Chandler Majority Climbs in Kentucky Victory Seems Sure
Former baseball commissioner A. B. Happy Chandler appears to lead in Kentucky's primary after partial returns from 1995 of 4074 precincts show Chandler ahead of Bert Combs and Jesse Cecil. Margin grows. Beauchamp predicts a close finish while eastern counties remain to report.
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A. B
Happy) Chandler
Bert T. Combs
Theountains
Jesse N. R. Cecil
Elecandes
U. S
Earle C. Clements
Senate
Lawrence Wetherby
Beal
Alben B. Barkley
Combs
Airliner Crash Kills 25 Near Voronezh
A Russian airliner crashed near Voronezh, killing 25 people including 10 Norwegian women from political parties on a Soviet invitation. All but the Norwegians were Russian passengers. five crew members perished. Russia will provide indemnities and an investigation is planned with a Norwegian envoy to the scene.
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Voronezh
Moscow
Yee Foreign Ministry
Toda
Russia
Foreign Ministry
Normaine
Enna
Sdid
One
Stalingrad
Bulganin Hosts Unprecedented Diplomat Party Near Moscow
Premier Bulganin hosts a Sunday party at a country estate with about 200 guests including top diplomats and wives. Attendees engaged in games, boating and a concert as leaders praised Geneva summit harmony and admired English people.
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Bulganin
Counry
Moscow
No Shorts for Chicago Police Force Says Commissioner
Chicago, Aug. 7. Commissioner Timothy O'Connor rejects a proposal to adopt Bermuda shorts as the official summer uniform for patrolmen. He says he saw officers in short pants at a golf tournament and called the sight unfit for the dignity of the force, citing knobby knees hairy legs and varicose veins.
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Chicago
Timothy O'Connor
O'Connor
Doctor Held For 4 Murders Fails In Attempt At death
Prominent McAlester physician Dr Ben T Galbraith 34 was found unconscious in his Pittsburg County jail cell after slashing his wrists in an attempted suicide on the eve of his murder trial for the deaths of his wife Kitty 35 and their three children. He had earlier written a note saying it was too much to face. Doctors said he was in critical condition but could recover. Separate trials for the wife and each child are planned with a continuance sought by defense counsel.
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Mcalester
Okla
Ben T. Galbraith
Pittsburg
Galbraith
Oklahoma Hospital
Vinita
Tial
Kitty
Fred Whetsel
Dist
W. A. Lackey
Dee Sanders
China
581St
Pacific
Ping
U S Korean Troops Clash On Inspection
Demonstrations surged at four ports of entry in Korea as South Koreans charged U S troops bayoneted five war veterans at Pagan. The U N Command and Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission faced pressure as South Korea warned all four nations to withdraw inspectors by next Saturday.
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U. S
U. S. 8Th Army
South Korea
Aessn
Pagan
Truce Inspectors
Pusan
Inchon
Taegu
Korea
Kunsan
Kangnung
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Sweden
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
Poland
U. N
Panmunjom
Kim Chan Yong
Officials Seek Way To Curb Violence In Motor Freight Strike
Pittsburgh officials plan joint talks with city county and state police to curb violence in a four week motor freight strike. A court hearing on an injunction against two member firms proceeds as two strikers post 1000 bonds for obstructing interstate commerce. Police escorts of trucks may be proposed as about 3000 Local 249 members and 100 WPMA trucks are affected.
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Dist
James F. Malone
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court
Western Pennsylvania Motor Carriers Assn
APL General Teamsters
PBI
Malone
W.P.M.C.A
Allegheny County
Local 249
State Woman Drowns Swimming In River
An Oak Hill woman aged 45, Mrs. Ann Griggs Bays, drowned while swimming in the New River during a Fay ette County family outing at Stonecliff. Survivors include her husband William Bays and six brothers and three sisters.
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Oak Hill
W. Va
Ann Griggs Bays
New River
Stonecliff
Fayette County
Wiliam Bays
Senators to Probe on Graft and Government Activity
Senate investigations plan to probe graft in high places and federal activity in the alcohol and drug trade. McClellan leads staff s searches on corruption in procurement and notes hearings may occur in late summer or fall. Additional testimony on grain storage bin purchases by Agriculture is expected.
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Senate
Uncle Sam
Senate Investigations
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Wula Elge
Aarele
le Ben Daniels
D-Tex
New York Academy of Medicine
New
Texas
California
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Big Stone Gap Man Slain in Wise County Shooting
Fillmore Litton Gilmer 44 of Big Stone Gap was shot and killed at his home. Robert Sanders Sr. 57 was arrested for questioning after reportedly firing at Gilmer when he returned to press his entry. Gilmer, a WWII Navy test pilot and son of the late Dr. J A Gilmer, left a wife and three children.
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Big Stone Gap
Fillmore Litton Gilmer
Robert Sanders Sr
Wise County
Harold Fleming
Sanders
Gilmer
Vienne
J. A. Gilmer
Navy
Prime Minister Resigns in Pakistan Moslem League Shakeup
Mohammed Ali, prime minister since April 1953, resigned after losing party leadership. Chaudri Mohammed Ali was elected to succeed him as head of the Moslem League following a five hour high command meeting in Karachi.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Mohammed Ali
Chaudri Mohammed Ali
Nude, Trussed Body Of K. C. Woman Found Near Greenlease Killing Site
The nude and trussed body of 34 year old Mrs. Wilma Allen, wife of a Kansas City automobile dealer, was found in a secluded Johnson County pasture. She had been shot in the back of the head twice and her hands tied with her pink scarf. Police and volunteers swarmed the area as investigators examined whether she was raped after vanishing from a beauty shop appointment.
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Kansas City
Wilma Allen
David S. Long
Kansas Ciy
Johnson County
Kan
Bobby Greenlease
War of Words Over Congress Record Debate on Eisenhower Support
Washington Aug 7 House Speaker Rayburn urged the President to press party members for action next year while Vice President Nixon disputed claims that Democrats backed Eisenhower more than Republicans in the first session of the 84th Congress. Republican chairman Leonard W Hall urged a national highway program amid partisan criticism of Congress.
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House
Rayburn
Dtex
Eisenhower
Nixon
Leonard W. Hall
Congress
Eeisenhower
Sith Congress
Rayburn Nixon
Rep. Ostertag
RNY
Rochester
N.Y
Wham-Tv
Coeps
Senate
Cold front ends heat wave across central states
A Canadian cold front breaks a lengthy heat wave in the north central region while New York receives rare relief from torrential rain. Temperatures fall from 90s to 60s in the Northeast as showers widen along the cooler air edge from Kansas to the Middle Atlantic states.
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Associated Press
Canada
New York
Central Plains
Great Lakes
Gulf States
Kansas
Ohio Valley
Kan
Kansas City
Columbia
Fort Wayne
Ind
Gina Lollobrigida Skirts Parisians in Paris Parade
Parisians booed slightly as Gina Lollobrigida appeared in a pink dotted full skirt while six circus horses paraded past Cirque d'Hiver in Paris amid expectations of pink tights for the Trapeze shoot. Press agents cited reasons for her absence, fueling disappointment among the crowd.
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Paris
Gina Lollobrigida
Godiva
Coventry
Cirque d‘Hiver
Eense
Freed Airmen Describe Torture by Commie Captors
Col. John Knox Arnold Jr and ten other airmen testified at a Washington news conference that Chinese Reds tortured them for months to extract statements used to convict them as spies. They described harsh "persuasion" techniques and said the methods were beyond what civilized people know.
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Washington
John Knox Arnold Jr
Arnold
Navy Denial Of Commission For Landy Delayed Review Promised
Eugene William Landy 21, a Kings Point graduate, was told his Naval Reserve commission denial will be reviewed by Navy Secretary Charles 8. Thomas after his mother’s former Communist Party ties blocked him at graduation. Thomas said he will examine the case on both sides and reportedly read of it in newspapers.
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Eugene William Landy
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
N. Y
Navy
Charles 8. Thomas
Landy
Communist Party
Naval Reserve
Thomas
Unions Call for Curb on Pirate Plant Relocation
An AFL report prepared for the Chicago meeting argues that firms move plants using subsidies tax breaks free land and low wages to relocate, harming workers. It cites New England and Mid Atlantic migrations and urges congressional action to curb such practices.
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AFL
APL Executive Council
Chicago
New England
Middle Atlantic
South
Indwototells
Hammarskjold Pushes Quiet Diplomacy At UN
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold urges expanded quiet diplomacy in international affairs. He cites recent releases of U S airmen from China and tensions at Geneva as context, and he backs broader UN membership and a possible charter revision conference with timing yet to be set.
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N.Y
Dag Hammarskje
U.N
Peiping
United States
Red China
U.N. General Assembly
China
Mpeciteague
Assembly
Pone
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