Four Die Four Hurt In Denver Bomber Crash
A Air Force B25 crashed soon after takeoff from Lowry AFB in Denver injuring four and killing four. Victims include 1st Lt. Robert Bilbro 24 1st Lt. Donaldson Wright 27 Capt. Clarence Stull 39 and Sgt Lawrence Hires 26. Injured crew members and bystanders were treated at nearby facilities as wreckage and flames spread near homes. Witnesses described it missing houses before striking a knoll and exploding.
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Denver
Lowry Air Force Base
McChord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
Tindall Air Force Base
Panama City
Fla
Robert L. Bilbro
Laredo
Tex
Air Force
Donaldson H. Wright
Blytheville
Ark
Clarence Stull
McChord Afb
Army
Lawrence Hires
9Th Infantry
Ft. Lewis
Tampa
Lowry Public Information Office
Charles L. Willard
McChord
Texas City
Harrell A. Lawryes
Lowry
William Morgan
Herbert Roddy
Roddy
Lowry Air Base
Ernest C. Wheeler
Ronnie Sparks
Hagerty predicts rough Democratic campaign ahead
White House secretary James C. Hagerty warned at a campaign conference that Democrats will run a rough and dirty race to unseat the Eisenhower administration in November. He argued Republicans must convince voters that Eisenhower is the strongest force for peace while noting Geneva 1955 did not fail, but showed U.S. strength. Vice President Nixon urged turnout and said Republicans can make a stronger case than in 1952.
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White House
James C. Hagerty
National Citizens For Eisenhower
Hagerty
Nixon
Eisenhower
U. S
Geneva
NAACP Banned by Court Order in Alabama
A state court in Montgomery issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from doing business in Alabama. Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones granted the order at the request of Attorney General John Patterson, citing alleged involvement in organizing the Montgomery bus boycott and funding efforts to enroll Black women at the all white University of Alabama. The injunction remains in effect pending further court action.
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Montgomery
Ala
National
Asssociation For
Colorado
Alabama
Walter B. Jones
John Patterson
Patterson
NAACP
University of Alabama
Families Evacuated by Columbia Flood
The Columbia River flooding from British Columbia headwaters forced the evacuation of about 75 families in a lower river district near Portland. The river rose to 24.9 feet at Vancouver, Washington, with forecaster Elmer Fisher predicting at least two more feet possible, depending on weather.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia
British Columbia
Lower River
Vancouver
Wash
Elmer Fisher
Britain Bases Resolution on Mid East
Britain softens its Middle East peace proposal to satisfy Russia Iran and Arab states while Arabs vow to fight the plan. Syria Jordan Egypt and Lebanon harshly criticized the text in a heated UN Security Council debate as Dixon Wadsworth and Alphand seek minor changes and avoid a full vote.
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United Nations
Britain
Middle East
Russia
Iran
Security Council
Syria
Jordan
Egypt
Lebanon
Dag Hammarskjold
China
Pierson Dixon
U. S
James J. Wadsworth
Herve Alphand
France
Dixon
Hammarskjold
Palestine
England
Israel
U. N
Wadsworth
Ahmed Shukairy
Ellender slams Pentagon waste over new defense facilities
Sen. Ellender and Sen. Dworshak criticize proposed Air Force and Navy spending during a Senate Appropriations hearing. They cite idle Pocatello naval gun plant and planned Denver and Ogden facilities, urging use of existing assets to save tax dollars. The hearing follows Air Force plans tied to a Martin missile project near Denver.
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Washington
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Pentagon
Dworshak
Frederick S. Withington
Naval
Senate
Air Force
Denver
Colo
Ogden
Utah
Navy
Pocatello
Withington
Army
Louisiana
Chavez
D-Nm
Glenn L. Martin Corp
Baltimore
Escapee Arrested After Walk-In at Miles City Station
About 20 law officers gathered at the Miles City police station when escapee Willdon Schelin, 20, from the North Dakota Prison Farm at Bismarck, walked in. Lt. Alvin Bartels identified him from a wanted file photo and arrested him with help from a fireman after a struggle. Schelin had entered to inquire about an abandoned car east of the city and escaped from the prison farm on May 2.
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Miles City
North Dakota
Bismarck
Alvin Bartels
Willdon Schelin
Schelin
Bartels
Yellowstone River Rises After Brief Leveling
The Yellowstone River resumes its ascent after a short pause with a forecast of 8 to 16 inches increase at Billings by Saturday. The Weather Bureau warns of local flooding from Livingston to Hysham with a potential bank full to 6 inches above banks from Livingston downstream over the weekend as warmer weather lifts tributaries.
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Billings
Yellowstone
Weather Bureau
Livingston
Hysham
Ralph E. Gumpf
Gumpf
Corwin Springs
Eisenhower forms Cabinet panel to aid small business
President Eisenhower moved to counter Democratic charges that his administration favors big business. He named a seven member Cabinet committee to study small businessmen and propose steps to aid and strengthen them. Members include Arthur Burns, Wilson, Weeks, Mitchell, Flemming, Barnes, and Cole.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Wendell B. Barnes
Arthur F. Burns
Council of Economic Advisers
Burns
Defense
Wilson
Commerce Weeks
Labor
Mitchell
Arthur Flemming
Wendell Barnes
Albert Cole
Jesse H. Jones Former RFC Chief Dies at 82
Houston financier and builder Jesse H. Jones, former secretary of commerce and RFC head, died Friday night at St. Luke's Hospital after a kidney operation. He built Houston’s skyline and owned 35 multi story buildings including the Houston Chronicle. survivors include his widow Mary Gibbs Jones and a Houston attorney stepson Tilford Jones.
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Houston
Texas
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corp
South
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Jones
Commerce
RFC
Henry Wallace
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Montana Weather: East and West Regions Forecast Showers
East Montana expects partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thundershowers Saturday and Saturday night, cooler except extreme southeast, highs 72 to 82 or 85 to 90 in the extreme east, Sunday partly cloudy with showers. West Montana: partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday with scattered thundershowers, cooler Saturday, highs 68 to 75, little change Sunday. Maximums cover 12 hours, minimums 18 hours to 5:30 p.m. Friday.
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Montana
French Claim 290 Rebels Dead in Battle in Algeria
French military headquarters said 290 Algerian Nationalist rebels were killed in a three day fight in the Gates of Iron canyons of the Bi ban Mountains near Bougie with 210 captured and 170 wearing uniforms. French forces also struck near Mila and Laurmel with 30 Reds and 10 MNA leaders arrested.
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Algiers
Algeria
Biban
Bougie
Constantine
Mila
National Algerian Movement
MNA
Soumman Valley
Grand Kabylie
Rocky
Oran Department
Laurmel
Woman Is Lost When Car Goes Into River
Bella Jean Rowan of Missoula is feared drowned after a car driven by Charles Snook plunged into the Clark Fork River near the west Missoula city limits. Snook, 44, Hamilton, swam to shore after escaping the vehicle as rescuers searched in darkness and rain. authorities say Rowan has lived in the area for years and is about 45.
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Missoula
Bella Jean
Manila
Rowan
Clark Fork
Charles Snook
Hamilton
Snook
Want Ads Offer Quick Sell for Unused Items
Call 5451 for a Want Ad writer to place your classified. The ad urges selling items no longer used including a piano, furniture, and other belongings. It notes leaving town and tentative price hints for 000 N. Arizona and mentions three rooms in a furnished condition.
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Arizona
Molotov Out as Foreign Minister in Soviet Shuffle
Dmitri Shepilov, aged 50, named minister of foreign affairs replacing Vyacheslav Molotov, who remains deputy premier. Western diplomats expect no shift in Soviet policy as Tito visits Moscow amid speculation of further leadership changes.
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Molotov
Dmitri Shepilov
Moscow
Dmitri T. Shepilov
Egypt
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Soviet Union
Shepilov
Maxim Litvinoff
Tito
Yugo
Slavia
Supreme Soviet
Council of Ministers
Dmitriy Shepilov
Marshal Klementi Y. Voroshilov
Bolshoi
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party Presidium
David Beck
Khrushchev
Bulganin
A. I. Mikoyan
Shepilox Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Stalin
Belgrade
Bulgaria
Marshal
Allied Troops in Korea Ready to Respond
Gen. I D White, U S Army Far East commander, said Allied troops are ready to retaliate immediately if the Communists fire across the truce line. He added we could pull the lanyard in 15 seconds, though aides said this was not saber rattling. Red China warned the U N must bear responsibility for outcomes if it rejects a Korea conference.
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Hong Kong
Red China
United Nations
U. N
Korea
U. S
Britain
France
China
North Korea
Armistice Supervisory Commission
South Korea
I. D. White
U. S. Army
Far East
Seoul
Mrs. Bischert Found Guilty in Starvation Death Case
Mrs. Francis J. Bischert, 23, was convicted by a Missoula jury of manslaughter in the starvation death of her 6 month old daughter Melody. Her husband, 27, was convicted last week and sentenced to five years. Both held without bond. Sentencing set for Monday.
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Missoula
Francis J. Bischert
West Riverside
Melody
Missoula County
Albert Besancon
Storm Cooling Off Butte Sizzler After Violent Hailstorm
A hailstorm and heavy rain Friday night cooled Butte's hottest day of the year where the temperature peaked at 82 degrees, dropping 11 degrees in minutes. An earlier storm hit Anaconda, with lightning striking a tree on 111 N Hickory triggering a small fire extinguished by firefighters.
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Butte
Mercury
Clark Park
Anaconda
Herman Olson
Hickory
Bombing hits U.S. consular home in Nicosia
A U.S. consular official John Meehan and his family escaped injury after a Friday night bombing damaged the front porch of their home near Nicosia. The attack, the third attributed to the Greek Cypriot underground in a week, left only minor damage. Charles Meehan of Somerville Mass is identified as the brother.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
U.S
Mr. Meehan
State Dept
Washington
John Meehan
Charles
Somerville
Mass
Meehan
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