Rebel Leaders Executed as Argentina Cracks Down
In Buenos Aires Gen. Juan Jose Valle and Lt. Juan Alberto Abadie were executed by firing squad after last weekend’s revolt. Gen. Raul Tanco, an army officer, is still pursued as martial law sets a harsh reprisal. Government says Peronist and Communist elements fueled the uprising. 25 rebels dead, many faces tied to the rebellion already detained or executed.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Raul Tanco
Juan Peron
Juan Jose Valle
Tanco
Valle
Juan Alberto Abadie
7Th Infantry
la Plata
Valley
Pedro Aramburu
Abadie
Rafael Fernantez
Aramburu
Peron
Handyman Charged in Murder and Rape Near Baltimore
Carl Daniel Kier, 21, from Roanoke Virginia, was arrested at Parkville police station on homicide charges for the brutal murder and rape of Mrs. John H. Boost, 48, in North Baltimore. He allegedly forced entry, used a brass horseman figurine and two knives, and escaped in the Boosts’ 1955 sports coupe after taking keys. Mrs. Boost, a mother of four, was found by her husband upon returning home. The case is described by Baltimore County police as the worst assault they had seen.
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Baltimore
Carl Daniel Kier
Parkville
Roanoke
John H. Boost
Kier
Mother of Four
Baltimore County
Boost
Mechanical Engineering, Inc
First census on record traced to Babylonians says society
National Geographic Society identifies the Babylonians as conducting the first census in recorded history. The finding places early population counting in ancient Mesopotamia and highlights archival methods used to estimate early demographic data.
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The
National Georgraphic Society
Cincinnati Apartment House Blast Kills One
An explosion tore through a Cincinnati four story building on Reading Road tearing out basements and floors. One man, Robert Swarts, 31, died in the rubble and 14 others were hurt including baby Dorothy Miller with a fractured skull. Caretaker Ed Bowling escaped unharmed but his wife was hospitalized.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Dorothy Miller
U.S. 42
Ed Bowling
Frank Brown
Man Ticketed Over Car Sale Seeks Cab Fare in Junk Yard Trip
In Grand Rapids Michigan Thomas Connor earned twenty dollars from selling his old car and faced an eighteen dollar thirty five cent fine for a defect ticket while driving to a junk yard to dispose of the jalopy.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Thomas Connor
District Judge Seeks Supreme Court Post
Minneapolis Judge Leslie A. Anderson, who presided over the murder trial of Dr. A. Arnold Axilrod in Hennepin County District Court, announced plans to seek election to the Minnesota Supreme Court. He did not specify which associate justice he would oppose, with speculation pointing to Justice William Murphy’s seat. Anderson was appointed to the municipal bench in 1949 and elevated to district court in 1950, elected in 1952 for a term expiring in 1958.
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Minneapolis
Leslie A. Anderson
Hennepin County
A. Arnold Axilrod
Minnesota Supreme Court
William Murphy
Freeman
Anderson
Luther W. Youngdahl
Chicago Sees 97 Degree Heat Record Break
The thermometer hit 97 in Chicago yesterday, exceeding the 1920 date record of 93.6 and marking a new high for the day.
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Chicago Heat
Chicago
Radiation to Preserve Food Described by Army Expert
At a meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists Capt Reuben Pomerantz outlined radiation preservation as a supplement to canning and refrigeration. He predicted public access in about five years and possible price reductions. Radiation could keep some foods longer without making them radioactive. lettuce and milk may suffer taste changes while pork poultry and fish appear most promising for the method.
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ST. Louis
Institute of Food Technologists
Reuben Pomerantz
Quartermaster Food and Container Institute of Chicago
Fitzsimmons Army Hospital
Denver
Pomerantz
Capt. Pomerantz
House Unit OKs Big Housing Bill
The House Banking Committee approved a sweeping housing measure far beyond the President's proposal. It would add 180000 new public housing units plus 30000 for elderly persons over a three year span starting August 1, with a $3 billion rise in FHA mortgage insurance and expanded slum clearance aid.
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Washington (P
House Banking Committee
Eisenhower
Federal Housing Administration
Congress
Truck Rests Until Baby Robins Arrive
An oil tank truck in Oshawa Ontario serves as a moving nest for a robin family. Three eggs laid on a towing hitch survived a 260 mile trip with driver Keith Moffat. The mother robin, tame with travel, guards the nest as Harry Perry adds a spare vehicle for the hatch.
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Oshawa
Ont
Keith Moffat
Robin
Moffat
Harry Perry
Perry
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