Truman asks Congress for Western Hemisphere military cooperation
President Truman urged Congress to approve a broad program of hemispheric defense including arming training and standardization of arms for Latin America and Canada. He stressed restraint on armament expansion and adherence to the United Nations charter while promoting closer cooperation to deter aggression under the Chapultepec framework. Page 6.
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Washington
Truman
Congress Jay
Latin America
Canada
U. S
Truan
White House
Congress
United States
Amersce
Heiress and fiancé go on trial for parents' death
Heiress Louise Overell aged 18 and her 21-year-old fiancé George Gollum faced murder charges in Santa Ana, accused in the March 15 dynamite blast that sank the Mary E in Newport Harbor and killed her wealthy parents Walter and Mrs. Overell. The couple, jailed since March 19, denied the charges as details of their letters to each other and plans to marry emerged. Investigators found 7½ sticks of dynamite aboard the recovered cruiser hulk.
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Frank Frawley
Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
George Gollum
Walter E. Overell
Journalism Coed
California
Newport Harbor
Miss. Overell
University of Southern California
Overells
Flintridge
Los Angeles
Gollum
Louise
Beulah Louise Overell
Cal
Kenneth E. Morrison
International Soundpl
Clark accuses Russia of unfair aid in Austria
Gen Mark Clark returned from Europe and on a CBS program charged the Soviet Union with obstructing Austrian rehabilitation. He claimed the Soviets curry favor with Communists by granting extra food higher wages and better rations in their zone.
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New York
Mark Clark
Europe
Sixth Army
Russia
Clark
Austria
Communist Party
Six Survivors Of B-17 Crash In Alamicamba
West Palm Beach reports six survivors from a 15 man B 17 crew after a crash in Alamicamba Nicaragua. A Managua radio said five walked out, six seen, four missing. Rescue helicopters from Westover and Pope fields to aid, with a platoon of the 33rd American infantry regiment scouring the jungle area.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Morrison Army Airfield
Alamicamba
Nicaragua
Managua
Morrison Field
Westover Field
Mass
Alambamba
Pope Field
N. C
33Rd American Infantry Regiment
Three Killed In Auto Accidents In State Yesterday
West Virginia highways saw at least three deaths in separate automobile crashes on the previous day. In Beckley, 75-year-old Charles Griffiths was struck by a taxicab after reportedly walking into the path of the vehicle. details from City Patrolman Oscar Bowers described the incident.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Beckley
Charles Griffiths
Oscar Bowers
Atomic energy decisions should be understood by public, Lilienthal says
David Lilienthal urged greater public understanding of atomic energy decisions at Inland Press Association, calling them among the nation’s most important choices. He said such decisions are human, not technical, and must be based on reason rather than hysteria, with the press aiding clear, nonsecret education.
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Chicago
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Lienthal
Inland Press Association
Lilienthal
America
Sleeping Baby Killed by Gun Shots
In Logan on May 26 a drunken man fired into a house, hitting five year old Barbara Jeffrey as she slept. She died in a Logan hospital after being struck in the head. The sheriff said the shooter is held and no charges have been filed yet.
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Logan
Sheriff's Office
Barbara Jeffrey
Stonebranch
Here
Hold check passer Clarksbury held by state police
State Police Cpl W E Murphy said he held Reuben Bearmon without formal charge after the 31 year old military police man admitted in a signed statement that he had forced checks in nine states.
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Clarksburg
W. EB. Murphy
Reuben Bearmon
Charleston Has Strange Case Of Mistreated Child
Seven-year-old Delores Diaz was found half-naked and malnourished in a trash-filled padlocked chicken coop. Social workers took custody while Domingo and Mary Diaz were jailed on felonious assault and neglect charges. Police said the mother admitted locking the girl up nightly with tied wrists and legs.
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Charleston
Delores Diaz
Domingo
Mary Diaz
R. T. Cummings
Delores
Cummings
L. E. Hampton
Kent Cooper Receives Northwestern Honorary Degree
Kent Cooper executive director of the Associated Press was awarded an honorary doctor of laws by Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism at a convocation marking the schools 25th anniversary. Other honorees included Col. Robert R. McCormick John J Knight Roy A Roberts Thomas J White Richard J Finnegan Marshall Field and Ben Aubby. The citation praised Coop ers career and leadership in promoting international news communication and press freedom. page 4
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Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University
Cooper
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
John 8. Knight
Chicago Daily News
Roy A. Roberts
Kansas Ciy
Mo.) Star Company
Thomas J. White
Chicago Herald-American
Richard J. Finnegan
Chicago Times
Ben Aubby
Saturday Evening Post
South America
Great Britain
Belgium
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Germany
Sint
Kenneth E. Olson
Medill School
Hazel Box Plant I Final Stage Nears Operation
Hazel Atlas Box plant nearing completion at Washington Pennsylvania with finishing touches. Plant to start operations July 30 pending final setup. Clarksbury Paper Box Co will operate, moving in equipment this week. About 20 workers employed locally, 15 from Grafton.
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Jack Patrick
Washington, Pa
Patrick
Clarksburg Paper Box Company
Hazel Box
Admits Beating And Slashing Wife In Bed
Chicago dispatch reports George Rapp a 56 year old beauty shop owner from a wealthy North Shore family confessed to striking his wife Esther with a hammer and slashing her throat as she slept in their Willmette home after a quarrel. He admitted in an oral statement to Willmette police chief Edwin Whiteside that she was left near death with a fractured skull and severely injured windpipe.
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Chicago
North Shore
Willmette
Edwin Whiteside
George Rapp
Esther
Rapp
Young Negro Gives Up 10 Fbl and In Held in State Pen
A group of three young black men faced penitentiary holds in the Carolinas on charges of attacking white women. One escaped lynch mob violence, hiding 48 hours in pine thickets before surrendering to FBI protection. Billie Simmons, 24, is jailed in Raleigh for rape linked to an assault near Clinton, North Carolina. Willie Pooler, 20, was moved to South Carolina's Columbia penitentiary after a similar charge in Darlington.
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Raleigh
N. C
Carolinas
North Carolina
FBI
Billie Simmons
Central
Clinton
Willie Pooler
Darlington
S. C
South Carolina
Columbia
Godwin
Buddy” Bush
Northampton Souls
Jackson
Rainfall of 0.68 Inches Damps Spring Weather
The Sunday rainfall measured 0.68 inches with showers cooling the day. The high reached 77 degrees, noon reading 70, and 60 degrees by evening. Last night’s low was 46.
Army Takes Over Managua Government
The army seized control of the government in Managua today. Travelers reaching Guatemala reported the national guard had taken over with no opposition and Managua remained quiet. Communications firms warned of possible message delays to Nicaragua, while Pan American Airways reported normal plane service to Managua.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Guatemala
National Guard
Pan American Airways
Truman expresses amazement at mother's vitality
From Granview Missouri regional desk: President Truman praises his mother’s vitality as Dr Leonard Arguelro is elected Nicaragua’s president and installed May first, succeeding Gen Anastasio Somoza, who had led for a decade and had said in January he would not run.
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Ernest B
Granview
Truman
Todsy Psener
Leonard Arguelro
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Arguelo
Graduation Sermons Laud World Unity At Local High Schools
One hundred ninety six Taylor county high school graduates heard baccalaureate sermons at Grafton Senior High and Flemington High. Rev W T Gif ford spoke at Grafton on To Be or Not To Be, analyzing world situation and paths out. Rev Harry M Wilson at Flemington urged world unity and cited Nelson Rockefeller, criticizing religion for being out of touch with modern science. Benediction given by Rev J H Carson.
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Taylor County High School
Grafton
Flemington High
Gifford
Grafton High School
Flemington -High
Harry M. Wilson
First Church of Christ
Nelson Rockefeller
Wilson
St. Church
Servites
Morrison to preside at Fairmont Cooperative Traffic Meet
R A J Morrison superintendent of the Monongah division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will be toastmaster at the Fairmont chapter Cooperative Traffic Program annual dinner in Moose Home Fairmount at 6 30 p m Wednesday The event honors the retired veteran of the Fairmont chapter NM Fullerton of Baltimore and others associated with the program
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R. A. J. Morrison
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fairmont
Cooperative Traffic
Moose Home
Fairmount
Fullerton
Baltimore
CTP Te Ee
Em Brion
Hartley defies pressure on harsher labor bill
Washington May 26 Rep Hartley defies political pressure from Deggle to push a harsher labor bill. He vows to back a bill that could be law despite a possible presidential veto while urging the senate to accept more of a proposed measure not to ban industry wide bargaining. Hartley chairs the house labor committee and will meet tomorrow after a weekend recess to continue drafting the compromise with staff workers and the senate house conference group.
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Max Hall
Washington
Rep
Hartley
RNJ
Deggle
House
Senate
House Labor Committee
Senate House Conference
Thig
Ee Hartley
President’s Kansas City visit and morning routine
A garbled report describes Mrs Martha Truman and President Truman in Kansas City, noting his overnight stay, a reporters’ briefing, a 20 minute walk, and breakfast at the hotel before driving to his mother’s home. The piece reflects on his duties and devotion to his Missouri mother, though details are fragmented.
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Martha
B. Trumen
Hear
Kansas City
Faa
Slater
Mary Jane Truman
Idas
Juvenile Case Involving Local Youths Is Reported
A confusing account mentions a youth linked to a juvenile charge in Calé and Borel GS areas. Neighbors describe a case involving a boy found near woods with a tire tied to his wrist, secured by padlocks and wire, with authorities summoned and a father cited in connection to the incident.
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Amaia
Page
Belligerent church members throw eggs at pastor
Parishioners at BE Michaels Carpatho church staged a feisty demonstration on May 26. The angry crowd hurled eggs and verbal abuse at their pastor, triggering a chaotic scene before police restoration of order.
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BE. Michaels
Carpatho“fuistiah
Ms Target
Gles le
Eums
Anes Polleryen
Anid
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