Panel fight over SRC data heats up in Buckhannon
The Highway Research Committee faces a Tuesday showdown over withholding the full report on alleged graft in the Road Commission. House leaders Bowles and Underwood clash as Bowles demands complete disclosure with names and dates, threatening resignation if not released.
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Climax
SRC
Neil Boggs
the Gazette
Buckhannon
Legislative Committee
Highway Research Committee
Martin C. Bowles
D.kanawha
Road Commission
Bowles
House
Cecil Underwood
R.tyler
Underwood
Boy's Slayer Dazed in Cell at Kanawhel County Court
Charles Sales Jr, held after a fatal attack on Jerry David Johnson, 15, at a portable skating rink near Rand. James Sales, brother, intervened to pull Johnson away and later brought him home. Trooper T Brammer said investigators cannot yet determine motive.
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Sales
James Sales
Johnson
Charles
Anti M Carthy U S Russia Clash at Armistice Plan
In Geneva at the conference the United States and Russia table rival plans for an international control commission to oversee an Indochina cease fire. The American proposal seeks a UN governed neutral body, while the Soviet plan calls for two separate commissions with India and other bloc states, lacking UN oversight. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko presented Moscow's plan as Molotov left for Ukraine events.
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United States
Russia
Indochina
United Nations
U. N
India
Andrei Gromyko
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Moscow
Eisenhower Calls for United Stand Against Soviet Threat
President Eisenhower delivers a speech at Columbia University marking its 200th anniversary. He blasts actions by McCarthy allies while warning that U.S. must meet the Soviet challenge and defend freedoms. Col. Wheaton warns that peace hinges on strength as tensions rise over subcommittee subpoenas in the Army hearings.
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U.S
New York
Eisenhower
Sen
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Columbia’ University
Brownell
White House
Executive Branch
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Mund
Senate
R-Wis
Army
Charleston
American Legion
Mundt
Wisconsin
Stevens
Mundé
Democratic
Subcommittee
G. David Schine
Sppech
James R. Wheaton
West Virginia Military District
Lee St. Triangle
U S Army to Train Vietnam Troops in New Plan
Geneva sources report thousands of U S Army officers and NCOs will train native Vietnamese troops under a near finished plan. France has given consent to US training duties to salvage the Vietnamese army from internal collapse. Negotiations continue between American and Vietnamese authorities.
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Geneva
INI
U. S
Vietnam
United States
U. S. plan to train Viet Nam army for partition era
Inside Today describes how America will lead a training program to reshape the Vietnamese army into a modern force. Two main goals: guard remaining free areas post Geneva partition and equip a native army to wage war against the Vietminh if no armistice is reached. Vietnamese sources say a US administration of the program may start soon after Indochina treaties.
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America
U. S
Vietnam
Geneva
Bob Considine
Indochina
France
U. S. Gazette
Roors
Gromyko Urges Four Nation Commission Plan
Gromyko proposed a four nation commission similar to the U N Supervisory Commission in Korea. He suggested India, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia and Pot discuss the Russian proposal. The debate questioned whether the two Communist states could be neutral. Most free nation delegations, including the United States, doubted that view.
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Gromyeo
U.N
Korea
India
Pakistan
Czechoslovakia
Gromyko
U. S
Willoughby urges balance in use of atomic weapons
Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby calls for mass-destruction arms to offset Asian manpower aiding communism. He argues the West risks defeat unless armament balance is reexamined and urges more foreign volunteers to halt Communist advance in Asia, naming Formosa, the Philippines, and Japan as key reservoirs.
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New York
Charles A. Willoughby
Far Eost
Douglas MacArthur
Asia
Ima
the Freeman
Willoughby
West
Formoes
Philippines
Japan
Formom
British Lovers Reunite After 48 Year Separation To Marry
In Philadelphia on May 31, Anna Coker age 72 and John Edgecombe 70, separated in 1908 after a British romance, plan to wed. Coker and Edgecombe both moved to distant lands, with Edgecombe later becoming a New Zealand dairy farmer. A recent letter from Edgecombe rekindled their romance, and Coker says the proposal arrived like a bolt from the blue, signaling a long awaited union.
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Philadelphia
Anna Coker
America
Miss Coker
England
John Edgecombe
New Zealand
Plymouth
Eng
Anna
Trousseau
Blundering Laid To Chief Prober In GI Slayings
Deputy U S Prosecutor William D Caufield reopened the 1946 case charging former Army captain James M Leech now in Lima Ohio with murder The probe chief blamed for bungling was criticized after Florida dispatches quoted Bart E Sullivan ex CID official urging new charges and action in MERNBERG Germany May 31.
Insecure Securities City Bondsmen in Charleston
Charleston reporters examine professional bondsmen who back bail with scant real estate. A prominent local bondsman holds only 3700 in Kanawha County property yet signed 16500 in bonds recently. Courts across the area allow such practices, risking forfeiture if released arrestees fail to honor bonds.
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Justice of the Peace
Charleston
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