Six Children Die in New York Excavation Cave-In
A Brooklyn construction site cave-in killed six children and injured a seventh as they played near a 25 foot dirt cliff. Authorities probe criminal negligence and question why no watchman guarded the site.
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New York
Brooklyn
Edward Silvers
Silver
Edward M. McGarry
Ann Ortiz
Lorraine Stanikunas
Michael Stanikunas
Lorraine
John Kotav
Louis Nitti
John McKenzie
Anatole Bykov
Mary Stanikunas
Vigo County Council Rules Remonstrance Against Welfare Office Purchase Ruled Illegal
The Vigo County Council ruled a remonstrance against a building purchase for the Welfare Department illegal due to insufficient signer count and lack of sworn affidavit verification. The remonstrance had 686 signatures versus 863 on the petition, and signatures were not sworn by the circulating petitioner. The council directed proceeding with the original petition as presented.
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Vigo County Welfare Department
Vigo County Council
Acree
Evansville Sends $200 Aid to Huts in Indiana Three-I Race
The Terre Haute Baseball Club received a $200 check from Evansville the Huts rival in a bid for first place in the league. Austin Brown Braves business manager pledged the money at a rally called by Mayor Ralph Tucker on Monday.
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Terre Haute
Evansville
Indiana
Austin Brown
Braves
Ralph Tucker
Scotland Yard hunts Cypriot nationalists across Britain
Britain-wide probe follows arrest of Archimandrite Kallinikos Macheriotis linked to EOKA activities. Sabotage incidents near Sheffield and Brightside raise security fears as Cyprus violence intensifies with three British troops killed and seven wounded in a mine blast.
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Leonard Burt
Scotland Yard
London
Camden Town
Sheffield
EOKA
Cyprus
Brightside
Judge Criss Defends Riggs Rape Trial After Supreme Court Reversal
Judge Herbert R. Criss defended Vigo County Court proceedings in the Riggs rape case after the Indiana Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Hiram Riggs 41. The high court ordered a writ of error and a new trial, citing issues with counsel. Riggs, a former bank janitor, was sentenced to two to 21 years for raping a 13 year old. Continued on page 13.
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Indiana Supreme Court
Vigo Circuit
Hiram Riggs
Criss
High Court
Riggs
Samuel Beecher, Jr
Wallace Fuller
Beecher
Norman F. Arterburn
Vincennes
Associated Press
North Fifth Street
Tax Fix Trial Goes to Jury
A federal court jury in Missouri began deliberations on a conspiracy to defraud the government in a tax case involving Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle. Judge Rubey M. Hulen instructed jurors to decide the Sachs indictment as the sole issue and to view collateral matters cautiously.
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Matthew J. Connelly
T. Lamar Caudle
Rubey M. Hulen
C.S.T
Hulen
Truman Administration
Irving Sachs
Justice Department
Sachs
Explosion Kills Man In Cincinnati Apartment Blast
An apartment house explosion in Cincinnati late Tuesday killed 31 year old Robert Swarts and injured 14 people, three critically. A two month old girl Dorothy Miller was among the seriously hurt, with a fractured skull. others listed as Buddy Marrs, 25, and Mike Riley, 48, were among the critically injured.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Swarts
Dorothy Miller
General Hospital
Buddy Marrs
Mike Riley
Coal exporters form 50 million dollar shipping firm
Operators and the United Mine Workers join railroads to create American Coal Shipping Inc to enter ocean transport and boost coal exports. Walter J. Tuohy announced the plan at a Coal Exporters’ Association lunch during the National Coal Association’s 39th anniversary meeting as an AEC official forecasts coal demand rising 95 percent by the 1970s despite nuclear power.
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Washington
Coal Industry
United Mine Workers
American Coal Shipping, Inc
Walter J. Tuohy
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Coal Exporters’ Association of the United States, Inc
National Coal Association
The
Coal Association
Atomic Energy Commission
W. Kenneth Davis
AEC
Davis
United States
Senators Rally For Eisenhower Foreign Aid Push
Ten Republican senators endorsed the President's foreign aid plea, urging colleagues not to abandon his leadership for peace. They spoke ahead of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's review of a House approved 3.8 billion dollar aid bill, 1.1 billion below the President's request.
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Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Committee
George
D.-Ga
House
Senate
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
R.-N.j
Clifford Case
N.J
Allott
Colo
Bender
Ohio
Duff
Bush
Conn
Flanders
Ives
N.Y
Kuchel
Russia Runs Campaign to Draw Anti Reds Back Home
London dispatch notes a Soviet led effort to repatriate exiles from Communist ruled lands. The drive offers clemency and jobs while threatening relatives' safety overseas. It highlights Stanislaw Mackiewicz returning from London to Warsaw and signals limited success outside South America.
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Russia
London
Reds
South America
Suspect Held In Rape Slaying Of Housewife
In Baltimore on June 13 a 21 year old Negro handyman, Carl Daniel Kier formerly of Roanoke Virginia, was seized and charged with the murder rape of Mrs John H Boost a 48 year old housewife in North Baltimore. Kier unemployed and unmarried, had left his name and address with a neighbor who discarded the note. Police report finding sex books in his room and weapons including two butcher knives a Japanese saber and a heavy brass figurine used in the crime. Continued on page 2 column 1.
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Baltimore
Carl Daniel Kier
Parkville
Roanoke
John H. Boost
Kier
Truman blasts Russia on atomic bomb claim
Paris June 13 Harry S Truman rebuked Moscow radio for calling the United States to stop the atomic bomb blasts over Japan. He said the Russians knew nothing about the atomic bomb and dismissed their claim as pure propaganda. The former president noted he made the final decision to drop the bombs.
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Harry Truman
Moscow
Russia
United States
Japan
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Reds Must Change Behavior on Formosa
Washington officials said no meeting between Secretary Dulles and Chou En-lai would occur until Communist China changes policy. They demanded 13 Americans jailed in China be freed and a meaningful renunciation of force regarding Formosa. The Geneva proposal was rejected and the U S amendments to the draft were deemed unsatisfactory by Beijing.
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State Department
Dulles
Chou En-lai
China
Formosa
Chiang Kai-Shek
Geneva
United States
Red China
Taiwan
Ex-Convict Bank Robber Drake Sought After Southport Heist
State police filed a bank robbery affidavit against Roy Rudolph Drake 32 an escaped convict in the 66546 robbery of the Southport State Bank. He fled from San Quentin and was last linked to Franklin Indiana and Indianapolis with aliases Jack Hart and Roy Drake. A Cream pink Oldsmobile linked to him was seen near the bank president John A Whalen who was kidnapped with his wife.
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Ind
Roy Rudolph Drake
Southport State Bank
Midwest
Drake
Franklin
Indianapolis
John A. Whalen
Arthur D. Warrick
San Quentin
Calif
Jackson
Miss
Worrick
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Fruit Ridge Crossing Closed for Railroad Repairs
Officials of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad announced Fruit ridge avenue will be closed from Poplar to Ohio street starting Monday June 18 for several days. The crossing at Fruit ridge is to be rebuilt and should take about a week to complete. Visitors to Deming Park can access Fruit ridge from Ohio street during repairs.
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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Fruitridge Avenue
Poplar
Ohio Street
Fruitridge
Deming Park
Girl Fatally Hit by Car Near Mitchell Indiana
Bonnie Guthrie an 11 year old girl from Mitchell was fatally injured when a car driven by Robert Reynolds swerved to avoid her as she crossed a Lawrence county road northwest of Mitchell Tuesday night. Reynolds 47 said he saw her crossing the road as he crested a hill and attempted to avoid her.
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Bedford
Ind
Bonnie Guthrie
Mitchell
Lawrence County
Robert Reynolds
Adenauer to Visit Eisenhower Thursday at Walter Reed
President Eisenhower will meet German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in his hospital suite on Thursday at 10 a.m. ECT at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Adenauer travels with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The meeting marks the President’s first in-person outside family and staff since emergency intestinal surgery last Saturday.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
White House
James C. Hagerty
Walter Reed Army Hospital
John Foster Dulles
Hagerty
U.S. Heat Wave Persists Across Nation
The Associated Press reports continuing heat and humidity across the country with morning temperatures in the 70s and 80s and highs reaching the upper 90s in several cities. Chicago tied a record at 97, while Fargo 99 and El Paso 98 illustrate nationwide heat extremes amid a stalled cool front.
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Northern Plains
Mississippi River
Chicago
Fargo
N. D
el Paso
Tex
Milwaukee
Weather Update at Nine A.M Sunrise and River Rise
Weather note records sunrise at 5 23 and sunset at 8 18 with a river stage of 3.6 feet and falling. Temperature and other conditions not provided.
Local conditions report shows warm day and clear night
High reached 93 degrees yesterday with a low of 66. No precipitation recorded.
Heat and Humidity Continue Across Terre Haute Area
Tonight and Thursday remain hot and humid in Terre Haute and vicinity with a few scattered thundershowers possible. Low around 68 tonight, with highs near 92 to 97 Thursday. Indiana region shows similar conditions with scattered storms and 64 to 72 lows. Street thermometer reads 76 at 4 a.m. and 87 at 2 p.m.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
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