Banister Reprimanded For Graft Report Ruckus In France
Paris reports a graft controversy over war photos from Algeria that A P says sparked a political clash ahead of Monday's elections. Georges Chassagne denied bribery charges tied to a rebel shooting captured Aug. 22 at Ain Abid.
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Paris
Algeria
Georges Chessagne
L’express
Pierre Mendes-France
Interior Ministry
Edgar Faure
Faure
Mendes-France
France
Chassagne
Algiers
Fox Movietone News
Ain-Abid
New Yalta Documents Add Cold War Clarity
More than 40 secret Yalta papers, many from 1944 45, surface in a 1032 page volume from the Government Printing Office. Hull rebuke of Sumner Welles cited. Stalin cites Poland government aims. Moscow hints at breaking up Germany and demilitarizing industry. The new papers, from the Roosevelt Library and other sources, supplement last March’s release.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No. 1
Sumner Welles
State Department
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Yalta
Poland
Soviet Union
Moscow
United States
Germany
Joseph Reap
Hyde Park
N.Y
Banister graft report prompts discipline talk in NOPD
Assistant Police Superintendent Banister revealed a graft system in the New Orleans Police Department involving 11 officers from captains to patrolmen and 7 civilians. Superintendent Dayries considers disciplinary action and reprimand for releasing the report without clearance. The 91-name list ties to a state raid on a convicted lottery operator and affects the governor’s race with Morrison and Grevemberg leveraging the findings.
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New Orleans
Asst
Guy Banister
Provosty Dayries
Banister
Dayries
Chicago
FBI
Delesseps Morrison
Francis Grevemberg
Lionel Dominguez
New Orelans
Federal Hearing Set For Jan 5 In Sheffield Case
A federal hearing is scheduled for January 5 over the state request to extend the time to retry Joseph Sheffield for murder. Sheffield, sentenced to die for the 1953 slaying of Franklin Parish Deputy John Waller, had rights violations found in the swift trial. Higher courts rejected overturning that ruling.
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Joseph Sheffield
Sheffield
Franklin Parish
John Waller
Ben Dawkins, Jr
Dawkins
Polish Clergy Urged To Resist Church Measures
Pope Pius XII sent a December 8 letter to Poland's clergy urging unceasing resistance to Communist measures against the Roman Catholic Church. He addressed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and all Polish bishops on the 300th anniversary of Czestochowa, noting the Cardinal's arrest in 1953 and his removal to a monastery.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Poland
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Czestochowa
Warsaw
Temperatures Slump As Cold Front Hits Friday
By noon Friday temperatures were dropping with a forecast of up to 20 degree fall by night. The morning high reached 52 at Selman Field and had fallen to 46 by noon. Nighttime lows expected 28 to 34 with partly cloudy skies and northeast winds up to 18 mph gusting to 22. A trace of rain occurred earlier, with no additional precipitation forecast.
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Selman Field
Three Hurt Seriously in Head-On Collision Near Columbia
Three persons were seriously injured in a head-on crash two miles south of Columbia on Thursday night. Wal ter J. Hoggsett and wife Jewell Hoggsett of Columbia and Dalton Alexandria of Jennings La sustained multiple injuries. All were hospitalized as fog cloaked U S Highway 167. Alexandria left the scene and was found wandering in woods. no charges by Friday.
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Columbia
Here
Walter J. Hoggsett
Jewell Hoggsett
Dalton Alexandria
Jen
Nings
Columbia Hospital
Hoggsett
Alexandria
New Year Black-Eyed Pea Insurance Goes National
Elmore Torn promotes black-eyed peas as luck charms and opens National Black-Eyed Pea Assn. rolls to public pledges. Readers from 40 states respond with letters and anecdotes about peas versus other beans, praising the custom and its festive appeal.
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Sgt
Thomas
Torn
National Black-Eyed Pea Assn
P.O. Box
Taylor
Tor
Tom
Yankeeland
Inez G. Hughes
Sisseton
S.D
Kennon Denies Grevemberg Slot Charge in Louisiana
Gov. Robert Kennon rebutted former state police chief Francis Grevemberg who claimed Kennon blocked enforcement of state laws. Grevemberg, a candidate for governor, said Kennon ordered him to countermand a slot machine ban a week after taking office. Kennon challenged Grevemberg to name clergymen who supported him and recalled his own past anti slot actions.
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Shreveport
Robert Kennon
Francis
Grevemberg
Kennon
Louisiana
Bossier
Webster Parishes
May Total Million-Dollar Charitable Embezzlement Charge Postponed
Miss Minnie C. Mangum, 52, known for charity work, faced embezzlement charges in Norfolk police court as auditors search her firm’s books for shortages possibly totaling up to a million dollars. A bail of 25 000 was posted and the hearing was moved to February 7 following Commonwealth's Attorney Linwood B. Tabb Jr.’s request due to a very involved audit.
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Norfolk
Minnie C. Mangum
Commonwealth
Atty
Linwood B. Tabb Jr
Louisiana reports continued business gains in 1955
LSU researchers report 1955 year end gains across most lines with building permits up 58.6 percent and manufacturing sales up 25.8 percent. November activity rose 14.1 percent year over year while unemployment benefits dropped 19.9 percent.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
LSU
College of Commerce
Chinese Reds Bomb Islands Near Formosa
The Chinese Communists bombarded Quemoy and Kaoteng as tensions rise near Matsu in a possible invasion prelude. Nationalists report heavy air and naval patrols with MiG jets and dozens of Soviet aircraft near Formosa as Gen. Ben Davis calls the threat real.
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Formosa
Matsu
Quemoy
Taipei
Both
Kaoteng
Quemoy Island
Chiang Kai- Shek
U.S. Seventh Fleet
U.S
Okinawa
Philippines
Geneva
Fukien
Ben O. Davis
Legless Veteran Fights to Save VA Pension
James Kutcher a legless World War II veteran fights to retain his 329 monthly federal war pension. A Veterans Administration hearing in Washington is to decide if he should lose benefits amid loyalty case charges. His payments were temporarily suspended then restored pending inquiry.
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Washington
James Kutcher
Veterans Administration Central Committee On
Kutcher
Newark
N.J
Socialist Workers Party
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
John Slilard
Fire destroys Kinman House in Choudrant blaze
A Thursday night fire in Choudrant destroyed the two story Joe M. Kinman residence, a Lincoln parish landmark for over six decades, burning in under an hour and leaving a polio victim seven year old without leg braces or specially fitted shoes. The origin of the fire was not yet determined.
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Joann Kinman
Nancy
Choudrant
Joann
John Oldenburg
Joe M. Kinman
Lincoln Parish
Kinman House
Kinman Hotel
Jessie Kinman
L. D. Kinman
Nancy Elizabeth
Jerry Wayne
Billy Rhymes
Choudrant First Baptist Church
Public Health Service Reports Half of Salk Vaccine Unused
A Health Service release says more than half of the Salk polio vaccine shipped to private physicians and health departments remains unused. Surgeon General Scheele urges rapid use where available while maintaining reserves for mass inoculations and second shots.
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Health Service
Leonard Scheele
Three Juvenile Felons Captured After Minden Crash
A state trooper arrested three teenage escapees from a Colorado federal reformatory after their stolen car overturned four miles east of Gibsland. The juveniles, fleeing from Inglewood reformatory, were jailed in Bossier City after FBI questioning.
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Shreveport
Colorado
Minden
A. E. Whitman
Gibsland
Whitman
Federal Reformatory
Inglewood
Two Arrested In Holdup Burglary Make Confessions
West Monroe men Eugene Heckford and J L Donaldson confessed Friday to a Bastrop Shamrock Motel armed robbery and Sterlington Triangle Service Station theft. They admitted hitting N L Wilkinson during the 2:15 a.m. Bastrop robbery and the battery theft Wednesday night. Roadblocks led to the capture of the suspects and the vehicle used in the holdup.
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West Monroe
Sterlington
Bastrop
Ouachita Parish
Bailey Grant
Grant
Eugene Heckford
J. L. Donaldson
Shamrock
Triangle
N. L.wilkinson
Heckford
Wilkinson
Donaldson
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