Burdett Gains Steam in West Virginia Governor Race
At Clarksburg a rally of independent Democrats endorsed Joe F. Burdett 55 to 11 as the sole Democratic governor candidate so far in a bid to end Marland era politics. Other names discussed included Byron Randolph Cyrus Kump and Ralph Bean as possible contenders while organizers pushed ending hand picked nominations. The Huntington meeting featured open coverage and a convention style session led by W. W. Barron at the Stonewall Jackson hotel.
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Clarksburg
Joe F. Burdett
Burdett
State Board of Control
Byron B. Randolph
State Senate
Cyrus 8. Kump
Elkins
Kump
Elking
H. G. Kump
William C. Marland
Ralph Bean
Moorefield
Senate
Howard Myers
Charleston
Robert Mollohan
Fairmont
C. C. Chambers
J. Joe
Huntington
Wee
Lyle Smith
PD Curbell
Marland
Smith
Stonewall Jackson
W. W. Barron
State Liquor Control Commission
Father and three children die in Duluth fire and explosion
A log frame home collapsed after an explosion in Duluth Minnesota late last night killing father Wallace Ellefson and three children Edlefson aged 11 Patricia 6 Douglas 4. Mrs Ellefson only survivor, severely burned and in critical condition. cause believed to be a leaking gas line.
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Duluth
Minn
Wallace Ellefson
St. Mary's Hospital
Egies Se
Edlefson
Aren
Douglas
Patricia
Tam Soa
Ellefson
Benedict Varhalla
No Survivors In Transport Crash In Nevada
Ground rescue parties reached the Mt. Charleston wreck site north of Las Vegas and reported all 11 aboard the C54 Air Force transport were dead. The 11 included five airmen five civilian workers two aviation engineers and two consultants. A 17 man posse and multiple rescue teams battled 45 mph winds and waist deep snow at 11 300 feet above sea level near the Nevada atom bomb testing grounds.
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Las Vegas
Air Force
Mt. Charleston
Calif
Nevada
Butch’ Leypoldt
Clark County
42Nd Air Rescue Squadron
March Air Force Sheriff's Deputy
Here
Police Free Suspect In Kanawha Slaying
Charleston police released a man held for questioning in the bludgeon slaying of George W. Caldwell a 58 year old former State Road employee. He signed a statement claiming he was in Columbus Ohio on the day of the crime after being spotted near the Marmet residence. Further investigation will continue. Caldwell was beaten to death and robbed of 600 dollars in government bonds.
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Charleston
George W. Caldwell
State Road Commission
Lawrence Craft
Columbus
Ohio
Craft
Marmet
The
Vicim
Caldwell
Morocco Moves Toward Independence Amid Palace Violence
Moroccans press toward independence amid political strife and violence after Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef returns from exile. Reports say 14 dead in yesterday’s clashes around the Imperial Palace with attacks on rivals and nationalist figures. The Sultan urged calm over radio as crowds surged outside the palace gates.
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Rabat
French Morocco
Morocco
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Imperial Palace
Mohammed Ben Larbi el Fichtali
Fez
Youssef
Caliph
Rez
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Tower Structure Weathered by Record Gulf Storm 110 Miles Off Cape Cod
TEXAS TOWER RESTS 110 miles off Cape Cod as a hurricane blasts the first radar island. 87 crew members aboard report 35-foot waves and 82 mph gusts. An 80 ton fender and a 125-foot bridge collapsed. no casualties among the crew.
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Texas Tower
Cape Cod
Mass
George Bauer
Georges Banks
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Snow Flurries Across Nation Reflect Mild Weekend
Snow flurries dotted a mostly clear nation as a weekend weather pattern shifts. Northeast snow from Saturday lingered in parts of New England and the Appalachians, while the Midwest cooled under clear skies and the Southeast dropped to near freezing in several cities. Temperature swings reached up to 30 degrees in the northern Rockies and northern Great Plains.
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Associated Press
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Appalachians
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Midwest
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
South Dakota
Atlanta
Charleston
S.C
Birmingham
Ala
Pacific Coast
Malayan Guerrilla Raid Hits Cameron Highlands Village
A gang of Communist guerrillas raided Kia Farm New Village in the Cameron Highlands Pahang state fatally injuring two men and seizing 33 public safety items and a large quantity of food.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Kia Farm New Village
Cameron Highlands
Pahang
Stevenson Critic on U S Policy at Chicago Rally
White House spokesman Hagerty says Adlai E Stevenson likely spoke for $100 a plate at a Chicago Democratic rally while he criticizes U S foreign policy. Eisenhower plans NSC and Cabinet reviews with Air Force ferrying officials to Camp David and Maryland meetings.
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Adlai
Gettysburg
White House
Adlai E. Stevenson
U. S
James C. Hagerty
Stevenson
Chicago
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Pentagon
Washington
Eisenhower
Maryland
Camp David
Catoctin Mountains
Thurmont
Denver
South Viet Nam Battles Economic Strife Under Diem
In Saigon South Viet Nam faces an economic crisis as production falls unemployment rises and refugees struggle to find work. President Ngo Dinh Diem faces a July Geneva deadline for reunification elections and seeks UN expert aid to steady the economy and avert collapse against the North’s Communists.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Neo. Dinh Diem
Diem
Commu
Globemaster Cargo Plane Crashes On Iwo Jima Killing Ten
A U S Air Force C124 Globemaster crashed on takeoff from Iwo Jima during a Typhoon damaged mission. Ten of eleven aboard were killed, one survivor airlifted to a Tokyo area hospital. Investigation by a board of officers was ordered.
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Globemaster
U. S. Air Force
Iwo Jima
Western Pacific
Air Force
Tachikawa Air Force Base
Japan
Central Air Base
Far East
J B McLaughlin Dies At 71 West Virginia Agriculture Chief
James Blaine McLaughlin 71, West Virginia agriculture commissioner, died at King’s Daughters Hospital Martinsburg after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was in Martinsburg from Charleston to discuss selling orchard interests. He leaves a widow a daughter Eleanor and Col James K McLaughlin. Services likely Tuesday.
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W. Va
James Blaine McLaughlin
West Virginia
King’s Daughters Hospital
Charleston
Panhandle
Col
James K. McLaughlin
Air National Guard
McLaughlin
Glendon
Braxton County
Big Chimney
West Virginia Farm Bureau
State Board of Education
Geological Survey Commission
State Industrial and ——S Commission
Eleanor
Col. McLaughlin
Cypriot Terrorists Step Up Bombing Amid War
In Cyprus, militants renewed attacks on British targets with a grenade at the home of Robert Ashe garrison engineer in Famagusta. A nearby passerby was detained. Meanwhile 100 Greek prisoners from Kyrenia castle were moved to a new camp near Nicosia amid prior riots and forceful detentions.
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Cyprus
Robert Ashe
Famagusta
Kyrenia
Kokkini Trimithia
Research Director Attacks Aid to Education Backers
Roger A. Freeman, who directed research for a presidential education study, accuses backers of federal aid plans of propaganda. He links federal aid to control and calls for state-led solutions, noting classroom and teacher shortages while criticizing high federal taxation.
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Roger A. Freeman
Freeman
American En
Dem leaders weigh liberal path for 1956 nomination
Gov. Averell Harriman and Sen. Estes Kefauver pressed liberal aims as they warned unity must not require a conservative drift. Truman said Stevenson stands for moderation yet bold progress on farm, education and civil rights. Harriman plans to influence the draft at next summer’s platform meeting.
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Democrats
Adlai E. Stevenson
Truman
Averell Harriman
New York
Democratic Party
Harriman
Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Senate
Texas
Nehru Hosts Soviet Leaders at Banquet Amid Peace Emphasis
Prime Minister Nehru told guests Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev during a state banquet in New Delhi that India would not join any military camp or bloc. Khrushchev, visiting Agra after a Taj Mahal tour, praised the monument as he and Bulganin arrived with a Soviet Indian party.
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Nehru
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchhevy
India
Khrushchev
Taj Mahal
Agra
Setae
Aeae
Kavusthcev
Bulganin
New Dell
Iamed Taj Mahal
Conservation Officer Arrested For Murder In West Virginia
Parkerburg police announced the arrest of conservation officer E. E. Anderson on a first degree murder warrant in the shooting of Wood County hunter Clyde Tennant. Anderson claimed self defense as he was taken to Wood County jail after midnight. an inquest is set for tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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Parkersburg
E. E. Anderson
Wood County
HH. Burke
Joan Mays Tennant
Clyde Tennant
Belleville
Anderson
Burke
Tennant
W. Va
Here
Bombay Riot Injures About 100 in City Protest
About 100 persons were injured in rioting in Bombay over a government proposal to make the city a separate state. Communists and Socialists supported the Marathi claim and attempted to disrupt a 200000 strong public meeting in support of the proposal by Prime Minister Nehru's Congress.
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Bombay
India
Nehru
Congress Party
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