Boat Hits Barge in Mississippi River Tragedy
A 21 foot runabout carrying four Davenport businessmen struck two drifting barges on the Mississippi near the government bridge. Two men, Robert Noland and Arthur Birney, were missing and presumed drowned while two others, John Faris and Ralph Millstead, were rescued and reported in good condition. The boat sank in over 12 feet of water as divers searched the murky river for the missing men.
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Arthur H. Birney
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Cedar Rapids
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Ralph Millstead
Omaha
St. Luke’s Hospital
Ranger Falls Short of Long Space Jaunt
Cape Canaveral reports a powerful Atlas Agena launched Ranger I to test lunar Mars Venus missions. The second stage failed to separate, leaving the craft in near Earth orbit. Officials hope data will still reveal instrument performance despite the partial success and plan Ranger II for a future attempt.
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Venus
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NASA
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South Atlantic
Ex-Convict Held In Trunk Slaying Of N Y Divorcee
Syracuse district attorney Joseph Ryan said ex convict Charles Trudeau 50 is a suspect in the strangling and possible burning of Louise Temple 50 a real estate saleswoman Trudeau held as parole violator while police investigate the trunk murder body found in a car Friday near Auburn Temple had shown Trudeau a $39 000 suburban home shortly before vanishing friends say she wore a blue dress Friday Trudeau has a forgery and grand larceny record dating to 1928 and the body was identified by a Miami niece Sharon Hodder.
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Louise Temple
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Charles Trudeau
Joseph Coyne
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Temple
Trudeau
District Attorney's Office
Believed painting thief hid 12 hours before exit
Detectives think the $392,000 Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington was hidden inside Britain's National Gallery for more than 12 hours before an exit with it. The 19th century work vanished Tuesday amid a no-forced-entry theft. No fingerprints or clues reported.
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Duke of Wellington
Britain
National Gallery
Iron Duke
Waterloo
France
Connally Arrives in London from Berlin AP Report
In London John B. Connally U S secretary of the navy arrived Wednesday from Berlin for undisclosed talks. The brief dispatch notes his arrival and the continuing postwar diplomacy in Europe.
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London
John B. Connally
U. S
Defenders Shield Two Soviet Officers in West Berlin
In West Berlin, U S soldiers in steel helmets protected two Soviet officers in a recon car from a hostile crowd of about 500. Eyewitnesses say protesters jeered Ivan go home as the Russians navigated the zigzag path at Friedrichstrasse and Zimmerstrasse while U S MPs kept a rifle-armed line between them and the onlookers.
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Berlin
U.S
Ivan
West
Band of Men Raid Portuguese Village from Senegal
A group of men invaded a frontier village Sustania from Senegal, raiding Portuguese Guinea as reported by the Sustania news agency on Wednesday.
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Lisbon
Guinea
Senegal
Sustania
U S Patton tanks face Communist forces at Friedrichstrasse cross
U S Patton tanks and a machine gun squad confront East German troops at the Friedrichstrasse crossing as Brig Gen Hartel and 6 500 U S troops in Berlin monitor the border. West Berlin crowds watch while the scene signals allied resolve amid renewed traffic restrictions.
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Thomas Reedy
Berlin
U.S
Friedrichstrasse
East Berlin
Jack Davis
Tahlequah, Oklo
U.S. ‘Sixth Infantry
Frederick Hartel
Erikson completes grueling 36 hour Lake Michigan swim
Ted Erikson a 33 year old rocket fuels engineer swam 36 hours 37 minutes from Chicago to the southern tip of Lake Michigan amid rain and heavy waves. He crossed 36 1/2 miles finishing near the lighthouse pier after five swimmers started the Lake Michigan Swim Challenge. Erikson's success set a world record for long distance open water swimming and earned a prize of 3675 dollars. He trains at the Armour Research Foundation and plans further swims with his wife Loretta and son Jon watching.
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Ind
Ted Erikson
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Erikson
Lighthouse
Loretta
Jon
Burnham Park
Jim Moran
Oper
Armour Research Foundation
Tance
Mrs. Erikson
Allies Vow Firm Action as Berlin Border Tightens
Berlin reports say allied forces massed tanks and infantry at the East West border after new Communist traffic limits. A U S British and French spokesman said commandants act to insure security and integrity of the sector.
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Lynn Heinzerling
U.s.defense Department
East Berlin
Brandenburg Gate
Wilhelmstrasse
Walter Sanders
Life Magazine
King’s Royal Rifles
Berlin
U.S
Unclear if Allies Will Honor East Berlin Entry Rules
Washington state department says it is undecided whether allied troops and diplomats will obey Communist curbs that limit them to a single entry point to East Berlin.
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UPI
State Department
East Berlin
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