Miners Reject Government Plan and Urge Draft Action
Washington March 23 AP Joseph Grew urged Senate armed services leaders to push for a limited draft and universal military training laws. He warned nations abroad may choose allies based on U S strength and readiness. Chairman Gurney said most committee members see both measures as necessary.
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Truman Faces Coal Strike Fallout and Political Jousts
The United Mine Workers reject a government plan to end the soft coal walkout prompting Cyrus Ching to report to the White House as Taft Hartley action looms. Senate figures urge Truman to quit or fight on with party unity in doubt amid Alabama and Brooklyn opposition.
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United Mine Workers Today
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Letter From John J. O Connor On Roosevelt Purge Critique
The letter by former New York Democratic congressman John J. O Connor defends judicial independence and attacks Roosevelt era political tactics, citing the White House circle and Henry Wallace. It frames O Connor as a respected critic amid Roosevelt loyalists and references the Roose velts, the Red Cross, and Warm Springs.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. O'Connor
White House
Europe
Basil
Doc
Roosevelt
American Red Cross
Warm Springs
Moosejaw
John O'Connor
Henry Wallace
O’connor
America
Wallace
Paasikivi pledges free Finnish July elections
President Juho K. Paasikivi said July parliamentary elections in Finland will be totally free and decided by the will of the people. He expected no war in the near future and spoke optimistically during interviews with American reporters while the Russian-Finnish talks continued in Moscow.
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Helsinki
Juho K. Paasikivi
Finland
Paasikivi
Moscow
C. J. A. Enckell
Still Deadlocked on Rent Control in Washington
Senate and House members failed in a two hour session to settle differences over home rule in a rent control law. Another meeting was called for this afternoon as Senator Cain, Republican, Washington, expressed hope for a decision.
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Senate
House
Cain
Federal Court Jury Drawn for Monroe Term
Petit jurors for the next federal court term opening in Monroe April 5 were drawn. Commissioner John M. Breard Jr. deputy marshal Louis B. Moseley and deputy clerk Nell B. Podesta oversee the process with no grand jurors required. The list includes F M Chapman Wisner Faye Simms Bonita Robert G Holden Dubach L W Jones Ruston Willis Morris Epps Zell Stockner Lake Providence Jesse Reed Col Rayville and many others from towns such as Mangham Winnsboro Tallulah Monroes area communities and Box 44 Monroe.
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Wisner
Faye Simms
Bonita
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Dubach
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Ruston
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Epps
Zell Stockner
Lake Providence
Jesse Reed
Rayville
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Chaudrant
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Mangham
Frank C. Love
Grayson
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Forest
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Winnsboro
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Chatham
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Ferriday
J. A. Hall
Alto
Milton A. Coleman
Pat Mickle
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St. Joseph
Duke Yates
Oak Grove
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C. L. Salsbury
Eros
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Mer Rouge
Odus Farrar
Lillie
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Dewey McKnight
I. J. Vining
Choudrant
Frank Burnside
Newellton
John Sewell
C. B. DeMoss
Tallulah
J. C. Kelly
B. H. Rainwater
Socialite dies as salesman held in murder case
Sydney reports an automobile salesman named Harry Turnbull Shoebridge, 39, is held on $3,250 bail for allegedly murdering socialite Mrs June Frances Thomas, 27, by illegal operation to end a pregnancy. Prosecutors seek remand until March 31 as coroner's inquest date is set. Mrs. Thomas, daughter of Hillsborough Calif. residents, married in 1944 to an Australian air force officer. She had traveled to Melbourne with her husband.
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June Frances Thomas
California
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Melbourne
Five Die In Omaha Rest Home Fire
In Omaha early today five people died as a fire tore through Ward's Rest Home, a former private house housing seniors. Three others were critically hurt, four more moderately, and several escaped by window. Dead include Rudolph Bierman 92 Frank Welty 87 Eugene Sullivan 74 Harry Wacker 76 and owner Thomas Ward 50. The fire started in an entrance hall and spread through the two story building.
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Rudolph G. Bierman
Frank H. Welty
Eugene Sullivan
Harry Wacker
Thomas G. Ward
Thomas M. Bell
William A. King
Ward
Yugoslav Trade Offer on Trieste Is Rejected
American officials rejected Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simic's proposal to swap Trieste for Gorizia. They stressed Trieste under UN protection and not Yugoslav territory. The note followed Belgrade protests over Italy's peace treaty changes and amid Moscow Italy election politics.
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Marshal Tito
Stanoje Simic
Simic
Belgrade
United States
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France
Tito
United Nations
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Moscow
Two Sisters Die In Same Rocking Chair Tale
In Pittsburgh on March 23 two spinster sisters aged 78 and 75 died within 15 hours of each other while seated in the same rocking chair. Emily Tate died of pneumonia, Mathilda was found dead by heart attack after nursing her.
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Pittsburgh
Emily Tate
Mathilda
River yields up floating body near Monroe
A badly decomposed body floated to the Ouachita River bank near the Howard Griffin boat landing Tuesday morning. Identified tentatively as Fisher Edward Shell of Hornbeck La. papers name his mother Mrs James Shell. Deputy Coroner Dr C A Johnson said the body had been in the river a week or more.
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Ouachita
Howard Griffin
South Grand Street
Monroe
Lawton Griffin
Bobby Hawthorne
C. A. Johnson
Shell
Leesville
James Shell
Denies Right to Outlaw Poll Tax Debate in Congress
Representative Almond argues the federal government lacks constitutional power to end the poll tax. He testifies before a Senate committee as Virginia attorney general elect while other lawmakers from Louisiana South Carolina Texas and Florida attend the rules committee hearing. The House has passed and a Senate subcommittee approved a bill to abolish the poll tax for voting.
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Senate
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Florida
House
Senate Rules
Tax Cut Passes House Panel Near Sure Final Action
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 18 to 5 to approve an 4.8 billion income tax cut bill, a Senate passed measure, paving the way for White House signing. House Speaker Martin predicts approval by more than three to one and a Truman desk rendezvous, while Taft doubts a veto is unlikely. An administration official backs the GOP view.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
White House
Martin
Massachusetts
Truman
Knutson
Minnesota
Taft
Ohio
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Secretaries Meet Marshall in Potential Trip Talks in U S
Paris reports say French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and likely British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will meet Secretary Marshall in the United States next month after he returns from Bogota. They plan to review the Marshall plan linked European recovery and discuss a possible merger of the occupation zones in Germany.
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Georges Bidault
Ernest Bevin
Marshall
United States
Bidault
Bogota
Colombia
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Germany
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Council of Foreign m
Ruhr
Congress Acts To Speed American Money On Anti-Communist Mission
The House debates a 6.205 billion package for military and economic aid to Europe and Asia while the Senate moves a 275.9 million fund to arm Greece and Turkey with know‑how. a 463 million civilian and combat aid for China follows. President Truman backs broader draft reform as top officials testify.
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House
Europe
Asia
Senate
Greece
Turkey
China
Truman
Armed Services Committee
Legislation by treaty attacked by former ABA leader
In New Orleans on March 23 former American Bar Association president William L. Ransom warned that international treaties could supersede the U.S. Constitution. He said treaties gain force as supreme law with Senate ratification and could bind states regardless of local laws. Ransom noted about 50 treaties have been drafted for UN consideration despite the UN charter.
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American Bar Association
William L. Ransom
New York
Congress
U. S. Senate
United States
Ransom
United Nations
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Canal Dragged for Two Children in New Orleans
In New Orleans on March 23 police and volunteers dragged the Florida Avenue canal searching for Edith Goldberg two and Rudolph four who disappeared while playing near their home. Detectives investigated reports before leaning toward a drowning theory as dragging continued without results.
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Rudolph
Goldberg
Florida Avenue Canal
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William Walker
Austin Ohler
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