Rockford Gunman Fatally Slays Grocery Manager
Robert Phillips 28 of Rockford Illinois confessed to abducting Lyle Larson 45 a grocery store manager, shooting him and dumping his body in a field near Harvard after forcing him from the store. Larson survived by his family and two sons. Police captured Phillips near Elgin about 1% hours after the crime and he is jailed on murder charges amid a large manhunt.
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Amine Thateadet
Robert Phillips
Rockford
Ill
Harvard
Chicago
Harry C. Herendeen
Phillips
Lyle Larson
Larson
Sheriff's Office
Don James
Val Mihalic
Elgin
Til
Herendeen
Jeannette
Lyle Jr
Robert
Pacifists Found Guilty Of Violation In Quiet City Hall Protest
Nineteen pacifists were found guilty of disobeying an official order during a protest at City Hall Park last June 15 as sirens wailed. The judge suspended sentences for the 19 and seven others who pleaded guilty, citing motives but upholding the law’s misdemeanor penalty.
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New York
York
Tad
Hyman Bushel
Bushel
Joan Hamilton
City Hall Park
War Res League
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Catholic Worker
Beto Oorganization
Reenawalt
See
Coneee
Solstice distances and traffic crash timing noted
The article notes the sun is about three miles nearer the earth on December 21, the winter solstice, than on June 21, the summer solstice. It adds that more than one in five traffic accidents occur during the late afternoon peak.
Stevenson Son Resting Comfortably After Indiana Crash
Adlai Stevenson III s son John Fell Stevenson, 19, injured when a car hit a truck near Goshen Indiana, rests in Pag savant Hospital awaiting surgery. He suffered a shattered kneecap jaw fracture and multiple facial injuries with recovery expected over months. An Indianapolis detainer indicted Frederick Gill 29 of Detroit for involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide in the crash.
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Chicago
Adlai S. Stevenson
John
Indiana
Harvard
Pagsavant Hospital
Young Stevenson
Goshen
Ind
Adlai Jr
Stevenson
Near North Side Hospital
Ellen Borden Stevenson
Ismeanee
Frederick Gill
Detroit
Elkhart County
Gill
Suits Planned In Collapse Of Cherokee Bridge
Attorneys for about 20 plaintiffs filed plans to seek more than 400 000 in damages after the July footbridge collapse on the Cherokee Indian Reservation near Soddy Daisy Tennessee. Two women died and several were injured when the over 40 on the bridge fell. The actions include a 325 000 claim for Henry Tasmeas Haile Jr as administrator of his wife Agnes Lewis Haile and other Haile relatives. Lawyers said suits will name the Kane back oo ee okee Indians.
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Chattanooga
Tenn. P
N.C
W. Neil Thomas Jr
Ville
Soddy
Daisy
Henry Tasmeas Haile Jr
Agnes Lewis Haile
Haile
W. N. Dietzen
Defendaos
Kane
Oo Eeeke
Okee Indians
Negro girl held in slaying at Montgomery club
A 16 year old black girl, Frankie Mae Gunn, was jailed in Montgomery after John N. Davis, 55, a white nightclub operator, was shot dead in his apartment adjoining the Plantation Club. Police say the masked shooter also struck Mrs. Davis and fled. about $4000 was found on Davis. Motive suspected as robbery or revenge.
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Montgomery
Ala
Frankie Mae Gunn
John N. Davis
Davis
G. J. Ruppenthal
India Sets Up Relations With Outer Mongolia
New Delhi reports India has established diplomatic relations with Outer Mongolia. The Indian ambassador in Peiping will take on additional duties for now and the Mongolian ambassador in Beijing will be accredited to India. Outer Mongolia lies between Communist China and Soviet Central Asia. This follows unsuccessful Soviet efforts to seat Outer Mongolia at the United Nations.
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New Delhi
India
Outer Mongolia
Foreign Ministry
Peiping
Comey
China
Sia
United Nations
Renewed search for missing Marine Capt Harold Henrich
Dawn search aircraft from the Coast Guard Marine Corps and Civil Air Patrol comb the Hempstead Amityville corridor for Capt Harold Henrich missing since leaving Cherry Point at 9 p.m. He planned to land near Amityville around 1 a.m. to spend Christmas with family. Henrich, 33, a WWII and Korean War veteran, is assigned to Cherry Point.
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New York
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Civil Air Patrol
Harold Henrich
Henrich
Cherry Point
N. Cs
Hempstead
Long Island
Zahn's
Amityville
Etta Henrich
Civil Aeronautics
Elizabeth City
N.C
Naval Air Station
Atlantic City
N.J
Dry Point
Coast Guard Sa Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Virginia
Delaware
North Carolina
Lois Bannerman
WOR
Ted Steele
Mark
Cherry Point Marine Base
LaGuardia
Disaster Insurance Faces Senate Banking Committee Debate
Senate Banking Committee will likely take up disaster insurance legislation early in 1956. Fulbright says several bills exist and a workable measure may be presented, though scope is uncertain. Lehman proposes federal insurance and reinsurance for many disasters with a new Disaster Administration. Administration urges cautious, modest experimental steps with private firms playing a major role.
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Washington
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Congress
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Sen
Lehman
D-Ny
Banking Committee
Bush
R-Conn
Federal
Civil Defense Administration
Federal Disaster Administration
Administration
Sumas
Saeedley
Blessing Of Yule Season Reflected In NYC Court
In Manhattan an urban court fined 90 persons $2 each for sanitary code violations rather than the typical $15. Magistrate Harry G. Andrews reduced the penalties on condition the defendants pledge to perform charitable acts during Christmas for the less fortunate.
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New York
Upper Manhattan Court
Harry G. Andrews
Andrews
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