Le Mans disaster hits 24 hour race with many dead
The Le Mans 24 hour race ended in tragedy as a Mercedes Benz driven by Pierre Levegh plunged into spectators. Officials reported 77 dead and 76 injured with many feared to die. no Americans among the dead. Briton Mike Hawthorn won in a Jaguar amid mourning.
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France
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Jaguar
Roy Hunton
U. S
Orleans
Mercedes-Benz
Pierre Levegh
Mercedes
Priest Honored as Army Chaplain of the Year Four Chaplains Award
First Lt. Core Mae A. Walsh of Boston received the 1955 Four Chaplains award and was named Army Chaplain of the Year in a Fort Myer ceremony. Walsh, a Franciscan priest, served in the Korean War earning three Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, and a Presidential commendation for heroism. The award honors the four chaplains who perished on the Dorchester in 1943.
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Coremae A. Walsh
Matthew B. Ridgway
Fort Myer
Walsh
Army
Steel Union targets small firms for wage gains
The CIO United Steelworkers plan a drive this week at about nine small basic steel producers to seek a substantial raise for 600,000 members in basic mills. The Big Six firms led the demand last week, with U S Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Inland Steel among them. McDonald said nickels and dimes won’t suffice as talks renew this week. Current average earnings in the basic steel sector are $2.33 per hour.
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Pittsburgh
CIO United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
McDonald
U. S. Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
In-And Steel Co
U. S. Steel
Solon Seeks Tighter Curbs On Aid to Tito
Washington reports new congressional concern over Soviet Yugoslav talks and moves to place conditions on aid to Yugoslavia. Senate leaders praise Moscow Belgrade talks, while calls grow to restrict military assistance and attach economic aid conditions. House committee to hear Radford and Riddleberger. Morano to propose requiring Eisenhower to justify further Yugoslav aid.
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Tito
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Congress
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Republican
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California
Russia
Belgrade
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
James W. Riddleberger
U.S
Rep
Morano
R-Conn
Eisenhower
United States
Russians Develop Submarine Launched Missile Reported
An aviation magazine quotes Aero Digest stating Russia has a missile launchable from 200 feet underwater reaching targets 140 miles away. It notes photonic propulsion research and claims effective liquid fuel engines and a substantial missile arsenal while mentioning alleged Sanger involvement and limited U S access to underwater missiles.
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Wastiington
Russia
Aero Digest
Erik Bergaust
Bergault
U. S
Bergaust
United States
Austria
Eugen Sanger
Irene Sanger-Bredt
Parenthood Without Hokum An Answer to Juvenile Delinquency
A San Francisco report details a father sobbing over an unruly son amid juvenile bureau patrols. The piece argues against the old tyrant father and calls for a clearly defined father role to guide children, citing sociologists and psychiatrists on shifting family dynamics.
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Howard Whitman
San Francisco
Juvenile Bureau
North Beach
U S Expands Jet Air Power From Formosa Bases
U S forces on Formosa have strengthened air power with Navy jets and radar picket planes. F 86 Sabre jets rotate from Korea Japan and Okinawa. additional F 81 Thunderjets and Constellation radar transports extend surveillance range. Operations fall under Seventh Fleet command with 40 to 60 day tours.
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Formosa
Jime 12
INS
America
Ih Ant
Naval Air Force
Japan
Seventh Fleet
Alfred Mr. Pride
Divorcee Held In Gun Slaying
The Wyoming County sheriff said a 29 year old divorcee and mother of three admitted shooting Doran Cook 55, a local justice of the peace, at the Lynch Hollow home of Geneva Walters three miles from here. Cook died from a single .32 caliber gunshot through a back door window. Walters is held at Pineville jail awaiting preliminary hearing.
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Oceana
Gazette Quick Action Want Ad Promises 82 000 Daily Reach
The Gazette advertises a single day booking for a broad want ad campaign claiming access to 82 000 plus families daily. The notice emphasizes rapid action and nationwide market reach for vacancies.
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Gazette
Radford casts doubt on rumors of Communist weakness
Wallington June 12. Adm Arthur W Radford says recent Soviet and Chinese moves do not indicate internal weakness in the Communist world. He warns that the Soviet bloc has formidable armed forces and that Communist aims remain world domination. He adds the United States remains the main target of Communist hatred.
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Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Russia
Red China
Radford
Moscow
Joint Chiefs of
Inie
Radford Jast
Senate Armed Services Committee
U.S.S.R. Nor
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Soviet Bloc
Althoug
United States
Thugs invade home beat singer and family in North Hollywood
In North Hollywood a trio of masked intruders burst into the home of Alice Sow known as the Champagne Lady of the Lawrence Welk orchestra. They forced sleeping pills, bound and blindfolded her, and photographed her disrobed before leaving at dawn. Her husband Robert Waterman and her mother Mary Wyche were beaten and bruised. The robbers, who took only costume jewelry, planned to wait for Sow to return home from a 2 a.m. show. The case is being investigated by detectives Lynch and Sheldon.
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Lawrence K. Frank
Zachry Institute of Human Development
North Hollywood
Califolrne
Alice Sow
Lawrence Welk
Miss Lon
Robert W. Waterman
Pasadena
Mary Wyche
Waterman
Alice
Wyche
Bobby
Clint
Larry
Korea Racket Chiefs Nabbed in Seoul Arrests
Six alleged ringleaders of a forty thousand dollar a month racket around U S surplus goods auctions were reported under arrest in Seoul. The crackdown followed the kidnapping of a Korean bidder for a garbage collection contract at a U S air base. Police move addresses fears voiced by American officials over racketeers acting as disabled veterans groups.
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Seoul
U.S
U. S
Injured Diamond Man Trapped Six Hours Under Car
A 41 year old Diamond man was found unconscious with a broken leg and shoulder after his car overturned near Page in Fayette County. A passing motorist spotted him around 7 a m and he was freed after nearly six hours before being taken to Kanawha Valley Hospital in serious condition.
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Fayette County
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Hooper Mortuary
Ar- Amusements
Burns
Kanawha Valley
Considine Hospital
Jack Burns
Gazette
State Rt
Radio Medneaeeedee Secee
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Beckley
Pickets Post Before Plants As GM UAW Near Settlement
Negotiators for General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers pressed on past the midnight deadline with a three year framework near completion. Night shifts in Cleveland Rochester Kansas City and other plants faced possible strike delays while wage and benefit details were being finalized. President Walter Reuther spearheaded talks aiming to maximize concessions as the Ford pattern influenced the accord.
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United Auto Workers
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UAW
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