Honeymoon Cruiser Skipper Drowns In Lake Erie Capsize
The Little Lady a 16 foot honeymoon cruiser capsized in stormy Lake Erie yesterday. Skipper Harvey Hecker 78 perished his wife Louise Lussier Hecker 70 survived after being pulled from the water by Herbert Durst of North East. The couple wed May 21 in Florida and had traveled thousands of miles on a small craft voyage.
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Lake Erie
Harvey Hecker
Herbert Durst
North East
Hecker
Florida
Louise Lussier
Munson
Mass
Coast Guard
Legal Fight Over Military Trials for Enemy Collaborators
Washington report on Maj. Ronald Alley and fellow servicemen charged with collaborating with the enemy in Korean prison camps. Defense lawyers argue constitutional limits on court martial for treason and question the wartime status. nine convictions cited as background. Proceedings delayed as legal challenge unfolds.
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Armed Services
Ronald E. Alley
Bar Harbor
Maine
Alley
Air Force
Congress
Ford E. Young, Jr
United States
Korea
Mixup Frees Wrong Man From Jail
A jail records mixup freed Andrew Fullilove 35, awaiting trial on assault with intent to kill and robbery charges, after guards mistook him for A J Fullilove 26 in Missouri on a cow theft. Chief Justice Austin ordered the release of A J Fullilove via a habeas corpus writ while authorities reviewed the error.
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Chicago
Fulliove
Cook County
Andrew Fullilove
A. J. Fullilove
Montgomery County
Miss
Texas High School Accepts Negroes at Alice High
Frances Lee White and Lenora Tisdell, both 17, believed to be the first Negro students to register at Alice High School. They joined 8 or 10 Negro seniors entering the formerly all white public school as the top four grades in the district have already been integrated.
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Texa
Texas
Frances Lee White
Lenora Tisdell
Alice High School
Guardsman Returns to Looted Home After Flood
Sgt Roy Lee, 25, Pennsylvania National Guardsman aiding flood relief in Stroudsburg area, found his East Stroudsburg home looted while his family escaped unharmed. He anticipated saving belongings but thieves took what the flood left behind.
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Stroudsburg
Pennsylvania
National
Dealer Walter Wilson Proclaims Cars For Thieves At Low Prices
In Dallas Walter Wilson, a Texan automobile dealer, advertised to attract thefts claiming to let thieves steal cars at low prices. He later complained that thieves took the wan ads literally as burglars stole spare tires and wheels from five 1955 models.
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Dallas
Walter Wilson
Sports Unit Asks State Park Quiz In Central New York
The Sports Unit seeks a probe into the state parks system in Central New York following charges of irregularities by Edward A. Hanna. Wayne M. Harris of the Monroe County Conservation Council announced the inquiry as a government letter to Governor Harriman. A 13% ton bell marks the hours for Big Ben.
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Rochester
Central New York
Wayne M. Harris
Monroe County Conservation Council
Harriman
Harris
Edward A. Hanna
Ulrica
Mother and Daughter Admit Murder in Detroit
A mother Lila Carter 34 and her daughter Mattie Brown 17 pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the fatal beating of 4 year old Erick Carter. Police found the boy's body in a sewer May 25. Sentencing set for September 7.
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Detroit
Lila Carter
Mattie Brown
Negro Leader Sees Long Bias Fight Ahead
Atlantic City report quotes Robert H. Johnson of Philadelphia stating the Southern push to retain segregated public schools will endure for years. He claims state officials and boards of education will use legal delays to block equal education and urges persistent action.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Robert H. Johnson
Philadelphia
Boards of Education
Mississippi Governor Runoff Chooses Coleman Or Johnson
Mississippi faced a bitter runoff for governor with about 400 000 voters casting ballots. Attorney General J. P. Coleman and Hattiesburg lawyer Paul Johnson fought over segregation loyalty and gambling influence while courting Gulf Coast interests.
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Coleman
Meridian
Yazoo City
Jackson
Fire damages three story brick building in Troy
A three story brick building occupied by the Trojan Electric Supply Co. Inc. sustained heavy damage from a blaze that occurred yesterday. Nearby structures were evacuated as firefighters battled the flames through the afternoon in Troy.
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Troy
Trojan Electric Supply Co. Inc
Bar Urges Congress U K Red Teachings
Philadelphia ABA delegates vote unanimously to back a Flood bill creating a commission to suggest school curricula distinguishing American life from atheistic communism. Dag Hammarskjold praises world sovereignty loss for liberty under law at ABA dinner with judges, while noting aggression ban details remain.
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Amer‘jcan
Assa
Congress
Daniel
Flood
D-Pa
Walter M Bastian
ABA
Russia
Dag
Hammarskjold
United Nations
U.N
Denmark
Section of Judicial Administration
Missing ring recovered for Siena College alumnus
ALBANY N Y 9 Broderick Spendiff has his Siena College class ring again two years after losing it in Korea while serving in 1953. A Korean cleaner found the ring last Fall and sent it to Father Benjamin Kuhn Siena alumnus director who traced Spendiff by initials and the 1952 graduation date.
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N.Y
Broderick Spendiff
Siena
Korea
Spendiff
Benjamin Kuhn
Kuhn
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