Tax Free Groups Being Probed By Revenue Agents
The Internal Revenue Service is examining at least the more controversial cases among more than 32 000 organizations listed as tax free. Tax officials consider yardsticks for political interest when granting tax exempt status and whether to review past exemptions. The Justice Department has asked Treasury to seek congressional authority before opening documents filed by tax exempt groups to public inspection.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Revenue Service
Treasury
Justice Department
The
Congress
Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Icelandic Author
Stockholm 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Halldor Kiljan Laxness of Iceland. The 53 year old author receives 336 720 kronor and the academy plaque for novels of Icelandic life and landscape. Laxness, an ex monk and self described socialist, has opposed NATO and drawn both communist and anti American commentary. Runners up were French poet and others.
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Stockholm
Halldor Kiljan Laxness
Iceland
Swedish Academy
Laxness
Halldor Gund- Johnsson
United States
Ernest Hemingway
Russia
Man Wanted In Connection With Murder Arrested
Shreveport police arrested Francis E. Burns 21 of Topeka Kan in a cafe, on a murder investigation linked to a Topeka case. Det Chief Wayne Bateman said Burns signed a waiver of extradition and was held for Topeka authorities arrival.
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Shreveport
Topeka
Kan
Wayne Bateman
Francis E. Burns
Bateman
Burns
Kansas
Black man held after Winnsboro rape report
In Winnsboro on Wednesday night a 20 year old Black man, Claude Perry of Arcadia, confessed to raping a white woman in a farm home. Perry was detained without bond, identified by the victim and her eight year old son, and later arrested at a Black neighbor’s home. The woman received medical treatment but was not seriously injured.
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Winnsboro
Here
Franklin Parish
Claude Perry
Arcadia
J. D. Busby
Perry
Cotton Division Manager to Visit Passman on Grading Dispute
Area cotton farmers protest Winnsboro grading prompting Congressman Otto Passman to request reclassification of at least 500 bales. Cotton division manager Clyde McWhorter will meet Passman in Monroe to discuss the classing procedure and possible technician involvement from Washington.
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Otto Passman
Winnsboro
Monroe
Washington
Memphis
Tenn
Passman
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Clyde C. McWhorter
South Central Area Headquarters
Weather warmer in Monroe area
Temperatures in the Monroe area rose with the Twin Cities seeing a 43 degree low on Thursday and a 77 degree high. The day followed a 33 degree low and a higher all day temperature on Wednesday, with scattered clouds and south winds 10 to 15 mph. Pollen count Thursday reached 56.
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Twin Cities
CAA
Veronica Lake Collapses After Play in Detroit
DETROIT The actress Veronica Lake collapsed in the lobby of a downtown hotel and was rushed to hospital. A cardiogram did not confirm a heart attack and doctors described her condition as good hours later while tests continued at Henry Ford Hospital. She had been performing in The Little Hut at the Shubert Theater.
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Detroit
Veronica Lake
Receiving Hospital
Norman Goldston
Henry Ford Hospital
Miss Lake
Shubert Theater
Result Could Ena Reign As Geneva Opens
Paris AP Edgar Faure faces a potential third and riskier vote of confidence as the Big Four foreign ministers open in Geneva. He demands a confidence vote after two procedural defeats, threatening his government and Foreign Minister Antione Pinay at the start of the talks.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
National Assembly
Antione Pinay
Geneva
Faure
Federal Docket For Fall Session Announced Here
U S District Court in Monroe will hold a light criminal docket next week with two criminal trials. Joe E Seale and Walter A Moses face charges over hunting ducks in a restricted area. Marcus E McBride and Eugene W Gates are charged with removing government records. Civil cases begin the following week with one case per day through November 22.
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U. S. District Court
Monroe
U. S
T. Fitzhugh Wilson
Wilson
Joe E. Seale
Walter A. Moses
Marcus E. McBride
Eugene W. Gates
Lake Providence
Seale
Moses
McBride
Gates
Slaying of Three Boys Triggers Northwest Side Search
Reports of screams on October 16 led Chicago police to search two sparsely settled Northwest Side areas for clues to the brutal killing of three young boys.
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Chicago
Federal Court Jury Deliberates Murder Charge in Haynes Case
A federal court jury weighs first degree murder against Katherine Ann Haynes 28 mother of four and accused killer of Nancy Penton 19 in Washington Miss. The trial ends with instructions before deliberations. verdicts range from acquittal to death. The defense seeks temporary insanity due to her husband’s infidelity.
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Washington
Katherine Ann Haynes
U. S
Matthew F. McGuire
Haynes
Nancy Penton
McLain
Miss
Katherine Ann
Harry J. Ahern
Utah Polygamy Crackdown Sought Two Fugitives
Utah authorities intensified a crackdown on polygamy from a dissident sect by seeking two men who abandoned seven wives and 31 children to dodge prosecution. Louis A. Kelsch, 49, jailed with five wives and 31 children on a Salt Lake County farm, remains a key figure in the drive led by County Attorney Frank Moss as the 1955 Utah Legislature quietly appropriated funds.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Louis A. Kelsch
Salt Lake County
Frank Moss
Moss
Finland-born woman granted American citizenship despite oath objection
Martha Scarbury, 49, foreign-born wife of a Church of Christ minister, was naturalized in Shreveport after objecting to bearing arms in the oath. Judge Ben Dawkins Jr overruled the denial recommendation but barred oath-taking until appeals. Local church placements varied, with uncertainty about Rev. Scarbury's residence.
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Martha Scarbury
Church of Christ
Scarbury
United Press
Monroe
Rayville
Archibald
Finland
Shreveport
United States
McCarran
Smog Shuts Orleans Roads Delays Big Armored Cash Run
Dense smog blankets eastern New Orleans delaying traffic and stranding armored trucks carrying about 16 million dollars. Police report injuries and two deaths from asthma as more than 350 others seek treatment. relief improves as dawn clears and convoys move motorists out of the fog.
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New Orleans
Federal Reserve
Ike and aides begin draft of State of the Union message
President Eisenhower, recuperating in Denver hospital, summons Maj. Gen. Wilton Persons and Kevin McKann to start a preliminary draft of the January State of the Union address. He is unlikely to return to full duties before the message is delivered to Congress.
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Ike
Denver
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Wilton B. Persons
Kevin McKann
Tax Collector Ready To Receive 1955 Payments
Ouachita parish tax rolls for 1955 were filed and the tax office is set to take payments. Deputy C D Meredith noted a $430,368.25 state check for homestead exemptions and total parish taxes due reach $2,208,053.84.
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Ouachita Parish
C. D. Meredith
Bert Coverdale
Bailey Grant
State of
Louisiana
Louisiana Tax Commission
Baton Rouge
Coverdale
Two Special Court Sessions Slated in Fourth District
District Attorney Albin P. Lassiter announced two special terms of criminal court in the fourth district. The sessions begin January 23 and February 13 due to a large volume of felony cases docketed.
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Albin P. Lassiter
German Unity and Europe Security Talks Open in Geneva
In Geneva AP reports the Big Four open discussions on German unity and lasting peace. Dulles Macmillan and Pinay prepared to press Molotov to accept Western terms for a nationwide free vote merging East and West Germany. The aim is to guarantee Russia against future aggression in exchange.
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Geneva
Russia
Germany
Europe
Palace of Nations
John Foster Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Antoine Pinay
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Holdup Victim Sentenced Six Years In Arkansas Penitentiary
Edward Chrissenberry, 30, described as the holdup victim at a Monroe service station in August, was sentenced to six years in the Arkansas state penitentiary on burglary charges. He was later arrested in Little Rock while attempting to steal a safe and faces further burglary and grand larceny charges in Hamburg, Arkansas. He had worked at the Louisville Avenue station just three weeks.
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Edward Chrissonberry
Monroe
Arkansas State Penitentiary
Chrissenberry
Hamburg
Ark
Little Rock
Louisville Avenue
Baton Rouge Bus Drivers Threaten Noon Strike
Baton Rouge city bus drivers threaten to strike at noon unless management and union leaders meet. About 75 percent of 70 drivers polled favor action over rest breaks shifts and schedules, risking downtown congestion in a city of 150000.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
T. B. Clement
Baton Rouge Bus Co
Clement
Employer Association of the Baton Rouge Bus Co
H. Flynn Cauthen
P.E. Jennings
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Revenue
Gov't
Dss
Basienediateeet
Louise Froseth
Minneapolis
Gregory
Franklin
Cotton Division
Ena
N. E
Doris Fanning
Philadelphia
Fanning
Orleans
Middle East
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