Nuisance of the Roosevelts draws steady ribaldry in political pageantry
Westbrook Pegler notes ongoing satire around the Roosevelt family two years after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. He criticizes Memorial Day observances, the widow’s visible role, and what he calls unconventional, embattled conduct within the Roosevelt circle and Democratic rituals.
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New York
Roosevelts
Andrew Jackson
Grant
Hyde Park
White House
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Jere
Idle in Motor Strikes Halt Detroit Plants
Labor disputes idled about 14 100 Detroit workers today closing the Hudson Motor Car Company and reducing output at Continental Motors and Ford clutch assemblies. A Continental sitdown began yesterday affecting 1 200 day workers while a 600 Hudson salaried workers walkout shut the plant. Office workers picketed, keeping 15 000 U A W C I O production employees from work. Union officials had no comment.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Company
Ford
Continental Motors Corporation
Continental
Hudson
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
Schmidt Freed of Treason Charges
In Vienna a five man people's court acquitted Dr. Guido Schmidt former Austrian foreign minister of high treason allegations. The court found he betrayed Chancellor Schuschnigg and aided Anschluss were not proven and noted he never joined the Nazi party nor profited from Anschluss.
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Vienna
Austria
Schmidt
Leopold Figl
Outside-Of-Congress Tax Committee Sparks Senate Debate
Three Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee denounced Chairman Knutson's creation of an 11 member outside advisory group led by Roswell F. Magill to advise on tax policy. They warned the move sets a dangerous precedent bypassing Congress in tax decisions as President Truman weighs a 4 billion dollar income tax cut bill.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Knutson
Minnesota
Congress
Dingell
Michigan
Eberharter
Pennsylvania
Forand
Rhode Island
Roswell F. Magill
Columbia University
Wall Street
Magill
The
Treasury
Roosevelt
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Truman
Treasury Snyder
Dingell - Eberharter - Forand
Wee
Knirtenn
Snyder
Wallace to Address Washington Event Amid Anticommunist Watch
Chairman J Parnell Thomas said the House committee on un American activities will have several observers when Henry A Wallace speaks in Washington Monday under the Southern Conference for Human Welfare sponsorship. The report on the conference, due over the weekend, lists Wallace as an advisory associate. Wallace and the conference deny ties. Thomas called the claim poppycock.
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Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
New Jersey
House Committee On un-American Activities
Henry A. Wallace
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Thomas
Wallace
Clark Foreman
Atlanta
Henry Wallace
Wisconsin mother held in baby's death in Racine
Frances Stowell of Racine aged 18 was jailed without charge after confessing to police she killed her three week old infant. She reportedly told authorities she wanted the electric chair and later said she and her husband wished they had waited to have a child. A coroner's report is pending.
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Racin
Wis
Frances Stowell
Edward A. Krenzke
Krenzke
Stowell
End of Sugar Rationing Marks Wartime Controls Lifting
Washington report notes the end of sugar rationing for household use after five years, ending midnight. Sugar price controls remain and industrial sugar rationing continues until Oct. 31. Secretary Anderson cites world supply, Cuban surplus, and Japanese sugar as reasons, ahead of Congress.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Congress
House
International Emergency Food Council
United States
Cuba
Baton Rouge Man Dies After Car Overturns
Dominick Joe Michelli 24 of Baton Rouge died after his car overturned near Baton Rouge at about 3 15 am. Two other occupants Miss Remona Hodge Demrys and John P Marshall also of Baton Rouge were injured with Demrys in serious condition and Marshall lightly hurt. Funeral services for Michelli will be held here Friday.
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Baton Rouge
Dominick Joe Michelli
Remona Hodge
Demrys
John P. Marshall
Michelli
Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium
Marshall
Tony Michelli
Churchill Recovers From Hernia Operation In London
Churchill 72 underwent hernia surgery yesterday. Doctors say he had a good night and his general condition is quite satisfactory in London.
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Churchill
London
Winston Churchill
Truman Ends Canada Trip With Canadian Outing
President Truman wraps up a Canada visit with a leisure day near Ottawa then plans return to Washington for decisive votes on a four billion dollar tax cut and labor curbs. He toasts Parliament at a luncheon and will view Niagara Falls from his train stop before arriving in Washington tonight.
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Ottawa
Ont
Truman
Canada
Washington
United States
Executive Seigniory
Toronto
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Congress
Two Men and Girl Drowned in Detroit River
In Detroit on June 12 a rowboat overturned near the Bob-Lo excursion steamer Columbia, killing John Shesko 22 Norman Hoffer 21 Evelyn Smith 16 of Ecorse. Seventeen year old passerby Shelia Dupuis survived after reaching an island and being rescued.
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Detroit
John Shesko
Norman Hoffer
Evelyn Smith
Suburban
Ecorse
Shelia Dupuis
Columbia
Beb-Lo Excursion Co
United States Coast
Charles Anderson
Bob-Lo Island
Conferees Reach Rent Control Extension Deal
Washington reporters note a negotiated agreement to extend rent controls through February 29 next year with a 15 percent voluntary rent rise option for leases running to 1948. Senator Taylor urges a Truman veto while Senator Sparkman supports the bill. Final House and Senate approval needed before presentation to the president.
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Washington
House
Senate
Taylor
Idaho
Truman
Republican Congress
Sparkman
Alabama
Hottest Day Of The Season In Monroe Hits 94.8 Degrees
The Monroe area sweltered as Selman Field recorded 94.8 degrees at 4 30 pm making it the hot high temp of the season. Citizens sought relief at the municipal natatorium and cooled indoors at nearby picture shows. Car rides provided evening reprieve as temperatures eased and a decent night’s sleep followed.
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Monroe
CAA
Selman Field
Russia to Weigh U N Action Over Hungary Inquiry
U S officials expect Russia to reject or obstruct a three power probe of Hungary under Soviet interference. The United States may take the case to the United Nations to spotlight Soviet activity in the Balkans after a sharp protest demanding urgent inquiry.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Russia
Hungary
United States
United Nations
Balkans
Moscow
George H. Weems
Allied Control Commission
Navy budget cuts eyed as Washington debates security needs
June 12 report says Senate appropriations Republicans weigh trimming deeper than the House cut while preserving air and surface forces. The plan targets navy carryover funds and shore base construction, risking reduced enlisted strength and a projected 400000 sailors in the next year, with officials urging full restoration of the navy budget request.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Navy
House
Ferrettal
Truman
Forrestal
Saltonstall
Republican
Massachusetts
School survey near ready for Ouachita parish board meeting
The state education department survey for Ouachita parish schools is hoped for July 3 presentation. Supt. George W. Welch urges completion by that date while Baton Rouge staff push to finish. Bids will be opened for six new school buses and cafeteria reconstruction at Swartz school after a recent fire.
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State Department of Education
Ouachita Parish
George W. Welch
Baton Rouge
Welch
Swartz School
Old Regulars Back Incumbents in New Orleans
The Old Regular political organization in New Orleans backs four incumbents for reelection and endorses James H. Morrison for governor in the Democratic primary. The group will list L. B. Baynard, John E. Coxe, Lucille May Grace, and A. P. Tugwell on its ticket with Morrison as leader.
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New Orleans
Regular
James H. Morrison
L. B. Baynard
John E. Coxe
Lucille May Grace
Register of State Land Office
A. P. Tugwell
Claude Mauberrett
Dudley G. Desmare
Regular Democratic
Jimmy Morrison
Radio permits granted for Abbeville station
The communications commission issued construction permits for a new standard station to Abbeville Broadcasting Service Inc of Abbeville Louisiana on 960 kilocycles and 1000 watts daytime only.
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Washington
the Communications Commission
Ponder Drive to Stop Dewey
Washington speculation swirls over a stop Dewey drive as Dewey plans a July tour to Salt Lake City and other western points amid GOP talks of favorite sons and possible Taft and Stassen challenges for the 1948 nomination. A Taft bid may clash with Stassen in the South and Wisconsin. Dewey’s plans include a family trip and no speeches, with party leaders watching for signals before the Philadelphia convention.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
West
Dewey
New York
Mississippi
Albany
Salt Lake City
Philadelphia
Harold FE. Stassen
Minnesota
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
South
Taft
Stassen
Texas
Wisconsin
Willkie
Waterloo
Etassen
Douglas MacArthur
Milwaukee
Canada
Congress
Trial of Noe Delayed for Fourth Time in Jury Tampering Case
A fourth postponement was ordered in the trial of former Governor James A. Noe and three others on jury tampering charges. The hold is due to the illness of key witness Bernard R. Hughes, with the trial previously set for June 73. Defendants include Noe, James Burton, Joe T Cawthorn, and Marcel F. Labranche.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
U. S
Herbert W. Christenberry
Bernard R. Hughes
William T. Burton
Lake Charles
Noe
Burton
Joe T.cawthorn
Mansfield
Marcel F. Labranche
Parliament Hears Sarcastic Attack in Hungary
In Budapest on June 12 AP reports Freedom Party Leader Deszo Sulyok denounced the Communist regime and urged Small Holders to adopt its tactics to build a democracy. Parliament adjourned amid uproar as anti Communist members cried foul over suppression of speeches and arrests.
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Jack Guinn
Budapest
Hungary
Freedom Party
Deszo Sulyox
Premise Ferenc Nagy
Tumgary
Istvan Kossa
Trades Union Council
Sulyok
Kossa
Nagy
Small Holders Party
Laszlo Rajk
Interior
Qur
Szeged
Russians Fire On Swedish Mission In Austria
An Austrian official reports Russian troops fired on a Swedish relief party near Berg Austria killing a driver named Carlsen and wounding Torsten Arnau s head of the Swedish mission. Arnau s family was in the car and later released with Carlsen body held by Russians. Swedish consulate protest and investigation by a party from the consulate begun at Berg.
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Vienna
Torsten Arnaus
Austria
Carlsen
Arnaus
Berg
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Stuart B. Allen
St. Joseph
John A. Frank
Serton
V. P. Sviridov
Sviridov
U. N
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