Federal justice under attack in New Jersey
WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK June 10 The piece accuses United States Attorney Edgar L Rossbach and District Judge Thomas F Meany of Democratic ties and corrupted prosecutions of union figures Fay and Pross. It alleges grand jury and trial jury manipulation, political machine influence, and a pattern of biased investigations and outcomes across federal courts in New Jersey under Clark and his predecessors.
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New York
United States Attorney
Federal District Courts
New Jersey
Edgar L. Rossbach
Thomas Francis Meany
Hague Machine
Joe Fay
Ben Pross
Fay
Tom Clark
Meany
Pross
Rossbach
Jersey City
Newark
Schenley
Alcohol Tax Unit
The
Treasury
Fay’s
Union
Crook
Bar
Clark
Trenton
Grand Jury
United States
Hague
Elliott Roosevelt
Meaney
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Fake
Smith
Eight Louisiana Hospitals to Receive Federal Aid
Louisiana will distribute 31.946 million dollars in federal Hill Burton funds to eight hospitals. Memorial Hospital New Orleans receives 268,875, Calcasieu General Lake Charles 422,667, Baton Rouge General 601,879, Our Lady of Lourdes Lafayette 152,509, Homer Memorial Homer 70,000, DeRidder Beatregard Memorial 157,000, DePeu Sanitarium New Orleans 125,000, Ruston Hospital 39,000. Governor Earl Long announced plan approval by his office and the U.S. surgeon general.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Earl Long
Surgeon-General
United States
Memorial Hospital
New Orleans
DePeul Sanitarium
Beatregard Memorial Hospital
Der
Jews Arabs Issue Cease Fire Orders
Cairo dispatch reports cease fire orders sent to Arab and Jewish troops in Palestine. Forces are told to stop shooting by tomorrow morning for four weeks while peace talks are pursued. Trans-Jordan and Israel announce readiness to halt hostilities as UN mediator Bernadotte plans a Rhodes peace conference.
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Max Boyd
Cairo
Palestine
Tewfik Abu Abuda
Amman
Trans-Jordan
Arab Legion
Tel Aviv
Israel
Moshe Shertok
United Nations
Bernadotte
Mediterranean
Rhodes
Hope Germany to Okay Plan
American officials voiced hope Western Germany would accept provisional government plans after a London conference. They warned the German reaction was that the plan was imposed without German input, but called this a misunderstanding. The tone stressed that Germans now have a chance to decide their own government within broad Allied framework.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
London
United States
Marshall
North Louisiana postmasters win Senate committee approval
Five north Louisiana postmasters Oliver W. Bud Jr of West Monroe Marion T Files of Oak Ridge Alton I Carter of Jonesville Charles P Simmons of Georgetown and John F George of Oil City won approval from the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee and face a confirmation vote in the Senate. A bill under consideration would make the postmaster position a lifetime office for these officials.
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North Louisiana
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Senate
Oliver W. Bud, Jr
West Monroe
Marion T. Files
Oak Ridge
Alton I. Carter
Jonesville
Charles P. Simmons
Georgetown
John F. George
Oil City
Hartley Sees Coal Walkout In Negotiations
Washington June 10 Rep Hartley urged Congress to stay in session as John L Lewis moves toward another coal strike next month. Hartley chair of the labor committee said Lewis is not bargaining in good faith as talks between Lewis and soft coal operators continue.
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Washington
Hartley
R-N
Lewis
Princess Anne and Mihai Weds in Greek Orthodox Rite
Athens June 10 Mihai I of Romania wed Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma in a Greek Orthodox ceremony using Greek royal crowns. Arch bishop Damaskinos officiated. Anne, Roman Catholic, did not obtain papal dispensation, and Mihai plans to raise their children in the Greek Orthodox faith to support his claim to the throne.
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Athens
Mihai I
Romania
Anne of
Bourbon-Parma
Greece
Damaskinos
Denmark
Anne
Rome
Mihai
Constantine
Karl
Hesse
Duke of
Aosta
Truman and Congress Clash Over Governing Tone
President Truman and Republican opposition trade sharp remarks as ERP funding and congressional conduct become central to a national dispute. Stassen testifies before the Senate committee criticizing the president’s cross country attacks on Congress as unjustified and unstatesmanlike.
Truman vows flood control drive after labor official’s death
President Truman tours Washington state after the death of Labor Secretary Schwellenbach. He expresses deep regret, plans to attend the funeral, and denounces private power lobbyists as he urges regional river basin development like the Tennessee Valley Authority. He criticizes Congress for cutting river development funds and vows to press flood control and power transmission projects across the Northwest and beyond.
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Olympia
Wash
Truman
Washington State
Schwellenbach
White House
Congress
California
Shasta
Columbia River
Washington State Press Club
Memorial Stadium
Mon C. Wallgren
Columbia
Grand Coulee Dam
Washington
Portland
Red Cross
Great River
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley
Convict Calls Confession A Lie In Galveston Slaying
Galveston Texas June 10 A convict Sauber condemned to death for the Thelma Leslie slaying had a confession from Cecil Barker a prison inmate claiming Barker killed Leslie to save Sauber Barker’s affidavit was called not only a lie but a poor lie by County Attorney Sherwood Brown Jr Governor Beauford Jester granted a three day stay of execution pending review of Barker statement Brown and Assistant County Attorney Jack Beckhausen noted three obvious chronological errors in Barker’s account indicating he did not commit the crime Sauber remains a fugitive from Mississippi prison
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Galveston
Tex
Joseph Lee Saulter
Sherwood Brown
Beauford
Sauber
Cecil Emmit Barker
Thelma Leslie
Brown
Jack Beckhausen
Barker
Angleton
Parole Board
Mississippi
Louisiana House OKs three cent cigarette tax plan
Baton Rouge reports the Louisiana House Ways and Means committee, with Gov. Earl Long present, unanimously supported a three cent per pack cigarette tax. The measure, aimed to raise 6 to 9 million dollars yearly, adds an upcoming two percent sales tax for packs above 25 cents, with exemptions for under 25 cents and wholesalers’ stamp discounts increased from seven to nine percent.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
House
Ways and Means
Ragan D. Madden
Lincoln
John J. McKeithen
Caldwell
Two Brothers Missing After Boat Ride Toward New Orleans
State police search for Wayne Black aged 9 and Gerald Black aged 11 who vanished from White's Ferry road home. The brothers took a ten horsepower boat motor and disappeared on the Ouachita River near Columbia heading toward New Orleans. Wayne 65 pounds 3 feet 6 inches, dark brown hair and eyes wore grey pants. Gerald 85 pounds 4 feet, blond hair brown eyes wore blue jeans or red plaid shirt. Contact John M. Goldman at 5529-J with any information.
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White's Ferry Road
Quachita River
New Orleans
Wayne Black
Gerald Black
Thomas White
Columbia
Wayne
Gerald
Anyo
John M. Goldman
Senate drafts vote up today on peacetime draft bill
Washington June 10 senators pressed a final vote on their peacetime draft measure after nights of debate. Balloting on amendments to begin at 3 p m with a possible roll call an hour later as leaders predicted approval and move the bill to the house. Provisions would require 18 to 25 year olds to register with 19 to 25 subject to two years in the regular forces. Up to 160000 18 year olds could enlist for one year to avoid two years at 19. The draft would fill gaps in volunteers and re enlists, with a revived wartime selective service organization on a reduced two year scale. A major change limited to 18 months from 24 was discussed but defeated.
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Washington
House
Rules
Senate
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marines
Regular
Armed Services
Morse
R-Ore
Russia protests U S war talk to U N in Moscow note
Moscow radio quoted an official note protesting United States war propaganda and violation of a U N resolution. The note, sent to Washington and copied to Trygve Lie, also criticized The Netherlands. Washington offered no immediate comment on the accusation.
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London
Russia
United Nations
United States
Moscow
Washington
Trygve Lie
Netherlands
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Assembly
Schwellenbach Dies In Hospital
Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach 53 former senator and judge died after a long illness in Walter Reed Hospital. President Truman expressed deepest regret and lauded him as a great senator judge and secretary of labor. Undersecretary David A. Morse served as acting secretary during his illness. He fought to restrain labor unions and opposed Taft-Hartley acts which weakened the department. Schwellenbach had been in office since 1944 after Frances Perkins.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Truman
Senate
Olympia
Schnellenbach
Labor
White House
Schwellenbach
Walter Reed Hospital
Congress
Department
Washington State
Iiness
Schwelleneback
Havana
New York Harbor
Governors Island
Wallace H. Graham
Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Federal District Court
Labor Department
Stassen Urges Full Aid Fund
Harold Stassen urged Congress to preserve the full European recovery aid, calling cuts a breach of commitment to 16 cooperating nations. He testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee as debate continued on trimming over a billion dollars from the $5.3 billion authorization, with leaders pledging to defend the full program.
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Washington
Harold FE
Stassen
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
Europe
Senate
House
Capitol
Vandenberg
R.mich
ECA
Paul G. Hoffman
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
New Yorker
Marshall
Hoffman
Thomas E. Dewey
New
Southeast Gets Additional Federal Aid in 1947
Atlanta June 10 The Commerce Department said seven southeastern states received 60 789 000 more in federal aid last year than 1946. Regional director C Parker Persons attributed the rise mainly to higher highway allotments under the 1944 federal aid highway act. Mississippi led with 17 213 00 in new funds.
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Atlanta
United States Department of Commerce
C. Parker Persons
Mississippi
Platform Waiting to Be Big Job for Republicans
The Republican platform writers face a major challenge from broad differences among top GOP leaders on domestic and global issues. Feuding on Capitol Hill will echo in Philadelphia as the platform committee meets a week before the convention. Democratic rivals, led by Dixie revolts over civil rights, will watch, while GOP leaders seek to harmonize tariff views after Senate approval of a modified reciprocal trade agreements act.
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Washington
Congress
G. O
Capitol Hil
Philadelphia
Platform Committee
Truman
O. P
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Senate Finance Committee
Air Force to Buy 2,201 New Planes
The Air Force plans 2,201 new aircraft to build a 70‑group force funded by 1.345 billion dollars from defense appropriations. The mix includes 243 bombers with 162 heavy long‑range types and 1,405 jet fighters, plus 81 jet bombers including 30 Flying Wing models.
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Washington
Air Force
Defense
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Ben Cohen
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