Open FBI Files Peril Spy Case
Washington sources say the government may drop its case against Soviet Col. Rudolph Abel until Congress acts to shield FBI files. DOJ officials remain undecided while U S Attorney General Internal Security official Tompkins vows to press the prosecution. Abel is charged with sending secret defense material to Russia while posing as a Brooklyn photographer. If convicted, the death penalty looms.
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Abel
New York
William F. Tompkins
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Russia
Brooklyn
Khrushchev urges crush of anti Communist forces in East Germany
In Leipzig Khrushchev pressed East German Communists to suppress the “class enemy” amid cool public reaction. He spoke thrice in Leipzig before a mass rally with many empty seats, denying Western reports of forced demonstrations and vowing to press on through Dessau tomorrow.
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Singer Robbed of $210000 in Jewels
Atlantic City police report singer Phyllis McGuire and the McGuire Sisters crime case after a beach front hotel theft. Ten pieces valued at 210000 vanished from an unlocked suitcase in a 12th floor suite with door locked and no forced entry. Detective John Mooney provided details.
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Lost Boy Found Safe In Yosemite
A six year old Portland boy, Terry Bivens, was found by rangers safe and in good condition after becoming separated from his parents on the Yosemite Falls trail. He was located about one thousand feet above the valley door on a rocky ledge after wandering from the trail. The family had begun their hike at the Tioga Road Yosemite Creek crossing.
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Blackjack Girl Snares in San Francisco Jail Case
Loretta Barcroft an 18 year old Napa native known as Blackjack and her 27 year old San Francisco boyfriend Harvey Holland were charged with assault and conspiracy after a chain of events that began with meeting Robert Berger a 37 year old stevedore at Swank Romans on Nob Hill. Berger required 70 stitches after a chair leg attack at Loretta s apartment. Police arrested Loretta and Harvey at the country girl s residence.
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Harvey” Holland
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Harvey
Planning Post Quit By Miller Planning Post Quit By Miller
Livermore attorney R Lowell Miller has resigned from the Alameda County Planning Commission effective September 1 due to work pressure. The move, noted in a letter to county supervisors, comes as a Tuesday agenda item. Miller served about two and a half years on the nine member panel, which has operated with eight members since Joseph Grindelwald and Z Todd retired, leaving a vacancy not filled.
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Michio Asanuma
Harvard criminologists tie delinquency to working mothers
Harvard Law School researchers Dr. Sheldon Glueck and Dr. Eleanor Glueck report that juvenile delinquency peaks where mothers are intermittently employed outside the home. Boys of lean build are more prone to trouble, while the so called villain mother flits between jobs seeking relief from homemaking. They urge targeted counseling for such families.
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Gluecks
West Germany In Oil Search
West Germany dispatches a 17 member scout team from Hamburg to Northeast Syria for Erdöl oil exploration. The group leaves Sunday as part of a five year prospecting program in the country’s fast paced oil hunt.
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New Demo GOP Strife Shakes Civil Rights Bill
Washington dispatch reports fresh Democratic and Republican clashes threaten civil rights legislation in Congress. House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin accuses pro civil rights Democrats of sidelining GOP efforts while Lyndon B. Johnson denounces Meade Alcorn and GOP leaders for pressuring Congress to kill the bill.
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St Rose Hospital Excluded From $10 Million Aid List
The State Department advisory council selected 15 California hospitals for funds under the Hill Burton Act, excluding St Rose Aid. Alameda County Health Center received $806,348 and Herrick Hospital Berkeley $304,394. St Rose backers sought $2.25 million, but construction will proceed even without aid.
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Tennyson Rd
Eastshore
Keeping Sanity Series Starts With Realistic Mental Health Views
A new My Review series titled Keeping Sanity debuts Tuesday, urging a realistic approach to mental problems and advising against coddling neurotics. The eminent social expert guidance frames the discussion as a practical look at mental health.
Chance to Get in Word on Tax Law
Washington readers are invited to submit proposals on revising the federal tax code. For the first time since 1953, congressional tax writers will hear ideas addressing the 900 plus pages of federal tax law.
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Congressional
Smoker loses by narrow margin in Pike's Peak race
Monte Wolford, a Colorado Springs physical culture expert and non-smoker, wins Pike's Peak race for the second straight year with a time of five hours, 15 minutes and 53 seconds. John Jecker of Colorado College Pike's Peak Hiking Club finishes second, merely minutes behind.
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Five U S Doctors to Visit Russia on Health Study Tour
U S Surgeon General Leroy E Burney announced a team of five American doctors will depart Tuesday for a four week study of health conditions in Russia. The physicians will visit health departments hospitals and research centers across five of the Soviet republics and participate in exchanges with a Russian group slated to tour the United States in October.
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Bridge board weighs death by own action nets plan
SAN FRANCISCO The board of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge today eyed death by own action nets as a means to curb the rising number of suicides from the span. The board decided yesterday to seek details of similar nets used by Australia s Sydney Bridge.
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Two Families Die In Wreck Near Livermore
Seven people perished in a two car crash on Highway 50 near Livermore California. Witnesses said the Lockett car traveled about 90 mph before sideswiping a tractor trailer and colliding with Lt Col Clarence Fischer and his family. The Locketts and Fischer family members died instantly, with others succumbing at hospitals. Police marked the event a fatal highway collision and noted warning words to slow down were ignored.
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Parlis Air Force Base
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Stockton
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Lockett
Hayward
Three Die In Flaming Span Crash On Bay Bridge
Three men died when a sportscar fleeing CHP crossed the double line and crashed into a sedan on the Bay Bridge. Henry Elmer Herriford, 30, San Francisco, was driving the 99 mph car and perished in flames. passenger Sylvester Gibson, 32, a Merchant Marine and former prizefighter, was thrown from the car and died. Harold Lane, 25, of San Francisco, trapped in his burning sedan, died at the hospital.
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Billy) Gibson
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Astival
Gulf Bertha Break Gives Louisiana Coast Relief
Hurricane Bertha weakened as it moved past the Louisiana gulf coast without causing casualties or major damage. Civil defense director Larry Stevenson said operations would wind down by midnight and focus on assisting evacuees as waters receded, with the storm located midway between Beaumont Texas and Lake Charles Louisiana.
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Cameron
Bandit Proves Warm-Hearted in Santa Ana Robbery
A bandit who held up Santa Ana Beverage Co. displayed calm during the $484 cash theft and later called the fire department to rescue six employees locked in the refrigeration room. He was described as not coldhearted. The incident occurred yesterday at LaGrande Beverage Co. where the gunman escaped after sealing the workers inside the cold storage.
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Marines to Hit Spanish Coast Drill Aug. 20
Marines attached to the Sixth Fleet will stage a landing exercise at Almeria on the southern Spanish coast on August 20. The drill emphasizes amphibious assault readiness and cooperation with Spanish authorities in the area.
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