Nine Die As Tankers Collide Off Brittany Coast
In dense fog off the Brittany coast, the American tanker Stony Point and the Greek Ioannis collided. Both burned intensely with smoke rising 4000 feet. 9 dead on Stony Point, 8 on Ioannis, 4 still missing and feared dead. Sixty four of seventy seven crew members were saved.
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Brest
France
U.P
Brittany
U. S
Stony Point
Ioannis
Lowell Dibert
St. Louis
Mich
Cross To Face Questioning On Goon Beatings
Bakers Union chief James G Cross prepared to answer charges of beating women misusing union funds and approving substandard wage contracts with tied lenders. Senate investigators will question Cross about alleged hotel room assaults at the San Francisco convention.
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Washington
Bakers Union
James G. Cross
Cross
Senate
Backets Committee
Nathan Ehrlich
Union
San Francisco
Ehrlich
New York
Kay Lower
Curtis R. Sims
Sims
McClellan
D.-Ark
Joseph G. Kane
Elmont
N. Y
Ehrlichs
Kane
525
Kennedy
Herbert and
Martin Philipsborn Sr
Zion Industries, Inc
Zion, Ill
Peter Carbonara
Premier Kishi Seeks New Era in US Japan Ties
Japanese Prime Minister Kishi arrives in Washington for three days of talks with President Eisenhower and key aides. He flies in on Columbine II and is welcomed by Vice President Nixon as both nations pursue closer cooperation and frank discussions.
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Washington
Kishi
San Francisco
Eisenhower
Columbine II
National Airport
Nixon
Japan
United States
City Readies Walnut Street Opening in Terre Haute
Mayor Ralph Tucker said the city will open Walnut street as a westbound one way once the C E I Rail Road transfers right of way to Terre Haute. Plans show a 60 foot wide street between Ninth and a half street and Tenth and a half street with an easement through a coal yard.
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Ralph Tucker
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail Road Co
Terre Haute
Walnut Street
Mike Ellis
Ninth
Tenth
Ellis
Nineteenth Street
Third Street
Wabash Avenue
Poplar Street
C.&e.i
Senate approves peace atoms treaty amid disarmament talk
The Senate ratified Eisenhower's atoms for peace treaty 67 to 19, with 11 nations now on board and 18 needed for effect. The plan would create an international atomic energy agency to promote peaceful uses and supply non military materials, with the US pledging 80 million dollars of uranium 235.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Russia
International Atomic Energy Agency
United States
Britain
France
Canada
United Nations General Assembly
Senate G.O.P
William F. Knowland
Weather Map Forecast and River Stage Update
The United States Weather Bureau presents a weather map note. Fair conditions prevail with temperatures around 68 to 74 degrees. River stage is 12.4 feet and rising. sunrise is 5 23 and sunset 8 20 with evening timing.
Local Conditions Report
Highest temperature yesterday reached 89 degrees and the low last night was 59. Precipitation totaled .57 inches.
Forecast for Terre Haute and Indiana Pleasant Weather_T
Forecasters predict fair conditions for Terre Haute tonight and Thursday with lows around 60. Temperatures rise to the 80s Thursday and continue fair and mild into Friday. statewide Indiana outlook shows clear skies, with lows in the 50s and highs in the 80s.
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Terre Haute and Vicinity
Indiana
Plane crash injures coal firm rep near Indianapolis
Charles Thomas of St. Louis a 62 year old coal mining firm representative was injured when his private plane crashed at Bob Shanks Airport on the edge of Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Charles Thomas
St. Louis
Bob Shanks
Anniversary Gift Leads to Fines and Suspended Term
In Muncie on June 19 Leslie Anderson 37 was fined 14 dollars and given a six months suspended jail term after blocking his wife eye on their wedding anniversary.
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Muncie
Leslie Anderson
Muricie
Employers To Hear Details Of Tax Withholding Clinic
Chamber of Commerce sponsors a Thursday session in the Mayflower Room at Terre Haute House at 3 pm detailing new withholding requirements under gross income tax. The eight area clinics are in cooperation with the Indiana State Chamber and the Indiana Department of State Revenue. Revenue Commissioner Edwin W. Beaman and withholding division chief Boynton J. Moore lead the program with revenue staff.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mayflower
Terre Haute House
Indiana State Chamber
Indiana Department of State Revenue
Revenue Department
Edwin W. Beaman
Boynton J. Moore
Gross Income Tax
Soldier Is Sentenced To Fifteen Years In Japan
In Otsu Japan the Japanese district court sentenced Pvt Randall B Boyles 24 of Kenton Delaware to fifteen years for robbery and murder of a Buddhist priest. He assaulted the priest last December robbed him and dumped the unconscious man into Lake Biwa where he drowned.
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Otsu
Japan
Randall B. Boyles
Kenton
Del
Lake Biwa
U S Soldier Girard Outrages Seek Japanese Trial Ruling
Judge McGarraghy voided a government decision to release 21 year old Ottawa soldier Girard to a Japanese court for the shooting death of Naka Sakai on a military firing range. The ruling states Girard, acting under U S military duty, falls under federal jurisdiction. If upheld it could affect overseas defense bases and arrives as Japanese Premier Nobusuke Kishi visits.
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Washington
U.P
U. S. Court of Appeals
Girard
Supremeourt
Joseph C. McGarraghy
GI William S. Girard
Ottawa
Naka Sakai
McGarraghy
Eisenhower
United States
Supreme Court
Trial of Hoffa Gets Under Way
The bribery conspiracy trial of Teamsters Union Vice President James R Hoffa began in Washington with defense claims of illegal wiretapping. Co defendants include Miami attorney Hyman I Fishbach. Juror selection was expected to consume the day as Judge Burnita S Matthews ruled on suppression motions and allowed cross examination of witnesses regarding the alleged wiretap.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Miami
Hyman I. Fishbach
Senate
Teamsters
Burnita S. Matthews
Edward Bennett Williams
Detroit
Lawrence Burns
Burns
Matthews
Council Delays Final Decision On Laundry Bill
Terre Haute council meets in a spirited session approving one rezoning and three appropriations. A rezoning for 1441 South Seventh Street to restricted business faced a petition objecting to a podiatrists office. Debate noted planning commission favored the measure after hearings.
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Terre Haute
South Seventh Street
Robert B. Dawson
Ralph Brill
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Suez Canal Traffic Resumes After Tanker Grounding
Traffic along the Suez Canal resumed today after a 12 hour halt caused by a British tanker running aground 25 miles north of Suez Egypt on June 19 7. Authorities reported the vessel freed and waterway clear for ships to pass.
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Suez
Egypt
Suez Canal
Thieves Steal Watches Cash Liquor Gas in Six Week Span
Grace Sebastian of North Sacramento vented anger after thieves stole a $100 watch $0.08 in cash $100 in liquor and gas from her car over six weeks. She said the loss of seven trading stamp books pushed her over the edge.
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Sacramento
Calif
Grace Sebastian
Motive Sought In Rockford Bomb Blast
Rockford Illinois authorities seek motive for a booby trap bombing that ripped an alderman's wife Alma Anderson aged 61. The blast at the Anderson home critically injured Mrs Anderson while Alderman Eric A Anderson a crime-fighter and past grand jury figure was away.
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Rockford
Ill
Alma Anderson
Eric A. Anderson
Anderson
Psi Iota Xi Sorority Celebrates 60th Diamond Jubilee
Psi Iota Xi marks its 60th anniversary with a three day national convention at Terre Haute House opening Thursday. About 1 110 members and delegates from 389 chapters attend the Diamond Jubilee with Mrs Arnold Hannum as general chairman and Marie North of Indianapolis grand president presiding over sessions.
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Psi Iota Xi
Terre Haute House
Beta Beta
Sullivan
Arnold Hannum
Wallanna Weaw
Wiacy
Vuluuad Hilial
Pauline Mahan
Sullivan Psi Ote
Marie North
Indianapolis
Clear Storm Debris Removed From City Streets
Tim O Leary city street commissioner said the department aims to finish removing major storm debris from city streets by week’s end and return to routine operations by week’s start. The city street superintendent said nearly 800 truck loads have been hauled away and debris includes trees limbs and dirt. He noted some delays until utilities and equipment were cleared and praised utility company cooperation.
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Tim O'Leary
O’leary
Twin Dies as Oldest Set of Twins Passes
Mrs Mary Ring aged 83 died in a nursing home. Her twin Mrs Theo Blair survives, living in Oakville.
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Mary Ring
Theo Blair
Oakville
Gets 10 Yr Team for Armed Robbery
Eugene Baker aged 22 received a 10 to 25 year sentence in the reformatory after pleading guilty to an armed robbery at a service station on Lafayette Avenue. Attendant Charles Auten, 17, slugged Baker with a pop bottle as he tried to flee. Auten and Ray Stewart, 59, held him until police arrived.
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Eugene Baker
Herbert R. Criss
Baker
Lafayette Avenue
Charles Auten
Garfield Avenue
Auten
Ray Stewart
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Billy
U.S. To Appeal
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Robert F. Kennedy
Walnut St
C.&e. Railroad
Baker Street
South Nineteenth Street
Soviet Union
Harold E. Stassen
London
Stassen
U. S. Weather Bureau
G.I
Nobusuke
Teamster
Czar
Council
Myron Busby
Planning and Zoning Commission
Herbert Gerdink
Nce
Ayone
John S
Pete’’ Lamb
Psi Iota Xi Sorority
Beatrice Biggs
G. Wayne Gorby
John P. Krebser
Kokomo
Lester L. Mahan
Princeton
Dorothy Doles
Greensburg
G. R. Gillespie
Brownstown
William G. Miles
Bloomfield
John B. Moriarty
Fort Wayne
Philantrophic
Arthur B. Knochel
Remington
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