Felt Appointed Admiral Hard Taskmaster Over Pacific
President Eisenhower selected Admiral Harry D Felt to take over as commander in chief of U S forces in the Pacific on August 1. The 55 year old veteran, previously vice chief of naval operations, is known as a strict, detail oriented leader with a long wartime record including Guadalcanal and Okinawa. He succeeds Admiral Felix Stump and hails from Topeka Kansas with wife Kathryn Cowley and son Donald Felt in the Navy.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
Harry D. Felt
Eisenhower
U. S
Pacific
Naval Operations
Felt
Felix Stump
Saratoga
Guadalcanal
Cmdr. Feit
Moscow
Soviet Union
Chenango
Okinawa
6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
Topeka
Kan
Kathryn Cowley
Mobile
Ala
Navy
Donald Linn Felt
Oil Firms Deny Federal Price Fixing Conspiracy
Alexandria report notes 29 oil companies indicted by a federal grand jury on a 1 count Sherman act conspiracy to fix crude oil and auto gasoline prices across 43 states. Indictment says actions raised crude prices and gasoline retail prices while restraining competition and interstate trade.
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Alexandria
United States
California
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Arizona
Army Probes Korean Soldier Death on Train
The U S Army and military police investigate the death of a Korean soldier said to have been pushed from a speeding train by Pfc Carley E Simpson 18 of Clarksdale Mississippi. The Korean reportedly boarded a passenger train at Seoul while a U S mail car was being loaded.
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Seoul
U. S
Carley E. Simpson
Clarksdale
Miss
Weather Summary for West Virginia and Ohio
Increasing cloudiness and not as cool tonight with lows in the 50s to mid 40s in the mountains. Saturday will be cloudy, warmer and more humid with scattered showers or thunderstorms likely. Ohio largely warm with showers and storms late tonight and Saturday. Five-day forecast shows near normal temperatures and three quarters of an inch of precipitation mainly in showers Saturday through Tuesday.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Brothers suffer separate deaths in military service
Raymond Benjamin Schrand, 20, of Cincinnati, was identified as the Navy enlisted man who fell from a ship and drowned in Puget Sound. His brother Martin, 18, a private first class in the Army, was fatally shot on January 5 at Subic Naval Air Station in the Philippines when his gun discharged as he picked it up during guard duty.
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Seattle
Raymond Benjamin Schrand
Cincinnati
Navy
Puget Sound
Martin
Army
Subic Naval Air Station
Philippines
Teen-Agers Vacation Ends in Death and Injury
Six high school fundraiser volunteers from Pleasanthill rode a pickup toward Troy to sell scrap iron. As the truck attempted to pass a farm tractor on Ohio 718 it lost control and crashed, killing one girl and seriously injuring five others.
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Troy
Ohio
Pleasanthill
Small town boy dreams of Cubs visit end with police
Tommy Krause, nine, traveled from Battle Creek to Chicago with $20 to see the Cubs. He wandered to a busy 63rd Street intersection where Officer Carl Willis stopped him and contacted his parents at Woodlawn station. The Cubs had no game that day and Tommy decided to become a traffic cop instead. His parents took him home, away from his big city baseball dream.
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Chicago
Tommy Krause
Battle Creek
Mich
Cubs
South Side
63Rd St
Carl Willis
Willis
Woodlawn
Tommy
Tom
Eugene
Mildred
Mrs W P Lochary Heads Religion Known Unknown Cited
The Messenger notes Mrs. W. P. Lochary leading a religion feature with cited unknowns and references to Rio Grande and a 72 degree forecast. Carl C. Byers is mentioned along with Gallia Academy Athens Gallipolis and other Ohio towns in a cluttered regional page.
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W. P. Lochary
Speakei Rio Grande
Carl C. Byers
Gallia Academy
SPE
Athens
Glouster
Chauncey
Logan de Aene A Comics
Nelsonville
Gallipolis
Point
Wedin High School story milestone graduates at St Louis University
ST LOUIS Charles and Patricia Frye reach a milestone next week as they graduate from St Louis University. Charles graduates summa cum laude with a full four year scholarship and Patricia with a high scholastic rating. He earned a Yale fellowship to pursue a PhD in international relations. If she cannot find a history teaching job she will pursue a master's degree.
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ST. Louis
Charles
Patricia Frye
Patricia
Nashville, Tenn
St. Louis University
Yale
Ohio unions reach 124-cent highway wage deal
Columbus reports a contract agreement raising hourly wages by 124 cents for laborers on state highway projects. The deal was reached between the Ohio Contractors Assn and the Laborers District Council of Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio Contractors Assn
Laborers District Council of Ohio
Panama President seeks guard limits and school improvements
President Ernesto de la Guardia Jr. addressed Panamanian students on Thursday night promising to urge congress to curb the National Guard and fund better schools.
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Panama
Ernesto de la Guardia Jr
Congress
National Guard
Farley Celebrates 70th Birthday With Family Party
New York James A Farley former postmaster general and Democratic national chairman marks his 70th birthday today with a family gathering.
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New York
James A. Farley
GM and UAW Fail to Reach Pact on Memorial Day
Detroit notes show General Motors plants operated without a contract for 300 000 UAW workers after the three year deal expired at midnight. Ford and Chrysler also spoke of unresolved talks as the union sought new agreements with all three automakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors
United Auto Workers Union
Atlanta
International
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
Walter P. Reuther
Coty Presses De Gaulle Hope Amid France Crisis
Paris AP The French president Rene Coty urged Charles de Gaulle to take the premiership on his terms as France faces a 17 day crisis. Senior Socialist leaders feared a dictator but doubts rose over cabinet support and Algerian insurgents warned of possible military action.
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PARIS
Rene Coty
Cee
Charles de Gaulle
Sacle Oe
Elysee Palace
France
White House
Coty
de Gaulle
Guy Mollet
National Assembly
Algeria
Assembly
Giant Jetliner To Be Launched At Long Beach
Douglas Aircraft prepares to launch the DC8 peacetime jet passenger airliner capable of 176 passengers and 600 mph. Orders for 138 jets from 17 airlines set value near 700 million dollars. The craft spans 139 feet 9 inches wing to wing and 150 feet 6 inches long.
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Long Beach
Calif
Douglas Aircraft Co
Douglas Company
Donald W. Douglas
United Airlines
Trans Caribbean Airways
Douglas
Pratt & Whitney
Sub Sinks Off Coast of Hawaii After Collision
HONOLULU The Stickelback submarine sank off Oahu 19 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor after a collision with the destroyer escort Silverstein during antisubmarine exercises. 74 sailors and 8 officers escaped. 38 crew members were returned to Pearl Harbor. An investigation will determine the cause.
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Honolulu
Oahu Island
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Cmdr
Q. R. Schulz
Greener
Jet bomber buzzes airliner over Salina near miss
United Airlines pilot and 15 of 57 passengers claim a Air Force B47 jet bomber deliberately buzzed their DC7 near Salina Kaw. Senate Republican Leader William F Knowland slept through the incident and called it unpleasant. Col. Gordon E Hein said Schilling Base had no planes aloft. Flight originated in Philadelphia with a stop in Washington.
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San Francisco
Civil Aeronautics Administration
United Airlines
Air Force
Salina
Kaw
Senate
William F. Knowland
California
Gordon E. Hein
Schilling Air Force Base
Strategic Air Command
Washington
Philadelphia
Payroll Robbers Hold Loot for Short Time
In Cleveland two men, Willie Banks aged 21 and Nelson Watts aged 26, robbed a St. Luke's Hospital armored truck of 24 500 dollars. Police say the pair admitted the theft and the money was recovered within hours and they were jailed.
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Cleveland
St. Luke’s Hospital
Willie Banks
Nelson Watts
U S to Provide Generators to Electrify Indonesian Cities
The United States agreed to supply Indonesia with diesel generators to electrify 61 cities and towns. This aid marks a significant energy assistance program in Jakarta.
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U.S
Jakarta
Indonesia
United States
AMID HIGHEST HONORS Soldiers Buried at Arlington
In Washington two unknown Americans who fell in World War II and Korea are laid to rest beside the nameless soldier who died in three wars. A vast cortege moves from the capital rotunda to Arlington National Cemetery for double interment near the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Each casket will bear the Medal of Honor with the word valor on a star. Clergy of several faiths participate in the solemn ceremony.
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Washington
Korea
Potomac River
Arlington National Cemetery
Eisenhower
United States
Columbus Has first Fatality
In Ohio a holiday highway fatality occurred when Lena Luley an 84 year old Columbus woman died in front of a cemetery as her daughter Julia Luley 54 was thrown from the car and then run over after the vehicle turned into the cemetery. The crash on U S 23 about five miles south of Columbus happened about an hour and a half after the AP began its count at 6 p m. Julia Luley and James Lee Triplehorn 19 of Circleville were slightly injured.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lena Luley
Here
Associated Press
Miss Luley
James Lee Triplehorn
Rt. 1
Circleville
Holiday Break Delays First Degree Murder Trial
A three day break in the Shirley Edward Campbell trial began as Memorial Day and weekend court closings push the proceedings past the holiday. Final arguments and judge instructions remain before the jury, with the defense having rested its case.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Shirley Edward Campbell
James Darling longtime Farm and Dairy publisher dies at 73
James Darling 73 of Salem Ohio died Thursday from a heart attack. He began publishing Farm and Dairy in 1937, a weekly newspaper serving the Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia tristate area.
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Youngstown
James Darling
Salem
Ohio
Farm and Dairy
Ohio-Pennsylvania-West Virginia Tristate
Left winger shot dead in Nicosia by Turkish underworld
In Nicosia early today a 26 year old Turkish Cypriot left winger was shot to death. Police say the attack appears to be carried out by an anti Greek Turkish underworld faction.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Powell Wins GOP Nomination in Harlem Race
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was nominated by New York County Republicans for re election in Harlem by a 6 1 vote The Powell 16th district GOP committee was to ratify within a week Powell said he would run in August as an independent Democrat and accepted the nomination with gratitude through the party backing
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
All But Two Rides Ordered Reopened
Holiday visitors to Buckeye Lake amusement park in Licking County may ride all but two rides today the roller coaster and caterpillar. The rides closed since Monday after a roller coaster accident were ordered opened Thursday by Robert A Skipton chief of State Factory and Building Inspection Division after state engineer reports.
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Columbus
Buckeye Lake
Licking County
Robert A. Skipton
State Factory and Building Inspection Division
Unemployed Bank Workers Drop For Fifth Straight Week
Washington reports show unemployment among workers insured for jobless benefits fell for the fifth consecutive week. The May 17 week reduced the insured unemployed by 82 000 to 3 019 500. Consumer installment credit outstanding dropped 123 million dollars in April, with most decline in automobile loans. Department store sales rose 3 percent last week from 1957, in 9 of 12 Federal Reserve districts, though year to date total remains 3 percent below last year.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Leaf Rake War Sparks in Long Beach Council
Long Beach council debates who owns city leaves as trees line streets. Percy J. Powell urges the city to claim leaves and jokes about raking, while Councilman Desmond objects to extra labor and Garrison cites hunting law on ownership. No action reported.
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Long Beach
Calif
Percy J. Powell
Powell
Gerald Desmond
Charles Garrison
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