Photos of slain wife shown at Sheppard trial
In Cleveland on November 4 AP reports Dr. Samuel Sheppard sobbed as color slides depicted the brutal injuries his wife Marilyn suffered, shown in court as part of the first degree murder trial. Prosecutors allege marital infidelity motivated the killing. defense portrays Sheppard as gentle and distressed by the tragedy.
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SHEPPARD
CLEVELAND
Samuel Sheppard
Lester Adelson
Adelson
Shepperd
state of Ohio
Sam Sheppard
Marilyn
Marlyn
Susan Hayes
John J. Mahon
Mahon
Miss Hayes
Bay Village
Fred W. Garmone
Official Weather Bridgeport and vicinity forecast
Bridgeport and vicinity: Cloudy with rain and snow mixing today, afternoon highs in the 40s, clearing and colder tonight around 35. Saturday fair and cold. New York City: same as Bridgeport. Temperatures, precipitation, barometer and tide details included. Almanac notes for Friday November 5 with sunrise and sunset times.
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U. & Weather Bureau
BRIDGEPORT
imil
NEW YORK CITY
Pilot Dies After Seaplane Flight Demonstration Crash
In San Diego a Convair YF2Y1 seaplane exploded over the bay during a public speed run. Pilot Charles E. Richbourg, 31, died shortly after rescue. Cause unknown. investigators consider fuel line or cell failure. The XF2Y1 was the second Sea Dart to test flight.
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SAN DIEGO
Calif
San Diego bay
Charles E. Richbourg
Navy
F. K. Stason
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Convair division
General Dynamica Corp
New Drugs Show Promise For Rheumatoid Arthritis
A National Institutes of Health team reports two new oral drugs that may surpass cortisone in treating rheumatoid arthritis. In 11 patients with long histories and poor responses to other therapies, the drugs produced excellent symptom control and were three times as potent as cortisone without major cortisone side effects. Potential side effects of cortisone include edema, bone fractures, and mental disturbance, highlighting the advantage of the new treatments.
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WASHINGTON
National Institutes of Health
Paroled Slayer Becomes Lifer Again for $680 Hartford Theft
Xavier J Yeshinskas, previously convicted of patricide, is sentenced to life again for a $680 theft in Hartford. He pleaded guilty to forgery and larceny in police court, after a prior parole in 1950 following an earlier life sentence. He described a spree fueled by drinking, taking cash and checks, then fleeing to New Haven Bridgeport and California before returning.
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HARTFORD
Xavier J Yeshinskas
Wethersfield
Yeshinskas
Burr Leikind
Yeashinskas
Waterbury
Robert Rolfe Yeshinskay
Albany avenue
Yoshinskae
peice
New Haven
Bridgeport
California
San Francisco
Nevada
Ann E. Bellady
Virginia McDaniels
Wadsworth street
William M O'Brien
John Brezin
Government Sues 193 Brady Tenants
The Federal government filed suit in Hartford against 193 tenants of the Brady Homes housing project to clear land titles and enable sale. The suit follows equity liens filed in 1948 over improvements made by tenants, with the government seeking to sell the homes to the tenants.
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Brady Homes
Hartford
U. S
Harry W. Hultgren, Jr
Hultgren
Public Housing Administration
Probe shift seen in next Congress
Washington reports that with Democrats taking control of the House and likely the Senate, congressional probes will target the Eisenhower administration as a new era of investigative power begins. The shift signals a readiness to use committees as groundwork ahead of the 1956 presidential contest.
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WASHINGTON
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
executive department
legislative branch
W Martin J
GOP
Fairfield Plans 10 Year Beach and Park Improvement Program
Fairfield Park and Recreation commissions propose a 10 year capital plan to develop Jennings Beach Wakeman Island and expand Owen Fish Tunxis Hill Sturges Sasco Hill and Southport facilities. Total estimated cost 270418 with major moves including Jennings Beach parking two tennis courts and a beach house and Wakeman Island field house multiple sports fields shelters and expanded parking.
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Jennings beach
Wakeman island
Reef road
Fairfield Park and Recreation commissions
Robert S Bryan
Board of Finance board
Finance board
Owen Fish
Tunxis Hill
Sturges
Owen Fish park
Tunxis Hill park
Gould Manor park
Sturges park
Sasco Hill beach
Southport beach
Harbor road
Riverside park
Joy Kenny actress dies after burials in Bridgeport
Joy Kenny 41 of Bibbins Road veteran radio stage and TV actress died at 2:40 pm in Bridgeport Hospital three hours after the burial of her three week old daughter ZoAnne Both died of pneumonia The sister-in-law of Nick Kenny she played Amanda in Amanda of Honeymoon Hill and appeared in Stella Dallas True Story Tales of Tomorrow Young Widow Brown and The Man Behind the Badge under her maiden Joy Hathaway on Broadway in The Fabulous Invalid
Throughway to Begin Construction Next Spring in New York Connecticut Route
Lehman Brothers announced engineering surveys for the Greenwich to Killingly expressway show construction can start in spring. The 129 mile toll road will run from the state line near Long Island Sound through Greenwich Stamford Darien Norwalk Bridgeport Stratford to New Haven and northeast to the Rhode Island border. Estimated cost is 498 million with 100 million bond funding raised last May and a second bond issue planned. Surveys exceed 85 percent completed on Greenwich to New Haven and are advanced east of New Haven. Final design expected by April 30, 1955.
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NEW YORK
Lehman Brothers
Connecticut
G. Albert Hill
New York state line
Long Island Sound
Greenwich
Stamford
Darien
Norwalk
Bridgeport
Stratford
New Haven
Rhode Island
Four Die As AF Plane Crashes At Tucson Airport
Four airmen died and 11 were injured when a twin engine training aircraft from Ellington Air Force Base Houston crashed during an emergency landing at Tucson Municipal Airport. After refueling the plane developed engine trouble at 500 feet and, missing the runway on the first pass, struck a power line and burned near the field.
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Pour
Ellington Air Force base
Houston
Tex
Tucson
public service office
Davis-Monthan Air Force base
Texas
Man Hit by 2 Cars in Westport Dies
Victor Gyarfas a 67 year old Greens Farms resident was fatally struck by two autos at the Post Road near Mills Street in Westport while crossing home from work. He died at Norwalk Hospital from spine head and internal injuries after being hit by an eastbound car and a second westbound car whose driver then remained at the scene.
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Victor Gyarfas
WESTPORT
Barbara place
Greens Farms
Mills street
Gyarfas
Norwalk hospital
Minam B. Mullin
Sylvan road
Puzzle Taps Up Contestants For the Fourth Straight Week
The Sunday Post crossword puzzle has failed to produce a winner for the fourth consecutive week. The prize for the game to be published day after tomorrow will be 125 dollars and new rules go into effect next week. Entries will be re checked for perfection or one word wrong, with the prize split among one wrong solutions if no perfect entries appear. The judges aim to prevent the game from dragging on. One tricky clue was 15 across If a man is this he may well feel on top of the world.
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Sunday Post
Democrats Cooperate With Ike If He Is Right In 1950s Oregon Vote
In a pause before rechecks could alter Oregon Senate results, Dems secured a 48 seat Senate hold, with Richard L. Neuberger winning the Oregon contest. Johnson said a Democratic majority would organize the Senate, while Morse pledged support. House Republicans and Democrats alike prepare to work with the President as Rayburn and Johnson commit to cooperation.
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George and
Rugeell
Georgia
Pastore
Kéds Island
Gore
Tennessee
Mansfield
Montana
House
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Austin
Johnson
Congress
Knowland
Richard L. Neuberger
Oregon
Guy Cordon
Neuberger
J. Neuberger
Pacifico Northwest
Democrats
Wayne Morse
Ind-ore
Sam Rayburn
Eisenhower
Rayburn
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