Prospector Armed on Peak Sits as Officers Plot Talk Down
In Durango Colorado a lone prospector Millard Carmean 56 sits atop a 200 foot cliff after an exchange of shots with a posse led by Sheriff Chester Petty. Notes found near his camp hint at suicide and a plan to dispose of possessions.
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Sheériit
Millard Carmean
Chester Petty
Petty
Carmean
Prospae
Strongard
Rodney
Carman
Abday
San Juan Mountains
Patty
Oregon
Es An
Sacramento Union drops Saturday paper edition
The Sacramento Union announced it will discontinue its Saturday morning edition effective August 4 due to newsprint scarcity. It said savings would allow complete newspapers on the remaining weekdays. The piece mentions Steinbart Aquarium in San Francisco, opened in 1923.
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Sacramento
Sacramento _ Union
Steinbart Aquarum
San Francisco
Outcry Over Oatis Imprisonment Sparks U S Protests
Washington reports mounting U S anger over William N Oatis the AP correspondent jailed in Prague on alleged spying. U S lawmakers and the National Press Club condemn the arrest as a human rights violation and press for his release amid Western protests.
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U PR
America
Willa
Oatis
U.S
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Hharges
Moscow
Sn Moscow
Hungary
Associated Press
William Oatis
Pragué
U. S
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Foreign Affairs Committee
State Department
United Nations
Board of Governors
National Press Club
Stockton Man Found in Woods After Four Days
Joe Barbeau thirty of Stockton missing since Saturday in rugged Cold Creek area was found late last night two miles from his last sighting. Deputies report he was exhausted after wandering with worn shoes and minimal supplies. He survived on wild berries discarded sandwiches and hoped to be found.
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Upj
Joe Barbeau
Stockton
Cold Creek
Barbeau
Cache
Barbeau Becwne
Bis Onk
Hunter Gale
Crooner Crosby Buys KSNI Station for TV Outlet
Crooner Bing Crosby and two associates have purchased KSNI in Salinas to convert it into a television broadcasting outlet. They expect operation within two years if FCC construction permits are granted. New owners include Crosby, George L. Cullem of Miami Oklahoma, and Kenyon Brown of Wichita Falls Texas, with the venture tied to Monterey Radio Television and also operating KMBY in Monterey Grey California.
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Salinas
KSNI
Bing Crosbyv
Federal Communications Commission
Crosby
George L. Culeman
Miami
Okls
Ee Kenyon Brown
Wichita Falls
Tex
Salinas Newpers
Admiral Wechteler Named Naval Post Chief
Admiral William M. Fechteler, the 55 year old commander of the Atlantic fleet, named by President Truman as Chief of Naval Operations. He notes the aircraft carrier as the backbone of the fleet and faces Senate confirmation after succeeding the late Admiral Forrest Sherman. Fechteler has 39 years in service and will move from Norfolk to Washington after duty wind down. Britain may object to an American as supreme commander of Atlantic naval forces.
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Adin
Willian
M. Wechteler
Truman
Naval Operations
Navy
Dan A. Kimball
Fechteler
Forrest P. Sherman
ONO
Admiral Sherman
Sherman
Naples
U. S
Mediterranean
Britain
Bread policy report calls for wholesome loaves nationwide
The State sericulture committee urges bakers to restore vitamins and ban nonnutritive chemicals to keep bread healthy. Senators want Pure Food law amendments, federal oversight of additives, and anti trust vigilance in baking and meatpacking, noting rising health concerns and declining bread consumption. The report cites chemicals such as phosphorus and fluorite and mentions Australia as the platypus habitat.
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KURA
Sericulture
Congress
Justice Department
Anti-Trust Division
Radio Producer Testifies ABC Approved Rogers Talk
Los Angeles witnesses described approval of Emmet Lavery play debate speech in libel suit. Hatfield Weedin, ex Town Hall producer, said he did not see the speech until minutes before broadcast. Lavery sues Lela Rogers and seven others accusing attempts to smear him as un-American.
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Los Angeles
Lavery
Ing Co
Weiter
Hatfield Weedin
the Town Hall, Inc
Lela Rogers
Ginger Rogers
Two Killed as Plane Crash Sparks Hills Fire
LAKEPORT WA Two men died when a light Cessna 140 crashed on the west slope of Snow mountain about 45 miles northeast of Lakeport. Victims Capt Hubert E Evans and Dr Robert M Scott, both of Sacramento, owned the plane based at Capital Skypark. Fire started on rugged slope, found by forest rangers after crash drew attention.
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Lakeport
Snow Mountain
Here
Hubert E. Evans
Robert M. Scott
Sacramento
CAA
Evans
Capital Skypark
Lake County
Randell Foutch
Woman Says Two Recruited For Espionage
Mrs Hede Massing testified before the Senate internal security committee that she recruited former State Department officials Noel Field and Laurence Duggan into a Soviet espionage ring in the 1930s. She said Field referred to Alger Hiss as a Communist agent and that both men knew she was a Communist agent. She detailed trips for microfiling in Europe and said Field introduced her to Duggan and to Hiss as targets in gathering United States data on the Soviet Union.
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Hede Massing
Witt
Gerhart Eisler
State Deartment
Noel Field
Lurence Duggan
Senate Internal Security Committee
Field
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Messing
Duggan
Duggen
Soviet Union
Dugcan
New York
Whittaker Chamers
Massing
Institute of Pacific Relations
Paris
Furope
Fire undergrowth halts bodies transit to Lakeport
Forestry officials said the fire is extinguished but it will take today to punch a hole through thick underbrush between Upper Bulle Creek and Crooked Tree camp so bodies can be brought out to Lakeport for a coroner's inquest.
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Upper Bulle Creek
Crooked Tree Camp
Lakeport
Boys Observe To Determine Radioactive Burns
Two boys, John Hotz aged 12 and Donald 14, identified as finders of a leaking capsule, were under physician observation after returning a radioactive capsule and tape to a Southern California Gas pipeline project in Compton. Doctors coordinating with the Atomic Energy Commission planned tests and a month of monitoring for possible radiation burns.
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John Hotz
Donald
Compton
Don
John
Atomic Energy Commision
Southern California Bus Company
Thy Brothers
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