Beck Splits With Dutt Faces Quiz Again
Senate investigators summon Teamster President Dave Beck for a May 8 public hearing without ex senator James H. Duff. Beck says he has dropped Duff over Duff’s absence, while Duff cites his withdrawal from Beck’s employ amid ongoing tax and misappropriation questions.
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Washington
Dave Beck
Senate
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
McClellan
D-Ark
Beck
Duff
Arthur D. Condon
Heavy Rains Continue Across Texas as Floods Persist
Severe weather drenched Texas with 7 inch Miami rainfall in 24 hours while floodwaters rose along the Sabine and Trinity rivers. Deweyville residents faced evacuation as waters surged. two more drownings raised spring flood deaths to 16. About 35,000 acres flooded and over 9,000 people displaced statewide.
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Louisiana
Miami
Trinity River
Dallas
Sabine
Trinity
Deweyville
Orange
Tex
Lima News Publishes Amid Ongoing Guild Strike
The Lima News issued a 24 page edition with a skeleton staff as about 45 American Newspaper Guild members went on a second day of strike. The afternoon daily reached press roughly five hours late due to the walkout.
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Lima
Lima News
American Newspaper Guild
the News
Democrats Paint Ike Nervous in 100 Day Review
The Democratic Digest depicts President Eisenhower as irritable ill and nervous while steadfastly hammering golf balls. The DNC publication Wednesday released a review of Ike's first 100 days in his second term noting history has flowed around him but he continues to swing at golf balls.
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Washington
Democratic Digest
Eisenhower
Democratic National Committee
Ike
Skelton Hospitalized After Virus Infection Fatigue
Santa Monica California comedian Red Skelton was admitted to St. John's Hospital with an uncomplicated virus infection superimposed on fatigue. His physician said the condition is not serious and he will remain hospitalized for observation.
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Santa Monica, Calif —Po
Red Skelton
St. John’s Hospital
Church Leader Admits Giving NAACP $10,000
In Chicago the moderator of the Presbyterian Church U S A confirmed a Ku Klux Klan statement that the church gave 10 000 dollars to the NAACP to settle a damage suit. Aty Shepherd K Nash of Sumter sought 120 000 dollars in libel damages over a school integration statement. Nash offered to return the funds if the NAACP provided donor names and dropped the Sumter suit for 10 years. He set a May 20 deadline and threatened to donate the money to Shriner's Hospital or Sumter First Presbyterian Church if conditions failed.
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S. C
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Ku Klux Klan
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South Carolina Klan
NAACP
Atty
Shepherd K. Nash
Sumter
S.C
Eugene Carson Blake
Chicago
Assembly
Nash
Inte
Shriner's Hospital For
Greenville
Sumter First
Adenauer Demands Soviet Push to Honor 1954 Nuclear Pledge
West Germany leader Konrad Adenauer challenged the Soviet Union to match 1954 WEU pledges against atomic, bacteriological, and chemical weapons at a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting. He accused Russia of blocking disarmament proposals and urged NATO unity to avoid catastrophic war.
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Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union
West Germany
NATO Council of Foreign Ministers
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NATO
East Germany
Russia
East Europe
U S Chamber Launches Policy Offensive Against Federal Programs
Washington report on the U S Chamber of Commerce unveiling 69 policy declarations aimed at curbing federal loans for schools drainage low income housing and public housing subsidies. The group urged limiting Social Security expansion and favored keeping atomic power plant construction to utilities with Philip S Talbott introduced as the new chamber president at the closing banquet.
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Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Eisenhower
Chamber
Philip S. Talbott
Washington, D. C
Ezio Pinza Stricken By Third Heart Attack
Stamford News reports Ezio Pinza aged 64 suffered a third heart attack since August. The opera basso and Broadway star, stricken at home Tuesday, remains on oxygen off and on, and was not hospitalized per his wife.
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Stamford
Conn
Ezio Pinza
East Germany Denies Pieck Death Rumors
Communist East Germany rejected rumors that 81 year old President Wilhelm Pieck is dead and confirmed he remains alive and ailing.
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Berlin
East Germany
Wilhelm Pieck
Weather summary for Ohio and surrounding areas
Mostly sunny and cooler today with fair and cool tonight. Scattered frost in the northeast and extreme north. Highs in the 60s to 70s elsewhere. Low tonight 35 to 42 in the northeast and 42 to 48 in the southwest. West Virginia: mostly sunny and cooler north, cooling south. highs upper 60s to around 80. tonight fair and cooler with lows 35 to 40 north and 40s south. Friday brings some cloudiness and continued cool conditions.
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West Virginia
Atlante
Chicago
Cleveland
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
New York
Sonal
Oklahoma City
Phoenix
Nicaragua in Crisis as Somoza Confronts Honduran Attack
President Luis Somoza and top officials held emergency talks after Honduran forces attacked Mocoron frontier village, killing Nicaraguan soldiers. Somoza alleged air strafing and warned of defending national integrity. U S Ambassador Whelan met Somoza amid rising Managua tensions.
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Nicaragua
Luis Somoza
Honduras
Somoza
Mocoron
Frontier
Tegucigalpa
U. S
Thomas E. Whelan
Whelan
Buchtel Creek Woman Dies In Suspected Accident
A 58 year old Buchtel woman Nancy Ann Bauer was found face down in a creek near her home. Sheriff officials say no foul play or suicide is suspected and an autopsy was ordered. She left a tavern early this morning and apparently fell from a wall into swift water. She is survived by two sons and four grandchildren.
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Nancy Ann Bauer
Lester Coakley
Harold Shields
John H. Elias
Bauer
Johnson
Nelsonville
Elias
William
Edgar
Robert
Marietta Youth Drowns While Fixing Drain Pipe
Marietta, Thomas L. Wittekind, 19, of Route 1, Marietta, drowned in a farm pond near town Tuesday night. Authorities said he entered deep water to adjust a drain pipe and could not swim.
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Thomas L. Wittekind
Route 1
Here
Ivy Becomes Second American Vessel Through Suez Since Closure
SUEZ Egypt The American tanker Ivy entered from the canal's southern end today routing through the Suez Canal marking the second U S flagged ship to use the waterway since its closure last October.
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Suez
Egypt
Ivy
Suez Canal
Northeast Stock Leak Under Study
Sen. Jackson leads a Senate Investigations panel examining a stock surge in Northeast Airlines after an anonymous tip about a CAB route award. Oliver testified he received the call and unexpectedly bought 400 Northeast shares, while Oliver had intended Northwest. Jackson pressed Oliver on the credibility of his story.
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Jackson
D-Wash
Senate
Northeast Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
New York- Miami
Northeast
Senate Investigations
Robert W. Oliver
New York-Miami
Oliver
Pogue and Neal
Delta Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Reginald H. Foster
Kidnapings Hit Moroccan Royal Circle Amid Feud
Five sons of Thami El Glaoui were kidnapped in Marrakech as guerrilla forces seize the palace. Abdallah El Glaoui, 39, and his four brothers were taken in separate incidents while the invaders posted at palace gates. French police officials were barred from entry.
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Rabat
Morocco
Thami el Glaoui
Marrakech
Moroccan Army of Liberation
Mohammed V
el Glaoui
Irregular Army of Liberation
Abdallah
Medina
Old Quarter
Army of Liberation
Harriman denies inviting Greek Archbishop visit
Albany New York Governor Averell Harriman says he did not invite Greek Archbishop Maka rios to New York. A mid April letter to the exiled Cypriot leader sparked controversy abroad, stating desire to extend hospitality. The governor termed the message as self explanatory.
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N. Y
Averell Harriman
Makarios
New York State
Harriman
New York
Rocket Kappa-3 Soars to 13 Mile Altidude Test
Akita Japan reports Japan's first two stage supersonic rocket Kappa-3 launched reaching an altitude of 13 miles in its initial test.
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Aksta
Japan
Legislature Urged to End Session by May 24 in Ohio
The Ohio Senate set a May 24 finish deadline as Gov. O'Neill and legislative leaders reach a compact. Key votes loomed on city income tax uniformity, drainage law modernization, and state real estate sales. House actions included tax stamp elimination and dog rescue timing for research use. Facilities and health panels advanced subsidies and X-ray restrictions.
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Ohio
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
Athens
C. William O'Neill
William H. Deddens
R. Hamilton
House
House Health Committee
Ralph Dwork
Fred Cassel
R-Wyandot
Campfield’s Wife Surrenders to FBI
Ruth Mary Smith Campfield 39 of Gallipolis and Tampa Fla surrendered to Portsmouth Police Wednesday to face a federal complaint. She posted a $10 000 bond for a Friday preliminary hearing in Toledo. Special FBI agent E D Mason said the complaint charges two counts of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act prohibiting interstate transportation of stolen vehicles.
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Gallipolis
Ruth Mary Smith Campfield
Tampa
Fla
Portsmouth
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Toledo
E. D. Mason
FBI
Cincinnati
Vatican thief fails as guards stop smash of jewel crowns
A Vatican visitor tore a hammer from his pocket and smashed the glass cabinet holding two diamond studded crowns. Vatican guards subdued the Italian youth before he could seize the crowns.
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Vatican
Vatican City
Mechem weighs probe into insurance group newsletter
Ohio Senate leader C Stanley Mechem weighs a full investigation after two senators challenged an April 19 newsletter claim that a $150000 fund raised by auto dealers aimed to pass H B 75 to bypass agent licensing and the Ohio installment sales act Metzenbaum Act. The issue centers on a statement reportedly prepared by Theodore Gray Sr. and circulated in 1500 copies.
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Ohio
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
Athens
Ross Pepple
R Allen
Frank King
Lucas
Ohio Association of Insurance Agents
Pepple
Theodore Gray Sr
Insurance Agents’ Group
Piqua
Theodore Gray Jr
32 Killed In Air Crash At Blackbushe England
A military transport plane crashed near Blackbushe after attempting an emergency landing. Thirty-two of 35 aboard died. four were rescued, one later died. The Viking carried service members and families to Libya. one engine exploded as the pilot tried to return for a runway landing.
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Blackbushe
England
Libya
Arab unity talks shape U.S. approach to Middle East crisis
U.S. officials say Saudi Arabia and Jordan may join Egypt and Syria to project Arab unity amid Jordanian turmoil. Washington seeks to avoid direct blame on Nasser while preserving leverage with Saud and Hussein. Officials note unity is unlikely but keep policy flexible to deter Soviet influence and protect Arab perceptions of independence.
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U.S
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Egypt
Syria
United States
Nasser
U. S
Saud
Hussein
Shukri al Kuwaily
Suez Canal
Soviet Union
Russia
King Saud
Middle East
Israel
Ike Recalls Roving Envoy Roving Ambassador James P Richards
Roving Ambassador James P Richards will skip Jordan Egypt and Syria on a Middle East tour to promote the Eisenhower plan for U S backing against Communist aggression The Bonn conference with Secretary of State Dulles was canceled and Richards is to be in Washington by May 9 to aid preparations for a presidential meeting with congressional leaders on new foreign aid legislation The move reflects hostility in parts of the region
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James P. Richards
Jordan
Egypt
Syria
Middle East
Eisenhower
U. S
Bonn
Germany
Richards
Dulles
Charges Reduced in Home Shooting Case
Maggie Crook, 57, had charges of second degree murder reduced to manslaughter after a jury declined to convict her of murder for a shooting at a party in her Cleveland home on November 10. Judge Roy F. McMahon presided.
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Cleveland
Maggie Crook
Norris Jackson
Roy F. McMahon
Chicago honors Clarence Darrow centennial tribute
Chicago marked the 100th anniversary of Clarence Darrow with a citywide tribute headlined by Boston attorney Joseph N. Welch. The evening featured a bridge ceremony in Jackson Park and the premiere of Mister Darrow for the Defense, an adaptation of five famous Darrow pleas.
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Boston
Army
Welch
Darrow
Jackson Park
Mister Darrow
Kinsman
Ohio
Chicago
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