Fair Enough Fair Enough The Pearson Libel War
Westbrook Pegler repeats claims about Drew Pearson reporting on James Forrestal. He asserts Pearson lied on air about Forrestal’s actions and vows to prove it false. Pegler cites Il Progresso Italo Americano's Washington Spotlight column and Brooklyn priests denouncing him over Lee Hats sponsorship.
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New York
Il Progresso Italo-Americano
Washington Spotlight
Drew Pearson
Il Progresso
Washington
Italy
United States
Brooklyn
Lee
Pearson
Dollar Parley Nearing Close At World Finance Meet
The 48 nation money conference neared its end without a decision on whether Britain will devalue the pound. Most American experts expect devaluation eventually, while Britain remained silent. The group focused on an official study approving a possible rise in gold prices and electing a new IMF chairman, with India likely to hold the dual chair. Paris to host 1950 meeting, economy concerns cited. The opening day had seen the fund urge deficits countries to devalue to boost exports and dollar reserves.
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Washington
World Finance
Britain
International Monetary Today
World Bank
Fund Organization
India
Paris
Fund
Shriners Bring In Big Polio Sum
The Northeast Louisiana Shriners Club led street collections for the polio emergency drive with a record $1,000 raised. R. R. Gatlin, Leo Baer and Fred Hoffman headed the effort with help from Eddie Whitman, Fred Sullivan, Willie Clark and others. The Women’s Society of Christian Service will handle Friday’s drive at Memorial Methodist Church as the campaign closes Saturday. late contributions are urged.
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Northeast Louisiana
Shriners’ Club
R. R. Gatlin
Leo Baer
Fred Hoffman
Shriners
Eddie Whitman
Fred Sullivan
Willie Clark
W. L. Huckaby
8. C. Poulas, Sr
Joe Coates
C. C. Bell
W. N. Briggs
Ben Parnell
Culbert Lee
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Memorial Methodist Church
Former No 2 Red Confesses Guilt
Laszlo Rajk former number two Hungarian Communist pleaded guilty to plotting to overthrow the Red dominated government. He admitted charges including conspiring with Yugoslav officials to assassinate Hungarian leaders and make Hungary a Yugoslav colony. He was the first to plead among eight defendants as the trial opened in Budapest.
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Endre Marton
Budapest
Hungary
Laszlo Rajk
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Rajk
Peter Jank
West Germans United Against Communism
West Germany moves toward a strongly anti Communist stance as Christian Democratic Union leads a coalition under Chancellor Adenauer and President Heuss. The coalition vows freedom and free enterprise, backing federated Western Europe and Christian ethics guiding state reconstruction.
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Bonn
Germany
Europe
Konrad Adenauer
Theodor Heuss
Christian Democratic Union
President Truman to take quick home vacation this September
President Truman plans a four day trip to Kansas City from September 29 for a dinner honoring William M. Boyle Jr. as the new Democratic National Committee chairman. He will stay in Kansas City and Independence through Oct. 2 before returning to Washington.
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Washington
Truman
Kansas City
William M. Boyle, Jr
Democratic National Committee
Boyle
Independence
Coal Industry Crisis Looms Over Pension Payments
Washington dispatch reports a coal pension crisis as operators refuse the 0.5 cent royalty. John L. Lewis returns from White Sulphur Springs to pressure southern operators delaying August welfare payments. He may convene welfare fund trustees amid Senate member concerns and pay accusations.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Lewis
Welfare Fund
Bridges
New Hampshire
Ezra van Horn
United Mine Workers’ Union
The
Opera
Minton Action Delayed In Supreme Court Nomination
Senate action on President Truman’s nomination of Sherman Minton to the Supreme Court will be delayed as lawmakers follow the routine process. McCarran said the nomination will take about three weeks, with some faster paths if opposition remains minimal. Minton, a former Indiana senator and Chicago circuit judge, was nominated to fill Justice Wiley Rutledge’s vacancy after his death last Saturday.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Sherman Minton
Supreme Court
McCarran
Judiciary Committee
Minton
Indiana
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Wiley Rutledge
Former Buchalter Mobster Is Slain
Valley Stream New York September 16 police found the bullet riddled body of Phil Little Farrel Cohen a 43 year old ex mobster near the Southern State Parkway on Long Island Cohen once associated with gangland boss Louis Lepke Buchalter and the Murder Inc group Police link the slaying to gang vengeance Cohen had been indicted in the Rosen murder but never tried and was paroled six months ago on narcotics charges
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Valley Stream
N. Y
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Buchalter
Phil
Little Farrel) Cohen
Southern State Parkway
Long Island
Howard Heddink
State Police
Cohen
Murder, Inc
Sing Sing
Joseph Rosen
Brooklyn
One Killed Four Missing Eight Injured In Bus Crash
Col Louis F Rolleigh 54 or 56 killed in Southern Trailways head on crash on Highway 80 near Monroe. Eyewitness I G Albritton said Rolleigh swerved to avoid a collision as bus headed east. Driver C G Byas injured. other passengers lightly hurt. Funeral arrangements by Hixson Bros pending. coroner cites multiple fractures. Continued on third page.
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Louis F. Rolleigh
Trailways
Hixson Bros. Funeral Home
J. T. French
Ouachita Parish
Col
Rolleugh
Twin Cities
I. G. Albritton
Ruston
Rolleigh
Monroe
Ralleigh
Giant B-36 crashes into Lake Worth near Fort Worth
A B-36 bomber from Carswell air base crashed into Lake Worth at about 7 45 p m while on a routine training flight. The craft struck at 100 miles per hour killing at least one crew member and injuring eight with four more missing. A power failure blamed the accident and divers searched the murky depths as survivors were rushed to base hospital.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Lake Worth
Carswell Air Force Base
William G. Seymour
Richard L. English
Sartell
Minn
7Th Squadron
7Th Wing
Eighth Air Force
Kenneth McKellip
Max Ewing
Dallas News
Southerners Rap Surprise Meeting To Vote On FEPC
Lack of attendance kept the senate labor committee from voting today on a fair employment practices act. Seven of the 13 members showed up, but Hill left for a talk with Truman about rural telephones. With only six present, no vote could be reported. Thomas planned to press for action without hearings, aiming for senate floor in the next session, a move criticized by Russell as autocratic.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Hill
Ala
Truman
Senate
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Thomas
Congress
Russell
D.-Ga
Stalin
Judge Acts In Own Defense In Georgian Trial
Atlanta report describes Judge Robert Carpenter on trial for attempting to murder attorney John Lockwood. Testimony from Carpenter’s stepdaughter Barbara Carpenter details a troubled home life, alleged affairs, and past threats. The defense cites estranged wife Helen and the courtroom hears dramatic re enactments by Ellis Barrett.
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Atlanta
Barbara Carpenter
John Lockwood
Barbara
Robert Carpenter
Lockwood
John
Miss Carpenter
Carpenter
Estelle
Helen
Ellis Barrett
Barrett
Mrs. Carpenter
Virlyn B. Moore
Man in Navy Garb Disappears in Canal Street Ferry Jump
New Orleans reports a sailor in navy enlisted uniform leaped from a Canal street ferry near midnight. August J Morjas of Algiers saw a man unbutton his shirt and shoes, climb the railing, then vanish after diving into the water. Crews used a lifeboat to search but found no trace.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
J. Morjas
Algiers
Morjas
Union Leaders Plot Next Move In Steel Row
Pittsburgh Sept 16 AP The United Steelworkers appealed to the steel industry to back the presidential board peace recommendations to avert a strike by Sept 25 and ordered its wage policy committee to meet at 3 am EST Wednesday. Union President Philip Murray urged acceptance of the board’s basis for prompt settlement and to resume bargaining with about 47 companies still at odds over social security and pension costs. The strike deadline runs to Sept 24 midnight as talks continue with U.S. Steel and others resisting full industry funding of insurance programs.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
Presidential Board
Philip Murray
Truman
Steel Industry Board
United Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Bar
New Pacts on Trade Readied for President
Washington reports ten new reciprocal trade agreements prepared for President Truman under extended tariff powers. Talks in Annecy, France, between U S and ten nations—Denmark, Finland, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Liberia, Uruguay, Nicaragua—target recommendations for early October action. Senate approved the extension 62 to 19, with votes against a peril point restriction.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
U. S
Annecy
France
Denmark
Finland
Italy
Greece
Sweden
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Liberia
Uruguay
Nicaragua
State Department
Senate
Cordell Hall
House
Chamber
Millikin
R.-Cole
Federal Tariff Commission
Lucas
Illinois
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Europe
Edwin C. Johnson
D.-Colo
O'Mahoney
D.wyo
Elmer Thomas
D.-Okla
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Longs failed bid to settle New Orleans squabble
New Orleans governor Earl Long spent three hours trying to heal rifts in his Louisiana Democratic Association aligned faction. The caucus ousted Clem Sehrt Charles Kehl and William Kross over Maestri mayoral endorsement disputes. Long reportedly left disappointed as Morrison plans for re election loom.
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New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Louisiana Democratic Association
Long
Robert S. Maestri
Clem Sehrt
L. C. A. New Orleans
deLesseps Morrison
Morrison
American Enlistment Soldier Escapes Russian Prison
One American and three British soldiers escaped last midnight from a Russian prison in east Berlin. Private John J. Sinkiewicz, 26, said they burrowed through a thick wall with a blunt knife and opened their cell door. Sinkiewicz, held since November 5, said he was beaten during questioning and is now in an army hospital in generally weakened condition. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Sinkiewicz of Baltimore Maryland.
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Berlin
East Berlin
U. S
John J. Sinkiewicz
Sinkiewicz
Mary Sinkiewicz
Chapel Street
Baltimore
Cotton Acreage Allotment Mapped in Memphis
In Memphis on Sept 16 7 PMA officials from 20 states met with Agriculture Department experts to break the national cotton acreage allotment act into county and individual farm shares. John H Dean said county quotas must be ready for farmers to know their 1950 allotment, with Brennan to decide by Oct 15 if controls are needed and elections by Dec 15 if so. The plan would set 1950 cotton acreage at no less than 21 million acres amid surplus stocks and market instability.
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P.M.A
Department of Agriculture
John H. Dean
Direcor
Delegates
Secretary of Agriculture
Brennan
Brannan
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Fla
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Herbert Lehman
Dulles
R-N.y
Louisiana
Pope
Castelgandolfo
Pope Pius XII
Ivan Anceneaux
North American College
Rome
Grace Taylor
Lake Charles
Warren Boudreaux
Lafayette
Bourgeois
A. Bocque
New Iberia
Jules A. Jeanmard
Eunice
By Don Whitehead
Union
Murray
Memphis
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