Youth Homicide Stuns Chicago Area Student Kills Mother
A 14 year old boy named David confessed to striking his mother Geraldine Nessus 33 with a tomahawk in their Northwest Side Chicago apartment. Detectives traced him after he fled toward Interstate 80 and hid. authorities report a struggle and ransacked apartment as the boy, once an honor student, was captured.
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Chicago
Here
Geraldine Nessus
Northwest Side
J. H. Hamilton
Whiteside County
David
Philip
Nesius
Walter McCarron
Savanna
Illinois
Morrison
Police
Imother
Children admit setting fire to parents over strict rules
In Jackson Michigan two siblings Doreen Baker 15 and Bruce Baker 12 admitted arson to rid themselves of nagging parents. They planned the act for more than a week and used gasoline to set the bed ablaze while the couple slept. The father Sterling Baker 62 and mother 44 suffered severe burns and were hospitalized. The youths are held at County Juvenile Home awaiting probate court.
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Sterling Baker
Joseph Big
Bruce
Michigan Center
William
Doreen
Baker
Veterans Hospital
Ann Arbor
Mercy Hospital
Jackson
County Juvenile Home
Monkeys to Lead Way Into Space From Wallops Island
At Wallops Island Virginia officials announced tests using rhesus monkeys and a chimpanzee to validate recovery methods for space capsules. Launches planned late July or August will send animals up 10 to 100 miles with parachute and splashdown recoveries by ships or helicopters.
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Wallops Island
America
Wallops
Senate Eyes Repeal of 10 Percent Travel Tax This Month
Senate moves to repeal the 10 percent passenger travel tax with a potential addition to the finance committee extension bill. Sen. Smathers aims to attach the repeal, facing opposition from Sen. Byrd and potential new action on the House floor. The tax yields about 225 million dollars annually, with railroads and airlines backing repeal.
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Washington
Senate
George S. Smathers
Dfila
Finance Committee
Smathers
House
Florida
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Robert Kerr
D-Okla
Hope Slim For Berlin Crisis End
In Geneva the four power talks on Berlin proceed with slim chance of salvaging an agreement. Westerns see limited prospect while Moscow insists on terms. Khrushchev top level talks are rejected unless Western rights in Berlin are preserved. Herter and Gromyko stay to seek a way out as Couve de Murville and Lloyd return for consultations.
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Geneva
Foreign Ministers
Berlin
United States
Somecee Orn Bng
Moscow
Soviet Union
West
Nikita Khrushchev
Britain
France
West Berlin
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Maurice Couve de Murville
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
London
Harold Macmillan
Methodists urge equal rights stance and social justice
The Western North Carolina Methodist Conference outlined a social creed endorsing equal rights for all, calling for living wages, conciliation in labor disputes, and active church leadership on race and civil rights. It urged annual reminders at congregations and warned against shrinking church influence in moral issues.
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Lake Junaluska
N.C
Western
Conference Board of Social and Economic Relations
Florida judge praised for fairness in racial trial
Tallahassee circuit Judge W May Walker, a 19 year veteran, is lauded by whites and Negroes for impartial conduct during the trial of four white youths accused of raping a Negro girl. The article details his background from Wakulla County, law education, and steady re election record, noting his firm courtroom rules and civic involvement.
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Tallahassee, Fla
W. May Walker
Wakulla County
Crawfordville
Nat Walker
Tallahassee
Walker
Cumberland University
Tennessee
Leon County
Pansy Crosby
W. May Jr
Stanley
Ex-Army Major Says He Was Scapegoat For Korea Case
Ronald Alley, a former Army major released from Ft. Leavenworth after three years and seven months, says he was scapegoated for aiding the enemy in Korea. He claims he contacted the Soviet Union to obtain dossiers on 143 U.S. officers and alleges other officers were similarly involved and rewarded.
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Leavenworth, Kan
Korea
Soviet Union
Ronald FE. Alley
Ft. Leavenworth
Ft. Meade
U.S
Trial Is Said Test Of Justice
Four white youths were convicted of raping a 19 year old Negro coed in Tallahassee but a white jury spared death, recommending mercy with possible life sentences. The verdicts were read as Pearlie Collinsworth sobbed. the judge noted the case as a test of Southern racial justice.
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Tallahassee
Fla
W. May Walker
Pearlie Collinsworth
Florida
Walker
New Issues Enter Steel Negotiations
In New York at 2 p.m. steel wage negotiators met a steel union team. The union said it would have 12 committees in 12 rooms awaiting discussions with 12 companies individually. An industry spokesman said the companies would not send anyone to the 12 sessions.
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New York
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Munster
Ind
God
Clifford H. Peace
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Asheville
David Beagles
Ollie Stouta
Willion Collinsworth
Patrick Scarborough
Huntee
State Association of Circuit Judges
First Baptist Church
Horace Raymond Brown
Sales
John A. Corvin
Roanoke
Carol Jean
June
Deloris
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