Berlin War Orphans in a Boys Town Storey
In a seven story Berlin building once Siemens and Halske headquarters two hundred war orphans live under Father August Klynski. The kids learn carpentry and shoemaking while a sheltering network of nuns and priests guide their moral training. The piece contrasts their bleak life with bomb shelter families and notes the broader Western zone under threat. American women in the sector defend their role amid war and policy anxieties.
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Berlin
Siemens and Halske Electrical Works
August Klinski
Order of Servants of Mary
Siemens and Halske
Germany
F. D. Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Driver Dies at Wheel as Girl Save Five Others
In Ponchatoula Louisiana on February 18 Ernest Edward Ivey 48 a McComb Mississippi tile contractor slumped at the wheel of his car. His daughter June Lee Ivey acted quick grabbing the wheel and applying the brake saving five passengers before the car stopped near a six foot ditch. Ivey died likely of a heart attack. Surviving are his wife Mrs Will Owens and Mr and Mrs S L Montgomery both of McComb a son Edward in the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponchatoula
June Lee Ivey
Ernest Edward Ivey
Highway 190
Here
Ivey
McComb
Collins P. Lipscomb
Will Owens
S. L. Montgomery
Edward
Servce
Absentee Ballots Cast Biggest Ouachita Parish
Ouachita Parish clerk R. Dean Farr said 391 absentee ballots were cast last week. Of these 49 were military personnel and 342 were local residents unable to be present for the election. The second primary absentee vote was among the heaviest in the clerk’s office.
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R. Dean Farr
Ouachita Parish
Farr
Crash In Sicily Kills 34 Passengers On Viking Airliner
Police reached the wreckage on Mt Rose near Burgia Sicily and reported all aboard dead with accounts listing 31 or 34 casualties. The Viking twin maydayed from London to Nairobi with 26 passengers and 5 crew, many victims said to be relatives of British soldiers in Kenya. The crash occurred 3 600 feet up a 4 500 foot mountain. bodies scattered, few clothes, no fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgia
Sicily
Sicilian
Mt. Rose
Peer Ser Party
Kenya
Britain
London
Nairobi
Hunting Air Transport
Malta
Buck Evans Sentenced to Life For Murder
Buck Evans, 42, was convicted of murdering Mrs. Amanda Solomon and received a life sentence from Judge Frank Voelker in the fourth judicial district. Evans to be sent to Angola for the balance of his life. Two accomplices also jailed for three years each for theft and burglary, with one man fined for drunken driving.
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Buck Evans
Amanda Solomon
Frank Voelker
Fourth Judicial District
Evans
Voelker
Louisiana
Bailey Grant
Angola
Solomon
Jimmy W. Mapp
David Anderson
L. G. Harper
Negro
Johnson
Perkins
Festivities Open Carnival Season in New Orleans
New Orleans begins its 1952 carnival with first street parades. Krewes Carrollton Okeanos Alla staged by invitation balls earlier, as floats rolled through the city yesterday. Thousands of locals and visitors watched the colorful display.
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New Orleans
Krewes
Carrollton
Okeanos
Alla
Orleanians
Bigger Flood Fund Sought By Tensas Levee District
A delegation from the Tensas levee basin district will appear before the House Appropriations Committee in Washington on February 25 to seek funds for flood control in the Ouachita valley. District President Tom E. Hicks will lead the effort, with board member James Buie of Franklin Parish and state engineer C. E. present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tensas Levee Basin
House Appropriations Committee
Washington
Tom E. Hicks
Hicks
Ouachita Valley
Tensas Valley
Arkansas
Louisiana
Ouachita River
Mississippi River
Levee Board
James Buie
Franklin Parish
C. E
Britain to Detonate First Atomic Weapon This Year
Britain announced it will detonates an atomic weapon in Australia this year at the Woomera range. Sources say scientists involved in atom work believe it will be the best yet made though not necessarily most powerful. The test will use a new mechanism with date unspecified.
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Australia
Woomera
Dessert
Chapman Pincher
Daily Express
Ernest Agnew
London
Britain
United States
Communists Claim Russia Neutral in Korean War
In a Feb 18 AP report from Munson Korea William Jorden writes the Communists challenge Allied rejection of Russia’s nomination to a neutral inspection commission for a Korean armistice. They argue Soviet forces have not fought in Korea and Russia should be considered neutral. The UN nominated Switzerland Norway and Sweden. Reds named Poland and Czechoslovakia. The session was cancelled as negotiators prepared to depart for Panmunjom.
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William Jorden Munson
Korea
Russia
Soviet Union
Panmunjom
U. N
Red
U. N. Command
Neutral Nation Commission
William P. Nuckols
Switzerland
Norway
Sweden
Inspection Commission
Reds
Poland
Czechoslovakia
U. N. Nepptistare
Panituujo
New Presbyterian Charter Night in West Monroe
Plans finalized for charter reception by Red River Presbytery at Memorial Presbyterian Church West Monroe on Wednesday at 7 30 p m with first Sunday service to follow Northeast Louisiana State College offers facilities and about 250 charter members have signed up Elders to be elected and new members admitted in addition to existing 250 Charter night moves to West Monroe due to First church arrangement.
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New Presbyterian Church
Red River
Northeast Louisiana State College
Victor Davis
Memorial Presbyterian Church
West Monroe
North Fourth Street
Co-Ed Charged In Death Of Infant
A 19 year old Southern University co ed is charged with murder in the death of a newborn baby found in a trashcan. Marie Gray of Bienville La a freshman at the state supported university for negroes told deputies she gave birth and struck the infant on the head with a shoe. Autopsy showed skull fractures. An affidavit was filed and the matter will go to the parish grand jury.
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Baton Rouge
Southern University
Brian Clemmons
East Baton Rouge Parish
Marie Gray
Bienville
Clemmons
J. W. Watson
Parish
Sergent Pitcher
Louisiana Faces Gubernatorial Clash As Spaht Backed By Gov Long
Louisiana voters head to the polls to choose a Democratic gubernatorial nominee in a one party state. Gov Earl Long backs Carlos Spaht of Baton Rouge while independent Robert Kennon seeks the office from north Louisiana after a split in the party.
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Louisiana
Kennon
New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Carlos Spaht
Baton Rouge
Robert Kennon
Minden
Long
Spaht
Huey P. Long
Governor Long
Sam Jones
U. S. Senate
Sen
Russell Long
U. S
Hale Boggs
Boggs
Runoff Elections Set in Ouachita Parish Judge Race
Citizens of Ouachita and neighboring parishes vote tomorrow to elect a fourth district judge. Candidates include Judge Jesse Heard and Hillyer S. Parker with polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Runoffs also determine police jury seats in wards 3, 5, 8, and 9 with multiple candidates. State ticket contenders include Governor Spaht and Judge Kennon.
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Ouachita
Morehouse Parishes
Jesse Heard
West Monroe
Hillyer S. Parker
Monroe
Louisiana
John E. Godfrey
H. M. James
Ouachita Parish
A. E. Montgomery
L. A. Fourmy
C. S. Causey
Robert W. Irby
Mitchell Montgomery
Lawrence B. Pettit
A. M. Rizzo
Wilds F. Ross
G. P. Avant
Mose Bayles
Ollie C. Carter
Tom Hicks
Jack Russell
G. F. Swayze
C. B E. Bamburg
J. H. Brown
B. H. Crawford
Allen P. Lenard
Taft Favored in North Carolina
Raleigh NC February 18 Taft backers expect a substantial majority of North Carolina delegates to the GOP national convention to be chosen March 15 with 22 of 26 delegates at stake and four at large March 18. Eisenhower supporters split, with Frank C Patton predicting a Taft edge while Sim A Delapp cites a roughly half and half sentiment amid divided party leadership.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Robert A. Taft
Dwight Dol. Eisenhower
Charlotte
Morganton
Frank C. Patton
Taft Committee
Sim A. Delapp
Lexington
Eisenhower
Patton
U. S
Delapp
National Republican
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Tensas
FBI
Ku Klux
Bob Hayes
Early L. Brooks
Steve Edmund
Pittman Strickland
Sherwood Miller
Horace Strickland
George Miller
L. W. Worley
Bobby Brooks
Ross Enzor
Ruston
Dock P. Stephenson
Hall Transfer Company
Auiocar
Stephenson
Joe Rutledge, Jr
Paul Napier
Wayne
W. Va
Stickup Man
Vicksburg
Tallulah
Miss
Albert Allen
Stanley H. Hurd
Pocatello
Idaho
Allen
Vicksburg Bridge
Letourneau
Charles P. Harris
Harris
R. D. Anderson
Alen
Hurd
U. S. Highway 61
Taft
Senator
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