American Troopers Return To Sainte Mere Eglise
American paratroopers returned to Sainte Mere Eglise to mark the 15th anniversary of D-Day in a daylight drop by 24 members of the 505th Airborne Infantry Regiment. Lt Gen James M Gavin attended as ceremonies honored fallen allies and the 82nd Division.
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Sainte Mere Eglise
France
Normandy
Sainte Mere Elise
505Th Airborne Infantry Regiment
Germany
505Th
82Nd Airborne
James M. Gavin
82Nd
101St
Gavin
Omaha Beach
116Th Infantry
Sicilian Regional Vote Tests Christian Democrats
In Palermo Sicily the Christian Democrats face a tough regional election to regain control of the island government. Milazzo’s break with Rome shifts power toward the Communists and fascists as 2.9 million voters choose 90 regional assembly seats. Polls close tonight at 10.
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Palermo
Sicily
Christian Democrats
Silvio Milazzo
Christian Democrat
Red Left
Tel
Italy
Antonio Segni
Rome
Milazzo
Search Pushed For Lost Plane Simulation Weekend
Civil Air Patrol officers and cadets conduct a weekend training exercise using 4 planes 15 to 20 planes 25 vehicles and 50 radio units to simulate a crash between Albemarle and Asheville Supervised by the 14th Air Force Maj G A Stevens of Charlotte directs the mission in Shelby North Carolina
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Shelby
N.C
Civil Air Patrol
Albemarle
Asheville
14Th Air Force
CAP
G. A. Stevens
Charlotte
Air Guard Units Draw Strike Duty in Henderson
Air First troops from Charlotte and Wadesboro Badin move into Henderson to support Army Guardsmen as they attend a summer encampment at Fort Bragg. Col. Henry C. Byrd Jr. commands the 148th Air Support Group provisions. They join two earlier arrivals since May 12 to curb violence at Harriet Henderson Cotton Mills. each task force stays two weeks.
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Henderson
N.C
Air Guard
Charlotte
Wadesboro- Badin
Fort Bragg
Henry C. Byrd Jr
148Th
Salisbury Crash Fatal To Sailor
A Navy enlisted man stationed at Norfolk died from injuries in a car crash near Salisbury North Carolina on Interstate 85 Friday night. Four others suffered injuries including two Army personnel from Fort Eustis and a Marine from Quantico. The truck driver from Winston-Salem was hospitalized.
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Salisbury
N.C
Norfolk
Here
Rowan General Hospital
J. C. Kinard
Charles Connally
William Harold Stanfield
Army
Ft. Eustis
Donnie R. Albea
Quantico
Hassell Whitfield
Winston-Salem
Whitfield
Caudle to defend ex probate judge in murder trial
T Lamar Caudle former Truman official confirms he will defend Chesterfield County probate judge W E Redfearn at a July murder trial. Redfearn is charged with killing funeral director Rudolph J Hursey last October. The case follows Redfearn’s removal and political recall events from earlier years.
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Wadesboro
N.C
T. Lamar Caudle
Truman Administration
Chesterfield
8.C
W. E. Redfearn
Caudle
Redfearn
Chesterfield County
Rudolph J. Hursey
Hursey
George Bell Timmerman
Truman
Matthew J. Connelly
Explosion Rocks Miner Home in Kentucky Strike Turmoil
In Hazard Kentucky a dynamite bomb exploded outside the home of a nonunion coal operator and gunfire was reported in surrounding hills. No injuries were listed though the three month old United Mine Workers strike escalates after the death of miner Bobby Jenkins Jr. and the wounding of Chester Blair. Operators seek halt to strike activities under a federal court order as about 7000 miners remain out.
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Hazard
United Mine Workers
Bobby Jenkins Jr
Lawrence P. Maggard
Whitesburg
UMW
Chester Blair
Sassafras
Alcatraz Name Traced to Pelican Roosts in Bay
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay earned its name from pelicans that roosted there on sunny days. The site sits in the bay near San Francisco and is noted for its bird roosting history alongside its fame as a former prison.
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Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
Space Tests Show Life Cell Development in Space
The Army reported successful spaceflight tests of life cell development using sea urchin eggs aboard a Jupiter cone with two monkeys, Able and Baker. Six vials carried fertilized and unfertilized eggs, four of which failed during flight while two fertilized eggs remained viable after recovery.
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Huntsville
Ala
Army
Able
Baker
Agency
Redstone Arsenal
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Young
Young l
Sammy Davis Jr Plans Four Month European Tour
Sammy Davis Jr will tour Europe for four months before Broadway in the new musical Free and Easy. The Harold Arlen Johnny Mercer show debuts in The Hague in October then visits Brussels Paris Berlin Munich Hamburg Zurich London Rome and other cities before reaching Broadway.
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New York
Sammy Davis Jr
Harold Arlen
Johnny Mercer
The
Hague
Brussels
Paris
Berlin
Munich
Hamburg
Zurich
London
Rome
Broadway
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Col
Archiald Sproul
Leon W. Johnson
Supreme
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Europe
SHAPE
Raymond Triboulet
War Veterans Department
Garment Storage Service
Will & Row
Christian Herald
Christian Ya
Christian Herald Magazine
MD Christian Herald
Herald
Sammy Davis
Chevrolet
Chevy
North Main Street
High Point, N. C
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