Russell stands with FEPC but fights civil rights program
In a long exchange with publicist Tom Blake, Senator Richard Russell pledges to back the Democratic ticket even if the nominee supports FEPC and civil rights measures. He argues Democrats must stay united to fight for their ideas, while critics warn such programs threaten constitutional principles. The writer, a Republican, says he would prefer Russell or Eisenhower but leans Democratic when faced with current political trajectories.
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Tom Blake
Richard Russell
Georgia
Russell
FEPC
Blake
Hugh Peterson
Washington
Democratic Party
al Smith
Smith
Aaron Ford
Senator Russell
Dwight Eisenhower
New York Times
The
Herald-Tribune
Roosevelt
Eisenhower Adviser Attacks MacArthur Keynote Pick
Paul Hoffman, Republican adviser to Eisenhower, denounces the choice of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as GOP keynote as a Taft steamroller tactic. Hoffman says the nomination should be decided by people, not machine tactics, and predicts the convention's outcome won’t hurt Eisenhower.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
GOP
Robert A. Taft
Paul V. Hoffman
Citizens For Eisenhower
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Hoffman
Taft
Irene Reid Guides Busy Advertising Department Success
Irene Reid, a top advertising director, explains her loosely knit team approach and focus on getting the job done. She credits Monroe News-Star-World’s success to hard work, her editor Wilson Ewing, and flexible policy under broad newspaper leadership.
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Irene Reid
Monroe News - Star— World
Monroe News- Star
Monroe Morning World
Per
Wa Ae
Individua
Wilson Ewing
Ewing
News- Star
Bloodmobile Opens At West Monroe Church
Red Cross bloodmobile from the Jackson Defense Blood Center began operations at the First Baptist Church in West Monroe. Volunteers including nurses aides hostesses staff aides and canteen workers assisted on site with hours 1 to 7 pm at Red Cross headquarters 200 South Grand Street.
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Red Cross
Jackson Defense Blood Center
First Baptist Church
West Monroe
Pete Embanato
H. I. Payne
W. F. Roberts
Louis Kusin
H. W. Kight
W. J. Anzalone
Helen Lefevre
W. B. Matthews
L. H. Carter
M. J. Hartman
A. D. Bernhardt
Johnnie Painichn
Motor Corps
J. C. Loftin
J. B. Huston
Sam Humphries
Charles Dent
Janet Price
H. Heard
Sally Snapp
South Grand Street
Reinforcing of Bayou Lafourche Bridge Authorized
The Bayou Lafourche bridge on U S 8 between Monroe and Rayville will be reinforced. Gordon Walker of Baton Rouge won the contract by submitting the low bid. Work will reinforce 13 bents on the Ouachita Richland parish line and take about four and a half months. Ellis Ross of Monroe is the project engineer.
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Bayou Lafourche
Monroe
Rayville
Gordon Walker
Baton Rouge
George S. Covert
Ouachita-Richland Parish
Ellis Ross
Builders Warned Of Erecting Homes Near Airports
The Veterans Administration will scrutinize veteran loan applications within four miles of airports. Final approval rests with Washington headquarters. Crashes near Newark Airport have reduced land and home values nationwide.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Newark
N.J
Willis Property Will Be Bought For Negro School
The Ouachita parish school board agreed to buy about ten acres on highway 80 in West Monroe as the site for a proposed Tim Tippitt high school for Negroes. The Willis property from Marion F. Boley estate totals 18 100 dollars with moving two houses included. Additional adjacent lots will be purchased later with prices of 850 and 750 dollars while sewerage facilities are already available.
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Ouachita Parish
Tim Tippitt
West Monroe
Willis
Marion F. Boley
C. G. Wall
Ward Five
Highway 80
Knowles Motor Company
Boley
Fred Fudickar, Jr
Detroit, Mich
Soldiers and Marines Test Body Armor Vests
Lieut. Col. Robert Holmes reported to the AMA that chest and belly armor made of compressed fiberglass and nylon has been tested by the Marines and Army. Early results are encouraging and suggest armor could aid preventive medicine and conserve fighting strength.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
Science
Chicago
Korea
American Medical Association
Robert Holmes
Army
Col. Holmes
Army Medical Corps
AMA
Hudelson Warned By Army Over Public Statements
Maj. Gen. Daniel H Hudelson, after stirring controversy with remarks that UN forces in Korea cannot win, was warned by Gen. William B. Kean to channel future statements through military channels. The officer plans to return to work as an oil executive. A sixth Army spokesman said an investigation into his comments is ongoing. Hudelson received the Distinguished Service Medal on leaving Korea for exceptional meritorious service.
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Los Angeles
Daniel H. Hudelson
Korea
United Nations
California
William B. Kean
Ft. MacArthur
Huderson
Koea
Sixth Army
Hudelson
Police Jury Backs Bill and Appointments Outline Meeting Actions
The Ouachita Parish police jury approved sending a telegram to Baton Rouge urging support for a permanent registration bill. They also proposed I. W. Rogers for a nine person Louisiana Wildlife Federation commission seat and appointed Joe Combs Jack Rushing and O N McNeil to the Parish Game and Fish Commission. Edwards Road residents sought paving and the gate to the jury’s right of way near Cheniere Lake was unlocked. Road and finance actions for May were ratified.
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Ouachita Parish
A. D. Tisdale
League of Women Voters
A. K. Kilpatrick
House
L. M. Pettit
Ward 3
Baton Rouge
I. W. Rogers
West Monroe
Road and Finnance Committee
Chiropractor Recognition Bill Fails in Louisiana Senate Panel
A Senate Health Committee rejected a measure to recognize chiropractors in Louisiana and establish a state board of chiropractic examiners. Physicians and chiropractors clashed for over two hours over training, germ theory, and the right to offer services without “bootlegging.” Rev. Harold Young urged continued push for state recognition through subsequent years.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Senate
Harold Young
Farmerville
Night Of Terror In Koje Compound 77
Communist prisoners of war in Compound 77 killed 15 fellow POWs then surrendered to UN troops for dispersal to smaller stockades. American guards seized seven Red leaders, placed in isolation, as others in nearby compounds faced dispersal with limited resistance.
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Robert Tuckman
Koje Island
Korea
United Nations
Haydon L. Boatner
187Th Airborne Combat Team
Boamer
Taft Forces Clamp Control On Nominating Machinery
Taft forces hold the levers of Republican convention planning in Chicago as key posts and delegates shape the July 7 meeting. MacArthur backs Taft, while Eisenhower allies push disputed seats potentially deciding the nomination fate. Democratic rivals Dever Ke afauver Harriman attack the GOP as Aq military junta fear grows.
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Taft
Associated Press
Robert Taft
Convention Arrangements Committee
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Walter S. Hallanan
West Virginia
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Massachusetts
Eisenhower
MacArthur
South
Dever
New York
GOP
Wedemeyer
National
Citizens- For-Taft Committee
W. Averell Harriman
Republican Party
Phoenix
Ariz
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Washington, D. C
Harriman
John Foster Dulles
New Jersey
Maryland
Kefauver
Richard Russell
Georgia
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New York State
Theodore R. McKeldin Jr
McKeldin
Hollywood
Leaders IN Health Conference
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W. Carroll Summer
School of Medicine
Azelie H. Ziegler
State Department of Health
Bruce W. Everist, Jr
Lincoln Parish
Standing
A. S. Huffman
Northeast State College
John Fogleman
Twin Cities
Lafourche
Philip Murray
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Company
Stephens
John R. Steelman
Murray
Ouachita Solons
Bill
Koje Compound
Truman
Congress
Arkansas
Mississippi
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D-Ark
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