DC3 Crash in East Texas Kills 19 in Storm
A Delta-Chicago Southern DC3 crashed in East Texas near the Louisiana border after entering a violent rain storm. Nineteen people died, with one woman surviving after the plane tumbled repeatedly. Among the dead were stewardess Jo Anne Carlson and infant Jesse David Fincher. Mrs. Cox survived with serious injuries and described waking to the plane in water and people screaming. William Oatis heads home to reunite with his wife Laurabelle in New York after 25 months in Czechoslovak prison.
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Marshall
Tex
East Texas Piney Woods
Here
Douglas Volk
Atlanta
Shreveport, la
J. W. Cox
Panama City
Fla
Marshall Hospital
Jo Anne Carlson
Chicago
Millard Cope
Marshall News Messenger
Cox
Albuquerque
N. M
Jackson
Miss
Florida
R. H. Fincher
Jesse David
Abilene
Fincher
India
Harvey T. Newell Jr
Meridian
Pi Kappa Alpha
Dallas
British Hussars to entertain Polish troops in Warsaw
The Queen's Own Seventh Hussars will fly to Warsaw after the coronation procession to entertain Polish troops at a coronation ball. The 22 member band from Britain will board a plane for Communist Poland to perform.
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Warsaw
Poland
Britain
Seventh Hussars
Weather Summary from United States Weather Bureau Downtown
Temperatures recorded at three hour intervals from 2 p m yesterday to 11 a m today show highs near 75 to 77 and a low around 47. Precipitation for 24 hours ending today at 11 a m was trace with month to date .29 and year to date 1.99. Sunrise 4 56 Sunset 6 53 length of day 14 hours. Forecast calls for swelling cloudiness with scattered sprinkles or light showers and little temperature change. Highest today 80, lowest tonight 48.
Order dissolves anti ice cream stand injunction
District Judge George T. Harris signed an order dissolving a temporary injunction in the case of N Wallace and Mary A Wilson vs James M Hill and Zella A Hill. The dispute centers on building an ice cream dispensing station at 710 South Lea amid a zoning debate and Wilsons’ property at 706-08 South Lea.
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South Sea
George T. Harris
N- Wallace
Mary A. Wilson
James M
Zella A. Hill
Wilsons
Hills
South Lea
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Ribbon Cutting Marks Museum Garden Dedication
The ribbon was cut to dedicate the municipal rose garden at the museum grounds yesterday afternoon with about 100 attendees. Mrs. Amelia Church and Ralph Vandewart performed the cutting and the event honored the late Mrs. Vandewart and Mrs. Church. Col. Paul Horgan spoke as museum board president, and Rev. Austin H. Dillon delivered the benediction.
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Museum
Amelia Church
Ralph Vandewart
Vandewart
Church
Col
Paul Horgan
Museum Board
Dan H. Wilmot Jr
Warren R. Cobean
Austin H. Dillon
Garden Club
Britain rejects embargo on non-strategic trade with China
Foreign Under Secretary Anthony Nutting told the House of Commons that Britain has no plan to impose an embargo on non-strategic trade with Communist China. He stated the country is complying with a United Nations resolution banning shipment of strategic goods to communist states.
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London
Anthony Nutting
House of Commons
Britain
China
United Nations
Sgt Gerald Neighbors Honored In Amarillo Armed Forces Day
Sgt Gerald E Neighbors a Korean War veteran and Roswell native was guest of honor at Amarillos Armed Forces Day parade observed Saturday morning He watched from the reviewing stand with Gen Ray H Clark Neighbors wife Cindy and their 2 year old daughter attended Mrs J R Russell his mother lives in Roswell The sergeant born in Pampa Texas considers Hereford home while his wife and daughter reside in Hereford
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Roswell
Gerald E
Jerry) Neighbors
Amarillo
Walker Air Force Base
Walker
Sgt
Neighbors
Seventh
Polk
Ray H Clark
Amarilllo
Cindy
Pampa
Texas
Hereford
J. R. Russell
Russell
East Hoagland
World’s First Triple Jet Ace Is Produced in Korea
Ministers appointed Sunday in the New Mexico Methodist Conference at its 64th annual meeting included Bishop W. Angie Smith urging clergy to devote more time to church members. Appointments span Aztec to Dryden with districts like Santa Fe Las Cruces Hobbs and Pecos Valley naming pastors and superintendents.
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Korea
New Mexico
Roy — Conrad Nugent
Santa Fe
Howard Bush
Springer
Roy Herndon
Clovis
Joe Scrimshire
Thomas H. Raper
First Church
J. R. Bunts
Trinity
Elida Inez
Hardin L. Atkins III
Eunice
D. A. Shaw
Floyd
Robert Love
Ft. Sumner
Jesse F. Watson
Grady J. Noble Atkins
Hobbs
Leroy Sewell
Ed Hamilton
Southern Heights
Jal
Clarence Stanfield
Logan-Nara Vista
A. B. Pope
Lovington
Ray W. Ross
Melrose
J. J. Spurlin
Portales
Fulton Moore
Rosedale
James G. Wayne
San Jon
Léeroy Smith
Santa Rosa
Ira E. Williams
Tatum
Joe Bickley Jr
Texico
M. H. Stroup
Tucumcari
Thermon Harris
Vaughn Encino
D. A. Shaw Jr
Wesley Foundation
Eastern New Mexico University
Olaf Hoggard
el Paso
Arvin Turner
Baart Watts
Ashbury
H. L. McAlester
Floyd Peters
Fort Boulevard
C. Raymond Gray
Grace
Sam Freeman
Highland Park Park
Hollis Shook
St. Mark’s
Walter R. Willis
D. L. Hinckley
George Riter
Las Cruces
Nelson Wargler
Hatch
Donald Sim
Curtis Walker
Hillcrest
Dexter
C. F. Ault
Hagerman
G. H. Woolf
Loving J. A. Bell
Roswell
Austin H. Dillon
R. C. Cantrell
A. A. McCleskey
Sanderson-Dryden
Two Boys and a Man Held in Dope Case
Police say 16 and 17 year old boys and Alfonso Franco were arrested in a marijuana sale and possession case. Officers worked a week on the investigation and 24 arrests were made Saturday including thefts and drunks.
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Tommy Thompson
Alfonso Franco
Franco
East Albuquerque
North
Delaware
H. A. Taylor
Thompson
Harry Puryear
Sabre Pilots Bag 12 MIGs In Hot Fights
American Sabre jet pilots reported destroying 12 Communist MIGs today as a slender California sharpshooter became the world’s first triple jet ace. It was the sixth straight day of furious air battles over North Korea. The Allied tally for that period stood at 35 MIGs destroyed, 2 probably downed and 17 damaged. Captain Joe McConnell of Apple Valley California claimed three more MIG kills, his 14th through 16th.
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Seoul
California
North Korea
U. S
Joe McConnell
Fifth Air Force
McConnell
Manuel Fernandez
Fernandez
Miami
Fla
George Ruddell
Eugene
Ore
Air Force
Louis A. Green
Lexington
N. C
Pukhan River
Korea
Eighth Army
Chorwon
Apple Valley
Calif
Yellow Sea
Truman Says He’d Like to Be 19 Again
Former President Harry S. Truman, aged 69, told students at Congregation B Nai Jehudah that he would give anything to be 19 again to witness the next 50 years. He urged young people to embrace responsibility as atomic age developments unfold and to always do right.
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Kansas City
Harry
Truman
Congregation B’nai Jehudah
Eisenhower to Sign Tidelands Rights Bill in Ceremony
Washington reports the White House will stage a signing ceremony for the tidelands measure giving states title to submerged lands. President Eisenhower returns to Washington to sign after prior vetoes by former President Truman, amid potential Supreme Court challenges and debates over state versus federal control of oil‑rich shores.
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White House
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Chesapeake Bay
Truman
Tidelands
Supreme Court
California
Texas
Louisiana
Senate
Florida Gulf
Japanese House elects Tsutsumi speaker and Hara vice speaker
Japan's newly elected House chose Yasujiro Tsutsumi of the Progressive Party as speaker by 252 to 206 and Hyo Hara, a Left Socialist, as vice speaker by 233 to 220, marking a sharp challenge to Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida.
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Tokyo
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
Yasujiro Tsutsumi
Progressive Party
Hyo Hara
Detailing five players in a mixed league baseball box score
Garver and Ginsberg, Bucha, Hudson, Kennedy and White feature in a league game box score. Detroit and Boston duels appear with line scores and batting records.
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Detroit
Boston
Garver
Ginsberg
Bucha
Hudson
Kennedy
White
Death of Rep Merlin Hull reduces House GOP to 431
The death of Wisconsin Republican Rep Merlin Hull yesterday in Wisconsin lowers the House membership to 431. Hull was the first Republican casualty of the 83rd Congress, dropping the Republican tally to 220.
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Washington
Merlin Hull
Wisconsin
Hull
House
Veterans of Korea Presented Medals at Armed Forces Day
At Walker Air Force Base a parade marked Armed Forces Day while five Korean War heroes were honored. Hiram Dow, Roswell attorney and civilian aide for New Mexico to Secretary of the Army R. T. B. Stevens, presented nine decorations.
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Veterans of Korea
Armed Forces Day
United States
Walker Air Force Base
Hiram Dow
Roswell
New Mexico
R. T. B. Stevens
Army
Eugene A. Lange
Harold E. Hertzog
State of Washington
Earl L. Taylor
St. Mary’s Hospital
Navy
New Mexico Military Institute
Civil Air Patrol and
National Guard
Walker
Ridgway asks Congress for more billions for Europe buildup
Gen Ridgway arrives from Paris to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and later the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about NATO military buildup funding. His testimony is a prelude to his duties as Army chief of staff. The event follows his appointment by Eisenhower to lead Europe.
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Gen. Ridgway
Europe
Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Korea
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ridgway
Paris
Army
Eisenhower
Tokyo
Far East
NATO
Eisenhower Splits Duties Aboard Williamsburg Yacht
President Eisenhower returns to Washington aboard the Williamsburg after a weekend mixing business with leisure. He spoke at William and Mary College in Williamsburg and golfed at Annapolis and Norfolk with Adm. Turner Joy and Adm. Lynde McCormick. He worked on a nationwide radio address on national security federal spending and taxes, to be delivered tomorrow night. The voyage marks his final trip aboard the presidential yacht, soon to be retired as a symbol of luxury.
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Chesapeake Bay
Eisenhower
Washington
Williamsburg
Capital
William and Mary College
Norfolk
White House
James C. Hagerty
Annapolis
Naval Academy Midshipmen
Bancroft Hall
Lawyers Entreat to Return Six Files to Clerk
The district clerk’s office posts a notice urging attorneys to return six case files. The tongue in cheek remark likens lawyers to plumbers forgetting their tools as the files remain outstanding.
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Bruce G. Holbaugh
St. Louis
John J. Estrada
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