Khrushchev Drops Pressure as Poland Moves Toward Independence
Soviet leader Khrushchev reportedly yields to Poland's new leadership led by Gomulka, apologizes for attacks on the Polish press, and withdraws military pressure. Moscow-backed control over Poland’s leadership is dropped. tensions ease amid anti-Soviet demonstrations and calls to remove Rokossovsky.
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Warsaw
Nikita Khrushchev
Poland
Khrushchev
Moscow
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Communist Party
Russia
Gomulka
Siberia
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Bonds Sold By Ouachita Parish Board At 3.87 Percent
The Ouachita parish school board in special session sold 2.6 million dollars in bonds to a New Orleans syndicate at 3.87 percent to finance the current building program. The issue began as 5.2 million and was approved by property owners last year. The syndicate includes Hibernia National Bank Equitable Securities and White Hattier Sanford and Associates. Moody’s raised the board’s rating from B A to B A A.
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Ouachita Parish
New Orleans
Hibernia National Bank
Equitable Securities
White, Hattier
Monroe Area Weather Forecast With Mild Temperatures
Continued fair weather expected with mild nights and warm days in the Monroe area. Lows near 60 to 65 degrees tonight, highs in the mid to upper 80s Thursday, and a 98 pollen count reported Wednesday morning. Selman Field listed a low of 47 degrees last night, lowest in the state, with morning temperature at 82 degrees.
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Monroe
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Selman Field
Eisenhower Plans Six Campaign Speeches in Southern StatesNext Week
The White House announced six campaign speeches by President Eisenhower for next week across Florida Virginia Texas Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. He will make three separate trips returning to Washington each day to monitor Soviet Satellite developments.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Ike
Florida
Virginia
Texas
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Poland
Hungary
Miami
Fla
International
Jacksonville
Impson Airfield
Byrd Field
Richmond
Love Field
Dallas
Tex
Oklahoma City
Will Rogers Field
Will
Gun-Toting Woman Mayor Clashes With All-Male Council
COLLEGE SPRINGS Iowa Tuesday night pitted Mayor Mrs Roy Simpson 41 armed with a pistol against an all male City Council over pay for the town marshal Mrs Harold Byrson. The meeting ends with a postponement of the salary dispute until November 5 and the threat of a possible legal action to recover back pay.
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College Springs
Iowa
Roy Simpson
Harold Byrson
Simpson
Ike Signals U S Readiness To Aid Polish Rebels
President Eisenhower at a labor dinner framed a four point policy for supporting freedom loving peoples including Poland. He argued that self government, aid for stability, open trade partnerships, and domestic rewards for work define the path to human freedom and a strong free world. The speech hinted the United States would assist Poles seeking independence from Moscow.
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Washington
Russia
Eisenhower
Poland
Moscow
United States
Tas
53 Dhulesti Killed In African Riots
In Meknes Morocco rioting sparked by France’s Algerian rebels seizure killed at least 53 people, mostly Europeans. French and Moroccan patrols found burned bodies as Arab nationalists attacked European and native quarters. farms in surrounding areas were burned.
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Rabat
Morocco
France
Meknes
Berserk Woman Tangles with Vicksburg Police
A tall dark haired woman identified as Delois Martin fought police at a cafe, attacked Capt. E. E. Grant, and wrecked a jail cell. In city court she pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and profane language, with fines totaling 125 dollars and a 30 day sentence, then injured herself with a razor blade in jail requiring seven stitches.
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Vicksburg
James Nichols
E. E. Grant
Delois Martin
Chicago
New Orleans
Jackson
Nichols
Bank Robbery Bandits Nabbed After Highway Stop
Three men held banker and wife for four hours in Mullinville during a bank raid and escaped with about 1800 dollars. State Trooper Lloyd Mucklow pursued a car after a highway stop sign violation and captured Wade Anderson and Hen dren, both from Kansas City and Independence Missouri, with the money and two .22 rifles found in the vehicle. Wade feigned illness to delay pursuit.
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Greensburg
Kan
Miullinville
Here
Robert Lee Anderson
Willie Lee Hendren
Kansas City
Charles Willard Wade
Independence
State Highway Patrol
Robert James
Mullinville
James
Lloyd Mucklow
Mucklow
Wade
Orphan Boy Found After Night Lost in Woods
Six year old orphan boy C E Ashley, wandering from his grandparents in Winnfield, was found in Joyce community after a night in the woods. He was hospitalized with a bad cold but not believed seriously harmed. About 400 officers and volunteers searched the area, and his sister Pamla Ann, four, remains with guardians. The parents died in a November 1955 car wreck in Texas City.
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Winnfield
Winnfield General Hospital
C. E. Ashley
Joyce
A. E. Grice
Pamla Ann
Texas City
Tex
Powell Accuses Stevenson Backed by Dixiecrats at Rally
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell exposed as he denounced Adlai Stevenson as a slave to the Hastland Talmadge Long Dixiecrat bloc at an evening rally. He praised Eisenhower for civil rights support and criticized Stevenson as hypocritical. Powell entered with police escort after pickets outside the Los Angeles venue.
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Los Angeles
Adam Clayton Powell
DNY
Adlai Stevenson
Sen. Eastland
Mississippi
Gov. Talmadge
Georgia
Sen. Long
Louisiana
America
Powell
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eastland
James Hagerty
White House
Man Kills Wife and Mother-In-Law Then Takes Life in California
In Pico, California, 49 year old Ivan Smith shot and killed his wife Peggy 46 after an argument at a gas station. He then killed his mother in law Rose Trujillo 69 and wounded nephew Larry Lusar 16 before shooting himself, all within two blocks. Both spouses worked at Goodyear in Montebello.
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Pico
Calif
Ivan Smith
Peggy
Smith
Larry Lusar
Rose
Trujillo
Smiths
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Montebello
Murder Charges Filed Against Old Mississippi Negro
In Greenwood Mississippi Sheriff Charlie Lee announced murder charges against 85 year old Dan Sanders a tenant farmer after Sanders admitted shooting O W Kimble a 32 year old white farmer on Sanders porch. Kimble died at Indianola Hospital after driving 400 yards for help.
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Greenwood
Miss
Charlie Lee
Leflore
Dan Sanders
Lee
Sanders
O. W. Kimble
Isla Bena
Kimble
Indianola
Itta Bena
Hayes Smith
Smith
Chrysler Faces Shutdown of Detroit Area Assembly Plants
Chrysler Corp warned of possible shutdown of Detroit area production due to a parts shortage from a wildcat strike at the stamping plant. About 3,200 workers at the plant and roughly 42,000 hourly employees at Plymouth Dodge DeSoto Chrysler and Dodge Truck plants could be idled if parts supply ends. UAW says the walkout was unauthorized and will meet with members while strikers demand seniority for welding promotions.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Plymouth
Dodge
Desoto
United Auto Workers
UAW
Soviet forces crack down in Budapest revolt
Soviet tanks and aircraft attack rebels as hundreds killed in Budapest. Travelers report mass casualties while the Hungarian government imposes summary courts martial and vows no mercy to counter revolutionaries.
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Vienna
Austria
Budapest
Warsaw
Mediators Try To Avert Longshoremen Strike On Coast Docks
Federal mediators and talks with the New York Shipping Association and the International Longshoremen's Association aim to head off a threatened strike at Atlantic and Gulf Coast docks. ILA seeks a master contract covering all ports and a 32 cent hourly wage increase. current average pay is 2.48 dollars per hour.
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New York
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Joseph Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
New York Shipping Assn
International Longshoremen’s Assn
ILA
William Bradley
Shipping Association
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Pocatello
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