Army Arrests Turncoats Upon Arrival
Three former Korean War prisoners, Bell Cowart and Griggs, returned to the U S from Hong Kong aboard the President Cleveland and were immediately arrested for betraying fellow prisoners. They face possible death sentences for charges including desertion plots, aiding the enemy, and propaganda work. The three men, aged 22 to 24, were taken to Ft Baker after customs.
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San Francisco
Korea
Reds
Otho G. Bell
William A. Cowart
Lewis W. Griggs
Cleveland
Hong Kong
United States Army
Stockade
Ft. Baker
Golden Gate
Walter R. Leahy
6Th Army Provost Marshal
Bell
Griggs
Hillsboro
Miss
Olympic
Wash
Cowart
Dalton
United States
Jacksonville
Tex
U. S
Lewis Griggs
William Cowart
Otho Bell
Courtly Hand Kissing Gent Gets 50 Cents Bum's Rush
A hand kissing moocher appeared in police court Friday afternoon. The defendant pled no contest to vagrancy and admitted borrowing a 50 cent piece from a Butte housewife who claimed she had never seen him before. The woman asked he leave within two hours or face 30 days in the county jail.
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Butte
John Seton
Walter Eslick
Eslick
Russell Mitchell
Transport Ditches All Aboard Saved
A U S Air Force C47 transport ditched in the Mediterranean Friday but all 18 aboard were rescued. The aircraft, en route from Wheelus Air Base in Libya to Athens, carried four crew and 14 passengers, and went down about 50 miles off Misurata after engine trouble.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
U. S. Air Force
Mediterranean
U. S. Air Force European
U. S
Wheelus
Tripoli
Libya
Athens
Miswrata
Tragic Park Truck Crash Claims Three Young Lives
In Yellowstone National Park a sightseeing truck left a road and hit a tree, killing two Rankin Texas boys Mike Collins 15 and Kenneth Sharp 12 and Joye Marie Cook 22 of Allengam Michigan. Six others were injured including 4-H members and the driver.
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Mammoth
Wyo
Rankin, Tex
Yellowstone National Park
Park
Edmund B. Rogers
Mike Collins
Kenneth Sharp
Joyce Marie Cook
Allengan
Mich
Ely St
Mammoth Hotel
Rankin
Texas
W. M. Day
Upton County
Tex
Rogers
Day
Canyon Hotel
Miss Cook
Mammoth Hospital
J. E. Simco
Ballinger
Gretchen Schmidt
Sally Holyoke
Miss Schmidt
Miss Holyoke
James Lyles
James McDonald
Billy Ross Wheeler
Wheeler
Crows Set Terms for Site of Dam in Montana
Crow Indian Tribal Council adopts two options for Yellowtail Dam site on the Big Horn River. Option one sells the reservoir and dam site for five million dollars with tribal mineral rights and control retained. Option two leases the site for 159000 dollars yearly, with eventual tribal operation and mineral rights preserved. Congress has provided four million dollars for preliminary work, while plans aim to irrigate 44000 acres and provide power to Montana and Wyoming. The tribe previously rejected a 14 million dollar federal offer for the damsite.
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Crow Agency
Mont
Crow Indian Tribal Council
Yellowtail Dam
Big Horn River
Montana
Crow Tribe
National Park Service
Congress
Yellowtail
Wyoming
Senate approves $1 minimum wage bill shift
The Senate passed by voice vote a compromise bill to raise the minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour effective March 1 next year. The measure goes to the House and then to President Eisenhower who urged a 90 cent wage floor. About 24 million workers are covered. an estimated 2.1 million will get raises. The 75 cent baseline, set in 1949, applies to interstate commerce. Puerto Rico provisions were dropped in the compromise.
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Washington
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Congress
Puerto Rico
Sen
Bridges Cleared in Fraud Case
SAN FRANCISCO Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, was cleared of a federal charge that he lied about Communist ties to gain U S citizenship in 1945. Judge Louis E Goodman found the government failed to meet an exacting standard and suggested it may appeal.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
U. S
Federal Dist
Louis E. Goodman
Bridges
Australia
International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union
Goodman
Communist Party
House approves stripped down public housing bill
Washington dispatch reports the House passed a pared down public housing bill 396 to 3, sending it to a conference with a Senate measure. Democrats push for alignment with administration goals while GOP leaders emphasize a bill closer to their stance. The Walcott substitute would boost FHA mortgage authority and urban renewal funding, with various programs extended or limited. The vote highlighted party lines as lawmakers debated housing policy and federal aid before adjournment. Meanwhile President Eisenhower revealed plans to launch history’s first man made satellites by 1958, stressing scientific purposes and international observation with potential weather and communications benefits.
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Eisenhower
House
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
White House
McCormack
Mass
GOP
Martin
Congress
House Rules Committee
Banking Committee
Walcott
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Secretary of Defense
Senate
Washington
U. S
Congressmen May Quit Work Monday
Washington leaders pushed toward a year end adjournment but McCormack announced the House will meet Monday to consider legislation. A housing bill sparked by Eisenhower administration needs and a large 1.5 billion funding measure for federal agencies dominate unfinished business as Senate and House conferees seek final passage before leaving town.
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Washington
Congress
McCormack
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Senate House
Bandits Getaway Car Found Near Bitter Root Valley
Four Victor bank bandits fled with 8700. The stolen getaway car owned by a Missoula dairy was found at Bass Crossing near U S 93. Police also recovered clothing, three shotguns, an Italian pistol, and masks. Fugitives believed in one or two other cars. searches centered in Missoula area. This was the second Farmers State Bank robbery in Victor since Christmas 1953.
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Victor
FBI
Bitter Root
U. S. 93
Stevensville
Montana-Idaho
Missoula
Bass Crossing
Bell Crossing
Farmers State Bank of
Agreed on Fund for Air Academy
Washington reports that House and Senate conferees agreed on a $20 million appropriation to begin construction of an Air Force academy at Colorado Springs. The compromise bill totals about $1.8 billion, with about $260 million for atomic energy plant and equipment this year. The air academy funds face opposition over proposed ultra modern glass-walled buildings.
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Washington
U.P
House
Senate
Colorado Springs
Colo
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
AEC
Air Force Academy
Accused Child Slayer Ends Life in Richmond Jail
Laverne Johnson a 23 year old unemployed cook accused of beating his infant son and his stepdaughter to death with a hammer killed himself Friday afternoon in his Richmond City Jail cell. Jailer Henry Steelman said he found Johnson dead with a sock around his neck and hung from a book.
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Richmond
Calif
Laverne Johnson
Henry Steelman
Johnson
Ike urges GOP unity to keep control and push key aims
President Eisenhower told a pre adjournment breakfast of GOP senators and representatives that Republicans could retain national control if they unite behind his principles. He avoided direct talk of a 1956 campaign, though supporters wore Ike buttons and cheered. Hagerty summarized that Ike urged a positive, unifying message and highlighted highways schools and health as goals unlikely to pass this session.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Statler
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Ike
GOP
White House
Leonard W. Hall
Congress
Republican Party
Nine Chester White pigs turn pink from sunburn at Brookfield Zoo
CHICAGO U P Nine little Chester White pigs at the Brookfield Zoo turned pink Friday from sunburn. Zoo attendants soothed the porkers with suntan lotion.
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Chicago
U.P
Brookfield Zoo
Decline in Farm Prices Reported
Washington, the Agriculture Department reported Friday that farm prices fell 2 percent in the month ending mid July. Hog, potato, apple, wheat and watermelon prices dropped while milk, tomatoes, grapefruit, cotton, lettuce and eggs rose. Overall parity and related indices show the mid July level below last year and a record high set in 1952.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Eisenhower
Agora phobia in horses sparks stall confinement fears
A health note warns horses can suffer psychological disorders such as agora phobia from long stall confinement. It explains the horse may feel safe only in a stall and fear leaving it. Meanwhile a WANT AD suggests calling 5451 to place fast ads, claiming quick results for selling items like a living room set and chairs, location 0000 Harrison.
Resignation of Talbott Seen Imminent by Senators
Two GOP Policy Committee members said Harold Talbott’s Air Force secretary resignation was imminent though Talbott denied it. A possible inquiry into his Pentagon business ties was noted as influencing views, with Bridges saying no conclusion yet. The president remained at his Gettysburg farm, weighing ethics records.
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Washington
Harold Ek
Talbott
Air Force
Eisenhower
Senate
White House
Pentagon
Bridges
R-Nh
Gettysburg
Montana Weather Summary Reflects Wide State Variations
Montana forecast shows west cloudy with increasing east showers, cooler conditions spreading across the state. Saturday highs range 60s to 70s northwest and near 90 southeast, with possible Saturday night showers mainly north. Sunday partly cloudy with scattered showers and cooler east. west partly cloudy with 60s to 70s and possible Sunday showers.
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Montana
Montana High
Peete Kickass
Lewistown
Livingston
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
Russia Plans Own Satellite Similar to U S Program
Moscow reports Soviet sources say a commission for interplanetary communication was formed early in 1955 to coordinate development of an automatic cosmic laboratory satellite. The project aims to pierce the atmosphere and orbit Earth, enabling study of biological and radiophysical phenomena with top scientists including Sedov Kapitsa Ambartsumian.
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Moscow
U.P
Russia
United States
Commission For Interplanetary Communication
Soviet Union
L. I. Sedov
Ussr Academy of Sciences
Peter Kapitsa
Victor Ambartsumian
A. G. Karpenko
Ussr
Safe but Cold Infant Placed in Fridge by Mother
Eleven week old Matthew Voschin suffered first and second degree frostbite over most of his body after his mother put him in a refrigerator for safety. Mrs Voschin, reacting to a kitchen attack and blacking out, was alone with the infant when she placed him inside the appliance. state police classified the incident as an accident and the child was reported in fair condition at West Jersey Hospital in Camden.
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Camden
N. J
U.P
Matthew Voschin
West Jersey Hospital
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Air Academy
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