Witnesses Identity Trip In Robbery
Three men accused of a daylight holdup at Cedar View tavern were identified by witnesses. Gerald Van Sant Ralph Whittington and Francis Lyons, all Omaha residents, were lined up with similar suspects and named by witnesses. The trio were cornered later that day and surrendered after being surrounded by police near the Del Webb housing project. About $2,600 was recovered from the Johnson avenue address.
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Gazette
Tom Merryman
Cedar View
Cedar Rapids
Ralph Whittington
John Scriven
Gerald van Sant
Donald Spicher
John Kuba
Cal Wagner
Omaha
Johnson Avenue
del Webb
Lyons
Capt. Kuba
A and P Store
Kuba
van Sant
Whittington
Earlville Trucker Fatally Burned in Wisconsin Crash
An Earlville trucker, Cletus Klein 28 formerly of Manchester, was burned to death when his tractor cab caught fire after a collision six miles north of Belmont Wisconsin. He worked for Ambrose Westhoff Earlville livestock trucker and left a wife Esther Lange and three daughters. Services set for Monday at St Josephs church Earlville. burial in church cemetery. body at Shelly funeral home Manchester.
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Manchester
Earlville
Belmont
Cletus Klein
Ambrose Westhoff
Klein
Esther Lange
Dyersville
Linda
Marilyn
Anne
Frank Klein
Joe
Dundee
Richard
Francis
Henry Larson
Marvin Cole
Garber
al Koch
Lamont
Vic Kunzl
Prague
Neb
St. Joseph's Church
Church
Shelly Funeral Home
Waitress Receives $25 in Coins Preserved in Ice Cake
San Luis Obispo reporter notes Bert Barton told business patrons she wanted cold cash for Christmas and they placed $25 in coins into a 25 pound cake of ice for her. the noteworthy Christmas gift was described with humorous detail.
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San Luis Obispo, Calif
Bert Barton
Hearse Pilot Dies as Runaway Car Hits Schoolboy
In Chicago a hearse driven by 72 year old Lewis Parke careened through a street after a heart attack, sideswiping two cars and striking 13 year old Thomas Wintt on the sidewalk. Parke died in the wreckage. Thomas suffered a skull fracture and serious injuries.
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Chicago
Lewis Parke
Lars
Thomas Wintt
Thomas
Parke
Fog Causes Power Outage in Cedar Rapids Area
Fog blamed for an early morning outage that cut electricity to Cedar Rapids and about 50 nearby towns for about 40 minutes. A flashover at the Sixth Street substation worsened by dirt and fog on insulators allowed current to jump to the steel structure, according to Iowa Electric Light and Power Company assistant district manager Ed Filip. Insulators were replaced and service restored after roughly 40 minutes.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Sixth Street
Asst
Ed Filip
Last Allied Units Quit Suez Zone
The last Anglo French troops left the Suez area ending a 47 day occupation. About 1000 beachhead troops moved to ships while Danish UN police oversaw the withdrawal from the ground. UN forces took control of Port Said and the canal zone as Egyptian police helped maintain order.
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Egypt
Suez
U.S
Britain
France
U.N
Suez Canal
Canal Zone
Sinai Desert
el Cap
Yule Travel Crippled by Fog Blanket
Dense fog crippled air and highway travel across the eastern half of the nation during Christmas. Airports grounded planes, trains faced delays, and road travel slowed as the weather worsened, with some relief expected by late Sunday as the fog began to lift in parts of the East, South, and Midwest.
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Gazette
New York
Midwest
LaGuardia
Washington
Chicago Weather Bureau
Chicago
Midway Airport
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ernest Christie
Gulf Coast
Canada
Court Convicts Otto John of Treason in West Germany
West Germany's supreme court on Saturday convicted Otto John, former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, of treason and conspiracy involving state secrets. He received four years’ imprisonment, with the year already served deducted. John, smuggled back into West Germany from East Germany, maintained innocence, claiming kidnapping and coercion by East German secret police. Prosecutors argued his anti Western propaganda and collaboration constituted treasonous activity.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Supreme Court
Otto John
John
East Germany
West Germany
Office For the Protection of
Cuse
Max Guede
Struck by Auto Claims Life of George Bradley
George Bradley, 64, of 1321 Second Avenue SE, died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 7 15 p m Friday from shock and internal injuries after being struck by a car at First Avenue and Tenth Street East. Clarence L Murphy, 119 Fifteenth Street NE, face speeding violation charges as investigators noted the vehicle traveled 51 feet beyond impact on wet pavement. Bradley, a former employee of Freuhaus Trailer Secoony, was a Cedar Rapids resident 11 years and member of the Ground Observer Corps. Surviving are his son James E Bradley of Marshalltown, daughter Evelyn Hickman of Marshalltown, four sisters, and others. Funeral and burial details announced in Grinnell.
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Cedar Rapids
George Bradley
Second Avenue
First Avenue
Tenth Street
Clarence L. Murphy
Fifteenth Street
Murphy
Bradley
St. Luke's Hospital
Freuhaus
Iowa
Ground Observer Corps
James E. Bradley
Marshalltown
Evelyn Hickman
Cy Inman
Lou Seiberth
Grinnell
George Moore
Des Moines
Grant Wherry
Deep River
Turner ~Ay
Smith Funeral Home
Hazelwood Cemetery
Driver in Salvation Army truck manslaughter sentence
Clarence F. Stargardt, 40, of Omaha, was sentenced to up to eight years in Fort Madison for manslaughter after his Salvation Army truck collided with another vehicle two miles north of Council Bluffs. The collision killed a passenger.
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Council Bluffs
Clarence F. Stargardt
Omaha
Fort Madison
Stargardt
Salvation Army
Weather outlook says rain or snow tonight with low 32
Considerable cloudiness and a mix of rain or snow tonight. snow gradually ends Sunday with a high near 35.
White Christmas Prospect For Iowa Weather
Fog and drizzle blanket Iowa for the third straight day creating hazardous driving in the north. Forecasters warn of continued fog with snow expected in the northwest Sunday and rain or snow in the rest of the state. A storm center over Colorado may bring heavy snow west of Iowa and a possible white Christmas Tuesday. Temperatures trend cooler with lows 20s to mid 30s and highs in the 20s to upper 30s. A chartered plane carrying 71 Army men from Fort Chaffee diverted to Minneapolis due to fog.
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Chicago Weather Bureau
Rockies
Wyoming
Colorado
South Dakota
Nebraska
Mississippi Valley
Iowa
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Minneapolis
Des Moines
Attic
Fairfield
Cedar Rapids
Wife of Counsel Joe Welch Dies in Boston
Judith Lyndon Welch, 67, wife of Joseph N. Welch famed army special counsel in the McCarthy hearings, died Friday after a prolonged illness in Boston.
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Joe Welch
Boston
Judith Lyndon Welch
Joseph N. Welch
Army
Eisenhower Forms Board to Probe Railroad Strike Dispute
President Eisenhower set up a fact finding board to examine a wage overtime and rule dispute between the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and more than 140 rail carriers. The move automatically postpones any strike for 60 days as advised by the National Mediation Board.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Brotherhood of Railroad
National Mediation Board
Boy's Room Incident Leaves Boy With Arrow Injury
Bruce Campbell nine was treated at a hospital Friday for mouth cuts after an arrow became stuck while he reached under his bed for shoes in his Pompano Plains room.
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Pompton Plains
N. J
Bruce Campbell
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