Girl Charged Asl Deserter By Air Force
Donna Delbert Hill of Philadelphia, alias Donna Delbert, a UK stage fire-eater, is charged by the US Air Force with desertion dating to 1945. Hill was arrested in Newcastle after police tipped off and is to stand trial before a general court martial.
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Burtonwood
England
US Air Force
Donna Delbert
Music Hall
Britain
Air Force
Donna
Delbert Hill
Philadelphia
Air Force Base
Hill
Newcastle
Iron Men Up To 1860 Build Wooden Naval Ships
The article notes that even as late as 1860 naval powers continued constructing wooden warships. It highlights the persistence of wooden shipbuilding alongside ironclad innovations shaping naval power.
Boy Confident Artificial Arm No Handicap
A 12 year old Elgin boy foresees playing baseball within three months with a new artificial arm. Billy Provance, who lost his pitching arm last summer, demonstrates the limb in Chicago after his family set up a fund for future needs. He says he learned to play with one arm and has not missed a game, boosting his confidence.
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Elgin
Ill
Billy Provance
Billy
Joliet
Josephine
Chicago
Greek Airliner Crash Reported Near Athens
The Greek airline TAE said police at Malakasa notified that a Dakota passenger plane caught fire in the air and crashed. The plane, normally carrying 20 passengers and 3 crew, was believed to be its regular flight from Kavalla and overdue. Malakasa lies 17 miles north of Athens.
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Athens
TAE
Malakasa
Kavalla
Four Patients Undergo First Color Televised Operations
Four patients at Atlantic City Hospital had free surgeries to allow color television transmission of the procedures. The live broadcasts, from Atlantic City to a half mile away, included an appendix operation, thyroid removal, stomach ulcer surgery, and lung tumor removal. The experiment involved the University of Pennsylvania and Smith, Kline and French Laboratories and runs during the AMA meeting.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Atlantic City Hospital
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
American Medical Association
I. S. Ravdin
Slaying Charged In Auto Death Near Houston
A murder charge was filed against Benny Burton Parsons 21 of Houston after a car wreck killed Eugene Lee Harrison 33 near Cros by. Parsons claimed he deliberately wrecked the auto and drove it into a ditch while he fled the scene. Justice Zierlein stated Parsons was driving and the men argued over a Galveston trip. Parsons was later found in a back restroom after fleeing the crash.
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Houston
Benny Burton Parsons
Eugene Lee Harrison
Crosby
Parsons
R. R. Zierlein
Baytown
Wreck Orphans Offered Home After Fatal Crash
In Dallas on June 6, two infants ages 19 months and 5 months may be adopted after a car crash killed their parents and four grandparents. The babies Steve Balyeat and Patricia Balyeat are the sole remaining Balyeats, with uncle Charles Douglas Coppinger seeking to care for them. their father John Thomas Balyeat died in a head on collision near Waller after attending Texas A&M graduation.
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Dallas
Steve Balyeat
Patricia
Charles Douglas Coppinger
John Thomas Balyeat
Elkhart
Ind
Navasota
Waller
Coppinger
Balyeat
Balyeats
Ees
Texas A&m
Soviets Claim Northern Rice Farms Reach Far North
The Soviet Union announced via Tass that early ripening cold resistant rice is now grown in Kursk Voronezh and other central regions, claiming the northernmost rice plantations in the world.
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London
Tass
Kursk
Voronezh
Soviet Union
Elliott opens Austin college to train secretaries
Miss Mae To Murphy of Calvert Texas completed Elliott Business College training in 42 days and secured a well paid secretarial job through the Elliott Free Placement Bureau. The Austin college on the sixth floor of the Ewell Nalle Building will place students in good paying positions by fall and is led by Director William H. Everett and Counselor Frances S. Everett.
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Mae Toi Murphy
Calvert
Texas
Elliott Business College
Elliott Free Placement Bureau
Miss Murphy
Elliott
Austin
Ewell Nalle
William H. Everett
University of Mississippi
Dow Elliott College
Frances S. Everett
Everett
W. F. Elliott
Elliott Chain of Business Colleges
Houston
Ing
Teleas
Elliott i Ewell College
Nalleridg
Slaying Trial Date Upheld in Lonely Hearts Case
Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ruled the al leged lonely hearts slayers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck must face a first degree murder trial next Thursday. Defendants listened as defense counsel Herbert Rosenberg failed to delay the date. They are charged with the hammer and scarf killing of Janet J. Fay, a widow from Albany, in Valley Stream, New York, on January 4.
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New York
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Raymond Fernandez
Martha Beck
Herbert C. Rosenberg
Janet J. Fay
Albank
N. Y
Valley Stream
State Inmates Prove Over the Fence Out
In St Charles Illinois guards at the Illinois State Training Schools for Boys recall a chaotic baseball game note. A loose ball rolling free led to five boys chasing and guards pursuing. The box score shows five outs one guard tagged one boy and three caught in a triple play by Kane County police. one boy credited with a home run and still missing.
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ST. Charles, Ill
Illinois State Training Schools
Kane County
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