Constitutional Convention Aims To Rewrite Louisiana Law
Senate approves sweeping study of the education system and sets up a five representatives and three senators committee to investigate from elementary to university levels. Debates on sheriff salaries and a proposed hike highlight tense floor action as lawmakers clash over raises and staffing. Brumfield's gas weights and measures bill to regulate pipeline purchases fails to advance.
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Louisiana
State Senate
House
Senate
Grove Stafford
Alexandria
Orleans Parish
Norman Bauer
Charles V. Gonzales
Grosch
Gonzales
Rep
Moseman Simoneaux
Louisiana Senate
Senate Conservation Committee
Sen
H. Alva Brumfield
Baton Rouge
Military rehearsal traces atomic test scene over Pacific
Observers watched a B 29 third run during a large rehearsal near Kwajalein as orange flame lit the sky and a grey smoke plume formed. The Nevada battleship target received bomb aiming praise while 76 aircraft participated in a detailed drill testing cloud sampling and instrument drops before A day.
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McKinley
Woodrow P. Swancutt
Superfort
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Shangri la
Parades and Salute Planned for Fourth of July Observance
In Tokyo and Yokohama observers will mark the Fourth with parades reviews and gun salutes. A 48 gun salute will fire on the imperial palace plaza after a review of United States troops likely led by Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger, Eighth Army commander.
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Tokyo
Yokohama
Imperial Palace
United States
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Close probes political payoffs in Davis era printing contracts
Governor Davis era controversy deepens as Close details investigations begun in December 1943. He named Eva Talbot and James I. Smith, with both denying knowledge of any arrangement, while Moran Printing figures loom over funding and state contracts.
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Eva” Talbot
James I. Smith
Talbot
Davis
Louisiana
Robert Maestri
New Orleans
Smith
Sam Jones
Governor Jones
Moran Company
Senate
House Committee On Printing
House
Inland Marine Insurance Commission
Chris Stovall
Shreveport
Stovall
State Insurance Commission
Commission
Joe Louis and the illusions of political heroes
The author recalls a controversial boxing era noting a fight that looked fixed and a champion who fought to uphold sportsmanship. He praises Joe Louis as a true gentleman who faced Schmeling and Adolf Hitler ideology with restraint and resolve, contrasting public belief with hard truth.
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Patsy Haley
Jim Farley
Joe Louis
Chance
Schmeling
Hitler
Louis
Kpyright
Panene
Death notices in Monroe mourn several locals
Mrs. Mary Susan Eckhardt 79 widow of H C Eckhardt of Winnsboro died in a Winnsboro clinic and was buried after services at First Christian Church Monroe. Funeral home arrangements were by Hixon Bros with pallbearers and honorary pallbearers named. Also announced are funerals for Joe Evans 64 of Missouri Pacific Railroad service, John Hooper 70, and John Allen Howze 63 with services in Monroe.
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Mary SuSan Eckhardt
H. C. Eckhardt
Winnsboro
First Christian Church
R. T. Watson
B. B. Martin
M. G. Moore
E. R. Dawson
E. H. Williamson
Roy Whitaker
Harry Newhall
Hixon Bros. Funeral Home
Monroe
Joe Evans
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Little Rock
Ark
Hixson Bros
L. T. Hastings
First Baptist Church
Riverview Burial Park
Evans
McGehee
Roy Banister
Lake Charles
Henry Banister
Lewis Evans
E. C. Evans
Sally Graff
R. T. Noble
West Monroe
Maurice Noble
Port Arthur
Tex
Ivy Noble
T. L. Marks
P. J. LeBlanc
Joe Bruce
Johnny Huett
W. E. Burke
Grover Cornett
John Hooper
Dewey Haynes
North Fourth Street
Mulhearn
Mollie Hooper
Verlon Osterhout
Jane Collins
John Allen Howze
Peach Street
Hasley Cemetery
Hall Funeral Home
Joe Smith
J. D. Parker
John Allen Howze, Jr
Alvin
Texas
O. W. Howze
W. D. Howze
Marvin Howze
George Reynolds
Orie Brister
James Morris
Dee Brister
Herman Brady
X. L. Lenard
Congressional panels seek court reform amid impeachment probe
Senators Bridges Eastland and McCarran discuss hearings on court controversy affecting proposed legislation. Bridges cites growing schism and suggests inviting retired justices like Charles Evans Hughes for input. Murdock opposites Congress action, noting court rules can handle disqualification. House committee also rejects Jackson charges for investigation.
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Ferguson
Bridges
Eastland
McCarran
Nevada
Charles Evans Hughes
Murdock
Utah
Congress
Vinson
Jackson
House
Truman Names Vinson Chief Justice in Historic Ceremony
President Truman announced Felix Frankfurter as chief justice in a ceremony highlighting the judiciary’s central role. The address noted Vinson, the Kentucky native, is the 13th chief justice, and the public event stressed respect for the court amid internal court tensions.
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Harlan F. Stone
Truman
United States
Supreme Court
Mr. Vinson
Robert H. Jackson
Germany
Hugo Black
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
Hart memorial funds and Will Hart legacy details
Mary Hart leaves 150000 for an animal shelter in Westport and 100000 for a William S Hart memorial in Newhall. The funds may sustain Horseshoe Ranch and Hart home, valued at 300000, if a public agency accepts them for use. Hart rose from 75 to 125 weekly, starred in 13 westerns in one year, and built 8400 weekly profits. He married Miss Westover in 1921. divorce followed in 1927 amid their son Will S Jr. born earlier. Hart set 100000 trust funds for mother and son.
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Remington
Will James
James Montgomery Flagg
Hart
Mary Hart
Westport
Conn
William S. Hart
Newhall
Horseshoe Ranch
Hart Home
Hollywood
New York
Reno
Federal control debate over tidewater oil and navy needs
Edwin W. Pauley, under secretary of the navy, champions federal ownership of tidewater petroleum deposits. Critics argue oil must remain a national defense resource under federal control while the Senate judiciary committee warns that federal power could null private property rights in navigable lands. The House approved a bill to return the U. S. Employment Service to state operation, with a deadline by month’s end. the Senate labor committee weighed in.
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Edwin W. Pauley
Ickes
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
U. S. Employment Service
Senate Labor Committee
Government Takes Over USES Early in War Effort
The government seized the USES early in the war to redirect workers into essential industries and pushed the date change to year end as part of reconversion and demobilization plans.
Stebbins acreage assignment to Seaboard and partners Southeast of Monroe
In Orleans parish a 25 acre Stebbins tract southeast of Monroe was assigned to Seaboard of Delaware Tidewater Associated Oil and Trans western Oil after taking a geophysical option on Sections 22 27 Township 17 N 3E and 117 19 20 22 31 32 Township 17 N 4E. The leases were kept as protection after the spring option from Gas Primos, Monroe cafe owner and independent operator. Harold Davides of Jackson Mississippi bought 1 24th of mineral rights within the same general area in Sections 11 12 13 14 of Township 16N 3E near Red Cut townsite.
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Stebbins
Monroe
Orleans Parish
Seaboard of Delaware
Tidewater Associated Oil Company
Transwestern Oil Company
Gas Primos
Monroe Cafe
Harold Davides
Jackson
Miss
Red Cut
Soviet and American Plans Highlight Peace Policy Versus World Domination
Izakov notes two trends in modern international politics shown by the Soviet peace and security policy and the American plan seen as atomic diplomacy toward world domination. He argues such aspirations cannot succeed today.
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United Nations
Izakov
River Stages All Moving Parts Align in Turbine Engine
Study notes that within a gas turbine engine all components rotate in the same directional path, aiming to reduce vibration and wear. This alignment improves efficiency and reduces mechanical stress across the propulsion system.
Mihailovic accuses first witness of selling partisans to Germans
Belgrade reports Gen Draja Mihailovic on trial for treason shouting at witness Yovan Skavovic who said Mihailovic ordered 365 captured partisans handed to the Germans. Skavovic testified the group was captured in 1941 and later all shot.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
Yovan Skavovic
Mihailovic
Skavovic
Folger and Durham Win in North Carolina Runoff
In North Carolina Democratic runoff primaries, John H. Folger leads in the Fifth district with 24 549 votes to Thurmond Chatham 21 832 and Carl T. Durham leads the Sixth district with 16 386 to E Earl Rives 14 588 as unofficial results from 140 of 141 precincts reported.
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Raleigh
N. C
John H. Folger
Carl T. Durham
North Carolina
Thurmond Chatham
Winston-Salem
Folger
Chatham
E. Earl Rives
Greenboro
Durham
Rives
Labor night session on OPA bill and Senate amendments
Conferees in a labor night session weigh whether to accept Senate changes lifting price ceilings on meat poultry dairy petroleum and tobacco by end of June. The House must vote the measure up or down or send it back with instructions to yield or hold out on disputed points amid possible Senate filibuster.
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Banking
House
Senate
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