Stump Confesses Fatal Shooting At Five Points
Wred Stump, 21, surrendered at 9:25 a.m. Monday to Kingsport police confessing the fatal shooting of H. T. Godsey Sunday night at Five Points. He said the killing was in self defense after Godsey drew a gun. Scene details include witnesses, a second gun found, and plans for a first degree murder charge. Godsey died at Holston Valley Hospital about 15 minutes after the shooting.
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PA Phy Creasy
Fred Stump
J. M. Broyles
Lefty Adjulttt
H. Thomas Godsey
Padi. Williams
H. T. Gadsey
Five Points
Stump
McGee Street
Dorothy Street
Japan
Cherokee
Sullivan Streets
Brady Lane
Guy White
Orrbank
White
Broyles
Jim
Godsey
Slump
Godfrey
Weber City
Gas White
Stamp
H. T
Main Street
Kingsport
Church Hill
Black City
Beartown
Tenn
Brooks
Hangeport
Grace Godsey
Miss Godsey
Herrrother
Carlos Godsey
Times-News
James Broyles
Sara Davis
Sin
Charles Mellons
Mellons
Avalion
Lcers
Alice White
Sigying Godsey
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Sandra Lee Godsey
Audrey Brock
Jehan O'Dea
Alton
Clyde Godsey
U. & Armed Forces Overseas
Netelee McClain
High Court Rules On Segregation In Public Schools
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that segregation of Negro and White students in public schools is unconstitutional but will hear further arguments this fall on how to end the practice. Chief Justice Warren stated that separating children by race generates lasting harm. The ruling overturns the 57 year old doctrine in many states, with reactions mixed as boards consider next steps at May meetings. Concerns about broader impacts in South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia were noted as new arguments are scheduled on timing and remedies.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Warren
Kingsport City
Edwin Reed
Board of Education
Kingspark
Reed
J. Graff Akard
Sullivan County
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Federel
Kansas
Delaware
District of Columbia
Courh
Peabody flood tears through leather capital after dam failure
Peabody Massachusetts faced massive losses as floodwaters from The Flume dam breach inundated about two square miles. Officials warned of heavy property damage the closure of schools and widespread business disruption. Rescue crews and Coast Guardsmen evacuated residents while hundreds of gallons of gasoline escaped from toppled pumps. The flood forced layoffs in leather tanneries and drew a record crowd of sightseers near the nation’s leather capital. Meanwhile President Eisenhower barred testimony from payment officials on the McCarthy Pentagon dispute, citing senior-level confidentiality. Senate leaders signaled possible suspension of Army McCarthy hearings to seek clarifications.
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Peabody
Mass
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Peabody Square
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O' Donnell
Coast
Boston
Washington
INSI
Eisenhower
Joseph R. McCarthy
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McCarthy-Pentagon
George Washington
McCarthy
Roy M. Cohn
VNS
John McClellan
D-Ark1
Taday
Lellan
Army
John G. Adams
Senate
Herbert Brownell
Adams
Sherman
Conn
Pvt
G. David Schinr
Sey
John L. McClellan
Wark
Ute
Postal Clerk Sentenced For Two Postal Violations
Onnie M. Conkin Jr. received a sentence of one year and one day in Knoxville after pleading guilty to two postal law violations. The former Kingsport Post Office clerk, employed since 1944, faced charges of defrauding by opening mail, filed by the Post Office Inspectors Department and brought before Federal Commissioner W. R. Repass.
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Onnie M. Conkin, Jr
Knoxville
Conkin
Kingsport
W. R. Repass
Conxin
Post Office Inspectors Departement
Elizabethton Man Held For Murder
J D Stout 34 of Elizabethton is jailed on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of John Russell Shields 36 of Watange. Interpersonal dispute at the Rio Vista Veterans of Foreign Wars Club preceded the incident near midnight. Shields died at Franklin Clinic from a .25 caliber wound after Deputy Burns Berry conveyed him to the hospital. witnesses state Stout arrived with a pistol in hand.
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Elizabethton
J. D. Stout
Carter County
John Rus
Sell Shields
Watange
Raine Volice
Rio Vista
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Shields
Franklin Clinic
Davntine
French Call Off Evacuation and Return Planes to Action
In Indochina the French High Command canceled the Dien Bien Phu area evacuation and ordered planes to strike rebel roads. Negotiations with Viet Minh leaders were hinted as Geneva tensions rose over truces and repatriation terms. Military officials claimed wounded and supplies would be moved by air, though the Viet Minh were accused of not repairing shell damage around Dien Bien Phu.
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Ins
Naeenebahl
Hwwuasea
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Tien Bien Pl
Sullivan Ugh School
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France
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Russia
Dien Tien Phy Sn
Missing Navy Plane Found Wrecked Near Summerville
A three day search ends with discovery of the wreck and the dead pilot in woods near Summerville South Carolina and North Carolina teams looked for the missing FSF Navy Cougar jet after the pilot warned of icing while in flight. the pilot's identity is being withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Summeryville
S. G
Lne
FSF
Woods
Summerville
South Carolina
North Carolina
al-' Fatudr
Paroled convict held in slayings ending manhunt
MOULTRIE Ga. paroled murderer Tom Williams, 45, was captured after a three day terror spree. He was found near the Rowland home where a double murder occurred and was identified by Lucian Norman and John Bailey. A .22 rifle was found near Rowland's tobacco barn.
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Moultrie
Georgia
Tom Williams
Moe Duffie
Georgia Bureau of Identification
Williams
W. C. Rowland
FT. Norman
J. D. Craft
Norman
Wiliams
Rowland
Lark
McDuffie
Ins
Sunk Nationalist gunboat off Chekiang coast reported
Taipel dispatch says Chinese Nationalist navy headquarters reported a Nationalist warship sank near the Tachen Islands off the mainland coast after engaging a ten-ship Communist convoy. The prior Sunday battle allegedly left seven Communist ships damaged with no Nationalist losses.
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Taipel
INS
Chekiang
Tachen Islands
Shanghai
Frank Costello Sentenced for Tax Evasion in New York
Racketeer Frank Costello was sentenced today by Federal Judge John F. McGahey to five years in prison and fined $30,000 for federal income tax evasion. The 63 year old, once a familiar figure during televised Senate hearings, could have faced up to 15 years. He also must pay the trial costs amid a pending deportation action.
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New York
Frank Castello
John F
McGahey
Costello
Senate Campilles
United States
Special Referendum On June 5 For Water Bond Issue
Bluff City voters will decide on June 5 whether to issue 75000 dollars in bonds for water and sewer improvements and extension. A referendum speech will be given June 3. Polls at town hall open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Bluff City
Wounded Tell Of Dien Bien Phu
Eleven badly wounded men describe the final hours at Dien Bien Phu to Mme de Castries wife of the French commander. They recount captures, evacuations, and news of Nurse Genevieve de Gallard Terraube as Viet Minh forces overran the fortress amid a suspended truce.
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Hanosins
Dien Bien Phu
Mme
Christian de Cas Tries
Dien Bien Paws
France
Sinc
de Castries
Marcel Champourgny
Saphis
J Cavalry
Alrigr
Foreign
Genevieve de Gallard-Terraube
Pin
Neller
Holdup Victim Identifies Pair in Constance Robbery
Fred Stump and Gus White were named by a victim at 11 a.m. Monday as the assailants who beat a 40 year old man and robbed him at Churchwell's Fruit Stand Thursday night. Constable J. E. Upchurch said Haupt identified the men at the police station and charges of robbery by force have been filed. The storekeeper was treated at the hospital after the robbery, and $62 in cash was taken.
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Fred Stump
Gus White
Churchwell
J. E. Upchurch
William Haupt
Upchurch
Red Cross Official Dies In Asheville
Col Frederic Starr Wright longtime head of the Red Cross Bloodmobile in Asheville dies in North Carolina. Wright supervised temporary blood units in several cities and was a familiar figure in Knoxport whenever the Bloodmobile visited.
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Red Cross
Asheville
Col
Frederic Starr Wright
N.C
de. Wright
Kipstot
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