Indiana Democrats Eye Expanded Delegates For 1956
Indiana Democrats opened a one day campaign strategy session in Indianapolis as Charles E. Skillen pledged to repeal GOP control. National chairman Paul M. Butler joined, signaling Indiana may send up to 52 national convention delegates, with 30 alternates, by changing vote allocations from 26 total votes in 1952.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Charles E. Skillen
Hoosier
Paul M. Butler
South Bend
Butler
Democratic State Committee
Skillen
Murderer Revealed Identity To Police During Quizzing
Mass murderer Leslie Irvin described his cross country flight to evade capture. He was traced to a San Francisco pawnshop where a suspicious pawnbroker alerted police after Irvin blurted out his identity during questioning.
Federal Court Asked To Reinstate Coed
Autherine Lucy seeks readmission to the University of Alabama and dormitory dining rights in two federal petitions filed in Birmingham. She charges trustees and the dean allowed acts preventing her education and attended classes were halted by school officials amid campus unrest. Hearings set for February 29 before Judge Hobart Grooms.
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Birmingham
Ala
University of Alabama
Autherine Lucy
U. S. Dist
Hobart Grooms
Miss Lucy
Grooms
Lucy
Board of Trustees
William F. Adams
State University
Red Cross Drive Sets 1956 Quota At Sixty-Two Thousand
Terre Haute Vigo county Red Cross campaign opens March 1 with a $62 000 goal announced by campaign chair E C Akerley The original target was 56 000 but 6 000 more was added to bolster the disaster fund The 1956 quota is 20 percent above last year
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Terre Haute-Vigo County
E. C. Akerley
Akerley
Mary Ginnan
Indiana
Red Cross
Putnam
Conn
William McKeen
Miller
Theodore Hegeman
Gordondane
James Humphrey
J. L. Stoelting
Physicians
Harold D. Douglas
George Hennes
Weather map and forecast for Terre Haute area
Mostly cloudy conditions with little temperature change through tonight and Saturday. High 42 today, low 39 tonight, sun‑up to 6 48 and sunset at 5 21. Indiana region partly cloudy today and tonight with little temperature change.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Rockne's Son Critically Hurt After Car Crash
John V. Rockne, 29, of South Bend Indiana, was in critical condition after a Thursday night crash that sent his car into a railroad viaduct abutment. Passenger Agnes Van Cleve, 49, of Chicago, died from injuries.
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Chicago
University of Notre Dame
Knute Rockne
John V. Rockne
South Bend
Ind
Agnes van Cleve
U S Signs Food Aid Deal With Japan
Tokyo reports the United States agreed to supply Japan with 65.8 million dollars of surplus U S agricultural products. Japan will pay in yen with 75 percent of the payment loaned back for development. the remaining funds will fund American housing and other projects in Japan.
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Tokyo
United States
Japan
U. S
German war criminal paroled over ill health
The U S Army in Bonn announces the release on parole of 63 year old Hermann Brueckner a German war criminal convicted of participating in the 1944 murder of a captured American airman at Weimar He was serving a life sentence before being freed due to ill health.
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Bonn
Germany
U. S. Army
Hermann Brueckner
Weimar
Senate Farm Bill Debate Set For February 20
The Senate Agriculture Committee, in a close 8-7 vote, approved an election year farm bill that couples President Eisenhower's soil bank with rigid price supports. The panel then added special provisions for dairymen, barley and flue-cured tobacco growers, and parity provisions at 90 percent for wheat, cotton, corn, rice, and peanuts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Soil Bank
Senate Agriculture Committee
U.S. Airlift Aids European Food Mission Amid Deep Freeze
Giant U S Air Force planes join an emergency airlift delivering food and fuel to snowbound villages across Europe during the coldest winter in a century. Weather deaths rise to 210 as Siberian air grips the continent from Greece to Italy with blizzards and record lows.
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London
U. S. Air Force
Europe
Turkey
Italy
English Channel
Channel Islands
Greece
France
Nice
Cannes
Germany
Weissenburg
Nuernberg
Milan
Treasurer Held in 145000 Theft
FBI arrested Cyril Marshall 54 treasurer of a subway workers credit union in New York for embezzling about 14000 over 13 years. A subway car inspector by trade, he served as treasurer since 1938 and allegedly used seven thousand to settle a loan from another credit union.
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New York
FBI
Subway
Cyril Marshall
Enaored Render Lr.t
Interrou Ist
Case Testifies In 2500 Dollar Gift Probe In Senate
Senator Francis Case testified in a Senate inquiry into a 2500 dollar contribution alleged to press for influence on a natural gas bill. Case said the donor, John M. Neff of Lexington Nebraska, gave the money to a friend with no strings. He will return the gift and emphasized no bribery occurred.
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Washington
Francis Case
Senate
Walter F. George
D.-Ga
Case
John M. Neff
Lexington
Neb
Neff
Special Committee
Pri
U. S. Senate
Air Force warns on Russian air power lead in supersonic race
Cincinnati February report notes Gen. Thomas D. White says Soviet air development is near or at dangerous parity with the United States and urges heavy U.S. emphasis on research as GE plans a 20 million dollar facility near Cincinnati for testing of supersonic engines.
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Cincinnati
Air Force
U. S
Thomas D. White
General Electric Co
White
Ferry capsizes off Formosa. three dead, 15 missing
Three people died and 15 are feared lost when a ferry capsized in rough seas off northwest Formosa on Thursday. Rescue teams search the area as survivors are accounted for.
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Taipei
Formosa
Gibson City Awards Garbage Contract To Lavern Gibson
The Board of Public Works and Safety awarded the five year municipal garbage collection contract to Lavern Gibson for 43 200. The deal takes effect March 11 and awaits City Council ratification on February 21. Other bids were Raymond J Kearns at 47 869 and Lawrence Leach at 62 000.
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Board of Public Works and Safety
Lavern Gibson
Gibson
Raymond J. Kearns
Lawrence Leach
Indiana Supreme Court
Terre Haute
Joseph Candelori
Kearns
Candelori
Tax Deadlines Near for Indiana Gross Income Payment
Local tax official Mr. L R Hole reminds taxpayers that the Indiana Gross Income tax is due Tuesday February 14. With Lincoln’s Birthday holiday Monday February 13, checks must arrive by midnight February 14 to avoid penalties.
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Indiana
L. R. Holé
Lincoln
Mr. Hole
Man recalls long flight from jail across the Midwest to California
An escaped prisoner from Princeton Indiana describes miles walked in snow and a cross country trek through Illinois Missouri Iowa Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah Nevada to Los Angeles. He claims to have ridden with about 100 strangers and was spotted only once by a truck driver who warned state troopers.
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Peru
Neb
Irvin
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
California
Irving
James English
Arizona
New Jersey
Atlanta
New Orleans
Wabash River
Mt. Carmel
Ill
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Sheriff Hollen to fly for Irvin return from California
Princeton Indiana Feb 10 Sheriff H Earl Hollen and a state police detail plan to fly to San Francisco to bring back escaped killer Leslie Irvin captured there Irvin 31 was arrested in a pawn shop and surrendered without a struggle Judge A Dale Eby orders top security measures and a motorcade to Michigan City State Prison for the electric chair case notes Irvin’s boastful call to Detective Cornett and weather chat during arrest arrangements finalized by Lt Walls and Supt Jessup
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Princeton
Ind
H. Earl Hollen
San Francisco
Leslie Irvin
Hollen
Gibson County
Irvin
Evansville
Gibson
A. Dale Eby
Indiana
Eby
Chicago
Michigan City
Walter Cornett
Cornett
California
Willard Walls
Jasper State
Frank Jessup
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Vic Davis
Tex Williams
Associated Press
Leslie
Mad Dog
By Keith L. Martin
Bulletin
Donald Thackrey
United Press
U.2
W. Wesley Kerr
Mount Vernon
Henderson
Trucker
Him
B. & Weather Buresac
U.S
Sen. Case
George
Committee
Charles W. Steadman
Gibson City
Don O’rear
Eff
U.P
Sheriff
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