Two Workmen Die In Accidents In Chicago Suburbs
In separate Chicago area incidents two Illinois laborers died while working on construction sites. George Bacon 31 of Round Lake Park was crushed when trench soil collapsed near Rolling Meadows. Nello Massimo 34 of Waukegan suffocated when a sewer trench wall collapsed in Northbrook.
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Chicago
Illinois
George Bacon
Round Lake Park
Nello Massimo
Waukegan
Bacon
Rolling Meadows
Massimo
Northbrook
Captain Benzenbower to represent 93rd Bomb Wing in SAC contest
Capt James B Benzenbower of Middletown is chosen to represent the 93rd Bombardment Wing Castle AFB in the 8th SAC Bombing and Navigation meet begun Aug 24. A 1942 Air Force alumnus of Anderson High School and Purdue, he lives in Atwater California and is married to Olivia Pereira of Lisbon. He is brother of Mrs Virginia Moore of Indianapolis.
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James B. Benzenbower
Ray Benzenbower
Middletown
93Rd
Castle Air Force Base
Strategic Air Command
Capt. Benzenbower
Anderson High School
Purdue University
Air Force
Olivia da Luz Pereira
Lisbon
Portugal
Atwater
Calif
Virginia Moore
Indianapolis
Telephone Wage Pact Reached
A one year contract covering 18 000 telephone equipment installers nationwide was agreed Monday by Western Electric and the Communication Workers of America. About 550 workers in 50 Indiana communities are affected. The pact provides a general wage increase of 8 to 12 cents an hour plus fringe benefits, below the union demand of 15 cents. The old scale ranged from 1 38 to 2 36 an hour. The agreement came after eight days of negotiations following expiration of the old contract and includes more holidays in some regions, two more wage boosts via reclassifications, and a narrowing between top automatic progressive and top merit wage rates.
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New York
Western Electric Co
Communication Workers of America
Indiana
GOP Convention Outdraws Democrats in TV Viewership
NEW YORK The Trendex survey on Monday showed the Republican convention attracted more television viewers than the Democratic session. Combined ratings for three networks were 34.4 for the Republicans versus 29.9 for the Democrats, though Sindlinger studies suggested a larger Democratic audience. In 1952 Republicans had 39.0 Trendex rating to Democrats 31.4.
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New York
Trendex
Sindlinger and Co
Ridley Park
Sailing Papers Ruling Upheld By Appeals Court
SAN FRANCISCO UP A federal appeals panel upheld a lower court ruling ordering the government to restore sailing papers taken from 2,500 seamen deemed security risks by the Coast Guard. The decision followed a prior ruling that Coast Guard screening during the Korean War was illegal and that sailors deserve reinstatement.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
U.S. Court of Appeals
Edward P. Murphy
Murphy
Vanderbilt Heiress Weds TV Director In Secret Ceremony
Gloria Vanderbilt and Sidney Lumet quietly married in a New York apartment ceremony attended by a few close friends and an old governess. The couple, both 32, filed for a license Monday and had a judge wed them after a waiver of the 24 hour waiting period was granted. Vanderbilt, heiress and former Stokowski spouse, is a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Lumet is a noted television and theater director.
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New York
Gloria Vanderbilt
Sidney Lumet
Miss Vanderbilt
W. 72Nd Street
Sidney Kingsley
Leopold Stokowski
Lumet
Rita Gam
Bar
Stokowski
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Maryland Names Mahoney U. S. Senate Nominee
Maryland's Democratic State Central Committee named George P. Mahoney as the party nominee to replace ill Sen. Millard E. Tydings. The vote was 97 to 55 over Eleanor Tydings, with Mahoney now set to face Sen. John Marshall Butler in November.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Democratic State Central Committee
George P. Mahoney
Senate
Millard E. Tydings
Mahoney
Eleanor
Tydings
John Marshall Butler
Woman Wounded During Holdup at Grocery Store
Mrs Veronica Cajicek 41 was shot and seriously wounded during a holdup at her husband's grocery store in Chicago. The gunmen bound Cajicek and an employee in a washroom, then fired twice when she fought back, leaving her with a head wound and a leg wound. Doctors at MacNeal Memorial Hospital Berwyn gave a 50 50 chance of survival. Police say the robbers escaped in a car after taking about 1000 dollars. A third man drove the getaway vehicle.
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Chicago
Veronica Cajicek
George
Cajicek
North Riverside
Deaths in Madison and nearby counties
Several obituaries from Madison and nearby counties note deaths including Bertha Mae Robinson Wilkinson of Shirley and Indianapolis. Miller Mason of Middletown. Grace Hilbert near Hagerstown. John Etchison of Frankton. Surviving relatives include children, siblings, and grandchildren. Funeral arrangements and burial sites are listed for each case.
Man Takes Life In Peak Leap At Yosemite Half Dome
A California man leapt from Yosemite National Park's Half Dome, dying from a fall of about 2000 feet. James J. Stergar, 30, Pomona, was found beneath the overhang after park rangers recovered his body. A knapsack with a note announcing his plan to jump was found by hikers weeks earlier.
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Yosemite National Park
Calif
California
Yosemite
Half Dome
James J. Stergar
Pomona
Oscar Sedergren
Stergar
Sedergren
Chicago Polio Epidemic Wanes
The Chicago Board of Health said polio outbreak activity eased from the peak, reporting 26 cases and two deaths in the 72 hours ending Sunday. Through the year there have been 926 cases and 27 deaths, with 528 cases in children five and under, as epidemiologists study this pattern while parents are urged to keep up inoculations.
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Chicago
Board of Health
Board
Herman W. Bundesen
Bundesen
U.S. Public Health Service
Buried Alive in Sewer Collapse Northbrook Worker Dead
A Waukegan Illinois construction worker was buried alive Monday when sewer walls collapsed in Northbrook. Police say Nello Massimo apparently suffocated in the collapse, ending a dangerous dig.
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Chicago
Waukegan
Northbrook
Nello Massimo
Snyder elected publisher and Snyder named chairman at Gary Post-Tribune
The Gary Post- Tribune announces H. B. Snyder as publisher and J. R. Snyder as board chairman and first vice president. Directors of Gary Printing & Publishing Co. also elect Dale Belles as assistant editor-publisher and James E. Rasmusen as assistant managing editor.
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Gary, Ind
H. B. Snyder
J. R. Snyder
Post- Tribune
Gary Printing & Publishing Co
Dale Belles
James E. Rasmusen
Louis J. Jones, Tile Company Chief, Dies at 82
Louis J. Jones age 82 of 314 West 13th Street former general manager and president of the National Tile Company and founder of the Superior Ceramic Company died Sunday at home. Services will be held today at 10 a.m. at Albright Funeral Home.
Memphis Morals Guardian Dies After 30 Years as Censor
Lloyd Tilghman Binford 89, longtime Memphis movie censor known as protector of morals, died in a nursing home. He wielded influence under E. H. Crump, banning films by Ingrid Bergman and Charlie Chaplin for personal lives and resisting any depictions of racial mixing. He argued a portion of the devil exists in all, just human nature.
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Memphis, Tenn
Lloyd Tilghman Binford
Memphis
Binford
E. H. Crump
Ingrid Bergman
Charlie Chaplain
Anderson Obituaries: Alder Graney Watts among local deaths
John Alder 78 of Anderson died yesterday at St. John’s Hospital after a weeklong illness. Survived by a son Liggett and six daughters. 17 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. Services Thursday at Sells and Rowe with burial at East Maplewood Cemetery. Adelia Graney 72 died in Bluffton. services today at Baker Brothers Funeral Home. Jessie Watts 72 of Anderson died suddenly of heart attack. services Wednesday at Waltz and Hiday with burial at East Maplewood Cemetery.
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Miller M. Mason
Honey Creek
Broadway
Pennsylvania Railroad
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the Daughters of America
Hazel
Arlie Hensley
Frank
John Holsinger
Baltimore
Ballard and Shirey
Albert E. Howard
John Alder
Rollie Lytle
Main St
St. John’s Hospital
Sells and Rowe Funeral
Sells and Rowe
East Maplewood
Alder
Liggett Alder
Indianapolis
Pearl Milner
Maumee
Ohio
Edna Herbert
Annie Smith
Garnet Reicher
Horace Hayden
Lytle
Anderson
Ernest
Joe Alder
Harrisonburg
Adelia Graney
Pearl St
Bluffton
Baker Brothers Funeral Home
Ernest Hamilton
Park Place Methodist Church
East Maplewood Cemetery
Jessie Watts
Jessie B. Watts
Delaware Court
Rush County
First Methodist Church
Tuesday Club
J. L. Watts
Robert Watts
Dayton
A. O. Barnes
Gertrude Murphy
Waltz and Hiday
Wilbur Day
Fought By Suspect Refuses Extradition in Child Molestation Cases
Oakland report says Norvel DeGrove cleared Sunday of suspicions in the strangling of three Chicago boys refused to waive extradition to Illinois or Indiana to face charges of molesting small girls Extradition papers are being reviewed by Governor Goodwin Knight in Sacramento with a decision expected in two weeks DeGrove a 42 year old floral worker was picked up by the FBI on a federal flight to avoid prosecution while working at a San Lorenzo nursery
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Oakland
Calif
Norvel DeGrove
Chicago
Ilinois
Indiana
Robert Cooney
DeGrove
Cooney
Illinois
Sacramento
Goodwin Knight
San Lorenzo
FBI
Embezzlement Indictment Hits Des Moines Ex-Loan President
Mor ris H. Aliber former president of a small loan company was indicted by a grand jury in Des Moines Iowa on charges of embezzling about 83 000 through thousands of fictitious loans from 1946 to 1955 to nonexistent or non-applicant individuals.
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Des Moines, Iowa
LLP
Morris H. Aliber
Aliber
Clinton woman dies in auto crash south of Clinton
Stella Cunningham, 57, of Clinton, was fatally injured Monday when the car driven by her husband James ran off the Clinton Needmore Road about six miles south of Clinton. She was enroute to Terre Haute for a physician checkup.
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Clinton
Ind
Stella Cunningham
James
Clinton-Needsmore Road
Terre Haute
Flight pioneer dies in Syracuse at 83
Jay A. Seitz of Syracuse New York died Sunday at age 83. He claimed to be the first person to fly in an airplane as a passenger, a distinction he long cited in aviation lore.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Jay A.seitz
Funeral services for Ralph W Myers in local area
Funeral services for Ralph W Myers 62 assistant supervisor at the local light plant who died Friday at Oceanside California will be conducted Wednesday at 1 30 pm in Brown and Butz Funeral Home. Burial will be in East Maplewood Cemetery. Friends will be received after 7 oclock this evening at the funeral home.
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John Etchison
Frankton
Frankton Christian Church
C. C. Stroup
K of P
IOOF
George C. Harper
Frankton Odd Fellows Lodge
Ralph W. Myers
Milton Ave
Oceanside
Calif
Brown and Butz Funeral Home
East Maplewood Cemetery
Funeral
Brink's trial jury grows as looting case advances
Boston observers report three more jurors chosen for the Brink's trial bringing the total impaneled to ten men. The eight defendants face evidence in the high profile case involving a record cash heist of 1 219 000 dollars.
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Boston
Alcoa to Expand Texas Plant adding seventh potline
Aluminum Company of America announced plans to add a seventh potline at its Point Comfort Texas plant, increasing capacity by 20,000 tons per year and targeting completion by January 1958. When paired with soon-to-be-built Warrick Indiana facilities for 150,000 tons annually, Alcoa’s total installed capacity will reach 962,500 tons per year.
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New York
First Public Museum Organized in Charleston DC
The first public museum in America was organized at Charleston District of Columbia on January 12 1773. In 1915 it was named the Charleston Museum.
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America
Charleston
D.C
Charleston Museum
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