Tragedy at Dugald Rail Crash Kills 35 on Labor Day Train
A collision at Dugald station near Winnipeg between a vacationer’s special and a standing express on Labor Day killed at least 35, with 15 injured. Rescue teams recovered 17 bodies from the burning special as two cars ignited, and engineers and passengers faced a grim recovery in the wreckage.
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Dugald, Man
Dugald Station
Winnipeg
Gaye Lewis
Transcona
Man
Canadian National Railways
Lake of the Woods
Albert Simpson
St. Boniface
Vancouver
Toronto
Truman vows US strength for world peace at Inter-American conference
President Truman told the Inter-American defense conference in Quitandinha that the United States remains strong to back a peaceable foreign policy and fulfill UN charter obligations. He outlined four points including Marshal plan aid, UN fidelity, sustained strength, and tailored western hemisphere measures, and praised Latin American economic cooperation as delegates cheered.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
Truman
United States
inter-American Defense Conference
United Nations
Latin America
Raoul Fernandez
Trumans
Margaret
Europe
Asia
America
Western Hemisphere
Mr. Truman
Garson Kanin Criticized in War Fraud Trial Fallout
Westbrook Pegler outlines alleged links between Murray Garsson and Andrew May in historic war fraud cases, noting involvement with Sam Dickstein and Adolph Sabath. He casts Garsson as a long time crook tied to Hollywood promoters, immigration fraud, and reorganization schemes, while naming Quentin Reynolds and Carl Aldo Marzani as related figures.
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New York
Garson Kanin
Murray W. Garsson
Andrew J. May
Kentucky
New Deal
House
Garsson
New Republic
Collier’s
Kanin
Quentin Reynolds
Reynolds
Mr. Tay
Murray Garsson
Sam Dickstein
Congress
New York Supreme Court
Adolph Sabath
Chicago
Dickstein
Sabath
Hollywood
the Herald Tribune
Donald Ogden Stewart
Stewart
Dies Committee On
Exeter Academy
Soviet Russia
Washington
Carl Aldo Marzani
Tony Whales
State Department
Marzani
Third Candidate Emerges for Ward One Police Jury
M S Dixon, Ouachita parish native from a long established family, announced candidacy for Ward 1 police jury. Dixon, once with Central Savings Bank and Trust, later ran a large inland plantation and lives at 212 Walnut street with wife and three children. He joins Harold Monk and F G Studdard in the race.
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Ouachita Parish
M. S. Dixon
Dixon
Milner-Fuller Company
Walnut Street
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
Monroe
Dixson
Harold Monk
F. G
Red) Studdard
Labor Fights Taft Hartley Act in Nationwide Observance
C I O President Philip Murray said American workers are in a fighting mood and labor leaders vow to strike the Taft Hartley act from the statute books. AFL Chief William Green warned labor is rallying its forces to oppose oppression and a low mood, as Murray spoke by radio from Kansas City warning of economic consequences and a possible further depression.
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Associated Press
Organized Labor
Philip Murray
A. F. of
William Green
Murray
Kansas City
Cleland Sets Flight Record at Thompson Trophy Race
Cleveland pilot Cook Cleland shatters world closed course speed with 396.1 mph and sets a Thompson trophy lap record at 404.4 mph during a 20 lap 300 mile event. The day ends in tragedy as Tony Jannaro crashes a Cleland entry, with one dead and two injured among the wreckage at Cleveland's municipal airport.
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Cleveland
Municipal
Cook Cleland
Professional Racing Pilots Association
Arthur Chester
Los Angeles
Cleland
Richard Becker
Willoughby
Tony Jannaro
Blast Burns 2 at Fairbanks
R A Boyd and J E Linzay both of Fairbanks suffered severe burns to hands and face when leaking natural gas exploded in a pumphouse near Fairbanks where they worked for Southern Carbon. They were brought to Vaughn Wright Bendel Clinic after the blast tossed them from the building.
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R. A. Boyd
J. E. Linzay
Fairbanks
Vaughn-Wright-Bendel
Southern Carbon Company
Boyd
Bayou DeSiard
Linzay
Pete Strother
Southern Carbon
Monroe Clinic
53 United States Firms Linked With Farbenindustrie
American prosecutors in Nuremberg present documents tying 53 U S firms to the German Farbenindustrie trust. Indictments name direct sales agencies and list participants with varying levels of business tied to the wartime conglomerate. Firms include American Cyanamid, Chemical Corp., General Drug Co., Eastman Kodak, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Bristol Myers, more.
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Mernberg
Germany
Todey
United States
I G. Farbenindustrie Chemical Trust
Farbenindustrie
American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp
New York
Ivan B. Dehl, Inc
General Drug Co
Interstate Chemical Co
New
Sterling Drug, Inc
Wheeling
W. Va
United Drug
Delaware
Vegex, Inc
Advance Solvents and Chemical Corp
San Francisco
Chicago
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Jacksonville
Fla
Afga Ansco Corp
Binghamton
N. Y
Boston
Cincinnati
Afga Rawfilm Corp
US Rejects Soviet Consent For German Rebuild Aid
The United States told Russia it will not wait for Soviet consent to increase production in western Germany for European reconstruction. The note denounces Russia for failing to honor Potsdam and Berlin agreements, says US cannot bear the financial burden alone, and asserts Western zones will push ahead to aid economic recovery.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Germany
Europe
State Department
Holiday Labor Day deaths rise to 448
Over the three-day weekend at least 448 people died in violent accidents. Traffic crashes caused 230 deaths on highways, 81 drowned, 77 in other accidents, including 21 plane crash deaths. The toll outpaced early NSC estimates but stayed below the 1941 peak of 621 holiday deaths.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Building Permits Peak in Monroe in August
Samuel H. Awl, city building inspector, announced August set a record for Monroe with total permits issued totaling 421,280 dollars, up from 90,565 the prior August. July 1947 permits reached 372,515 dollars, ranking fourth in the state. The August breakdown shows 28 new dwellings worth 126,802 dollars, 15 non dwellings at 225,517 dollars, and 12 additions and alterations totaling 8,811 dollars. one building was moved.
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Samuel H. Awl
Monroe
Arbitration Board Awards 15 1/2 Cents Hour Increase
Chicago dispatch reports a six member arbitration board led by Dr William Leiserson granted a 15 1/2 cent per hour wage rise effective yesterday to nearly 1 million non operating railroad workers. The raise, binding under an earlier agreement, marks the third increase in just over a year following 18 1/2 cents in 1946 and 16 cents on April 18 1946.
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Chicago
William Leiserson
National Labor Relations Board
MacArthur urges peace treaty for Japan on V J day
General MacArthur marks the second anniversary of Japan's surrender and calls for a peace treaty in a tolerant atmosphere. He says occupation policy reduced fear and unrest, notes Japan's economy remains short, but industrial output has begun to rise.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
New Unit Joins Ecuador Revolt In Guayaquil
In Guayaquil, the largest Ecuadorian city, the garrison said it joined the revolt against Col. Carlos Mancheno and no longer recognizes him as chief of government. Fighting and counter-revolutionary movements spread toward Quito from Tulcan Ibarra and Ambato while government troops push along the railway corridors near Socabon and Cayambe to defend the capital.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Carlos Mancheno
Quito
Tulcan
Tbarra
Ambato
Rio Bamba
Cayambe
Ibarra
Radio Ambato
Salcedo
Mancheno
Antonio Rivas Hidalgo
Medheno
Veterans flood Monroe banks for 1.8 billion bond payout
World War II veterans jam Monroe and West Monroe banks to cash terminal leave bonds totaling about 1.8 billion. About 7,500 GIs in Ouachita parish eligible, with average payments near 100 dollars and some bonds as high as 1000. Long lines overflow as banks open early amid holiday backlog.
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Monroe
West Monroe
John Breard
Central Savings Bank & Trust Co
Ouachita National Bank
Ben Downing
Quachita Parish
H. B. McClendon
Rayville
Farmerville
Bastrop
Breard
Monroe reports near flawless Labor Day traffic record
Chief J. D. Busby notes only two accidents during the Labor Day weekend in Monroe with no injuries and negligible damage. Police cite 196 August arrests across offenses including drunkenness, simple assault, trespass, burglary, forgery, and OUI.
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J. D. Busby
Monroe
Dee Siard
Forsythe
Fifth Streets
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Emma Mae Tuck
T. P. Scroggins
Walker County
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Scroggins
Claude Porter
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Pegler
Landing
Farben
By Thomas A. Reedy
REDS
U. 5
Gandhi
Calcutta
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandi
Bengal
Arbitration Board
Jam City
Frank Norman
New Orleans
Shreveport
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