Youth Kills Texas Woman in Midland
A 22 year old ex convict James L. Marion admitted killing Mrs. Fred Turner wife of a wealthy oilman and racehorse owner during a burglary at the Turner's Midland home. He described a lengthy loot search and multiple blows with a gun and a cane after which Mrs Turner lay fatally wounded. Authorities say diamonds valued at about 500000 were taken. Marion was jailed on murder charges after fleeing the scene.
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Midland, Tex
Fred Turner
James L. Marion
Marion
Vel Stephens
Fort Worth
Global Briefs from Frankfurt Moscow and Ottawa
AP dispatches report the Big Lift exercise in Germany with 40 000 troops amid a seven day drill as U S Army 2nd Armored Division engages an aggressor force in a Darmstadt Fulda stretch. In Moscow Mrs Philby joins her husband in the spy case orbit. In Ottawa Pearson sidesteps no confidence votes over nuclear warhead storage in Quebec.
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Frankfurt
Germany
2Nd Armored
Texas
3Rd Armored
Darmstadt
Fulda
London
Harold Philby
Moscow
Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Liberal
Canada
House of Commons
Creditiste
Real Caouette
U.S
Quebec
Liberals
Orson Welles Reflects On War of the Worlds Panic
London AP reports Orson Welles, now 48, says he has no regret for the 1938 War of the Worlds radio drama that panicked about six million Americans, with one million disturbed. The broadcast began 8 p.m. on CBS Mercury Theatre of the Air, using H G Wells material and live news style to simulate Martian invasion.
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London
Orson Welles
Welles
Mercury
H.G. Wells
Mercury Players
New Jersey
Hudson River
New York
Nazi Germany
Sudetenland
America
High-Speed Chase Through Midtown KC Ends With Catch
A 14 year-old boy led police on a 44 block pursuit through midtown Kansas City Tuesday night. Eleven police vehicles chased him until he struck two cars at 31st and Gillham. A bullet damaged the car. a cluster of keys and boxes of cosmetics were found in the trunk.
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Kansas City
31St
Gillham
Marvin Merlin
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Seattle
Wash
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
Burgess
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Orson Wells
Tioga Hotel
Coats
Missy
Cardanas
Tricot
Chanute
Mary Lou Conway
Georgia Gaudern
Chanute Discount Co
Chanute Discount Company
Evergreen
Dale Steinman
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