Dr Sheppard Murder Trial Opens in Cleveland
The Samuel H Sheppard murder trial begins in Cleveland with expecta tions it may take a month or more to reach a verdict. His brother Dr Stephen A Sheppard claims the defendant remains confident and insists prosecutors cannot prove innocence beyond doubt. The prosecutor Frank Cullitan remains sidelined by medical orders, while the judge denies a continuance to the defense.
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Cleveland
Samuel H. Sheppard
Stephen A. Sheppard
Cullitan
Asst
Marilyn
Cuyahogs
Dr. Sheppard
Ohio River at Peak of Traffic
Col. J L Person says the Ohio River is near traffic saturation with 62 million tons carried yearly on a system designed for 13. A plan to replace 46 old locks and dams with 21 modern structures could speed 1200 foot tows, cut 5 1 2 hours on the Gallipolis to Cincinnati leg, and modernize navigation over 20 to 25 years.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Col
J. L. Person
Ohio River Division
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Gallipolis
Ohio River Valley
Erie Mayor and officials tied to 20 million gambling ring
Erie County District Attorney says Mayor Thomas W. Flatley and 40 men allegedly ran a large gambling syndicate with a yearly take of about 20 million dollars. Flatley faces bribery charges while Martin Schwartz and Jack Martin, among others, are charged with conspiracy and bribery.
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Erie
Thomas W. Flatley
Lake Port
Fiat
Dist. Atty
Damian McLaughlin
Erie County
Jack Martin
Stanley Schwartz
Democratic Party
Martin
Schwartz
Edward Camill
James Salomone
McLaughlin
Camili
Salomone
Canadian Airliner Struck by Lightning Near Brantford
A Trans-Canada Airlines four engine airliner was struck on the left side by lightning near Clear Creek Ontario, 40 miles southwest of Brantford, en route to Cleveland. The craft carried 34 passengers and a crew of three, flew at 4000 feet, returned to Toronto for inspection, and resumed its flight to Cleveland at 9 23 p.m.
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Trans- Canada
Cleveland
TCA
Clear Creek
Ont
Brantford
Union Rejects Five Cent Increase in Pittsburgh Strike
AFL Teamsters Local 249 rejects management final offer in the long running strike against five department stores. They voted 661 to 84 against a five cent raise and two cents in fringe benefits, keeping the 11 month dispute active.
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Pittsburgh
AFL Teamsters of Management
Teamsters
Yeggs Loot AFL Carpenters District Council Safe
Three yeggs cracked two safes at the AFL Carpenters District Council building yesterday and escaped with at least 4800 dollars. A retired carpenter was knocked to the floor when he surprised the robbers.
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Yeggs
Cleveland
AFL Carpenters District Council
Prosecutor hinges case on Hayes and Haversten testimony
County Prosecutor John J. Mahon declared he will rely heavily on Miss Susan L. Hayes and Dr. Lester T. Haversten for key testimony. Hayes, 24, formerly worked at Bay View Hospital, accompanied Dr. Sam in California last March, while Haversten, of Glendale, was a guest at Dr. Sam’s lakefront Bay Village home for three days before the July 4 murder. Mahon cited Dr. Sam’s own coroner inquest testimony and later statements, the home’s condition on police arrival, and Dr. Sam’s account of intruder encounters as central to the circumstantial case, raising questions about motive and intruder intent.
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Susan L. Hayes
Lester T. Haversten
Miss Hayes
Bay View Hospital
Bay Village
Sam
California
Haversten
Glendale
Calif
Calif., Was A Guest In Dr. Sam
Mahon
Marilyn
Spying Evidence Shown to Jury Probe
Alexandria Va government presents to a grand jury new charges that Joseph H Petersen Jr obtained secret documents with intent to aid a foreign country. Petersen 40, a former employee of the National Security Agency and its precursors for 13 years, was discharged and arrested nine days later in Arlington Va. He faces charges of improperly obtaining secret documents during 1948 52.
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Alexandria
Joseph H. Petersen, Jr
Petersen
National Security Agency
FBI
Arlington
Weekend Toll Tops 19 In Ohio Tragedies
The Associated Press reports a weekend death toll in Ohio with a mother and four children killed in a train crash and 18 other traffic deaths. An 8 year old boy died from shotgun wounds after a playmate’s gun discharged by accident.
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Ohio
Ex-Aide Baldwin Dies at 92 in Baltimore
William Woodward Baldwin aged 92, assistant secretary of state for part of Grover Cleveland's second administration, died Sunday. Born in Baltimore, Baldwin served in the Cleveland era and passed away at his home.
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Baltimore
William Woodward Baldwin
Grover Cleveland
Tax Form Redesigned For Low Earners In 1954
Washington officials unveiled a simplified 15 line tax form for wage earners under 5000 dollars a year as a potential step toward no return filings. Internal Revenue Commissioner T Coleman Andrews said about 35 million of 60 million taxpayers could use it. many will still file the longer Form 1040. The 15 line form updates the old 1040A and could lead to employer based billing for some. Forms go out December 26 with a new April 15 deadline for 1954 returns, a month later than before.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
T. Coleman Andrews
U. S
Andrews
The
Revenue Service
Temperatures Dip Into the 20s Across Wisconsin Region
Early today the Minnesota Wisconsin area of the Great Lakes recorded temperatures in the 20s with most of the nation enjoying fair skies. Morning readings were mainly 30s and 40s in the north and 50s to 60s in the south.
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Associated Press
Minnesota-Wisconsin
Great Lakes
Bloomington violinist Merrill dies at 99 after shaping early high school orchestra
Bloomington mourns B Winfred Merrill 99 former violinist composer and educator who organized and directed the nation s first high school orchestra at East Aurora in 1880 He died Sunday.
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Bloomington
Ind
B. Winfred Merrill
East Aurora
Ohio River Flood Crest Expected in Ohio Valley
The Ohio River flood risk eases for Ohio Valley towns as the crest moves downstream from Wheeling. Marietta reports basement flooding while officials predict a 41 foot crest by midnight. upstream Wheeling notes a fall after a 44.7 foot crest yesterday the largest since March.
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Marietta
Wheeling
Ohio
Churchill reshuffles Cabinet as 17 posts change
London a wholesale Conservative reshuffle brings seven new ministers to Churchill's cabinet and 17 other posts shift hands. Housing Minister Harold MacMillan becomes defense minister replacing Earl Alexander amid talk Churchill may stay on. MacMillan, 60, is also seen as a future foreign secretary if the premier steps aside. Four ministers resign to return to private life.
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London
Churchill
Arold MacMillan
Earl Alexander
MacMillan
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
Defense
Soviet Union
Pensions
Dock Strike Spreads Across British Ports Hurting Industry
London's dock walkout spreads to Liverpool and Birkenhead cutting port activity. About half of Liverpool's 17,500 longshoremen and all 2,000 Birkenhead dockers refuse to work while Southampton agitation grows. Queen Elizabeth speeds to berth, Dover handles tomato and banana unloading, and emergency crews operate six diverted ships as government considers troops to resume port work.
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London
Liverpool
Birkenhead
Southampton
New York
Dover
Arthur Deakin
Transport and General Workers
Hurricane Hazel toll rises in Ontario Canada
Canadian casualty lists show 64 missing and 56 recovered after Hurricane Hazel. Nine US deaths increased the global toll. The Humber River near Toronto flooded, sweeping away 19 homes on one street in Etobicoke Township as authorities deployed police and military guards.
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Ont
Hazel
Canada
United States
Ontario
Caribbean
Haiti
Carolinas
Humber River
Lake Ontario
Etobicoke Township
Woodbridge
Thistle Town
Northwest York
Delaware Grand Jury Opens Liquor Probe
Delaware Ohio reports a grand jury will investigate alleged shakedowns by state liquor department agents. It marks the sixth county to indict such a probe following Franklin Cuyahoga Hamilton Lucas and Mahoning.
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Delaware
Ohio
Franklin
Cuyahoga
Hamilton
Lucas
Mahoning
Philadelphia industrial hygiene pioneer dies at 78
Dr. Henry Field Smyth Sr a Philadelphia born researcher renowned in industrial hygiene died Friday at age 78. He contributed to early methods in workplace safety and health monitoring. Smyth's work influenced standards still cited by researchers and firms today.
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Philadelphia
Henry Field Smyth, Sr
Body Found Then Lost In Ohio River
A young woman, estimated 18 to 20, was spotted in the Ohio River at Salt Creek by Mike Staats as he salvaged drift. The body was pulled to shore but had broken loose from its mooring and drifted downstream. Authorities continued the search at noon with Coroner Edna Gettles and Deputy Sheriff J. Gary Kapp.
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Point Pleasant
Ohio River
Mike Staats
Salt Creek
Staats
Edna Gettles
J. Gary Kapp
Lady Tavern Operator Killed by Partender
Willoughby report says a bar tender was under police guard in a hospital Monday after a woman tavern operator was killed by five bullets. Patrolman Joseph Scanlon said Peter A. Kelly, 49, killed Mrs. Dougherty, 44, during an argument outside her apartment early Sunday and then fired a bullet into his chest. Kelly's condition was reported fair.
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Willoughbby
Joseph Scanlon
Peter A. Kelly
Dougherty
Kelly
GOP Leaders weigh two candidates stories in Utah New Jersey
GOP leaders in Utah and New Jersey study dramatic personal accounts from Rep Douglas Stringfellow and former Rep Clifford Case as they face scrutiny over war claims and alleged links to Communist fronts. Stringfellow repudiated his wartime narratives while Case called Adelaide Case a smear and denied any sister relation.
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Douglas KR
Stringfellow
Utah
Clifford Case
GOP
Senate
New Jersey
Case
Adelaide
Truman
Bishop Attacks Communism at AME Conference
Bishop A J Allen addressed the 73rd annual meeting of the North Ohio Conference AME, denouncing communism as seeking to aggravate discontent. He urged ministers to teach that moral reform within democracy solves problems, calling out foreign influences as a chief threat to the democratic way of life.
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Cleveland
North Ohio
African Methodist Episcopal Church
A. J. Allen
Picketing at Mason County courthouse work starts
About 25 pickets protested non union labor at the new Mason County courthouse construction in Point Pleasant. They carried signs calling the job unfair and demanded union labor be used, while AFL locals blasted the project as a rat job and vowed to keep union workers away.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Virgil Love
W. E. Reed
Southeast West Virginia
AFL Iron Workers
Kgger Creek
Reese
Moose grows fast as Mayfield family feeds it in BC
In Clinton British Columbia Marvin Mayfield raises Barney a baby moose found near a road 200 miles north of Vancouver. Barney, now six male years old, eats everything from pancakes to milk and fills much of the Davenport as he grows. The family plans to pasture Barney when he horns up.
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Clinton
B.C
Barney
Marvin Mayfields
North America
Marv
British Columbia
Vancouver
Mayfield
Moose
Roads Closed In Hockingport Area As Flood Waters Rise
The state Department of Highways reported closures on Route 144 and Route 174 near Hockingport with Route 56 at Coolville likely open as water covers the pavement by about a foot. All Carthage Troy district schools will stay closed until further notice due to flooding. Fr Koehler says schools may reopen Thursday if flood conditions improve.
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Hockingport
State Department of Highways
Coolville
Carthage- Troy
Koehler
Thoreday
Ohio River Flood Levels Peak Amid Evacuations Across Regions
The State Highway Patrol reported the Ohio River cresting at 447 feet in Wheeling, with Marietta at 37.55 feet and downstream towns, including Parkersburg and Dam 28, showing rising levels. About 400 Ohio County families fled homes while Wheeling and nearby cities faced multimillion dollar damage estimates and widespread closures.
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State Highway Patrol
Marietta
Belpre
Ohio
Parkersburg
Here
Pittsburgh
Dama
Wheels
W. Va
Portol
Pomeroy
Dam
Huntington
Wheeling
J. L. Person
Ohio River Division
Jefferson
Belmont
Monroe
Pennsylvania
Wheeling News-Register
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