Communists offer clemency to press for surrender in China
Mao Tze-Tung urges Li Tsung Jen to accept eight red terms, including punishment of Nationalist leaders, as a deadline nears. Reds push through 650 miles of Yangtze river defenses while Nationalists decide on mercy or blocking a southern drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Topping
Nanking
Yangtze River
South
China
Reds
Mao Tze-Tung
Li Tsung- Jen
Peiping Radio
Mao
Tito Says Yugoslavia Will Trade With Capitalist Nations
Marshal Tito defended trading with Western countries on a business basis while denouncing foreign attacks. He warned Western powers not to expect Yugoslav help in their war plans and vowed to stay true to socialist revolutionary principles despite the Soviet and Communist pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Soviet
Russia
Rivers Congress Backs Eight Public Works Projects
The rivers and harbors congress endorsed eight top classification public works projects totaling 665.704 million dollars. Projects include Green River flood control Washington Passaic Valley New Jersey Central Valley California and others along with Okeechobee and Intracoastal waterways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Snyder
Washington Service
Washington
Rivers and Harbors Congress
Congress
Green River
Passaic Valley
New Jersey
Central Valley Project
California
Mississippi
Okeechobee Waterway
Stuart
Fla
Fort Myers
Miami
Key West
Ouachita River
Arkansas
Louisiana
Overton Lateral
Red River Canal
Simpson
R.-Ill
Congress of the
United States
Local Junior Red Cross Album Exchange Highlights Ouachita Schools
Dr Frank C Jenkins explains the Exchange Album to students as five Monroe schools create Louisiana albums sent to Calais France and receive albums from abroad. Millays School principal Cliff Roberts and local teachers direct Louisiana albums to Virginia and Norway. J D Purvis, 38, severely burned in a truck collision with a train last October, is moved home to West Monroe after treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Frank C. Jenkins
Southeastern
Junior Red Cross
Monroe
Georgia Tucker
Rosa Bell McDonald
Gertrude Hart
Louisiana
Calais
France
Milliays
Cliff Roberts
Gertrude Gregory
Virginia
Norway
J. D. Purvis
Missouri Pacific
Powell Crossing
West Monroe
Republicans Show Tepid Support for Dixie Coalition Plan
Senator Brewster said Republicans welcome southern Democrats who back constitutional government but will oppose civil rights blockers within the party. The Dixie bid followed a states rights dinner in Dothan Alabama where 550 attendees endorsed opposing Truman civil rights proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
South
Truman
Brewster
Maine
Dixie Democrats
Congress
Dothan
Ala
Gromyko blasts western use of former Italian bases
In a speech to the UN committee, Andrei Gromyko accuses Britain and the United States of keeping former Italian colonies in North Africa as bases for aggression against the Soviet Union. American and British spokesmen deny the charge as he attacks NATO and bloc alignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
Robert Hewett Lake
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
Italy
Soviet Union
Gromyo
US. N. Assembly
Lissa
Mediterranean
Gromyko
United Kingdom
United States
France
Baccalaureate Slated May 29 At Northeast Junior College
The Right Rev Monsignor J C Marsh will deliver the baccalaureate address at the seventeenth annual commencement of Northeast Junior College on Sunday May 29 at 430 p m in Brown Hall auditorium on the campus. Sixty eight students are candidates for graduation including seven who completed two year courses in the first semester. The candidate list includes Patsy Alexander Glenn Bedies Annie Lou Beavers Crawford H Bell Thomas Bruke Sara Ellen Bruno Wallace Chapman Mary Helen Cloud Anna Joyce Coates Betty Lóis Cole Jerry Cooper Cecile Danna Virginia Douciere Sally Adell Crane Lilla Dukes Clara Yvonne Ewin Albert Ford Ruby Mae Ford Katherine Gailway Mary Jeanette George Mary Louise Guerriero Lonnie Hampton Earl Lee Hammett Betty Jo Hart Edgar Hawkins Fannie Tulzabeth Hawkins Betty Jean Henry Charles Ray Holland Daisy Holloway Jenie Jacquelyn Holloway Betty Horn Merna Hynam Wilburn F Jones
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C., Marsh
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
Brown Hall
Rody Cline
Patsy Alexander
Glenn Bedies
Annie Lou Beavers
Crawford H. Bell
Thomas Bruke
Sara Ellen Bruno
Wallace Chapman
Mary Helen Cloud
Anna Joyce Coates
Betty Lo's Cole
Jerry Cooper
Cecile Danna
Virginia Douciere
Sally Adell Crane
Lilla Dukes
Clara Yvonne Ewin
Albert Ford
Ruby Mae Ford
Katherine Gailway
Mary Jeanette George
Mary Louise Guerriero
Lonnie Hampton
Earl Lee Hammett
Betty Jo Hart
Edgar Hawkins
Fannie Tulzabeth Hawkins
Betty Jean Henry
Charles Ray Holland
Daisy Holloway
Jenie Jacquelyn Holloway
Betty Horn
Merna Hynam
Wilburn F. Jones
Mrs K Hess Dies in Monroe at Age 80
Mrs. K Hess widow of Edwin Hess and longtime Monroe resident died yesterday at 1 35 PM at 509 Hall Street at age 80. A Bavarian native who moved to the US as a child she and her husband ran a bakery on South Grand for years. Funeral 3 30 PM at home with Monsignor Marsh of St Matthew's Catholic Church. interment Riverview Burial Park. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. Hess
Edwin Hess
Monroe
Hall Street
Hess
South Grand Street
Old
Bavaria
Germany
United States
Joe Fiedler
Margaret Gooeyear
Long Island
N. Y
J. C. Marsh
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
Riverview Burial Park
Hall Funeral Home
H. Hatten
Dr. Baur
David I. Garrett
Louis Monroe
Clyde Fulton
Armed Forces Budget Boost Sets Peace Time Record
The House appropriations committee raised the defense budget to 15.91 billion, over half a billion above Truman's request. General Bradley and Air Secretary Symington signaled easing fears, while the plan funds all three services with a large share for the air force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Arbogast
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Omar Bradley
Bradley
Symington
Air Force
Drivers trained two owners say drivers trained
Mrs. Veazey of the Red Cross charged Monroe ambulance drivers lack up to date first aid cards. She said she mailed drivers to enroll in first aid classes but received no replies. Funeral director C H Hall countered that his drivers have a good first aid education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Veazey
Farmhand Hurt After Runaway Cotton Cutter Incident
R. M. Malone, 25, an Oak Ridge farmer, fell into the blades of a cotton stalk cutter when his team spooked by a clatter. He moved to jam the blades with his legs, suffering lacerations and contusions from hip to calf and a large knee cut. He was treated at Conway Memorial Hospital after a 2:20 p.m. accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Malone
Oak Ridge
Conway Memorial Hospital
Malone
Girl Injured in City Traffic Eight Vehicle Accidents
A five year old girl Carolyn Sue Panzico seriously injured after running from behind a parked ice truck into a city bus on Vernon street. Police say bus driver Charles Dalton avoided disaster by braking and swerving. The girl, taken to St Francis Sanitarium, shows severe bruises but no broken bones. A fourteen year old boy also injured in a separate motorcycle collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Panzico
Carolyn Sue Panzico
Leon Panzico
Vernon Street
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mulhearn
Monroe
Charles Dalton
Seventh Street
Dalton
West Monroe Lions Minstrel Monday program released
The West Monroe Lions Club fourth annual all star minstrel is set for Monday at 8 p.m. in Neville High School auditorium. The program lists interlocutor Joe Preddy and a long cast including Chester DeCair as Rastus Walter Minnear as Luscious and many others with musical and dramatic acts. Featured piece is Wedding in Hogtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe
Five Thousand Stand Grim Watch Around Water Well
In San Marino California on April 9 a crowd of about five thousand police estimate surrounds a 14 inch pipe where 3 1/2 year old Kathy Fiscus is trapped more than 75 feet below the surface. A massive rescue operation is underway with heavy equipment and two drilling rigs as time runs toward evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Handsaker
San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus
Raymond A. Hill
Rescue shaft 13 near well to free trapped child Kathy
Desperate rescue crews in San Marino push a drill down a 30 inch shaft to 104 feet and prepare to tunnel through the wall of an abandoned well where three year old Kathy Fiscus lies trapped. Raymond Hill supervises operations as Whitey Blickensderfer is lowered into the rescue pit with pipe sections following.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus
Raymond Hill
Whitey Blickensderfer
Blickensderfer
California father seeks law to seal abandoned wells
David H. Fiscus, father of 3 year old Kathy who fell into a 230 foot unprotected old well in San Marino, urged a Sacramento bill to require registration and survey of all water sources and to cement abandoned wells. Loren E. Blakeley supported the proposal noting old wells must be fully cemented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAN M/RINO
Calif
David H. Fiscus
Kathy
Sacramento
Fiscus
California
American Water Works Association
San Gabriel Valley
California Water and Telephone Co
Loren E. Blakeley
Orange
Blakeley
Rescue Effort Probes 14-Inch Well For Missing Child Kathy
Rescue workers dig a tunnel toward a 14 inch pipe where 7 year old Kathy is believed trapped. After 30 hours no sign of life appeared. Two shafts lie near the pipe as machinist O A Kelly reports a possible motionless arm and dress 37 feet below in the sunlit hole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathy
Hill
O. A. Kelly
Kelly
Fiscus
Alice Fiscus
Wanted Milch Cows Attract Fifty Prospective Buyers
Mr. E. A. Welch advertised for fifty milch cows in the News Star World classifieds. The notice drew about 50 telephone inquiries from interested buyers as readers reacted to the appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Welch
News - Star — World
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