Man Kills Three In Two Ohio Banks
In Dayton Ohio Richard Meyers 47 opened fire with a 9 mm pistol at Third National Bank and Winters Bank killing three people and injuring three others before being shot by police. Victims include George Sawaya 60 Freda Cramer 31 Joseph Gavin 45 Wilfred Sherman 63 R H Kastner 59 and Helen Burks 48 with two additional wounded. Meyers died hours later after mumbling religious phrases and stating he received a message from God.
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Dayton
Ohio
Richard Mesers
Meyers
Third National Bank
Winters Bank
George Sawaya
William L. Clark
John Thein
Evangelism Conference Opens in Richmond Amid Debate
The annual General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church opens in Richmond with a two day evangelism conference featuring seminars by A E Disnock William H McCorkle Charles B Templeton and Harry Denman. A key issue is segregation with Meridian Mississippi and the Mississippi Synod urging reconsideration of last year’s ban. Also debated is a proposed union with Northern and United Presbyterian Churches. The General Council proposes a 1956 benevolence budget of 6 494 968, to set a new record. First U S cotton shipment arrives in eight bags
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Richmond
Presbyterian Church In
U.S
A. E. Disnock
William H. McCorkle
Division of
Southern Presbyterian Church
Charles B. Templeton
Northern Presbyterian Church
Harry Denman
General Board of Evangelism
Methodist Church
Berlyn V. Farris
National Council of Churches
General Assembly
Presbytery of
Meridian
Miss
Synod of Mississippi
Seembly
Northern
United Presbyterian Churches
General Council
Assembly
Doss Sentencing Slated For Thursday
Tulsa OklahomaDistrict Judge Elmer Adams to sentence 49 year old Nannie Doss who confessed to killing four husbands by rat poison. Doss pleaded guilty May 4 and faces either the electric chair or life imprisonment. Prosecutors seek the death penalty while defense asks for life plus possible mental hospital commitment.
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Tulsa
Okla
Husaband
Nannie Doss
Elmer Adams
Oklahoma
Edmondson
Scrambled Eggs Incident Ends In Pole Crash
North Carolina JP Robert Wall said he tried to prevent a sack of eyes from sliding to the car seat and took his eyes off the road for a moment before crashing into a telephone pole.
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N.C. JP
Robert Wall
Jury selection continues in Wayne County murder trial
In Goldsboro North Carolina selection of a jury proceeded in Wayne Superior Court for the case of three defendants in the shotgun slaying of Sgt. Robert Robinson. Joyce Hobbs from Mount Olive and James R. Kelly from Faison face first degree murder charges while Mrs Brooksie Robinson the victim’s wife is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and being an accessory before the fact.
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Hobbs
Robinson
Kelly
Les
Pentagon to Test Evacuation of 9000 Workers
The Pentagon will simulate evacuating its 9,000 staff during Operation Alert 15 June. About 8,500 to 9,000 cars would depart from two large parking lots as drivers ferry passengers to leave the capital region, while 15,000 federal employees head to secret sites elsewhere.
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Washington
Pentagon
Eisenhower
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Gordon Patten
Felix Adams
Eastern State Hospital
Vinita
MRC
Serunian and Sons, Inc
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Essick
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