Warren And Roosevelt Lead Ticket In California Primary
The Associated Press reports California’s gubernatorial race shows Earl Warren leading the Republican line and James Roosevelt ahead in the Democratic race as results near half way. Warren holds a wide margin in the GOP primary while Roosevelt climbs, with final tallies not yet known.
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Associated Press
Earl Warren
James Roosevelt
Helen Douglas
Richard M. Nixon
U. S
California
Warren
Roosevelt
Senate Moves to Probe Perverts in Government Jobs
Washington votes to back a $10 000 inquiry by the Senate executive expenditures committee into alleged sexual perverts in government roles. Senator Hill and nine others push the measure after police cite 3500 perverts in federal work. 91 forced from the State Department with 14 finding other federal posts. Supporters warn blackmail risk could threaten security.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
Hill
D-Ala
State Department
Congress
Wherry
R-Neb
California Truman Is No Vote Getter
Roland Truman of One Beach, California, ran for congress in the eighteenth district and finished a distant third. He captured less than ten percent of the votes on both major tickets as late returns came in.
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Long Beach
Calif
Roland Truman
One Beach
Harry
Congress
California
Truman
FBI Aid Sought In Bludgeon Slaying
In St Clairsville Ohio authorities seek FBI assistance to positively identify a 38 year old divorcee found bludgeoned in an abandoned sawmill. Deputy Wayne Street tentatively identifies her as Mrs Ethel Henry of West Alexander Pennsylvania. A three state search has been under way. Paul Huntsman aged 50 is said to have died by his own actions near Fairpoint. He hanged himself near a store a day from a tree by a tavern in Valley Grove West Virginia about 19 miles from Fairpoint.
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St. Clairsville
FBI
Wayne Street
Belmont County
Ethel Henry
West Alexander
Paul Huntsman
Fairpoin
T Huntsman
Valley Grove
W. Va
Fairpoint
Survivors Of Sea Crash Landed Near Miami
Ninety survivors, most Puerto Rican migratory workers, plus American pilots, were rescued after a C-46 ditched 275 miles east northeast of Miami. Sixty five Puerto Ricans and the crew reached Charleston aboard the USS Saufley. Investigations opened by CAB and Puerto Rico officials into overloading and safety violations by Westair Aviation Corp. The plane was en route to Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Miami
Saufley
Charleston
S. C
Atlantic
Civil Aeronautics Board
San Juan
Westair Company
Shelton Brother Slain as Sheltons Lose a Member
Fairfield Alabama June 7 an assassin in bushes killed Roy Shelton 59 while he worked his pond creek bottom farm 12 miles southeast of town. The slaying leaves two surviving Shelton brothers Big Earl 54 and Dalta 50 amid a spree of ambushes that have felled most of the family since 1947.
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Shelton Brothers
Roy
Shelton
Pond Creek Bottom
Here
Sheltons
Big Earl
Dalta
Carl
Bernie
Little Earl
Wildcat Strike Delays Work At Philip Sporn
A strictly wildcat strike at the Philip Sporn power plant in Point Pleasant West Virginia halted construction today. W. E. Reed of the Huntington building and trades council said workers would return or be replaced, while a firm official reported 200 AFL laborers quit yesterday, idling about 100. Reed doubted the figure.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
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W. E. Reed
Huntington Building and Trades Council
AFL
Reed
Eight Missing In Crash Of Superfort Off England
A U S Air Force B 29 crashed into the North Sea off the Suffolk coast during a training flight from Sculthorpe. Two survivors were picked up along with one body. eight crewmen remain missing. The plane belonged to the 72nd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron based in Fairfield Suisun California. Capt Henry J Walsh was one survivor and S Sgt Warren J Elbert the other.
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London
North Sea
English
U. S
Third Air Division
Sculthorpe
Britain
72Nd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron
United States
Fairfield-Suisan
Sacramento
Calif
Henry J. Walsh
Warren J. Elbert
Marshall Stumps For Armed Aid
General George C. Marshall urged Congress to approve 1 222 500 000 for a second year of mutual defense aid to non Communist nations. He warned against arming the US alone and argued aid helps Europe build defenses gradually to avoid risking our economy and isolation while reducing global danger.
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Washington
Free
Europe
George C. Marshall
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Russia
Marshall
Love Hits Coal Nationalization at Private Power Meet
Atlantic City June 7. George H. Love president of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal tells 3000 private power men that nationalization is the threat and urges keeping coal in private hands. He says a public duty to avoid strikes and to assure cheap coal. miners must join to serve consumers.
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Atlantic City
N. J
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Edison Electric Institute
Love
Acheson Rules Out Western German Rearmament
Secretary of State Acheson said the United States does not plan to rearm western Germany as a defense measure against the Soviet threat. He reaffirmed demilitarization of Germany and suggested the path to peace lies in building military and economic power of the West while allowing Lie to pursue practical talks.
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Washington
Acheson
Western
Germany
Russia
Omar Bradley
West
U N
Trygve Lie
Moscow
John Foster Dulles
Japan
Korea
Dulles
Douglas MacArthur
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Joints Chiefs of Staff
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Law Takes Dim View Of Isotopic Cocktail
Dock Smith was arrested for drunken driving after drinking an isotopic cocktail. He told Judge Charles G. Kelly that the atomic medicine for a blood disease made him dizzy. Judge Kelly dismissed the charge after a letter from the University Isotopic Therapy committee said such cocktails often cause dizziness.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Dock Smith
Charles G. Kelly
University of Tennessee Hospital
Oakridge
Kelly
Smith
University
Leopold’s Return Likely as Belgium Forms New Government
Regent Prince Charles named Jean Duvieusart to form a government as King Leopold’s return to the throne appears likely within weeks. Duvieusart pledged a nonconditional cabinet and parliament would be convened to repeal the regency act after Social Christian party victory over anti Leopold forces.
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Belgium
Prince Charles
Jean Duvieusart
Leopold
House of Representatives
Duvieusart
Prince Baudouin
Eden Divorce Suit Clouds Tory Heir To Churchill
Former foreign secretary Anthony Eden sues his wife Beatrice for divorce. The case, to be heard by Justice Sir Francis Hodson, could threaten Eden’s political future as deputy Conservative leader and potential prime minister successor to 76 year old Winston Churchill. The Edens have lived apart since the war. Mrs Eden has spent years in the United States and Bermuda.
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London
Anthony Eden
Eden
Conservative
Long
Winston Churchill
Francis Hodson
Burma
Britain
Ten Million Needed to Build West Virginia Medical School
A special committee was told that a four year medical and dental school in West Virginia would cost 10 million to build and 1 million annually to operate. The plan includes the schools and a 400 bed hospital under direct medical school control. Experts report.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Herman G. Weiskotten
Wilburt C. Davison
Syracuse
Duke
D. L. Gainer
Senate
W. Broughton Johnston
Davison
Morgantown
Huntington
Weiskotten
Weisbotten
Texas U Bows To Court Ruling on Race Admissions
The University of Texas will admit two Black students amid a Supreme Court ruling mandating equal facilities. John Saunders Chase, 25, Austin, WWII veteran, will pursue a master’s in architecture while Horace Lincoln Heath, 50, Waco, seeks a PhD in government. Also noted is the Sweatt case, Houston postman Herman Sweatt, whose suit led to the ruling.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
John Saunders Shase
Horace Lincoln Heath
Waco
Chase
Herman Marion Sweatt
Houston
Supreme Court
Sweatt
Texas State University
University Law School
House Group Spurns Bid To Hike Levy
Washington reports the house ways and means committee rejected a plan to raise the import tax on fuel oil from 10 to 84 cents per barrel. The panel backed a doubling of depletion allowances for coal tax relief, while doubts remained on broader tax changes this session.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Reps. Simpson
R-Pa
Eberharter
D-Pa
Congress
Rep
Jenkins
Ohio
Treasury
Ninth Floor Observer Earns Cops' Disfavor
Memphis police rushed to the Chisco hotel after a man on the roof caused alarm. Officer C P Drake climbed nine floors by stairs while Officer P M Pindexter used the elevator. The hotel worker refused to come down, saying he stood there daily to watch trucks and that six officers could not push him off.
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Memphis
Tenn
Chisco
C. P. Drake
P. M. Poindexter
T shaped Manhattan land sells for 1 292 500
A T shaped tract in the Wal Street district sold at auction for 1 292 500 dollars. The sale at the Hotel Biltmore drew 91 bidders and was conducted by auctioneer Daniel J. McElveney Jr. The Demov Callahan Morris firm acted for an undisclosed client and the New York Trust Company was trustee for the Cortlandt Bishop estate.
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New York
Peter Minuit
Manhattan Island
Old Peter
Wal Street
Biltmore
Daniel J. McElveney, Jr
McElvveney
Talking Horse
McElveney
New York Trust Company
Cortlandt F. Bishop
Callahan and Morris Raw
Joseph P. Day
Weekend Death Toll Reaches 455
Four hundred fifty five persons died in accidents nationwide from Friday evening to Tuesday midnight. The figure compares with 571 during the four day Memorial Day holiday and covers a 102 hour survey ending Tuesday for holiday traffic context. Drownings were 75, down from 96, with 110 other accidents yielding 110 deaths in the recent period.
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Associated Press
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