Westbrook Pegler on power in HICOG culture
Westbrook Pegler questions the scope of influence wielded by John J. McCloy era public affairs chief Shepard Stone. He mocks Bertram as a red baiting ex machinist turned economist with TVA ties and anti Communist stances amid postwar bureaucratic politics.
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Bad Godesberg
Germany
Shepard Stone
High Commission
Mr. Stone
John J. McCloy
The
Elks and Shriners
University of Chicago
U. of C
Tennessee Valley Authority
Knoxville
Roosevelt
Bertram
Judge Heard's Hat Is In Ring In District Race
Judge Jesse S. Heard of ward five city court runs for the fourth district judgeship in a special election set for February 19. He cites 15 years on the bench and active legal practice, plus community and church service, as basis for his candidacy and asks Ouachita Morehouse district voters for support.
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Jesse S. Heard
Ward Five
Fourth District Court
West Monroe
Judge Heard
Ouachita Parish
Louisiana State University School of Law
Ten Cent Haircut Considered Fair
Bedford, Pa. Feb. 11. Daniel N. Byers, an 83 year old barber in Woodbury, has charged ten cents per haircut for 69 years. He explains he never saw a reason to raise prices and still earns the same wage as when he began.
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Bedford
Pennsylvania
Woodbury
Daniel N. Byers
Byers
Airman slain by wife to protect baby in Louisiana
In Shreveport on February 11 a deputy reported Tech Sergeant O L Gibson 27 was killed by his wife who said he smothered their baby. Mrs Gibson shot him in front of their three young children. coroner ruled justifiable homicide. Gibson, stationed at Barksdale AFB, lived at the tourist court since December.
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Shreveport
Percell
J. B. Hall
Bossier Parish
Tech
O. L. Gibson
Steve Norris
Marlene
Darlene
Brady Named Fund Chairman for Ouachita Red Cross Drive
Harold V. Brady, local businessman, named fund campaign chairman for the 1952 Red Cross drive in Ouachita parish. The march drive lasts the month with Brady overseeing sales and production at Negley Bag and Paper Co. in West Monroe.
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Harold V. Brady
Red Cross
Ouachita Parish
McVea Oliver
Brady
Negley Bag and Paper Company
West Monroe
Department of Industrial Development
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp
Oak Ridge
Spaht McKeithen Campaign Rally Set for Monroe Tonight
The Spaht McKeithen ticket will hold a 7 30 PM rally in Monroe at Central Grammar for Ouachita parish supporters. Spaht headquarters announced the event urging attendance and backing for the slate and their platform.
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Spaht - McKeithen
Monroe
Central Grammar
Ouachita Parish
Spaht
Detour Bridge Over LaFourche Opens to Traffic
Ellis Ross, state highway engineer, announced that the detour bridge on the Winnsboro road over LaFourche is now open. The bridge had collapsed twice, triggering detours around Highway 80 during the permanent bridge construction over the swamp drainage canal.
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Ellis Ross
LaFourche
Winnsboro
Kennon Predicts Large Victory in Louisiana Governor Race
Judge Robert F. Kennon told Iberville parish listeners that voters have chosen a governor and four in five favor change. He touted a two cent gasoline tax cut, civil service reforms, a $5000 personal income tax exemption, prison reform, and reduced red tape. He noted campaign color symmetry with 1952 plates and was joined by Allison Kolb and Ellen Bryan Moore.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Robert F. Kennon
Minden
Kennon
Plaquemine
Iberville Parish
Baton Rouge
Pierre Port
Earl K. Long
Spaht
Two Plead Guilty In District Court
Two persons pleaded guilty to theft in fourth district court before Judge David I Garrett. C D Woods Jr of Monroe received a one year jail sentence for stealing a watch and rings from DeSiard Jewelry Store worth 100 dollars. Ben Duvernay 60 of New Orleans was remanded for sentence after pleading guilty to theft of tools from 207 South Fifth Street. He was arrested after a second attempted entry. tools not recovered. Duvernay is held in the parish jail pending further action.
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Fourth District
David I. Garrett
C. D. Woods, Jr
Monroe
DeSiard Jewelry
Ben Duvernay
New Orleans
T. F. Bunch
South Fifth Street
Duvernay
Dubernay
Allies Question Red China's Right To Negotiate Peace
Munsan Korea February 11 AP Chief UN truce negotiator Rear Adm C Turner Joy questioned Red China's right to take part in a Korea peace conference and urged that decisions on which nations negotiate be settled after an armistice. He said if the Communists insist on political recommendations, the UN delegation will oppose them. Joy noted that Chinese troops in Korea were labeled volunteers and that PRC would not qualify under their criterion. He spoke after North Korea’s Gen Nam Nam attacked the idea of sending peace recommendations to the UN as a whole.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Red China
U. N
Joy
North Korea
People’s Republic’ of China
Nam
Awards Announced At Sodality Meet Here
A Little Theatre committee led by Frank Breese sought a plot in Forsythe park from Monroe city council to build a larger theater. Stocker Fontelieu said membership growth requires expansion. Roy Johns affirmed park-boosting design. Mayor John Coon and commissioners promised review at the next council meeting.
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Frank Breese
Monroe City
Forsythe Park
Stocker Fontelieu
Fontelieu
Selman Field
Roy Johns
John Coon
Frank Cline
Johnny Simmons
Lon Heuer
Dusty Rhodes
Breese
Patrick Killough wins diocesan high school oratorical contest
Patrick Killough of St Johns High School Shreveport won the annual diocesan high school sodality oratorical contest at St Matthew Catholic School gym attended by over 400 Catholic students. Eleanor Menon of St Mary's Natchitoches took second place. Mayor John Coon opened events. Rev Joseph Shinners urged living sodality in daily life.
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Patrick Killough
St. John’s High School
Shreveport
Bishop Greco Loving
St. Matthew Catholic School
Louisiana
Eleanor Menon
St. Mary’s High School
Natchitoches
Killough
United Gas Corporation
John Coon
Sodality
St. Matthew's Church
Joseph T. Shinners
S. J
Shinners
Christ
29 Killed In Third Recent N J Crash
Elizabeth New Jersey recounts a National Airlines DC-6 crash that killed 29 people and injured about 44 as engine trouble sent the plane plummeting into a 52 unit apartment house. The disaster halted Newark Airport operations and redirected traffic to Idlewild LaGuardia and Philadelphia. Local officials call the event an umbrella of death.
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George Cornell
Bernard Brown
Elizabeth
N. J
National Airlines
Newark Airport
James T. Kirk
America's Top Air Ace Davis Missing In Action
Major George A. Davis Jr., the United States' leading Koren War combat pilot, is missing after his F-86 jet reportedly shot down yesterday during a mass air battle involving about 100 MiG-15s. Davis has 12 confirmed kills and previously flew 266 World War II missions with seven more German or Japanese aircraft destroyed.
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Washington
Air Force
George A. Davis, Jr
America
Davis
Doris
Lubbock
Tex
334Th
348Th
Pacific
Mary Margaret
George
Bonds Are Life Saver For Bigamist
Washington hearings revealed a bigamist who cashed defense bonds every 60 days to support two wives. Robert W. Coyne testified that a man, sworn to secrecy, explained he bought bonds for his first wife and, after 60 days, cashed them to give money to his second wife, claiming it may have saved his life.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Department
Robert W. Coyne
Shady Wall Denies Insurance Money Ties to Governor Long
Representative Shady Wall, away from the city, denies he sought or received insurance money from Governor Earl Long. Wall says he never asked Long for insurance, never spoke for any agency, and never accepted payment to influence politics. The governor had claimed Wall discussed insurance three times and that money was sent via Wall’s cousin to aid the campaign.
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Shady Wall
Long
Earl Long
Wall
Weil
Gov. Long
NATO Military Experts Meet in Lisbon on Armament Drive
In Lisbon on February 11 1952 NATO military committee members and experts debated proposals to intensify western rearmament. Key figures included Gen Omar Bradley Gen Alfred Juin and Air Marshal Sir John Slessor as discussions focused on Mediterranean command and Harriman’s report alongside budgets and a European army treaty.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Atlantic
West
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Superior Technical Institute
Charles Foulkes
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee
Omar N. Bradley
Alphonse Juin
John C. Slessor
U. S
Britain
Greece
Turkey
Adm
Robert B. Carney
Southern Europe
Mediterranean
Harriman
Rome
West Germany
Poison Acid Dropped In Front Of Theater
Monroe firemen and police were called to the Joy Theater at 412 DeSiard Street Sunday afternoon to wash hydrochloric acid from the sidewalk. Witnesses described a man about six feet two inches tall and 220 pounds who dropped the bottle and was last seen walking west on DeSiard Street.
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Monroe
Joy Theater
DeSiard
de Siard Street
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Westbrook
Pegler
Eleanor Roosevelt
Newspaper Guild
Maritime Union
Harry Bridges’ Union
Harold Brady
Winnsboro Road
Hill
Hamilton
Ont
Red
China
Stice
C. Turner Joy
Reds
Formosa
Sodality Meet
Billy Simpkins
Jones’ Oro
Ark
Camp Drum
N. Y
New York State
Idlewild
la Guardia
New York City
Philadelphia
George Davis
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