Murder Charged In Death Of Husband's Former Wife
In Casper Wyoming a 42 year old mother Rose Alexander was jailed without bond after telling a coroner s jury she buried Barbara Alexander 27 in a Casper home cellar to spare the children. The jury found Barbara died from a fractured skull likely caused by an unknown assailant. Rose testified the death was accidental and feared for the children. James Alexander, 48, the former husband, testified he knew nothing until the body was unearthed Monday.
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Casper
Wyo
Rose Alexander
Barbara Alexander
Rose
Barbara
James
Casper High School
Worland
East Casper
False Tale of Torture? Youth Sets Himself Afire
Cleveland police report a 17 year old high school student Earl R Fryman allegedly invented a kidnapping and burning story. He was severely burned and near death with burns over eighty percent. Investigators found a theater ticket stub and a store purchase of chain suggesting self hurt to avoid school. Authorities say Fryman may have set himself ablaze accidentally while using turpentine.
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Cleveland
Earl R. Fryman
David E Kerr
Police Homicide Bureau
Fryman
Elmer Rouble
Bureau of Scientific Investigation
Kerr
East Germans Turn American Soldiers Over to Russians
Reports from East Berlin say two American soldiers arrested after a street fight were handed to Soviet military authorities. US officials noted no missing soldiers and warned East Germany may use the case to assert sovereignty despite four power agreements.
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Berlin
East Berlin
U. S
East Germany
Reds
Berliner Zeitung
Harriman Labeled Tammany Candidate by GOP Critics
Republican senators accuse Gov Averell Harriman of New York of being a Tammany Hall candidate as they weigh him as a possible Democratic presidential hopeful. Senators Hickenlooper Case and Watkins comment on Harriman’s ties to Tammany leader Carmine DeSapio and the nickname's political implications. DeSapio defends Tammany as a standard party organization.
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Washington
Averell Harriman
New York
Harriman
White House
James C. Hagerty
Hickenlooper
R-Iown
Francis Case
R-Sd
Tammany Hall
Watkins
Utah
Tammany
Carmine DeSapio
Boos
Crime Expert Hairs Tie Abbott Case to Victim
Dr. Paul Kirk, UC criminologist, testifies hairs and fibers from Bur ton Abbott's car match Stephanie Bryan. Clay on Abbott's boots linked to her grave. Abbott, 27, is charged with kidnapping and murdering Stephanie on April 28. Defense cross examination follows with Lowell Bradford present as expert adviser.
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Oakland
Calif
Paul Kirk
University of California
Burton Abbott
Stephanie Bryan
Abbott
Stephanie
Kirk
Lowell W. Bradford
Santa Clara County
Ex Auditor Ferguson Heads for State Nomination Petitions
Columbus former State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson became the first Democrat to obtain nominating petitions for statewide office in the May 8 primary. He collected petitions from Secretary of State Ted W. Brown and has not stated the exact office he will seek. Ferguson is eyeing both state auditor and state treasurer posts.
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Columbus
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ferguson
Ted W. Brown
Clean Slums Fight Crime Told by State Official
Columbus The chief of the state division of correction urged cities to rehabilitate criminals by cleaning up slum areas. Maury C. Koblentz noted 98 percent of prisoners return to society and that cities must address environmental factors behind crime. He said reform cannot be limited to prison gates.
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Columbus
State Division of Correction
Maury C. Koblentz
Buckeye Sheriffs Assnhere
Koblentz
Red jets embolden Soviet bomber force in Jane's view
A world aviation authority cited in Jane's All the World’s Aircraft says Soviet jet bomber production is expanding across 360 factories from the Polish border to the Far East. It notes Type 37 four jet heavy bombers and Type 39 medium twin jet bombers shown in formation near Moscow last July and suggests output may not yet reach full peacetime capacity. It also says American aircraft production has likely peaked in peace.
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London
Russia
Far East
Moscow
Jane's
America
Parker Warns U S Security Push Goes Too Far
New York man Cola G. Parker NAM president-designee says the United States has gone completely over board on security. He cites rising taxes from 1913 to 1954 and expanding government bite, urging industrial leaders to set an example and resist reliance on government aid. Parker, retiring Kimberly-Clark chairman, will become NAM president at tonight’s board meeting.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
United States
Cola G. Parker
NAM
Parker
Uncle Sam
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Neenah, Wis
Continuation of Salk Polio Vaccine Schedule Urged
A special advisory group recommended continuing the three shot plan for polio vaccine over about eight months. Surgeon General Scheele announced the guidance after a meeting with medical experts and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Washington
Leonard A. Scheele
Medical and Health Professions
National Foundation For
Jonas E. Salk
Past Air Secretary Warns U S Must Maintain Military Strength
Thomas K. Finletter former Secretary of the Air Force told the Cleveland Bar Association dinner that the United States must stay ahead of Russia in military power even at high tax costs. He cited Russian propaganda and an undercover war while urging strong air atomic capabilities.
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Cleveland
United States
Russia
Thomas K. _ Finletter
Air Force
Cleveland Bar Association
India
Japan
Ford Letter Slams Some Fund Acts
Ford Motor Co. president Henry Ford II criticizes the Fund for the Republic in a private citizen letter, questioning actions while Paul G. Hoffman defends the fund's work to promote civil liberties knowledge and race relations. The exchange centers on ideological scrutiny of the Ford Foundation funded group.
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Ford
Detroit
Fund For the Republic
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Co
Ford Foundation
Syracuse
N.Y
American
U.S
Dungey
Paul G. Hoffman
Los Angeles
Eisenhower Meets Advisors At Camp David On Budget
President Eisenhower and top advisers hold an intensive Camp David session to shape next year’s defense program and balance the budget with a tax cut if possible. Treasury Secretary Humphrey said he expects budget balance despite military spending signals.
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Tormont
Eisenhower
Camp David
Treasury Humphrey
Humphrey
Mountaintop
Treasury
Rowland Hughes
Police Charge Infant Killing
Dayton police say Mary Alice Kelton gave birth to a 70 pound infant in her apartment and two days later disposed of the body in a wire trash basket. Coroner says cause of death carbon monoxide poisoning and rules it homicide. She denies setting a fire and remains under guard in hospital.
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Dayton
Mary Alice Kelton
Kelton
Robert Zipf
Miss Kelton
Communist Tells Court Reds Plan Overthrow
In Cleveland a convicted woman testified that the Reds planned to lead American workers in a final conflict to seize power. Barbara Hartle, 47, a former Seattle party leader, testified at the trial of 11 Ohio Communist leaders charged with conspiracy to overthrow the federal government. She said the party sought violent seizure of power and to teach the working classes to fight for the final conflict over the capitalist state.
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Cleveland
Reds
Barbara Hartle
Ohio
Hartle
Seattle
Women's Federal
Alderson
W. Va
Communist Party
Buckeye State Sheriffs Association half century honor
Ohio sheriffs held a two day Columbus convention with 300 attendees. Pickaway County Sheriff Charles Radcliff received a gold badge for 25 years service. Mrs. Mary Tinker and E. W. Leeds were also honored. Franklin County Deputy Sheriff Don Stafford named outstanding deputy of the year for posing as a narcotics addict to dismantle a Columbus narcotics ring.
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Columbus
Pickaway County
Charles E. Radcliff
Buckeye State Sheriffs Association
Radcliff
Chccleville
Mary Tinker
Association
E. W. Leeds
Ashville Banker
Franklin County
Don Stafford
Two Men Face Trial On Federal Charge
In Wheeling two men Stanko Vosvick and Daniel J. Marzano go to trial in U S District Court on a federal charge of transporting a 22 year old woman from Steubenville to Wheeling for prostitution. The case is the second of three scheduled trials in the matter. Judge Herbert S. Boreman presides.
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Wheeling
U. S. District Court
Herbert S. Boreman
Stanko Vosvick
Daniel J. Marzano
Warren
Ohio
Violet Kent
Steubenville
Armistice Zone Housing Deemed Deplorable By Brucker
U S Army Secretary Wilber M Brucker called tent housing for American troops in the Korean armistice zone deplorable inspecting 24th Infantry Division units along 21 miles of the front He said funds are available for semipermanent housing and vowed action. Gen I D White and Maj Gen S B Mason offered timeline for reducing tents by mid December and extending to late January for 90 percent Quonset hut completion and full tent removal.
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Western Front
Korea
U. S. Army
Wilber M. Brucker
Korean Armistice Zone
I. D. White
8Th Army
Brucker
Six Die in Detroit Fire Tragedy in West Side House
A Detroit fire killed six people, including three children, in a West Side two story frame house. Neighbors helped rescue the father from one family while the survivor described waking to dense smoke and flames as his wife searched for the baby.
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Detroit
Mechem Cites Cost Problem in Ohio State Financing
Senate majority leader Sen. C. Stanley Mechem says financing Ohio's government will be tougher as costs rise from changes to state programs. He cites the education department’s new school foundation program costing about 48 million dollars more, effective mid-1956. Sen. Bricker is to speak to delegates on Wednesday. Proposals to cut highway accidents are to be discussed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Stanley Mechem
Athens
Mechem
Ohio County Engineers
County Commissioners Associations
State Education Department
New School Foundation
John W. Bricker
British Peer Proposes UN Custody of Nuclear Arms
Lord Fraser of North Cape urged the United Nations to control all nuclear weapons. He proposed 300 to 500 bombs buried halfway up Everest and UN sole custody, with Security Council power to deploy or remove weapons in response to aggression or mobilization.
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London
United Nations
Everest
Lord Fraser
North Cape
House of Commons
Security Council
Blast Kills Springfield Man Cleaning Flywheel
William Arthur Davis aged 21 of Springfield died yesterday from burns received when gasoline exploded while he cleaned a car flywheel last Friday.
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Springfield
William Arthur Davis
United Nations considers 18 new members amid China veto threat
At UN headquarters delegates push to admit 18 applicants with broad support, while Nationalist China faces pressure to abstain from veto. The General Assembly expected quick ratification. Security Council likely to vote next week where China’s veto could derail the package.
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United Nations
N.Y
Security Council
China
General Assembly
Special
Assembly
Outer Mongolia
Cuba
United States
Eisenhower
Chiang Kai-shek
Britain
Russia
Peru
Brazil
Iran
Turkey
New Zealand
Belgium
France
Formosa
Red China
T. F. Tsiang
Youth Faces Murder Charge in Foster-Parents Case
Sixteen year old Kenneth Bowman faces a two count indictment in Preble County Common Pleas Court on first degree murder and arson charges for the September slaying of his foster parents Mr and Mrs Harold Bowman at their farm near Eaton Ohio. Prosecutor Everett Fahrenholz says Bowman admitted killing the couple then wrecking their car and setting it ablaze with the bodies inside. He was examined at Lima State Hospital before the case was sent to the grand jury.
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Lima State Hospital
Navy Patrol Plane Crashes at Sea
A two engine Navy patrol bomber on air-submarine maneuvers crashed at sea Wednesday night off Oahu. Three of the ten aboard were rescued by a submarine, while seven airmen remained missing as seven submarines and four planes joined the search near Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Navy
Oahu
Navy Dives For Plane Wreckage After SeaMaster Crash
Salvage teams sought the wreckage of a Martin SeaMaster jet seaplane after a test flight from Martin Co. near Baltimore exploded over Chesapeake Bay. Four aboard include three Martin employees and one Navy officer. Eyewitnesses saw heavy smoke and a parachute open before the nose struck the water southeast of Washington near the Potomac. No cause yet announced.
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Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Navy
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Martin
Potomac River
GM Dealer Says Officials Are Dictators
GM vice president William F. Hufstader named M. H. Yager, Albany Pontiac dealer, as an example of alleged GM coercion. Yager, once a GM and Ford executive, claimed GM leaders are becoming dictators and using a gun-in-the-ribs approach to enforce sales quotas.
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Washington
General Motors
William F. Hufstader
M. H. Yager
Pontiac
Albany
N. Y
Yager
Ford
Hufstader
Harlow H. Curtice
Missions and Dayton Meet Missionaries Call for Racial Reform
A Protestant missionary group urged eliminating segregation in churches and community institutions. At the sixth annual assembly of the National Council of Churches foreign missions division, delegates from 40 denominations adopted a policy message favoring international interracial mission work, flexible methods, and better church coordination.
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Dayton
Foreign Missions Division
National Council of Churches
Paratyphoid Outbreak In Lancaster Prompts Immunization
An outbreak in Lancaster Pennsylvania with 54 reported paratyphoid cases was declared an epidemic by the state health head. A mass inoculation program was ordered for 35 000 residents to curb the spread.
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Lancaster
State Department of
Stevenson denounces GOP hate mongering at AFL CIO
Democrat Adlai Stevenson blasted Republican officials for hate mongering saying it poisons democracy at home and abroad. He warned that a design to incite group hatred threatens unity as he spoke at the AFL CIO convention about political rhetoric and its risks to liberty.
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New York
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Democracy
Afl-Cio
Secretary of Agriculture
Wor
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