Floods Drive 500 Families From Homes
Heavy rains lashed Oklahoma causing widespread flooding that left about 500 families homeless. Cow Creek water inundated Sayre and nearby towns, with bridges washed out on U.S. Highway 66 and at least two drownings reported in a car. In Blackwell and Loveland areas high water isolated communities while Kansas cities Dodge City Ulysses and Garden City reported rising floods easing in places.
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Sayre
Okla
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Cow Creek
Gathine
Randlett
Red River
Dismissal Marks Trial Turn. Recording Excluded as Unintelligible
Centered on Fresno County voting machine case Judge Popovich sustained a pretrial ruling restricting testimony to events after January 25. Prosecution alleging prior bribery arrangements with Peckinpah and Roberts, including money allegedly exchanged or offered, while defense argued the motive and sequence varied.
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Popovich
Roberts
Peckinpah
Safecrackers Drill Safe at Vancouver Dentist Office
Safecrackers made a $2,300 haul yesterday when they drilled open a safe in the office of Painless Parker Dentistry in Vancouver British Columbia. Police are investigating the break in and reviewing security footage. No injuries were reported.
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Vancouver
B. C
Painless Parker Dentistry
Duel Ends in Death Near Sonoita Stock Pens
Hathaway and Telles argued over insults to Hathaway’s wife and Mrs. Edith Whiteside. Telles returned with a gun. Hathaway fired in self defense, wounding Telles fatally. Judge Johnson told jurors to consider life danger and reasonable doubt. Sonoita stockpens lie 34 miles east of Nogales.
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Ruffo Espinosa
Santa Cruz County
Sonoita
Jim Hathaway
Juan Telles
Telles
Hathaway
Cicero Martin
State Sanitary Livestock Board
Cleston
Chandler
Page One
Mathaway
Edith Whiteside
Elgin
Johnson
Nogales
Voting machine bid case linked to city supervisors
Eichelberger described efforts to involve city supervisors in procuring voting machines after reading reports of a warehouse fire. He said he contacted manufacturers in Jamestown and Philadelphia, and that Shoup bid $289,746 while Automatic offered $283,800. A deal to split commissions with Monahan was discussed but not agreed. The matter then drifted from his involvement as literature was sent to supervisors.
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Peckin
Roberts
Peckinpah
Shoup
California
Automatic Voting Machine Company
Fresno
Assembly
Fresno County
J. M. Cadwallader
Cadwallader
Board of Supervisors
Eichelberger
Stone
McCarthy
United States Chamber of Commerce
Washington, D. C
Utomatic Voting Machine Corporation
Jamestown
N. Y
Shoup Voting Machine Corporation
Philadelphia
Automatic
Michigan
Monahan
Maricopa County
Eicchelberger
Plane crash kills seven in Brazil near Rancharia
Wasp Airline reported an aircraft crashed in bad weather near Rancharia Brazil killing all seven aboard including three passengers and four crew. The May 19 incident occurred at night prompting investigations into weather conditions and flight safety.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Wasp
Rancharia
Leader of Coxey's Army Dies in Massillon at 97
Massillon Ohio May 19 AP General Jacob S Coxey died at 97 after a life tied to the 1894 Coxey's Army protest for easy money and road-building funds. He led a small march to Washington, faced arrest, later spoke in Congress, and served as Massillon mayor in 1931. He left four surviving children and several grandchildren. Funeral services will be held here Monday.
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Massillon
Ohio
Jacob S. Coxey
Washington
Coxey
Jacob
Youngstown
David
Cleveland
Ruth Wilson
Darien
Conn
Canton
Capitol Lawn
Congressional
Capitol
Irked Drafter Quits Board Over Policy Protests
Charles B. Bird, a Stockton Draft Board member for 11 years, resigned in protest of U.S. foreign policy. He charged the administration as incompetent and criticized UN debates while the war continued. He faulted U.S. support of the British empire and aid to nations aiding enemies, in a letter to Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey.
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Stockton
Calif
United States
Charles B. Bird
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Bird
United Nations
Bomb Wing Gets New Commander
Tokyo report states Brig. Gen. Luther W. Sweetser Jr. is relieved of command of the 452nd Bomb Wing. Col. Brooks A. Lawdon succeeds him as commander. The Far East Air Forces gave no reason. rumors suggest issues with crew replacements and logistic support. Sweetser's home is in 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
Businessmen Plan Sending Truth To Asia
San Francisco leaders form the Committee for a Free Asia to counter Communist influence. Brayton Wilbur says the group will augment Voice of America with a broad radio push to reach China and other Asian nations. George H. Greene is named president, bringing Far East and banking experience.
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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
Beef Rollback Faces Knitting By Farm Bloc
Washington May 19 Opposed by a congressional farm bloc the effort to cut beef prices faces doubt. Farm lawmakers from both parties say privately they hope to block the Aug 1 and Oct 1 rollbacks aimed at lowering retail beef 9 to 10 cents per pound by Oct. 1. The first rollback at the packinghouse level takes effect tomorrow with no guaranteed consumer price drop. Price stabilization official DiSalle warns no immediate break for shoppers. extension of the Defense Production Act likely to be debated in Congress. Rep Poage says farmers deserve the same fair return now guaranteed to packers and processors.
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Washington
Congressional Farm Bloc
Michael V. DiSalle
Congress
W. R. Poage
Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Fire-Swept Dock Probed For Sabotage
In Philadelphia on May 19 officials probed sabotage in a $1,000,000 blaze that 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 of them crew, who jumped overboard with 30 shipmates as flames engulfed the 2,700-ton vessel. Authorities noted the rapid spread and six other pier fires in recent weeks as fire marshals examined the ruins. Seamen and longshoremen fled ashore or jumped into the river during the blaze.
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Philadelphia
Delaware
Pineland
East German Girls Buy Mates In West
East German girls anxious to flee East Germany and live in West Berlin are paying husbands in short term marriages for 110 dollars. Under terms of quickie marriages, 55 dollars is paid at the ceremony and 55 when dissolved by divorce. The German magazine Der Stern reported that many men, mostly unemployed actors, marry three or four times a year.
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Berlin
Germany
East Germany
West Berlin
der Stern
Sign on Sixth Ave Garage Wall Echoes Aldus Warning
A wall sign near Sixth Ave and Van Buren warns visitors to keep business brief to avoid interruptions. The note recalls Aldus Manutius in 1514 asking visitors to state their business and depart promptly to keep his office focused on work.
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Sixth Ave
van Buren
Aldus Manutius
Navagerus
Aldus
Hercules
Atlas
Death by Own Action Hints at Sudden Whim in Selma
Coroner reports Raymond Spock a 21 year old Navy veteran killed himself at home after chatting with his wife and guests. He prior said he wished to live a long time and then fired a service revolver into his mouth, death ruled as death by own action.
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Selma
Ala
Bernard Reynolds
Raymond Spock
Boaz
Spock
Dea
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Time Out For
Korea
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
West Point
David Marcus
West Pointer
New York
Marcus
Republic
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Air Force
THE
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Falcon
Hollywood
Gabardine
E. Indian School
W. van Buren
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