Lake freighter Henry Steinbrenner sinks in gale
The 6900-ton American lake freighter Henry Steinbrenner with 31 aboard sank off Isle Royale in Lake Superior. A U S Coast Guard report said the ship carrying iron ore went down with all hands after a 60 mile per hour gale ripped the cargo hatches. Two nearby freighters joined a search. the vessel was owned by Minsman Transit Co and operated by Henry G Steinbrenner Co of Cleveland.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Henry Steinbrenner
Isle Royale
Lake Superior
U.S. Coast Guard
Duluth
Hochelaga
Ontadoc
Ona Oe
Sat
Greeces
Rort Arthur
Minsman Transit Co
Cleveland
Henry G. Steinbrenner Co
Emperor of the Canada Steamship Lines
Isle Royal
48 Miners Held In Slaying Case In West Virginia
Forty eight miners were jailed in two towns 40 miles apart to face a weekend hearing on charges of murdering 29 year old nonstriking miner Charles Frame. A state trooper read the single warrant charging all 48 in the Thursday shooting. Twenty five were moved to Kanawha County Jail for preliminaries. Frame was killed in a 4 am gunfight during patrol of a nonstrike area. Three others were wounded.
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Clay
W. Va
Belle Hamrick
Charles Frame
James Reed
Frame
Kanawha
Charleston
Mrs. Nancy Wamsley 87 Dies in Point Pleasant
Mrs. Nancy Jane Wamsley 87 died at her son Andrew Wamsley’s home in Point Pleasant after an illness. Born April 7 1866 in Gallia County she lived most of her life in Point Pleasant and belonged to the Church of Christ. She left six daughters and three sons, and two sisters. Funeral at Church of Christ Wednesday at 2 pm with Lewis Michael officiating, burial in Suncrest Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 pm Monday at 1520 Ohio St.
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Point Pleasant
Nancy Jane Wamsley
Andrew Wamsley
Ohio St
Gallia County
Church of Christ
Benjamin Franklin Wamsley
Mary Brown
Rose May Huddleston
Mabel Holstein
Detroit
Clara Robinson
West Columbia
Virginia King
Pomeroy
Maude Allinder
Letart
Andrew
Charles
Virgil
Cheshire
Ella Adams
Carrie Supple
Henderson
Lewis Michael
Gallipolis
Suncrest Cemetery
Red Ink Erasers Face Long Term Budget Battle
Washington report from the Senate House Committee on Internal Affairs outlines a looming federal deficit. For the year ending June 30, 1954 the deficit is forecast at 7.3 billion dollars, with the next fiscal year starting July 1 showing a near six billion shortfall even after proposed spending cuts. Senator Taft warns the gap could reach 9 to 11 billion if spending not trimmed.
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Washington
Brooklyn Dodgers
Senate House Committee
Truman
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Wind Storm Toll Rises Across Six States
Tornadoes across Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska Iowa Arkansas and Kansas killed at least nine people and injured more than 100. Minnesota reports eight dead and 30 injured including six victims from a migrant farm worker family from Texas. Wisconsin farm barn collapse near Amery killed a farmer. Nebraska tornado at Hebron injured 69, 18 seriously. Iowa injuries total five. Russellville Kansas towns report no casualties.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Texas
Wisconsin
Amery
Nebraska
Hebron
Iowa
Arkansas
Russellville
Kansas
Six Die in Blaze After Two-Car Crash Near East Alton
Illinois state police report six dead after a rear collision sparked a gas tank explosion. Two infants were among the victims, all occupants in one car believed to belong to the Heise family from St. Louis. Madison County Coroner Ben Staten identified four adults as Fred Heise Jr and his wife, and Peter Johnson and his wife, with the children reportedly Heise's.
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East Alton
Illinois
Madison County
Ben F. Staten
Fred Heise, Jr
Peter Johnson
St. Louis
Staten
Heise
Dulles and Stassen Begin Middle East Information Tour
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Administrator Harold Stassen arrived in Cairo for the first stop on a 12 nation tour of the Middle and Near East. Arab opposition and Egyptian Prime Minister Naguib frame talks with Britain over the Suez situation as tensions rise. Britain seeks a timetable for troop withdrawals tied to access at canal zone facilities.
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Cairo
Egypt
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Harold Stassen
Middle
Near East
Britain
Israel
Eisenhower
Suez Canal Zone
Mohamed Naguib
Canal Zone
Naguib
Arab League
Racer Kills Newark Man at Jones Speedway
A stock car racer struck and killed 20 year old Kenneth Davis of Newark Route 2 during a feature race at Jones Speedway east of Newark. Davis’s father Bert 56 and cousin Forrest Davis 31 suffered minor injuries as vehicles collided on the northeast curve during the fourth lap. Sheriff deputies reported drivers James Vaughn and Robert Cornbey of Columbus were involved in the crash which sent the car into spectators. The weekend had nine other fatalities from drowning electrocution a train collision and three traffic deaths.
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Newark
Kenneth Davis
Jones Speedway
Davis
Bert
Forrest Davis
Frazersburg
James Vaughn
Robert Cornbey
Columbus
Woman presumed dead awakens in Atlanta morgue
A 70 year old African American woman Julia Stallings revived in a morgue after 17 hours in embalming preparations. An apprentice embalmer turned on a light and the woman declared she was not dead. W L Murdaugh of Murdaugh Funeral Home confirmed the incident.
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Atlanta
W. L. Murdaugh
Murdaugh Funeral Home
Julia Stallings
Iran Decree Shifts Monarchs Estates
A royal decree transfers the shahs privately held estates to Prime Minister Mossadeghs government. The payment is 60 million rials about two million dollars at official rate and 800 thousand dollars at the unofficial rate.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
Mother’s Day Birth in Family Car Arrives On Time
Mrs Earl Lindleys 12th child arrived just in time for Mother's Day. The girl was born in the family car while en route to the hospital in Columbus.
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Columbus
Earl Lindley
Top Level Conference Favored by Churchill
At Panmunjom the UN Command critiqued the eight point Communist plan for prisoner exchange noting it risks indefinite captivity for 48 500 North Korean and Chinese repatriates. Lt Gen Harrison questioned the Reds about ultimate solutions if a political conference fails to settle the matter. Gen Nam Il denied prisoners refuse repatriation and urged faster armistice talks.
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Panmunjom
William K. Harrison Jr
Harrison
Nam Il
Red
Churchill presses for private high level conference with allies
Prime Minister Churchill urged a rapid private conference of leading powers to shape policy in Korea and Indochina. He warned against long agendas and favored a formal but secluded meeting to discuss war prisoner repatriation and a possible truce while noting US share of Korean fighting costs.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Seven Americans Freed From NKorea Arrive in Moscow
U S Ambassador Charles E Bohlen and a group of seven Americans greet the evacuees at Moscow's railway station The group freed after nearly three years in North Korean custody includes five Methodist missionaries a Maryknoll priest and a former State Department employee A special American plane awaits at Vnukova Airport to fly them home This is the third repatriation via Moscow following earlier returns of fourteen French civilians six Britons and an Irish priest.
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Moscow
U. S
Charles E. Bohlen
Bohlen
Vnukova
America
Morse Welcomes McKay as Opponent in 1956 Senate Run
Senator Morse of Idaho says he would welcome Interior Secretary McKay as an opponent in his bid for re election in 1956. On NBC Morse criticized the Eisenhower power policy calling McKay’s move to sidetrack the Hell s Canyon project a tragic betrayal of public interests.
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Washington
Sen
Morse
Ind-ore
McKay
NBC
Eisenhower
Hell’s Canyon
Idaho
Lancaster Publisher R K Kerr Dies at 54 in Lancaster
R Kenneth Kerr longtime publisher of the Lancaster Daily Eagle and Gazette died at 54 from a heart ailment. Services 2 p.m. at his home Rosebank with pallbearers from the Eagle Gazette staff. Honorary pallbearer Charles Sawyer led Kerr’s campaign for Ohio lieutenant governor in 1932. Kerr had led the Waverly News and Logan Daily News and served as U S marshal for the Southern Ohio District. Kerr leaves wife Charlotte and three children. Burial at Maple Grove Cemetery.
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Lancaster
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
R. Kenneth Kerr
Kerr
Rosebank
Maple Grove
U.S
Charles Sawyer
Sawyer
Ohio
Waverly News
John M. Kerr
Eagle Gazette Co
U.S. Marshall
Ohio Newspaper Association
Democratic State Press Association
Sigma Delta Chi
Logan Daily News
Lancaster Daily Eagle
Lancaster Gazette
Nelsonville Banker John V Wood Dies at 75
John Vorkes Wood, 73 75 prominent in Hocking Valley banking and chairman of The Peoples Bank Co Nelsonville died early Sunday at Mount St Mary Hospital after a long career. Born January 14 1880 in Athens he joined banking as a teller then moved to Nelsonville in 1910 to lead The Peoples Bank Co He steered the bank through the 1930s and remained a trusted adviser to many depositors and businessmen. Further details shown on page 14.
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Nelsonville
John Vorkes Wood
Hocking Valley
The
Peoples Bank Co
Mount St. Mary Hospital
M. Mr. Wood
Athens
James Perry Wood
Florence Ellen (Vorhes) Wood
Mr. Wood
Athens High School
Ohio University
Beta Theta Pi
Wood
First National Bank of Athens
Athens National Bank
Henry O'Bleness
C. L. Poston
D. H. Moore
W. H. Parks
Grasshoppers Invade San Joaquin Valley Ranchers Rally
In Bakersfield California ranchers battle the worst grasshopper invasion in over a decade across a 50 mile arc between the Tehachapi Mountains and the green crop line. A 60 000 dollar war chest funds aldrin poison and oil supplies. James Dutton of the U S Agriculture Department arrives to lead the control effort.
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Bakersfield
Calif
San Joaquin
Tehachapi
Big di Giorgio Ranch
Oing
Denver
Wal 7
James Dutton
Grasshopper Control Division
U. S. Agriculture Department
Washoe
Eisenhower to Meet Bowles on India Conditions
President Eisenhower, refreshed after a weekend in Central Pennsylvania, will confer at the White House with Chester Bowles who has just returned from New Delhi where he served as U S ambassador. Bowles is a former Connecticut governor and World War I price administrator. George W. Allen replaces him in India. The Monday briefing with Republican congressional readers was postponed until tomorrow as some members were out of town.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
India
White House
Chester Bowles
New Delhi
U. S
Truman
Bowles
Connecticut
George W. Allen
ASNE Probes McCarthy Questioning of Wechsler
ASNE reviews the record of Sen McCarthy questioning editor James Wechsler. Washington Post editor J R Wiggins leading the review at Basil Walters request. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, testified in closed Senate sessions on April 24 and May 5, accusing McCarthy of brainwashing and press intimidation.
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Washington
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Freedom of Information Committee
Sen. McCarthy
James Wechsler
J. R. Wiggins
The
Washington Post
Basil Walters
Knight Newspapers
ASNE
Wechsler
New York Post
McCarthy
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Loyalty Day Urged As May Observance
Veterans of Foreign Wars seeks Congress designation of May 1 as Loyalty Day to counter communist observance. Retired Adm. Leland P. Lovette, VFW public relations director, framed the proposal for the House Judiciary Committee as a positive step to rally Americans against communism.
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Washington
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Congress
Adm
Leland P. Lovette
Veterans Group
House Judiciary Committee
United States
Hearing Set For Tongay
Two days after funeral for Kathy Tongay 5 year old swimming star the Vinson Funeral Home awaits burial instructions. Russell Tongay her father free on $5000 bond on a second degree murder charge faces a June 18 preliminary hearing. Betty and Bubba 7 were believed with him. The Aquatots fame centered on Kathy and Bubba.
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Tarpon Springs
Fla
Kathy Tongay
Vinson
Kathy
Russell Tongay
Tongay
Betty
Bubba
Plane crash injures two Ada men in Indian Lake incident
John W. Deringer age 28 and George W. Auspach MM of Ada were injured when their open cockpit training plane struck a power line and crashed into Indian Lake Sunday. Both sustained injuries but were reported alive by responders.
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Bellefontaine
John W. Deringer
George W. Auspach
Ada
Indian Lake
Retail food costs fall to lowest since 1950
The Agriculture Department reports retail food costs dropped to the lowest level since December 1950 due to lower farm prices. A standard basket cost $701 in April 1963 from $735 in 1962, with beef and some dairy and poultry products contributing to the decline. Farmers received 46 cents of the consumer dollar, down from last year, while marketing charges rose due to higher wages.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Driving Rain and Fog Curtail Allied Raids
Heavy rain and fog halted most air and ground actions as 39 B29 Superforts bombed a 1000-building Communist supply center at Yangsi, while infantry fought in muddy trenches along the 155 mile front. Capt Manuel Fernandez Jr. became the world’s leading jet ace with his 13th MiG kill as Red aircraft attacked UN forces near the Yalu River.
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Seoul
Korea
Okinawa
Japan
Yangsi
Manuel Fernandez Jr
Miami
Fla
Yalu River
Manchurian
Secrest Criticizes Dillon Dam Delays
Rep. Secrest of Ohio told a closed House subcommittee that federal funds are slow to advance the Dillon Dam project on the Licking River above Zanesville. He noted 19 miles of railroad grading are being eroded by the delays and cited $8,783,700 already spent mainly on railroad right of way between Zanesville and Newark.
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Washington
Rep
Secrest
Ohio
Congress
Dillon
Licking River
Zanesville
House
Army Engineers
Ohioan
Newark
Battle over FEPC and highway plan roils Ohio legislature
In Columbus the legislature enters a tense week with fights over an FEPC bill and a major highway program. Republicans push for a broad axle-mile tax substitute and a $750 million bond to speed construction, while Democrats seek voter approval for the bonds. Rep. Burton’s FEPC bill targets discrimination and would set up a state director and county enforcement for employers with 12+ workers.
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Columbus
FEPC
House
Senate
Frank J
William &. Burton
R-Cuyahoga
Burton
U. S. Supreme Court
Harold H. Burton
Cleveland
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Pfc
Theodore Juern
Forest Park
Ill
Juern
Great Lakes, Ill
Racer
United Nations
Indochina
Wilmington News-Journal
Lima Times-Democrat
Wilmington College
Ohio State University
Washington Court House
Charlotte Kerr
R. Kenneth Kerr II
Waverly
John Bryan Lake
Mis
John C. Zollinger
Piqua
Frank FE. Smith
John V. Wood
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