Funeral for well digger Ralph Rooksberry set
Funeral services for Ralph Rooksberry 49 killed in a cave in at 1617 North Thirty-first Street will be held Saturday at 10 AM The body was moved from Thomas Funeral Home to the residence 821 North Eleventh Street Funeral services at Nazarene Church Nineteenth Street and Eighth Avenue Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Park Rooksberry buried under gravel and sand after concrete lining sections failed while he was digging a well for his step daughter Gladys Smith Rescue workers arrived within about three hours Efforts to revive him with a resuscitator failed He is survived by his widow Stella three sons James Charles and Vernon and three step daughters Mrs Smith Mrs Alice Pruitt and Mrs Irene Adams all of Terre Haute and several grandchildren
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Ralph Rooksberry
North Thirty-first Street
Thomas Funeral Home
North Eleventh Street
Nazarene Church
Nineteenth Street
Eighth Avenue
Roselawn Memorial Park
Rooksberry
Gladys Smith
Terre Haute
Fire Department
Stella
James
Charles
Vernon Rooksberry
Mrs. Smith
Alice Pruitt
Irene Adams
Saxton
Weather Summary for the Day
The report notes mostly cloudy conditions with a serene overall feel. Sunrise is 5 23, sunset 8 18, and river stage at 7.7 feet and rising by noon on Saturday.
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Sa. m
Rent Bill Near Final Passage in Congress
Congress moves toward a 12 month rent control extension with local option. House approved 202 to 163. Senate 36 to 28. Local governing bodies must act to keep controls through June 1951 or Jan 31 1951 depending on bill. Rep Judd said change lets states act in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Eleazer
Washington
U.P
Congress
House
Senate
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
President Truman
Walter H. Judd
Mich
Truth serum hearing for Vigo suspect in Hubbard murder
Richard Large, 37, a dresser, appeared in Vigo Circuit Court with attorney Samuel E. Beecher Jr for a habeas corpus hearing to determine truth serum testing at Logansport Hospital. The hearing was continued to June 16 as the investigation into Fred Hubbard's shooting continues. Hubbard, 37, was killed near a tent on the levee southwest of Dresser. Large described hearing shots and seeing a man in a white shirt flee after a rifle shot.
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Richard “Dick” Large
Dresser
Vigo
H. DeWitt Owen
Fred Hubbard
Lafayette Avenue
Hubbard
Large
May industrial output nears 1948 peak in recovery
May industrial production rose two percent from April and reached 193 percent of the 1935-39 average, signaling the strongest volume since late 1948. The Federal Reserve Board projected June output to rise toward the postwar peak, with May far above last July’s recession low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Re Serve Board
Senate House Economic Report Committee
Monkey Outsmarts Cops In Charleston Escapade
A ward monkey named Snooker fled from the South Carolina Medical College and eluded police as he swung through tree tops. Officers contemplated shooting him, but the college vetoed the move, noting the monkey’s value in medical research. Snooker allegedly took bread crumbs from a house and attacked a cat during his spree.
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Charleston
S. C
U.P
Snooker
South Carolina Medical College
Acheson Voices Against Soviet Threat in Speech
Dallas June 14 Secretary of State Acheson warned of a poised threat from the Soviet Union accusing Russia of communist plotting and military moves to weaken non Soviet nations He rejected isolationism appeasement and even preventive war favoring cooperation and peaceful negotiations with other nations as the policy to meet the challenge
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Dallas
Tex
Acheson
Russia
Soviet Union
Mayor awaits PSC letter on Terre Haute bus service
Mayor Ralph Tucker awaits word from the Public Service Commission of Indiana before further moves to stop the threatened curtailment of Terre Haute City Lines. PSC chairman Hugh W. Abbott said it may fall to management to adjust schedules but notes the public may petition for an investigation if service is inadequate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Tucker
Public Service Commission of
Indiana
Terre Haute City Lines, Inc
Hugh W. Abbott
P.S.C
Tucker
Commission
Abbott
Opening of Chauncey Rose Home for Aged Residents Start
The Chauncey Rose Home for Aged Men and Women opened June 1 after eleven months of renovations. The main building at Twenty fifth Street and Wabash Avenue now houses 24 residents with an elevator and baths. Additional buildings will raise capacity to 40, with expansion expected within a year. Applicants must be at least 70 and have resided in the state for one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey Rose
Twenty-fifth Street
Wabash Avenue
W. H. Durbin
Hartley Stage Mock Communist Invasion For Flag Day
Hartley Iowa staged a mock communist invasion to observe Flag Day with 100 armed guards, arrests of Mayor and officials, a concentration camp scene, raids on library and school, communist classes for children, and a Red Square proclamation. No actual communists attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Hartley
U.P
America
Congress
American Legion and
Chamber of Commerce
Mosinee
Wis
W. R
Red) Wagner
Wagner
W. R. Vezina, Jr
Hartley Sentinel
James F. Green
American Legion
Americanism Commission
Green
Gion
Legion
Vast Pacific Cloud Blotting Huge Oceanic Sky
A broad cloud system covering about 1.2 million square miles spread over the central Pacific. Wake Island reported it reaching 16,000 feet while Hawaii noted a 7,000 foot ceiling. Meteorologist R H Simpson offered possibilities including desert sands, a New Guinea eruption, or an atomic explosion. Eniwetok tests lie 600 miles southwest of Wake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Pacific
U.S. Weather Bureau
R. H. Simpson
Wake Island
Hawaii
Simpson
New Guinea
Eniwetok Proving Grounds
Wake
Alligators Donated to Deming Park by Local Worker
Fred Gard of Shelburn presented Deming park with two alligators after one, nicknamed Swampman, bit his thumb and grew unruly. The pair include a four foot ten year old and a one foot two year old, gifted to the city by Gard, iron workers union agent, to amuse Mayor Ralph Tucker.
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Chicago
Fred Gard
Shelburn
Ralph Tucker
Deming Park
Gard
Iron Workers Union
Swampman
Finland and Soviet Union sign historic trade pact in Moscow
Helsinki reports the biggest trade agreement in its history with the Soviet Union. The pact covers 320 million dollars of trade from 1951 to 1955 and an additional 30 million dollars for the remainder of 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Moscow
Babies of Sisters Born Three Hours Apart in Union Hospital
At Union Hospital two sisters had babies within three hours last night. Evelyn and Helen Rapson are the mothers, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rapson of 2219 Poplar. William Howard Stahl weighed seven pounds eight ounces at 11:57, and Carol Cane Aughinbaugh weighed seven pounds three ounces at 2:54. Both couples welcomed their first child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Hospital
Fred Rapson
Poplar Street
Evelyn
Helen Rapson
William Howard Stahl
Robert B. Stahl
R.R
Rosedale
Carol Cane Aughinbaugh
Richard Auginbaugh
R.R. 7
Terre Haute
Vigo County Gains 5 222 Population Increase Reported
Robert F. Wallace, district supervisor of the Bureau of Census, announced the unofficial Vigo county population at 104 931, up 5 222 from 1940. Terre Haute holds 64 047 residents, up from 62 689 in 1940, with Harrison township rising to 74 864. Other townships and towns list varied gains across Fayette, Honey Creek, Linton, and more. Continued on Page 6.
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Robert F. Wallace
Bureau of Census
Vigo County
Wallace
Terre Haute
Harrison Township
Fayette
Honey Creek
Linton
Lost Creek
Seelyville
Nevins
Otter Creek
Pierson
Prairie Creek
Prairieton
Riley
Sugar Creek
West Terre Haute
Nunn Named Bank Director in Terre Haute
Robert G. Nunn president of the Little Betty Mining Corporation was named director of Merchants National Bank to fill the vacancy after W. Paul Zimmerman’s death. The bank also elected Robert McConchie as assistant cashier and auditor, succeeding B. F. Southard. Nunn is executive vice president of Hickory Grove Coal Company and active in local civic groups including the Red Cross, Goodwill Industries, YMCA, Rose Dispensary, and the Terre Haute Auto Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Nunn
Little Betty Mining Corporation
Merchants National Bank
W. Paul Zimmerman
Robert McConchie
B. F. Southard
Nunn
Hickory Grove Coal Company
Terre Haute
American Red Cross
Goodwill Industries
Young Men's Christian Association
Rose Dispensary
Terre Haute Auto Club
Terre Haute Area Weather Report With Thunder Showers
Local conditions show yesterday's high 77 and low 67, with 0.36 inch precipitation. Forecast for Terre Haute and vicinity calls for mostly cloudy humid conditions with showers tonight and Thursday. Indiana and Illinois regions report continued humidity, scattered thunder showers, and little temperature change. Illinois expected high 80 to 85. Street thermometer reads 69 a.m. and 51 p.m.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Soviet Defense Budget Bared At Moscow Meeting
Moscow June 14 The Soviet Union announced a defense allocation of 19.85 billion rubles nearly 18.5 percent of the 1950 budget at a joint session of the supreme soviet. Prime Minister Stalin presided as Finance Minister Arseny Zverev outlined the plan amid allied and diplomatic observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Arseny G. Zverev
Supreme Soviet
Stalin
Truman
Congress
U. S
Alan G. Kirk
John Nicholl
Zverev
V. M Molotov
Air Crash in West Virginia Kills at Least Four
Early today an airplane crashed on Spruce Mountain in the Allegheny Highlands near Elkins West Virginia killing at least four people. A separate B 25 military plane with nine aboard disappeared after leaving Olmstead Air Force Base Middletown Pennsylvania en route to Offutt Field Nebraska.
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Elkins
W. Va
Allegheny Mountains
West Virginia
Spruce Mountain
Harrisburg
Air Force
Olmstead Air Force Base
Middletown
Offutt Field
Nebraska
C. A. Hehle
Nathan Strawder
Circleville
Pendleton County
Strawder
Army
Olmstead
U S Arms Arrive in Naples United States Aid
The third shipment of American arms aid to Italy arrived in Naples aboard the freighter Robin Trent. Unloading began immediately as the supply effort continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Italy
British Labour Calls For Delay On European Union Plan
Western Europe reacts with surprise as Britain's Labour Party urges postponing further European political and economic integration until continental nations embrace socialism. French Foreign Office and US officials express astonishment while Prime Minister Attlee pledges to aid the Schuman plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Europe
Britain
Schuman
Foreign Min
Ister Schuman
Washington
Attlee
House of Commons
Shoot to Kill Order Issued for Homer Cook in Munich
Munich authorities deploy hundreds of armed police to capture Homer Cook, the American with multiple jail escapes, as he evades German and US police after fleeing Dachau prison. He is pursued near Dachau and Rosenheim, with a court case pending in US District Court on multiple charges.
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Munich
Germany
U.P
Oklahoma
Homer Cook
Cook
Dachau
Laim
D. P. Camp
Pfc
William King
Muskogee
Okla
Anna Sperer
Rosenheim
Bavaria
U.S
Brooklyn
Harris Learns Fate June 21 in Contempt Case
Judge Norval K. Harris of Sullivan Circuit Court faces a Supreme Court ruling on contempt after being held in contempt. He may appoint a temporary judge if sentenced. His term runs to Jan 1 1955 and a July 14 municipal court hearing on a separate public intoxication charge was postponed.
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Indianapolis
Norval K. Harris
Sullivan Circuit Court
Indiana Supreme Court
High Court
Sullivan
Supreme Court
Harris
John K. Purcell
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Monkey
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RUSS
Soviets
DeWitt MacKenzie
Hunt
Badman
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