Fair Enough Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler
Washington dispatch reports eighteen state legislatures have asked Congress to convene a constitutional convention to cap income, estate, and gift taxes at 25 percent. Illinois and Iowa revoked their action, leaving sixteen states still backing the limit. Pegler argues federal tax appetite erodes state sovereignty and cites Roosevelt, A D A critiques, and fears a Soviet style national unity.
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Washington
Congress
Illinois
Iowa
Wyoming
Rhode Island
Mississippi
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Indiana
Arkansas
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Texas
Wisconsin
Alabama
Kentucky
New Jersey
New Hampshire
American Taxpayers’ Association
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
Americans For Democratic Action
United States
Soviet Russia
Truman Pledges Aid In Creating Abundance For All Countries
President Truman pledged U S cooperation to create an abundance of food for all countries during the annual meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He called it a major cooperative effort toward a stable peaceful world, citing the point four program to boost food production in under developed areas and offering U S expertise and technical aid. He did not address a world food bank proposal.
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Truman
Washington
United States
The
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
World Food Bank
Louisiana Welfare study cites 9.1 percent aid load rise
Louisiana's public assistance rose to 9.1 percent of residents as 239,758 people received aid after a 69,045 increase last year. Sam R. Carter notes roots in low per capita income, aging population, wartime housing damage, and unmet needs, with 42 percent below health standards and 37 percent unemployed due to illness or layoffs.
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Baton Rouge
State Department of Welfare
Louisiana Welfare
Sam R. Carter
Louisiana
Carter
Department
Cold snap hits Louisiana and Mississippi with frost warnings
The coldest weather of the season moved into Louisiana and Mississippi with temperatures dropping into the twenties in places like Monroe Louisiana and West Point Mississippi. By 9 a.m. readings rose into the 30s and 40s though lingering frost was forecast for both states along with several warmth-deprived areas to face more cold overnight.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
West Point
Monroe
Corinth
Miss
Laurel
Shreveport
Lake Charles
Lafayette
Baton Rouge
Jackson
Hattiesburg
Vicksburg
Gulfport
New Orleans
Cold northerly winds sweep eastern half of nation
Cold northerly winds whipped across the eastern half of the nation driving temperatures to their autumn lows. The frostbitten weather stretched from the Rockies to New England and dipped into much of the South, with Florida and southern Georgia mostly spared, while some areas saw light snow flurries in a narrow band of wisps.
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Associated Press
Rockies
New England
Southland
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Blood drive appeal for Miss Cox at St Francis Sanitarium
Miss June Cox of the News Star World advertising staff lies in serious condition at St Francis Sanitarium. She requires blood transfusions and will owe $25 per pint. A local appeal seeks volunteers to donate a pint of blood to cover the treatment cost, offering a chance to do a good deed in a time of need.
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June Cox
News- Star—World
St. Francis Sanitarium
Cox
Paint Raid At Tulane Leads To 18 LSU Students Held
In New Orleans 18 Louisiana State University youths were booked after a paint raid on Tulane University. About 250 students roamed the area painting taunts on homes, fraternity porches, business fronts and university buildings. Police chased offenders on foot as officers Diaz Kimble Lentz and Niedermeier helped detain them. The incident followed a back and forth taunting campaign tied to an upcoming football game.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State University
Seventh Precinct
Tulane University
Tulane
Eugene Diaz
Jules Kimble
George Lentz
Clemence Niedermeier
Bedlam
Baton Rouge
LSU Students to Miss Tulane Football Game
Baton Rouge notes LSU authorities cannot identify all students who took part in a motorized paint daubing raid on Tulane. Many will be barred from the rivalry football game Saturday, as officials determine who can be found.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Tulane
United Action To Free Ward Seen
Washington reports a Chinese Communist peoples court may decide within days on freeing Ameri can Consul General Angus Ward. Officials expect a broad international response as Secretary Acheson seeks concerted action from about 30 governments to press Peiping. Britain France and others likely to join, while Moscow’s stance remains uncertain.
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Washington
United States
Communist “Peoples Court
Angus Ward
Edward E. Bomar
Peiping
Acheson
Russia
Moscow
Britain
France
China
Ward
Mukden
Notable Philadelphia Plastic Surgeon Dr Dorrance Dies
Dr George Morris Dorrance age 72 internationally known surgeon and Campbell Soup Co board chairman died suddenly at his home. He pioneered plastic surgery in World War I and held key roles at American Oncologic Hospital Doctors Hospital Cooper Hospital and several institutions. Survived by widow son daughter granddaughter and two sisters.
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Philadelphia
Navy
George Morris Dorrance
Campbell Soup Co
Dorrance
American Oncologic Hospital
Doctor’s Hospital
Cooper Hospital
Camden N. J
State Hospital
Montgomery Hospital
Norristown
Thomas Evans Museum and Dental School
University of Pennsylvania
John T. Dorrance
Arthur C. Dorrance
Campbell Company
Bristol
Defense Opens In Hiss Trial
New York November 22 The defense entered the fourth day of Alger Hiss perjury proceedings as Whittaker Chambers faced cross examination led by Chief Defense Counsel Claude B Cross. Chambers admitted falsifying his passport for a 1935 England trip and described Communist ties with Maxim Lieber.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Claude B. Cross
Chambers
Washington
State Department
England
Maxim Lieber
Lieber
Senator Long urges more federal aid for Negro schools
Senator Russell Long told about 1,500 Negro teachers at the Louisiana Education Association meeting in Shreveport that Negro schools should receive one third of federal education funds to Louisiana based on population, though he acknowledged they need it more. He supported taxing large oil companies to fund higher teachers salaries and education improvements. J. K. Haynes, LEA president, noted political action and legal avenues as paths to solving educational issues.
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Shreveport
Russell Long
Louisiana Education Association
Louisiana
J. K. Haynes
Negro Lea
Byrnes Urges Tax Cuts and Debt Reduction
Former cabinet official James F. Byrnes told the southern governors at Biloxi that federal taxes and the public debt are the country’s primary trouble. He urged cutting expenditures rather than expanding debt or taxes, noted deficit spending will continue, and warned against further statism in federal policy.
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Biloxi
Miss
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Southern Governors’ Conference
Byrnes
Washington and Lee University
South
Executive Departments
Congress
Cotton picker held as suspect in child death case
Fresno, Calif. November 22. An itinerant cotton picker, Paul Gutierrez, held under guard on a serious case booking for the reported Sunday incident involving 17 month old Josephine Yanez. Gutierrez admitted taking the child from her parents car and spanking her, saying everything after that was blank until later found in his cabin. Authorities described the brutal assault concluding with the child found in a furrow, unclothed except for bonnet and shoe, with liver lacerations and tooth marks. The case likely to be arraigned Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Fred Stroble
Fresno
Calif
Pata Gutierrez
Josefine Yanez
Huron
Detroit News
Michigan
Burley
Ida
Glenda Joyce Brisbois
Payette
Neale Butterfield
Twin Falls
Paul Gutierrez
Josephine Yanez
Gutierrez
Joe Yanez
Teya
Yanez
Josephine
James Theusen
Hubert Nevins
Theusen
Plane crash near Oslo fatal for refugees leaves one boy survivor
A Dutch mercy plane carrying 28 Jewish refugee children, three nurses and four crewmen crashed in a forest near Filvet, Oslofjord. Authorities recovered 31 bodies and reported one 12 year old boy survived, hospitalized in Drammen with minor injuries and burns. The wreckage showed heavy damage in the front, rear section largely intact, as rescue teams scoured the area.
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Oslo
Norway
Oslofjord
Drammen
Tunis
North Africa
Aero Holland
Filvet
Oslo Fjord
John L. Lewis Blocks Dawson For UMW Welfare Board Seat
In Washington on November 22 John L. Lewis blocked Charles I. Dawson from taking a seat as operators' trustee on the United Mine Workers welfare fund board during a stormy session. The move leaves Dawson’s status unresolved until the next trustees’ meeting on December 2, two days after the mine truce ends. The dispute centers on Ezra Van Horn’s resignation and fund spending questions.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Charles I. Dawson
United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
Dawson
Lewis
Senator Bridges
R-N. H
Pittsburgh
Illinois
Truman
Ezra van Horn
van Horn
Bridges
Hungary arrests U S businessman and Briton in spy case
Hungary announced the arrest of Robert Vogeler an American businessman and Edgar Sanders a British national on spying and sabotage charges. Vogeler an I T T executive and eastern European representative based in Vienna vanished Friday during a Budapest business trip while Sanders represented the company in Budapest.
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Budapest
Hungary
Robert Vogeler
Edgar Sanders
Vogeler
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Vienna
Sanders
Employment Conditions In Monroe And Nearby Lauded
Federal and state representatives praised Monroe area employment during a two day joint staff meeting with employment security workers. An advisory council of management labor and public was proposed to boost full time jobs. Speakers included Dr. L V Howard of Tulane University and W B Myrick outlined research plans to guide future agency operations. A banquet and address by E I Soule closed day one.
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Monroe
Marvin E. Thames
L. V. Howard
Tulane University
Hotel Frances
W. B. Myrick
Employment Security Agencies
Louisiana
E. I. Soule
Department of Labor
Dowdy pleas denied in dynamite murder case in Tallulah
Judge Frank Voelker denied 50 bills of exception in the Dowdy case tied to the dynamite murder of Walter Dorman near Tallulah, Mississippi. J. D. Dowdy and his father George R. Dowdy face separate sentences in Sixth district court, with the son facing mandatory death and the father a life term. Insurance totaling 30000 was tied to the crime, and both suspects have been jailed since arrest near the Texas border.
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Tallulah, la
Frank Voelker
J. D. Dowdy
George R. Dowdy
Talla Benna
Hattiesburg
Miss
Young Dowdy
Madison Parish
George Dowdy
Dowdy
Walter N. Dorman
Tallulah
Texas
Couple seeks furnished 2 or 3 room apartment
A couple places a want ad in the News Star World Want Ads seeking a permanently located furnished apartment with two or three rooms. Contact by phone at 5752.
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Vimo Herelovic
News -Star— World
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