Woman Driver Slugged Robbed In El Monte Attack
Thelma Elizabeth Krohn, 23, was forced off Hoyt Ave by two youths in a blue sedan, slugged, and robbed of 80 dollars. She lay unconscious for five hours before calling police, later treated for a forehead laceration at El Monte Medical Center. Police described the attackers as 16 to 20, of Mexican descent.
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Thelma Elizabeth Krohn
Fairvale
Azusa
Miss Krohn
Hoyt Ave
Peck and Garvey
el Monte Medical Center
He Can Teach But He Cant Mix With Loungers
In Pueblo Colorado the School District 60 trustees unanimously offered Theodore Colton a 1956 57 teaching contract while banning any liquor industry employment. Colton 27 has taught science at Corwin Junior High for three years and has tended bar for two years to supplement a $4300 yearly salary. The decision followed heavy criticism from teachers students and parents after a prior vote not to rehire Colton.
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Theodore Colton
Corwin Junior High School
Colton
Pueblo Teachers Foundation
Pre-Draft Youth Signup Gains For Army Reserve Training
The Army told a House Armed Services subcommittee that 18 952 pre draft age youths joined the new six month reserve training program. Assistant Secretary Hugh M Milton said he is greatly encouraged by results to date.
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Army
House
Armed Services
Hugh M. Milton
Baseball Today American League Summaries
Kansas City 63 Boston 1 6 6 5 6 5 Boston totals listed with errors in the print. Pitchers Ditmar Harington Ginsberg Brewer and White. Low Tees. Chicago at Baltimore postponed rain. Cleveland at Washington night Garcia vs Stone. National League Worthington Liddle Katt Westrum Meyer Landrith. Brooklyn at Cincinnati Craig vs Lawrence. Pittsburgh at St Louis Haddix. Only games scheduled.
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Cincinnati
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Lawrence
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
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Relatives Split Over Punishment for Death March Marine
Relatives of six dead Marines debate Staff Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon’s fate after the death march near Paris Island. Some call for manslaughter charges and severe punishment, while others urge Marine Corps restraint or sympathy, citing his alleged tragic mistake.
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Parris Island
S.C
McKeon
Marine Corps
Frank Bond
Clyde
N.Y
Charles F. Reilly
Alston P. Coughlin
Alexandria
Jercy L. Thomas
Four Hun ter Sisters at Methodist Hospital In NICU
The four Hunter sisters remained in stable condition in the incubator at Methodist Hospital. Doctors cautioned that predictions of survival would take several days as they monitor their progress.
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Dallas
Methodist Hospital
Primary Results Revive Stevenson Hopes in DC and Alabama
Democratic primaries in Alabama and the District of Columbia gave a nudge to Adlai Stevenson’s bid for the presidential nomination. Kept off the radar, the outcome in DC offered a direct Stevenson Kefauver contest only in that enclave, with six convention votes at stake and about 40,000 voters.
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District of Columbia
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Stevenson
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Kefauver
Zirconium Plant Order for Three New Sites
The Atomic Energy Commission orders construction of three zirconium plants to meet rising atomic program demand. Sites are Parkersburg West Virginia Pensacola Florida and Ashtabula Ohio. Expected output about 11 million pounds of high purity zirconium metal in five years.
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The
Atomic Energy Commission
Parkersburg
W. Va
Pensacola
Fla
Ashtabula
Rome Stores Adopt Summer Hours Amid Siesta
Rome shops switch to summer hours opening at 7 a.m. and closing 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The schedule contrasts with winter noon hours from 1:30 to 4. Local stores extend siesta to chase cooler mornings and evenings.
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Girl with Hole in Heart Off for Operation
Seven year old Faye Carnegie born with a heart defect travels from Toronto to Minneapolis for surgery. The trip is funded by hundreds of Ontario residents, the Red Cross, and a U.S. heart surgeon. She is accompanied by her 27 year old parents Mr and Mrs Jim Carnegie.
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Faye Carnegie
Minneapolis
Faye
Ontario
The
Red Cross
U.S
Jim Carnegie
Tragedy at Burhee Station Ends in Four Deaths
Four men plunged before an express train at Burhee station in Calcutta to halt service. The attempt failed. all four were killed as several hundred protesters demonstrated for better railroad service.
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India
Burhee
Divorce probe stalls as Los Angeles grand jury recessed
County Grand Jurors recessed the probe into Evelyn Throsby Scott 63 Bel Air heiress disappearance until May 29. Detective Chief Thad Brown appeared off the record as the jurors faced a stalemate due to noncooperation by L Eugene Scott and Mari Anne Beaman who refused to testify. The inquiry includes a home search at 217 North Bentley Bel Air and the district attorney aid to the panel.
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CNS
Evelyn Throsby Scott
Bel-Air
Thad Brown
Evelyn Thresby Scott
Brown
L. Ewing Scott
Scott
North Bentley
Skid Row B-Girl Crackdown Announced in Los Angeles
State Liquor Control officers will crack down on Skid Row B-Girls this week. Area Director Norman Woodbury warned owners who employ B-Girls may lose licenses and face fines or jail. Investigators check Skid Row bars to find irregularities and wholesalers supplying watered liquor to B Girls.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Norman Woodbury
Army Veterinary Corps Now Has More Men Than Horses
The Army Veterinary Corps reports 466 personnel, with 332 in food inspection, while owning 124 horses plus three retired on the books and 314 mules. The figures were presented to the House Appropriations Committee during 1957 budget hearings.
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Washington
Army
House Appropriations Committee
Dulles Opens NATO Talks in Paris
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrives in Paris to start a five day round of NATO meetings aimed at shifting focus from military defense to economic and cultural aid. He meets French Foreign Minister Pineau and will confer with Prime Minister Mollet and West German Foreign Minister von Brentano before the council session. Mollet and Pineau head to Moscow to meet Khrushchev and Bulganin.
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U.S
Christian Pineau
Guy ‘Mollet
Heinrich von Brentano
Mollet
Pineau
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Texas Flood Claims Four Lives In Brownwood Area
Raging streams in Texas have killed four people and threaten more damage. In Brownwood heavy rains up to 12 inches pushed floodwaters six feet deep over the Lake Brownwood Dam spillway, prompting evacuations of about 250 residents.
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Dallas
Texas
Brownwood
Lake Brownwood
Cops close San Francisco bridge club after vice raid
San Francisco vice squad shut down its second bridge club in two weeks after reports that professional players were fleecing patrons in quarter of a cent per point games. The club near Geary Street in the Somerton Hotel was closed yesterday.
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Somerton
Geary Street
Coeds Upset Buddhist Mecca at Osaka
At a 1100 year old Shingon Shshu Buddhist center in Osaka dissension erupts over admitting a mixed class of 35 shaven monks and six neophyte nuns. Guardians of the sect argue sex should not affect spiritual training while leaders insist the issue be resolved by the principal on medical leave.
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Osaka
Japan
Capital Pays Final Tribute to Barkley
Washington mourns Sen Alben Barkley with President Eisenhower leading notables and ordinary citizens at funeral rites in the capital. Barkley shows no illness before dying during his keynote political speech. Delegations from Congress and both parties attend the services at First United Methodist Church.
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Alben W. Barkley
Eisenhower
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Senate
House
Fowndry Methodist Church
Not All Dog Catchers Heartless Oxnard
City Manager Paul Wolven recalls a mother releasing her son’s dog to avoid the pound. The dog catcher chased the pet home and told the boy not to let it roam. Wolven said pound workers simply didn’t have the heart.
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Paul Wolven
Wolven
Methodists Pass Resolution on Segregation Reform
Methodists today adopted a sweeping resolution urging elimination of the churchs racially segregated administrative system with reasonable speed. The measure calls on Methodists nationwide to actively stamp out discrimination and asks pastors to admit members without regard to color.
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Minneapolis
Auto Industry Price Fixing Cited in Hearing
Attorney General Stanley Barnes warned a House Commerce Subcommittee that the auto industry shows a peculiar distribution system and that proposed legislation to curb bootlegging could target price fixing seen as a clear anti trust violation.
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Stanley N. Barnes
House Commerce
Barnes
Justice Department
Bodies Recovered After Isabella Lake Tragedy
Authorities recovered two fishermen missing since last weekend at Isabella Lake. John Newell 21 Bakersfield and Larry Harbin 23 Lakewood were found using skin divers and grappling hooks. Their companion Charles Anderson 21 Fruitvale was located yesterday.
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Larry Harbin
Lakewood
Charles Anderson
Fruitvale
Have You Heard the One About the Young Psychiatrist in Elevator
A humorous recap from a Chicago meeting where psychiatrists share jokes about their field. The anecdotes include a young and old psychiatrist in an elevator and a runner rushing to a 10 o'clock appointment, with quips about therapy and life.
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American Psychiatric Assa.ys
Motorist Dies in Freeway Crash
A motorist died when his car veered off the Hollywood Freeway and crashed into a tree. John Di Luccia, 44, of San Fernando, died on arrival at Hollywood Receiving Hospital. coroner cites possible heart attack. Accident occurred between Barham and Lankershim Boulevards.
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CNS
John di Luccia
Bradley
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Hollywood Receiving Hospital
Weather Outlook for Altadena and Nearby Areas
Low clouds tonight and early morning give way to afternoon sun. Tomorrow brings increasing high cloudiness. The report notes a maximum May high near 7 and a minimum around 49 with other pages listing weather sections and local features in the Altadena area.
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