Perjury Charges Against Portland Mayor Slated To Go To Jury Today
Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk faces a jury verdict on perjury charges after a 10 day trial. Prosecution presented 23 witnesses linking Schrunk to a bribe payoff at the 8212 Club on Sept 11, 1955. Schrunk denies the allegations calling it a political plot and contends gamblers feared his 1956 bid. He faces further indictments for bribery wiretap conspiracy and subordination of perjury.
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Portland
Ore
Terry Schrunk
Schrunk
Clifford O. Bennett
Atty
Edwin Hicks
Big Jim Elkins
Elkins
Senate
French Effort to Build Panama Canal Fails
The first attempt to construct a Panama Canal was led by Ferdinand de Lesseps from 1879 to 1889 but ended in failure.
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Panama
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Korean Orphan Adopted by Lignore Family in Philadelphia
Sin-ja Lee now Mary Jane Lignore after formal adoption by Richard Lignore and his parents. Richard, a 20 year old GI, sponsored the adoption begun three years earlier at Little Flower Orphanage in Pusan. Sin-ja arrived in January and was placed with the Lignore family before court approval by Judge Victor J. Dimabile.
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Sin-ja Lee
Mary Jane Lignore
Richard Lignore
Sin-ja
Little Flower
Pusan
Richard
Joseph
Catholic Children’s Bureau
Victor J. Dimabile
Sinja
Turnpike Dedicated in Oklahoma On 88 Mile Toll Road
The Will Rogers Turnpike from Tulsa edge to the Missouri border near Joplin will be formally dedicated today. In some U.S. states, paupers are not qualified to vote.
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Winita
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Tulsa
Missouri
Joplin
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