Secretary Wilson Sparks Senate Slur Debate Over Air Force Funding
Washington reports say Secretary of Defense Wilson drew swift condemnation from senators after calling congressional moves to boost Air Force funds phony. Senator Bridges and others called his remark unwarranted slur. Lyndon Johnson and SYMMINGTON urged restraint. Debate hints at White House stance and potential shifts in defense funding talk. Wilson defended efforts, calling proposals phony while suggesting a need for voter scrutiny on expenditure.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Wemottats Wemambu
Sen
Bridges
New Hampshire
Armed Services Committee
White House
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Senate
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
Sen. Bridges
Quantico
Miller May Face Contempt Action
Rep. Francis E. Walter says playwright Arthur Miller is in contempt of Congress for refusing to reveal who aided him in Red activities before the House un American Activities Committee. The panel will decide whether to cite him. Miller plans marriage to Marilyn Monroe amid passport and anti Communist affidavit issues.
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Washington
INS
Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
Arthur Miller
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
Marilyn Monroe
Walter
Charles E. Shuil
Telenews, Inc
Communist Front
Walford
Monroe
Miller
Europe
Woo
State Department
Weller
OU. S
London
Cupid
Big Steel Attacks Union Over Five Year Contract
United States Steel and other major producers accuse the United Steelworkers of provoking a steel crisis. Vice President John A. Stephens says a Wednesday or Thursday start is needed for an orderly shutdown if talks fail. Union leader David J. McDonald labels the five year proposal take it or leave it, as negotiations resume to avert a strike.
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New York
INS
United Steelworker's
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corp
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Stephens
Rain to Rain for Four More Days in Charleston Area
Forecaster Walter Wolfe of Kanawha Airport reports rain has fallen daily since June 13 with 0.29 inch yesterday. An unofficial five day outlook predicts more rain across southern West Virginia, weekend showers, and rain statewide Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures will average near 73 in the south and 72 in the north, with warmer days ahead followed by a cooling by Wednesday.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Walter Wolfe
U. S. Weather Bureau
Kanawha
Slayer of Three Blades Capture Warren Ohio Mystery
Slain victims spurred a manhunt for Alfred Wilson, 37, after he opened fire on three households in Trumbull County, killing Mrs Geraldine Brown, 40, Mrs Hazel Botts, 42, and Nancy Worthington, 16, and injuring Emmett Dennison. Wilson, freed earlier on assault charges, vowed to kill all. Sheriff Thomas described a bloody sequence across Leavittsburg and Cortland as Wilson abducted Nancy Worthington en route to Ohio.
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To & Men
Alfred Wilson
Wilson
Ohio
Geraldine Brown
Leavittsburg
Hazel Botts
Cortland
Nancy Worthington
Juanita
Botts
Trumbull County
Ars
Sandra Louis
Alfred, Jr
Wentworth
West Virginia
T. Herbert Thomas
Brown
Emmett Dennison
Warren
Bazetta Township
Dennison
Skippy
Berserk Bruck
Warren, O
Rabbits Knuckles Down in U S Marble Title Finish
Asbury Park New Jersey June 22 12 year old Fred Brown son of a Beckley billiard parlor director won the national marbles championship in a tense comeback over Dennis Kyle of Richwood West Virginia. Brown trailed seven to two before tying and sealing a 21 game final victory aided by a trio of lucky rabbit feet. Kyle had earlier defeated top competitors including Albert Wade and Lynette Watkins before losing the final. Brown earns a trip to Jaragia in the West and a brief appearance fee with the title.
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Asbury Park
N. J
West Virginia
Brown
Fred Brown
Beckley
Dennis Kyle
Richwood
W. Va
Kyle
Soucera
Albert Wade
Greensboro
N.C
Lynette Wakins
Philadelphia
Dick Rickman
Hlumtington
W.va
Woo Kin
Langlie Chosen Party Keynoter For GOP Convention
Washington June 22 AP Gov Arthur Langlie of Washington was named the keynote speaker for the GOP National Convention in San Francisco amid assertions that President Eisenhower will seek re election. GOP leaders named Prescott Bush as potential chair of the Resolutions Committee and Joseph W Martin Jr and William F Knowland as convention chairs. Ike’s health and candidacy were defended despite his abdominal operation.
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Washington
INS
Arthur B. Langlie
Washington Today
San Francisco
Eisenhower
Capenhower
GOP
Leonard W. Hail
Nixon
Langlie
Pat
Prescott Bush
Connecticut
Resolutions Committee
House Gop
Joseph W. Martin
Mass
Senate
William F. Knowland
Calif
Hall
Warren G. Magnuson
Magnuson
Arrangements Committee
White House
Gladys E. Knowles
Billings
Mont
B. Walter Swan
Chicago
Aant
Jerome G Taylor
Tenn
Howard L. Cousins
Russell D. Rouch
Springfield
Ohio
Katharine
St. George
Fof
New York
Tudee Lehr
Fess
Reading
Lyle Snader
Timois
Doorkeaner
Thomas Kenem
Fenhower
Wi House
Congress
Harry Darby
Kansas
Darby
Walter Reed Hospital
Sherman Adams
Rr. Eisenhower
Woman Charged in Oak Hill Tavern Murder
An unemployed Fayette County miner, George William Sifers Jr., 31, was charged with murder after his waitress sweetheart, Mrs Madrad Bess, 31, was shot four times in the Kozy Korner tavern in Dale. He was ordered held for grand jury action after a court hearing in Payette County. Mrs Bess, dating Sifers for about two years, died from a single fatal shot. police found the gunman at Ansted hours later. The dead woman left a son, two sisters, and a father. Burial plans were set at Oak Hill.
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Payetteville
Fayette County
Oak Hill
George William Sifers Jr
Minden
Virgil Lyons
Payette County
Safers
Madrad Bess
Kozy Korner Vale
Dale
Bess
George Edwar Wheeling
Glen Jean
Harry Stamper
John Love
Winden
Tyree
C.S Donnelly
Highlawn Memorial Park
RACKETEERS UNMASKED Expose in The Gazette Tomorrow
The Gazette launches Victor Riesel's eye opening Expose titled Rogue's Gallery. The feature questions hidden taxes and extortion influencing land, clothing, and housing purchases and asks if businesses pay tribute to racketeers.
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Victor Riesel
the Gazette
Two Boys Drown In Mine Pool Near Matoaka
Two junior high boys vacationing from school drowned in an abandoned strip mine excavation three miles east of Matoaka in Mercer County. Frederick Douglas Tatum, son of Rev. and Mrs Eugene Tatum, was recovered about 5 36 p m by a dragging crew from Giotto. The second boy, unnamed, had not been recovered by 8 pm as a lifesaving team from Hinton headed to the scene.
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Matoaka
Schow
Here
Mercer County
Funeral Home
Frederick Douglas Tatum
Eugene Tatum
Ster Ung Levats Osborn
Charles Osborn
Young Tatum
Giotto
Hinton
Heaven Definition: a crowded place with epitaphs and passports
A fragment suggests a poetic or cryptic note about a crowded afterlife or memorial space. The lines imply a place named Heaven where seventeen people could fit, with hints of epitaphs and passports as motifs. The source reads as a terse, enigmatic sentence fragment.
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D-Wash
Mauch
Waller Reed Hospital
Big Steel
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Gazette
Punerais
Ike
Elsie Cochran
Ruffner Ave
Lee St
Kanawha County
William MecMillian
McMillan Hospital
Lew Raines
CPI
Thomas E. Heidelberg
Arthur CL
U.S
Dean Lake
Ansted
Dicard
Gageun
Heaven
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