Westbrook Pegler Attacks Clark County Union Goon Chiefs
Columnist James King slams Ralph How ard Alsup and James King ally Westbrook Pegler as vicious criminals who allegedly control Clark County Nevada unions and target workers with terror. He cites a history of union racketeering and warns of vigilante hostility.
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James King
Ralph Howard Alsup
Las Vegas Union Hall
Alsup
Clark County
Nevada
Las Vegas
Browne
Bioff
Scalise
Fay
Bove
Teamsters
LSU President Cancels Lions Club Visit
Gen. Troy H. Middleton president of Louisiana State University cannot travel to Monroe Tuesday to address the Lions Club. He was summoned to New Orleans for a 10:30 a.m. hearing before Federal District Judge Herbert W. Christenberry on a petition for injunction seeking admission to LSU graduate school. Lions Club expected large turnout for his guest of honor appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy H. Middleton
Louisiana State University
Monroe
Lions Club
Mike John, Jr
New Orleans
Herbert W. Christenberry
L. S. A. Graduate School
Six Trainmen Die In Head On Crash Near Clarksville
In a rainstorm near Hematite Tennessee two Louisville and Nashville trains collided head on. The Pan American from Memphis and local No 103 out of Bowling Green Kentucky killed six crewmen. Engineer W J Miller and conductor C P Vester of Paris Tennessee among the dead. Thirteen passengers injured many seriously as signals and block systems were not in use. Beehives and baby chicks spilled from wreckage as rescuers worked.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Louisville and Nashville
Here
Pan American
Memphis
Bowling Green
R. C. Parsons
LAN
Louisville
Hematite
W. J. Miller
Paris
C. P. Vester
Miller
Two British Diplomats Vanish With Secrets
British secret agents and police seek two Russian-speaking British diplomats who disappeared two weeks ago in western Europe. One holds top level knowledge of guarded British American defense secrets. Donald Duart MacLean, 38, head of the American department, and Guy Burgess, 40, former second secretary in Washington, are students of Communist theory. Messages to families reached England. trail led to France where investigators paused.
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Charles E. Whiting
London
Europe
Donald Duart MacLean
Foreign Office
MacLean
Melinda Marling
Chicago
New York
Guy Francis de Money Burgess
Washington
France
England
Ridgway Praises Red Cross Blood Service
General Matthew B. Ridgway, commanding in the Far East, lauds the American Red Cross for supplying blood to wounded soldiers in Korea. He says the life-giving blood and the Red Cross’s health services directly save American servicemen and honor every donor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far East
American Red Cross
Ridgway
Red Cross
Negro Executed after stay denied in Louisiana
Edward Honeycutt, 24, condemned for raping a white woman, died in the electric chair at 12 12 p.m. central standard time in Opelousas Louisiana. The Louisiana supreme court refused a stay as civil rights advocates sought a habeas corpus writ before noon. Attorneys warned time was running out and could take the case to higher courts if delay occurred.
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Opelousas
Edward Honeycutt
New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
Central Standard
Clayton Guilbeau
Civil Rights Congress
U. S. Attorney General's Office
State Supreme Court
Socolov
Supreme Court
U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
U. S. Supreme Court
Santa Fe Search Commences for Three Lost Children
More than 200 men scoured the Sangre de Cristo mountains near Santa Fe for 7 year old Larry McGee, 5 year old Janet McGee, and 32 year old Steven Cross who wandered from a family picnic. State Police Chief Joe Roach directed the air and ground effort as planes and mounted searchers combed rugged terrain in near freezing 45 degree conditions.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Larry McGee
Janet
Preston McGee
Steven Cross
Charlotte Cross
McGee
Cross
California
Joe Roach
Roach
Louisiana to Use Color Coded Voter Registration Cards
Louisiana officials approve a plan to identify illiterate and physically handicapped voters using blue and pink registration cards to show disability. The system aims to prevent improper classifications and misinformation at the polls statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Board of Registration
New Orleans
Registrar of Voters
William S. Farrell
League of Women Voters
J. H. Gill
Gill
Earl K. Long
William J. Dodd
Lorris Wimberly
Acadia Parish
Macy’s Blamed In Price War Sparks New York Probe
New York legislators opened a long inquiry into trade secrets in retail merchandising after Macy’s began cutting price tags in a city wide price war with Gimbel’s. The unfair trade practices committee heard two dozen witnesses and adjourned to a six month probe, with hearings to resume in Buffalo.
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New York
New York State
Macy's
Gimbel’s
New York State Committee
Assembly
Irwin Steingut
Steingut
Buffalo
N.Y
U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
Tom Curtis
R.-Mo
Marshall says Korean War no stalemate like Berlin
Secretary of Defense Marshall visits the Korean front lines and declares the war is not a stalemate. He praises U S army leaders, meets division commanders, and travels to all three corps under the 8th Army with Gen Ridgway and Lt Gen Fanart Fleet in attendance. News of peace feelers would have to come from Red China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Defense
Korea
Tom Bradshaw
U. S
Eighth Army
Marshall
Red
China
Berlin
8Th Army
United Nations
Matthew B. Ridgway
James A. Fan Fleet
U. S. Eighth Army
Neville High School graduates receive diplomas
Dr Willis H Sutton, longtime superintendent of Atlanta public schools, addresses Neville High School graduates in Neville auditorium. He cites three great objectives of education health of body mind and spirit scholarship and character with five ways to develop it. He draws on over forty years of teaching experience starting with 72 pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis H. Sutton
Atlanta, Ga
Neville High School
Neville Auditorium
Drom
Muccio is Accused Of Defending Reds
Washington reports Secretary of State Acheson told the MacArthur inquiry he did not know Secretary Marshall would go to Korea. Senator Wiley pressed if the cabinet officials were coordinating, suggesting military and diplomatic circles were not “playing ball.” Acheson defended his daily hearings schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Acheson
Senate
MacArthur
Marshall
Korea
Wiley
R.-Wis
Southeast drought relief eyed as Gulf moisture rises
Rain from shifting westerly winds from the Gulf of Mexico spurs relief for drought in the southeast. Dry weather earlier hit crops in Georgia Alabama and Tennessee while northern Louisiana and Mississippi saw promising early rain. Alabama still faced an estimated 150 million dollars in crop losses. Agriculture Commissioner Frank
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Associated Press
Gulf of Mexico
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Louisiana
Mississippi
Frank
Beef Shortage Hits Markets Across Chicago Area
Chicago reports the dullest week of cattle trading in over three years as receipts at 12 major centers run 122 100 head, the lowest since April 1948. Big packers take few offerings while independents rout pork poultry and fish as chains warn beef will be scarce by Monday.
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Chicago
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James Jabara
McKinney
Tex
Carol Ann
Nina Jabara
James William
Jabara
Scottfield
Illinois
Westbrook
Pegler
LSU
U. S. Court
John
The
Gen. Ridgway
Joseph Janik
Milwaukee
Minn
Andrew Cunningham Remson, Jr
Talladega
Ala
West Point Military Academy
Macy’s
Dr. Sutton
Muccio
Reds
Gulf
Jean Arnold
North 6Th St
City
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