Bipartisan voices clash over Adams and gifts saga
Rep. Denton and Rep. Hale defend Adams's integrity while criticizing Republican and Democratic pressure. Denton notes some GOP members relish Adams’ trouble. Hale stresses Adams’ honesty and warns against double standards. Denton cites Matt Connelly’s prison sentence as a related political echo.
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Fists Fly as Mass Democratic Convention Erupts
The Massachusetts Democratic state convention erupted into a chaotic rumpus as 300 delegates surged toward the platform. Four state offices remained to be nominated including attorney general. Edward J. McCormack trailed Ward and Peabody after three ballots, while police contained fights and ejections as Gov. Furcolo and others watched.
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Actor John Calvert Missing On 800 Mile East China Sea Yacht Cruise
Hollywood actor John Calvert skippered the 95 ton two masted yacht Thespian of Los Angeles on an 800 mile voyage from Formosa to Hakata. The vessel with seven others aboard was overdue near Shanghai prompting Tokyo Coast Guard alerts to Japanese fishing fleets. Calvert and his wife Ann Cornell had begun a two year world cruise from Los Angeles last August 7 with filming and stage stops planned.
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Train Kills Giles Father in Virginia Freight Collision
A 44 year old Giles County Virginia father of seven was killed when a Virginian Railway freight train struck him late Saturday night. Sheriff John Hopkins said the man apparently slept on the track near Narrows and Rich Creek. Surviving are his wife Iola and seven children Gerald Douglas Kester Benjamin Charlotte Phyllis and Brenda. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the residence with burial at Ridge Creek Cemetery. Riffe Funeral Home handles arrangements.
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McElroy Rebukes Burke Comments In Defense Talk
Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, in a nationwide briefing, sought to soften remarks about Admiral Arleigh Burke while denying a rebuke. He said his comments on the admiral's defense reorganization views were not punitive and noted a post visit to Eisenhower.
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Ten Die In Mexican Train Smashup At Orizaba Station
An electric train plowed into a crowded railroad station at Maltrata Point near Orizaba Veracruz injuring twenty and leaving twenty missing. Two engines and four cars overturned and a nearby home was demolished in the disaster about 170 miles east of Mexico City.
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Elvis Grandfather Signs To Record In Louisville
Jesse Pressley, 62, grandfather of Elvis Presley, signs with Legacy Records in Louisville to record a self written Cotton Picking Song on an extended play 45 r.p.m. release. No release date announced. The grandfather and Elvis spell their names differently due to an old clerical error.
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Long Legal Fight Looms In Little Rock
In Little Rock Arkansas Negro attorneys ask a federal judge to stay his order delaying Central High School integration as a possible summer long fight looms. If denied the stay the case could reach the Supreme Court with possible fall return of Negro students. The NAACP opposes the delay citing constitutional rights of seven enrolled students.
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Pound Va Youth Benny Balthis Dies After Accident
A belated Wise County highway fatality raises the state toll to 351. Benny Allen Balthis, 18, of Pound, died from injuries after a non collision crash near the Route 83 and Route 23 intersection in Wise County. He was a passenger in a car driven by Roger C. Boggs, also of Pound.
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Refugees Riot At Red Quarters In New York
About 350 Hungarian refugees clashed with police near the Soviet UN delegation on Park Avenue. Six demonstrators were arrested after four officers were injured. A separate group faced a smaller incident with three arrests at the Soviet building.
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Robert Woods Dies After Long GOP Career In Va
Robert H. Woods, 63, a prominent Virginia Republican figure since 1918, died Sunday at his Pearichure home. The longtime party activist and strategist influenced local and state political circles for decades.
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Dean Whiting Named West Virginia Home for Aged and Infirm
Gov. Underwood appointed former Bluefield State College dean Gregory W. Whiting to the post of superintendent at Huntington home for the aged and infirm colored. Whiting's appointment takes effect July 1. the move follows a prior dismissal of Dr. H. D. Hazelwood and others amid a prison-trustee investigation.
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Engineer Freed In Long Rescue
A westbound Chesapeake and Ohio freight rammed a halted George Washington passenger train near Thurmond West Virginia injuring 10. Engineer H W Honaker of Hinton was rescued after hours of extrication with crushed legs. 3 crewmen and 6 passengers hospitalized. The freight crew included Lonnie Cales and D A Ransom, both of Hinton, and Lee Tarver of Cincinnati. The wreck derailed seven passenger cars and five freight cars. A C&O spokesman cited mechanical failure in the freight engine. The injured were taken to Oak Hill and Beckley area hospitals. a special six-coach train carried remaining passengers to their destination, arriving at 6 10 a.m. An unoccupied sleeping compartment in the office car was crushed. Dr J B Thompson of Oak Hill treated the injured at the scene.
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Funeral rites for Herbert Swope at Keewaydin estate
Herbert Bayard Swope, Pulitzer Prize winning newspaperman, lay in state at Keewaydin on his Nash County estate in Lands Point New York. Brief services featured Invictus recited by Martin Gabel and Ellen Terry's No Funeral Gloom. Robert Moses gave the eulogy as President and Mrs Eisenhower sent condolences.
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Nationalist Troops Fight 100 Hour Artillery Duel
Nationalist forces on Matsu Island fought a 100hour artillery duel with Red Chinese troops on the mainland. The battle was the heaviest in months and highlighted ongoing hostilities near Formosa.
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Spy In The Sky Ready This Year For AF Launch
Aviation Week says the Pied Piper reconnaissance satellite, the first Air Force space spy, should be ready to launch later this year. The 1200 pound cone shaped satellite will launch from Cooke Air Force Base California into a polar orbit using a Thor booster first and Atlas later. The nose camera will point downward toward the earth.
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