Five Fishermen Rescued by Breeches Buoy on Cape Cod
NAUSET Mass March 6 AP Five fishermen were saved across roaring surf by a breeches buoy after their dragger foundered. Four crewmen stayed with the vessel to guard a 4000 dollar scallop cargo as coast guardsmen and villagers rigged the life line for the first time in 28 years on this shipwreck coast. The rescued were pulled one by one across 100 yards of surf in near zero temperatures and 30 mph winds.
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Nauset
Cape Cod
Mass
New Bedford
Cape Ann
Congress Bages Thomas Demand For Case Files
Washington March 6 The Condon case ignited a push to release loyalty records as Rep Rankin warns of possible impeachment of top bureau officials. Dr Edward A Condon heads the National Bureau of Standards and faces criticism from the House on American Activities subcommittee over alleged ties to Russian spies. Condon defends his reliability and urges calm.
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Washington
Edward A. Condon
Rankin
Mississippi
Congress
Condon
National Bureau of Standards
House On- American Activities
Rep
Nixon
California
Wired
Harriman
Clark
U.S. Bureau of Standards
House un-American Activities Committee
Dr. Condon
Commerce Department
Louisiana School Boards Association Meet Opens in Monroe
Registrations begin at Hotel Frances and Hotel Virginia for the Louisiana School Boards Association gathering. The program begins Monday with sessions, an 8 p.m. council meeting, and morning talks on the teacher shortage, future needs, and training responses led by state and university leaders.
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Hotel Frances
Louisiana School Boards Association
Hotel Virginia
Ouachita Parish
Walter C. Minniear
C. E. Autrey
First Baptist Church
West Monroe
B. S. Landis
E. B. Roberts
College of Education
Louisiana State University
E. B. Robert
Louisiana
R. R. Ewert
Division of Higher Education
State Department of Education
Joseph E. Gibson
Northwestern State College of Louisiana
Joel L. Fletcher
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Neville High School
Miss Clara Hall
Flash Fire At Ordnance Plant Sparks Local Blast
A flash fire at the Cactus Ordnance plant in Dumas Texas caused an estimated $2000 loss. The government facility produced ammonia and ammonium nitrate, the latter linked to the Texas City disaster last April that killed over 500. It is unclear if large quantities of ammonium nitrate were stored there.
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Dumas
Tex
Cactus Ordnance Plant
Texas City
Ordnance Plant
Long vows civil service must stay intact in Louisiana
Baton Rouge news quotes Governor Designate Earl K. Long opposing a temporary civil service suspension. He supports civil service, criticizes lawmakers for opposing pledges, and notes he won’t push a special session unless Davis requests it. He questions department funding concerns as two months remain until the session.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Democratic State Central Committee
Winnfield
Davis
Gov. Davis
Sam Jones
Flood Threat Grows in Iowa as Snow Melts
Heavy snow swirled across Iowa toward Minnesota and northern Wisconsin with flood threats rising in Iowa. Snow on the ground measured up to inches in parts of Iowa and a weekend thaw was forecast. Residents in lowland areas were urged to prepare for emergencies as interior Iowa streams were expected to rise sharply.
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Chicago
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Three Die As Wire Falls On Auto In Valley Forge
A broken pole released an electric wire that felled onto a wrecked car in Phoenixville, killing Mrs. John Booth and her 12 year old daughter Eleanor of Valley Forge. Clair Byerly of Malvern, who rushed to aid, was electrocuted trying to open the car door.
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Phoenixville
John Booth
Eleanor
Valley Forge
Clair Byerly
Malvern
Civil Aeronautics Administration to Build Omni-Directional RF Range near Monroe
The CAA announced plans to construct an omni-directional high frequency range station near Monroe this spring as part of a 20 million dollar air safety grant. The $45,000 Monroe site will feature a 12 foot square wooden house atop a 15 to 20 foot tower with Morse code identity and an emergency voice channel for pilots. Similar stations are planned for Shreveport and New Orleans as the network expands to 396 sites nationwide.
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Monroe
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration Today
Shreveport
New Orleans
CAA
Congress For
Southern delegates primed to walk out at convention
Southern delegates plan to walk out of the Democratic national convention if President Truman is renominated. Leaders expect actions if the party adopts a civil rights plank or names Truman to head the ticket. Meanwhile, 21 Dixie Senators secured network time with Mutual for civil rights arguments.
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Washington
Truman
Dixie
Philadelphia
Mr. Truman
Mutual Broadcasting System
Russell
D-Ga
Commission On Civil Rights
Robert Swezey
MBS
Youth Slays Aged West Monroe Man
A 16 year old Francis Vines confessed to the fatal shooting of B F Shepperd 70 near Arkansas road after a dispute over chopping wood The youth carried a .22 rifle and struck the farmer twice before disposing of the body in a small creek with the body found later by authorities
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Milton Coverdale
Francis Vines
Arkan
Sas
B. F. Shepperd
Arkansas Road
Sherif
John Vines
Coverdale
Vines
Shepperd
Bailey Leaves for Washington to Seek North South Airline
Herbert G. Bailey Jr., manager of the Twin Cities Chamber of Commerce, travels to Washington D C to represent Monroe, West Monroe, and the chamber before the Civil Aeronautics Board. He will argue for North South airline service linking the Twin Cities with Kansas City and New Orleans, detailing local business growth and airport facilities. Other regional representatives will join the effort to push a north south route.
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Herbert G. Bailey, Jr
Chamber of Commerce of
Twin Cities
Washington, D. C
Monroe
West Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Board of the United States
Bailey
Civil Aeronautics Board
Monroe-West Monroe
United States
Batley
Kansas City
New Orleans
Washington
Lost Chord Found atop Kosciusko Church Organ
Kosciusko Mississippi March 6 four missing organ pipes from the Presbyterian church overhauled two weeks ago were found on top of the organ. An organ company representative traced the missing pipes during a special investigation in Kosciusko exposing the long held mystery.
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Kosciusko
Miss
Presbyterian Church
Organ Company
Kkosciusko
Audacious motor hearse theft ends in wreck at Booker Washington
H B Woodard of Lamothe Funeral Home reports the vehicle missing from 1407 Washington St between 2 and 5 am Saturday. The hearse was found badly damaged in the Booker Washington addition, with damage tallied at 200 dollars. Police seek the nighttime marauder amid suspicions of a sighting linked to a man in possession of a fish with a human head in the area.
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H. B. Woodard
Lamothe Funeral Home
Washington Street
Booker Washington
Janie Jones
Booker Washington Addition
Woodard
Young bank robbers face long terms in Augres case
Four young men admitted planning the failed Augres State Bank robbery and faces possible 20 year terms. Floyd Berry 28 of Augres led the plot over mortgage denial. Others Darrell Fuller 19 Mack Jackson 23 and R E Smoot 21 were seized hours after the botched crime and turned to FBI for federal prosecution.
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Augres
Mich
FBI
Bay City
George Aldrich
Floyd Berry
Aubres
Berry
Darrell Fuller
Fremont
Neb
Mack Jackson
Flint
R. E. Smoot
Karelians flee Finland amid treaty talks
In Helsinki today many Karelians fearing a Finnish Soviet treaty sought refuge across the northern border into Sweden. Reports said a group of 30 people was halted at the frontier as Finland weighs opening negotiations for a friendship and military alliance with Russia. Former Russian subjects, they fear potential repatriation without citizenship. Government officials said a decision on the treaty was awaited.
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Helsinki
Finland
Sweden
Russia
Gulf of Bothnia
Juho Paasikivi
Simmons Seeks Monroe Office In Democratic Primary
Monroe streets and parks superintendent J P Simmons announces candidacy for commissioner of streets and parks subject to May election. After 14 years in the department and five as superintendent he says he is unaligned with any faction. He lives at 301 Garden Avenue with wife Madeline and daughter Patricia Ann attends Barkdull Faulk School.
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J. P. Simmons
Monroe
Simmons
Garden Avenue
Madeline Jackson
Patricia Ann
Barkdull Faulk School
K. of P. Lodge
City of
Evacuation of 274 Passengers From Warship at New Orleans
In New Orleans on March 6 the transport William H. Thomas carrying troops grounded on a mud bank near the mouth of the Mississippi. An army operation evacuated 274 passengers including 53 women and children as weather allowed. Col Balke said conditions improved and the removal proceeded satisfactorily.
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New Orleans
William H. Thomas
Mississippi River
Europe
Panama
Puerto Rico
Col
D. C. Balke
Embarkation
Widow wins $20,000 radio jackpot in Chicago
Mrs Florence Hubbard a Chicago widow and department store saleswoman won a radio jackpot worth more than $20,000 identifying Jack Benny as The Walking Man. She was the first person Ralph Edwards called as master of ceremonies of NBC Truth and Consequences.
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Chicago
Florence Hubbard
Jack Benny
Goebbels Diaries to Appear in Sunday World
Diaries of Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, are presented in a series by Louis P. Lochner. The articles will run daily in the News-Star and Sunday World, with Lochner, ex AP Berlin chief, authoring. Born October 29, 1897, in Rheydt, Goebbels studied at eight universities and earned a 1921 PhD in Heidelberg.
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Sunday World
News-Star
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Hitler
Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
Fireside Press, Inc
Paul
Joseph Goebbels
Rheydt
Rhineland
Fritz Goebbels
Maria Odenhausen
Joseph
Jupp
Youp
Ous
Bonn
Freiburg
Wuerzbourg
Munich
Cologne
Frankfurt
Heidelberg
Western powers outline Ruhr control and German federalization
The United States Britain and France announced agreement on international control of the Ruhr and a federalized Western German government. The communique fosters German participation in the Marshall plan while delaying full merger of occupation zones. Officials expect renewed talks in April as efforts toward zone unification continue.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Ruhr
Western
Germany
Western Germany
Trance
Lewis Douglas
U. S
Minister Dies in Auto Plunge Near Monroe
Luther A. Harrison a 46 year old Baptist minister and song leader from Jackson Mississippi died by drowning when his car plunged off highway 80 into Lafourche swamp 17 miles east of Monroe early Saturday Two motorists Jimmie Rollinson and Earl Moss spotted the wreck and notified authorities The coroner said the death was by drowning and the body was returned to Jackson for funeral arrangements unavailable at press time
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Jackson
Miss
Monroe
Lafourche
Harrison
Fort Worth
Tex
Jimmie Rollinson
Earl Moss
Oak Grove
Highway Department
American Legion
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