London Jazz Festival Turmoil Ends Calm Ahead
Extra police guarded the Beaulieu estate after a violent Saturday night scene during Britain's fifth annual jazz festival. Teenagers toppled scaffolding and hurled objects as Aker Bilk performed, prompting the BBC to cut the broadcast. Lord Montagu questioned if another festival would occur. About 100 fans helped clean up Sunday.
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London
Lord Montagu
Beaulieu
Britain
Aker Bilk
British Broadcasting Corp
Derek Jones
BBC
Typhoon Shirley Heads For China
Typhoon Shirley moves toward China after killing two on Yonaguni and one on Formosa. It wrecked 30 homes on Yonaguni, damaged crops, injured eight in Formosa, and displaced about 11,000 people in Taipei as residents sought higher ground.
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Tokyo
China
Ryukyuan
Yonaguni
Formosa
Taipei
Vacant Lot Searched By Deputies In Child Murder Probe
In Wheeling Illinois sheriff deputies comb the area around Betsy Benham a 5 year old found strangled and partly nude in a shallow grave. Police search a vacant lot near the Benham home within a two mile radius and investigate two bloodstained shirts found nearby. A 12 year old ex mental patient was detained but denies involvement as crime lab tests are set on shirts.
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Wheeling
Ill
Chicago
Betsy Benham
Cook County
Frank D. Sain
Benham
Chicago Police Crime Laboratory
Queen Mother Sets Sights On Possible Pension
London AP reports Queen Mother Elizabeth may reach eligibility this week for a seven dollar weekly pension as she turns 60. Despite likely qualification, officials doubt she will ever collect it, keeping royal finances and inheritances tightly guarded.
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London
Elizabeth
Elizabeth II
Balmoral Castle
Sniff
Earth
Fugitive Murderer Nabbed After Farm Occupant Identified
In Nebraska a small town merchant spotted a wanted circular showing Gerald Hudson alias Gerald Bennett, a Pennsylvania killer and one of the ten most wanted. Hudson, 32, escaped from state prison in 1957 after a 10-20 year term and was jailed near Corad, Nebraska to await Pennsylvania authorities. He waived preliminary hearing and is held on 25 thousand dollars bond.
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Omaha
Neb
FBI
Smith Gerald Hudson
Pennsylvania
Hudson
Carl Hueftle
Corad
U.S
Pennsylvania State
Bellfonte
John Ferguson
Fayette County
Ferguson
Light Plane Crashes In Compton Injuring Five
A PT26 light plane crashed in front of a two story apartment building in Compton California injuring five people including an expectant mother on the steps. Pilot Chester Fees and his two daughters escaped with injuries as neighbor Melvin Calloway 21 helped rescue others from the burning wreckage.
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Compton
Calif
Melvin Calloway
Chester Fees
Anaheim
Fees
Cheryl Ann
Sandra
Syeaen L. Brown
Mary Purisoy
New York World's Fair Begins First Structure Contract
New York AP reports the 1964-65 World's Fair program is underway with fair president Robert Moses announcing the contract for the first structure a temporary administration building has been let and should be finished by January.
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New York
Fair
Robert Moses
Jealousy Blamed For Deaths At NC Shooting Spree
Sheriff reports a farm family tragedy in Meat Camp North Carolina where Docker Mains 50 killed his daughter Iona Potter 24 of Elliton Maryland and a man E A Ellison at his kitchen sink. he wounded his estranged wife Vennie Mains and daughter Wanda 16 before dying of a self inflicted wound. Coroner calls it murder and death by own action. Rites planned for Ellison and Potter with Potter’s survivors noted.
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N.C
Dock Mains
Iona Potter
Elliton
E. N. Hodges
Mains
E. A. Ellison
Ellison
Vennie
Potter
Elkton
Wanda Jackson
R. O. Mains
Dock
North Carolina
Watauga County
Darden
J. C. ‘Downs
Jake Downs
James Warren Chapman
Tony Curtis plans Palm Springs hotel into tennis club
Actor Tony Curtis and wife Janet Leigh own a Palm Springs hotel worth 600000 dollars. He aims to convert it into a 1 to 1.0 million dollar tennis club and hopes Pancho Gonzales will serve as club pro.
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Hollywood
Tony Curtis
Palm Springs
Janet Leigh
Pancho Gon‘zales
Weekend violence in NC claims 12 lives in crisis week
A mountain farmer killed his wife and two daughters with a .38 pistol, then shot E A Ellison before dying by suicide. In the same period 12 deaths include a Darden teenager held after a fatal shooting, drownings at Manteo, a shotgun killing in Winston-Salem, and multiple auto and train fatalities across North Carolina.
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Henry Marcus Jr
Winston-Salem
Floyd G. Love
William Foster Orre
Rt. 1
Lawndale
Cecil Louis Baldridge
Hazard
Rufus Bernard Morris
Fuquay Springs
Billy Ray Bearnett
Danville
Edward Eugene Riddle
Asheville
Charlotte
John W. Hawkins
Southern Railroad
New Nation Recognized in Dahomy by Two Powers
Communist China and the Soviet Union quickly recognized Dahomey, a former French colony in West Africa with about two million people. French Minister Louis Jacquinot and Premier Huberg Maga signed ratification instruments, granting independence within the French community as midnight proclaimed in Cotonou.
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Forto Novo
Dahomey
China
Soviet Union
West Africa
Louis Jacquinot
Huberg Maga
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Associated Press
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