States Await Segregation Court Ruling
The Supreme Court may rule on school segregation in Texas and Oklahoma state universities and on dining car segregation in the South as the court nears its summer adjournment. The Justice Department argues to overturn the separate but equal doctrine in all three cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Texas
Oklahoma
South
High Court
Department
Louisiana
United States
Standard Oil
Indiana
Scar-Faced Gal Sought After Three-Guard Robbery Pair Involved
Police across Georgia and Tennessee hunted a red headed scar faced woman and two armed men after a truck theft in Fairmount North Carolina and gunfire exchanges near Chattanooga. Suspects William J. Parker and Fred Scroggins named. Parker sought on five robbery counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Georgia
Tennessee
Fairmount
North Carolina
Ranger
Chattanooga
Knoxville
William J. Parker
Huntaville
Ala
Fred Scroggins
Calhoun
Parker
Danny Garland
Garland
Belgium Social Christians claim victory in Leopold IIIs return bid
Belgium's Social Christians swept toward a parliamentary lead in unofficial tallies with 108 seats versus 70 to 75 for the Socialists, signaling a possible one party cabinet and a July return for exiled King Leopold III. Interior minister De Vieeschauwer pledged Leopold's return by July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Leopold
Brussels
Social Christian Party
Leopold III
Switzerland
Social Christians
Victor Larock
Socialist Party
le Peuple
House of Representatives
Baron Carton de Diart
Albert de Vieeschauwer
Geneva
Leonarch
Pucis
Prince Boudouin
The
Social Christiana
Senators Plan To Further Cut New Budget For HST
A group of senators, including Bridges of New Hampshire, push for another large cut in President Truman's coming year budget. An unofficial poll reportedly shows a majority support the economy move after the House trimmed about 2.07 billion from a 30.96 billion request last month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Bridges
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Mauna Loa Lava Flows Pressed Toward Kau and Waiohinu
Volcanologist warns eruption may last weeks as lava from Mauna Loa pours from its flank. A new lava channel heads toward the villages of Kau Naalehu and Waiohinu while coast watchers report geysers in offshore Pacific waters and hundreds flee coastal areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Mauna Loa
Ray H. Finch
Hawaii Observatory
Kau
Naalehu
Waiohinu
Frank Oberhansiey
Hawaii National Park
Oberhansiey
Hawaii
Kona
Pacific
Firemen Parlay Save Boone Town From Blaze
Seth W. Va June 4 Firemen from Whitesville parlayed a railroad reservoir into a water source by digging a hole beneath the tank spout to feed flames in the early morning blaze. Chief H. Clay Porterfield said the theater and a small house were damaged totaling about $14,000 with control gained in about 30 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth
W. Va
Boone County
H. Clay Porterfield
Whitesville
Porterfield
Isaac Jarret
Deserters Seek Refuge as West Berlin Hosts 400 Youth
About 400 Communist youth from east Germany deserted the FDJ and sought political refugee protection in west Berlin. Three youth homes shelter them as officials decide if they qualify as refugees or are opportunists. West Berlin continues to receive around 300 new refugees daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Free German Youth Organization
FDJ
West
Man Dies Of Injuries In Cambria Accident
Wilbert E. Booth aged 28 of Cambria died in a local hospital in Christiansburg after injuries from an automobile crash near Cambria Friday night. Investigating officers report his car struck a parked vehicle near the east city limits and was then run over and dragged several feet by another car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christiansburg
Wilbert E. Booth
Cambria
Booth
U S Believed Leading Reds In Arms Race
General J Lawton Collins asserted that the United States has developed atomic artillery shells and guided missiles and can deploy atomic weapons to support troop operations. He noted potential Soviet limits in industrial capacity and research and emphasized defense over aggression while touring Notre Dame to receive the Laetare Medal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
J. Lawton Collins
Associated Press
Max Boyd
United States
Army
Russia
NBC
Collins
South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
Boyd
Western Europe
America
Europe
Senator Hickenlooper Seeks renomination in Iowa primary
Des Moines reports Republican reaction to Senator B. B. Hickenlooper’s actions in senate investigations. He runs for a second GOP term and aided the Atomic Energy Commission probe and the McCarthy state department inquiry. His main challenger is Earl F. Wisdom, who accuses him of stoking fears about atomic bombs and communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
B. B. Hickenlooper
Senate
Iowa
G.O.P
Atomic Energy Commission
McCarthy
State Department
Hickenlooper
Earl F. Wisdom
Liberal Party Leads in Japanese Balloting
Tokyo reports show premier Shigeru Yoshida's Liberal party leading in early unofficial returns from the national election. The Liberals count 34 of 71 seats with Socialists at 18, Green Wind Society four, Democrats three, and Independents twelve. 31.4 million voters turnout, effort to outlaw the Communist party noted by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Liberal Party
Liberals
Green Wind Society
Democrats
Kazuo Fukumoto
Japan
Shunkichi Ueda
Kyodo
Communist Party
MacArthur
Yoshida
House of Councillors
Nation Eyes Tuesday Vote In California
California voters prepare for a high stake primary with Gov. Earl Warren seeking a third term against James Roosevelt and a Democratic slate led by Helen Gahagan Douglas. Nixon runs on the Republican side while Downey, Boddy, and other figures shape a year of cross filing and party competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
Earl Warren
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Warren
Fdr
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Los Aangeles
Manchester Boddy
Los Angeles
Douglas
Melvyn Douglas
Eleanor Roosevelt
Boddy
Downey
Truman
Rep
Richard Nixon
Whittier
House
American Activities Committee
Nixon
Frank M. Gordon
Calfornia
Big Earl Warren
Knowland Pushes Hoover Appearance Before Senate Panel
Senator Knowland proposes FBI director J Edgar Hoover testify before the Senate to address puzzling aspects of the 1945 Amerasia case. He outlined informal session with questions about unexplained circumstances after meeting Secretary Acheson last week. The Amerasia affair involves alleged theft of hundreds of secret government documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Knowland
Top GOPSplit Over Arms Aid Divides Senate Leaders
Four leading Republican senators show split views on the administrations foreign arms program valued at 1.222 billion dollars. Millikin of Colorado signals conditional support if a solid case is presented by state and defense. Vandenberg backs continued military aid with possible regulatory relief. Taft and Wherry oppose a firm stand, signaling GOP division on U.S. arms aid policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Millikin
Colorado
State Acheson
Western
Europe
Vandenberg
R-Mich
GOP
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Wherry
Nebraska
AVC Seeks Impeachment of Senator McCarthy
The American Veterans Committee demands McCarthy be impeached for unfitness and moral turpitude. An 800 word denunciation accuses him of degrading the senate and stirring anti American sentiment. Michael Straight is to seek immediate introduction of impeachment articles in the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph McCarthy
American Veteran’s Committee
National Planning Committee
Wisconsin
Congress
State Department
AWC
Michael Straight
House
McCarthy
Senate
World network plan to boost American science diplomacy
Washington reports the state department outlined a worldwide network to share non-secret research with American scientists. Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner urged freer foreign scientist entry and delegations, including from the Soviet Union, to prevent US research lag and spur global scientific exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Lloyd V. Berkner
State Acheson
America
Russia
Department
Berkner
Sdeal
High Command
Moscow
Ikner
United States
Acheson
Matty
Virginia Weekend Toll Hits 14 In Traffic, Fires, Mines
The weekend death toll in Virginia rose to 14 with six highway fatalities and 15 injuries. Killed on a late Saturday fighter-plane crash near Norfolk was Ens. Arthur D. Hamilton, 21, of Rendondo Beach, California, piloting a Grumman F8F on a routine local flight. Authorities listed six highway deaths including Albert Hall, Lorelle Kibler, John Garretson, John Fallon, Irving Doss, and James Farabee in separate incidents across Henry, Fauquier, Fairfax, and nearby counties, raising the 1950 toll to 338.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Virginia
Old Dominion
Norfolk
Ens
Arthur D. Hamilton
USNR
Rendondo Beach
Calif
Grumman
Father of FFA Died Here Sunday
Henry C. Groseclose longtime Virginia agriculture leader and former Bland county schools superintendent died Sunday morning after a month in hospital. He helped found the Future Farmers of Virginia later national, served 12 years as national treasurer and taught at Virginia Tech. Survived by wife Marie Carr Groseclose two sons Henry C. Groseclose Jr and Tom J Chroneclose, three sisters and a brother. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm Sharon church Ceres with burial in the church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Groseclose
Future Farmers of America Organization
Virginia Agriculture
Groseclose
Bland County
Buckingham County
Future Farmers Movement
Future Farmers of Virginia
Virginia Tech
Marie Carr Groseclose
Henry C. Groseclose, Jr
Philadephia
Tom
Chroneclose
Port Hood
Tex
A. B. Woolwine
Cerea
Henry Peery
Tazewell
Mabel Groseclose
Pulaski
Peery Groseclose
Kentucky Military Institute
Lyndon
Sharon Church
Ceres
Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stuyvesant
New York City
Martinsville
Edward F. Prichard, Jr
Lexington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Prichard
Ellen Knauff
Ellis Island
Edwards Air Force Base
Muroc
Boone Town
U.S
Senator Hickenlooper
Commie
Diet of Parliament
Nation Eyes
New Deal
Sheridan Downey
Ill
FBI
AVC
Senator McCarthy
Plan World Network
Herbert Hoover
Atate
Atate Department
Irving Lee Doss
Gretna
Jamnes Roswell Farabee
Levington
N. C
Hall
Henry County
Kibler
Opal
Fauquier County
Garretson
Lengley
Pairfax County
Fallon
FFA
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!