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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1955
Page
1
President Eisenhower said he will decide after the Senate investigation ends whether Secretary of the Air Force Talbott improperly used his office and should be fired. Talbott acknowledges earnings from Mulligan & Co. while in government service and denies wrongdoing.
President Eisenhower said the United States would consider allowing peaceful foreign planes to fly over to exchange military blueprints and conduct aerial inspections as part of the Geneva proposal. He minimized optimism for a settlement now, noted uncertainty about a U S Red China meeting, and discussed Dixon Yates and Zhukov talks while stressing a shift to collective Soviet leadership at Geneva.
Secretary Harold Talbott told senators he is leaving the management consulting firm Paul B Mulligan & Co as Senate inquiries continue. President Eisenhower said he will decide after the inquiry whether Talbott misused his office and should be fired, stressing officials must meet law and ethics standards.
After seven years of Nazi rule and a decade of Allied occupation Austria became free and independent. With France ratifying the Austria treaty in Moscow, the four power regime ended as US Britain and the Soviet Union deposited ratifications. Occupation forces to withdraw within 90 days. Vienna cheered as flags came down and Koerner urged peace and neutrality. Local radio faced a shift as American programs ended on the now-defunct network.
Mrs. Mary Donovan 37, daughter-in-law of Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, died of barbiturate poisoning with undetermined circumstances. Her body was found in the Donovan summer home in South Dartmouth Massachusetts after she traveled from Berryville Virginia with her daughter Patricia 14. The deceased, born Mary Grandin of Warren Pennsylvania, married David Donovan in 1938. Gen Donovan led OSS during World War I.
Congressman Robert Byrd urges relocating Camp Carson from Colorado to West Virginia citing Colorado Springs water strain for the Air Force Academy and mountain troop training. He lists Beckley Madison Logan and Charleston as possible sites and notes logistical strengths and heavy winter snows.
An El Al Constellation flight from Vienna to Israel was shot down near the Greece Bulgaria border with fire from Bulgarian anti aircraft guns. Authorities say 57 to 58 aboard may be dead including three Americans and eight Britons. An Israeli inquiry is planned as Greece and Bulgaria discuss the incident.
Two of the 1944 bomb plotters against Hitler, Heusinger and Speidel, were named to senior ranks in West Germany's new army. The Security Committee of the Bundestag approved a broad officer list for a 6,000 man initial force, with plans for a 500,000 man force aligned to the Atlantic Alliance. Speidel, now Bonn's civilian rep at SHAEF, and Heusinger, former war planning chief, hold lieutenant general ranks. posts to be assigned.
Two Raleigh County area men wanted for auto theft escaped from the State Penitentiary on a work detail at Old Sweet Springs and were captured in Memphis Tennessee. George Edward Smith of Dry Creek and George Junior Lafferty of Princeton are charged with burglaries in Tennessee and Arkansas and a 1949 auto owned by Kenneth Cline has been recovered in Tennessee awaiting reclaim. Prosecuting Attorney Anthony J. Sparacino said detainers will be filed if Tennessee holds them for trial.
Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev will visit Britain next spring, Prime Minister Eden announced as the House of Commons cheered the news.
Jennings Gainer, 17, Grantsville, was released from Raleigh County Jail after posting a $6,000 bond arranged by his father Cleo Gainer and set by Criminal Court Judge Harry L. McCreery. Gainer was arrested on charges of rape and statutory rape on July 16, less than ten days after another rape charge against him was withdrawn by the complainant.
MILWAUKEE The Rev. George P. Crist Jr. pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Durham Waukesha County faces a closed trial before the Northwest Synod United Lutheran Church of America on charges of adulterating the word of God and mixing his own opinions with Scripture. Crist admitted holding controversial views claiming truth behind the Bible and focusing on Jesus rather than birth or miracles, with a five member committee having returned the charges June 30.
A new member has been appointed to the local alcoholic beverage control board in North Bergen New Jersey. The appointee is Mrs Tom Collins.
The Raleigh County Young Democrat Club steering committee plans a state convention program meeting at the County Courthouse at 7 30 p m Friday August 26 27. John C Ward general convention chairman said the session will focus on formulating the program for the state conclave.
More than 200 prisoners rioted for near ly three hours at the Bexar County Jail in San Antonio. The disturbance ended after assurances of no punishment. jailers guarded through the night. Rioters cited scarce food and damage to the fourth and fifth floors. some prisoners reported bumps and cuts. No officers were seriously harmed.
Benny N. Smith of Stanaford was sentenced to one to ten years in the State Penitentiary by Raleigh County Criminal Court Judge Harry L. McCreery after pleading guilty to grand larceny. A probation motion was denied, and Smith was ordered to appear July 12, then extradited from Cleveland, Ohio, on petit larceny charges before re sentencing.
Jeremiah Saunders of Fireco was fined ten dollars and sentenced to thirty days in Raleigh County Jail by Magistrate J E Mays after arrest on a charge of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.
Besoco resident Jesse Moore 69 died Tuesday afternoon in a local hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and the body is at Wright Funeral Home.
George Ignots, 65, a janitor at Kimball Junior High School, was found slain in his isolated Carswell Hollow home near Kimball. Police reported the weapon not yet recovered and no immediate suspects as state troopers and local officers investigate.
Mostly fair tonight with lows 62 to 68 in the east and 66 to 72 in the west. Thursday will be partly cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers mainly in the north, then cooler at night in extreme north. Beckley highs yesterday and lows last night. Oak Hill highs and lows. rivers at Bellepoint and Greenbrier and New all below normal, clear.
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