Colonel Nickerson to testfy amid court martial disclosures
Col. John C. Nickerson Jr. is expected to testify today in a 10 man court martial about spilling secret defense information to unauthorised persons. Dr. Wernher von Braun testified yesterday and supported Nickerson noting the Jupiter IRBM's superiority over Thor.
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Bem Price
Huntsville
Ala
John C. Nickerson Jr
Wernher von Braun
Nickerson
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Air Force
Army
West Point
Wilson
Arthur E. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Redstone Arsenal
Paris
Haseen
von Braun
Bank Robbery Sparks Orrick Chase and Arrest
Orrick Missouri was shaken by two dynamite blasts and a bank robbery at Citizens Exchange Bank. John Sweeney Hickman, a 51 year old civil engineer, was wounded and captured on a farm west of town after a high speed pursuit. Police recover $10,770 from a brush pile near his wrecked car. Dick Dale, Ray County prosecutor, will charge Hickman with armed robbery after hospital treatment in Richmond.
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Orrick
John Sweeney Hickman
Citizens Exchange Bank
Hickman
Kansas City
Ivan Thomas
Don Hall
Thomas
Hall
S. D. Brady
Fulte Brothers
Clyde
Bobby
Keith Artman
Artman
Dick Dale
Ray County
Richmond
E, IL. Meyers Construction Co
Ottawa
Kan
Meyers
Mrs. Hickman
Hickmans
Red Gunboats Shell Island Near Amboy
Action flared on the offshore island front as Nationalists report three Red gunboats shelled Tatan Islet near Amboy with over 300 rounds. Reds claim 191 shells were fired from the mainland at Kaoteng in the Matsu group.
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Taipei
Tatan Islet
Amboy
Kaoteng
Matsu
Weather Outlook Shows Showers in Miami Valley
The weatherman notes scattered showers heading toward the Miami Valley. Today will be partly cloudy and warm with a high near 85. Tonight brings isolated storms and a low around 67. Friday stays warm with possible rain late, high again about 85. Middletown posted 83 at 5 p.m. yesterday and 60 at 5 a.m. today.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Texans Seek Rebel Yell Sound for War Centennial Contest
Kountze Texas officials scramble to revive their War Between the States centennial by hosting a Rebel yell contest. With last Confederate veteran decades gone and few firsthand witnesses, the Homecoming Committee seeks secondhand accounts from Daughters and Sons of the Confederacy and local residents to define the yell's length and sharpness. Publisher Archer Fullingim says many want to enter if the yell can be identified.
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Kountze
Tex
South Texas
Rocky Richardson
Rocky
Daughters and Sons of the Confederacy
Archer Fullingim
The
Kountze News
Miners Freed After 14 Hour Cave-In Rescue in Ohio
Five miners trapped for more than 14 hours in Betsy Mine No. 3 Steubenville area were pulled to safety through a 230 foot hole drilled by a large auger. The crew, identified as Kowalski, Sabol, Horvath, Robbins, Lupinski, and Hamilton, escaped unharmed after 10:50 p.m. guards and onlookers cheered.
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Fred Sabol
Arthur A. Parks
Steubenville, Ohio
Harrisville
Hank Horvath
Glenn Robbins
Martin Kowalski
Joseph Lupinski
Mount Pleasant
Kenny Hamilton
Adena
Betsy Mine No
Powhatan Mining Co
Resscuers
Kowalski
Japs Clash With MPs Over Land
At Tachikawa Air Base Japanese demonstrators clashed with US Air Force police during a protest against runway extension land requisition. About 60 demonstrators blocked a cross-runway road, tore fence sections, and injured several. MPs intervened with night sticks, with no injuries reported among officers.
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Tachikawa
Japan
Air Force
Tachikawa Air Base
Sunaawa
Chuckle Mother and Father Exchange on Willie’s Tax Exemption
In a humorous exchange, Mother asks about scolding Willie for low report card marks. Father replies that scolding fades because Willie insists he is an exemption on his father's income tax, a joke about tax rules and incentives.
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Willie
Audrey Rages Inland in Texas as Hurricane Audrey Strikes
Hurricane Audrey slammed the Texas Louisiana border with winds up to 100 mph, causing widespread damage from Cameron to Lake Charles. Eight deaths were reported with seven aboard the Keturah, while vast tides, flooding, and downed power lines forced evacuations and halted business along the coast.
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Stanley Meisler
Port Arthur
Tex
Audrey
Texas-Louisiana
Cameron
Orange
Lake Charles
Warren Fish Co
Pensacola
Fla
Texas
Louisiana
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Penrod
Lake Sabine
Goodhue Hotel
Irwin Frank
Associated Press
Dallas
Beaumont
Hurricane Audrey Inland Move Near Port Arthur
The wirephoto shows the point of the arrow indicating Audrey’s inland move toward Port Arthur Texas as high winds and heavy rains lash the city and nearby coastal areas.
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Audrey
Port Arthur
Texas
Reuther urges end to sitdown strike and bold civil rights push
UAW President Walter Reuther tells NAACP convention in Detroit that Congress has stalled civil rights for 80 years and calls on both parties to end the sitdown stoppage. He pledges UAW support to win rights for Black citizens in the South and says civil rights is an international issue. Joseph Rauh Jr. backs White House action and possible Nixon public outreach to protect NAACP.
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Dwight Pitkin
Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
Congress
America
United Auto Workers
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Henry and
Edsel Ford Auditorium
Reuther
UAW
NAACP
Negoreg
South
Washington
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Americans For Democratic Action
Rauh
White House
Eisenhower
Nixon
United States
Tennessee mother fights on after eight years for missing flier son
Mrs. O C Mayes of Clinton Tenn begins her ninth summer searching the Cascade Mountains for U S Navy Ens Gaston E Mayes and Lt Sig Benjamin Vreeland who vanished after a Seattle takeoff. Civil and military searches failed. she persists despite hardship and family strain.
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North Bend
Wash
Tennessee
Cascade Mountains
O. C. Mayes
Clinton
Tenn
U.S. Navy
Ens
Gaston E. Mayes
Seattle
Sig. Benjamin QC
Vreeland
Trenton
N. J
Mayes
Chidren
Bertram
Oak Ridge
Bernice
Maxwell Gilbert
Grand Rapids
Mich
U S and Russia Move Toward Partial Disarmament Step
U S officials pursue a staged disarmament plan with Britain France and Canada. The plan asks the big powers to list armaments they are willing to stockpile under international supervision and later destroy or convert to peaceful uses. Valerian Zorin backed the idea but urged the U S to provide the first list, while Stassen refrained from committing.
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London
U. S
Russia
U.S
Harold E. Stassen
U.N
United States
Britain
France
Valerian Zorin
Stassen
AF Shoots 2 Rockets At Cape Canaveral Test Center
At Cape Canaveral Florida an Air Force double headed rocket launch occurred with one rocket lifting at 6 15 am and the other at 1 pm. Reporters described white clouds and a loud roar while officials declined to identify the missiles. Observers doubted the missiles were Jupiter or Atlas types.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Nina Joslin
Orlando Sentinel News Bureau
Taft View On School Aid Quoted In Eisenhower Plan Debate
Washington Congressman Frelinghuysen cites a Taft speech from March 24, 1948 to defend federal school aid. He notes Taft supported aid for operation and maintenance and argued for equality of opportunity while recognizing state and local primary responsibility. The constituent letter highlighted confusion over Taft’s philosophy.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
Congress
Rep
Frelinghuysen
R-Nj
Ohio
Taft
Laft
Senate
United States
Sen. Taft
Soviet warns West Germany over nuclear arms and reunification
Moscow warned West Germany that cooperation with the West on nuclear armaments would end any prospect of German reunification. A Soviet note delivered by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to West German Ambassador Wilhelm Haas stated that nuclear armament of Germany and reunification are irreconcilable.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
West Germany
Andri Gromyko
Wilhelm Haas
Germany
House Eves Touchy GI Trial Laws
The Foreign Affairs Committee debates foreign trials for U S servicemen as it prepares to vote on President Eisenhower's 3.865 billion foreign aid request. Rep Burleson expects approval of a sentiment resolution on status of forces agreements, while Rep Bow seeks to end the practice and opposes Burleson’s toned-down proposal.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep
Burleson
D-Tex
U. S
Bow
R-Ohio
House
Eisenhower
Army Delays Girard-Sueyama Wedding Amid Trial Ties
In Kagohara Japan Candy Sueyama and American soldier William S. Girard plan a quiet ceremony within three to four days at Camp Whittington as Girard awaits a court decision on whether he will be turned over to a Japanese court for the killing of a scrap collector. The Army has delayed the March wedding due to a missing birth certificate and unclear permission timelines. The couple may wed at the Camp chapel or a sergeant’s home with a sergeant as best man. Girard is 21, Sueyama 27, and his brother Louis urged immediate marriage during Prime Minister Kishi’s U.S. visit readiness.
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Kagohara
Japan
Sueyama
William S. Girard
Girard
Camp Whittington
U.S. Supreme Court
Ottawa
Tokyo
Permis
Sion
Miss Sueyama
Louis
Kishi
United States
Juy
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