Englanded Rights Collapse Warns Against Labor Aligned Unionism
Westbrook Pegler argues that English civil liberties eroded not by Tories but by labor unions allied with Marxist Socialists. He claims workers are jailed for refusing tasks and that US financial support aided Britain’s loss of freedoms. He warns Americans that Britons already inspired the US founding limits on government power.
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New York
Labor Party
United States
Britain
Farm bill plan aims to stabilize crop prices nationwide
Washington Oct 19 Congressional leaders moved to pass a new farm bill giving the government broad power to support prices near current highs indefinitely. The compromise measure, likely to win House passage, directs price supports for six basic crops while letting the agriculture department choose between maintaining or reducing supports, a step that could affect Brannan's consumer subsidy plan and influence the 1950 campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Congress
Agriculture Department
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Greek war practically over amid aid debate
Secretary Acheson said Greece’s war with Communist guerrillas is practically over with about 2000 guerrillas remaining and scattered. He suggested possible reduced American aid and aid for the military establishment after Athens outlines its plans for its armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Acheson
Greece
United States
Athens
Vandenberg Warns Against Cutting Bombing Strength
Vandenberg calls for maintaining bombing force as Louisiana janitor Champagne and his wife face arrest after failing to appear for trial on assault charges against Florida constable Cooey. Extrusion fears, civil rights claims, and governor exchanges color a tense extradition dispute amid a 30 juror venue.
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Bonifay
Fla
Louisiana
Florida
Harvie Belser
Elus Champagnes
Carencro
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
Champagne
Holmes County
Woodrow Cooey
Cooey
E. Clay Lewis
Covey
J. R. Chance
Ear Long
Long
Fuller Warren
Lewis
Walter S. Comeaux
Lafayette
New Black Dahlia Probe Is Launched
Los Angeles October 19 The county grand jury opened an inquiry into the unsolved Black Dahlia case after a police psychiatrist met with jurors The foreman said a committee will review police work in the Elizabeth Short killing and that there may have been lapses in efficiency while pursuing clues.
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Los Angeles
County Grand Jury
Harry A. Lawson
J. Paul de River
Lawson
Elizabeth Short
Vandenberg Warns It Cuts Bombers Diminish Deterrent
Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg told the House Armed Services Committee that reducing strategic bombing would free Russia to develop offensive power and erode U S deterrence. He defended building a B 36 bomber fleet amid Navy calls to focus on tactical air power to support ground forces.
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Washington
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
United States
Russia
Vandenberg
Air Force
House
Armed Services Committee
Navy
Soviet Union
Cardinal Stritch Visits Mississippi Diocese to Honor Bishop Gerow
Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago arrived in Jackson to participate in Bishop R. O. Gerow's 25th anniversary as head of the Natchez diocese. He praised local leaders and urged cooperation between church and state, noting democracy rests on religious ideals amid global materialism.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Chicago
R. O. Gerow
Natchez
Midwest
Gerow
Allen Thompson
Jackson City
Joseph Rummel
New Orleans
Cardinal
Russia Fights Yugoslavia For UN Security Council Seat
Moscow presses a last ditch battle to block Yugoslavia’s election to the United Nations Security Council. Vishinsky aims to force debate on the floor before balloting. He warns of painful UN consequences if Yugoslavia wins over Soviet-backed Czechoslovakia.
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Sidney Mirkin Lake
Russia
Yugoslavia
United Nations Security Council
Andrei Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Kremlin
Marshal Tito
V. M. Molotov
Truman
Security Council
United Nations
Council
Czechoslovakia
Warren Austin
United States
Bomb program to be speeded in U S during wartime drive
Washington October 19 The United States will accelerate its atomic bomb program with a major expansion of facilities and operations at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Hanford Washington costing over 300 million dollars. Senate actions backed by Senator McMahon open funding and relax spending controls, with authorization to use some budget reserves and a boost in deficiency appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Hanford
Wash
Senate
McMahon
D-Conn
House Atomic Committee
Truman
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
House
Mewsmen
Russia
United Nations
Andrei Vishinsky
Iowa
Millikin
Colo
Hickenlooper
David E. Lilienthal
Sartalamacchia Hurt in Mishap Near New Orleans
Joseph Sartalamacchia, accused in the slaying of six year old Fualdes Landry, was hurt in a car truck crash in St Bernard parish near Mereauxville. Also injured were Henry Corne and his brother Ervin Corne and Shirley Plaisance. All taken to Charity Hospital. Sartalamacchia faces trial Monday as an accessory after the fact in the July 23 1948 Landry case.
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New Orleans
Joseph Sartalamacchia
Fualdes
Boo) Landry
Sartalamacchia
Henry Corne
Chalmette
Ervin
Shirley Plaisance
Violet
Landry
Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe
Ford Pension Vote Critical For Ford Workers
Detroit Oct 19 The critical stage neared for the proposed 100 monthly pension plan for 115000 Ford workers. Local 900 at Ford's Lincoln Mercury plant approved the plan 1540909. Rouge with 60000 members will vote next Monday to Wednesday and likely decide the plan's acceptance. Pensions at Ford were a top objective in the UAW drive and favored over raises. Union critics at General Motors questioned the retirement age as too high. Chrysler talks on pensions for 83000 workers resumed.
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Detroit
Ford
United Auto Workers Local 900
Lincoln Mercury
Ford Rouge
Rouge
General Motors Corp
G. M
Long Talks With Rival Louisiana Democratic Factions
Governor Earl K Long met with two warring factions of the Louisiana Democratic Association in Baton Rouge. Bisso led one group. Farrell, backing Clem Sehrt, led the other. Talks centered on jobs as well as a Char ity Hospital receiving station for the west bank of the Mississippi. A $25,000 state liquidation board grant to the hospital board related to the project, but the board instead planned an ambulance station at Algiers for indigent west bank parishes. Long was not available for comment.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Louisiana Democratic Association
New Orleans
William
Captain Billy) Bisso
Clem Sehrt
Registrar of Voters
William Farrell
Sehrt
Bisso
Farrell
A. A. Fredericks
Long
Leonard Santos
Algiers
West Bank
Mississippi River
State Department
State Hospital Board
West Bank Parishes
Minimum wage bill adopted impresses Truman politics
Washington report notes the Senate approved a bill raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour, aiming to lift about 1,500 workers. The measure, a key domestic achievement, faces possible coverage losses due to language changes and comes as Congress nears adjournment.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Congress
Commodity Credit Corp
Labor chiefs clash over strike fund aid plan
John L. Lewis denounces William Green for rejecting a $2.5 million weekly strike fund proposal to aid Philip Murray's CIO steel workers and mine workers. Murray supports the idea. Green calls pooling resources impossible while Lewis and Murray refuse broader union merger within the AFL.
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Norman Walker
Washington
John L. Lewis
A. F. of L
William Green
Philip Murray
C. I. O. Steel
Mine Workers
Green
Lewis
Murray
U. S
Murray and
Coal and Steel
Deficit spending criticism hits Washington
Economist Edwin G. Nourse publicized concerns over the government's fiscal policy drawing both praise and partisan attack in Congress. Senator O Mahoney condemned the remarks as political, while Senator Watkins praised Nourse for a professional stance amid talk of Nourse quitting the council.
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Washington
Edwin G. Nourse
Congress
Truman
Economic Advisory Council
O’mahoney
D-Wyo
Watkins
Utah
Nourse
Economic Council
National Retail Farm Equipment Association
O'Mahoney
Government Likely To Run 5 Billion In Red This Year
Washington dispatch reports the 81st Congress may push federal outlays to about 5 billion dollars in the current fiscal year ending June 30. The piece details direct appropriations near 37.68 billion plus indefinite funds lifting totals past 45 billion, with revenues around 40 million and a projected deficit of about 5 billion. Senator Ferguson cites a 50.99 billion total including contract authority, debt interest, and appropriations, while the president’s revenue-raising plans were largely ignored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Arbogast
Washington
81St
Congress
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Senate
House
Gresham Testifies Before Ouachita Grand Jury
J C Gresham superintendent of Louisiana Training School testified before Ouachita parish grand jury investigating conditions at the reformatory. Willis Tarver coach also expected to testify as five S T I youths gave statements. Gresham declined details saying reporters were barred and remarked about rumors of an open house at LT I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Gresham
Louisiana Training School
Ouachita Parish
Reformatory
Gresham
Willis Tarver
Grand Jury
L.T. I
Couple Adopts 3 Irish Children in Louisiana
In Tangipahoa on Oct 19, a childless couple, William Lee Phillips and wife, adopted three Dublin infants after his wife flew to Dublin aboard a Dublin home. The event drew about 2,000 visitors as the couple announced plans for possible twin girls and noted local interest. Phillips, a produce dealer, recalls his wife’s former teaching work in Pine Ridge, La.
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Tangipahoa
William Lee Phillips
St. Louis
Ireland
Dublin
Phillips
William Christopher Lee Phillips, Jr
Donald Stroude Phillips
Hazel Evan Phillips
Pine Ridge
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