AFL Chief Urges Congress to Repeal Taft Hartley Act
AFL president William Green denounces Taft Hartley as impracticable and unworkable and calls on Congress to repeal it in full. He endorses a revised labor bill restoring the Wagner Act with amendments, arguing it would base industrial peace on free collective bargaining and reduce government interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
AFL
William Green
Congress
Truman
Senate Labor Committee
Green
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Department of Labor
Labor Department
Judy Canova Divorces Chester England on Cruelty Charges
Judy Canova, the Florida born hillbilly singer and film radio comedian, files for divorce from Chester England alleging cruelty. She says he was sarcastic to her friends and made her too nervous to work, with testimony from friend Nancy Lowery about his sulking behavior at home.
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Hollywood
Judy Canova
Florida
Chester England
Radio Comedienne
England
Nancy Lowery
Miss Canova
Lover of Red Way of Life Lands In Jail
Anna Louise Strong, 64, a pro Soviet American writer, was arrested as a spy by Soviet security police in Moscow and to be deported soon. The Soviet press calls her a well known spy and notes her history as a journalist and author who praised communism and helped launch the Moscow Daily News in 1930.
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Moscow
Anna Louise Strong
Strong
Soviet Union
A. L. Strong
Moscow Daily News
Woman chooses prison over probation in Chicago case
Charlotte Kierstein 22 asks Criminal Court Judge Daniel A Robert to send her to prison rather than continue probation. She recounts unstable work history since a 1947 bogus check conviction tied to an $11 500 check on her employer's account. The judge indicates probation remains, while her late employer’s estate is probated. Investigators have facts pending.
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Chicago
Charlotte Kierstein
Miss. Kierstein
Chamber of Criminal Court
Daniel A. Robert
Dwight
III
Rhyme on a Racehorse Scandal and Economic Wears
A verse sketch laments a racehorse owner's jailed son and a suspected insider betting scheme with bad checks. It also critiques tax cuts abroad and rising prices at home, predicting hardship, foreclosures, and tightened incomes amid uncertain times.
Attacks by Dogs Cut Napa Mail Service
Napa California police say 1800 residents on the city outskirts lose mail delivery until dogs are controlled. Postmaster George Provine halted service after a carrier was bitten for the fifth time in two months. Alden Raisler, who was bitten three times, relied on postal rules to justify the stoppage. Paul A. Geiger lies in an iron lung after a Jan. 3 attack in San Francisco Hospital.
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Napa
Calif
George Provine
Provine
Alden Raisler
Raisler
Paul A. Geiger
San Francisco
Probation Violation Leads to Brief Jail Stay For Kerstein
A woman tracked from job to job pressing questions about a check disclosed her record and was refused relief by agencies. She admitted deliberate probation violations, but the judge sentenced her to jail until Tuesday while promising to seek help. She maintained pride and smiled as she was taken to jail.
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Miss Kerstein
Idaho Paintings On Exhibit At Boise Gallery
Rupert resident Ola Moller is among painters featured in the February art exhibit at the Boise gallery. Committee chairman Mrs. H T Nelson said the show runs Saturdays and Mondays 2 to 5 p m and Sundays 2 to 8 p m from Feb 5 to Feb 28.
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Rupert
Ola Moller
Idaho
Minidoka County
Boise Art Gallery
H. T. Nelson
Geertsen to Leave Fort Douglas for San Francisco Club
John Geertsen, who resigned as golf pro at Fort Douglas golf and country club, will accept a pro position at the San Francisco golf and country club, he said Tuesday.
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California
Salt Lake City
John Geertsen
Fort Douglas Golf and Country Club
San Francisco Golf and Country Club
Movie Unions Seek Congress Aid to Halt Loss of Jobs
Hollywood unions report half the workers are jobless as foreign currency restrictions push studios to film abroad. The Hollywood AFL film council calls for congressional action to ban foreign pictures until blocked currency is released. A special committee will meet Eric Johnston of the MPAA to press the plan amid dropping foreign revenues from 125 million in 1946 to about 50 million last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Congress
Hollywood Afl Film Council
Film Council
Hollywood Studios
U. S
Eric Johnston
Motion Picture Association of America
Johnston
Vets With Degree Can Be Officers
World War II veterans aged 21 to 27 with a bachelor degree may receive army commissions per Capt. Lee R. Sumpter Jr. They must have at least one year of service during the war and the age limit may rise for those who served before December 31.
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Lee R. Sumpter Jr
Mystery gas rots nylons in Jacksonville lunch hour
In Jacksonville Florida workers report their nylon stockings dissolving in mid air during lunch hours as a mysterious gas diffuses from a local plant. Health officials suspect incompletely burned fuel oil soot while DuPont monitors the case with Gainesville tests and state authorities.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Health Department
Financial District
Herman F. Kurtz
University of Georgia
Gainesville
Dupont de Nemours Company
Wilmington
Del
State Makes Bid Awards for Vehicles and Radio Equipment
The Idaho state purchasing agent awarded contracts totaling 32 320 for autos trucks and a tractor for various departments. Awards include seven sedans a station wagon eight trucks for agriculture school and colony at Nampa highway bureau 22 503 to Brown Chevrolet Co Grangeville and other vehicle bids plus a 1500 contract for a 250 watt central station radio transmitter to the Federal Telephone and Radio Corp via Maydwell and Hartzell Portland Ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOISE
Agriculture Department
State School and Colony
Nampa
Highway Bureau
Brown Chevrolet Co
Grangeville
Fish and Game Department
E. R. Elliott Motor Co
Coeur d'Alene
D. J. Noack Co
Blackfoot
Coeur d’Alene Tractor Co
Federal Telephone and Radio Corps
Mayd- Well and
Hartzell
Portland
Ore
Health official denial delays nylon stock ing concerns
Dupont spokesman argues health agents must be permitted to investigate first. He warns that anything deteriorating nylon stockings would harm public health. A year ago in Cleveland a similar condition ruined about 200 pairs of nylons.
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Dupont
Cleveland
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