Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler on Philip Murray as labor leader
Pegler denounces Philip Murray as a fraud and as a tool of John L. Lewis. He accuses Murray of long subservience to Lewis and characterizes his 1942 CI O speech as a betrayal, likening himself to Jesus while recounting a painful rift with Lewis.
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John L. Lewis
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Organized Workers
United States
Jesus Christ
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Christ
Gethsemane
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Welfare aid curbed again in Louisiana notice
Louisiana Department of Public Welfare announced tighter limits on public assistance for old age persons aid to dependent children and the unemployables. Commissioner Lawrence Higgins said the policy aims to fit within the state’s minimum income and will save about 6 million dollars annually. Old age checks will be mailed later in April while aid to dependent children and unemployables will arrive earlier.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Department Ofublic Welfare
Lawrence Higgins
Con- SS
Higgins
Asian Situation To Be Presented By Don Whitehead
Secretary of State Acheson and Roving Ambassador Philip Jessup will brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a closed session on the Far Eastern situation. Topics include limited aid to non Communist states, Jessup’s on site report, Western powers meeting in London, and a possible peace treaty with Japan.
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Washington
State Acheson
Philip Jessup
Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Far East
Jessup
London
Japan
Morrison Says No Commitment On Long Race
New Orleans mayor Morrison declined to state support or opposition to U S Senator Russell Long in the upcoming Democratic primary. He returned from California to say the senatorial race and city legislative program should stand on their own merits, denying a political bargain with the state administration.
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New Orleans
U. S
Russell Long
de Lessenps Morrison
Morrison
California
Sen. Long
Earl Long
Sen
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Charles Zatarain
Drainage Project Approved in Rapides Parish Louisiana
Sen. Long says U S engineers will begin flood control and drainage work in Rapides Parish under a new law. The $100 000 project aims to protect 16 000 acres and improve drainage on 17 000 more. Officials met with J Lester White Leroy Chandler and U S engineers to fast track completion in months.
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Long
D-La
U. S
Rapides Parish
Louisiana
Bayou Rapides
Rapides Island
J. Lester White
Louisiana Department of Public Works
Leroy Chandler
Alexandria
Red River
Atchafalaya
Bayou Boeuf
U. S. Engineers
Ouachita Parish approves big school bond for West Monroe high
The Ouachita Parish School Board reported a strong turnout as voters outside Monroe favored a bond to expand the parish system. Unofficial tallies show 1,965 for and 41 against, with $2,821,250 assessed value supporting the tax and $81,010 against. A new high school in West Monroe will start construction this summer, likely in late July, per Supt Mack Avants.
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Ouachita Parish
Monroe
West Monroe
Mack Avants
H Bomb Top Priority Revealed by Atomic Commission
Sumner T. Pike, acting chairman, disclosed at Mount Holyoke College that the atomic energy program now prioritizes the hydrogen bomb. He said reshuffling aims to place utmost weight on weapons development directed by the president, while speeding work on an atomic engine for naval vessels and Idaho reactor projects for naval propulsion.
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South Hadley
Mass
Sumner T. Pike
Mount Holyoke College
Pike
Idaho
Four Soldiers Die in Japan Train Crash
Tokyo march 29 the army reports four soldiers killed in an automobile train collision between Tokyo and Yokohama Sunday. Victims: Pfe William Garner 22 of Baldwin Station Chester S C Pvt Robert L Coleman 18 of San Francisco Pvt Eugene C Heath 20 of Sikeston Mo Pvt I Capit 19 Baton Rouge La next of kin E D Monie Cupt. Car breached warning barrier at a grade crossing and struck an electric train.
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Army Today
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Pfe
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Near of Kin
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Baldwin Station
Chester
S. C
Robert L. Coleman
San Francisco
Eugene C. Heath
Sikeston
I. Capit
Next of
E. D. Monie Cupt
Baton Rouge
House cuts 250 million from foreign aid program
Washington march 29 republicans pressed a 250 million cut in the 1951 foreign economic aid plan, lowering western Europe's Marshall plan authorization from 2.95 billion to 2.7 billion. The house vote 165 to 163 also pledged further reductions in Korea and China funding and the point four program. The omnibus domestic bill faced unsettled GOP strategy with committee discussions ongoing.
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House
Europe
Korea
China
Truman
Republican Policy Committee
Appropriations Committee
Tito Regime Wins 93.2 Percent Of Yugoslav Ballot
Belgrade March 29 official news agency Tanjug reports 9,059,113 of 9,746,000 voters supported Premier Marshal Tito's unopposed front in Sunday's general election. Croatia showed notable opposition, but overall Tito’s support surpassed the 1945 prewar election.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Tanjug
People's Front
Croatia
Tito
Woman Held in Orleans Death
A 23 year old woman, Lucille Cotta, is held in Long Beach California for questioning in the New Orleans death of Robert E Dunn Jr. Tennessee trooper Sergeant T J Fite aid he did not identify her as a member of the strangers seen with Dunn the night of his death. Police say Dunn was found at a Latin Quarter club and the woman claimed she jumped bail on a minor theft charge in New Orleans. Exhumation and autopsy were sought after doubts about a heart attack.
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New Orleans
Long Beach
Calif
Robert E. Dunn, Jr
Nashville
Lucille Cotta
Fite
Dunn
Daniels
Latin Quarter
George E. Boyle
Governor Reviews Life Term for 16 Year Old
Governor Paul A. Dever considered reducing or pardoning Francis Whorf a 16 year old Scituate Boy Scout who pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Plymouth. Whorf admitted shooting his sleeping father Kenneth Whorf 49 last September saying he did it for the good of the family. The elder Whorf had a long record as a drunkard and wife beater.
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Boston
Paul A. Dever
Executive Council
Francis Whorf
Scituate Boy Scout
Plymouth Superior Court
Kenneth Whorf
Wharf
Edmund R. Dewing
Probe death of Steinhardt plane crash investigation widens
Ram s ayville Ontario dispatch says U S air force safety chief Maj Gen Victor E Bertrandias led a joint inquiry into the embassy plane crash that killed ambassador Laurence A Steinhardt and four others. Survivor Sgt Gwynne A Long of North Carolina described passengers panicking as the right engine caught fire. Alan C Harrington, 20, son of U S minister to Ottawa, was among the dead. Canadian RC AF investigators found no sabotage and cited possible wing tank explosion from engine fire. Long, injured, said the craft went down after warning that they were “going in.”
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Ont
U. S. Air Force
U. S
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Victor E. Bertrandias
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
Gwynne A. Long
Vanney
N. C
Here
St. Long
Alan C. Harrington
Julian Harrington
Ottawa
Long
Lawton Named Budget Chief for Truman Administration
White House sources say Frederick J. Lawton 49 a career government officer will become director of the budget succeeding Frank Pace Jr Lawton a Washington native and 30 year federal servant is currently assistant director of the budget bureau and a lawyer and accountant He is part of a broader set of administration changes expected to be announced from the White House Lawton would be Budget Director while Pace moves to Secretary of the Army and other shifts include Symington possibly moving to air secretary and Lewis Strauss leaving the atomic energy commission for rest on his Virginia farm
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Fla
White House
Frederick J. Lawton
Truman
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Lawton
Frank Pace, Jr
Arkansan
Army
Winter White House
Budget Bureau
Pace
Air Force
Symington
Finletter
ECA
London
Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis Strauss
Virginia
Gordon Gray
University of North Carolina
Eisenhower Urges Colleges Study Mental Defects Causes
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower urged colleges to study why many American men were rejected for military service in World War II for mental defects. He cited about 2,000,000 rejects and said no other nation had a rejection rate a quarter as large. He spoke at a Columbia University alumni gathering in Rye New York.
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Rye
N. Y
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Vote On Gas Bill Is Near
A bitterly contested Senate vote looms over a Kerr bill to curb federal regulation of natural gas prices for independent producers. Kefauver proposes an exemption threshold, potentially saving many small producers from regulation, while critics warn large producers could still face higher consumer prices. The debate centers on whether FPC oversight should extend to producers or stay with pipeline regulation.
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Senate
Kerr
D-Okla
Federal Power Commission
House
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Douglas
D-Ill
Kefauvery
FPC
Congress
Lyndon Johnson
Dtex
Aiken
R.-Vt
New England
Accident Fatality In Jackson Involving Two 14-Year-Olds
In Jackson Mississippi, 14-year-old James H. Wallace died after a .38 pistol fired during a play session with Ralph Farr, also 14, in Farrs room after supper. Detective Chief Frank Rodgers called it an unfortunate accident and said no inquest is expected. Wallace was the son of a Jackson fire department captain.
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Jackson
Miss
James H. Wallace
Frank Rodgers
Wallace
Ralph Farr
Young Farr
Rodgers
Senate subpoenas seek loyalty records from Acheson McGrath and Mitchell
Washington March 29 Senate officers served the first of three subpoenas demanding loyalty records from top officials including Secretary of State Acheson Attorney General McGrath and Civil Service Commission chairman Harry Mitchell The move follows President Truman's refusal to turn over files and cites possible contempt if not complied With the state department civil service loyalty board and FBI files sought cover 1940 to present The action prompted Republican protests accusing Truman of shielding the McCarthy inquiry and notes a civil service loyalty review board will recheck nearly 90 cases for report to the president
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Joseph Duke
Harry Bb. Mitchell
Civil Service Commission
Capitol
Mitchell
Duke
State Acheson
McGrath
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
State Department
Congress
Acheson
Harry Mitchell
Senate Foreign Relations
McCarthy
Awis
Civil Service Loyalty Board
FBI
Tydings
D-Md
Civil Service Loyalty Review Board
Elephant Executed For Killing Child In Sarasota
Dolly the circus elephant was put to death at dawn in Sarasota Florida for killing five year old Edward Schooly who was feeding her peanuts last Sunday. John Ringling North said protests poured in before the final decision to execute at 5 am. The elephant was taken to a pit, given cyanide and buried after collapsing.
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Sarasota. Fla
Dolly
Edward Schooly
John Ringling North
Winter Quarters
North
New Orleans Coast Guardsman Questioned in Dance Hall Slaying
Police plan to question 22 year old Edgar Marion Winter, a New Orleans coast guardsman, in the fatal strangling of Betty Jean Johnson, 25, a French Quarter dancer, whose death occurred February 8. Winter was arrested in Memphis and brought to New Orleans for questioning.
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Coast
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