Woman, Two Men Die in Gas Chamber
In San Quentin a 32 year old woman Barbara Graham died in the gas chamber after last minute stays were denied. Three hours later killers Jack Santo and Emmet Perkins alongside her were executed for the robbery murder of a Burbank widow. Their crimes included the 1952 grocer and three children massacre. Governor Knight had briefly granted a stay before the state Supreme Court rejected the appeal. The U S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was involved in the case.
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San Quentin
Calif
Barbara Graham
Jack Santo
Emmet Perkins
Burbank
Carlif
Santo
Perkins
Graham
Monahan
Goodwin J. Knight
State Supreme Court
Los Angeles
U. S. 9Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Reds Don’t Scare Air Force Says Talbott Calls U S Power Unmatched
Secretary of Air Talbott told a Stock Growers convention in Custer South Dakota that the United States Air Force has more aircraft capable of delivering atomic weapons than any other nation. He asserted the U S leads in combat materials trained crews and logistics and noted America built 303 000 war planes between 1940 and 1945.
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Custer
S. D
Talbott
U.S. Air Force
Stock Growers Assn
Russia
United States Air Force
U. S. Air Force
U. S
Soviet Union
State Temperatures to Be Near Normal
Montana forecast shows near normal highs of 60 to 78 degrees through Wednesday and lows from 32 to 48. Light showers expected west of the Continental Divide with under one tenth inch of rain and east of the divide up to five tenths inch.
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Helena
Montana
Weather Bureau
Continental Divide
Peron May Face Excommunication Says Vatican Authority
A Vatican source said President Juan D. Peron may be excommunicated or is a very short step from it amid church state tensions in Argentina. The official noted grave sin by Peron and lawmakers backing divorce laws, secularizing education, and arrests of clergy. Evita Peron once met Pope Pius XII.
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Vatican City
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Pius XII
Vatican
Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
Congress
Peron
Evita Peron
Pius
Dalton resigns from Labor high command urging youth leadership
London reports Hugh Dalton, 67, resigns from the Labor party high command and calls for most elderly leaders to step aside for younger men. He says Attlee, 72, should remain as he can reconcile factional rifts after Eden’s Conservatives won the May election.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Labor Party
Clement Attlee
Dalton
Attlee
Eden
Million Dollar Oil Lease Auction Expected
Helena reports a pending million dollar oil lease auction as Montana plans bid on public school sections totaling 80 000 acres. Over 175 bidders have applied at minimum 12 50 per acre since 1951, with potential royalties and legal tests still under review by state officials.
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Helena
Montana Land Board
F. L. Sorenson
Sorenson
Arnold H. Olsen
Sam W. Mitchell
Mary M. Condon
Superintendent of Public Instruction
The
Land Board
Miracle Baby Lives After Being Pronounced Dead
Miracle Dupree, a 2 pound premature infant born at Center Clinic and Hospital, was pronounced dead but a funeral home mortician detected a heartbeat while preparing for burial. Doctors say she now has a better than 50-50 chance to survive. her parents credit divine intervention.
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Houston
Tex
Miracle Dupree
J. Robert Corry
Mark C. Dupree
North Houston Hospital
Center Clinic
Robert P. Kelley
Corry
Love and Law Meets Ads in New Jersey Court Note
A court statement on alimony hints separation may tempt, while a practical twist promotes want ads. An ad writer helps craft compelling copy and a Dodge panel truck with good running order is offered after the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersy Court of Appeals
Wyoming
Measure to Bring Servicemen Under Social Security Drafted
Indian source says it airmen to be freed within hours. Red China set free four U. S. jet fighter pilots near Hong Kong. The 11 airmen, crew of a B29 shot down Jan 12, 1953, are held as spies. Names include Maj. William H. Baumer and Col. John K. Arnold Jr. Currently held in China, they face 4 to 10 year terms.
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Manila
Red China
U. S
J. C. Jain
The
Times of India
Jain
Hong Kong
Honolulu
John Knox Arnold Jr
Silver Springs
Montgomery
Ala
China
William H. Baumer
Lewisburg
Steve R. Kiba
Akron
Ohio
John W. Thompson
Orange
Eugene J. Vandi
Clayton
N. Y
John K. Arnold Jr
Wallace L. Brown
John W. Buck
Armathwaite
Tenn
Harry M. Benjamin Jr
Worthington
Minn
Howard W. Brown
St. Paul
Elmer F. Llewellyn
Missoula
Mont
Daniel C. Schmidt
Boise Idaho
U.P
Air Force
Elmer Llewellyn
Manilla
Llewellyn
Charge Officer Hiding Source of Secret Cash
Washington investigators accuse Captain Raymond Wool of falsely branding himself a tax dodger to hide $16,000 kept in an iron box at home. Testimony from two Madison dress shop workers disputes his claim that losses near from shop profits funded the cash. Wool denies bribes and says Fran's Dress Shop did earn money while admitting tax losses were fraudulent. He asserts years of service and ongoing Air Force scrutiny.
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Washington
Raymond Wool
Senate
Madison
N. J
Wool
Air Force
Harry Lev
Sen
Symington
D-Mo
Armed Forces
New York
Shelby
Ohio
Lev
Doris Auringer
Marvin Rubin
Harry Lee
Miss Auringer
Green Village
Rubin
Montana Weather Snapshot East and West Forecast
East region expects partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions with highs 65 to 70 Saturday. Some Saturday night showers possible, then Sunday partly cloudy with scattered afternoon showers. West region turns partly cloudy with showers Saturday and Sunday and highs 62 to 72 Saturday, cooler Sunday.
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Montana
State to Get New Vaccine With First Batch Recalled
The U S Public Health Service will send a new Salk polio vaccine batch to five states where first and second graders haven't been inoculated. The return of New Jersey's first shipment for retesting follows federal rules. A Montana recall was issued by state health officials after a county request to return vaccines received in May.
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New York
U. S. Public Health Service
National Foundation For
G. F. McGinnes
Foundation
New Jersey
Maine
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyeth Laboratories
Philadelphia
McGinnes
Missoula
U.P
G. D. Carlyle Thompson
State Board of Health
Thompson
Montana Public Health Assn
Pitman-Moore Lab
Brownell Sees Ike Running Again in 1956
Seattle attorney general Herbert B. Brownell Jr. said at a campaign fundraising dinner that President Eisenhower is likely to run again in 1956 and win. He noted Ike answered the 1952 call to duty and would likely do so under similar circumstances.
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Seattle
Herbert B. Brownell Jr
Eisenhower
King County
Brownell
Freed Fliers Open Reunion With Families In Honolulu
Four U S jet pilots freed from Red China prisons enjoyed a family reunion in Hawaii. Capt Harold E Fischer Jr and three others visited hotels and dined with relatives at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel while Air Force officials conducted daily questioning at Hickam. They will depart for the mainland likely Monday.
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Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Hawaii
W. G. Parks
Omaha
Edwin Heller
Harold F. Fisher
Swea City
Iowa
Rolland G. Cameron
Robert
Honolulu
U.S
Red China
Hickam Afb
Harold E. Fischer Jr
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Fischer
Wynnewood
Judith
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Roland W. Parks
Heller
Air Force
Senate panel endorses raising federal minimum wage to $1
A Senate Labor Subcommittee approved raising the nationwide minimum wage to $1 an hour, 25 cents above the current level and 10 cents above Eisenhower’s proposal, with only Sen. H. Alexander Smith voting no. The plan sets January 1, 1956 as the effective date, and would affect about 2.1 million workers in textiles, lumber, tobacco, leather, candy, and apparel. House discussions on Eisenhower’s 90 cent plan continue, with a likelihood of backing the dollar level.
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Washington
Senate Labor
Eisenhower
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Sen
Douglas
D-Ill
Smith
South
Sens
Goldwater
R-Ariz
Neely
D-Wva
McNamara
D-Midh
Labor Committee
Senate
House
Rep
Barden
DNC
Four Bandits Loot Cleveland Trust Bank Branch
Four armed men wearing silk stockings robbed a West Side Cleveland Trust Co. branch, escaping with about 65000 dollars. Three entered the bank shortly after opening, one guarded doors and another acted at the rear. A getaway car was abandoned two blocks away after leaving 200 in cash. They over looked at least 10000 in bills.
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Cleveland
West Side
Cleveland Trust Co
Strike Threatens Scotland's Steel Production
London reports a railway strike threatening Scottish steel mills as Prime Minister Eden plans a nationwide broadcast on the crisis. With trains at about one fifth normal, factories issue precautionary lay offs or shorten weeks to stretch supplies amid ASLEF’s six day walkout and a coal blockage at Shoeburyness.
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London
Eden
Ministry of Labor
Jim Baty
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
ASLEF
Shoeburyness
Essex
Southend
British Transport Commission
Federation of British Industries
Special House Group Proposes Overhaul of Military Survivor Benefits
A special House committee proposes bringing all servicemen under Social Security, ending the $10,000 free life insurance, and trimming two survivor programs. The plan raises costs briefly but broadens benefits, with phased changes to VA payments by rank and a lump-sum adjustment for next of kin.
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Washington
House
Hardy D-Vay
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Hardy
Congress
National Service
Veterans Administration
Nixon Address Astonishing Says State Dept Refuses Support
Washington reports the State Department sharply refused Friday to back Vice President Nixon’s Chicago remarks on the significance of a planned Eisenhower Russia Britain France meeting. Diplomats privately questioned Nixon’s line, suggesting he spoke with personal excitement or that Eisenhower and Dulles gave greater weight to the session.
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Washington
State Department
Richard Nixon
Eisenhower
Russia
Britain
France
Nixon
Chicago
Secretary of
State Dulles
Dulles
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