Floods Drive 500 Families From Homes in Oklahoma
Heavy rains flood streams across Oklahoma driving about 500 families from their homes. Sayre and nearby areas, including Randlett and Loveland, suffer severe overflow with a bridge washed out on U S Highway 66 and at least two drownings. Kansas and Texas report improving conditions as water recedes in Wichita and other cities.
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Sayre
Okla
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Cow Creek
Randlett
Red River
Loveland
Chikaskia
Blackwell
Little Arkansas
Wichita
Kan
Dodge City
Ulysses
Garden City
Trial judge bars key testimony in Fresno voting case
Dismissal closed the Page One trial as Judge Popovich withdrew an unintelligible recording. The defense contends Peckinpah pressured Roberts into a payoff and then planned to trap him, while the prosecution cites pre Jan 25 talks about campaign expense payments and Shoup machine bids. Evidence shows $1,000 moved between Roberts and Peckinpah, with Cadwallader named in dispute over compensation connections to Shoup machines.
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Popovich
Roberts
Peckinpah
Shoup
California
Automatic Voting Machine Company
Fresno
Fresno County
J. M. Cadwallader
Cadwallader
Board of Supervisors
Safecrackers Haul $2300 From Vancouver Dentist Office
Safecrackers drilled open a safe in the Painless Parker Dentistry office in Vancouver British Columbia and fled with about $2300 yesterday. Police investigated the break in and searched for suspects.
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Vancouver
B. C
Painless Parker Dentistry
Appeasement Label Rapped By McGrath
Philadelphia May 19 AP Attorney General McGrath warned the world faces a high stake struggle with communism. He urged careful use of resources to deter aggressors and said Korea is part of a global fight, not a local war. He defended restraint while rebuilding U S strength and allies.
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Philadelphia
McGrath
Korea
Yanks Deliver Heavy Fire in Tanks Through Chinese Swarm
American tanks carved eight miles into Chinese rear near Kumgong as infantry and half-tracks supported a driven column. Chinese leaped onto tanks with satchel charges and grenades while 90 mm guns blasted mines and fortifications. An artillery spotter described the scene with tanks ringed by charging Chinese.
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West-Central Front
Korea
Byorum
James R. Broussard
Ab- Beville
Winfield
Woodrow Brown
Miami
Fla
Businessmen Plan Sending Truth To Asia
In San Francisco a group of business leaders formed the Committee for a Free Asia to supplement Voice of America. Brayton Wilbur said the effort aims to inform Asia about America and oppose communism, including a large radio outreach to China and other Asian nations under Communist rule. George H. Greene was named president.
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San Francisco
Asia
America
Brayton Wilbur
Committee For A Free Asia
Voice of America
Wilbur
China
Asian
George H. Greene
National City Bank of New York
Economic Co-operation Administration
Far East
Leader of Coxey's Army Dies After Ninety Seven Years
Massillon Ohio May 19 AP Jacob S Coxey leader of the 1894 Coxey's Army dies at 97 after a life spent advocating money reform and a public works program. He led a 35 day march to Washington to press Congress for easy money and road building. Only three of eight children survive. Funeral Monday. He was twice Farmer Labor Party presidential nominee and served as Massillon mayor in 1931.
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Massillon
Ohio
Jacob S. Coxey
Washington
Coxey
Jacob
Youngstown
David
Cleveland
Ruth Wilson
Darien
Conn
Canton
Capitol
Farmer- Labor Party
United States
Collapse Of Wing Caused Air Crash
India's parliament was told the July crash of an Indian National Airways plane killed 22 people, including five Americans. The inquiry board cited port wing collapse from structural failure amid a thunder storm as the primary cause.
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New Delhi
India
Indian National Airways
Rafi Ahmed Kidwaii
Voting machine deal figure Eichelberger details schemes
Eichelberger described meetings with Stone and Donaher to push voting machine sales to Maricopa County. He claimed high pressure tactics were customary in his business and denied ties to supervisors. A later note implied direct contact with officials, though he said a signature wasn’t his.
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Eichelberger
Stone
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Hotel Adams
Monhon
A. M. Donaher
Washington, D. C
United States Chamber of Commerce
Automatic Voting Machine Corporation
Jamestown
N. Y
Shoup Voting Machine Corporation
Philadelphia
Automatic
Shoup
Michigan
Donaher
Maricopa County
East German Girls Buy Mates In West Editorial Notice
East German women seek escape to West Berlin by quick marriages paying $110 for temporary husbands. Der Stern reports German men, often actors, marry three or four times yearly with $55 paid at marriage and $55 at divorce, enabling flight to the western sector.
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Berlin
Germany
East Germany
West Berlin
der Stern
Ike Goes to Norway to Inspect Scandinavian Troops
Paris May 19 AP General Dwight D Eisenhower plans to depart soon to personally inspect Scandinavian troops stationed in support of Atlantic defense. The move signals heightened Allied coordination as war efforts expand in Northern Europe.
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Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mother's Jail Term Reviewed in Iowa Supreme Court
Mrs Jeannette Watson was freed on bond as the Iowa Supreme Court reviews a six month contempt sentence for refusing to serve on a murder trial jury. Judge Charlton ordered the term after she cited child care duties for her two sons aged five and eight.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Jeannette Watson
Iowa Supreme Court
Black Hawk County
Shannon B. Charlton
Watson
Defeatism Seen as U S Danger by State Official
Francis H. Russell, director of the State Department’s Office of Public Affairs, warned that defeatism is the greatest danger to the United States. Speaking to the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, he urged vigilance against both despair and desperation, insisting the U S is building military power to deter further Communist aggression.
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San Francisco
State Department
United States
Francis H. Russell
Office of Public Affairs
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Korea
Russell
U. S
China Admits Burma Move Along Border
In Rangoon on May 19 the Nation reported the Chinese embassy acknowledged Red troop movements along Burma's border. Kung Tafei, first secretary, said there have been such movements but he had no official Peiping instructions on disposition. A Burmese spokesman denied knowledge ofChinese reds massing on the frontier while police guard Rangoon's Chinese sector for pro Kuomintang and pro Communist clashes.
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Rangoon
Burma
Nation
Kung Tafei
Peiping
Fire Kills 35 Children in Kushiro Theater
In Kushiro on Hokkaido, a movie house blaze killed 35 children and three adults as they rushed a single exit. Eight others were seriously injured. In Numata, 100 miles north of Tokyo, another theater fire injured 42 people, 15 severely.
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Tokyo
Kushiro
Hokkaido
Japan
Numata
Bomb Wing Gets New Commander
Tokyo May 19 AP The United States Far East Air Forces relieves Brig Gen Luther W Sweetser Jr of command of the 452nd Bomb Wing Col Brooks A Lawdon a World War II combat veteran and former commander of the 35th Fighter Interceptor Wing succeeds Sweetser FEAF provides no reason for the change Reports say Sweetser was relieved for urging crew replacements and better logistic support His home is listed as Southern California
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Tokyo
United States Far East Air Forces
Luther W. Sweetser, Jr
452Nd
Brooks A. Lawdon
35Th
Sweetser
FEAF
California
Fire-Swept Dock Probed For Sabotage
Philadelphia officers probed sabotage after a $1,000,000 blaze swept a 600 foot pier and the British freighter Pineland injuring more than 50. Harbor patrolmen searched the Delaware River for three missing men, two crew members who jumped with 30 shipmates as flames engulfed the 2,700-ton cargo vessel. The cause remained undetermined. fire marshals examined the ruins amid six recent pier fires. Seamen and longshoremen fled ashore or leaped into the river.
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Philadelphia
Delaware River
Pineland
Acheson Aide Voices Stand For Chiang
Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk voiced renewed U S backing for Chiang Kai shek’s Chinese Nationalist regime at a China Institute dinner in New York on May 19 He asserted the national government of the Republic of China remains the authentic expression of the Chinese people’s will and called for independence from foreign control.
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New York
Dean Rusk
Chiang Kaishek
China Institute
Rusk
Chiang
China
Flames Devour Block Long Cross Street Market
A 14 alarm fire roared through Baltimore early today destroying the 400 foot Cross Street market and damaging scores of nearby shops and homes. Thousands fled as three firefighters faced smoke and a 69 year old woman was hospitalized. Damages run into hundreds of thousands of dollars as crews fought hot spots for hours.
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Baltimore
Cross Street Market
Plane crash near Rancharia leaves seven dead in Brazil
Wasp Airline reported a weather related crash near Rancharia, Sao Paulo. Seven people perished, including three passengers and four crew members, as the aircraft went down overnight.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Wasp
Rancharia
Time to Kill Loiterers Off Aldus Manutius Wall
A vintage anecdote recalls Aldus Manutius writing in 1514 of constant interruptions from scholars and loiterers. He notes visitors crowded into his office, delaying work, leading to a door notice urging visitors to state business briefly and depart promptly.
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Sixth Ave
van Buren
Aldus Manutius
Navagerus
Aldus
Atlas
Death by own action in Selma police officer case
In Selma Alabama on May 19 coroner Bernard Ids reported 21 year old Navy veteran Raymond Spock killed himself at home after chatting with his wife and guests. A mention of a Boaz gun battle preceded his act. Spock had joked about wanting to live a long time before taking his own life with a semiautomatic revolver.
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Selma
Ala
Bernard Ids
Raymond Spock
Boaz
Spock
Dea
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