Honeymoon Reunites Airman and Wife in Oregon Hideaway
Airman Daniel Schmidt and his wife Una reunited in an Oregon beach hideaway after Una flew from California. She had married another man believing Schmidt died in Red China. Schmidt calls it a first honeymoon, while earlier reunion failed in Nevada City.
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Portland
Ore
Daniel
Schmidt
Una
Red
China
California
Nellie Peters
United Press
Danny
Schmdit
Alford Fine
Morocco Istiqlal demands treaty revision for Sultan return
In Aix les Bains Morocco's Istiqlal party urged revision of the French protectorate treaty and asked for Sultan Mohammed V to be restored. Delegates pressed Premier Edgar Faure during a 24 hour meeting aimed at ending North Africa bloodshed. The talks followed a push by right wing leaders for a tough African policy.
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Aix Les Bains
France
Morocco
Istiqlal (Independence
Mohammed Ben Toussef
Edgar Faure
Istiqlal
Aix-Les-Bains
North Africa
Gilbert Grandval
Grandval
Faure
Istiqlal Independence Party
Paris
Africa
Algeria
Pierre
Truman Meeting Called SellOut in French Lick Tour
Former President Harry S. Truman will open a series of Democratic speeches at French Lick Indiana on Saturday night with all tickets sold. Another president is planned to speak Monday at Island, Michigan according to his office.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Democratic Committee
French Lick
Ind
Go Island
Mich
Truman Farm New Development Progress at Grandview
The Truman family sells a large farm near Grandview Missouri to a suburban developer. Former President Harry S Truman and siblings say farewell to the land while Vivian Truman and his sons buy a 40 acre plot near Louisburg Kansas. The family plans to stay nearby as progress moves in.
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Kansas City
Truman
Grandview
Harry S. Truman
J. Vivian Truman
Mary Jane
Truman Brothers
Louisburg
Kan
Vivian Truman
Vivian
Trumans
FBI Seeks West Terre Haute Couple in Burglary Case
Chief of Detectives Willard Gantz said a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution has been filed against Charles W. Crawford and Helen May Crawford both 32 on second degree burglary charges. The pair vanished last Friday while free on $2500 bonds after admitting at least ten safe cracks locally in February and more.
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Willard Gantz
West Terre Haute
Charles W. Crawford
Helen May Crawford
FBI
Crawfords
Gantz
Giant in German steel industry dies
Heidelberg Germany Aug 25 Dr Hermann Roechling longtime steel magnate of the Saar valley died in a Heidelberg hospital Wednesday night at age 83 He formerly led Roechling iron and steel works at Voelklingen and headed a German family that controlled Saar heavy industry for generations The Roechling holdings were seized in 1945 when American troops handed the Saar to France
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Heidelberg
Germany
Hermann Roechling
Saar Valley
Roechling Iron and Steel Works
Voelklingen
Saar
Roechling
France
Grandfather arraigned for hammer murder of granddaughter
In Texas City a 78 year old man was charged with murder after beating 9 year old Frances Jean Wallace to death with a hammer as she sat coloring. He admitted striking her about 20 times claiming she was making too much noise while he tried to sleep.
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Texas City
Robert Wallace
Asst. Dist. Atty. A. A
Glenn W. Wallace
Welfare aid totals 2.16 million in Indiana July
Indiana public welfare reports 2,159,499 dollars in aid paid in July. Funds went to 61,004 people in 47,000 cases, a decline from June by 10,807 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
State Department of Public Welfare
Eisenhower presses bid to test Soviet peace talk
President Eisenhower urges unity of Germany and end to the Iron Curtain in a Philadelphia speech to the American Bar Association. He vows not to accept injustices or trade freedom for a false peace as Dulles plans a New York address on US policy after Geneva. The UN will carry the test.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Eisenhower
Philadelphia
American Bar Association
Geneva
Germany
Dulles
John Foster Dulles
New York
Council On Foreign Relations
United Nations
Cutter Freed Of Blame For Faulty Vaccine
Public Health Service releases a long delayed report on a polio outbreak linked to Cutter vaccine. Industry sources say scientists did not pinpoint the exact cause after months of study, attributing issues to production methods rather than Cutter negligence. No license action against Cutter recommended. About 70 recipients were affected.
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Washington
Public Health Service Today
Cutter
State Delinquency Problems Studied in Indiana
Five-member committees for Indiana's 11 Congressional districts formed to launch a statewide juvenile delinquency survey. The groups met at Hugh P. O'Brien's Department of Correction office and plan a grass roots study starting about Oct. 1.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Hugh P. O’brien
State Department of Correction
Indiana Sees Spike in Foreign Sports Car Sales
Hoosiers embrace the foreign sports car craze with an estimated 1000+ cars in Indiana. Dealers like John Schaler say farmers and workers are buying them despite a 65 mph speed limit. Many now view sports cars as fun beyond top speed with attention shifting to coastal trends.
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Indianapolis
Schaler
Federal Funds Flow Into Devasted States
Government aid rushes to floodstruck six northeastern states and the Carolinas with emergency jobs unemployment relief and defense contracts. Civil Defense Chief Val Peterson coordinates efforts as agencies speed relief measures and Congress assures funds will be provided in January to cover diverted appropriations.
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Washington
White House
Carolinas
Office of Defense Mobilization
Civil Defense
Val Peterson
Shovel Burglar Held After Five Year Detroit Looting Spree
Detroit police say William E. Schlitz, 44, a plumbing salesman with four prison terms, is the Shovel Burglar who looted nearly 1,000 homes on Friday nights. He targeted fashionable Northwest Side neighborhoods, leaving a shovel as his calling card outside the last house. Detective Lt. Harold A. Brownfield led a 700-officer dragnet to catch him after five years of baffling the case.
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William E. Schlitz
Southern
Michigan
Detroit
Harold A. Brownfield
Civil Defense Auxiliary
Better Schools Meeting Forms Terre Haute Group
The first permanent meeting of the Non-Partisan Organization for Better Schools in Terre Haute was held at the Armory on North Ninth Street. About seventy-five attendees heard that selecting a five member school board slate would wait until next month. Mrs. Paul Bray presided as PTA prayer opened the session, with plans for non-partisan school direction outlined.
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Organization For
Terre Haute
Armory
North Ninth Street
Fiveman
Paul Bray
Bray
City Council of Parents and Teachers
Richard
Commander of U S 7th Fleet Named
Washington reports Rear Admiral Stuart H Ingersoll, former assistant chief of naval operations, will replace Vice Admiral A M Pride as commander of the U S 7th Fleet in a routine change of command. Pride's new assignment was not disclosed.
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Washington
Stuart H
Navy
Ingersoll
A. M. Pride
Pride
Longshoremen End New York Wildcat Strike
All longshoremen returned to work today ending a three day wildcat strike that tied up the Hudson River waterfront. It began at a Grace Line pier after John McLoughlin 51 was refused a work permit by the waterfront commission due to a police record as a gunman burglar and parole violator.
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New York
Hudson River
Grace Line
John McLoughlin
Waterfront Commission
McLoughlin
Record Deaths This Month On Famed Turnpike
Bedford Pa August 25 1954 the Pennsylvania Turnpike toll road sees a record death toll this month with seventeen killed in traffic accidents bringing the year to date to fifty seven deaths. Officials cite bad tires excessive rain and driver speed as major factors.
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Bedford
Singleton Sheaffer
Turnpike
Associated Press
Four Story Cairo Building Collapses During Roof Wedding
A four story building in Cairo collapsed during a rooftop wedding party of 300 guests. At least five people were injured with 38 in serious condition. Police and rescue teams reported the accident and disorderly scenes as officials investigated the collapse.
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Cairo
Egypt
Red Cross Plans Flood Relief Fund Drive
Junior Red Cross volunteers and staff aides will type and mail letters to churches and community groups as a flood relief fund campaign begins. Birch Bayh Jr. is appointed flood relief chairman with committees led by Mrs. Rex Bryant Floyd Foster Captain George Balzer Rev. Joseph Beechem and Mrs. Herbert Seymour coordinating the mobile unit and appeals. Disaster Fund Down.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Chapter
Birch Bayh, Jr
Rex Bryant
Floyd Foster
George T. Balzer
83Rd Special Infantry Company
United States Marine Corps Reserve
Joseph Beechem
Herbert Seymour
Flood ruins home of longtime worker in North Grosvenor Dale
In North Grosvenor Dale Connecticut a gray haired woman and her 62 year old husband survey ruined furniture and flooded rooms after last week’s floods. Mr Dery, once employed at a Cluett Peabody mill now closed, reports job loss and tied up finances before the disaster. Their home shows plaster damage and buckled floors as they begin cleanup.
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North Grosvenor Dale
Conn
Dery
Cluett Peabody Mill
Allis-Chalmers Plant Seizure Denied by Union
L. W. Long of Allis-Chalmers Terre Haute says wages will be paid Friday at 2 PM for Local 114 workers while Milwaukee mediation continues. Union officials dispute claims of illegal seizure and access passes, saying identifications are needed but not illegal.
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L. W. Long
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Terre Haute
United Auto Workers
Mr. Long
Allis-Chalmers
Milwaukee
United Automobile Workers
Northside
A. L. Wood
Government seizes control of newsprint in Colombia
Bogota reports President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's government will regulate price and distribution of newsprint. The action follows a long running feud with the press and a prior censorship order against newspapers criticizing government handling.
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Bogota
Colombia
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Weather Summary for Terre Haute and Vicinity
The forecast calls for fair and a little warmer tonight and Friday in Terre Haute and surrounding area. Low tonight around 65, high Friday in the mid 80s. Indiana mostly fair and warm with cooler southerly winds and clear to partly cloudy skies ahead.
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Terre Haute and Viscinity
Indiana
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