Princess Margaret's Tea Date Sparks Royal Family Tension
Princess Margaret returns from Germany to Windsor amid reports of a confrontation with Queen Elizabeth II over her meeting with Group Captain Peter Townsend. Media chatter centers on whether the royal sister intends to bring Townsend back to Britain as a confidant while Anglican views complicate potential remarriage.
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Elizabeth II
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Townsend
Sunday Pictorial
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Knife stabbing death shocks Welch couple in McDowell
Edith Kotrocho 31 died from a chest knife wound at her Welch apartment. Her husband John Kotrocho 58 is held on an open charge after a family quarrel at the Capital Lunch Room and City Lunch Room in Welch. Police say motive undetermined as investigation continues.
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Robert Simpson
Gary
Kate Simpson
Page Funeral Home
USSR to propose date to halt atom tests in U N trust areas
Moscow sources say Andrei Gromyko will ask the United States for a deadline to end atomic and hydrogen tests. He may offer to halt Soviet tests if Washington does not agree, as Khrushchev’s regime awaits a Supreme Soviet session. The U S says the Eniwetok area will become a danger zone after April 5 and tests could begin then. In other news, coal miner Robert Simpson was shot to death in McDowell County after a family dispute. his wife Kate Simpson is in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing.
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Andrei Gromyko
United States
Russia
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U.N
Pacific
State Department
U.S
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
Eniwetok
Siberia
Nikita Khrushchev
McDowell County
U S Turncoat Sullivan Returns From Red China
U S turncoat LaRance Sullivan, 27, of Omaha and Santa Barbara, who was captured in Korea in 1950 and refused repatriation in 1954, crosses the Hong Kong border to go home. He says he came to work for peace, studied in Wuhan, lived in a Peiping subsidized factory job, and seeks to be the first of three turncoats to return. He plans to depart Saturday aboard the President Cleveland.
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Red China
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Tenn
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Voters Not Loud Enough For Tax Cut Say Senator
Senator McNamara says voters are not pressuring enough for a tax cut. He expects post Easter recess congressional push for reform, driven by constituent demands and firsthand economic observations. The tax question remains not fully understood at the grass roots level.
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Storm Delays Skiers Rescue at Mt Lyell in High Sierra
Four Stanford students stranded with one seriously ill aboard Mt Lyell amid heavy Sierra clouds. Army pilot J E Cooney waits for clear skies to attempt a rescue from Fresno, while a 10 man land team battles deep snow. Two skiers are women Lenore Lamb and Margaret Meyer. others include Mike Roberts and William Pope.
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Orinda
Margaret Meyer
Seattle
Mike Roberts
Neenah
Wis
William Pope
San Francisco
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Bishop
Pope
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Mac Allen
Yosemite
Hooley
Reno
Nev
Allen
University of California
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Three Little Girls Fall Ill After Eating Hemlock
In Sevierville Tennessee three girls aged 7 and 5 ate hemlock root they found in a creek. Beulah Mae Caughron and Betty Sue Caughron were rushed to Children's Hospital Knoxville with convulsions. Betty Sue recovered partial mobility while Beulah Mae improved. Mary Jane Cole stayed at home for treatment.
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Socrates
Beulah Mae Caughron
Betty Sue Caughron
Children’s Hospital
Knoxville
Betty Sue
Beulah Mae
Mary Jane Cole
Sevierville
Demos Press for Early Hearings on Job Proposals
Senate Democrats led by Kennedy and 17 colleagues urged prompt Finance Committee hearings to liberalize unemployment compensation. Chairman Byrd announced the panel would resume public study with Bernard Baruch as lead witness to discuss current economic difficulties. Humphrey proposed a 150000 member youth conservation corps to work on 10 billion dollars in conservation projects this year.
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Washington
Sen
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Byrd
D-Va
Bernard Baruch
Humphrey
D-Minn
Youth Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
Eisenhower weighs East West summit talk from Gettysburg estate
President Eisenhower discussed possible East West summit terms via telephone with Secretary of State Dulles after Palm Sunday church services. From his 14 room Gettysburg estate he studies housing and farm bills awaiting his action. He may sign a 1.85 billion housing measure or veto to freeze farm supports. Governors and public works funding are debated in Congress.
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Navy Pilot Killed in West Virginia Plane Crash
A Navy AD-6 bomber crashed five miles north of Weirton at 4 20 p m Sunday killing Ensign L K Stovall 27 of Oceana Virginia. The lone occupant died as wreckage spread over about a half mile area after the craft clipped two homes and exploded en route from Mt Clemens Michigan to Norfolk Virginia.
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Lucille Zapor
Stanley
Ralph Cain
Orin Keller
Mt. Clemens
Norfolk
West Virginia
Logan County
Violence in Kohler strike widens as hearings resume
Washington reports the Senate Rackets Committee shifts to gun violence hearings linked to the Perfect Circle strike, while Kohler Co. turmoil nears end. Walter Reuther defends UAW actions against alleged provocation, and Herbert Kohler counters with accusations of union lawlessness. The panel remains split along party lines over the powerful union’s role.
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Salem Man Missing For Forty Hours
The body of 42 year old Richard Harrison Bryant of Salem Va was found in the Levisa River near Grundy after a car wreck on Route 460. The accident occurred Friday night with two passengers also thrown clear. Sheriff Burl Riffe said Bryant died from a broken neck in the river after being thrown from the car.
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Deel
Bill Christian
A. S. Richardson
Telegraph Ad Manager Dies in Bluefield
Charles A. Henderson 63, longtime Bluefield Telegraph advertising manager, died of cancer at St. Luke's Hospital. A World War I veteran born in Elliston Virginia in 1894, he moved to Bluefield in 1923 and led the advertising department from the 1940s until his death. Survived by wife Letha Honeycutt Henderson and relatives, funeral Tuesday at Christ Episcopal Church with burial at Monte Vista Cemetery.
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Bluefield
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Daily Telegraph
Elliston
Charles Anthony Stuart Henderson
Roanoke
John S. Henderson
Rebecca Hastletine Henderson
Co. K-56th Engineers
Randolph Macon
V.P.I
Riley- West American Legion Post No. 9
Zack G. Henderson
Harry L. Henderson
Washington, D. C
William H. Crawford Sr
Elliston, Va
William H. Clement
Eddie Hardison
Leesburg
Fla
William H. Crawford Jr
Pope Pius Addresses 30,000 At Basilica
Pope Pius XII spoke to about 30,000 Italian families at St. Peter's Basilica on Palm Sunday. He urged God to avert a new war and spoke as Holy Week began in Rome, addressing those with relatives listed as missing from World War II.
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Atom Spy Fuchs May Work For West
London papers report Klaus Fuchs, 48, imprisoned for treason, may be released on good behavior in 1959. Officials reportedly sounding him to stay in the West, avoiding return to Germany where his father lives, with U S security chiefs urged caution.
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Sunday Dispatch
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Leipzig
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U.S
Battle of Tanks Flareup Presses Israeli Syrian Border
JERUSALEM Israel and Syria fought a tank and mortar battle near the Huleh reclamation area on Sunday. Damascus warned UAR forces would intervene to repel aggression. Two Syrians were killed and two wounded, an Israeli tank was destroyed, with no Israeli casualties announced.
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I Want My Baby Back Mother Seeks Return Of Son
A Detroit mother 25 years old seeks welfare help in Columbus Ohio to reclaim her 20 month old son Tommy from a Columbus children's home. The boy had been with his grandmother since last fall after his parents separated and are described as unable to care for him. The case involves offers to adopt from people across several states and a request for the child to be returned by the grandmother.
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Tommy
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