Police See Danger For Another Monroe Woman
Police Friday said they believe the savage slayer of 28 year old Myrtle Mae Mills a Monroe tavern employee intended to add her coworker and roommate as a second victim. Ex convict Loyal Zeigler 50 of Monroe sought as a suspect. A city election to vote on a one cent sales tax to erase debts was proposed by Mayor Howard to fund utilities and city deficits and adjust rate inequities.
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Myrtle Mae Mills
McKinley Avenue
Gladewater
Tex
Loyal Zeigler
Monroe
Lola
Miss Mills
James C. Kelly, Jr
W. L. “Jack” Howard
City Hall
Howard
Fall Session Opens With Tough Highway Safety Warning
Judge David I. Garrett presided the first fall misdemeanor session, warning motorists that highway safety laws would be enforced with jail for repeat violators. About 90 of 106 cases were heard as fines were levied on Hulet Gilley Ona E. Epperson and Horace Johnson for operating while intoxicated. Feld Roberson Harold D. Morrison Paul Pomeroy Randell Low were among those brought before the court.
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David I. Garrett
Garrett
Hulet Gilley
Ona E. Epperson
Horace Johnson
Feld Roberson
Harold D. Morrison
Paul Pomeroy
Randell Low
Segregationist Bowles Shunned by Local Meeting in Easton
Talbot White Citizens Committee meeting in Easton ended without recognizing Bryant Bowles founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Bowles, who cancelled two business meetings to attend, said he was insulted by not being invited to speak as host Thomas Moore claimed he was unaware Bowles would present.
Third Party Drive Opens In Memphis as Sessions Close
The National States Rights Conference opened in Memphis with about 2000 delegates from 20 states for a three day session. Committees labored over rules and a declaration of principles while civil rights were not expected to be included. The aim is to form a coalition to deadlock the Electoral College and push the election to the House.
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Memphis
Tenn.p
House of Representatives
Earl Evans Jr
Texas NAACP offices probed by state investigators
Dallas headquarters for Texas and surrounding states faces a state probe as Elbert Morrow and two other investigators photograph records. Houston office also checked, with Atty. Gen. confirming inquiry though not detailing reasons. NAACP regional attorney A. Simpson Tate unavailable. Tate leads civil actions on school enrollment barriers in Mansfield and Dallas white schools suit.
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Dallas
Tex
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Elbert Morrow
NAACP
Sterling Fulmore Jr
William King
Houston
Atty
John Ben Shepperd
New York
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Mississippi
A. Simpson Tate
Tate
Houston Naacp
Frances Williams
Mansfield
Ike to Speak on Farm Policy in Peoria Ill
The White House said President Eisenhower will deliver a major farm policy speech in Peoria Illinois on September 25 at Bradley University field house. He will also give Vice President Nixon a sendoff as Nixon starts a 32 state campaign tour after a breakfast at Washington National Airport. Adlai Stevenson spoke in Harrisburg addressing Nixon as a key Democratic target.
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Gettysburg
White House
Eisenhower
Peoria
Ill
Nixon
James C. Hagerty
Bradley University Field House
Washington National Airport
Adlai E. Stevenson
Harrisburg
War hero Kelly may get home job aid in Pittsburgh
World War II Medal of Honor recipient Charles Commando Kelly, once celebrated in Pittsburgh, is now jobless and ill in Louisville with six children. Allegheny County Commissioner John M. Walker proposes bringing him home and offering employment, with fellow commissioners to consider the plan next week.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Commando Kelly
Kelly
Louisville
Allegheny County
John M. Walker
Walker
Betty
Third Negro Child Enrolls At Clay School
In Clay Kentucky a third African American child enrolled despite the attorney general’s opinion that such enrollment was illegal. The all white student body boycotted as Adj. Gen. J J B Williams escorted James Gordon age 10 Teresa Gordon age 8 and Bobbie Carl Copeland age 12 into the building alongside another Black student. School officials planned a policy statement that night amid guard patrols and sparse attendance by white residents and teachers.
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Clay
Adj
J. J. B. Williams
Gordon
James
Teresa
Bobbie Carl Copeland
Wilbur Collins
Webster County
Jo M. Ferguson
Collins
Kentucky Guard
Williams
James Gordon
Eden Seeks UN Deal to Avert Suez War
London Prime Minister Eden tempered fears of a shooting conflict over the Suez Canal dispute by promising to seek UN action before force. He won a Parliament vote backing his policy and pushed plans for a canal users' association while avoiding an unconditional pledge not to use force without UN sanction.
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London
Suez Canal
Eden
U.N
Suez
Labor Party
Security Council
Two Planes Collide On Takeoff In Alamogordo Crash
At Alamogordo New Mexico two light planes taking off on separate runways collided killing Heinrich Lau a former German air force test pilot and James Perry 28 of Alamogordo. Passenger Perry died later at a local hospital and pilot F A Newell 30 of El Paso was critically injured. Civil Aeronautics Administration investigators probed the incident.
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Alamogordo, N. M
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Heinrich Lau
Holloman Air Development Center
Here
Lau
James Perry
Alamogordo
F. A. Newell
el Paso
Tex
Champs Flying Service
el Paso International Airport
Newell
Delta Corporation Dedication Is Held
Delta Carton Corporation held a formal dedication for a new 14000 square foot plant on the Old Sterlington road. Louis M. Hall received a 50000 gift from MAIDCO as an inducement to local industrial growth. MAIDCO officials and Monroe leaders attended the ceremony.
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Monroe
Delta Carton Corporation
Sterlington Road
Lee Vanderpool
Maidco Screening Committee
Louis T. Hall
New Industry
Center
John Sherrouse
Maidco
L. Churchill Matthews
John Oldenburg
Twin Cities
Louis M. Hall
Hall
Delta Carion Corporation
Walter Koch
Monroe Area Industrial Development Corp
A. E. Montgomery
Ouachita Police Jury
Jack Howard
Grayson Guthrie
Monroe Chamber of
Indian summer extends into weekend forecast
Warm spell continues with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. Tonight’s low expected 66 to 71, with Saturday high 90 to 95. Noon temperature Friday was 88, after a 65 low. Thursday max reached 94 and 63 minimum. Pollen count recorded at 11.
U.S. Moves Forward With Suez Plan Amid War Cry
President Eisenhower personally oversees the Suez crisis as the United Statespresses ahead with a Western plan. He travels from Gettysburg for a midafternoon meeting with Australian Prime Minister Menzies, who leads a five nation commission urging Nasser to allow international operation of the canal. Secretary of State Dulles also involved.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Egypt
Gettysburg
Suez
Robert Menzies
Menzies
Nasser
Dulles
Odds Against Hurricane Visiting U. S. This Year
Miami report quotes forecaster Gordon Dunn predicting a good chance no hurricane will reach the U S mainland this year. The piece notes Florida’s drought, the goals of the National Hurricane Research Project, and the one weak hurricane Betsy that veered away from Florida.
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U. S
Miami
Fla
Gordon Dunn
United States
Florida
Richard Simpson
National Hurricane Research Project
Simpson
Atlantic Seaboard
Dunn
Miami Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Hall denounces Adlai silence on Hiss matter
Philadelphia Republican leader Leonard Hall calls Adlai Stevenson silence on Alger Hiss a travesty of statesmanship. He notes Truman and others urged Stevenson to repudiate Truman's remarks, while Stevenson has not replied. Hall urges full precinct organization to win House and Senate in November.
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Philadelphia
M — Gop
Leonard W. Hall
Adlai E. Stevenson
Alger Hiss
Union League Club
Hall
Truman
Hiss
State Department
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Nixon
Gettysburg
Stevenson
Harry Truman
House
Senate
America
Maine
Edmund S. Muskie
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