Report Criticizes Justice Clark for Declining to Testify
A House Judiciary subcommittee releases a 135 page report criticizing Justice Tom C. Clark for not testifying after joining the Supreme Court. The document says investigators were troubled by Clark linked actions while attorney general. Rep. Bryan Rogers defends Clark and objects to the report release as political. Keating defends the timing and notes Clark could have shed light. The report has no signature and remains unacted on by the parent committee.
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Washington
House Judiciary
Tom C. Clark
Supreme Court
Clark
Bryan G. Rogers
D-Cole
Subcommittee
Keating
R-Ny
Roger
Truman
Judiciary Group
Justice Department
Rogers
New York Republican
Drug Withdrawn After 12 Deaths in France
The French Ministry of Interior suspended sale and use of a tin and vitamin F drug after 12 poisoning deaths, including a 12 year old, following treatment for minor infections. Government labs will test toxicity. only about 100 of 2,400 boxes sold. Also notices include American Legion meeting and local auto service ads.
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Paris
Ministry of Interior
Legionnaires
Conrad Hoover
American Legion
Lions Shelter
Charles A. Dorton, Jr
Shooting and robbery incidents marked July Fourth weekend
The Fourth of July period saw six traffic accidents in Frederick County and Winchester with six injuries and nearly $3,500 in property damage. A Saturday shooting at H. F. Byrd Inc. left Puerto Rican laborer A. Gapito paralyzed, and Josh Wells was jailed on felonious assault charges. A separate armed robbery targeted U. S. Air Force sergeant Ray William Bortz near Strasburg.
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Frederick
Clarke County
Winchester
Richmond Morton
White Post
Star
Frederick County
H. F. Byrd, Inc
Berryville
A. Gapito
M. H. Moore
Gapito
Josh Wells
Moore
Wilmington
N. C
Aahrn
State
Sheriff's Office
New York Firemen Barred From Soviet UN Building
Two New York Fire Department companies were barred from the Park Avenue building housing the Soviet delegation to the United Nations after a Russian on duty claimed the delegation was only using a fireplace and there was no reason for firemen to respond.
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New York
Park Avenue
United Nations
Deaths Run 100 Below July Fourth Weekend Estimates
Nationwide traffic fatalities for the long Fourth of July weekend reached 333, about 100 below the National Safety Council's 450 estimate for the 78 hour period. Drownings and other accidents raised violent deaths to nearly 600, with 184 drownings and 179 other fatalities. Three fireworks deaths were recorded, including two youths in Maine and Pa, as California Michigan and Texas led in violence totals.
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National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
Associated Press
Younsters
Carol Hayward
Harvey
Ill
David Colby
Augusta
Maine
Walter Kessler
Ebensburg
Utah
California
Michigan
Texas
Area Fire Companies Net Prizes at Woodstock Parade
Four area fire units earned prizes at Woodstock Firemen’s Parade. Enders Fire Company Berryville took best marching unit and $25. Reuss won best Drum and Bugle Corps and $25. South End claimed best Ladies Auxiliary and $25. Stephens City earned $15 for second in Drum and Bugle. Enders Reuss and Stephens City also sent trucks to the parade.
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Woodstock
Enders Fire Company
Berryville
Reuss
South End
Stephens City
Enders
Stephens Ny
Britain hit by coldest July night in years
London woke to frigid weather with office workers in topcoats and furs while households built fires. Central London recorded its coldest July night in 14 years with temperatures around 47 degrees persisting into the morning.
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Britain
London
Big Yard Party at Gainesboro School Dinner Drive
A community event titled Big Yard Party is set for July 7 from 5 to 11 p.m. at Gainesboro School. Good Food’s Plate Dinners will be served with proceeds supporting school activities and local groups.
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Gainesboro
Weather Cools Off After Rip Snortin Holiday Weekend
A cooling trend follows a holiday weekend hot spell with a high near 179 degrees and a near chilly 59 degrees last night. Rainfall over the weekend totals 1.60 inches, July now 2.10 inches, close to the 3.70-inch July average, with a low tonight forecast in the 52 to 58 degree range.
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Mother Nature
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Mercury
Associated Press
McCarthy Returns From Vacation Trip
Washington Senator McCarthy has returned from a 19 day vacation and will resume work this afternoon. He declined to reveal his travel location beyond south of the Rio Grande noting hunting and fishing while aides discuss staff matters tied to the Army hearings and security clearances.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
Rwis
Rio Grande
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Army
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Defense Department
Retaliatory Diplomatic Expulsions Between U S and Soviet Union
The United States expelled three Soviet diplomats including a UN attaché over spying charges. In retaliation Moscow charged two U S officials in Moscow with espionage and declared them persona non grata. The Americans are Lt. Col. Howard L. Feldlin and Maj. Walter McKinney, with McKinney on vacation and Feldlin set to depart with Ambassador Bohlen. The move follows a pattern as Kremlin seeks British and French cooperation to strain Western unity.
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Washington
Kremlin
Moscow
Soviet Union
Howard L. Feldlin
New York City
Arlington Va
Maj
Walter McKinney
Santa Cruz
Calif
United States
Russia
McKinney
Col
Felehlin
Berlin
Charles E. Bohlen
Trudon
Three U S Soldiers Held After Escape Offer for Swap
Brerna Germany border police report Czech authorities offered to exchange seven U S soldiers for three Czech escapees. U S Army HQ says negotiations are direct for release of seven Americans on leave seized on the West frontier. Border police say a second meeting with Czechs follows as Germans hold three escapees nearby.
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Brernau
Germany
U. S
U. S. Army
Heidelberg
U. S S. Army
Hans Buetter
Buettner
Here
Weiden
Welden
Knowland Praises GOP Congress Ahead of Election
Senate Republican leader Knowland urged voters to credit the GOP Congress for more national bills than any in recent Democratic terms. Senator Sparkman countered that Republicans have produced little new while Truman-era groundwork underpinned social security legislation. The White House plans a concluding four weeks of activity before a scheduled July end, with Eisenhower and congressional leaders to meet. The one year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act has become law.
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Knowland
R-Calif
Congress
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Eisenhower
Aate
Senate
House
White House
GOP
Truman
Very strong Nevada desert quake causes damage and injuries
A powerful earthquake near Fallon Nevada toppled chimneys and cut power. Two sailors at Fallon naval air station suffered possible fractures as lockers toppled. Glass injuries followed and Salt Wells walls were damaged. The tremor, felt from Nevada to the San Francisco Bay Area, began at 4 14 11 a m and lasted 30 minutes.
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Calif
Nevada Desert
Failon
Nev
Naval Air Station
Fallon
Salt Wells
Churchill County
George Wilkins
San Francisco-Oakland
Elko, Nev
Lodi
Modesto
Stockton
Bridgeport
California
Fire alarms reported over weekend with minor blaze
Two fire alarms were turned in over the weekend. One for a minor fire at 2 a.m. Sunday and another a false alarm at 10 20 p.m. yesterday. Firemen recalled on Sunday morning at J Henkel Henrys home at 12 E Cecil St and found an electric window exhaust fan overheated causing lights to blow out with only smoke noted.
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Rouss
Sarah Zane
South End
J. Henkel Henry
E. Cecil St
Holiday Accidents Kill 14 in Virginia Over Weekend
Fourteen people died in Virginia during the three day July 4 holiday weekend. Seven highway deaths, three drownings, and four other accidents. Haywood Lineberry, 24, of Woodlawn, died in a Galax hospital from Route 620 crash injuries. Police credit radar for lower toll this year. Homer C. Rife, Pilgrim's Knob, killed when log loader boom contacted a power line in Buchanan County. Raymond Morton, about 40, died trapped beneath a wind damaged shop in Clarke County. Toll for 1954 Virginia highway deaths stands at 353 through July 1.
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Virginia
Haywood Lineberry
Woodlawn
Carroll County
Galax
Homer C. Rife
Pilgrim's Knob
Marvin
Buchanan County
Raymond Morton
White Post
Clarke County
Elaine
Buzzella’'S Shop
Deadly Windstorm Levels White Post Building Collapse
A freak storm in White Post caused five figure damage as a concrete block building collapsed killing Raymond Harold Morton a 35 year old Black man. J C Digges and George Whitmore Jr were injured as trees barns and telephone lines were wrecked across the area with extensive debris cleanup underway.
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White Post
Raymond Harold Morton
J. C. Digges
J. C
Kernstown
Middle Road
Frederick County
U. S. Rt. 340
Stone Bridge Road
Sgt Fries Heads Overseas Duty From Local Recruiter Post
M Sgt Lawrence Fries a Marine Corps recruiter for 3 1/2 years at this post begins 30 days leave before overseas duty in the Far East He has 18 years service and saw WWII and Korea He reports 350 enlistments During his absence Sgt Aries E Eubanks arrives from Washington to take over Fries post Also Sgt Glen LaVecchia from this city reports for Far East duty.
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Lawrence Fries
Marine Corps
Far East
Sgt
Fries
Lewis W. Fries
N. Braddock St
Aries E. Eubanks
Washington
Washington, D. C
Korea
Glen LaVecchia
Virginia Weather Outlook July 7 to 11
Richmond forecast shows temperatures 2 to 5 degrees below normal. Moderate heat Wednesday, warmer Thursday, cooler weekend with showers Thursday and Sunday totaling about one half inch rainfall.
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Richmond
Virginia
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