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18 Mar 1952
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1952
Page
1
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A critical syndicated column denounces Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman and officials as treacherous, blames Democratic leaders for wartime sacrifices, and attacks Congress for policy errors and a pay raise, asserting electoral peril for the third term.
In Munsan Korea Communist negotiators propose four port changes for entry points and refuse to answer seven Allied prisoner exchange questions. The UN rejects the changes and says it will wait for the Reds to resolve the prisoner issue.
Monroe city council opened bids for a $1.2 million water improvement program to raise water supply pressure and beef up fire protection citywide. Bids covered three phases 1 A 1 B and 1 C with several contractors listing amounts and none for some firms. Sullivan Long and Hagerty of Bessemer was the low bidder overall.
Mrs D D Lacore reports her 20 horsepower outboard motor sold within four days after placing a want ad in the News Star World. The ad price was 35.00 with 1.71 in extra charges. Springtime brings calls for boats, lawnmowers, porch furniture and other items. Call 5135 or 5161 for help wording ads or to charge it to your account.
Four County Jail inmates overpowered a guard, bound and gagged him, and escaped after rifling the jail safe in Pensacola Florida. The group led by Jack Bosley 23 included Richard Dean 24 W B Baxley 30 and Mrs W D McQuagg 23. Bloodhounds trailed them for about 10 blocks as authorities in three states issued alerts.
An elderly gravedigger was held in New York as the anonymous author of a threatening letter linked to the murder of Arnold Schuster. Schuster, a 24 year old Brooklyn clothing salesman, was killed March 8 after aiding authorities in identifying bank robber Willie Sutton. The arrest coincides with Sutton’s trial for a 1950 holdup and follows Schuster’s February 18 sighting of Sutton on a subway train.
The LaSalle parish grand jury in Jena is to hear the case of Luther Pearson and Martin Jackson, both about 39, charged with killing State Trooper Alis Floyd and his son Donald after midnight February 23. Floyd and Deputy Taylor had earlier warned the men about drunken driving.
Miami authorities press for husband George LeMay to return from Montreal to clarify facts in the January disappearance of 21 year old Hughnette LeMay. Monroe County deputy sheriff James O Barker says the Grand Jury in Key West may review the case as investigators seek new information. LeMay vanished January 4 while fishing with her husband near Tom's Harbor, 12 miles north of Marathon.
Jet aviation marks the tenth anniversary of the nation’s first jet engine with a birthday today and tomorrow. The event honors General Electric’s new jet engine research development and production center. W LaPierre GE Aircraft Gas Turbine Division says the decade has been the fastest ten years in aviation history.
President Truman s long deferred decision on a run again appears shaped by talks with National Party Chairman Frank E McKinney at a naval submarine base in Key West Florida They discuss McKinneys role in keeping Trumans name on the ballot in New Hampshire and the fallout from Kefauver s upset victory as party critics urge a firmer stance toward Congress and Republicans ahead of the Jefferson Jackson dinner speech on March 29.
Mrs. Margaret Pereda 33 faces charges after she argued with her husband and another woman on a downtown sidewalk and drove her car at them. Patrolman saw her curb strike and miss the couple, then smash a store window. Judge Bloom set a $200 bond with action delayed until April 7. The defendant said she had a fit of anger upon seeing her husband with the other woman.
President Truman surprised Municipal Aquarium Manager Bill Kroll by visiting the Key West Aquarium yesterday. He observed a tiny male sea horse that recently gave birth to 30 young sea horses, illustrating sea horse habits.
D. W. Maddox and William W. Sullivan named Safety Drivers of the week by the Phantom Driver. Both from West Monroe with long driving records, they praise their companies safety programs and first aid instruction. The winners join prior honorees as candidates for a Nassau Bahamas grand prize trip.
Washington AP report notes U S Steel Corp hesitates to announce ferro manganese shuts down while others like Jones & Laughlin plan closures. Wage stabilization board recommendations due Thursday and CIO Steel Workers union response to delay request by April 8 loom as Philip Murray seeks an 18 cent wage boost among over a hundred demands.
The Democratic executive committee set May 20 1952 for Monroe city elections to choose a mayor, commissioners, and six at large members of the Democratic executive committee. Mayor and commissioner candidates pay 30 dollars and school board candidates 10 dollars. deposits handled by Roy Cole Sr or George Fink.
A west wind storm shattered parched lands across Eastern New Mexico and West Texas, bringing the fiercest dust storm in years. A Wichita Falls tornado damaged roofs and cut power as storms moved through Texas and Oklahoma, with wind speeds to 110 mph near Wink, Texas. Weather warnings predicted more tornadoes as the system tracked eastward.
A two engine R5c transport crashed near a Dallas suburb after Lt. Cmdr. Lewis Garfiel d and Cpl. Carl Doctor died in parachute accidents. Pilot Capt. R C Wesley bailed out safely from about 500 feet as the burning plane skimmed a residential area. The pilot stayed with the craft to avoid homes.
William Odell Nowell testified in the conspiracy trial that the Communist Party trained him to incite Negroes to rebel across multiple Southern states and demand a nation of their own. He identified Philip Frankfeld as a Lenin School attendee in Moscow in 1931 and noted party expulsions over anti Truman criticisms.
In New Orleans police seized narcotics valued at $50 000 and charged Joseph Giardina with armed robbery possession of stolen property and narcotics. He was arrested eight minutes after a drug store robbery and admitted the holdup per Patrolman Louis Reichert.
In Elmont New York two squirrels invaded a circuit box on a phone pole and charged at Edward Davis a 27 year old lineman from Farmingdale. He opened the box during a repair yesterday and fell 15 feet injuring a broken leg.
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