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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1955
Page
13
Carl Hartman notes a large portion of France’s 43 million people are jobless or seeking work, with 19.2 million employed, wages around 126 francs per hour, and a growing elderly population. He projects housing shortages, population rise, and a possible 3 million more citizens by 1970, amid varied farm and service sectors.
Chicago officials ordered seven low-rate hotels along the Loop closed amid a city inspection surge. Acting Building Commissioner Richard Smykal said the closures followed fire-linked code violations found during a two week sweep of 179 hotels and 47 flop houses, with reinspection to begin Friday.
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr testified before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that during his tenure no security agency or individual suggested Harry Dexter White was a Soviet spy. Morgenthau said he would have suspended White and ordered a full investigation if charged with evidence.
Merle Mc Carley from Ireland was disqualified from Miss Europe after officials said she was born in Belfast Northern Ireland part of the British Empire. She argued she is Irish and should enter Miss England instead, in Belfast.
The London News Chronicle reports rumors in Belgrade that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov may retire at 67 due to failing health. He allegedly will be replaced by D. T. Shepilov, Pravda editor, instead of Andrei Gromyko, with Khrushchev and Bulganin in Belgrade for talks.
The will of Marie Halstead a 77 year old who died May 29 1955 was admitted to probate by Probate Commissioner John F OBrien and letters of administration issued to Katherine Radtke executrix. The estate valued at five thousand dollars in real property and fifteen thousand dollars in personal property. The instrument dated May 26 1954 was witnessed by Paula M Krausbek and Clifford O Shandy. One half of the residue goes to a nephew niece and granddaughter and the other half to three great grandchildren. Robert Marcia and Mary Ann English among others share in the portion with the great grandchildren. Property at 1611 Harding avenue is bequeathed to Mrs Radtke.
Chicago June 2 The estate of Mrs Charlotte Markshausen was going to the dogs at the rate of eight dollars a day Judge Robert J Dunne approved the sale of six Belgium schipperkes and two dachshunds owned by Mrs Marks hausen after he learned the cost of their feed bill
The will distributes cash amounts and property among family members and a church. Edwin English and his wife receive property at 1719 Harding avenue and 1717 South Third street respectively. Betty, a granddaughter, also inherits property. Other beneficiaries include Marie Hopkins William Glasmeire Betty Bailey Bertha English Halstead Linda great-granddaughter Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church and several specific relatives with amounts ranging from 25 to 1000 dollars.
The report notes fires break out every three minutes on average, persisting all day and night throughout the year, with fires activated across the forested regions without pause.
Force Capt. Raymond Wool denied taking a $50,000 bribe linked to a $2 million sailors cap contract while admitting false income tax returns for 1951 to 1953. He faced further questioning in a graft probe and acknowledged operating a Morristown dress shop with his wife.
Governor Craig announces William Storen of Indianapolis to succeed Karl Ammerman on the Board. Both are Democrats and Storen is identified as an Indianapolis banker.
About sixty workers at Terre Haute Boiler Works stayed off the job on Thursday after a Wednesday strike over higher wages. President Theodore Cliff said no further meetings are planned and noted the plant pays 15 cents an hour above the average at comparable plants in Indiana Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan.
The crushed body of Otto Harbison aged 72 was found beneath an overturned tractor in a field six miles south of Princeton Indiana on Wednesday afternoon.
Two youths Alton Gayel Cooley and Robert E. Harrison were arrested on reckless driving charges. Cooley, 21, was taken by Sgt Flow ers and Collins, while Harrison, 17, was halted at Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue after his erratic stop spooked local schoolchildren, according to officers Everly and Sgt Ray Tryon.
The 149th general synod of the Reformed Church in America convened at Buck Hill Falls Pennsylvania with about 250 elders and ministerial delegates in attendance. Election of officers was among the first actions on the agenda.
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