Fair Enough Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler accuses Eleanor Roosevelt of distorting her past to aid Communists and protect ally Joe Lash. Dr J B Matthews, former UN American Activities investigator, analyzes her statements, calling some claims false and others misleading. He argues she ignored Nazi and traitor accusations while defending Lash and misrepresenting F B I evidence.
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New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Joe Lash
Matthews
Seattle
Colonel Lindbergh
Jury Acquits Judge After 59 Minutes of Deliberation
A Fulton County jury acquitted Judge Robert Carpenter of attempted murder in 59 minutes after five days of testimony. The 44 year old jurist smiled as he embraced his 20 year old stepdaughter Barbara and left the courtroom. The state alleged Carpenter pursued attorney John Lockwood four blocks and shot him four times July 27.
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Atlanta
Robert Carpenter
John Lockwood
Carpenter
Barbara
Fulton County Court House
Lockwood
Philadelphia
Plans Approved for 750000 Gym at Louisiana Tech
Baton Rouge Sept 20 State college presidents were directed to use budget savings for delayed repairs and maintenance in a short year. A building committee resolution approved preliminary plans for a 750000 gymnasium at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Ruston. The panel also urged private property owners across St Mary street from Southwestern Louisiana Institute Lafayette to cover half the paving cost of the 40 foot street.
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Baton Rouge
State Board of Education
A. A. Fredericks
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Ruston
St. Mary Street
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Lafayette
Czech Jailing of Priests and Nuns Escalates
Prague dispatch reports the Czechoslovak government has jailed at least 30 Roman Catholic priests and nuns in a broad crackdown. The list is partial and larger seizures are expected as the conflict between the state and church intensifies, with monasteries and seminaries seized and unknown motives cited.
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Prague
Monroe Seeks New Airline
The Twin Cities push for north south air service moves to a Capitol hearing. Mid-Continent Airlines seeks a Kansas City to New Orleans route with stops at Springfield Missouri Little Rock El Dorado Monroe and Baton Rouge. Chamber of Commerce officials will travel to Washington to press the case.
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Twin Cities
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Mid-Continent Airlines
Kansas City
New Orleans
Herbert G. Bailey
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
West Monroe
Mid-Continent
Springfield
Little Rock
el Dorado
Ark
Baton Rouge
Explosion at Magnolia Refinery No. 1 Leaves Two Dead
A massive blast at Magnolia Refinery No. 1 in Fort Worth at 8 55 am sparked a fierce fire. At least two workers were killed and eight injured, with danger of another explosion as city firefighters fought the flames atop the refinery structure. One victim was George Aston 42 a refinery still man. The second fatality was believed to be FE Harris, a refinery worker who is missing.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Magnolia Refinery No
C. S
George Aston
FE. R. Harris
Nationwide coal strike stalls half million workers
The nationwide coal strike idled more than half a million in mine and railroad work. John L. Lewis led 480000 bituminous and anthracite diggers in a no pension no work revolt while railroads furloughed 26000 employees. Violence erupted in Kentucky and West Virginia as Southern Coal Producers halted royalty payments to the union fund. Lewis criticized the Southern Producers and warned of pension suspensions amid renewed contract talks at Bluefield.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Kentucky
West Virginia
William Tuck
Virginia
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
Southern Coal
Bluefield
W. Va
Southern Coal Producers Association
Southern
Planes Hunt 1 Hurricanes Near Gulf and Antilles
Navy hurricane hunting planes scanned two distant zones in the Gulf of Mexico and east of the Lesser Antilles. Miami forecaster Grady Norton urged vigilance though deeming no immediate threat, with planes departing Roosevelt Roads and Corpus Christi to investigate and an Army flight planned for the Antilles area.
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Miami
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Lesser Antilles
Grady Norton
Miami Weather Bureau
Norton
Roosevelt Roads
Puerto Rico
Corpus Christi
Texas
Gulf
Navy
U S Britain And Canada Open Atomic Negotiations
The United States Britain and Canada begin explanatory talks on exchanging atomic secrets and sharing uranium for weapon production. President Truman restricts commitments pending congressional review as officials seek a three nation understanding of past progress in atomic energy and bomb development.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Britain
Canada
Truman
Congress
State Department
FE. S. T
Japan
Los Alamos
N. M
Bikini
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Metallurgical Laboratory
Chicago
Passman Details Big Sums For Flood Control
Congressman Otto E. Passman announced that the federal government has provided $32,698,200 for flood control and drainage work affecting the Fifth district, with funds spent on off river projects and main river levees, revetments, and related systems from 1947 to 1949. He cited Brig. Gen. P. A. Feringa’s figures and noted substantial progress after years of neglect.
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Fifth
Otto E. Passman
Washington
P. A. Feringa
U. S. Army Engineers
Mississippi Valley Association
Passman
Mississippi
Fifth District
Jonesville Ring
Cause of Train Wreck Sought in Newton NC
Southern railway investigators sought the derailment’s cause after a passenger train ran into a ditch near Newton station. Two railroad workers were killed and about 50 passengers injured, with 31 still in Newton hospital. Four Pullman cars escaped wreckage, aiding a late morning fog transit from Salisbury. The dead included two Negro cooks, Robert Freeman 60 of Salisbury and Herston Longmire 50 of Knoxville.
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Newton
N. C
Pr Southern Railway
Charlotte
Asheville
Salisbury
Washington
Robert Freeman
Herston Longmire
Knoxville
Tenn
Ford seeks pension pact amid UAW strike threat
Detroit Sept 20 Ford Motor Co faces a strike deadline as talks with the United Auto Workers resume at 10 30 a m E S T union officials report a tentative company financed pension plan. The union says a strike would take effect Sept 29 if pension health and wage demands are unmet.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
Motor Company
Ford
John S. Bugas
Walter Reuther
Steel
Bugas
Four True Bills Returned by Morehouse Jury
Morehouse parish grand jury returned four true bills today district attorney Fred Fudickar said. murder charges face Robert Vanoven in the Dorothy Jones slaying Willie Jones in a separate case Ed Beard Hendan Smith in deaths of Alice Holman and Floyd Caston charged with negligent homicide. Only these four cases were presented.
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Morehouse Parish
Fred Fudickar
Robert Vanoven
Dorothy Jones
Willie Jones
Ed Beard
Hendan Smith
Alice Holman
Floyd Caston
Fudickar
Steel strike deadline nears as White House offers no plan
Washington reports President Truman has no plan to avert a looming steel strike. Labor leaders demand a company financed welfare plan, with potential midnight Saturday stoppage if no deal reached. Government conciliators push to break the deadlock before the deadline. Cyrus Ching hints of possible peace ideas amid pension and insurance talks.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Philip Murray
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Vandenberg Defends Foreign Arms Aid Plan in Senate
Senator Vandenberg argued the 1.314 billion foreign arms program is a limited measure to equip existing forces, not spark an arms race. He tied the aid to the North Atlantic pact’s mutual defense pledge and warned aggressors face all treaty nations. Debate continued with likely final action Thursday or Wednesday.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Senate
Congress
Michigan
Western Europe
Friends
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Britain Devalues Pound Triggers Global Market Turmoil
World stock markets reel after Britain's 30 plus percent pound devaluation. London reopens amid frantic trading as gold, oil, and stocks fall. Paris and Rome limit foreign trades while Australia and Canada react with currency shifts. Prime Minister Chifley reviews options. observers warn the move may be permanent and spur wider devaluations.
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Associated Press
Britain
London
Exchange
Rome
Milan
Johannesburg
South Africa
Paris
Sydney
Australia
J. B. Chifley
Stafford Cripps
Japan
General MacArthur
Canada
U. S
France
Full hearings on judge asked for Minton Supreme Court seat
The senate judiciary committee voted to hold a public hearing next Tuesday on Judge Sherman Minton’s nomination to the Supreme Court to fill the Rutledge vacancy. Senator Ferguson urged full hearings to explore Minton’s legal ability and background, though no opposition was evident. Minton, a former Indiana senator now serving as a Chicago federal judge, has ties to President Truman.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sherman Minton
Supreme Court
Truman
Minton
Wiley B. Rutledge
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Wiley Rutledge
Michigan
Chicago
Senate
Mon C. Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Wallgren
F.B.I. Aids in Identifying Noronic Dead in Toronto
The F.B.I. sent a top fingerprint expert to Toronto to help identify unknown dead from the S. S. Noronic disaster. He will work with Canadian and American Red Cross, Toronto police, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police using field fingerprinting devices and access to more than 114 million fingerprints on file.
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Washington
F.B.I
Toronto
Canada
Dominion
Romulo elected U.N. assembly president at opening
Brig Gen Carlos P Romulo of the Philippines was elected president of the United Nations assembly at its fourth session in Flushing Meadows. He urged cooperation among big powers and sought to cast this session as the peace assembly. Evatt of Australia, retiring president, voiced continued concern for UN progress amid postwar changes.
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Max Harrelson
New York
Carlos P. Romulo
Philippines
United Nations Assembly
Peace Assembly
Romulo
Flusing Meadow Park
Vladiimir Clementis
Paris
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Evatt
U. N
United Nations
The Case of the Wandering Hog
Mr. W. J. Greenan of 4310 South Grand reported a hog wandered away. He located it via a News-Star-World Lost And Found ad, illustrating a humorous community narra tive.
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W. J. Greenan
South Grand
Mr. Greenan
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N. Y
Ford Company
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