Judges Rule Procedures Illegal in Civil Rights Case
A three judge federal court in Shreveport ruled the U.S. Civil Rights Commission cannot compel Louisiana voter registrars to testify without being told of charges. The court upheld the commission's constitutionality. Judge Edwin F. Hunter authored the opinion.
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Civil Rights Commission
U.S
Edwin F. Hunter
Commission
Jack Gremillion
Baton Rouge
U.S. District Court
Shreveport
Gremillion
Hunter
Five year old girl kidnapped and found abused in city
Police hold a 42 year old Black man for questioning after a five year old girl was reported missing from Grammont street Sunday morning. The child was found bruised at the city dump and treated at Charity Hospital. Details show the man near the dump with a clothing item identified by the mother as hers, though later discarded. No charges filed as investigators pursue answers.
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Monroe
James C. Kelly, Jr
Kelly
Grammont Street
Charity Hospital
Brooklyn mobster shot in drive-by attack on quiet street
A 31 year old Brooklyn gunman nicknamed Bang Bang was ambushed by triggermen from a moving car at about 2 15 am. As the red sedan opened fire seven to ten bullets struck Anthony Brandofino including chest back and limbs. He fled into a nearby apartment seeking aid as police noted a likely gangland assassination attempt.
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New York
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Brooklyn
Westchester County
Little Augie Pisano
Janie Drake
Fact-Finding Board Ends Dock Inquiry
Washington AP President Eisenhower’s emergency fact finding board completed a fast public hearing on the East and Gulf coast stevedores strike and urged immediate bargaining. Chairman Guy Farmers said a report would be filed tomorrow, which could trigger Taft Hartley procedures for a 80 day cooling off and court order. The hour and forty five minute hearing ended as Farmers warned both sides that the act will not itself solve the dispute.
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Eisenhower
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Gulf Coast
Guy Farmers
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International Longshoremen’s Assn
Famed Tenor Mario Lanza Dies In Rome
American tenor Mario Lanza died in a Rome hospital after a week of illness and a reported heart attack. He was 38 and rose to fame from The Great Caruso, later pursuing a European film career amid varied U.S. show business fame and debt.
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United States
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Phonograph
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Khrushchev Faces Strain Over China Split Aims
Secretary of State Christian Herter said Khrushchev’s Peiping visit shows no easing of East West tensions with China. He noted a possible split in Soviet and Chinese foreign policy lines as Mao Tse-tung condemned the United States while Khrushchev spoke of peaceful solutions. Khrushchev’s trip followed Camp David talks with President Eisenhower.
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Nikita Khrushchev
China
Christian A. Herter
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Peiping
Camp David
Mao Tse-tung
United States
Herter
Eisenhower
U S Welcomes Soviet Space Conference Plan
UNITED NATIONS N Y The United States welcomed a Soviet proposal for an international scientific conference on outer space under UN auspices. U S Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge said the plan signals possible future UN space cooperation but stressed backing for a special UN committee to study space exploration.
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Foreign Office
London
Ouachita Valley Council Leaders Set Meeting at Scout HQ
Central district leaders of the Ouachita Valley Council will meet Tuesday night at the Boy Scout headquarters here 1029 North 6th, announced district executive Travis W. Chevallier.
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Travis W. Chevallier
Tulane Law selects Joe Guerriero as first year president
Joe D Guerriero son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Guerriero of 307 Glenmar Avenue Monroe has been elected president of the first year class at Tulane University Law School He will assume duties immediately according to Dean Ray Forrester Neville High graduate continues page 6-A
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Joseph 5. Guerriero
Glenmar Avenue
Monroe
Tulane University Law School
Ray Forrester
Neville High
Steel Settlement Hopes Take Dip Amid Taft-Hartley Talk
Pittsburgh AP United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald said wage talks look hopeless and the next move may be for President Eisenhower to invoke Taft-Hartley to end the strike for 80 days. He vowed to resist any court injunction and urged a public fact finding board to mediate without proposing settlements. He noted no near term settlement prospects.
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David J. McDonald
McDonald
Eisenhower
Taft- Hartley
White House
Taft-Hartley
Taft-Hartley A Board of Inquiry
Lanza's Career Full Of Battles In Hollywood
Mario Lanza rose from Philadelphia poverty to superstardom with a golden tenor and hit films then faced setbacks including a MGM dispute over The Student Prince and a Las Vegas engagement cancellation. Controversies in 1954 and later claimed laryngitis while continuing to perform live, defining a career marked by comebacks and headlines.
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Mario Lanza
Philadelphia
MGM
Prince
Las Vegas
Mario
Soviets Mum About Moon Orbit Findings
Moscow report on Lunik III notes the Soviet satellite continued its planned orbit after rounding the moon but gives no details on what was observed on the far side. The AP dispatch quotes no official comment from Soviet sources yet.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Flying Laboratory
Russia's Lunik Near Moon for Return Turn
Tass reported that Lunik traveled 78 750 miles beyond the moon and will continue for about three more days before beginning its return to Earth. The space probe's far side of lunar flight was noted as it extends its trajectory beyond the Moon.
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Earth
Tass
Soviet Moon Mission Reaches Point 7000 km From Moon
Soviet space effort reports the craft reached 7000 kilometers from the Moon at 9 16 a m Eastern Standard Time today as data transmission from Lunik continues. The plan calls for another data window from 9 to 10 a m EST and notes no sighting of the Moon by man today. Continued on page 6A.
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Lunik
Rhode Island Man Stabbed To Death
John J. Egan a 53 year old laundry owner and real estate operator was stabbed to death in the yard of his Newport home before dawn A man was taken in for questioning Police said Egan a former Rhode Island motor vehicle inspector and active in Democratic party affairs had a neighbor report Help help and observe a car speeding away with no lights His wife was in Sarasota Florida and he was a former Jamestown Ferry Commission member and brother of the late Dave Egan Boston Daily Record sports writer
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R.I
John J. Egan
Egan
Rhode Island
Sarasota Fla
Jamestown Ferry Commission
Dave Egan
Boston Daily Record
Ex Bookmaker Sentenced in Los Angeles for Manslaughter
Former New York bookmaker Harry Gross received one to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal gunshot of his wife's grandfather Harry Black, 84, during a dispute over a $2,000 loan. He claimed the gun fired accidentally. Grand theft charges stemming from a $27,000 alleged scam were postponed, with a prior trial ending in a hung jury.
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Los Angeles
New York
Harry Gross
Gross
Harry Black
Tropical Storm Irene Nears Gulf Coast Entry
A UPI report from New Orleans notes a tropical low near the Gulf of Mexico showing winds up to 40 mph, edging toward a tropical storm named Irene. Forecasts warn it could dissipate before reaching storm status, with warnings for small craft across the region and continued monitoring for potential landfall.
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Punta Gorda
Fla
Northeast Gulf
Rene
Auto Slides Off Highway Killing Four Near Chinook Pass
In a snowstorm an automobile slid from a mountain highway and tumbled 600 feet down a rocky slope near Chinook Pass in Mt. Rainier National Park. Four occupants died including Mrs. Udell Brown and her children Leon 12 Valerie 9. Mrs Brown survived head injuries and flagged down help.
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Yakima
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Chinook Pass
Mt. Rainier National Park
Robert W Ditty
Warden
Leon
Valerie
Venita A. Brown
Udell Brown
Moses Lake
Brown
Publicity Man Says Quiz Show Was Rigged
Alfred Davis a public relations consultant for Twenty-One testified the show was rigged and that an attorney advised his firm not to tell New York authorities the truth. He named Edwin Slate of New York and said Barry and Enright Inc. deceived NBC about the scandal surrounding the program's rigging.
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Washington
Alfred Davis
New York
Davis
Edwin Slate
Barry and Enright Inc
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
House Legislative Oversight
Iraqi Premier Kassem Shot in Shoulder. Curfew Imposed
Baghdad Radio reported Premier Abdel Karim Kassem was slightly wounded by a shoulder wound on Wednesday. Gen. Ahmed Saleh el Abdi, Iraqs military governor, immediately imposed a curfew on Baghdad and its suburbs.
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Cairo
Veypt
Abdel Karim Kassem
Iraq
Baghdad
Ahmed Saleh el Abdi
Mild and fair weather forecast for northeast Louisiana
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and mild conditions in northeast Louisiana this afternoon and tomorrow. Selman Field reported 84 yesterday with a low of 61 last night. Pollen counts dropped to 179 grains per cubic yard. Tonight’s low 58 to 62, tomorrow’s highs 80 to 84.
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Gulf Coast
Louisiana
Federal Aviation
Selman Field
Affectionately F D R A Son's Story of a Lonely Man
Franklin D Roosevelt called his 1944 race with Thomas E Dewey the dirtiest campaign in history He wrote to his eldest son Rep James Roosevelt that Deweys oily thrusts got his clutch up and father began swinging The son and coauthor Sidney Shalett present a warm portrait in a new biography titled Affectionately F D R A Son's Story of a Lonely Man The piece notes the 1944 Democratic convention speech and Roosevelt's defiant stance
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Rep
James Roosevelt
Calif
Roosevelt
Dewey
Sidney Shalett
Chicago
Court Of Claims Rules Indians Due Compensation
The U S Court of Claims ruled that about 7000 Tlingit and Haida Indians in Alaska are entitled to compensation for more than 20 million acres lost to white settlers. The unanimous decision could involve millions, with the amount to be set by a court commissioner within a year or two. No precedent in Alaska exists, while similar U S cases elsewhere yield $0.40 to $2.50 per acre.
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Washington
U. S. Court of Claims
Alaska
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