Bricker Says Ske Will Run
Eisenhower remains in Walter Reed after June surgery with no word on re election plans. Sen Bricker expects Ike to say no change when out of hospital. Nixon says no political talk. Harriman gets Dem boost. Stevenson leads Illinois delegates. Maine GOP names Trafton to challenge Muskie.
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Eisenhower
Sen
Bricker
Ohio
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Nixon
Annapolis
Leonard Hall
Hartford
Conn
Schoeppel
R-Kan
Senate
Kentucky
Thruston B. Morton
Sen. Clements
Averell Harriman
New York
Frank E. McKinney
McKinney
Indianapolis
Harriman
Chicago
Associated Press
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Symington
Missouri
Maine
Willis A. Trafton Jr
House
Edmund S. Muskie
Muskie
Leary Named New Senator By Chandler
Frankfort Attorney Joseph J. Leary was named by Gov. A B Chandler to fill the U S Senate seat temporarily after Barkley's death on April 30. Leary, 49, serves until November and is a Chandler adviser and former cochairman of the governor's campaign. The Democratic committee in Louisville will pick a nominee for the remaining four years. party factions and Clements influence shape the process amid Morton opposition.
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Frankfort
B. Chandler
Joseph J. Leary
U.S. Senate
Sen
Barkley
Democratic State Central Executive Committee
Louisville
Leary
Chandler
Earle C. Clements
Joe B. Bates
Clements
Thruston B. Morton
Truck Rates Ordered Out On Turnpike
The Ohio Turnpike Commission adopted a plan to cut tolls for commercial trucks at seven interchanges based on a Greiner Co. report. New rates, 25 cents to $5, aim to boost revenue by over 12 million annually and take effect by June 26 through September 30, 1956. The move seeks to shift about 60 percent of trucks from free roads to the turnpike.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Turnpike Commission
J. E. Greiner Co
Coverdale and Colpitts
Commission
Silk Stockings Actress Gretchen Wyler Weds
Beverly Hills report that 24 year old Gretchen Wyler and 32 year old cellist Shepard Coleman were married yesterday at the Beverly Vista Community Church. Wyler plans a brief honeymoon between performances of Silk Stockings as they await further engagements.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Gretchen Wyler
Shepard Coleman
Miss Wyler
Coleman
New York
Beverly Vista Community Church
Babies Starve In Tenement After Snafw
New York East Side tenement tragedy as two infants, a 2 year old girl and an 8 month old boy, starved while their mother, Anastasia Velez, 32, was in a psychiatric ward. A social worker found the bodies as police report no known relatives and the husband, Jose, 39, is believed to be with his parents in New Jersey. The family, from Puerto Rico, had lived on relief since August 1953.
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New York
East Side
Anastasia Velez
Bellevue Hospital
Pastor to quit church to become missionary
Dover Ohio Reverend Lewis Frees at 49 will leave the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Strasburg after ten years to pursue medical missionary work. He plans a pre medical program at Otterbein College Westerville where his son Lewis a junior studies for the ministry.
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Dover
Ohio
Lewis Frees
Evangelical United Brethers Church
Strasburg
Otterbein College
Westerville
Lewis
Britain Offers Cyprus Self Government To End Revolt
London signals a plan for local Cypriot government with elections and a future union vote with Greece possibly after ten years. British rule would keep defense and foreign affairs, Turkish minority protections stated, amid ongoing violence in Nicosia and new court sentences for the May 16 RAF corporal murder.
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London
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Greece
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Suad Haryi Arguplu
Turkey
Eden
Europe
Nicosia
Comedians Call It Quits as Martin Lewis Split Plans Unfold
HOLLYWOOD Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis announce a formal end to their multi million dollar partnership after a planned Eastern nightclub tour and the film Pardners. Paramount and Hal Wallis agreements enable separate movie projects, ending a famed team that dominated box offices. The split follows clashes over directing and producing roles for their next project Damon and Pythias.
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Hollywood
Dean Martin
Bing Crosby
Jerry Lewis
Charlie Chaplin
Hal Wallis
Wallis
Red Grange
Frank Freeman
Paramount Studio
Paramount
Jerry
Damon
Who Says It's Woman's World Parade Winners
Boston AP reports part of the Battle of Bunker Hill anniversary celebration included a doll carriage parade with 21 entrants. Curtis Weidel, age 3, was the lone boy and won the contest.
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Boston
Bunker Hill
Curtis Weidel
Deaths now believed double murder case in two states
Maryland teen Shelby Venable and Maryland girl Mary Fellers disappeared June 1. Shelby’s naked body found in Catoctin Creek near Wheatland Virginia. cause of Mary Elizabeth’s death undetermined. Pathologist says Shelby was strangled. Witness described blue car with scarred driver. Families plan joint funeral at Ft. Lincoln Cemetery.
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Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Shelby Jean Venable
North Laurel
Mary Elizabeth Fellers
Beltsville
Shelby Jean
Catoctin Creek
Potomac River
Wheatland
Mary Elizabeth
Oscar B. Hunter Jr
Loudoun County
Hunter
Erwin Fellers
Erwin
Greeneville
Tenn
Ft. Lincoln Cemetery
Kefauver to Speak at Orrville Dinner Meeting
In Orrville Ohio Senator Estes Kefauver presidential hopeful will address a Wayne County Young Democrats dinner priced at five dollars per plate. Organizers Virgil Musser of Doylestown say Rep Wayne Hays of Flushing John McSweeney Wooster candidate for Congress Earl Wise state Young Democrats president and national president Nelson Rockefeller will attend.
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Orrville
Ohio
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Wayne County Young Democrats
Virgil Musser
Doylestown
Musser
Wayne Hays
Flushing
John McSweeney
Wooster
Congress
Earl Wise
The
Young Demorats
Naional
Nelson Lacoine
Soviet Offer To Finance Aswan Dam Reported
A source close to Premier Nasser said the Soviet Union offered to lend Egypt 1.12 billion dollars to fund most of the Aswan Dam. Nasser will study the offer, which followed talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov amid Egypt's three day British evacuation commemoration.
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Cairo
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Soviet Union
Aswan
Nasser
Dmitri Shepilov
Shepilov
Suez Canal Zone
Britain
United States
Nile
World Bank
Russia
Mediterranean
Africa
Asia
Steel Strike Authorized For June 30
New York leaders of the United Steelworkers of America were empowered to call a nationwide steel strike if a new contract is not reached by June 30. The wage policy committee, 170 strong, warned time is running out for averting a walkout of about 650,000 workers in plants producing 90 percent of U.S. steel. The industry held firm on a one year contract with wage increases and fringe benefits. Negotiations with eight major firms began after the union ended joint talks with U.S. Steel Bethlehem and Republic, and with the Big Three.
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New York
United Steelworkers of America
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Inland
Youngstown
Senate May Pass Foreign Aid War Debate Looms
Senator Humphrey predicted a Senate Democratic majority will back at least 2.4 billion dollars for foreign military aid when needed. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a 4.502 billion dollar foreign aid bill, with NATO support cited as a reason not to cut the military aid below 2.4 billion. Johnson delayed debate to next week to focus on the State Department funding measure.
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Washington
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
George
D-Ga
Lyndon Johnson
Tex
Big Sense Department
Eisenhower
NATO
Weather turns cooler with relief in sight
A weatherman forecasts cool dry air moving into the valley ending the heat and humidity for a while. Today and tonight look mostly fair with highs near 82 and overnight lows around 60. Partly cloudy and cooler Wednesday with a high near 87 and possible scattered showers. Middletown reported an unofficial high of 85 yesterday at 4 45 p.m. and a low of 68 at 7 a.m. Rain yesterday and last night totaled .33 inches.
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Middletown
Garner jokes about hunting eyesight and driving truck
Former Vice President John Nance Garner jokes that he will still join hunts but let others shoot. He quips he cannot see far, so he lets the other fellows hunt while he drives the truck.
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Dallas
John Nance Garner
Mr. Garner
Garner
Tulsa minister shot after hitchhiker encounter
Tommie Robert Cooke a 24 year old assistant pastor of Glenwood Baptist Church in Tulsa was found shot to death near Taft Oklahoma. Edward Leon Williams 27 confessed to the slaying after being arrested on a bus. Williams said Cooke picked him up, then forced him to pull over and tried to bind him with a belt before Williams shot him in the head with a .38 cal weapon.
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Williams
Glenwood Baptist Church
Tulsa
Dale Proctor
McCroskey
Prisoner Electrocuted At Ohio Prison Farm
A 25 year old inmate from Lakewood was killed when a ladder he used to install screens touched a high tension wire at Grafton State Prison Farm in Elyria Ohio. A fellow inmate, 27 year old L C Williams of Akron, was knocked unconscious but treated at Lodi Hospital and returned to the camp.
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Elyria
Ohio
Grafton State Prison Farm
Robert Bacon
Lakewood
L. C
ICBM Work Seen as Realistic Firm Program
Lt Gen Donald L Putt Air Force research chief testifying before a Senate subcommittee said the United States has a real firm program for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile. He noted over one billion dollars has been earmarked since 1954 and warned Soviet progress could surpass U S capabilities in air power if trends continue.
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Washington
Air Force
Donald L. Putt
Putt
Senate Armed Services
U.S
Russia
Air Force Research and Development
Soviet
Augesia
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
Defense Department
Army
Navy
Put
Baby stolen from Sebring home, mother says
Mrs Anna Lee Daniel reported her three week old son David was taken from his crib early today by a stranger she had befriended. Sebring police and Mahoning County deputies launched a search for the unidentified woman and the infant. Daniel, mother of eight, had given the stranger shelter.
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Sebring
Ohio
Anna Lee Daniel
Daneie
Mahoning County
David
Daniel
Americans Battle Softies Trend At Youth Fitness Conference
At the Naval Academy a two day President's Conference on Fitness of American Youth debated answers to a perceived drift toward indolence among youth. VP Nixon urged starting a national program, citing shortages of gymnasiums and play space, and urged community level action to spur fitness and recreation amid calls for more education funding and a national council.
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Naval Academy
Nixon
Eisenhower
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