Girl Tells Story Of Incident In Winston Hotel
Police report a 13 year old girl says she was held captive in a Winston-Salem hotel. Three soldiers from the 82nd Air Division and a civilian are named. the soldiers are Dixon Watts Sausede and Gentry is the civilian. All deny the charges and are held without bond as investigators pursue the case.
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Winston-Salem
Winston Salem
Jimmy Wade Dixon
James Odell Watts
Jacksonville
Ala
Mike R. Sausede
Anne, Wye
82Nd Air Division
Richard Charles Gentry
Date Set For Ending Segregation
Washington announces September 1 1955 as the target to end segregated schooling on U S military posts. Defense Assistant Secretary John B Hannah states funds will be requested from Congress with Welfare and Education departments coordinating. Welfare will run in states with prohibitions, operating independent schools under federal oversight.
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Washington
U. S
Defense Department
Asst
Defense
John B. Hannah
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Congress
Welfare Department
VU. S. Ice of Education
Hannah
Eisenhower
Big Furniture Warehouse Gutted In Boston Fire
A five alarm fire in Boston gutted the Tulman Furniture Co. building, declaring a total loss. The blaze damaged two adjacent buildings, Eagle Electric Supply and Belmont Furniture, as firefighters evacuated the Tulman site after the roof collapsed. Fire officials traced rapid spread through upper floors inside the early hours.
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Boston
Fature
Tulman Furniture Co
John F Howard
Howard
Tulman
Eagle Electric Supply Co
Belmont Furniture Co
Weather Sparks Heat Traffic Jam In Cahuenga Pass
In Los Angeles the Cahuenga Pass clogged by a king-size slowdown blamed on vapor lock from overheating engines. Traffic stalled for nearly three hours as temperatures hit 86 in the city and 89 in San Gabriel.
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Los Angeles
Cahuenga Pass
Cahuenga Freeway
Mercury
San Gabriel
Fruit Bowl Across and Down Puzzle Clues
A cryptic style puzzle listing across and down clues with terms for fruits notes positions and wordplay. Entries include Secker citrus fruit dried fruit scent fuss vanish and more across several lines with overlaps and theme hints.
American Woolen Plans To Be Discussed at Meet
Representatives of the American Woolen Co. management and a stockholders fact finding committee met in Rye to discuss plans including closing three mills and retiring several issues of preferred stock. The meeting occurred after a rump session in Boston and follows a court injunction that halted formal notifications for a Textron offer to take over the company in exchange for stock.
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New York
American Woolen Co
Rye
Mana
Omens
New Jersey
Camenenex
New England
Blian W
Skowhegan
Maine
Boston
Page
Soaies
Textron, Inc
Identity of 14 Dead Still Sought After Bus Tragedy
Provincial police pressed the grim task of identifying the last of 14 victims who died Saturday night in a bus fire near Yamachiche. The 12 names were confirmed, with 13th tentatively identified. all victims were Montreal or Trois Rivieres residents. Eight passengers escaped, as a truck crash ignited flames that consumed the bus and a car-transport.
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Trois Rivieres
Yamachiche
Here
Montreal
Quebec
VFW Delays Headquarters Site Decision
Greensboro area VFW leaders defer choosing a site for the state headquarters to the summer encampment in Asheville June 10-12. About 200 delegates and the 27 member Council of Administration met yesterday and will decide between Greensboro Charlotte High Point or Raleigh. The group also backed the Bricker Amendment opposing the AMA position on hospital and wartime veteran care. Gen. James A. Van Fleet is expected to be main speaker at the encampment.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Asheville
VFW
State Council of Administration
Charlotte
High Point
Raleigh
Bricker
American Medical Assn
James A. van Fleet
Former Boy Wonder Gives Artistic Views
HAL BOYLE quotes Truman Capote in New York about city life and art. Capote discusses his age, works, and film dialogue writing in Rome, the Italian film method, television's impact on cinema, and his view of enduring art over ephemeral fame. He praises Hemingway but leaves an unfinished thought after a strawberry tart.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Truman Capote
Capote
Rome
21 Club
Haiti
Oscar Wilde
Columbia Pictures
Vittorio de Sica
Italy
Marilyn Monroe
Nto
Sean Ten
Tlevision
Ernest Hemingway
Youngsters Spend Night On Mountain Near Sokena
Three youths Edward Gregory 14 and his sisters Marilyn 12 and Carmella Merwin 12 spent all night on a mountain hike before reaching the sheriff's substation tired but safe. A search party had been sent after they failed to return on time.
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Ait Sokena
Edwrd Gregory
Marilyn
Carmella Merwin
Earth's age set at 4 1/2 billion years
Four scientists using an atomic yardstick push Earth's origin to at least 4.5 billion years based on lead isotopes in meteorites. The study by Patterson Brown Tilton and Inghram argues the meteorite formed in its present state that long ago and suggests molten surface for two billion years.
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Robert Goldenstein
Chicago
University of Chicago
Claire Patterson
Harrison Brown
California Institute of Technology
George Tilton
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Mark Inghram
Hoover Reluctantly Accepts Federal Assignment at 79
Herbert Hoover, at 79, has taken a government post directing a commission on government reorganization after a White House summons, despite plans for rest. He leads eight task forces with 39 full time staff and 140 consultants, pushing to complete preliminary findings in five months, and keeps a grueling schedule in Washington and New York.
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ED Creagh
Washington
White House
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Eisenhower
New York
Commission
Goss
Com Oos
Army Reserve Promotions Announced
Army Reserve promotions announced list includes Thomas M. Mayfield of Charlotte Elmo L. Patton of Jacksonville Fla and Robert L. Watkins of Atlanta elevated from colonel to brigadier general. Mayfield commands the 108th Reserve Infantry Division for North and South Carolina while Patton heads the 378th Transportation Port Command in Jacksonville. Watkins serves as assistant commander of the 81st Infantry Division under Brig Gen Carl Suthern.
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Atlanta
Thomas M. Mayfield
Charlotte
Elmo L. Patton
Jacksonville
Fla
Robert L. Watkins
Ince
3Rd Army
Fe Ft
McPherson
Department of the Army
Gebiena Eee Mayfield
108Th
North Carolina
South Carolina
Bethon
Georgia Tech
Watkins
8St
Carl T. Suteriand
Suburban Growth Reaches Palmeston With New Stores
Palmeston expands outward as stores and small factories rise in the suburbs. Local planners note the shift signals tighter ties between residential areas and commercial activity, reshaping the town's economic landscape.
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Mr. Claus
Cheryl Sides
Carl V. Michael
Blover
Boy Wonder
Earth
Army Reserve Promotions
B. S. Cummings Income Tax Service
S. Hamilton St
A Optica Co
Anne Main ST
Pa Paen Co
Hutchens
Thatcher
America
Pameston
Life Insurance Companies
Institute of Life Insurance
Madison Avenue
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