Christmas Fire Aid Spreads After Caroling Tragedy
The Cahill children caroled door to door two nights before Christmas. Louisa Cahill, 7, was critically burned in Bloomfield prompting widespread fund drives and gifts. A Midddletown donor sent 25 dollars with a grateful note. Fires later destroyed two Nashville families homes with losses. charity arrived by Christmas morn. In New Cumberland Pa a blaze two weeks earlier left a family of nine homeless.
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James F. Cahill
Louisa Cahill
Bloomfield
Andrew J. Francolino
Middletown
Conn
James Sanders
Clarence Lofton
Nashville
Lofton
Sanders
New Cumberland
Harrisburg
Wilbur Jones
Fairview Fire Co
Ludies
Fairview Lions’ Club
Jones
West Palm Beach
Silas Brown
Wao
Florida
Texas
Galveston
Brown
Springfield
Salvation Army
Jay Cockrell
St. Louis
Myrtle Beverscomb
Washington, D.C
Washington
D. L. McVearry
E. R. Casey
Kennedy Family Visits President in Hospital Amid Holidays
The Kennedy family, including Mrs Kennedy and siblings, spent 50 minutes with the President and his father who battles pneumonia after a recent stroke. A second visit followed as doctors report improving condition though no change in paralysis. Community groups aid a family in a separate fire district and a Galveston family receives Christmas rescue, meals, clothing, and a job offer.
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Edward M
Ted) Kennedy
Walter Newbern
Kennedy
Britain
Salinger
Pana
Jae
Anita Er Feldman
Soniant White
McGeorge Bose
Weather figures for Monroe and Louisiana forecast
Monroe and vicinity show tonight temperatures 44 to 48 with southerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Louisiana forecast calls for partly cloudy skies through Wednesday with warmer conditions, lows 44 to 54, highs Wednesday in the 60s.
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Monroe
Vicinity
Louisiana
Tax Rates Going Up January 1st
Tax changes take effect this year raising rates to fund public costs. The new structure increases self employed maximums to 225.60 and shifts payments for both workers and employers, with broader dependent benefits and adjusted retirement age.
Tax Agent Anti-Bribe Drive Set
Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer Caplin launches a drive to catch and convict bribe offers to IRS agents. He issues instructions to report suspicious activity and forms committees to assist enforcement and police the tax profession. The effort targets lawyers accountants and back room operators who solicit or skim bribe money from clients.
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Washington
APS
Internal Revenue
Mortimer M. Caplin
IRS
Mittees
Caplin
Highway Deaths Rise in 78 Hour AP Survey
A 78 hour weekend survey by The Associated Press reports 347 traffic accidents 42 fire deaths and 57 other fatalities totaling 446. Notable incidents include a Hearne Texas two car crash with five dead near Warren Pennsylvania a car wreck near Marietta Ohio killing two and injuring a father of one a Groton New York fire that killed three of a widow's five children and a farm laborer and a Detroit area blaze that killed a father and his twin year old stepdaughters in Nankin Township.
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Bastrop
U. S. Hwy. 165
Hansford K. Caldwell
Rt. 2
Dubach
Archie Ables
Oak Grove
Alex Boraiko
Houston
Tex
Monroe
Frank Milam
Simmesport
Pointe Coupee Parish
Daniel Wheeler
Port Sulphur
Bourgred
J. Hutchinson
U.S. 90
Clinton Foreman
Duson
Daves
Jack Duhon
Erath
Scott
Baton
Ville Platte
Evelyn Brown
Arnaudville
Cecelia
Elmer Stupbletion Jr
Hosston
Minta M. Jambon
Estelle
Jefferson Parish
Linda Sue Russell
Baton Rouge
Lafayette
Powhatan
John Bell
Shreveport
Clarence J. Triche
Laplace
Albert Lucas
Mary McCrey
Shreveport Negro
Orell Fontenot
Patterson
Morgan City
Associated Press
Hearne
Warren
Marietta
Ohio
Groton
N.Y
Nankin Township
Detroit
Kennedy Sightings Clarified by AP Letter of Apology
The AP explains misidentification of Mrs. Kennedy at a Fort Lauderdale nightclub visit and regrets earlier publication. It notes withdrawal orders reached afternoon papers after some already ran the dispatch and asks newspapers to publish this acknowledgment of error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Fort Lauderdale
Associated Press
Dispatch
Nationalist Chinese Aid Raises Tensions in Taipei
In Taipei reports note friction between Communist China and Nationalist Chinese factions as regional dynamics intensify. Observers cite shifting alliances and policy pressures shaping the upcoming boundary discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipei
China
Congo Rebels Expected to Move to U.N. Occupied Base
Reports say Katanga leaders plan to board a UN plane to relocate from the Congo to UN facilities in Paris and Brussels. Kimba in Paris says Congo should evolve with signs of willingness, though tensions remain and unilateral actions concern observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.N
Katanga
Leo
Christmas Burglars Fail to Loot Harry Blum Distillery
A Christmas heist at the Harry Blum Distillery failed after burglars lowered a safe 110 floors to a waiting car using a rope of blankets and sheets, but found the vault empty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicoag
Harry Blum
Ambulance Turned Back Near Un Headquarters in Katanga
Reports say a Red Cross ambulance was shot at and turned away by U.N. Gurkhas near U.N. headquarters in Katanga on December 13. Three occupants were reportedly killed or captured as fighting raged in the area. Official U.N. statements deny the ambulance reached the compound while Belgian civilians describe seeing three people with Red Cross armbands under arrest.
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U.N
Red Cross
United Nations
Ghurkas
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