Young Wins Fight For NYC Control After Bitter Battle
Robert R. Young has won control of the New York Central Railroad by a margin of 1 070 000 votes. Official results to be announced by election inspectors at 10 am. Young’s slate of 14 directors and one woman will take seats. Alfred E. Perlman is a leading candidate. The new board will meet in New York to elect officers.
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New York
Robert R. Young
New York Central Railroad
Fii
Monmusbyy AL Aiden
Young
Central
Oo Vanderoui
Pierpont Morgan
Detime Tatates
Wall St
Wall Street
Alfred E. Perlman
White
Perlman
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Ins
Cpestone
Sen
Jackson
D-Wash
Roy M. Cohn
McC Investigations Subcommittee
McCarthy
Schine
Subcommittee
Washington
Cohn
Robert FP. Kennedy
Kennedy
Five Die in Jet Takeoff at Memphis Naval Show
A jet plane faltered on takeoff at the Memphis Naval Air Station air show killing five people including the pilot and a civilian secretary. Seven others were injured as the low aluminum hangar and nearby water tower were damaged by fire. the event drew officials and a board to determine the cause.
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Memphis
Memphis Naval Air Aviation Mechanics
Robert Woolverton
Dallas
Sadie Woolverton
Abilene
Kans
Elaine House Branch
Millington
Tenn
Navy
Ruel
Here
Adm
A. K. Doyle
Naval Air Tr
Pensacola
Fla
Ing
Carbine personal crisis reports Now Number Two
The second carbine death by own action of & Stewart of the 1913 Airways and Air Communications Sqdn. Sgt Stewart, 27, nine-year Air Force veteran, was found in the supply room at Langley about 12:30 pm and pronounced dead at 1:12 pm. Authorities listed the death as apparent suicide with motive unknown.
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Hampton
Stewart
Airways and Air Communications
Air Force
Langley
Heinz hikes pay for pickle packers after long talks
In Pittsburgh on June 11 1940 four months of negotiations ended with the Canning H Heinz Co union accepting a three cent raise retroactive to April 1. The contract covers about 1800 workers and 500 seasonal additions. Previous wage scales were not disclosed.
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Pittsburgh
Canning H. Heinz Co
Former Bluefield Youth Drowns in Princeton Pond
Arnold Melvin, 21, of Elkton Maryland and former Bluefield resident, drowned while swimming with his nephew at a pond near Princeton. His body was recovered about 5 p.m. by local residents before police and firefighters arrived. He was employed in Elkton and an army veteran, survived by his parents, a sister in Princeton, three other sisters and three brothers. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Elkton
Bluefield
Bratton Parm
Princeton
Arnold Melvin
J. C. Melvin
Robert Shrader
Calvin Belcher
Danny
Melvin
Belcher
New York Chemical Dye Co
Ada King
Baltimore
Arnold Haynes
Walter Pilken
Kelly
Paul
Army
Schine
Notal
McCarthy
Ft. Monmouth
Secretary of the Army
Stevens
Clark Clifford
Truman
Clifford
Len Symington
D-Mo
Vietminh Reinforcements Return to Thanh Hoa Front
Vietminh battalions, after marching over 220 miles to aid Dien Bien Phu, return to Thanh Hoa on the Thanh Hoa Plain near Hanoi. French sources say reinforcements bolster Giap’s assault as Ely tours delta defenses amid expected but unconfirmed delta battle.
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Saigon
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Thanh Hoa
High Command
Red River Delta
Hanoi
Vo Nguyen Giap
Paul Ely
Delta
FHA Names Beneficiaries Of Windfall Profits
FHA Chief Albert M. Cole names 200 corporations tied to 70 apartment projects taking windfall profits totaling about 39.3 million dollars. The list covers 18 states plus the District of Columbia and is sent to the Justice Department for investigation. Windfalls arose from inflated costs, excessive fees, and self-dealing by promoters and some former FHA officials. The Huntington Apt project shows a 106,800 dollar windfall on a 570,000 mortgage and 463,200 project cost.
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Washington
Albert M. Cole
Justice Department
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Xa Wate
Quae Atv
Estan Vial
States
District of Columbia
Yeep
Asong
Cole
McKenna
Courare
Huntington Apt
Huntington
Third Body Unearthed At Ohio Farm Ties To Former Mental Hospital Inmate
In Coshocton County Ohio volunteers unearthed a third body on the Cletus Reese farm linked to a former state hospital inmate. Sheriff Kempf tentatively identified the victim as Lester Melick 58 of Danville Knox County. A second body was found on the farm with Patton’s death earlier tied to Reese who lives in Ohio State Hospital on trial.
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Ohio
Coshocton
Cletus Reese
Mantel Natiant
Gilbert Kempf
Lester Melick
Danville
Knox County
Melick
Harry Melick
Reese Farm
Reese
Cambridge
Ohio State Hospital
Clyde Patton
Fresno
Patton
All
Joe
Salem
Special Bill to Admit Nijinsky Dancer's Widow to U.S.
President Eisenhower signed a bill allowing Romola Nijinsky, widow of Vaslav Nijinsky, to enter the United States as a permanent resident. She is Hungarian.
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U.S
Washington
Eisenhower
Romola Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky
World s First Flying LST Unveiled for Navy Beach Landings
Convair announces the R3Y-2 Flying LST a water landable aircraft with bow ramp that unloads vehicles or troops directly onto beaches. It weighs 80 tons has 2000 mile range tops 400 mph and can carry four 155 mm howitzers, trucks, jeeps and troops for assault operations.
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Miami Beach
Fila
Convair Division
General Dynamics Corp
San Diego
Convair
Navy
Pacific Fleet Logistic Air Wings
Alameda
Calif
Charleston Couple Seeks 10620 Tax Refund Suit Filed
Bert Segarer and wife Ann of Charleston West Virginia filed in U S District Court to recover 10620 dollars they claim was wrongly taxed as income tax. The suit was lodged in Cincinnati on June 11.
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Cincinnati
Bert Segarer
Ann
Charleston
W. Va
U. S. District Court
Governor's Wife Tags Along Adds Tag Line To Talk
In Richmond VirginiaGovernor Charley Johns asks how to keep people from entering reception rooms and seeking jobs. Governor Stanley replies Virginia avoids trouble, praising prosperity as Mrs Johns quips about the Chamber of Commerce.
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Richmond
Florida
Virginia
Charley Johns
Phoenix Woman Seized in $75,000 Kidnapping Escape
Mrs Evelyn Smith was abducted outside a Phoenix beauty parlor and held 24 hours for a $75,000 ransom paid by her husband. A dark muscular man believed to be 35 to 40 fled into the Superstition Mountains as authorities tightened a large manhunt with 30 police cars and three sheriff planes. She was found unharmed after being kept in the trunk of her car overnight.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Evelyn Ann Smith
Evelyn Smith
Phoenix Pipe and Steel Company
Carl Deissman
Great Falls
Mont
Kidnense
US Air Force to Fly 1000 Wounded French From Indochina
The US Air Force will evacuate about 1000 wounded French troops from non combat areas in Indochina. They will travel to France via the United States, at the French government’s request, with flights beginning late next week. Far East Air Forces will conduct the initial leg from Indochina to the United States, then Military Air Transport Service will handle the final leg to France.
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Indochina
Washington
US Air Force
France
United States
Prench
Air Force
Harold Talbott
Pacific
Far East
Rochester man held in Bristol kidnap slaying case
William Studds 22 of Rochester New York was arrested at a roadblock in Bristol Tennessee charged with the kidnap murder of Texas woman Mrs Axel G Holm 60 of Karnes City and wounding her husband 62. The Holms were abducted at gunpoint along US 11 W and forced toward Bristol. Mrs Holm was killed and Mr Holm wounded in a struggle for the gun as the attacker fled into the woods. Local authorities and state police pursued with bloodhounds and a plane aid.
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Bristol
Tenn. Va
Sullivan County
Ham Hurd
William Studds
Rochester
N.Y
U.S
Here
Bernie Webb
Blountville
Holm
Studds
Holms
Providence
R.I
Sweden
Koneraville
Fens
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Johnson City
Kingsport
Tenn
Damasce
Laniel Faces Final Confidence Vote in France
Paris June 11 The fate of Premier Joseph Laniel and his government, in power nearly a year, rests on a confidence vote by the French National Assembly. The debate begins tomorrow at 9 30 am with Laniel and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault likely to speak, as party meetings and lobbying shape the outcome. The government has survived two confidence votes in five weeks but shows waning support amid looming international events and a history of fragile majorities.
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Paris
Joseph Laniel
French National Assembly
Iiet
Eer
Lan Fel Peoheny
Georges Bidault
Laniel
Daniel
McCarthy Clashes With Welch in Army Hearings
Sen McCarthy battled Army Counsel Joseph N Welch for the second time in three days as McCarthy pressed the Schine plan controversy. The hearing atmosphere grew tense with a mix of sharp exchanges and lighthearted moments amid the wartime democracy debate.
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Washington
Sen. McCarthy
Army
Joseph N. Welch
McCarthy Army
Stand On Rule Is Unchanged
West Virginia Governor Marland says the stand on desegregation remains unchanged following a Richmond conference of southern governors. He noted WV will abolish segregation per the Supreme Court ruling and that the state plans to integrate without delay.
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Charleston
West Virginia
U. S. Supreme Court
Richmond
Marland
West Virginia Board of Education
Mercer and McDowell Judicial Candidates Seek Nomination
West Virginia's August primary will nominate candidates for at least four judgeships in Cabell Mercer and McDowell counties. In Mercer County Judge Walter V. Ross seeks Democratic renomination against Republican Robert Stewart of Princeton. In McDowell County Judge Richard Parsons faces Jack Marinari of Welch for renomination. Cabell County has two vacancies in Common Pleas and Domestic Relations Courts with Judge John W. Daniel unopposed in Democratic renomination and Republican Lucian W. Blankenship unopposed. Domestic Relations Judge Frank Eaton faces two Democratic challengers A. W. Foose and William W. Roberts.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Cabell
Mercer
McDowell
Mercer County
Walter V. Ross
The
Criminal Court
Robert Stewart
Princeton
McDowell County
Richard Parsons
McDowell Criminal Court
Jack Marinari
Parsons
Welch
Marinari
Cabell County
Common Pleas
Domestic Relations
John W. Daniel
Huntington
Lucian W. Blankenship
Huntin
H. Clay Worth
Worth
Marland
Daniel
Frank Eaton
A. W. Foose
William W. Roberts
Tucker Co. Man Killed By Log Falling On Him
Parsons West Virginia June 11 Reed Teets 43 of Hendricks Tucker County, a lumber company foreman, died when a log rolled on him while unloading a truck. The accident occurred in Tucker County.
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Parsons
W. Va
Reed Teets
Hendricks
Tucker County
Teets
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