Pilot credited for safe crash landing after 1000 mile flight
Maj Samuel Tyson of Council Bluffs Iowa and Vacaville California commanded a four engine Boeing C97 with 67 aboard when two starboard engines failed. He landed at Hi Jo s Lyman Airport saving all aboard after guiding the crippled craft with the help of a 20 knot tailwind. Gen Joseph Smith will recommend a Distinguished Flying Cross for Tyson who stressed the passengers earned the praise for their calm behavior.
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Samuel W. Tyson
Air Hilo
T.H
mid-Pacific
Bers
Austead
Samuel Lyson
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Vacaville
Calif
Tyson
Hi- Jo
Lyman
Air Force
Washington
Joseph Smith
Military Air Transport Service
Smith
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Honolulu
Janitor Dies in Kimberly School Blast
In Kimberly Wisconsin a basement explosion at Holy Name Catholic School killed janitor John Vanden Berk 69 and injured Pastor Rev Cornelius Vanden Borne severely. Fire and gas caused burns over most of their bodies as workmen including Quin tin Williams and brothers James Williams and Thomas Lockschmidt rushed to aid.
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Kimberly
Wis
John Vanden Berk
St Elizabeth's Hospital
Appleton
Holy Name Roman Catholic Chews Oa .Ob.t
Wvhulem
SCLUU
Cornelius Vanden Borne
Father van den Borne
Holy Name
Quentin Williams
Father Vanden Borne
Wiliams
James
Thomas Lockschmidt
Testimony Sought From Union Official Tied to Dio Rackets Case
The Senate Rackets Committee calls for testimony from an Allied Industrial Workers of America official tied to Johnny Dio’s rise as a New York labor racketeer kingpin. Dio invoked the Fifth Amendment about 14 times, and the panel questioned Earl Heaton about a 1953 $16,000 check to Dio and $90,000 paid to Anthony Doria on his retirement. The hearing also exposed wiretaps linking Dio, James Hoffa, and Harold Gibbons to Teamsters politics.
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Senate
Johnny Dio
New York
Dio
Earl Heaton
Allied Industrial Workers of America
AFL
United Auto Workers
Dia
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Teamster
Teamsters
Robert F. Kennedy
Heaton
Anthony Doria
Uaw-Afl
Dion
Doria
Kennedy
Ior
Aled Industrial Workers
Afl-Cio
Wehich
Lester Washburn
Washburn
Labor Movement
United Press
Stanley Tretick
Frith
Teamster Hoffa
Jammy
Jimmy Hoffa
Ansher
Harold Gibbons
St. Louis
Hoffa
Johnny
Wisconsin Governor signs pay hike for legislators
Gov. Thomson signs a bill boosting lawmakers salaries from 200 to 300 dollars monthly and increasing room and board allowances to 175 dollars. A vetoed section would have tied to the state retirement fund, while a separate bill to raise county retirement contributions was opposed as unequal. The new pay plan begins from the date of final order if an appeal delays revocation.
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Madison
Thomson
Tote
Wisconsin
L Thomson
Say Men On Polish Subs Seek Asylum
Two Polish submarines were reported off Scotland with unconfirmed word their crews sought political asylum in Britain. The Admiralty denied the subs sailed for asylum and said the affair is security wrapped. RAF ordered a news blackout. no unidentified subs off the Scottish coast are known.
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London
Scotland
Britain
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Ips
Lff
Minnesota Plane Crash Kills Four In Farmhouse
Four people die when a light plane crashes into a farmhouse porch near Dundas Minnesota during a foggy night. The pilot Arthur Ward Seminole Texas, a woman and two young girls believed to be his family perished. Fred Schraeder 90 survived with minor injuries after being pinned under wreckage and later treated at a Northfield hospital.
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Minna
Arthur Ward
Seminole
Tex
Fred Schraeder
Hns House
Fred Schraeder Sr
Schraeder
Northfield
Spy Abel Held Without Bail For Federal Hearing
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel a Russian accused spy was ordered held without bail by Federal Judge Matthew Abruzzo for a hearing next Tuesday. Abel sought a delay to secure an attorney and was remanded in custody after prosecutors described him as a high ranking Soviet intelligence colonel in charge of an elaborate espionage network.
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New York
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel
Abel
Matthew Abruzzo
Abruzzo
U.S
William F. Tompkins
Thompkins
Vending Machine Tapper Arrested at Central Station
Detectives tracked the case to a suspect in San Diego. William Paul Newton, 47, was arrested Thursday on charges of theft for tapping a vending machine at the central police station, valued at $3.85. Newton worked in the building.
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San Diego
Calif
William Paul Newton
Central Police Station
Newton
Qualifying Speed Trials Open Air Show Midget Races
Qualifying heats for the nation’s top midget airplane racing pilots were set to begin this afternoon as the opening event in Oshkosh Wisconsin’s Second International Air Show and Races. The three day event at Winnebago County Airport will climax Saturday and Sunday with aerial displays and racing finals.
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Winnebago County
Aiport
S. J
Steve” Witttman
Oshkosh Cpecster
Wittman
Wacbanl
Murphy
Sweet
Jo Ann Borseth
Minneapolis
Minn
Most Ideal Airlines
Cole Brothers Air Circus
Tvhe
Mike Murphy
Findlay
Willman
Bills
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Bertha strengthens into hurricane threatening Louisiana coast
The storm named Bertha grew into a hurricane and drove hundreds to higher ground along the Louisiana Texas shoreline. Coastal towns evacuated as tides rose and officials warned residents to flee Lowland areas near Cameron Parish and Lake Charles while Coast Guard units aided crews and refugees moved toward shelters.
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New Orleans
Bertha
Louisiana-Texas
Audrey
Cameron’s
Court House
Louisiana
Golden Mile
Red Meadow
Lake Charles
Gulf Shore
Coast Guard
Lews Rodriguez
San Luis Pass
Larose
Galveston
Tex
Cameron
Weather Bureau
Texas
Vermillion Bay
Cameron Parish
Upper
Lousiana
Yort
Andres
C. B. Carter
Gulf of Mexico
Rayburn Backs Senate Civil Rights Bill to Senate Change
Speaker Sam Rayburn endorsed the Senate amended civil rights bill and urged Republican aid to pass it. He said the House could concur in the Senate changes or limit the jury trial amendment to voting-rights cases, depending on GOP support in the Rules Committee. If Republicans withhold help, a conference committee may be used to draft a compromise.
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Washington
Theodore Francis Green
D-R.1
Senate Forign
Sam Rayburn
Senate
Texas
Kent
House
Rayburn
Congress
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