Fair Enough Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler
The piece lauds a union funded eight room home for Charles and Ethel Collins new parents of quadruplets in New York across the Henry Hudson bridge. Paul Schoenstein and Tom Cleere are credited for driving the effort while critics note the broader tension between unions and capitalists and social equity.
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New York
Pegler
Henry Hudson Bridge
Charles
Ethel Collins
Paul Schoenstein
New York Journal-American
Tom Cleere
Collinses
Mr. Schoenstein
Justice Douglas
Mr. Cleere
Austrians Calm Amid Deadlocking Vienna Treaty Talks
Vienna notes calm reaction as Austria endures potential occupation after Russia blocks progress in London. Western deputies defend Trieste issue as unrelated. Schaerf faults cold war, citing two power blocs vying for control while Allies move to ease occupation and await Moscow’s reply.
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London
Trieste
Adolf Schaerf
Austria
U. S
Russia
United States
Britain
Lafargue to Open Race Wednesday
Shreveport Louisiana May 23 Malcolm LaFargue a candidate for the U S senate seat held by Russell Long will open his campaign with a statewide radio address at 645 p m CST tomorrow He has accepted an invitation to speak at Marksville his birthplace at 2 p m next Saturday Mayor D H Riddle extended the invitation during an endorsement of LaFargue s candidacy
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Shreveport
Malcolm LaFargue
U. S
Russell Long
LaFargue
Marksville
D. H. Riddle
Voting Machines In All Parishes Questioned
Louisiana legislators consider mandating voting machines in every parish after July 28 1951 with the state paying all costs except for parishes under 50 000. Orleans and East Baton Rouge currently use machines while Calcasieu and Caddo prepare for July primary. Reimer Calhoun also seeks federal wage minimum job offers for unemployment recipients and a 140 million dollar highway bond program for Gov. Earl Long.
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Baton Rouge
Reimer Calhoun
Calhoun
Louisiana
Orleans
East Baton Rouge
Calcasieu
Caddo
Earl Long
House Committee On Public Roads and Highways
Light vote noted at Monroe bond election polls
Very light turnout by 11 30 am in Monroe bond election covering 2 5 million dollars for both white and colored schools. Precincts report low casts with 22 of 200 registered, 15 of 213, nine of 125, 17 of 114, and 28 of several hundred voting. Polls close at 6 pm. If approved funds fund renovations and new schools including Neville High gym, a Park Avenue elementary, and a Newtown elementary, plus a new colored high and elementary.
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Monroe
Georgia Tucker School
Northeast Junior College
Lee and Jackson
Tidwell Bros
South Grand Street
Powell and Harrison
Park Avenue
Marie Place
Neville High
Monroe Colored High
Newtown
Seventeen Rescued After Flying Boat Sinks Near Kwajalein
In an open water takeoff at Maleolap Atoll 270 miles from Kwajalein, a navy flying boat struck a submerged object and sank. Seventeen crew and passengers were rescued uninjured as Kwajalein base advised Hawaiian sea frontier. Survivors to be picked up by surface craft. radio contact maintained.
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Maleolap Atoll
Kwajalein
Hawaiian Sea Frontier
Kwajalein Naval Base
Sea Frontier
P.E.M
Fate of Truman reorganization plans hung in Senate
Washington May 23 The fate of the last three controversial Truman reorganization plans hung in the Senate with a mid day vote on the commerce department plan and two minor plans set for later. The 21 plans submitted March 13 face a 60 day deadline. Easter recess extended the limit to tonight. A Hoover commission backed 20 of 21 plans while one to reorganize the labor relations board was rejected. Forty nine votes are required for passage.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Commerce Department
Capitol Hill
House
Hoover
National Labor Relations Board
Washington signals no plan to send troops abroad
Officials today said the administration has no plan to bolster North Atlantic defenses with American troops. While B-29 bombers are stationed in Britain, no reinforcement proposal has been made. Vice President Barkley floated a possible future role for American occupation forces, but others deem it speculative and not under serious consideration at London talks.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Britain
Barkley
New Orleans
England
Continent
Draft inductions may be necessary in Indianapolis
May 23 Draft inductions may be necessary soon says the selective service director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Manpower experts worry about a recruiting slump as he inspects the selective service organization. No inductions will be ordered until Congress acts to extend the peacetime draft law beyond June 24.
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Indianapolis
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Washington
Selective Service Organization
Hershey
Congress
Gilbert Mayor And Marshal Attacked
In Winnsboro Louisiana on Monday night the McDonald family attacked Gilbert Mayor A G Corbitt and City Marshal J D Jones during a disruption in court Charles McDonald 21 was already jailed for disturbing the peace when the melee occurred Deputies were summoned to restore order and both Charles McDonald 26 and his brother J C McDonald were jailed for attempted murder Mrs Cato McDonald was later arrested and released on bond while other McDonalds remained sought Deputy sheriffs Travis Bass and Mack Rogillio aided in the arrests Jones sustained a head laceration and bruises while Corbitt also suffered injuries
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Winnsboro
McDonald
Gilbert
Harry Anders
Charles McDonald
Charles
A. G. Corbitt
J. D. Jones
McDonalds
Anders
Corbitt
Franklin Parish
Mack Rogillio
Marshal Jones
Worry at Need of Tax Boosts
Washington May 23 Congress tax law writers eyed scarce revenue sources as a capital gains tax revision would cut about 175 million dollars annually. Treasury says current action leaves 760 million short. Truman urges three new revenue streams: higher corporate levies, larger inheritance taxes, and other measures.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Department
Truman
Treasury
Truman Weighs Timing of Congress Adjournment
Washington May 23 Administration leaders delayed a decision on adjournment timing until next week. Senate Majority Leader Lucas said Truman will discuss fair deal goals with congressional leaders, as pressure builds to end the session by August 1 for reelection campaigns.
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Senate
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McCormack
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Illinois
Civil Defense Plan Readied For A Bomb Worried Cities
Washington May 23 An emergency civil defense plan will be prepared this summer for A bomb worried cities. NSRB plans a fill in program based on surveys in Washington Seattle and Chicago assuming atomic bombing. By September 1 a more permanent plan for states and communities is expected. NSRB stresses no policy change and that federal guidance will persist with most costs on local governments. Eric Biddle chairs the committee coordinating with Washington Seattle and Chicago officials. A meeting was held yesterday with Washington officials and pri
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National Securities Resources Board
NSRB
Seattle
Chicago
NLRB
Eric Biddle
Pri
Rail Parley Under Way Aims to Avert Western Strike
Government begun union management talks to head off a June 1 walkout by 6,000 Switchmen's Union of North America workers in yards west of Chicago. Demands include 40 hour week with 48 hour pay, time and a half Saturday, double time Sunday. Other unions pressed similar 40 hour, pay hikes.
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Western Railroads
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Vital Yard
Chicago
Francis A. O'Neill, Jr
National Mediation Board
Switchmen's Union
Daniel P. Loomis
Western Carriers Conference Committee
Arthur J. Glover
Switchmen's
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Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Order of Railway Conductors
Verret Urges Better Louisiana School Buildings Not Free Lunches
Calcasieu parish representative Jesse Verret urged replacing hot lunch programs with funds for school buildings. He described sixty to seventy five percent of schools as unfit and criticized the state’s $11,000,000 free lunch request. Verret, principal of La Grange High School in Lake Charles, called for tax reductions or targeted lunches for needy children.
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Baton Rouge
Jesse Verret
Calcasieu Parish
Louisiana
Verret
la Grange
Lake Charles
Shelby Jackson
50 000 Man Force Reportedly Built
The United States Britain and France accuse Russia of creating a 50,000 man German military force and demand its disbandment. Western powers protest to Moscow citing breach of postwar pledges and an eastern Germany police force with the character of an army.
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John Scali
Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Germany
Louisiana Senate approves hospital bill transfer of functions
A Louisiana senate committee unanimously approved a bill to move mental health, hospital construction and planning, the dental trailer system, and related duties from the state hospital board to the state board of health. Senator R. E. King said the shift aligns with federal agreement and strengthens coordination. The panel also backed creating a state hospital commissioner in the governor’s office to advise hospitals.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Senate
State Hospital Board
State Board of Health
R. E. King
Winnsboro
Sen. King
United States Public Health Service
Health Service
Top Officers of Big Mo Reassigned
Norfolk Va May 23 The navy reassigned the four top officers aboard the battleship Missouri after she ran aground January 17 in Chesapeake Bay. Capt William D Brown former skipper now commands a subordinate group of the Atlantic reserve fleet at Green Cove Springs Fla Lt Cmdr Frank G Morris Jr former navigator was sent to the surface antisubmarine detachment at Key West Fla Cmdr John R Millett former operations officer assigned to the Defense Department s research and development board in Washington Cmdr George E Peckham the ship s executive officer ordered to Stanford University for graduate work in personnel administration Ships of Brown s command are in inactive status and Millett, Morris and Peckham were previously convicted by courts martial and reduced in rank.
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Norfolk
Navy
Missouri
Chesapeake Bay
William D. Brown
John R. Millett
Frank G. Morris
Brown
Big Mo
Green Cove Springs
Fla
Millett
Department of Defense
Research and Development Board
Washington
Morris
Key West
George E. Peckham
Stanford University
Father Is Freed In Mercy Killing
Detroit May 23 A jury of nine women and three men acquitted Eugene Braunsdorf of murder in the mercy killing of his crippled daughter Virginia 29 after deliberating two hours The 52 year old former symphony musician was found innocent by reason of insanity Braunsdorf a bass fiddler in the Detroit Symphony killed his daughter last year He pleaded temporary insanity from worry over her future and loss of his job in the orchestra which had folded earlier
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Symphony
Braunsdorf
Virginia
Detroit Symphony
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