Fatuous conceit cited in Dorothy Thompson critique
Westbrook Peplger criticizes Dorothy Thompson and F P A for pretentious politics and poor judgment. He recalls her 1940 call to skip a referendum during Europe crisis and warns of potential dangers from her ideas and similar figures. He portrays Thompson as a bold yet flawed defender of her beliefs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Thompson
Franklin P. Adams
Miss Thompson
Marshall Field
Wendell Willkie
Jimmy Roosevelt
Civil rights amendment up in federal education bill
Washington May 3 A civil rights amendment to the 300 million federal aid to education bill was up for senate action today. Lodge would deny funds to states denying racial access in public schools. Opponents warn adoption could sink the bill. Taft supports fair funding. other amendments could deny aid to states meeting minimum expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Lodge
R.-Mass
Aiken
R.-Vt
Douglas
D.-Ill
Taft
Ohio
Tydings
D.-Md
O’conor
Cain
Wash
Bricker
Famous J S Stars Safe Amid Moroccan Floods
In Casablanca and Marrakech area flood救 ruins Tyrone Power Orson Welles and Linda Christian are safe. Cecile Aubrey, 17, found safe near Quartazate with her mother, after days missing. Eight people died as floods swept parts of French Morocco and Algeria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casablanca
Morocco
Tyrone Power
Orson Welles
Linda Christian
Cecile Aubrey
Marrakech
Miss Aubrey
Quartazate
Algeria
Miss Aubry
Power
Welles
Tourliat
20Th Century-Fox
Atlas Mountains
Berlin blockade ends debate moves to date for talks
Western powers pressed for a firm date to lift the Berlin blockade and begin new talks on Germany. The Times reported mid May end of the blockade and talks to start by May 25 in Paris. Envois Cadogan Chauvel Jessup cautioned patience as Malik and others await home-government guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Hewett
New York
Berlin
Germany
New York Times
Paris
Britain
Sir Alexander Cadogan
United Nations
Jean Chauvel
Philip C. Jessup
United States
Jessup
Malik
Europe
Cottingham Not Resigning Amid Board Actions in Louisiana
Louisiana education board approves 219400 for Scotlandville school for Negro blind and deaf with Perilliat-Rickey low bid. Dr Joe Gibson resigns Northwestern State. Dr Cottingham denies resignation rumors. An 8796 sewer unit contract goes to Union for Southeastern Louisiana College. site for Jefferson Davis Trades School deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Board of Education Today
Scotlandville
Perilliat-Rickey Construction Company
New Orleans
Horace R. Brown
Department of Education
George Madison
Bastrop
Joe Gibson
Northwestern State College
Natchitoches
Gibson
Tulane University
Claybrook Cottingham
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute At
Ruston
Union Construction Company
Southeastern Louisiana College
Hammond
Jennings
Jefferson Davis Trades School
Road construction to be speeded up in Louisiana
Baton Rouge plans to accelerate road work after a meeting between the state board of highways and southwest Louisiana legislators. The board will push for the department to buy more equipment and undertake a larger share of projects with its own forces. Chair Rep Lorris M. Wimberly led the talks, with attendees including Sen Guy W. Lockrider Jr and Sen Gilbert F. Hennigan, and Reps Horace Lynn Jones, Jesse J. Verr ett, Marion Vallee, Sidney Sylvester, and J. Howard LaFleur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
State Board of Highways
Southwest Louisiana
State Highway Department
Lorris M. Wimberly
Bienville Parish
Guy W. Lockrider, Jr
Lake Charles
Gilbert F. Hennigan
Fields
Horace Lynn Jones
Jesse J. Verrett
Calcasieu
Marion Vallee
Jeff Davis
Sidney Sylvester
J. Howard LaFleur
St. Landry
Bradley Promotes NATO Pact Before Senate
Gen Omar Bradley told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Americas defense frontiers lie in the heart of Europe and urged approval of the 12 nation North Atlantic security alliance. He said NATO nations are already in positions where aggression would threaten their homelands and noted that the United States would strike back against aggressors. Bradley cited World War II Normandy casualties and outlined plans to request 1.13 billion dollars in the first year to finance arms support for treaty partners. He added that critics will testify later including Eugene Dennis of the American Communist party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Omar N. Bradley
America
Europe
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
North Atlantic Security Alliance
Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
Congress
Alliance
Eugene Dennis
American Communist Party
Senator Connally
D.-Tex
Death pistol fished from Milwaukee River in Pat Birmingham case
Milwaukee May 3. The gun that killed 16 year old Pat Birmingham was pulled from the Milwaukee River. Milton Babich 19 admitted he dumped the body and the .22 revolver at the river February 10. He says the death was accidental as she picked up the gun and he grabbed the handle. He allegedly hoped to deter her from revealing her sister Kathleen was pregnant. Babich who eloped with Kathleen two days before the body was found faces first degree murder charges and a preliminary hearing is set tomorrow. The weapon was identified by a West Milwaukee shopkeeper as sold to a youth named Victor Babich. The DA would not comment on fingerprint results.
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Milwaukee
Pat Birmingham
Milton Babich
William J. McCauley
Patricia
Kathleen
Babich
West Allis
McCauley
West Milwaukee
Victor Babich
Victor
State Crime Laboratory
Madison
Unauthorized Strike Shocks Ford Rouge Plant
Detroit May 3 A UAW local 600 walkout at Ford Rouge plant without international approval shocks spring bargaining. Local 600 says Ford violated oral agreement to maintain line speed, accusing management of speeding up assembly. If sustained, it could disrupt Ford operations nationwide affecting up to 115,000 workers. Ford and union planned another meeting to discuss a written production-rate agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Auto Workers Local 600
Fort Motor Company
Rouge
The
International
Thomas Thomson
Local 600
U. A W
Walter P. Reuther
Thompson
Ford Motor Company
Mazey
Ford
Big Rouge
Double Squeeze Seen on Veterans
In Mobile Alabama on May 3 veteran workers face a double squeeze as jobs grow more competitive. Robert C. Goodwin of the bureau of employment security warned at a Southeastern regional meeting that both older and younger veterans lose ground in the current economic readjustment. He noted World War I veterans are being released as industry seeks more productive labor, while young veterans suffer from less seniority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Robert C. Goodwin
Bureau of Employment Security
Goodwin
Pre Tornado Warning Service Asked by Louisiana Representative
Representative Brooks of Louisiana urged a tornado warning service and met with the federal weather bureau to explore an experimental alert system for tornado-prone areas. He cited recent damaging tornadoes in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas and argued alerts could save lives and reduce damages. The weather bureau showed cautious interest, citing panic concerns while Brooks pressed for clear, honest warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brooks
Democrat
Louisiana
Federal Weather Bureau
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Francis W. Reichelderfer
Weather Bureau
Man Uses Beer Can Opener to Save Wife in Iron Lung
Shirley Palmer 27, paralyzed by polio, rode cross country in an iron lung but survived after husband Bob Palmer 31 manually operated the lung pump for over 10 hours. When the pump’s motor failed, he fashioned a handle from a beer can opener, enabling continued operation during the perilous journey to Biggs Memorial Hospital. The Palmers, Newark New York natives, were living in Encino California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N. Y
Union Pacific
Shirley Palmer
Western Plains
Biggs Memorial Hospital
Bob Palmer
Palmers
Newark
Rochester
Encino
Calif
Palmer
Los Angeles
Pullman
Syracuse
New Democratic Labor Bill Faces House Action
Washington May 3 A revised Democratic labor measure with Taft Hartley features goes before the House for argument and possible quick action. The plan keeps 60 day injunctions for national emergency strikes, and ties to Lesinski bill politics. Speaker Rayburn and McCormack scheduled to speak, with a vote likely before nightfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Rayburn
Texas
McCormack
Massachusetts
Labor Committee
Lesinski
Michigan
N J C Summer Term Planned at Northeast Junior College
Registration for the nine week summer term at Northeast Junior College will begin June 10, announced Dean Rodney Cline. The session runs through August 13 with courses including Accounting Agronomy Chemistry Economics Education English Geography Health and Physical Education History Mathematics Shorthand Sociology Zoology Typewriting and more. Credits earned equal those of the regular term and dorms are available for men and women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northeast Junior College
Rodney Cline
Cline
River Commission Goes to Simmesport
Members of the Mississippi river commission rode the John Newton for a spring inspection trip along the Atchafalaya from Simmesport to Morgan City and then the intracoastal canal toward Houma. Brig. Gen. P. A. Feringa, president, said there are no plans to alter the Plaquemine locks and urged start of a barge canal through Devil's Swamp north of Baton Rouge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Plaquemine
General Feringa
Baton Rouge
Fear of Communist Plot Drags Shanghai Waterfront
U S British and French naval craft left the Shanghai waterfront amid reports of a Communist plot to block sea passage. A navy spokesman said sources claimed a scuttling attempt near Woosung would trap large ships, a plan allegedly linked to earlier Tientsin actions. The President Wilson evacuated 300 people after tying up at a Bund pier. Three destroyers and an LCI remained near Woosung with an LST due tomorrow as evacuees continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
United States
U. S. Navy
U. S
Adm
Oscar C. Badger
United States Navy
Woosung
Tientsin
LST
LCI
D P S Babies Cry For Food In Louisiana Sugar Belt
In New Orleans on May 3 a Catholic pastor accused displaced persons babies of crying for food and milk in Louisiana sugar plantations. He described low wages of about 2.90 a day, debt from housing and utilities, and suggested relocating D P S families to better conditions with a settler program. A meeting in Thibodaux was announced by U S production officials following the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana
Sugar Belt
Carl Shutten
Father Shutten
St. Patrick’s Church
D. P
Wilmer Grayson
Sugar Division
U. S. Production and Marketing Administration
Thibodaux
Fed up wife killed husband and hid body in swamp
New Orleans reports say Patricia Land Jones admitted stabbing Samuel Jones, 46, at his filling station on March 12 after calling him quarrelsome and abusive. She claimed she waited in shadows, stabbed him with a house knife, and hid the body in a swamp, later moving it in a car trunk. Police investigators quoted her sobbing confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Samuel Jones
Mississippi River
Jones
Patricia Land
Vandenberg Joins Taft in Push for 5 Percent Budget Cut
Senator Vandenberg and Senator Taft press a five percent reduction in government operating expenses. Vandenberg favors similar cuts to the European Recovery Program, stating many departments could trim. The outcome depends on Senate action as appropriation bills move forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Michigan
Appropriations Committees
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Chennault Before Two Committees
Former General Claire Chennault, creator of the Flying Tigers, was summoned to testify before two congressional committees in Washington on May 3. The hearings, closed to the public, sought insights on China’s turmoil and renewed aid to anti Communist forces, with Chennault appearing before the foreign aid committee and later the armed services group at Senator Knowland’s request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
China
Claire Chennault
McCarran
D.-Nev
Knowland
R.-Calif
Chennault
Flying Tigers
Japan
Waterproof
Senate House
Chennaut
Armed Services Group
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Westbrook
Pegler
J. S
REDS
Cottingham
Tech
Hangchow
Nanchang
Changsha
Hupeh
Chian
Anhwe
Poyang
Linchwan
Chekiang
Chuhsien
Kunshan Hof
Linhai
Jaian
South China
Kunshan
Bombshell
Emil Mazey
Rep
Dean Cline
River Commission
Simmesport
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