Eisenhower Opposes House Social Security Benefit Expansion
Washington report notes President Eisenhower’s administration opposing House measures to grant early retirement benefits to women at 62 and disability payments at 50. Welfare Secretary Folsom rejects a 2 percent tax increase to finance the broadened benefits, warning of a $1.7 billion first-year rise. He argues OASI is near balance and urges broader universal coverage.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Folsom
Senate Finance Committee
Bootleg Ring Indicts New Orleans Leader in federal case
New Orleans wholesale liquor dealer James E. Comiskey a key figure in a New Orleans faction was named in a North Carolina federal warrant charging involvement in a supposed 3 million dollar yearly bootleg ring. He and his office manager James Mahan were among 31 indicted including three others from New Orleans. Comiskey said the indictment was a shock and noted he had obeyed all laws. The group allegedly ran operations from a Taylorsville North Carolina roadhouse, with false invoices masking liquor shipments.
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New Orleans
James E. Comiskey
Karl Long
North Carolina
Comiskey
James Mahan
Statesville
N. C
Louis Ordille
Dominick Samsome
Taylorsville
Mahan
Ordille
New Orleans Lawmaker Indicted Over Car Dealings
Orleans Parish grand jury charges state Rep. Peter Murtes with public bribery for allegedly offering to accept new cars from four dealers in exchange for favorable votes on a bill limiting new car sales. Indictment cites actions between May 10 and July 8, 1954, and warns of fines or prison plus disqualification from office. No transactions were proven. case hinges on Murtes alleged offer to vote for the bill in exchange for cars.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Peter W. Murtes
Murtes
13Th Ward
Louisiana House
House
Martes
Commission Sets Hearing Date On Fred Barnes Case
The Louisiana Civil Service Commission set a hearing for April 24 on state police Captain Fred Barnes charged with political activity while a civil service employee. The panel also continued the case against Louis A. Domingue after he resigned. both cases involve alleged violations of the Little Hatch Act and civil service rules.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Civil Service Commission
Fred Barnes
Civil Service
Louis A. Domingue
Highway Department
Lafayette
Domingue
Barnes
C. E. Barham
Little Hatch
Public Safety
Chester B. Owen
State Pardon Board
Barham
Five Negro Children Die In Shreveport Fire
SHREVEPORT La Five Negro children burned to death when flames destroyed their home late last night Their parents Mr and Mrs Robert Stewart were at a barbecue shop they operate Caddo Parish deputy Capt H M Terry said the house burned clear down to the ground Ambulance driver Luther Johnson counted five bodies Four other children were in the house but only one was burned seriously and hospitalized
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Shreveport
Robert Stewart
Caddo Parish
H. M. Terry
Luther Johnson
Miller Files Candidacy for Monroe Commissioner Post
E H Miller a Monroe broker and resident since 1923 qualified Thursday as a candidate for the office of commissioner of finance and utilities in the May 22 city election. Roy Cole Sr announced the bid and Miller noted no prior political experience. Wayne Huckaby will seek reelection. Mayor John E Coon and five school board members have announced. Miller will release his platform soon.
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E. H
Bing) Miller
Finance and Utilities
Roy Q. Cole
Democratic Executive Committee
Miller
Monroe
Erin Avenue
Wayne Huckaby
John E. Coon
U S proposes limited arms control check
London AP reports the United States urged 40 000 to 60 000 square miles of Russian and American territory opened to international inspection as a preliminary test of disarmament rules. The plan aimed to pave the way for a broader arms reduction program as Russia conducts new nuclear tests noted by Western observatories. The proposal was sent to five power U N subcommittee delegates for consideration, with no immediate decision expected.
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London
United States
U. S
U. N
Britain
France
Subcommittee
Washington
Soviet Union
Siberia
Japan
Lewis L. Strauss
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Sheffield To Claim Shooting Accidental
WINNSBORO March 22 Special Counsel for Joseph Sheffield opened by saying the defendant would plead accidental shooting in the fatal 1953 slaying of Franklin Parish Deputy Sheriff John L Waller. The district attorney outlined Waller's visit to Sheffield's mother’s home and a fatal exchange near a car, with Sheffield reportedly firing the first shot and later actions surrounding the deputy’s pistol and knife.
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Winnsboro
Joseph Sheffield
Franklin Parish
John L. Waller
Sheffield
Waller
J. M. Wilson
Wisner
Homer Hodge
State Conservation
Wilson
Wailer
Billy Pilgrim
Anders
Hodge
Fred Gray
Woodrow Wilson Miller
Ouachita Parish Jurors Named For Upcoming Terms
Ouachita parish clerk R D Farr released the ventre lists of grand and petit jurors. Grand jurors for the term starting April 2 include Bancroft Birden Brandt Cagle Campbell Chisholm Crandall Drew Ellett Filhiel Foster Hatchell Long McGinn Parker Phillips Riggs Ringheim Rutledge Walker. Petit jurors for the term starting May 7 include Hemphill Spruell Bradley Camp Bradley Haas Shaver Worley Watkins and others.
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Ouachita Parish
R. D. Farr
Ventre
T. O. Bancroft
Jimmie Birden
W. A. Brandt
Ira Cagle
Guy Campbell
Charlie Chisholm
C. K. Crandall
J. M. Drew
D. X. Ellett
John Filhiel
C. A. Foster
W. R. Hatchell
Neil Long
A. J. McGinn
A. l L. Parker
R. J. Phillips
Harold Riggs
Mark Ringheim
Gaston E. Rutledge
Herbert Walker
George Hemphill
E.E. Spruell
John H. Bradley
W. P. Camp
J. B. Bradley, Jr
Leo Montgomery
George F. England
W. C. Kirk
Reese Camp
Henry Haas, Jr
E. B. Shaver
C. O. Worley
Richard Watkins
Willie
Major Oil Firms Face Possible Anti-Trust Suits
Louisiana Petroleum Retail Dealers Association considers injunction to halt a price war in the Shreveport Bossier City area. Esso Standard Oil The Texas Co Gulf Oil Co could face federal suits. action to be filed in Shreveport.
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Alexandria
Louisiana
Shreveport
Louisiana Petroleum Retail Dealers Association
Shreveport-Bossier City
Esso Standard Oil Co
Texas Co
Gulf Oil Co. Association
John Rodgers
Rodgers
United States seeks Hammarskjold peace mission to Middle East
The United States asks the UN Security Council to assign Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to a peace mission to ease Israeli Arab tensions along the armistice lines. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. submits a resolution urging Hammarskjold to pull back forces, allow UN observers freedom of movement, and arrange local commander cooperation. The council is to meet early next week. Britain plans for rapid military action if needed to prevent wider war.
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United Nations
N. Y.P
United States
U. N. Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Hammarskjold
Holy Land
Lodge
The
New York Times
London
Britain
Middle East
the Times
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Brit
S C Democrats Open Door To Third Party Move In South
In Columbia South Carolina the Democratic group led by Gov Timmerman urges broader Southern backing for a national party shift. Delegates recess the biennial convention until after the national gathering to consider a plan that could form a third party and influence the presidential election by unity among Southern states.
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Columbia. S. C
South Carolina
National Party
Resolutions Committee
George Bell Timmerman
Thomas A. Wofford
Greenville
U U. S
Timmerman
U.S
House of Representatives
Routine Flight 6 Airmen Die In B 25 Crash In Texas
A B 25 bomber on a training flight crashed about 50 miles southwest of Waco Texas killing all six crew. Pilot instructors and student officers from Maine Missouri Idaho Georgia Colorado and Maryland were aboard. Last contact was 11:05 p.m. Wednesday and the wreckage was located near U S 79 north of Franklin in Robertson county after a search began at 1 a m Thursday. The craft had fuel for about two hours.
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Waco
Tex
Air Force
Eads and Nichols
Marlin
U.S. 79
Franklin
Robertson County
K. R. Woodman Jr
Biddeford
Maine
Zed C. Gibson, Jr
Koshkonong
Peter M. Hisky Jr
Pocatello
Idaho
E. G. Smith Jr
Macon
Thomas E. Andres
Estes Park
Colo
Frederick J. Buresech, Jr
Baltimore
Connally Air Force Base
Conally Public Information Office
Texas Highway Patrol
G. D. Russell
Hearne
Air
Cool Weather Forecast For Northeast Louisiana
The forecast calls for cool weather with no rain in northeast Louisiana on Thursday. Clouds, easterly winds around 10 mph shifting to northerly by night, and a low around 44 with a high near 51 were recorded on Thursday. Overnight lows are expected from the low 40s in the north to the high 40s and low 50s in the south. A rainfall total of 64 inches occurred in the city from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6:30 a.m. Thursday.
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Louisiana
Marty Wins Best Picture and Oscars in Hollywood
Hollywood notes that Marty won the best picture Oscar along with Best Actor Ernest Borgnine and Best Supporting Actress Jo Van Fleet. Anna Magnani claimed Best Actress for The Rose Tattoo, with Paddy Chayefsky winning Best Screenplay and Delbert Mann Best Director.
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Ernest Borgnine
Oscar
Anna Magnani
Rome
Colosseum
Jack Lemmon
Esa
Pulver
Mister Roberts
Jo van Fleet
James Dean
Delbert Mann
Marty
Harold Hecht
Burt Lancaster
Lancaster
Dulles Reports Moderately Optimistic Far East Trip
Secretary of State Dulles told 22 congressional leaders at the White House that his 19 day trip to 10 Asian nations produced a moderately optimistic view of Middle East and Far East conditions. President Eisenhower attended as Dulles outlined improvements amid remaining trouble spots, and Dulles was set to testify on the foreign aid bill.
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Washington
Dulles
Far East
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Marco Polo
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Middle East
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
GOP
Senate
House
Martin
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Alfred M. Gruenther
NATO
Richards
Do - SC
Soviet Secret Police Chief Lands in London on Jet Visit
Soviet secret police chief Ivan Serov arrived in London on a nonstop Moscow to London flight aboard the first Soviet jet airliner shown west of the Iron Curtain. He is to inspect security for the April 18 to 28 visit of Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev, amid Western scrutiny and strong press coverage.
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Ivan Serov
Moscow
Iron Curtain
Serov
Lavrenti. P. Beria
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Siberia
Europe
Berlin
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Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
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Kefauver
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