Thunderstorms Hit South Plains In Weekend Showers
The South Plains saw scattered thunderstorms with brief heavy rain Friday and Saturday. Idalou reported 1.10 to 1.19 inches in spots, with street flooding but no damage. A lightning fatality near Slaton was reported as rites were set.
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Seminole
Panhandle
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Texiceo
Lubbock
GOP Battle in Convention Delegates See-Saw Over Eisenhower Taft
The Associated Press reports a heated dispute over travel expenses for Republican convention delegates to meet Dwight D. Eisenhower as Taft backers accuse backers of bribery while Eisenhower and Taft plan broad foreign policy broadcasts. Delegates from New Mexico and other states are named as conventions proceed with 604 votes needed for nomination. Kefauver leads Democrats with 150 votes to Russell’s 62.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
South Dakota
Eisenhower
Washington
Eisenhower National Committee
New York
Denver
Abilene
Kan
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
GOP
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Paris
Stephenville
France
U. S
New Mexico
Sener
Western Europe
Chicago
Associated Press
Kefauver
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Richard B. Russell
Geor
Boatner Jails Leader Of POWs
Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner placed a North Korean officer in special custody after last Thursday’s protest at Prison Compound 66. The lieutenant colonel led a demonstration in the Koje camp, where prisoners tried to cut a barbed wire fence before the clash with IMN American and British troops. He reported to the commander's office and was ordered to remain away from his compound.
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Haydon L. Boatner
IMN
Swaggers
Baeiner
Koje
East Germans seize New Berlin sectors amid border clampdown
West Berlin trembles as East German police move into three sectors in the Soviet zone and order residents to leave by midnight. The note from General Handy demands immediate Soviet stop to interference with U S Army patrols on the autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. The East German regime speeds trenching and barbed wire along the frontier, evacuating about 300000 people.
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Thomas C. Handy
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Vassily Chuikov
East Germany
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Samuel Reber
U. S
the Man’s Land
Western
Germany
Havel
Reds Charge Geneva Convention Violations
In Munsan on Sunday June 1 Communist negotiators accused the Allies of violating the Geneva Convention by questioning captured Red soldiers about returning home. North Korean Gen Nam II rejected any screening to legitimize unlawful actions, while UN forces attacked Red positions on the Central Korean Front for nine hours before pulling back.
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Todis
Nam II
UN Forces Outnumbered in Korea Two to One Say Van Fleet
General Van Fleet told reporters in Korea that UN forces are outnumbered about two to one by Communist armies. He warned a new offensive could come, with the enemy leveraging air power and reserves, and pledged the Eighth Army would meet it with overwhelming force to smash Communist formations.
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van Fleet
A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
Soviet Allies Relations Sink in Moscow Observers Claim
May 31 Moscow observers say Soviet Union and Western powers including the United States are at their lowest point in relations. Protests over Korea germ warfare claims and prisoner deaths fuel anger with harsh denunciations of American actions. A city protest urged vigilance to expose imperialist plots and push world peace.
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Eddie Gilmore Oscow
Soviet Union
United States
Korea
Kaje Island
Hitler
Germany
France
Sheep To Be Under Fire In Nevada Atomic Test
The Nevada Proving Grounds will detonate an atomic blast while about a thousand troops advance into the blast area after detonation. Brig Gen Harry P Storke says a limited number of sheep are used to study blast and radiation effects to potentially save American lives in wartime.
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Associated Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada Proving Grounds
Foxholes
Ground Zero
Harry P. Storke
Slaton Plans Celebration On Local News
News notes list upcoming community events with plans for a Slaton celebration and related civic activities. The item highlights local preparations and community responses, indicating an active town calendar and public interest in festivities.
Rep Lindley Beckworth in Collision Near Santa Anna
Rep Lindley Beckworth campaigning for the U S Senate was shaken but unhurt after a two vehicle crash on the eastern edge of Santa Anna in Cole man County. His campaign car and a dairy truck overturned. Beckworth proceeded to Brady to deliver a speech.
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Lindley Beckworth
Santa Anna
Texas
Beckworth
U. S. Senate
Coleman County
Raymond Graves
Lee Boardman
Brady
Eisenhower lands at Tephenville on way home from Paris
General Dwight D. Eisenhower stops in Tephenville on a flying return from Paris. The Columbine landed at 8:30 p.m. CST and he is due in Washington Sunday. No official reception. party goes to bed after landing.
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Tephenville
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Paris
Eisenhower
Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Iim
Truman
Secy
Defense Lovett
Foff
Abilene
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Orly Airfield
Ike
Columbine
Colorado
Rene Pleven
France
Methodists To Name Pastors At Northwest Texas Conference
The Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Church will hear appointments for the coming year and ordain deacons and elders at Lubbock First Methodist Church. Bishop W C Martin will close with reading of appointments as nine district superintendents join in the process.
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Avalanche-Journal
Northwest Texas
Resolutions Committee
W. C. Martin
Dallas
Dallas-Fort Worth
Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Wednes See
Methodists
Memorial Day traffic toll climbs with Lubbock motorcycle death
Eddie Walker, 24, of Lubbock, died when his 1949 Harley hit a curb and a handlebar impaled him after catapulting from a traffic circle on Tohoka Highway. Walker and his brother Johnnie were returning from Big Spring. The city’s Memorial Day weekend saw 20 accidents, with police predicting as many as 35 by Sunday. A separate fatal crash occurred Friday when Orrie Ross Hines, 59, was struck by a Santa Fe train near Ave U north of Clovis Highway.
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Lubbock Memorial Hospital
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Jamison Funeral Home
H. I. McInroe
Citizens Traffic Commission
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Orrie Ross Hines
Lubbock Rt. 3
Hines
Santa Fe
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Clovis Highway
Asbury Methodist Church
C. A. Bickley
Traffic Toll Tops 260 During Memorial Day Weekend
The Memorial Day weekend toll neared 262 deaths in 52 hours, with 187 traffic deaths, 41 drownings, and 34 other causes. Texas reported three traffic deaths, two drownings and one other. Ned Dearborn of the National Safety Council called the toll “stupid and criminal” and urged a last‑ditch effort to reduce fatalities.
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Ned Dearborn
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Dearbon
California
Ohio
New Mexico
Prison Fire in Martin County Jail Sparks Injuries and Escape
Stanton May 31 Two prisoners escaped serious injury when a fire broke out on the second story of the Martin County jail. John Brent Fulton 23 of Snyder was treated at Stanton hospital after inhaling smoke. Fire started from a blazing mattress in adjoining cells. A man and woman died and two more prisoners were hospitalized last December in a jail fire.
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Martin County
John Brent Fulton
Snyder
Stanton Hospital
Forest fire burns wide area near Cliff New Mexico
A forest fire rages in the Gila wilderness near Cliff in southwestern New Mexico. The blaze covers a broad, inaccessible region, threatening remote areas as crews monitor the spread.
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Albuquerque
Gila Wilderness
Cliff
New Mexico
Youth worker held in $1600 silk stocking job
Robert J. Foight 38 a civil defense official admitted pulling the $1600 silk stocking robbery of the Herring Hotel Amarillo. He was charged with armed robbery and jailed after police recovered about $1200. Foight said debt and a plan to help his daughter motivated the crime.
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Marillo
Robert J
Bob) Foight
Foight
Civil Defense Office
Potter County
Sid Harper
Bill Cox
Amarillo Globe News
Harper
J. L. King
Civil Defense Offic
Feight
Cox
Jewd
Hasty Ratification of German Pact Urged
Washington reports that administration leaders will ask the Senate to ratify the Allied Little Peace Treaty with Germany and a North Atlantic Treaty amendment. Senator Connally and Foreign Relations chairmen urge prompt approval to bring West Germany into the Allied defense camp. White House aims to send the two documents Monday, though readiness is uncertain.
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Texas
Senate Foreign Relations
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Italy
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Holland
Luxembourg
U. S
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