Truman to Meet Democratic Leaders Over Key Issues
Washington dispatch reports President Truman will discuss party criticism with Democratic leaders J Howard McGrath and Gael Sullivan at the White House. Topics include anti lynching anti poll tax and anti race discrimination legislation and Henry Wallace's foreign policy appeal. In New Hampshire the Dewey Stassen fight for GOP delegates heats up with Dewey predicted to win most of eight delegates and Stassen expected to claim up to five.
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Washington
Truman
White House
J. Howard McGrath
Democratic National Committee
Gael Sullivan
Charles G. Ross
South
Thomas FE
Dewey
New York
Harold FE Stassen
Minnesota
Charles Tobey, Jr
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Westbrook Pegler Reports Boxing Figures at Dinner
The New York boxing scene is critiqued as Frank Hogan, district attorney, faces questions over the fight racket. Eddie Eagan, prizefight commission chair and ex Olympic champion, confronts Hogan over corruption exposes tied to Rocky Graziano and a tainted soldier past.
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Frank S. Hogan
New York County
New York Boxing Writers
Eddie Eagan
U. S
New York
Hogan
Eddie
Rocky
Chicago
Eagan
Graziano
Tragic end for Raintree County author Ross Lockridge Jr
Bloomington Indiana March 8 funeral services planned for Ross Lockridge Jr author of the prize winning Raintree County who died Saturday night from carbon monoxide in his garage at home The coroner reported death by his own hand Lockridge 33 left no explanation on the crest of success His novel a Book Of The Month Club selection won a 125 000 movie prize and will be made into a film His father talked of a complete breakdown after seven years of work His widow Bernice found him in the garage He had left to mail letters and return for a basketball broadcast His publishers noted cheerful recent letters He had begun a second novel and seemed poised for a long career He leaves four children Ernest Larry Jeanne and Ross III.
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Bloomington
Ind
Ross Lockridge, Jr
Raintree County
Robert E. Lyons
Monroe County
Lockridge
Metro-Goldwyna- Mayer
Ross Lockridge
Alfred Barrett
Fordham University
Ernest
Larry
Jeanne
Ross
Walking Man winner happy over prizes and honors
Mrs Florence Hubbard a 68 year old widow from Chicago won the Walking Man radio contest identifying Jack Benny as the Walking Man. She received prizes valued at 22500 including a Cadillac, airplane, trailer, home appliances and a Sun Valley vacation while supporting the American Heart Association.
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Chicago
Jack Benny
Florence Hubbard
Sun Valley
Idaho
Ralph Edwards
American Heart Association
Hubbard
Edwards
Two Men Feared Dead After Waltham Plant Blast
Rescue crews comb the Interlake Chemical plant wreckage in Waltham Massachusetts for two missing workers William Brushingham 52 Louis Scalzi 23 Nicholas Raimondi 22 and Albert L Quinan 48 while 29 injured and five critically await care. The explosion occurred during a shift change at the Makalot plastics maker causing a fire and heavy structural collapse with damage estimated around 150000.
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Waltham
Mass
Interlake Chemical Corporation
Daniel Murphy
William Brushingham
Auburndale
Louis Scalzi
Watertown
Nicholas Raimondi
Albert L. Quinan
Newton
B. A. Neal
Neal
Boston
Raymond Baler
Plane crash kills two men near Codocrie Lake
State police reported two men died when a small plane plunged into Codocrie Lake near Alexandria Louisiana on a Saturday night. The pilot Earl C. Smith 24 of Houston Texas and passenger Richard C. Doome 35 of Paducah Kentucky were killed. Bodies were transported to Ville Platte. The aircraft was en route from Houston to Natchez Mississippi.
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Alexandria
Cocodrie Lake
Earl C. Smith
Houston
Tex
Richard C. Doome
Paducah
Ville Platte
Natchez
Miss
Proposed changes in State Department considered
Washington March 8 A shake up in the State Department is under study with a plan to tighten workings after new duties postwar. Four assistant secretaries would handle daily policy for Europe Latin America the Far East and the Middle East and Africa. Additional assistants would oversee public relations economic affairs United Nations and occupation areas.
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Washington
State Department
Marshall
Truman
United States
Europe
Latin America
Far East
Middle East
Africa
Secre
Finland Considers Moscow Talks On Soviet Cooperation Treaty
Finland's cabinet votes to start negotiations with Soviet Russia over a treaty of cooperation and possible mutual aid. Talks could be held in Moscow or Helsinki with Paasikivi awaiting the president's final guidance. Public support splits between limited friendship and broader military alignment.
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Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Moscow
Stalin
Juho Paasikivi
Paasikivi
Hungary
Romania
Popular Front
Soviet Union
Slaying of Two American Women In Indo China Reported In Paris
A Paris dispatch says a French communique reports the killing of two American women employed at the U S consulate general in Saigon. Jeanne R. Skewes and Lydia Ruth James were found shot in a jeep near Tan Son Nhut. The women held U S government posts in Saigon and fear remains over motive and location outside the French security zone.
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Paris
Saigon
U. S
Jeanne R. Skewes
Lydia Ruth James
Miss James
Washington
State Department
Department
Hillsdale
Ind
Otto James
Wacs
Southwest Pacific
Skewes
Red Cross Faces Slow Fund Drive in Ouachita Parish
Ouachita parish sees a slow start to its Red Cross fund drive with $7,119.50 reported against a $42,000 goal. Co chairmen O. N. McNeal and George Hemphill urge firms to solicit employees and residents to donate, stressing aid to veterans and disaster victims and a rush to finish by next Sunday.
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Ouachita Parish
Red Cross
O. N. McNeal
George Hemphill
Cochairman
Twin Cities
McNeal
Hemphill
Young mother slain by gunman in Detroit suburb club
Lula Caldwell, 26, a Kentuckian and mother of two, was shot to death by an unmasked man during a floor show at the Coolidge Inn in River Rouge. Police seek her estranged husband Homer Caldwell as a possible suspect. Claude Carbelle was wounded.
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Detroit
River Rouge
Lula Caldwell
Roy Davis
Homer
Coolidge Inn
Carbeille
De Gaulle seeks U.S. aid and power in France crisis
Paris dispatch reports Gen Charles de Gaulle urging U S support for a Western European alliance to oppose Russia and proposing U S defense aid. He said he was ready to assume power when called, while French parties debate his demand amid wartime nostalgia.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
U. S
Russia
de Gaulle
France
Compiegne
Western Europe
National Assembly
Paris-Presse
Devoir
Republic
Robert Schuman
America
France Soir
Germany
Youth Confesses to Slaying Farmer Near West Monroe
Sheriff says 16 year old Francis L. Vines admitted shooting 10 year old farmer B F Shepperd after a roadside confrontation Saturday. Vines led deputies to the scene and indicated where the farmer’s hat and wallet were discarded in a ditch.
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West Monroe
Milton Coverdale
Coverdale
Francis L. Vines
B F. Shepperd
Vines
Shepperd
Sanford
Highway 80
Vine
Republicans Split Over Anti-Discrimination Rider
Washington March 8. The House floor showdown pits Republican leaders against rebelling Dixie Democrats over an anti-discrimination rider to a labor department appropriation bill. The full committee struck the rider from the bill 25 to 6, but Rep. Keefe plans to offer it on the floor. Party leaders say the proviso belongs in a separate bill, not the appropriations measure.
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William II
Arbogast
Washington
Truman
Labor Department
Federal Security
Appropriations
Rep
Keefe
Wisconsin
G. O. P. House
G. O. P. High Command
Marshall Plan Debate Moves as House Action Hangs
Secretary of State Marshall urged Speaker Martin to speed House action on European aid, hoping action by April 10. In Senate, Wherry warned quick final passage of the 5.3 billion dollar recovery bill is unlikely, as revisionist Republicans push changes. The urgency grows amid unrest in Eastern Europe and concerns over April deadlines.
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Washington
March
Marshall
Martin
House
Lovett
Lewis Douglas
U. S
Great Britain
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
Czechoslovakia
Finland
R-Mass
Sixty eight Louisiana firms paid into unemployment fund
Baton Rouge Louisiana March 8 sixty eight employers in Louisiana were required to contribute to the unemployment compensation fund for 1947 with total payrolls amounting to 213 826 914 an increase of 31 331 970 from the prior year Manufacturing led with 30 employers reporting payrolls of 107 768 006 Administrators said 1791 employers paid contributions during 1947 bringing the total to 15897 at year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Unemployment Compensation Fund
H. B. Turcan
Louisiana Division of Unemployment Security
Turcan
Louisiana
Higher pay urged to curb current teacher shortage
Louisiana educators at the State convention urged substantially higher salaries and professional standards to combat a shortage described as a major social problem. Dr Gladney J Tinsley called for more pay to attract capable teachers while Dr Fred C Frey urged professional training schools integrated with colleges. The state faces about four thousand qualified teachers short this year, a figure noted by Dr R R Ewertz.
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Louisiana
Louisiana School Boards Association
Gladney J. Tinsley
Southeastern Louisiana College
D. Tinsley
Frances Hotel
Fred C. Frey
Louisiana State University
R. R. Ewertz
R Bernstein Dies in Monroe Rites Planned
Rudolph Boots Bernstein veteran Mis souri Pacific railroad agent and Monroe resident died in a Monroe hospital shortly before noon Monday. He was retired five years and survived by daughter Mrs. Maurice Roby Winnfield La sister Miss Nettie Bernstein Winnfield La grandson Irving P. Roby and others. Funeral at Hixson Bros. Chapel Tuesday at 10 30 with Rabbi F K Hirsch officiating and burial in the Jewish cemetery.
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Rudolph
Boots) Bernstein
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Texas Avenue
Monroe
Bernstein
Virginia
Maurice Roby
Newellton
Nettie Bernstein
Winnfield
Irving P. Roby
F. M
Bill) Goldsmith
A. Milling Bernstein
Henry Bernstein, Jr
Arnold Bernstein
Hixson Bros. Funeral Home
F. K. Hirsch
Twenty-One Rescued From Stricken Norfolk Off Beaufort Inlet
Twenty-one crewmen were saved from the stricken motorship Norfolk near Beaufort inlet as high waves and fog hampered rescue efforts. Coast guardsmen used a breeches buoy to transfer the men one by one to safety, with all in good condition by midmorning.
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Morehead City
N. C
Norfolk
Coast
Beaufort Inlet
Coast Guard
Fort Macon
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