Roosevelt and Communists In Hollywood Attack
Washington notes claim the Roosevelt era saw the film industry heavily infested by traitorous Communists. The column accuses Roosevelt aides like Jim Farley of social patronage while alleging officials sheltered allied radicals and theory advocates such as Harold Laski.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Moving Picture
Hollywood
Old Dies Committee
Jim Farley
Harold Laski
Campaign falters as Louisiana races heat up
In a surge of campaign activity, Sam Jones accuses opponent of participating in the scandals era while Earl K Long warns of fake news and libelous editorials. Old Regulars of New Orleans accuse local papers of misrepresentation to boost Long. Jones appeals for a vote to maintain eight years of progress.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Sam Jones
Earl K. Long
New Orleans
Morrison
Jones
Pardon Board Recommends Commutations for Burt and Hendrick
The Louisiana state pardon board recommended commuting Fred Burt of Lake Charles from a one year sentence for simple battery to time served after 120 days in jail. It also urged commuting John G. Hendrick, a Port Arthur Texas former restaurant man, from a two year simple arson sentence to time served. The board sent its actions to Gov. Jimmie Davis for final action.
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New Orleans
Fred Burt
Lake Charles
Burt
Calcasieu Parish
John G. Hendrick
Port Arthur
Texas
Henrick
Louisiana
Beauregard Parish
Pardon Board
Will O
Jimmie Davis
Point Fall
Trumbo Defies Court Questioning as Contempt Vote Passed
Washington reports Dalton Trumbo refused to answer whether he is a Communist before the House subcommittee and was cited for contempt. The group warned spectators against demonstrations and noted possible prosecution in federal courts with fines up to 1000 dollars and up to a year in jail. Roy M. Brewer testified of a Communist plot to seize Hollywood unions and control the motion picture industry, naming leaders and agents alleged to infiltrate labor and cultural groups.
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Washington
Dalton Trumbo
House On
Lawson
House
Trumbo
Roy M. Brewer
Los Angeles
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Brewer
Hollywood
Jeff Kibre
Herbert K. Sorrell
John Howard Lawson
Oil Wells Grow in Ora Field as New Producers Start
Two new wells begin producing in the Ora field enhancing the Monroe district oil activity. Marine Oil Co S. L. Smith No 4 in section 34 22 1W flows 359 barrels daily from a 20 64 inch choke. Shell Oil Frost Lumber Ind No 0 1 nearby in the same section yields 338 barrels daily from 2 124 38 feet. B S and S W near 02 percent with gravity near 33 degrees. A wildcat prospect west of Oak Land is also noted.
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Ora
Oakland
Union Parish
Monroe District Conservation Office
Marine Oil Company
S. L. Smith
B. S
S. W
Shell Oil Company
Frost Lumber Industries
Marine Smith
Crow Production Co., Inc
Death photos enter trial of Georgia camp guards
F B I photographs of a convict camp where eight Black inmates were killed were admitted as evidence in the trial of former camp warden H G Worthy and four guards Guy McNab Remner Bazemore B L Holmes W C Lawler on civil liberties charges. Defense says 27 convicts rebelled before shots were fired.
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Brunswick
Georgia
H. G. Worthy
Guy McNab
Remner Bazemore
B. L. Holmes
W. C. Lawler
Amour Stephens
McNab
Glynn
Bennett cites many U. S. casualties in Trieste
Rep. Marion Bennett says there have been 63 armed incidents by Communists against U S forces in Trieste since the area became a free state. He claims American dead or wounded, citing military intelligence, and accuses censorship of masking the danger. The army gave no comment.
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Washington
Marion T. Bennett
Missouri
Trieste
Europe
Near East
United States
Yugoslavia
Bennett
Springfield
Kremlin
Free State
Plane search widens for missing Pan American DC-4
Bad weather hinders a growing fleet of air and surface craft in the hunt for the DC-4 missing since Sunday with 18 aboard. Reports of smoke near Dundas Island and flares near Graham Island prompt searches. weather and low visibility slow efforts. Captain Alf N Monsen, famed Alaskan bush pilot, led the ill fated flight.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Pan-American Airways
British Columbia
Coast Guard
Dundas Island
Graham Island
Weather Bureau
Juneau
Annette
Mary Islands
Alf N. Monsen
PAA
Harold Gillam
Cordova
Annette Island
Boca de Quadra
Blaze Rages Through Woodward Business Block
Fire followed a gas furnace blast and swept six stores in Woodward Oklahoma leaving eight injured and feared dead. The blast began in the Oliver shoe store basement and consumed two thirds of the main block less than seven months after a major tornado strike killed 110 and injured over 1,000.
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Woodward
Okla
Oliver Shoe
Four Year Old Watches House Burn In Back Yard
In Bawcomyville this morning four year old Ann Murphy calmly watched as flames devoured the four room frame home in under twenty minutes. Fire Company No. 1 arrived at 11 24 a m rescuers saved only mattresses and a sewing machine. The mother Mrs Ralph Murphy and her two children were away delivering butter when Ann reportedly set the bed on fire with a matchbox kept on a high shelf. Firefighters guarded a neighboring dwelling to prevent spread.
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Ann Murphy
Bawcomyville
Fire Company No. 1
Anne
Ralph Murphy
Murphy
Owens
Douglas Coon
Truman Praised by Schwellenbach at Philadelphia Dinner
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach lauded the Truman administration as compared with what he called the fumbling and bungling of the Republican Congress at a $100 plate Democratic fund raiser. He accused Congress cry babies of seeking silence on politics and criticized seven months of fumbled appropriations impacting federal employment.
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Philadelphia
Schwellenbach
Congress
Democratic County Executive Committee
David W. Harris
Oil Tankers Sale Opposed by Congressional Committee
Washington urged President Truman to halt the planned sale of a fleet of American oil tankers to foreign firms. The Senate small business committee heard testimony on steel shortages and heating oil deficits for the East Coast this winter, and considered using tankers to import oil from Saudi fields rather than expanding a long Mediterranean oil pipeline.
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Washington
Truman
Wherry
Republican
Nebraska
Senate
Small Business Committee
Grenville Mellen
Maritime Commission
United States
Mediterranean
Commerce Department
Ramadier Gains Cabinet Backing for Fourth Republic Defense
Paris Oct 28 Premier Paul Ramadier’s cabinet unanimously approved his response to General de Gaulle. Ramadier plans to defend the Fourth Republic in a national assembly speech addressing De Gaulle’s call for dissolution and new elections. Deputies favored with two committees formed to study constitutional revision and new members.
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Paris
Paul Ramadier
Charles de Gaulle
National Assembly
Edouard Depreux
Ramadier
Fourth Republic
de Gaulle
Depreux
France Seizes 17 German Vessels as War Prizes
France formally takes possession of 17 small German ships ceded by the United States as prizes of war. The vessels include eight mine sweepers the 1200 ton Greif and the 3000 ton Saar, a submarine convoy ship, surrendered at Bremerhaven.
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Cherbourg
France
United States
Greif
Saar
Bremerhaven
Soviets Press UN to Remove All Troops From Korea
At Lake Success the Soviet Union urged the United Nations to order the withdrawal of all Russian and American troops from Korea by January 1. The move came as the U N debated elections in the two Korean zones under UN supervision and amid sharp clashes between Andrei A. Gromyko and John Foster Dulles.
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Max Harrelson
Russia
United Nations
Korea
General Assembly
United States
U. S
U. N
Andrei A. Gromyko
John Foster Dulles
Marshall
Soviet Union
Assembly
Moscow
Palestine
U.N
Holy Land
Security Council
Greece
Turkey
Warren R. Austin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Cire Cles
Parish Sheriff Hopeful Uses Band In Campaign
Ed Miller bandleader qualified for sheriff backed by a pledge of fair play and independence. Miller, a former state police lieutenant, plans to use his band in campaigning and offers free ambulance and medical services if elected. Other nominees for state representative and parish offices also entered the race as qualification ran from yesterday to November 4.
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Parish
Ed Miller
Miller
W. O. Causey
Monroe
Garland May
Bailey Grant
Democratic Executive Committee
Louisiana State Police
Delta
New Orleans
Coast Guard Reserve
Louisiana Playboys
Andrew Pappas
Travis Oliver Thomas
Shady R. Wall
W. G
Danes Vote for New Government After Ousting Kristensen
Danes cast ballots in Copenhagen on October 28 to select a new government to replace Agrarian Premier Knud Kristensen whose cabinet fell on October 4. Seven parties ran candidates as Kristensen’s private stance on a territorial issue differed from the government line.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Knud Kristensen
Kristensen
Patton slams Montgomery in wartime journal excerpts
General Patton bluntly criticizes Montgomery and some American leaders in excerpts from his Third Army journal published by the Saturday Evening Post. He argues a key delay in Europe’s war was Montgomery influenced strategy and cites the August 1944 Verdun to Verdun area push, claiming Rhine crossing could have occurred in 10 days.
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New York
George S. Patton, Jr
United States Third Army
Britain
Montgomery
Patton
Europe
Shael
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Third Army
Saturday Evening Post
France
Germany
Third
Verdun
Rhine
Commercy
Pope Urges Faith in United Nations
Pope Pius XII urged global trust in the United Nations despite doubts from postwar disillusionment. Speaking at Castel Gandolfo, he welcomed El Salvador’s new minister Antonio Alvarez Viadurre and urged using the UN to promote a just peace, warning against dismissing its potential.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
United Nations
Castel Gandolfo
Antonio Alvarez Viadurre
el Salvador
U. Nd
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