Union Leader Beaten At Valhalla Restaurant
Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshoremen's Union, was assaulted by two San Francisco seamen at the Valhalla restaurant in Sausalito. Bridges suffered a black eye and injuries. attackers Fred Reppine and Donald Hansen were arrested. Police investigate possible paid beating as witnesses describe a sudden assault from behind in the men’s room before guards heard the scuffle.
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Sausalito
Calif
Harry Bridges
Valhalla
Bridges
Fred Reppine
Donald Ross Hansen
San Francisco
Louis Mountanos
International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union
Bay
Golden Gate Bridge
Stanley C. Kelley
Hansen
Kelley
Henry DeGoroy
Charles Massie
Reppine
World Shipping Powers Back Plan for Suez Users Group
Nineteen nations debated a plan to form the Cooperative Assn. of Suez Canal Users CASCU to safeguard maritime rights after Egypt seized control of the canal on July 26. Pakistan did not attend and Japan Sweden Denmark Iran opposed the proposal, while most others appeared ready to join pending home approvals.
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London
United Nations
Egypt
Karachi
Japan
Sweden
Denmark
Iran
U. N
Ethiopia
U. S
State Dulles
Washington
Users’ Association
Tokyo
Mamoru Sigemitsu
Shreveport Couple Arrested On Bad Check Warrant
Police and FBI agents arrest Wesley Allen Woodell and Gloria Woodell in Shreveport on a 1951 Salisbury warrant for cashing worthless checks. The couple, long suspected of interstate theft since 1949, used numerous aliases and operated as husband and wife, cashing small checks and moving thousands in illicit funds. Their three local children and 18 months’ residence in Shreveport noted.
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Shreveport
FBI
North Carolina
South
M. P. Chiles
New Orleans
Wesley Allen Woodell
High Point
N.C
Gloria
Boomer N.C
Chiles
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Woodell
Salisbury
Albemarble
Woman Is Victim Of Attempted Attack
Jonesboro authorities hold a 32 year old Black man for questioning in an attempted criminal attack on a white woman about 2 a.m. Friday. He was picked up after being pointed out by authorities. bloodhounds from Richland parish aided the manhunt but were not involved in the arrest. The victim described waking to an intruder in her bed and chasing the man as he fled, while her husband pursued in a shotgun-led chase.
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Jonesboro
Jackson Parish
Hodge City
Sheriff's Department
Richland Parish
McCarthy Calls Ellender an Unimportant Political Hack
Senator McCarthy labeled Senator Ellender an unimportant political hack in a letter to the Korean ambassador. He said most Americans deplore Ellender’s slurs on Korea and defended U S aid as Korea being a bottomless pit. Ellender, on a Asia trip, had criticized aid recipients as bloodsuckers.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Korea
McCarthy
You Chan Yang
Sen
Ellender
Asia
U. S
U.S
Sen. Ellender
Induction Put Off Sparks Resignations At Draft Board
In Montgomery Alabama nine members of the Selective Service system resign over efforts to postpone induction of a young Montgomery Negro attorney. The Gray case prompted telegrams and letters to Lt. Gen. Hershey, who delayed Gray's induction further, with more resignations reported and additional ones pending.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Fred D. Gray
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Gray
Hershey
Would-Be Suicide Foiled By Night Watchman Rescue
A 26 year old woman identified as Linda Paige of Sacramento was saved from a 11 story hotel fire escape in New Orleans by night watchman Emmett Willet. She claimed overdose failed to take effect and police found a note expressing intent to end her life. Doctors expect recovery.
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New Orleans
Linda Paige
Sacramento
Calif
Emmett Willet
Canal Street
Texas NAACP Chief Says Negroes Face Persecution
Dallas NAACP president Dr. H Boyd Hall warned Texas is entering an era of persecution as the attorney general probes NAACP offices in Dallas Houston and Corpus Christi. Atty Gen John Ben Shepperd and officials said records were being inspected with armed officers present. Hall likened the moves to early Nazi persecution and urged calm amid the investigations.
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Dallas
Tex
H. Boyd Hall
National Assn. For
Advancement of Colored People
Texas
William Davis
NAACP
Corpus Christi
A. Simpson Tate
Texas Rangers
Attorney General
Tate
Davis
Houston
Atty
John Ben Shepperd
Hitler
Hall
New York
Wide Variation Of Temperature In Twin Cities Area
Residents of the Twin Cities and Ouachita parish saw a sharp 30 degree swing from a 55 degree low at Selman field to a noontime high near 85. Today and Saturday forecast clear to partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures. tonight's low 58 to 62 and Saturday high in the low 90s. Pollen count this morning 115.
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Twin Cities
Ouachita Parish
Selman Field
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Principal Says Negroes Lag Behind Whites
Washington high school principal Cederic Reynolds testified before a House subcommittee on the effects of racial integration. At Calvin Coolidge High School he observed about 20 Negro students last year, with 12 failing in two or more subjects. The school’s median IQ was 110 overall, 92.5 for Negro students, leading him to question whether all Negro students from higher status homes are properly passed in lower grades.
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Washington
House
Cederic Reynolds
Reynolds
Calvin Coolidge High School
Parker Announces Candidacy for Constitutional Convention Delegate
Joseph B. Parker of Crowville announces his run as Franklin parish delegate for the Louisiana constitutional convention. He urges voters to decide on November 6, 1956 whether to hold a constitutional convention and to elect a Franklin parish representative if the convention is approved.
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Joseph B. Parker
Crowville
Parker
Franklin
Louisiana
Franklin Parish
Wright proposes mile high chrome glass Chicago skyscraper
Renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright reveals plans for a stainless steel and glass mile high tower to rise above Chicago's lakefront. He describes a cantilever design with a central core, nuclear powered elevators, a 1000 foot deep taproot foundation, and outward extending floors like tree limbs, arguing for lightness and low cost. Wright says the idea has 35 years of thought behind it and responds to critics who doubt the feasibility.
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Spring Green
Wis
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chicago
ABC
Taliesin
Wisconsin
Wright
Eisenhower Seeks Farm Backing With Iowa Speeches
The Associated Press reports President Eisenhower aimed to win farmer support in Iowa with two brief talks near Newton and at Des Moines, before a Peoria speech next Tuesday. Adlai Stevenson criticized Ike for not presenting full facts on world peace and Viet Nam, Formosa, and Truman’s Formosa action during a nationwide campaign. Senator Kefauver, in Montana, labeled Nixon’s claims about the administration’s partnership policy as false.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Iowa
Newton
Des Moines
Washington
Peoria, Jr
Stevenson
Newton Farm
Tennessee
Nixon
Fire convention features speeches and film showings
Monroe Fire Captain J D Brownlee stood in for Edwin Cousins at the 51st annual Louisiana Firemen’s convention where H L Hales introduced the program. District Chief Frank Domma of Baton Rouge presented pump operation and a Walt Disney film on fire origins. An afternoon round table and exhibits were scheduled along with a river boat ride, a 6 p.m. cocktail party at the Virginia Hotel, and tonight’s address by Mayor James Arrington of Collins Mississippi urging calm and faith in facing southern problems. The event wraps with Saturday’s officers election.
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Brownlee
Frank Domma
Baton Rouge
Domma
Ouachita River
Arrington
Louisiana Fireman’s Association
Robbery Plot Rumor Ends No Bank Hit Here
Ruston Louisiana police found no evidence of a robbery plot after guards were posted at two nearby banks. Sheriff’s deputies and state police joined a Thursday night vigil. Chief O O Osborne said the warning came via an FBI tip, which FBI New Orleans denied, and guards will stay until threat fades.
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Ruston
O. O. Osborne
Lincoln’ Parish
Osborne
FBI
First National Bank
Ruston State Bank and ‘Trust Co
New Orleans
Fire damages 11 cotton bales at Transylvania gin
Transylvania fire at 3 a.m. destroyed 11 bales of cotton worth insured, with minor damage to the wooden loading platform. Louis Dalfiume said the blaze, burning for some time before discovery, spared the gin from greater harm as Lake Providence volunteers fought for two hours to control it. The cotton belonged to several local farmers. losses were insured.
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Transylvania
Louis Dalfiume
Lake Providence
Dalfiume
Dalfiame
Army Reforms 101st Airborne In Atomic Era Display
FT CAMPBELL Ky The Army showcases the rebuilt 101st Airborne Division with paratroopers missile and atomic era weapons marking its formal reactivation The Screaming Eagle unit grows from WWII form to five combat groups totaling about 11 500 men and higher mobility than past divisions
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FT. Campbell
101St Airborne Division
101St
Normandy
Holland
Bastogne
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U.N. Plea World Agency
Hugh
Janis Morgan
Sault Ste. Marie
Michigan
Pakistan
Ea San Dee
Ory
M‘carthy
Texas Naacp
Salem-Portland
Woodburn
Ore
Salem
Fire
Monroe
J. D. Brownlee
Fire Fighters
Edwin Cousins
Capt. Brownlee
Cousins
H. L. Hales
Firemen’s Association
Army
101St Airborne
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