Rising Floods Threaten White and Wabash River Crops
Flood warnings spread across the White and Wabash river bottoms as two weeks of rain end the heat wave. Officials forecast cooler conditions but runoff could flood lands through next week, jeopardizing late planted crops and replanting efforts from early June. The White River east fork near Columbus may rise modestly, while the Wabash near Montezuma could exceed flood stage by Saturday night.
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White
Wabash
White River
Weather Bureau
Columbus
Seymour
Montezuma
Terre Haute
Linton
Russ Air Chief Greets Twining in Moscow Visit
General Nathan F. Twining arrives in Moscow to meet Soviet air leaders and tour air installations. He and a U S scientific staff will attend Aviation Day and report back to President Eisenhower and the public. The visit marks the first government approval for such close exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan Konev
Nathan Twining
U. S
Moscow
Vern Haugland
Nathan F. Twining
Russia
U. S. Air Force
Ivan S. Konev
Twining
Paval Zhigarev
Konev
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Eisenhower
Seven Die In Indiana Weekend Traffic Toll
Indiana's weekend traffic toll rises to seven with three deaths in a triple fatal crash on Ind. 64 near Princeton. Victims include Mary Jo Miller age 19 and drivers Jack Warren 24 and Larry Orr 26. A separate Ind. 15 crash north of Warsaw kills Ora Banks 63. Columbus resident Sarah Hall 32 dies in another incident involving Frank Meshberger 38. Continued on page seven.
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Indiana
Columbus
Ind
Princeton
Jack Warren
Larry J. Orr
Albion
Mary -Jo Miller
Gary
Goshen
Ora Alvie Banks
Wabash
Ind. 15
Warsaw
Sarah E. Hall
Frank L. Meshberger
Columbus Construction Company
Meshberger
Prosecutor challenges pinball ruling in Indiana
Prosecutor John G. Tinder said he would appeal a special judge Earl C. Townsend Jr. ruling that a pinball machine awarding free games is not a gambling device. Tinder plans a new trial and possible appeal to the Indiana Appellate Court, and may seek legislative ban. Townsend granted Music Operation Co. a permanent injunction, deputies had seized two machines last winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
John G. Tinder
Indiana
Earl C. Townsend Jr
Superior Court
Tinder
Indiana Appellate Court
Townsend
Music Operation Co
Sheriff's Deputies
Danish Mother Alleges Sailors Harassed Teens in Copenhagen
A Danish mother told Ekstrabladet that visiting American sailors from the battleship Iowa and its destroyer escort faced persistent advances from teen-age girls in Copenhagen. She asked for anonymity and reported no official sailor complaints.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Ekstrabladet
Lowa
Lions Open 39th World Convention in Miami
About 35 000 Lions Club members from around the world gather in Miami for the 39th Lions International convention. The four day event features talks by Vice President Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, with sessions at Dinner Key Auditorium.
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Miami
Lions Club
Lions International
Richard Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
United Nations
Lodge
Nixon
Dinner Key Auditorium
Gunwoman flees cab chase ends in Illinois arrest
A 35 year old woman, Eunice Mays of Herrin, hailed a taxi in Harrisburg and pistol whipped the driver. Deputies intercepted the cab near Benton after a chase on Route 34. She refused to give a motive and was turned over to Saline County authorities for prosecution. Herrin police also sought her.
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Harrisburg
Benton
Franklin County
Eunice Mays
Herrin
Wayne Bridges
Bridges
Seston Cantrell
Saline County
Eisenhower Seen as GOP Nominee by Martin in New York
House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. said Eisenhower will be the GOP presidential nominee and urged re election. He spoke at a Cayuga County $25 fundraiser in Auburn New York asserting there is no division over Eisenhower and Nixon as standard bearers. Humphrey rebutted Eisenhower invincibility at the Minnesota party convention calling GOP myth and noting Democrats gained seats and lost no control of Congress.
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Auburn
N. Y
Ip— House
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Eisenhower
G.O.P
Massachusetts
Minneapolis
Hubert
Humphrey
D.-Minn
Minnesota
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Herbert Hoover
Esenhower
President May Leave Hospital Within Week
President Eisenhower’s doctors told him he could leave Walter Reed Army Medical Center in about a week if his recovery from the intestinal operation continues. He discussed politics with a staffer and diplomatic matters with Secretary Dulles while overruled a dress code order for officers in the Washington area.
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Washington
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Defense
Charles I. Wilsons
Leonard W. Hall
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Leonard D. Heaton
White House
James C. Hagerty
Russia wooing Iran with cash and caviar
London report says Soviet Premier Bulganin and deputies wooed Iran and Arab states with chilled caviar and cash in Moscow receptions. Moscow offered aid with no strings attached while seeking uranium oil and influence in the region. Shepilov met Syrian leaders after Egypt talks on cash for the Aswan dam project.
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London
Russia
Iran
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Yeman
Moscow
Dmifri Shepilov
Egypt
High Aswan
Sunrise and Sunset Times at River Stage
Sunrise at 4 23 with sunset at 8 21. river stage shows a 13 3 reading, indicating steady water levels. The fragment notes a stationary state and daily light hours.
Forecast for Terre Haute and nearby areas
Sunday brings warmth and lower humidity with partly cloudy skies. Highs reach the upper 80s to mid 90s, lows Sunday night around 68 to 70. Monday shows little temperature change with high temperatures in the 80s. Illinois and Indiana forecast fair conditions with warm, less humid air.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Wilson explains furor on phony word
Defense Secretary Charles E Wilson blamed newsmen for a Senate furor over the word phony used amid Army Air Force budget talks. He said he was misunderstood or partly misquoted and declined to say if he would resign. Eisenhower discussed the incident with aides at Walter Reed Hospital.
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Quantico
Defense
Charles E Wilson
Senate
Eisenhower
Wilson
Stuart Symington
Styles Bridges
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Sherman Adams
White House
Believe Ohio Killer of 3 In Hammond
Akron truck driver David Shaffer identified a man as Alfred Wilson, 37, who shot three women to death near Hammond, Indiana, on Thursday night. Shaffer said Wilson confessed at a Hammond filling station about 2 a.m. as he gassed his truck, claiming the overloaded load and an imminent weighing at a Hammond station.
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Akron
Hammond
Ind
Alfred Wilson
David Shaffer
Ray Woodard
Summit County
Wilson
Shaffer
Ken
David J. McDonald
Steel Workers Union
U. S. Steel
Republic
Bethlehem
McDonald
Steel
Child Electrocuted by Floor Lamp in Dagger Indiana
A two and a half year old infant, Russell Brian Smith, was killed when he touched a hot wire from a defective floor lamp while standing on a metal floor register in his parents home in Dagger. Survived by parents Jack and Smith, grandmother Daisy Smith of Indianapolis, grandparents Mack Stringer of Dagger, and four brothers Bruce, Robert, Richard, and Rex. service set for Monday at 2 pm with Rev. Cain Smith. burial in Dugger cemetery.
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Dagger
Ind
Russell Brian Smith
Jack Smith
Daisy Smith
Indianapolis
Mack Stringer
Bruce
Robert
Richard
Rex
Evans Funeral Home
Cain Smith
Dugger Cemetery
Novelist Michael Arlen Dies at 61 in New York
Michael Arlen, author of The Green Hat and a roaring twenties sensation, died at his Park Avenue home after a long illness. He was 61 and regarded as one of the few writers to become a millionaire from his books.
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New York
Michael Arlen
Park Avenue
Arlen
Mastodon Remains Found In DeKalb County Farm
A mastodon skeleton found June 13 on a DeKalb County farm is called a remarkable find in excellent preservation by William Turnbull of the Chicago Museum of Natural History. He estimates the animal died 8,000 to 9,000 years ago after sinking in a swamp, and plans to seek museum purchase of the bones from farm owner Howard D. Grimm.
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Auburn. Ind
DeKalb County
William Turnbull
Chicago Museum of Natural History
Turnbull
Chicago
Howard D. Grimm
One Hundred Convention Tickets Available in Indianapolis
One hundred free spectator admission tickets to the Indiana Democratic Convention at the State Fair Ground Coliseum will be distributed Monday morning at the Tribune-Star business office on a first come first served basis.
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Indianapolis
Tribune-Star
Vigo County Delegates Headed to State Demo Meeting
Sixty eight Vigo County delegates plan to attend the 1956 Democratic state convention in Indianapolis. Edward S. Everett chairs the delegation with Frieda Terhorst as vice chair and Robert X. Kelly as secretary. Everett backs Ralph Tucker for governor. one dissenter is Jack Mankin who supports Matt Welsh. L. V. Dutch Letzgus predicts Tucker could win many district votes and delegates hold preconvention caucuses at the Claypool Hotel Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigo County
Indianapolis
Edward S. Everett
Frieda Terhorst
Robert X. Kelly
Everett
Tucker
Ralph Tucker
Jack Mankin
Matt Welsh
Vincennes
Mankin
Welsh
Democratic
L. V
Letzgus
Letzkus
Claypool
Terre Haute
Humid Weather Envelops Midwest Into Weekend
Warm humid conditions spread across the plains and Midwest as high pressure over the Gulf of Mexico directs southerly winds. Scattered thunderstorms moved from the plains toward the Great Lakes and New England, with temperatures from the 50s in the Pacific Northwest to the 80s and 90s from the Central plains to the Atlantic coast. Michigan showed cool northern readings and hot southern readings.
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Chicago
Plains States
Atlantic Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Plains
Great Lakes
New England
Pacific Northwest
Central Plains
Gulf Coast
Michigan
Soap Box Derby Statistics at Terre Haute Event
Time first heat at 2 00 P M on U S Highway 40 west of West Terre Haute entries total 71 drivers ages 11 to 15 from Terre Haute and Wabash Valley admission is free parking provided by city and state police with ample lot spaces available for spectators
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Dale
U. S. Highway No. 40
West Terre Haute
7Th and Wabash
Terre Haute and
Wabash Valley
Senator Bender urges federal steps to stop steel strike
Ohio Senator George H. Bender called on the federal government to summon leaders for decisive talks to avert a steelworkers strike by 650,000 next Saturday. He warned a walkout would hit his state hard and urged action as union and industry negotiators met.
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New York
George H. Bender
Ohio Republican
Bender
Washington
Cleveland
United Steel Workers
State Swine Crop Dips Two Percent in Indiana
Indiana spring swine crop estimated at 3,991,000 pigs, 2 percent below last year, with fall farrowings 3 percent under 1955. Purdue farm statisticians report 6.99 spring pigs per litter, unchanged from last year and above average. June 1 stock of hogs over six months old on farms totals 1,059,000, down 1 percent from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
Indiana
Purdue University
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Associated Press
Thomas Faulconer
Charles E. Skillen
Walter F. Jones, Jr
Russ Air Chief
THE
By Donald J. Gonzales
U S. Weather Bureau
Charles W. Corday
Ohio
Warren
Midwest
Soap Box
Derby Statistics
Union
Joseph L. Block
Inland Steel
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