Appointment Brings Protest Over TVA Director Nomination
Senators heard Tennessee Valley groups urge caution on Arnold Jones for TVA director. S. R. Finley of Chattanooga Electric Power Board urged delaying action and suggested recess appointments to fill two vacancies, noting a lack of cross party confidence in current leadership. Kefauver pressed for a thorough invest igation as Jones faced Senate inquiry today.
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Washington
Tennessee River Valley
Senate
Arnold Jones
Tennessee Valley Authority
S. R. Finley
Electrie Power Board of
Chattanooga
Senate Public Works
TVA
Raymond Paty
Congress
Tennessee Valley
Finley
Vogel
Kerr
D-Okia
Jones
Budget Bureau
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Ex Hood Tells Graham Rally Of Conversion
New York UP Anthony Zecchino a 20 year old Newark New Jersey ex hoodlum spoke at Madison Square Garden telling how God touched his heart and that he now seeks respect, marriage, and children. Since his release April 3 he works as a truck driver and attends the Graham meetings where 451 decisions for Christ were recorded in the night. Total decisions across eight meetings reach 31601 as more show business figures report conversions. Jerome Hines chairs a Bible study group for show business participants.
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New York
Billy Graham
Anthony Zecchino
Newark
N. J
Madison Square Garden
Zeechine
Christ
Graham
Metropolitan Opera
Jerome Hines
Truck Death Trial Delayed
Preliminary hearing for Adven James W. Shook of Oklahoma City, charged with manslaughter in a Barnesville traffic death, was continued to Sept. 4 due to a key witness being away. Shook, 35, a truck driver, is free on bonds totaling $2,000 while a damage suit by the victim’s widow and daughter names Shook and his employer, J. B. Acton Inc.
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Tulsa
Adven
James W. Shook
Oklahoma City
Barnesville
Tom Breit
Shock
Brett
Robert F. Davis
Davis
Shook
J. B. Acton, Inc
Tulsa Police Hunt Hot Check Quartet
Two girls and two male companions used counterfeit checks to buy more than $2,000 in appliances furniture and a television from Tulsa dealers. Items were delivered to a vacant house as banks reported some checks not yet returned.
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Tulsa
Joe Creamer
Creamer
Fate of West German elections dictate defense plans
West German voters on September 15 face a pivotal choice between Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democrats and the Socialists. A Socialist win could pull Germany from NATO, ban atom weapons, end conscription, and scrap a 500000-man army, reshaping Cold War defenses. Adenauer seeks a third term as Khrushchev pressures Berlin, while health concerns shadow his campaign as polls show a tightening race.
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United Press
Bonn
Europe
West Germany
Konrad Adensner
Christian Democrat
Socialist Party
Soviet Union
East
OC Royntall
Adenauer
Germany
Christian Democrats
Bundestag
Stoke
Democrats
Khrushchev
U S Youths In Peiping Visit Foreign Students Arrive
Forty one American students who joined a Moscow youth festival have arrived in Peiping to tour Red China on an expense free trip. They were among ninety students from thirteen nations reported by Peiping radio. The State Department ban on travel behind the bamboo curtain was defied. The guests were invited by the Chinese Young Pioneers League and welcomed at the railway station by officials and spectators. Others represented include Canada Thailand Philippines Syria and West Germany.
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Peiping
Communist Radio
Radio Peiping
Canada
Thailand
Philippines
Syria
West Germany
U.S. State Department
Red China
Chinese People Yearly League
New China News Agency
India
Burma
Nepal
Ceylon
West Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Ill Girl Waging Race With Death
Two fourteen year old twin sisters Delores and Davis Huskey from Desoto Missouri were flown to Boston for medical tests to judge if a kidney transplant can save one of them. Delores suffers lacuile nephritis with failing kidney function. doctors will assess if Doris and Delores are truly identical before attempting a transplant.
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Boston
Decter
Delores
Davis Huskey
Desota
Air Force
Curtis Lemay
Doris
Death of Gambler Nick Miller Baffles Police
Pittsburgh report says West Virginia gambler Nick Miller with a 37 arrest record was found decomposed in the trunk of a Mashy hardtop convertible in Wilkinsburg. Autopsy could not determine cause of death. no carbon monoxide or wounds detected. Miller last seen in Wheeling. wife and children located at a lodge in Oglebay Park. Miller known as associate of former racing czar William Lias.
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Pittsburgh
Nick Miller
Wheeling
Theodore R. Helmbold
Miller
Wilkinsburg
Milan Vosvock
Oglebay Park
William
Big Bill) Lias
Pittsburgh Wheeling Cackets
Wheeling Downs
Ohio State Penitentiary
Prison athletic programs field teams in major sports
The California Department of Corrections annual report describes prison sports as home games, with institutions fielding teams in major sports and competing against outside squads.
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Diplomatic Report
Los Angeles
State Department of Corrections
Rift Deepens Between Truman And Eisenhower Over Aid
Washington dispatch reports a widening rift between President Eisenhower and former President Truman. Both have spoken separately to defend foreign aid, but they remain unreconciled after five years of estrangement. Observers see no recovery unless a national emergency prompts action.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Truman
Missouri
Greece
Turkey
White House
Sree
Mexico Crash Kills 2 Yanks As Bus Split In Wreck
IRAPUTATO Mexico UP A diesel locomotive plowed into a southbound bus from Texas at a crossing killing two travelers from the United States and injuring sixteen others in a 410 year old provincial city. Americans killed were Samuel Alvarado Lascari of Los Angeles and Elizabeth Mary Sahlma. The bus toward Mexico City was split in half. Police blamed the accident on the carelessness of the US driver.
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Mexico
Texas
United States
Samuel Alvarado Lascari
Los Angeles
Elizabeth Mary Sahlma
Mexico City
Juarez
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