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Northeast Louisiana's Major Center Of Activity and West Monroe serve the educational, cultural, sports amusement and training center of Northeast Louisiana. Today the Twin Cities stand as one of the Mid- major points of activity. The Weather LOUISIANA: Clear to partly cloudy and warm this afternoon, tonight and Saturday, gentle to moderate variable winds on coast. Northeast Louisiana's Afternoon Newspaper Since 1891 VOL. 134 Full Associated Press, United Press Leased Wires MONROE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1956 Newsphoto Service by AP PRICE FIVE CENTS Ike Inflammatory Witness At Land Scandals Trial Bomb Trap Victim ALegs Shattered By Blast As Key Turned On Story At Trial Helped Send Giles To Prison BRADY, Tex.

McCollum, III, whose testimony helped send state Land I Commissioner Bascom Giles! to the penitentiary, was crim- inallv injured in an automo-j bile bomb trap today. McCollum, in testimony in the' veterans land scandals trials of Giles, said he overheard a tele- phone conversation in which Giles said he would take $15,000 for his part in a veterans land deal in Dimmitt County. Tex. Witnesses at the scene told Bob Wilson of the Brady Standard thatj A McCollum's right leg blown all to and that his left leg was shattered. The explosion blew the steering wheel and dashboard back against the attorney, 37, pinning him in the car.

The Brady Fire Department freed him. Police Chief Golden Jones said that the explosion occurred when McCollum turned the ignition key in his 1953 Mercury station wagon about 8 a.m. Chief Jones said the bomh was ider the hood and that it was wired to the ignition. 4 L. Atherton, of the (Continued On Second Page) Negro Executed For Lover's Lane Murder Of Airman AN OLD CAPTAIN INSPECTS THE GUARD Cane- swinging Harry S.

Truman inspects a company of the Jakobi Guard at St. Jakob am Thurm, his vacation retreat near Salzburg, Austria. The soldier company dates back to the Napoleonic wars and the guards wear long red coats and plumed hats and shoulder ancient firearms. (AP Wi rephoto.) Second Foreign Aid Battle Is Shaping Up WASHINGTON second major foreign aid battle shaped up in the House today over whether to continue America's military and economic help to Communist Yugoslavia. i Bulganin Asks Troop, Arms Fund Slashes Wants Future Disarmament Talks In Open WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Premier Nikolai nin has told President Eisenhower Russia intends not only to reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men but also to cut back armaments and military expenditures correspondingly.

In a letter delivered yesterday and undergoing intensive study by the advisers today Bulganin urged the United States to follow lead by reducing its own forces, arms and military expenditures. Secretary of State Dulles, speaking for the administration, already has rejected such a course on the ground that it, would not be in the United interest. Bulganin also told the President, according to diplomats familiar with his letter, that the Soviet government, thinks future negotiations in the United Nations disarmament group could be stripped of their secrecy and conducted in the open. This was interpreted here by American officials as meaning that the Soviet government has downgraded the U. N.

disarm a- i Continued On Second Page) ALTERCATION LED TO Hargitay, right, sports a shiner as he walks from Municipal Court building in Washington, D. after filing assault charges against a fellow muscle man, Chuck Krauser, center. Krauser knocked out Hargitay during an altercation in the dressing room of Mae West, left, at a local night club. Both men are members of the Mae West troupe. (AP Wirephoto.) A HUNTSVILLE.

Tex. Marion A. Washington, a one-time Negro Army sergeant convicted of the lane murder of a white airman near Waco, went to his death in the Huntsville penitentiary electric chair early today with no show of emotion. Washington's last words God bless you He steadfastly refused to make any statement about: his guilt or innocence. Washington appeared calm as he was strapped into the chair.

He was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. The 28-year-old Negro died for the murder of Airman Henry Poole, 23, of Spartanburg. S. C. Poole was stationed at Bryan Air Force Base near Waco.

The night of April 3. 1955. Poole and his fiancee. Miss Dorotny Papendorf, were in an automobile parked on a side road near W'aco. Miss Papendorf said later that a Negro stepped out of the shad-1 qoo request ows and took their money and Eisenhower With administration support.

House Democratic and Republican leaders tried to ward off stiff congressional demands to end aid to the country whose President Tito is now visiting and soliciting closer ties with Russia. Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex! and House GOP leader Martin of Massachusetts, beaten in their effort to restore funds President Eisenhower had asked for military aid, were not optimistic about were, their chances on the Yugoslav issue. Appeals To Embassy U. S. Bullfighter Gets 6 Years For 'Insulting' Spain MADRID.

Spain judge sentenced an American bullfignter to six imprisonment on a charge of the Spanish But supporters of an amendment by Rep Edna F. Kelly (D-NY) to cut off aid to Yugoslavia were cautious about predicting victory. Eisenhower asked 30 million dollars in economic aid to Yugoslavia. plus a larger but secret amount of military assistance. The House Foreign Aftairs Committee voted to chop the 30 million in half.

Chairman Richards (D-SC) scored a dramatic victory yesterday when the House backed up the committee-approved cut of $1,109.000,000 in Harry Whitney, of Austin, staggered by the severity of the sentence, immediately called on the American embassy for elp. Whitney had admitted using after a collision between his automobile and a motorbike on Gran Via. His exact words w'ere not reported in court. But at his trial, before a judge and without a jury, he said he had spoken in the heat (Continued On Second Page) C. E.

M'Kenzie Funeral Rites Are Held Today Funeral services for C. McKenzie. 59. Monroe insurance man and former Congressman, who died Thursday morning of a bullet wmund, will be held at 4 p.m. Fri; day at the Mulhearn Funeral cha- 1 pel.

Rev. George W. Pomeroy, pastor of the First Methodist church w'ill officiate. Interment will follow in Rivpr- view cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral home. Pallbearers will be Tom Munholland, Carroll Royce.

D. X. Ellett, lames A. Perry, George Mouk.and Morton Myatt. An official verdict in the pistol I death of McKenzie was pending Friday.

Ouachita Parish Coroner J. T. French said that completion of the investigation will probably take two or three $45 Million In New Taxes Await Action BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Bills to raise taxes an estimated 45 million dollars today await action in the first Louisiana Legislature to convene since Gov. Earl Long was elected on a promise of no new taxes.

The brother of the late Sen. Huey Long won an overwhelming victory in January on a platform which included: pledge there will he no increase in Afterwards the governor said more revenue was needed to meet expanding state services, boost teacher pay and increase welfare benefits. None of the 17 tax-raising bills introduced since the Legislature opened May 14 has cleared both houses. Administration forces yesterday btilidozed the first Long tax hill to 78-12 House passage. Victims Beg For Mercy Ex-Con Guns 3 Persons At Down Bar A single bullet fired from a .380 The bill automatic pistol into the right tern-i on liquoi pie, slanting at a 25 degree angie $1.68 and exiting on the left side of his head, apparently caused the death officials said.

The pistol used in the I Continued On Second rrm would increase the tax from $1.58 per gallon to Long's power will he tested next week when his bills come up for floor action. Under a new constitutional amendment, a a in(Continued On Second CHIC An ex-convict, blasting1 away with a double-barreled shotpun, shot and killed three persons in a jazzy nipht spot early today. Two of his victims were cowering- on ihe floor beppinp for mercy. third victim, an unidentified newsboy, fried to slop the killer from escaping. He was gunned down on the sidewalk.

Then the killer fled on foot and apparently marie good his escape. A police manhunt was launched throughout the city and its suburbs. Detective Paul Doieman said the killer was identified by witnesses as ex-convict Lawrence Newmann, 28. He walked into the Miracle Bar. north side nightspot which fea- tures a Dixieland style jazz hand, shortly after two with the shotgun in his hands.

going to kill everyone in this witnesses quoted him as saying. Max Epstein 54, co-owner of the cocktail lounge, dropped to the floor behind the bar. He begged for mercy. Thp gunman calmly stepped onto the bar rail, leaned over, and killed Epstein with two blasts in the back, Ixiis M. Gates.

28. who operated the Miracle also, (Continued On Second Page.) Pretty Blonde Found Murdered In California PASADENA, Calif. (UP) through a letter to Martin, joined personally in strenuous efforts hv Martin and Rayburn to restore 600 million dollars of the committee cut. Martin read to a hushed House letter saying security and our partnership with like-minded nations in the world will be seriously GOP Comment Cautious About Ike's Illness Road Company Reports: 19-year-old girl was discovered; the committee slash. Rayburn slain today at her home.

necessary for the secur- Police said the girl. Marilyn1 the to vote more Marie Fink, apparently was raped money- and knifed to death. A neighbor, Mrs. Charles Fenog- Iio said the pretty lived with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Fred C. Mark. She said she had heard nothing unusual during the night. Mrs. Fenoglio told reporters Miss boy friend picked her up every morning and brought her 4Q home in the evening but she did not know if the girl worked or went to school.

Investigators sought to determine if the slaying was linked But in a rare repudiation of the (Continued On Second Page) Dr. White Has No Official Word On Ike's Illness (It) WASHINGTON UP Immediate Republican reaction was cautious today after the House announced that President er had suffered an stomach and Leonard W. Hall, Republican national chairman, said White House press secretary James C. Hagerty called him at about the time Hagerty announced the illness to newsmen. statement speaks for Hall said.

Chairman Bridges (NH) of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, said he was to hear the President is but added he felt there was se- BOSTON UP Heart specialist i about the illness. Dr Paul Dndley White said today I something which happens he had received no offirial word! on Russians Avidly Curious About Anything American NEW YORK staring1 faces coffee that tastes like tired tea thunderous rhythm ovations and most of all. overwhelming curiosity about, anything American. Veterans Affairs Group In Huddle Over Pension Bill WASHINGTON UP The House Veterans Affairs Committee meets today for a rlosed-door battle over a $105-a-month pension bill reported to he strongly opposed by President Eisenhower. Rep.

Christopher (D-Mo leading the fight for the measure sponsored by the American Legion said he thinks the committee should complete action in one or two sessions. But he was cautious about predicting committee approval of the bill despite an initial victory for it when the House group, over strenuous opposition from Chairman Olin E. Teague (D-Tex), voted last Wednesday to take up the measure today. The administration savs the bill No. 1 legislative goal this election year would cost 528 million dollars the first year and a total of more than 77 billion dollars by the year 2000.

1 The Legion challenges these fig- (Contmued On Second Page; President Is Ordered To Reed Hospital Doctors Report "No Indication' Of Heart Trouble WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower was stricken i 1 abdominal pains early today, and in the afternoon was taken by ambulance from the White House to the Walter Reed Hospital. The White House said physicians had diagnosed the trouble as an ileitis, or inflammation of the lower portion of tht- intestine, and that is no indication of any heart trouole Press secretary James Hagerty said a tracing of the heart be taken at Walter Reed. He described the hospitalization as a Asked whether the condition could be called critical, Hagerty replied: have not used any In response to questions. Hagerty told newsmen that physicians had not made any suggestion to him that Eisenhower's illness was a result of food poisoning. The olive drah Army ambulance was pulled up to the south side of the White House to receive him.

It departed bv the southeast, gate, at 130 accompanied fore and aft by a motorcycle escort. Eisenhower could he seen lying in the ambulance. His hands wera folded on his chest. A crowd of about 100 persons had gathered at the southwest gate hoping to see the President, hut the ambulance turned before reaching that gate and left by the other exit. Newsmen could not see whether the President was carried to the ambulance on a itretcher or walked.

Some time before the ambulance wheeled away, Mrs. Eisenhower left in a White House limousine. going ahead fo the hospital. As her car reached the White House gatp, an Army car pulled (Continued On Second Page) Mrs. Wilson Perjury Trial Is Scheduled Today Mrs Emma Laura Sheffield Wilson.

mother of convicted murderer Joseph Sheffieri, was scheduled to appear in federal court at the Post Office building Friday afternoon, to answer charges of two counts of perjury. Mrs. Wilson was indicted for perjury after testimony given during a hearing to determine Sheft ell to the floor, screaming her had received a fair trial in received no offirial word, everyone from time to I i ps dent Eisenhowers stom-; Badges said. imagine he'll be ach upset but that he probably with the murder of blonde Bar- will rall Washington later in the bara Jean Jepson. 18.

in nearby day to inquire about the chief ex- Van Nuys early this year. Where To Find Amusements 7B Classified 8-9-10-1 IB Ccmics 6B Editorial 4A Radio TV 78 Society 6-7 A Sports 10-11A PREVENT FOREST FIRES KEEP LOUISIANA GREEN ecutive's condition. Dr. White treated thp President after he suffered a heart attack last September. He said he had heard a report on the radio that the President suffered an upset stomach during the night and that it appeared to be a gastrc-imestinal condition.

The doctor made his regular rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital today and plans to carry out: his schedule of appointments back in his regular routine tomorrow. Senate GOP Leader Knowland (Calif) reserved comment pending further word from the White House. Knowland withdrew as a candidate for his presidential nomination after Eisenhower announced on Feb. 29 that he would seek re-election. Earlier today Knowland disclaimed knowledge of a movement in California to boom him for the nomination in the event Eisenhower were to change his mind about These are diverse bits from the teeming kaleidoscope of a thousand impressions garnered on a two-month tour behind the Iron Curtain by the far-roaming and theatrical troupe.

Director coproducer Robert Breen says: is quite a shock to discover that there is a i in the world where they quite lit erally know nothing about America. Along with that there is a 1 fantastic, gnawing hunger to learn about Everywhere the egro players were asked about their life in America. was fantastic to watch them when we told them that we go to college like anyone says one. Was any effort marie to indoctrinate them? A soprano replies: "They are so interested in finding out from us ihat they just a questions, let you do all the The dramatic players and a score of administrative home this week from a show' tour that, included 62 performances of the famous folk opera in Leningrad, Moscow, Stalinogrod, Warsaw and Prague. written by the Soviet government.

It was, members of the company agree, a standing-room-ouly nothing elsewhere in the troupe's four years of barnstorming was quite like the Soviet ovation after a performance. Helen Thigpen, who sings Serena, says, "It will he hard to get used to western applause again after The roof really came off in Leningrad, birthplace of Alexander Smallens. veteran conductor of and and also of the father of George and Ira Gershwin, the romposer and eolyri- cist. In Leningrad too they found tout schoolteachers had been assigned as see how and what Ame'ricans eat. we went, anything that was needed, they had a standard Then they would move in 50 stagehands and move lights or WLien the company reached Warsaw they found themselves in an industrial area, which wanted to see the visitors too.

government offered to run special excursions to Proves He Isn't Up In Police Custody CHICAGO lit) Raymond Hurd took a swim in Lake Michigan yesterday to prove to a group of teen-agers he wasn't, a sissy. He I claims he got a raw deal from the kids. Hurd, w'ho W'ent to a North Side beach to loaf in the sun not the youths were in swim trunks and shouted, on in the water, you in yourself, a couple of the youths told Hurd. dare go in if I had a swim Hurd told the kids. they jeered.

a sissy Hurd, who is 50, stripped off his clothes and waded into the lake, swimming around in the cold water When he decided he had pnough he headed for shore. He was in waist deep water when he discovered his clothes were gone So the teen-agers. Hurd yelled for help. He re- sumed swimming, trying to keep Some beach strollers called plea for life. She died with a shotgun blast in the neck.

It appeared the newsboy, aged 30 to 35, had heard the shots and was trying to block the path. But the gunman pushed him out onto the sidewalk and cut him down with a blast in the side. Doieman said Newmann apparently wanted to kill Epstein because the tavern owner had had him arrested for brawling in the Miracle Bar last May 9. Bastrop Drug Burglarized, $5,951 Taken BASTROP. June 8 (Special) City police and the Morehouse parish office today W'ere investigating the burglary of Bastrop Drug store on South Washington street.

Authorities said that $5,000 in payroll checks, $100 in rolled half I dollars, $400 in rolled quarters. $60 Temperature Here Winnsboro for the shotgun slaying of Franklin Parish Deputy Sheriff John L. Waller. Sheffieri was awarded another trial and now confined to state penitentiary awaiting execution for thp slaying of Waller. Mrs.

Wilson is charged with taking oath and to such oath testified that she had witnessed the shooting of John L. Waller by Joseph Sheffield from the back doorway of her home on June 14. 1953 which did not believe to be true and which was a material fact before the In count two, Mrs. Wilson is charged with testifying that she told Emmett B. Mooney, attornev- at-law of Winnsboro, that she witnessed the shooting.

Shp is out of jail on bond. Other cases scheduled are Eligh Allen, iolation of probation: Susie Moore, violation of a railroad retirement act; Carl Mason. Dver Act; Jim Brazzell and Norman Mayfield, both for violation of in! ternal revenue liquor law and Charlie January, violation of veteran readjustment act of 195. in rolled nickels, $711 in assorted- change. and $75 in $5 bills was reported missing.

No arrests had been made in the case at noon today. Entrance was apparently gained through a warehouse in the rear, police said I the rest of ihe day and tomorrow, running. Blevins Davis coproduces the show; says Breen, Stalinogrod an- jwith Breen. swered, bring them here and The initial visit of any Ameri- you can run excursions from War- can road company to that part saw We added a week's toe globe was tiartiy under- to SURE HOPE NOT Former President warm police. Officers backed a squad car to the edge of the ater, surrounded PARIS Hurd, escorted him to the car and Harry S.

on a European thence to the Rogers Park Sta- vacation, was informed by news- tion. I men of Hurd, who said he is an unem- illness today and replied gravely: visit ployed chemist, was charged w'ith sure hope it's not serious. I disorderly conducL sure hope Up To 94 Degrees The temperature at noon Friday was 94 degrees, the highest of the season, according to CAA at Selman Field. Personnel at the field added that the mercury has reached 93 several times but this is the highest so far. The low for Friday was 67 degrees.

Partly cloudy skies and continued warm weather was forecast for today, tonight and tomorrow. tonight will range from 68 to 72 degrees; high tomorrow 90 to 34..