Slayer Of Six Taken Quietly In Pawn Shop
Indiana officers transported Leslie Irvin aka Mad Dog to return him from San Francisco after his quiet capture in a Market Street pawnshop. Irvin, 31, sought nationwide, was arrested while attempting to unload two diamond rings taken from a Redondo Beach home. He confessed to killing six, including Mrs. Mary and the Goebel Duncan family members, and awaited transfer for execution in Michigan City on June 12. He claimed innocence and said he traveled with Victor Davis of Los Angeles, a pianist with Tex Williams' Western orchestra.
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Leslie
Mad Dog
Irvin
Indiana
San Francisco
Princeton
Ind
Market Street
Evansville
Redondo Beach
Los Angeles
John O'Keefe
Leo Ferraggiaro
Third Street
O'Keefe
Victor Davis
Tex Williams
Western Orchestra
Davis
Gibson County
W. Wesley Kerr
Mary
Wilhelmina Sailer
Solitude
Goebel Duncan
Henderson
Michigan City
Springfield
Cozad
Nebraska
1955 Soviet economy shows higher output with similar wages
The 1955 Soviet economic picture shows industrial workers earning about 8 to 10 percent more while overall wages barely rise. Industrial output climbs 12 percent and national income up 10 percent, but retail trade increases only 5 percent and real consumer goods remain scarce.
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New York
Russia
West
Nikita Khrushchev
Bulganin
Georgi Malenkov
Kremlin
U.S.S.R
Mystery Box Found In Old House Near Goldsboro
In Goldsboro North Carolina a slate box was found hidden behind a fireplace of the Relma Rackley home during a move in by Charlie Boddie and his family. The box bore a carved name Clara and the letters MOTH with the date 55 possibly 1855. Local lore speaks of buried treasure and haunted grounds around the house but no contents are yet revealed.
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Goldsboro
N.C
Relma Rackley
Snow Hill
Charlie Boddie
Boddie
Isaac Gurley
Gurley
Clara
Let‘bers
Rackley
Wayne County
John Henry Gurley
Handley
Gaey
Youth Struck by Car Seriously Injures Local Fourth Grader
Ray St School fourth grader Harvey Ginsburg was hit on Hamilton Street at Woodrow Avenue and rushed to High Point Memorial Hospital with a broken leg multiple bruises and possible internal injuries. The driver John Hedrick said the boy ran into the road and he could not stop in time.
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Ray St
Hamilton St
Woodrow Ave
Harvey Ginsburg
High Point Memorial Hospital
John Hedrick
Hamilton
Hedrick
Soviets Emphasize Weather Balloon Charges and Cyprus Ties
Moscow papers spotlight American weather balloons as aerial reconnaissance threats. Pravda and Izvestia frame the issue as a U S brink of war policy with balloons over Soviet airspace. Trud links Cyprus moves to Crete bases amid Western pressures.
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Moscow
U. S
Communist Party
Pravda
Izvestia
Spiridonovka Palace
Soviet Union
Milin
Trud
Linge
Cyprus
Crete
Britain
Middle East
Greece
John Harding
Senate committee OKs soil bank tied price supports plan
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved an election year farm bill pairing Eisenhower's soil bank concept with rigid price supports set at 90 percent of parity for wheat cotton corn rice and peanuts. It adds dairy barley and tobacco provisions and uses the higher of two parity formulas.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate Agriculture Committee
Soil Bank
Ellender
D-La
Senate
Airports Closed In By Heavy Fog In Carolinas
The Associated Press reports several Carolina airports faced closures due to a low morning fog. Most flights later ran on schedule as sun broke through. Rocky Mount NC reported worsening conditions midmorning with ceiling around 500 feet.
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Associated Press
Carolinaswere
Rocky Mount
N.C
Charleston
Myrtle Beach
Raleigh
Union blueprint targets nationwide AFL-CIO growth
AFL-CIO proposes a coast to coast organizing plan to double membership from 15 million. John W. Livingston outlines a multimillion planning fund and state by state targets focusing on white collar and service workers amid a Florida hotel dispute rally with George Meany pledging broad organizing in the South.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
John W. Livingston
Livingston
United Auto Workers
New York
CIO
AFL
George Meany
Florida
Meany
Miami
Double Blow in Henderson Gas Station Incident
An unidentified woman drove up to a Henderson filling station and ran out of gas. The station was out of gasoline too, leaving her stranded and adding misfortune to the moment.
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Henderson
Egypt to use West aid for vast Nile dam project
Egypt will accept a 200 million dollar World Bank loan to fund the Nile dam with Western grants totaling another 200 million dollars. The planned 300 foot high, three mile wide dam marks a major East West influence shift, with Egyptian officials stressing neutrality amid Cold War pressures. Premier Nasser announced the joint communique with World Bank President Eugene Black, as talks proceed toward cabinet and board approval.
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Cairo
Egypt
Soviet Union
Upper Nile River
World Bank
United States
Britain
Middle East
Nile
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Eugene Black
Egyptian Cabinet and To the 58-Nation Bank
Sudan
U.S
Nasser
Black
Russia
Senator Questions Possible Influence in Gas Vote
Senator Case testified before a Senate committee that a $2,500 campaign offer from Nebraska lawyer John M. Neff appeared aimed at influencing his vote on the natural gas bill. Case rejected the money as a stranger gave no strings attached, while the bill moved toward passage. He noted Neff would not disclose his sources and that the committee must decide if the offer attempted influence.
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Washington
Sen. Case
R-Sd
Senate
Case
Iebraska
John M. Neff
Neff
Nebraska
Superior Oil Co
Austin
Tex
Eisenhower
Ernest J. Kahler
Sioux Falls
S.D
Lacoste Arrives In Algiers Amid Algeria Unrest
Robert Lacoste arrives to become Mollet's resident minister in violence torn Algeria as protests loom in Algiers and Paris. Aimed at derailing peace efforts and Arab nationalism, the demonstrations involve war veterans, students and local leaders forming a Public Safety Committee.
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Algiers
Robert Lacoste
Moliet
Algeria
France
Committee of Public Safety
Lacoste
Interior Ministry
Paris
Arc de Triomphe
Place de la
Georges Catroux
Catroux
Mollet
Jean Baptiste Biaggi
Public Safety Committee
Biaggi
Snowbound Towns Aided By Airlift
Giant U S Air Force Flying Boxcars aided by emergency airlift to snowbound European villages as a Siberian cold snap spreads from the north to Turkey and Italy. Weather deaths reach 210 across 11 days with Germany and France posting record lows and Britain brushing 26 degrees.
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London
U.S. Air Force
Europe
Turkey
Italy
English Channel
Channel Islands
Royal Air Force
Bay of Biscay
Greece
France
Nice
Cannes
Germany
Weissenburg
Nuernhberg
Milan
Britain
Denmark
Holland
Austria
Switzerland
Sweden
Yusctiavig
Spain
Belgium
Tobacco Hearing Opens On 20 Percent Acreage Cut View
A congressional subcommittee hears support for a 20 per cent reduction in flue cured tobacco acreage. Rep. Watkins Abbitt presides with Rep. Harold Cooley present as the beltwide committee urges cut to align supplies with demand. Transplanting starts next month in Georgia area.
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Nashville
N.C
House Agriculture Com
Watkins M. Abbitt
D-Va
Harold D. Cooley
House Agriculture
Cooley
Nash County Farm Bureau
Agriculture
Benson
Farm Bureau and Grange
Geors
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Asheville
Charlotte
Columbia
Greenville
D.C
Wilmington
Greensboro
Sen
Francis Case
South Dakota
Little Liz
Eneae
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