Widow of Wealthy Oilman Cleared of Hiring Killer
A Pial jury acquitted Macy Clerk, widow of William P. Clark, a wealthy Fort Worth oilman, of paying gunmen to kill him. The trial revealed testimony from ex-convicts about a purported payoff, while the defense argued she had no role. Clark was found dead in 1953, with later evidence reclassifying the death as murder.
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Fort Worth
Tex
PIAL
William P. Clark
Macy
Elvin Tackyett
Joe C. Welborn
M Clark
Clark
Lloet
Harry Huggins
Swouggins
Tracy Eggleston
Cecil Keen
Eggleston
Dirk
Huggins
Segregation Dispute Flare in Louisiana
UPI report from EAATH Louisiana describes rising religious tension as three Roman Catholics are excommunicated over a fight involving a woman teacher who instructed both Negro and white children in the same classroom. Bishop Jules B. Jeanmard warns further violence could shut Our Lady of Lourdes and notes excommunication bars sacraments. Archbishop Rummel suspended St Cecilia Mission services after disputes over integrating worship.
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Eaath
UPI
Teton
Jules B. Jeanmard
Lafayette
Vnt
Louisiana
Bisho Jeanmard
Our Lady
Lourdes
Alse
Luta B. .Ortemen
Etta B. Romero
Lota B. Menard
Emery Labbe
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Police Assigned to Rocket Test Site in Sapporo
About 800 policemen are assigned Tuesday to protect a firing range near Sapporo where the U.S. Army plans to test its Honest John rocket. Labor unionists are expected to stage a sit down protest, though police said the demonstration is legal. Maj. Gomer James and Hokkaido Governor Toshibumi Tanaka discussed the planned practice firing but failed to reach an agreement.
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Sapporo
Japan
UPI
U.S. Army
Gomer James
U.S. 3Th Corps
Hokkaido
Toshibumi Tanaka
Tanaka
Clergy Denied Mass for White Congregation
A cleric recalls being told a Negro could not say mass for a white congregation. He notes the polite but discriminatory explanation encountered before arriving at the church.
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Mary Clark
Arthur Murray
Denise Chais
Gerald Lewis
St. Augustin’s Seminary
Bay St. Louis
Miss
New Orleans
Father Lewis
Baantial
Long Beach Sewing Machine Co
Pine Ave
Long Beach
Westinghouse Dryer
Ark
Westinghouse Auto
The
Jace
Santa Barbara
Greyhound
E. Tat St
Cirile Travel
Pacific Ave
Mary Sling
Zenith
Zach Owerwde
Gime Werreau
Matt
Audiphone CO
Brown ‘Lab
Ava
Carnac
Elmy Long Beach
Saturn Ave
Huffington Park
Logan
Carl
Chocolate Ripple
Leire
Pacific Coast
Hemlock
Nevada
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