Miami Girl Kidnapped and Brutally Killed Near Bayshore Drive
Judith Ann Roberts seven year old daughter of a Baltimore attorney was kidnapped from her grandparents home and found murdered in a wooded area near Bayshore Drive Biscayne Bay. Police found her body after a five hour search and noted blunt force trauma and a possible strangulation. FBI ordered a statewide search for the kidnapper.
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Miami, Fla
Judith Ann Roberts
Baltimore
Bayshore Drive
Biscayne Bay
Shirley Roberts
Roberts
Harry Rosenberg
L J. Whitman
Charlies Sapp
James
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Rosenberg
Whitman
Oklahoma Candidates Tie in Bitter Primary Runoffs
U S Senator Robert Kerr leads but fails to reach 50 percent as Roy J. Turner trails in Oklahoma runoff prospects. In gubernatorial races Raymond Gary Maddill and William O. Coe advance to July 27 runoffs amid martial law in five counties and absentee ballot allegations in Sequoyah County.
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Dayton Blair
Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
Okla
Roy J. Turner
Oklahoma
U.S. Senate
Raymond Gary
Madill
William O. Coe
Gary
Willie E. Murray
Johnston Murray
Murray
Kerr
Turner
Sequoyah
Escapee Shootout at Ohio Camp Ends in Wounding
Two Mansfield Reformatory trustees escaped from an honor camp in Sandusky Ohio. Charles Ryals 22 was wounded by Patrolman George Hess and taken to a hospital. Robert Schultz 18 remained at large. They fled in a stolen car from Barnes Bros rose farm near the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home.
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Sandusky, Ohio
Mansfield Reformatory
George Hess
Husan
Charles Ryals
Cuyahoga County
Robert Schultz
Schultz
Summit County
Barnes Bros
Lake Road
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home
Man Rescued After 24 Hours in Beargrass Creek Mud
Levi Black, 39, was found exhausted and resting in a Louisville hospital bed after spending about a day in the mud of Beargrass Creek. He believes he fell from a railroad trestle into the creek, with hospital staff unsure of the exact day. Children eventually located him.
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Louisville
Levi Black
Black
Beargrass Creek
Landlord Overruled Fire Escape Requirement
In Boston an apartment owner contested a fire escape claiming it would aid crooks. Judge Jennie Lohman Barron rejected a tree as substitute and found Nishan S. Bagdigian guilty of failing to provide a proper exit. He was ordered to install a fire escape within one week.
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Boston
Jennie Lohman Barron
Nishan S. Bagdigian
TV Writers threaten to set strike date in Hollywood
The Television Writers of America executive board will meet tonight to set a strike date if networks do not grant a union shop and offer satisfactory script terms. Negotiations since October 1953 show networks and TWA far apart on minimum script scales.
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Hollywood
Television Writers of America
TWA
Killer to Die In Electric Chair Today
Russell G. Muskus of Kankakee Illinois faces execution in Ohio's electric chair for the 1952 Canton hotel room strangulation of LeMasters in a badger game. Sandra Lee Kingsley testified she lured the victim. she serves a life sentence. Gov. Lausche has one remaining chance for clemency eight to nine hours before the scheduled electrocution.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Russell G. Muskus
Kankakee
Ill
Will
Muskus
Canton
LeMasters
New Philadelphia
Sandra Lee Kingsley
Lausche
Jarring Earthquake Shakes Fallon and Navy Station
A powerful quake rattled western Nevada chiefly affecting Fallon and nearby areas. Fourteen Fallon Naval Auxiliary Air Station sailors were injured, one with a broken leg, others with cuts and bruises. Aftershocks followed, with a midafternoon roll felt as far as San Francisco and causes lamps to swing in San Diego.
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Reno
Nevada
Fallon
Fallon Naval Auxiliary Air Station
San Francisco
San Diego
Wallet Found in Baled Hay Near New Bloomfield
Glenn L. Smith reports he found a wallet after baling 403 bales of hay near New Bloomfield Pennsylvania. He had lost the wallet fifteen days earlier while baling and discovered it while opening and sorting the hay.
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New Bloomfield
Glenn L. Smith
Aunt Anna Hatten, Anderson County’s oldest citizen, buried
Aunt Anna Hatten, 104, longtime Anderson County resident, was buried today. Nearly 400 surviving great grandchildren and grandchildren attended the funeral in the local cemetery.
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Iva
S.C
Anna” Hatten
Anderson County
Army unit asks for Arizona bison as morale boost
In Phoenix the 510th Heavy Tank Battalion in Germany requested a bison as a mascot to boost morale. Governor Howard Pyle forwarded the idea to the Arizona Game and Fish Department, whose spokesman called shipping a buffalo to Germany too expensive.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Germany
Howard Pyle
Arizona
Buffalo Crest
Pyle
Arizona Game and Fish Department
Solon Plans Recall if UN Admits Communist China
Senator Knowland of California said he hopes President Eisenhower will promise to recall Congress to act if the United Nations admits Communist China. He suggested a pledge could prevent automatic U S withdrawal from the UN amid the issue, as Congress plans to finish business by July 31 and reconvene in January.
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Washington
Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Congress
United Nations
China
Peiping
World Organization
Dulles
International Organization
Columbus Police Chief Arrested After Collision
Police Chief George W. Scholer, returning from sick leave, was arrested on a charge of failure to yield right of way in a two car collision on June 14. He is free on a $25 bond and must appear in Municipal Court next Tuesday. The other driver, Policeman Gerald H. Malone, 29, suffered a fractured skull.
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Columbus
George W. Scholer
Gerald H. Malone
Point Pleasant Policeman Killed In Car Truck Collision
Point Pleasant officer T F Yost 59 was killed in a head on crash on Route 2 near Morgan Chapel Church Tuesday. His car crossed paths with a 1 1 2 ton truck driven by Lloyd Casto of Gunville W Va. Yost died of multiple injuries after about 15 minutes, Mia Casto was treated for facial and hand lacerations. The dented Yost car and damaged truck were removed by responders, dust and incline noted at the scene. Funeral set for Thursday at Heights EUB Church Lone Oak Cemetery burial. Funeral arrangements by Crow.
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Point Pleasant
T. F. Yost
Morgan Chapel Church
Yost
Lloyd Casto
Gunville
W. Va
Mia
Casto
Kessel
Ripley
Edna Gettles
Griff Durban
J. Gary Kapp
Vic Turner
Point Clinic
Mason County
the Heights Eub Church
D. L. Sayre
Lone Oak Cemetery
Crow Funeral Home
Woman Held In Death Of Daughter
Mrs. Dora Liter, 50, jailed without charge in Adams County after the death of her daughter in law Edith Liter, 21. Coroner says death likely natural causes from malnutrition. Autopsy in Cincinnati. sheriff calls Liter a religious fanatic. Body found six weeks after death in Cedar Mills home.
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West Union
Ohio
Dora Liter
Adams County
Edith Liter
E. T. Gibboney
Cincinnati
Vernon Young
Frank P. Cleveland
Eugene Fulton
Liter
Cedar Mills
Kenneth Vogeler
Greenwood Address Reaches Greenwood After Weeken Letter
The Greenwood Chamber of Commerce praised itself after a letter mailed from Montreau Switzerland arrived in Greenwood seven days later addressed to Mrs. J. C. Self Jr. in Greenwood USA.
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Greenwood
S.C
Greenwood Chamber of Commerce
Montreau
Switzerland
J. C. Self, Jr
U.S.A
1000 Workers Strike in Canton and Massillon Area
About 1000 AFL laborers walked out in Canton and Massillon over a 15 cent raise, with 600 locals in Canton and 400 in Massillon. pickets formed and union leaders pledged nationwide support for the stoppage. Bricklayers also push for a 15 cent raise after leaving last week. current rates are $2.07 for laborers and $3.20 for bricklayers.
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Canton
Ohio
AFL
Canton and
Massillon
Plant tipped for Point Pleasant aluminA plant
Point Pleasant area eyed for a $50 million aluminum fabricating plant by the Kaiser Co to be built near the Ohio River. Reports say Kaiser chose a southern West Virginia site with options on two locations and Ohio Valley lands near Point Pleasant in consideration. Senator Kilgore confirms progress and notes a certificate of necessity from the Office of Defense Mobilization to ease taxes during construction and early operation.
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Point Pleasant
Ohio River
Henry J. Kaiser Co
Charleston
Harley M. Kilgore
Kaiser
West Virginia
Ohio Valley
Kaiser Company
Office of Defense Mobilization
Actor Art Baker files for divorce from Alice
Los Angeles film and television actor Art Baker sues for divorce, charging cruelty in the marital split with wife Alice.
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Los Angeles
Art Baker
Alice
Strike at Two Atomic Plants Hits U235 Production
About 4500 workers at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky faced a nationwide strike over pay. Union leaders said a fact finding board ordered by President Eisenhower would not curb the walkout. Plants run by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co. for the Atomic Energy Commission produce all U235 used in weapons and would take a year to restart if halted.
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CIO
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Executive Branch
CIA
Dulles
CLA
Senator McCarthy
Mark W. Clark
Hoover Commission
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Paducah
CID Chemical Workers
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co
Atomic Energy Commission
AFL, Atomic Trades and Labor Council
Jess Haman
AFL
War Danger Is Lessening in Pacific
Informed military quarters say the real threat of a Pacific war has subsided in recent weeks. Patrol planes scanned north of Japan and warships remained alert in the South Seas, though Russia still has 35 army divisions and 700 jet bombers ready for a possible attack on Japan. The tension stemmed from potential U S intervention in Indochina and fears of renewed fighting in Korea, seen as pivotal to control of the Pacific.
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Tokyo
Pacific
Japan
South Seas
U. S
Indochina
Korea
Russia
Impeachment Trial Opens for Tokyo Judge Sasaki
Impeachment proceedings began in Tokyo against Judge Tetsuro Sasaki over alleged Communist song opening of the Diet and permitting prayers for a Communist victory in Korea. A Diet committee leads the hearing about events tied to a July riot case involving police.
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Tokyo
Korea
Tetsuro Sasaki
Boy shot by pilot on Cleveland to Mexico flight
A 15-year-old Raymond Kuchenmeister Jr. boarded an American Airlines DC6 at Cleveland Hopkins Airport and threatened the crew with a loaded revolver. Pilot Captain William Bonnell shot the youth after disarming him. the boy died later at a hospital. Passengers and family reacted with shock as the DC6 continued to St Louis en route to Fort Worth and Mexico City.
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American Airlines
Cleveland Hopkins
William F. Bonnell
Mexico
Raymond A. Kuchenmeister Jr
St. Louis
Fort Worth
Tex
Mexico City
Bonnell
Ohio Engineer Burns Lincoln Elementary School for Negroes
Phillip Partridge Highland County engineer confessed to setting fire to Lincoln Elementary School for Negroes in Hillsboro causing about 5000 dollars in damage. He pleaded guilty in a justice court, was bound over to the grand jury, and released on 2000 dollars bond. Prosecutor Richard L. Davis said the act appeared motivated by racial animus.
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Hillsboro
Ohio
Phillip Partridge
Highland County
Lincoln
Walter Reffitt
Richard L. Davis
Justice of Te Peace
Partridge
Davis
Analaine
Three Robbers Pepper Priests and Rob Funds
Police seek three men who blinded two Catholic priests with pepper spray and robbed them of 1951 dollars from church collection during a drive to a bank. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J Gallagher and Rev. John J Ward were assaulted as they were stopped at a traffic light and the money snatched.
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Los Angeles
John J. Gallagher
St. Thomas Church
John J. Ward
British producer Gabriel Pascal dies at 60
New York reports that Gabriel Pascal a British film producer aged 60 died Tuesday. Pascal was noted as the only film man Bernard Shaw would trust to film his plays and his death marks a closing chapter for adaptations of Shaw works.
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New York
Gabriel Pascal
Bernard Shaw
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