Rebel Ambush Sparks Pitched Battle Near Sidi Bel Abbes
In Algiers and the frontier, French Foreign Legion units engaged rebels after a convoy ambush. Reports say heavy casualties on the legion side and multiple clashes including Ain Chair and Constantine as Paris vows a long pacification campaign with about 400,000 troops.
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Algiers
French Foreign Legionnaires
Legion
Sidi Bel Abbes
Ain Chair
Army of Liberation
Morocco
Constantine
Paris
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
Asso
Algeria
France
Dulles Urges Free Elections to Undercut Communism
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles challenged Soviet leaders to permit free elections in Russia and Eastern Europe to prove communism’s merits. He warned violence remains a tactic of Soviet rule and criticized Khrushchev and Chinese Communists for brutal leadership and refusals to renounce force.
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San Francisco
U.P
John Foster Dulles
Russia
Europe
Stalin
Lenin
Dulles
Kiwanis International
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Arthur Miller Plans to Wed Marilyn Monroe Soon
Playwright Arthur Miller told reporters he will marry actress Marilyn Monroe within a few days after testifying to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Monroe leaves for London July 13 to begin a new film, Miller has applied for a passport though his last was denied.
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Washington
Arthur Miller
Marilyn Monroe
Miller
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Europe
Miss Monroe
London
State Department
Broadway
Connecticut
Cayuga Youth Killed by Train on Trestle After Crossing
Ronald L. Hartman 12 died after being struck by a southbound C and E passenger train at a Cayuga trestle while his companions biked nearby. He suffered a fractured neck and other injuries. taken to Mt. Elizabeth Hospital, Danville, where he died. Survived by mother Lorraine Hartman, brother Robert, two sisters.
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Cayuga
Ind
Ronald L. Hartman
Lorraine Hartman
C.&e
Nt. Elizabeth Hospital
Danville
Watson
Ellis Glass
Paul Lowmiller
Hartman
Robert Hartman
Mike Bennet
Charles Root
Bob Wiot
Wilbur Harrison
Watson Funeral Home
Robert
Lorraine
Michigan Prison Turns Away New Convicts At Overcrowded Jackson
June 21 Officials at the largest walled prison began turning away newly convicted criminals due to crowding. Jackson Prison, built for 4900, holds 5400 with 1000 sent to outlying camps. statewide prison population stands at 10124 with all cells full at Jackson Marquette Ionia and camps.
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Jackson
Gus Harrison
Harrison
Michigan
Marquette
Ionia
Two Electrocuted in Indiana Drilling Accident
In Logansport Indiana on June 21 Charles Combs, 23, and Dexter Salmon, 34, were electrocuted while using an electric drill in a water-filled clay pit near here. The men were drilling dynamite holes.
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Loogooteer
Ind
Charles Combs
Dexter Salmon
Three Die in Gary Truck Collision Near Gary
Three persons were killed and a fourth gravely injured in a head on crash on U S 12 at Gary's west edge. Victims include Charles W Stevenson 27 and Eddie Morgan of Gary and an unidentified man. Eddie Pope 22 Gary injured critically. truck driver Russell F Leedy of Goshen unharmed.
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Gary
Ind
U. S. 12
Charles W. Stevenson
Eddie Morgan
Eddie Pope
Russell FE. Leedy
Goshen
Leedy
Writer Warns Of Cancer From Leftist Bridges
Labor columnist Victor Riesel says Harry Bridges could sever the San Francisco Honolulu lifeline and close ports. Bridges leads West Coast ILWU. Riesel, blinded by an acid attack, testified before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee in New York about waterfront Communist activity.
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Washington
Victor Riesel
Harry Bridges
San Francisco
Honolulu
Bridges
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Australia
Riesel
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
New York
New YorkDaily Mirror
Three Goshen Teens Die in County Crash
Three 16 year old youths died when their car skidded on loose gravel and hit a tree four miles southeast of Goshen in Elkhart County near the Goshen airport. The victims were David Butler Steve Yoder and Daniel Pletcher. David Butler Jr. is the son of a Goshen city councilman. The toll this year rises to 19, up from 10 a year ago.
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Goshen
Ind
Elkhart
David Butler
Steve Yoder
Daniel Pletcher
David
Talks Seek To Avert Steel Industry Strike
In New York on June 21 the United Steelworkers and the steel industrys big three U S Steel Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel meet to avert a crippling strike that could affect 1956. Four man negotiating teams resume talks after a weekend deadlock as David J McDonald U S W president announced continuation of bargaining with leads.
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New York
United Steelworkers of America
Steel Industry
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
David J. McDonald
U.S.W
Air France DC4 Skirts Anti Aircraft Barrage Over Germany
An Air France DC4 with 57 aboard on a Prague to Paris flight diverted to avoid a live anti aircraft barrage near Nuernberg in West Germany but was not hit. The plane resumed to Paris and landed safely, according to an airline spokesman.
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Paris
P—Air France
West Germany
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Nuernberg
Venezuelan airliner disaster probes begin in New York
Venezuelan government inspectors flew toward the crash site 32 miles off the New Jersey coast to determine why the four engined liner burst into flames and sank killing 74 aboard including 20 Americans. The CAB joined the inquiry though the vessel was outside U S jurisdiction.
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Coast Guardsman
Atlantic
New Jersey
New York
Caracas
Coast Guard
United States
U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
Idlewild
Luis Plata
Youth 16 Sent to Farm for Mistreating Girl
Vigo Circuit Court judge Herbert Criss found 11-year-old Richard Orville Biggs guilty under the Minor's Act. He was sentenced to one year at the Indiana State Penal Farm, reflecting his age rather than prison. Co-defendant Frankie Eugene Felling, 21, faced similar charges. he pleaded not guilty, claiming his signed statement was coerced. The case was heard in Vigo County with evidence presented on tune 1 and continued on page 3.
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Richard Orville Biggs
Herbert R. Criss
Vigo
Criss
Indiana
State Farm
Biggs
Frankie Eugene Felling
Brazil
Felling
Frontier Day Parade and Show Promised Big This Year
Terre Haute and valley residents will enjoy the annual Frontier Day parade and horse show by the Wabash Valley Horsemen's Association. The event opens with a 10 am parade, then moves to Vigo County Fairgrounds for a chuckwagon dinner and a western horse show with seventeen judged events and awards for King of the Cowboys and Frontier Gal. Entrants from Clinton Range Riders Blackhawk Saddle Club Wabash Western Riders Stop 16 Riders and others are expected. parade formation is at Second.
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Terre
Allis Ytedal
Vigo County Fairgrounds
Saddle Club
Clinton Range
Blackhawk Saddle Club
Wabash Western
Premier Mollet Wins Three Votes in Confidence
Paris June 21 Premier Guy Mollet wins three votes of confidence approving higher old age pensions in France. The measure costs taxpayers 400 million dollars yearly and marks the first major social reform since post war nationalization. He led 341 to 35 on the final bill.
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Paris
Guy Mollet
France
Mollet
Algeria
It's Official Now Summer Arrives as Heat Wave Persists
Summer reached its official start at 6 24 a m eastern time as heat and humidity grip much of the nation. A cold front sparked damaging storms in Wisconsin and northern Illinois with flash flooding in Fond du Lac while heat lingered elsewhere.
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E.C.T
Midlands
Wisconsin
Illinois
Fond du Lac
President Eisenhower Leaves Hospital Room
President Eisenhower walked from his hospital room at Walter Reed to a ward corridor after breakfast today, sitting with doctors for about 20 minutes and returning to his room. Doctors reported his condition continues to progress very satisfactorily.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
E.C.T
Twining Aids Leave For Moscow Air Show Mission
General Nathan F. Twining leads a party of six Air Force officers from Washington to Moscow to attend the June 24 air show. The group flies via Europe, with a Russian navigator and radio operator aboard the DC6, aiming to see Russian aircraft and tour potential bases beyond Moscow.
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Washington
Nathan F. Twining
Moscow
Air Force
Washington National
Europe
Twining
Berlin
Pay-As-You Ride Wins In Road Bill
A Senate House conference committee advanced the 32.9 billion highway bill by adopting a pay-as-you-ride plan for funding. The plan limits one year’s interstate spending to money in a special fund built from highway user taxes, some of which would rise under the bill.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Weather Map Update Hot and Humid With River Falling
The weather map notes hot and humid conditions with temperatures from morning to afternoon reaching 84 to 86 degrees. River stage is 3.5 feet and falling. Local conditions record a high of 55 yesterday and a low of 70 last night with 0.22 inches of precipitation. Sunrise 5 23 Sunset 8 20.
Weather Outlook Terre Haute and Vicinity
Partly cloudy warm and humid tonight through Friday with scattered thunderstorms. Low tonight around 70. Showers and thunderstorms continue Friday night into Saturday, then cooler Saturday. Indiana area: warm humid into Friday with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Low tonight 68 to 72. High Friday 88 to 94. Temperature readings around 74 at 2 PM.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
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