Mystery surrounds death of Bay Employes Federation secretary
Police probe the death of Parr 32 a Bay Refinery Avenue secretary found in front of his home near AIPR Town. He laid unresponsive with no movement or food intake observed. Detectives question McKee and Anderson about Parr’s last hours as investigators search for signs an assault or accident occurred.
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Jim
Parr
Bartowh Refinery Ave
Bay Employes Federation
Aipr
Nzext
Memorial Hospital
H. F. MerKee
Three Hurt As Two Cars Hit Headon
Three persons were hospitalized after a head on collision on Market Street at Crow Road at 11 pm yesterday. Victims were W L Moyers 22 visiting his father, Charles T Cravens 22 son of Mrs Pearl Cravens, and Harold Creamer 24. Moyers and Cravens sustained jaw fractures while Cravens suffered a broken jaw and broken arm. Creamer had facial cuts. Moyers car collided with Cravens car. Creamer was a passenger. Cravens had been on a 12 day leave en route to Seattle. Cravens may have driven a car owned by Johnny King of Chalmerview. Moyers works at Dow Chemical in Freeport. The two cars, a Ford and a Hud, were demolished. Cravens was pinned 13 minutes before bystander freed him. Highway Patrolmen Gooding and Thames investigated.
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Market Street
Crow Road
Victor Korenek
Market
W. L. Moyers
Charles T. Cravens
Pearl Cravens
Harold Creamer
Bolster
Moyers
Cravens
Houston
Creamer
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Ed Gooding
Thomas
Seattle
Baytown Hospital
H. L. Cook
Richard Elam
Teniler Court
High
Koreneks
Tse
Gooding
Thames
Dhe
Baytown
Raytown
Spots Team Honored at La Porte High Banquet
The Spots team from La Porte High School will be honored at a public banquet sponsored by the Lit Boosters Club. The event, at the Sportsman’s Café, will recognize members and selected veterans. Details note health and tuberculosis concerns as part of the program.
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Eks
la Porte High Besk
Lit Fe Boosters Club
Sportsman's Cafe
Town News Highlights and Odds and Ends
Town items include Julia Hartman and Pat Benny Knoxs with friends on a pleasure trip. Notes mention ticket sales, a popular venue, and local figures Carl Roth, Jack Saunders, Dean, Dolpa, and Herring discussing events and World Series plans. A birthday for Wesley Woods appears amid trainment and local chatter.
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Julia
Hartman
Pat
Benny
Roper
Jacki Saunders
Carl Roth
Tg Yee
Dean
Jack
C. H. Dolpa
Wesley Woods
Nate
Wes
Bert Black
Wrecked British Ship Found After Sicily Air Crash
Rescuers in Sicily found 64 dead after a plane en route from Bovingdon to Nairobi crashed into Sierra de Biondo near Palermo. The search, aided by Italian soldiers and American airmen, uncovered bodies of 17 men, 1 woman, and 3 children amid snow drifts. Most aboard were British staff of a new air field at Ertahbe, Uganda.
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Anchiiing
Bovingdon
England
la Nairobi
Kepsa Palermo
Sicily
Cplang
Africa
Sierra de Biondo
Nice
France
Valleca Maria
Ag & Pm
R + Leams
Federal
Cresh
Tripol
Sinting Air Transport Company
Soaked Sausage Standoff Triggers Fire Alarm
George Munger nearly traded a cured sausage for soaked meat in Highlands when two passersby raised the alarm. Volunteers rushed with sirens, and Munger sprinted from a washroom scene waving at firefighters to halt the blaze.
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George Munger
George Wil
W. L Simpson
Highlands
Munger
Family Of 4 Electrocuted In Effort To Save Child
In Douglasville Georgia a father mother and two sons died when a 400-volt power line fell into a field near their home. A fifth child, a son, survived after witnessing the tragedy. An undertaker described the scene and the grisly sequence as family members attempted to rescue the boy.
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Douglasville
Yester- Gax
Douglas County
M. C. Abercrombie
Tommy Chapman
Ester
Charles
Bryan
J. Cowan Whitley
Chapman
Bill Arp
Whitley
Jeem
Rites Today For Alfred I Blum
Funeral services for Alfred H. Blum of Highlands were held at Earthman Funeral Home. Burial followed at Rest Cemetery. Blum, a retired farmer, lived in Highlands about 15 years and died Saturday evening at Baytown hospital. Survivors include three sons Joe J. Blum Albert Blum and Fred Blum two daughters Fay Walker and Pearl Miller eleven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Pallbearers were James Moore Cleo Long Rex Wolfe Jake Green Charley Bedinger and Timmy Janes.
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Alfred H. Blum
Highlands
Tad
Earthman
Elmer Moore
Caristoffing
Will of Rest
Blum
Baytown Hospital
Tree Sons
Joe J. Blum
el, Campo
Albert Blum
Gonzales
Fred Blum
Splentora
Fay Walker
Pearl Miller
New Caner
James Moore
Cleo Long
Rex Wolfe
Jake Gren
Charley Bedinger
Timmy Janes
Waco Chief Charges Little Kefauvers Hunting Headlines
Waco Police Chief Jesse V. Gunterman accused the House Crime Investigating Committee of smearing the city by labeling it with “Little Kefauvers” hunting headlines. He said the committee’s tone implied vice and damaged Waco’s good name. Sheriff Maxey reported no prostitutes found in a north Waco area during a drive against an alleged prostitution mill.
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Waco
Jesse V. Gunterman
Texas
Gunterman
House Crime Investigating Committee
Austin
McLennan
C. C. Maxey
Fred’ V. Meridith
Horace Houston
Dallas
Maxey
Maxéy
Germans Press Equal Rights in West Defense Plan
West Germany seeks equal status in Western defense and a seat in European defense structures. Chancellor Adenauer backs a $2.5 billion defense funding and 12 divisions, aiming for eventual NATO membership while supporting a joint NATO European army council.
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London
West
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Dean Acheson
Anthony Eden
Britain
Robert’ Schuman
France
Adenauer
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Council
European Army Council
NATO
Atlantic Organization
Adenattéer
Teter
Reds Deny UN Right To Reject Russia
PANMUNJOM UF The Communists challenged the United Nations veto power over Russia as one of six neutral nations to police a Korean armistice They warned they could delay a truce indefinitely insisting neither side had the right to veto any of the three neutrals North Korean officer Colonel Chang Chun San said if the Soviet Union could not be nominated there would be no neutral nation The UN said it would reply Tuesday A second group of UN and Communist officers agreed on minor changes to a prisoner exchange draft The deadlock over forced versus voluntary repatriation did not arise The delegates postponed until 16 a m Tuesday Baytown time for Reds to respond to the UNs conditional acceptance of a post armistice peace conference 90 days after the armistice
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Panmunjom
United Nations
Russia
Soviet Union
Chang ‘Chun San
Don O. Darrow
Red Cross
Fvar
Baytown
Williams
PL Nutkols
Dry Ideas Lead Woman To Forgery
Long Beach California police said Alyce E Milner 26 confessed to buying whiskey with bad checks to break bottles because she hates liquor She was arrested in Van Nuys and claimed to have helped pass about 30 checks across southern California Oregon Arkansas and Texas
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Long Beach
Call
AI Palice
Alyce E. Milner
van Nuys
California
Palice
Tham
Caugthia
Oregon
Arkansas
Texas
Bride shoots soldier husband over threats of immorality
Wealthy two month bride Mary Jean Parsons, 23, shot Lieuten ant Richard O Parsons, 24, in bed after he allegedly called her immoral illegal and fattening. She sat with the body for 19 hours and was booked for murder. District Attorney William Clayton planned formal charges as her attorney sought a habeas corpus. The jailed bride appeared unconcerned, even laughing at times, and signed a confession after an argument over parental help.
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Mary Jean Parsons
Ant Richard O. Parsons
Wiam Clayton
W. G. Pryor
Senators Probe Tanker Deals Involving Casey and Newbold Morris
Senate investigators opened hearings into complex surplus tanker deals with big profits. Vice Admiral B L Cochrane testified as former Rep Joseph Casey and associates profited about 2.8 million on a 100000 investment in eight ships. Morris, president of China International Foundation, may be called to testify.
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Washington
T.P
Senate
B. L. Cochrane
Federal Maritime “Board
Joseph B
Casey
Massachusetts
Clyde , R
Hees
DL Worth
Gasolina
Houston Wasson
New York
Newbold
Truman
Morris
GOP
Hoey
Vsale
Mores
China International Foundation
Trew
Wasson
Foundation
Gasoline Trailer Fire Threatens 300,000 Gallons at Houston Plant
A high octane gasoline trailer exploded into flames at the Cities Service Company plant in east Houston. A large warehouse burned as tanks holding about 300,000 gallons of gasoline were at risk. In Arrow Mills, 350 workers were evacuated from nearby facilities.
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Houston
Cities Service Company
Arrow Mills
Eisenhower Backers Worry Over Nomination Tactics
Washington dispatch reports Eisenhower backers growing anxious that he can clinch the Republican presidential nomination without returning home to campaign. Some say his presence would help, others doubt it essential as mounting pressure grows for him to address current issues before the July convention. Senator Taft and Senator Aiken urge a public speaking return. Aiken forecasts a surge for MacArthur if Ike stays away.
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Ray Mgnd Lahr
Washington
Trving M. Ives
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Paris
Shacehmeling
Ives
Robert A. ‘Taft
Ohio
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Aiken
Douglas -MacArtaur i Hower
Wrecks Lead To Man's Decision To Walk
Emmett Belcher an oil field worker involved in three traffic crashes this week says he will walk for a while after escaping injury in the highway collisions. He notes two wrecks in two days and a prior overturn on Highway 146 near Diboll with Donald Tharnah and Herschel Meeks seriously injured, while his brother's car crash between Conroe and Diboll left him unhurt.
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Emmett Belcher
Neach Diboll
Donald Tharnah
Herschel “Meeks
Conroé
Dibolt
Belcher
Iso
Bandits in Army Uniforms Hold Up Fuji Bank in Tokyo
In Tokyo two men wearing US Army uniforms and a Japanese civilian robbed the Sanju branch of Fuji Bank near Senju police box. They halted clerks and customers, entered the vault, and escaped in a jeep with about 2,109,000 yen. The heist lasted three minutes.
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Tokyo
Sanju
Fuji Bank
Thio
Senju
UN Forces Break Pushing Battle Near Korean Front
UN forces use bayonets tanks and planes to keep Communists off balance in western Korea as sabrejets claim two enemy jets and a raid drives north of Chorwon Rumsong and Yponggane. Infantry storms hills and bunkers amid heavy small arms fire with tanks supporting and a second raiding group meeting intense Communist resistance.
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EPJ
United Nations
Korea
Sil- Nae
Yponggane
Chorwon
Mardi Gras Sees Parade Disruptions in New Orleans
New Orleans begins Mardi Gras season amid weather and disruption. A fire destroyed parade property owned by the Krewe of Rex, dampening festivities as other krewe floats prepare to take to the streets, with a record 15 organizations planned to parade on Mardi Gras Day. Weather remains mostly cloudy and warm with scattered showers expected tomorrow.
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New Orleans
Gpi
Rex
Carrolton
Seaason
Police Fail Daring Bid For Freedom
A 26-year-old desperado Robert Hugh Barker killed one detective and wounded two others five weeks earlier. He shot his way out of St. Joseph's Hospital today, dragged another car, and fled. He was captured alive an hour later on a country road south of Fort Worth. He robbed a woman at the hospital parking lot, abducted Charles W. Lynch a 31-year-old student, forced him to undress and drive, then tried to elude pursuing officers. Barker had planned to steal money and clothes, claiming he escaped to avoid death in the electric chair.
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Fort Worth
U.P
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Robert Hugh ‘Barker
Worth
Charles W. Lynch
Ives
Barber
Lynch
Mansfield
Lanc
Dallas
Fort Worwert
Agit
Louisiana Vote Slated In Democratic Runoff
New Orleans dispatch notes final appeals by Earl Long and Carlos Spaht as Louisiana voters prepare for tomorrow's Democratic gubernatorial runoff. Large statewide broadcasts aim to energize turnout, with 07 voters registered vs 981,403 in January primary. Spaht trails with 183,987, backed by Long’s machine. reform forces led by Mayor DeLesseps Morrison and ex-Governor Sam H. Jones also feature in the contest.
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New Orleans
Wadge
Robert’ Fo Keanon
Earl
Long
Carlos Ge Spaht
Emd
Winn Parish
Longs
Louisiana
Spaht
DeLes- Seps- Morrison
Reform, Forces
Sam H. Jones
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Mrs. Gene
Hgvening
Bie
Alfred i. Blum
Reds
Newbold Morris
Peter
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