DC-3 Crash Victims Listed
Delta-Chicago and Southern air lines identified the crew and passengers of the DC-3 crash near Marshall Texas. Names include Capt. Douglas Volk first officer James Stewart Jr. and multiple passengers with lifelike details and home towns in Louisiana Mississippi Georgia Florida Alabama and Tennessee.
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Escaena’ Ag
Marshall
Tex
Delta-Chicago and
Southern Airlines
Douglas B. Volk
Atlanta
James P. Stewart Jr
Chattanooga
Tenn
Betty Ise Roddy
Delta C&s
Monroe
Victor Goldberg
L. L. Kilpatrick
Lake Providence
Hazel V. Cox
Panama City
Fla
Crystal Springs
Miss
Jackson
Harvey T. Newell Jr
Newell Paper Co
Meridian
Jack Rogers
Ft. Worth
Birmingham
Montgomery
Ala
Lillian Horton
Talladega
John T. Cretors
Warner Robins
R. H. Fincher
St. Petersburg
Minnine Geraldine Hudson
Drayton, S. C. L
Murphy
Macon Hotel
Macon
Warner Tobins
Dartmouth Ivy Goes To Texas High School
Dartmouth College officials report ivy from the Earl of Dartmouth’s English holdings is being sent to San Angelo High School in Texas. Students asked to hide their campus walls with the ivy and preserve a part of the eastern tradition. Also noted is a Rome rule that prohibits honking unless in an emergency.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
Texas
San Angelo
Tex
Earl of Dartmouth
England
Six Georgians Indicted For Federal Job Selling Schemes
Justice Department indicts six Georgians in a Savannah grand jury proceeding led by Atty. Gen. Brownell. Named defendants include two Negro Republican leaders Tom C. Williams Isaac J. White Wilson Tuten Henry Smith Chestnut Thompson and James Kent. Brownell vows maximum penalties and denounces the practice as intolerable. Sunspot context notes 1953 near cycle minimum.
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Washington
Justice Department
Georgia
Brownell
Savannah
Tom C. Williams
Republican Committee
Isaac J. White
Blackshear
Pierce County
Wilson Truett Tuten
Bristol
Henry Grady Smith
Jesup
Chestnut A. Thompson
James M. Kent
St. Simons
Ike Defends Defense as Budget Confusion Keeps Public Guessing
President Eisenhower uses a radio address to clarify defense spending and the budget amid criticism from Democrats and some newspapers. Secretary Wilson and General Bradley push for more defense efficiency without sacrificing security, noting no current Russian threat justifies cutting rearmament.
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James Marlow
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Defense Wilson
Sen
Symington
Air Force
Russia
Bradley
Wilson
Bare Shoulder Wedding Ends Oxford Furor
In Oxford North Carolina a church wedding sparked a furor over strapless bridesmaids gowns. The Rev Eugene Usry resigned to avoid officiating after a previous pastor criticized the attire. Ruth Hedzepeth and Maurice Ray Blackwell wed as 350 attendees watched.
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Oxford
N.C
West Oxford Baptist Church
Homer Nichols
Nichols
Neuse
Usry
Eisenhower to Sign First Tideland Bill Amid Senate Hearings
The White House readies signature on the initial tidelands bill granting coastal states title to submerged lands to their historic seaward boundary. Senate Interior Committee opens hearings on a second measure limiting federal control to oil and gas leasing while other minerals could warrant separate leases.
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United Press
Senate Interior Committee
Eisenhower
House
James P. Kem
Rmo
Senate
Guy Cordon
Ralph Flanders
Rvt
Congress
Matthew B. Ridgway
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Robert W. Kean
R-N.j
Kean
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Baby wake saves family as Montana fridge fire starts
In Missoula Montana Mr and Mrs Felix Melon heard their infant alarm while a kitchen refrigerator ignited. The crying baby woke them preventing the fire from spreading further through the home.
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Missoula
Mont
Pappy
Felix Melon
Missionary Ruth Ford to Indonesia for mission work
Ruth Ford, a Memphis medical missionary, resigns to join the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. She will spend six months in Bandung to study Indonesian, then help locate a site for a mission hospital and establish a nursing school in Java. She previously worked in China and has faced wartime disruption.
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Memphis
Tenn
Asia
Indonesia
Ruth Ford
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Java
Bandung
China
Canton
Pearl Harbor
Vacu-matic Carburetor Aids Gasoline Savings
Wisconsin inventor introduces the Vacu-matic Carburetor, an automatic supercharge based unit claimed to cut gas use by preventing over rich mixtures. Easy to install in minutes, it fits cars trucks and tractors. Vacu-matic Carburetor Co. offers free details to any reader who writes or posts their address.
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Wisconsin
Legislator Secures Beeline Stop at Weedsport for Train Ride
Assemblyman Charles A. Cusick, after weeks of lobbying to end his 25 mile weekly drive, wins a Beeliner stop at Weedsport. The station had been razed a year earlier and the engineer nearly passed the halt, forcing Cusick to walk a short distance to board.
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Weedsport
N. Y
Charles A. Cusick
Cusick
Syracuse
Albany
New York City
New York Central Board of Idirectors
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Rome
Italy
Tepid
Pee OF
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Heia
Bleacheena
Nkuti
MR. EP
Ike
Co. Ft
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Piedmont
AST
Tideland
Curiy
House Economy
Agriculture Department
Faisenhower
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ways and Means
Carl Hinshaw
Rcal
United States
Atlantic
Fly Eastern
New York
Chicago
Miami
Eastern AirLines
Chrysler
New Yorker
N. Main Street
Davis-Pruett Motor Co., Inc
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