Watchman Saves Paducah From Possible Arson
An alert night watchman saved Paducah from a major fire early today after two Fort Worth men, S C Stewart and G R Nesbit, were arrested for attempting to burn Vernon Goodwin’s International Harvester dealership. The guard chased one suspect, who begged not to be killed, then escorted both to the county sheriff. A 55-gallon gasoline barrel and a box of matches were found at the scene. Continued on Page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paducah
Cattle County
Clifford Graves
S. C. Stewart
G. R. ‘Jack’ Nesbit
Fort Worth
Vernon Goodwin
International Harvester
U. S. Post Office
Upham Gas Company
West Texas Utilities
Granville (Grannie) Martin
Goodwin
Martin
Index
Democratic leaders debate Texas Stevenson Kefauver campaign
Four top Texas Democratic leaders met in Austin to discuss who will head the state campaign for Stevenson Kefauver. The session, closed to newsmen, centered on selecting a new director of organization to replace Kathleen Voigt and organize the party’s state efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
James Blundell
Dallas
Byron Skelton
Temple
R. D. Randolph
Bobkitten Mothers Plan Weekly Meeting At School
Mothers of Junior High School Bobkitten football players are invited to a 1:30 Tuesday meeting at the school to organize a Bobkitten Mothers Club and elect officers for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobkitten
Bobkitten Mother's Club
Stevenson Faces GOP Challenge On Hiss Question
Adlai E Stevenson confronts Republican pressure over Alger Hiss as Leonard Hall and others press him to state whether he agrees with Truman that Hiss was not a Communist spy. Stevenson plans a West and South tour after a farm speech in Newton Iowa amid ongoing Hiss inquiries.
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Stevenson
Gop
Hiss
Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Alger Hiss
Leonard W. Hall
Tru
Richard M. Nixon
Karl E. Mundt
RSD
Mr. Truman
Nixon
Mundt
Philip L. Graham
Washington Post
Times Herald
Politics Packed Week On Slate For Eisenhower
President Eisenhower returns to the White House after a Gettysburg farm visit and brief talks with Prime Minister Menzies. He will see Nixon off on a 32 state campaign tour and give a major TV address on win the peace before traveling to Newton Iowa for the national plowing contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McGhee
Volunteers For Stevenson and
Kefauver Finance Committee
Virginia
Stevenson
Newton
Iowa
Eisenhower
Washington
White House
Gettysburg
Robert G. Menzies
National
Richard M. Nixon
Columbia Broadcasting System
Witness Describes Brink's Theft Details in Boston Trial
Joseph O Keefe testifies about the 1950 Brink's holdup as a star witness in the case against eight defendants. He recounts overnight visits to the vault, how he and Adolph Maffie watched others case the counting house, and living with a criminal past ahead of the $1 218 211 robbery. Security tightens follow in-court as more witnesses expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Joseph
Specs) O'Keefe
O'Keefe
O’keefe
Brink's
Adolph
Jazz) Maffie
Suffolk County
Five survivors tell of Pelagia crew lost in Norwegian gale
Hope fades for 33 missing aboard the Pelagia after the sunken liberty ship broke in two off Norway. Survivors from Central City, Baltimore, New York, and Greek born American Demetrios Hadjicostas describe a single lifeboat rescue by a U S Air Force plane and a British trawler, with Jean Lopez of Puerto Rico dying of exposure.
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Harstad
Norway
Lawrence Redress
Central City
Colo
James Arnold
Baltimore
Demetrios Hadjicostas
New York
Andreas Orphanos
Pedro Rodriguez
Jean Lopez
Santiago
Puerto Rico
Arctic Circle
Northern Duke
U. S. Air Force
Hadjicostas
United Press
Lopez
Mansfield Officials Face Court Over School Enrollments
In Fort Worth three Mansfield school officials R L Huffman superintendent O C Rawdon board president and Willie L Brown principal were to give depositions in 96th district court regarding the failure of Negro pupils to enroll in the all white Mansfield high school. NAACP attorney L Clifford Davis filed the action. A Mansfield crowd had prevented enrollment of Negro pupils at the all white school and the pupils later enrolled in a Fort Worth Negro school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Mansfield
96Th District Court
Mansfield High
L. Clifford Davis
NAACP
R. L. Huffman
O. C. Rawdon
Board of Trustees
Mansfield Schools
Willie L. Brown
Mansfield Negro
Cool Air May Break Heat Wave Across Texas
Near record heat may be chased from northern Texas by a mass of cool air arriving tonight. Thundershowers brushed parts of the Panhandle with more possible tonight and Tuesday. Salt Flat reported 59 as the state's low. Fraser and Cole in the Rockies registered 12. Forecast calls for cooler conditions in the north by Tuesday morning with scattered showers along the Red River and northeast Texas, plus Gulf Coast and West Texas rain. No statewide rainfall in the last 24 hours. Presidio hit 106, while Corpus Christi and Galveston topped 87 and 79 respectively.
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Texas
Panhandle
Salt Flat
Fraser
Cole
Rockies
Red River Valley
Gulf Coast
Pecos Valley
Presidio
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Secrecy on Local Postmaster Candidates Lifted
The administration ends three year secrecy on the identity of eligible local postmaster candidates after pressure from Rep. John E. Moss and the Civil Service Commission. The policy change follows scrutiny of government information suppression and its impact on recruitment and embarrassment for nonselected contenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John E. Moss
D-Calif
House
Philip Young
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Extend Period For Soil Bank Grazing
The local ASC office issued a new grazing order extending the soil bank land grazing period to year end. No harvesting is allowed on soil bank land despite the extension, ASC official Gene Frisbie said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ASC
Gene Frisbie
GOP Candidate Demands Daniel Resign Amid Senate Plan
Thad Hutcheson of Houston urged Sen. Price Daniel to resign immediately to avoid a separate Senate race after the November general election. He criticized Daniel for potentially influencing his successor and warned of costs and timing around a Democratic primary and runoff if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
Price Daniel
Daniel
Thad Hutcheson
Houston
Senate
Hutcheson
House
Sam Rayburn
Lyndon Johnson
Clement
Congress
Davey O'Brien To Speak At Lions Club Luncheon
Davey O'Brien, famed Texas football great and Hall of Fame member, will speak at the Childress Lions Club noon luncheon Tuesday. Bobcat football personnel will attend as special guests. O'Brien, once TCU QB in 1938, later played for the Philadelphia Eagles before joining the FBI in 1942 and later worked in public relations for Bum-Gibbins Oil in Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Davey O'Brien
Childress Lions Club
Bob Butler
Bobcat
Squad O'Brien
Bum-Gibbins Oil Company
Fort Worth
TCU
Philadelphia Eagles
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Law Enforcement Agency
O'Brien
West Seeks Immediate Test Trip Through Suez
London reports say the United States and Britain will push at the 18 nation Suez conference for an immediate test trip into the canal as a direct challenge to Egypt. Britain favors a full convoy piloted by Westerners. the U S favors a single ship. The effort aims to prevent traffic disruption as pilots resign and canal slowdown emerges.
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London
United States
Britain
Suez Canal
Egypt
Canal Users Association
Canal
India’s Peacemaker Menon Returns to Egypt in Suez Crisis
Krishna Menon arrives in Cairo as India’s peacemaker to help resolve the Suez crisis. He meets Egyptian President Nasser while Soviet and Yugoslav pilots operate in the canal zone. The Cairo press reports condemnations of Eden and U S policy as tensions rise.
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India
Menon
Egypt
Cairo
Raymond A. Hare
Krishna Menon
Jawaharlal Nehru
London
Washington Hare
Middle East
Iraq
Henry Byroade
Union of South Africa
Gamal Abdel Nasser
el. Kisselev
Suez Canal
Anthony Eden
al Shaab
John Foster Dulles
Egyptian Israeli clash at Sabha post in Sinai desert
Egyptian military spokesman said an armed clash occurred Sunday between Egyptian and Israeli forces at Sabha an outpost in the Sinai Desert. No casualties reported. Israeli spokesman Col Nehemia Brosh said he knew nothing of any clash near Sabha.
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Cairo
Sabha
Sinai Desert
Palestine
el Auja
Sina Desert
Egypt
Nehemia Brosh
Tel Aviv
Clay School Board Bars All Black people From White School
In Clay Kentucky the Webster County school board barred four Black children from the all white elementary school. Guards lined the front as families moved to Rosewald Negro school at Providence. White parents cheered the decision and a guard contingent remained on duty.
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Clay School Board
White’ School
Clay
Webster County
Gro School
Providence
Catherine Copeland
Kentucky National Guardsmen
J. J. B. Williams
SWC Film Features Quarterback Session
Regular meeting of the Childress Quarterback Club is slated for 8 o'clock tonight in the directors room of the Chamber of Commerce at City Hall. President Kenneth Jeffers reports a special movie Southwest Conference Football Highlights provided by Humble Oil will be shown along with films of the Childress-Phillips football game. All sports fans are invited to attend, with special urging for fathers of boys in athletics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Childress
Chamber of Commerce
City Hall
Kenneth Jeffers
Humble Oil Company
Childress-Phillips
Jeffers
Major Business On Tap For Elks Lodge
Exalted Ruler Woodrow Czewski reported that a major item of business will be discussed and acted upon at a special called meeting of Chil dress Elks Lodge No 1113. All members are urged to attend as the session opens at 8 o'clock at the lodge building.
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Childress Elks Lodge No
Woodrow Czewski
Czewski
Kefauver Promises 100 Percent Crop Parity For Farmers
Estes Kefauver reaffirmed the Democrats pledge to achieve 100 percent parity for farm prices in a campaign stop at Janesville Wisconsin. He outlined an agriculture program including a food stamp plan and expanded school milk and lunch programs and production payments as a method to extend price support to non basic staples and perishables. Wisconsin marked the third state in his 160 day swing through 15 states.
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Janesville
Wis
Estes Kefauver
Wisconsin
Kefauver
Florida
Washington
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Frank Clement
Tennessee
Clinton
Tenn
Nashville
National Exchange Club
Tennessee National
Oak Ridge
Morris Higley
Sheriff's Office
Nesbit
Granville Martin
Brink
Ralph Yarborough
Greenville
Adlai Stevenson
Lions Club
Suez
Herman Clark
Powell
Webster County School Board
Elks Lodge
Demos
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