Tazewell Fugitives Named Bank Robbery Suspects
Federal warrants filed in Bristol identify two Bandy, Virginia men John Henry Booth age 24 and William Alvin Booth age 22 as suspects in a Hamilton Virginia bank robbery that netted about 5.70 from a teller. FBI Bluefield said the pair are armed and dangerous and urged public vigilance.
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Tazewell County
Amonate
Hamilton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bluefield
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Bristol
John Henry Booth
William Alvin Booth
Bandy
FBI
Virginias
Maryland
Ohio
Fort Eustis
Randy Beavers
Twin Pines
Baptist Valley
Beavers
Tazewell
Brewster's
Dick's Creek
Princeton
Crumpecker Hill
Clarence Lusk
Glenrod Park
Florida
Lewis Whitley
Theodore Reid
Memorial Day Traffic Toll Nears Record High
National Safety Council reports 367 traffic deaths over the Memorial Day weekend, short of the 371 record set in 1958. Total deaths including boating and other accidents reached 579, eclipsing the 504 from 1947. NSC urged greater driver caution and shared safety appeals. Three crashes killed 15 people, including six in a Cambridge Ohio head on collision and a Pottstown Pennsylvania two car crash that killed five.
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Eee
National Safety Council
NSC
Cambridge
Ohio
Pottstown
Government Revises Census System to Count More Homes
The Census Bureau said housing starts were 1,553,100 last year, 13 percent above prior counts. The new method uses sampling of construction and shows many homes built without permits, with Alaska and Hawaii added for the first time, affecting the overall increase.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Alaska
Hawaii
Tot Killed On Road Near Christiansburg
A three year old boy in southwest Virginia was killed crossing Highway 11 near Christiansburg. He ran into the path of a truck driven by a Wytheville state police unit. The child, Charles Arthur Howell, Route 2 Christiansburg, died at the scene around 5:4 PM.
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Southwest Virginia
Christiansburg
Wytheville
Charles Arthur Howell
Woman Sought In Local Stair Case Knife Found
Police found a knife in a bloodstained room at the Terminal Hotel after Bob Osborn, 70, reported being stabbed by a woman about 40 from Bluestone. He identified the assailant and a warrant for arrest was issued as officers searched for the suspect.
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Bob Osborn
Terminal Hotel
Osborn
Bluefield Avenue
J. J. Pence
R. E. Lee
Mercer Street
Pence
Four women killed as Greyhound rear-ends parked truck
A westbound Greyhound bus crashed into a parked trailer truck outside Evanston Wyoming killing four women and injuring six others. Driver Henry Everts sustained serious injuries while two bystanders aided victims as investigators examine why the truck was stopped on the open highway 2½ miles from Evanston.
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Evanston
Wyo
Greyhound
Uinta County Coronerobert Bills
Highway Patrol
L. E. Wold
Wyoming
Interstate Motor Lines
Jeff Wallace Matthews
Bountiful
Utah
James Buckley
Fillmore
Matthews
Buckley
Smith to Step Down as West Virginia Democratic Chairman
Hulett C. Smith of Beckley state Democratic chairman and May 1 gubernatorial nominee failed to win the nomination. After a talk with Attorney General W. W. Barron Smith said he would not seek another term as chairman. Daniel L. Louchery of Clarksburg expected to be retained as chairman at the party meeting.
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Charleston
Hulett C. Smith
Beckley
Democratic
Smith
Atty
W. W. Barron
Barron
Daniel L. Louchery
Clarksburg
Harold E. Neely
Poisoned Soup Death Sparks Widow's Sudden Grief
A Lewell, a woman allegedly dosed her husband’s soup with poison to care for him but his death followed from cyanide. State police report the act was not deliberate. The victim, Fisher, worked at a fish processing plant and is survived by his widow, his mother, four brothers and three sisters.
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LEWEL
Dei
Ralph J. Richardson Jr
Burial Set For Author Pasternak Near Moscow
Moscow AP reports poet novelist and translator Boris Pasternak will be buried Thursday in a Russian Orthodox church graveyard near his country home outside Moscow. Pasternak died in his sleep Monday at age 70 after years of Soviet pressure over Doctor Zhivago and his Nobel Prize.
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Moscow
Boris Pasternak
Pasternak
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Pesternak
Southern Chile Coast Sinks After Devastating Quakes
Chile's southern coast sank up to three feet after last week's earthquakes. Public Works Minister Pablo Perez Zanartu said Valdivia's lower city area dropped three to four feet, noting the land was built on filled terrain and the coast faced significant subsidence.
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Santiago
Chile
Wek
Pablo Perez Zanartu
Perez Zanartu
Valdivia
Scaffold Ban At Speedway Considered After Fatal Stand Collapse
Indianapolis AP reports Speedway owner Tony Hulman weighs banning private scaffold stands after a nine tier tower fell during the 300 mile race, killing two and injuring 82. Officials say the stand was a bootleg setup on a flatbed truck and approved by no permit, with investigations ongoing.
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Indianapolis
Tony Hulman
Hulman
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiapolis Motor Speedway
Albert W. Bloemker
Speedway
Safety Patrol
Edwin K. Steers
Indiana
Marion County
Fred H. Linder
Vanderbilt divinity faculty resigns over readmission protest
Ten instructors at Vanderbilt University's new divinity school resign in a dispute over the readmission of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. The walkout targets the dean and chancellor, following demonstrations linked to Lawson's dismissal. The divinity school previously lists sixteen faculty members.
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Nashville
Divinity School
Nixon Urges No Retreat In SEATO Policy Address
In a South East Asia Treaty Organization session, Vice President Nixon urged free nations to adopt a no retreat no concession stance toward the Soviet Union after the summit showdown. He stressed that peace cannot be bought with weakness and called for vigilance alongside allied defense efforts. Montgomery meanwhile voiced support for recognizing a single China under Peiping and favored Communist China over Nationalist Formosa, inviting Chou En-lai to visit England.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Soviet Union
Nixon
Eisenhower
White House
Himslf
Pacific
SEATO
Fisenhow
Pakistan
Thailand
Robert
Menzies
Australia
Walter Nash
New Zealand
Montgomery
Red China
Chou En-lai
Chou
England
New Turkish Regime Recognized By Reds
The Soviet government said on Moscow radio that Turkey's new revolutionary regime has been recognized by the Soviet Union. Washington and London had already extended recognition.
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London
Turkey
Moscow Radio
United States
Britain
Secrecy Rules Dulles Testimony On U2 Downing
In Washington, CIA chief Dulles refused to disclose what information the U2 flight over the Soviet Union had pursued. Senate committee members pressed for details as Fulbright warned presidents to avoid entangling CIA actions with policy. The hearing was held under strict secrecy with limited public disclosure.
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Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dulles
UPI
Washington
Central Intelligence
Soviet Union
House
Albert Gore
States Win Submerged Lands Case, Gulf Boundaries Drawn
Washington AP Texas and Florida won court confirmation of ownership to submerged lands beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi lost, with sea ward boundaries set at three miles. Interior leases are in escrow as Congress eyes possible reversals and final boundary rulings may take years.
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Texas
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Alabama
Luisiana
Mississippi
Gulf
Louisiana
Interior Department
Hugo L. Black
Congress
Gulf States
Supreme Court
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