Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler Letter Attacks Tax Increase
A copperhead letter, cited in the Roosevelt era sense, denounces paying a $50,000 tax free pay rise and a non political trip, urging prison for the offender. It quotes a widow whose husband served 30 years at New York Telephone, died Dec 13, 1948 after cancer and multiple surgeries, arguing for company death benefits and loyal service interpretations.
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Copperhead
Roosevelt
Truman
Treasury
Department of Justice
Law and Justice
New York Telephone Company
Atomic Plant Strike Hits Oak Ridge Project
A wildcat strike by AFL laborers and hodcarriers shuts down the mammoth atomic plant construction in Oak Ridge Tennessee. Craftsmen joined in, halting work on the $227 million project after an arbitration board decision on wage dispute with Local 818 and J M Maxon Construction Co. The union denies authorizing the walkout, while officials warn the project may threaten national security if not resolved.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Laborers
Hodcarriers
Atomic Energy Commission
John S. Turner
Turner
Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel
J. M. Maxon Construction Co
290 Persons to Die on Memorial Day
The National Safety Council warned that about 290 people will be killed in Memorial Day weekend traffic across the nation during a four day holiday period with nearly 30 million vehicles on the move. Council president Ned H Dearborn said the death toll could be halved if motorists exercised extra caution and courtesy.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Two Livestock Bills Beaten In Louisiana House Committee
Baton Rouge May 25 A rural agriculture panel killed three highway animal ban measures. Two bills stopping cattle from Louisiana roads were defeated 15 to 4. a third would let parishes vote against it. Bills on toll bridges and four-laning the Airline highway moved forward. Senate moves included rent-control abolition and offshore storage facilities. Continued on Fifth Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
House
Louisiana
Agriculture Committee
House Judiciary
W. George Bowden, Jr
Alexandria
Laurance Eustis
New Orleans
Eustis
State Department of Highways
Public Service Commission
Charles Duchein
East Baton Rouge
Orleans - Baton Rouge
Senate
A. J. O'Keefe
Bernard Trappey
New Iberia
Earl Long
Commissioner of Conservation
Truman rejects plan for national security commission
President Truman at a news conference rejects a Washington Post proposal to form a bipartisan national security commission. He says no reason for a super government and that he will run the government under the Constitution while work on the defense budget continues.
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Truman
Washington
Commission On National Security
Washington Post
Bipartisan Commission
Post
General Electric workers vote on union representation
Thousands of General Electric employees across 57 plants vote to choose between the CIO's new International Union of Electrical Workers and the CIO expelled United Electrical Workers. NLRB oversees the balloting with results due after midnight from Baltimore. The outcome may split GE plants among the rival unions and influence the broader labor struggle.
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Baltimore
General Electric
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
G. E
New International Union of Electrical Workers
United Electrical Workers
U. E
Maurice J. Tobin
Philip Murray
Albert Fitzgerald
Murray-Tobin
Fitzgerald
General Motors
James B. Carey
Radio Corporation of America
Westinghouse Nlrb
Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Heckled Gen Clay Calls Berliners to Freedom Rally
In New York on May 25 Gen Lucius D. Clay abandoned a prepared speech at a Berlin rally after a heckler disrupted the event. He urged Berliners to summon moral strength to prevent uprisings and warned Russians, noting patience as freedom rises. Police cleared 1,000 pickets outside Town Hall amid the disturbance.
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New York
Lucius D. Clay
Berlin
Germany
Town Hall
Clay
Notori
States Rights Challenge Made in Dallas Dinner Showdown
About 100 States Rights Democrats met in Dallas on May 25 to denounce President Truman’s FEPC and challenge the Texas party’s black and tan faction to approve or disapprove the measure at a Austin dinner. Leander Perez led the rally condemning the Truman-Pendergast direction as socialist, naming six program elements and praising Texas senators Connally and Johnson for opposing FEPC.
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Dallas
States Rights Democrats
Truman Democrats
Texas Party
Austin
Leander Perez
Washington
F. R. Carlton
Texas
Tom Connally
Lyndon B. Johnson
FEPC
W. M. Holland
Southern Democratic Club
Perez
Republican
Henry Wallace
Homefolks Honor Returned Prisoner in Long Beach
In Long Beach California 1500 people lined the streets to greet William C. Smith a Navy electrician's mate and former prisoner of Chinese Communists after 18 months. Mayor Burton Chace presented him the keys to the city at a block party that spilled into surrounding blocks. Smith declared he felt on top of the world. Marine Sgt Elmer Bender arrived with family from Glenview Illinois but could not attend.
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Long Beach
Calif
William C. Smith
Navy
Burton Chace
Smith
Elmer Bender
Glenview
Ill
Marine Corps Public Information Office
Los Angeles
Loan Approved for Valley Electric in Louisiana
Washington May 25 The Rural Electrification Administration approved a 335000 loan for Valley Electric Membership Corp located in Natchitoches Louisiana.
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Valley Electric Membership Corp
Natchitoches
Bergman and Rossellini Wed in Juarez Proxy Ceremony
Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman were married by proxy in Juarez Mexico breaking delays in the US Sweden and Italy. The ceremony at 12 noon EST was performed by Judge Raul Orozco with Juarez lawyers signing the register. The couple announced the marriage in Rome with Rossellini saying it would be officially registered there and recognized locally.
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Rome
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman
Juarez
Mexico
United States
Sweden
Italy
Miss Bergman
Raul Orozco
Rio Grande
el Paso
Javier Alvarez
Rossellini
Arturo Gomez Trevino
Marcello Girosi
New York
William A. Cocke
U. S
Mediterranean
Ingrid
Congress to Aid Widow of Flier in North Dakota
Minot, N D May 23 Congress will be asked to act to settle Mary Osaddy's account with the federal government. The elderly widow received 2350 in independent benefits after her son, an air force member killed in 1943, died over the North Sea. She returned 1250 plus farm proceeds. A 60 monthly pension since March 1944 was approved retroactive to February. Osaddy is happy though she owes 1100. The ND veterans affairs commissioner will push Congress to cancel the debt.
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Minot
N. D
Pi- Congress
Mary Osaddhy
Air Force
North Sea
George Bertelsen
Veterans Administration
Osaddhy
Floyd Henderson
North Dakota
Veterans’ Affairs
Congress
Sawyer Given More Power
President Truman expands the commerce department's scope elevating Charles Sawyer to supervise maritime affairs and, if Congress approves a pending reorganization, to run the Reconstruction Finance Corporation lending operations in July. Sawyer, a Cincinnati lawyer and former Ohio official, now oversees a vast agency and holds multiple past positions and business interests.
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Washington
Truman
Department of Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cincinnati
Sawyer
Harry Truman
Ohio
Belgium
Luxembourg
Cincinnati Reds
Lancaster
Eagle Gazette
Hollywood director Lloyd French dies of heart attack
Lloyd French, 50, long time director of nearly 300 movie comedies, died of a heart attack in Hollywood. Born in San Francisco, he joined Hal Roach in 1919, stayed 14 years, later worked for Warner Bros. and other studios, directing both the first and last Laurel and Hardy shorts.
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Hollywood
Lloyd French
San Francisco
Hal Roach
Warner Bros
Tooke Fights Prisoner Road Labor Display in Senate
Louisiana's Senate rejected by one vote a bill to employ state prisoners on East and West Feliciana parish roads. Senator Tooke compared the plan to a Georgia chain gang and opposed displaying convicts. The measure would have kept prisoners from Angola on parish roads by day and returned them to the penitentiary at night. The Senate also approved bills creating a hospital commissioner and transferring hospital planning and construction duties to the state board of health, now headed to the House.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Senate
Angola
State Hospital Board
State Board of Health
House of Representatives For
Louisiana bill seeks transfer of 10 million to highway fund
Baton Rouge leaders introduced a bill to move ten million dollars from the welfare fund reserve to the state highway fund. The welfare reserve, built in 1948 at twenty five million, has been drawn down to aid pensions and other aid programs as welfare department tightens rules. If funds are lacking, sales tax receipts would cover the transfer to highway to ensure continuity of road work.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
House
Welfare Department
Lawrence Higgins
Lorris Wimberly
Bienville
John McKeithen
Caldwell
McKeithen
Highway Department
Three Binaggio Henchmen Indicted for Tax Evasion
Kansas City May 25 three henchmen of the Charles Binaggio nationwide political organization were indicted by a federal grand jury on income tax evasion charges. The trio includes gambler Walter L. Rainey Samuel Baby Goldberg and Johnny The Mag Mangiaracina.
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Kansas City
Charles Binaggio
Nortdwide
Walter L. Rainey
Samuel
Jen Baby) Goldberg
Johnny
the Mag
McGrath Boy Recovers Stolen Bicycle
David J. McGrath son of the attorney general had his bicycle recovered by Washington police within hours of reporting it stolen. Officers found the bike abandoned in an alley about four blocks from the McGrath home.
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Washington
David J. McGrath
David
McGrath
House Passes Mild Draft Extension Advises M Day
The House approved by 216 to 11 a two year standby selective service bill keeping draft registration and classification for 18 year olds through 1952 while prohibiting inductions until a national emergency is declared. Members urged a total war mobilization plan with NSRB to accompany peacetime registration.
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House
Washington
Senate
National Security Resources Board
NSRB
Rep
Vinson
D.-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
W. Stuart Symington
NLRB
Air
Louisiana lawmakers press Truman to arm Israel
Baton Rouge lawmakers urged President Truman to supply Israel with weapons if Britain continues rearment of Arab states. A concurrent resolution adopted without opposition condemned British arms funding of Arab regions and called for Israel to receive necessary warfare gear to resist aggression. Introduced by Reps. Edwin F. Hunter Jr., Wellborn Jack, and Jimmy Boyd.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Truman
Israel
House
Dean Acheson
Near East
Great Britain
Edwin F. Hunter, Jr
Wellborn Jack
Jimmy Boyd
State license proposal for loan chain branches discussed
A proposal in the house sets a top state license fee of 35 per branch for a small loan chain with 10 or more offices. Representative Dudley Seamans of West...
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Baton Rouge
Dudley Seamans
West
Louisiana House seeks state supervision of midwives
Three Louisiana representatives introduced a bill to place midwives under the state board of health. It aims to curb criminal abortion by midwives, especially in New Orleans, by requiring an exam and granting revocation for violations. Violations could bring up to a 100 dollar fine and 90 days in jail. Other authors include Reps. J. R. Fernandez and C. R. Brownell.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana House of Representatives
State Board of Health
New Orleans
M. W. Hargrove
Allen Parish
State Board
J. R. Fernandez
St. John
C. R. Brownell
St. Mary
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Gen. Clay
Ous Ilse Koch
Buchenwald
Baylor
Southern Methodist
F. M. Acree
Charles L. McCormick
Greenville
Miss
Washington County
Tunica Country
Tunica
Turkey
Bergman and
Rosselini
Tooke
State Penitentiary
Georgia
E. M. Toler
Clinton
Binaggio
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