Eisenhower backs fair trial for American GI in Japan
President Eisenhower said he is confident William S. Girard will receive a fair trial in Japanese courts and that the U S government will monitor the case closely. He praised the Japanese judicial system and noted U S legal experts call it eminently fair in cases involving American soldiers.
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U.P
Eisenhower
William S. Girard
U. S
Girard
Army
Naha Sakai
India’s Demand To Enter Arms Talks Undecided
The six day recess of the fire power disarmament conference left India's request to join the talks undecided as Britain France Canada and the United States opposed. Russia supported the move and U S delegate Harold E Stassen was expected to present a new partial disarmament plan when talks resume. The Soviet Union used the delay to push propaganda on fears of further nuclear tests.
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London
India
Russia
Britain
France
Canada
United States
Whitmonday
U. S
Harold E. Stassen
Soviet Union
Bayh Avoids Comment on Senate Nomination Bid
Vigo County Representative Bayh Jr. declined to comment on a report he would seek the Democratic nomination for United States Senator William Jenner's seat at next year's party convention. He said the convention is still a long way off.
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Vigo County
Birth Bayh, Jr
United States
William Jenner
Bayh
Quinn Re-elected C of C President in Terre Haute
The Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce will be led for a fourth year by Joseph L. Quinn Jr after a midweek re-election at the annual directors meeting hosted by Anton Hulman Jr. New board members and holdovers were named, with Forrest Sherer elected first vice president to replace William Biadley.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Joseph L. Quinn, Jr
Lingen Lodge
Anton Hulman, Jr
Charles
Terre Haute
Death plunge from high rise office shocks Chicago
Chicago police investigate the death of 32 year old divorcee Mrs Marie Devaney who apparently jumped from the 38th floor office of grain broker Thomas P McGuire late Tuesday. Her fall tore off all garments except underclothing and she struck a ledge of the Insurance Exchange Building.
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Chicago
Marie Devaney
Thomas P. McGuire
Mower Accident Kills Gerald Weekly in Indiana
Gerald D. Weekly 21 of Elizabethtown was killed when a State Highway Department mower toppled on an embankment along Ind 46 east of Columbus and ran over him after it righted itself.
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Elizabethtown
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Lake Texoma floods threaten three states
Swollen by weeks of rain Lake Texoma pours torrents down the Red River threatening floods in Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas. Army engineers say the crest near Denison Texas will be about 644 feet above sea level by late Thursday or Friday. Inflow reported 105 000 cubic feet per second as thunderstorms loom and further flooding possible as far as Fulton Arkansas.
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Altus
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Eisenhower backs total nuclear test ban with inspection
President Eisenhower said he favors a global ban on nuclear tests tied to an international agreement backed by inspection. He doubts another full scale hydrogen bomb test but does not rule out small tests and accepts NAS findings that current radiation from tests is not dangerous.
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U.P
Eisenhower
Pacific
National Academy of Sciences
AEC detonates nuclear device from balloon over Nevada desert
The Atomic Energy Commission fired a balloon suspended device from Yucca Flat at 4 46 a m P D T using Livermore Laboratory equipment for 45 experiments including rabbit eye sensitivity tests It was the first AEC balloon detonation with a likely yield of one kiloton or less The fireball appeared for under a minute near dawn and balloon safety devices were used to prevent free movement
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Atomic Energy Commission
P.D.T
Yucca Flat
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Livermore
Calif
AEC
Here
Nevada Proving Grounds
Sentencing hearings begin for drill instructor Roberts
In San Antonio a court martial hears pleas for extenuating and mitigating circumstances for A/2 William Roberts Jr. convicted of mistreating a basic trainee. He was found guilty of pulling Roberts Dinsenbacher from his bunk but acquitted of beating and shoving him.
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San Antonio
Tex
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Roberts
Robert Dinsenbacher
New York City
Dinsenbacher
St C To Confer Degrees At 86th Commencement
831 candidates for degrees and nursing diplomas will participate in the 86th commencement on the campus quadrangle. Dr Raleigh Holmstedt will deliver the principal address. the Reverend Harold Turpin offers the baccalaureate sermon. Degrees conferred by President Holmstedt with Dean Thursfield. Vigo County yields 296 graduates.
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Raleigh W. Holmstedt
Vigo County
Harold W. Turpin
First Presbyterian Church
Hammond
Holmstedt
St. Anthony and
Union Hospital Schools of Nursing
Terre Haute
Richard E. Thursfield
Union Hospital School of Nursing
Barbara Ann Bonham
R. R
Carol Yvonne Guthrie
Linden Street
Mary Martha Pillow
North Sixteenth Street
Cordelia Slusser
Clarabelle Altwater Spencer
Swan
Donna Marlene Swaim
Noth
Mary Jane Milner
St. Anthony’s
Linda Sue Butler
South Fifth Street
Betty Jean Gormany
Beck Jr Face Contempt Inquiry Over Fifth Amendment Use
Senator McClellan said the Senate will vote on contempt for Dave Beck Jr after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 130 times in 40 minutes before the Rackets Committee. Joseph McEvoy also faced contempt action after similarly refusing to answer questions about the Teamsters payroll and connections.
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Sen
John L. McClellan
D.-Ark
Senate
Dave Beck Jr
Young Beck
McClellan
Teamster
Joseph McEvoy
Beck
McEvoy
Beck Jr
Teamsters Union
Justice Department
Garfield High Commencement Tonight at 8
The forty fifth Garfield High School commencement will be held at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Building at Indiana State Teachers College. The program begins with a processional led by the orchestra under Leslie Evinger, followed by the pledge by Dennis Sparks and an invocation by Sharon Dunning.
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Indiana State Teachers College
Leslie Evinger
Dennis Sparks
Sharon Dunning
Sandra Readinger
Donna Owens
Marilyn Inman
Mary Lou Bensyl
Constance Brune
Joe Annakin
Ellen Combs
Carole Courtney
Kathryn Dudley
Amelia Parting
Long-Awaited Civil Rights Debate Opens in House
The House begins a lengthy contest over Eisenhower's civil rights proposals to strengthen federal enforcement of voting and constitutional guarantees. A week of debate looms as Southern opposition grows, aided by a Senate committee vote to require jury trials in federal civil rights cases.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Weather map briefing predicts partly cloudy day
Partly cloudy conditions forecast with a high around 61 degrees. Sunrise is at 5 24 and sunset later in the day. River stage reads 6 8 feet and is falling.
Local Temperatures Show Warm Day and Clear Skies
The high reached 81 degrees yesterday and the low dropped to 58 at night. No precipitation was recorded.
Weather outlook for Terre Haute and Indiana
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers likely in extreme north and extreme south portions tonight and Thursday. Turning cooler north Thursday. Low temps 55 to 62 north and 62 to 68 south. Thursday highs mostly in the 80s. Sunset 8 09 p m sunrise 5 18 a m. Temperature street thermometer readings show 62 at 6 am and 2 pm at $1
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Terre Haute Aviation seeks hangars at Paul Cox Field
Terre Haute Aviation Inc. asks the Board of Aviation Commissioners to authorize construction of ten hangars at Paul Cox Field with a nearly 20000 dollar project. Victor Tatelman and Harold Bitzegaio represented the company as construction plans were filed for board review. A special meeting to decide the petition is expected within two weeks. The board will also review a request from the Civil Aeronautics Board regional office about a proposed television tower.
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Terre Haute Board of Aviation Commissioners
City Hall
Terre Haute Aviation, Inc
Paul Cox Field
Aviation Concern
Victor Tatelman
Harold Bitzegaio
Civil Aeronautics Board
Kansas City
Margaret Truman gives birth to a boy in New York
Margaret Truman Daniel, 33, and her husband Clifton Daniel, 44, welcomed a six pound eight ounce boy at Doctors Hospital. The baby was born at 12 11 a m with Dr Louise Dantuono as physician. The Trumans and their families expressed happiness as Margaret and the infant were reported doing fine.
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New York
Clifton Daniel
Margaret Truman
Margaret
Daniel
Harry Truman
Bess
Trumans
Independence
Doctors Hospital
Louise Dantuono
The
New York Times
E. Clifton Daniel
Zebulon
N. C
Broad Study Of State Tax Issues Starts
INDIANAPOLIS June 5 Several studies to be made by the Indiana Tax Study Commission included today a hot potato the fact that manufacturers still pay no state tax on their interstate sales The commission which collects tax data and proposed new laws decided Tuesday to investigate four other tax problems between now and the 1959 Indiana Legislature State Sen Matthew Welsh D Vincennes Senate minority leader in the 1957 General Assembly told other commission members the fact that the assembly failed to pass a net worth tax on manufacturers as a political question is going to be a hot potato Manufacturers and farmers selling interstate pay practically no state tax Welsh pointed out since they are exempt from the gross income tax and all but a penny of the 15 cent state property tax was repealed This situation if left unanswered is going to create an opportunity for a lot of people to make a lot of wild accusations Welsh said The commission also agreed to study a net income tax as ordered by the Legislature a sales tax the possibility of eliminating property taxes and state federal local tax relations
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Indiana Tax Study Commission
Indiana
Matthew Welsh
Vincennes
Senate
General Assembly
Commission
Assembly
Welsh
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