Supreme Court overturns contempt convictions in Union, Daily Worker cases
The High Court voided contempt rulings against Julius Emspak and Philip Bart for refusing to answer HUAC questions, basing decisions on the Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination. Justices Warren, Black, Douglas, Burton, Clark and Fortas formed the majority. Harlan and Reed dissented. Warren also wrote the majority in the Emspak matter with Harlan agreeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Stwo
United Electrical Workers Union
Daily Worker
High Court
Julius Emspark
Union
Warren
Black
Frankfurter
Douglas
Burton
Clark
Harlan
Reed
Wanton
Thomas Quinn
Minton
Philip Bart
the Daily Worker
Emspak
House Un-American Activities Committee
CIO
Garden City Co-Op wins second tire award title
The Garden City Co-Op service station earned a television set for selling the most tractor tires in the nine state cooperative territory, marking its second consecutive award. A liquor license renewal hearing for Ed Riley Austin is set for June 2 in Topeka. Two Garden City area soldiers, Pvt Donald L Ayres and Pvt Floyd D Smith, are assigned to the Eleventh Airborne Parachute Supply and Maintenance Co. at Fort Campbell Kentucky after basic at Fort Leonard Wood.
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Garden City
S.are
Ed Riley Austin
E. Fulton
Topeka
Eleventh Airborne Parachute Supply and Maintenance Co
Fort Campbell
Donald L . Ayres
Frank Ayres
Route 1
Floyd D. Smith
Marion F.smith
Lakin
Regular Army
Fort Leonard Wood
One Man Dead In Triple Crash
In Blythe California a fatal crash involving a car a truck and two buses left one man dead and fourteen injured including a critically hurt passenger Lucy Lewis. The car operated by Robert Green along with a Greyhound bus and a Phoenix based truck driver Garnett Hinton were part of the collision. Witnesses say Green failed to stop at a stop sign causing the crash and fire after the car was struck by the truck and then hit by the bus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blythe
Calif
Robert Green
Lucy Lewis
Garnett Hinton
Phoenix
Ariz
Rail Crash at Capitol Station Injures Twelve
A section of passenger cars crashed into a second section while being coupled at Union Station Washington injuring a dozen people. No one was seriously hurt. The crash occurred near the site of January 1953 derailment where a train overran tracks and caused extensive damage. Three of eleven moving cars derailed and about 400 feet of track was torn up.
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Washington W
Union Station
Plane crash kills Hutchinson Navy ensign near San Diego
The body of William Crupper of Hutchinson Kansas, a Navy ensign, was recovered from a private plane that crashed into the ocean Saturday off a fishing boat a mile offshore. The craft stalled during a climb after skimming low over the boat, killing Crupper and Em. R. C. Osburn of San Diego.
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San Diego
Calif
Hutchinson
William Crupper
Em. R. C. Osburn
Crupper
Dairy Worker Given Five Month Auspended Sentence
Alessandria Italy dairy worker Giuseppe Rota aged 50 received a five month auspended sentence after an incident involving cows. The case notes show a disciplinary matter centered on improper conduct toward the animals and an ensuing legal ruling. The details in the report emphasize the irregular phrasing in the sentence and the peculiar phrasing of the charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alessandria
Italy
Giuseppe Rota
Deaths: Mrs Minnie D McQueen 59 in Garden City
Mrs Minnie D McQueen died suddenly at her home 609 Ninth in Garden City at age 59. She came to the city in 1903, married Albert McQueen in 1941, and was a member of the Christian church. Surviving are her husband, three daughters Olive Day Dodge City Inez Oneal Ulysses and Florence Losey Lancaster Calif. one brother C C Baron San Francisco two sisters Conie Smith Canada Elsie Hodowska Albuquerque N M eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Phillips Funeral home in charge.
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Minnie D. McQueen
Garden City
McQueen
Fort Scott
Albert McQueen
Christian Church
Olive Day
Dodge City
Inez Oneal
Ulysses
Florence Losey
Lancaster
Calif
C. Cc, Baron
San Francisco
Conie Smith
Canada
Elsie Hodowska
Albuquerque
N. M
Phillips Funeral Home
French Planes Blast Algerian Rebel Band
Paris reports French planes annihilated about 60 rebels after a fierce battle in the Khenchela region, where nationalist guerrillas attacked the Kheirane post near Constantine. In Morocco a week of violence left 23 dead and 48 wounded, including Europeans.
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Paris
Khenchela
Algeria
Kheirane
Constantine
Morocco
Agella
Lengthy Genoa Strike Ends as 1600 Workers Return
Genoa Italy harbor traffic returned to normal as 1 600 ship repairers ended a 119 day strike and resumed work A compromise agreement halted the protest over workers free choice rule and allowed the dispute to close with a return to duty threatening ports calmness and order restored
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Genoa
Italy
Johnson criticizes air and road programs and GOP plans
US Sen Lyndon B Johnson accuses Eisenhower of a bond based 21 billion highway funding plan for 40 000 miles over ten years and endorses Gore’s 17.9 billion five year highway outlay with direct federal state funding. He predicts a Senate vote will reject the administration bill as a bad draft and backs Gore’s alternative. Johnson also urges Defense Secretary Wilson to clarify defense plans amid Russian air threat questions.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Eisenhower
Johnson
Senate
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
U.S
Byrd
D*va
Secretar
Wilson
Congressional
Russia
United States
Pentagon
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
West
State Author's Contest Opens in Western Kansas
The Kansas authors club opens its annual contest for original manuscripts in seven divisions open to anyone in Western Kansas seventh district. Categories include short stories, juvenile, article, poetry, light verse, and musical composition with entry limits and fees for members and non members. Entries due August 1 1955, to 1010 South College Scott City. Also cattle prices and market notes from Wichita report slow sales, slightly higher hogs and lambs, with slaughter lambs strong and ewes steady.
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Kansas Authors Club
Elsie Norman
Scott City
Kansas
South College
Wichita
USDA
Conservatives To Win British Voting
Predictions of a Conservative victory rise as Britain nears a warless election campaign end. Unions threaten major port walkouts while locomotive engineers and firemen plan a rail strike and Labor campaigns link labor unrest to Tory governance ahead of Eden winning a five year term.
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London
Britain
Stevedore and Workers Union
Liverpool
Manchester
Hull
Transport and General Workers Union
TGWU
Ened
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
Society
Labor Party
Eden
Winston Churchill
Market Update From Topeka Area Grain Prices
Market report shows Kansas City Grain and local station prices for wheat corn and rye with No 2 and No 3 grades varying. Prices listed include wheat around 2.47 to 2.48 and corn white 1.60 to 1.63, with 34 lower to 4 higher reads and notes on white yellow and mixed corn futures across multiple car lots.
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Kansas City Grain
Kansas City
Grains Drift Lower On Rain Fuels Pressure Trade
Grains moved down slowly on the Chicago Board of Trade as light selling grew with rain across major grain regions. Soybeans and corn led losses on favorable crop outlooks while cash corn arrivals surged to about 130,000 bushels. Wheat and rye showed mixed moves as futures and open interest shifted and Kansas City cattle and hog markets showed broad price changes under slow demand.
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Chicago
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City i
USDA
Mount Hope Man Held On Charge of DWI
Mount Hope resident Paul Joseph Winters was arrested Saturday night by a highway trooper on US 508 east of Mount Hope. He is charged with driving while intoxicated and transporting an open bottle.
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Mount Hope
Dwi
Paul Joseph Winters
Garden City Hospital Admittances and Discharges
Listed today are admitted and discharged patients in Garden City including Diane Knoll Route 1 Ellen Kennedy 614 North 11th Mrs Walter Goss Eminence Route Mrs R L Mathiasmier 1005 North 4th etc plus births at St Catherine to Edwin Frazer 709 Evans and Eugene Ochs Sublette and nearby police and county briefs detailing theft, accident, and marriage licenses in the county records. Includes names, addresses, and various local notes from police briefs to county court actions and land transfers.
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Diane ‘Knoll
Ellen Kennedy
North 11Th
Walter Goss
R. L. Mathiasmier
North 4Th
L. J. Palmateer
Edwards
Edwin Frazer
Evans
Elaine Kells
Satanta
Myrtle Liedke
Sam Snagely
Sublette
Clay Good
Cimarron
Everett Mangan
North Ind
R. M. Kamp
Effie McQueen
North 7Th
J. A. Winderlin
Washington
Eugene Ochs
George Lamb
Scott City
Melvin Dimitt
North 8Th
Robert D. Weil
Lakin
A. C. Rutledge
Gus Norton
Frank Delgado
St. Catherine
County
H. Alan Lee
Clifford W. Heckathorn
Rigrish
Young
Garden City
Louis D. Williamson
Ned IF. Stormont
Herman C. Crump
Pierceville
Katie Lee Manasis
Paul J. Winters
Gerald Lee Gradey
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Ocean
Hutchinson Man
Deaths
Unera Fee
Mrs. McQueen
Wichita Livestock
Sarley
Wau
Omaha
Enid
Salina
New York
Lindh Produce Co
Admiral Aenean
Atchison
Atlas Pdr
Bald Lima
Beech Aire
Ona
Beth Steel
Boeing Air
Bran
Dayton
du Pont
Kan P & L
Lowe
Martin
McKess & R
Aaron
Mont
NY Central
Ohio
Penney, JC
Phill
Proct & G
Radio Co
Sv St Jos
Ita
Ft. Worth
Sears Rock
Sinclair O
Ltd Oi NJ
DM Stoke van C
UN Pac
US Steel
Westg A Bkanaaeee
Hoto
Frasier
Rudolph Gerdis
Biddy
T. B. Riggs
Wichita Falls
Tex
Jesse Arozco
Taylor
E. QO
Charles McGowan
Chester Keller
Chesterfield Drive
Floyd Mapes
Parkwood
Julius Horning
East Maple
E.G. Smith
William Hedges
North
Ernest Brogan
Deerfield
Helen Ruth Fillpot
Daniel Baldwin
Cooper Rooms
Neville Lynn Dunnan
Ben Grimsley Gym
Tonka Elizebeth Worley
Wallace Coen Lay
Gardendale
Gar=dendale
Flamingo
Starly Motel
Spoeld
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