Indiana GOP Goes All Taft in 32 Vote Delegation
Indiana Republicans move to back Sen. Robert Taft for the GOP presidential nomination, with 20 Taft loyalists chosen in district caucuses and 10 at large to be ratified by the state convention. Eisenhower supporters decry rule changes including a $500 filing fee, amid threats of a convention contest in Chicago.
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Indianapolis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Indiana
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Eisenhower
Chicago
Robert A. Grant
Texas
Grant
Dale J. Holder
Former S. D. Medical School Dean Dies
Dr. Donald Slaughter 46, former dean of the University of South Dakota Medical School, died of a heart attack at home in Vermillion. He had resigned a month after leaving a federal narcotics hospital and was involved in probe over sleep drug experiments. His son, Donald Slaughter Jr. 17, found him. coroner ruled myocardial failure after autopsy by Dr. A. C. Starry.
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Vermillion
S.D
Donald Slaughter
University of South Dakota Medical School
Slaughter
U.S. Public Health Hospital
Lexington
Donald Slaughter Jr
Myron Iverson
A. C. Starry
Sioux City
Canvass Board to Decide S. D. Winner Today
Sioux Falls S D Taft leads Eisenhower by 820 votes in unofficial returns for the Republican presidential primary. Taft counts 64 840 to Eisenhower 64 020 with seven precincts missing. 14 delegates to Chicago are at stake. Mickelson defers concession pending official tally.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
South Dakota
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Eisenhower
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
William E. Borah
Idaho
Hutchinson County
Chicago
George T. Mickelson
Mickelson
Arab Israel Border Clash Near Tel Aviv
The Palestine mixed Armistice Commission visited Qalqiye, 14 miles northeast of Tel Aviv, to examine a frontier clash. An Israeli soldier was killed and a civilian wounded, with ten Jordanian Arab Legionnaires casualties. An Amman dispatch added a dead Arab woman and another wounded. The Army said tension subsided and the frontier was clearly demarcated.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Palestine Mixed Armistice Commission
Qalqiye
Jordan
Amman
Worthington pilot injured in crop dusting plane crash
Dale Johnson of Worthington was severely injured when his small crop dusting plane crashed yesterday amid a sharp turn. The Cleveland Browns in the NFL will complete their schedule on November 23.
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Worthington
Minn
Dale Johnson
Cleveland Browns
NFL
Airman and Male 'Wife' Face Count in Dependency Swindle
FBI charged Air Force Staff Sgt. Ronald M. Carpenter and George Molino Sanchez with fraud and conspiracy after they obtained more than $2,000 in dependency allotments by posing as husband and wife. Sanchez, dressed as a woman, was arrested in Corpus Christi Texas on morals charges, while Carpenter was nabbed at Travis Air Force Base California. The scheme began with a forged marriage license in August 1948 and continued through 1950 when allotments of 127.50 monthly were directed to Mrs Eleana Carpenter. Burton noted Sanchez posed as Carpenter’s wife for the fraud and was later found to be a man.
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Denver
FBI
George Molino Sanchez
Corpus Christi
Tex
George C. Burton
Ronald M. Carpenter
Travis Air Force Base
Fairfield
Calif
Burton
Sanchez
Carpenter
U. S
Joseph Neff
Air Force
Eleana Carpenter
British Use Tear Gas to Disperse Prisoners
KOJE ISLAND Korea British infantrymen used six tear gas grenades to drive Communist POWs back from a barbed wire fence as engineers searched for a tunnel. No injuries were reported among 2,700 North Korean officers and 650 noncommissioned officers. The operation targets Compound 76 and others as part of “operation breakup” with planned staged transfers to more manageable compounds.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Koje Island
Korea
United Nations
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Compound 66
Rottorn
Haydon L. Boamer
Kose
Francis T. Dodd
Boatner
Taft Ike Compromise Proposal Sparks GOP Delegation Clash
Senator Taft proposed a compromise on contested GOP presidential-nominating delegations including Texas Louisiana Georgia and Mississippi as Eisenhower campaign chiefs rejected the idea. Eisenhower commented briefly on the offer while Lodge insisted on the party's right to seat delegates and avoid deals. The Mineral Wells convention of May 27 saw Taft backers seating pro Taft delegates and Eisenhower supporters walking out.
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Warren Rogers Jr
Washington
Sen
Robert Taft
South
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Ohio
Texas
Louisiana
Georgia
Mississippi
Taft
Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Indianapolis
Indiana
Chicago
Credentials Committee
Kansas City
New York
Mineral Wells
Eiisenhower
Gorilla Lock-picking Ape Delays Zoo Lockups
Sumaili the gorilla at the Bronx Zoo has learned to pick locks on her steel cage doors. She has done it twice recently, and a new lock was installed yesterday. Officials say she uses her thumbnail as a screwdriver and tweezers while her lips act as a wrench, but the door only separates indoor and outdoor compounds. She is quickly recaptured before any escape.
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New York
Sumaili
Bronx
Belgian Congo
Zoo
227 Graduate at St. Cloud Teachers College
Degrees were conferred on 227 students by President George F Budd at commencement at St. Cloud State Teachers College Friday. Detroit and Washington jointly hold the record for most consecutive games lost on opening days. the mark is 13.
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St. Cloud
George F. Budd
St. Cloud State Teachers College
Detroit
Washington
Allied Truce Negotiators Take Powder in Korea
United Nations truce negotiators walked out of deadlocked Korean armistice talks after declaring a three day recess over Communist demands for daily meetings. Gen William Harrison said if they want to meet tomorrow they may but will not return before June 11. The exit left Red delegates surprised and baffled as Nam accused allies of tearing the Geneva Convention while Harrison reaffirmed the U N stance on 100000 war prisoners and civilians unwilling to return to Communist control.
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George A. McArthur Munsan
Korea
United Nations
William K. Harrison
Reds
U.N
Harrison
Nam
Arthur P
Rossellini May Come to U S for Court Reply
Italian director Roberto Rossellini may travel to the United States to answer a court challenge in Los Angeles over Ingrid Bergman’s custody bid for their daughter Jeanne Ann. The hearing concerns allegations of immorality and drug use. Rossellini said he may defend himself if he can obtain a visa amid prior opposition. He awaits news of Bergman’s expected twins.
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Los Angeles
Roberto Rossellini
Peter Lindstrom
Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman
Jenny Ann
Rome
Ingrid
Construction Strike at Winona Ends
Winona Minnesota AFL unions ended a construction strike that halted major work since May 5 as the fourth of four unions reached an agreement with employers. About 230 carpenters builders laborers painters and sheet metal workers were involved while around 250 other workers did not cross picket lines.
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Winona, Minn
AFL
Wanger Will Serve Time as Librarian
Walter Wanger begins a three month jail term at Los Angeles County Honor Farm and will work as a librarian the warden noting his love of books. He can be released Sept 3 with max good behavior time or Oct 3 otherwise.
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Center
Los Angeles
Castaic
Wanger
Los Angeles County
Jennings Lang
Joan Bennett
Chicago
Ambrose Stewart
James Mason
Reach Accord in Kahler Rift
Kahler Corp employees vote to accept a six cent hourly wage boost for about 600 workers and a two cent retroactive increase to Feb. 1 with June 1 effective raise pending Wage Stabilization Board approval. The pact covers hospitalization benefits rising to nine dollars daily and a two week vacation after three years.
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Rochester
Mayo Clinic
Kahler Corp
Franklin
Harry Hanson
Kahler
Joe Prifrel
AFL
Kahler Workers
Wage Stabilization Board
Prifrel
Kahler Employes
Union
Frellsen Named Chair Of Midwestern Flood Conference
S A Frellsen director of the Division of Waters Minnesota Conservation Department is named chairman of the Midwestern State Flood Control Conference in St Paul.
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ST. Paul
S. A. Frellsen
Division of Waters
Minnesota Conservation Department
Girl Dies in Fire Blame 2 Brothers
In Island Park near Lake Minnetonka two five and four year old boys admitted lighting a box of kitchen matches on the main floor while their sister, two year old Sandra Opdahl, slept upstairs. The family home burned completely as neighbors called in of the blaze and the Mound Fire Department arrived. The parents were away when the fire started and Sandra died in the flames.
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Minneapolis
Lake Minnetonka
Sandra
Joseph Opdahl
Island Park
Opdahl
Spring Park
Alfred Bell
Mound Fire Department
James
Ronnie
One Killed One Hurt in Car Truck Crash
A car and a truck collided on a Willow River bridge on Highway 64 near New Richmond Wisconsin killing Harold Bacon 35 of Somerset and seriously injuring his wife Lillian 33 who was taken to Holy Family Hospital. The truck was driven by Gerald Meath a nearby farmer who was unhurt.
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New Richmond
Wis
Willow River
Highway 64
Here
Harold Bacon
Somerset
Lillian
Holy Family Hospital
Gerald Meath
Soviet Envoy Shuffle Sparks Uncertain Policy Outlook
Washington expects little change in U S Soviet policy after Moscow names Georgi Zarubin as ambassador to the United States. Panyushkin to depart for New York and home via Sweden after a 25 minute farewell with Acheson.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Moscow
Georgi Zarubin
London
Canada
Zarubin
Alexander S. Panyushkin
State Department
N. Y
Panyushkin
New York
Sweden
Acheson
Mosquito Bite Delays Speaker at Commencement
International Falls Minnesota reports that Rev. F. W. Sherman was unable to appear at the high school commencement when an infected ankle, believed to come from a mosquito bite, forced him to seek hospital care. He had been slated to give the invocation and benediction.
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International Falls
Minn
F. W. Sherman
Sherman
Barber offers pickup and delivery haircuts for boys
Oak Ridge barber Glenn Mose advertised in the Oak Ridger that starting Monday he will provide pickup and delivery of haircuts for boys. He will collect a child from home, cut hair per instructions, and return the child. The price is one dollar for the haircut with free delivery.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn.p
Glenn Mose
Oak Ridger
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