain
R.-Wash
Lucas
Illinois
Kefauver Committee Targets National Narcotics Ring
Washington reports a special senate investigative panel aims at top figures alleged to direct a nationwide narcotics trafficking ring. Kefauver says 800 names, from drug lords to white slavery operatives, reveal a web linking gambling and crime to politics across the nation. Anslinger notes New York California and Florida as traffic hubs with Istanbul as a main source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Kefauver
D.-Tenn
H. J. Anslinger
Narcotics Bureau
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Florida
Tobey
Anslinger
New York
California
United States
Istanbul
Turkey
Negro enrolls at Texas University headline
Austin, Texas June 7 John Saunders Chase becomes the first Negro to enroll as a student at the all white University of Texas pursuing a master's in architecture. The move follows the Supreme Court ruling requiring admission of Heman Sweatt. Sweatt plans to enroll next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
John Saunders Chase
University of Texas
United States Supreme Court
Heman Marion Sweatt
Houston
Sweatt
Campaign by Wall Opens in Fifth District Race
Shady Wall of Ouachita parish launched his bid for the U S representative seat in the fifth district with a radio address. He attacked excess government spending and trends toward socialism, urged flood control and soil conservation, and called for higher income tax exemptions to help the "little man" earn a living wage. Wall touted his state tax record, opposed the gasoline tax and cigarette tax, and supported tax concessions for individuals and families. He urged voters to have a say on any new constitution via a referendum and criticised the current convention process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shady Wall
Ouachita Parish
U. S
Wall
United States
Louisiana
Attempt to ban cores defeated in Paris session
Paris lawmakers defeated a bill to ban Coca Cola after the upper house rejected the measure. The national assembly approved it in February, but observers said last night’s vote all but killed the proposal amid Conservative wine growers and anti-American Communist opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
National Assembly
Council of the Republic
Trade zone bill eyed for final action this week
Rep Hale Boggs said congress would finish action on his trade zone bill this week. The measure would allow manufacture and display of goods in zones and permit assembling articles from various countries before shipping duties. New Orleans, second city with a trade zone, among beneficiaries slated for broader uses. The Senate had added and then conference eliminated a Russian fur restriction amendment.
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Washington
Hale Boggs
D.-La
Congress
Senate
Boggs
House
New Orleans
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Tex
Girl Friend Turns In Bank Robber in Calif. Bank Theft
Donald Bookwalter, 23, linked his bank robbery to his romance with Margaret Sweet, 20, a Sacramento taxi dancer. He testified he robbed Bank of America for her, then she persuaded him to surrender. he remains held on 7500 dollars bond pending federal grand jury action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Nuys
Calif
G. I
Donald Bookwalter
Margaret Sweet
Sacramento
Bank of America
Bookwalter
Miss Sweet
South Dakota Beats Gurney in Republican Primary
South Dakota voters chose Francis Case over U S Senator Chan Gurney for the GOP renomination. Case led by about 10 000 votes with most precincts yet to report and will face John A Engel in November. Case campaigned hard in the East River district while Gurney conceded with most ballots counted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
S. D
U. S
Chan Gurney
South Dakota
Francis Case
Case
House
Gurney
Senate Armed Services Committee
Genera
John A Engel
Avon
Engel
Truman
Brannan
East River
West River District
Congress
Miles Wins New Mexico Democratic Primary for Governor
U S Rep John E Miles defeats Senator Dennis Chavez and Judge David Chavez as more than half the NM Democratic primary votes counted Miles leads in gubernatorial race while Edwin L Meche leads Republicans for governor Apparent NM U S representative nominees include incumbent Antonio Fernandez and John J Dempsey with Dempsey a former congressman and two term governor
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Albuquerque
N. M
U. S
John E. Miles
Dennis Chavez
David Chavez
New Mexico
Democratic Party
Miles
Judge Chavez
Chavez
Puerto Rico
Edwin L. Meche
Las Cruces
Rep
Antonio Fernandez
John J. Dempsey
Dempsey
Congress
Maritime Commission
Battle for Governor's Seat Widens In California Primaries
In California a near acclamation for Earl Warren and a slim yet growing Roosevelt edge define party nominees for governor and a runoff for the U S Senate. Warren crossfiles with Roosevelt, while Democrat Roosevelt highlights the Kennedy era loyalty and Los Angeles city votes.
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Morrie Landsberg
San Francisco
Earl Warren
James Roosevelt
California
U. S. Senate
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Los Angeles
New Deal
Richard Nixon
Whittier
Sheridan Downey
Ouachita Parish School Board Bonds Buy and Bid Highlights
The Ouachita Parish School Board sold 5.2 million dollars in bonds at 2.48 percent for school building and improvement. Garland Construction Co. of Rayville won the Bryant's addition grade school contract for 119,840 dollars. Other bids ranged up to 148,959 dollars. Alterations at Ouachita Parish High School were awarded to J. G. Hayes for 8,588 dollars. Work starts soon with Bryant's addition to finish within 10 months and the high school project before fall. Board to issue a statement on a federal injunction before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Scharff and Jones, Inc
New Orleans
Blyth and Co. Inc
Garland Construction Company
Rayville
Bryant
W. C. Salley
Monroe
J. A. Harper
Crowville
Lincoln Builders
Ruston
McBride and Son
Bastrop
R. G. Cruse Lumber Co
Sicily Island
Frank Masling and Son
I. H. Garland
Jack Armstrong
Garland
Shreveport
Senate votes probe into government moral perverts
Washington June 7. The senate approved a resolution authorizing 10,000 dollars for an inquiry into reports of hundreds of homosexuals and moral perverts among government employees. The measure, introduced by Senator Hill and nine others, follows police estimates of up to 3,500 such workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
Rules Committee
Hill
D.-Ala
Legislature Set To Pass 470 Million General Bill
Baton Rouge June 7 The Louisiana legislature moves through a busy week as the appropriations committee forwards a 470000000 general appropriations bill with expected few changes. Senate passage of an anti monopoly measure and tax raises on large chain stores highlight a session gaining pace. Senate and house panels consider civil service restoration, legal advertising rate hikes, and broadcasting political speech protections with key remarks by Sen C E Barham defending monopoly curbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Appropriations
Senate
House
Ways and Means
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mississippi
Judiciary
C. E. Barham
Ruston
Guy Lockrider
Lake Charles
Dudley LeBlanc
Publisher Editor To Face Summonses
Baton Rouge Louisiana June 7 P State troopers will serve publisher and editor of the New Orleans Item with summonses to appear before a special senate committee to face possible contempt charges. They are to appear at 2 p.m. Thursday for the committee to decide if they should be directed to the full senate. The summons follow an Item editorial calling legislators trained seals and lackeys of Gov Earl K Long. Editor Clayton Fritchey declined further comment.
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Baton Rouge
P—State
New Orleans
Senate
Louisiana Senate
C. H. Downs
Alexandria
Earl K. Long
Huey P. Long
Legislative House
Clayton Fritchey
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Pegler
Saufley
Atlantic Ocean
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R. B. Williamson
Probers
Acheson
Germany
Western Germany
Omar Bradley
Bradley
West
Trygve Lie
Lie
United Nations
Moscow
Russia
Negro
Texas University
Bancores
National
Douglas
Nixon
Frederick N. Howser
Edward S. Shattuck
Douglas MacArthur
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Warren
Roosevelt
Jimmy Roosevelt
White House
Goodwin J. Knight
Charff and Jones
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