Senate Probe on Talbott Business Ties Goes On
Senate investigations remain open into Secretary of the Air Force Talbott and his stake in Mulligan & Co. He keeps the position under scrutiny, pledging to relinquish the partnership if deemed proper. Talbott defends no improper profits while detailing client contacts and RCA contract questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Milton Kelly Washington
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate
Air Force
Talbott
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
New York
Paul B. Mulligan & Co
Subcommittee
Mulligan
U.S. Air Force
Senate Armed Services Committee
Radio Corp. of America
RCA Service Co
RCA
Atty
Brownell
Robert F. Kennedy
Sam Ewing
Ewing
Kennedy
Johnson
Avco Manufacturing Co
Avco
Student Faces Murder Charge In Bryan Case
Burton W. Abbott an ailing 27 year old UC accounting student faces a murder charge over the death of 14 year old Stephanie Bryan. Police contend his alibi at a Trinity County cabin is false and a Wildwood innkeeper recalls him being away from Berkeley on April 28. Pathologist says the girl was beaten or strangled and a white cloth was tied around her neck as bloodhounds locate the body near Abbott’s cabin.
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Redding
Calif
Burton W. Abbott
Stephanie Bryan
Berkeley
Trinity County
University of California Accounting
A. H. Fording
Abbott
Wildwood Inn
Alameda County
George S. Loquvam
Alameda
Weather Outlook for Texas Shifts by Region
North Central and West Texas see partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. East and South Central Texas expect afternoon thunder showers with little temperature change. Coastal areas face gentle to moderate south and southeast winds.
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North Central
West
Texas
Ghost of Skyways Returns as Ford Trimotor Plan
Hayden Aviation Co. of Los Angeles plans to rebuild the Ford Trimotor, last built in 1934, with two a week, first flight next April. The modernized 450-horsepower craft will carry 6,000 pounds and feature a jeep-sized cargo door, aiming for cargo use abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Aviation
Phil Cooper
Hayden Aviation Co
Hayden
William B. Stout
Cooper
Ford
South America
Australia
South Africa
Adams Pressed For His Role In Dixon Yates Tie Up
Senate subcommittee presses Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams for the full story on his role in the Dixon Yates power contract cancellation. It questions Adams's refusals to testify and cites two letters about SEC hearings and Budget Bureau involvement.
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Adams
Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Senate
Sherman Adams
Dixon-Yates
Eisenhower
White House
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Threeman Subcommittee
Messenger
Executive Department
The
Gov
Atomic Energy Commission
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley Authority
AEC
Memphis, Tenn
TVA
Securities and Exchange Commission
House
Kenneth E. Fields
Adolphe H. Wenzell
Budget Bureau
First Boston Corp
Dixon- Yates
Wenzell
Paul L. Miller
First Boston
Miller
Richard W. Cook
Bureau of the Budget
Cook
F. Sinclair Armstrong
SEC
Armstrong
Jodie Monroe Dies at 87 in Snyder Home After 56 Years
Jodie Joe Monroe, 87, longtime Snyder resident, died at his home about 8:20 this morning. Funeral services are set for 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Monroe home with burial in Snyder Cemetery under Bell Funeral Home direction. He was born Sept. 10, 1887 in Georgia and survived by his wife, a daughter, two sisters, a brother, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
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Jodie
Joe) Monroe
Avenue M
Snyder
Monroe Home
John W. Reaves
First Christian Church
Snyder Cemetery
Bell Funeral Home
Mr. Monroe
Georgia
J. W. Monroe
Shrine
Hugh Taylor
Lulu Burson
Corona
Calif
Mary Gilmore
Whitney, Tex
Silverton
Tex
Hugh Taylor, Jr
Fred Bullard
Boy Loses Legs After Artillery Shell Explodes
In Elgin Texas an eight year old boy Lupe Villarreal Jr. had both legs amputated after a dud 85 MM artillery shell exploded when he struck it with a hammer. The shell was found Wednesday near Bastrop in the Camp Swift area and exploded yesterday.
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Elgin
Tex
Lupe Villarreal Jr
Camp Swift
Bastrop
Lupe
Woman from Snyder Pleads Guilty to Check Swindle
Mrs T J Lattion 40 of Andress Heights pleaded guilty to swindling with a worthless check and paid a 35 dollar fine plus costs totaling 23 50.
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Snyder
T. J. Lattion
Andress Heights Addition
Costa
Big Four May Continue Sessions On Into Night
London reports astonishment and cautious optimism over President Eisenhower’s offer to swap military blueprints and aerial reconnaissance with the Soviet Union. Reactions vary across Europe with Sweden Italy and Germany calling the plan grand and potentially revolutionary while Moscow gives a cautious straight report.
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James F. King
London
Eisenhower
Europe
West
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Britain
Geneva
Liberal News Chronicle
Russia
Sweden
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Rome
Il Messaggero
Il Popolo
Italy
Christian Democrat Party
Frankfurter
Randschau
Muenchner Merkur
Munich
Paris
Humanite
Copenhagen
B. T
Moscow
Hofheinz Edges Toward Impasse With City Council
Houston mayor Roy Hofheinz fights impeachment efforts as Dist Judge Ben F. Moorhead bars a 30 day suspension and refuses to block new actions by eight council members. The mayor and council clash over a November 19 election and charter amendments amid land office scandal probes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Ben F. Moorhead
Roy Hofheinz
Moorhead
Hofheinz
George Neal
George Kesseler
Survivors of Villa Army Hold Reunion in Mexico City
Survivors of Pancho Villa’s old army gathered at the National Lottery Building in Mexico City to mark the 32nd anniversary of Villa’s 1923 assassination. Hipolito Villa, a current congressman, was among those present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Pancho Villa
Hipolito Villa
National Lottery
Consolation From Adlai to Lyndon Johnson Postcard
Lyndon B. Johnson, recovering in Bethesda Naval Hospital from a heart attack, received a cordial letter from Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson writes he is resting on his farm with bronchial pneumonia and jokes about farm mishaps and heat before signing Cordially Adlai. The Houston Post published the letter this morning.
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Bethesda, Md
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Adlai Stevenson
Lyndon
Adlai
The
Houston Post
Cinderella Flair to Wed Aerial Wedding Over Iowa Skies
Minneapolis model Marion Sutton, 27, and Edward L. Williams, 52, Kansas City financier and cemetery magnate, plan a July 30 aerial ceremony over Northwood Iowa with sky writing hearts. Williams preserves secrecy as press kits go out, a Methodist minister withdraws, and gifts include a Kansas estate, horses, a white Cadillac, and a diamond watch.
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Joe F. Kane
Minneapolis
Marion Sutton
Edward L. Williams
Kansas City
Northwood
Iowa
Williams
Marion
Sutton
America
Cemetery
London
Sutton- Williams
Miss Sutton
Kansas
Witness Says Ranch Worth $40 An Acre
A defense witness Carl Conger Jones testified that the Rosenow Ranch in Kinney County is worth about 40 dollars per acre. The testimony aims to support the defense of ex land commissioner Bascom Giles in the Veterans Land program theft case involving a 6800 dollar alleged misappropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Rosenow Ranch
Veterans Land Program
Conger Jones
del Rio
Kinney County
Jones
Clint Small Jr
May Study Trade Out Suggested by Max Harrelson
Geneva report says the Big Four may hold a summit tonight to extend talks on disarmament and a Soviet US exchange of military blueprints. Molotov’s silence kept Russia's stance unclear as Eden Faure and Bulganin commented on the conference’s importance and possible directives for a U N subcommittee.
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Geneva
Eisenhower
Russia
United Nations
Council Chamber
Palais Des Nations
Washington
V. M. Molotov
U. N
Bulganin
Eden
Faure
Europe
Molotov
United States
U.N. Subcommittee On
Tass
Moscow Radio Today
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Skyways
Los Angeles
Jodie Monroe
Big Four
Ike
Charles Wilson
Wilber Brucker
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Pentagon
Washington, D.C
Brucker
Michigan
Defense Department
Robert T. Stevens
City
Villa
Mac Roy Rasor
Max Harrelson
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