Ike Signals Ready To Sign Tax Cut Bill
President Eisenhower said he will sign the 999 million dollar excise tax cut into law, with cuts taking effect tomorrow and expected to stimulate the economy. House 395 1, Senate 72 8 approve. Major manufacturers promise price reductions. some theater owners could face bankruptcy from TV competition.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Senate
James C. Hagerty
White House
Preliminaries Begin in U.S. Court for Spring Session
The spring term of the U S District Court opens with initial motions and pre trial conferences set through Friday. Trials begin Monday with civil suits, while criminal cases are expected to start April 12. A grand jury session is anticipated later this term. Key cases include a narcotics charge against Dr J T French and relatives of six killed in a 1952 car train crash seeking 440000 from Missouri Pacific.
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U. S. District Court
Allen Curtis
U. S. District Clerk of Court
Curtis
J. T. French
Ouachita Parish
Homer French
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Where To Find It PREVENT FOREST FIRES KEEP LOUISIANA GREEN
Public safety notice urges Louisiana residents to locate local resources for fire prevention and environmental care. It emphasizes community action, responsible landscaping, and reporting unattended fires to authorities.
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Louisiana
Overflow Crowds At W M U Meetings In Monroe
The fourth session of the Louisiana Baptist Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting opens at 1 30 p m at Monroe First Baptist Church with capacity crowds. Miss Hannah Reynolds reports gifts to foreign missions in 1953 exceed 160000, up 100000 in five years. state and home offerings exceed 125000. Mrs Gaventa, medical missionary to Eku Nigeria, speaks at 3 30 p m. A banquet at Frances Hotel at 5 30 p m precedes the fifth session at 7 30 p m with Miss Mary Etheridge, home missionary to Chinese in El Paso, Texas, as speaker. Movie premiere from Madison Parish is shown tonight.
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W.M.U
Mary Etheridge
Baptist Home
el Paso
Texas
Louisiana
WMU
First Baptist Church
Hannah Reynolds
F. D. Mabry
Mary Northington
Tennessee
Louisiana Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Monroe First Baptist Church
Louisiana Wmu
Miss Reynolds
W. C. Gaventa
Eku
Nigeria
Frances Hotel
Tex
Madison
Jail Break Foiled By Watchman
Two city jail inmates Willie Knox and Morris Dillion attempted to escape Tuesday night after sawing bars in a city hall jail cell. The nightwatchman heard the activity and alerted police who found a sawed bar and two tied bed blankets. Knox admitted the escape plan. Dillion faced charges for drunkenness and theft.
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City Hall
Willie Knox
City Jail
Morris Dillion
Calhoun
Knox
Dillion
Cox urges unity as lesson of League failure on his 84th birthday
James M. Cox, 84, former Ohio governor and 1920 Democratic presidential candidate, says the defeat of the League of Nations helped trigger two wars. He criticizes today’s world crisis while praising President Eisenhower and urging national unity and faith in leadership. The interview notes Cox’s health and long career, with a continuation on the next page.
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Miami Beach
Fla
James M. Cox
America
Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cox
Congress
League of Nations
Winston Churchill
Britain
Funeral Rites Held For Rex Ivo Brown
Funeral services were held for Rex Ivo Brown 55 a wheelchair confined resident of West Monroe who shot himself with a .16 gauge shotgun Tuesday afternoon. The Rev Henry J Mott and Rev James Thorn officiated at Trinity Baptist Church with burial in Hasley Cemetery under Darby Funeral Home of Ruston direction. Brown had warned his wife weeks earlier of his intention to end his life and reportedly wheeled to a bedroom before a gunshot ended his life.
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Rex Ivo Brown
West Monroe
Trinity Baptist Church
Henry J. Mott
James Thorn
Hasley Cemetery
Darby Funeral Home
Ruston
New Excise Tax Law Reduces Charges for Telephone Users
The new federal excise tax bill cuts rates to ten percent on telephone service for bills dated after April 1. Southern Bell's N. E. Franovich says the lower rate lowers taxes by about 60 percent on local service and small long distance calls. Savings for a typical home drop from 1.33 to 0.75 monthly. a $100 monthly long distance bill saves about $18 per year.
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Twin City
N. E. Franovich
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Congress
Franovich
Southern Bell
Eisenhower backs Dulles Asia crisis call for united action
The president at a news conference endorsed Secretary Dulles' warning that Communist influence in southeast Asia poses a grave threat. He urged united regional action and said the goal is to strengthen local partners so they can handle threats, not rely on American ground troops worldwide.
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Washington
Eisenhower
India-China
Southeast Asia
Dulles
Free World
Secretary of State
United
America
U. S
Special Squad to Crack Down on Narcotics Users
New Orleans police announce a special squad to target teenage narcotics users with drastic charges and full publicity. Police say raids led to 40 juveniles and five adults, with adults charged for furnishing drugs to teenagers.
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New Orleans
Joseph Schevering
Scheuering
Wet Windy Wintry Afternoon Placed In Sight
The forecast for the Twin Cities calls for a wet windy and wintry afternoon with rain and possible thunderstorms. Temperature around 45 degrees, winds 12 to 20 mph, with a drop from midnight into the morning and scattered showers.
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Twin Cities
French Defenders Hold Dien Bien Phu Against Vietminh Attacks
French forces at Dien Bien Phu repelled six Vietminh assaults on the fortress as the defenders, aided by air strikes and heavy artillery, maintained positions around the hill rimmed valley. The defense combines French, North African, Foreign Legion, Vietnamese and pro French Thai allied troops.
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Hanoi
Indo-China
Dien Bien Phu
Memphis Juvenile Judge Kelley Struggles On Critical List
Judge Camille Kelley of Memphis a famed juvenile court jurist who helped push a 1937 child marriage ban fell ill Tuesday afternoon after a TV appearance and is on the critical list with a brain hemorrhage. Her talks in Monroe and at the Louisiana Training Institute were cancelled.
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Camille Kelley
Memphis
Kiwanis Club
Louisiana Training Institute
Kelley
Tennessee
Memphis Juvenile Court
Hal Godwin Dies at 79 in Monroe Funeral Set
Charles Henry Haiti Godwin 79 longtime Monroe businessman died at 1 a.m. in St. Joseph Home. Funeral at Hixson Bros. Thursday 2 p.m. Dr H L Johns to officiate. Interment Riverview Burial Park with Masonic rites. Survivors include daughters Mrs J E Bryan Baton Rouge and Mrs Carl Hupman Hamburg Ark plus sons John Fred and Pete Godwin.
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Charles Henry Haiti Godwin
Monroe
St. Joseph
Hixson Bros
H. L. Johns
First Methodist Church
Riverview Burial Park
J. E. Bryan
Baton Rouge
Carl Hupman
Hamburg
Ark
John Godwin
Bastrop
Fred Godwin
Fowler
Pete Godwin
Misunderstanding Denied By Otwell Resigns From Ouachita Parish Sheriff
Emmett D. Otwell, former deputy sheriff, denies any department dissension as cause of his resignation. He states he resigned to accept another position and had no misunderstandings with Sheriff Grant or any staff.
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Ouachita Parish
Emmett D. Otwell
Grant
Otwell
Bailey Grant
Sheriff's Department
Efforts To Re Open Murder Case Talked
In PORT ALLEN Louisiana Granville Yaun an inmate of East Louisiana State Hospital will face a lunacy commission on April 21 to consider reopening the nine year old murder case of 16 year old Gladys Gallows Billingsly authorities say Yaun now may tell right from wrong but remains potentially dangerous and anti social District Attorney Ford Claiborne vows to fight to keep him confined and notes the case initially tied to a Camp Claiborne soldier before witnesses placed Yaun with the victim the night of the crime
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Port Allen
Granville Yaun
East Louisiana State Hospital
Jackson
Yaun
Baton Rouge
Gladys Galloway Billingsly
Mississippi River
Ford Claiborne
Claiborne
Billingsly
East Baton Rouge Parish
Strauss Reports H Bomb Power and Testing Progress
AEC chairman Lewis L. Strauss told Eisenhower’s news conference that a hydrogen bomb large enough to wipe out a city can be made. He said March 1 and March 26 tests were successful, doubling expected power, with no loss of control, and noted winds spread particles near a Japanese fishing trawler.
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Washington
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Strauss
Eisenhower
Far Pacific
AEC
Warren Retires As Watchdog Of U S Spending At 64
Warren, 64, comptroller general of the United States, retires from a 15 year term as the federal spending watchdog. He leaves due to physical disability and will receive a lifetime $17,500 salary. Under his tenure the GAO recovered about 915 million dollars of improper payments for taxpayers. Leadership hopes focus on Rep. W Sterling Cole as a possible successor amid GOP pressure.
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Washington
P—Lindsay C) Warren
United States
Congress
Eisenhower
General Accounting Office
GAO
W. Sterling Cole
Rep
Kilburn
R-Ny
House
Cole
Warren
North Carolina
Roosevelt
Truman
Senate approves $1 billion excise tax cut with party vote
Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long of Louisiana supported the $1 billion cut in excise taxes approved by a 72 to 8 Senate vote and sent to the White House.
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Washington
Allen J. Ellender
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
Senate
White House
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