U S Hopes For Commanding Role In UN Assembly
The United States delegation under Secretary of State George C. Marshall aims to secure an early commanding position as the general assembly opens in New York. Marshall is to join discussions tonight and speak early in the debate, following Mexico, with the US expected to push a firmer line than in 1946.
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Larry Hauck
New York
U. S
United Nations
George C. Marshall
General Assembly
Marshall
Assembly
Mexico
James F. Byrnes
Foreign Ministers Council
Downey Warns of California Underworld Ties
Westbrook Pegler critiques California underworld linked to New Deal era crime in Hollywood and radio. He alleges gangs, gambling, narcotics, and prostitution operate with media complicity and target artists and writers for personal or political reasons. He cites Frank Sinatra as an example of mass hysteria and propaganda. Continued on fourth page.
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New York
Sheridan Downey
California
Holly
Wood
Earl Warren
Senator Downey
Frank Sinatra
Broadway
Hollywood
Sinatra
Sinnatra
Flooring Plant to Be Rebuilt in New Electric System
Mayo Iles announces the Louisiana Central flooring plant at 1200 Grammont street will be rebuilt with latest electrically operated machinery. City allows reconstruction at an estimated $35,000, with total cost near a quarter million dollars. W. C. Salley of Monroe to handle the contract and rebuilding starts immediately.
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Louisiana Central
Grammont Street
Mayo Iles
Iles
W. C. Salley
Monroe
Corn Belt Gets Cooler Weather
Cooler weather spread over the corn belt with no frost danger per federal forecasters. Temps dipped to the low 40s in Nebraska and North Dakota and similar readings were predicted for Minnesota and Wisconsin tonight. Rain fell in the north central states with heavy amounts in South Bend and Detroit. High 80s were general eastward from the Great Lakes.
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Associated Press
Iointly
Nebraska
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsn
Mountain
Cheyenne
Wyo
Denver
Lamar
Colo
Rockies
Pacific Northwest
North Cental
South Bend
Ind
Sioux City la
San Antonio
Gulf
Liner Reina Del Pacifico Blasts Kills Eighteen
Eighteen dead or dying and more than 50 injured after an engine room explosion on the 17 702 ton Reina Del Pacifico off Copeland Island near Belfast. The wartime troop transport was towed ashore after the blast as doctors treated burns and officials investigated possible sabotage.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Copeland Island
Belfast Bay
An Sos
Bangor
Donaghadee
Newtownards
Pacific Steam Navigation Company
James Campbell
Reina del Pacifico
Sailor Hitchhikes Aboard Missouri With President Truman
Charles A. Scott a 27 year old merchant sailor was picked up from a freighter by a destroyer and transferred to the U S S Missouri in a stretcher carrier. He plans to be standing when the Missouri reaches Norfolk after a blood poisoning treatment. Scott from Egremont Mississippi said he was surprised to be aboard the president's ship and wanted a photograph of the transfer. The Truman family watched a movie last night and the president carried his routine aboard ship today including a walk read doze and sun bath. A Brazil foreign minister Raul Fernandez sent a message congratulating Truman on his Rio de Janeiro visit.
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U. S. S. Missouri
Truman
Charles A. Scott
Norfolk
Scott
Missouri
Small
Egremont
Miss
Jackson
Fifth Avenue
Raul Fernandez
Rio de Janeiro
Taft Opens Western Swing on States Rights and Power
Senator Taft of Ohio launched a western tour to seek the GOP nomination and warned that abolishing states rights would push power to a distant Washington. He argued a free people oppose a totalitarian state and joined discussions with James E. Murray Charles Halleck and Ray Madden at a California bar association event.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Taft
Ohio
State Bar of
California
New Deal
Washington
United States
James E. Murray
Montana
Charles Halleck
Indiana
House
Ray J. Madden
Halleck
Senators See Likely Rent Control Extension Across Nation
Four senators from different parties predict Congress will extend rent controls beyond February. McCarthy along with Flanders Sparkman and Myers weigh in on local boards shaping decontrols and rent actions. Myers pushes for a November special session to address inflation and European aid.
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Washington
Congress
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Flanders
Vermont
Sparkman
Alabama
Myers
Pennsylvania
Europe
Congressional
Federal Rent Control Headquarters
Veteran George F. Beaty Dies From Heart Attack En Route
George F. Beaty, 57, of San Antonio Texas, collapsed near Monroe while en route to a veterans hospital in Alexandria and died at St. Francis Sanitarium. His body will be transported by train to San Antonio for funeral and interment by Mulhearn Funeral Home.
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George F. Beaty
San Antonio
Tex
Veterans’ Hospital
Alexandria
Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Louisiana Tot Dying From Horse Ailment
Two Louisiana toddlers died from an ailment affecting horses, prompting local officials to investigate possible links to equine illnesses. Public health workers are tracing exposure sources and monitoring for further cases.
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Louisiana
Health officials rush to investigate sleeping sickness outbreak
Federal health authorities en route to New Orleans to study an equine encephalomyelitis outbreak in south Louisiana that killed two children and destroyed over 2,500 cattle. Doctors from Tulane and Southeast headquarters will join local experts to analyze blood samples in a race to identify the illness and its reach.
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Louisiana
Harry Demetre
Maurice
Vermilion Parish
Charity Hospital
Eva
Southeastern
U. S. Health Department
Atlanta
Tulane University Department of Tropical Medicine
W. L. Treuting
Defiant Philadelphia landlord freed from jail
Abraham Weiner, jailed for contempt over $1,279 rent overcharges, was released after relatives posted the funds to secure his freedom from Moyamensing prison. He had pledged to stay jailed until the moon turned green. Judge James P. McGranery had jailed him August 27 for contempt.
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Philadelphia
Abraham Weiner
Weiner
Moyamensing
U. S
James P. McGranery
Parish Parents Demand Answers In School Impasse
Rural parish parents convene at 7 tonight at the parish courthouse to press city and parish officials over an overcrowded parish grammar school. Officials say a plan to use Lida Benton School rooms with parish staff and equipment should fix the crisis by next week.
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Troy Little
George Welch
E. L. Neville
Lida Benton
Steel chiefs forecast steel supply balanced in two years
Washington officials Benjamin Fairless and Eugene Grace warned the Senate steel committee that a return to normal supply is near within two years as scrap shortages ease and production keeps pace with demand. Chairman Edward Martin urged reforms to prevent shortages or possible government action.
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Washington
Benjamin Fairless
Eugene Grace
United States
Bethlehem Steel Corporations
Senate Steel Committee
Edward Martin
R-Pa
Fairless
U. S. Steel
Martin
Grace
Bethlehem
Ouachita Valley Fair Elects Hicks President
At a Wednesday meeting the Ouachita Valley Fair Association elected Tom Hicks president with John Birdsong as secretary manager and A Petrus as treasurer A follow up meeting is set for Tuesday at the West Monroe agricultural building to name committees and finalize plans The October 6 fair opening is nearing and weekly meetings will continue The premium list is being distributed Lions Club sponsors the sweet potato show and Kiwanis Club sponsors the corn show with premiums matching last year A large carnival midway is planned and President Hicks expects a first class fair.
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Ouachita Valley Fair Association
Tom Hicks
John Birdsong
A. Petrus
West Monroe
State Board Votes 515000 Emergency Hospital Funds
The Louisiana state board of liquidation approved emergency hospital appropriations totaling 515000 due to rising costs and patient numbers. Governor Jimmie Davis announced the action and will be away for a few days. Funds include 75000 for charity hospitals in Shreveport and New Orleans and for central Louisiana hospital at Jackson. A sale of 10 million in institution improvement bonds was also approved, part of a 16 million bond program from a constitutional amendment.
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Baton Rouge
State Board of Liquidation
Jimmie Davis
Texas
Shreveport
New Orleans
Central
Louisiana
Jackson
Yugoslavia Protest Over Detention of Allied Personnel
The United States demanded the immediate release of nine British and American military personnel seized near Trieste by Yugoslav forces. The note cites unwarranted detention and maltreatment, with five already released and seven British and two Americans still held.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Trieste
State Department
United Nations
Lincoln White
Department
Second South Lancashire Regiment
Albano Vescova
Isonze
Plezzo
Pola
Zone B
A Company
First Royal Rifle Corps
Hurricanes gathers strength as Atlantic storm heads toward Puerto Rico
A full fledged hurricane with 143 mph winds moves west-northwest at 20 mph toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Warnings are issued for distant Antilles as Missouri battleship carries President Truman from Rio de Janeiro.
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Miami
Fla
Lesser Antilles
Barbuda
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Truman
Rio de Janeiro
Florida
Miami River
Weather Bureau
Navy
Com
Daniel Rex
Army
General Electric
Ministers Fail to End Meeting in Paris
Bevin postponed the windup session of 16 nations reviewing the Marshall plan due to U.S. criticism of a final Europe needs report. The delay could extend a week or two to revise estimates and align with American guidance for about 18 billion dollars in U. S. aid over 1948 to 1951.
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Paris
British
Foreign Office
Ernest Bevin
United States
Europe
London
Bevin
U. S
George C. Marshall
Jewish Holiday Observed With Rosh Hashana Services
Rosh Hashana will be observed Sunday at Temple B Nai Israel. Rabbi F K Hirsch will speak Sunday at 7 30 p m on The Unconquered People. Monday at 10 20 a m he will address a service on For These Things We Pray. An annual reception by the rabbi's family follows in the annex from 4 to 6 p m.
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Temple B'Nai Israel
F. K. Hirsch
Two Navy Fliers Missing After Gulf Crash Near Grand Isle
A search for two Naval Reserve pilots believed dead continued near Grand Isle after their planes collided overhead while on patrol. Lieutenant Eldridge J. Courrege of New Iberia and Lieutenant Leroy O. Sledge of Shreveport were named as the missing men. Courrege earned multiple decorations in World War II, while Sledge was a recent LSU student.
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New Orleans
Naval Reserve
Gulf of Mexico
Grand Isle
Navy
Eldridge J. Courrege
New Iberia
Leroy O. Sledge
Shreveport
John Pateson
Courrege
Hornet
Truk
Tarawa
Tokyo
Okinawa
Sledge
Louisiana State University
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Pegler
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Mapia City
War Department
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Lyons
Lewis
Chicago
John L. Lewis
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National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
William Green
Green
United Mine Workers
Boston
San Francisco
Welch
Little
Steel Chiefs
Valley Association
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