Labor War and Housing Frauds In GI Benefits Probe
Washington April 23 AP Chairman Teague said the House Veterans Affairs Committee found a widespread vicious illegal practice involving buying and selling veterans housing rights. The inquiry covers $50 000 and VA laxity in loan guarantees with losses and foreclosures estimated, plus VA employees profiting from projects. Rights sales target builders and real estate agents as well as veterans, with penalties up to 5000 dollars and five years in prison.
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Washington
Teague
Ctex
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Veterans Administration
United States
Communists Free Four Guards After Stiff West Demand
In Berlin on April 23 the East German government freed four West Berlin customs guards seized with a speedboat two days earlier. Western officials pressed for return of the boat and crew, while the fate of the vessel remains unresolved. The guards arrived in the U S sector via Glienicker Bridge as Moscow authorities did not immediately restore the boat. West Berlin noted further seizures of six scrap metal trucks in the prior three days.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Ministry of the Interior
ADN
U.S
Glienicker Bridge
Storm Warnings Lifted After Tornado Outbreak
Severe storms and a tornado battered the mid south while the Twin Cities had clouded skies. Warnings extended from El Dorado Arkansas to Bowling Green Kentucky and were lifted by 9 p.m. Louisiana and Arkansas forecasts call for fair and mild weather. Monroe reported a high of 83 degrees and a low of 76.
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Mid-South
Twin Cities
Louisiana
Government Weather Bureau
el Dorado
Ark
Bowling Green
Arkansas
CAA
Selman Field Sfation
Monroe
Louisiana Delegation Joins Las Vegas For Atomic Cue Test
About 2000 observers from across the nation including 75 from Arkansas Louisiana and Texas arrived in Las Vegas for the Atomic Energy Commission Operation Cue tests at Yucca Flat. Dr Alvin Graves said long range weather favored a Tuesday 40 kiloton tower burst while noting conditions may change. The blast at 5 20 a m PST will be among the spring series largest and the first graphic look for many civil defense workers and reporters.
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Charles Richardson
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Proving Grounds
Monroe Morning World
Shreveport Times
Las Vegas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Alvin C. Graves
Graves
Civil Defense
Yucca Flat
AEC
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Japan
United States
Val Peterson
Nebraska
Army
Camp Desert Rock
Proving Grounds
Shreveport
Monroe Texarkana
George Whitlow
Monroe
Fred Mechlin
Shreveport - Bossier City
Washington
Robert Anderson
Defense
Robert Stevens
Matthew Ridgway
Quebec
District Remains On Standard Time
Several callers asked if the district observes daylight saving time and the Monroe district confirms it will stay on standard time. Residents should keep watches and clocks where they are and not adjust them.
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Monroe
Southern governors fail to settle strike amid train derailment
A Louisville & Nashville freight train derailed five miles south of Barbourville Kentucky injuring six crewmen after an open switch was spiked and struck by cars. Georgia Mississippi and Alabama governors met with company and CIO union reps for nearly three hours but failed to end the tele phone strike.
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Atlanta
Louisville & Nashville
Barbourville
Georgia
Mississippi
Alabama
Marvin Griffin
Hugh White
James Folsom
CIO Communications Workers of America
Griffin
Lawrence Wetherby
Kentucky
Southern Governors Conference
Ramblin Strouds to be honored at church reception
Ramblin Mr and Mrs Sidney Stroud long time Monroe residents receive special recognition at a 4 to 5 p.m. reception in the First Presbyterian Fellowship Hall. The event marks their planned departure for Seattle Washington and notes Mr Stroud’s 30 plus years as church elder and his broader community involvement.
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Sidney Stroud
Monroe
First Presbyterian Church
Seattle
Wash
Stroud
Another Car May Be In Homochitto
Natchez Mississippi police said another car may lie in the Homochitto River about 20 miles south of Natchez where several people drowned in a bridge washout. A diver reported feeling a car and a missing wheel, the scene marked by a buoy. Divers will resume search Sunday.
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Natchez. Miss
Natchez
Homochitto River
Here
Red China urged to prove peace sincerity in Formosa talks
The United States told Red China to have the Nationalists sit in at any Formosa peace talks and to show sincerity in advance. Chou En-lai offered direct negotiations. Washington urged cease fire, release of 15 American airmen and 41 civilians, and UN Security Council participation.
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Washington
United States
Red China
Formosa
Chou En-lai
China
State Department
Eisenhower
Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
U.S
Peiping
United Nations Security Council
U.N
Capitol Hill
Sen. Knowland
California
Formosans Scoff At Red's Bid For U.S. Negotiations
In Taipei Formosa politicians scoff at a Red China proposal to negotiate directly with the United States over Formosa. Chiang Kai-shek adviser Tao Hsi-sheng calls the offer a peace offensive and propaganda move timed to Adm. Radford and Mr. Robertson arrival to discuss Quemoy Matsu defense.
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Taipei
Formosa
Red
Tao Hsi-sheng
Chou
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Walter S. Robertson
U.S. State Department
Eisenhower
United States
Quemoy
Matsus
Red China
Adm. Radford
Radford
Matsui
Chiang
Bulganin signals readiness for top level talks with Ike and Eden
In Moscow Premier Bulganin says he is ready for high level talks with President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Eden. Western officials expect foreign ministers to meet Moscow first, with a heads of state meeting possibly later.
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Bulganin
Ike
Eden
Moscow
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden Bulganin
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Russia
United States
Britain
London
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Ferrell Trial Reveals Phenix City Gambling Funds in Race
In Birmingham on April 23, Godwin Davis Sr testified that gamblers funneled 18 000 of a 23 000 pool into a campaign for a rival attorney general candidate to thwart crime fighter A L Patterson. Patterson won the nomination but was killed 17 days later outside his Phenix City office.
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Birmingham
Ala
Phenix City
A. L. Patterson
Arch Ferrell
Patterson
Godwin Davis Sr
Ferrell
Atty
St Garrett
Davis
Cornea of Childs Eye Restores Woman's Light
Mrs. Annie Crosson of Fort Worth regained sight in one eye after a six month old Celia Ann Covington from Grand Prairie donated a cornea. The procedure, done with Celia Ann in the same room, replaced Crosson's dystrophy clouding for the first time in 15 years.
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Caluas
Annie Crosson
Fort Worth
Ceilia Ann Covington
Grand Prairie
Celia Ann
Mrs. Crosson
Chou En Lai Offers Talks With U S On Formosa Tension
Premier Chou En-lai stated Red China does not seek war with the United States and is willing to negotiate on reducing tensions in the Formosa area. The remark came at the Asian-African conference as Washington urged Chinese Reds to include Nationalists in talks and to seek an immediate cease fire, release prisoners, and acceptance of terms.
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Bandung
Indonesia
Chou En-lai
China
United States
Formosa
Chou
United States of America
Far East
Taiwan
Washington
U.S. State Department
Eisenhower
Red China
Formosa Strait
U.S
U. S
Strikers Faced Down as Shot Rings Monroe Telephone Strike
Ray Hobbs of West Monroe was arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly firing a pistol toward striking telephone workers outside Monroe’s downtown exchange amid the Bell system strike across nine Southeastern states. Police say he claimed a peaceful mission. no one was hit. Union officials condemned violence and staged a brief street gathering after a rally.
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Monroe
Bell Telephone
Ray Hobbs
Warren Drive
West Monroe
Hobbs
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