Five Slayings Attributed to Kalamazoo Youth
Larry Lee Ranes a 19 year old high school dropout confessed to a string of five killings. He claimed the Smock murder in Kalamazoo Michigan tied to a $3 robbery and led to other slayings in Indiana Kentucky and Nevada. Police describe him as calm and cooperative as they sift evidence in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Larry Lee Ranes
Kalamazoo County
Gary Albert Smock
Plymouth
Donald Burge
Ranes
Smock
Karl Lutz
Indiana
Charles E. Snider
Elkhart
Ind
Lutz
Vernon Labenne
Battle Creek
Kentucky
Las Vegas
Nev
Michigan
Gary A. Smock
Inside Add Years Churches Classified Comics Editorials
A compact newspaper snippet notes a 10 AM event block and mentions sections including churches, editorials, and comics with named staff or columnists. The fragment alludes to a schedule or table of contents without detailing specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goren
Graham
Rae
Princeton Man Jumps To Death From Bridge
V. L. Vic Allen a 60 year old Princeton businessman died after leaping from a moving car and off a bridge on U S 20 near Hinton Summers County. Police say he jumped at 2 30 a m and his body was found four hours later on the Bluestone River bank. He had been in ill health and despondent. He leaves a wife a son and three sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. L
Vic) Allen
Princeton
U.S. 20
Hinton
Summers County
Allen
Ment Tyan
Nn & Fe Tlindaw
Hellems
P Police
Bluestone
Victor Lee Allen
Monroe County
First Methodist Church
Mercer County
Alderson
Princeton Elks Lodge
Faye McClung Allen
W. L. Allen, Jr
W. H. Draper
Crashed Plane Shows Bullet Damage In Pilot Seat
government officials said laboratory tests confirmed bullet damage on a tub ing fragment from the Pacific Air Lines crash near San Ramon California on May 7. FBI director J Edgar Hoover explained the indentation came from a bullet and would have been in the line of fire between the pilot and the aisle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pacific Air Lines
San Ramon
Calif
FBI
Civil Aeronautics Board
J. Edgar Hoover
CAB
Alan S. Boyd
Hoover
Virginia GOP Head Says He's Retiring
Republican State Chairman Horace E. Henderson will not seek re election at the state convention in Richmond on June 13 He says he is not retiring from politics just resting Walter M Gambill of Richmond has announced his candidacy and is tipped as the likely successor to Henderson
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Mclean
Horace E. Henderson
Richmond
Henderson
Walter M. Gambill
Ohio State
Ray Bliss
Buckeye
Bliss
Goldwater
Wife Of Baseball Player Fights Off Attacker in Home Invasion
Dixie Ann Kuenn, wife of San Francisco Giants outfielder Harvey Kuenn, fought off a would be rapist who entered her Redwood City home shortly after midnight. She bit the attacker on his hand and protected her two children as he fled leaving his shoes behind. Police reported she was bleeding from the nose and mouth. Harvey Kuenn and the family were unharmed. The assailant was described as a white male about 18 to 25, 5 feet 10 inches, slight build.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redwood City
Calif
San Francisco Giants
Harvey Kuenn
Fri
Dixie Ann Kuenn
Kuenn
Robin Rene
Harvey Jr
Robert LaBerge
Democrats Reorganize State Unit In West Virginia
The West Virginia Democratic Party restructured its leadership with James M. Sprouse becoming state chairman and Robert P. McDonough named national committeeman. Violet Snedegar and Mary Hart Davisson retained key roles as committeewoman, while Milton J. Ferguson and Robert D. Bailey Jr. were elevated to vice chairmen. The move follows gubernatorial nominee Hulett C. Smith's guidance and sets a statewide convention for August 8 in Huntington.
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Herb Little
Charleston
Democratic Party
West Virginia
Democratic Executive Committee
James M. Sprouse
Robert P. McDonough
Parkersburg
Violet Snedegar
Elkins
National
Mary Hart Davisson
Weston
Davisson
Snedegar
Huntington
McDonough
Hulett C. Smith
Robert J. Riley Sr
Raymond Hage
Anne Hearst
Morgantown
Thelma N. Hall
Madison
Hazel Starcher
Ripley
Clara Lincoln
Institute
E. G. Otey
Bluefield
Curtis B. Trent Jr
Otey
Trent
Front Runner Goldwater Gains Delegates Toward First Ballot Nomination
The AP reports Goldwater has added 32 uncommitted delegates since California victory, boosting his total beyond 655 needed for a first ballot nomination. Ohio adds 17 supporters, Michigan shows 3 pledged, New Jersey adds 3, Illinois raises uncommitted support to 37.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
California
Associated Press
Goldwater
Ohio
James S. Rhodes
Michigan
George Romney
New Jersey
Arizona
Illinois
Normandy’s Dead Honored in D-Day Anniversary Tributes
Allied governments and military forces mark the 20th anniversary of the Normandy campaign with ceremonies across the invasion area. Gen Omar Bradley led the U S delegation while Field Marshal Montgomery disputed Eisenhower’s strategic grasp on the program. Veterans, families, and officials gather at Douvres la Delivrande and other sites to honor 927 buried servicemen and women with hymns and national anthems as events split between British and American zones.
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Omaha Beach
Omar Bradley
U.S
London
Britain
Viscount Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douvres-la-Delivrande
France
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Douvresla-Delivrande
Colleville-Montgomery
Hermanville-sur-Mer
Lion-sur-Mer
Normandy
Montgomery attacks Eisenhower on Normandy plan on BBC broadcast
Field Marshal Montgomery told a D-Day anniversary program that Eisenhower never understood the Normandy strategy and muddled the plan. He blamed later statements as unsound while praising British Canadian American teamwork in the invasion.
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Montgomery
Eisenhower
BBC
Normandy
Soviet claim attaches in Odessa were drunk not drugged
The Soviet Defense Ministry said a British attache and three U S attaches were drunk in Odessa last March. U S and British embassies called the claim ridiculous noting barbiturate tests. The four, including Lt Cols Van Meter and Landrigan and Cmdr Samuel, felt drowsy after a meal in a city restaurant.
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Moscow
U.S
Odessa
Washington
London
United States
State Department
Krasnaya Zvezda
Soviet
Defense Ministry
Air Force
William L. van Meter
Marine
James M. Landrigan
Navy
Sumner Shapiro
John Harvey Samuel
Idaho Chief Finds His Fatally Hurt Son Lying In Street
Emmett Idaho AP Police Chief Wesley Huffaker arrived seconds after an accident to find his 3 year old son Phillip lying in the street. The boy died at the hospital after a car driven by a 15 year old bride who had just left her wedding reception struck him. The driver said she did not see the child until he was in front of the car. The driver was driving her father in law’s car.
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Ranes
Arthur Booth
Booth
Smock
Lutz
Snider
Labenne
Emmett
Idaho
Wesley Huffaker
Phillip
Huffaker
Emily Black
Magazine publishers back Goldwater as GOP nominee
A straw poll of national magazine publishers conducted Friday anticipates Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater winning the Republican presidential nomination at the upcoming San Francisco convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
San Francisco
Extended Forecast Temperatures Near Normal This Week
The forecast through Wednesday shows temperatures averaging near normal. Normal lows are 52 north and 57 south, with normal highs around 78 north and 88 south.
Richlands Man Injured In Takeoff
Joe Simmons 33 president of Dixie Wire and Cable Co. Richlands was seriously injured when a Beechcraft twin engine crashed on takeoff at the new Richlands Municipal Airport in Tazewell County Virginia. A door opened creating a vacuum and witnesses say Simmons tried to close it as he neared jump. spectator Mullins pulled him from the plane as it was demolished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Simmons
Dixie Wire and Cable Co
Richlands
New Richlands
Tazewell County
Simmons
Mal
Mullins
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Army
Arthur
Virginia Gop Head
Telegraph
Ette
Barron
Democrats
Sprouse
John E. Amos
Amos
Senate
J. Howard Myers
Mar
Barry
Colorado
Hawaii
Alabama
British Broadcasting Corp
Carol Austin
Harley Seamen
Alma Baptist Church
Alma
Ithaca
Carol
Monty
Ihe
Timely
San Antonio
Robert Hunter
Andrew Gonzales
Europe
Ed Simmons
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