Air Force B25 Crashes Near Denver After Takeoff
A B25 bomber from Lowry Air Force Base crashed shortly after takeoff amid scattered houses. Four airmen died and three were injured. an Army passenger also perished. The crash site included a burning home and wreckage scattered across a yard where a mother warned her children to run. The plane refueled at Lowry on a training flight from McChord to Tindall, with pilots identified as 1st Lt. Donaldson H. Wright and 1st Lt. Robert L. Bilbro.
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Lowry Air Force Base
McChord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
Tindall
Air Force Base
Panama City
Fla
Robert L. Bilbro
Laredo
Tex
Air Force
Donaldson H. Wright
Blytheville
Ark
Clarence Stull
Wiliam Morgan
Herbert Roddy
Roddy
Lowry
Eisenhower Forms Panel To Aid Small Business
President Eisenhower created a seven member Cabinet committee to study small business needs and recommend actions to strengthen their economic position. Wendell B. Barnes, head of the Small Business Administration, is among the appointees joining Arthur T. Burns as committee head. The panel comes amid Democratic charges of bias toward big business and aims to assess federal actions aiding new firms and growth.
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Eisenhower
Arthur T. Burns
Council of Economic Advisers
Tothers
Burns
Defense
Wilson
Commerce Weeks
Sertary of Labor
Mitchell
Arthur Flemming
Wendell Barnes
Albert Cole
Tent Collapse Injures Spectators at Fitchburg Show
A wind and rain storm toppled a Christiani Bros circus menagerie tent in Fitchburg Massachusetts injuring at least 12 people. Four hospitalized, two children among them, as wind damaged boards detached from canvas. Animals remained unharmed and did not escape. The empty tent collapsed shortly after the afternoon performance ended, trapping several people on the midway.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Christiani Bros Circus
House of Cards
Johnson in Excellent Health After Mayo Clinic Visit
Senator Lyndon Johnson returned to his Washington office after a Mayo Clinic visit in Rochester Minnesota. An aide said doctors found him in excellent condition with cardiographs showing no heart attack scars or indication of prior heart attack last July.
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Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Weather Outlook for Jefferson City and Central Missouri
Fair and warmer today with a high near 74 and a low around 55 tonight. Sunday will be partly cloudy and breezy with warm highs. precipitation is minimal and temperatures edge upward.
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Missouri
Kansas City
CeRes
State GOP Women meet draws 400 registered
More than 400 women attended the first session of the Republican State Federated Women's Club convention at the Hotel Governor. Registering is expected to rise to about 600 as the two day event continues with speeches by Rep. Richard M. Simpson and remarks on the Kitchen Cabinet in Washington.
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Governor
Marie Hawkins
Cole County Club
Kitchen Cabinet
Frieda Schicht
St. Louis
Association
Washington, D. C
Eisenhower
Richard M. Simpson
Pennsylvania
Republican National Campaign Committee
Herb Douglas
Neosho
Albert Schoenbeck
U.S
Joseph W. Whealan
Richard M. Webster
Carthage
Lon Hocker
Vincent Baker
Kansas City
James Patrick
Jefferson City
Cole County
Naomi Allen Bowsher
Clinton
Senate
Clara Aiken Speer
French Report Details Major Algeria RebEL Battle
French military HQ reports 290 rebels killed in the Gates of Iron gorges Biban Mountains near Bougie. A streamlined Algerian nationalist force trapped southwest of Bougie, with 210 rebels captured and 160 wearing uniforms. Elsewhere in Mila, 30 rebels killed. Algiers police raid nets 30 suspected Reds and 10 MNA leaders.
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Biban
Bougie
Constantine
Algeria
Mila
National Algerian Movement
MNA
Picketing St Louis Water Workers Curtails City Services
Picket lines of water division employees halted most municipal services in St Louis as 1,100 nonstriking workers refused to cross lines. A meeting with city officials and union reps in Mayor Tucker's office proposed job reclassification surveys for water division workers, contingent on strikers returning to work.
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ST. Louis
City Water Division
John M. Keane
Water Division
Raymond R. Tucker
R. Elliott Scearce
St. Louis University
Kiel Auditorium
St. Louis University High School
Kiel
National Convention of the American Red Cross
Frank Kriz
North St. Louis
South St. Louis
Keane
Laclede Gas Co
Leaders Not Surprised by Molotov Resignation
Bonn report quotes Chancellor Adenauer saying Molotov's resignation was expected as his influence waned. Paris circles note timing linked to Tito’s visit and express no surprise at Moscow.
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Bonn
Germany
Adenauer
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Paris
Molotov
Tito
Finance Genius Jesse H. Jones Dies at 82 in Houston
Jesse H. Jones, 82, financier and former secretary of commerce, died at St Luke's Hospital Houston after a kidney operation. He loaned over 50 billion dollars for the RFC and helped build Houston's skyline including the Houston Chronicle, of which he was publisher. Survivors include his wife Mary Gibbs Jones and stepson Tilford Jones.
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Tex
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corp
South
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Jones
Commerce
RFC
Henry Wallace
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mary Gibbs Jones
Tilford Jones
Baptists affirm local autonomy in church governance
The Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed a church’s right to govern itself by congregational vote in Kansas City on June 1. It refused to repudiate a North Carolina court ruling allowing a majority to control church property when actions conflict with the church’s established faith and practices. Dr. James W. Bulman praised the decision after a three day push to bring it to a vote.
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Kansas City
Southern Baptist Convention
North Carolina
Factic
SEC
James W. Bulman
East Spencer
N. C
Bulman
Rocky Mount
Three Thousand Square Dancers Converge at Camdenton Festival
About 3,000 square dancers and callers gather for the second annual International Square Dance Festival in Camdenton Missouri. The event draws participants from 28 states Ontario and Alaska and runs through Saturday with workshops in the afternoons and a grand finale square dance Saturday night at the rodeo arena.
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Camdenton
Ontario
Alaska
Rodeo Arena
Baseball Scores Roundup for Major Leagues
National League results include Philadelphia 5 over St Louis 2 and Chicago 4 over Brooklyn 2 in 15 innings. Pittsburgh 4 beat Milwaukee 1. New York 3 defeated Cincinnati 2. Boston 5 over Kansas City 0. Baltimore 3 over Chicago 2. Washington 5 beat Cleveland 3. Detroit 6 over New York.
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St. Louis
Chicago
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
New York
Cincinnati
Boston
Kansas City
Baltimore
Washington
Cleveland
Detroit
State urged to seek new revenues to fund services
Missouri public expenditure survey says additional tax revenue will be needed to cover rising service demands. Executive director Edward Staples favors a higher sales tax over income tax if funds are required, citing sales tax as more productive with less burden. Major needs include 10 million dollars yearly for the school foundation, 42 million for higher education, 75 million bond issue costs, plus retirement and normal program growth.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Edward Staples
Staples
State School Foundation
Brief Telegraph Walkout Ends Across Cleveland
About 460 Western Union workers in Cleveland walked out for three hours as Washington talks failed to yield a quick countrywide new contract. The CTU and American Communications Assn. pressed for a settlement for 30,000 workers nationwide while most other cities kept working.
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Washington
Western Union
Cleveland
CTU
American Communications Assn
Farm Loan Bill gains approval from House Agriculture Committee
The committee backed an expanded direct farm loan program. The Cooley bill would add 50 million dollars for emergency loans, aid refinanced debt, and assist part time and low income farmers. FHA loans for part time farmers would cover real estate and operating costs. Initial loan cap rises to 9000 and total indebtedness to 15000.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Cooley
D-Nc
Federal Housing Administration
Famefforms Aeeds
Two Drivers Ticketed After Accident Here
Police ticketed two drivers after a minor collision at Mulberry and Elm streets. George H. Scheuler, 47, Meta, was cited for failing to stop. Clarence Sherrell, 21, Meta, for lacking a chauffeur's license. Both said they had insufficient time to stop.
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Elm
George H. Scheuler
Meta
Clarence
Sherrell
Schueler
Teacher Keeps Date With Stork Misses Storck Appointment
James Jordan a Lafayette High School teacher missed the Krug Park graduation after a late night event. He and his wife instead went to Sisters Hospital where their daughter was born early this morning.
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ST. Joseph
James Jordan
Jordan
Lafayette High School
Krug Park Rowl
Shelby Storck
Kansas City
Sisters’ Hospital
Sergeant McKeon Freed From Brig
Secretary of the Navy ordered the conditional release of Marine drill sergeant Matthew C McKeon from the Parris Island brig. McKeon faces court martial on manslaughter charges over the April death march of six recruits and the trial is set for July 14 at Parris Island. He is restricted to the base or within ten miles until the court martial begins.
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New York
McKeon
Parris Island
Marine Corps
Thomas
Legion to discuss state bonus for WWII Korean War vets
In St Joseph on June 1 the American Legion will consider a state resolution urging a bonus for veterans of World War II and the Korean War at its state convention set for July 27 to 29.
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ST. Joseph
American Legion
Three Year Old Hartsburg Boy Hurt in Highway Crash
A three year old boy from Hartsburg was critically injured in a collision at the Highway 54 and 63 intersection near the Missouri Bridge. The child, William Lynn Dixon, suffered a possible skull fracture and was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital. The grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Belle Wallace, was only mildly harmed.
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Bud) Jones
State Highway Patrol
Hartsburg
Jefferson City
New Missouri Bridge
Highway Patrol
William Lynn Dixon
St. Mary's Hospital
Mattie Belle Wallace
Case
Donald Lee Scrivner
Russellville
Scrivner
Highway 50
Scrugus Station Rd
Police Probe Into Auto Firm Burglary
Police investigate a break in at Shiklestor Co an auto firm on Broadway Street. The thieves smashed a north side window and took between 250 and 300 dollars from a second floor office safe and money box. No further developments reported.
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Shiklestor Co
Broadway Street
Campaign Conference Forecast Predicts Rough Dem Campaign
Washington June 1 President Eisenhower's chief spokesman Hagerty warned at a campaign conference that Democrats will run a rough and dirty campaign to unseat the GOP in November. He said Republicans must show Eisenhower as the world’s greatest force for peace to stay safe. Vice President Nixon, at the same event, projected a wider reelection margin if enough voters participate. He warned many wage earners are too content to vote.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
National
Citizens For Eisenhower
Hagerty
Nixon
GOP
Shepilov Replaces Molotov as Soviet Foreign Minister
Dmitri T. Shepilov is named foreign minister of the Soviet Union replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov who will remain deputy prime minister. No reason given for Molotov’s resignation. Shepilov, 38, has been editor of Pravda and influential in the Soviet leadership.
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Moscow
Dmitri T. Shepilov
Egypt
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Soviet Union
Shepilov
Molotov
Foreign Ministry
Maxim Litvinofft
Tito
Yugoslavia
Supreme Soviet
Council of Ministers
Dmitri T. Shepilovy
Klementi Y. Voroshilov
Pravda
Communist Central Committee
Elizabeth II
Military waste called criminal in defense hearing
Sen. Ellender and Sen. Dworshak charged waste at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the defense bill. They criticized proposed Air Force spending for new facilities while a Navy plant at Pocatello Idaho sits idle. They urged swapping unused facilities between services to save money.
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Sen
Ellender
D-La
Pentagon
Dworshak
Frederick S. Withington
Naval
Senate
Air Force
Denver
Colo
Ogden
Utah
Navy
Pocatello
Chavez
D-Nm
Alton Man Sentenced In Death of Woman
Carl Stotler of Alton Missouri was sentenced to 13 years after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the February death of Virgie Hollis aged 25. Stotler and William Crase had taken Hollis to a physician where she died from a skull fracture and internal injuries. Crase's trial is scheduled for June 22.
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Carl Stotler
Alton
Stotler
Virgie Hollis
William Crase
Couch
Crase
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