Dallas Officers Sent to Decatur in Torture Killing Probe
Dallas County officers were sent to Decatur Texas to pursue leads in the torture murder of Betty Jack Stevens a 21 year old Dallas waitress whose nude dismembered body was found near Yukon Oklahoma A friend from Lawton Oklahoma claimed Stevens was tortured by a man described as Spanish looking in his 30s, but Dallas Homicide Captain Will Fritz questioned the report.
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Dallas
Decatur
Texas
Betty Jack Stevens
Yukon
Ite
Oklahoma
Stevens
Bertha Kean
Lawton
Okla
Miss Stevens
Will Fritz
Fort Worth
Fritz
Houston
Galveston
Claude Martin
Charg
Martin
Rice Institute
French Police Hunt Two Suspects in Eisenhower Aide Slayings
French authorities pressed a nationwide manhunt in southwestern France for two young campers feared as suspects in the triple murder of Sir Jack Drummond, his wife Anne, and daughter Elizabeth, found beside a highway as they camped near the Alpine foot hills.
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Lurs
France
Mpolice
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jack Cecil Drummond
Connecticut Rain Quells Drought With Scattered Storms
Rainmakers sparked storms that drenched Connecticut and parts of the South, delivering 1 to 1.5 inches and easing drought fears. Heavy rainfall centered in the Connecticut Valley. relief efforts by the Disaster Relief and Research Administration followed, with mixed forecasts for continued showers across New England and the drought belt.
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Connecticut
Wallace E. Howell Associates
Cambridge
Mass
Disaster Relief and Research Administration, Inc
Abe It
Sheen
New England
Boston
Massachusetts
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Missouri
Ilinois
14 California Red Leaders To Appeal
Fourteen California Communist leaders were found guilty of plotting violent overthrow and go back to court to appeal their convictions. Judge Mathes delayed sentencing pending defense motions while ordering the defendants held on bail amounts from 5099 to 10000. The group includes Cleta O Connor Yates William Schneiderman Dorothy Rosenblum Healey Henry Steinberg Rose Chernin Kusnitz Frank Carlson Frank Specter Ben Dobbs Loretta Stack Albert Lima and others from San Francisco Los Angeles and Oakland. Mary Bernadette Doyle was severed for trial due to a heart condition.
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Los Angeles
California
New York City
U. S
William C. Mathes
Rose Chernin Kusnitz
Frank Carlson
Frank E. Specter
Ben Dobbs
Loretta Starvus Stack
al Richmond
Ernest Otto Fox
Carl Rude “Lambert
San Francisco
Albert Jason Lima
Oakland
Mathes
Mary Bernadette Doyle
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Alexander Schulman
Wife freed after husband ties her to bed for six weeks
In Hamburg on August 6 a court granted a divorce to a wife who testified that her night watchman husband tied her to the bed each night for six weeks to prevent her from leaving the house. The case details the abusive confinement and the legal separation.
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Hamburg
Germany
Victims Named in Waco Bus Crash Toll Rises
Two more victims identified in the Waco bus crash near 4 am Monday, bringing the dead list to at least four named figures and 12 still unidentified. Officials say 25 injured have left the critical list as morgue access faced protests and pleas for clues continue.
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Waco
Texas Highway Patrol
Oscar G. Peterson
San Antonio
Estelle Whitbeck
Air Force
Sam Wood
Milburn Berry Herring
B. C. Malone
Wacc I
Elizabeth Gattis
Devine
Tex
Minnie Carreanderson
Gattis
San Marcos
Cleveland
Oklo
Jenor Zamoudia
Fort Worth
Maria C. Munez
Charles Tucker
Georgetown
Ronnie Tucker
Sharon Eilene Tucker
Nelda Christine Tucker
Mabel Sigle
Freer
Charles Wright
Carswell Afb
Herring
Malone
Hilaria Zamoudia
Cook
Mexico
Negro Hero Identified in Waco Bus Crash Rescue
Sfc. Alonzo O. Shelton, a former Paris policeman now at Ft. Hood, says he helped evacuate a girl and a man from the flaming wreck after a Waco bus crash. He recalls pushing a man through a window and assisting a girl as flames rose, then fading from scene before possible Zamoudia rescue.
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Waco
Sfc
Alonzo O. Shelton
Paris
Tex
Ft. Hood
Waco ‘Ous
Shelton
Dora Daniels
Corpus Christi
Matilda Zamoudia
Connally Air Force Base
Mrs. Daniels
Zamoudia
Dallas
Odessans Report Flying Saucers Over City
Three engineers from Radio KRIG reported sighting fast-moving shiny objects over Odessa at 3 15 and 3 17 Tuesday afternoon. Station manager Marguerite La Rue confirmed the sightings after being alerted by the engineers and a second object was observed overhead.
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Odessa
Radio Krig
Marguerite Larue
Odessa Man Admits Driving Hit and Run on East Eighth
Odessa resident Charlie Junior Moss 27 confessed to driving the blue 1941 Buick that struck four pedestrians on East Eighth Street near a tavern. Three injured, including Tommy Sellers and Thelma Wallace, with Moss arrested after his car was found near 27th and Andrews Highway. He described drinking that day and said he failed to stop due to intoxication and lack of license.
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Ross Davis
Odessa
East Eighth St
E. Eighth
Charlie Junior Moss
Robertson
Moss
Tommy Sellers
Thelma Wallace
Sellers
Medical Center Hospital
H. O. Cothran
Driller
Charles Ross
27Th
Andrews Hwy
Grand Prairie
Lsir
F. Eighth
Otis Parker
North Muskingum
East Eighth
E. F. Schoenwandt
Merchants Night Patrol
Byrnes Advises South Carolina To Stay in Fold
Gov. James F. Byrnes urged South Carolina Democrats to back the national Stevenson-Sparkman ticket at the state convention. He echoed party leaders, noting the state could still consider Eisenhower on civil rights, but signaled strong support for Stevenson Sparkman unless further views on both candidates are reviewed.
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Columbia
S. C
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Byrnes
Truman
National Party
State Party
Stevenson
Sparkman
Eiisenhower-Nixon
State Executive Committee
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Polio cases rise in Texas with record potential
Austin reports 276 new polio cases last week, lifting the year total to 2373 and signaling the possibility of surpassing the all time annual high. State Health Officer George Cox predicts three more weeks to push beyond prior records as studies explore cockroaches and flies as transmission factors. Twelve counties reported first polio cases this year.
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Austin
Texas
State Health Department
George W. Cox
Cox
Harris County
Lawn-Watering Ban Extended Due to Line Leak
Odessa extends a two day lawn watering ban through Thursday after a leak in an eight inch blowoff valve near Midland Airpark causes a loss of about 0.5 million gallons daily. Officials say pumps and meters are installed and the line must be drained before repairs.
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Odessa
Mgr
Dick Pepin
Midland Airpark
Stanton
U S Sabres Down Six MIG-15s Over Korea
U S Sabre pilots claim six MIG-15s shot down and two damaged in a three day air battle over North Korea. Capt William J Ryan of Keeseville N Y scored his second kill, with a friendly-fire incident blamed on a Communist pilot. Eighty two MIGs were sighted on Wednesday as seven dogfights occurred with limited Sabre scorelines.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Keeseville
M. Y
Ryan
Symington Landslides In Missouri Senate Primary
ST LOUIS August 6 Senate nominee result shows Symington trouncing President Truman’s choice Atty Gen J E Taylor by a tally of 333 777 to 162 250 with 4314 of 4726 precincts reported. Major gains in St Louis helped his landslide win over Taylor and secured a November clash with Rep James P Kem.
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ST. Louis
W. Stuart Symington
Missouri
Symington
Truman
J. E. Taylor Taylor
Symingston
Taylor
Thomas F. Callagan
Alanén
Independence
James P. Kem
Kansas City
Kem
Calla
Nans
Callanan
Congress
Phil J. Welch
St. Joseph
Welch
Senate
Phil M. Donely
Lebanon
James M. Pearle
Donnelly
Boward Elliott
St. Louis County
Peared
Jury Rules In Favor Of Woman Over Engagement Ring
In Charleston West Virginia a jury found Leomore Kay justified in breaking up with her boyfriend and allowed her to keep the engagement ring. She testified that the relationship ended because she refused to switch her politics from Republican to Democrat.
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Charleston
W. Va
Leomore
Kay
Ike Drive centers West Texas campaign effort in Pampa and Fort Worth
A Dallas Democratic leader urged party fundraising while Fort Worth hosted plans for state and West Texas Eisenhower Nixon campaign headquarters. Porters and Guill in Pampa will direct Texas GOP drives with Guill heading the state effort. Kittrell forecasts a Texas Stevenson victory, notes national HQ guidance, and reports cross-filing debates in Grayson County.
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Dallas
Fort Worth
West Texas
Jack Porter
Houston
Porter
Ben Guill
Pampa
Guill
Texas
W. H
Bill) Kittrell
Democrats’ Nationlancal
Springfield
Ill
GOP
Eisenhower
Congress
Texas Gop
Kittrell
Stier
Grayson County
North Texas
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Katherine van Meter
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van Meter
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