Frick as Commissioner and the changing face of baseball
Westbrook Pegler reflects on Ford Frick as baseball commissioner, comparing the sport to a major industry driven by corporate Yankees structure. He recalls the World Series aura, owners pressuring sport for profit, and the public’s wide but fleeting connection to baseball across towns and eras.
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New York
Ford Frick
New
Robert A. Taft
Yankees
Frick
Casey Stengel
Giants
Jimmy O'Connell
St. Louis
Washington
Cardinals
Senators
Allies Bay 14 Red Planes In Marathon Jet Conflict
Allied pilots reported the largest jet battle on record over northwest Korea with 256 jets in action. U N Command said 14 Communist planes were destroyed or damaged, with the United States Fifth Air Force claiming one MIG destroyed and four damaged, no Allied losses.
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Allies
John Randolph
U. N
Korea
Northwest
Mig Alley
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Fifth Air Force
Sinanju
Manchurian
Escapee Tries to Make Trade Escapee Tries to Make Trade
Buford Georgia September 26 state officials reject an offer to surrender by one of six escapees from a Georgia prison. J B Hatchett says no bargaining with escaped convicts while FBI joins manhunt near new Gwinnett County prison.
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Buford
J. B. Hatchett
State Board of Corrections
Joe Lee
Bishop
Tattnall State
Reidsville
Tattnall
Georgia
Hatchett
Gwinnett County
FBI
Benton Agrees to Take Oath on McCarthy Charges
Washington reports Senator Benton says he is willing to testify under oath for charges against Senator McCarthy. He plans to seek a Senate probe to determine expulsion, while McCarthy calls the move irregular and smears. Hayden sets a rules committee meeting on disqualification for a subcommittee hearing.
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Washington
Benton
D.-Conn
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Senate Elections
Gillette
Iowa
Connecticut
Senate
Hayden
D. - Ariz
Senate Rules Committee
Margaret Chase Smith
R.-Me
Dispute Dims Hope For New Cease-Fire Talks
In Tokyo on September 26 1950 the United Nations command rejected a Communist demand to resume full-dress Korean truce talks immediately. Allied leaders insisted on safeguards to prevent future interruptions before meetings resume. The long liaison sessions in Kaesong featured angry Communist walkouts as arguments over scope intensified.
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Don Huth
Tokyo
United Nations Command
Reds
Kaesong
Korea
Unidentified elderly man found dead under bridge
An elderly man, age 75 to 80, was found dead under a traffic bridge after a heart attack. He was unidentifiable as yet, with no belongings to reveal his name. Tom Mulhearn of Mulhearn Funeral Home reported no ID despite many views. fingerprints will be sent to Washington for identification.
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Tom Mulhearn
Mulhearn
Ouachita Parish
J. T. French
French
Elmer Powell
Louisville Avenue
Washington, D. C
James Petrov
St. Louis
Jimmy
Kiwanis Club of
Surburban Overland
Albert Baldwin
Ted Fergus
John Hogan
News-Star Today
Carlos Spaht
Spaht
Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Long
Louisiana
William J. Dodd
Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh Postponed Tour
Buckingham Palace announces the Canadian American tour of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh is postponed due to the king’s illness. A formal palace statement on the change is expected shortly with no details on rearrangements.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Michigan Congressman Calls for Lawmaker Pay Cut
Washington September 26 Rep Clare Hoffman of Michigan urged reducing congressional salaries to 10 000 a year arguing public service should be affordable He noted current total 15 000 is inflated and that higher pay draws no better lawmakers He said he lives frugally and doubts higher pay would improve quality of legislators
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Washington
Clare E. Hoffhman
R.mich
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Hoffman
Law
Allegan, Mich
House
Senate
Arranging for Industry Sites in Ouachita Parish
An arrangements committee led by T. O. Bancroft Walter Kellogg and John Sherrouse Jr is appointed by the Ouachita Parish Industrial Development Committee to study office space secretarial help and other needed facilities A plant site committee including H L Rosenhein Jack Masur Bernard Biedenharn and Evans Ethridge begins surveying available land and site facilities Twelve Jaycees assist in contacting firms to fund the campaign by September end and report strong responses.
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T. O. Bancroft
Walter Kellogg
John Sherrouse, Jr
Ouachita Parish
Jaycees
Industrial Development Committee
Editors Urge Tough Steps To Free Oatis
APME urged a break in diplomatic ties with Czechoslovakia if needed to win release of AP correspondent William N. Oatis jailed since July 10 on espionage charges. The committee warned that continued imprisonment harms press freedom and international relations.
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Spencer Davis
San Francisco
Associated Press Managing Editors Association Today
Czechoslovakia
A. P
William N. Oatis
APME
L. R. Blanchard
Rochester, N. Y
Democrat and Chronicle
Blanchard
Oatis
J. R. Wiggins
Washington Post
George Cornish
New York Herald Tribune
John Stempel
University of Indiana Daily Student
William Oatis
Prague
Iron Curtain
Monroe Growth Noted By Branham Company Executive
Monroe and West Monroe show impressive growth over five years, said Monroe H. Long of the Branham Company in New York City during a visit from the Southern Newspaper Publisher's convention in Hot Springs. He highlighted local gas fields and the delivery of gas to New York for consumption.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Monroe H. Long
Branham Company
New York City
Mr. Long
Hot Springs
Ark
New York
Kaiser Says Aluminum Plants Won't Be Moved
Washington reports Kaiser Aluminum head Henry J. Kaiser says it will not be necessary to relocate aluminum plants in the northwest. He spoke after a meeting with Defense Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson amid power shortages blamed on a drought. Officials noted cloud seeding would be tried to increase rainfall for hydroelectric generation.
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Washington
Henry J. Kaiser
Northwest
Kaiser
Defense Mobilization
Charles FE. Wilson
Wilson
Midwest
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Attlee appeals to Truman over Iran oil dispute
London reports Prime Minister Attlee plans a personal appeal to President Truman as Britain protests Iran's order expelling about 300 British oil workers from the Abadan refinery by Oct. 3 amid the Anglo Iranian Oil Company nationalization dispute. Attlee's message and White House talks follow talks with advisers and with Ambassador Franks. Local Louisiana police fund-raising allegations are also noted in the same dispatch.
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London
Attlee
Truman
Britain
Iran
Tehran
Abadan
Abaden
Attee
Oliver Franks
Washington
Foreign Office
Francis Shepherd
Mohammed Mossadegh
LeBlanc to Speak in Monroe With Dempsey Escort
Senator LeBlanc arrives in Monroe this afternoon to deliver two speeches at Crosley School West Monroe at 6 30 p m and Monroe at 7 30 p m after stops in Minden and Ruston. He will greet friends at Hotel Virginia before the talks and brings with him notable entertainer Jack Dempsey for the appearance.
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Dudley J. LeBlanc
Louisiana
Monroe
Crosley School
West Monroe
Minden
Ruston
LeBlanc
Virginia
Rappelet seeks constitutional cap on state taxes
State Senator A O Rappelet announces he will sponsor a constitutional amendment to prohibit tax increases in Louisiana if elected governor in 1952. He says the top bill in his administration, aligned with his no new taxes plank, would bar increases to property, excise, privilege and personal taxes unless approved by the amendment.
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A. O. Rappeilet
Baton Rouge
Rappelet
Bastrop Man Killed Near Lake Charles
Gaddis Bentley Barry 27 of Bastrop died in an auto truck collision five miles west of Lake Charles on Highway 90. Richard G. Beaks 42 of Sour Lake Texas was hurt critically. Henry Weaver 30 of Nacogdoches Texas uninjured. In a second crash near Vinton Mrs James Watkins 38 of Sulphur and Mrs Dickie Van Meter 32 of Orange Texas suffered injuries and were hospitalized.
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Lake Charles
Calcasieu Parish
Gaddis Bentley Barry
Bastrop
Here
Richard G. Beaks
Sourlake
Tex
Henry Weaver
Nacodoches
Vinton
James Watkins
Dickie van Meter
Orange
Freedom Train Engineer Sends Balloons Back Home
In Munich on September 26 the engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka and dispatcher Karl Truksa released huge balloons from Bavaria carrying 2.5 million messages to Czechoslovak citizens. The balloons promote the freedom train escape and deny US agent involvement, as 31 refugees remain in West Germany.
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Munich
Germany
West Germany
Bavaria
Jaroslav Konvalinka
Karl Truksa
Radio Free Europe
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Crusade For Freedom
Canada
Konvalinka and
Truksa
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Francis J. Kelly
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London Palace
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Associated Press
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