Roerich Cult Tied To New Deal Figures Roerich guru-former patron Henry Horch
The Moscow born mystic Nicholas Roerich led an Oriental spiritualist circle in New York in the 1920s attracting patrons like Henry Horch. Horch and his wife Nettie supported claims of supernatural art powers. Roerich and Modra known as spirit guides drew followers into a ritual era as automatic writings and trance demonstrations occurred at a 103rd Street apartment.
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Modra
Rich
Henry Wal
WRMY Officers Meet for Louisiana Convention Highlights
WRMY officers plan a Louisiana convention with major speakers from the army air force and ROA. Col Cecil Henry Brig Gen Bruce and Majors Hamilton Cochrane Frey Daniel and others will entertain and chair committees as the event’s hosts.
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Raynd N. Cochrane
QMC
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John Daniel, Jr
AGD
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PRD
Roussell J. Wildey
Est
Otho C. Rody
Proposal Jail for Newsmen Sparks House Debate
Washington May 5 P A swift test shaped up in Congress over jailing reporters for printing confidential information leaked from House or Senate committees The bill may be taken up in the House this week Two lawmakers Brown and Price said they will offer amendments to strike the provision Speaker Martin said the press has nothing to fear The measure would compel executive departments to share information with committees with a majority vote on public or confidential status The bill also bars any disclosure of confidential information by committee members or staff except as provided by law
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White House Seeks Settlement as Rail Strike Looms
President Truman hopes for a wage dispute settlement to avert a railroad strike set for next Tuesday. Mediation failed in Chicago, Douglass reports exhausted talks, and officials weigh government seizure as a last resort. Robertson says seizure would irritate the dispute. 190,000 railroad workers threaten a 30 percent wage increase and operating rule changes.
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Senator Taylor Plans Appeal After Disorderly Conduct Conviction
Idaho Democrat Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace third party vice presidential candidate, was convicted of disorderly conduct in Birmingham. Police Judge Oliver Hall fined him 50 dollars plus costs, 180 days in jail, but stayed the sentence and gave six months probation. Defense filed notice of appeal. Wallace warned the sentencing could destroy the Democratic party.
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Idaho
Henry Wallace
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Taylor
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U N Truce Committee Meets Arab Chieftains
United Nations truce commission reportedly meets Arab leaders possibly in Jericho to negotiate a halt in fighting over Jerusalem. Cease fire holds with sporadic violence. appeals urge peaceful cooperation while incumbents seek open city status and security zones across Jerusalem Haifa and Tiberias.
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Geneva
The
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Reactionary tag flies as Oregon senator sparks GOP split
Senator Morse of Oregon labels Republican colleagues reactionary after they shun his bid to form a liberal cadre within the party. He says four of his proposed members were excluded from a meeting at Senator Baldwin’s home, as Baldwin cited loyalty to regular party line.
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Woman emerges from 12 year sleep in Tennessee
In White Pine Tennessee on May 5 a 52 year old woman, Clara Runnels, has ended a 12 year period of illness described as a mild encephalitis by Dr Jarret Williams. She had not recognized anyone during the years she lay in bed until recently. Her first words since 1936 were spoken to her sister in law Alfred Sartain with whom she lives. Sartain reports a brief morning exchange that surprised her. Now Mrs Runnels moves about the house.
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White Pine
Tenn
Jarret Williams
Clara Runnels
Alfred Sartain
Battle over Oleo tax bill heats Senate vote
Washington May 5 backers won a 48 to 30 Senate vote to send the House passed oleo tax repeal measure to the Senate finance committee. Leaders said the outcome was not a gauge of the bill’s final fate, with supporters insisting finance offers better odds and opponents favoring agriculture.
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Vandenberg
Michigan
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Aiken
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Maybank
South Carolina
Belgium Prime Minister Spaak resigns coalition government
Brussels May 5 Prime Minister Paul Henri Spaak announced the resignation of his coalition cabinet in office since March 1947. Differences over school subsidies sparked the crisis and Spaak said the prince regent would begin consultations with political leaders to form a new government.
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Brussels
Paul Henri Spaak
Spaak
Foes of Draft Rally With Republican Leaders
Washington May 5 A conference of Senate and House Republican leaders was proposed to seek agreement on defense legislation including the draft and universal military training. Senate and House panels clash on manpower, with 161000 18 year olds drafted for one year in the Senate plan, while the House rejects training 18 year olds. Rep Leo Allen proposes bonuses for volunteers to avoid a draft and slow down UM T bills. Allen’s project asks 1.5 million dollars yearly for a community based recruiting push with two or three year enlistments and post-enlistment bonuses.
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House Committee
Leo Allen
Ill
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Andrews
R.N. Y
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Alabama bans Truman votes in state primary
Alabama Democrats move to block President Truman by pledging electoral votes to candidates opposed to civil rights. With incomplete returns, 21 of 28 candidates for 11 elector posts signed the pledge, and 11 leaders hail from that group. The state supreme court ruling allows them to vote for any man of their choice.
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Ala
Alabama
Truman
Supreme Court
Senator Taft Leading in Ohio G O P Primary Returns
In Columbus on May 5 Taft leads Stassen by 15 8 for the Ohio Republican presidential delegates with Taft likely to win the majority of the 23 contested slots. Early counts from 7 663 of 9 385 polling places show Taft ahead for several district and the at large delegate while Stassen gains but short of 12 promised delegates.
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Robert A. Taft
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Cincinnati
Harold E. Stassen
Taft
Earl Hart
Mrs. Stassen
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Stassen
Ed D. Schorr
Carrington T. Marshall
Minnesota
Lewis asks end to pension ban
John L. Lewis asked a federal court to dismiss Ezra Van Horn and miners welfare trustees’ bid to block $100 monthly pensions under a compromise plan. Bridges and Lewis oppose Van Horn, who cites an unclean hands claim. compromise funds $5 million initial, funded by a 10 cent per ton coal royalty.
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John L. Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Lewis
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
van Horn
Lewis and Bridges
Welfare Fund
Two Major Strike Threats Loom Over Rail and Auto Sectors
The Associated Press reports two large scale strike threats in rail and auto industries imminent in the nation with a third threatening New York metropolitan transit. A meat packing strike ongoing since March 16 adds to mounting labor tensions. Mediation efforts to avert a Tuesday walkout failed. About 190000 members of the Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen and the Switchmen's Union are involved.
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Truman Will Tour Pacific Northwest Planned West Coast Stop
Senator Magnuson said President Truman will tour the Pacific northwest during a trip to Berkeley for a University of California speech on June 12. He reported the president will stop in Spokane Seattle and Olympia Washington with a likely first stop in Chicago on June 4.
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Marshall Opposes UN Revision Without Russia
Secretary of State Marshall told Congress drastic UN revisions without Russia would likely destroy the organization and may spawn rival military alliances. He urged better use of the existing UN and cautioned lawmakers against impatience with Russia, stressing performance of obligations and fidelity to pledges over new structures. Mansfield said Latin America would back moves to curb the veto as hearings proceeded.
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Marshall
Congress
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U. N
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U. S
Witness faces more questioning in Noe case
New Orleans May 5. Cross-examination resumes in the trial of former Gov James A Noe charged with conspiring to influence a federal jury. Witness Hughes P Walmsley testified that Noe and ex State Senator Joe T Cawthorn asked him to assess the Burton jury panel and suggested he could profit from helping them.
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Hughes P. Walmsley
Noe
Joe T. Cawthorn
Mansfield
Lake Charles
William T. Burton
Cawthorn
Burton
Marcel la Branche
Walmsley
T. Semmes Walmsley
Henry E. Groffman
Bernard E. Hughes
Churchill to keynote western Europe unity at Hague conference
London May 5 Winston Churchill is slated to keynote a two day Hague conference aiming to unite western Europe politically and economically. 700 to 800 delegates from Marshall plan nuclei will attend the forum run by non party groups, with observers from Yugoslavia Romania Poland Spain and Czechoslovakia and 27 Labour MPs planning to attend.
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