Luxembourg Visit Details From Westbrook Pegler Dispatch
Westbrook Pegler describes arriving in Luxembourg for a grand duchy gala honoring Grand Duchess Charlotte. He notes hotel rooms, a pink tulip and azalea bouquet from Mrs. Perle Mesta, U S minister, and references to the musical Call Me Madam and President Truman’s circle amid festive public pageantry.
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Luxembourg
Paris
Grand Hotel
Brasseur
Grand Duchess
Charlotte
Perle Mesta
United States
Madam
Harry Truman
Ethel Merman
Madam la Minister
New York
Mrs. Truman
Margaret
Ethel
Legation
Peoria
Truman
Perile
DiSalle to Leave OPS for Ohio Senate Bid
Washington reports Michael V. DiSalle will quit as price stabilization chief to seek the Democratic nomination for U S Senate in Ohio. He said the exact leaving date will be set later and may extend until a Truman appointee succeeds him. DiSalle met with President Truman and indicated a possible cabinet post. He will face Republican Senator Bricker in a bid expected in the May 6 Ohio primary.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
Price
United States Senate
Ohio
DiSalle
Senator Bricker
Price Stabilization
Truman
White House
Senate
Tax Collecting Service
Shipper Board Gains Members at Monroe-West Monroe Meeting
Thirty eight new members joined the Southwest Shippers Advisory board executive committee at the Frances Hotel. A joint luncheon and railroad contact session occurred at the same time with a public general board meeting to follow. Robert J. Bayer was slated as guest speaker for the Virginia Hotel luncheon tomorrow.
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Southwest Shippers Advisory Board
Frances Hotel
Railroad Contact Committee
Traffic and Transportation Club of
Monroe
West Monroe
Virginia Hotel
Rotary and Traffic Clavs
Robert J. Bayer
Traffic World
College of Advanced Traffic
Chicago
Men and Transportation
Monroe-West Monroe
Ousted Tax Collector Delaney Convicted in Bribery Case
A federal jury convicted Denis W. Delaney, former Massachusetts collector of internal revenue, on six counts including three bribery charges and three counts of filing false certificates to show $180,000 in tax liens paid. Delaney faces up to 18 years in prison and fines up to $37,500.
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Boston
Denis W. Delaney
Massachusetts
Internal Revenue
Delaney
Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr
C. Keefe Hurley
Daniel Friedman
New York
Maxwell Shapiro
Maxwell Shapiro Woolen Co
Friedman
Massachusetts Steel Treating Corp
Worcester
Northeast State Names Tommie Day College Queen for Military Ball
Tommie Ann Day a Marion freshman and R O T C lieutenant colonel will reign as queen of the annual military ball on March 7 at the Frances Hotel Cadet Capt Charles Littleton announced The queen will be accompanied by maids and sponsors selected by unit commanders of the military police corps The event at Northeast State involved faculty introductions and an informal reception at the provost corps headquarters led by Cadet Capt Ezra Smith and hosted by President and Mrs Lewis C Slater.
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Tommie Ann Day
Northeast State
Frances Hotel
Charles Littleton
Military Police Corps
Northeast State Faculty
Provost Corps
Ezra Smith
Lewis C. Slater
Plane Crash in New Jersey Residential Area Kills 28
A fog bound American Airlines Convair plunged into a three story frame building in Elizabeth New Jersey. 23 aboard and five local residents died in the fire while 11 were injured. Robert P. Patterson is among the victims.
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Elizabeth,n. J
Newark
N. J
American Airlines
Ama Fis Athaw Nanaane
Gusive Vec Pclovis
Robert P. Patterson
Truman
Buffalo
Miami
Elizabeth River
New Jersey
Vote Buying to Be Investigated in Louisiana
Opelousas Louisiana January 23 A St Landry parish grand jury will examine reports of vote buying in the first Louisiana Democratic primary District Judge Lessley Gardiner said the session aims to run long before the February 19 second primary.
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Opelousas
St. Landry Parish
Lessley Gardiner
Gardiner
J. Y. Fontenot
U S Artillery Sinks Red Tank in Korea Mission
Maj. Herbert Fourt of Oklahoma City directed U S artillery to hit a crossing point on a frozen river in Korea. His round sank a red tank as it moved across the ice, he reported: sighted tank, sank same.
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U. S. 45Th Infantry Division
Korea
Herbert Fourt
Oklahoma City
Karpe Murder Suspect Held By Swiss Police
Swiss federal police hold a man believed Romanian in connection with the death of Capt. Eugene Karpe former U S military attaché in Bucharest. Karpe fell from a train in Austria and his briefcase with papers is missing as investigators pursue a possible link to Robert Vogeler’s case.
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Karpe
Berne
Switzerland
Eugene Karpe
U. S
Bucharest
Austria
Marine Corps
Robert Vogeler
Hungary
Delhi
United States
Vogeler
Salzburg
Five Bar Owners Accused of Selling to Minors
District Attorney Fred Fudickar Jr reports six warrants issued Wednesday for owners and employees of five bars including Turf Bar 109 South Grand and Bakal's Restaurant for selling whiskey and beer to minors. R C Hamilton listed as the bartender in the Turf Bar case.
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Fred Fudickar, Jr
Fudickar
Turf Bar
South Grand
R. C. Hamilton
Bakal’s
Second Primary Candidates Listed By Wade O. Martin
Secretary of State Wade O. Martin Jr. released official returns from the Jan 15 Democratic primary. Runoffs Feb 19 will determine the Democratic nominees for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, auditor, and land office register with top two finishers from each race advancing.
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Baton Rouge
Wade O. Martin, Jr
Martin
Carlos Spaht
Earl Long
Robert Kennon
Minden
John J. McKeithen
Columbia
Spaht
C. E
Cap) Barham
Ruston
Kennon
Joe Arthur Sims
Hammond
Fred S. LeBlanc
Kennor
T. A. Thompson
Ville Platte
Allison Kolb
Register of the State Land Office
Mary Evelyn Dickerson
Oakdale
Ellen Bryan Moore
U. S
Hale Boggs
William Dodd
Lucille May Grace
Dudley J. LeBlanc
Cliff Liles
James M
G. M. Bodenheimer Jr
Chester Coco
H. C. Sevier
Sims
L. B. Baynard
Douglas Fowler
Thompson
Miss Dickerson
Frank Gayle
Lee Laycock
Mrs. Moore
Mrs Ethridge Dies at 91 in Monroe
Mrs Julia Mary Ethridge 91 lifelong Monroe resident and widow of Walter Ethridge died at St Josephs Home. Rosary at Mulhears chapel tonight at 7. Requiem mass Thursday 9 at St Matthew s Church with burial in Riverview Cemetery. Survived by half brother F J Watts of West Monroe and several nieces and great nieces and nephews.
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Robert M. Breard, Jr
DeSiard Street
Don Juan Filhiol
Mulhearn Funeral Home
St. Matthew's Church
Julia Mary Ethridge
Monroe
St. Joseph's Home
Ethridge
Walter Ethridge
Mulhear, Funeral Home
Riverview Cemety
F. J. Watts
West Monroe
Ouachita Parish Voter Registration Totals Reported
Miss Lillian Collins Ouachita parish registrar of voters reported a week after the first primary 1184 white and 320 Negroes registered. The parish total reached 28201 with 24338 white and 3 Negroes registered so far.
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Lillian Collins
Ouachita Parish
Pan Nace
Taft proposes farmer-led production controls in farming crisis
Senator Taft wrapped up a Wisconsin tour with a plan that farmers should manage production controls when needed. He said government should mainly offer advice and assistance, with controls used only in serious emergencies and as locally as possible. The dinner audience included about 1,500 cheesemakers, farmers and businessmen as Taft campaigns for Wisconsin's GOP delegates.
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Monroe
Wis
Taft
Ohio
Wisconsin
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Harold E. Stassen
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Pegler
U.S. Senate
R. M. Breard JR
Mr. Breard
Jackson and
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
R. M. Breard
Heloise Filhiol Breard
Robert
Saint Hyacinth’s Academy
St. Matthew’s
Blanks and Breard
Robert Blanks
Breard
Ouachita National Bank
First Federal Savings and Loan
Shipper Board
Miss Day
Marion
Thomas E. Bearden
Jimmie S. Rains
T. Gerald Nicholson
Nona Gay Williams
Gregory LeBlanc
Pat Sanders
Courtney Oliver, Jr
Mary F. Wiggins
Louis Phelps
Jane Wallace
Robert Dye
Elaine Lolley
A. Glen Gossett
Dolores McClanahan
Charles Whipple
Leora LeFors
Harry Liner
Carol Gay McAdams
Lloyd Ray
Carrice Lindsey
James Carpenter
Robertine Parker
John Rudd
Nancy McCarty
R. P. McNabb
Charlotte Holloway
Olney J. White
Elizabeth
Newark Airport
St. Landry
Wade O. Martin
Senator Barham
Elmer Conner
Hoffman Fuller
Leon Gary
Representative McKeithen
Lionel Ott
W. H. Talbot
P. E. Weldon
Mrs. Ethridge
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