Nurse stabbed at Charity Hospital in New Orleans incident
Charity Hospital reports a mental ward nurse aged 32 is in serious condition after being stabbed by a man described as a Negro. The attack occurred on the third floor hallway as a custodian noted a similar suspect at a cigarette machine. Police connect the suspect to earlier nearby stabbings including real estate operator Harry Spiro Sr. and two others, with prints serving as clues in the cases.
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New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Gertrude Thibideaux
Harry Spiro Sr
Hom Yuen
Ten Jobs Taken From Department In City Reallocation
At a special city council meeting Wednesday the duties of two city commissioners and the mayor were re allocated. A recommendation was made to hire a consultant firm to help solve current problems. The ways and means committee urged outside help. Mayor W L Howard introduced an ordinance stripping ten jobs from the commissioner of streets and parks, leaving four functions. The ten positions were divided among the remaining offices.
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City Ways and Means Coordinating Committee
W. L. Howard
Public Service Hearing Enters 2nd Day Here
The Louisiana Public Service Commission continues hearings on telephone and trucking service plans for north Louisiana communities. Tuesday and Wednesday sessions at the Virginia Hotel heard hauling firms protest actions of competitors while Southern Bell outlined a rural Canvass in Franklin and Richland parishes to offer service at economically feasible rates. Communities included Crowville Fort Necessity Liddieville Jigger Swampers.
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Louisiana Public Service Commission
Louisiana
Virginia Hotel
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Franklin and
Richland Parish
Crowville
Fort Necessity
Liddieville
Jigger
Swampers
McKeithen
Southern Bell
W C T U State Convention Opens in Louisiana
Mrs. H F Powell of Evanston Illinois treasurer of the National W C T U and head of the United States delegation to Bremen Germany will be the principal speaker at the Louisiana State W C T U convention to be held Monday through Wednesday at the First Methodist Church in Baton Rouge The event will be presided over by Mrs Harvey A Hall of Baton Rouge Powell recently won a sixth term as treasurer at the National W C T U convention in Atlanta and is the widow of the late Rev H F Powell
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H. F. Powell
Evanston
Ill
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
United States
Bremen
Germany
Harvey A. Hall
Baton Rouge
Powell
Atlanta
Illinois
Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church
Negro Claims He Admitted Attack Out Of Fright
A 27-year-old Black man on trial for rape told the judge he confessed to the crime to avoid harm by officers. Emile Weston Jr. testified briefly as the defense questions the admissibility of statements made to sheriff's deputies. A 35-year-old white woman testified she was raped in a roadside ditch last May. deputies said no threats or coercion were used.
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Baton Rouge
Emile Weston Jr
Charles A. Holcombe
H-Bomb Debate Heats Up Campaign Amid Stevenson Push
The H-bomb issue fuels a national row as Adlai Stevenson vows to seek world agreement and ban further tests. Eisenhower prepares a government paper rebutting Stevenson while Nixon Dulles and Dewey counter. Scientists, including Columbia’s Kusch and Argonne physicists, back talks, boosting Stevenson’s appeal in key states. The White House weighs breaking campaign silence as telegrams flood campaign HQ. Stevenson plans to focus on nuclear policy during swing through Michigan Indiana Ohio and Kentucky.
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Stevenson
Seattle
Wash
Eisenhower
Adlair E. Stevenson
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
White House
Nixon
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Chicago
Libertyville
Ill
Columbia
University
New York
Polykarp Kusch
Argonne National Laboratories
Lemont
Police Search For Dangerous Arkansas Man
Police hunted overnight for William Crabtree a 30 year old Little Rock lumber company employee after his wife a 32 year old Little Rock waitress was found nude and beaten beside a highway near Little Rock. A blood splattered car with a note reading Help he will kill us please help was found abandoned. The wife said they argued and he beat her in their backyard then forced her into the car and drove away. She is in good condition with shock and scalp cuts. The note's authorship was not confirmed.
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Texarkana
Ark
Little Rock
Arkansas
Texas
William Crabtree
Little Rock Lumber Company
U.S. Highway 167
Solemn Requiem for James M. North Held at St Patrick's Cathedral
A solemn requiem mass for James M. North age 70 editor of the Fort Worth Star Telegram and vice president of Carter Publications Inc will be held at 9 30 a m tomorrow at St Patrick's Cathedral Fort Worth reflecting his role in local journalism and publishing.
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Fort Worth
James M. North
The
Continued Cool Nights Forecast in North Louisiana
Continued cool nights are forecast for north Louisiana with lows of 50 to 55 degrees through Thursday. Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy. Selman Field recorded a low of 51 degrees and a morning high of 83 before noon. Pollen count this morning was 96.
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North
Louisiana
Selman Field
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Rescue on Pacific Ditch: 31 Saved in 21 Minutes
Pan American Stratocruiser Sovereign of the Skies ditched 1,045 miles from San Francisco after engine loss. Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain plucked 31 aboard in 21 minutes beneath calm aboard, with praise for Captain Richard Ogg, Cmdr William Earle, and crew. Victors credited include Machinist Mate Ronald Christian who searched the wreckage, and Flight Engineer Frank Garcia who flooded wing tanks to curb fire risk.
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San
Richard Ogg
Ogg
Coast Guard
Cmdr
William K. Earle
Pontchartrain
San Francisco
Earle
2.C. Ronald Christian
Frank Garcia
Ruled death by own action Winnfield Youth Admits Shooting Aunt
In Winnfield Louisiana a teenager once described as a model student and active church worker admitted shooting his 65 year old great aunt May Curry of Joyce to death. The death was previously ruled death by own action. The youth, held since Monday, agreed to lie detector tests and then confessed to shooting during an argument over a misplaced school locker key. He had lived with Mrs Curry for nine years. His father is dead and his mother resides in California.
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Winnfield
R. S. Jordan
May Curry
Joyce
Jordan
Baton Rouge
Floods Leave Kissimmee Cattle Town Homeless
About 400 residents of Kissimmee, Florida, were left homeless as Atlantic storm floods caused millions in damage. Red Cross opened disaster HQ and worked overnight to divert floodwaters, with at least 15 inches of rain in 48 hours. Many areas remained underwater and telephone service was out.
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Kissimmee
Fla. UP
Florida
The
Red Cross
Weather Bureau
Central
Tarpon Springs
Georgia
Best
Federal Court Opens Fall Term in Dawkins Court
The fall term of the federal court opened Wednesday with Judge Ben Dawkins Jr holding pre trial conferences. Motion hour will be held Thursday and Friday. Court will open October 29.
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Federal Court
Ben Dawkins, Jr
Long Accepts Resignation of Wayne Huckaby
Governor Earl K. Long accepts Wayne Huckaby resignation as Monroe Louisiana commissioner of streets and parks after Huckaby announced quitting. Huckaby expects to vacate by Friday and may trigger debate on how the city fills the vacancy with Mayor Howard and Commissioner McSherry backing an election, though lawyers say a special election is not required.
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Long
Wayne Huckaby
Earl K. Long
Huckaby
W. L. Howard
H. W. McSherry
Monroe
Ammonia Leak Evacuates Pittsburgh Homes
Pittsburgh residents were ordered from their beds as nauseous ammonia fumes from a leaking 15,000 gallon Jones and Laughlin Steel tank drifted across blocks two miles from the business district. More than 100 police and firefighters evacuated the Soho area and nearby streets while workers shut valves and sprayed water to neutralize the gas. No serious injuries were reported.
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Pittsburgh
2Nd Avenue
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Soho
Jones and Laughlin
Manion to Speak for States Rights Rally in Monroe
Dean Clarence Manion former Notre Dame law professor will headline a States Rights rally in Ouachita Parish High School auditorium Monroe Thursday night at 8 00 p m He arrives in Shreveport Wednesday and travels via Alexandria to Monroe with Ed Dubisson and other speakers also on the program Manion promotes constitutional government and is known for the Mans on Forum of the Air and his book The Key to Peace He is a former Intergovernmental Relations chair who left the post over Bricker Amendment remarks.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Chicago
Wright
Imperial Hotel
Tokyo
Clarence Manion
Notre Dame University Law School
States’ Rights Party
Monroe
Robert G. Chandler
Shreveport
Chandler
Manion
Alexandria
Vaughn Phelps
Parish
Quachita Parish High School
Phelps
Ed Dubission
South Louisiana
United States
Manson
Committee On Intergovernmental Relations
Bricker
Dean Manion
Special Session Teaches Await Signal To Corral Pay Raise Votes
Governor Earl Long signaled potential for a special legislative session to consider a gas gathering tax boost to fund higher teacher salaries. Representative Sidney Sylvester said he discussed the idea, with Long emphasizing votes must be enough, while the governor dismissed plans for an immediate extra session and warned against unnecessary calls.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Earl Long
Long
Sidney Sylvester
St. Landry Parish
Sylvester
Washington High School
St. Landry
Anti-Semitism Cited In Iron Curtain Countries
Moshe Kol an Israeli immigration official warned at the Hadassah convention in Houston that anti Jewish sentiment is rising among East European youth. He cited thousands of Jewish children in peril and urged rapid Jewish settlement in Israel, noting Poland has allowed some emigration. He described a deteriorating Jewish education and bleak conditions behind the Iron Curtain.
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Houston
Israel
Moshe Kol
International Resettlement Agency
Europe
Hadassah
American Women’s Zionist Organization
Kol
Poland
City officials alter post names see reform at city level
Mayor Howard and Commissioner H. W. McSherry approved an emergency ordinance effective immediately. Wayne Huckaby resigned as commissioner of streets and parks after notification from Governor Earl K. Long. The office is renamed to commissioner of streets, following subcommittee recommendations from the city ways and means panel. Huckaby claimed no prior knowledge of the duty change. The ordinance notes the creation of the utilities commission.
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Howard
H. W. McSherry
McSherry
Wayne Huckaby
Earl K. Long
Huckaby
City Ways and Means Committee
Utilities Commis
Carolina Couple Plead Guilty To Bad Check Counts
A North Carolina couple, Wesley Woodell and Gloris Woodell, pleaded guilty to two counts of passing worthless checks totaling over $100,000. FBI and Shreveport detectives arrested them Sept. 21, with the U.S. attorney urging a $100,000 figure for sentencing. sentencing delayed for probation review.
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La.p
North Carolina
U.S
T. Fitzhugh Wilson
Middle District of
Wesley Allen Woodell
High Point
N.C
Gloris
Boomer
Woodells
Wilson
Ben C. Dawkins Jr
Dawkins
FBI
M. P. Chiles
New Orleans
Chiles
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