Dismissal of Carr and Hensel Opens McCarthy Hearings
In Washington the Senate Army hearings proceed after charges against Francis P. Carr and H. Struve Hensel are dropped. Roy M. Cohn takes the witness chair with McCarthy, while Symington vows to appeal the 4-3 vote and calls the outcome a whitewash.
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Washington
Roy M. Cohn
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy Army
Sen. Symington
Special Army
McCarthy
Francis P. Carr
Asst
H. Struve Hensel
Welch
Hensel
Symington
Senate
Carr
Cohn
Pentagon
Army
Subcommittee
Secretary of the Army
Stevens
John G. Adams
Pvt. G. David Schine
Ray H. Jenkins
Jenkins
Jenins
Sen
Dworshak
Idaho
Carr Welch
Schine
Bennington explosion costs Ohioans lives and injuries
The Bennington disaster killed two Chillicothe men and injured a third from Ohio with a Navy report listing 91 known dead and 201 injured. The carrier near New England faced a blast on the flight deck prompting a four officer inquiry and mass casualty evacuations to Newport Hospital.
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Chillicothe
Bennington
Thaddeus FE. Moody
Jesse H. Ramey
Washington Ave
Navy
Messenger
Quonset Point
R.I
New Engeland
John M. Hoskins
Quonset Naval Air Station
Secretary of the Navy
Charles S. Thomas
Quonset
Wiliam F. Raborn, Jr
Raborn
Oklahoma City
Newport
Narragansett Bay
Air Task Group 181
Oceana Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Kaborn
Coast Guard
Newport Naval Hospital
Ens
Robert Grant
Brooklyn
N. Y
James F. Witham
Someervile
Mass
Edward Cushman
Milford
Conn
Cushman
Pewarmen
R.L
New England
U.S. Opposes Vietminh Partition of Indochina at Geneva
The United States rejects any Indochina settlement that partitions Viet Nam or the Associated States. The nine nation talks in Geneva consider assembly areas for post ceasefire forces with Eden urging immediate talks and Bidault warning Geneva may turn decisively in 6 10 days with June 5 seen as pivotal.
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Geneva
United States
Indochina
Viet Nam
Vietminh
U. S
Anthony Eden
Georges Bidault
Paris
Bidault
Eden
Regional Council Meets At Lake Hope Lodge
Southeastern Ohio Regional Council will meet in the dining lodge at Lake Hope today at 6 30 pm. Arthur Robinson of the Ohio Water Pollution Control Board will speak on water pollution focusing on a survey of Raccoon Creek by the board and the Battelle Institute. Tate Cline of McArthur runs meeting arrangements.
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Southeastern Ohio Regional Council
Lake Hope
Arthur Robinson
Ohio Water Pollution Control Board
Ohio Department of Health
Inspectors Probe Ship For Arms At Panama Canal
Tension rises as U S customs inspect the French freighter Wyoming at Cristobal for arms contraband linked to Guatemala. Officials say the ship carries general cargo and five boxes of sporting arms with possible additional arms aboard.
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Panama
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Cristobal
Wyoming
Guatemala
U. S
EF Salvador
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Vancouver
B. C
U.S. State Department
Washington
State Department
5S S. Wyoming
U.S
Stettin
Caribbean
Ohio River searches for missing mining executive
Saint Clairsville reports continued river patrols along the Ohio River at Bellaire to locate Earl F. Maurer a 34 year old vice president and general manager of Powhatan Mining Co missing since Tuesday night Maurer’s abandoned car was found yesterday on the West Virginia side across from Bellaire prompting the search by authorities and volunteers.
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Saint Clairsville
Ohio
Ohio River
Bellaire
Earl F. Maurer
Powhatan Mining Co
West Virginia
Canada and Spain sign first ever MFN trade treaty
Spain and Canada sign a most favored nation commercial agreement, the first such treaty between the two countries.
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Canada
Spain
Madrid
Truck Driver Dies Under Truck Near Dayton
William Schearbauer, 65, of Dayton, was crushed to death when the truck he was driving skidded on a highway just north of Dayton. The incident occurred yesterday and authorities are investigating.
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Dayton
William Schearbauer
Stock Voters Deciding N Y Central's Dispute
Albany reports on the New York Central Railroad proxy battle with four safes and nine filing cabinets containing White and Young blocs. After a lengthy annual meeting 2,000 stockholders left the vote to inspectors Professors who will rule on valid shares amid a pending court challenge over 800,000 shares voted by Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson.
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Morse
Albany
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
William White
Robert R. Young
Young
White
Washington Avenue Armory
Hotel
Ten Eyck
Stockh
Central
Texas
Clint W. Murchison
Sid W. Richardson
Appellate Division of
New York State Supreme Court
New York City
Logan man ruled legally sane in wife slaying case
Benjamin Meyer accused of first degree murder in the February 15 fatal shooting of his wife Velvia on the porch of the Ralph Sniff residence Logan Route 4. He was committed to Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity at arraignment.
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Logan
Benjamin Meyer
Velvia
Common Pleas
Harley Meyer
R. E. Bushong
Lima State Hospital
Meyer
Lima
Richard C. Gerken
Fred A. Murray
Gerken
Murray
Sniff
Ohioan Says GOP Seeks His Defeat
Rep. Wayne L. Hays accuses national Republicans of planning a concerted effort to defeat him next November over his objections to an inquiry into tax-exempt foundations. A Republican informant allegedly said money will flow heavily into Hays' district. Rep. Reece of Tennessee deems Hays' stance diversionary but provides no GOP comment.
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Washington
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Republcan
Hays
GOP
National Committee
Reece
R-Tenn
Republican National Committee
House
Foundation
GOP National Committee
Red Suspects Being Tried
Four persons face contempt charges before the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission in Columbus as testimony proceeds. Harry T. McGill of Dayton Vassel Tha mes formerly of Dayton now in Fort Wayne Ind Melvin Hupman a Clarksville grocer and his wife Julia Pearl Hupman are accused of refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist ties. Their attorney J Paul Prear indicated they may not testify in their own defense.
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Columbus
Ohio Un-American Activities Commission
Harry T. McGill
Dayton
Vassel
NLRB Vote Sets Stage for ILA AFL Tie at New York Docks
The old International Longshoremen's union leads the AFL-ILA by 319 votes in the NLRB election for Port of New York dock workers. Eleven hundred and ninety seven ballots were challenged, with final results awaiting review over six weeks to two months.
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New York
International Longshoremen's Union
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
ILA
Afl-Ila
NLRB
NLR
Charles T. Douds
Ohio NAACP Charges Housing Segregation
In Columbus Rev Phale D. Hale president of the local NAACP branch charged that Negroes are excluded from all city public housing projects except one and urged an end to segregation. Another NAACP official stated that no Negro teachers are employed in the city’s high schools.
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Columbus
Phale D. Hale
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Ford Plant To Expand
Ford Motor Co says its Cleveland plant will become the second largest after Detroit once the expansion is finished. William J. Mitchell Jr. of Ford public relations told the Cleveland Advertising Club that more than 15,000 people will be employed in Greater Cleveland after completion.
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Cleveland
Ford Motor Co
Detroit
William J. Mitchell, Jr
Ford Public Relations Department
Cleveland Advertising Club
Ford
Greater
Declared Insane In H Bomb Shooting Case
Mrs Eve lyn Stafford aged 33 was declared legally insane by Lima State Hospital officials after telling police she shot her husband James 38 while he slept on April 3 to protect them from the hydrogen bomb.
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Columbus
Evelyn Stafford
Lima State Hospital
James
Forecaster Reports One Inch Rain Deficit in Ohio
Forecaster Ted Pierce says central and southern Ohio show a one percent rainfall deficit for the year through May 9 1954 after two weeks of drought like conditions. He expects the shortage can be erased in one or two days of heavy rain.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ted Pierce
Police Catch Robbers of Millbury Post Office
Police hold two Kansas men in a $120 holdup of the Millbury post office in Wood County. Barnst Penrod 27 Horton Kansas and Jack Callahan 18 Chanute Kansas were arrested by detective Eugene Lucy soon after the robbery as they walked from a local hotel.
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Toledo
Kansas
Millbury
Wood County
Barnst Penrod
Horton
Kan
Jack Callahan
Chanute
Eugene Lucy
Anti-American Sentiment in India Linked to Imperialism Fear
AP dispatch analyzes rising anti-Americanism in India driven by associating capitalism with colonialism. Indian leaders blame U.S. military aid to Pakistan and Indochina policy, warning of a Southeast Asia alliance as a trigger for world war.
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India
William L. Ryan
Geneva
America
Asia
United States
Communist Party
Nehru
Congress Party
Red
U.S
Pakistan
Kashmir
Washington
Indochina
Colombo
Playwright Maxwell Anderson ill in Los Angeles hospital
Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist Maxwell Anderson is seriously ill at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Dr. Clarence M. Agress reports the writer has responded quite well to treatment for a heart condition and a diaphragmatic hernia.
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Los Angeles
Maxwell Anderson
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Clarence M. Agress
Cincinnati Man Among Bennington Crew Sleept Through Explosion
Thomas J. Lorenz, 23, of Cincinnati, told his parents he was missing after the Bennington blast during muster. He was later found not a casualty, as he had slept through the explosion aboard the ship.
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Meigs County
Bennington
George Nesselroad
Pomeroy
Edward
Cincinnati
Thomas J. Lorenz
Louis A Lorenz
Two Bennington Sailors Survive Blast Again
For the second time in 13 months two Thomas Georgia seamen wired their parents they survived a blast aboard the carrier Bennington. Gunner's Mate 30 Weldon T. Neal Jr. 22 and Seaman Charles Cameron Jr. 21 were shipmates and former Thomson High School classmates. They were aboard the Bennington in April 1953 when 11 crewmen were killed in a boiler explosion.
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Thomas, Ga
Bennington
Thomson High School
Carrier
Weldon T. Neal Jr
Charles Cameron Jr
Neal
Cameron
Ohio Public Health Association installs officers
Mrs. Doroth Royce of London was installed as president. Mrs. Maxine Pendleton of London was named secretary. Sewall Mil likin of Columbus was named president-elect. Lillian Derflinger was named representative to the national group.
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Columbus
Doroth Royce
London
Ohio Public Health Association
Maxine Pendleton
Sewall Millikin
Lillian Derflinger
Eighteen Month Old Morris Killed by Car in Columbus
Gregory F. Morris, aged eighteen months, died yesterday after being struck by a car in Columbus. The incident prompted an investigation by local authorities as details remain limited.
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Columbus
Gregory F. Morris
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