Save Aircrash Victims From Sea Off Florida Coast
A navy destroyer rescued 37 survivors from a C-46 plane crash 300 miles off the Florida coast. The doomed flight carried 65 people from Puerto Rico to the U.S. The Saufley took aboard the survivors while a second ship reported five bodies of the remaining 28 migratory workers.
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Florida
U.S
Puerto Rico
U.S.S. Saufley
International Soundphotos
Atlantic
Miami
Aurora
Coast Guard
Air Force
San Juan
Wilmington
N.C
Civil Aronautics Administration
Westair Company
Irving H. Mansfield
Mansfield
Pan American World Airways
Mae West
Shelton gangster kin suffer another fatal ambush
Roy Shelton, linked by family to a notorious Illinois gang, was shot twice in the back while working on his Pond Creek bottoms farm. A witness, Frank McKibbins, heard the shots and saw the killer. The killing follows a history of Shelton clan violence during Prohibition era feuds.
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Edmund 0
Hahesy
Fairfield
U.P
Roy Shelton
Shelton Clan
Pond Creek Bottoms
Shelton Brothers
Illinois
Gerald Mayberry
Frank
Whiz) McKibbins
McKibbins
Shelton
Mayberry
Roy
Wayne County
Little Earl
Big Earl
Bernie
Carl
Pond Creek
Williamson County
Businessmen Hear Truman Urges Support for Economic Plan
President Truman appealed to businessmen at the 36th meeting of the Association of Better Business Bureaus. He framed federal action as necessary to keep private enterprise thriving and urged passage of his small business aid program including insured loans and liberal lending policies. He dismissed socialist fears as outdated and ridiculous.
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Washington
Truman
Association of Better Business Bureaus
Congress
Officials probe burning of home on north side of railroad bridge
Sheriff John Trierweiler and Deputies Crock and Reely investigated a small house burned near the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge. Owner Mrs. Ethel Richardson of 456 North Fifth Street reported that George Thorpe had been living there despite requests to move. Kenneth Richardson had moved Thorpe's possessions out the night before, and Thorpe allegedly warned the place would burn. About 12:30 am Wednesday the house was destroyed by fire.
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John Trierweiler
Crock and Reely
Ethel Richardson
North Fifth Street
George Thorpe
Bad Checks Tie Groom to Prison in Quick Marriage
Frank Kenney and his 18 year old bride Marilyn Mary married in a whirlwind ceremony after bogus checks bought the ring license and the wedding, and a rubber check paid the justice. The FBI reports a car theft during the honeymoon. Kenney, 19, was sent to a federal reformatory for two years and the wife filed for divorce after they were arrested in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Frank Kenney
Marilyn Mary
Michigan City
Ind
Kenney
Adams County
Indiana
Justice of the Peace
Decatur
FBI
U.S
Raymond W. Starr
Elizabethtown
Lie Explains Peace Plan for United Nations
U N Secretary General Trygve Lie urges rapid peace progress by seating Red China and inviting Russia back to UN meetings. He outlines 10 points including annual Security Council talks, stronger atomic controls, armed UN forces, wider world court powers, and expansion of technical aid and human rights.
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Truman
Russia
Josef Stalin
Save-The-U.n
Moscow
Lie
Security Council
U.N
Germany
Japan
World Health Organization
Guard Leaves Struck Plant After Violence
Morristown Tennessee June 7 Guardsmen withdrawn from the strikebound American Enka Textile plant placed there to quell violence. Governor Gordon Browning ordered evacuation on assurance from labor leaders that there will be no more violence by their men.
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Morristown
Tenn
U.P
Tennessee National
Senate approves $2 billion hike in farm price supports
The Senate passed a bill authorizing up to $2 billion more for government farm price supports, raising the CCC credit to as much as $6.75 billion. The measure, after a long session, goes back to the House for action on a Senate import amendment amid GOP attempts to cut back the program.
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Washington
Senate
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Congress
Williams
R.-Del
G.O.P
Cain
R.-Wash
Lucas
Illinois
Russians to Cut German Control Personnel
Berlin reports the Soviet controlled ADN News Agency says Russia will reduce German control commission staff by 20 to 25 percent in two to three months. Reductions target administrative personnel only and exclude occupation forces.
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Berlin
ADN
Girl Who Broke Legs 22 Times Has Promise of Normal Life
Chicago reports 13 year old Marilyn Kay Howard from Charleston Illinois has undergone steel reinforced leg reconstruction at University of Illinois Research Hospital. Diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta her legs fractured 22 times since age two. Surgeons say bones may grow back toward normal and she is learning to walk again.
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Chicago
Marilyn Kay Howard
Charleston, Il
University of Illinois Research Hospital
Marilyn
Illinois Research
Acheson condemns Russia coercion in UN China dispute
Secretary of State Dean Acheson labeled Russia walkouts in the United Nations an unwarranted coercive move over China. He reiterated the U.S. would accept a majority UN decision on which side represents China and said Washington will not veto a Chinese Communist representation. He urged Soviet participation in UN agencies and warned of no magic in renewed talks.
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Washington
U.P
Dean Acheson
Russia
United Nations
China
U.N
Soviet Union
U. S
America
Acheson
Lie
Germany
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Japan
Tokyo
United States
Poland
Great Britain
ECA
Ruhr
Britain
Otown youth held in Sullivan jail in Paxton post office robbery
Richard Mize age 18 of Oaktown is in Sullivan county jail awaiting transfer to U S postal inspectors for investigation of a Paxton Indiana post office robbery. Norman Worstell is held in Lawrenceville Illinois for the same offense. the pair allegedly used Mize's car in the robbery.
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Sullivan, Ind
Richard Mize
Oaktown
Sullivan County
Hubert Wagner
U. S
Paxton, Ind
Lawrenceville
Ill
Norman Worstell
Mize
Probers Target Drug Ring in Senate Inquiry
Senate investigators led by Kefauver turn focus to an alleged nationwide narcotics ring tied to white slavery gambling and murder. A secret list of 800 names, including 50 major criminals and about 300 dope peddlers, is cited as evidence of a nationwide tie-up across the crime world.
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Kefauver
D.-Tenn
H. J. Anslinger
Narcotics Bureau
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Florida
Tobey
R.-N.h
Anslinger
New York
California
United States
Istanbul
Turkey
Grannie Held in 12 Deaths in Paris Case
Marie Besnard, 54, described as gentle by police, is deemed sane after three months of tests and will stand trial for murder in the arsenic deaths of 12 relatives since 1927. Conviction could bring the guillotine. She asserts a pious life including Mass and communion.
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Paris
Mme
Marie Besnard
Mme. Besnard
Probe of C-4 Crash Starts
A searching investigation began into the C-46 airliner crash that killed 8 of 28 Puerto Ricans on board. Civil Aeronautics Board and Puerto Rican officials moved to San Juan and Charleston to open inquiries while USS Saufley carried 37 survivors toward Charleston.
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Miami
Fla
Civil Aeronautics Board
San Juan
Charleston
S. C
Saufley
Sharks Attack Man in Life Jacket Aboard Destroyer
In Miami on June 7 a charter plane crash left 37 survivors aboard the USS Saufley as sharks attacked passenger Pedro Gugman after he was pulled from the water. Bos'n Mate 2/C J B Taylor leapt in to rescue Gugman though the man died shortly after being hoisted aboard. the navy deemed Taylor's actions heroic.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
U.S
Saufley
Pedro Gugman
J. B. Taylor
Taylor
Gugman
Three Albanian Spies Sentenced to Death in Tirana
A London radio report says three Albanian nationals were sentenced to death in Tirana on charges of spying for the United States. The wire story notes the alleged espionage case and the executions’ context.
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London
Moscow Radio
Tirana
United States
Weather summary for the day
Fair conditions prevail with sunrise at 5 75 and sunset at 8 15. River stage shows a fall to five feet. Highest temperature yesterday and lowest last night are not clearly stated. Precipitation is not specified.
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Ld Nees
Forecast for Terre Haute and Illinois and Indiana
Forecast notes fair and warm conditions across Terre Haute vicinity, Indiana and Illinois. Tonight lows around 60 to 66 with highs Thursday near 85 to 92, and afternoon thermometer reading from 63 to 85 as of 2 p.m.
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Terre Haute
Vicinity
Indiana
Illinois
Nazi revival cited as Germany’s danger by Wilson
Washington manager Lyle C. Wilson of United Press warned at the Label Manufacturers National Association meeting in Williamsburg that Nazism is reviving in both eastern and western Germany. He noted blue shirts among East German youth and said western Germany shows new Nazi and extremist groups polling about 700,000 votes. Wilson cited Franz Richter as a leader and asserted restoration aims after 1938. He said American authorities are now alert to growing nationalist threats.
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Williamsburg
Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
United Press
Hitler
Germany
Wilson
Manufacturers National Association
East
Russia
Franz Richter
Sudeten
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Richter
Hulman Jr Re elected Terre Haute Chamber President
Anton Hulman Jr was reelected president of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce at a board meeting. Officers re elected were Co L Shideler executive vice president Mrs Pearl York Gibson secretary and Leonard Marshall treasurer. Divisional vice presidents named include Joseph Quinn Chapman Root Salo Levite and Maurice Blumberg.
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Anton Hulman, Jr
Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce
Co. L. Shideler
Pearl York Gibson
Leonard Marshall
Joseph Quinn
Chapman Root
Salo Levite
Maurice Blumberg
U S Embassy Cuts Staff In Warsaw
The U S State Department orders a 50 percent reduction in the American embassy staff in Warsaw leaving 9 posts. An attache declined to say if the move was requested by the Polish government.
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Warsaw
Poland
U.S. State Department
Missions Only American Groups Holding Fort In Communist China
AP dispatch reports American missionaries educators and welfare workers still operate in China as private groups. About 1,600 to 1,800 Americans remain with officials gone and many businesses exiting. Communists tighten control over education, while native Chinese carry on much of the work.
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Communist
China
America
United States
Purge Expands as MacArthur Bans Akahata Editors
Tokyo June 7 Gen Douglas MacArthur bans 17 Akahata editors from all party activities in retaliation for a nationwide strike against his purge of 24 top communist leaders. He warns he could close or censor the paper and orders Yoshida to add the editors to the purge list.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Communist Party
Akahata
MacArthur
Allied Control Council
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
Communist Party Central Committee
Youth says he killed dad in self defense at 15
In Charleston West Virginia on June 7 1957 a 15 year old Jimmy Basham told a jury he killed his father Charles Ted Basham 45 a coal miner after claiming years of beatings and threats The boy pleads innocent and prosecutors say the death penalty won t be sought due to age
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Charleston
W. Va
Jimmy Basham
East Bank High School
Charles Ted Basham
Hansford
Frank L. Taylor
Walkout Curtails Servel Production in Evansville
Production at Servel Inc was curtailed as United Electrical Workers plan a vote on a three day week amid a labor dispute. About 1,000 workers on two shifts walked out, laying off 2,000 additional workers. Servel employs about 6,000. UE local 813 seeks 10 cent wage raise, a pension plan paid by the company, and a 35 hour week with no pay cut from 40 hours.
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Evansville
Ind
Servel, Inc
United Electrical Workers
Servel
W. Paul Jones
Jones
James Payne
U.S Local 813
U.E
C.I.O
Orchid Winner Searle Bridwell Receives Safety Award
Searle Bridwell of 704 Harrison Street won the Orchid for Safety after officers Stevens and Bealmer observed him push a stalled car from Lafayette Avenue and Linden Street into a filling station to avert a street hazard. His prompt action and courtesy were noted for the award.
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Searle Bridwell
Harrison Street
Stevens and
Bealmer
Bridwell
Lafayette Avenue
Linden Street
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