English patriotism in flux amid British financial turmoil
In a letter discussing the British financial mess, the author notes English patriotism remains strong among most, yet some writers declare disloyalty. He contrasts English loyalty with migrations to colonies and other nations, suggesting even an Englishman might hate his own government today and seek another land.
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New York
United States
France
John C. Knox
England
Soviet Proposal Scarcely Noticed
Washington debate widens over Soviet espionage and U S security as Rep Velde and Sen O Conor push for tighter anti spy measures after Russia’s atomic test. They urge investigations of security lapses and stronger controls on Communist infiltration, arguing current laws allow Moscow agents to slip in under diplomatic cover.
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Velde
R-Ill
O’conor
D-Md
Senate
House
UN American Activities Committee
Congress
White House
Moscow
Foreign policy battle looms in 1950 campaign
Washington reports a Republican Democrat clash over foreign policy in the upcoming congressional race. Analysts expect a contest over methods to maintain world peace rather than a repeat of past isolationist versus internationalist debates. Senator Taft of Ohio and former Rep Dirksen of Illinois are publicly criticizing administration policy as the election season opens.
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Washington
Yesteryear
Taft
Ohio
Dirksen
Illinois
Developments Stir Talk of Atomic Race Across Europe
Reports claim new uranium discoveries in Czechoslovakia and Spain fueling fears of a US Soviet atomic race after Truman cited Russia’s atomic explosion. Tass says Russia has had weapons since 1947 and seeks international control of atomic energy, while notes on uranium mines in Czechoslovakia and Spain and German scientists aiding Soviet bomb development emerge.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Spain
Russia
Europe
Truman
Tass
Soviet Union
Generalissimo Franco
Soviet Russia
East Germany
Stalin
Russia girds eastern Europe with deadly rockets
Berlin dispatch says Russia has launched a network of bases across eastern Europe to fire more lethal rockets than Nazi weapons. Allied and German sources cite Soviet plants at Peenemuende and Rechlin, with labor and heavy guarding reported. scouts note no evidence of bases in the Soviet zone of Germany, while speculation continues on reach to western Europe.
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Berlin
Russia
Europe
Hitler
Germany
Baltic
Black Sea
U. S
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Balkans
Peenemuende
Rechlin
England
Taft Pushes Spain Ties in Atlantic Defense
Senator Taft urges Spain to join Western defenses against Soviet threat. He favors recognizing Madrid, sending an ambassador, and inviting Spain into the community of nations allied against communism. The issue may gain new study after McCarran's European trip.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Spain
North Atlantic
Russia
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Community of Nations
Europe
Madrid
McCarran
D.nev
Franco
Pyrenees
MacCarran
Truman
Acheson
Small Hurricane Dies After Inland Move Near Vera Cruz
Hurricane born in the southwest Gulf of Mexico four days ago died as it moved inland northwest of Vera Cruz. Weather officials reported most circulation over land for eight to twelve hours and rapid weakening. No center or strong winds were located at 9 am local time and no advisories will be issued.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Vera Cruz
Mexico
U. S. Weather Bureau
Four arrested in torture slaying of Newport tourist operator
In Newport Tennessee on September 26 police arrested Claude Robertson Hermie Lee Jones Basil Jones all for murder in the torture slaying of 70 year old Charles Perry and his housekeeper Miss Josie Law at Gatlinburg. A woman held in Johnson City faces an unidentified charge as investigators recover stolen funds.
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Newport
Tenn
Charles Fisher
Cocke County
Claude Robertson
Hermie Lee Jones
Basil Jones
Roy Whaley
Sevier County
Johnson City
Charles Perry
Josie Law
Perry
Gatlinburg
Whaley
Sheriff Fisher
Cocke
Civic Music's Drive To Open Kick-off Dinner Tonight
The Monroe Civic Music Association hosts a complimentary 8 p.m. kick-off dinner on the Virginia Hotel roof for about 300 volunteer workers. The event opens the annual campaign for new members. concerts remain closed to nonmembers except during this week. Members may join by paying annual dues at the Virginia Hotel lobby or via volunteers, with information from the association’s headquarters at 2924 or 2925.
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Monroe Civic Music Association
Virginia
Monroe
J. Paul Hewitt
Virginia Hotel
Louisiana to detail regional education role in two meetings
Baton Rouge announces governor Earl K Long will lead a two day session to establish a Louisiana certification committee for southern regional education and to discuss program financing. Attending will be LSU President Harold W Stoke Grambling College President R W E Jones and A A Fredericks with deans and educational leaders from Southern University Southwestern Louisiana Institute and LSU Polytechnic Institute.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Harold W. Stoke
Louisiana State University
R. W. E. Jones
Grambling College
A. A. Fredericks
Board of Control For
Southern Regional Education
J. B. Cade
Southern University
D. S. Burnside
Man Rescues Woman From Bayou Plunge Near Houma
Earl Robinson was credited with saving Mrs. Marion Wolf of New Iberia after her car plunged into Bayou Black four miles west of Houma. The auto rested bottom up in six feet of water. Wolf's injuries were described as superficial after examination at a local hospital.
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Houma
Earl Robinson
Marion Wolf
New Iberia
Bayou Black
Robinson
Wolf
Six Injured in Two Accidents in Monroe
One of six hurt remained hospitalized Monday at St. Francis Sanitarium. E. D. Grayson, 28, taxi driver, had internal injuries after his cab hit Louis Barnhardt’s car at Catalpa and Grammont. Grayson’s condition was not serious. Others treated for minor injuries were A. V. Breard, Willitt Heston, Lillie Culpepper, and Barnhardt. Breard’s car collided with Heston’s at North Fourth and Washington.
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Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
E. D. Grayson
Louis Barnhardt
Catalpa Street
Catalpa
Grammont Street
Grayson
A. V. Breard
Spencer Street
Willitt Heston
Lillie Culpepper
Breard
North Fourth
Washington Streets
Russia says it has had atomic bomb for two years
Moscow statements via Tass claim the Soviet Union possessed the atom bomb long before 1952 and supports a future absolute prohibition on use while opposing detailed U.S. inspections. The note cites Molotov’s 1947 remark that the bomb’s secret no longer exists and argues Russia favors ban enforcement though ahead of U.S. plans.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Russia
Tass
Truman
V. M. Molotov
U. S
Molotov
Soviet Union
Mr. Truman
Top Officials Go On Carrier
Aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt off the Atlantic coast a navy task force sails from Norfolk to bring Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and other senior officials an on board briefing. The voyage aims to show how modern sea power operates and to foster cross education among the armed services with a civilian delegation observing.
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Elton C. Fay
Associated Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Norfolk
Defense
Louis Johnson
U. S
Air Force
Symington
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chiefs of Staff
C. B. Cates
Marine Corps
Atlantic
Washington
Johnson
Defense Secretary
Army High Command
Navy
Defense Department
Hoyt Vandenberg
Norfolk Naval Air Station
B.S. T
Roosevelt
Midway
Mindoro
Albany
Spokane
Spinax
Ford Showdown Near Detroit Affects 115000 Workers
Negotiators for Ford Motor Company and the union entered a tight 12 hour bargaining session after a 12 hour meeting that ended with little concrete progress. A contract could expire at 12:01 a.m. Thursday triggering a strike at about 48 plants nationwide if no settlement is reached. The pension issues remain under discussion as both sides consider a presidential fact finding board package.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Eighteen New Airstrips Built in Louisiana
Baton Rouge report lists eighteen new airports or airstrips built in Louisiana in the past six months. Names include Broussard and Harris Field in Baton Rouge, McCutcheon Field in Clinton, Arrowhead in Covington, Darnell Grand Isle Little Pecan Island Lutcher Minden airstrips, Brown and Root Morgan City, Kennedy Rayne, Shaw Cupples Naylor in Shreveport, Waterproof airstrip and two in West Monroe.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
T. B. Herndon
Aeronautics Chiefs
State Public Works Department
Aeronautics Division
Broussard
Harris Field
McCutcheod
Clinton
Arrowhead
Covington
Darnell
Grand Isle
Little Pecan Island
Lutcher
Minden
Brown and Root
Morgan City
Kennedy
Rayne
Shaw
Cupples
Naylor
Shreveport
Waterproof
West Monroe
Balkans Split Over Greek Civil War Dominates UN Session
In New York on Sept 26 the UN Assembly opened its second week with Yugoslav and Greek ministers speaking on Balkan aid to Greek guerrillas. Bevin addressed Russian atomic disclosures as nations seek UN led atomic control amid Cold War stalemate.
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New York
United Nations Assembly
United Nations
Balkan
Edward Kardelj
Constantin Tsaldaris
Balkans
Russia
Yugoslavia
Kardelj
Moscow
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Ales Bebler
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Bevin
Washington
Soviet Russia
Soviet Union
Assembly
Carlos P. Romulo
Big Five
Canada
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Eight Confederate veterans to attend reunion in Little Rock
At least eight of the oldest Civil War veterans are expected for the Confederate reunion in Little Rock, Arkansas, the semi final gathering of Gen. Robert E. Lee's veterans. The event runs through Thursday with allied groups and Daughters of the Confederacy present. An expected turnout counts several hundred, and a final reunion may be held next year in Charleston. Notables include James A. Thrasher, 97, of Louin, Mississippi.
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Little Rock
Ark
Robert E. Lee
Legion
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Order of the Stars and Bars
The
Confederate Memorial Association
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Charleston
S. C
James A. Thrasher
Louin
Miss
Crucial steel talks started in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh observers report pessimism as crucial steel talks begin to avert a nationwide strike. James J. Thimmes of United Steel Workers warns there is little chance of success. Murray leads, but no extension is promised, amid a history of Truman era fact finding.
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Pittsburgh
James J. Thimmes
C. I. O. United Steel Workers
Thimmel
Philip Murray
Steel Workers
U. S. Steel Corporation
Murray
Steel Workers District No. 30
Terre Haute
Ind
Truman
Marine Vet Dies in Electric Chair at Rockview
Bellefonte Pa Sept 4. George A Neill 24 year old marine veteran convicted in the strangling death of his 11 year old niece Isabella Mellon was electrocuted at Rockview State Prison after Gov Duff stayed another execution James Smith 23 a Black man pleaded guilty in the pistol slaying of taxi driver John J Haines during a holdup on Jan 15 1948 A federal order later stayed Smiths execution Habeas hearing set October 4 State supreme court upheld both death sentences and pleas for commutation were denied.
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Bellefonte
George A. Neill
Rockview State Prison
Neill
Isabella Mellon
James H. Duff
James Smith
Smith
John J. Haines
Philadelphia
State Supreme Court
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