Westbrook Pegler on Baseball Players and Unionization
Westbrook Pegler argues for strong players unions in baseball, recounting past labor struggles. He notes long contracts, employer control, and the 1919 World Series scandal as examples of exploitation. He highlights Cannon's defense for players and public indifference to labor grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood
White Sox
Charlie Comiskey
Cincinnati Reds
Reds
Arnold Rothstein
New York
Milwaukee
Cannon
Congress
Dick Kerr
Sox
Dallas
Lou Comiskey
Kerr
New Orleans Plans Referendum on Legalized Gambling
Mayor Morrison announced a May 28 referendum on his plan to legalize gambling in New Orleans. The proposal would tax and zone games of chance, operate 3,000 slot machines, and license 250 racing bookmakers, with revenue projected in the millions and aims to curb racketeers. Opposition includes the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation and the New Orleans Protestant Ministerial Union. The unofficial vote carries no legal status, and Morrison vows to abandon the plan if voters reject it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
de Lesseps S. Morrison
Commission Council
Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation
Louisiana
Morrison
Tarkington Dies in Indianapolis at 76
Booth Tarkington, famed Indiana author and two time Pulitzer winner for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, died last night at his Indianapolis home age 76. Funeral services set privately Tuesday at his home with Dr Russell Galloway officiating and burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Indianapolis
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
James Whitcomb Riley
Tarkington
Alice Adams
Willie Baxter, Jr
Little Orvie
Penrod
Monsieur Beaucaire
Russell Galloway
First Presbyterian Church
Crown Hill Cemetery
End of Agreed Work Periods For Miners And Railroads Soon
President Truman faces a demanding week as fast expiring truces threaten a nationwide transport crisis. Rail workers’ 4 p.m. Thursday deadline looms and bituminous miners may walk out two days later under two week interruption terms. Officials expect mine seizure by mid week as talks resume with Whitney and Johnston back in town and Steelman coordinating.
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Washington
Truman
John L. Lewis
Missouri
William Jewell College
Kansas City
A. F. Whitney
Alvanley Johnston
Engineers Brotherhoods
Whitney
Johnston
John R. Steelman
Peril and rescue at sea off New Jersey coast
Coast guard recounts two deep sea collisions near Barnegat Light and Shark Island Station. Vessels Abraham Baldwin, Santa Olivia, Tiberius, and Amiens involved. 17 aboard rescued from life boats after three hour search by plane, surface craft, and helicopter. no casualties reported.
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New York
Coast Guard
New Jersey
Abraham Baldwin
Santa Olivia
Barnegat Lght
Asbury Park
Atlantic City
Baldwin
Amiens
Shark Island
Louisiana legislature set for a rough second week
The Baton Rouge session resumes tonight with expected proposals to double the sales tax and legalize gambling by local option. Other measures include raising the natural gas gathering tax and placing intra state gas pipelines under the Public Service Commission, plus education funding via a one cent sales tax.
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Baton Rouge
Public Service Commission
John E. Coxe
W. J. Hair
Franklin
Pardon Board Asked to Hear Willie Francis Clemency
The Louisiana state pardon board was asked to hold a clemency hearing for Willie Francis, 18, condemned for murder after an attempted execution by electrocution on May 3 in St. Martinville. Petitions for clemency were filed by Judge James D. Simon and by attorneys Bertrand De Blanc, A. P. Tureaud, and Joseph A. Thornton.
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New Orleans
State Pardon Board
Willie Francis
St. Martinville
Louisiana Supreme Court
Laurence A. Sauer
James D. Simon
Bertrand DeBlanc
A. P. Tureaud
Joseph A. Thornton
Simon
Addison Jr. Survives Narrow Water Gun Explosion
Grover E. Addison Jr., 35, of Swartz, attended his brother Carl Addison’s wedding in Monroe on May 5. He was injured in a water well gun explosion at a Houston drilling firm shop, losing his left forefinger and suffering facial and abdominal wounds. He remains hospitalized in Memorial Hospital, Houston, as Mrs. Grover E. Addison Sr. stays with him.
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Grover E. Addison Jr
Swartz
Carl Addison
Beatrice Shamblin
Monroe
Memorial Hospital
Houston
Texas
Addison
New Orleans
Grover £. Addison Sr
Critical Next Few Food Weeks Called By Truman
President Truman told the international food conference that the weeks before the 1946 grain harvest will be critical for famine areas. He urged continued and heightened aid from the United States and others, as Herbert Hoover pressed for a new international food administration by September 1 to spur production and distribution.
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Washington
Truman
International Food Conference Today
United States
Agriculture Anderson
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Herbert Hoover
International Food Administration
Mr. Truman
Quintuplets skip gifts for their twelfth birthday
In Callander Ontario the Dionne quintuplets will turn 12 on May 28 with no presents. Instead they asked donations to a Catholic relief fund in the Vatican to aid Europe’s children. Father Oliva Dionne said the family will share one large cake and that the honors honor their wish to help other war orphaned kids.
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Callander
Ont
Dionne
Vatican
Europe
Oliva Dionne
Annette
Yvonne
Emilie
Cecile
Mari
Ontario
Congress Near Rivers Debates Over Massive Harbors Bill
Washington May 30 Congress debates a giant rivers and harbors bill that would authorize hydroelectric power navigation irrigation and flood control projects costing at least a billion dollars. Initial projects total about 600 million with future legislation to follow as the army engineers proceed.
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Washington
Congress
Army Engineers
Roosevelt
Truman
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
House
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
White House
MacArthur orders halt to mass political demonstrations in Tokyo
General MacArthur demanded a stop to mass leftist demonstrations aimed at Yoshida as he sought a conservative cabinet. He warned disorderly elements that violence and intimidation would not be tolerated, citing recent protests and labor actions while rallying support for stability under occupation.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Shigeru Yoshida
Yoshida
Home Ministry
Frayne Baker
Supreme Headquarters
Popular Front
L. E. Bunker
Imperial Palace
Truman Visits Home Folks in Missouri On Way to Governor Conference
President Truman, in Missouri for a governors conference in Oklahoma City May 27, spent a brief homecoming. He greeted family, old friends, and his 93 year old mother at Grandview. A press conference focused on labor issues, which he declined to discuss.
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Kansas City
Truman
Martha Truman
Jackson County
Tiny William Jewell College
Liberty
Grandview
Washington
Mary Jane Truman
Vivian
Vivian Truman
Secret Service
Frank Haggerty
Roger T. Sermon
Independence
Oklahoma City
Truman Visits Folks at Home
North Louisiana east Texas and south Arkansas endured a 50 mph storm that damaged homes, disrupted power, and felled timber from Shreveport to Morgan City. Injuries were minor, several deaths attributed to the storm, and widespread outage and damage reported across Rodessa Atlanta Texarkana and surrounding areas.
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Shreveport
Louisiana
East
Texas
Arkansas
Bossier City
George Willis
Tri-State
Morgan City
Berwick
Bay
New Orleans
S. J. Bowles
Lafayette
Albert Holt
Atlanta
Tex
Dashie Thomas
Bloomburg
Hennagin Kidd
Texarkana
Virgil Gains
Roedessa
West Side Baptist
Rodessa
Gaines
Presbyterian Church
Two Legislative Proposals Hit Louisiana Gas Industry
Baton Rouge May 20 Special Two bills face the legislature affecting gas taxation and intrastate rate setting. A three cent per thousand feet gas gathering tax is proposed by Colonel P A Frye, with a companion measure giving the state public service commission power to fix intrastate gas rates. Representative Morris A Lottinger will introduce both, with co sponsors likely. Opponents warn the tax would hinder industrial expansion, boosting Louisiana firms’ disadvantage against Texas. The administration has not yet taken a stand.
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Revenue Code Commission
Commission
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State Public Service Commission
P. A. Frye
Frye
Public Service Commission
Morris A. Lottinger
Terrebonne Parish
Texas
Jimmie Davis
American woman dies after fall in Frankfurt headquarters
A 23 year old U S war department typist Miss Dorothy Knapp of Port Richmond Staten Island died after falling from a second floor apartment in the U S army captain's headquarters in Frankfurt. Lieut Col Redmond J Connolly said the death appeared accidental and the captain's name was withheld. The fall occurred about 7 a m and she died 12 hours later at the 97th general hospital.
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Frankfurt
U. S
Redmond J. Connolly
New York
97Th General Hospital
Connolly
Dorothy Knapp
Port Richmond
Staten Island
N. Y
War Department
United States
Byrnes Sets 9 P.M. Radio Report on Paris Talks
Secretary of State Byrnes will address the nation at 9 p.m. Eastern Time over ABC and NBC radio networks. He returned by air Saturday after attending the Paris foreign ministers conference.
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Washington
Byrnes
Paris
ABC
NBC
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Pegler
Riley
Meredith Nicholson
George Ade
George Barr McCutcheon
Susannah
Betty Trotter
John T. Jameson
Jameson
Sagamore
Gentian
Tors and Reform Groups
Carley Zarick
Tampa
Pla
Luxembourg
Zarick
Pardon Board
G. E. Addison, JR
Bill
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