Rights bill cleared for House vote after Southern resistance
The House Rules Committee prepared to push a civil rights bill toward passage with amendments, avoiding a prolonged Senate conference. Southern Democrats dropped main objections as they expected the measure to pass, with key Senate changes viewed as mild. The bill imposes penalties for obstructing federal court orders, makes cross state bombings infractions federal, preserves voting records, allows federal schooling for servicemen families, and enables court appointed referees to register voters who meet state requirements.
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House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Rules Committee
Drowning Trial Opens for Dad in Two Infant Deaths
The first degree murder trial of Alfred Scarberry, 41, of Scioto County, opens in Portsmouth. He is accused of drowning his two infant sons in the Little Scioto River after an afternoon drinking spree. Jury selection will take several days as prosecutors seek the death penalty.
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Ohio
Scioto County
Little Scioto River
Common Pleas
Thomas W. Mitchell
Jackson County
Alfred
Alfred Scarberry
Vernon Smith
Edgar H. Hale
Scarberry
Lima State Hospital
Everett Burton
Dad Blacks Out and Son Steers Car to Safety
In Kansas City, a 7 year old boy helped avert a crash when his father Joe Baxter 60 suffered a heart attack while driving. Baxter remained at the wheel guiding the car and ordering his son Jerry to steer and switch off ignition if another attack came. The car was stopped and Baxter was taken to a hospital in satisfactory condition.
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Kansas City
Joe Baxter
Jerry
Baxter
Mother who lost 8 children dies after childbirth
Sigourney Iowa AP Ruth Hammes 41 mother of eight killed in 1956 car train crash dies in childbirth at Sigourney Hospital. She had a son Myron born Jan 15 1958. husband Richard 49 a farmer survived the crash and later remarried. The newborn died.
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Sigourney, Iowa
Sigourney Hospital
Ruth Hammes
Myron
Truman comments on sit-ins and politics at Cornell
At a Cornell University news conference former President Harry S. Truman discussed sit-down demonstrations and Communist influence, saying the first sit-in in 1937 was inspired by Communists. He defended business owners’ rights but urged inclusion and praised Gov. Rockefeller. He also weighed the prospects of Adlai Stevenson and Democratic nomination dynamics.
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Ithaca
N.Y
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Cornell University
Cornell
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Ballard Singer Favored In Louisiana Polls
In Louisiana Governor race, Democrat Jimmie Davis, famed for a ballad singing past, leads against Republican Francis Grevemberg and States Rights candidate Kent Courtney. Observers expect possible turnout of 400000 to 500000 as Davis seeks victory after Earl Long era.
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Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Jimmie Davis
Davis
Francis Grevemberg
GOP
Kent Courtney
Long
Deep South
Woman Found Dead At Home In Salt Lake City
In Salt Lake City AP report Bertha S Robinson 68 and her son Percy Robinson 49 were found dead in their home from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a clogged exhaust pipe from a natural gas heater. The deaths followed Bertha Robinson missing a day of work at the county recorder's office.
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Salt Lake City
Bertha S. Robinson
County Recorder's Office
Daytonian Makes Leap From Kanawha Bridge
Paul Dunn Higginbotham 35 a Dayton Ohio painting contractor and former Charleston resident jumped from a bridge Monday and apparently drowned in the Kanawha River police reported.
Nine Die As C124 Crashes After Takeoff From Harmon Field
The C124 cargo plane crashed minutes after lifting from Harmon Field with nine crew members killed. The aircraft en route from Dover AFB to Mildenhall England carried mail and medical supplies. Dover officials named the nine dead: commander Donald Sheehan, co pilot Robert Little, second pilot Gerald Avery, navigators Leon Pedersen and Harold Harrison, engineers Ben Sharpe Clark Orndorff Edward Retus, and loadmaster Wallace Williams.
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Mid
U.S. Air Force
Harmon Field
Mildenhall
England
Dover
Del
Air Force Base
Harmon
Dover Air Force Base
Donald P. Sheehan
Lansdowne
Robert E. Little
Monroe
Gerald E. Avery
Modesto
Calif
Leon E. Pedersen
McIntosh
Fla
Harold G Harrison
Green Light Mystery Over Mississippi River Solved
Coast Guard traced an eerie green glow drifting downstream 14 miles south of New Orleans. A 40-foot boat with a full crew pursued it but found a swarm of lightning bugs casting the strange light.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Mississippi River
Utah Educator Dr. Franklin S. Harris Dies At 75
Obituary notes Dr. Franklin S. Harris 75, retiree and former BYU president 1921–45 and Utah State Agricultural College president 1945–50. He chaired a FAO postwar Greece rehabilitation group and led a federal agricultural mission to Iran after his presidency. He also ran for the U.S. Senate in 1948 as a Republican.
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Salt Lake City
Franklin S. Harris
Utah
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Greece
Harris
U.S. Senate
Brigham Young University
Provo
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Iran
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