French Premier Confronts Critics In Tunisia Crisis
In Paris Premier Felix Gaillard agreed to an immediate parliamentary debate on France’s bombing of a Tunisian frontier village. The attack killed 68, left 10 missing and 84 wounded and heightened diplomatic tensions with Tunisia as French troops were confined to bases and Bourguiba demanded evacuation.
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Paris
Felix Gaillard
France
Tunisia
Habib Bourguiba
French National Assembly
Gaillard
Assembly
United States
U. S
Amory Houghton
Tunis
Twenty Hospitalized as Milwaukee Shop Center Fire Rages
A five alarm blaze in a South Side Milwaukee shopping district injured twenty firemen and a policeman from smoke inhalation or frostbite. The two story building housed a jeweler restaurant optometrist clinic tavern and barber with an adjacent camera shop. Unofficial damage nears half a million dollars as crews battled the ice packed scene for over three hours in zero cold with residents evacuated.
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Milwaukee
South Side
Clary Ehlers
Peculiar Inheritance Ends With Ashes in the Trash
In Cowfold England a daughter says her father Arthur T. Robins cremated his remains and had them disposed of with household trash. The 63 year-old stockbroker left 10 pounds to the gar bage collector Harry Constable for hauling away the ashes. The family treats the act as the late father s joke and none were upset.
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Cowfold
England
Arthur T. Robins
Robins
Eve Sutton
Harry Constable
Constable
Funeral Rites Slated Friday For Dr. Bendel
Dr. William L. Bendel Sr., 64, Monroe physician and chief of obstetrics gynecology at the Bendel Clinic, died of a heart attack at his clinic. Funeral services will be held at 10 am Friday at Temple B Nai Israel with burial in the Jewish Cemetery Mulhearn Funeral Home is handling arrangements. He helped organize the Vaughan Wright Bendel Clinic in 1925 and held many medical society memberships. He served as president of the Northeast Louisiana High School Football Officials Association and offered free medical services to Monroe high school athletes for years.
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William L. Bendel
Monroe
Temple B'Nai Israel
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Bendel
George Wright
J. B. Vaughan
Vaughan-Wright- Bendel Clinic
College Medical Society
Fifth District Medical Society
Medical College of Surgeons
International College of Surgeons
Southeastern Surgeons Congress
Southern Medical Association
Louisiana State Medical Society
The
American Medical Society
Northeast Louisiana High School Football Officials Association
Brotherhood know how meeting at Monroe church
About 250 men are expected to attend a Brotherhood know how meeting at College Place Baptist Church in Monroe Thursday night at 7 p.m. They will come from a 50 mile radius of Monroe. Rev. Earl Ogg will be the pastor host and act as moderator.
4 H Ouachita Parish Plans 4 H Week Meeting
The 4 H executive committee of Ouachita parish meets Saturday at 9 30 a m at the West Monroe agricultural building to plan the National 4 H Week program. Georgia Ruth Owens presides and Carol Shipp serves as secretary. Twenty six clubs and each president are expected to attend.
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Ouachita Parish
West Monroe Agricultural Building
Georgia
Ruth Owens
Carol Shipp
Space Trip Yields New Data On Human Endurance
In San Antonio AP report, Airman Donald G. Farrell enters day three of a seven day earth bound voyage to simulate space travel. Sealed in a 3 by 5 foot chamber at Randolph Field the Bronx native endures disorientation while doctors monitor mental and physiological responses via television and one way vision panels. Farrell receives instructions by flashing signals as tests and rest periods vary daily to gauge adaptability in confined space.
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San Antonio
Tex
Donald G. Farrell
Farrell
Randolph Field School of Aviation Medicine
Bronx
N. Y
George H. Steinkamp
Department of Space Medicine
Father trades freedom to see dying daughter
Robert Backover, 28, came home from the West Coast to answer grand larceny charges in order to be with his 6 year old daughter Paula Ann who has leukemia. He arranged to surrender after visiting the hospital with his daughter. A Miami restaurant owner offered to cover part of the $2,300 he is accused of stealing to gain time by his bedside.
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Washington
Robert Backover
Paula Ann
West Coast
Silas Dennis Jr
Huttsville
Children's Hospital
Miami
Backover
Los Angeles
Paula
Two psychiatrists back tranquilizers amid pharma firms defend ads
Dr Frank J Ayd and Dr Nathan Kline testified before a House subcommittee, defending tranquilizers as important medical tools despite abuses. They argued most drug firms avoid misleading promotion and noted tranquilizers account for about a third of prescriptions and roughly 300 million dollars in annual sales.
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Washington
House
Frank
Ayd
Balti
Subcommittee
Blatnik
D.minn
Kline
Republicans Reject Funds by Texas GOP
The Republican National Committee with President Eisenhower's backing refuses funds raised by Texas Republicans at a Houston appreciation dinner for House GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. Citing a January 30 letter by Texas teeman J. H Porter urging support for the dinner to back a gas bill, Meade Alcorn condemns the letter and says no proceeds will be accepted.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Eisenhower
Texas
House Gop
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
J. H Jack Porter
Republican National
GOP
Meade Alcorn
Alcorn
Porter
National Committee
Houston
Washington Post
Times Herald
Unemployment Jump Shows Big January Losses
Washington reports January unemployment leapt by 1.12 million to 4.494 million, with factory payrolls shrinking and total employment down 2.158 million to 62.238 million. Average weekly earnings slipped to 81.27 dollars as hours fell to 38.7 weekly.
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Washington
Commerce and Labor Departments
Census Bureau
Greatest Toll Below Ankles
New York cold wave takes its greatest toll below the ankles says the American Foot Care Institute. They offer tips such as alternating hot and cold foot baths, wearing closed shoes, and using two thin socks for warmth. Other advice includes leg rubs with lanolin, brief foot exercises, and staying indoors when possible.
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New York
American Foot Care Institute, Inc
Dulles Rules Out Foreign Minister Meet
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said a foreign ministers meeting with Russia is not essential as a prelude to an East West summit. He stressed negotiations through ambassadorial channels and noted talks with the Soviet ambassador in Washington.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Russia
Dulles
United States
Eisenhower
Mikhail A. Menshikov
Menshikov
White House
Nikolai Bulganin
Robbery Probe in Ouachita Parish Ties West Monroe Man
Ouachita Parish sheriff's office investigates an armed robbery of West Monroe resident John Cootes. Cootes says two young white men stopped his car on Red Cut road Ward 9, held him up and stole about $10 after the gun sounded. Investigation ongoing.
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Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Bailey Grant
John Cootes
Route 3
Red Cut
Ward 9
Cootes
Red Cat
Vixon
Grant
Two Die in Georgia Shooting Case
In Ringgold Georgia a 27 year old expectant mother Mrs Frances Miles Whitehead Munger and her brother Willard E Miles 25 were killed last night. The woman's former husband Reed Munger 49 was identified as an estranged spouse and is charged with murder. The woman's former husband and a third man Charlie Whitehead Jr 31 Chattanooga was treated for gunshot wounds. Whitehead said he and Mrs Munger divorced about three months ago and she remarried about a week later.
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Ringgold
Reed Munger
Frances Miles Whitehead Munger
Willard E. Miles
Charlie Whitehead Jr
Chattanooga
Whitehead
Munger
Man in 11-Block Streak Sings In 19 Degree Cold
A 55 year old man paraded up Third Avenue in 19 degree cold wearing only a right shoe and a left sock while singing Melody dAmour. At Bellevue Hospital he claimed to be Edward Sullivan of Hudson New York and said he had been drinking since Sunday and could not recall what happened to his other clothes.
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New York
Third Avenue
d'Amour
Bellevue Hospital
Edward Sullivan
Hudson
N.Y
Blizzard and Ice Storm Death Toll Rises Across States
A United Press tally reports at least 54 deaths from cold snow and fires since last Thursday. New York states leads with 17 dead as Syracuse notes 38 inches of snow and six foot drifts. great ice storms stretch from Texas to Alabama and Mississippi with broad highway hazards.
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New York State
Texas
Alabama
Mississippi
Tha Aantha
Anti News
Uva Uir
Rockies
Atlantic
United Press
New York
Syracuse
New England
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
South Dakota
Tennessee
Wisconsin
The Man She Loved first installment thrills Monroe readers
Margaret Page arrives in the city and attends a masquerade ball where she meets the man she loves. Time reveals his true character, leaving her with a broken heart. Vida Hurst's new novel follows her courage as she rebuilds love from wreckage. Read the start on Page 3A in the Monroe News-Star.
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Margaret Page
Margaret
Vida Hurst
Page
Monroe News-Star
Weather Clears After Ice Blanket Then Returns Forecast
A melt of ice and snow eased traffic delays in northeast Louisiana as sun emerged after a Monday overcast. Schools reopened while northern districts kept safety closures, with temperatures rising toward the 30s and a forecast of continued frigid weather for days.
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Louisiana
Sister Adopts Six Orphans After Tragic Loss
In Lewiston Idaho 18 year old Leona Moore has become legal guardian for six orphaned Larsen children Kristie 6 Nola 3 Viola 2 Julie 10 Linda 12 and Toni 9. Linda Julie and Toni will attend Webster Elementary while Kristie Nola and Viola stay at home. Probate Judge Peter Dufresne approved the guardianship amid community support. The family will live in a rented two bedroom house for a month with plans for a larger home or an added bedroom funded by donations.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Leona Moore
Linda
Julie
Toni
Webster
Legal Guardian
Kristie
Nola
Viola
Clarence Larsen
Pine
Carpenters Union
Chairman and Aides Quit Group Post After Probe Fallout
Rep. Morgan Moulder resigned as chairman of a House subcommittee investigating federal regulatory misconduct. Two aides also quit after chief counsel Bernard Schwartz was fired amid accusations of a White House influence on FCC decisions. Schwartz and two assistants left. Moulder cited powerlessness and dissension hindering the inquiry.
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Moulder
Morgan Moulder
D-Mo
House
Schwartz
John Bell Williams
D-Miss
Washington
Morgan M. Moulder
Bernard Schwartz
White House
Federal Communications Commission
Missouri Democrat
Paul S. Berger
Herbert M. Wachtell
Intensive Search Fails To Locate Jersey City Water Break
Jersey City remains in a state of emergency as an unlocated break in a massive water main drains underground. Police and fire units search by foot, bicycle, and auto with possible evacuations of up to 1,000 residents to the Jersey City armory.
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Jersey City
N.J
Joseph B. Foley
National Guard
Lafayette
Ater
August W. Heckman
Heckman
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Douglas
D-Ill
Senate
House Economic Committee
W. M. Man
Dixie
Texas Panhandle
Thrilling Story
Carl Prochnow
Weather Bureau
New Orleans
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