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Commentary on Jimmy Roosevelt and alleged political financial exploits. Describes David A. Smart of Chicago, Esquire-Corp publications, lending $75,000 to Jimmy Roosevelt to resolve alimony issues with Betsey Cushing. Critiques Roosevelt family's use of public office for personal gain and hints at further details to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
Eaglet
California
Pegler
David A. Smart
Chicago
Esquire-Corphet Publications
White House
Betsey Cushing
Roosevelt
Elliott
Eleanor
State Department
Treasury
Dave Smart
New Cut Of Two To Three Billion Dollars Proposed
Washington, March 22. Rep Taber of New York proposes a further cut of two to three billion dollars in the omnibus 29,000,000,000 appropriation bill. He seeks to balance the budget amid debates over defense, veterans and atomic energy spending. Cannon counters that obligations prevent such cuts as the bill totals 29.045 billion for next year. Taber vows to push reductions when the measure resumes, arguing taxpayers face higher burdens and possible inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Arbogast
Washington
Rep. Taber
New York
Cannon
D-Mo
Taber
House
Appropriations Committee
Veterans’ Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
National Defense
Congress
Girl killer is exhibitionist in Fresno murder case
Fresno March 22 Alice Richard fourteen a self styled exhibitionist sought notoriety by killing her sleeping twin Sally with a .22 rifle during a Sunday assault. At a preliminary hearing Judge Arthur C Shepard labeled the act exhibitionism and ordered psychiatric tests to decide if she belongs in a mental hospital or a state school before possible trial for murder and a life sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Alice Richard
Sally
Bobby-Soxer
Arthur C. Shepard
Alice
Shepard
Mary Richard
Muder
Edgard
Propose to Adopt Out Quadruplets in Ontario Family
Saulte Ste. Marie Ont March 22 A big doubt clouds the future of the Hargreaves quadruplet babies five month old girls Jennifer Ann Janice Barbara Joyce Carol and Joan Diane. No formal adoption offers or support have been received though unofficial reports mention funds for the family. Father C O Hargreaves a laborer faces mounting money worries and has considered foster care for the children alongside the other two siblings in the household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saulte Ste. Marie
Ont
Hargreaves
John McLeod
McLeod
C.O. Hargreaves
Jennifer Ann
Janice Barbara
Joyce Carol
Joan Diane
Four Buildings in $7,000,000 Fire at Our Lady of the Valley
In North Cumberland Rhode Island a blaze destroyed four buildings of the Our Lady of the Valley Cistercian community including the main chapel infirmary guest house and monastery. Rescue efforts freed Monks and guests amid collapsing walls as priceless manuscripts and records were lost. The abbey, established in 1990 and elevated to abbey in 1945, suffered peak danger with 40 to 50 people near the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Cumberland
R. I
Our Lady of the Valley
Dom Edmund Futterer
Jerome R. Spedden
St. George Ave
Baltimore
Nova Scotia
Joseph Mary Murphy
Co op housing faces likely defeat in Congress
A Washington poll shows about half of President Truman's Democratic House colleagues may oppose the $2 billion co op housing program for middle income families. Republicans lean against it. the Senate already struck the measure. The plan would create a government corporation borrowing from the public to fund long term loans at about 3 percent for co ops and non profits, with 60 year mortgages. Opponents call it discriminatory and socialist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
House
Coop
G. QO. P
Key West
Fla
Spence
D.-Ky
House Banking Committee
Senate
Little barber admits killing window washer in Terre Haute
Clarence Taylor a 56 year old barber confessed after 12 hours of questioning to killing George Willis Baldwin 54 in his downtown shop on March 13. He said the motive was an argument over a young woman Goldie Juanita Wilson 19 of Dresser Illinois admitted being present and knowing of the plan to rob Baldwin Taylor reportedly disposed of the body in Flossmoor Illinois and concealed about $1,000 in cash from the victim. Wilson was held for questioning and later gave an oral statement corroborating the events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.ust
Orleans
Angola
Charity Hospital
Rufus Dougas
Dougas
Terre Haute
Ind
Clint Seward
Clarence Taylor
George Willis Baldwin
Taylor
Baldwin
Wilson
Flossmoor
Ill
Chicago
Seward
Witchcraft trial delayed in Delaware court
Wilmington judge Thomas Herlihy Jr postponed the trial of Mrs. Helen Evans for one month, citing disbelief at a witchcraft charge in Delaware. Evans allegedly took money from a young woman after claiming a curse could be cured for $10 under a colonial era law. An accompanying doctor’s letter said the woman is bedfast due to a heart ailment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Thomas Herlihy, Jr
Delaware
Helen Evans
Delta Air Lines sets fast Dallas to New Orleans flight
Delta Air Lines claimed an unofficial record flight time from Dallas to New Orleans as a DC-6 landed at Moisant airport in 1 hour 13 minutes. Sales manager Manley E. Beard noted normal time is 1 hour 40 minutes and pilot Capt. Pete Reinhart cruised at 143 miles per hour, 115 mph above normal. The Dallas departure was 7:02 a.m. CST and arrival 8:15 a.m. CST.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Delta Air Lines
Dallas
Moisant Airport
Texas City
Manley E. Beard
Delta
Pete Reinhart
Girl Gone 21 Months Found in California Auto Court
San Jose dispatch reports 13 year old Sally Horner found with 21 month cross country travel with man named Warner. Frank La Salle arrested on Mann Act charges with FBI notification pending. Sally placed in juvenile detention. mother from Camden NJ notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Calif
FBI
Florence
Sally) Horner
Ella Horner
Camden
N. J
Sally
Frank la Salle
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Howard Hornbuckle
la Salle
Marshall Thompson
Loyalty program upheld by U S court of appeals
The United States court of appeals ruled the loyalty program for government workers constitutional. A three man tribunal said any worker may be fired by a loyalty board acting under an executive order from President Truman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Court of Appeals
Truman
Mrs Heart Still Living Finds New Hope in Health
Oklahoma City March 22 The unidentified widow known as Mrs Heart says doctors were wrong and she now enjoys life and plans to do more. She spent ten thousand dollars from a yearly ration once told to die within 12 months and has used letters from readers to shape her renewed purpose. She gives away money anonymously to those in need and travels for treatment while embracing Christian Science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Heart
Mrs. Heart
Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Christian Science
Lindstrom to Sue Ingrid Bergman
Dr. Peter Lindstrom plans to divorce actress Ingrid Bergman and seek custody of their daughter Pia, 12, plus an equitable division of $250000 in community property. Bergman has a separate custody and property suit in progress, and a Mexico divorce Lindstrom does not recognize as legal in California. Lindstrom will argue Bergman is not fit to rear their daughter.
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Hollywood
Peter Lindstrom
Ingrid Bergman
Lindstrom
Pia
Miss Bergman
Mexico
California
Bergman
Rome
Roberto Rossellini
Ex Convict Faces 3 Life Sentences in Mississippi
Keith Fuller reports from Kosciusko Mississippi that Leon Turner age 38 an ex convict faced three life sentences after Mississippi sought but was denied a request for another chance to seek the death penalty Turner pleaded guilty to murder for the January 8 deaths of Mary Burnside eight and Frankie C Thurman twelve in a circuit court proceeding Judge J P Coleman accepted the guilty plea this morning and the state argued for life terms for three child victims as Turner faced possible further charges
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith Fuller Kosciusko
Miss
Mississippi
Husky Leon Turner
J. P. Coleman
Turner
Mary Burnside
Frankie C. Thurman
Ruby Nell Harris
Henry Rodgers
Mary C. Burnside
Coleman
Parchman
Windell Whitt
Rodgers
Dindell Whitt
Malcolm Whitt
Windel
Thomas Harris
Fink and White in runoff for Ouachita Parish seat
The Ouachita Parish Democratic Committee announced a runoff on April 4 between Paul Fink and R C White Jr after Fink led with 2 797 votes to White 2 527 in unofficial results. Ralph Scoop White Lea Thompson and E M Steen trailed as precincts reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Fink
R. C. White, Jr
Burt Sperry
Ouachita Parish
Democratic Committee
West Monroe
Fink
White
Sperry
R. C. White
Ralph Scoop White
Lea Thompson
E. M. Steen
Morning
Zave Fink
Steen
Monroe
Baton Rouge
State Capitol
Fliers insist saucers genuine in Arkansas sighting
Memphis pilots Capt. Jack Adams and co pilot G W Anderson report seeing a flying object over Arkansas near Little Rock on Monday night while on the Memphis to Houston route. Adams calls it an experimental aircraft in secret by the air force moving at high speed with circles of lighted windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
Jack Adams
Airforce
Adams
G. W. Anderson
Little Rock
Ark
Houston
Chicago
Southern Air Lines
Anderson
Crash Fatal To Farmerville Boy
An accident on Highway 80 east of Bossier City Tuesday at 5 p.m. killed Jerry P. Frasier, five-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Carl Frasier of Farmerville. Mrs Frasier, who drove the car, crashed into a pickup that cut in front. Mrs Frasier suffered fractures of both legs and severe scalp lacerations. Mrs N A Parker, 50, mother of Mrs Frasier, sustained a knee laceration. The injured were rushed to a Shreveport hospital. The child's funeral was held Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Baptist church in Farmerville, with Rev Hall officiating. interment was in Farmerville cemetery under Kilpatrick Funeral home supervision.
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Bossier City
Jerry P. Frasier
Carl Frasier
Farmerville
Frasier
N.A. Parker
Shreveport
Baptist
Hall
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
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