Mardi Gras in New Orleans at Peak Tuesday
New Orleans marks Mardi Gras with daylong parades balls and revelry as Rex and Comus preside. King Zulu leads the first parade followed by the Rex pageant and a citywide halt of traffic and business. Louis Armstrong once wore the Zulu crown.
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New Orleans
Hugh Mulligan
Old City
Tooming House
Rex
Comus
Zulu
Louis Armstrong
Alexis
Grand Duke
Buffalo
Texas
Friend from Friendship Dies by Self Inflicted Gun Wound
A 60 year old World War I veteran from Friendship shot himself with a .16 gauge shotgun at a brother’s Bienville Parish home. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 pm at the Presbyterian Church in Danville with interment in the church cemetery. Survived by wife Parilee Hall and four sons, brothers Denman Rus ton Jessie and L A Hall, and sister Mrs Mamie Tate.
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Jonesboro
Friendship
Bienville Parish
Fe.€. Ferguson
Lesbia L. Hall
Hall
Jessie
Presbyterian Church
Danville
Bob Ezell
St. John
Southern Funeral Home
Parilee
Parker) Hall
James
Marthaville
Ellis
Murphy
Murray
Denman Hall
Ruston
L. A. Hall
Chester
Doyiene
Mamie Tate
Insure Your Future Protect Our Forests
Community leaders urge forest protection amid rising development pressures. A local panel and environmental groups advocate sustainable planning to safeguard watersheds and wildlife habitats while balancing growth.
Bizarre Shooting Claims One Life In Miami Beach
In Miami Beach Florida on February 191p police say “Three-Fingers-Joe” Sylvester a 45 year old con man was mistaken for a burglar by his former father in law Roy Brougher 73 who then killed himself in the bathtub. Sylvester was shot twice and is in critical condition after surgery. Investigating officer Charles O Connor says the events point to mistaken identity and a death by self inflicted gunshot. Ruth Brougher former wife of Sylvester faces legal trouble in a separate murder case.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Joe" Sylvester
Roy Brougher
Joe
Charles O'Connor
Sheriff's Criminal Bureau of Investigation
William Murray
Brougher
Sylvester
O'Connor
Ruth Brougher
Three Fingers
Taxicab Driver Testifies Fuller Fled Patterson Death Scene
A Birmingham taxicab driver testified that Albert Fuller ran from between buildings and jumped into a waiting car minutes after A L Patterson was murdered in Phenix City. The witness described a high speed escape with gunfire heard moments earlier, corroborating the state’s view of Fuller’s flight.
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Birmingham
Ala
Albert Fuller
A. L. Patterson
Phenix City
Fuller
Patterson
James R. Taylor
Taylor
Columbus, Ga
Sheriff's Office
Paterson
Alabama
Roderick Beadow
Democrats Propose $20 Tax Slash in Surprise Move
House Democrats unveiled a plan to cut personal income taxes by 20 dollars per taxpayer and per dependent starting next year. The measure, backed by the president, faces Republican opposition and Senate resistance over budget balance and new borrowing.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Rayburn
Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
Byrd
Senate
Ways and Means
Ramblin Lionettes Attend Civitan Luncheon in La Casa
Monroe Civitan Club hosted a luncheon with parish high school Lionettes as invited guests. They sold fruit cake under Civitan sponsorship at Christmas and were accompanied by sponsor Miss Ramona Cormier. President Conrad Lee presented small gifts to each student.
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Monroe Civitan Club
Parish
Plane With 16 On Board Missing In New Mexico
A Trans World Airlines plane carrying sixteen people was overdue in snowy weather near Santa Fe New Mexico. The storm battered Colorado and Wyoming with heavy snow causing multiple road closures and detours. At least 19 people died across the region and rescue crews battled drifts and avalanches as motorists faced whiteout conditions.
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New Mexico
Santa Fe
N.M
Colorado
New Orleans
Indiana
Lake Pontchartrain
Aspen
Colo
St. Bernard
Wyoming
Nebraska
South Dakota
Orville Ramsey
Durango
Montrose
Animas River Canyon
Continental Divide
U.S. 30
Rawlins
Wyo
California
Pblazzard
Managing Editors Named On World And News Star Promoted
Walter B. Hatten and W. G. Jasper were named managing editors of the Monroe Morning World and Monroe News-Star respectively. Both have long service with the Monroe papers and positions in other Texas papers prior to joining. The appointments take effect tomorrow.
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World and News -Star
Hatten
Jasper
News- Star
Richard Hale
William H. Bronson
News-Star—World Corporation
Monroe
Marshall News-Messenger
Denison Herald
Dallas Daily Times-Herald
Texas
Telegraph
Morning World
Clearing Skies and Cooler Conditions Across Louisiana State
Weather forecast shows clearing skies in the north and west while southeast remains prone to thunderstorms. Lower temperatures expected with Friday and Monday turning fair and colder in various regions. Monroe recorded 69 degrees high and 54 degrees low yesterday.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
CAA
Monroe
George Predicts Senate Victory For Trade Bill
Senator Walter F. George predicts Senate approval of Eisenhower tariff-cutting foreign trade program after House passage. He foresees a sharp fight to restrict the plan but expects final approval without changes. Byrd predicts timely committee hearings and broad support for the measure.
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Washington
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Senate
Eisenhower
House
George
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
Soviet Power Struggle Seen by Exiled MVD Agent
Former Soviet MVD official Rasborov describes Kremlin infighting and shifts after Stalin as Krushchev rises, Malenkov’s fall, and fear over reform of the collective farm system. He warns of ongoing power struggles, agriculture failures, and Russia’s deep economic woes.
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MVD
Kremlin
Stalin
Nikita Krushchev
Communist Party
Malenkov
Krushchev
Flames Damage Seatrain Docks Near New Orleans
Fire swept the Seatrain Lines docks along the Mississippi River near Belle Chasse. The blaze damaged a 400 foot dock section plus a generator room a paint house and mooring piers with an estimated cost of 200000. Firemen fought for two hours and the cause remained unknown.
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New Orleans
Seatrain Lines Inc
Belle Chasse
Mississippi River
Phantom Burglar Lived Five Years in Cave by Ocean
Kip Hing Jui, 33, a Chinese native, told San Francisco police he hid in a cliffside cave off the ocean front for five years to escape sorrow after family upheaval. He said he came to the United States in 1936, served in the Army, worked as a waiter, and planned death by suicide before choosing the cave refuge near the Golden Gate. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
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San Francisco
Kip Hing Jui
China
Kip
Golden Gate Bridge
Seal Rocks
Rugged Sandia Range Scouted Despite Storm
A Trans World Airlines Martin 404 with 16 aboard vanished during a fog bound hop from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. State police and Civil Air Patrol launched a search in a 75 mile area as a blizzard grips the region with 10 to 20 degree below zero temperatures and thick cloud cover.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Trans World Airlines
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Madrid
Sandia Mountain Range
Kansas City
Civil Aeronautics Administration
TWA
U.S. Weather Bureau
Plane crash near Loami kills four plus one on flight
A war surplus twin engine trainer crashed into a muddy cornfield near Loami Illinois, killing a woman Gina Brezeale and three service members Marine Staff Sgt Ray Brezeale and two Navy enlisted men James W Jones and David Edward Robinson. Staff Sgt Richard C Staliff left the plane at Terre Haute before the crash. The party had taken off from Terre Haute after refueling en route to Kansas City. Civil Air Patrol searches were planned as locals found the wreckage around 10 a.m. No witnesses were reported.
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Springfield
Ilinois
Marine
Ray Brezeale
Camp Le.Jeune
N. C
Brezeale
Gina
Kansas City
James W. Jones
David Edward Robinson
Brezeales
Loami
Civil Air Patrol
Larne Jacobs
Elmer Koke
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Garden N's
Miss Brougher
Murray Dubois
FBI
Ruth
Harold Ray
Curtis Simpson
A. Patterson
Bruch Board of
Southside Methodist Church
Pete J. Medak
Irma 5. Jones
Marshall White
Rockies
Great Plains
Mississippi
Walter B. Hatten
W. G. Jasper
NOTRE
Yuri A Rast Torey
United Press Dispatch
Moscow
Russia
Rastyorov
Red Army
Lavrent P. Beria
Japan
United States
Rasvorov
United Press
Yuri A. Rastvorov
Nikolai Bulganin
Georgi Malenkov
Soviet Union
Krushchevy
Seatrain Docks
Sandia
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