Uneasy Government In Britain Faces New Test
London March 10 Britain s Labor government squeaked past its first major parliamentary test last night by a 14 vote margin 310 to 216 The vote against a Conservative motion targeted at the impending nationalization of the iron and steel industry A defeat would have forced resignation weeks after winning a second term The government s overall house majority was cut to six seats ahead of a Monday vote on another Conservative motion criticizing housing program proposals in the speech to King George Continues on Tenth Page.
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London
Britain
Attlee
House of Commons
King George
Revision of Code Among Measures
BATON ROUGE LA March 10 AP Gov Earl K Long signed into law all 12 bills approved finally by the Louisiana legislature yesterday.
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Baton Rouge, la
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Sander Faces Medical Probe In New Hampshire
In Candia New Hampshire Dr Hermann N Sander faces a state medical board hearing after being acquitted of murder in a patient death The state health officer Dr John S Wheeler said the board will decide any medical penalty and will contact members for the January session The New Hampshire Medical Society delegates plan to meet in Concord to discuss the case Wheeler explained the board has authority to grant or revoke licenses and Sander was asked to appear after his indictment but sought postponement until after trial The acquittal lifted practice restrictions and reporters noted Sander and his wife planned to return home The story also mentions executive action in the state capitol with 12 emergency measures totaling 8 million dollars including 5 million for the highway department and 2 79 million for school lunch programs plus funds to fight a sugarcane borer infestation The measures become effective in early spring with adjournment approaching
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Henry Supple Candia
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
State Board of Registration In Medicine
John S. Wheeler
Sander
House of Delegates
New Hampshire Medical Society
Concord
Wheeler
Dr. Sander
Herm
Fair Enough Warns of Totalitarian Threat in Truman Era
Westbrook Pegler warns that Truman officials seek to abolish the republic and install a dictatorship under a wartime economy. He cites Senator Brien McMahon and a leaked claim from a high-ranking general about immediate martial law after a Russian strike, alleging abuses of wartime power and court-approved measures.
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Truman
Hitler
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
McMahon
Washington
Russia
New York
Supreme Court
Frankfurter
W. W. N. McMahon
Coplon Seeks Bond After Spy Conviction in New York
Judith Coplon and Soviet engineer Valentin A. Gubitchev were convicted of spying in New York. Coplon’s lawyers will ask the U S circuit court of appeals to grant bond pending appeal, arguing political crime considerations and extradition limits. Judge Ryan denied bail. Swan reserved decision as lawyers file briefs.
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New York
Judith Coplon
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Miss Coplon
Valentin A. Gubitchev
United States
Guibtchev
Russia
Sylvester J. Ryan
Circuit Court
Bryan
Thomas W. Swan
Library bill beaten 164 to 161 in House vote
Washington March 10 The House rejected the library bill costing 36 400 000 by a roll call 164 to 161. A postal employee pay raise bill costing 163 000 000 passed by voice vote. Rogers and Taber pressed for a rule forcing recorded votes on all spending measures to make lawmakers publicly stand up and be counted.
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Washington
House
Dwight L. Rogers
D.-Fla
Rep. Taber
R.-N.y
Rogers
Hunger Effects Seen In Court For Murder Trial
Yvette Madsen, 22, Brooklyn mother of two, appeared in Frankfurt court for the third session of her murder trial. She has been on a no solids diet for three days, drinking only orange juice and coffee, as guards report she refuses to eat. Prosecutors say she fired a .45 pistol at her husband, Lt. Andrew E. Madsen, after a party.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Brooklyn
Yvette Madsen
97Th General Hospital
Air Force
Buschlag
Rheinmann Air Base
Emily Swindel
Madsen
Willie Wanted in Big Hold Up
New York march 10 2 Willie the actor famed for disguises is top suspect in yesterday's Queens Boulevard Manufacturers Bank branch robbery netting 63000 in untraceable bills. authorities also seek him for the 1950s era Brink's Boston theft and a 1948 Havana bank hold up. Real names include William Sutton and aliases like Julian Loring George Holland Richard Courtney and Richard Loring.
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Willie
Boston
U.S
Havana
Cuba
William Sutton
Julian Loring
George Holland
Richard Courtney
Richard Loring
Queens Boulevard
Manufacturers
Three white men plead innocent in triple murder case
Kosciusko Mississippi March 10 three white men Leon Turner Malcolm Whitt and Windel Whitt pleaded innocent before Circuit Court Judge J P Coleman to charges of massacreing three Negro children in what District Attorney Henry L Rodgers called an orgy of drunken revenge. Jury subpoenas set for Saturday with motions for a special venire. trials scheduled one after another with Turner first then Windel Whitt and finally Malcolm Whitt. Turner absent at arraignment appeared cautious observers noted. The Whitt brothers were quiet as their lawyers pleaded. Turner and Windel were captured after a 57 hour manhunt in rain soaked central Mississippi. Malcolm was arrested at his mother's house the day after the killings.
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J. P. Coleman
Leon Turner
Malcolm
Windel Whitt
Coleman
Winder Whitt
Turner
Malcolm Whitt
Whitt
Mississippi
Flood Bill Gets Senate Approval
An urgent deficiency bill for 4 million dollars for emergency flood control repairs won Senate approval. Sen Long said funds are needed for the Ohio and Mississippi basins and the lower Mississippi area. McClellan noted the money will aid Army engineers in flood prone regions, with New Orleans projects excluded.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senator Long
D-La
Ohio
Mississippi
Congress
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Army
New Orleans
Police Catch Esapced Killer Benoit In Pre-Dawn Chase
State police pursued Alcide Benoit known as Frenchy in a hour long pre dawn chase across northern Michigan roads. The 36 year old killer who once murdered Trooper Richard Hammond seized a police car and fled 20 miles before being overtaken near Gaylord. He was returned to custody in handcuffs with two axes found in the car.
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Gaylord
Mich
Michigan
Alcide
Frenchy) Benoit
Benoit
Otsego
Here
U. S.27
Richard Hammond
Monroe
Hammond
Northern Branch State
Marquette
Southern Michigan
Jackson
Harold W. Moore
Gaylord Post
Casimer Szucinski
Lambert Rayner
Two Convicted In Floggings In Georgia Case
Rome Ga March 10 A Georgia jury convicted Sheriff John W Lynch and Deputy William Hartline of depriving seven African American men of civil rights by turning them over to a Ku Klux Klan mob for flogging The Nelsons other eight defendants were freed The maximum penalty for Lynch and Hartline is one year in prison and a $1000 fine Federal Judge Frank Hooper withheld sentence pending a motion for a new trial The incident occurred at the Mamie Clay home in Hooker Ga where the seven men were seized and lashed at a church yard last April 2
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Rome
Georgia
Dade County
John W. Lynch
William Hartline
Mamie Clay
Hooker
Lynch
Hartline
Frank Hooper
U. S. District Court
Hooper
Clay
Chilean President to Visit New Orleans
Chilean Consul Octavo Allende announced that President Gabriel Gonzales plans to visit New Orleans in April as the last stop on a U S trip at the invitation of President Truman. No definite date yet. schedule not fully set. The president will return to Chile from New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Octavo Allende
Gabriel Gonzales
Gonzales
United States
Truman
Chile
Plan For Net Increase In Taxes Apparently Dropped
Washington March 10 The Democratic tax writers abandoned a $1 billion net tax increase plan from President Truman proposing to cut excises by about $1 billion while raising about $1 billion through other measures. They may approve a tax bill with no individual rate changes as Truman vows to veto cuts without offsetting revenue. House Democrats debate how to cover the loss and where to recoup funds. Continued on second page.
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Washington
Truman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rayburn
D.-Tex
McCormack
Mass
Rent Control Debate Leaves Decision Uncertain
In Washington on March 10, the Senate grudgingly backed funds to run rent controls through June 30 while delaying a final decision on extending the program. The bill also funds other agencies for the 1950 fiscal year and faces possible Senate-House compromise.
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Washington
Senate
Tighe Woods
Congress
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Woods
Appropriations Group
MecKellar
KL. Tenn
Two convicts found guilty in Angola prison murder
In St Francisville Louisiana two inmates Ollie Dixon 25 of Alexandria and Billy Aldrich 22 of Columbia were found guilty of the murder of fellow prisoner Fred A Landrum at Angola penitentiary where Landrum was stabbed to death on January 16. A district court jury deliberated briefly before reaching the verdict without capital punishment.
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ST. Francisville
Louisiana
Ollie Dixon
Alexandria
Billy Aldrich
Columbia
An-gola Penitentiary
Fred A. Landrum
Violent Deaths in Ouachita Parish Reach 61 in 1949
Coroner J. T. French released the annual report showing Ouachita Parish fatalities for 1949. Sixty one lives ended, with 26 of them Black residents. The tally included 10 white and 2 Black auto deaths, 4 white and 7 Black auto fatalities, 4 white and 5 Black homicides, and 6 white plus 2 Black self-inflicted deaths, among 224 natural deaths overall.
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Ouachita Parish
J. T. French
Shreveport Girl Selected Miss Tulane of 1950
Virginia Day of Shreveport a junior in Newcomb College School of Art at Tulane was chosen Miss Tulane of 1950 in an all campus vote. Dr John Sticks announced the results. She will appear in the Jamabalaya yearbook with the feature spot as Pauline Tulane of 1990.
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New Orleans
Virginia Day
Shreveport
Tulane
Tulane University
Miss Day
Newcomb College School of Art
John Sticbs
Pauline Tulane
Adenauer opposes Franco-Saar pact in parliament
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told a special session he would protest to the western Allies against the Franco-Saar agreement. The accord grants Saarland near self-government while ceding coal wealth to France for 50 years. Bonn issued a white paper calling for international control similar to the Ruhr and urged plebiscite to decide future status.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Saar
France
Adenauer
Ruhr
West Germany
Frenc
Louisiana escaped convict captured in Chicago
Chicago March 10. A Louisiana escaped convict is held there. FBI agents identified him as Roy Merle Carpenter, 42. Carpenter walked from Angola State Prison last October where he was a trusted inmate serving 41 years for robbery. He is charged with escaping, stealing a car across state lines and robbery, with a trail from Angola to Houston to New Orleans, then to Jefferson, Iowa, where the auto struck a child.
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Chicago
A&a
Louisiana
B.I
Roy Merle Carpenter
F. B
George B. McSwan
Carpenter
Angola
McSwan
F B. I
Houston
New Orleans
Jefferson
Iowa
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