Be Gov Long Wins His Freedom In IRS Tax Case
Eight men face trial in Terre Haute on evading excise taxes tied to a gambling syndicate from 1957. IRS witnesses introduced wagering registrations and Wyatt tax forms as exhibits, with prosecutors aiming to link registrations to the defendants, while defense challenges halted rapid progress.
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T. H
Internal Revenue Service
Delbert P. Hopkins
IRS
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Clover Club
E. M. Wyatt
Charles Hollars
H. S. Kotsch
Thomas J. Powers
U. S
Don A. Tabbert
Tabbert
F. M. Wyatt
Wyatt
Dale J. Holder
Enthusiasm High As C of Copens Yearly Program
The Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce launched a new year program to advance the city's industrial civic educational and agricultural stature. At a summer roundup at the Country Club more than 90 percent of the 21 active committee heads attended the dinner to set community development plans for the next fiscal year. Anton Hulman Jr called the meeting a great beginning and emphasized uniting the Chamber to boost capabilities. William M Grimes presided and outlined policy making as the group prepared to continue the program.
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Terre Haute
Chamber of Commerce
Country Club of
Anton Hulman Jr
William M. Grimes
Chamber
Gasoline Tax Rise Defeated In Senate Vote
In Washington on June 26 the Senate rejected President Eisenhower's call for a gasoline tax increase to fund the interstate highway program. The House bill would extend corporate and excise tax rates for one year, with reconciliation needed before final passage.
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Washington
Senate
House
Treasury
White House
Eisenhower
Castro Seizes Over Two Million Acres in Cuba
Havana June 26 Prime Minister Fidel Castro cracks down on land critics seizing 2 355 242 acres of cattle ranch land sending troops to occupy land of 131 cattlemen in Camaguey province. He says owners refused to pay breeders profitable prices for cattle. The action uses government powers to take over property deemed counterrevolutionary.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Camaguey
Public baths to close over high cost per shower
Health Superintendent Joseph Smith says the city loses 2.73 dollars per shower at six public baths. He calls the facilities outdated and plans to close them to cut losses.
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Providence
R.L
Joseph Smith
Executive Released by District Judge
In Covington Louisiana UPI Gov Earl Long was released from a mental hospital after the judge dropped the case to keep him confined The governor fired the two hospital officials who ran Southeastern Louisiana Mental Hospital and was freed after his lawyers asked to drop the commitment order Spectators in the sweltering gymnasium applauded as Long waved a cigaretteless hand and regained control of state authorities He had been in three hospitals since May 30 and his wife fled Louisiana taking him to be drugged and flown to an unknown destination Continued on page 2 column 7
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Covington
UPI
Earl K. Long
Long
Southeastern Louisiana Mental Hospital
Robert D. Jones
Jack Gremillion
Louisiana
Death of Model Agency Chief Under Coroner Scrutiny
Chicago June 26 Police and coroner investigators examine the death of Patricia Stevens 45 former Powers model and modeling agency head found dead in her North Side apartment Her husband Earl Muntz says she had kidney surgery recently and police consider possible barbiturate overdose A post mortem and inquest are ordered as notes and a bottle of pills are found at the scene Continued on Page 2 Column 3.
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Chicago
WUPI
Patricia Stevens
New York
Edward Connally
Cook County
Miss Stevens
Earl
Madman) Muntz
North Side
Muntz
Connolly
One Prom Night Collision Leaves Seven Dead
AP News features writer Saul Pett presents a sobering look at a high school prom night tragedy. A southbound train and eight youths traveling east converge at a grade crossing, causing seven deaths as a single second of destruction alters many lives.
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AP News
Saul Pett
Tribunestar
Die In Crash Of Plane
MILAN Italy June 26 a four engine TWA plane with 71 passengers aboard crashed in flames during a storm today at Busto Arsizio 15 miles north of Milan First reports said there were no survivors A Trans World Airlines spokesman in Rome said the Milan office reported the crash The plane was flight No 891 from Athens to Chicago via Rome and Milan.
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Milan
Italy
TWA
Busto Arsizio
Trans World Airlines
Rome
Athens
Chicago
Heavy Rain Falls Across Northern Indiana and Cities
Violent thunderstorms drenched Northern Indiana with historic rainfall. Huntington reported 4.65 inches in three hours and 5.18 inches in 24 hours, flooding basements and streets. Other downpours included Fort Wayne 3.78, Warsaw 3.68, and Rochester damage from wind and hail.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Huntington
Rochester
U. S. 31
City
Upstate
Akron
Fort Wayne
Pierceton
Urbana
Warsaw
Chicago
Hoosierland
Mercury
South Bend
Louisville
Lafayette
Evansville
Cincinnati
Weather Forecast for Terre Haute and Indiana
Local conditions report yesterday high 94 and low 69 with no precipitation. Forecast calls for partly cloudy warm humid conditions through Saturday across Terre Haute Indiana and Illinois with isolated late afternoon thundershowers and little temperature change. Night lows near 70, highs in the mid to upper 80s or low 90s. Street thermometer readings show 75 at 9 am and 87 at 2 pm.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Eisenhower and Queen Open St Lawrence Seaway
President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II dedicated the St Lawrence Seaway and opened the inland ship channel with a cruise to the first 31 miles. They spoke at St Lambert Lock near Montreal as Canadian officials and Cabinet members watched, signaling a technological and commercial triumph. More than 20,000 people attended.
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Montreal
Eisenhower
St. Lawrence Seaway
Washington
St. Lambert
St. Lawrence
Congress
Canada
Lewis L. Strauss
Satchmo Improves in Pneumonia Battle in Spoleto
In Spoleto Italy Louis Armstrong shows improvement after a pneumonia attack tied to a strained heart and long trumpet use. Doctors report his fever subsiding and pulse normalizing though watchful for complications. Ed Sullivan visited, with Armstrong hopeful for a quick recovery.
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Spoleto
Italy
Louis Armstrong
Armstrong
Anna Venturini
U. S
Ed Sullivan
Union Demands Direct Talks With Steel Executives
New York June 24 The United Steelworkers Union refuses further meetings with the four member steel industry bargaining team and calls for direct talks with top company executives. President David J. McDonald says two union offers were rejected and no contract proposals have been made. Steel firms counter that talks stalled after a two hour morning session as 500,000 workers edge toward a possible strike.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
Steel Company
David J. McDonald
McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
Roger M. Bough
U. S. Steel Corp
A. B. Homer
Bethlehem Steel
Charles M. White
Republic Steel
Avery C. Adams
Jones & Laughlin
J. L. Mauthe
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Weather Forecast Cloudy With Showers For New Haven
After days of rain the Weather Bureau issued the forecast in New Haven Conn quoting cloudy with showers and asking what else. The report notes lingering showers and overcast skies expected to continue.
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New Haven
Conn
Weather Bureau
Shrine Circus Promises Thrills at Stadium Saturday
Tom Packs' Shrine Circus arrives in Terre Haute to set up props for a Memorial Stadium show on Saturday afternoon at 2 15 and evening at 8 15. Proceeds go to Zorah Shrine crippled children's fund and 14 local Wa bas h Valley children are treated at Shriners Hospital in St Louis. The annual circus began in 1937 but moved outdoors due to elephant weight damage to Shrine Auditorium.
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Tom Packs
Shrine Circus
Terre Haute
Memorial Stadium
Zorah Shrine
Shriners
Wabash Valley
St. Louis Hospital
Zorah Temple
Mermaid Festival Tragedy Sinks North Webster
At the Mermaid Festival two spectators in an outdoor Mentone versus Winchester basketball game suffered heart attacks. Ora McKinley, 52, of Mentone died. Hazle Strieby of Syracuse was hospitalized in serious condition as Winchester nipped Mentone 50 to 46 in the final minutes.
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North Webster
Ind
Ora McKinley
Mentone
Hazle Strieby
Syracuse
Columbia City Hospital
Winchester
Two Area Women Die in Indiana Crash Near Freedom
A head on collision on Indiana 67 near Freedom killed Edith Sinders 71 of Worthington and Ernestine Smith 28 of Bloomfield and passenger Sarah Ann Smith 22 of Grand Junction Tennessee. Doctor Paul Risk 28 and Hazel Newgent 61 were injured. Continued on Page 2.
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Freedom
Ind
Here
Mrrs
Edith Sinders
Worthington
Ernestine Smith
Bloomfield
Linton
Spencer
Paul B. Risk
West Lafayette
Miss Smith
Hazel Newgent
Indianapolis
Risk
Sinders
Frances Grecco
Bedford
Evelyn Moats
Jane Erne
Cleveland
Ohio
Glenna Smith
RR 1
Flossie Ward
Detroit
Mich
Newgent
Jewel Clemens
Jasonville
Frank Ward
Harold Smith
Don Clemens
McClanahan Funeral Home
Griffith
De Gaulle and Gronchi Hold Europe Talks In Rome
French President Charles de Gaulle and Italian President Giovanni Gronchi continued talks on a joint policy for Europe and the Mediterranean during de Gaulle's four day state visit. A communiqué on the discussions was expected tonight or Saturday morning.
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Rome
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
France
Giovanni Gronchi
Italy
Europe
Mediterranean
de Gaulle
Vermillion Boy Drowns in Pit Near Cayuga
Luther Cheesman 17 of Eugene near Cayuga drowned in a gravel pit at about 6 p.m. Thursday while wading. Four teens tried to save him. officials say death is accidental. The pit, used by Vermillion County Road Commissions, had no swimming signs torn down and a partial fence around the water.
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Cayuga
Ind
Luther Cheesman
Eugene
Here
Cheesman
Vermillion County
Nick Karanovich
One-Arm Wolfe Dies in Dundee Mystery Blast
Dundee Florida June 26 Charles One-Arm Wolfe 67 Indiana slayer and ex associate of Gerald Chapman found dying of burns after a vacant house blast that killed another man. Wolfe, once jailed for 1925 Hance killings near Muncie, was paroled two weeks before Christmas 1943 and had been living near Sebring Florida.
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Dundee
Fla
WAPD
Charles
Ind
Ben Hance
Muncie
Wolfe
Chapman
Dutch Anderson
Hances
Hance
Hartford City
Indiana
Sebring
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Model Agency
Prom
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U. S. Weather Bureau
By Belman Morin
Union
The
Gronchi
Vermillion
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