Death linked to Dominican kidnap plot new revelations
Life magazine reports that the missing Dominican Republic foe Jesus Galindez was kidnapped in New York on March 12 1956 and flown to the Dominican Republic. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy vanished in the republic while Dominican pilot Gavtio De La Maza died in prison after a disputed suicide note.
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Life Magazine
Jesus Marie de Galindez
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Gerald Lester Murphy
Republic
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Galindez
U.S
Life
Trujillo
Columbia University
Miami
Arturo Espaillat
New Jersey
Long Island
West Palm Beach
Compania Dominicana de Aviacion
State Department
Totem Pole Found On Telegraph Hill Sidewalk
An eight foot tall, 350 pound totem pole was found on a Telegraph Hill sidewalk by a patrolman. Police seek the owner to reclaim the artifact and determine its origin. A local officer reported the discovery and no injuries were noted.
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San Francisco
Telegraph Hill
Satchmo Armstrong Presses On After Dynmite Blast
Louis Armstrong refused to halt his southern tour after a dynamite blast outside the Armstrrong auditorium in Chilhowee Park Knoxville. Police indicated the blast likely came from a single stick tossed from a passing car. The concert proceeded with no injuries and about 3,000 spectators present. Armstrong, noting the incident, said the horn knows nothing of race troubles and he will play anywhere audiences gather.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Louis “Satchmo
Armstrong
Armstrong Auditorium
Chilhowee Park
O’ Town
Satchmo
Missiles Equipped With Nuclear Warheads In U S
Anti aircraft weapons including Nike and Hercules guided missiles are now being fitted with nuclear warheads in the United States, the Defense Department announced on Wednesday at Point Mugu California.
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Point Mugu
Calif
U. S
Six Nations Agree Trade Pact Toward Tariff Elimination
Paris reports that leaders of France West Germany Italy Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg reached treaties to remove trade barriers and form an atomic pool. Pi neau said signatures in Rome are planned soon pending parliamentary approval in all six nations.
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Paris
Pineau
Rome
France
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Army Okays Cedar Rapids Reserve Training Center Purchase
Washington confirms the army approved buying four acres on Sixth Street SW and Twenty seventh Avenue SW in Cedar Rapids for a reserve training center. The site fronts Sixth Street and Twenty seventh Avenue, near a service station, with no building plan yet. Project cost is at least half a million dollars, possibly up to a million for land landscaping building and equipment. The navy was not tied to this project despite earlier plans.
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Army Reserve
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Henry O. Talle
Army
Sixth Street
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Sixthstreet
Highway 30
Navy
State Official Fined 83 for Traffic Violations
Earle S. Smith 66 director of the state gasoline tax division was fined 83 by Municipal Judge Harry B Grand after pleading guilty to reckless driving speeding 48 mph in a 20 mph zone and driving without lights He was arrested near the state capitol after police say he drove without lights and struck curbs and two signs He has until noon Thursday to pay or face a 10 day jail term.
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Des Moines
M. L. Abrahamson
Earle S. Smith
Smith
Harry B. Grand
Abrahamson
Robert Burns
State Capitol
Burns
Loveless to Name Cedar Rapids Judge Friday
Gov Herschel Loveless said he will fill the Cedar Rapids municipal court judgeship vacancy by appointment on Friday. He did not reveal a name but noted the appointment among several state posts. He added plans to attend a military ball in Sioux City Saturday.
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Lowa
Des Moines
Herschel Loveless
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Court Rejects Shaw Bequest For Alphabet Reform
A London high court ruled that two million dollars from George Bernard Shaw’s estate cannot fund his proposed English alphabet reform. The bequest was deemed not charitable, with Shaw’s supporters planning appeals as the British Museum and National Gallery of Ireland become beneficiaries.
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London
INS
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
British Museum
National Gallery of Ireland
Orderly Admits Posing as Physician for Over a Year
Jersey City police report Clarence Garland a 26 year old hospital orderly confessed to treating neighbors for more than a year while posing as a doctor. He worked at Flower Fifth Avenue hospital in New York and used medical instruments stolen from hospitals.
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Jersey City
Clarence Garland
New York
Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital
Garland
Audrey Garland
Mark Fallon
Mrs. Sunday Dies at 88 in Phoenix Home
Mrs. Billy Sunday, 88, widow of famed evangelist, died Wednesday at her grandson Paul Haines’s home in Phoenix after lung cancer and heart ailment. Born in Winona Lake, Indiana, she married Sunday in 1888. he died in 1936. Body to be flown to Warsaw, Indiana, for services. burial at Forest Home Cemetery in Chicago.
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Evangelist
Paul Haines
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Haines
Warsaw
Forest Home Cemetery
Chicago
Merchants Buy Second Downtown Cedar Rapids Parking Lot
The Civic Development Association plans a second off street lot in downtown Cedar Rapids ready about April 25. The southeast corner of Second street and Fourth avenue SE will host ground level parking for about 100 cars on the former Stemlar garage and old Central hotel site.
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Civic Development Association
Cedar Rapids
Retail Merchants Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce l
Second Street
Fourth Avenue
Stemlar
Conway Brothers
Central Hotel
Development Association
A Avenue
Post Office Cut Upheld by House on Treasury Cuts
Washington AP reports the House on Wednesday upheld an eight hundred thirty six million dollar reduction in appropriations for the treasury and post office departments totaling eighty four million dollars.
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Washington
House
Treasury
Post Office Departments
Dr Adams Granted One Month Delay in Old Bailey Murder Trial
London police court notes that Dr John Bodkin Adams was granted a postponement of his murder trial for one month at Old Bailey. The case concerns alleged crimes investigated by authorities, with Adams awaiting further proceedings as the delay takes effect.
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London
INS
John Bodkin Adams
Old Bailey Court
Cedar Rapids Fire Chief backs sprinkler use in homes
Cedar Rapids Fire Chief Jesse Hunter urged sprinklers for nursing homes arguing no residential life been lost with a good system. A legislature bill would require sprinklers in combustible nursing homes and cost, insurance, and financing were debated. The meeting included City Attorney C W Garberson Gazette editor Harry Boyd and county supervisors.
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Cedar Rapids News
Jesse Hunter
iChief Hunter
C. W. Garberson
Gazette
Harry Boyd
Miles P. Sutera
Martin Wiley
Clyde B. Meffert
The
Linn County Medical Society
Robert H. Ellison
Hunter
Iowa
National Fire Protection Association
Capt
Ellison
Cedar Rapids
Soviet Mystery Patient Is Dead
Vyacheslav Malyshev former deputy prime minister died in Moscow after about a month of critical illness He had been treated by a West German specialist amid reports he was the mystery patient connected to the new super industrial planning board in the national capital The government confirmed his death on Wednesday
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Vyacheslav Malyshev
Malyzhev
Gazette Carriers Join Crusade for Freedom Drive
Cedar Rapids Gazette carriers will join nationwide newspaper boys in collecting Crusade for Freedom funds on Feb 22. Money supports Radio Free Europe and Free Europe Press behind the Iron Curtain, with Ike praising the effort. 314 Gazette carriers will deliver 28 000 envelopes to subscribers for contributions.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Crusade For Freedom
Radio Free Europe
Free Europe
U.S
Eisenhower
Jess B. Birks
Gazette
Crusade For Freedom Organization
Birks
ICMA
Andy Williams
The
Ames Tribune
Andy
Perry Como
Network
Monitor
NBC
Detroit Times
Dallas Times-Herald
St. Paul Dispatch
Pioneer Press
Los Angeles Times
Milwaukee Journal
Eisenhower to Address Nation on Middle East Tensions
President Eisenhower met with 26 congressional leaders to discuss the Middle East crisis and announced a televised address from 8 to 8:30 p.m. CST to report on the situation and Israel’s refusal to withdraw troops. The briefing touched on U.N. sanctions and possible U.N. troop assurances, with no final commitments reached.
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Egypt
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Middle East
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James Hagerty
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