Deputy Sheriff Killed in North Carolina Fugitives Shootout
Deputy J L Powers died after a shotgun blast in a wheat field near Sanford as a fugitive traded fire with five posse members. D L King was wounded in the hip and arm. VC Vernon Elkins was shot while operating a tractor. Authorities pursued the fugitive through Lee Moore Harnet and Chatham counties amid reports of stolen food in the area.
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Sanford
N.C
J. L. Powers
Powers
D. L. King
A. C. Morgan
North Carolina
Worley
Mathews
King
Tucker Summers
Summers
Morgan
Vernon Elkins
Elkins
Mail Delivered By Guided Missile Demonstration
Washington The Post Office Department announced the first successful mail delivery by guided missile. The wheeled missile fired at 10 10 am landed at 10 32 am with a parachute slowing the run way. Postal workers unloaded processed and sped the mail on its way.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Ters
Universal Postal Union
Summerfield
Deaf four year old shoots neighbors in Salem
A 4 year old boy who found a loaded pistol shot his three playmates in Salem Indiana. His father says the child still does not understand what he did. Two victims are in critical condition and one is listed as in fair condition at the hospital.
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Salem, Ind
Troy Hoggatt
Eisenhower Urges Bond Policy Reforms and Debt Limit Hike
In a special message President Eisenhower urges Congress to remove the 3 percent interest ceiling on savings bonds and to eliminate the 4 percent cap on marketable bonds over five years. He also calls for raising the permanent debt limit from 283 to 288 billion dollars and the temporary limit from 288 to 295 billion, with a 3 percent rate on all series E and H bonds starting June 1. The move aims to align finance with economic growth and stability.
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Eisenhower
Treasury Department
Congress
Kremlin Checks Red Rise In Iraq
AP analyst William L. Ryan reports from Beirut after censorship in Baghdad, noting a red rise in Iraq and the Kremlin’s involvement as part of the Middle East tour.
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Kremlin
Iraq
William L. Ryan
Middle East
Baghdad
Ryan
Beirut
Kremlin plays gamble with Iraqi Communist bid for power
In Baghdad, officials suspect Moscow is toying with the Iraqi Communist bid to seize control, delaying any full takeover for months or years while a larger Middle East upheaval looms. The Iraqi Communists wield strong influence and drive headlines in Baghdad.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Baghdad
Kremlin
Moscow
Middle East
Iran
Hcity
Governor Hodges Urges State to Hold Budget Line in North Carolina
Governor Hodges urged Tar Heel lawmakers to maintain the budget line. He pressed the House to drop an extra ten million dollars for secret education spending, while defending public welfare provisions. He claimed reliable information suggests no cuts to old age grants and noted the House approved ten million for teachers and blocked a cut of about half a million for welfare.
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Raleigh
Hodges
House
Lic Welfare
Deadly spy Klaus Fuchs to be released soon
London AP reports Klaus Fuchs, 47, will likely win early release after serving one third of a 14 year Old Bailey sentence for Soviet espionage. He may be deported and faces pressure over where he can live, with East Germany a possible destination.
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Patrick Massey
London
Klaus Fuchs
Soviet Union
Fuchs
Old Bailey
East
Billy Graham
Russia
Graham
Baptist Church
Vance County Revisits plan to hire more police for strike
Vance County commissioners will reconsider hiring additional law officers to relieve National Guard troops at the Henderson textile strike. Governor Hodges said Chairman J. Furman Satterwhite wired him of the county’s decision to review the plan during a June 10 talk. He had criticized the initial action.
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Raleigh
Vance
National Guard
Henderson
Hodges
J. Furman Satterwhite
Vance Commissioners
McGill Sees New Leadership for the South
AP reports editor Ralph McGill predicts in Durham that Southern leadership will rise with stronger integrity and better schools. He cites national rights debates and youth watching leaders and clergy amid a dramatic public drama.
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Durham
Ralph McGill
South
Oe Cane
Tes
Duke
Duke ‘University
McGill
North Carolina
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International
Gas Scare Grips Town in McRae Georgia
In McRae Georgia a derailed Southern Railway freight train spilled gas and left a warehouse area within 40 feet of U.S. 441 under threat of a deadly cloud. Army reserve and air patrol units sealed the zone while officials ordered calm and prepared evacuations if wind shifts occur.
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U.S. 441
Georgia
Warner Robins Air Force Base
George Callahan
Olin-Mathison Chemical Co
McIntosh
Ala
Crude Bus Explodes and Burns Near Phoenix
Six teen farm laborers are killed and 32 injured when a crudely built bus crashes into a tree near Phoenix. Most victims are Mexican nationals. Driver Neto Manuel Gloria Jr said he dozed at the wheel and planned to transfer driving to an assistant before the fatal crash. The bus, converted from a truck, burst into flames after a fuel line rupture following a head on impact. The accident is noted as the worst traffic crash in Arizona history.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Highway Patrol
Neto Manuel Gloria Jr
Gloria
Elmer Charbeneau
Leopold Martinez
Arizona
Woman Dares Death Stage Act Star Killed in Accident
Mamie Peniman, 38, of Sun Valley also known as Wild Bill Cody, was killed when a 9 year old boy handling a .22 rifle at the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Exposition misfired. The incident occurred in Point Park as Peniman prepared to perform with her husband Frank Monaco and daughter Mary Alice. The boy’s mother allowed him to touch the rifles. authorities will hold an inquest with the boy released to his parents.
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Pittsburgh
Alice
Wild Bill Cody
John Monaco
Frontier Village
Monaco
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Vance County
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