Lexington Girl May Be Victim Of Foul Play
Giles County authorities search for Sylvia Turner Green, 18, missing about two weeks near Narrows Virginia. Deputies find only a blouse, skirt, and a suitcase. Paul Bigley of New Jersey is being held for investigation as search resumes near Stockpen Mountain.
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Narrows
Giles
Lexington
N.C
Here
B. L. Irvin
Sylvia Turner Green
Irvin
Paul Bigley
New Jersey
Bigley
Stockpen Mountain
Biglay
Biasie
Hoat
Bisley
Turner Bland
Narcotics Haul In Greensboro Reported by Feds and Police
Federal agents and Greensboro police arrested four men in a marijuana trafficking crackdown. Three arrested in a Raleigh to Greensboro car case with ten cans of marijuana. one local man Raphael Phillips, 20, also taken. Suspects identified as Hennon James Johnson 36, James Brown 26 of Raleigh, Robert Fletcher Norwood of Wilson. Announcement made by U.S. District Attorney Edwin Cone.
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Greensboro
Raleigh
Raphel Phillips
Phillips
Hennon James Johnson
James Brown
Robert Fletcher Norwood
Wilson
Ae Gan
Coneiat Herbin Jr
U.S
Atty
Edwin
Alumnae Hear McPherson On Woman Leaders At College
Greensboro June 2 Hundreds of Woman's College alumnae gathered for day one of commencement as Holt McPherson editor of the High Point Enterprise urged greater female leadership in top posts and noted examples from several colleges. He suggested Onan Couges might consider a woman as head.
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Greensboro
Woman's College
Holt McPherson
High Point Enterprise
UNC Journalism Foundation
Assa
McPherson
Onan Couges
North Carolina Negro Methodists oppose voluntary segregation
Raleigh June 2 North Carolina Negro Methodists oppose Gov Hodges plan for voluntary segregation calling it repugnant to freedom loving people They urge Governor Hodges to join Methodist Church guidance toward an integrated society The Central Jurisdiction conference adopts a resolution opposing voluntary segregation and supporting voluntary integration The Board of Social and Economic Relations warns no state can do wrong and the Supreme Court requires fair treatment of all citizens The group also pushes a pause to H bomb exchanges and plans a consecration ceremony for a white deaconess in Asheville.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Hodges
Methodist Church
J. W. Bow
Board of Soand
Conference
the Board
Supreme Court
Board On World Pees Toh
U.S
Winifred Wrnsley
Allen
Asheville
Presbyterians Vote To Allow Women Officers
At the 96th General Assembly in Montreat North Carolina delegates approved allowing women to hold elder and deacon offices by a 234 to 226 vote. The measure now goes to five regional presbyteries for ratification before final church order changes. The assembly also voted down overtures seeking integration statements and a policy on segregation.
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Montreat
N.C
96Th
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
U.S
Southern
Cohen
Tito Aims To Forge Communist Unity In Moscow Visit
In Moscow Tito declares Communist nations will not split again and lauds Leninist collective leadership. He stands with Bulganin Khrushchev Voroshilov as Shepilov is named foreign minister. Tito recalls 1948 split and seeks closer Yugoslav Soviet ties amid welcome crowd. Also noted: Mrs. Knute Rockne dies in South Bend after hospital admission for complications.
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Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Tito
Yugoslavia
Kremlin
Kievsky
Lenin
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Klementi Voroshilov
Dmitri Shepilov
V. M. Molotov
Shepilov
Molotov
Nehru
Soviet Union
Stalin
Spe
Jean Hersholt dies at 69 after cancer battle
Hollywood mourns Jean Hersholt, the actor famed as Dr Christian, after a yearlong cancer illness. The Danish immigrant, 69, lived 30 years in Hollywood Hills with wife Via. he chaired the Academy for four years and founded the Motion Picture Country Day Home.
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Hollywood
Jean Hersholt
Christian
Op Hills
Via
Maynard Bransma
Hersholt
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy
Soviet church visit sparks protests at Idlewild
Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church led a Soviet church delegation to Idlewild Airport as demonstrators from anti-Soviet émigré groups shouted insults and waved posters. The visit was sponsored by the National Council of Churches with Dr. Eugene Carson Blake heading the reception committee in Philadelphia.
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York
Nikolai
Natonal Council of Churches
Idlewild
Judas
Anna Mee
Bey
Haro J. O'Dell
American Council Christian Churches
Council
National Council of Churches of Christ
U.S.A
Ikolai
Eugene Carson Blake
Philadelphia
The
National Council
Cat Sitters formed in London to ease lonely cats
Katherine Wilson announces Cat Sitters Inc. aims to recruit hundreds to sit with cats when families go out. The international cat show judge advocates pay parity with babysitters, stressing structured organizing through letters and pamphlets.
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London
Katherine Wilson
Cat Sitters, Inc
Miss Wilson
Adlai Estes Battling for California Democratic Nominations
Adlai E Stevenson and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver entered a tight race for California's 68 Democratic presidential nominating votes. Crowds were modest as campaigns visited cities and towns, with Stevenson showing stronger turnout after Florida. Both camps claimed momentum as they courted Black and elderly voters ahead of the June primary.
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Jack Bell
San Francisco
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
California
Stevenson
Kefauver
Florida
Eisenhower Receives Western Horses as Gifts
President Eisenhower and his eight year old grandson David receive two Western horses during a visit to Gettysburg. Doodle De Do a seven year old mare goes to the President while Sporty Miss a two year old filly is left for David Eisenhower at Ft Belvoir. The gifts come from the American Quarter Horse Association and its president Lester Goodson of Magnolia Texas.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
American Quarter Horse Assn
Lester Goodson
J-3 Ranch
Magnolia
Texas
David Eisenhower
David
Ft. Belvoir
Refugee Doctor Shot To Death In New York
Dr. Boris Klasons a refugee physician of about 40 was shot on a rural farm four miles south of Troy as he arrived to treat a patient. Daniel Slivko 36 was charged with first degree murder and held after waiving a hearing.
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Nassau
N.Y
Boris Klasons
Daniel Slivko
Rensselar County Grand Jury
Slivko
Troy
Klasons
Irmans
United States
Veltay
Bigamist exposed after two wives learn of each other
In Fort Worth Texas Edward Voss a Fort Worth General Depot electronics worker secretly married two women. Wife No 1 Sixta B Voss 35 attempted suicide in a gas filled bedroom and wife No 2 Doris Voss 32 from Los Angeles faced the confrontation as Voss admitted the bigamy. Police filed bigamy charges and he posted a $5000 bond.
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Tex
Edward Voss
Fort Worth General Depot
O. R. Brown
Panama
California
Voss
Wife No
Sixta B. Voss
Central America
Wife
Doris Voss
Los Angeles
Wife No. 1
Wife No. 2
Arlington
A. Cardwell
No. 2
Sixta
Voge
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