Hollywood talk in Washington on June Havoc and Danny Kaye
Westbrook Pegler discusses political theater in Washington with references to June Havoc as a party nominee and Danny Kaye as a war era figure now opposing anti free speech forces. He notes Kaye’s Brooklyn birth and wartime film The Kid From Brooklyn while hinting at Cold War era pressures on entertainers.
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Washington
Hollywood
June Havoc
U.S. A
Communist Party
Miss June Havoc
Danny Kaye
Home Front
Freedom
Hollywood Shock
Thamas Committee On un-American
Humphrey Bogart
Danny
David Daniel Kaminsky
Brooklyn
Brownsville
Fort Jay
Nine B 29s Fail Tokyo Run Fuel Shortage Hits Mission
Nine B 29 planes and about 100 crew members return to Fort Worth after failing to reach Tokyo due to use of old gasoline. The error over aromatic fuel shortages in forward areas sparked confusion about fuel type and supply lines.
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Honolulu
Fort Worth
Texas
Tokyo
Japan
Seventh Airforce
Hawaii
Ralph H. @ooten
Airforce
Pacific Way
William F. Savoie
Eighth Airforce
White Way May Be Glow by Christmas in Monroe
Utilities Commissioner W. D. H. Rodrigo announced that the long delayed White Way decorative lighting system in Monroe’s business district should be completed before Christmas. Humble and Humble will begin constructing concrete bases for 47 ornamental posts, then city crews will wire and install bulbs from on hand stock. The Chamber of Commerce retail division awaits a cost estimate from a special committee, as the council agreed to provide current for the lights while the city cannot cover the decorations expenses.
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Monroe
W. D. H. Rodrigo
Humble
City Light Department
Chamber of Commerce
President can reinstate credit curbs to curb inflation
Rep. Wolcott says Truman could act without new congress if emergency powers are invoked. He notes Regulation W ended Nov 1 and an escape clause allows orders for higher down payments up to 109 percent. Advisers urged restoration. new limits would require a formal emergency declaration and congressional action.
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Washington
Truman
Wolcott
Michigan
House Banking Committee
Congress
Council of Economic Advisers
Federal Reserve Board
Wolco‘t
Fields disputes Clark on tidelands case issues
Harvey G. Fields, candidate for state attorney general, rejects comparisons between the California tidelands oil case and Louisiana. He argues Louisiana will not lose royalty money and cites possible paths to preserving tidelands and minerals, responding to remarks by U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark in New Orleans.
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Farmerville
California Tidelands
Louisiana
Harvey G. Fields
American Municipal League
U. S
Tom Clark
New Orleans
Mr. Fields
California
President Truman sends greetings to Soviet Union on holiday
President Truman issued a brief message to Nikolai Shvernik, president of the presidium, offering sincere greetings to the people of the Soviet Union on the national anniversary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The note omitted references to Soviet officials and followed last year’s wording. State Department released the message without comment.
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Washington
Truman
Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik
Presidium
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Soviet Union
United States
Bright Little Schoolgirl Police Case Heroine Here
Nine year old Sondra Anderson found a billfold containing sixty dollars at Oak and Catalpa streets. She chased the thief, R T Williams, until police captured him and recovered the wallet for Mrs Hazel Ivy Moor at Oak Street. Williams was jailed on theft charges. the child’s accuracy aided the arrest.
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Hazel Ivy Moor
Oak Street
Sondra Anderson
South Sixth Street
Central Grammar School
Oak and
Catalpa Streets
R. T. Williams
South 22Nd Street
Tax cuts delayed to January at special session
Republican leaders indicate no tax reduction action at the November 17 special session. Knutson of Minnesota says the $4,000,000,000 tax cut will likely be pushed to January, with taxes first on the agenda when Congress reconvenes. Speaker Martin favors postponement due to limited time for foreign aid and economic measures.
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Washington
Republican High Command
Congress
Knutson
Minnesota
House
Ways and Means Committee
Martin
Minnesotan
R-Mass
Rep. Halleck
Louisiana gubernatorial hopefuls win eligibility reconsideration
Judge Leo W. McCune in Gretna restored 22 of 24 disqualified candidates to eligibility after Plaquemines Parish Democratic committee barred them two weeks earlier over filing fees. The move favored candidates aligned with Sam Jones and James H. Morrison amid a Persz Maestri Long faction dispute.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Leo W. McCune
Gretna District Court
Plaquemines Parish
Democratic Executive Committee
Roland Cocreham
Sam Jones
McCune
Jones
James H. Morrison
Leander Persz
Earl K. Long
Baton Rouge
Civil Service
Davis Wounded by Pistol Shot at Home Cafe
W. R. Davis, 29, of 06 Moore Avenue, was treated at St Francis Sanatorium for a slight gun wound to the right leg after a pistol discharged from his coat pocket at the Home Cafe on Louisville Avenue shortly after 2 a m. He had just returned from Arkansas where he bought cars for Earl Motor Co. and says the pistol may have fired when keys in the same pocket tangled with the trigger. Monroe police are investigating. Davis previously survived a hold-up near Alexandria in early spring and has carried the gun for protection.
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W. R. Davis
Moore Avenue
St. Francis Sanitarium
Louisville Avenue
Davis
Arkansas
Earl Motor Company
Monroe
Alexandria
Food Officials Stand Firm Against Hens for Harry Protest
Washington crowds denounce poultryless Thursdays with crates of chickens from Hens for Harry and Leghorns for Luckman. Charles Luckman cites better grain-saving methods. White House notes poultry destined for Walter Reed Hospital. Two New York farmers send birds to underscore grain needs for Europe.
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Washington
Citizens Food Committee
Harry
Luckman
Charles Luckman
Salvation Army
Los Angeles
Poultrymen's Association
White House
Truman
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Maryland
New York
Thomas Albright
Athens
Henry J. Kreher
East Amherst
Europe
Anderson
London Trains Wrecked in Fog Killing Five
In dense fog London suffered three suburban train crashes killing at least five and injuring about 80. Police reported deaths at Motspur Park and Herne Hill, with others hurt at Euston. buses and planes were canceled and rescue work was hampered by zero visibility. Railway officials planned staged connections to bypass the wrecked lines.
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London
Weather Bureau
Britain
Waterloo Station
Empire Pool
Wembley
Motspur Park
Herne Hill
Euston
Unions Denied Ballot Place in Taft-Hartley Era
The National Labor Relations Board blocked unions that refuse the non-Communist oath from appearing on bargaining election ballots. The IAM petition led to a ruling against the C I O Wholesale and Warehouse Workers at Sigmund Cohn Inc New York Metal Plant. The NLRB also threw out seven other pre Taft Hartley cases and noted broader organizing advantages for compliant unions.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
International Association of Machinists
Giant Independent
New York
Sigmund Cohn, Inc
Cohn
A. F. of L
Carpenters
NLRB
Loakis
John L. Lewis
Miscellaneous District 50
United Construction Workers
United Mine Workers
A. F. of L. International
Tornado pounds Galiano Louisiana killing two and wounding ten
A funnel shaped storm struck Galiano six miles north of Golden Meadow last night leaving a 500 foot path of destruction. Two sisters died and ten people were injured with nine homes and a store destroyed. Damage estimated at $100000. Local shelters and hospitals assisted victims as rescue workers searched for missing persons.
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Golden Meadow
Galiano
Henry Danes
Frazie Pitre
Whitney Hebert
Thibodaux and
Houma
Stephen Hebert
Edward Charpentier
Lonnie Parker
Marvin Potter
Martha Lou Potter
Thibodaux
Broussard
Bayou Lac Fourche
New Orleans
Lafourche Parish
Bayou Lafourche
Federice Theriot
Charles Barker
Barker
Louisiana
Mississippi
United States Weather Bureau
Roosevelt aides linked to Hughes wartime contract
Retired Major General Bennett E. Meyers testified before a Senate war subcommittee that President Roosevelt, Jesse Jones, and other powerful figures in Washington showed interest in a 1943 Hughes contract. He read a 1943 telephone exchange with Robert Lovett in which Lovett noted Hughes had powerful friends in Washington.
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Washington
Air Force
Roosevelt
Jesse Jones
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Bennett E. Meyers
Senate War Investigating
Robert Lovett
Lovett
Meyers
Ferguson
Republican
Michigan
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Woman Dies After Eight Story Fall at New Orleans Hospital
Emma Morris Parenton, 25, died from injuries after plunging eight stories from Baptist Hospital almost two weeks earlier. A banana tree cushioned her landing, saving her life briefly, but she suffered a fractured spine and pelvis and internal injuries. Her husband Woodrow Parenton said she jumped due to fear of going insane and being a burden.
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New Orleans
Baptist Hospital
Emma Morris Parenton
Russia parades military power in Red Square anniversary
Moscow marked the Bolshevik revolution's 30th anniversary with a massive Red Square parade as Soviet leaders urged support against a new imperialist war. Marshal Bulganin warned of postwar shifts, praising democracy and socialism while criticizing capitalism.
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London
Russia
Moscow
Red Square
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Moscow Radio
Nikolai Bulganin
Bus Struck by Bullet Near Brandon Amid Strike Violence
Jackson Mississippi reports a bullet hit a Southern Bus Lines coach near Brandon as violence against the employer escalates. The target bus, in a wave of strikes, follows recent shootings and a terminal explosion, with guards proposed but not deployed.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi Highway Patrol Today
Southern Bus Lines, Inc
Brandon
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