Physician testifies in Flowers defense at murder trial
Terre Haute physician testifies that Elmer J. Flowers appeared mentally volatile but sane on Oct 4 when he killed his ex wife Jane Fagg Kennedy. The 43 year old stock dealer faces a first degree murder charge with temporary insanity as a defense before Vigo Circuit Court.
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Terre Haute
Flowers
Elmer J. Flowers
Jane Fagg Kennedy
Herbert R. Criss
Vigo
Donn R. Gossom
M. E. Caracob
N. M. Silverman
N. George Nasser
John A. Kesler
Harris
Nasser
Fire Protection In Township On New Plan
Harrison Township will establish its own semi volunteer fire department starting July 1 after terminating the contract with Terre Haute. Trustees say the township will operate from sites near Twenty fifth street and Ft Harrison Road and at Twenty fifth and Hulman streets. The city says Terre Haute fire protection will not cover township areas after June 30.
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Harrison Township
Joseph Conrad
Ft. Harrison Road
Twenty-fifth and
Hulman Streets
Ralph Tucker
Terre Haute
Conrad
Near Normal June Temperatures Expected Across Indiana
The five day outlook shows near and above normal temperatures with a cool spell ending. Precipitation is expected to average .25 to .75 inch with scattered showers and possible thunder. June 14 record low 45 at Indianapolis noted, with warmer conditions forecast midweek.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Hoosierland
Evansville
South Bend
Lafayette
Weather Summary Record
Daily weather observed with scattered data shows fair and cool conditions. Sunrise 5 78, sunset 18 18, river stage 9 5 feet and falling.
Terre Haute Area Weather Summary
Local conditions report high yesterday of 6, low last night 1 with trace precipitation. Forecast calls for clearing and cool tonight in Terre Haute and vicinity, fair and mild Wednesday with low around 53 and high near 75. Indiana outlook: clearing and cooler tonight. Wednesday mostly fair and warmer with a high near 72. Temperature readings at 6 pm show 42 with 6 percent humidity.
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Terre Haute
Vicintory
Indiana
Lew Tenicht
Woman to face cop killing charge in Chicago case
A 29 year old housewife, Bernice Seay, faced possible murder indictments for shooting rookie policeman Donald Cathay, who she said acted inappropriately in her apartment. The officer’s death occurred on a sidewalk near her building as the couple’s involvement is reviewed by Cook County authorities.
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Chicago
Bernice Seay
Donald Cathay
British Rail Strike Ends After 17 Days of Disruption
London reports a settlement after 17 days of railway shutdowns. Union negotiators expect trains to resume as NUR and ASLEF sign an agreement with the British Transport Commission. The dispute centered on wage differentials and halted 25 000 trains.
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London
Britain
National Union of Railwaymen
N.U.R
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
A.S.L.E.F
Walter Monckton
British Transport Commission
Commission
Broad Ripple High School leaves state and national P T A
Broad Ripple High School's Parent-Teacher Association voted to withdraw from state and national P T A groups and transfer a 3100 treasury to a new independent Association of Parents and Teachers led by Jack J. Rosebrough. The move follows a heated dispute over a legislative program. Mrs Garrison warned against the transfer and anticipated a rival unit forming next fall.
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Indianapolis
Broad Ripple High School
Treasury
P.T.A
Broad Ripple
Jack J. Rosebrough
Bohlen Returns to New York for Washington Talks
U S Ambassador to Russia Charles E Bohlen arrived in New York today for consultations in Washington the State Department announced Bohlen is back amid ongoing diplomacy with Moscow and pending overseas discussions.
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New York
U. S
Russia
Charles E. Bohlen
Washington
School board upholds youths right to speak freely
In Dundee Illinois on June 14 the Dundee school board backed Willard Miller's valedictory remarks praising world federation. Miller 17 faced criticism from mother Mrs Benjamin Covert who called the speech un American and Communist. The board ruled the speech did not transcend freedom of speech limits with 300 attendees present.
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Dundee
Dundee School Board
World Federation
Willard Miller
Benjamin Covert
School Board
Clark Melms
Miller
Covert
Young Miller
UAW Opens Talks With American Motors on Wages Pattern
Detroit June 14 United Auto Workers begin preliminary contract talks with American Motors Corp Nash Hudson combine to extend guaranteed wage principle. Walter Reuther signals smaller firms may join a central pool tied to employment, but Chrysler excluded from the pattern stance. Continued on page 2 column 6.
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Detroit
U.P
United Auto Workers
American Motors Corp
Ford
General Motors
American Motors
Nash- Hudson
C.I.0
Walter Reuther
Reuther
G.M
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Bus Boy Denies Terror Attack On Pretty Singer
Hollywood police report evidence weighs against 25 year old Joseph M. Cannon in the six hour assault on singer Alice Lon and her family. They found a camera photographs stockings and clips at his home and he offered a lie detector test while alibi checks continue. The intruders, described as three men in dark suits with gloves and stocking masks, beat Lon s husband and mother and forced sleeping pills. Lon performs with Lawrence Welk and was photographed during the raid.
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Hollywood
Alice Low
Joseph M. Cannon
North Hollywood
Miss Lon
Cannon
Alice Lon
Lawrence Welk
San Fernando Valley
Robert M. Waterman
Mary Wyche
Indian envoy sees door to freedom after airmen release
Indian diplomat V. K. Krishna Menon told President Eisenhower that the release of four airmen by Red China opened a possible path to freedom for others held there. He met Eisenhower for 45 minutes and planned further talks with Dulles.
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Washington
V. K. Krishna Menon
Eisenhower
Red China
Krishna Menon
White House
James Hagerty
C.S.T
Dulles
Peiping
India
Chou En-Lai
U. S
German Leaders Reaffirm Ties to West Alliance
President Eisenhower and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stated that Germany cannot adopt neutrality. Their White House conference emphasized broad understandings with the Soviet Union and the West, noting no firm plan for Adenauer to visit Moscow before or after the Geneva Big Four meeting set to begin July 18.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
White House
Soviet Union
Adenauer
Moscow
Geneva
Switzerland
Policeman shoots payroll bandit in downtown gun battle
A quick-triggered New York policeman killed a payroll bandit on Broadway after a brutal gun fight that left several bystanders hurt. A $4,000 payroll was recovered and one elevator operator was wounded while aiding the female messenger.
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New York
Diana Panzer
Lincoln Letter Service Inc
Broadway
Joseph Sottolana
Sottolana
Aurelio de Flippi
de Flippi
Coal Freight Rate Hearing Examines 1954 Cut
Federal and state examiners weigh a 65 cent per ton rate cut on bituminous coal from Illinois Indiana and western Kentucky. Testimony before I C C examiner Burton Fuller and rate expert F B McElroy centers on transportation costs and barge competition. A Chicago hearing preceded the ongoing Midwest dispute over maintaining or reducing rates.
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Washington
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burton Fuller
F. B. McElroy
Illinois State Commission
Guller
McElroy
Midwest
Chicago
ICC
War Criminal Release Acknowledged in Tokyo
Tokyo reports the release of Gen. Sadao Araki a former baron class A war criminal on grounds of ill health. Araki was convicted by an international tribunal of conspiracy to wage aggressive wars and violations of international law.
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Tokyo
Sadao Araki
Man amputates own foot by accident in hospital ward
Harold Millard, 57, cut through his right ankle with a hacksaw while removing pressure from a plaster cast. He felt no pain due to numbness from the fracture. His sister Lydia found him and hurried him to Wolverhampton Royal Hospital where he received a blood transfusion and remained cheerful, eager to return to work.
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Wolverhampton
England
Harold Millard
Wolverhampton Royal Hospital
Millard
Lydia
Police Foil Jail Break Attempt at Madison County Jail
Five prisoners attempted to break from Madison county jail in Anderson Indiana Monday night but were stopped before escape. Turnkey Frank Koeniger was struck by a lead pipe as deputies and city police responded to the alarm. Suspects Albert Walker 19 charged with break from another jail and Robert Sloan 26 Richard Sarvis 20 William Walls 28 Truman Cave 35 charged with armed robbery.
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Anderson
Ind
Madison County
Frank Koeniger
Howard Gilmore
Koeniger
Albert Walker
Robert Sloan
Richard Sarvis
William Walls
Truman Cave
Fatal cough claims Brockton man in Maryland
George E. Hillberg aged 62 from Brockton Massachusetts died in Galena Maryland after coughing so hard he swallowed his false teeth and choked to death on Monday.
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Galena, Md
George E. Hillberg
Brockton
Mass
Hoosier Flier Killed in Germany Crash
1st Lt. Lyle D. Tumbleson 22 of Geneva was among 10 U S airmen killed in an Air Force B 29 Superfortress crash near Stuttgart Germany last Friday Radar operator Tumbleson was a son of Mr and Mrs Harley M Tumbleson and died as word reached his parents Monday in Berne Indiana
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Berne
Ind
Lyle D. Tumbleson
Geneva
U. S
Stuttgart
Germany
Tumbleson
Harley M. Tumbleson
House Extends Reciprocal Trade Act Three More Years
The House voted to extend the Reciprocal Trade Act for three years and grant the President new powers to cut tariffs. The measure would allow lowering tariffs up to 15 percent over the period, with Senate action anticipated before sending it to President Eisenhower for signature.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Free Polio Vaccine Plan Debated in Washington
Health Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby rejected a Democratic plan for universal free polio vaccine as unnecessary and costly. She urged support for Eisenhower’s targeted plan delivering free vaccine only to families unable to pay, with cost estimates around 28 to 35 million dollars. Senator Lister Hill pressed for assurances on Salk vaccine safety amid the clash.
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Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Senate Labor Committee
Eisenhower
Hobby
Assurance of Safety in Vaccine Hearings Sparks GOP Debate
Republican committee members accuse Hill of altering the hearing purpose without committee approval while the sessions are billed to address free vaccine proposals. G O P senators George H. Bender and others push back as tensions rise.
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Republican Committee
Hill
Sessions
G.O.P
George H. Bender
Russia Seeks to Cloud Issues Ahead of Geneva Parley
Washington June 14 The Soviet government appears to be mounting a campaign to cloud Western arguments over the Big Four conference. A Tass statement linked to Russia’s acceptance of the Geneva meeting July 18 argues no problem exists in Eastern Europe yet claims non-interference in internal affairs. The move follows a broader peace offensive and a propaganda push to sway public opinion in free and neutral nations.
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Washington
Russia
Geneva
Dulles
Great Britain
France
Tass
Europe
Eisenhower
Nationalists Warn Western Powers Over Summit Decisions
A semi official group in Formosa warned the Big Three Western Powers that Nationalist China will not recognize any decision harming its interests from the summit meeting with Soviet Russia.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Russia
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