Indiana Toll Road chief seeks swift resignation approval
Dr. Dillon Geiger, chairman of the Indiana Toll Road Commission, asked Governor Craig to accept his resignation quickly. Gov. Craig plans to appoint John A. Kendall to the post after Geiger’s departure, while John Stelle Jr. says he intends to resign before July 1, 1958 to focus on business. The moves come as an East-West toll road completion nears and political factions swirl in the governor’s office.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Toll Road Commission
Dillon Geiger
Bloomington
Craig
Geiger
Indiana Appellate Court
John A. Kendall
Danville
John Stelle, Jr
Brazil
United Press
Stelle
Harold Handley
Gross Income Tax Adviser Sets Up In City Office
James Anderson of the State Gross Income Tax Division has opened an advisory office in the Auto License building at 27 W. 8th St to help residents prepare 1956 gross income tax returns. Returns and taxes must be sent to Indianapolis by January 31. Most residents already received forms by mail.
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James Anderson
State Gross
W. 8Th St
Indianapolis
Indiana Senator seeks statewide probe into polio vaccine lag
State Senator Paul Bitz of Evansville said he will urge the 1957 Legislature to investigate why Indiana has used only 337000 of a 1430000 federal grant for Salk vaccine. He blamed doctors and the State Department of Health and noted unused aid reverts to the federal government June 30.
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Evansville
Ind
Paul Bitz
Bitz
Indiana
Alabama
State Department of Health
14 Year Sentence Given In Child Stealing Case
Norvil De Grove, 42, of Melrose Park Illinois was sentenced in Steuben Circuit Court to a 2 14 year term for child stealing and fined $1000 Judge Harris Hubbard noted a likely maximum 14 year term due to prior record He remains a suspect in the October 1955 Chicago youths murders and Illinois will file a detainer when he is released from Indiana State Prison The kidnapping charge was dropped to avoid a jury trial for the eight year old girl abducted May 11 1956 and kept briefly in Indiana before release in St Joseph County
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Angola
Ind
Norvil DeGrove
Melrose Park
Ill
Steuben
Harris Hubbard
DeGrove
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Dudley W. Gleason, Jr
St. Joseph County
Eisenhower Re-Elected as Electoral College Confirms Victory
Washington dispatch reports President Eisenhower has been officially re elected after 16 electors called at the White House. The formal electoral count occurred during a joint congressional session, with Jacob L. Holtzmann of Brooklyn delivering a commemorative gavel. Senator Herman Talmadge briefly vied for the vice presidency, taking one electoral vote.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Jacob L. Holtzmann
Brooklyn
N.Y
Richard M. Nixon
Sen
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Nixon
Senate
Theodore Francis Green
Muncie Youth Faces Charges
New Castle Indiana reports three youths attempted to enter Consumer's Ice and Fuel Co. Tuesday. A gun was recovered from a youth named John Bryant 19 of Muncie. Bryant is charged with assault with a deadly weapon burglary and resisting arrest. Safecracking tools were found at the scene.
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New Castle
Ind
Consumer's Ice and Fuel Co
John Bryant
Muncie
Children take Stalin statue pedestal in Budapest snowball fortress
In Budapest the fallen Stalin statue becomes a playground as children swarm the pedestal turning the site into a snowball fort. The scene follows the October revolution’s symbolic upheaval and draws cheers from onlookers.
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Stalin
Budapest
Hungary
Alabama Returns Vote Count For Eisenhower Nixon Ticket
Green announced Alabama’s presidential electors appeared to cast 10 votes for Adlai Stevenson and 1 for Walter B. Jones for president while Kefauver and Talmadge split vice presidential votes. Nixon later announced nationwide totals Eisenhower Nixon 457 Stevenson Kefauver 73 Jones Talmadge 1.
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Green
Senate
Alabama
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Walter B. Jones
Kefauver
Talmadge
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Nixon
Eisenhower
Judge curbs child's candy visits in Chicago custody case
Superior Judge Harry G. Hershenson ruled that Irving Diddier may spend 10 hours 15 minutes with his daughter Rabette on alternate Saturdays and Sundays if he withholds soda pop and candy. The mother had complained such gifts spoiled the child's appetite for dinner. The judge allowed licorice cream to be given.
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Chicago
Irving Diddier
Rabette
Harry G. Hershenson
Mary “Diddier
Babette
Diddier
Six More Die As Indiana Crash Toll Rises
Six more names join Indiana's traffic toll after crashes across the state. Victims include Mrs Paula Gosner 61 Detroit and Calvin Myer 48 Waterloo who died at a Fort Wayne hospital after a head on collision on U S 27. Reverend Neal Wallace 61 died in Evansville after a Dec 31 crash near Newburgh.
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Indiana
U.S. 27
Fort Wayne
Paula Gosner
Detroit
Calvin Myer
Waterloo
Charles Gosner
Loren R. Dunn
George E. Roy
Rt. 1
Neal Wallace
Chandler
Newburgh
Evansville
Maxine Kimmel
Rockport
Joseph Bush Jr
South Bend
U.S. 20
Michigan City
David McMahan
Bushville
Old Ind
Rushville
Oscar W. Montgomery
Danville
Marion-Hendricks
Indianapolis
Frederick A. Leedy
Further Curbs On British Car Driving
A British truck operators spokesman urged serious consideration of further limits or abolition of private motoring due to the oil shortage from the Suez blockage. A. S. Bond of the Traders Road Transport Assn said the oil crisis is not fully understood by government or public. Royal Air Transport Minister Harold Watkinson promised steps to keep trucks at 75 percent of normal gasoline, which trucking officials said they could manage with.
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London
A. S. Bond
Traders Road Transport Assn
Suez Canal
Harold Watkinson
British warplanes strike Yemen troops in Beihan clash
An official British statement says warplanes hit Yemen troops and Aden rebels who pressed attacks on Beihan. The report notes the Aden Protectorate location and an AP Wirephoto caption accompanying yesterday's action.
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Aden
Aden Protectorate
Yemen
Beihan
First Degree Murder Charged In Slaying at Christmas
A Marshal Circuit Court grand jury issued a first degree murder warrant for Anscelm Weilandt 34 of Detroit in the Christmas Day killing of Delmar Shea 27 of Minot. Shea’s body was found Dec 27 along the Marshal St Joseph County line. Weilandt said he met Shea in a Chicago bar and strangled him after a ride. He is jailed and to be arraigned next week.
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Plymouth
Ind
Marshal Circuit Court
Anscelm Weilandt
Detroit
Minot
N.D
Delmar Shea
Marshal-St. Joseph
Weilandt
Shea
Chicago
Marshal County
Educators Urge Ministers to Aid Alcoholism Fight
Dr. Russell Dicks at a two day Dwight seminar urged ministers to stop moralizing about alcoholism until they show willingness to help. He noted 5 million alcoholics in the US and 8 to 12 million affected, stressing joint therapy among medicine psychiatry social work Alcoholics Anonymous and the ministry. Ministers from Illinois Indiana and Iowa attended.
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Dwight
Til
Russell Dicks
Duke Divinity Schools of Religion
Midwest
Keeley Institute
United States
Alcoholics Anonymous
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Doctor 92 Packs For Trip On Birthday
Mount Vernon Ill. Dr. Andy Hall marked his 92nd birthday by packing for a Florida fishing trip. In 67 years of practice he has rarely spent birthdays outside the office. He made Monday house calls 18 miles from Mount Vernon and plans to fly to Tampa, Fla., Wednesday.
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Mount Vernon
Ill
Andy Hall
Florida
Hall
American Medical Assn
Tampa
Fla
Wildcat strike shuts Ford stamping plant in Chicago Heights
A wildcat strike idled 2,800 workers at Ford Motor Company's new stamping plant in Chicago Heights. The plant opened last September to stamp Mercury body parts. AFL-CIO United Auto Workers said the walkout stemmed from health and welfare issues, with union leaders aiming to win workers back by Wednesday.
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Chicago
Ford Motor Company
Chicago Heights
Mercury
Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers
Gorilla Poggi Finds New Paycheck in City Bureau
Ermete Poggi known as Gorilla Poggi works for the Bureau of Revenue in Albuquerque collecting delinquent accounts. His role brings pressure on tax scofflaws as city officials push for steady collections.
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Albuquerque, NM
Ermete Poggi
Gorilla” Poggi
Bureau of Revenue
Actress Marie McDonald Kidnapping Case Draws Statements
Police chief William H Parker said Marie McDonald and others named in her kidnapping story would sign formal statements. McDonald re acted to police questions and recounted her abduction claim while awaiting the release of photographs for identification. The police sought black and white statements from McDonald, her three callers, journalist Harrison Carroll, actor Michael Wilding, and her agent Harry Plant.
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Los Angeles
William H. Parker
Marie McDonald
Miss McDonald
Jerry Giesler
Parker
India
Harrison Carroll
Michael Wilding
Harry Plant
Giesler
Raindrop Gauge Sees 0.74 Inch Fall in Pawnee
Weather observer Loyd Brumington fielded calls after rainfall finally arrived in Pawnee Oklahoma. He greeted residents with the exact measure 0.74 inch rather than polite greetings.
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Pawnee
Okla
Loyd Brumington
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