Westbrook Pegler on Americans for Democratic Action
Westbrook Pegler cites a Danbury letter requesting facts on Americans for Democratic Action. He portrays ADA as a radical, partly Communist aligned influence, noting local resistance and statements by Mrs. Lacey Conniff and others while criticizing ADA’s aims to disrupt party lines and push a socialist world order.
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New York
Danbury
Conn
Americans For Democratic Action
Chester Bowles
Conniff
Communist Party
Europe
David Dubinsky
Garment Workers’ Union
Fair Deal Foes Hit By President
President Truman defended the Fair Deal against critics calling it alien or dangerous and urged women to join the Democratic push. He spoke on Democratic Women's Day from the White House with India Edwards and other women officials outlining housing, education, social security, and labor aims from the 1948 platform.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
Truman
Democratic Party
White House
India Edwards
Women's Divison
Democratic National Committee
Elsie West
Lothian
Albert
Senate OKs Military Pay Rise Amid Executive Raises Debate
The Senate approved broader military pay increases and moved to consider President Truman's executive pay rise proposal. A House-passed bill boosts cabinet members and top officials, with conferees to reconcile minor Senate-House differences. Military raises range from five dollars a month to 300 plus for generals, while executive raises face reduced ceilings under a compromise group led by Senator McFarland.
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Senate
House
Truman
Barkley
Lucas
Illinois
McFarland
D.-Ariz
White House
Vitamin E hailed as answer to postoperative thrombosis
Dr. Alton Ohsner of Tulane, in Houston for the Southwestern Surgical Conference, reports alpha tocopherol from vitamin E blocks thrombosis post surgery. He lists infection and shock as other risks managed by antibiotics and transfusions, presenting his findings on the eve of the conference.
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Houston
Tex
New Orleans
Alton Ohsner
Ochsner
Tulane University Department of Surgery
Southwestern Surgical Conference
Threat to free press sparks antitrust suit
Cleveland Sept 27 The Lorain Journal publisher S A Horvitz calls the government antitrust suit a threat to all newspapers. The suit accuses the Journal and four officers of conspiring to monopolize news and advertising and targets ads from firms using WEOL Elyria and the Lorain Sunday News. A preliminary injunction seeks printing ads from those firms. A Nov 15 hearing is set.
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Cleveland
S. A. Horvitz
The
Lorain Journal
United States
Federal Communications Commission
WEOL
Weol-Fm
Elyria
Lorain
McGrath
Horvitz
Mansfield (O.) News-Journal
Ruth Dickins seeks freedom in murder appeal
Jackson Miss September 27 attorneys for Ruth Dickins a prominent delta plantation owner and sportswoman convicted of killing her mother asked the Mississippi supreme court to grant release pending appeal. She is serving life in Washington county jail in Greenville awaiting the ruling. The case hinges on trial court errors and jury submission.
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Jackson
Miss
Ruth Dickins
Delta
Mississippi Supreme Court
Dickins
Washington County
Greenville
Idella Long Thompson
Mississippi Levee Commission
W. B. Conn
Hugh Foote
British Heads Face Big Test
London Sept 27 Sir Stafford Cripps raised Britain's profits tax by one-fifth to 30 percent starting today to offset inflation from pound devaluation. He warned against expanding dividends and signaled possible legislation in the finance bill. The Labour caucus backs the government. Liberal MPs plan a firm opposition stance. Churchill expected to address the debate on devaluation and confidence in Attlee’s government.
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London
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Cripps
House of Commons
Laborites
Attlee
Liberal Party
Winston Churchill
Overseas arms plan approved speeds U.S. response to Russia
In Washington a senate house committee reached a three hour agreement on a 1.314 billion overseas arms program to counter Soviet atomic claims. The final plan, higher than the house figure, advances to final congressional approval with conferees noting Russia reports have strengthened the case for renewed defense aid.
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Washington
Senate-House
U. S
Russia
Senate
House
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bridges
New Hampshire
Knowland
California
Truman
Congressional
James E. Webb
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Martin
Massachusetts
McCormack
Nine foot Ouachita River Channel Heads to Senate Review
Senator McClellan says Senate Public Works Committee will decide Thursday on approving a nine foot navigation channel for the Ouachita River from Louisiana into Arkansas up to Camden. The $36,950,000 project includes DeGray and Murfreesboro reservoirs costing $21,200,000 and $13,900,000 for rehab and widening locks and channel alignment.
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Washington
McClellan
D.-Ark
Senate Public Works Committee
Ouachita River
Louisiana
Arkansas
Camden
House
Degray
Murfreesboro
Three held after dog stolen from Monroe polio victim
In Monroe, police detained three suspects after a dog was stolen from a polio victim. The incident prompted local authorities to warn residents to secure pets and strengthen neighborhood watch efforts.
Police recover stolen dog from polio victim in Monroe
State troopers arrested an airline pilot and two women in Tallulah for stealing a small black cocker spaniel named Lady from a Louisville avenue liquor store. The dog, valued at 50 dollars, was recovered four hours after the theft and returned to 12 year old Jackie Robison, son of Mrs. A. B. Robison, of 401 Arkansas Avenue. The suspects, H. H. Lackey of Alabama, Trudy Brown of Missouri, and Ollviette Murphree of Louisiana, face theft charges after a retail theft report led to their arrest Monday night. Mrs. Ben Freeman identified the suspects and the scene before the car drove off with the dog. Continued on Sixth Page.
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Parish
Jackie Robison
A. B. Robison
Arkansas Avenue
Jackie
New Orleans
Louisville Avenue
Tallulah
Monroe
H. H. Lackey
Talladega
Ala
Trudy Brown
Springfield
Ollviette Murphree
Shreveport
Ben Freeman
Louisville
Lackey
Robison
Freeman
O'Mahoney Doubts Russians Can Stockpile Atom Bomb
Senator O'Mahoney says every sign shows Russia lacks the industrial know how and facilities to stockpile atomic bombs. He disputes Hickenlooper’s leaks claim and defends AEC security practices amid calls for tighter controls. McMahon backs the commission against mismanagement charges.
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O'Mahoney
Washington
D.-Wyo
Russia
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Wyoming
Senate
Atomic Energy Commission
McMahon
Senate-House Atomic Committee
AEC
David E. Lilient
53 on Planes Feared Killed
Twenty four persons died and it was feared 29 others lost their lives in four plane mishaps in this country Mexico and England yesterday. The most spectacular accident involved a Mexican airliner with 24 aboard. A shepherd saw it fall into snow on Popocatepetl. Rescue workers toiled toward the scene. Mexican Sen Ramos Milan aboard. The line said two passengers may be Americans. A B-29 on a training flight crashed near Talihina Oklahoma. ten bodies counted. Twelve British fliers died and two missing in a central England collision during exercises. Two University of Tennessee students were killed in the crash of their aircraft.
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Associated Press
Mexico
England
Popocatepetl
Sen
Ramos Milan
National Corn Commission
Sooky Hill
Salina
Kas
Talihina
Oklo
University of Tennessee
Truman set to approve two presidential appointees
Washington Sept 27 Senators forecast quick approval of two Truman picks. W Walton Butterworth, for the state department post, was expected to win despite opposition. Judge Sherman Minton faced a Senate judiciary committee hearing before full vote on the Supreme Court seat left by Wiley Rutledge.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
W. Walton Butterworth
Butterworth
Sherman Minton
Supreme Court
Wiley B. Rutledge
American Bar Association
Minton
Senate Judiciary Committee
Commerce Committee
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
Kilgore
West Virginia
Judiciary Committee
Hand
The
Bar Association
Indiana
Roosevelt
Langer
North Dakota
Ford Settlement Deadline Near
Detroit Sept 27 The deadline for settlement of the Ford U A W contract dispute looms as negotiators prepare to resume talks. A strike threatening 115 000 workers could shut Ford Motor Co if no agreement by 12 01 am Thursday. Pension, hiring, firing and seniority dominate discussions amid daily bargaining for nearly two weeks.
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Detroit
Ford- U. A. W
C. I. O. United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Miners Return to Pits as UMW Strike Clashes Rise
Eleven hundred non-union miners defied the United Mine Workers and returned to western Pennsylvania pits. State police arrested 17 pickets in four counties near Clearfield as 35 mines reopened, many surface strip operations. Armed guards patrolled mine entrances while authorities pursued rioting charges and pledged to enforce the law amid the ongoing Lewis strike stalemate.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Clearfield
Clarion County
West Virginia
Gilmer County
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Lewis
U.M.W
Southern Soft Coal
Bluefield
W. Va
Woman Held in Plane Deaths in Quebec Case
Police arrested 41 year old Mrs Arthur Pitre a friend of jeweler J Albert Guay as an accessory in the bomb plot that killed Guays wife and 22 others on a Canadian Pacific plane Sept 9 She faces questioning and possible court appearance Guay was declared sane by psychiatrists and is charged with planning to insure his wifes death and divorce his wife for another woman
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Arthur Pitre
Quebec
J. A. Guay
Pitre
Que
J. Albert Guay
Guay
Canadian Pacific Airways
Here
Gustave Desrochers
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Baie Comeau
Kennecott Copper Corp
China accuses Russia over backing Chinese Communist forces
Nationalist China formally charged Russia at the United Nations with backing Mao’s forces to overthrow the Kuomintang government in Canton. T. F. Tsiang, the Chinese Nationalist delegate, presented two letters to the Assembly President Romulo and UN Secretary-General Lie, seeking urgent action. Details were not released immediately.
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Trygve Lie
Assembly
Russia
Mao Tze-Tung
People’s Republic of China
Peiping
Rose Case in Hands of Jury in Treason Trial
In San Francisco on September 27, Iva Toguri D Aquino known as Tokyo Rose faces a jury after a day of deliberations. The panel of six men and six women retired for the night at 11 11 p m with plans to resume at 9 a m. The 33 year old Los Angeles born Nisei was tense and wept at recess as she awaited the jury verdict.
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San Francisco
Iva Toguri D’aquino
Tokyo
Radio
Michael J. Roche
Defendent
U. S. Marshal's
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