Panama Presidency Claimed By 2 Men Riots Kill Child In Coup
Two men claimed the presidency of Panama after a night of rioting that left a child dead and 11 wounded. Dr Daniel Chanis Jr re signed under police pressure, then withdrew his resignation amid a palace confrontation. Roberto Chiari, sworn in after Chanis bowed to an ultimatum, held the office as police used machine guns and tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Daniel Chanis, Jr
Roberto Chiari
Chanis
National Assembly
Critics Attack Hand Ruling on Communism Beliefs
Washington argues Judge Learned Hand erred in treating being a Communist as the same as merely sympathizing with the Communist party. The column accuses the Second Circuit opinion of liberal bias and asserts belief in communism should be protected, while condemning the party as a political enemy.
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Washington
Hester McCullough
Greenwich
Conn
Draper-Adler
United States Circuit Court of Appeals For
Second Circuit
Learned Hand
Communist Party
Hand
Eleanor Roosevelt
Truman
United States
Supervision of Buses Ordered to Improve School Safety
Shelby M. Jackson, superintendent of education, pledged closer supervision of area school buses after Judge W. M. Harper warned that buses lack adequate safety devices. Harper cited red warning flags and flimsy construction following a fatal bus accident and noted state efforts, including workshops, to ensure compliance with highway acts.
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Shelby M. Jackson
W. M. Harper
Harper
Jackson
Department of Public Safety
Baton Rouge Ends Election Plans
Baton Rouge plans for January 17 election on city parish government changes were canceled by Judge G Caldwell Herget who issued a permanent injunction. The move follows a taxpayers' suit challenging the proposed switch from a nine member council to three commissioners and the abolition of the city as a separate entity. Parish Assessor Jesse Webb supported the amendments. appeal prospects were not stated.
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Baton Rouge
G. Caldwell Herget
City of
Jesse Webb
Herget
Stroble Seeks to Live in Murder Case
Fred Stroble, 66, charged with the brutal killing of six year old Linda Joyce Glacoft in Los Angeles, told reporters in jail he will try to live and may plead insanity. He described head buzzing, recent heavy drinking, and claimed mental instability. A public defender noted a prior street car injury could shape his defense as Stroble considered private counsel. He asked his son-in-law and daughter visit, and spoke of past frustrations, losses, and infidelity. Arraignment set for Friday before Superior Judge Robert H. Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Fred Stroble
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Baker
Stroble
Reuben Hausman
Hausman
Linda
Little Baker
Tiajuana
Robert H. Scott
Chambers Tells of Getting Papers in Hiss Trial
New York Navy report cites ex spy courier Chambers saying monthly in prewar Washington he received a briefcase of secret State Department papers from Julian Wadleigh. He testified he then turned the documents over to photographer David Carpenter for microfilming, denying pre-read access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Navy
Whittaker Chambers
Washington
State Department
Julian Wadleigh
Wadleigh
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chambers
David Carpenter
Longshore Leader Bridges Trial Draws Six Month Term
In San Francisco Attorney Vincent Hallinan received a six month sentence for criminal contempt of court amid a heated perjury trial involving Harry Bridges. The judge ordered Hallinan taken into custody but granted a stay to allow continued representation of Bridges until trial end. Bridges faces possible deportation if convicted on charges of falsely swearing he was not a Communist at a 1945 naturalization hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
George B. Harris
Vincent Hallinan
Hallinan
Bridges
C. I. O. Longshore Union
J. R. Robertson
Henry Schmidt
Move Spurned by Eisenhower
Washington reports split on Eisenhower's presidential bid as he reiterates focus on Columbia University. Views range from possible GOP draft in 1952 to Democratic currents led by Byrnes critiquing the Truman fair deal and hinting at a South Carolina governorship bid.
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Washington
Dwight D._ Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Cincinnati
Columbia University
James F. Byrnes
Truman
Supreme Court
Byrnes
South Carolina
Escaped Louisiana convict captured near Hazlehurst
William C Weeks, escapee from Angola penitentiary, was captured near his father’s home in Hazlehurst Mississippi by Patrolman John Allred after a 300 yard chase through woods. Weeks was held in Copiah county jail. He fled Angola last Saturday by crawling through a cane field in heavy fog.
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Hazlehurst
Miss
Louisiana
Highway Patrol
D. F. Barret
Barret
William C. Weeks
Angola
John Allred
Weeks
Allred
Copiah
Fayette
Barretsiad
Thanksgiving union services fill Monroe with worship
Monroe observes Thanksgiving with multiple union services at Temple B Nai Israel Grace Episcopal and Memorial Methodist Church. Rev W H Giles and Rev C S Cadwallader Jr deliver sermons at 10 am. Donations aid Louisiana Baptist Children's Home and Louisiana Methodist Orphanage. Also Holy Eucharist at Grace 930 am and a Christ Science service at 11 am. Monsignor J C Marsh marks a Silver Jubilee with 11 am mass. Banks post offices and courts close. Northeast Junior College game in Brownfield with free admission for students.
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Monroe
Temple B’nai Israel
W. H. Giles
College Area
Memorial Methodist Church
C. S. Cadwallader, Jr
College Place Baptist Church
Louisiana Baptist Children's Home
Louisiana Methodist
Ruston
Grace Episcopal Church
David A. Jones
D. D
Christ Science Church
Auburn Avenue
J. C. Marsh
St. Matthew's Church
Temple B'Nai Israel
Brownfield
Northeast Junior College
Northwest Mississippi Junior College
Rodney Cline
Ouachita Parish
Officers elected at Louisiana Education Association meet
Alexandria report names officers for visiting teachers and departments. Visiting teachers Gertrude Harkrider and Walter Richardson named. other groups list presidents and secretaries including Alma S. Dick and Fletcher Rodgers. Long advocates federal education aid with local control. estimates $300 million yearly, potential Louisiana share $10 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Harkrider
Shreveport
Walter Richardson
Winnsboro
Marie Louise Allen
Opelousas
Alma S. Dick
Cotton Valley
J. C. Davis
Alexandria
Kirthley J. Miles
Minden
Fletcher Rodgers
Baton Rouge
Leonard Kilgore
D. C. Collins
Jonesboro
Southeastern Louisiana College
Hammond
Marion Vallee
Noah Langhnais
Maurice
Charle C. Moss
Chatham
L. L. Waite
W. J. Robinson
Natchitoches
Harold J. Landreau
Lafayette
Louisiana Association of School Libraries
Monroe
United States
Russell B. Long
Louisiana School Superintendents Association
Long
Louisiana
Senate
Oil Drilling Near Henderson's Dead City Planned
Oil drillers barge equipment across the Mississippi eighteen miles north of Tallulah to drill a first of its kind well on the bed of the old river near Henderson. Petersen Drilling will operate Learned No 1 with Cerniglia and Nichols guiding the project. Lease holders include Magnolia Petroleum and Stanolind among others. Hemperley said the well should be sent late Wednesday.
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Percy Fant
News-Star
Tallulah
Mississippi River
Here
Dead City
Henderson
Petersen Company
Shreveport
Morning World
Mississippi
John J. Cerniglia
Delhi
E. T. Nichols
Monroe
Russia renews peace push amid cold war tensions
Associated Press reports Moscow renews a peace offensive asserting capitalism and communism can coexist. Izvestia highlights past statements by Stalin and Lenin as proof of collaboration, while Western diplomats view the effort with wariness. Moscow pins hopes on UN backing for a big power peace pact, urging cooperation despite US objections.
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William L. Ryan
Associated Press
Russia
Moscow
United States
Izvestia
Kremlin
Stalin
United Nations
Andrei Xa Vishinsky
Cap
Stricken Panamanian freighter Eagle adrift off Washington coast
The freighter Eagle, sailing under a Panamanian registry, drifted helpless after a fire near Cape Flattery. Army transport General Freeman assisted as a coast guard cutter Winona prepared to arrive. power and radio out, lanterns lit the ship, no word on casualties or voyage details. Two similar Panamanian freighters burned or wrecked nearby in the past month with no fatalities.
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Seattle
Wash
Eagle
Washington
H. B. Freeman
Coastguard
Winona
Port Angeles
Cape Flattery
Washington State
Freeman
Coast Guard
Salina Cruz
Vancouver
B. C
Orient
Andalucia
Neah Bay
Young Women Held in Theft of Auto
North Little Rock Ark Nov 23 Two young women identified as Mickey Jean Thornton 17 Shreveport La and Mrs Greta Case 23 Marshalltown La were arrested after trying to sell a stolen late model Buick sedan The car was stolen in Shreveport Saturday night Two other stolen cars were recovered here and in Shreveport An associate Vernon Paul Case was arrested at Shreveport by the FBI The women will be turned over to federal authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Little Rock
Ark
Jack Pyle
Pyle
Mickey Jean Thornton
Shreveport
Greta Case
Marshalltown
Vernon Paul Case
F.B.I
Consul General Ward Ordered Out of Mukden by Communists
American consul general Angus Ward at Mukden, held since October, was released and ordered out of the country by Chinese Communists. Four consulate aides also freed and deported after a people’s court convicted them for alleged beatings in a wage dispute. Ward relayed the news by phone to Washington as his staff faced expulsion.
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Washington
Angus Ward
Mukden
Ward
State Department
Department
People's Court
O. Edmund Clubb
Peiping
Clubb
Ralph Rehberg
Rochester
N. Y
Foreign Service
Shiro Tatsumi
Franco Cicogna
Alfred Kristan
Rehberg
Tatsumi
Edward J Rehberg
Lone survivor in Tunis plane crash waking in Norway
A 12 year old Jewish refugee boy named Isaac Allal woke from a good night's sleep after surviving a plane crash that killed 34 people near Oslo. He was the sole survivor among 28 North African children and four crew. Rescuers freed him after 42 hours pinned by debris. He spoke halting French saying I am all right and that his arm hurts. The crash occurred Sunday night as the Dutch chartered plane neared a rest camp from Tunis.
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Oslo
Norway
Isaac Allal
Isaac
Tunis
North Africa
Thorolf Hagen
Hilding Martinsen
Hagen
Martinsen
Arkansas man James Henry sentenced for auto theft and burglary
James Henry, 25, of Little Rock Arkansas, received a one year term in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty in district court to auto theft. He will be moved to Tallulah for burglary sentencing before starting his Angola term. Henry admitted stealing a car in Monroe and burglarizing the Western Union office in Tallulah on November 11. Sheriff Bailey Grant said Henry would be transferred to Tallulah to be sentenced in sixth district court.
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David I. Garrett
State
James Henry
Arkansas
Henry
Little Rock
Ark
Tallulah
Angola
Monroe
Western Union
Madison Parish
Ouachita Parish
Bailey Grant
Sixth District
Senator Ellender Tours Indo China Visit to Saigon
Senator A J Ellender of Louisiana leading a Senate appropriations subcommittee tour of the Orient said disputes between India and Pakistan have created a tense atmosphere for business in the region. He and Senators Ferguson Jenner and Green arrived in Saigon for a one day stopover before continuing to Batavia aboard a Navy Sky Master.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Indo-China
A. J. Ellender
D-La
Senate
Orient
India
Pakistan
Ellender
Homer Ferguson
R-Mich
William Jenner
Rind
Theodore F. Green
D-R. 1
Batavia
Bangkok
Navy
U S Cool Toward Proposed World Food Bank
Washington reports the United States remains cool to a world food bank plan at the FAO conference. Director General Morris E Dodd proposed a 1.0 billion capitalization, opposed by U S delegates who fear shouldering most of the fund. U S officials say the aim is to ease hunger by moving surpluses to shortage areas, with prices in dollars or hard currencies.
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Washington
United States
World Food Bank
U. S
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Morris E. Dodd
Canada
Congress
Truman
Freezing Weather Across Wide Section Reported
Associated Press notes a broad cold spell across the eastern half of the nation reaching Florida. Temperatures dipped to 8 above in Pemina North Dakota and 32 in Tallahassee Florida with Miami at 54. Snow flurries appeared in the northern Great Lakes and North Dakota while most regions stayed generally fair and near normal to the Rockies westward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Florida
Gulf States
Atlanticenboard
Midwest
North Dakota
Minnesota
Canada
Pembina
N. D
Anniston
Ala
Cross City
Fla
Tallahassee
Miami
Great Lakes
North Pacific
Rocky Mountain States
Rockies
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Dr. Chanis
Westbrook
Pegler
General
Barkleys
Honeymoon Beach
Alben Barkley
Senator Long
U.S
Louisiana Education Association
Jack Petersen
Bart Tully
Memphis
Petersen Drilling Company
Cerniglia
A. B
West
Lone Survivor
U. 5
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