Escapees from Twin Falls jail trigger manhunt in Idaho
Police pursued two escapees Walter Mel chow 35 and Donald Kitchin 29 after a gunshot fatality near a marine escape site in southeastern Idaho. Kitchin was spotted near American Falls prompting a roadblock as investigators chased false leads toward Pocatello.
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Idaho
Twin Falls
Walter Melchow
Donald Kitchin
Power County
William Hoehnen
Pocatello
Kitchin
American Falls
Bruce Kuntz
Bannock County
Norman Fordyce
Hoehnen
Morse Warns GOP on Taft Hartley Labor Command
Senator Wayne Morse, a liberal Republican from Oregon, warned colleagues that keeping Taft Hartley anti strike injunctions in a new labor law would be a backward step. He cautioned against federal plant seizure authority as lawmakers press five emergency dispute proposals, arguing such moves risk dangerous economic matches. The Senate debate centers on whether to extend injunction power alone or add plant seizure authority.
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Washington
Wayne L. Morse
Ore
GOP
Congress
Senate
Morse
Administration
15 Perish In Floods
Petersburg West Virginia residents faced a flood crisis as search teams scoured 60 miles of the Shenandoah and Potomac valleys. Seven bodies recovered with the toll expected to reach fifteen. National guardsmen state police Red Cross worked on reclamation amid millions in property damage and over 300 homes washed away or damaged.
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Petersburg
W. Va
Shenandoah
Potomac
Red Cross
British Woman Admits Having Plenty Undies
Mrs Dorothy Rockcliffe, a 36 year old housewife in London, admitted she was a scrounger in a letter to ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman and apologized to British women for claiming she had worn scarce underwear. She said the claim was tongue in cheek and that she wrote it not strictly true.
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London
Dorothy Rockcliffe
ECA
Paul Hoffman
Hoffman
America
Typhoon Delta Strikes Ashiya Base in Kyushu
A typhoon named Delta with winds up to 92 mph hit the Ashiya air force base on northern Kyushu after lasing Okinawa where winds reached 125 mph. The center struck near Ashiya at 4 am, then moved northeast toward the Sea of Japan with forecasted winds up to 85 mph in southern Kyushu. No damage reports were available yet.
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Tokyo
Ashiya
Kyushu
Okinawa
Delta
Oki Retto
Sea of Japan
Mayor Halsey discusses Pocatello road plans with state officials
Boise conference with Mayor W. W. Halsey of Pocatello, Public Works Commissioner John R. Kinney, and Highway Director James Reid reviewed coordinated city street plans with state highway construction. They discussed arterial improvements for rising Arco traffic and reviewed state bridge plans for Port Neuf crossings. Halsey planned to return to Pocatello.
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Boise
W. W. Halsey
Pocatello
Public Works
John R. Kinney
James Reid
Arco
Halsey
Portneuf
A Bomb Chief Warns of New Delays From Criticism
Lilienthal told the joint atomic committee criticism of high building costs may slow the vital atomic program. He cited a Richland school project ballooning from 1.79 million to 3.98 million and questioned how cost concerns could curb progress.
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Washington
David E. Lilienthal
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Joint
Senate-House Atomic Committee
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Lilienthal
Hospital financing to be scrutinized in Bannock County
Chamber of Commerce President R D Gallafent will meet Bannock County Commission Chair W H Pete Jensen to discuss financing for the county memorial hospital. A Saturday chamber session proposed postponing building plans until a second bond election amid postwar cost increases, noting a need of 400000 to 500000 more to complete the hospital beyond the 850000 already raised in 1946.
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Chamber of Commerce
R. D. Gallafent
W. H
Pete) Jensen
Bannock County
Gallafent
Chamber
Detroit Truck Driver Saves Toddlers Fall From Window
A truck driver leaped from his vehicle and caught two year old Michael Patri cian Jr as he slipped from a fifth floor hotel window ledge. The boy was injured. the rescuer unharmed, and the mother had briefly left him unattended. The screen was removed to paint the sill.
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Detroit
Michael Patrician, Jr
Blake Frey
Frey
Michael
Tiff Flare Among Judges In High Court
Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson issued a sharp special opinion accusing Justices William O. Douglas and Hugo L. Black of inconsistency and improper procedure. The clash followed a 7 to 2 Supreme Court ruling striking down an Ohio tax on two corporations as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Washington
Robert H. Jackson
William O. Douglas
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Jackson
Douglas
Black
Ohio
Editor Asks Out In ECA
Eugene C. Pulliam, editor of the Indianapolis Star, told lawmakers European recovery funds may be cut by 25 to 30 percent next year. He urged export of oil refinery equipment and fertilizer to Yugoslavia, opposed Soviet influence in Ruhr control, and urged study of foreign health insurance programs before U.S. action.
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Washington
Eugene C. Pulliam
Indianapolis
Ind
Star
Congress
Pulliam
Indiana
Homer E. Capehart
William E. Jenner
Senate
United States
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Kremlin
Russia
Ruhr
Germany
England
Denmark
Truman
Astronomer Discovers New Moon of Neptune
Ottawa report states Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago announced finding a new moon orbiting Neptune. It is the thirty ninth solar system moon and the second discovered by Kuiper, who predicted its existence last May 1 at McDonald Observatory.
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Ottawa
Ont
Gerrard P. Kuiper
University of Chicago
Solar
Kuiper
Neptune
Solar System
McDonald Observatory
Walker sentenced in Boulder murder case
Joe Sam Walker convicted of second degree murder in the rape slaying of Theresa Foster at the University of Colorado. He was sentenced Monday to hard labor for from 80 years to life.
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Walker
Boulder
Colo
Joe Sam Walker
Colorado University
Governors Ponder Insurance at National Conference
Colorado Springs reports the 41st annual Governors conference opened with debate over a proposed state monopoly disability insurance plan requiring employer participation. Gov. Dever cited bills expanding welfare funds, while Gov. Driscoll urged states to curb federal reliance and fund programs locally.
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Colorado Springs
Paul A. Dever
Massachusetts
National Congress
Dever
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Britain warned by royal commission on birth rate decline
A royal commission reports Britain faces a population drop within 30 years as birth control rises. It urges incentives for larger families including a first born lump sum, expanded sex education, and national health service contraception guidance, while noting economic factors drive smaller families.
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London
Britain
Royal
Halso
National Health Service
Stalin Reports Denied Heart Attack Claim
The State Department denied on Monday that Moscow had sent any reports that Premier Josef Stalin suffered another heart attack. A spokesman said he received numerous calls after Radio Commentator Drew Pearson broadcast the report.
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Washington
State Department
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Drew Pearson
Petrillo Attacks Miners Boss In Labor Clash
James Caesar Petrillo blasted John L. Lewis as a labor betrayer and urged Congress to dismiss the miners’ leader in a telegram to Sen. Paul H. Douglas. He accused Lewis of dangerous strike tactics and said 98 percent of labor backs repeal of the Taft Hartley act.
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New York
James Caesar Petrillo
John L. Lewis
Congress
Clay Best Tabi Legion
Poke Petrillo
Paul H. Douglas
Lewis
Taft
House of Representatives
Senate
Petrillo
Gray Takes Army Post
Gordon Gray of Winston Salem North Carolina former publisher and private in 1942 sworn in Monday as secretary of the army. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson administered the oath. Gray 40 succeeds Kenneth Royall who resigned earlier and had served as acting secretary since January 27.
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Washington
Gordon Gray
Winston Salem
N. C
Army
Louis Johnson
Gray
Kenneth C. Royall
Royall
Ordnance Plant Corporal Dies In Accidental Shooting
An 18-year-old Marine guard, Corporal Robert Loran Faulkner of Enid Oklahoma, died at the Pocatello Naval Ordnance plant after a self-inflicted gunshot wound from his .45 pistol. He lived about 40 minutes after arrival at post. a naval board will investigate. Father Coy Faulkner notified. body at McHan Henderson funeral home in Pocatello.
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Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant
Naval Plant
youth—Corp
Robert Loran Faulkner
Enid
Okla
Peace
Nia
Snou
Col
W. R. Williams
Plant Marine
Corporal Faulkner
Williams
Naval Board of Investigation
Coy Faulkner
McHan-Henderson
Pocatello
Nationalist Blockade Declared on Communist Ports
The Chinese Nationalist government announced a blockade of Communist held ports effective June 26, covering coastal waters from the Ming River in Fukien to the Liao River in Liaoning. Foreign shipping and airlines were warned to proceed at their own risk. Ports include Shanghai, Tianjin, Tsingtao, Chinwangtso, Wen_chow and Ningpo.
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Canton
China
Oaieo
Ming River
Fukien
Liao River
Liaoning
Shanghai
Tientsin
Tsingtao
Chinwangtso
Wen
Klan flare up injures newsman in Alabama
Clarke Stallworth, reporter for The Birmingham Post, was beaten behind a Sumiton hardware store while investigating alleged Ku Klux Klan activity. Sheriff Grover Baggett said one man was arrested and a second would be arrested today. Warrant names Roscoe Fowler and Glenn Godfrey. a "John Doe" was initially cited.
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Montgomery
Ala
Clarke Stallworth
Birmingham Post
Sumiton
Woma
Walker County
Grover B. Baggett
Alabama Supreme Court
Stallworth
Roscoe Fowler
John Doe
Can
Glenn Godfrey
Mother and Child Plan Long Wheelbarrow Trek to Detroit
Mrs. Julia Roka St. Clair, 48, plans a rain favored wheelbarrow journey from Jacksonville to Detroit in a month to six weeks. Accompanying her crippled seven year old son Adolphius and a partly walking Delphie, she will wear barefoot travel when pavement cools. A box under the barrow carries light clothing snacks and poems she wrote.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Julia Roka St. Clair
Detroit
Mrs. St. Clair
Delphie
Milwaukee Youth Convicted of First Degree Murder
Milton Babich, 19, found guilty of first degree murder in the February killing of Patricia Birmingham, 16, whose body was dumped in the Milwaukee river. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor. the defense plans a possible new trial or appeal.
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Milwaukee
Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Wisconsin
Herbert B. Steffes
Babich
Kathleen
Waupun State
Patricia
Arthur Richter
Steffes
Richter
Samerine Birmingham
Jessup Vouches For Alger Hiss
U S Ambassador at Large Philip C. Jessup, in Paris for the Big Four talks, says Alger Hiss has a solid reputation for integrity loyalty and truthfulness in a statement introduced as the defense opens its perjury trial to argue Hiss did not lie to hide espionage.
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New York
U. S
Philip C. Jessu
Paris
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Jessup
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