Soviet B50 crash survivor says bomber shot down near Siberia
The lone survivor Lt. John E. Roche reports the B50 bomber was attacked and shot down about 40 miles off the Russian coast near Vladivostok during a navigational training mission. 16 crew were aboard. 14 airmen are listed as missing from Forbes AFB.
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Tokyo
Russian Siberia
O. P. Weyland
Far East
Moscow
Vladivostok
John E. Roche
Washington, D. C
Weyland
Forbes
Roche
Air Force
Taft ends long career as cancer claims senator
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio died at age 63 in New York Hospital after a four day decline from cancer. He left a one vote Republican-Senate majority, with Democrats seeking to gain control as Morse and Nixon figures loom. President Eisenhower sent physician Maj. Gen. Snyder to Taft, delivering greetings and best wishes for recovery.
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NEW York
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
New York Hospital
Sen. Taft
Martha
Washington
Senate
Charles W. Tobey
New Hampshire
GOP
Tobey
Nixon
Sen
Congress
Craft
Snyder
Eisenhower Debt Ceiling Hurdle Clears House Committee
The measure to raise the federal debt limit from 275 to 290 billion dollars clears the House Ways and Means Committee 17 to 6. Administration push to rush the bill faces Senate opposition and a looming adjournment.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rules Committee
West Virginia truck driver shot while asleep near Lisbon
John K. Sheperd 34 of West Alexandria West Virginia was shot in the head while parked on WA S 30 near Lisbon Ohio by a .32 caliber gun. He was listed in serious condition at Salem Clinic Hospital with the slug not believed to have entered his brain. The attack occurred between 3 and 3 30 a m about a mile and six tenths south of Lisbon.
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Lisbon
Ohio
WA. S. 30
W. B. Ampleby
Ohio Patrol
John K. Sheperd
West Alexandria
W. Va
Pennsylvania
Sheperd
Salem Clinic
Ampleby
Band Leader Sues Senator Over Eisenhower Campaign Payment
Duke Andrews, head of The Duke's Quintet, sues Sen. Frank Carlson and others for 50000 in District Court. The petition says Carlson as managing agent of Dwight D. Eisenhower's national campaign hired the band June 4 1952. The group worked 140 days and was not paid.
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Wichita
Kan
Frank H. Carson
R-Kan
Eisenhower
Duke Andrews
Duke
Carlson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fifty Year Students Are Awarded Degrees
Western Michigan College granted bachelor of arts degrees to two Michigan women who began studies nearly 50 years ago. Grace S. Rosso of Grand Haven, a teacher, matriculated in 1909, and Mabel Blair, who started in 1906, completed a program including running, tumbling and volleyball.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Western Michigan College
Michigan
Grace S. Rosso
Grand Haven
Mabel Blair
Dutch Harbor veteran plans 4000 mile cruise
Harvey J. Meeker, a sea veteran from Ohio, launches a leisurely 4000 mile voyage in a 15 foot home made motor boat. He leaves Buffalo bound for Dunkirk and then Sandusky, starting today.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Harvey J. Meeker
Ohio
Dunkirk
Sandusky
Food Parcel Goal Raised in West Berlin
West Berlin officials announced an increase in the free food parcel target to three million for East Germans as Western stations anticipate boosting the first week’s distribution beyond one million. Communist police confiscate identity cards of applicants and tour workplaces to secure pledges not to seek Western parcels.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Bop Singer Billy Eckstine Divorced Over Golfing Later
Mrs. Billy Eckstine won a divorce on cruelty grounds after alleging her husband played golf all day and socialized with friends, leaving her scarcely seen. She seeks alimony up to 23750 dollars yearly under a settlement. Eckstine, 36, did not contest the suit from his 32 year old wife June, married since 1942.
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Los Angeles
Billy Eckstine
Eckstine
June
FEAF Reveals Plane Losses in Korean War Totals
Far East Air Forces reported 1000 war planes lost behind Red lines, 110 in aerial duels, 667 by ground fire, 213 by other causes. It cites 58 U S Sabre jets lost, 800 Red MIGs shot down, and 839 MiGs plus 181 other planes destroyed by FEAF fliers. The last loss was an FS80 Shooting Star recon aircraft.
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Tokyo
Far East
Orean
FEAF
U. S
5Th Air Force
Sth Air Force
Japan
Okinawa
State Solons Tackle Dozen Lausche Vetos
Ohio's 100th General Assembly returns to tackle a dozen gubernatorial vetoes as the session winds toward sine die. Republicans expect some Lausche vetoes to stand while battles loom over a plan to create a new Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction affecting welfare and prisoner care.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
Senate
House
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction
State Welfare Department
Lausche Defers Comment On Taft Senate Vacancy
Governor Lausche prepares to name a successor to the late Taft seat as required by statute. The appointee would serve until December 15 1954 with a November 1954 election for Taft's term ending January 3 1957. The move could affect the Senate balance between parties.
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Taft
Associates
Lausche
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Senate
Delays in Adjournment Seen Despite Foreign Aid Accord
Washington reports a Senate House accord on the foreign aid bill clears a main hurdle to Congress adjournment though Eisenhower's debt limit request clouds timing. House conferees press toward final passage of a 6.652 billion dollar aid bill, with Senate still weighing final approval and possible stay beyond this week. The package totals 699.316 million below Eisenhower’s request and includes 4.530 billion in new cash plus 2.122 billion to cover prior appropriations.
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Senate
House
Congress
Eisenhower
Knowland
California
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate House
Taber
R-Ny
Appropriations Committee
Miss Ohio Named Miss America Contender for 1953
Nineteen year old Martha Zimmerman of Salem won the Miss Ohio title at Mentor on the Lake with 62 points to earn a spot in the Miss America contest starting Labor Day in Atlantic City. Nancy Hall Miss Cleveland placed second with 60 and Ellie Bailey Miss Perry County was third with 38. Earlier this year Zimmerman lost the sesquicentennial queen contest to Janet Bailey of Akron.
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Painesville
Ohio
Martha Zimmerman
Salem
Atlantic City
N. J
Mentor-on-the- Lake
Nancy Hall
Cleveland
Ellie Bailey
Junction City
Perry County
Zimmerman
Janet Bailey
Akron
Ex Chaplin protege in psychopathic ward recovers in Torrance
Joan Berry 33, once Chaplin's protegee and plaintiff in a 1946 suit alleging he was father of Carol Ann now two, was found wandering in stocking feet in Torrance and returned to General Hospital's psychopathic ward. Police traced her from Redondo Beach home.
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Charlie Chaplin
General Hospital
Joan Berry
Torrance
Redondo Beach
Miss Berry
Chaplin
Carol Ann
One Miner Dead Two Hurt In Mine Shaft Plunge
In Telluride Colorado two miners fell almost 100 feet while riding a hoisting platform in a tunnel. Julian Medina 36 from Questa New Mexico was killed and Joe Romero 46 from Questa was listed in serious condition. They worked as partners for Idarado Mining Co.
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Telluride
Colo
Julian Medina
Questa
N. M
Joe Romero
Idarado Mining Co
DIVE PROVES FATAL AKRON OHIO
A Massillon man died in a hospital in Akron Thursday from injuries after diving into Turkeyfoot Lake. He sustained fatal injuries while diving in the lake and passed away in the hospital.
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Akron, Ohio
Massillon
Turkeyfoot Lake
Reds accuse UN of two more truce violations
At Panmunjom the Reds leveled 11th and 12th charges of Allied truce violations in four days. UN officials dismissed the claims as not serious as the Korean Armistice Commission discussed prisoner exchanges and movements toward Panmunjom.
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Reds
Munsan
Korean Military Armistice Commission
Panmunjom
Korea
Blackshear M. Bryan
Air Force
Manchuria
North Korea
North
South Korea
Federal Rent Controls Die At Midnight
Federal rent control ends tonight in about 1100 communities as World War II era measures expire. Officials expect limited rent increases, roughly ten percent, and note some states will step in with their own laws. New York has long had such laws, while Massachusetts New Jersey and Kansas have adopted state controls. Connecticut’s law auto triggers when federal limits end, and only Philadelphia and Baltimore among large cities have local controls with constitutional questions noted.
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Washington
Office of Rent Stabilization
New York
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Kansas
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Family Tiffs End in Death
Four children of a Shelby household witnessed their mother, 32, mortally wounded after a pistol fired from an adjoining room. Sheriff Haywood Allen reported Van Hammett, about 40, confessed to shooting his wife eight times following weeks of quarrels. The children, ages 14 to 7, are in the custody of the maternal grandparents.
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Shelby, N. C
Haywood Allen
van Hammett
Chain Stores Evade Law, Cattlemen Told
Fred Hatch, president of the Chicago Livestock Exchange, told the Ohio Cattlemen's Assn that major U.S. chain stores collude to fix cattle prices and the retail meat price. He said stores prearrange what they will pay raisers, enabling price fixing.
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Kenton
Ohio
Fred Hatch
Chicago Livestock Exchange
United States
Ohio Cattlemen’s Assn
Hatch
Weekend Heat Wave With Scattered Thunderstorms
Temperatures will run 2 to 5 degrees above normal from Saturday through Wednesday with normal lows around 64 and highs near 84 to 88. Warmer through Monday then cooler on Tuesday as scattered thundershowers are indicated for late Sunday and Monday.
News broadcaster Kieran Balfe dies at 44
Pittsburg newscaster Kieran Balfe, a veteran radio announcer and news broadcaster, died of a heart attack Thursday.
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Pittsburgh
Kieran Balfe
Blast Victim Maurine Beebe Dies in Ohio Gas Explosion
Maurine Beebe, 46, of Ashtabula, Ohio, died Thursday from burns sustained in a gas explosion. The blast occurred earlier this week, with Beebe identified as a victim from the incident. Fire officials stated the investigation continues to determine the cause.
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Ashtabula
Ohio
Maurine Beebe
Solon Urges New Election For Senate Vacancy
Rep. Adrian Fink proposes a bill to replace appointment with a new election process for Ohio U S Senate vacancies. The plan would require counties to hold primaries within 120 days of vacancy and final elections 120 days after, triggered by the death of Sen. Robert A. Taft.
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Cleveland
Adrian Fink
Cuyahoga
U. S. Senate
Fink
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Frank Lausche
Holmes Hunters See Panther Sightings in Holmes County
In Millersburg Ohio residents report a black panther roaming the countryside. Bert Giaque recalls seeing the beast about three weeks ago crossing a road within a farm work area.
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Millersburg
Ohio
Holmes County
Bert Giaque
Bus plunge near Morrisburg leaves 17 dead
A Toronto Montreal bus struck a parked truck west of Morrisburg Ontario and plunged 25 feet into the Williamsburg Canal. Police said 17 passengers drowned with 47 aboard and the bus driver among 20 survivors. A diver aided rescue, artificial respiration was used, and the crash occurred at 4 am on No 2 highway near the canal.
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Morrisburg
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River
Ottawa
Massena-Ogdensburg
New York
Top Scientist Dies in Helicopter Crash During Air Study
A helicopter crash killed Dr. Guenter Loeser and five others during a prefield wind research flight for an Air Force lower atmosphere study. Project commander Maj. Oscar J. Tibbets said the six week tests would proceed, though possibly delayed.
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Cyneili
Nobel Apm
Guenter Loeser
Air Force
Oscar J. Tibbets
Loeser
Jailed lover still hopeful in long Beach case
Edward S. Kropfli, a 44 year old mail carrier, pursued dental assistant Lavera O Betz for three years. After being rebuffed and facing her marriage to another, he sent over 100 letters and made 1000 calls, even visiting her office before a disorderly conduct complaint led to his jail sentence.
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Long Beach
Calif
Edward S. Kropfli
Lavera O'Betz
Kropfli
Reverend McMichael Denies Communist Ties Before HUAC
The Rev Jack Richard McMichael a 36 year old preacher from Upper Lake California told the House Un American Activities Committee I do not know him in response to Manning Johnson the accuser who identified him as a one time Communist Johnson was brought into the room for McMichael to view and McMichael said he did not recognize him by name or appearance The witness defended himself against alleged un American and un Christian conduct saying the procedure unfairly condemned Jesus by association
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Washington
Jack Richard McMichael
House Un-American Activities Committee
Manning Johnson
McMichael
Welde
R-Il
Johnson
Upper Lake
Calif
Franky
Rep
Clardy
R-Mich
Hell Drivers stunt man injured in premature fair blast
Lucky Lee Lott, manager of the Hell Drivers stunt team, was injured at the Fayette County fair in Washington Court House Ohio when a blast during the show went off early. He was treated at Memorial Hospital for abrasions and damaged eardrums.
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Washington Court House
Ohio
Fayette County
Lucky Lee Lott
Memorial Hospital
Lott
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