High School Girl Found Murdered in Aliquippa
Beaver County DA reports 16 year old Helen Jean Bryant was found slain near her Aliquippa home. A 22 year old neighbor Elijah Thompson Jr is held on murder charges and arraignment planned. The victim had been missing since Monday and authorities say she was raped and battered with a knife wounds.
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Beaver Falls
Beaver County
Dist. Atty
Richard P. Stewart
Elijah Thompson, Jr
Helen Jean Bryant
Aliquippa
Stewart
Thompson
Justice of the Peace
Rudolph Schwartz
Hopewell Township
Matt Zooner
Hopewell
Pennsylvania
Conemaugh
Karen Mauk
Helen Jean
Regan Yarnell
Earl Bryant
Bryant
Miners Warn Labor Against Party Troops
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers warn against aligning with either major party as Democrats may gain control of Congress. The UMW Journal cites unemployment as the dominant campaign issue and questions Labor Secretary Mitchell's figures while urging labor to base voting on individual records rather than party affiliation.
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Washington
INL
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Congress
Labor
Lewis
UMW
Journal
James P. Mitchell
AFL
CIO
Mitchell
United States
Relief Food Sent To Danube Area
President Eisenhower approved an $8.585 million relief program to ship corn and barley to flood victims in Central Europe. The first shipment of 2,000 tons of corn and 1,714 tons of barley left Baltimore for Rostock in the Soviet Zone of Germany. Additional aid to Western Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia will follow within two weeks under the League of Red Cross Societies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Danube
White House
Baltimore
Rostock
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Iron Curtain
League of Red Cross Societies
Adlai Charges G.O.P. of Using Red Party Line
Adlai E. Stevenson in an NBC speech accused the Republican campaign of using Communist line and fear tactics to attack Democrats. He urged a Democratic Congress, denounced Nixon and Eisenhower for tying prosperity to war and bloodshed, and warned against partisan manipulation of the race.
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Adlai
G.O.P
New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
Westichester
Stevenson
NBC
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
United States
Douglas spurns McCarthy group endorsement
U S Senator Paul H Douglas says he repudiates the National Association of Americans for Joe McCarthy endorsement noting he knows nothing of the group and the letter was unsolicited and unwanted in Chicago.
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Chicago
U. S
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
National Association of Americans
Joe McCarthy
Douglas
Army Lieutenant Accused of Camp Abuse of Trainees
Second Lt. Charles C. Anderson 24, commanding officer of Co A 1st Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Gordon, faces a top secret inquiry over harassing tactics including hanging a trainee by the feet from a tree limb and forcing recruits to shout an obscene phrase. He has been relieved of command and arrested pending investigation by Lt. Gen. A. R. Bolling of the 3rd Army.
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Anderson
Fees Tees
Bolling Sai
Mothers Call Off Christening of Traded Babies
Two London mothers claimed hospital mix up gave them the wrong babies and called off a christening for the five week old boys. Mrs Read and Mrs Bowers refused the hospital explanation and stayed with their infants while authorities sought a solution, as the fathers urged a trade.
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London
Sheila Read
Vera Bowers
Forest Gate Hospital
West Ham
Iowa Buttermakers Challenged to Improve Quality and Sales
Rex Conn reports at a joint Iowa dairy meeting that Dr. N E Fabricius urges higher butter quality, scoring 93 or better, to boost consumer appeal and tackle the dairy surplus. He cites per capita usage gaps, advocates daily-run samples, and stresses fluid milk and butter as growth drivers.
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Wisconsin
Midwest
Fabricius
Ladysmith Gonperedise
Iowa
Texas
Charges of misguidance in Dixon-Yates power pact
Former TVA chairman Gordon Clapp testified that President Eisenhower received exceedingly misleading advice on the Dixon-Yates 25 year power contract. He blamed Budget Director Rowland Hughes for presenting a slanted view and urged disclosure of the facts to sway public opinion against the deal amid a Senate anti monopoly inquiry.
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Washington (Lp
Gordon Clapp
Tennessee Valley Authority
Eisenhower
Dixon-Yates
Clapp
Rowland R. Hughes
Eisenhower Works Chain Call to Spur Election Turnout
President Eisenhower conducted a 30 minute long distance call to 10 typical Americans in a dramatic chain letter effort to mobilize voters. The recipients included Mrs. Frederick Sage a Peoria Illinois resident who had moved from Washington and was ineligible to vote yet expressed enthusiasm to rally others. The White House noted the call urged recipients to vote and to contact 10 friends, not to press for a party line.
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Associated Press
Ike
T. Rosser Roemer
St. Louis
Eisenhower
Washington
Ins
G.O.P
Eugene
Ore
Odessa
Texas
Frederick Sage
Peoria
Illinois
Saye
Dog Keeps Vigil For Ailing Master
In Athens Ohio a small dog named Happy keeps daily vigil outside Sheltering Arms hospital for Davie Brown a seven year old in frail health from pancreatic fibrosis. Despite treatments Davie’s condition worsens and he has been hospitalized five times in the last five weeks. The dog’s owners bring him home each night.
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Athens, Ohio
Happy
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Davie Brown
Davie
Spexs
Final Get Out The Vote Appeals From Nixon Eisenhower and Stevenson
Leaders of both parties will issue final election eve appeals across TV and radio. Nixon speaks from Denver at 1 p.m. CST on CBS and Mutual, Eisenhower follows from Washington at 8 p.m. CST on the same networks, with ABC radio 8 to 8:30 p.m. Stevenson comments on CBS radio from 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. CST, with Democratic candidates in states with contests joining in.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
CBS Television
Mutual
Denver
Eisenhower
American Broadcasting Co
Fifteen Women Stricken by Suspected Food Poisoning
In Cedar Rapids at least 15 women who shared a lunch from Newman's department store basement were taken to St Luke's hospital with vomiting and abdominal pain. Dr E I Kopecky labeled likely staphylococcal food poisoning from a chicken noodle dish served by the Pythian Sisters. All patients were to be observed. some were in bad shape but none seriously ill. The lunch revenue supported charity work and investigators examined food served by a fraternal group as the source remains undetermined.
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Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
E. I. Kopecky
Newman’s Department Store
Pythian Sisters
Newman
McCarthy Presses Gillette on Censure Vote
Senator McCarthy charges Senator Gillette with a legal violation and demands a yes or no censure stance before Tuesday's election. Gillette, seeking re election from Iowa, refuses to reveal his position until after senate consideration and full hearing of the Watkins committee debate.
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McCarthy
Gillette
Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
Guy M. Gillette
D-Iown
Wisconsin
Republican
Senate
Cherokee
Iowa
Auto Race Champion Wilbur Shaw Among 3 Killed in Crash
Decatur Ind. three men died when a plane piloted by Ray Grimes crashed in a field near Decatur. Wilbur Shaw, 51, Indianapolis Speedway president, was among the victims returning from Chrysler testing grounds. An investigator cited unclear cause as wreckage scattered, with no midair explosion evident.
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Decatur
Ind
Wilbur Shaw
Here
Shaw
Indianapolis Speedway
Ine Idianapolis
Chrysler Corporation
Chelsea
Mich
Ray Grimes
Greenfield
Skyharbor
Indianapolis
Ernie Roos
Homer Ginter
Ginter
Edwin Joyce
The
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Speedway
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