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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1955
Page
12
Huntington police said James T. Wyatt, 34, faces felonious assault charges after beating his 8-year-old daughter Judy over an incident at a neighbor's home. Two of his five children have already been removed by the state, and Judy was handed to a welfare agency.
IRONTON Ohio a 15 year old Newton Hall charged with killing his father Joe Hall 37 is to undergo psychiatric and physical examinations. Juvenile Judge Helen Clarke set a hearing on the charge stemming from a shotgun death at the rural home last Friday. Prosecutor Harold Spears said the investigation indicates Hall was fatally wounded after returning intoxicated and firing several times at his wife. Mrs Hall said we had to protect ourselves.
The round the world tourist ship reached Papeete with visitors hoping to sample Tahiti’s famed gaiety but found most gay spots shuttered in the rain. Local mood darkened by the Conservative party’s election win and ensuing closures.
Congress nears adjournment as six key bills remain, including three money measures, a housing bill, a minimum wage raise, and a multibillion highway program. House and Senate debate timing and tax provisions, with foreign aid funds and a $1.85 billion cleanup measure moving toward conference. Funeral notices for Kermit Lane, Bessie Weaver, and Charles Wood accompany the political updates.
Richard Long reveals cancer relapse of wife Suzan Ball was hidden from her for months. Doctors warned nearly a year ago, yet she continued nightclub appearances in Tucson, Palm Springs and Buffalo. Ball, 21, lost a leg to cancer in 1954 and is now at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte. Long commutes nightly and praises studio support.
The Soviet government will film four pictures for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with no Communist propaganda. The works are paintings by Vincent Van Gogh from the Moscow Museum of Art to be used in MGM's film Lust for Life.
Russian delegates at the screening of The Seven Year Itch compliment Marilyn Monroe noting her body and star power. They offered mixed comments saying the film serves her, not the other way around, and warned against publishing remarks. Other delegates compared her unfavorably to Jane Russell, speaking about screen presence and facial expressions.
Mickey Rooney and Joey Foreman are set to replace Cox tonight at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas for the remaining run. Cox was hired July 15 for 11,000 dollars weekly, fired after July 18 and again July 26 amid poor turnout, and his pay status was not clarified by management.
A New York tax appraisal shows press agent Steve Hannagan left a gross estate of 1,109,551 with 218,399 going to movie actress Ann Sheridan. After taxes the net estate was 768,098 per Surrogate's Court report filed yesterday. Hannagan died of a heart attack at 53 in Africa in February 1953. Sheridan's share came via insurance policies naming her as beneficiary. Hannagan, twice married and divorced, frequently escorted Sheridan and they were rumored to marry.
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