Rolling Student 20000 Miles to Get Degree
A Dallas man drove 20000 miles to earn a master's degree at East Texas State Teachers College Commerce. Max Weldon Fagg 38 internal revenue inspector began the journey three and a half years ago using the G I Bill. He attended every Saturday class except one and estimates the total mileage. Destinations included Houston Oklahoma City and Guymon Oklahoma.
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Dallas
East Texas State Teachers’ College
Commerce
Max Weldon Fagg
Internal Revenue
Houston
Oklahoma City
Guymon
Okla
U N Security Firings Drift Sparks Row At Sea Labor Stoppage
U N spokesman says about 75 employees fired this year while not naming loyalty risks. The New York Times reports six American staff tied to communist fronts or named by Chambers and Bentley. Sailors union plans strikes if 5 percent raise demands and overtime pay are not met, affecting Pacific routes and ships from Seattle to San Diego.
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New York
URA
United Nations
U. N
New York ‘Times
the Times
Whittaker Chambers
Elizabeth Bentley
Washington
David Weintraub
U. N. Division of Economic Stability and Development
Senate
Irving Kaplan
Weintraub
Kaplan
U.S
Russia
Trygve Lie
Wehstraub
AFL
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Matson
Lurfine
Honlulu
Lundeberg
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Pacific Maritime Association
American President Lines
President Wilson
Seattle
San Diego
Wilson
Military Sea Transport Service
Washington State Tilts 20-4 in Delegates Fight
Contested GOP delegate race features Harold Stassen winning Minnesota’s 21 delegates in the March primary amid talks of instructing all 24 to back the general. Taft campaigns in the West as South Dakota’s June 1 primary nears. Eisenhower forces intensify push in Pennsylvania where Gov. Fine presides over the 70-vote delegation. Kefauver from Tennessee looms in the background.
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GOP
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Taft
South Dakota
Eisenhower
GDFP
Eisen
Howev
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
State Committee
John &. Fine
Estes Kefauver
Tennes
Campaigners vie for Missouri delegates in heated primary race
Leading in pledged delegates for the Democratic nomination, the California primary campaigner prospects edge ahead as W Averell Harriman plans a major speech. Harriman backs Kefauver’s rival slate led by Edmund G Brown. Supporters of Stevenson Harriman and Kefauver seek Missouri delegates while leaders insist the delegation remains uncommitted to Chicago.
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Mutual Security
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Kefauver
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Averell Harumah
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D.tenn
Missouri
Chicago
Riot Quelled as Idaho Prisoners Demand Reforms
Prisoners at an Idaho facility halted a planned riot after a demand for reforms, with a five‑man leadership and several inmates identified by name. The warden warned of tear gas if they advanced, and the grievance committee was to be abolished after the incident. One inmate described the anticipated punishment as eight months to a year in solitary.
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Clapp
James Samuel Miller
Horace Everett Munge
Merle Roxie Kerby
Robert Myrland
Donald Leroy Schoonover
Roy Edward Jones
Dewey Edwards
Edwards
Oil Worker's Fatal Injuries at La Habra Oil Site
Lington Jones a 42 year old oil worker from Bellflower died at Community Hospital after head injuries from a pipe section falling on him while working at an oil well near La Habra. He never regained consciousness following the Friday noon accident.
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Lington Jones
Pepperwood Ave
Bellflower
la Habra
Religious Leader's Killers Convicted
In Jersey City on May 24 two vagrants were found guilty of murdering Brother Saleslus Klein, world head of the Catholic Order of the Poor of St. Francis. The jury recommended life imprisonment for John Greely, 42, and Cyril T. Deady, 52, for the stabbing death in a Hoboken comfort station last November. Klein, based in Aachen, Germany, was touring the order’s U S establishments.
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Jersey City
N. J
Saleslus Klein
Order of the Poor of St. Francis
John Greely
Cyril Tt. Deady
Brother Klein
Hoboken
Brother i Klein
Aachen
Germany
United States
Bowron Denounces Police Chief Report in Hearing
Los Angeles mayor Fletcher Bowron accuses Chief of Police William H. Parker of delivering the most misleading report during his administration. The remark came amid a hearing on controversial public housing projects.
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Los Angeles
Fletcher Bowron
Wiliam H. Parker
French Move Softening Stand Signals Diplomatic Shuffle
France appears to ease position in talks with West Germany over a six nation defense army of nearly one million and 400000 Germans. Adenauer seeks ceremonial treaty signing as West German states snub Monday school closure while Russians warn of civil war and close border routes. Allied troops brace for possible trouble as Communist rowdies threaten invasions along the Soviet sector border. The putsch is postponed to Monday to align with Bonn developments.
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West Germany
Adenauer
Eastwest
West Berlin
Bonn
Defiant Kose POWs Parade Flags Under Korean Barbed Wire
North Korean and Chinese POWs on Koje Island raised more than 200 flags and chanted slogans as British and Canadian troops struggled to maintain control. Brig. Gen. Haydon Boatner reshuffled leadership, firing a deputy and reinforcing an international security force to ensure order while warning prisoners and issuing bulletins in Chinese and Korean.
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E. L. Cohen
Kore
Lcatner
Haydon Boatter
Boatter
Maurice J. Fitzgerald
Boamer
Lee Hak Koo
Boatner
Red
Lee
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