Strike at Four Major British Ports Disrupts Dock Work
About one third of dockers at London Manchester Hull and the Liverpool Birkenhead area walk out in a NASDU led action affecting 60,000 workers and over 80 ships. TGWU members largely continue work as confusion and picket lines slow port operations ahead of the May 26 general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Manchester
Hull
Liverpool-Birkenhead
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union
NASDU
Transport and General Workers Union
TGWU
Government Transport Commission
Britain
Private Plane Crash in Virginia Kills Two WV Executives
A private four place plane exploded and crashed during a thunderstorm near Bedford Virginia killing James Franklin Ketterman 33 superintendent Preston Hardwood Lumber Co Elkins W V and Harold Clayton Herring 40 vice president of the same firm both of Elkins WV The aircraft went down about three miles northeast of Stewartsville and 15 miles east of Roanoke The victims were seated and strapped in their seats when found Mrs J B Dooley who lives nearby reported hearing an explosion and seeing the plane break apart on impact The men had left Elkins Friday afternoon for Jacksonville Florida on company business and were due back yesterday afternoon
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Bedford
West Virginia
James Franklin Ketterman
Elkins
Preston Hardwood Lumber Co
Harold Clayton Herring
W. Va
Stewartsville
Roanoke
J. B. Dooley
Herring
Ketterman
Jacksonsville
Fla
Phelps 86 Dies in Savoy Relative Count Revealed
Mrs Mary A Phelps 86 longtime Savoy resident died yesterday leaving 111 relatives. Her daughter Mrs Terry Brackett said she had four daughters six sons 33 grandchildren 60 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren along with two sisters and a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savoy
Mass
Mary A. Phelps
Terry Brackett
Seeks Truth Concerning Air Superiority
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson urged Defense Secretary Wilson to clarify the national defense program amid a dispute over whether Russia could gain air superiority over the United States. The debate includes statements from Aviation Week and Pentagon officials about Russia's air force strength and how much truth exists in such claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Wilson
Senate
Democratic
Congressional
Russia
United States
Congress
Aviation Week
Pentagon
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
West
Eisenhower
Thomas S. Power
Boston
Power
Woodbury M. Burgess
Detroit
Burgess
Senate Armed Services Committee
Johnson
Air Force
Talbott
Stephens City Scouts aid traffic crash on pilgrimage trip
On the way back from the Scout Pilgrimage to Monticello, 23 boys and 14 adults from Stephens City stayed to assist after a collision on Route 29 near Charlottesville. Ed Ambrose, Scoutmaster, led a car convoy and provided first aid to a injured woman while four Scouts and a father directed traffic amid the delay before state police arrived. An ambulance transported the injured woman to a Charlottesville hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens City
Monticello
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Ed Ambrose
Ambrose
Charles Gossard
Bobby Ayler
Tommy Sullivan
Herman Gossard
Charles
Cochran
Charlabtesvalle
Britain Press Predicts Conservative Victory in Election
Britain’s newspapers forecast a Conservative win as the quiet three day campaign nears Thursday’s vote. Predictions appear across Sun and Times with polls suggesting a 34 seat majority, a 20 seat win, or Eden returning for five years amid union strike tensions and redrawn districts.
Elephant Falls From Truck Crushes Man to Death
A four ton elephant and a trailer truck overturned after the vehicle jumped a ditch near Dallas. Norman E. Joseph of Newark New Jersey, 30, was killed when the elephant landed on him as it broke from the trailer. Driver W C Hendricks of Atlanta Alabama life? injured nose. The truck and elephant, owned by T J Tidwell Shows and Carnival of Big Spring Texas, were en route from Corsicana to McKinney to set up a Lions Club show.
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Dallas
Norman E. Joseph
Newark
N. J
Queenie
W. C. Hendricks
Atlanta
Hendricks
H. G. Vayette
Joseph
Vayette
Corsicana
Tex
McKinney
Lions Club
T. J. Tidwell
City Man Sentenced For Obscene Letters In The Mail
Peter R. Bombulie of 528 N Loudoun St was sentenced to six months in the Federal Reformatory at Mill Point West Virginia after pleading guilty to sending obscene letters through the mail. The case began with a Weyneoke diner operator’s report in 1954 and involved Winchester police Captain Francis Funk. Bombulie admitted sending two obscene letters to Miss Delphia Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter R. Bombulie
N. Loudoun St
Federal Reformatory
Mill Point
W. Va
Bombulie
Roanoke
John Paul
Delphia Miller
Gibbons St
Francis Funk
Winchester Police Department
Miss Miller
Queen Invites Graham to Preach At Private Chapel
American evangelist Billy Graham met Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family at Windsor in a private chapel service lasting 25 minutes. The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret attended, marking Graham's first royal encounter in Britain.
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Graham
Windsor
England
Billy Graham
Britain
Elizabeth
Royal Lodge
London
Duke of Edinburgh
Windsor Castle
Margaret
Grahams
Church of England
Scotland
Wembley Stadium
British Broadcasting Corp
Edinburgh
Church of Scotland
Paris
Hope May Sign New TV Contract
Bob Hope, ending a five year NBC contract, said he is negotiating for another deal. He may sign for another five years if he gets his terms including six shows per season. this season he did ten. His last show under the current contract airs tomorrow with guests Bing Crosby and Jane Russell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hope
NBC Tomorrow Night
Hope
Bing Crosby
Jane Russell
Johnson Predicts Senate Will Adopt Gore's Road Plan
Senate Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson says Eisenhower highway bonds favor boulevards and omit farm to market roads. He predicts a Senate test vote will reject the administration plan and back Gore's five year highway program with direct appropriations totaling about 17.9 billion dollars. Byrd criticizes debt limits while Gore insists on farm to market road funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Eisenhower
Johnson
Senate
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
Democratic Policy Committee
Train wreck injures 12 at Union Station in Washington
A section of railroad passenger cars collided while coupling at Union Station injuring twelve, none seriously. Two 13 year old boys from Bellevue Ohio were among the injured, as a dining car and pantry area saw workers knocked about. Investigators did not yet determine the crash cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Union Station
Bellevue
Ohio
David Ball
Tom Moore
Milwaukee
Detroit
Chicago
Meeting of Polio Vaccine Experts Today
Polio vaccine experts gather in Washington to decide when inoculation programs resume and how broadly the summer effort will run. The two stage meeting reviews plant inspections of five of six manufacturers and weighs standards, supply implications, and testing speed. Public Health Service and NIH officials consider actions on Wyeth Pitman Moore Cutter Parke Davis Lilly and other firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
National Institute of Health
Leonard A. Scheele
NIH
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Eli Lilly & Co
Indianapolis
Wyeth, Inc
Marietta
Pitman- Moore Co
Cutter
Parke, Davis and Lilly
Wyeth and
Pitman- Moore
Parke, Davis
Eli Lilly
Sharpe & Dohme, Inc
Philadelphia
Public Health Service
David Bodian
John Hopkins University
Joseph Smadel
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
William McD Hammon
University of Pittsburgh
Thomas Francis
University of Michigan
Auto unions brace for strike as talks with GM, Ford stall
Secret contract negotiations enter final full week amid rising chorus for a guaranteed annual wage. GM reportedly offers a thrift plan, Du Pont explores a stock savings program, while Ford and UAW brief talks yield no clear outcome before deadlines. Memorial Day weekend pressure grows.
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UAW
Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Detroit Free Press
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
du Pont
General Motors
United States
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Ford-Uaw
Virginia Traffic Toll Surges With Weekend Crashes
The Associated Press reports 17 died in Virginia crashes over the weekend, raising the 1955 toll to 296 from 276 last year. Five killed in a two car collision near Fredericksburg, including Pvt Spears T Johnson, and a second wreck killed one and injured seven near the same site. Victims include Donald C Spangler and Margery S Snyder of Washington DC, with other teens injured. A third vehicle struck the wreckage as officers investigated the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Virginia
Fredericksburg
Nottoway County
Mary Washington Hospital
Pennsylvania
Richmond
Pvt
Spears T. Johnson
Letter Kenny Ordnance Depot
Chambersburg
Harry L. Jones
Americus
Donald Carlos Spangler
Philadelphia
Joseph H. Patrick
Thomasville
Margery S. Snyder
Iva L. Jones
Catherine Hanlein
Washington, D. C
William Long
Frederick Schultz
Charles Schrader
Fourteen Hurt in Area Traffic Mishaps Over Weekend
Fourteen people including six Boy Scouts suffered injuries in nine local crashes over the weekend. Most victims were released or in satisfactory condition. property damage neared four thousand dollars. Notable crashes occurred in Berryville and Front Royal with victims from Martinsburg and various servicemen.
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Charlottesville
Frederick County
Berryville
Ray M. Boswell
Buckmarsh St
James R. York
B. F. Carter
Jacob Locke
Boswell
Rt. 17
Paris
Harry Martiss
Altoona
Memorial Hospital
William Stenwell
Springfield
Horace Kruger
Western Spring
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Bethesda
L. Stuart Smith
Rt. 2
Strasburg
Earl L. Bowers
U.S. Navy
Smith
Bowers
Martinsburg
W. Va
Rts
Front Royal
Record Angus bull brings 25000 at Red Gate Farm sale
The fifth annual Aberdeen-Angus Sale at Red Gate Farm near Millwood drew buyers from 24 states. The top bull Prince of Redgate 45th sold for 25000 to Angus Valley Farms of Tulsa and Sunbeam Farms of Miami, weighing 1800 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Gate Farm
Aberdeen-Angus
Edward Jenkinns
Millwood
Jenkins
Prince of Redgate
Angus Valley Farms
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Sunbeam Farms
Miami
Eurotia
Redgate 11Th
Panther Ledge Farm
Allamedy
New Jersey
Ilinois
Texas
West Virginia
Tennessee
Louisiana
Ohio
Colorado
Maryland
Michigan
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Virginia
Hamilton James
Newton
Illinois
Mayberry Sentenced for Slaying of Appomattox Doctor
Frank O Mayberry, 47, railroad worker, jailed in Richmond for life after a Cumberland County jury found him guilty of first degree murder in the February 25 shooting of Dr. David A Christian III in Appomattox. The judge ordered the life term in the state penitentiary with possible parole only by a governor’s pardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appomattox
Frank OQ
Mayberry
State Penitentiary
Richmond
Cumberland County
David A. Christian, III
Joel W. Flood
Appomattox County
Flood
Virginia
Christian
Evergreen
Jack Tucker
Tucker
Commonwealth
George Abbitt Jr
Pravda Intensifies U S Criticism Ahead of Big Four Talks
Pravda brands U.S. leaders as revengists aiming to restore the Wehrmacht in West Germany and subjugate East European democracies. It links Dulles brothers Harriman to German firms and outlines aims to recover business interests, signaling continued Communist critique before summer summit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Pravda
Dulles
Communist Party
United States
Vienna
Austria
Paris
Boleslaw Walczicky
Allen Dulles
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
W. Averill Harriman
New York
East Europe
U. S
West Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Walczicky
Dulles Brothers and
Harriman
John Foster Dulles
I. G. Farben
Allen
American Inelligence Service
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U.S. Defense
County
Stephens City Boy Scouts
Stevedore and Workers Union
British
Liverpool
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
Labor Party
Eden
Winston Churchill
Sunday Dispatch
Sunday Times
House of Commons
Clement Attlee
Churchill
Ike
Paul Gainfort
Mercury
Frank Shipper
George Philips
Donald Butts
Clyde Gainfort
John Shipper
Guy Hayslett
Hayslett
Philip Hunter
Rt. 1
Charles Town
Mr. Gainfort
Front Royal Hospital
J. W. Witt
Louise Landon
Bruce Hodgson
Orchard Ave
Winchester
Thomas Dorton
Angus Bull
U.S
Davy Crockett Club
Duff’s
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