Fireworks Expected in Louisiana Special Session
Gov Earl K Long summons a special legislative session starting tonight at 8 p m to consider more than 8 million dollars in additions to the record budget with proposals including 5 million for road work not covered by federal aid. Moves to remove Sen Dudley Leblanc from the pres pro tem post are anticipated as potential sparks in Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Dudley Leblanc
Abbeville
State Senate
Executive Mansion
Mayor Strike Threats Loom In 4 Industries
Washington report outlines looming strikes in auto rail maritime and telephone sectors as unions push for bigger profit shares amid steady living costs. Taft Hartley rules and pension demands fuel legal battles while coal settlement influences wage expectations across industries nationwide.
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John L. Lewis
Congress
Tech senior dies in Ruston car crash on Highway 80
B H McCormick 24 of Crossett Ark a senior engineering student at Louisiana Tech was killed instantly when a 1950 Chevrolet crashed into a bridge railing on Tremont bottom Highway 80 west of Monroe at 1220 a m. Injured were Mrs McCormick N M Griffith and Mrs Griffith of Monticello Ark transported to Ruston hospital.
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Ruston
B. H. McCormick
Crossett
Ark
Tremont Bottom
Highway 80
Monroe
McCormick
N. M. Griffith
Griffith
Monticello
Louisiana Tech
School of Agriculture and Forestry
Ruston Hospital
Mundt Bill Aims at Communist Crackdown in Senate
Washington March 4 Senate judiciary committee approved Mundt bill to register 54 000 card carrying Communists and front officers require aliases reveal income sources label propaganda in mail and announce Communist views on radio bar them from federal employment and deny U S passport privileges fines 2000 5000 and up to two years jail defines communism as conspiracy to overthrow government and set up dictatorship Mundt says it applies standard political regulation not penalize party membership FBI Chief Hoover backs measure to force disclosure and bring Communists into open.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mundt
Radio 4
U. S
Communist Party
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Crippled Industries Shift Back Into Gear
Pittsburgh March 4 AP Crippled industries quickly shifted back into gear as John L. Lewis and major coal operators reached a 10 month strike settlement. The walkout idled about 600000 workers including 372000 United Mine Workers. I C C withdrew its coal cut order and delayed freight reductions to move cars for coal. Steel mills planned rapid refiring and rehiring within 10 days to two weeks.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
New York Central
Reading
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tipples
Farmer battles robed floggers in Georgia farm raid
Eastman Georgia March 4 A young farmer Otho Wiggins fired 16 rounds from a .22 rifle at a hooded mob as they lashed his Black tenant Jesse Lee Goodman and threatened another beating A 16 year old boy Harold Barrentine warned the farmer FBI was asked to investigate the night riding violence editor Ed Methvin confirmed the story and the assault details were provided by Goodman who said he was whipped at his home before the gun battle
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Eastman
Georgia
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ed Methvin
Eastman Times-Journal
Ku Klux Klan
Otho Wiggins
Mount Airy
FBI
Jessie Lee Goodman
Wiggins
Harold Barrentine
Methvin
Atlanta
Goodman
Northeast Junior College ROTC unit earns top rating
Lt. Gen. Leroy Lutes of the Fourth Army confirmed the Northeast Junior College ROTC unit’s superior rating after an informal inspection by Brig. Gen. John Weckerling. Weckerling praised cadet conduct, classroom instruction, and drill progress while noting strong faculty support and campus involvement. Dean Rodney Cline called the unit a rare privilege for a junior college.
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R.O.T.C
Northeast Junior College
Leroy Lutes
Fourth Army
Ft. Sam Houston
Texas
Hugh W. McClary
John Weckerling
Louisiana Military District
Weckerling
Lutes
N.J.C
General Lutes
Rodney Cline
Ross found guilty in Monroe murder case
Joseph H. Ross was found guilty of the Sept. 29 murder of Monroe grocer C. M. Kitchens. The jury returned a verdict of murder without capital punishment. Judge E L Gladner set March 20 for sentencing, with compulsory life imprisonment. The defense claimed self defense. the state sought the death penalty.
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Monroe Grocer
Joseph H. Ross
C. M. Kitchens
Monroe
Ross
E. L. Gladner
Gladney
Fred Fudickar
James Madison
Bastrop
Henry Montgomery
Fudickar
Kitchens
Virginia Ross Parker
Monroe expands city limits to include Booker T Washington Addition
The Monroe city corporate limits were extended at midnight Friday to include the Booker T Washington Addition and Selman Field. The incorporation was announced Saturday, shifting jurisdiction from Ouachita sheriff to Monroe police. Sheriff Bailey Grant presented Chief H T Ward with a wooden key to Booker T as a gesture of city pride.
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Monroe
Booker T, Washington
Ouachita Sheriff's Department
Monroe Police Department
Bailey Grant
H. T. Ward
Booker T
U S and Russia Nearing Shooting War Warns Donovan
Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, wartime head of the O S S, warned at a Columbia University forum that America and Russia are coming nearer to a shooting war. He said he does not believe war is inevitable but cautioned the danger is growing.
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New York
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
America
Russia
Donovan
Columbia University
River Stage Changes Across 24 Hour Readings
River stage readings show several locations in the Mississippi River Basin with minor rises and falls. Helena and Vicksburg report falls, while Baton Rouge and Ouachita Camden show rises. Shreveport and Natchez indicate falls and rises respectively.
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Mississippi Helena
Ark
Vicksburg
Natchez
Baton Rouge
Ouachita Camden
Monroe
BLACK
Alexandria
Parole Eligible for Ku Klux Klan Leader Stephenson
Indianapolis March 4. Ku Klux Klan leader C. D. Stephenson, once powerful in the 1920s, is now eligible for immediate parole from a life murder sentence. Governor Schricker commuted his sentence to 25 years served, noting Stephenson has paid the penalty. Parole likely before month’s end as records prepare for trustees meeting March 17. no special session planned.
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Indianapolis
C. D. Stephenson
Schricker
Stephenson
Indiana State Prison
Statehouse
Madge Oberholtzer
Alfred Dowd
Michigan City
Paul L. Myers
Elkhart
Neighbor’s Tax Refund Check Burns Up on Lawn
Merion Pa March 4 A fourteen year old boy picked up a scrap of paper on his front lawn intended for trash burning. The note turned out to be a government check for seventeen thousand three hundred seventy four dollars payable to neighbor W A Ritner Ritner expected a 1947 income tax overpayment refund and could not explain how the check arrived on the Panati property.
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Merion
Jerold Panati
W. A
March birthday notices list for several individuals
A sequence of birthday acknowledgments dated March 5 through March 8 lists Deanne McNabb Mrs. F Seaman Ella Chance Archie Gilliland Mrs. J H Cana T P Hawkins Mrs Joe Wallace Betty Patterson J E Higgins Alfred Breard Mrs G R Ober H H Benoit Mary Louise Denning Mrs P L Neely Buddy Carr Michael D Brown Marjorie Dunn continued on the fourteenth page.
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Deanne McNabb
F. Seaman
Ella Chance
Archie Gilliland
J. H. Cana
T. P. Hawkins
Joe Wallace
Betty Patterson
J. E. Higgins
Alfred Breard
G. R. Ober
H. H. Benoit
Mary Louise Denning
P. L. Neely
Buddy Carr
Michael D. Brown
Marjorie Dunn
Ewing Family Funds LSU Journalism Scholarship
The Ewing family announced a permanent annual journalism scholarship at Louisiana State University with a $750 to $800 annual value funded by a trust of more than $35,000. John D. Ewing spoke for his siblings, heirs of Colonel Robert Ewing, who owned the New Orleans States The Shreveport Times and Monroe News-Star-World. The Robert Ewing Annual LSU Journalism Scholarship will serve junior LSU journalism students with at least one year completed, a B average or better, and exceptional character as certified by LSU. The first award is expected for 1950 1951.
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John D. Ewing
Shreveport Times
Robert Ewing
New Orleans
Ewing
L.S.A
Shreve
Port Times
Monroe News- Star—World
Ester Ewing Brown
Wilson Ewing
Monroe News-Star -World
James L. Ewing
Toulmin
L.S.U
L. S.U
the Times
Central Louisiana Unveils Tourist Bulletin Boards
Central Louisiana launches eight highway bulletin boards to promote tourist sites with the first board near Coushatta along U S Highway 71. C E Frampton of commerce and industry unveils the project as part of the statewide Relax in Central Louisiana campaign.
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Coushatta
Louisiana
Central Louisiana Association
U. S. Highway 71
Ing
C. E. Frampton
State Department of Commerce and Industry
Bunkie
Okadale
Deridder
Leesville
Many
Winnfield
Jonesville
Franmpton
Legal snarls delay coal peace talks in Washington
Washington March 4. Legal snarls slowed drafting of a soft coal peace contract to end the strike imperiling the economy. Reports of new demands from John L. Lewis circulated then denied by other operators and the United Mine Workers. An all day session aimed to have most operators back on the job by Monday as attorneys faced fitting the agreement to a federal court injunction.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
U.M.W
Rogge Plans Peace Appeal Before Soviet Parliament
Former Assistant Attorney General O. John Rogge flew to Moscow to address the Soviet parliament. He said he expects to present proposals on outlawing atomic weapons and all weapons of mass destruction and on a world disarmament program.
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New York
O. John Rogge
Moscow
Organized Search For Missing Plane Ends in Canada
EDMONTON March 4 The organized search for a long missing U S Air Force C 54 and the 44 persons aboard has ended The Royal Canadian air force will continue to check clues to their fate The four engine plane vanished in the Yukon Jan 26 on an Alaska Montana flight Dozens of distress messages smoke signals and explosions were investigated without result The latest fruitless report was of smoke signals near Waldo in southeastern British Columbia
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Edmonton
Alta
Royal Canadian Air Force
Yukon
Waldo
British Columbia
City School Board Hears Plans For Added Facilities
Monroe city school planners outline a two‑track modernization plan. A LSU education professor presented a study for renovation and new buildings serving white and Negro students, including new elementary schools and upgrades to existing facilities. The report will be edited, released for community input, then finalized.
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City School Board
Monroe City
M. S. Robertson
Bureau of Educational Research
Louisiana State University
Newtown School
Texas Avenue
Washington and Breard Streets
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TECH
Kidd
Bill
Red
Judiciary Committee
Crippled Industries
ICC
Interstate Commerce Commission
I.C.C
Lence
Ruigat N.C
Selman Field
Indiana
Jes’ Ramblin
Central la
Woos
Earl Long
S. W. Nelken
Rogge
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