Scott Found Guilty of Wife Murder
A jury in Los Angeles convicted L. Ewing Scott of first degree murder in the disappearance of his wife Evelyn Throsby Scott. The case hinged on circumstantial evidence as no body was ever found, with the verdict followed by potential death penalty deliberations.
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Los Angeles
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Evelyn Throsby Scott
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California
State Supreme Court
Clement D. Nye
J. Miller Leavy
United States
Leavy
Face in window helps trigger charity wave
In Nashville a three year old boy Charles Ledbetter appears at a window in a charity photo. Struck by the image, readers nationwide send money and gifts as strangers seek the boy's address and adoption offers. Local reaction expresses deep emotion as the scene spurs a nationwide response.
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Reaney
Winter Weathers Shifts as Temperatures Rise Across Nation
Despite calls of winter, many regions report springlike warmth with highs from the 30s to 75. Oak/land NJ near the Ramapo River floods force evacuations as Pompton River overflows prompt precautionary moves in Wayne Township. New England rivers swell, Indiana faces lingering flood threats amid clearing skies.
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GI Private Nick Colbert known for cars in Army service
Pvt. Nicholas Colbert 19 of Bloomfield Heights Michigan is a maintenance expert in the Army after racing cars in his youth. Son of Chrysler president Lester Colbert he left Fort Hood before joining the 4th Armored Division for a January move to Germany in Operation Gyroscope.
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4Th Armored Division
Germany
Nick
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Reds to Push Prosecutions in Hungary
Budapest AP report says Prosecutor Geza Szenasi vowed the pursuit of counter revolutionary participants in last year’s anti Russian uprisings would continue for years. He warned against premature mercy and urged persistent action while noting ongoing firings of judges who refused to join martial law era summary courts.
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Geza Szenasi
Szenasi
Jozsef Domonkos
Supreme Court
Youngest Warren Son Is Married at First Baptist Church
Robert Warren 22 and Carolyn Jane Macklin 19 wed at the First Baptist church in Sacramento. Robert, UC Davis senior and son of Chief Justice Earl Warren, is set to graduate in June with a physical education degree. Carolyn Macklin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Macklin of Davis and works in a school office.
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Davis
Monroney Plans Bill To Attack Auto Accidents
Senator Monroney of Oklahoma announced a bill to create a presidential commission to reduce automobile accidents. He cites public fear on highways and urges a national, uniform crash reporting system to guide remedial legislation.
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Washington
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Move Gains For Dept Of Science Amid US Soviet Space Race
Democratic backers push to consolidate all government research and development into a new department of science. Senator Humphrey cited a study showing centralized control is needed for space weapons and other projects. Mansfield called for a single cabinet rank agency to drive the missile and satellite race. Kefauver plans to include the idea in an upcoming report on rocketry. Public hearings on consolidating basic and applied research will begin in January. The AEC's role remains undecided, with possible linkages to the new department. The effort aims to move science from scattered funding to a continuous nationwide program.
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Department of Science
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Government Operations Committee
Mansfield
Montana
Russia
Kefauver
D-Tenn
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National Science Foundation
Atomic Energy Commission
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Third Cedar Rapids man charged in New Vienna bank robbery
Curtis Paul Weyer, 27, of Cedar Rapids, was arrested and charged Saturday with two federal counts relating to the New Vienna bank robbery. FBI officials trace a trio from Cedar Rapids to Dyersville and New Vienna, with Weyer awaiting the others at a rendezvous point before driving to town. Remaining suspects Donald Roloff and Theodore Grapes are in Dubuque custody. all money was recovered.
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New Vienna
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Humboldt
U.S
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Weyer
Federal Grand Jury
Linn County
J. E. Thornton
FBI
Omaha
Dubuque County
Dyersville
Anton Klosterman
Klosterman
Thornton
Donald Roloff
Theodore Grapes
Dubuque
Roloff
Grapes
New Soviet Bid Labeled Propaganda
U.S. officials see no near summit with Khrushchev and Eisenhower as Washington argues the move is a propaganda push to sow Western disunity. Gromyko rejection of five power talks underscores the Kremlin’s demand for terms dictating any agreement. Mansfield urges real disarmament talks and concrete steps rather than rhetoric.
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INS
U.S
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Eisenhower
NATO
Russia
Andreii Gromyko
John Foster Dulles
Kremlin
Smuggled Diamond Used by U.S. in Space-Age Research
At the National Bureau of Standards a 7% carat diamond seized by customs from an Austrian refugee in New York City around 1953 is used in high pressure high temperature tests. Scientists aim to simulate atomic explosion conditions to study material behavior for military and industrial use.
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National Bureau of Standards
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Charles E. Weir
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Spanish War Minister Blames Communism for Ifni Coup Attempt
General Antonio Barroso charged that international communism incited the Moroccan guerrilla attempt to seize Ifni and said the Red agitation aims to drive the United States from its North African air bases.
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